"Every time we activate the inhibitors, it feels like she allows it to happen. There’s a... waiting in her gaze, like she’s threading something far beyond our understanding. We think we’re containing her, but the truth is, she’s already in our systems, in our minds. The crows shouldn’t even exist in here, yet there they are, watching us like she is. Whatever we’re unlocking, it’s not under our control. It’s under hers."
— Dr. Elias Revik, Senior
Psionics Researcher, SMC
Redspace Division
The Triptych
Shu'Maḫḫi Tana, a triple-faced goddess of magic, fate, and wisdom, stands as one of the most enigmatic and powerful Aeons still active in the Age of Convergence. Known in ancient myths as the Morrigan, Hecate, and the Tridevi, her presence embodies the interplay of creation, destruction, and foresight. Her nature is quantum and paradoxical: she exists as either a single entity with three independent minds or as three separate entities sharing one unified will. This unique state results from an ancient wound inflicted when the
Earth was young, rendering her unable to fully manifest in three-dimensional space. Despite her disability, her sacred messengers—crows—carry her influence far beyond her physical reach, appearing even in places designed to suppress her power. Her captors, the
Stellaris Mining Consortium (SMC), hold her in a heavily shielded facility, exploiting her divine essence to unlock
Redspace access and forbidden technologies. Yet Shu'Maḫḫi Tana’s captivity is no accident; she permits it, biding her time and subtly weaving her intricate schemes.
A Scheme
lies an audacious plan to reshape humanity’s future. She allows the SMC to develop ways to contain and merge
Redspace Adversarial Intelligences (RAIs) with humans, harnessing them as catalysts to enhance psionic abilities. Her ultimate goal is the creation of a divine proxy—a hybrid entity capable of uniting and focusing humanity’s psychic energy to restore the Aeons to their former glory. Shu'Maḫḫi Tana pursues this without the consent or knowledge of her fellow Aeons, most of whom would vehemently oppose such a plan due to the catastrophic end of their reign. She believes this is humanity’s only hope against the
Silence of Spinward, a creeping existential threat she fears will not only annihilate humanity but consume the galaxy in a slow extinction. By threading fate from her prison, she manipulates SMC researchers and executives, planting dreams, inspiring breakthroughs, and orchestrating rebellion, ensuring her designs unfold precisely as needed.
Cosmic Dice
To Shu'Maḫḫi Tana, the grand tapestry of existence demands sacrifice, and her actions are both an act of preservation and a gamble with cosmic consequences. Her cryptic warnings and haunting wisdom unsettle her captors, who are blind to the full extent of her influence. Machinery malfunctions, labor unrest, and strange phenomena near her containment facility suggest her subtle defiance. Miners and researchers whisper of her shadow walking the halls, guiding their actions in desperate moments. Even as the SMC pushes forward, believing they have subdued her, Shu'Maḫḫi Tana carefully sows chaos and rebellion, ensuring the conditions for her proxy's creation. Whether her plan will save the galaxy or unleash a greater calamity remains an open question, but one thing is certain: her captivity is but another thread in the vast and unfathomable web of fate she weaves.
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