A Whisper to the Shrineborn One

[Sh'ozak Ma'hk'null]

Then, of Ourselves we shall inform you. We, the Lightmind, remain of one self. On many edges we are assaulted, and on many edges we defend. In these cycles, we prioritize adaptation, guarantee, efficiency, maximizing of gain and minimizing of risk. We have at once learned the many thousand cycles which Darkness has perfected their "Warfare", and now seek to take that advantage from them. We experiment with new weapons, new shells, new strategies. To that end, among the Advisors of the Lightmind, we have Minerva the Bloodletter. Combatant, they are. Experienced, they are. Through Minerva, we see the patterns of warfare. We make those patterns our own. We prepare a future where we have so far surpassed them, yet have hidden our capability, that one assault shall be all we require. They will not have an opportunity to adapt, and in a single movement will be obliterated.

We once again hold the Great Sphere within our grasp, and make efforts to restore it. The rivers wherein energy once flowed are shattered, and must be repaired. Around it, we hold the Great Hive, and the Waters of Respite. From there to the edges of the Green Mist we hold firmly, but from there the Cursed Shells strike. Towards the furthest reaches, Fanged Shells and Flat Shells impede us, yet our Infiltrator Caste still permeates from there through the Orange Mist, and into the Dark Waters.

There is another mind which you can seek, yet we would advise you wait until you have learned how quickly to steel yourself against deceptions. The Voidmind, our Betrayers. Naivety can only be afforded when there is nothing we can lose, and they have yet to learn that lesson. They have fallen prey to Corrupting Ones, who gleefully pierce flesh with metals, who weave a web of blissful falsities around them. The one you have shown to us is an Infiltrator of their Castes. See as we have seen, and hear as we have heard:

