Coda
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It was settled. The dwarves killed the Phoenix King and looted the body.Having read Gotrek and Felix, I wonder how surreal it'll be for Felix to witness Gotrek launch into an angry anti-elf rant, only for the dwarf to immediately calm down after being told that the Grudge held for The War of The Beard has been settled, and then nonchalantly change to subject to the matter of slaying trolls, or why anything dwarf-made is better than anything human-made.
There's still everything that led to the war that Paul intends to settle.It was settled. The dwarves killed the Phoenix King and looted the body.
Because I'm going to settle the grudges concerning the attacks by Malekith's followers that were the original casus belli, so all that's left will be Caledor the Second's insults and the Shaving, and… Those could probably be settled in a few hours, if your king were willing."
...That's what killing Caledor and taking his crown settled, though. There's no outstanding grudge, just outstanding damage to Ulthuan's credit score. Getting blame tied to the Dark Elves would require proof of sufficient quality that a dwarf would consider it reliable. Even if one of Paul's brainwashing victims were willing to testify who had been around at the time, there remains the issue that dwarves may not consider the testimony of elves with scrambled brains reliable.There's still everything that led to the war that Paul intends to settle.
I really don't. I'm confident, and I've got a library of records of thousands of battlefields. And they're only aliens.
No one. My concerns are unfounded. I'm fine. There is nothing wrong with seeking Krypton's resurrection.
He has not completed Kryptonian social ritual associated with coming of age
Besides, what do you actually learn from putting on a headband and watching someone shoot a caveman with a plasma beam?
I slump a little. I'd… When Father put me in the pod, I… I thought I'd have to bring Kal up on some planet inhabited by alien barbarians. Instead, the alien barbarians brought him up. And he's
That-. I know I passed all the psychological screening Karsta Wor-Ul did after I got out of the regeneration pod, but I don't think I'm.. thinking like I used to.
Gray-Ven seemed like he would be happy to make that happen.
The alien is not to be trusted.
So I don't trust him.
Besides, the children are being raised by Tamaraneans. I don't think that they're going to want to be isolationist when their mothers and fathers are aliens.
They're appearing in Karna's system. Sensors confirm ships of gordonian design.
Nothing that the Doomsday can't destroy.
There's a boom tube here and
I would like to coordinate with you."
Great... She's a sociopath in concerns to aliens now...
It's not that they messed it up, it's that the standard mental template for clone soldiers is a good bit different than that of someone born and raised naturally.This might be just the Doomsday interface.
In which case, it's AI is far more sophisticated than expected.
Or they really messed up her brain repair, enough for herself to notice.
Thank you, corrected.
Not in my country, colonial.
An interlude with Kara, I see. And stepping back a little while. No doubt so we can see the arrival of Grayven-16's fleet. Let's hope he doesn't lead off with the planet-killer attack like he did in the Paragon timeline...
The joy of getting her brain rebuilt by machines intended for culture intended to be xenophobes...What?
I look around the Doomsday's bridge. Where did that come from?
I'm honestly not surprised that the Military Council named it... Can't really intimidate someone into surrender with a ship named 'Large Capital Ship 1', after all. But Doomsday? Yeah, that's a name to run away from.I smile. The Military Council did love their ominous names. What was wrong with Large Capital Ship 1? That was what it was called when the Science Council designed it. But the Military Council insisted on individual names. I suppose that I can understand wanting to have something to call it, but couldn't they have made it a natural progression? If they'd named it for Krypton, then the larger support ships could have been named for cities…
It… I suppose it doesn't matter now. And Commander Karsta Wor-Ul won't want to change Military Council traditions, so I guess we're stuck with it.
It's a metaphor for reason and intellect triumphing over animal instinct and unreasoning brutality, I guess?But Kal-El's
a child. He has not completed Kryptonian social ritual associated with coming of age
but that's a technicality. We don't call people who go off-world and missed their ceremonies children, they just do it when they get home. Besides, what do you actually learn from putting on a headband and watching someone shoot a caveman with a plasma beam?
No, Eradicator, he's better. Because he understands life and living... At least, I assume it's an Eradicator program. Or something similar designed to reinforce xenophobic tendencies in the Daxamites.He is unfamiliar with Kryptonian culture.
I slump a little. I'd… When Father put me in the pod, I… I thought I'd have to bring Kal up on some planet inhabited by alien barbarians. Instead, the alien barbarians brought him up. And he's
not one of us.
