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==Mercury== | ==Mercury== | ||
===From the diaries of Commander Jacob Hardy, pilot, Ares One=== | |||
=== From the diaries of Commander Jacob Hardy, pilot, Ares One === | |||
The mission is a go. Crew of three: Mihaylova, Qiao, myself. Immediate departure at the next Hohmann window to Mars. The MREs and return ships will chase us out. How do I feel? I said at the press conference I felt privileged. Historians will read this diary, but it won’t take their insight to tell the world that I’m terrified. It’s the human reaction. What I wish I could convey is the – the exhilaration. That’s the biggest thing. I’m not a spiritual man, but I`ve always believed there’s something transcendent about spaceflight. Something pure. We go out there because we can. Because it’s who we are. | The mission is a go. Crew of three: Mihaylova, Qiao, myself. Immediate departure at the next Hohmann window to Mars. The MREs and return ships will chase us out. How do I feel? I said at the press conference I felt privileged. Historians will read this diary, but it won’t take their insight to tell the world that I’m terrified. It’s the human reaction. What I wish I could convey is the – the exhilaration. That’s the biggest thing. I’m not a spiritual man, but I`ve always believed there’s something transcendent about spaceflight. Something pure. We go out there because we can. Because it’s who we are. | ||
Now we go because we have to. Because the unknown came to us. In fourteen months we’ll be face to face with it, and by the time we arrive, it should be active again – just like it was active on Jupiter, and Mercury, and Venus. I wonder what happens if it doesn`t stop at Mars. I wonder if it’ll leave us there in the sand, and come to Earth, and do here what it’s done everywhere else. I hate that we’re carrying weapons. I understand the necessity. But I hold to my belief: there’s something beautiful out there. It’s up to us to reach it. | Now we go because we have to. Because the unknown came to us. In fourteen months we’ll be face to face with it, and by the time we arrive, it should be active again – just like it was active on Jupiter, and Mercury, and Venus. I wonder what happens if it doesn`t stop at Mars. I wonder if it’ll leave us there in the sand, and come to Earth, and do here what it’s done everywhere else. I hate that we’re carrying weapons. I understand the necessity. But I hold to my belief: there’s something beautiful out there. It’s up to us to reach it. | ||
===Ghost Fragment: Mercury=== | ===Ghost Fragment: Mercury=== | ||
''Dreams of Alpha Lupi'' | ''Dreams of Alpha Lupi'' | ||
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==Venus== | ==Venus== | ||
===Ghost Fragment: Venus=== | ===Ghost Fragment: Venus=== | ||
You see history hidden between the barren rocks and within the high acid clouds. You see the ruin ready to claim its birthright. | You see history hidden between the barren rocks and within the high acid clouds. You see the ruin ready to claim its birthright. | ||
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===Ishtar Sink=== | ===Ishtar Sink=== | ||
The Ishtar Sink region looms large in our surviving knowledge of Venus. Guardians come hunting the ruins of the legendary Ishtar Collective, a sprawling Golden Age scientific project. But the ancient ruins that brought the Collective to the Sink have awakened again. | The Ishtar Sink region looms large in our surviving knowledge of Venus. Guardians come hunting the ruins of the legendary Ishtar Collective, a sprawling Golden Age scientific project. But the ancient ruins that brought the Collective to the Sink have awakened again. | ||
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===Ghost Fragment: Ishtar Sink=== | ===Ghost Fragment: Ishtar Sink=== | ||
The box appears to be copper. | The box appears to be copper. | ||
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But if so, who is delivering this message? What vastness do they wish to impress on us? Is it a warning, or an invitation, or a taunt? | But if so, who is delivering this message? What vastness do they wish to impress on us? Is it a warning, or an invitation, or a taunt? | ||
===Vault of Glass=== | |||
=== Vault of Glass === | |||
His name was Kabr. He wasn’t my friend but I knew and respected him as a Guardian and a good man. He fought the Vex alone. This destroyed him. In the time before he vanished he said things that I think should be remembered. These are some of them: “In the Vault time frays and a needle moves through it. The needle is the will of Atheon. I do not know the name of the shape that comes after the needle. No one can open the Vault alone. I opened the Vault. There was no one with me but I was not alone. You will meet the Templar in a place that is a time before or after stars. The stars will move around you and mark you and sing to you. They will decide if you are real. I drank of them. It tasted like the sea.” That is all I can remember. - Pahanin | His name was Kabr. He wasn’t my friend but I knew and respected him as a Guardian and a good man. He fought the Vex alone. This destroyed him. In the time before he vanished he said things that I think should be remembered. These are some of them: “In the Vault time frays and a needle moves through it. The needle is the will of Atheon. I do not know the name of the shape that comes after the needle. No one can open the Vault alone. I opened the Vault. There was no one with me but I was not alone. You will meet the Templar in a place that is a time before or after stars. The stars will move around you and mark you and sing to you. They will decide if you are real. I drank of them. It tasted like the sea.” That is all I can remember. - Pahanin | ||
