The Jankest important update<\/p>\n
Also the time cycle was 2 months<\/p>\n
So first off, the invasion of Sol has begun and Thenica has
\nalready fallen. The underdark is the only place left where they could
\nsurvive the bombardment and most of the planet is in ruins. All food
\nproduction from the planet has been halted, the aethernet is down, and
\nthe planar terminals are gone. In terms of wider impact, we no longer
\nhave a way to contact Sol or retrieve information from it without the
\naethernet without going there personally.<\/p>\n
Market wise currency just crashed as it needed the banks in Sol to maintain tracking.
\nRemember the attack from Jicho that messed up our local Aethernet as well? Money is currently in
\na tenuous state. Moncayo has begun rebuilding a banking system to get this under control but right
\nnow expect bartering systems. Currently popular currency stand-ins are food and gold…again.
\nMostly because Moncayo put gold to a fixed conversion with credits so that people could use
\nsomething physical as a currency until things calm down. It just so happened that they had a huge
\nstockpile of the stuff due to the d\u00e9cor they used which have been converted into coins. Perhaps a bit
\nof dark humor given what we know about Faelyn, the coins bear striking resemblance to historical
\nexamples. The ones we used during the Era of Rising. This had an odd side effect on the coin
\ncollection market. Since now those kinds of coins are back in use, the once valuable historical relics
\nare now worth just one coin all over again.
\nSince we control Vittles and the physical assets of Auwana are intact we’re doing well its just
\na matter of helping people through the confusion of ‘why did the aethernet stop working’. So
\nelectronic banking is not a thing right now. Carry coins!
\nOther problems include all security checks, ID registration, and so on that used the aethernet
\nare gone. So guess whose right back at it again? Laura King’s gang suddenly grew explosively
\nlarger and now they have a lot more guns. Due to how hard it is to keep track of everything right
\nnow, Koura City has split into two states that are divided by a highway. With the north side still
\nunder the control of VSEC and Harlus. The south side sees Laura as their governor since she has the
\nmanpower and connections to operate as a governmental force now that we can’t background check
\nor even get security cameras working for all those people that just popped up working for her.
\nOn the upside, new data is easy to store as Aryn fixed the servers. So we can resume policing
\nthings via security camera but all previous data was lost. I think this was the Revenants trying to
\nhelp make Sarden and her friend disappear but it just so happened to be really inconvenient for us
\nthat Laura has always been a problem that’s hard to keep track of.<\/p>\n
Other news, mass migration obviously finally kicked in hard. Nine thousand people just
\nmoved to Orchard. Half of them didn’t even tell us they were hopping in a shuttle and going over,
\nand the aethernet is down so we couldn’t do much about that. Apparently people want to be close to
\nthe food right now given that many of them escaped the destruction of Sol the first time around and
\nfaced famine. Now they want to make sure they don’t have to go through that again. The challenge
\nhere is that orchard is relatively inhospitable still and now its population just increased by 4500
\npercent. It doesn’t have the infrastructure for this, but people are just pulling up in starships and
\nliving out of them while they continue construction. Notably, Zhuan is the governor of orchard now.
\nAlso notably, a lot of those ships are stolen but we don’t know from who or where. I can guess who
\nstole them and told everyone this was a great idea though.
\nHylavi is keeping calm despite the world crashing down around her and just focusing on one
\nthing at a time. I guess her apathy helps her in situations like these. Everyone she delegates any part
\nof her job to is having some stress related issues as we might expect. At this point she’s just trying
\nto stop the looting. Several fortunes just disappeared in an instant and now people are looking to
\nmake sure they possess as many physical assets as possible. It hasn’t devolved into outright riots or
\nanything, but they do know its hard for us to keep an eye on security or respond to reports of minor
\ntheft so they’re just kind of sneaking off with things now and then. It’s not too bad, Auwana’s
\nstability in the wake of the first invasion has kept people fairly mild mannered. Also we’ve been
\nable to fall back on Madhammer as a display of still controlling things. I wouldn’t really worry
\nabout it, Hylavi has it under control and the rise in theft is still just a minor hiccup since Vittles
\nmade sure that starvation hasn’t really kicked in. Just keep an eye on the growing appeal of Laura to
\nthe people.
