Stories of Lore 59

Greetings Koda, in the absence of Lancaster once again you have command until we can re-establish contact with her. I do not envy you.

The war effort has seen further development with Kar’Soluth’s reinforcements finally arriving. I will try to summarize quickly.

The Vloz’Khress and their demon allies have arrived at Thenica and are moving towards Beldobaan. I would suggest reserving the movement of Tyne’s sister until after things settle down. Asmodan and his fleet have arrived at Thenica as well, among their number is the notable ship that Haleh reported as attacking her en route to Aureum when she first left Diadem. We do not know if it belongs to Nila Whately or the exerlus she was with at the time. It boasts a significant technological advantage over every other ship involved.

House Kenduis is also sending some of their forces to Beldobaan but the majority of their forces are currently taking or retaking areas inside of Alnae, judging by the positioning they’re being particularly cautious of Azilath and the Valdir.

Yasrena used the Renjala’s Rift spell to send Sarghess to Jaal’Darya in response to us sending forces there as well. Reika is with them once again. Jaal’Darya’s headquarters is built into the side of a cliff and we’re fighting in tunnels all over again. The initial strike did not go as well as hoped and the fight is still ongoing with the Sarghess forces who are entrenching deeper into their position by the day while we’re still trying to find a way to get inside. Also Eliza Pierce is here and pulled a Si-Yeon on us and released an army of chimeras onto our forces to support Sarghess.

We have majority control of Beldobaan territory right now but it isn’t a smooth occupation. Pockets of skirmishes keep breaking out within the city with vampires hiding in sewers, vents, and other strange places that would not be typical. Posing some challenges in containing the guerilla attacks on our forces.

Apparently attacking Faelyn in orbit above Kar’Soluth territory has drawn the attention of several members of the Hassani. Azarov and Agallias have appeared on Thenica to assist Faelyn in the fight against Shetou alongside the expected Asmodan. The largest problem of which being Agallias who is able to attack ships in orbit on his own as well as obliterate ground forces that get anywhere near the Sarghess base he is nearby.

Decaelys, Kanika, and now Deinuu are planetside without any significant army behind them but their hunt for Song Auni continues. Who we have not been able to find either and we’re not sure if Laesaaria was able to get word to her about our offer.

Valen reports evidence of Jaal’Darya style infections on Zenaka, they have far less technological assistance to aid in quarantine and she is actively still fighting the rebellion, who may have aided the Jaal’Darya.

The Hasao Tei have resigned from the Federation, taking a deal with the Jaal’Darya to escape the incoming war. They left Moncayo and went into the frontier on their own. In their place, they let the Jaal’Darya through the entire portal network in exchange for cures for their own people. Considering their civil security force was a part of maintaining the quarantines in Moncayo like last time, this has caused a catastrophic breach.

The Revenants launched the largest assault we’ve seen them attempt into Eden city. Apparently they retrieved Alakira and the other surviving original members and expanded their roster once again.

Haziel is currently on Enohas helping the somewhat stranded elves not all turn to cannibalism…again.

A small team of Tungsten Teeth members, unassociated with the ones we hired previously, appeared at Moncayo. They killed thirty eight people and wounded a hundred and sixteen before kidnapping Larazja from Roha and extracting her through the Moncayo portal network. Though we later found out this was actually Vasia’s doing to “secure her most important asset while she was away”. Larazja has been forcefully relocated to the asteroid base of New Age. Leaving Roha, in the middle of its ongoing pandemic, without it’s technical leader.

The Vessians are still hanging around Beldobaan with our other forces. Despite everything that’s going on, we have learned a lot about the combat capabilities of their species from all this. It’s a lot.

Azilath has also arrived on Thenica in the heart of former Alnae territory, to the confusion of many . While she didn’t bring her full army with her, given how silnians operate we’re a little concerned that she’ll just make a new one on the spot. Though given that all the fighting, and where she is now, is not on the Rixa plane we’re not entirely sure how dangerous she actually is. We have no idea why she’s here, but she is one of the queens of the ‘war cult’ so its ominous none the less.

We’ve also detected three other large forces approaching Sol from outside of the system, all from different directions. Laesaaria confirms that two of them are allies of hers from their own galactic misadventures. She has no idea who the other one is but would assume the Hassani have friends as well who might be nearby enough to come visit.

In summary: Sol War III is officially on schedule. Sakhessa is the only person of note who is particularly absent and is somewhere on Aureum complaining that this is why she can’t have nice things.

