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We hereby terminate all organized combat operations on or around Earth's Moon. | We hereby terminate all organized combat operations on or around Earth's Moon. | ||
Effective immediately we declare the existence of an interdiction on the Moon and cis-Lunar space. Guardians operating in this interdict will receive no formal support from the Vanguard or from assets of the City. We urge Guardians to exhibit the greatest care and consideration in approaching the interdicted space. | Effective immediately we declare the existence of an interdiction on the Moon and cis-Lunar space. [[Guardians]] operating in this interdict will receive no formal support from the [[Vanguard]] or from assets of the City. We urge Guardians to exhibit the greatest care and consideration in approaching the interdicted space. | ||
We furthermore derogate all strategic objectives concerned with the recovery of assets or information from the Lunar surface, and, without exemption, cancel in whole and in all its parts the effort to establish a beachhead and strategic presence upon the Moon. | We furthermore derogate all strategic objectives concerned with the recovery of assets or information from the Lunar surface, and, without exemption, cancel in whole and in all its parts the effort to establish a beachhead and strategic presence upon the Moon. | ||
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''Last known Records from Lunar Station: First Light.'' | ''Last known Records from Lunar Station: First Light.'' | ||
The tunnels were geologic in nature, or had to be. | The tunnels were geologic in nature, or had to be. That's what we thought until twelve hours into the second sub-lunar expedition, when we found the bones. A single long rib cage, the size of an aircraft fuselage. | ||
The living creatures themselves, we found a hundred meters down. They might have been worms, if worms had scales and teeth and moved more quickly than a man could run. | The living creatures themselves, we found a hundred meters down. They might have been worms, if worms had scales and teeth and moved more quickly than a man could run. | ||
[[Jun Han|Jun]] died first. And then [[Luli Henson|Luli]]. Bad deaths. Deaths not worth thinking about, and so [[Hou Ye|I]] | [[Jun Han|Jun]] died first. And then [[Luli Henson|Luli]]. Bad deaths. Deaths not worth thinking about, and so [[Hou Ye|I]] don't, as I wander these tunnels, lost, waiting to run out of oxygen. | ||
Will it hurt, I wonder? That final sleep, when it comes. The sleep that | Will it hurt, I wonder? That final sleep, when it comes. The sleep that isn't sleep. | ||
But then everything on the Moon is named for what | But then everything on the Moon is named for what it's not. Have you noticed? ''The Sea of Serenity. Ocean of Storms. The Sea of Rains.'' It's only fitting. | ||
In the tunnels though, we found things that were exactly what they were, and so now I name them thus. Mark them well, if this recording is found. | In the tunnels though, we found things that were exactly what they were, and so now I name them thus. Mark them well, if this recording is found. | ||
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But here now, at the bottom I have found the other side of the nightmare. Like waking from a dream only to realize you were still asleep. Perhaps my oxygen is getting low. Yes, I can see it is. Hypoxia already setting in. The thing before me is like myself—partly alive, and partly not. An ossified afterbirth. A pulsating tumor. | But here now, at the bottom I have found the other side of the nightmare. Like waking from a dream only to realize you were still asleep. Perhaps my oxygen is getting low. Yes, I can see it is. Hypoxia already setting in. The thing before me is like myself—partly alive, and partly not. An ossified afterbirth. A pulsating tumor. | ||
It lays in a crater of its own making. Dark and jagged. So here | It lays in a crater of its own making. Dark and jagged. So here I'll sit, and lay me down. I see a doorway, and within, the death-white egg cases of nightmares yet to come. | ||
And glad I am to miss it. | And glad I am to miss it. | ||
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''I am dead.'' | ''I am dead.'' | ||
[[Vell Tarlowe|Vell]] is spectacularly dead. [[Omar Agah|Omar]] and [[Sai Mota|Sai]] are quite dead too. [[Eriana-3|Eriana]], poor Eriana, she was so very bright at the end, | [[Vell Tarlowe|Vell]] is spectacularly dead. [[Omar Agah|Omar]] and [[Sai Mota|Sai]] are quite dead too. [[Eriana-3|Eriana]], poor Eriana, she was so very bright at the end, wasn't she? A brave light. | ||
But [[Crota]] was unmoved. That shadow is detached from its source. Light makes it darker. I could feel His presence and if I still had a [[Ghost]] I am sure it would have screamed. | But [[Crota]] was unmoved. That shadow is detached from its source. Light makes it darker. I could feel His presence and if I still had a [[Ghost]] I am sure it would have screamed. | ||