\nSomnus on the other hand is pretty much stable. The crash of the economy has some people,
\nespecially those who received the parasite treatments, moving down to Koura to get a hold of some
\nland they can work. Also several members of Koura are doing this as well. People going off to start
\ntheir own farms and small self-sufficient towns to weather events like these that are predicted to
\nstart becoming all too frequent. Not a major problem, but we can’t really tax them or go over land
\nrights. However, it’s a planet. There’s plenty of room and we’ve opted to just let them do that since
\nat worst they come back to the city looking to loot supplies and at best we get some new towns and
\ncivilian run farms out of this.
\nPiracy is on the rise across the frontier though Auwana isn’t doing too bad on this front.
\nSomnus is a very large and militarized station, so we’re not the easiest pickings and most of these
\npirates are former civilians gone rogue. Not quite professionals like Solvang or the Nomads, so
\nthey’re not equipped to challenge VSEC just casually patrolling the system. However, reaching
\nJamalia is a bit more complicated.
\nThat’s the basics at least. So anyways, FO-234 is now under Kar’Soluth siege. We don’t have
\nthe forces to stop that invasion and are now focusing on extraction and evacuation of civilians who
\nare at least cooperative with us. It’s bad enough that the fleet is equipped for planetary conquest, but
\nthe next issue is the sympathizers who like Vloz more than us due to whatever propaganda is going
\non around there. Koda is doing his best to keep things under control but he’s up against a fleet with
\noutright more firepower. Not to mention our carrier from Moncayo is on a bit of a delay thanks to
\nall of the ongoing problems. The only thing keeping Koda afloat is probably the Nomads, who got
\naboard one of the assault carriers after it had deployed its forces a bit too eagerly and then they
\nmanaged to sneak in. They couldn’t take the whole ship, due to size, security, and standing forces.
\nThough they, and the Iron Gnoll, took the engine. As in they detached the engine somehow and
\nturned it on so it crashed into the star. So one of their assault carriers is now a space station.
\nAs for exploration of the rift, the first thing to take note of is the planet that the sahad entity
\nwas guarding. We were only able to visit it briefly before encountering said entity, now we’re able
\nto land on it and really poke around. It’s a misshapen mess with different atmospheres in different
\nareas. We think its actually a testing ground where this entity would try out new life forms, largely
\nbecause the koura parasite is in all of the continents on the planet. Apparently it really liked those
\nthings or was using them to some other ends we’re not currently aware of.
\nExploring the tunnels through space has been slow going as we map them out to make sure
\nno one flies off the edge of the universe on accident. Speaking of which, we threw a probe off the
\nedge of the universe to see what happens. They were never found again. Though with the aethernet<\/p>\n
down that does hurt the range they could be detected at.
\nKhymin and the Golbotics company are currently working on more golems to help with the
\nnew settlements that are popping up independently by all the refugees and citizens who just don’t
\nwant to be in the big city anymore. So thats going well but the issue is selling them is a whole other
\nheadache.<\/p>\n
So Sol’s on fire, that’s bad. Jamalia is fortunately self sufficient ever since
\nVittles moved into the neighborhood but being cut off from the aethernet is a
\nmajor blow for us. Auwana has Nah division and Aryn to restore functionality
\nand maintain networks to some extent. Jamalia is now an isolated colony filled
\nwith pandem people who already had issues operating the aethernet properly.
\nOnly top level commanders have any access to remote communication and they
\noften need Aryn to manually assist with getting messages across, as I’m doing with you now.
\nSo the phantoms are currently mildly agitated because one thing did not go according to plan.
