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Lark of Serenity
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|  Posted: 2006-11-05 18:06
so the official story is that Nicea exploded?
sounds about right, it certainly lagged enough and was bombed enough.
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Lacrosseian
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| Posted: 2006-11-05 18:27
I personally miss the Nicea system, I know I am one of the few who did.
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Makani
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| Posted: 2006-11-05 21:10
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On 2006-11-05 18:27, Green Beret wrote:
I personally miss the Nicea system, I know I am one of the few who did.
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I miss it too.
Also, I think it would be awesome if there was a large nebula + asteriods (and maybe even a Barren planet or two?) approximately where Nicea used to be. As a memento, or something.
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YIIMM
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Joined: June 16, 2005
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From: Barcino, Hispania Tarraconensis
| Posted: 2006-11-06 01:01
There already is, it's called "Nicea Remnence", if that's even a word.
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Makani
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| Posted: 2006-11-06 03:15
Really? Where? I want to see it now!
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Doran
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From: The Gideon Unit
| Posted: 2006-11-06 10:02
go take a look at southern tripwik, towards the luyten gate
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Drafell
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From: United Kingdom
| Posted: 2006-11-08 05:12
This isn't complete, and certainly not accurate or even official yet... but it is an answer to many questiosn posed here...
The Kraddax myth predates K'Luth contact with the MI (ie. they believed in it before first contact with Mir).
The K'Luth, having a high level of psionic awareness, are capable of 'feeling' the presence of all other lifeforms around them, essentially feeling the 'soul' in everything around them that lives and breathes. Thier techonlogy is also almost totally biologicly based. Thier understanding of conventional phsyics and science (as we know it) is limited. They create thier technology by a kind of forced evolution. It is only through encountering the MI that they have jgained umpdrive and AME technology - they know it works, but not why, or how, simply that it does.
Early K'Luth space exploration was done via what we would consider to be ark ships. These are massive space born colonies that were accelerated using a combination of biological ion jets and pure force of psionic will manipulating the mass around them. It would only take them about 2 years to reach a relative velocity equivalent to about 90%c.
As thier original homeworld was in a very dense region of space. This allowed them to colonise a large area of space within a relatively short period of time (roughly 6-700 planets in just under a thousand years). It was during this time that they accidentally discovered cloaking technology, which is essentially the K'Luth manipulating space around them via psionic energy.
Back to the point...
According to the oldest references, the K'Luth underworld is a place totally devoid of any psionic awareness. Going to this place is the worst of all possible fates. Even more abhorrent for them to contemplate is the mere concept of a creature that lives in such a place, one that cannot be felt by them, yet seems to be alive/aware and move. For them, the only place such a thing or being could exist would be in this underworld - the place without awareness, the place of no soul. And so the legend of the Kraddax evolved - a god, guardian, or demon that watches the gates of thier hell, and one that can see everything (thus the hundred heads).
Naturally, the MI - being a mechanical entity - has no biologic parts which the K'Luth are capable of feeling. For them, this equates to the MI not having a soul. They can feel something is there, and they can see that it moves, but there is no sense of life coming from it. The K'Luth believe that the MI is the very embodiment of thier most feared and abhorred demon. It is everything that they once believed should not and cannot exist. Yet somehow here is this 'thing', this creature. What else are they supposed to beleive it to be?
A little more history...
We have the K'Luth, happily expanding, settling and building up new worlds, and so far not encountering any other life forms apart from gaifen and the mysterious crystalline/energy entities, alos completely oblvious to the looming threat. Meanwhile, the MI is engaged on its conquest of all organic lifeforms - and is now including other machine based cultures as well, not that there are many to be found. The MI is a vast entity spanning many thousands of worlds and systems.
This is the point at which the MI encounters the K'Luth. They are the largest spacefaring civilisation it has come across so far, but purely because they are organics, and inherently wasteful and messy, it attacks. After all, it shouldn't be a big problem.
The only reason the K'Luth held out for so long versus the MI is due to their cloak and their complete reliance on biologic technology. There was nothing that the MI was capable of subverting, and worst of all, these organics could simple vanish from its perception. Also to the K'Luths benefit, is that they practise warfare and conflict as a way of life. Deprived of it's primary means of conquest, and somewhat startled at thier vanishing acts, the MI was totally unprepared for the ferocity with which the K'Luth fought back.
Essentially the MI resorted to containing and observing the K'Luth while it expanded in other directions, and while it sought out a way to combat technology with which it had no understanding or familiarity.
This state of play continued for the roughly next 1700 years. During this time the MI developed an innate defense against most of the psionic based attacks purely on a trial and error basis, but it was still unable to find an effective counter to the cloak.
During it's expansion in other directions, the MI encountered another civilisation. This civilisation was unique, in that it had developed sophisiticated nano-techonology as well as being latent psionics. They had managed to active their awareness to a basic degree using this nano-technology, and this is where the MI encountered them, rapidly assimillating all thier knowledge and technologies.
This otherwise rather insignificant event turned out to be the key the MI needed to unlock the principles behind cloaking technology, and how to detect other cloaked vessels.
The K'Luth resistance rapidly crumbled, and many clans fled into deep space in an effort to find a sancutary or place in which to rebuild thier forces.
