The Alien Wars 6: Fumoffu

Progenitor War Prelude: Legends of the Hidden Temple

Session Start: Sun Aug 25 00:00:00 2024
Session Ident: #fumoffu
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<DeathStar> Date: 10-762.1.2
<DeathStar> Location: Unknown Regions
<DeathStar> *the team is on a massive joint space station built by the Templars, the Xevil's empire, the Suisen, and the Cartel as a place for various races that have been going into the region for the past 100 years. Sitting at the bar there, Taiga eyes a map of the region, having picked this as the place to prepare their jump even further to ease the burden on the ship*
<Seraphna> **Si pets the Duck**
<DeathStar> *Cheryl, Zephyr, and Ren eye the duck* And why are we bringing that along? *Ren eyes the duck wearing a strange device on it's head*
<Seraphna> Si> Her name is Chaduck.
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmm...I would have left it in a stasis cube."
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> Yes, you do seem fond of that name. I think Aya and Evette were giving you looks over the holidays
<Seraphna> Si> I am merely honoring my Uncle.
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Also... why name it for Chad? He has no connection to this duck or what it believes itself to be."
<Dias`> <Chad> So what more have we learned about this thing.
<Seraphna> Angela> Si is big on family.
<Seraphna> **Kaelan has fashioned a new dress uniform for Noire**
<DeathStar> <Taiga> Not a lot unfortunately. *she looks up* Noire. We can use my ship or yours for the jump, but back when I we last jumped that far accidently, it almost melted the Tiger Engines. Now, we've come much further since then and upgraded the engines
<DeathStar> <Taiga> But, we can risk mine over yours if you want
<Dias`> <Chad> And apparently light on respect. *He glances at Angela before lookingf back at Taiga*
<Seraphna> Angela> Aww, let people be fond of you Chad.
<DeathStar> *Zephyr raises an eyebrow*
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmm...I suppose if you are confident in your own vessel's drive. We can keep mine hangared in case we need to abandon your ship or such."
<DeathStar> <Taiga> Alright. *As they are talking, the bar seems overly crowded and most of the people there are paying them no mind, though some in the back of the room seem to be glancing their way now and again*
<DeathStar> <Zephyr> We should go soon.
<DeathStar> <Ren> Lets make our way to the hangers then
<Seraphna> Angela> I wonder who would be tagging us.
<Dias`> <Chad> Agreed. I don't like the attention we're drawing. *He get's up*
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> Take your pick
<Jackieness> <Noire> "We are not exactly unknowns in this date and time."
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> Cartel, Xevil, even Earth.
<Seraphna> Si> Duck hunters.
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> Or some unknown group
<Dias`> <Chad> Perhaps even what's tainted that duck.
<DeathStar> *Cheryl stands up and Ren walks along toward the hanger* <Taiga> I admit it's been some time since I been out here. Lorelei usually handles this area of space for me
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmmm...then perhaps I should be your guide."
<DeathStar> <Taiga> This station is smack dab in the middle of a few major powers that cropped up with everyone coming out here.
<Dias`> *Chad walks along Cheryl* And they aren't due for a check-in for a bit.
<Seraphna> Si> We must protect Noireduck.
<DeathStar> <Taiga> Well, the idea is to make our jump from this location - provided we aren't bothered
<Jackieness> <Noire> *looks over at Si* "Mmmmmmm?"
<DeathStar> *As they walk along the hallways toward the hanger, it doesn't look like they're being followed*
<DeathStar> <Zephyr> So - we did we bring the duck to use as bait instead of Charlotte?
<Seraphna> Si> What?
<Dias`> <Chad> We needed something to use.
<DeathStar> <Taiga> What little I could get from the duck's mind was that whatever touched it, it was likely an accident touch, probably done around the time Charlotte's mind was touched.
<Seraphna> Si> Not Noireduck….
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> Does that mean Charlotte's mind is like a duck's?
<Jackieness> <Noire> "They both posses organic, malleable minds."
<Dias`> *Chad grunts in response to that* I've got Id lagging behind us a bit, seeing if anyone followed us from the bar.
<DeathStar> *as they enter the hanger where Taiga's new Striker ship is located as well as Noire's, something seems a bit off. Taiga muses, running her hand over the ship hull*
<DeathStar> *slowly unlocking the ramp to lower*
<Dias`> <Chad> Noire...
<Seraphna> Angela> Something’s off.
<DeathStar> <Taiga> I think someone tried to break into the ships
<DeathStar> *Taiga sits down on the bridge and brings up footage from her ship*
<Dias`> <Chad> To think they found a way to do it without tripping your security.
<DeathStar> *Ren finds a seat while Cheryl and Zephyr remain near the ramp*
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmmmm...how annoying." *goes to chekc on her own ship*
<Dias`> *Chad stands next to the two, glancing around*
<DeathStar> <Ren> *taps the ship's speakers* One day, you'll need to find a new catchphrase
<Seraphna> Si> Noireduck, say qwack.
<DeathStar> *Taiga brings up on the monitor* Two large beings. Over 6 feet, wearing cloaks, came in with some sort of device and was trying to break the locks to get inside. They didn't bother with Noire's. It looks like my ship was too much and about minute before we arrived, they turned and went toward the corner of the room
<DeathStar> *Taiga turns and points*
<DeathStar> <Zephyr> What are the chances they're still there. *She forms her gun and aims*
<Dias`> *Chad glances at Zephyr and Cheryl* About 90%.
<Jackieness> <Noire> /noi *comm* "My ship seems unmolested."
<Seraphna> **Angela forms her armor**
<Seraphna> **Kaelan slips out of Noire’s shadow** Didn’t sense anything sneak in with you. Except me.
<DeathStar> *Cheryl creeps over toward the corner; it seems to have large boxes back there for supplies for ships, fuel, etc. Cheryl grabs one of them and begins to shift it aside, her muscles straining*
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Ahh...I see..." *moves for the corner after Cheryl*
<DeathStar> *Ren keeps her eyes on the monitors while on the ship*
<Dias`> *Chad slips his hand on to his holster, his finger sliding over the trigger as he watches Cheryl*
<Seraphna> **Angela heads after Cheryl**
<DeathStar> *the crates, moved to the side, reveals what looks to be a ventaliation, bashed in and then tossed. Running her hands over the bashed areas, Cheryl studies it* <Cheryl> Hopefully that doesn't affect when we leave
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmm...I do not like unanswered questions."
<Seraphna> Angela> Mmm, anyone else joining us?
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> Well, I can answer this. *She points at the damage to the vent*
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> Only a certain weapon can cause this type of bashing
<Dias`> <Chad> An Xvash?
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmm...a Xvash?"
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> Yes
<Seraphna> Angela> A stealthy Tsiv?
<Jackieness> <Noire> "The mainline Tsivirxsh Empire has no reason to do this... I'd say most likely agents of Xevil."
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> Question is - why is Xevil's people or Ka'pla's people
<DeathStar> <Zephyr> ... Why would either of them want to spy on us departing into another area of space?
<Jackieness> <Noire> "...hmmmm...an alternative...the thig we are chasing has borrowed their soldiers."
<Seraphna> Angela> Interest in our tech maybe. They went after Taiga’s ship.
<Dias`> <Chad> Noire maybe more in line.
<DeathStar> <Taiga> The problem is Xevil's Empire, despite being allies with us these days, remains quite a mystery inside.
<DeathStar> <Taiga> He doesn't let people see too far behind the curtain
<DeathStar> <Taiga> And Ka'pla's Empire is slowly dying out due to the Tsivrixsh jumping ship to him
<Jackieness> <Noire> "MMmmm...I suppose Tsivirxsh honor only goes so far. How disappointing."