\nSong Yi and Kharla have been talking to each other without jumping to murder one another. This is
\nkind of why they hate Kharla, she’s a bit unpredictable. They’re not exactly getting along but right
\nnow Song Yi is hiding out in the underdark with the Vloz’Khress.
\nSong Yi also pulled another fast one on Kanika, really more so Laesaaria did, and brought
\nback one of the older heirs instead of choosing a new one that Kanika could make some sort of
\neasier plans around. Auni Kuu, who apparently Nah division has a history with, returned as the heir
\nto song in the wake of Adin’s death. So that’s a thing if you notice Valadeus being a bit cranky about
\nthe whole situation.
\nThis comes at the same time as both Adin and Yasice died, thus making the Sharen and Song
\nalliance a little less solid so who knows whats going on with all the Great House relationships.
\nWith the death of Yunalesca, 314-C are just a handful of stragglers now who are operating
\nrogue since the Alnae government is collapsing. Zarra Sarghess also died which has put House
\nSarghess into a bad position as they desperately want to power struggle for a new matriarch but its a
\nreally bad time to do so. So they tried to do it quickly and sneakily to get things back on track but
\nthen eight people tried to do it and now they’re imploding while also being shot at by aliens. It’s
\ndumb.
\nThis is in part due to the absence of contact from Yasrena, she’s not that far away. She’s on
\nThenica still but with the aethernet down and having to rely on very limited communications range
\nthey’re just shooting themselves in the foot without someone to tell them to sit down and shut up.
\nAs planned, Eliza Pierce has taken over House Jaal’darya.
\nFrayne Ankou, Arkaric’s trusty lieutenant, also died during the invasion which hasn’t really
\naffected Selona’s organization much but he’s not terribly happy about it. This has resulted in
\nShanhai becoming his new trusty lieutenant instead of just his attack dog.
\nMeanwhile on SR3, Azilath is up against a wall after being bombarded by the alien fleet. The
\nValdir forces were split across several planets to help out where they could, but the aliens very
\nspecifically went after SR3 because they don’t like Sol having access to silnian technology. Azilath
\nand the other valdir monarchs are still putting up the meanest fight but they’re also being directly
\nfocused on by both the alien invasion and the phantoms. Not even sure if the Emperor could make
\nthat much of a difference, he’s not so good with the fleet combat.
\nMeanwhile one of the members of the Phantoms was assassinated, amidst all of this a good
\nfew of the new recruits along with one of the higher council members were taken out by the
\nRevenants. We’ve also learned from the attacks that Sarden and Morylan are a part of a trio. Sarden
\nis the youngest of the three sisters, meaning there is a third and more dangerous one. All three are
\nexpert melee combatants and assassins. We don’t know who the third one is, just that they were seen
\nby the phantoms during the assassinations and were very apparently the best of the three. Baltun has<\/p>\n
been looking more into this and why its useful. I’m just keeping an update on the rosters and what
\nthey’re doing.
\nThat’s sort of the general report of what all the big shots we keep track of are doing.
\nThe merkas integration isn’t really affected by this as they were already a tribal society who
\nhad never seen the concept of a credit card before so I doubt they care too much. However their
\nculture and knowledge of the land is bleeding into the knights as much as we are bleeding into
\nthem. Especially with the new makeover of Jamalia, which the merkas who now live here have
\nstarted decorating. With a lot of bones, sticks, and furs.
\nAku has settled in well to taking over Jamalia’s management since he’d already been here as
\none of Reika’s apprentices for awhile. He’s pointed out the overall merkas integration has a quirk,
\nthey’re responding more to Haziel than to us. Partially because Haziel just appears wildly all over
\nthe place and despite our massive technological advantage, they have no idea what all the shiny
\nthings do or why they’re impressive. They can very quickly figure out why Haziel is amazing since
\nher abilities play with their understanding of the world more directly. Fortunately, Haziel is helping
\nus in this regard but its having an affect on the culture of the integration.