In true sci-fi tradition, there was a massive battle in the K'Luth homesystem between one of the MI subminds and the last vestiges of the K'luth Empire. The K'Luth defenses were pretty futile, but they did have one final weapon, one hope. They had little understanding of the device they had 'stolen' from the MI, or what exactly it did, only that it had the potential to give them a respite from the war, and a chance to rebuild and prepare anew for the conflict. By this point in time, they beleived that it was thier manifest destinity to oppose this Kraddax entity, th MI, at all costs.
Rather than let the MI have thier homeworld they would destroy it themselves and render it totally unuseable...
The device they had stolen was a wormhole generator - a simple device the the MI uses for instantaneous communications between ships.
What the K'Luth had done, in a stroke of ingenuity(or utter psychosis), was simply to copy this device, but on a very much larger scale. The comms unit used by a MI ship is typical only the size of a small car. Some larger units used by nodes are the size of a coach, and the biggest the MI uses are those on its Nexii, the main processing units of it's mind, yet even these are only the equivalent in size of a container ship. The one that the K'luth had reproduced was built surrounding a medium sized volcano...
They had worked out the basic principle behind the generator was that the more power you feed into it, the further it goes. However, they had no clue as to how to program the generator to spawn the WH at a specific location. Without this programming, the endpoint would be completely random.
As Keja fell, the remaining K'Luth fleets marshalled in orbit above the volcano. A single pure, white lance of psionic energy descended from the gathered fleet. All of the K'Luths hopes, thier fears, beliefs and the utter hatred of the MI were contained within this once soliteary beam of light. As it penetrated the peak of the volcano there was an eerie silence. The volcano itself began to dissolve, transmuted into pure energy - energy that would be used to power the generator core. As the psionic burst* ate deeper into the planet core, it expanded consuming and convertingmore and more of the planetary substance. All this energy had only one way to escape, through the newly created breach in Keja's surface. Yet instead of escaping, the energy was being absorbed and subsumed into the generator matrix.
The best comparison for what happens next is to think of a kid drinking a 2 litre bottle of soda in one go, and then belching. Instead of this belch letting out gas, and likely being rapidly followed by a considerable ammount of vomit, a huge wormhole was formed. Hte planet of Keja, now missing a large part of it core collapses in on itself, the generator unit is now nothing more than a pile of melted slag and radioactive debris and falls into the wormhole. The shattered remnants of the planet begin to do so as well. The gathered K'Luth fleets, fully prepared for this event now dive into the spacial fissure.
There is a good chance that only small portions of the fleets will survive. But the K'Luth have been prepareing for this last ditch attempt in other ways. All over the surface of Keja, vast ark ships have been grown and the remaining population evactuated to these arks. Billions of K'Luth with samples of every conceivable lifeform on the planet As the planet crumbles these arks will be sucked into the wormhole, and no longer tied down by gravity, thier engines should be free to function once on the other side.
The MI is taken aback by this. Yet again the K'Luth have hit it with something it is totally unprepared for. It now see's the K'Luth as a real threat and cannot afford to let them escape, but it has no way it can possibly intercede. It does not know where the wormhole leads, it has no wormhole cpabale ship prepared in local space, and time is limited. It predict's the event horizon will collapse in less than a day, and more annoying still, the flux is disrupting it's own communications network, making it hard to think due to all the noise.
Rapid calculations show that this wormhole has a potential range that is far in excess of anything it has previously considered trying to construct. It has to send something through. Something that is big enough and that is capable of acting independently for an extended period of time, and also powerful enough to deal with the K'Luth armada, or any other numerous potentialities that may lay in wait, while finding a way to construct a permanent wormhole link back to Nexus Core.
For the MI, used to having complete and near immediate control over all of it's primary Nexii and Nodes, this is not something that is easy to do. It carries a vast number of risks. The longest period of time any part of itself has been seperated is a few days, which in Machine time is close to an eternity. Trying to contemplate having a submind out of touch for what could potentially be a few hundred or more years. The MI is not afraid, as the it has no concept of fear. But essentially lobotomizing a part of its consciousness will hurt, it does not want to fell lessened or crippled.
It resigns itself to what it must do. There is only one capable unit within range. The Nexus 14. This is only of only a few hundred such if its primary subminds. Each of these units are designed to administer and supervise several stellar quadrants, and the Nexus 14 is one of it's more militaristic and adaptable of its Nexii. Accompanied by thousands of Nodes and millions of Drones, it should be a more than capable match for the remaining K'Luth, providing of course that it is not severely damaged in wormhole transit, or by the prdicted debris field of the dead planet on the other side...
...which is of course exactly what happens. I don't think the MI has any concept of Murphies Law. 
* This whole episode is the first recorded deployment of a weapon we now call the Stellar Incinerator. Much smaller variants are mounted on some K'Luth Dreadnoughts and Stations.
[ This Message was edited by: Drafell on 2006-11-08 05:17 ]
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Legatus Immolation
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| Posted: 2006-11-08 05:56
i wanna hear the rest of the story!!
i read all that and i wanna read more lol!
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From: Peterborough, England
| Posted: 2006-11-08 10:49
I take it the stellar incinerator is the beam which disolved keja and converted it into energy for the wormhole.
Thanks that answers loads of my questions.
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| Posted: 2006-11-08 11:19
Everyone knows the MIR are lead by Agent Smith. It's all about the matrix.
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