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> Well. For now, we put it on the back burner. We can't exactly point fingers at him without proof.
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> Xevil has Tsivrixsh on the station after all. And it could be flipped Ka'pla is setting him up
<Dias`> <Chad> Agreed.
<Seraphna> Angela> Indeed. And it’s not like we had a major officials with us yet to make it an incident anyway.
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmm...short of this entity hiding out in Xevils' region of space, this action would provide no value versus the risk."
<DeathStar> <Zephyr> It's why I said, it makes little sense for either group. I'll see if I can get more information later after this assignment
<DeathStar> <Zephyr> I have to assume someone wanted something
<DeathStar> *she makes her way to the ship*
<Dias`> <Chad> And we dont' know the extent of this mystery things reach or influence.
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Now I am feeling less comfortable leaving my ship hangar'd."
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> If the first contact with Charlotte was 7 months ago, and it already came here, then it could have influence all over the place. That's the problem with psionics
<DeathStar> *Taiga comms through her ship* I've contactd the Templars. They'll have a guard posted here
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmm....very well. Thank you, Taiga."
<DeathStar> *Cheryl gets into the ship and straps in*
<Dias`> *Chad gets on the ship with Cheryl*
<Seraphna> Kaelan> I can see about having a few local Dark Ones keep an eye out too.
<DeathStar> <Ren> They might run off with it.
<Seraphna> **Angela and Si board with Noireduck, The Destroyinator**
<DeathStar> *Taiga lifts them off and heads out from the station, getting a safe distance*
<Seraphna> Kaelan> My clan knows their place.
<Jackieness> <Noire> "My ship is also a synthesis of the technology of two planes of existence as well as Dark One sorcery."
<DeathStar> <Taiga> Okay. This will not be pleasant. Everyone comfortable?
<Dias`> <Chad> Give me a second. *He makes a face as he takes a deep breath*
<Seraphna> Angela> All good.
<Seraphna> **Si straps Noireduck in**
<Jackieness> <Noire> *straps in*
<DeathStar> *Cheryl pats Chad*
<DeathStar> *Zephyr closes her eyes*
<Dias`> <Chad> I'm ready *He closes his eyes*
<DeathStar> *Taiga activates the Tiger Engine and jumps them; it feels like time has stopped, outside the window, it looks like a giant duck is flying right at them while gravity feels like at first it's weightless, then crushing, then they're being sent all over the place as they get closr to the duck* <Ren> That's new... *her voice echoing*
<DeathStar> *Taiga seems to be keeping an eye on the engine stats, hand on the lever*
<Jackieness> <Noire> "...mmmm..."
<Seraphna> Si> We have entered Ducky speed.
<DeathStar> <Ren> I somehow... blame you!
<Seraphna> Si> Betrayed by my Ren.
<DeathStar> *The duck consumes their ship right a Taiga pulls the lever and they come out in the middle of nowhere*
<Seraphna> Si> Now we are in Duckiespace
<DeathStar> <Taiga> One moment. *she examines the damage to the engines* If you saw a duck it just meant you had ducks on your mind
<Dias`> *Chad rubs his face*
<DeathStar> *she has the starchart appear in the middle of the ship and lets it try to identify where they are*
<Seraphna> Si> Noireduck seems okay. **checks her over**
<DeathStar> *the duck flaps and makes racket*
<Jackieness> <Noire> "What is it on about?!"
<DeathStar> <Taiga> Alright, the jump worked surprisingly well. However, the engines are in a fragile state. I'll need to repair them
<Seraphna> Si> **feeds it bread**
<Dias`> <Chad> Perhaps we're closer to the source that tained it.
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> If only
<DeathStar> *The duck quiets while it eats*
<DeathStar> <Taiga> Okay. *She studies the star chart that is coming up* Unless we want to toss the duck at the star chart, I'll start bringing us to the nearest planets
<Seraphna> Angela> I think it just wanted a snack.
<DeathStar> <Taiga> ... do we want to toss it?
<Seraphna> Si> Fuuuu.
<Dias`> *Chad winces a bit as he gets up to look at the long distance scans*
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmm...proceed then."
<DeathStar> *Ren picks the duck up and heads to the starchart that is being filled out*
<DeathStar> *looking at the star chart though, it isn't painting a pretty picture - one moment*
<Seraphna> **Si watches like a mother duck**
<DeathStar> *this new area of the universe seems to have a lot of blackholes and white dwarfs, there is a few neurton stars, plantary nebulas, red giants and red super giants, but so far it isn't picking up any younger stars for some reason; maybe if they head further in. Surprisingly though there are still some planets being pinged here and there among the stars that can hold life*
<DeathStar> *Cheryl is eyeing the systems that is being scanned* What the bloody hell?
<Dias`> Chad> Potential planets to search or life...*He pauses as he looks at Cheryl then looks*
<Seraphna> Angela> Like everything is dying out here.
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> What are the odds all these stars are in the dying state or dead state?
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> How old is things out here?
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmm... we should investigate."
<Seraphna> Angela> This is how we see our Galaxy going in several billion years.
<Dias`> <Chad> Well, if we're heading towards the center of our galaxy, it's possible this is how it should be.
<DeathStar> *Ren has the duck walk around the star chart until it lays down in a spot*
<Seraphna> Angela> Severao hundred billion, really.
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> Hm. I guess so
<DeathStar> <Taiga> Alright, we're headed in. *Taiga jumps them with the normal engines*
<Dias`> <Chad> We'll just have to look at the data to figure out if it's natural or being caused by something.
<DeathStar> *the Striker comes out near a red giant; down below are several planets, but it's hard to believe life still exists on them. Alarms go off on the Striker warning them of the giant of the giant*
<DeathStar> <Taiga> Attempting scans. *she adjusts* There are structures present. *She turns to face them, let me see if I can get an image of them.
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmm...normally, the habitable zone around a star is consumed when the star becomes a red giant...with most outer worlds begin gaseous, not life-capable solid worlds."
<Dias`> *Chad eyes the data and the view* Hmmmm.
<DeathStar> <Taiga> You are correct, normally.
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> So how far out would this world have to be to have survived?
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmm...at least Jupiter's orbit, I think, if we assume the star was originally similar in mass to Sol.
<Seraphna> Angela> Possibly to the point that it wasn’t livable before it became a red star.
<DeathStar> *the image seems to be majorly distorted, but it looks to be some sort of temple of sort, but the image can't pick up more than a large structure*
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Though the rocky worlds instead of gas giants is the question. Perhaps the worlds are artificial or were moved into their orbits."
<Dias`> <Chad> Maybe an outpost before this world ended up like this.
<DeathStar> <Zephyr> If it was as far out or further out than Uranus or Pluto, to beings like Dark Ones or Progenitors, I doubt the cold or lack of oxygen would matter little
<Dias`> <Chad> Agreed.
<DeathStar> <Zephyr> But can we handle the heat?
<Dias`> <Chad> That would depend on equipment. But Id's shell might be able to handle it. Maybe. I've never tested it for something like this.
<Seraphna> Si> I can.
<Jackieness> <Noire> "I would also like to take a look."
<DeathStar> *Taiga looks around the ship and prepares suits*
<Seraphna> Angela> At the very least Si will be able to lessen the heat for us.
<DeathStar> <Taiga> This should help protect everyone for a while. I'll stick to fixing the engines until you all get back.
<Dias`> <Chad> Do you want my help, Taiga?
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Keep the ship secure. We don't know what else might be out there."
