The GMG really don't like us using our surveying tools in their space. So the Sigma border worlds are normally off-limits. But since my time charting Kepler and seeing the Shrine, I kinda felt something calling from Sigma-13. I flew there to see what it was, or who it was. To my surprise... it was an alien. Calling itself Eris, it wanted to know why I was there. After a conversation, Eris jumped me to the Shrine where the Auxo showed up. I took a nap for a moment and then was asked to rest at home. A big day...
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[28.01.2022 12:08:39] Vagrant.Eris: ***(Curiosity) "A Darkling came to Us. Is their search for a death, or, perhaps, for knowledge?"***
[28.01.2022 12:09:06] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: This... huh. That feeling...
[28.01.2022 12:09:34] Vagrant.Eris: ***"Your's are not afraid of Us. Why?"***
[28.01.2022 12:10:14] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: Trust me, this is scary. I've never seen you before. Though...
[28.01.2022 12:10:26] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: There's a feeling, a... sensation. Puts me at ease.
[28.01.2022 12:11:01] Vagrant.Eris: ***"A feeling? Tell us. And tell of Yours. Who you are?"***
[28.01.2022 12:11:31] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: Didn't think I'd have to introduce myself to... what do I even call you?
[28.01.2022 12:12:31] Vagrant.Eris: ***"This one is Eris. Is your's curious about the 'name', are you?"***
[28.01.2022 12:12:44] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: I'm Halpert Kennedy, part of the Starfliers.
[28.01.2022 12:13:01] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: Eris... easy enough.
[28.01.2022 12:13:20] Vagrant.Eris: ***"The Rift-Leapers. Just like ours. We know of yours. We seen yours at the waves of voids."***
[28.01.2022 12:14:00] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: That's... worrying. I was told we operate your technology.
[28.01.2022 12:14:59] Vagrant.Eris: ***"Are you? Your's utilising adaptations. A parody. Made of metall."***
[28.01.2022 12:15:39] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: We manufactured these ourselves... so not exactly "your" tech.
[28.01.2022 12:15:53] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: Parody... yes.
[28.01.2022 12:16:02] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: Makes sense from your side.
[28.01.2022 12:16:30] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: But I digress, you wanted to know more about what drew me here... my feeling.
[28.01.2022 12:16:55] Vagrant.Eris: ***"Yet, it changes nothing. We seen yours. In the dark void thats own existance is... Mistake... Devoured by storm."***
[28.01.2022 12:17:10] Vagrant.Eris: ***"Oh yes, indeed. Why you are here?"***
[28.01.2022 12:18:16] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: I've been shown the gate...
[28.01.2022 12:18:40] Vagrant.Eris: ***"The gate? Which one?"***
[28.01.2022 12:18:53] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: And what's within. The shrine, it's presence feels like a second home.
[28.01.2022 12:19:38] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: My reason for being out here... I think I know now.
[28.01.2022 12:20:10] Vagrant.Eris: ***"It is the sacred place. Place of peace. Distant from others. Not in 'Sirius'. Distant."***
[28.01.2022 12:20:36] Vagrant.Eris: ***"Close to the Heart."***
[28.01.2022 12:21:08] Vagrant.Eris: ***"The void there burning. Devouring the shells."***
[28.01.2022 12:22:17] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: I wish to understand.
[28.01.2022 12:23:05] Vagrant.Eris: ***"Understand the Ways of ours? You seek for the Harmony that was there? To absorb it by your soul. To make it your part."***
[28.01.2022 12:24:22] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: I've seen many artefacts, installations... now the shrine. I think I'm ready to understand.
[28.01.2022 12:24:34] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: How does one do this?
[28.01.2022 12:25:58] Vagrant.Eris: ***"Perhaps, its because Yours was created by Our Creators. Like we, indeed. Or, perhaps, you are differ to your kind, if
[28.01.2022 12:26:05] Vagrant.Eris: Shrine call to you."***
[28.01.2022 12:26:29] Vagrant.Eris: ***"We do not know. Its only you could find the answers."***
[28.01.2022 12:27:01] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: If it falls on me, I'll take the time to embrace this... feeling.
[28.01.2022 12:27:27] Vagrant.Eris: ***"We are... Guardians. Childs. Keepers of the Heritage. Yours need to find Satrina. They was like you. Now ascended."***
[28.01.2022 12:28:06] Vagrant.Eris: **"They are at the Shrine. Find them. They will help to understand. A human they are. They was. Now more than that."***
[28.01.2022 12:28:28] 2022-01-28 12:28:29 SMT WARNING: A hyperspace breach is being opened by Vagrant.Eris
[28.01.2022 12:28:34] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: Guess I'm going back to Liberty.
[28.01.2022 12:29:03] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: What a comforting glow...