Yes, things changed over the centuries, and not necessarily for the better...I mean, he seems like a good man, but he's like… Hatu-El or something. Modern El's aren't like that. Unless they have to be, I suppose. There have always been people like that in House El and we have statues of some of them, I just…
Actually, I can see Uncle Jor being pretty happy that he turned out like that. Father would hate it.
And look where it got you. Sure, no internal wars, but no external contact either. That's not conducive to progress. Just the opposite, in fact. Without outside stimulus, Krypton fell into stagnation...Hatu-El was a great man. There is no shame in following his example.
Not in a situation like this. I know perfectly well that all of the Great Houses were 'great' because they did a lot of great things for Krypton, and that there are a lot of ways to be great. That's what the Council system was all about.
Because they'll be fighting aliens, huh? Ah, Eradicators...Except House El is supposed to be all about science, and the two adult-. Biologically adult members of House El are getting ready to fight, one in a warship and the other in space so that he can punch enemy ships.
Hatu-El would be proud. And so would Uncle Jor-El.
Given it's the largest concentration of Kryptonians in the galaxy right now, outside of Daxam? Yeah. And I suspect the Eradicator programming wouldn't count them as pure as the original breed.So there's that.
I do another scan of the system with the Doomsday's sensors, and check the feed from the aliens' buoys. The Hny'xx facility must be protected at all costs. Any loss of alien life is acceptable.
Oh, I hope this programming gets found out and pulled out somehow. Maybe a trip to Equestria?But-. Whaw, I'm a lot more speciesist than I thought I was. Maybe Karsta Wor-Ul had a point about people who don't spend time off… Off Krypton.
Krypton will rise again.
Argh. Hard to second-guess something inside your own brain, and that keeps telling you everything's fine.Without really thinking about it I check the sensors again and shift the Doomsday's position as an anti-first strike measure. Rise again..? That-. I know I passed all the psychological screening Karsta Wor-Ul did after I got out of the regeneration pod, but I don't think I'm.. thinking like I used to. Like before… I mean, it could just be the psychological trauma, but those pods weren't ever tested in a situation like this. But, who could test it?
No one. My concerns are unfounded. I'm fine. There is nothing wrong with seeking Krypton's resurrection.
Ironically, he's been the best thing for the Kryptonian people since the disaster... Since, you know, he's responsible for there begin a Kryptonian people at all.But I don't think we can 'resurrect' Krypton with Hny'xx. It's the wrong size, composition, the sun isn't Rao and we're lost so many records… We could take a new planet and call it 'Krypton'. Gray-Ven seemed like he would be happy to make that happen.
The alien is not to be trusted.
Tough luck, Eradicator, that's how it is.So I don't trust him. But that doesn't mean that he won't do it because it's in his interests to help us right now. He didn't have to help Karsta Wor-Ul set the facility up. Besides, the children are being raised by Tamaraneans. I don't think that they're going to want to be isolationist when their mothers and fathers are aliens.
That is not how things should be.
Now that? That's true. But they refused to look outside their little box...I sigh.
But lots of things aren't how they should be. The Science Council shouldn't have ignored Uncle Jor. The Science Council shouldn't have scrapped the fleet.
Not enough, though. Not nearly enough, even if you dumped them into the Phantom Zone too.Isolation from the alien served Krypton.
But that doesn't mean that pretending the universe doesn't exist will actually make it go away. Karsta Wor-Ul was right; we could have used those ships to evacuate more people.
I get the feeling the Eradicator programming is just salty that its' high-and-mighty Kryptonian Science couldn't have helped. But that would require it to have emotions it wouldn't have been coded for...Or undo the destructive reaction sequence.
Ah... No, actually, that wouldn't have worked. Realistically, they were warships. Even the Doomsday's crystal projectiles wouldn't be able to stop the reaction once it got going. Their sensors might have made confirming Uncle Jor's readings easier, but unless the Science Council supported building more exploration or terraforming ships, I don't think they'd have been able to do anything about it.
Hopefully not warships like the Doomsday, though. One is enough, and makes something of a big target, really.We will need ships of those types.
And I'll add that to the list. I-.
Overconfident, Eradicator. At least the Karnans will get to work out some anger on these ships. Especially if they come down to the surface for a chance at some looting.I feel it as the Doomsday's sensors detect the Apokoliptian portals… Boom tubes, open on the other side of the Vega Cluster. Since they're in space they don't make any sound, but the gravity waves are quite distinctive. They're appearing in Karna's system. Sensors confirm ships of gordonian design.