\nSo there’s a new cult going on in Jamalia, they call themselves the Chosen Wolves. We can
\ndefinitely blame this one on Eerihild. Currently they have no real recognition or standing. It’s kind
\nof a gang that formed on its own that is led by the Order. Basically its a clique composed of Squires
\nled by Eerihild and by now a fair dozen merkas and a couple of arcurans. So this group pretty much
\nworships Haziel so strongly that the racial tensions broke down in favor of mutual fear of the giant
\nwolf monster that tore apart several villages. You know, Haziel’s werewolf form that is the size of a
\ndamned barn. Turns out putting the fear of god into people makes them a bit less concerned about
\nhow much they dislike each other. That and they were all given lycanthropy by Eerihild, who I only
\nlearned can do that just last week. I mean it makes sense but I just didn’t really think anyone other
\nthan Haziel could, but I guess it does have a means of spreading after all. So now they’re all
\nconvinced that they aren’t merkas or arcuran anymore and are now wolves. Reminder, they’ve never
\nactually seen a regular ass wolf from Thenica. So…they’re furries with swords, fangs, and a cult like
\nmentality of believing Haziel is a god. She says she’s not but its hard to convince the merkas or
\narcurans that she isn’t one since they have nothing else to compare her to.
\nSpeaking of which, did you know arcurans could contract lycanthropy? I didn’t. That shit is
\nfucking scary. Anyways I don’t know if we should do something about this behavior. The squires
\nseem to like having their own little gang that gets wolf powers, and its creating a group with less
\nracial tension between these two I guess. A small group at least for now. Encouraging the behavior
\nmight help with establishing a nation on this planet, though could result in a cultural shift within the
\norder itself. Right now Eerihild is the main component of it though she’s still only a squire, this
\nwould kind of put her on track to becoming chapter master of some crazed wolf cult. Though
\ntechnically they’re rixa specialists who are extremely effective in melee combat. But it kind of
\ncreates an actually separate group just a little? I mean Alex and Reika have their own teams and
\nbases but they’re still largely ‘go team astral’. Suddenly we could be dealing with Reika being the
\ncelestial lord of lightning, Alex being the keeper of pure knowledge, and Eerihild leading ‘wolf
\nknights’ all over the place.
\nAlex thinks there is merit to specialized groups for different planes, even if not for
\ndeployment the individual groups could help with training. With the advent of the mono-planar
\nknight it might be a worthwhile exploration of the idea. He’s also pretty sure it won’t get too far out
\nof control, just on the basis that Eerihild is a teenager having fun making a gang and not a serious
\nthreat to unity so much as someone just exploring their potential. That and the real threat is if Haziel
\nwants to start anything since she’s not an official member, does not take orders from us, and could
\ntake Enohas from us on a whim if she felt so inclined right now. Though her whims currently seem
\nto be hunting giant monsters in the woods and messing with the merkas settlements in ways that
\nfavor our goals since she needs us to take over the planet for her to get what she wants from Kanika.
\nI asked Reika as well and she just stared at me for several seconds trying to figure out how to
\npolitely inform me of how little fucks she gives about any of this. She has bigger issues.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile the movement spawned in the wake of Nihlav’s death continues to find
\nsympathizers, they aren’t much of a threat though but it has sort of infiltrated into other merkas
\ncities by way of tall tales. Also the fact that Haziel has made an arcuran named Okkal one of her
\nprominent assistants. I say prominent assistant but every merkas and arcuran is definitely saying
\nsomething in their language a bit more similar to ‘prophet’.
\nBack in Auwana, Riftgard construction has finished and become a major launch point for
\nVSECs explorations into the Astral Warrens. We’re still moving things around in there but its at
\nleast operational enough for that purpose. Also not long after it finished a demon appeared aboard,
\none of Valadeus’ officers. They haven’t really done much, they’re just keeping an eye on things.
