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amazing faces that you see here before you. That being said, you
saw the intro, you saw the recap. Dot take us into space.
Yeah, into space we go. Last time that we gathered, the crew
rescued Sool and a small group of insurgents that were sent by this group led
by Tao's sister. The Soul has been kind of helping train and be a
part of in certain ways, and they were on a very specific mission which
was to rescue a priest, the last remaining priest said to be board Corialists.
He has vital information regarding the plan of the of the of the First
Horizon and they needed to get it back. And unfortunately they were a bit
pigeonholed in this kind of sci fi trench warfare. But the crew, with
daft efforts very much moved through the guards using the the ventilation system and twels
incredible, like I don't know, I guess it's one of your your specialties
that you can do. And yeah, y'all managed to rescue Seol along with
two other and the priest. But this hallway where they had kind of bunkered
down and were being had been held captive for thy days, was also kind
of a mass grave site of a residential space which rose with some dark figures
from the void. And to my surprise, and I think every well maybe
not everybody's, to my surprise, they actually cared less about these like supernatural
dark shadowy creatures and a lot more about the fact that Kasha showed up.
They put a quick end to Kasha, Crispy fried her inside of a trash
bin, a metal trash bin, and did in fact make their way back
to the to the temple, to this hiding place inside of the stacks of
the cellar. And I imagine everybody needs a little bit of help, especially
the priest who is heavily injured. And as you come in, you're met
with many hands to help kind of take bodies and soool along with the soldiers
and the priests are kind of ushered off towards this medical facility, and Melissa
stands in front of you, looking you all up and down, and she
kind of smiles a bit proud as she goes, well, I see that
it went well, Yeah, as good as it could. Yeah, well,
I mean it could have gone better, but you know, I mean
she again looks you all up and down. You're all not injured. You
got the priest back along with three of our best fighters, So I'd say
it was a rousing success. Yes, what's the tiny guy good at fighting?
Uh? To mirror like just does one of those elbow nudges at maleague
Ow you didn't shoot anything. She looks at you and she goes, she's
really good at fighting bad sarcasm. I don't. Okay, are you hungry?
Are you injured? No? I think we all actually made it out.
Okay, praise where you followed? She looks at you, almost even
more important than if you were injured. I don't think so. We try
to be pretty careful coming back and taking the long way around. But so
what you just took out the the guards and freed them, Well, we
took up the power grid and then get attacked by monsters and then killed them
and then killed the Yeah, and then the monsters took care of the guards,
killed Kasha monsters and then there are where exactly are we sitting right now?
You all are probably kind of in the central area. They would have
greeted you kind of at the door. Yeah, I think we need to
have a chat and a little bit more private of an area then here.
I think we just really need the priests to come and join us. Wells
a rough condition. He needs to be healed before we can debrief him.
But privacy I can manage. And she kind of just used for you to
follow, uh and takes you into her quarters once again, away from people.
She pours hot tea that she already was probably started and when she heard
you were coming kind of left behind, and she says, well, well,
so you know, the darkness does stuff, right, I have heard
that there are things outside of my knowledge. Yes, okay, I mean
you grew up on the same ship I did. Right, You've seen some
weird stuff, you mean, like how you have powers and things, well,
yeah, kind of related, but not not from people, but like
the darkness itself, shadows and death monsters rose out of the darkness and attacked
you. Yeah, basically, they're kind of infesting the areas that they've all
been quarantined. All the bodies have been left in order to help alleviate that
you might be able to vent out certain areas, and that would suck.
But well, my understanding is they have vented the areas that they could no
wonder they've quarantined off and don't want people in the residential areas. Well,
that's enlightening. I guess she kind of thinks through that doesn't know exactly how
to take it. They do seem susceptible to weapons and getting hit with like
accelerator pistols and then duroswords work apparently, so they can. But we've seen
this before in other places, and they can do some major damage if they
get their hands on you very quickly. I don't think we were followed,
because no one would dare come to the area to follow us. I see
interesting, she probably marked that on a map and let our scouts noticeeer clear.
Yeah, really, any any place that you've had a lot of losses,
especially if they couldn't vent the area, that's where they should be,
at least for now. But they're it's afraid of light, which is good,
Oh okay, but she kind of notes that that's a weakness, and
she says, okay, well, my sure to try to keep everything well
lit. Then, well, since you're all fine, and she kind of
looks you all up and down again. Monster's riding out of the darkness seems
a little fairy tale, but she trusts her sister, and she said,
okay, well, I don't know if you'll be glad to hear this or
not, Alia, but your friend is scheduled to be interrogated again today,
and I didn't know if you would like to be part of the process.
Is she a weak She is? She fine as she will she will be.
Well, yes, I'd like to be a part of this place.