Oh right and the Caelkians do have a prevailing if not somewhat unified government. They do have independent nations on their homeworld but almost all of them are signed to an alliance to represent them as a planet. The people who didn’t sign are rapidly becoming economically irrelevant compared to those who banded together and went to space.

We’ve heard from Mahuea that the elementals have offered premonitions, dozens of them from several Archon’s purviews, that things are about to get really bad really quickly. Also that they’re pretty sure it’s either Lancaster or Yasrena’s fault.

Apparently one of the thunder archons has been preparing a super weapon for just such an occassion. It’s himself. Apparently the elementals have decided that if this gets out of hand they’re going to release the Archon of Thunder into the middle planes and effectively destroy all technology. It’s never even been tested before so it could have a range of a hundred miles or it could EMP the entire galaxy. Probably the former since there’s more than one archon of lightning and they have found reason to believe there are others across the galaxy.

I’m not sure it’ll come to that, but I suppose its just interesting to know that while they don’t really want to be involved in a war of this size, they’re concerned we’ll bomb ourselves into extinction and they have their own final measure to prevent that from happening. Aww, and here I thought they didn’t care about us. It’s more thoughtful than sending Mahuea at least.

Oh and the Revenants attacked Eden City in fucking force. Seriously there were four dozen of them, I didn’t even know there were that many. Granted, no one of ours is dead. Two revenants are, which our knights managed to take down, Tenebrys was captured – no idea who the fuck they are and interrogation has gone very poorly. A whole lot of knights were taken down but the Revenants didn’t use lethal measures so actually they’re fine. They did however bomb the Order of Shadow’s temple and disappeared through a Pandem rift into the Shadow Plane. Also Sarden and Morylan were spotted at Jydoq when they kidnapped Yoshai. Eden also mentioned that three unknown people, likely Revenants, went onto the surface of the planet while all of that was happening. They went to the cave your Phylactery was once stored, it isn’t there anymore obviously but the fact that they went to check is somewhat concerning. The waterfall squid monster ate one of them but was grievously injured in the fighting.

Alakira is back and that has some interesting ramifications. It means the mummy rot of Sakhessa can in fact be cured, albeit it apparently requires a silnian to do it. Also Alakira is now technically a member of the Valdir. Though given how Indal operates, I don’t think that’s too bad of a deal for her given the alternative was a very long and painful death.

As far as we can tell, via however they keep getting information on us they learned about The Shadow and quite possibly that it is the owner of the Black Library. Which they depend on heavily. I can’t tell if they have some sort of hit on the Shadow because they did some warcrimes we don’t know about, or perhaps its a mutiny, or they just want to keep us far away from them as not to compromise their own intelligence network or something. That or some other weird ass conspiracy, the Revenants are kind of always doing their own nonsense. We have also not heard from The Shadow since, probably because their temple wing got blown up and their high prophet is now missing.

Back at Enohas, the loss of Jamalia isn’t too severe. I mean yes, those poor elves, but statistically most of them were outside of the colony trying to establish new colonies to begin new lives. Haziel has been tending to them but has now enforced that they cannot leave their appointed territories due to the quarantine. The Jaal’Darya infection has taken root in a few of their satellite colonies and Eerihild is rather concerned as to whether or not it could affect Haziel herself. While it is unlikely given that she’s immune to practically everything, it would be catastrophic if it could. Haziel sure seems to think it won’t affect her and has just been handling the sick without any reservations.

Jaerda, who isn’t even on Enohas, is having a bit of a mental breakdown over all of this. She’s been begging for some help in going after Rahlken, apparently among those taken were several politically important individuals since Jamalia was being used as the temporary capital of Alnae-on-Enohas. Also her family, who she had gotten the cushy suites at Jamalia instead of being assigned to hut-building like the rest of the peasants. These requests involve trying to contact the Nomads ever since she learned they were part of the Federation even if a bit aloof stealing ships from everyone else for their flotilla.

I haven’t seen her since you got back with apparently most everyone just not the structure of the colony itself. Which honestly is a pretty easy rebuild, that thing was our first colony attempt and probably due for some upgrades. We hadn’t even really done much with it ever since discovering Eden could fix the corruption.