\nThey informed us that they were considering the possibility of the location for phantom operations
\ncompared to that of Moncayo. While Moncayo is already built and extremely well defended and
\nmade to suit the various anatomies of the Phantoms, the astral warrens are a very interesting
\nlocation especially if we can find a route to get closer to Sol. So basically they’re just surveying the
\narea to see how interested in it they are.
\nThe carrier has deployed towards Enohas with its first load of people from Moncayo. So
\nwe’re getting a population boost but its likely to cause friction with the local still-developing
\nculture. At least that is Aku’s concern. The merkas are just really coming into the reality of a larger
\ngalaxy to explore while also finding their place within it. As mentioned, Eerihild used this to start
\nher own little gang and they’ve been experiencing a cultural revolution. However, that revolution is
\ntaking place within the presence of the Astral Order primarily. A sort of safe and understandable
\nspace, once we have thousands of refugees from all walks of Sol it might make things a bit messier
\nfor them. Not exactly a huge issue, just something Aku is keeping track of.<\/p>\n
Cats, your a kitty cat, and you dance dance dance and you dance dance
\ndance. Hehe, oh I’m going to put so many videos of you on the aethernet once
\nthat’s back up. Anyways, at least you’re not goop now.
\nWe’ve been keeping tabs on the frontier colonies after ferrying people
\naround them and the general impact of the fall of Sol. As it turns out, Solvang
\nwas completely untouched by the invasion since they knew it was coming and had no assets that
\nthey couldn’t just move. While their old asteroid hideout everyone knew about is gone, they now
\nhave just picked up all their ships and taken off into frontier space where they can be safe for
\nawhile.
\nTraveling among the frontier has become extremely dangerous now as a result. Basically 40th
\nday is now locked down, pirates took out 4 of our ships and all of the refugees on them and we don’t
\nknow where they went from there. Our friends at the Nah division have found out they set up their
\nown aethernet beacon network on key ships that is on a private channel. So they can still contact
\none another but no one else can find them, probably to avoid everyone asking about their bank
\naccounts right now. The Nomads however could probably still figure out how to get in touch with
\nthem if they wanted but they’re busy. The main point being, do not leave Que until ARC is there to
\nescort you or our odds of getting kidnapped go up dramatically.
\nOther colonies who relied on trade to keep themselves afloat, particularly in terms of key
\nresources, are crashing fast. In their desperation they look for anyone with enough of a fleet to help
\nthem re-establish trade routes. In this desperation they found Faelyn once again, whose fleet helped
\nat the ambush but is still mostly intact. Though piracy is on the rise and some colonies are just
\nbeing completely overtaken by pirates since those are the people who can get them what they need
\nto survive. I’d say this is the only competition Faelyn faces for being Empress of the frontier, but we
\nknow the pirates work for Asmodan who works for the phantoms. So basically the Phantoms now
\ncontrol the entire frontier in a very direct manner. I have a feeling had Renjala not joined them, we’d
\nbe in deep shit right about now.
\nWe also need to be concerned with the frontier as a warzone, Nelta are deploying squadrons
\nout into the frontier to eradicate our colonies to try and crush Sol out of the galactic scene. So since
\nwe’re stuck here at Que for the forseeable future, we might want to do something with all these
\ndrones still roaming around the city. Maybe just throw them back into the ichor pit for some
\nreconfiguration.<\/p>\n
The aethernet backup project, as you may remember, failed spectacularly and we lost a lot of
\nthe pre-existing stuff. We tried to download more stuff while we could before the aethernet went
\ndown but we didn’t get enough to consider that significant. Most of what we have is just technical
\nstuff for science and so the vivarium doesn’t go backwards in progress by losing all our
\nencyclopedias of animals we know about.
