Chapter [Requesting Checksum] - Aftershocks

Chapter [Requesting Checksum] - Aftershocks

TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS

Is everyone here?

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TELKAN FORGE WORLDS

Looks like it. Wow, there's a lot of us now.

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HAT WEARING AUNTIE

It's wonderful.

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MAKTANAN GESTALT

Can everyone hear me?

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HAT WEARING AUNTIE

Yes. You're fine.

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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS

All right. There are some things we must consider.

Regarding the Atrekna

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GREAT LANAKTALLAN GREAT FREE GREAT HERD OF GREAT GREATNESS AND GREAT VALUES

Like what?

Oh, come on.

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LEE>

TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS

The facts.

The ugly facts.

First: The Atrekna are not interesting in communicating despite multiple attempts at communication. We know they understand us, we know they can hear us, they simply only have one statement and one statement only.

"You Belong to Us"

With that in mind, all attempts at establishing diplomatic relations have failed, meaning there are no diplomatic discussions with the Atrekna.

We know it is possible to have discussions with them, we have video evidence from an unnamed source of the Lanaktallan, Mantid, and Atrekna communicating prior to the First Precursor War.

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LANTALLAN GESTALT CHANNEL NOW WITH EXTRA SPRINKLES BROUGHT TO YOU BY BOBCO

We do?

Oh, some on!

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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS

Yes. We're not at liberty so state where we acquired it, but suffice to say we've had copies of a Precursor relic datacube for quite some time.

And to satisfy your curiosity, the cube is a propaganda piece talking about how the Lanaktallan, Mantid, and Atrekna are embarking on a grand project to ensure your species will survive any potential disaster as well as properly utilize the resources of the universe.

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HAT WEARING AUNTI

What? How long have we had this?

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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS

Since before the attack on Terra by the Council.

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HAT WEARING AUNTIE

You've had this data for FIVE YEARS and haven't told anyone?

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CONFEDINTEL

No.

I have.

I just made Trea aware of it a few months back when his researchers were working on cracking the phasic crystal information network system.

It took four black projects to crack that datacube but the Atrekna portion was missing.

Trea was forced to do a black box project to crack the Atrekna section.

I then put the data in another black box project. With the loss of Black Box Prime there's some slowdown in research, but the Confederacy is big enough that even with the Terran Xenocide Event, we had the researchers to work on it.

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HAT WEARING AUNTIE

That data could have been of use.

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CONFEDINTELNe/w novel chapters are published at novelhall.com

It was.

It's how we designed the phasic processing system attack systems. Basically, electronic warfare warboi analogues for a phasic processing system.

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THE AMAZING LANAKALLAN GESTALT NOW FEATURING MORE MATRONS!

What was on the cube?

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CONFEDINTEL

It was talking about building a massive project.

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LANAKTALLAN FREE GRAZING NOW WITH SUNSHINE AND WARM BREEZES

What project

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CONFEDINTEL

An automated megastructure manufacturing system.

It's where all of your resources for over a hundred and twenty million years have been going.

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LEEBAW CONTEMPLATION POOL

That sounds AMAZING!

When are we going to go look at it?

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CONFEDINTEL

We already cracked it. It's gone. It was what was spawning Dweller Rings and Doom Tubes.

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LEEBAW CONTEMPLATION POOL

Aw.

I wanted to see it.

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CONFEDINTEL

I'll send you video.

It exploded really good.

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LEEBAW CONTEMPLATION POOL

I like explosions. Especially M.Bay Visual ones.

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LANAKTALLAN GRAZING FIELD

This.

All of this.

Is due to my people's pride and arrogance.

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HAT WEARING AUNTIE

Not just you.

My people have their share of blame.

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CONFEDMIL

Enough. We don't have time for whose more at fault.

The entire weight of the Confederate Armed Services is about to come crashing down on over twenty-two hundred worlds.

Billions are going to die.

Billions ARE dying right now.

Feel sorry for yourself somewhere else.

Here.

>CONFEDMIL HAS CREATED CHAT ROOM (YOUR OWN FUCKING FLAGELLATION CORNER)

There. Go feel guilty there.

We have to decide.

You have to decide.

It will set the Rules of Engagement.

You cannot make "No Decision" to avoid getting your hands dirty. You can't abstain, you can't just vote "present", you must vote yay or nay on the proposal.

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MAKTANAN GESTALT

What if it's voted down?

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CONFEDMIL

Then I spend the next 10,000 years counter attacking every time the Atrekna sink another system or attack a system, liberating only those systems that have Confederate or Council citizens present.

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TUKNA'RN THOUGHT

Trillions will die in such a case.

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CONFEDMIL

Yeah, but hey, you won't have voted to xenocide someone.

I'm sure that will be great comfort to everyone who's killed.

"Gee, I sure am glad that species didn't vote to xenocide the species of this guy who's sucking out my children's brains in front of me and implanting larvae in my gut to eat me alive! Thank the Digital Omnimessiah they didn't get their hands dirty."

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RIGELLIAN SAURIAN COMPACT

Yeah.

Overproject Nandeval.

We are literally at this point.

I need time.

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TELKAN FORGE WORLDS

What's "Overprojecct Nandeval"?

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HAT WEARING AUNTIE

Something terrible.

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PUBVIAN DOMINION

Nandeval is a Pubvian word, an old world.

In our old religion from before we set aside religion, the religious texts spoke of a war at the end of reality.

The Nandeval.

It was here the stars would go out one by one, devoured by a creature that devoured all things. The peoples would fight monstrous creatures but one by one fall, city by city, nation by nation.

At the end of it, the stars would go out and the universe itself would die.

Nandeval shall fall upon us

In silence at first in the sky

The servants of Nandeval shall swarm

from darkness they come and are born

All shall fall devoured and slain

Tribe, city, nation and clan

The hidden among us shall reveal

its hunger with tooth claw and maw

Betrayed from within and without

Each Pubvian shall be devoured

When all is dark

And silence reigns

The universe itself shall die

At the hands of Nandeval

That's the last stanzas of the religious texts.

Yeah, yeah, I know, it REALLY looks like some kind of warning about the Atrekna.

I need some time to think.

To be honest, I'm going to tell you. We were xenocided once already, I don't think my people are really willing to be xenocided again.

Just saying.

I'm gonna think for a bit.

PUB set to -m

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TELKAN FORGE WORLDS

I, for one, will not yield.

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LEEBAW CONTEMPLATION POOL

I'm with you, Ken.

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HESSTLA CYBERBURROW

As are we.

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HAMAROOSA PINCHING FESTIVAL

I'd rather go down fighting.

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CONFEDMIL

There will be all the fighting you could ever want.

Just saying.

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