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==Rasputin== | ==Rasputin== | ||
[[File:Grimoire Rasputin.jpg|right|150px]] | [[File:Grimoire Rasputin.jpg|right|150px]] | ||
The legendary Warminds stood watch over our [[Golden Age]] colonies: vigilant intelligences stretched across thousands of [[ | The legendary Warminds stood watch over our [[Golden Age]] colonies: vigilant intelligences stretched across thousands of [[warsat]]s and hardened installations. When the [[Collapse]] struck, the great Warminds fought and died. Rasputin fell with them. | ||
Or so history believed. But centuries of | Or so history believed. But centuries of explorers' tales spoke of a surviving, elusive Warmind –a myth substantiated when [[Guardians]] exploring the old [[Cosmodrome]] made positive contact with Rasputin. A single Warmind still lives, diminished but unbroken. | ||
Threatened by a convergence of [[Fallen]] and [[Hive]] forces, Rasputin exploited the reactivation of the | Threatened by a convergence of [[Fallen]] and [[Hive]] forces, Rasputin exploited the reactivation of the Cosmodrome's Terrestrial-space array to extend itself across the inner [[solar system]]. The Guardian [[Vanguard]] hoped that Rasputin might make a powerful ally, capable of mapping and reviving Golden Age military assets and recruiting them for the [[The Last City|City's]] defense. But Rasputin has proven recalcitrant and high-handed, unresponsive to the City's outreach. | ||
We cannot characterize | We cannot characterize Rasputin's strategic objectives and capabilities, cannot define its physical or computational architecture, cannot ascertain its disposition with regard to the City, and cannot be sure it retains memory of events before the Collapse. Perhaps what remains is only an autonomic shell, defending itself by reflex. Or perhaps Rasputin's objectives have changed, transformed by some vital information it obtained during those dark days. | ||
Rasputin's survival opens the possibility that other Warminds may be revivable, opening weapons systems to aid in City defenses. The Vanguard and the [[Consensus]] hope that continued outreach towards Rasputin will develop into a strategic alliance. | |||
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Hearing this she climbs a stone obelisk and perches on its point to watch the night sky. She wonders whether she will ever stand in the Tower courtyard and look up at the stars waiting for ruin. | Hearing this she climbs a stone obelisk and perches on its point to watch the night sky. She wonders whether she will ever stand in the Tower courtyard and look up at the stars waiting for ruin. | ||
The [[Vex]] erupt from nothingness and crash down over the Cabal in formations of golden light. Lightning arcs and snaps and gives birth to marching ranks of bronze warrior hulls. Gun positions thunder back. Tracers sweep the sky and she can feel on her skin the electromagnetic howl of Cabal munitions seeking targets and the prickle of stranger signals that whisper of broken space and bent time. A Harvester spins down burning to shatter itself on the sand and now the command network drums with grim Cabal war-speak, a Centurion somewhere crying Black Shield, Black Shield, Firebase Thuria, perimeter compromised, request terminal protective fire, zero six zero, one three eight, immediate effect— | The [[Vex]] erupt from nothingness and crash down over the Cabal in formations of golden light. Lightning arcs and snaps and gives birth to marching ranks of bronze warrior hulls. Gun positions thunder back. Tracers sweep the sky and she can feel on her skin the electromagnetic howl of Cabal munitions seeking targets and the prickle of stranger signals that whisper of broken space and bent time. A Harvester spins down burning to shatter itself on the sand and now the command network drums with grim Cabal war-speak, a [[Centurion]] somewhere crying [[Black Shield]], Black Shield, [[Firebase Thuria]], perimeter compromised, request terminal protective fire, zero six zero, one three eight, immediate effect— | ||
Something else is watching too. | Something else is watching too. | ||
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Then dawn light, a terrible dawn—the sky opens up to admit devastation, thrown down from orbit: Minotaurs fall burnt and broken with their fluids boiling out. Cabal guns detonate in thunderous chains as tiny piercing flechettes fall out of the sky and find their ammunition bunkers. | Then dawn light, a terrible dawn—the sky opens up to admit devastation, thrown down from orbit: Minotaurs fall burnt and broken with their fluids boiling out. Cabal guns detonate in thunderous chains as tiny piercing flechettes fall out of the sky and find their ammunition bunkers. | ||
The battle stops. The Vex wink out. On the Cabal network the voice of Valus Ta'aurc roars: Find the source! Rouse the | The battle stops. The Vex wink out. On the Cabal network the voice of Valus Ta'aurc roars: Find the source! Rouse the Flayers and find the source! | ||
She remembers word from Earth: the Array opened. A [[Rasputin|ghost]] of the [[Cosmodrome]] set loose. And she wonders who won this battle, who learned the most, the Vex baiting out this new power, or the Cabal hunting it. Or the Warmind itself, testing its reborn strength. | She remembers word from Earth: the Array opened. A [[Rasputin|ghost]] of the [[Cosmodrome]] set loose. And she wonders who won this battle, who learned the most, the Vex baiting out this new power, or the Cabal hunting it. Or the Warmind itself, testing its reborn strength. | ||
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I SEE YOU!!! | I SEE YOU!!! | ||
You've been here before. Haven't you. It's like my cousin said, elsewhere: I know who you are. | |||
You stand here now and now and now many times and here I am awonder, all awonder, how you manage it. How do you step forward. How do you step back. Do you step ACROSS is there a world of worlds, a web, and you a spider upon it. Are you searching for that one thread you need? Is that thread named victory? | You stand here now and now and now many times and here I am awonder, all awonder, how you manage it. How do you step forward. How do you step back. Do you step ACROSS is there a world of worlds, a web, and you a spider upon it. Are you searching for that one thread you need? Is that thread named victory? | ||
You're not one of THEM | |||
[long dead, alive again, their bodies grafted to powers they and I do not understand] | [long dead, alive again, their bodies grafted to powers they and I do not understand] | ||
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[the flower eater, the queen of final shapes, that which also inhabits its petitioners] | [the flower eater, the queen of final shapes, that which also inhabits its petitioners] | ||
and | and you're certainly not MINE although once you must have been | ||
[I bear an old name. It cannot be killed. Not even here.] | [I bear an old name. It cannot be killed. Not even here.] | ||
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SITE 6 secure. Restoring reactivation protocols. Activating SCRY OVERSIGHT. Target [O] lifeforms. Event mode set to SILENT VELES. | SITE 6 secure. Restoring reactivation protocols. Activating SCRY OVERSIGHT. Target [O] lifeforms. Event mode set to SILENT VELES. | ||
"Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible." | |||
STOP STOP STOP V150NLK747CLS000 | STOP STOP STOP V150NLK747CLS000 | ||