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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. | 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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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." | |||
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