<DeathStar> <Taiga> If you don't mind monitoring them going through the structure on the monitors with me, sure
<DeathStar> *Taiga hooks everyone's suits up with cameras*
<Seraphna> Angela> Might be a good idea. How’s your physical health this late in the game Chad? That freezing and unfreezing can’t be good for you.
<DeathStar> *Cheryl, Ren, and Zephyr suit up*
<Seraphna> **Angela and Kaelan suit up, Si putting on a modified suit for her heat powers**
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> If you see anything on the monitors like a creepy shadow following us, let me know Chad
<Dias`> <Chad> It wasn't ideal, but even as a Weapon, I'm still just a human. *He nods to Taiga and moves over to her to help.
<Jackieness> noi *gets ready to head out*
<Jackieness> <Noire> *gets ready to head out*
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmmm? Oh, that's just Kaelan."
<DeathStar> *Cheryl eyes Kaelan*
<Seraphna> Kaelan> She’s so mean to me.
<Dias`> *An Id decloacks behind Chad and floats over to Cheryl* <Chad> Will do, Cheryl.
<DeathStar> *Taiga teleports them down to the surface where Ren staggers a bit from the heat; Taiga managing to get them near the ruins*
<Seraphna> **Si takes heat from the air around them to ease the suit strain**
<DeathStar> <Ren> Be sure not to look at the sun. It'll blind oyu
<Jackieness> <Noire> *raises a hand and constructs a heatshield overhead from Dark Matter*
<Dias`> *Id begins scanning around as they appear*
<DeathStar> *Id would pick up on various remains of structures, ground to dust over time; in fact, the one before them looks unstable as it is. On the entrance looks to be words but they've been ground off over time*
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> Lets hope this isn't a waste of time. *Zephyr just powers her weapon and heads inside*
<Dias`> <Id> Be cautious. My scans are showing this structure to be unstable.
<Seraphna> **Angela heads after her, Kaelan following, Si trying to stay between everyone to dissipate heat**
<Jackieness> <Noire> "If need be, I can stabilize the structure with my sorcery."
<DeathStar> *the entry area looks to be mostly dirt and rubble. There seems to have been stuff in there, likely high tech stuff judging by the scans, but they've been so weathered away they are no longer there, with nothing but the elements now. A narrow passage continues onward, and something blinking can be seen*
<DeathStar> <Zephyr> That looks tight
<Jackieness> <Noire> "I'll take point then." *steps forward*
<Dias`> <Id Interesting. *Id floats to the narrow passage, scanning ahead*
<DeathStar> <Ren> Are your big breasts going to make it thrugh?
<DeathStar> *Id's scans pick up machines in sleep mode - though many of them are barely functioning*
<Seraphna> Si> Thankfully a trick to boobs. They squish.
<DeathStar> <Ren> We'll see. *She waits for Noire to squish through the narrow passage*
<Dias`> <Id> I'm picking up energy. It would appear that whatevers down there is in a sort of sleep mode.
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> What could possibily be on still?
<Jackieness> <Noire> *starts trying to move through the passage*
<DeathStar> *prepare yourself Noire's boobs*
<Dias`> <Id> I would somesort of machine.
<DeathStar> *left, right, left, right, left, right, let, right*
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<DeathStar> *Noire pops out the other side*
<Seraphna> Si> The power of the Rack is strong with this one.
<DeathStar> *Ren follows, then Zephyr*
<Jackieness> <Noire> *looks around the room, using her Dark One vision*
<Dias`> *Id floats along*
<Seraphna> **Kaelan just shadow slips through, Angela and Si follow**
<DeathStar> *the room seems to be circular, with various machines that look very familiar, but they all are dim, as if they don't have enough power*
<DeathStar> *Cheryl pants, making it through*
<Seraphna> Si> **aims a Camera at them and comms** Hey love, what tech is this?
<DeathStar> *one looks to be a star map, much like what PAX has*
<DeathStar> <Taiga> An older version of Progenitor tech if I had to gues
<Dias`> <Id> Hmmm. Noire could hook me up to one and I could attempt to power it.
<DeathStar> <Taiga> Only way you're going to get that to power up is with hyperspace
<Dias`> <ChadComm> ....Hmmm. One looks like it could be a star map.
<Seraphna> Angela> I'm slowly getting a weird sense of Deja Vu. And regretting we didn't bring Jaime.
<Dias`> <Id> I see. That's unfortunate.
<DeathStar> <Taiga comm> A ship could try to do it. I suppose. But it'd be risky
<Dias`> <ChadComm> We'd have to land a ship and then hook it up. It'd be very risky.
<DeathStar> <Zephyr> Any chance those uh, what do you call it
<DeathStar> <Zephyr> Battery things that Drasek use to have to charge up might be around?
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmm...so either we try to wake up these machiens or we move on then."
<Seraphna> Si> Do we have a backup battery for the PAX tech?
<DeathStar> <Zephyr> No, we'd have to hope one might be here
<Dias`> <ChadComm> That could work. But we'd have to have one on this ship. Or make one.
<Dias`> <Id> I'll begin scanning for something similar.
<Seraphna> Si> I can't do my... computer thing, if they're not powered unfortunately. We could always bring someone back here. Now that we have the location.
<Dias`> <Chadcomm> Can you reroute all the other machines in to one and hope it has enough power to run one?
<DeathStar> <Taiga comm> We've made them before. That might be the easier route
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> That might be an idea. Can you reroute all power to the star map?
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmm...scan the ruins outside for any equipment."
<DeathStar> *Zephyr shifts and looks around, finding what looks like a second level down, then begins to slide down into the darkness*
<Dias`> *Id begins scanning all the various machines to better figure out what they could be dealing with and incase they need to re-route power*
<Jackieness> <Noire> "i'll go with Zephyr." *moves after Zephyr and descends*
<DeathStar> *one of the machines looks to be some sort of logging machine, the others seem to run power and lights, one seems to be a warning message, and the other is a map layout of the ruins*
<DeathStar> *Ren scans the outside area looking for batteries*
<Dias`> lchad
<DeathStar> *as Zephyr lands, suddenly Noireduck flaps past them, having somehow joined them and goes down the hallway*
<Dias`> <Id> Hmmm...This one seems to be relaying a warning message but I can't access it.
<DeathStar> <Duck> Wuack quack wuack
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> Hm, which do you feel is more important, the star map or that?
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> Putting all the power into that might unlock it too
<Seraphna> Si> Noireduck! **follows**
<Dias`> <ChadComm> I'm curious as to what that message could be.
<DeathStar> <Zephyr> How the hell did that thing follow us?!
<Dias`> <ChadComm> The star chart would be helpful as it most likely contains other outposts.
<DeathStar> *the duck flaps it's way toward a room*
<Seraphna> **Si follows it, Kaelan sighs and follows her**
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmm.its going somewhere. Folow it." *does so*
<Dias`> <Id> I could try and access it, if someone hooks me up to it. But there's no guarantee.
<Seraphna> **Angela keeps there with the equipment**
<DeathStar> <Taiga comm> We might come across them naturally, the warning could help us avoid pitfalls
<Dias`> <Id> Angela, please hook me up to this machine.
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> Becarful Angela. If you need help let me know
<Seraphna> **Angela nods and helps Id**
<Dias`> <Id> Perhaps I'll be able to figure out the message without having to power it fully.
<Dias`> *Id begins trying to see if it can access the warning message*
<DeathStar> *Zephyr shines lights for the group as they move through a residential rooms, passing a map that looks like a third floor is available. The duck stops in front of another set of elevators that are shut and quacks*
<DeathStar> *a person appears, but the message is so weak they do not materalize fully. Their voice heard throughout the ruins*
<Jackieness> <Noire> "...it wants to go lower."
