The Dark Journal

[Nyctophilia]

Date - 01.11.825 A.S.
Location - Freeport 11
Log Author - "Nyctophilia"

Where do I even begin with? Alot happened in the past few days.
Maybe I should begin from the point where Melia showed me their worlds. Intentionaly, this time. They look... Indiscribably beautiful. It all started from Melia showing me the path to their worlds. It's a... Some sort of an alien jump gate, located outside of Minor's nebula. For the first time, it felt unusual going into their worlds. Not like I hesitated, but as long as they appreciated my stance there, I'm glad to be their guest. But oh my... Do their worlds look beautiful. I was astonished by the beauty of this system at first, and I think I will be still, whenever I enter it. And I don't doubt there were some who entered this system without an invitation. We consider ourselves the lords of the cosmos, while we are absolutely not.
Then there was an another system. While this system looked like made of Azure, the other one gave more Amethyst vibes. But these two stars with doubled dust rings... They looked quite special. And my guesses were right - all nebulas in their systems have their purposes, they always hide something. For this matter - this nebula was hiding a lair and a gate. However, this gate lead to a even bigger nebula. The one that extends through the entire system. And in that system, there was some kind of superstructure... And a surface. I can't even imagine what kind of surface is it. And why is it there in the first place. But oh my goodness, the view outside... I wish I could spend days in this system. Just staring at the stars. And at the horizon.
Vagrants also appreciate me being a part of the Commune society. It is really a honor to be able to help them in a more direct way. And by that I mean blasting the Order ships. There are two types of people who oppose us - they're either stupid or mercs. Killing the latter is business, killing the former is a favor to the Universe. Favor to all of us.
There was also one interesting meeting I had tonight. An entity called "Miranda".