Speaking of which, even though you’re a planar entity made of skeleton, do you need an ice pack after that? We may need to re-assess our threat assessment of Rahlken. Technically he hasn’t prevented us from our objectives very often, but it is quite clear that actually beating him in combat is extremely difficult. He’s been getting stronger with every encounter we have since he keeps stealing more and more traits. Given your recollection of him taking powers from you and Haziel, I gather that the next time we see him will be even worse.

Oh and the radar station pointed out that after you rescued the elves he redirected his course and is now en route to Zenaka.

Also the knights and VSEC soldiers that went to the station in the northern galaxy report back that they ran into resistance very early. Though they did get a chance to look around, and the place was quite techy with a lot of robots doing automated menial tasks. They did however encounter a trio of extremely hostile inhabitants. All five knights and fifteen of the VSEC soldiers died before they could retreat through the portal. It was described as fighting one of those psionic engineers who had turret drones, but the drones were starship level weapons and the engineer was teleporting all over the place while shooting them through walls. Despite the scanner descriptions of their technological advantage over us, this is the first time we’ve seen what that looks like in a combat situation. ‘Halfway between us and the exerlus’ seems a fitting description.

Also you might want to prepare yourself, next month is your meeting with the Demon King and the Council of Lords. Which might disrupt your ability to run around opening portals all over the galaxy for a bit.

Intel report: We’ve been keeping an eye on Beldobaan and by extension that has now turned into “vampire affairs investigations” because its getting out of control around here. Sangui De’Rex has mobilized their fleets, our agents discovered that Sabrae was extracted from Beldobaan by Yasrena and is now currently being guarded by the De’Rex family. The big bad sivataur super duper chief -and colleagues- is meeting with the Desoirs.

Our counter ops against Beldobaan have at least made it statistically clear that they have been relocating away from the capital to continue their more covert operations away from the main siege efforts of Lancaster and instead are having the more militant houses deal with that. Yasrena likely has a strong interest in retaking the area since it is an ancient house’s ancient home and the Kar’Soluth are nothing if not fans of ancient drow bullshit. They’re just not having Beldobaan themselves focus on messing with us.

Also you should really stop fighting down there yourself its making everyone nervous.

Also since at this point it seems like practically everyone is involved we went ahead and checked in on the Abyssals. They’re confused as to what and why any of this is happening. Which I suppose is actually a good thing. Though Necrosi’s civilization has started the process of mass arming its people and raising their army through conscription. So far it looks like its more of a “just in case this gets any bigger” situation but its another piece on the board to keep tabs on. As if we didn’t have enough of those going on at the moment.

The teams we sent planetside at that ruined planet have managed to approach for observation of the facility. Though command told them to hold off after we got word of what happened aboard the station to the knights and VSEC. The problem with the facility is that it is highly secure, there is only a single door to the entire place and its located right by the landing pads for ships. There are no windows and the perimeter is full of automated defenses. This is either a secret military research facility or a prison. One way or the other, things aren’t supposed to be getting in or out of here. Given that the VSS Raptor is docked at the station above, I am leaning towards prison personally. Further scans reveal the facility is much larger than it looks as it has an underground layer to it that goes quite deep. Very few people ever enter or exit the place. We kept on observation to wait to see if they get resupplied but saw nothing that looked like a supply shipment.

I’m leaning towards prison still. Infiltration would likely require a lot more information than we can get from observation. We’d need to know whats inside and what security measures they utilize, also what the people inside even look like. We’ve seen some people entering and exiting and they look shockingly humanoid. Like Vessians with pure white hair, but from a safe observational distance we can’t tell what makes them distinct from one another. They all look so identical that infiltration via disguise runs the risk of completely misunderstanding how they identify one another.

If we want to try and infiltrate the place, we need to find other places where this civilization would be in order to observe and collect more data on them. This facility is too secure for us to base our plans just on seeing small glimpses of them. If we wanted to try and assault the place, we’re going to need a lot more resources judging by the report from those that went aboard the station. That and some sort of missile counter system. They have a lot of missile launchers as part of their automated defenses.

Science rarely goes as planned, engineering is more art than science. One must place the brush where it wants to go. I made more crab bots by the way.

Currently with a massive war going on back in Sol, I feel like things are awfully quiet around here in the galactic north despite the falling empires.

Adrienne reports that in summary the meeting with the Zhulkites wasn’t too bad. Their border patrol stations are quite friendly if you try to dock with them instead of flying past them. Though it is likely the Engurians will attack us immediately since they can detect we are machines.

