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Katunda, 17 Melona, 12731 T

Job Done and Dusted. Right?

by Jedi Knight VN Ysadora

Katunda,
17 Melona,
12731 T | 1008 R

 

Katunda

17 Melona

12731 T

a.k.a. 1008:07:15 RR

 
Other folks have been gathering intel over the past couple of days, so that we can go stop the virus. Or the engine tests. I'm not really certain at this point what our top goal is.

At least the Katana Fleet has not come to the planet.

While everyone else tackles components of our recent mission, I think I will join the efforts in progress on one of the other local "crises": the thing with the holocron ball that busted out of Captain Kolene's new-to-her ship.

 
My work starts with a review of the research gathered thus far by Dame Elania Kosh and Sir Rock Topna.

  • Palatreums and the "holocron sphere" artifact are not, as far as their research determined, at all related within the Cestea historic and mythologic archives.

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  • It's bad luck when this holocron sphere thing appears. It's also bad luck to talk about it.

    One time when it was found, it unlocked Abilities to connect to Devices, and caused tech to shift, and the whole thing turned into a mythological destruction of a city swallowed below the sands.

    One time when it was found, in a different location, the archaeological team was more careful with their scans and so forth. Contact was lost with the research team. When another team went to find out what happened, they found the first team all dead. It looks as if they had cybernetically altered, and that is what killed them.

 
I think I will go chat with Steelflow for a bit. Get his xenoarchaeologist recommendations.

 
Steelflow tells me about The Spark of Leadership.

 
It may be a cube or a sphere, depending on the mythologic archive.

It holds the memories of past rulers, and confers authority via possession.

 
There have been a few stories of the SoL passing to a non-Aw'akeen. It integrates with the Aw'akeen when passed to them. At least once, it did so to an organic being named Exar Kun. Normally, if an Awakeen can get to this organic quickly, the integration can be reversed before it "fixes the flaws in the design" enough to kill them.

 
But who makes a single instance of a technology? Why would this "Spark of Life" be the only engineering example of an invention category?

I think the Tenochron Codex is one of those things.

I think whatever is creating this currently spreading digital virus through the mechanical crew of the SSD Yamamoto is also one of those things. And I think that one in particular is trying to interface with a Mentat.

 
Farseeing attempted with Steelflow to observe current activities of the "holocron ball"

 
We stand on a flat black surface that has periodic faint pulses of blue light tracing a grid pattern. Overhead could be fuzzy clouds.

Coalescing out of the fog, I see columns and an archway, sized for a cathedral. I see more droids like Khatari, but trimmed in red. I see stairs. I see a room that had not been used in a very long time. The droids here work on patching this place up.

It reminds me of a large starship's stellar cartography room. It has a religious presence to it.

 
Behind us: stars.

 
At the edge of the platform: a raised dais. The sphere hovers just above the dais, idly spinning. A little bit of power flows in blue light up to the dais.

Steelflow also thinks it looks like a map room.

 
A huge figure, bigger than the other droids, walks over. It starts to manipulate the sphere. This droid has some humanoid-esque body language, more so than Threepio. It visibly expresses frustration, for example.

It has a conversation with another maybe-droid, in a language I do not know but Steelflow does. They apparently have someone, which excites the big guy. "Bring him here, I can use his change to grant me deeper access." Something about getting maintenance to grab someone, and bring him through some tunnels. Someone-Vorpadaran.

 
Without ending the vision, I send a message to Kitkat:

Vorpaderan is about to have a Miles Vorkosigan adventure!

 
Behind us: Each star is a life force.

 
I can nudge a few of those stars that last bit toward wakefulness before the discordant wave of One Ping Only yanks us back to our bodies.

 
Maintenance droids are running in mobs, carrying canisters or bags. Captain and Lady Kolene are chasing onesuch mob, followed closely by Hicks and Kitkat. While Steelflow catches up with So'Zen, I should run after my brother to find out what medically inadvisable activity is going on.

Kitkat says that Lord Danar Vorpaderan has been kidnapped (possibly drugged unconscious?) by one of these mobs. He wants me to point out which one is Danar. Fortunately, I have been friends with Danar for a long time -- and I am also fairly familiar with his saber-rake's lightfoil. I can turn that on for just a second, causing the outside of the duffel bag to start smoldering.

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