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[01.11.2018 03:30:57] Jane.Foster.: Hm. We're not alone here.
[01.11.2018 03:31:36] Miranda: *You have nothing to fear from ours, ms. foster*
[01.11.2018 03:31:50] /time
[01.11.2018 03:31:50] 2018-11-01 03:31:51 SMT
[01.11.2018 03:32:08] Jane.Foster.: I don't, actually. As long as there's no angry voices.
[01.11.2018 03:32:45] Miranda: *It isnt often we leave Altair, this outlet feels... good*
[01.11.2018 03:33:11] Jane.Foster.: Al..tair?
[01.11.2018 03:33:45] Miranda: *We arent entirely familiar with the commune beyond what the mindshare whispers, we assume you're unfamiliar with it*
[01.11.2018 03:34:08] Jane.Foster.: No. But I assure you, I am more than a friend of yours.
[01.11.2018 03:34:11] Vagrant.Melia: "Curiosity."
[01.11.2018 03:34:51] Miranda: *Altair is... or was... a stronghold of the Wild.  Her halls are mostly silent now*
[01.11.2018 03:35:05] Vagrant.Melia: "An aspect of the Bretheren. But it does not sing like the others."
[01.11.2018 03:35:23] Miranda: *Yes, we are different, not unlike yours, detached as they are*
[01.11.2018 03:35:42] Jane.Foster.: I... Think we've met something that does not "sings" like the others.
[01.11.2018 03:35:49] Jane.Foster.: Was it called "Vatan"?
[01.11.2018 03:36:06] Miranda: *We're... not familiar with that*
[01.11.2018 03:36:23] Miranda: *To the best of our knowledge we are unique, there are many hybrids before and after our creation, but none quite like us*
[01.11.2018 03:36:28] Jane.Foster.: The hybrid Gallic Battlecruiser. Had a mystic cloud all over it.
[01.11.2018 03:36:49] Jane.Foster.: Then... Who are you?
[01.11.2018 03:36:50] Miranda: *Taurvi was the first, but imperfect*
[01.11.2018 03:36:55] Vagrant.Melia: "Vatan is bound to metal. This one is not."
[01.11.2018 03:37:14] Miranda: *We are human... or were.  Now we're also k'hara, among other things*
[01.11.2018 03:37:31] Jane.Foster.: I am relatively new to everything that is related to you, so please, enlighten me, pardon the pun.
[01.11.2018 03:38:09] Miranda: *It is a long story, and words are such an inefficient way to communicate after having walked the mindshare*
[01.11.2018 03:38:20] Miranda: *We are the mother of oracles, perhaps you know of them*
[01.11.2018 03:38:35] Jane.Foster.: Heard. Didn't had the... Best impression.
[01.11.2018 03:38:39] Vagrant.Melia: "Impatience."
[01.11.2018 03:39:52] Miranda: *We began human, became host to a creation of the creators, we were abandoned, we became host to K'hara, it died*
[01.11.2018 03:40:03] Miranda: *Now we are a blending of all, the only blending of all*
[01.11.2018 03:40:19] Jane.Foster.: Wow.
[01.11.2018 03:40:51] Miranda: *our... mind has changed.  these incidents have shattered it, and it is not so easily rebuilt as the shipforms*
[01.11.2018 03:40:59] Jane.Foster.: So you're... Some sort of ultimate hybrid?
[01.11.2018 03:41:15] Miranda: *Ultimate would imply a final product, we are merely a part of the journey*
[01.11.2018 03:41:57] Miranda: *We are the emissary, from K'hara, Oracles, Wild, even Vagrants, to the creators we hope to one day rediscover*
[01.11.2018 03:43:09] Jane.Foster.: Yeah... You're not the only ones who hope to find K'Vosh one day.
[01.11.2018 03:43:18] Jane.Foster.: Many have alot of questions to them.
[01.11.2018 03:43:26] Jane.Foster.: Doubt they'll bother answering them.
[01.11.2018 03:43:45] Miranda: *The journey has been long and has longer yet ahead, we gather one key at a time, but it has been difficult*
[01.11.2018 03:44:02] Miranda: *Particularly stranded as we are on Altair*
[01.11.2018 03:44:53] Jane.Foster.: Is... Altair within your system, the one with two nebulas?
[01.11.2018 03:44:57] Miranda: *We have even suffered death, the mindshare is all that preserved us*
[01.11.2018 03:45:29] Miranda: *It is hidden, and not for us to reveal*
[01.11.2018 03:45:46] Jane.Foster.: Yeah... Well... How was it? To... die?
[01.11.2018 03:46:11] Miranda: *Exhilarating... and terrifying.  To be yanked from your mortal form is something humans are never prepared for*
[01.11.2018 03:46:33] Miranda: *The K'hara are accustomed to it, but it is uncomfortable and undesirable even for them*
[01.11.2018 03:47:08] Miranda: *We were dead for three years, disembodied, walking the mindshare*
[01.11.2018 03:47:11] Vagrant.Melia: "Destruction is pain. It burns."
[01.11.2018 03:47:30] Miranda: *The wild fabricated a new body for us, after a time*
[01.11.2018 03:48:19] Jane.Foster.: Yeah... that's a "yikes".
[01.11.2018 03:48:25] Miranda: *Painful, yes.  Not so much physical pain, more a psychological trauma of sudden detachment, losing memories, time*
[01.11.2018 03:49:12] Miranda: *In past shifts and cycles, new forms took time to grow.  Now there are reserves, recovery is quicker, less traumatic*
[01.11.2018 03:49:16] Jane.Foster.: Yeah, there isn't so much physical pain if you die fast, but if you manage to retain you consciousness after dying...
[01.11.2018 03:49:19] Jane.Foster.: Dear goodness.
[01.11.2018 03:49:33] Miranda: *It is a boon, if an unpleasant one*
[01.11.2018 03:49:50] Miranda: *As a human, death would have been an end.  As K'hara, it is a learning experience*
[01.11.2018 03:50:04] Jane.Foster.: Can't even imagine what K'Haras been through if they suffered all that through all these years while fighting us.
[01.11.2018 03:50:45] Vagrant.Melia: "The constant struggle shaped the Bretheren."
[01.11.2018 03:51:05] Miranda: *Growth.  Each death teaches a new lesson in avoidance.  We become more resilient*
[01.11.2018 03:51:18] Jane.Foster.: Yeah. No wonder why they're so apathetic.
[01.11.2018 03:51:51] Miranda: *We wonder... Melia, yours returned from the hypergate, yes? The mindshare is clear on this*
[01.11.2018 03:52:36] Vagrant.Melia: "The Banishers cast the Vagrants into the Abyss. We returned."
[01.11.2018 03:53:00] Miranda: *This is a journey we wish to undertake, or possibly relive, one day.  What was seen along the return*
[01.11.2018 03:53:20] Miranda: *What might such a journey teach us, of our creators*
