Stories of Lore 61
We really need to stop Lancaster from leaving her office, half the time she does this we don’t see her for months.
First off, war reports. Beldobaan has switched majority control back to Kar’Soluth when Sarghess sent a deployment of mechs to assist the area, pulling them away from their Jaal’Darya front. This comes largely in the form of piloted mechs but it has pressured our forces into cover which has made dealing with the Beldobaan natives difficult. Gunhild is currently stranded in Beldobaan with her team. This seems to happen to her a lot.
The battle at the Jaal’Darya compound has seen heavy losses. Sarghess is thoroughly entrenched into the position and Jaal’Darya has been releasing more chimeras. We’ve seen a large shipment of Sarghess mechs on both battlefields as they decided to purchase more and take their soldiers off the field to crew them.
The attack on Kenduis and Vloz went heavily in our favor. The Kenduis conscripts were not terribly reliable and there were several mutiny attempts into surrenders. So we got some prisoners out of that, notably they are from Alnae originally. However, this battle took place close to the Alnae border, we have received information from Larazja that the Valdir will be attacking everything within a certain range of themselves, leaving us in that range. We already have confirmed the mobilization of Valdir. With what we know, we expect them to reach the Kar’Soluth border within two months, though whether or not they continue into Kar’Soluth territory depends on further orders from the synapse depending on Azilath’s progress.
The battle in orbit has become a bit clearer. Sharen’s allies consist of foreign fleets 1 and 3, they are aliens we haven’t contacted before and obviously now isn’t the best time to figure anything out about them. Foreign fleet 2 turned out to be from Jydoq and represents Kar’Soluth. The fighting got a lot more violent due to orbital positioning and the presence of Agallias causing a lot of problems.
It turns out Rahlken doesn’t understand planes very well and he hung around the coordinates of Zenaka on the wrong plane for a few days looking for the planet before leaving and heading in the direction of the Reach.
Haziel extracted Song Auni and sent her back to Song Clan’s capital city.
The Vampire clans all appeared in the Sol system though they are parked over SR2 on Rixa instead of Thenica. It appears they are amassing their forces, similar to the nations of Necrosi and the elemental plane all preparing in case this spills into anything larger.
The blockade on the Hasao Tei has ended as peacefully as it could, with the Hasao leaving with the Hydra’s ships to go hang out at Koura for now.
In local news. We discovered that the Caelkians became galactically capable very recently. No one could explain it specifically but after piecing together the story we figured out that their FTL capable ships only became possible shortly after Haziel messed with plants and how they interact with both people and mana. Their fleet is young but is actually better equipped for galactic travel than most standing fleets who are playing catch-up with what Haziel did, as theirs are entirely based on that new property.
Also Diadem reports a bit of a minor problem. Due to the quarantine we’ve had to be a bit careful with alien visitors from the Reach. However, this is also happening at a time when the Reach is feeling us out and the quarantine is not helping our PR.
Jaerda has been at Panemperia for her studies towards surviving the Astral Wilds, which is why she wasn’t at Jamalia. Though we can send her back to Jamalia, if nothing else that is at the forefront of her mind right now anyways.
As for Yoshai, we know the Revenants grabbed him and went to the Shadow Plane. Which seems like a bad place to be in order to combat the god of the shadow plane while trying to hold their prophet. Then again I suppose they are threatening a direct confrontation. The main guess is if they would have gone to the library again given that Shadow created it but it is still one of their main bases of operation. Not that we’ve ever been able to find it. Either they returned to a place that is Shadow’s seat of power to fight for it, or they went elsewhere to establish another base.
However, the situation has developed a bit while we were looking over at the war. Ankathi has gotten involved directly, sending Kharla and several celestials into the Shadow plane after them. At the most recent meeting with Selah, it appears that despite recent developments Ankathi would still rather keep her pantheon together and finds Shadow valuable enough to see about rescuing. Maybe I’ve been in this Selona business for too long but I’m not sure how I feel about the one person who knows how to destroy a plane going into the plane that their enemies are trying to destroy. Does that feel like a trap to anyone else or am I just getting paranoid? Not that Ankathi would listen to me, or anyone else for that matter.