[28.01.2022 12:30:21] Vagrant.Eris: ***"We shall take your as close as we can."***
[28.01.2022 12:31:03] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: Had a hunch you were, Eris.
[28.01.2022 12:31:05] Jumping...
[28.01.2022 12:32:26] Vagrant.Eris: ***"Follow Us. The void is merciless. They will devour you. You need a shelter from a burns."***
[28.01.2022 12:34:52] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: It's close... yes, that planet.
[28.01.2022 12:35:12] Vagrant.Eris: ***"The Shrine around this sphere."***
[28.01.2022 12:37:56] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: The Reliquary.
[28.01.2022 12:38:13] Vagrant.Eris: ***"The other Seeker came."***
[28.01.2022 12:38:18] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: Auxo contact.
[28.01.2022 12:38:34] Vagrant.Eris: ***"Half-machines..."***
[28.01.2022 12:38:50] Vagrant.Eris: ***"This place open to all."***
[28.01.2022 12:38:53] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: Hail, Auxo vessel.
[28.01.2022 12:39:18] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Bio-synthetics, to say it is machine, is akin to saying you are merely rocks.
[28.01.2022 12:40:20] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: What brings a Starflier here, I ponder.
[28.01.2022 12:40:44] Vagrant.Eris: ***"They are seeking for answers. They was called here. Not by us. But by the Shrine."***
[28.01.2022 12:40:55] Vagrant.Eris: ***"They are the Seeker."***
[28.01.2022 12:41:08] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: Been around Sirius a few times over, to the point where I ended up here. I come to understand.
[28.01.2022 12:41:55] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Seekers answers for what, exactly?
[28.01.2022 12:41:55] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: What brings you out here?
[28.01.2022 12:42:08] Vagrant.Eris: ***"You two are know each other, dont you?"***
[28.01.2022 12:42:44] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: We do.
[28.01.2022 12:42:58] Vagrant.Eris: ***"Perhaps, why they are feel here like home. Why they are feel that way around Ours. We are curious as well."***
[28.01.2022 12:43:30] Vagrant.Eris: ***"They was brave to stand before us."***
[28.01.2022 12:43:55] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: Still shit scared of you being so close to me, despite everything I've said to you, Eris.
[28.01.2022 12:44:20] Vagrant.Eris: ***"Natural instinct of your kind. The fear of unknown."***
[28.01.2022 12:44:28] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: First encounters are... hard to shake off.
[28.01.2022 12:45:28] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: The Auxo is rather silent. Wish to join us down here?
[28.01.2022 12:46:23] Vagrant.Eris: ***"Not all of our kind as passient as this one. Be afraid of those who protecting the green barrier. The 'omicrons'."***
[28.01.2022 12:46:44] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: We are calculating.
[28.01.2022 12:46:54] Vagrant.Eris: ***"The others seek only for war."***
[28.01.2022 12:47:04] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: Should have expected that.
[28.01.2022 12:47:15] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Eris, you know better than to drive a larger wedge.
[28.01.2022 12:47:39] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: Know better? Are you two acquainted?
[28.01.2022 12:48:19] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: Doesn't bother me. I'll heed your warning about the others, Eris.
[28.01.2022 12:49:07] Vagrant.Eris: ***"Which questions you want to ask, Seeker? Why you attracted here?"***
[28.01.2022 12:49:42] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: It started in the Kepler System. There's something there.
[28.01.2022 12:50:00] Vagrant.Eris: ***"..."***
[28.01.2022 12:50:03] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: [...]
[28.01.2022 12:50:20] Vagrant.Eris: ***"Is they seen 'That'?"***
[28.01.2022 12:50:24] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: An artefact... a beacon... not sure.
[28.01.2022 12:50:26] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Let them speak.
[28.01.2022 12:50:43] Vagrant.Eris: ***"Tell us all what you seen. What was happend."***
[28.01.2022 12:51:07] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: Curiosity grew into a pull. Wanting to know more but also finding it doesn't scare me to the core.
[28.01.2022 12:51:58] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: Another pilot... they saw my path. Met me here.
[28.01.2022 12:52:08] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Who was that pilot?
[28.01.2022 12:52:37] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: Transponder was set to Void.Watcher.
[28.01.2022 12:52:47] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: I see. And how many people have you told about these ... beacons?
[28.01.2022 12:53:39] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: I haven't told anyone else. A record on Starflier Base is all that exists outside of my own knowledge.
[28.01.2022 12:53:45] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Be truthful.
[28.01.2022 12:53:52] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: How many people know.
[28.01.2022 12:54:14] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: Two. Myself and Leon.
[28.01.2022 12:54:30] Vagrant.Eris: ***"Keep it for yourself. The others could be in danger by reveal of yours. Find the other. Bring him to us."***
[28.01.2022 12:54:32] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Lock away that report under seal.