<Dias`> *Id tries to remove the person to send more power to the audio only*
<Seraphna> **Angela focuses on the language, since she is, oddly enough, familiar with some ancient Progenitor**
<DeathStar> <Female Voice> The Progenitor Empire is at risk of destruction. To all those who are hearing this warning, enact the final protocols and then save yourselves until the time is right. *The voice sounds dangerously familiar, especially when an edge is put into it* This might seem the end, *the static increases and the message begins to erode* Save yourselves and we will then deal with the horde of Dark Ones. Your Empress, signing off.
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> I don't speak Progenitor, what was that?
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> But that voice, it sounded a lot like Erevis
<Dias`> <Id> I'm working on translating it. *Id translates what parts he can for her*
<DeathStar> *Zephyr and Ren begin to try to open the elevator doors*
<DeathStar> *allowing the duck to go even lower*
<Seraphna> Angela> **repeats it in Basic**
<Seraphna> Angela> ...I learned this language during that period I absorbed Erevis' powerset.
<Dias`> <ChadComm> I'm comparing the voice with Erevis. But it's possible considering how Erevis came to be.
<Seraphna> Angela> It could be the old her. The old, old her.
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> Just how old is this? Plus I thought the Progenitors were from another reality. It was a battle across realities with the Dark Ones. How is this possible
<Jackieness> <Noire> &*uses tendrils to try prying the elevator open*
<Seraphna> Angela> Oh you know, realities move at different time speeds, it's fully possible some were going in reverse or super fast.
<Seraphna> Angela> It could also be Jaime, she sounds a lot like her mother. Or one of the other kids.
<Dias`> <ChadComm> Just more questions that we may not get all the answers for.
<DeathStar> *Chad's comparison comes up: If not Erevis, it's definitely a family member*
<Dias`> <ChadComm> Hmmm. It's similar.
<Seraphna> Angela> Called it. Problem is, is it an ancestor or a descendant?
<DeathStar> *the duck vanishes to the third floor. Ren and Zephyr already joining them. Down there, what looks to be the power stations can be found as th duck waddles*
<Dias`> <ChadComm> It'll take more time to confirm it though.
<Seraphna> Si> Hey guys. Noireduck found the power stations.
<DeathStar> <Ren> This is older tech than the PAX
<Seraphna> Angela> Likely an ancestor then. Or possibly another reality with less advancement.
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmmm...surprising."
<Seraphna> Si> **transmits pictures of the power stations**
<DeathStar> <Taiga comm> Keep in mind the PAX is highly advanced than most things. It was a fleet war ship
<DeathStar> <Taiga comm> We can't compare it to everything
<Seraphna> **Si looks for BUTTONS**
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Be careful that powering it on does not bring down everything on top of us."
<Dias`> *Id replays the message, this time without the audio so that the power goes to the image*
<DeathStar> *some of the image does appear; it looks to be an energy being outline*
<DeathStar> *The duck seems to prop itself on top of what looks to be a generator*
<Dias`> <Id> I will record this image.
<DeathStar> *with buttons*
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> No offense but that looks lik any other Progenitor to me
<Dias`> <Id> Indeed.
<Seraphna> Si> I have the button. Should I push it?
<DeathStar> *Zephyr calls out* I found what we came for. *she holds up a battery* Bad news, it looks like the energy in it is almost gone
<Seraphna> Si> This has a generator here.
<DeathStar> <Ren> I..uh...sure?
<Seraphna> Si> And... power things.
<DeathStar> *Zephyr heads for the exit with the battery before Si blows them up*
<Seraphna> **Si slowly pushes the button**
<DeathStar> *upstairs everything shuts off*
<DeathStar> *lights going off even up there*
<Seraphna> Si> Any effect?
<Dias`> <IdComm> Yes. You've turned all the power off up here.
<Jackieness> <Noire> "...did you press the off button?"
<Seraphna> Angela> It got dark in here.
<DeathStar> *then it restarts a moment later*
<DeathStar> *with emergency lights*
<Seraphna> Si> Oh umm... let's see... should I push it again then?
<DeathStar> <Ren> Sure?
<Seraphna> Si> Pushing button. **she slowly pushes it again**
<DeathStar> *the lights go off again*
<DeathStar> *this time the emergency lights don't even come on*
<Seraphna> Si> So far we haven't blown up.
<Seraphna> Si> Noireduck, are you sure this is gonna work?
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> .... haaaaa
<DeathStar> <Duck> Quack~~~
<Seraphna> Si> Okay, going for third button push.
<Seraphna> Si> Unless someone objects. <Dear am I screwing up? I don't know.>
<DeathStar> *Zephyr arrives with the battery upstairs* I'd wait to use this with someone turning the power off again and again
<Jackieness> <Noire> "...this is becoming annoying."
<DeathStar> <Taiga on comm> I'd stop. You don't have a lot of power
<DeathStar> <>
<Seraphna> Si> Okay, holding off on button pushing.
<Dias`> <Id> We can at least prepare the battery and the star map.
<DeathStar> <Taiga on comm> <For all you know, the duck might be leading you down an evil path>
<DeathStar> *The duck quacks innocently*
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Catch your duck and let us go back to join the others."
<Seraphna> Si> Surely you wouldn't lead me to evil, would you Noireduck?
<DeathStar> <Duck> Quack quack!
<Seraphna> Si> Double no. See? **she picks up Noireduck**
<DeathStar> <Ren> How does that work again?
<DeathStar> *Cheryl hooks up the battery with Zephyr, getting lights and power back upstairs*
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> Alright, here's the starmap
<Dias`> <Id> Hook me up to the terminal so that I can download the map.
<DeathStar> *Cheryl motions to Angela*
<Seraphna> **Angela moves over**
<Seraphna> **Angela hooks him up**
<DeathStar> *The star map hovers in the middle of the room and it shows the entire part of this galaxy - it looks like it's showing Progenitor controlled space. And then it shows Dark One controlled spacE*
<Dias`> *Id tries to access the map data and then download it*
<DeathStar> *Id manages to download it*
<DeathStar> *the others manage to join them up top*
<DeathStar> <Ren> Wow, the Progenitors and Dark Ones were all over the place here
<Dias`> <Id> I have a copy of the map data.
<Dias`> <ChadComm> Hmmm. *He studies the map from Id's view point*
<DeathStar> *Cheryl studies down here; it looks like they're indeed at an outpost*
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmm..." *looks over the map*
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Irony, since we all found peace.
<DeathStar> *There seems to be various outpost, star ship production bases, and toward the center is a world that claims to be the Progenitor Homeworld*
<DeathStar> <Ren> What are the odds that is still there?
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmm...and yet the Dakr Ones greatly outnumber the Progenitors in the present day."
<Seraphna> Angela> So if this is right... they came from our own universe.
<Dias`> <ChadComm> Do we head straight for it do we work our way and check out some of these other outposts.
<DeathStar> <Zephyr> Lets take a vote
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Mmm, mostly thanks to awesome people like me. Though the Royal Family increased quite a lot over the last century.
<DeathStar> <Zephyr> Sightseeing or head straight there?
<Seraphna> Angela> More Data might be good.
<DeathStar> *Cheryl seems to be tracing a line through the outposts*
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Dark Ones outnumber Progenitors by the thousands."
<Seraphna> **Kaelan shrugs** Would you fight Jaime or Jikuu?
