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==== The catch is no longer: ====
* “Can you kill them?” → yes, easily, locally.
* It’s:

: 

Because:
* There are 10³⁰ of them,
* Each can replicate from microscopic remnants,
* They can exist everywhere that isn’t actively being sterilized by you,

what happens is:
* The entire universe, outside your active kill radius, is basically infested with their matter.
* Any region you don’t constantly burn, atomize, black-hole, and watch: - Has some hair-strand remnants, - Which regrow, - Which devour, - Which mutate, - Which keep the swarm going forever.

Your fortress becomes like a perfectly defended city in the middle of a world that’s entirely plague biomass.

You don’t lose at home…
…but you never win the whole war, because:
* You can’t be everywhere at once,
* You can’t erase every last molecule of them across cosmic scales,
* And your own destructive power just makes more fragments in places you can’t clean.