\nThe Iron Gnoll has been with the nomads for a bit now, we’ve just been mostly focusing on
\nthe alien invasion that is burning Sol and leaving them to their own devices. If you’re curious, he
\ncaught up with them by crash landing into the middle of a firefight and then proceeded to attack a
\nbunch of aliens, maybe a couple of civilians on accident, and then ran off screaming around the
\nblock. Two days later he ran back while still screaming and attacked more things. The Nomads don’t
\nseem remotely phased by this behavior and Andal is good at directing him to run screaming in the
\ncorrect direction.
\nAs for Sarden and civilian casualties, its worth noting that the Revenants definitely see
\nthemselves as chaotic good. They’ve never hurt civilians before and their attacks are timed
\nspecifically to keep them away. They had a brief meetup with Jhaeros during the terror of Toxyn
\nand he’s a bit crazy but as you’ve noticed by now he’s not really a member of them. So you don’t
\nhave to be too concerned about stuff like that.
\nGetting Larazja to therapy might be tricky given that she’s still here and we left the therapists
\non Somnus. Though fine I won’t dissect her, she’s been cooperative anyways with Cassir keeping an
\neye on things. Speaking of which she’s out of her cage and just hanging around with Cassir.
\nEveryone likes Cassir apparently, which is useful for me. As long as you don’t forget to take her
\nwith you when going to unexplored places that are covered in undead alien monstrosities. If you try
\nto go somewhere alone again, I’m locking you in a kitty carrier until you put all your assets into my
\nname so that if you die I at least keep my funding.
\nAs for the science, Larazja is the ichor’s queen of the synapse. At least she’s designed that
\nway, and she has mild psionic abilities due to the mutation but no real skill at it. At best Cassir has
\ntaught her how to meditate quietly. After a few exercises it became evident that she could control
\nthe drones wandering around the ruins of Que, not quite easily but she has the potential to do so.
\nThough we were able to get you to replicate the same results in about five minutes, advantages of
\nbeing an already accomplished psionic I suppose.
\nAs for the Ichor in general, it is kind of an abused puppy at this point. Prone to lashing out
\nand creating monsters to protect itself due to what it went through after the last year at this facility.
\nIt doesn’t really have as much feeling as the statement implies but it was the best way to get you to
\nunderstand what its doing and behaving like. Ever since the suppression beacons were removed it
\nhas been behaving a bit more aggressively. As if it believes it won and now just needs to expand, it
\nkeeps making small vermin-like creatures to bring more material back to it and help it grow the
\nbiomass collection. Scans indicate there is a much larger life form inside the ichor being formed but
\nprogress is slow, too slow. I think its trying to collect enough material to finish the project without
\nrisking everything it has left.
\nIt is somewhat fascinating to learn how even the simplest life forms of silnian creation can
\ndemonstrate this level of adaptability and strategic thinking. It shows a clear ability to respond to its
\nsituation and interpret ongoing events. As well as an ability to plan for the future and assume
\nmultiple possibilities and outcomes. Were it not for the fact that Cassir can outright tell its not
\nintelligent I’d assume it was. It’s more of an extremely complicated AI program, lacking true
\nsapience but having advanced problem solving abilities anyways.
\nMoving on, I fed the ichor to Balhast just to see what a parasite advanced as him does with it.
\nHe’s in a containment unit while a war between bio-mutators with different origins battle for control
\nof his biology. I was curious if a highly developed parasite could hold up against a silnian ichor
\nbrought to its lowest point. A battle between the weakest of ichors and the strongest of parasites
\ncreated by a sahad entity. So far it seems pretty even. Just don’t open the door even if you hear the
\nwhining noises. It’ll sort itself out eventually.<\/p>\n
Salied is also moving again now that she’s at Phoenix. The disconnect from the aethernet
\nseems to have helped her, which is strange. Usually only psionics can feel the presence of the
\naethernet, but I guess that is precedent for it to be possible. She’s currently just wandering outside
\nand trying to figure out what is going on all over again. I’ll head to Phoenix labs after we’re done
\nhere to check on her personally. In the meantime the scientists are keeping her occupied and
\nchecking for relapses in her behavior.