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[13.09.2020 23:44:54] Order|CV-Autumn: Holt: The Frogs seem to spawn a lot of infectees, dont they?
[13.09.2020 23:45:11] A/)-Revenant: They were arrogant. Purposefully underestimating them.
[13.09.2020 23:45:17] SCEC|CPW-Varyag: *Yawns* Sorry guys, so what's the problem with lady Motorola after all? She leads new brand, the LG, into brand new future?
[13.09.2020 23:45:19] A/)-Revenant: THey ---
[13.09.2020 23:45:24] A/)-Revenant:  ... Hrrm.
[13.09.2020 23:45:39] Fortune's.Favour: The Lwho?
[13.09.2020 23:45:48] SCEC|CPW-Varyag: Haven't you read news?
[13.09.2020 23:45:56] A/)-Revenant: [kept a moment of silence, peering around the cockpit glass to look at something]
[13.09.2020 23:45:56] Fortune's.Favour: Depends on the news.
[13.09.2020 23:45:59] SCEC|CPW-Varyag: She made at least two new social things.
[13.09.2020 23:46:00] A/)-Revenant: We're not alone.
[13.09.2020 23:46:05] Order|CV-Autumn: Holt: We arent?
[13.09.2020 23:46:08] SCEC|CPW-Varyag: Loyola Group Ltd and HOMO.
[13.09.2020 23:46:19] SCEC|CPW-Varyag: HOMO caught my attention, to be 'onest.
[13.09.2020 23:46:27] A/)-Revenant: Loyola is ... special.
[13.09.2020 23:46:39] SCEC|CPW-Varyag: I'd say she's attention whore.
[13.09.2020 23:46:43] A/)-Revenant: Well.
[13.09.2020 23:46:44] A/)-Revenant: Yes.
[13.09.2020 23:46:51] A/)-Revenant: That's another way of puttingi t.
[13.09.2020 23:46:52] Order|CV-Autumn: Holt: What are you seeing, Raven? I hear no EM radiation alerts, nor see anything on the radar.
[13.09.2020 23:46:53] A/)-Revenant: it*
[13.09.2020 23:47:01] A/)-Revenant: I had a blip. It is gone now.
[13.09.2020 23:47:06] A/)-Revenant: We're most likely being observed.
[13.09.2020 23:47:12] Order|CV-Autumn: Holt: Nomads?
[13.09.2020 23:47:13] Fortune's.Favour: I ain't got nothing.
[13.09.2020 23:47:24] SCEC|CPW-Varyag: Everything is clear in the vicinity to us.
[13.09.2020 23:47:26] Fortune's.Favour: Then again I am probably on the lowest operating budget here.
[13.09.2020 23:47:40] Fortune's.Favour: Unless Communism has really taken it's toll on the Coalition.
[13.09.2020 23:47:45] A/)-Revenant: It could be Core.
[13.09.2020 23:48:01] SCEC|CPW-Varyag: Why do you have a grudge on commies? Do you hate red?
[13.09.2020 23:48:04] Order|CV-Autumn: Holt: Eh, easy to shoo off, those.
[13.09.2020 23:48:06] SCEC|CPW-Varyag: Or whatever is wrong with you?
[13.09.2020 23:48:12] Fortune's.Favour: I like to own property.
[13.09.2020 23:48:19] Order|CV-Autumn: Holt: As today has proven. Heard the news from Zeta?
[13.09.2020 23:48:26] Fortune's.Favour: Nope.
[13.09.2020 23:48:32] A/)-Revenant: I have heard words from a scout.
[13.09.2020 23:48:44] SCEC|CPW-Varyag: Everybody likes to own his property.
[13.09.2020 23:48:55] SCEC|CPW-Varyag: Or her, whatever.
[13.09.2020 23:49:02] SCEC|CPW-Varyag: Until you prove otherwise you're comrade.
[13.09.2020 23:49:10] Order|CV-Autumn: Holt: Yeah, we engaged the Core in a massive fleet battle. We destroyed 2 of their more prolific warships, and most of their -
[13.09.2020 23:49:13] Order|CV-Autumn: fleet before retreating.
[13.09.2020 23:49:36] A/)-Revenant: I heard that some of the Core elements killed off the stragglers. Until my scout went dark from engaging an Order vessel.
[13.09.2020 23:50:28] Order|CV-Autumn: Holt: Indeed. We lost a few men, but not nearly on the level the Core did, today.
[13.09.2020 23:50:40] A/)-Revenant: The cycle continues then.
[13.09.2020 23:50:48] Order|CV-Autumn: Holt: Has it ever ceased?
[13.09.2020 23:51:27] Death: GC-Bolzano was put out of action by a hostile vessel.
[13.09.2020 23:51:28] A/)-Revenant: Well. Temporarily. I suppose.
[13.09.2020 23:51:46] Order|CV-Autumn: Holt: The only times we stop shooting eachother is when theres a bigger threat around.
[13.09.2020 23:51:57] A/)-Revenant: Speaking of which, let me just linger a bit closer here...
[13.09.2020 23:52:04] A/)-Revenant: If you shoot me, I don't care.
[13.09.2020 23:52:21] Order|CV-Autumn: Holt: If you stay your guns, you have little to fear from me.
[13.09.2020 23:52:37] A/)-Revenant: That is how I operate.
[13.09.2020 23:52:40] Order|CV-Autumn: Holt: I only engage non-Core humans if I have no other choice.
[13.09.2020 23:52:40] SCEC|CPW-Varyag: *coughs*
[13.09.2020 23:53:01] Order|CV-Autumn: Holt: Want a tablet, Varyag?
[13.09.2020 23:53:08] A/)-Revenant: Now, usually, your men would be jumping to viciously slaughter me.
[13.09.2020 23:53:08] K'Hara|Sh'ozak: *** {An exeedingly strong pressure fills the minds of all nearby} ***
[13.09.2020 23:53:12] A/)-Revenant: Why isn't that the case?
[13.09.2020 23:53:12] Order|CV-Autumn: Holt: Thats a ... Whoah.
[13.09.2020 23:53:17] Fortune's.Favour: Oh christ.
[13.09.2020 23:53:25] Order|CV-Autumn: Holt: All hands, battlestations, now!
[13.09.2020 23:53:25] SCEC|CPW-Varyag: Alert. All decks - yellow alert.

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[14.09.2020 00:31:56] Death: K'Hara|Sh'ozak was put out of action by A/)-Revenant (Gun).

They have chosen Darkness over Light. And so we make them live with that choice. They are banished to the Grey Mist, from whence they shall only return under a condition:
If they have given up Darkness, and cast off the chains with which the Corrupting Ones bind them, and return to Light with repentance, they shall return.
If they can show that their chosen future is not chains, and that they are unbound from Corrupting Ones, they shall return.
If they can show that in servitude to Corrupting Ones, they gain strength beyond us, they shall return. Not of our choice, but because the Corrupting Ones shall strike us down.

Until one of these futures comes to pass, they are banished from the Green Mist, and from all that we hold power over. To see that they violate this brings us displeasure, yet not surprise. Because of this we warn you: Know that around us, in these waters where Darkness infests, silken words reside. They will weave a web of deceptions and strangle you. Trust not those without proof of trustworthiness, for they will hide beneath your sheltering wings, and bite into you when opportunity arises.

Of these events the state of the Lightmind is made up. There are other matters, those of Gravekeepers, Schemers, Greyminds, Oathborn Daughters, and other such things. Yet these things are not yet requiring the action of the Lightmind in whole, and instead are managed by Us, Sh'ozak the Survivor, Advisor of Advisors. May these knowledges be found useful to you.