They did mention that in order to deal with that, it would help to come up with a plan to either signal to them that we are not exerlus, or get them in a position where they wind up talking with us on accident…or force! We could practice the traditional arts of piracy maybe and just kidnap a few then tell them we just want a passport. I’m sure that’d go well. Actually that’s not a terrible idea.

With the Exerlus wars reaching a scale we can only comprehend with math and ‘well that looks bad’ it is unlikely we can rely on the Iron Cradle’s brute force to get us through those areas. Thankfully with the help of Echo Prime we at least can get up to date information on where those battles are being fought and avoid them. Notably, this is something the Zhulkites do not have access to since their own communications have been disrupted by these wars destroying deep comm towers. Even if we had Adrienne hand over all of the data to the outpost she’s at, they can only tell a few nearby locations that information let alone their entire alliance or even the larger mass that was their former alliance.

I’ve done some further analysis on what Adrienne sent, they’re still at the outpost as a guest of the zhulkites. Apparently as a species they actually are one of the most technologically progressed hive world civilizations. That is to say, they are silnian descendants. Not terribly relevant but interesting none the less for anyone keeping count of galactic origins, which has become a thing some of the federation’s scholars have been very interested. Something something, mysteries of the universe.

They rely on sahad magic to get around and don’t use typical ships as we know them. Often just creating mobile asteroid bases they cut in half to make a nice flat spot to build on top of since as a people they’re basically all capable of surviving in space due to sahad magic.

Stories of Lore 58

From the Pandem Radar station, the Outsider was detected inside of the Blaiken territory near the undead star. Rahlken’s ship is just a bit north of Jydoq as it continues making its way towards Paizurus and is expected to be there within the month. We can’t sweep for Yaellah since they are neither a pandem entity or a ship.

Kennae is still running around Jydoq chasing after the assassin and said it would be nice if someone could find them for him. Maybe stick a tracking chip on them. Noel is currently still at Thenica driving around looking to pick fights with random pockets of drow.

Speaking of Thenica, the siege of Beldobaan is getting more chaotic. At night vampires and drow attack even fortified positions and have been killing any of our soldiers they can catch in poor positioning. Though this usually means those specifically on guard or watch for them. Sarghess bombardment continues otherwise despite them under attack by House Song.

Cazvrath pointed out that House Song has a bad habit of feeling like they need to do everything themselves and can be sometimes difficult to coordinate with. They’re currently attacking Sarghess from the east if you want to send troops. However she is concerned that House Song seems much more disorganized than they should be. Typically they move as a singular large force but they’ve been split a few times and then try to regroup only to have the same issue reappear. The House’s command structure has noted that troops keep getting confused on which way the army is going and this is obviously abnormal but they haven’t figured out exactly what Kar’Soluth are doing to cause it.

Speaking of Sharen, Faelyn showed up and after a long stretch of international diplomacy breaking down wound up engaged in a fleet conflict with Sharen in orbit over Thenica. Said battle is still ongoing with fleets of this size, while Sharen has a clear upper hand it has given Kar’Soluth forces an orbital presence in the area. More importantly, firing on Faelyn has caused a diplomatic complication. Remember how we gave Kanika the spell Renjala uses to get around? She’s here now.

She’s with Sarghess at the moment so we can’t attack them or we risk hitting her and nullifying the treaty. She doesn’t seem particularly interested in what we’ve got going on with Beldobaan over here and has her own reasons to be here but it is still noteworthy that she’s running around causing problems especially for Shetou.

The assault into Beldobaan managed to establish control of one of the tunnel entrances that has a bit of an awkward curve that renders the Beldobaan fortress defenses a little less efficient. Though the tunnel was collapsed behind them in response which destroyed a large amount of the force. Using Renjala’s rift we were still able to get in to follow behind the 1st special force and establish ourselves near the eastern wall of the city. Going deeper into the city proved challenging. Also vampires, vampires everywhere. Nearly-feral Däjer vampires that just throw themselves into combat without much thought behind it. The battle in the capital city is still ongoing as checking every nook and cranny of a place known for secret passages and strange doors is proving difficult. Six of the vals have been captured but we haven’t been able to find Sabrae herself yet.

Koura Cures is moving forward with efforts to mitigate the plague distribution in Moncayo. Si Yeon has analyzed some of the properties of the disease and found that there are more than one. She has found at least four entirely different infections. Two of the four have very delayed symptoms, resulting in people being unaware they have them for long periods of time after initial infection. Those ones have spread much further than initially anticipated and while quarantines are still in effect they keep starting new infections across Cayetano. It is likely the agents that spread it intentionally are still doing so.

