Stories of Lore 31

 

Well…this is awkward. I guess that works out well enough for us all things considered. Even if Somnus is in pieces after getting blasted and Koura now looks like everywhere else in the Sol territories.

So time for updates around the galaxy now that we have a breather to actually read all those intel reports.

Tykel is sort of gone, Echo Consensus have destroyed most of it including Orochi and Arkaric. It turned out that Arkaric’s androids along with himself were based on exerlus technology, which Daiheb had acquired by being the first solian to reach the wider galaxy some several centuries ago. Most alien races are actually completely unaware they’ve already seen one of ours all the way out to the furthest reaches of the galaxy for years now since they’re just so gosh darn mysterious. Though as a result, Echo Seven understood the backup protocols that Daiheb models use and could cancel the signals. Basically the phylactery vs necrocarnates rule all over again, but now for cyborgs.

What remains of the city is just a collection of ruins on a dead world, Echo Consensus took out the atmosphere containment devices and anything they hadn’t personally shot was instead suffocated to death by space itself.

The Silnian war is a whole other thing still going on. Apparently if we were to use Sol metrics, trillions have died, stood back up, and died again. It is bloody on a scale the galaxy has not really had to deal with since the silnians fought the jesai millenia ago. Our jydoq merchant guy who is hanging out on the Winter now by the way, is my  go to source for galactic history since Echo Seven is still in Sol recovering from the war with Selona. He left the consensus in ruins as he knew how to target their cores so they couldn’t just rebuild with all the metal laying around. Echo Seven themselves is gone, having basically kamikaze’d to kill Arkaric.

Riley’s back, she describes Nelta as…on fire. Peace talks didn’t go so well. The jesai are one of the ancient super races and they can fuck everrrrybody up. Exerlus and the echo consensus would normally keep them in check but they’re conveniently nowhere nearby. They are helping us with a big problem though at least.

The war in Sol is winding down, with a huge and heavy hitting portion of Nelta’s fleet peacing out back to Nelta Faelyn has been able to talk to Sharen to get their fleet moving. Now victory is well within our grasp, though we’ll see how politics settle down in the wake of this new Sol.

Irae is a lot stronger than before we joined the so called Void State. Though its hard to tell in what ways.

I ain’t updating cards for a lil bit with everything going on as it is.

 

Alexander has taken The Outsider into the warrens to begin mapping. So…you know that thing Alexander does where he’s just a total nerd? Yeah he keeps losing focus on his objective and becoming supremely fascinated by the smallest things. By the way there’s another entity in there if you go basically straight down then follow that tunnel and take a left at the next intersection then another left…and another left. He keeps going left at every intersection. Some sort of strategy Aryn told him about.

Also what kind of soulmeld do you want to make for Eden? She doesn’t really fight much so not sure if more weapon savvy ones are a good idea, and she can already float around. Maybe something defensive as a ‘just in case’ but nothing can kill her without getting to her planet so not really sure on that one.

As another update, things within the Phantoms are a bit sketchy right now. With Arkaric gone not all of them realized how much he was contributing but those who did know are suddenly a bit more nervous and the Revenants just got a lot of progress done very quickly at about the same time. Coincidence?

Also Ilex wanted us to figure out what’s going on with Faelyn and her meddling with the Que experiments. Apparently she’s just throwing stuff at him to see what happens and if she thinks its a worthwhile pursuit. If it turns out to be, the current state Valdir is in has left them vulnerable enough that Kanika could probably just kidnap Azilath if she wanted to. Apparently they’re testing if Kanika can affect the silnians, if she can then that means she can start messing with the Sol-Valdir. Though is wary since an untestable thing is what happens once Indal comes back. Too much investment in silnian offshoots could backfire if he shows up and goes ‘Oh thanks for this giant army I now know everything. By the way remember that I’m the last adventurer in Sol? Time to go slay a dracolich.” He already fought her once before, if he tracks her down again who knows what could happen.

 

Okay so it’s not that hard to locate Azilath I don’t think. If either of us just land on the same continent as her, at her rank I’m pretty sure we’ll find her synapse. Locating aside, Nelta. So maybe we need to do another stealth op to find her and what she’s up to. Even if the war in Sol is winding down, they still really hate Valdir.

 

Also with Vasia MIA on some grand galactic adventure, New Age isn’t as productive as it used to be. It’s mostly just maintaining ongoing experiments. That and…uh…now I have no idea what the fuck I’m supposed to be summarizing these reports as.