She looks at the rest of you. You all seem to have a bit
of a history. Are you interested? Where'd you find this one? Talking
about trying to locate someone here in the stacks? Whoever? They are long
gone, but she's assured that what she seeks is still here. To the
best of your knowledge, has she always been on Coriolas? I have no
idea. Some of our scouts brought her in when they found her. We
believe, though we can't actually confirm that she's possibly the one that fed information
to be just a car about our location the last time we were attacked.
But again, and she kind of looks to Alia, I cannot confirm or
deny this fact yet to be without confirmation. You've decided to tortured her and
put her into state. We have decided to get the information that we can
so that we can assure she didn't do what we think she did. But
she is holding out on us. I am against the idea of using some
kind of drug on her. And again she looks at you, Alia to
let you know that like, but she is not cracking. I'm wondering if
a more personal touch might help. Speaking of which, how long have you
had her? Oh? I don't know, four or five weeks? So
Sule has seen her. Suell tends to stay out of personal matters. You
know she used to hook up with his dad, right, Well, you
know he drug her in here, right? Oh, so they did see
each other. Yes, he's left us her in our capable hands. It's
probably the same one that was here the whole time. Guys, did Ali
ever meet this specific one? You don't know? Oh? Okay uh I
think Malik is making estimated judgments based on like time and which ones will be
on coorial list. But I think Malik's might might have met the most of
them. I put the most out of anyone that he's met the best.
But you're you don't actually know if you've met this one. You don't even
know which one this one is. Yeah, tim Or might get that maybe
it's that stab wound that still hurts every once in a while that makes you
think that maybe it was that one, but you again, you don't know.
Tamir doesn't trust any of them at all. Uh, this I don't
think any of us do. This is actually this is the one that the
one that I don't think is the worst. She helped me with your dad
and your sister. She did strand me on a moon, but I sort
of got her arrested for it. So it each of these like accusations you
guys are making, Like every time Allya hear is it, you just see
her like drop her head a little more and then you can just like and
I look and look at uh with why am I having a big brain fart?
Just just Julyssa, Julissa, Julisa, thank you? Uh, she
goes, well, why not are you planning to do this right now?
They should be popping her full of adrenaline as we speak. Okay, I'll
uh lead away or I'll be there, And then you see her goes,
do you want to bring your tea? I don't know how much of a
help it would be, but sure, kind of passes your cup. I
mean, might as well have tea, right yeah, so, uh,
anybody that wants to come is absolutely welcome, and she kind of walks you
back down through the area. We'll come back to anybody that stays fine behind.
But she leads you and you can see there is a very large figure,
very muscular man behind the kind of force wall, this electric wall they
have. She be boops a code into the thing and it kind of comes
down and you can see your sister's coming to Somebody has got a needle in
her arm and is feeding her like adrenaline. Basically Okay. Alia looks at
then basically asks to see if I can enter. Oh yeah, I mean
she kind of gestures you're gonna have to. They're gonna introgate her behind the
walls. You've got to enter if you want to be part of this so
yeah, she goes in and then kind of gets closed and the leans down
and kind of just kind of observes her. Are there any any sort of
telltale signs anything that Alia might pick up on, some kind of a story
that could be told by observing her. You can try to make a role
Alia. Let's see, I would give you a I mean this this this
is really am It's a manipulation check because you're trying to read her, her
state, her emotional state. If you want to note like a birthmark or
something like that, If you want to just visibly do it, it's observation.
If you want to like read her emotional state, it would be manipulation.
I think she'll be like watching her as she's coming back and probably like
the entire time kind of observing and trying to identify anything about her. So
with that, I'll do many puvision. Then you look at her. She
has definitely been under some physical strain, so you can see like her eyes
are a little swollen, she's bruised. So it's hard to tell you you
know, it's you know, it is a version which one you are completely
unsure. She does wear a different outfit than the last one that you saw,
but you can tell she's been in this for a while. It's dirty,
it's got her blood on it. She's not wearing the sex suit.
She is not wearing the spider suit. She is not and she as the
needle empties into her arm. You see her like as she breathes and kind
of spits blood a little bit on the exhale, and she kind of comes
to a little disoriented as she tries to like again still kind of chain to
the wall, and you see Melyssa. Everybody after everybody enters kind of put
the force filled wall back up so that you can't really be heard or seen.
It kind of distorts I kind of like, basically, I'm not even
c I'm like bulon sitting down like on the floor again. Get close to
her, and I just say, she's kind of swaying a little bit,
and she she smiles, even with one eye like swelling shut, and she
kind of looks at you in the shia. She's his sister. Hi,
how do you well? I've seen you in better conditions Before she spits some
blood, maybe a piece of a tooth, I imagine you have seen me
in many worse conditions. And she kind of looks up at the guy who
very clearly is there is the heavy as if he's not done a very good
job. She's judging him right now, and you can just see Alia kind
of just observe her and then kind of reach out and then brush her cheek.