\nPeter and Madhammer made contact with Seiyomi. Who is, as expected, slippery. We didn’t
\neven notice he was on Koura until he made contact with Gunhild. As it turns out, he is indeed part
\nof a much larger hidden network. This network is a less so a combined operation like the Phantoms
\nor Nah division and is more of a loose collective of people who know certain truths that others do
\nnot and operate independently of one another. Their collective is more of a forum they can all
\naccess, and they are most interested in the existence of reality shattering phenomena. This is a group
\nthat deals specifically in the study of things that defy all known laws of existence. They’re a bunch
\nof nerds with a chatroom, but all of them are learned in deep secrets and conspiracies. They chase
\nafter cosmic entities, the legendary artifacts, time travel, and negentropic magic. Seiyomi also
\nrevealed that the things he calls ‘the legendary artifacts’ can be traded to someone who grants wishes
\nin exchange for them. As proven with Nila, but this is a bit less of a wild ‘I think I know a guy’ and
\nis just part of his collective’s introductory brochure. This group has its fingers in several other
\norganizations, though more so to collect sightings of interesting phenomena rather than
\nmanipulating events.
\nShort version, he’s a nerd chasing after big foot but he actually knows where nessie is. Peter
\nwas able to at least keep his attention for the time being so he doesn’t just wander off into nowhere.
\nHowever, the catch to that, is they had to tease him with the existence of a scientist who was able to
\ncapture a sahad entity. So basically, he’s waiting for me to come back to Auwana and have a chat.
\nI’m debating if I just send an agent, not sure I want his collective to know my identity or where I
\nwork out of.
\nThe salvage teams noted that they did not find Vamon’s ship. They also didn’t find a few alien
\nships they were expecting to find in the area. The problem with this is that the Abyss is an odd place
\nand normal methods of tracking where they might land could be pointless. They’ve just been
\nthrowing probes into the literal and metaphorical abyss to see if any of them find it.
\nAlso when you say ‘rebuild the fleet’ I don’t know what you want me to do with that. Just
\nspend all your money on ships or just get five ships or what?<\/p>\n
The vivarium has shipped its first male merkas to Jamalia to just sort of see how that whole
\nthing pans out. Also sheep have never been endangered so…yes we got a few of those for wool
\nproduction.
\nIhaslu and the gang are having some mild panic attacks that their own world was destroyed
\nand now the new one they’re hanging out at just lost its homeworld to alien invaders they didn’t
\nknow exist. Kind of a matter of understanding the scope of things I suppose. I haven’t been keeping
\nmuch track of them. Speaking of our other alien visitor, Nah found him trying to contact Nelta to
\nget a ride out of here once again. Though not having the best luck it seems, I’m willing to bet the
\nreason he wasn’t able to contact them before was due to some sort of disruption. Almost as if
\nsomething very deliberately makes sure we cannot establish contact with them until its far too late
\nto stop this war.
\nAlso Adryn is here, though he arrived a little later than Cassir who was the first responder.
\nAlso Cassir just sort of handled everything on her own. There are no other colonies under Que’s
\nregistration. They just worked out of this base, their fleet was at the pandem ambush ordeal so they
\nweren’t around to help or notice why it went quiet. This has put them in an awkward position
\noverall and they’re currently parked at Moncayo.
\nWe’ve lost contact with Bardhe and money is currently of very questionable value. Aethernet
\ndown and all, so he’s just out there in Sol somewhere doing who knows what.<\/p>\n
For our part we’ve been focusing on the general movements of political
\nfactions and keeping tabs on how the war is affecting their relations with one
\nanother. Right now there is a bit of unity among them due to the common enemy
\nthough its clear that we’re about to enter a tumultuous time of politics very soon.