==Earth== | ==Earth== | ||
===Earth=== | ===Earth=== | ||
Once our cities lit the whole world. Now we huddle under the shadow of the Traveler, in the last place it protects. It is so very fragile, this small blue ship, our home. | Once our cities lit the whole world. Now we huddle under the shadow of the Traveler, in the last place it protects. It is so very fragile, this small blue ship, our home. | ||
===Ghost Fragment: Earth=== | ===Ghost Fragment: Earth=== | ||
''Dreams of Alpha Lupi'' | ''Dreams of Alpha Lupi'' | ||
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===Old Russia=== | ===Old Russia=== | ||
The Cosmodrome was where humanity took to the stars - first in search of what lay beyond, and at the end, in hope of escape. Today it is a graveyard, picked over by the Fallen House of Devils. But buried among the detritus of the Golden Age are the pieces we need to forge a new future. | The Cosmodrome was where humanity took to the stars - first in search of what lay beyond, and at the end, in hope of escape. Today it is a graveyard, picked over by the Fallen House of Devils. But buried among the detritus of the Golden Age are the pieces we need to forge a new future. | ||
===Ghost Fragment: Old Russia=== | ===Ghost Fragment: Old Russia=== | ||
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==The City== | ==The City== | ||
===The City=== | ===The City=== | ||
{{quote|From across the ruined earth they came, seeking shelter from the storm.|}} | {{quote|From across the ruined earth they came, seeking shelter from the storm.|Card blurb}} | ||
Every wayward soul unlucky enough to be born outside The City's protecting arms whispers its truth across the wastes: a metropolis, risen from the ashes of the Collapse, sheltered by the Traveler. It is a promise and a dream, the only refuge from the Darkness. | Every wayward soul unlucky enough to be born outside The City's protecting arms whispers its truth across the wastes: a metropolis, risen from the ashes of the Collapse, sheltered by the Traveler. It is a promise and a dream, the only refuge from the Darkness. | ||
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===The Tower=== | ===The Tower=== | ||
{{quote|Beneath crossed swords, a refuge for peace.|}} | {{quote|Beneath crossed swords, a refuge for peace.|Card blurb}} | ||
The Tower is the only home many Guardians ever know. | The Tower is the only home many Guardians ever know. | ||
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===The Golden Age=== | ===The Golden Age=== | ||
The Traveler changed everything. It reshaped our solar system as decisively as it shattered our scientific and philosophical frameworks. To our ancestors it must have been a hammerblow - a glimpse beyond the horizon of expected possibility and into a realm of transcendent power. | The Traveler changed everything. It reshaped our solar system as decisively as it shattered our scientific and philosophical frameworks. To our ancestors it must have been a hammerblow - a glimpse beyond the horizon of expected possibility and into a realm of transcendent power. | ||
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===Ghost Fragment: The Golden Age=== | ===Ghost Fragment: The Golden Age=== | ||
"What are you thinking about?" I asked. | "What are you thinking about?" I asked. | ||
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===The Dark Age=== | ===The Dark Age=== | ||
The Golden Age burned bright - and the night that overtook us after the Collapse was swift and total. | The Golden Age burned bright - and the night that overtook us after the Collapse was swift and total. | ||
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===Ghost Fragment: The Dark Age=== | ===Ghost Fragment: The Dark Age=== | ||
{{Quote|No one knew what had happened to the Traveler. No one understood what had happened to the world. But they heard the whispered call.|Card blurb}} | |||
{{Quote|No one knew what had happened to the Traveler. No one understood what had happened to the world. But they heard the whispered call.|}} | |||
They came from the wild lands, gathering in secret enclaves, slipping through the howling ruins of shattered cities, hoping to find the coast, find a ship, pick up the trail of an impossible dream. | They came from the wild lands, gathering in secret enclaves, slipping through the howling ruins of shattered cities, hoping to find the coast, find a ship, pick up the trail of an impossible dream. | ||