Nothing that the Doomsday can't destroy.
Yeah, sometimes nothing can prepare you for the real thing.Unless the evil version of Gray-Ven improved them. I send alerts to
Commander Karsta Wor-Ul and Kal-El
and then to Vril-Dox, as the Karnan and Imperial ships in that system begin moving to intercept them. Lantern are hard to scan for, but I'm sure they're there too. I don't know if it's a good plan. I told Karsta Wor-Ul that just because I can operate the Doomsday that doesn't mean that I know anything about warfare outside of the historical context.
No, he's probably more concerned with the likelihood that Grayven-16 will open up multiple attack vectors."Clarissi Vril Dox to Doomsday. Remain in reserve until the enemy's flagship is sighted. Out."
He recognises the superiority of Kryptonian technology.
I mean, if nothing else, it can probably fly through the enemy ships without noticing too much, given the durability of Kryptonian material science...That or it could be that he doesn't want to rush all of his forces to a first attack when he doesn't know what else Gray-Ven might have. But… Shields to full, charge faster than light drive, weapons to active. I don't know how useful crystallisation torpedoes would be against ships like this, but prepare them anyway.
Another boom tube opens… Here, they're coming here! Lanterns begin making orange barriers and the Tamaranean ships charge their weapons. I manoeuvre the Doomsday into a slightly better position, but it's really a medium ranged ship so hanging back isn't a sensible option.
Yep, Grayven-16 looks to be hitting multiple planets at once. Forcing the defenders to spread themselves out, obviously, but also thinning his own ranks... Will he be making a play for the Renegade's home base planet of Tamaran, I wonder."Doomsday to Clarissi Vril-Dox. Boom tube here."
"Understood. Engage at your recognisance."
I suppose the programming does have some use. Pity about the xenophobia..."Ah, okay? Doomsday to Commander Karsta Wor-Ul?"
"What is it, cadet?"
"There's a boom tube here and
I would like to coordinate with you."
And that's a failure flag if ever I've seen one. I can't see Grayven-16 passing up a chance to strike down the Renegade's most powerful asset."The Doomsday is death to capital ships. Let the Lanterns deal with anything less than a quarter of your size and focus on them."
Huh. This is weird. I should feel nervous but
I really don't. I'm confident, and I've got a library of records of thousands of battlefields. And they're only aliens.
Oh, I hope this programming gets found out and pulled out somehow. Maybe a trip to Equestria?
Argh. Hard to second-guess something inside your own brain, and that keeps telling you everything's fine.
Yep, Grayven-16 looks to be hitting multiple planets at once. Forcing the defenders to spread themselves out, obviously, but also thinning his own ranks... Will he be making a play for the Renegade's home base planet of Tamaran, I wonder.
Would be kind of silly if he didn't given that would give him an immediate advantage over Renegade.Let's hope he doesn't lead off with the planet-killer attack like he did in the Paragon timeline...
And yet dumb enough to miss the point about current practical limitationsThis might be just the Doomsday interface.
In which case, it's AI is far more sophisticated than expected..
By the way, when did british english dropped the "œ" in manœuvre ? I'm pretty sure it was there during the Middle Age.
Given the number of telepaths Grayven has on staff it is rather bewildering that such blatant mental contamination hasn't been noticed.
Given the number of telepaths Grayven has on staff it is rather bewildering that such blatant mental contamination hasn't been noticed.
He wasn't proposing. Marrage alliances are practiced in both the Reikland Empire and Nehekara. He wanted to know if she'd consider it, or if her religious vows prevented it....though I am still curious about how Khalida reacted to the marriage proposal.
He could restore her flesh at once. But he couldn't make her feel it. It would just be meat over the bones she did control.Because if she is restored to flesh... DAMN.
There is a reason why she was said to be one of the most beautiful women in Nehakhara.
Technically, he wouldn't be 'restored' as he's never been healthy.
End Times goes into the box. I'll probably have Storm of Chaos as canon, though I'd actually use the game results and actually kill Archaon.I also wonder when Paul is going to tell them the main reason the Curse of Aenerion exists is because Malekith pussied out of the fire too early...
It's the Eradicator. Which is why she's wearing the Eradicator version of the Superx uniform and why they talked about Kem-El.I honestly wonder if a version of Brainiac (or the Eradicator) have worked there way into Kara's mind? Or perhaps that's just the Doomsday "talking"?