\nThe Alnae empire is already splintering a second time but this time due to
\nlack of ability to contact one another. There is an ongoing feud between Kaylen and that councilor
\nwe were supposed to kill before this happened, between the continued powers of the high council
\nand that of the Grand Marshall. The Ultra Carrier of Alnae’s was destroyed by a direct conflict with
\nGuardian which has muddled politics up even more in these uncertain times.
\nShetou and Kar’Soluth on the other hand seem to be doing better than expected. With both
\nreturning to the underdark for safety. Alnae may have fled to other planets to regroup, but Shetou
\nand Kar’Soluth now have the only remaining bastion of civilization in the underdark. While tensions
\nbetween them are still particularly strong, it is notable that Yasrena is what is keeping these tensions
\npropped up more so than the expected Vloz’Khress. With Kharla unexpectedly saving Song Yi and
\nher house to protect them in the underdark, the situation is volatile but under development.
\nValdir is doing fine in terms of unity. They’re not doing great as they’re taking the most of the
\nattention from the invaders but their zealous faith means that even without direct communication
\nthey stay on the same basic page and can reconnect with ease. Their ideologies aren’t diverging
\nfrom one anther at all and there is no friction between the various factions. At least politically, the
\nrankings of each of their power is definitely changing as each group fares different levels of damage
\nfrom the ongoing bombardments. Though even if Azilath has lost the most, they still seem to agree
\nshe’s one of the major queens and her power not at all diminished. Blind theocracy seems to be a
\nvery sturdy political structure in the face of this kind of situation.
\nWe’ve also done our best to keep tabs on the revenants after Elgrim managed to get a tracking
\nbeacon onto them. Which became relevant when Sarden and the gang assassinated a prominent
\nmember of the phantoms. This led to the revelation that there are three of these blademasters who
\nuse true strike and a bunch of other ethi augments to suit their style. The third of which being
\nlargely unknown due to being just better at her job and thus harder to prove exists. Though knowing
\nthat there are three legendary assassins working together like this gave us something more to go on
\nin the effort to research what we can about the revenants.
\nFirst off, the three sisters have too similar and specific of a style to just be random chance and
\nit gave us something to look into. It is likely that they specifically come from a Shetou house at
\nsome point. We know all three of them use very similarly styled swords, which indicates they are
\nlikely from the eastern houses of Shetou at some point. Given the rumors of their relationship we
\ndon’t think they’re actually biologically related. We saw Morylan when she broke out Sarden and
\nshe was clearly of a different ancestry. Likely a half drow, this also indicates more towards the
\nShetou theory as Shetou culture features very liberal adoption policies. With people declaring
\nthemselves family members being quite common. Also, not to sound racist but drow are definitely
\nthe place to go if you were wanting to learn to be some sort of ninja assassin like the three of them
\nclearly are.
\nWe also took some time to look into the identity of the third member, supposedly she is not
\nthe oldest but the strongest of them as warriors. Rumors state that she can stand up to warriors like
\nReika based on pure skill. There is no rumor that indicates she specializes in any type of magic, just
\nhas a lot of unique gear pieces. Some say she was trained by Indal but we’re pretty sure that one is
\nfar fetched and just a guess based on her being an expert warrior over any other type of combatant.
\nSo things being what they are it’ll be hard to track them amidst the collapse of Sol but we at
\nleast have a way to narrow down where three prominent members of the Revenants are from. There
\nis also likely to be several more of them, the three sisters not being the head of the organization but
\nthe acting field agents. Jicho being an example of a much more powerful influence among them.<\/p>\n
This is as much as we can get for now though and a lot of it is admittedly guesswork. The stealth
\ncruiser is currently moving through Sol to try and figure out some more details.
\nRight now we’ve managed to regroup most of the team back here on Somnus. So everyone’s
\nhome except for the Nomads who are still helping Lancaster deal with the FO-234 situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Jankest important update Also the time cycle was 2 months So first off, the invasion of Sol has begun and Thenica has already fallen. The underdark is the only place left where they could survive the bombardment and most … Continue reading