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==Ishtar Sink== | ==Ishtar Sink== | ||
[[File:Grimoire Ishtar Sink.jpg|right|150px]] | [[File:Grimoire Ishtar Sink.jpg|right|150px]] | ||
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. | ||
We aren't the only ones interested in the Collective. The Fallen House of Winter has hurled its assets into pillaging the ruins, hunting for some advantage - whether from the Golden Age, or forgotten times beyond. The House of Winter's presence includes constant Skiff overflights in support of ground teams and hints of an improvised command post or staging area in the volcanic Cinders. | We aren't the only ones interested in the Collective. The [[Fallen]] [[House of Winter]] has hurled its assets into pillaging the ruins, hunting for some advantage - whether from the Golden Age, or forgotten times beyond. The House of Winter's presence includes constant [[Skiff]] overflights in support of ground teams and hints of an improvised command post or staging area in the volcanic Cinders. | ||
The situation is degrading into a race against time. We must claim the Collective's ruins for our own - and hope they will warn us what other threats now rise from Venus' acid seas and ancient stone. | The situation is degrading into a race against time. We must claim the Collective's ruins for our own - and hope they will warn us what other threats now rise from Venus' acid seas and ancient stone. | ||
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The greatest minds in creation make quick work of the material. The powder is weighed by the grain, and studied close, and remembered. One hundred billion bits of near-nothing reside inside the copper box, all of them tiny and nearly spherical, all etched with the outlines of continents and islands and icecaps. Each sphere represents a planet, and some of these tiny globes match known worlds. | The greatest minds in creation make quick work of the material. The powder is weighed by the grain, and studied close, and remembered. One hundred billion bits of near-nothing reside inside the copper box, all of them tiny and nearly spherical, all etched with the outlines of continents and islands and icecaps. Each sphere represents a planet, and some of these tiny globes match known worlds. | ||
There is one Earth and one Mars and a Venus too. | There is one [[Earth]] and one [[Mars]] and a Venus too. | ||
The box holds renderings of every habitable world in the galaxy. | The box holds renderings of every habitable world in the galaxy. | ||