Event #03: WAR ORDER - EXTERMINATION PLANNING PHASE

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EVENT #03: WAR ORDER - EXTERMINATION PLANNING PHASE

The interrogation of Lord Gundhir is a tense affair, the room and surrounding area silent, save for the ever-present explosions of bombs falling above the Vault. When the interrogators emerge, there is a flurry of panicked activity as messages are sent and contacts are made. Soon, the grim news has spread - the Empire is attacking. The Corsairs act quickly. The mine shall be abandoned. They make a stand at Flotsam. A rising din engulfs the entirety of the Corsairs as they prepare to meet a Legion in pitched battle for the first time.

CORE MISSIONS

This week, there are no Core Missions to complete - instead, players may make whatever preparations they believe are appropriate to ensure the safety of the people and that defenses are ready. Here are a few recommendations, but players are free to use this time to do whatever they wish.

Evacuate Civilians: Evacuate civilians from Flotsam and the mine to keep them out of the fighting.
Hide Vital Infrastructure: Sail the infrastructure ships Flotsam relies on into hidden areas to protect them.
Prime Mine for Destruction: Prepare explosives and other items to ensure the mine is destroyed.
Prepare Defenses: Prepare defenses for Flotsam including more cannons, mustering troops, and the like
Automate Mine Defenses/Expand escape routes: Guns were set up in the mine, Corsairs may attempt to either automate them or create escape tunnels that feed into the primary underwater escape tunnel within the mines so they can be manned and offer resistance to the legion but abandoned safely when the time comes.

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[singlemilletgrain]

There is cause for concern with that statement. Shu opens her mouth, pauses, then opens it again.

"Do you buy all your meals?"

There is no judgment in her tone of voice. Though somehow it can't help but seem judgmental nonetheless.

"The market is a fascinating place, though. They sell some wares that are not familiar in my homeland, in addition to food and basic necessities. The technology here is not... more developed, per se, simply differently developed."

They don't have ether, they don't have war armors, they don't have a fair number of things common in Terra. Similarly, however, she could find no evidence of anything similar to Tianshi apparatuses here.

[redprayer]

"Eh?" The question takes Rezo off guard and it takes him a moment to properly speak. He quickly settles on "...Not all of them," as a reply.

But yes, he normally does buy preprepared meals and live off of those. Excuses come to mind, about his dorm not being well equipped for cooking and the food at the market being perfectly fine and far healthier than what he'd been eating for the past few years- and then they die, unspoken, drowned in a surge of irritated pride that insists it's hardly Miss Shu's business what he eats.

Technology feels like a far less thorny subject. "Can you give me an example of the differences?" he asks.

[singlemilletgrain]

Now is not the right time, but Shu makes a mental note of this. Rezo will one day be the recipient of a Surprise Cooking Lesson with or without his consent. Everyone Should Learn to Cook: the name of Shu's manifesto.

And really, there were so many people here in need of her salvation.

"I don't know what ether is, though I gather it is a sort of energy here intrinsic to living beings. It is a completely alien concept. They seem to base much of their work on this idea of ether. Terra doesn't go in much for the personal mechanized armors, either, though we have some robotics development."

[redprayer]

Blissfully unaware of Shu's plans for his future, Rezo ponders the issue of technology.

"We have a similar energy in my own world, called {mana,} though it doesn't crystallize the way ether does," Rezo says. "Perhaps that's why their magical machines are more advanced than our own. The Servant's Gate, for instance, is far beyond anything outside of legend."

[singlemilletgrain]

She pauses only briefly before responding.

"Oddly, that is an area in which we are more similar. We have a sort of energy crystal called Originium, though it is not native to our world and carries terrible dangers. But we have learned to harness its extraordinary powers -- to the point that we, too, have a gate that is said to cross dimensions."

The Door, of course, was feared as an object of potential calamity. Not a casual means of teleporting in slave labor.

"However, we do not ever make use of it. It is from an era before our time."

[redprayer]

Rezo ponders this. The concept of other worlds having similar resources is surprising, but not an outright shock. But when Shu mentions that they don't use the one in hers, it makes him think... "It's such a pity. All the different worlds have such potential to learn from one another. But the Empire only uses their ability to contact other worlds as a source of disposable labor, and the gate in your world is ignored."

He smiles and shakes his head. "Truthfully, if I were but a few decades younger it would inspire some impetuous dreams."

apologies, lost this response in my inbox!

[singlemilletgrain]

Shu coughs lightly.

"There is, ah, a slight problem. Our best estimates suggest that the Door is currently linked to a dimension filled with -- I suppose you would call them 'demons.'"

This is not something the Terrans really enjoy thinking about or know very much about in general. Given Shu's activities for the past thousand years, though, she is not especially keen on experimenting with the Door.

"It would be a grand thing indeed if we could use it for good. That is a dream for the far-off future for now."

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[redprayer]

"Demons are a type of evil spirit, correct?" Rezo says. If they're anything like mazoku then he can see how that would be an issue. Of course, the phrasing 'currently linked' implies that it would be possible to change that...

But as Shu says, that's something for the future. "It's far away in both time and in space," Rezo admits. Considering it's in an entirely different world and all.

[singlemilletgrain]

"Mm... A bit. Their true name is 'Collapsal.'" She pauses. "I am sure they have no influence here as they have no entry to this world, but... part of their danger is that they infiltrate the mind. Simply learning more about their existence can cause you to become susceptible to their corruption. It may be safer if I do not explain further."

There had even been reports that seeing a picture of a Collapsal had invited corruption into the viewer.

"Here - there is a store for furnishings around this area. Let's find something suitable for this family."