Quote Originally Posted by Christopher K. View Post
I'd imagine that the thematic weakness would be to somehow convince the core that the Gate would be safest if someone had easy access to it, though Xykon could easily walk in if the constructs were ordered to keep all living creatures from reaching the gate.
And here I thought the core weakness would be the core would be too well designed and so would go slowly insane from the decades of isolation and end up seeking to unleash the Snarl solely to ends its misery (or it would create a body and wander off to do something else).