We have heard that Laura King has shut off the portal terminals to Moncayo and Cayetano entirely so that no one can reach Diadem and now has people who look suspiciously not like cops standing around with guns and we believe they have orders to kill anyone who comes through. They’re not federation security staff, they’re her gangsters. Which might cause some awkward miscommunications. On the other hand, Adelaide does not have any Jaal’Darya bullshit spreading around it so it is kind of working. Nah division reports finding out that she worked with the Revenants off the books to accomplish this.

On the other hand Cayetano’s infection problems are escalating despite Si-Yeon’s efforts and this has resulted in an oddity of people trying to leave Cayetano to get to Zenaka and Enohas – average people don’t know Rahlken is headed there – where they think they’ll be better off. While quarantine measures don’t allow them to do so, not all of them are filling out the paperwork properly and security around the portal terminals has been increasing by the day.

Speaking of Zenaka, Valen is still trying to squash all the little problems that keep popping up with rebellious insurrections and new territory lords being murdered by other people to create even more problems. In her own words “she’s working on it geeze”

In galactic news, the Caelkians are at the very least interested though coming from a position of pre-galactic awareness and not even a fully united planet they are slow moving and bureaucratic when it comes to formally signing anything. They also have a habit of projecting the worst of what their own history has shown their people to do onto us, as if expecting us to start eating their eggs because they did that back in their medieval period to establish dominance. They’re very curious about our history and culture towards that end of figuring out what the worst things we’ve ever done to ourselves is. We are trying really hard to explain the era of the purge to them very carefully.

In the galactic north, finding an arcane star or moon isn’t too hard but finding an uninhabited one is the tricky part. As mentioned before the northern part of the galaxy was very well developed in terms of its space frontiers. The engurians in particular really love arcane stars and moons too, and they deliberately colonized them a lot. It’s actually a point of contention between them and the zhulkites that they have always refused to share any and will aggressively colonize into regions of space closer to the zhulkites and other alliances to get to these stars.

It’s not that the attempt to get to Reika didn’t go well more so that once we found her a whole other clusterfuck happened that made it a bit problematic. She was where Song Yi was, and that attracted Kanika, who brought Decaelys with her, and then Ankathi almost lost control of Kharla in the process. It didn’t help that Ankathi turns out to be the main reason that Reika isn’t in a hurry to come back, given that whole extortion binding thing they were up to awhile back.

Then Auni killed Song Yi, taking control of the Song Clan for herself in the isolation field of Decaelys so the only real witnesses to how that happened are a bunch of people that Song Clan really isn’t likely to trust very much. We only know about this because a mysterious message came through to Nah division which we think was actually from Reika. It’s possible she’s keeping tabs on Kanika because…well someone has to. That undead-but-alive-again-dragon-supremacist does have a habit of casually changing the fate of worlds while passing through on the way to the galactic gas station.

Also we found out what Rahlken is coming for, Jamalia. he took the entire colony off the planet and its just a pile of dirt now. Haziel’s comment was “what do you want me to do, bite it? This is a fleet job”. The nearby station and local defense accomplished next to nothing against that ship and he just stole the whole colony. While the more rural developments to help the displaced Alnae are still there, this is a logistical nightmare as you might expect. Is it just me or has Enohas been getting royally fucked up ever since it was discovered? It feels like they can’t go two years without something cataclysmic happening to them.

The Enohas Refinery is still fine, and was fired at when its defenses fired at Rahlken but he didn’t exactly stop to pick a fight with it or steal it too. Given these events, I suspect that in some way Yasrena is related to all of this. It was clearly an attack on the relocating Alnaeans.

Speaking of whom, Jaerda is currently in a mild state of shock while running around trying to solve the logistical problems of her people’s only link to us, the portal network, being ripped off the planet so suddenly and Diadem closing off its portals to everywhere else under Laura King’s administrative orders.

The space bugs are still hanging around Diadem but not all of them are on our plate. Despite their massive swarm, Diadem is also quite massive and they have a lot of room. To the point that I’m not unconvinced that they come by more often than we might think. According to Vasia they just seem to be looking for leaves and things to munch on and it might be some strange seasonal thing. She also asked if we want her to handle the quarantine situation at Cayetano, with the sort of smug expression that indicates she knows we don’t want her to but she knows we know she’s the galaxy’s greatest containment expert. Though I’m not sure how much would be left to contain by the time she’s through with everybody.