[28.01.2022 12:54:38] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Allow no one to witness it.
[28.01.2022 12:54:50] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: And certainly, do not, tell others. Especially not the Houses.
[28.01.2022 12:55:02] Vagrant.Eris: ***"Indeed."***
[28.01.2022 12:55:03] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: I would rather not push the inevitabilities sooner.
[28.01.2022 12:55:30] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: Void.Watcher told me the Starfliers are in danger... your reactions reinforce this...
[28.01.2022 12:55:38] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: You are not in danger.
[28.01.2022 12:55:45] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Unless you bare witness, or tell others.
[28.01.2022 12:56:00] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: I can remedy all and any danger you may be in.
[28.01.2022 12:56:06] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: It requires sacrifice, however.
[28.01.2022 12:56:12] Vagrant.Eris: ***"Some things must remain unknown for the safety of yours."***
[28.01.2022 12:57:27] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: Probably best to erase the cartography I've recorded on Kepler then.
[28.01.2022 12:57:46] Vagrant.Eris: ***"Revenant, they will not find him here. This place protected. They both must be here while situation would not be solved."**
[28.01.2022 12:57:51] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Know only where to avoid, that is all that is necessary. You are still in danger --
[28.01.2022 12:58:05] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Irregardless of being within this place.
[28.01.2022 12:58:14] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: We can absolve their danger, Eris.
[28.01.2022 12:58:30] Vagrant.Eris: ***"They must stay with yours, with ours or here, at the Shrine."***
[28.01.2022 12:58:38] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: ... Not quite.
[28.01.2022 12:58:46] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: All we have to do is eliminate the scent from them.
[28.01.2022 12:59:01] Vagrant.Eris: ***"Then, do it."***
[28.01.2022 12:59:38] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: I'll return home and not speak a word of this.
[28.01.2022 12:59:39] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: You will have to, as it requires a more ... fine touch of a psychic mind. Our machines are not present at the moment.
[28.01.2022 12:59:45] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: You cannot.
[28.01.2022 13:00:02] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: So this is the point of no return.
[28.01.2022 13:00:05] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: If you wish to live - or the Starfliers - you must remove the memories of what you have seen.
[28.01.2022 13:00:21] Vagrant.Eris: ***"If only we could explain them more. But it will high the risk."***
[28.01.2022 13:00:37] Vagrant.Eris: ***"We could erase their memories of the beacons."***
[28.01.2022 13:00:59] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: If I wish to continue my simple exploring job, all that needs doing is wiping of my mind?
[28.01.2022 13:01:06] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Not all of your mind.
[28.01.2022 13:01:15] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: A specific point - the witnessing of the 'beacon'
[28.01.2022 13:01:26] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: You will only remember to avoid the anomaly.
[28.01.2022 13:01:34] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: As if it were to be mortal danger.
[28.01.2022 13:01:50] Vagrant.Eris: ***"Indeed. Yours even could come here. Yours must to forget the beacon."***
[28.01.2022 13:02:03] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: Here to stay. Suppose I'll forget that.
[28.01.2022 13:02:17] Vagrant.Eris: ***"Here to stay..."***
[28.01.2022 13:02:27] Vagrant.Eris: *it feels uncomfortable*
[28.01.2022 13:02:56] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: We do not believe the transport is not a contaminant, but we can never be sure.
[28.01.2022 13:03:14] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: If you can remove all knowledge of that spiky artefact and those anomalies. Do it.
[28.01.2022 13:03:57] Vagrant.Eris: ***"It wouldnt take long. But yours must be opened for us. Your mind. Relaxed. Or it will cause the pain on you."***
[28.01.2022 13:04:00] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: As far as I'm concerned, it won't stop me from understanding Eris and where.. uhh.. they came from.
[28.01.2022 13:04:32] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: Let me take a moment to breath on the Reliquary. I'll be out in a moment.
[28.01.2022 13:04:34] Vagrant.Eris: ***"It wont. The beacon yours must to forget."***
[28.01.2022 13:04:52] 2022-01-28 13:04:54 SMT Traffic control alert: '\S/'Pulsar has requested to dock
[28.01.2022 13:05:28] Vagrant.Eris: ***"Poor darkling. Stepped into the unknown that could kill them."***
[28.01.2022 13:06:19] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: You know it is still our duty to protect - to solve this - we do not have time to pity others.
[28.01.2022 13:06:54] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: *long breaths followed by a shuffle in the cockpit*
[28.01.2022 13:07:22] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: Well, does this happen here? A facility?
[28.01.2022 13:07:36] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Where you sit.
[28.01.2022 13:07:41] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Sleep tight.
[28.01.2022 13:07:49] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: One last thing.