In regards to your strategy for ‘if the revenants come’ I have good news. They’re busy on Thenica now. Seiyomi is keeping an eye on them. Bad news for Renjala, they are in frighteningly close proximity to Song clan. A clan known for hunting down liches. Round two, Auni Kuu. Might be a good idea for him to start hiding on Eden and using Irae more until we at least figure out if I’m right or not. Though apparently they’re fighting some phantoms who tried to establish their own colonies in the wake of the apocalypse.

Also someone brought me a shield awhile back, I forget who.

Judging by Renjala’s email…they have their own variables they’re using us to test. It’s one of those things where its really hard to say no given that they could just kidnap us on a whim. If they figure out Vasia isn’t here anymore we’re in fucking trouble so shhh. They did give us data on the ones they sent to us and its obvious that ‘willing’ isn’t necessarily the only criteria if a criteria at all for the more powerful champions of the synapse. I mean…my willingness was questionable and down to ignorance and now I’m the queen after all.

We’ll start moving to the moon once we get some ships in here to help move. It’d be easier if we just used a carrier but I have a feeling Lancaster isn’t going to loan us one anymore. Also we should name the moon, and the system. My advice is to use words with more than one syllable. Que sucks, its as if whoever named it started a name and forgot to finish it then didn’t double check before publishing the survey data.

In regards to recruiting jydoq…that might be difficult because they know what silnians are and definitely have their own perceptions on it. They’re also a society and species not as prone to individual thinking, often putting too much faith in whatever system governs them so they are less likely to have a few radicals come take a dip. I suspect that’s why Hylavi was such a good security chief for Lancaster, jydoq just as a species aren’t wired to question their superiors. The only time they ever did was while staring down the barrel of Arkaric’s metaphorical gun.

Zenaka has the reverse problem, they’re a little too crazy if you say “it might make you stronger” they just go wild. So…we need to arrange some transportation on that one. One ambassador suggested we just dump the pool onto Zenaka and see what happens. I think finsir just breeds lunatics as a planar function.

Before you get any idea for silnian werewolves I will point out its a curse and a disease magically speaking. Our mutations will remove it automatically, same reason you can’t poison us very easily. That and we already have teeth, claws, and muscle. Not much to gain there. I mean…look at me. I’ve got fur, I’ve got teeth, I’ve got claws. I’ve also got enough weight to crush a werewolf just by laying on them. Speaking of which, do you think I’m getting fatter? I can’t tell anymore how much is a healthy weight for me because I weigh almost half a ton.

Also I didn’t even know about your whole thesis and she mostly interacted with Renjala. So ask him why he didn’t bring it up. In fact, I think only Vasia knows about your past work and she didn’t really care to spend much time with Haziel. One time they were in a room together she was focused on Eliza.

Scans of ZFO…two…three…four…four? no three. Scans of ZFO234-3 tell us that there is a bunch of weird unfamiliar materials in there. Just like last time. Send someone down there with some tweezers if you want more information, we’re talking about things that are not on the periodic table. Though mostly due to planar things, not sure what happens if they’re removed from Finsor. Reminder, when air is removed from Finsor it likes to turn into hellfire. That stuff that can burn without oxygen or fuel…so use a very long stick to push it through any rifts.

So I feel a lot of people assumed Echo Consensus would lose, but there’s no Tykel left to really go extract anything from. The exerlus inflicted a 100% fatality rate via exploding everything and then…space. Space kills things.

Salied is back at Ash but now Vasia isn’t there so she’s just back in her room watching cartoons.

That and New Horizons made us some good salvage, salvage values are up by the way after all these wars. We made almost two billion off of that.

Actually they didn’t really mess with the Vivarium other than figuring out how to open and close the doors. Researchers who were hostages at the time reveal they had fully planned to use the vivarium. To put us in for research. Things happened to those researchers that they don’t want to talk about. The New Age researcher who was on staff to keep an eye on the vivarium laughed at their trauma. He used to work at the lab on Somnus. With Vasia.

Also the metal maker needs a convoy transport to Enohas and Arc is fuuuuuuuuuuucked up.

So…we’re fine. The Nomads didn’t get here in time for the first wave and by the time we got here we were operating as a stealth support center. The Nomads stole some alien wreckage from New Horizon salvage teams but there was so much salvage no one bothered to fight them for it. Though honestly even if there was only one ship to salvage I doubt anyone would have fought them for it.