Every day I’m turreting. Deow dow dow chicka dow dow.

As for assisting Echo Prime with the other Exerlus, she told us to stay far away from any of those battlefields. Since the Cradle, and ourselves, are made out of “stuff that can be made into more exerlus” the odds are our contribution would amount to giving them more materials to work with. Whether that be the exiles or Zero North’s forces is anyone’s guess. At best we could go act as a mining operation in areas near the battle zones to scrap planets worth of resources and deliver them to Echo’s forces instead of the exiles to get ahead of them on materials and deprive them of any near the battle zones.

As for the destroyer, it is largely complete though final approvals depended on how much we want to heed the exerlus warning that it will accelerate our ‘aging’ for anyone who plugs into it. However, the design is definitely more capable than typical destroyers and is both more durable while packing more firepower and maneuverability then standard designs if we want to go ahead and enter it into production. Though it requires more crew than a typical ship of its class.

Adrienne and her team has been sent out to go meet with the Zhulkites and see whats going on with them over there.

We’ve sent our stealth cruiser out, via a network of portals and other shenanigans, to the northern side of the galaxy to look into that planet with the VSS Raptor in its shipyard. Initial investigations show that this is a post-fallen world. It has likely been destroyed thousands of years ago but the remains of civilization are still here and there in various states of decay. The space station however is operating and it orbits while maintaining a precise precision above a functioning facility on the surface of the planet below. We haven’t sent a team groundside yet to see whats going on down there due to that probably costing us some stealth but the technology of the station is clearly well beyond most of the galactic standard. Whoever owns this place, the tech is sort of halfway between ourselves – and most other galactic civilizations – and the exerlus. Not quite at the top but definitely notable how much more advanced they are.

We’ve refrained from scanning due to that latter bit of information and instead rely on long range visual investigation for fear of being detected if we were to do otherwise. Judging by the ruins of this world, whatever civilization once lived here it was on par with Sol for density. It was likely once what the exploration corps refer to as a ‘golden world’. It still is fairly nice in its climate and resources, but it does leave the question of how the civilization there fell and why it appears someone else moved in afterwards. We have no way to assess if its new inhabitants caused the downfall of that civilization or just parked on the ruins of it for their own purposes.

The VSS Raptor is not the only ship at that station that is clearly not native to the place. We have found Nelta ships, an exerlus cluster, and a chunk of some sort of bioship among other oddities.

Due to the technological level of that station we don’t think these are pirates. Pirates tend to be a bit scrappier and more cobbled together. This is the kind of station people like Nelta and the Federation would have built. Intentional in every step of its design. It is also a little too well secured for anything less than a military outpost. We’ve had no luck discerning why the VSS Raptor is here on the wrong side of the galaxy though. Though judging by our scouting run, the stealth cruiser is able to get much closer than anyone else. It might be our one shot at getting anyone on the ground to get a closer look. Though judging by the station’s displayed hostility levels, this would be a bit on the dangerous side.

As for Rampart and Kuhas, they’re cloning…that random alien guy who we have no idea who they are but apparently runs the whole station with themselves and a bunch of clones of themselves. I’m not sure if finding out they’re all clones of one alien is a major revelation or not, for all I know this is some long lost hero of a foreign planet, clones of some ingenious pirate mastermind who took over Kuhas and built it into what it is today, or just some homeless dude they paid two hundred bucks to spit on a sample swab. What we have figured out from further observation though is that these clones all return to the same guard stations throughout the station and are never seen out of uniform because they likely don’t have much of a life outside of being a guard. Fleshy cloned automatons of some sort. They just patrol, sleep in the barracks, then patrol some more. There is so far no evidence that anyone in particular comes by to check on them who might be of any higher authority and other than the one clone who doesn’t wear full patrol armor we can’t tell if anyone actually is in charge or not.

We’ve established another base at Jydoq to continue ongoing operations there though in the wake of the war on Thenica it appears Kar’Soluth has also become more aggressive with their operations on this world. Leading to more fights with Kaylen and Kennae as well. They’ve also begun the process of uniting some smaller sections of Jydoq and appear to be trying to form a new great house from them with a jydoq “matriarch” though the jydoq don’t have genders so not sure if that is really the right term or not. Essentially they’re working to replace Merlan.