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7/16/2025, 5:26:29 AM
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Ikora blinked at that. She stepped aside briefly as a goddamn train smashed through Kepler's time-warped Chicagoesque landscape, a final gesture of pure pettiness by the Nine. "Ikora to Vanguard, I want a security check on ALL forms of communication now. You were saying" she said, "about my...colleague, Lodi?"
You both worked for a Golden Age organisation dedicated to studying alien life. Without their Emissary, they're using him as their point of contact with Guardians, all the while using other races to fight their little civil war for them. The House of Exiles are cultivating what you would understand as a miniature Witness. They would have recruited Maya by telling her how to make a perfect Chioma if I hadn't dealt with that. And now. They have a vested interest in cooperation with the Guardians"
"Is this the part where you urge us to kill them first?" demanded Ikora.
"That depends on which faction wins" I said bluntly. "To be quite honest, as annoyed as I was by the Red Legion affair I find myself ambivalent about the transhuman uplifting offer the Nine propose now that I have enough forces to defend the Traveller from all corners of the cosmos myself. Take up employment with them. Don't. It's all the same to me, just consider if making new friends is worth making new enemies too. Oh and one more thing. You had a daughter"
"Well. She's long dead, just like the woman I was"
I am the first Guardian to bond with dark matter at a sub-quantum level, turning into a blot of pure energy darting about. Of course I am. It's the first trick my own variant of humanity learned to do all those eons ago.
It's a trick that lets me step aside from a conflict where despite the actual singularity to be honest, not much of importance is happening and enter the interstitial spaces the Nine inhabit.
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Ikora blinked at that. She stepped aside briefly as a goddamn train smashed through Kepler's time-warped Chicagoesque landscape, a final gesture of pure pettiness by the Nine. "Ikora to Vanguard, I want a security check on ALL forms of communication now. You were saying" she said, "about my...colleague, Lodi?"
You both worked for a Golden Age organisation dedicated to studying alien life. Without their Emissary, they're using him as their point of contact with Guardians, all the while using other races to fight their little civil war for them. The House of Exiles are cultivating what you would understand as a miniature Witness. They would have recruited Maya by telling her how to make a perfect Chioma if I hadn't dealt with that. And now. They have a vested interest in cooperation with the Guardians"
"Is this the part where you urge us to kill them first?" demanded Ikora.
"That depends on which faction wins" I said bluntly. "To be quite honest, as annoyed as I was by the Red Legion affair I find myself ambivalent about the transhuman uplifting offer the Nine propose now that I have enough forces to defend the Traveller from all corners of the cosmos myself. Take up employment with them. Don't. It's all the same to me, just consider if making new friends is worth making new enemies too. Oh and one more thing. You had a daughter"
"Well. She's long dead, just like the woman I was"
I am the first Guardian to bond with dark matter at a sub-quantum level, turning into a blot of pure energy darting about. Of course I am. It's the first trick my own variant of humanity learned to do all those eons ago.
It's a trick that lets me step aside from a conflict where despite the actual singularity to be honest, not much of importance is happening and enter the interstitial spaces the Nine inhabit.
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