In other news, the Federation sent plague samples to Eden to see if she can synthesize a cure. Three of her avatars have died in the lab attempting to do so. It is extensively quarantined so it hasn’t spread anywhere outside of the lab, but worth noting that one of the, now nine, diseases is especially dangerous to Eden. Also it doesn’t help that she went through two avatars before agreeing to use a damned suit and some tools other than her hands. Which has stabilized the research now that we have convinced her of the importance of personal protective equipment, though she definitely operates slower with tools than her hands. Though we have learned they are constantly introducing more types of plague agents to the mix as they go and are actively adding more to the pool of areas they could infiltrate. Notably, half of the Nevun swarm in Roha has dropped dead and are rapidly dying off. Vasia had extracted Larazja but now Setal is in a quarantine hospital. Samples indicate that they infected the ichor lake itself and if Larazja ever goes back to it, she will be infected quickly as well.
Vasia points out this is important, because Silnians are supposed to be completely immune to almost everything. Only the rot had ever posed a threat to them. She suspects the fact that they are in the Abyss instead of Rixa has an impact on their mutation speed. Though it also means that Eliza has been messing with silnians of some sort some how. She should not have had anything that could effect them. As an experiment, they released one of the koura parasite…dog things that Vasia made and it also got sick. Which is another life form that is immune to almost everything that Eliza definitely shouldn’t know how to infect at all. Every one of those experiments has been constantly accounted for by New Age and only left the labs once or twice. Vasia says she hadn’t sent any data on them to Eliza or anything so she isn’t sure how Eliza figured out how to create something so sticky that it could affect biological mutating super organisms.
On the war front, the first and third lances are stranded at Beldobaan, Sarghess sent a mech legion into it while Federation Forces were fighting around the Alnae border with the Vloz’Khress and Kenduis armies. Though Eerihild’s report on the situation was “meh we’re fine at least.” The sarghess reinforcements were their signature C3 mech which has established control of larger targets, but the knights are largely ‘dudes on the ground’ who can move between city streets to avoid the mechs. Granted, the vampires are still an issue and Eerihild is known for being a bit cocky.
Our encounter with the engurians did not go well but it was a rather complicated visit. They demanded we turn back upon approaching their border. However, this hostility seems based around a recent skirmish on their border. Another ship from the eastern side of the galaxy passed through this month, so it was really inconvenient timing for us.
The cradle sent word to the pandem radar station at Moncayo to take a look around. There is a ‘small’ fleet passing through engurian space and it appears that they are moving towards one of four places. Either Zero North, the Zhulkite border, the hostile facility, or uhhh…us. All four are in their currently charted path, though they might be going towards something we have no idea is out here too. The fleet includes a super assault carrier and is accompanied by a couple of battleships and other smaller ships. It actually should not have been able to get through the engurian borders but somehow it did.
I wouldn’t say relations with the engurians are completely broken down just yet, but they are on edge after this fleet passed through their territory and apparently ignored all their rules, then somehow evaded capture and won three combat engagements on their way through.
Tailing the ships leaving the Warrens reveals they go all over the place. To the point that there isn’t anything consistent about their paths after exiting. Currently we suspect they are dropping off supplies and prisoners to the facility but then leaving for other tasks. We’ve been tailing one in particular, Rampart’s logs show that it eventually went to Kuhas. No one at Kuhas seemed to notice or care about the ship. I don’t think anyone knows where it came from, and Kuhas is sort of a large rest stop.
Well we found the jydoq assassin, on Thenica. Given that we know they are at Jydoq as well, this has updated our database on them. There is more than one. All identifying information we have about the assassin matches both appearances. According to Vanjin, the assassin at Thenica had knowledge and interest in Kennae. So either they are rotating or they have some sort of connected memory. We know the jydoq multiply through asexual means, they just split themselves and boom new jydoq. With this information, it is logical to assume the assassin does the same thing to some extent. Though we don’t know enough about the actual rules its multiplication follows.
As for Kuhas, that hits a snag. Most of the gangs have no interest in fighting station security since it doesn’t result in much benefit to them. It is a neutral station that just serves as a trade port. Uniting to take over it leaves someone new in charge but with no clear benefit to the gangs that already exist and run territories. However, the risk is massive. No one can bring heavy weaponry into the station but the station security has such assets. The only way to take the station by forceful revolution would involve assaulting it from the outside with a fleet to get heavy weapons deployed to its interior.
We’ve also had some cryptic words from other Kuhas gangs that we should probably be a little less ambitious. Between the Federation and Rampart making moves, the local denizens have noticed something is fishy. Our proper operatives report that a lot of the gangs are becoming wary of the relationship between Rampart and the Federation. We’ve also learned that some of them have been traveling to Diadem to investigate the Federation as a result.