[28.01.2022 13:08:15] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: I've never had it said to me. Wish me godspeed.
[28.01.2022 13:08:32] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: You are bestowed upon with a wish of the speed of the gods.
[28.01.2022 13:08:37] Vagrant.Eris: *A feeling of restlessness and a slight headache arose in Halpert. After a few seconds,
[28.01.2022 13:08:42] Vagrant.Eris: it disappeared, but there was a feeling that something was inside his consciousness. Alien. And it was actively looking for
[28.01.2022 13:08:48] Vagrant.Eris: something.*
[28.01.2022 13:10:05] Vagrant.Eris: *It acted in a very unrestrained way, tearing through the streams of memories and not paying attention to anything other than
[28.01.2022 13:10:14] Vagrant.Eris: the context of the desired memory.*
[28.01.2022 13:12:17] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: Why so silent? Did something bad happen?
[28.01.2022 13:13:10] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: You must focus. Relax. Think back on the memory you saw.
[28.01.2022 13:13:12] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Relive it.
[28.01.2022 13:13:24] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Lay back, exhale with clarity.
[28.01.2022 13:13:48] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: *closes his eyes, calmly recalls his time in Kepler*
[28.01.2022 13:13:59] Vagrant.Eris: *Soon, it stopped, finding what it needed and with surgical precision separated the memories from the whole picture,
[28.01.2022 13:14:09] Vagrant.Eris: replacing this fragment with the emptiness of the storm that reigns in Kepler. Storm, which was commonplace for him.*
[28.01.2022 13:15:25] Vagrant.Eris: *After that, the sense of presence disappeared, leaving behind a feeling of "de-ja-vu".*
[28.01.2022 13:16:35] Vagrant.Eris: ***"Its done."***
[28.01.2022 13:17:05] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Let us hope so. Do you recall anything, Halbert?
[28.01.2022 13:17:44] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: I recall taking a short nap. Been a while since I slept.
[28.01.2022 13:18:18] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: Otherwise... I feel fine? Not sure what you want me to say.
[28.01.2022 13:18:44] Vagrant.Eris: ***"You need a rest now. Find a place to stay inside of Revenant's shell, or at the shrine. There a several safe places for the
[28.01.2022 13:18:52] Vagrant.Eris: rest of Seekers."***
[28.01.2022 13:18:55] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: It seems that Leon may need a little meetup in the coming days.
[28.01.2022 13:19:38] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: Well, you know how to contact us, him rather.
[28.01.2022 13:20:09] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: If you already know about us, Eris... is our.. uhh.. shell... safe?
[28.01.2022 13:20:34] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: If I call it by Starflier Base... do you know what that is?
[28.01.2022 13:20:38] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: *You* - will be fine.
[28.01.2022 13:21:30] Vagrant.Eris: ***"And we know how to find yours. A nest of yours. Its not safe at the storm, but safe from other dangers. Find your friend.
[28.01.2022 13:21:36] Vagrant.Eris: Take him to us."***
[28.01.2022 13:22:27] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Dock with us, if you wish for a quick traverse to Kepler.
[28.01.2022 13:22:43] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: I'd like that. Thanks.
[28.01.2022 13:22:46] Vagrant.Eris: ***"We shall meditate at the Shrine."***
[28.01.2022 13:22:53] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: I'll return here to become more familiar.
[28.01.2022 13:23:03] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Perhaps it may be prudent to not speak of this place.
[28.01.2022 13:23:09] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Lest you earn the attention of the exterminators.
[28.01.2022 13:23:23] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: Exterminators?
[28.01.2022 13:23:30] Vagrant.Eris: ***"Indeed. This place a secret for the most."***
[28.01.2022 13:23:40] Vagrant.Eris: ***"The Order."***
[28.01.2022 13:23:41] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Cruel, genocidal, nationalists.
[28.01.2022 13:23:44] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: You know them as the Order.
[28.01.2022 13:23:56] Vagrant.Eris: ***"They wanted us dead."***
[28.01.2022 13:24:10] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Anyone that dares to think outside the box, will be killed. They are Human-first imperialists.
[28.01.2022 13:24:32] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: And they have many allies, including ones within the Liberty Forces, Crayter, the Dragons, so on...
[28.01.2022 13:24:44] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Bretonia, comes to mind too.
[28.01.2022 13:24:51] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: You can promise I'll keep this place a secret. Even more so if I wish to be enlightened.
[28.01.2022 13:24:56] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: At least their intelligence branch.
[28.01.2022 13:24:57] Vagrant.Eris: ***"The Coalition too."***
[28.01.2022 13:25:10] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: We only speak of this - for your safety.
[28.01.2022 13:25:10] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: For now, I shall rest in my own bed.
[28.01.2022 13:25:18] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Dock, and we shall take you home.
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