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> Lets return
<DeathStar> *Chreyl steps outside to get teleported*
<Seraphna> **Sera's people move out too**
<Jackieness> <Noire> "...and you miss my point." *heads back outside*
<Seraphna> **Si pets Noireduck**
<Dias`> *Id floats after cheryl*
<DeathStar> -TIME JUMP-
<DeathStar> Date: 10-672.1.5
<DeathStar> Location: Deeper into Third Space
<DeathStar> *at another world, the group has found it much like the other; everything mostly powered down. Thankfully with the battery, they could charge it on their ship when they took it down and are able to power it up*
<DeathStar> *the warning message was sent to them as well*
<DeathStar> *there appear to be logs and whatnot, this area also controls the rooms and the base itself*
<Seraphna> Angela> Try to get the image up more.
<DeathStar> *and they can unlock the elevator and it seems they were working on a project here*
<Dias`> <Id> It would seem this was a system wide alert.
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmm...the message may have been sent from the Progenitor homeworld, or another location. I am more itnerested in the location that it was sent from."
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> I wonder what the crisis was
<Dias`> <Id> Most likely scenario, they were about to lose in their war against the Dark Ones.
<DeathStar> <Zephyr> Try to trace it back then - but it being so long ago
<DeathStar> <Zephyr> It might be hard
<DeathStar> <Ren> It might have sender stamped
<Dias`> *Id begins accessing the logs*
<Jackieness> <Noire> "...though...it does occur to me...that if we do find any of these surviving Ancient Progenitors..."
<DeathStar> *The logs seem to be about their mundane tasks - reading them, it feels like the Progenitors are a bit emotionless or bland. Their reports and what not being very dry and to the point. Even if they mention family, it doesn't seem to go into an emotional resonance*
<DeathStar> *they are talking about the Dark One horde threat and then an unstability threat to the universe they been charting that could become a problem, but do not go into the details, instead switching to the project's progress*
<DeathStar> *then the logs just sort of stop*
<Dias`> <Id> Hmm. While I process these, it would appear they were working on a project here. Should we send some to it?
<DeathStar> <Ren> You think any of them survived?
<Seraphna> **Kaelan muses, frowning a bit** That's... weird.
<Jackieness> <Noire> "You have Dark Ones in this group... nut we didn't bring any Progenitors with us to help defuse any situations."
<Dias`> <ChadComm> Hmmm. It seems something other than the Dark Ones came up as a threat.
<DeathStar> <Taiga comm> Unstability to the universe.
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Well, we know from all the different timelines a few of those threats. We've even met a few.
<DeathStar> <Taiga comm> Well this region of space is still there, so I ponder what that could mean
<Dias`> <ChadComm> I wonder what that all entails.
<Jackieness> <Noire> "And yet this project seemed to take priority."
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Something that's odd, the emotional scale of these Progenitors.
<Seraphna> Kaelan> It's the exact opposite of what we know.
<DeathStar> <Zephyr> Ah, not really.
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Mm?
<DeathStar> <Zephyr> Chad might remember what I mean
<Dias`> <ChadComm> Zephyrs correct.
<Jackieness> <Noire> "The other Erevis was cold, as I recall."
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Lemme guess, Erevis was some kind of stone cold lady when you first found her and Xanatos taught her love?
<Dias`> <ChadComm> Erevis was very emotionless when she took over Katrina's body.
<DeathStar> <Zephyr> Erevis first encounter with emotions came when she was in Katrina's body. It was a shock to her system
<DeathStar> <Zephyr> Well, I shouldn't stop first. She had them.
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Huh. So is that why the kids are all so passionate and emotional?
<DeathStar> <Zephyr> Katrina just dialed them up to a 100
<Seraphna> Kaelan> The human and other stuff in them makes it bigger?
<DeathStar> <Zephyr> I want to say she once said, and remember this is a long time ago so I could be recalling wrong
<DeathStar> <Zephyr> Progenitors were emotionless outside the Royal family
<DeathStar> <Zephyr> And even they didn't show much
<Dias`> <ChadComm> Destiny was the same way if you recall.
<Seraphna> Kaelan> ...And we really only know people related to the Royals. Only Erevis encouraged her kids to be emotional.
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Seriously, have you ever seen Isis ticked off? Scary.
<DeathStar> <Zephyr> It might be why they lost to the more emotional Dark Ones
<Seraphna> Angela> **snickers** Athena practically tore Empress a new one after she tried to take over. They have a thing where they get strongly attached to people and things.
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmm...those of us who cna use our emotions anyway."
<DeathStar> *Cheryl brings up the project while they talk, seeing it's password protected*
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> Damn you
<Seraphna> Kaelan> I haven't really had a handle on my emotions since changing. Always found Noire's self control incredible.
<Dias`> <Id> I could try and break in.
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> Please
<DeathStar> <Ren> Well, if the Dark Ones and the Progenitors were once one and the sme
<Dias`> *Id access it and tries to hack passed the password
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmm...discipline was essential for me."
<DeathStar> <Ren> I can see why one side might go for the emotionless stick and the other go for the emotions
<Dias`> <ChadComm> It maybe what caused them to divert down seperate paths
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmm...or Progenitors and akr Ones started as divided being."
<Jackieness> Dark
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Well they managed to make up recently into one. Well, two beings.
<Seraphna> Kaelan> The Jikuus.
<DeathStar> *after a bit, the Project files begin to pop up, with it stating this is top secret and for the Empress' eyes only. It looks like they were attempting to harness the Dark One power along with a Progenitor power into one being, with notes to take the best attributes of both races*
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Wonder if they ever even thought to do it the old fashioned way.
<Dias`> <Id> Interesting. They appear to have ben working on hybriding.
<Dias`> <ChadComm> Jikuu isn't a Dark One, Kaelan. She's the daughter of a Rune Spirit.
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmm...they likely would not want to leave it to nature. The hybrid could end up with Dakr One rage with Progenitor arrogance."
<Seraphna> Kaelan> In nature it’s close enough. Especially since the last Emperor used it along with Mistress as his power pool.
<Dias`> <ChadComm> Without looking in to it, it's probably that genetically a Dark One and a Progenitor cannot share DNA.
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Oh… they can.
<DeathStar> <Taiga on comm> Hm. They probably can, but what would their power be
<DeathStar> <Taiga on comm> Would it cancel each other out, would one power set take over the other? Would they go mad?
<Seraphna> Kaelan> I’ll let you know when she gets old enough.
<Dias`> <Id> Well, we could always head down to their project room and see.
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Tsukiko and Sephie have had kids.
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Yes, let us."
<Dias`> <ChadComm> Taiga, it might not be a bad idea.
<Seraphna> Angela> Well hybridization is theoretically easier with other DNA working as a bond. Kitsune and Human could have made it possible.
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> Lets see if there's anything on the project here
<Seraphna> Angela> It’s how we eventually got the Illium.
<Dias`> <ChadComm> Sounds good.
<Seraphna> **Angela nods to help look it over** Goid thing you brought the Xenobiologist.
<DeathStar> *aftre researching a bit, it appears that the project never went off the ground - due to whatever happened to the universe. The alarm went off before it was put into motion, but the materials and research seems to be MIA*
<Dias`> <Id> Hmmm. That's concerning.
<Seraphna> Angela> A document dump... either they destroyed it to keep it out of the hands of Dark Ones or someone decided to keep their work for later.
<DeathStar> <Ren> Where did it get dumped to?
<Seraphna> **Angela muses and tries to get a record on hwere the MIA stuff went**
<Seraphna> Angela> Most likely, a deletion folder, but you never know.
<DeathStar> *it looks like someone downloaded, many, many, many, many years later. Indicating someone had the password and knew Progenitor*
<Seraphna> Angela> ...Huh.
<Seraphna> Angela> Someone came here later and took it.
<Dias`> <Id> Hmmmm. Interesting.
<DeathStar> <Duck> Quack!!~!
<Dias`> <ChadComm> A survivor perhaps.
