DomK'avash

[The_Godslayer]

5. No signs of war. What this means is...

4. Only vanilla content please - not Discovery mod information is to be used.

How vanilla are we talking? A lot of the history K'Hara uses comes from the 7Crows document, 7Crows being Chris Todd, the one who wrote this stuff. If you're talking what made it into the game, you're limited to the gate to the Dyson Sphere, the ruins being studied by Sinclair and Quintane on Sprague, maybe Pygar, and that planet above the Dyson Sphere presumably. However, Monkeys also made it into the game, as well as endless pink sandwich. Freelancer was an unfinished game. Judging by the progression of ship strengths and the location of the two unfinished systems, the player may have had a "choose your own adventure" moment where they could join either the Outcasts or Corsairs to hunt down remaining Nomad incursions.

Sinclair: Look around you, Miss Zane. You are standing in the living history of the Daam-K’Vosh. A race that predates early man by over 10 million years!
Sinclair: Up until recently, relatively speaking, they were the inhabitants of much of our new home here in Sirius. I’ve been working for years to piece together fragments of their past: their culture, technology, language – anything! These panels here have been the core of my research. They’ve shed light on some of their writings, but thanks to this piece, I’m close to unlocking their code. Yes, I know quite a lot about this artefact, but not why anyone would want to kill for it.

Sinclair: As you know, Doctor Quintaine and I have pored through the translations from the panels, the Proteus Tome, and even the stolen data from the prison ship. It seems the Daam-K’Vosh had a vast empire long before man ever evolved.
Trent: So if these guys were so much more advanced than us, where are they now?
Quintaine: We don’t know, Mr Trent. There’s no evidence to suggest any kind of war or disease or natural disaster that may have done away with them. They just vanished, leaving behind the Nomads.
Sinclair: It seems Nomads, or whatever they were really called – we can’t pronounce the name yet – they were apparently created by the Daam-K’Vosh to, well, look after things.
Trent: We’re fighting the caretakers?
Sinclair: Well, in a manner of speaking. They are opportunistic parasites, not only of Human beings, but of technology, as well.
Quintaine: Which brings us to the artefact. The Daam-K’Vosh had an amazingly advanced technology that was only partially based in these delicate formations. They used them for power, shields, erm… this one is, a, erm… well, we’ll show you. Kendra?
Sinclair: I discovered that if the computer sounded out the phonetic representation of the glyphs in a particular order–
Jacobi: Please, Doctor, in deference to those for us who are simple politicians…
Sinclair: Very well.

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Orillion: I’ll be damned.
Jacobi: It’s beautiful!
Trent: What’s that?
Sinclair: That would be us. The artefact knows where it is in space at all times. It’s a map!
Juni: But of what?
Sinclair: Well, it’s just a theory, but–
Orillion: Spit it out, Doctor!
Quintaine: From what we now know, with an empire as large as the Daam-K’Vosh, they couldn’t rely on simple jump-gates like we have today. They had to develop something more sophisticated. A vast array of hyper-gates linking the far corners of their empire via one incredibly fast system for travel. This device is not only the map, it’s the trigger. A key to reawakening the system!
Orillion: Are you suggesting we turn this thing on?
Quintaine: Yes. If we can reactivate the hyper-gates, we’ll break the hold of the Nomads on their power supply and cut them down to a more manageable size. In theory.

These are the only mentions of the Daam Kvosh by name in the Freelancer Campaign, outside of missions 5 and 6 establishing that its exceedingly rare to find an active artefact, that there was only one such artefact known to the team, and that it was stolen. Source.

I have an install of Vanilla freelancer, but I have no idea how to pull and list infocards, otherwise I'd scour that, too.

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