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===Ghost Fragment: The Dark Age 2=== | ===Ghost Fragment: The Dark Age 2=== | ||
Loken's men found Jaren Ward in the courtyard where this had all began. | Loken's men found Jaren Ward in the courtyard where this had all began. | ||
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===The City Age=== | ===The City Age=== | ||
When did the City Age begin? Perhaps when the bulk of the world's survivors lived beneath the Traveler, rather than in the wilderness. Or when the Titans raised the first wall. Or at Six Fronts, when the City first faced coordinated, overwhelming attack - and repelled it decisively. | When did the City Age begin? Perhaps when the bulk of the world's survivors lived beneath the Traveler, rather than in the wilderness. Or when the Titans raised the first wall. Or at Six Fronts, when the City first faced coordinated, overwhelming attack - and repelled it decisively. | ||
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===Ghost Fragment: The City Age=== | ===Ghost Fragment: The City Age=== | ||
"And so it is agreed. The Concordat shall no longer be recognized among the Consensus. We'll begin the dismantling right away. But what of those Guardians who have pledged to them? We can't afford any more banishments." | "And so it is agreed. The Concordat shall no longer be recognized among the Consensus. We'll begin the dismantling right away. But what of those Guardians who have pledged to them? We can't afford any more banishments." | ||
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==Moon== | ==Moon== | ||
===Ghost Fragment: Moon=== | ===Ghost Fragment: Moon=== | ||
''Dreams of Alpha Lupi'' | ''Dreams of Alpha Lupi'' | ||
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===The Ocean of Storms=== | ===The Ocean of Storms=== | ||
{{quote|唯恐瓊樓玉宇， | {{quote|唯恐瓊樓玉宇， | ||
高處不勝寒。 | 高處不勝寒。 | ||
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===Ghost Fragment: The Ocean of Storms=== | ===Ghost Fragment: The Ocean of Storms=== | ||
''BY ORDER OF THE CITY CONSENSUS AND THE GUARDIAN VANGUARD'' | ''BY ORDER OF THE CITY CONSENSUS AND THE GUARDIAN VANGUARD'' | ||
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==Mars== | ==Mars== | ||
===Ghost Fragment: Mars=== | ===Ghost Fragment: Mars=== | ||
''Dreams of Alpha Lupi'' | ''Dreams of Alpha Lupi'' | ||
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===Meridian Bay=== | ===Meridian Bay=== | ||
{{quote|A great city is a place where man competes with the Gods.|Alton Bray, "Trials and Triumphs"}} | {{quote|A great city is a place where man competes with the Gods.|Alton Bray, "Trials and Triumphs"}} | ||
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===Ghost Fragment: Meridian Bay=== | ===Ghost Fragment: Meridian Bay=== | ||
We want your grandchildren. | We want your grandchildren. | ||
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==The Asteroid Belt== | ==The Asteroid Belt== | ||
===The Asteroid Belt=== | ===The Asteroid Belt=== | ||
{{quote|The Belt is the key to everything.|}} | {{quote|The Belt is the key to everything.|}} | ||
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===The Reef=== | ===The Reef=== | ||
{{quote|Intruder bearing one-two-seven. You have crossed into the realm of the Awoken. State your business, or be fired upon by order of the Queen.|}} | {{quote|Intruder bearing one-two-seven. You have crossed into the realm of the Awoken. State your business, or be fired upon by order of the Queen.|}} | ||
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==Jupiter== | ==Jupiter== | ||
===Jupiter=== | ===Jupiter=== | ||
Lord of worlds, massive Jupiter and its moons must have been a cornerstone of Golden Age civilization. But the nature and extent of human presence there is now unknown. Old records refer to cities in ice and world-spanning oceans, but perhaps this is only poetry. | Lord of worlds, massive Jupiter and its moons must have been a cornerstone of Golden Age civilization. But the nature and extent of human presence there is now unknown. Old records refer to cities in ice and world-spanning oceans, but perhaps this is only poetry. | ||
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===Ghost Fragment: Jupiter=== | ===Ghost Fragment: Jupiter=== | ||
''Dreams of Alpha Lupi'' | ''Dreams of Alpha Lupi'' | ||
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==Saturn== | ==Saturn== | ||
===Saturn=== | ===Saturn=== | ||
Out beyond the Reef its rings shine. Whatever was known of it in the Golden Age is long forgotten, but more ancient truth remains: Saturn has dozens of moons, including the mighty Titan, a world larger than Mercury. | Out beyond the Reef its rings shine. Whatever was known of it in the Golden Age is long forgotten, but more ancient truth remains: Saturn has dozens of moons, including the mighty Titan, a world larger than Mercury. | ||
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===Ghost Fragment: Saturn=== | ===Ghost Fragment: Saturn=== | ||
''Dreams of Alpha Lupi'' | ''Dreams of Alpha Lupi'' | ||