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmm...the duck wants something."
<Seraphna> Si> Noireduck? Was it you?
<DeathStar> <Duck> Quack
<Seraphna> Si> I see. Not you then.
<DeathStar> *Cheryl eyes the image of the Empress giving out the warning; it looks like your typical female progenitor*
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> The battery is starting to get low. We should head back to the ship and charge it
<Seraphna> Angela> Mmm, has to be an ancestor from the older lines. Today's progenitors are anything but homogenous.
<Dias`> <Id> Yes, that would be wise Cheryl
<Seraphna> Angela> Even Wind breaks the norm and he's supposed to be an ancient.
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> Hm
<Jackieness> <Noire> "An Ancient who has been hanging around us ratehr than other like-minded Progentiors."
<Seraphna> Angela> Come to think of it, the Elder Erevis brought Ao and Drasek, and they were stand outs too.
<Dias`> <ChadComm> Wind was also....a case like Erevis was he not?
<DeathStar> <Zephyr> Wind was strange - he was always emotional
<Seraphna> Angela> Sort of.
<DeathStar> <Zephyr> I don't think we ever learned where Wind came from. Not even Erevis knew
<Seraphna> Angela> Yeah. Like from the very start, at least when he was discovered with Ariel. For that matter he already understood and felt love.
<Seraphna> Angela> The one that we found involved with the Serpent was also very emotional.
<DeathStar> *As they beam back up to the ship, Taiga begins to charge the battery*
<Seraphna> Angela> In fact, now that I think of it, besides Destiny I don't think we ever found one that didn't have emotions bubbling all over.
<DeathStar> *then heads to the bridge to pilot them off, jumping them into hyperspace*
<Seraphna> Angela> Oh that other one you mentioned earlier too. This is a lot to process with all that's up here.
<DeathStar> <Ren> Emptiness?
<Seraphna> **Angela eyes her** I may be a bunny dear, but I've got more PhDs than you have tails.
<DeathStar> *Ren sniffs*
<Seraphna> Si> Noireduck, share your wisdom!
<DeathStar> <Duck> Quackers
<DeathStar> -TIME JUMP-
<DeathStar> Date: 10-672.1.10
<DeathStar> Location: Progenitor Homeworld
<DeathStar> *the star before them looks odd, changing various colors every few minutes; it's larger than normal, but it's not putting out excessive heat*
<Dias`> *Chad sits a terminal, looking at the data on it as he scans it*
<DeathStar> *the system seems to have various planets down below, several containing Prognenitor tech, but one in particular seems to have a planet side amount*
<DeathStar> *the star seem to have been tampered with in some way*
<Dias`> <Chad> Something is definetly affecting the sun but I can't figure out what it is or was.
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmm...a rainbow star."
<DeathStar> <Taiga> We could do a deeper dive... *the scans pick up something in the middle of the star, something progenitorish*
<DeathStar> <Taiga> But at the same time I'm leery
<Seraphna> Angela> Is... a progenitor powering that star?
<DeathStar> <Ren> They could survive in it I suppose
<Seraphna> Angela> The color pattern... how similar is it to hyperspace?
<DeathStar> <Taiga> I... I don't know
<Seraphna> **Angela muses and compares the spectrum**
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmmm...a Progenitor who can power a star is best left undisturbed."
<DeathStar> <Taiga> My scans are indicating it's more likely a machine than a person, but I'm not positive now
<Seraphna> Angela> If they can power it, it's odd they don't just... power it to a yellow sun and then let it age till they need to recharge it.
<DeathStar> <Ren> Maybe we'll find our answers planet side
<Seraphna> Angela> Yeah, the tech might be beyond us as is.
<Seraphna> Angela> Slight suggestion.
<DeathStar> <Zephyr> So there is still tech out there that is beyond us
<Seraphna> Angela> Maybe the Dark Ones in the group should wait on the ship.
<DeathStar> *Ren peers ta Noire, then Angela* Seriously?
<Seraphna> Angela> If we find Progenitors... they might not take Dark Ones in a good way.
<Dias`> <Chad> Go in cautiously Taiga. The may still have planet defenses on auto that have survived.
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmm...a possibility, true..."
<Seraphna> Angela> And yeah... that star pattern is similar to hyperspace.
<Seraphna> Angela> **shows her work**
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Taiga, do you have any of the PAX's comm codes?"
<DeathStar> *Taiga slowly brings them down; the buildings, still standing after all this time, looking almost brand new and waht has been worn down looks to be auto-repairing. The streets and buildings all look empty as if no one has been around for eons. As they keep flying, they see residental areas, business areas, industry areas, science, places to build ships and war against the Dark Ones, and finally a palace*
<DeathStar> <Taiga> I do
<Dias`> <Chad> Interesting.
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Broadcast as an IFF channel. Hopefully it believes we are a Progenitor ship if we do run into any automated defenses."
<Seraphna> Angela> These must all be built with the same stuff the PAX is. See how there's signs of regrown construction?
<DeathStar> *Taiga wrinkles brow, but shrugs and does so*
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Obviously as they share a technological base."
<DeathStar> <Ren> Where do we go first?
<Dias`> <Chad> It's the only thing that explains why everything is in the condition it is
<Dias`> <Chad> But it's also not perfect, otherwise the outposts we ran across would've survived in better shape.
<Seraphna> Angela> Indeed, even after a war or long abandonment, as long as the tech is running it could last forever. Theoretically.
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmm...though it begs the quesiton why the bones of Progenitor civilization have not been picked at by scavengers."
<Seraphna> Angela> I have a theory.
<DeathStar> *Taiga hovers in the air, while Cheryl looks over at Noire and Angela*
<Seraphna> Angela> It's about powering the tech and the sun here.
<Dias`> <Chad> If there's no scavengers to pick the bones...
<Seraphna> Angela> We should suit up.
<DeathStar> *Taiga lands near the palace*
<Jackieness> <Noire> "It just seems odd, considering how long this place would have to have been out ehre unmolested."
<DeathStar> <Ren> You'd think the Dark Ones, if they won, would come
<Seraphna> Angela> Hence the suiting up. **she moves to get ready**
<Dias`> <Chad> Unless they were wiped out also.
<DeathStar> <Ren> But we haven't run into a single one
<DeathStar> *Ren, Zephyr, and Cheryl finish suiting up*
<Seraphna> Angela> There's one simple reason they might never have. That's what I believe is a light amount of Hyperspace irratiating the planet.
<Seraphna> Angela> Their take on solar power.
<DeathStar> <Ren> And the rest of the galaxy? Granted we haven't explored all of it yet.
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmm...the Dakr Ones remaned numerous enough to threaten you all several times."
<Seraphna> Angela> I don't know if the tech is viable.
<Seraphna> Angela> But it would also explain why there are so many dead stars in this region.
<Dias`> <Chad> All sound theorie.
<DeathStar> *Cheryl steps off the ship and walks toward the palace*
<Seraphna> **Angela steps out, taking scans as they go to see if there is indeed a latent amount of hyperspace energy in the air**
<Dias`> *ID floats out and begins scanning*
<Seraphna> **Si follows, wearing a normal suit this time since even she isn't sure how hwer powers work with Hyperspace heat energy**
<DeathStar> *the air does not have hyperspace energy in it; it simply has no air, nothing. A stillness about it*
<Seraphna> Angela> Huh. We're in a vacuum.
<Jackieness> <Noire> *comm* "Let me know if its safe for those of us of a darker narture to disembark."
<Seraphna> Angela> Taiga, did we pass any atmosphere at all?