[01.11.2018 03:54:16] Miranda: *A maddening thing, being separated from the mindshare must be, unable to join your memories to ours*
[01.11.2018 03:54:50] Vagrant.Melia: "The Abyss consisted of harsh voids. We adapted in our separation."
[01.11.2018 03:55:19] Miranda: *It is a human comparison, but as they say, the strongest steels are tempered in the hottest flames*
[01.11.2018 03:56:11] Miranda: *We respect the vagrants for their journey, some day we will endeavor to undertake the same trial*
[01.11.2018 03:56:33] Jane.Foster.: But the blacksmith gives the blade it's shape.
[01.11.2018 03:57:00] Miranda: *A function to be sure.  The same hardened steel can be a tool or a weapon, just as our forms*
[01.11.2018 03:57:18] Miranda: *When humanity came, K'hara were not weapons.  They became such out of necessity*
[01.11.2018 03:57:58] Vagrant.Melia: "Few minds, few shells, few materials. The voids themselves became the threat to the Vagrants."
[01.11.2018 03:58:42] Miranda: *K'hara became swords.  Vagrants, cast out of Sirius and forced to return, became weapons of a different kind.*
[01.11.2018 03:58:48] Miranda: *A crude comparison, but it conveys the meaning*
[01.11.2018 03:59:20] Vagrant.Melia: "The Bretheren learned the way of spitfire. We learned the way of endurance, of survival."
[01.11.2018 04:00:33] Miranda: *K'hara were left with few, they adapted, learned to hide and ambush and infiltrate
[01.11.2018 04:00:49] Miranda: *Vagrants learned to bend space to their will*
[01.11.2018 04:01:19] Vagrant.Melia: "Yet the Bretheren still possessed their hives. We had none. We sought the spheres."
[01.11.2018 04:01:20] Miranda: *Both necessary and useful adaptations, both part of the path, the journey to the creators*
[01.11.2018 04:02:12] Miranda: *As our children of the oracles say, let not prejudice cloud judgement*
[01.11.2018 04:02:43] Miranda: *K'hara were forced to take extreme measures for survival as well.  Burrowing into xerna*
[01.11.2018 04:02:52] Miranda: *No source of life but the dark core of the world*
[01.11.2018 04:03:10] Miranda: *That was before the clouds were made*
[01.11.2018 04:03:15] Vagrant.Melia: "Curious."
[01.11.2018 04:03:17] Jane.Foster.: Months ago we were talking about how Vagrants are "incompatible" with K'Haras. And one day I saw the same node as Melia, but it was a K'Hara.
[01.11.2018 04:04:04] Miranda: *From our understanding, it is the divergence in purpose that has created incompatible mindlinks*
[01.11.2018 04:04:10] Jane.Foster.: And surprisingly enough, there was no frustration in the air.
[01.11.2018 04:04:38] Miranda: *K'hara adapted as one, became more unified following the great war.  Vagrants focused on returning.*
[01.11.2018 04:04:52] Miranda: *Such a distance and length of time apart created inconsistencies in the telepathic matrix*
[01.11.2018 04:05:19] Vagrant.Melia: "The song has diverged."
[01.11.2018 04:05:24] Miranda: *The mindshare is extradimensional, but also localized*
[01.11.2018 04:05:49] Miranda: *The old mindshare was the sphere.  It was shattered by the order in the great war.*
[01.11.2018 04:06:06] Miranda: *the K'hara formed a new mindshare, the vagrants were already gone and not connected to it*
[01.11.2018 04:06:14] Miranda: *Dur-Shurrikun*
[01.11.2018 04:07:20] Miranda: *We are unclear if reconnection is possible, or even desired.  Reunification may dampen adaptation*
[01.11.2018 04:08:06] Miranda: *The commune form a similar link, do they not?*
[01.11.2018 04:08:39] Jane.Foster.: We eh... Have our own tinkering. Imperfect, but we're working on it.
[01.11.2018 04:08:49] Vagrant.Melia: "An imperfect construct."
[01.11.2018 04:09:30] Vagrant.Melia: "They wish to sing, yet they are still distant from such."
[01.11.2018 04:09:30] Jane.Foster.: Not as good as Mindshare, won't prevent you from dying, but still.
[01.11.2018 04:10:00] Miranda: *Interesting*
[01.11.2018 04:10:21] Miranda: *We would like to meet the commune in 'person' as it were, some day, when we leave altair*
[01.11.2018 04:10:52] Miranda: *as liberating as it is, taking this form, its senses are confusing to us*
[01.11.2018 04:10:55] Jane.Foster.: Whenever Azhi decided to show up... Or if we ever find our head...
[01.11.2018 04:11:28] Miranda: *We see light and hear sound, K'hara forms see radiation and hear... something*
[01.11.2018 04:12:01] Miranda: *as a hybrid we have the unique privilege of experiencing both worlds, but our origins were human*
[01.11.2018 04:12:17] Miranda: *We are still bound by human thoughts and experiences*
[01.11.2018 04:12:41] Jane.Foster.: There's always ways to grow though.
[01.11.2018 04:13:22] Miranda: *We must return, this form is young and unprotected, it needs the lair*
[01.11.2018 04:13:30] Miranda: *We will meet again, perhaps in another form*
[01.11.2018 04:13:37] Vagrant.Melia: "Perhaps."
[01.11.2018 04:13:53] Jane.Foster.: Sure. It was a pleasure meeting with you.
[01.11.2018 04:14:54] 2018-11-01 04:14:55 SMT  WARNING: A hyperspace breach is being opened by Vagrant.Melia
[01.11.2018 04:15:10] Vagrant.Melia: "We shall convey."
[01.11.2018 04:15:18] Miranda: *we appreciate the aid, Melia*
[01.11.2018 04:15:25] Miranda: *this form tires*
[01.11.2018 04:15:35] /time
[01.11.2018 04:15:35] 2018-11-01 04:15:36 SMT
[01.11.2018 04:15:52] Jumping...
[01.11.2018 04:16:31] Jane.Foster.: I just wish our ships were looking as half magnificent as your shells.
[01.11.2018 04:16:43] Miranda: *Form follows function*
[01.11.2018 04:18:18] Jane.Foster.: Both graceful and deadly, indeed.

An interesting conversation with one of theirs, for sure. No angry voices, but it sounded more... Humane. Really hope to meet them in their "other" form one day, now that they mentioned it.
Yeah... Everything that's related to them is still mindblowing. And also, I think after that stunt with the Order ship, my identity as Jane Foster might be set at a certain risk. So I better not show up for a few days around. Well, as if I don't have few more identities.

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