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This is the shape and the point of the tooth: nothing has ever lived that will not die. | This is the shape and the point of the tooth: nothing has ever lived that will not die. | ||
Now I fly between green-black suns in the labyrinth beyond | Now I fly between green-black suns in the labyrinth beyond Crota's god-star. This is the Overworld, the Sea of Screams, where the throne-universes of the great [[Hive]] fester in eternal majesty. I move among them. I map the shapes and connections of this world. | ||
I want to appear in the [[Tower]] and taunt them, lo, lo, I never sleep, I dance in light and shadow, I never sleep, I will never die. I will never die. I want to ask them: if you followed your laws here, to this trembling fearful place, of what use were those laws? | I want to appear in the [[Tower]] and taunt them, lo, lo, I never sleep, I dance in light and shadow, I never sleep, I will never die. I will never die. I want to ask them: if you followed your laws here, to this trembling fearful place, of what use were those laws? | ||
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''For Wei. I am sorry.'' | ''For Wei. I am sorry.'' | ||
My Ghost's Light is so dim, there's no point following me further into this fog – any hope of raising me died halfway through [[The Stills|the Stills]] – I only hope she's got strength enough to take this ember to where you fell, to dance once more with any last whisper of your own light left on this cursed, broken rock. | My Ghost's Light is so dim, there's no point following me further into this fog – any hope of raising me died halfway through [[The Stills|the Stills]] – I only hope she's got strength enough to take this ember to where [[Wei Ning|you]] fell, to dance once more with any last whisper of your own light left on this cursed, broken rock. | ||
Again I will confess. I am Eriana-3, of the Praxic Fire, and I know my flame goes out down here. I will burn bright and hot and raze a thousand Hive to ash as I go, but I know we will not end him – The one who fell you, and hundreds more, with that foul blade. | Again I will confess. I am Eriana-3, of the Praxic Fire, and I know my flame goes out down here. I will burn bright and hot and raze a thousand Hive to ash as I go, but I know we will not end him – The one who fell you, and hundreds more, with that foul blade. | ||
I now beg, as I feared, for your forgiveness. I will not avenge you, but join you amongst the fires snuffed out upon this | I now beg, as I feared, for your forgiveness. I will not avenge you, but join you amongst the fires snuffed out upon this moon. | ||
I was a fool to lead us here. I was blinded by the loss of so much, by your light extinguished. I put my trust, and the light of four others, in a madman, and I bear witness to their fall into darkness and death. [[Toland]]'s song was nothing but screams, and we go now to sing with them. We will not return. | I was a fool to lead us here. I was blinded by the loss of so much, by your light extinguished. I put my trust, and the light of four others, in a madman, and I bear witness to their fall into darkness and death. [[Toland]]'s song was nothing but screams, and we go now to sing with them. We will not return. | ||
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I only hope now that my foolish charge will serve as a record of warning. So that no other Guardians go to face this monster and those that serve him – and those beasts beyond imagining that he must serve in the realm I now go forth to die in. That this tiny bit of Light, joined with yours, and Sai's, Vell, and poor Omar's – that it might spark a torch of warning to leave this dead and broken moon as Crota's prize. | I only hope now that my foolish charge will serve as a record of warning. So that no other Guardians go to face this monster and those that serve him – and those beasts beyond imagining that he must serve in the realm I now go forth to die in. That this tiny bit of Light, joined with yours, and Sai's, Vell, and poor Omar's – that it might spark a torch of warning to leave this dead and broken moon as Crota's prize. | ||
Let the | Let the [[Titan (class)|Titan]]s on their walls and towers look up at night to this glowing reminder in the sky that your Light fell below the surface. Let the moonlight fall on [[Hunter]]s' eyes through the canopies of the wilds, and guide the way of [[Warlock]]s searching their hidden paths. At night, let them look up and see, and let us be mourned. | ||
At night, let them remember you. And let the light of the day free them from the curse of this memory. | At night, let them remember you. And let the light of the day free them from the curse of this memory. | ||