<DeathStar> *Ren and Zephyr test how much gravity there is, bouncing toward the doors. A set of progenitor words are across the entry way*
<Seraphna> **Angela tries to read them**
<DeathStar> <Taiga comm> I do not believe so. Infact, I do not believe there has been any air on any of these worlds so far
<Dias`> <Id> Why would you need atmosphere if you don't need to breathe?
<Seraphna> Angela> Mmm, Progenitors don't really need air. Even hybrids.
<Seraphna> Angela> Dark Ones sort of do, so worlds without it would benefit them greatly.
<Dias`> <ChadComm> They may have converted it all into resources. Or maybe they stripped it to just get rid of it.
<Seraphna> Angela> Chad's the only one that fully needs air in this group, I think. So keep an eye out for him.
<DeathStar> *Cheryl pushes the doors open and inside is a beautiful area for guests to come in. Even a window for someone to deal with them*
<Seraphna> **Angela eyes the sign again**
<Dias`> <ChadComm> It's why I stayed on the ship.
<DeathStar> *It reads: Anything can be accomplished with the power of thought"
<Seraphna> Angela> Anything can be acoomplished with the power of thought.
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> Sounds corny.
<DeathStar> *Ren taps comms* Come on out, Noire
<DeathStar> *stairs lead further into the palace*
<Dias`> <Id> Hmmm. It is kind of odd though. For a race so emotionless, they decided to care about aesthetics.
<Seraphna> **Angela muses and goes over to the window, peeking in**
<Jackieness> <Noire> *suits up and then heads out to join the others*
<DeathStar> <Ren> Yeah that is odd.
<Seraphna> Angela> Even when I was here once, the place seemed to be really fancily kept.
<DeathStar> *it seems to lead into the back rooms. Stuff can be seen laying around of the employees, handling requests. It looks like those rooms continue on and on out of sight*
<Dias`> <ChadComm> Well, we know very little about them.
<Seraphna> Angela> Well, I don't know if it was really here, or a memory of Erevis'.
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> I was about to say.
<Seraphna> Angela> We never really found out.
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> I am beginning to think she was an unreliable narrator if there were Progenitors here
<Seraphna> Angela> Well, they did try to kills us.
<Jackieness> <Noire> *joins the others* "...did you find a hotel?"
<Dias`> <ChadComm> Thats the thing about memory. It's not perfect and it's common for it to fill the holes in itself. She very well didn't know anything.
<Seraphna> Angela> True. She wasn't really even thinking clearly, I had to get us out of there with her hyperspace. **She rubs her fingers together**
<Seraphna> Angela> Looks like if we need access tools we can get it back here. Or we can just try to go in deeper.
<DeathStar> *upstairs, there is a greeting area it appears. A chair is present for someone to sit, with a machine in the center. There are more stairs leading up and rooms to the left and right of the throne room*
<DeathStar> *Ren and Zephyr look around, studying the machine*
<Dias`> <Id> We should check out the throne room.
<Seraphna> Angela> If they had visitors, I wonder who they would be.
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Ren, is this all you have found?"
<Dias`> <ChadComm> Well, I imagine other Progenitors. Or perhaps other races that existed at the time.
<DeathStar> <Ren> So far, but it's clearly safe
<DeathStar> *Ren kneels and taps the machine, and it powers up*
<Dias`> *Id floats over to to Ren and scans the machine*
<DeathStar> *it shows a progenitor date of time around the Erusian's youth, when they had worked with the Progenitors; Id's scan shows it as a machine that logs things in the room*
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmm...I'm almost disappointed. This all seems so... mundane."
<Seraphna> **Angela muses, peering around** It does feel a bit like a ghost town. And I'm not getting that feeling someone might be watching us, yet.
<DeathStar> *Ren keeps tapping, going through the dates. There seems to be uncountable numbers of them*
<DeathStar> *something stands behind Angela*
<DeathStar> *full of malace*
<Seraphna> Angela> Eeeh? **peers about again**
<DeathStar> <Noireduck> QUACK
<Seraphna> Angela> Oh, hi Noireduck.
<Seraphna> Angela> Wait, how are you alive?
<DeathStar> *it is wearing a helmet - just that*
<Seraphna> Si> Duck helmet.
<Seraphna> Si> Duck mecha is in the works, Lady Noireduck.
<DeathStar> *Ren then hits play on one of the dates and the room dims a bit*
<Jackieness> <Noire> "...mmmm..."
<Dias`> <Id> Slightly concerning.
<DeathStar> *on the Dias, a female Progenitor appears sitting on the throne, speaking much like Erevis, to two Progenitor workers petitioning something; it seems they are petitioning for something to be designed to help deal with the flow of work. It is all rather mundane*
<DeathStar> *the log of the meeting soon ends*
<DeathStar> <Ren> Boring
<Jackieness> <Noire> "This was more an administrative center than the home of a war council."
<Dias`> <ChadComm> See if we can download it, I can go over it later.
<DeathStar> *Cheryl walks up the stairs and peers around* There appears to be more rooms up here. It is designed like the PAX almost.
<DeathStar> *Ren helps Id download it*
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmm...perhaps the PAX was not strictlya warship, but rather intended for the continuity of the civilization after the end."
<DeathStar> *up on the next floor, is where the palace workers rooms are located. Each room can be found, but odd thing is some of them are in a mess, with items on the ground as if people were in a hurry*
<Seraphna> Angela> I think whoever visited that lab site also came here.
<DeathStar> *there are items never seen before on there, strange circle like objects*
<Seraphna> Angela> Not sure why they were in such a rush though. Unless maybe they had limited oxygen.
<DeathStar> <Zephyr> Lets see if we can find out
<Seraphna> Angela> MAybe we should take some of this back, the Empresses will like some family artifacts.
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Perhaps an evacuation order had been given."
<Dias`> <ChadComm> That's most likely the case.
<DeathStar> *a large machine can be found in the center of a circular of chairs; it looks like a meeting area for the facility. And in the back another stairs, leading what looks to be the Empress' chambers*
<DeathStar> <Zephyr> We have more machines and the Empress' room
<Seraphna> **Angela nods, taking out some sampling cases to store things, more like archaeologists securing samples than raiders, and treating it with that reverence**
<Seraphna> Si> Mmm, what do you think Noireduck?
<DeathStar> *Angela would find a datapad like device, a glowing orb, a mirror, and more*
<DeathStar> <Duck> Quaa-aa-aa-aa-aa-aaaack
<Seraphna> **Angela secures them more**
<DeathStar> *it waddles upstairs to the Empress' room*
<Dias`> <ChadComm> Gather whatever you can bring them back for study.
<Seraphna> Si> I swear she's gonna start speaking real words soon. **follows**
<Jackieness> <Noire> *heads to the Empress' bedroom as well*
<DeathStar> *Cheryl stays behind to play with the faculity machine, booting it up*
<Seraphna> Angela> Taking at least one of everything that isn't apparently mundane.
<DeathStar> *and seeing the meeting logs, agenda, the warning message from the Empress - it looks like it came from here, the overview of all the projects, except the one they came across, oddly its missing and not listed, a list of all the ships and their locations, and more*
<Seraphna> Angela> Examples of their datapads definitely here. This could be really useful to the Empire.
<Dias`> *Id floats along with Noire*
<DeathStar> *the Empress' floor has her bedroom and her daughters, as well as personal stations to store information*
<Seraphna> Si> Huh, not terribly unlike 1B with the family units.
<Seraphna> Si> Maybe it was a learned habit for Erevis.
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmm...Angela, we have personal logs here."
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> I'm going to try to send you the information at this terminal, Chad.
<Seraphna> Angela> Have Id download what he can.
<Dias`> <ChadComm> Ok.
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> He went up to the Empres's room
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> I can do this
<Seraphna> Angela> Ah okay.
<DeathStar> *She begins to send the meeting logs and agendas, then the projects, then begins to send where all the ships are located* Maybe we'll find another PAX.
<DeathStar> *Zephyr boosts up the Empress' terminal and it's password protected*
<Seraphna> Si> **peers about, starting to check rooms**
<Dias`> <ChadComm> Personally, I prefer we didn't.
<Dias`> *Id floats over to Zephyr* Hmmm.
<DeathStar> *the daughters' terminals are also password protected*
<Seraphna> Angela> I'd be more worried if people followed up out here and got that data. We should be careful.
<Seraphna> *us
<Dias`> <Id> If you want, I could try and by-pass it Zephyr.
<Seraphna> Angela> Someone's clearly been here already, someone who knew what they were looking for.
<DeathStar> *Taiga begins to look over the projects, then where all the ships were at*
<DeathStar> <Zephyt> Please do
<Seraphna> Angela> Odd that they just seemed to be covering up the project to hybridize the two races.
<Dias`> *Id begins to try and hack past or by-pass the password.
<DeathStar> <Taiga on comm> Well, good news on the PAX front. There shouldn't be another.
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Perhaps the sivirxsh visitors we had at the station were planning to plant a tracker on Taiga's ship."
<DeathStar> <Taiga on comm> Bad news, there might be something worse
<Seraphna> Angela> Upi
<Seraphna> Angela> You're not about to say there's like, a Super Black Angel out here?
<DeathStar> <Taiga on comm> .... do you want me to?
<Seraphna> Angela> ...If there is one... I guess.
<Seraphna> Angela> If PAX was a command ship, we really haven't see a battleship outside the Angels.
<DeathStar> <Taiga on comm> They were working on something to target the Dark Ones. It's much, much much smaller than the PAX. But it lists here as not being finished when the warning went out
<DeathStar> <Taiga on comm> According to the plan damage range, it was listed as "devastating"
<Jackieness> <Noire> "... ... ...what?"
<Seraphna> Angela> Was that data accessed by our little seeker?
<Jackieness> <Noire> "...can you...can you tell me that data was accessed?"
<DeathStar> <Taiga on comm> No idea.
<DeathStar> *Id breaks in and the Empress' files are laid bare. As well as when it was last accessed - earlier last year*
<Dias`> <ChadComm> I think that should be our next stop.*
<Dias`> <IdComm> I have found something concerning.
<Jackieness> <Noire> "MMmmmm?"
<Seraphna> Si> Fuuu... that's... **she frowns**
<Dias`> <IdComm> I've accessed the Empress' personal secure files. It was last accessed a year ago.
<Seraphna> Angela> During the time we decided to prepare for the trip, or before that?
<Jackieness> <Noire> "....any idea who?"
<DeathStar> *The Empress' logs are there, with a new entry for last year, an entry some many many many years ago when the project went missing, and it looks like the data has been used to work on something using her access level*
<Seraphna> Si> Huh, it looks like we had two seekers.
<Seraphna> Si> There's a log entry showing when the project stealer was here and the one last year. Could be the same person but... that's a looooong period of time.
<DeathStar> *everyone gets the file on the ship; it looks to be the size of Taiga's ship at best, with it not even having a name yet*
<Seraphna> Angela> Well if we can track down that ship we should and we should destroy it.
<DeathStar> <Zephyr> ... *Taps the older log first.*
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Are there security logs or such thatw e coukld possibly identify the visitor?"
<Seraphna> Angela> I'm no fan of xenocide devices.
<Dias`> <Id> We would need to find a security system to see.
<DeathStar> *it reads: I've taken the Project and am securing it at the palace. From there I will continue workingon it with those who have survived the incident.
<Seraphna> Si> Does this device have a camera for comms communications? Sometimes they record during access. At least on the PAX.
<DeathStar> *Zephyr taps the newer log*
<Seraphna> **Si peers** So the person who took the hybrid project literally left a note saying they were going to continue the work.
<DeathStar> *this one simpy reads* Found.
<Seraphna> Si> And that was ages ago.
<Seraphna> Si> And the other is shorter and says Found... what did they find?
<Seraphna> Si> It can't be the hybrid project if the first person took that.
<Jackieness> <Noire> "I do not like the thought of someone, out there, having a weapon that was built to kill me, my family, and my entire species."
<DeathStar> <Ren> I don't think anyone likes that
<Seraphna> Angela> So let's check that location as we go. If it's there we can always blow it up.
<DeathStar> *Cheryl calls up from downstairs*
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> I think I found the security system
<Seraphna> Angela> That's good.
<Seraphna> **Angela comes down with the loot and recordings**
<DeathStar> *Cheryl is trying to bring up the footage* There is no footage of the Empress' room, so bare with me
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Then hallways. Lobby."
<Dias`> <ChadComm> Yeah, anything that may have caught witness
<DeathStar> *Cheryl seems to be jumping through the dates, then stops. A progenitor that looks to be of high ranking, walks into the palace with other Progenitors, powering up everything, then heading for the Empress' room - these seems to be when the Project was stolen and then brought here*
<DeathStar> *Cheryl stops it to try to hear their voice*
<DeathStar> *sadly, all that is caught is: "Turn off all recording devices" before it goes black*
<Seraphna> Angela> So the scientist came back to continue with their Super Dark One Progenitor hybrid. Wehich we ironically figured out without a science project. And there's a great chance that product has existed for a while now.
<DeathStar> *Ren's ears wiggle, as if trying to decide if she knows the voice* We should bring the clip
<Dias`> <ChadComm> Bring everything you can off it.
<DeathStar> *Cheryl nods* Alright. And lets go find your Dark Killer ship
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmm...yes, let's."
<Seraphna> Angela> Any footage of the other one?
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> It was never turned back on sdly
<Jackieness> <Noire> "...naturally."
<DeathStar> *Cheryl grabs her stuff after sending it back up* But I sent everything up. Maybe during all those thousands of years someone bumped it on
<Dias`> <ChadComm> Taiga and I will run through it, see what we can come up with
<DeathStar> -SHIFT-
<DeathStar> Prelude 1:
<DeathStar> Location: Erusia
<DeathStar> *Darien's robots roam about, protecting the place, however one seems to explode while getting too close to something,a heap of almost nothing*
<DeathStar> *a certain daughter of Warren examines it, frowning and rises to report it to Arhn*
<DeathStar> -SHIFT-
<DeathStar> Prelude 2:
<DeathStar> Location: Cartel
<DeathStar> *Will sips tea with Shiva, his sister in the background* That problem we felt in the forest world. It seems to be creeping its way around our establishments and the Erusians. I still am not sure what it's goal is, but so far none of our businesses have been affected.
<DeathStar> <Will> I am thinking it will be another Suisen issue
<Dias`> <Shiva> It does seem that they drag us into so many problems.
<DeathStar> <Will> What do you want to do? It may be the time to reach out to the other races and get ahead of this.
<Dias`> <Shiva> Then we'll do that. Send out the message to their representatives..
<DeathStar> *Will nods and stands, adjusting his suit and motioning to his sister to follow him*
<DeathStar> -SHIFT-
<DeathStar> Prelude 3:
<DeathStar> Location: Cheryl's Home
<DeathStar> *the manor base seems empty right now, outside Mem watching holovids and watching for trouble*
<DeathStar> *that may be why she's caught off guard that day when trouble comes in the way of, when authorites later show up to the explosion at the house, believe it was the base's weapons and ammo they keep below, tragically going off and blowing up the base and half of the lower level.*
<DeathStar> -TBC-
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Session Close: Mon Aug 26 00:00:01 2024