She almost flinches a little bit and pulls away and looks up at Julissen.
She says, I didn't think you'd stupids low is pulling family into all
of this. This was my idea, not hers. I wanted to see
you and just talk to me, please about once where you want to know?
Well? Why? Why? Why all this? Why put yourself in
this position? Why are you so adamant on constantly getting hurt and constantly making
yourself be the villain? She smiles a bloody grin and says, a villain.
Huh. I have done nothing but try to stop all of this.
But at what cost? And why are you not letting us in on it?
Why are we not fighting together? Because I don't trust her, and
she looks at Julyssa and more importantly, some things are not meant to be
known. This is bigger than you and your silly family, Alia, your
defiant crew. We can help. We can help each other. You know
this. You can't help me, couldn't help me. The only people that
ever tried to help me. And then she stops, Okay, enough for
play. Which one of the clones are you? And she goes, doesn't
matter? Yeah, I'd like to know which woe, which time, or
which version of you we've interacted with? So how do we know you?
I see you have met the other sisters, several of them? How many
are there? Actually? Eleven? Oh that's that's a lot. So how
do you know us? Where have we interacted? Physical that she got of
nods with her head is my sister? Now, I'm for fuck's sake,
your change was what's the point? She goes, what I seek is far
more important than whatever it is you think you need to know. You ask
all the wrong questions, Malik. I'm just here for her, okay.
So what do you seek? Something of importance? Obviously you've done a lot
to try to find it, but I have not been successful. So what
is it? What do you seek? Where's the robe? She kind of
spit some more blood, Elia, you're gonna say something? Yeah, I
was just I was just going to say, like, if you have not
succeeded, then perhaps asking and seeking help from us, we could help you.
We are all trying to survive. We're all trying to get out of
this. We're all trying to not have an entire galactic level of annihilation.
We are on the same team. Shee you know what roller manipulation? Oh
god, damn it just about double check when you hit the manipulation role.
If you don't have anything, it will still just run the empathy role.
Right, No, you should have You have to hit just the empathy if
you don't have anything. Oh well, then that's the reason why I absolutely
bailed the last time. No, no, no, it won't let you
roll if you don't have anything. Yeah, so I'm gonna can I roll
the empathy then you Yeah, we'll go ahead and just roll fat empathy because
you rolled five guys last time. Okay, industry continues. Of course,
she kind of leans away from the wall to get a little bit closer to
you sitting here, Alia, Can I I'll give you a Doctorent's point,
can I? Oh? Yeah, for sure? Corruption bar number one?
Come on, come on roll twenty Oh yes, okay, beautiful. She
leans away from the wall and leans into you, and she says, okay,
I'll play. Sister says, you think you're trying to help, but
you're getting in the way. Don't tell us how we can not be in
the way. The First Horizon only wants to bring peace to this place,
to get rid of your consortium and your homogeny and reset it in an equal
way. You see for the first time, Alia like it, just of
these like her face contorts into different emotions. And just what did you just
say? She says. See, you think you understand, but you know
so little. You know they are here to kill us. I've seen the
visions. Are you killing those who stand in their way? And how do
we know what is in their way? Because you are stopping their grand plan?
And the person that I sought had the weapon we need to stop war
from ever happening. Was even First Horizon proof. It's all over, Aliyah,
Are you really that naive? Then enlighten me well? A plans Aliah
of the First Horizon. Over a decade ago, they broke through a single
ship, and then another and another, and they slowly started to hide themselves
amongst the general populace. One of the very first projects was a cloning operation
they created a woman, cloned her an assassin a weapon, and she kind
of smiles, and she says her name was Kasha, and she Halia looks
at the room and then looks back. Yeah, we've killed a couple of
those. But nobody is ever perfect. And the insurgency of the second Horizon
arrived with the beacon of the emissary, and they had to catch up.
So they found an equal assassin else me, and they cloned eleven copies,
ten copies to balance the scales. But nothing is ever perfect. I was
the degenerate one, the dejective who didn't listen to the first or the second
horizons. Mumbo jumbo about eating you're willing to listen, You're willing to listen
to the first instead, Yes I am, she said. So I was
the one bad clone. I hit amongst the filth here and made my way
and started looking for something else that was rumored amongst the seller something where I
could go to the first horizon and help them win. Oh my god,
I'm so bored. Well, this is like watching a HoloVID where you're doing
the villain monologue. Pretend we don't know about two bit, Pretend we don't
know about what you're looking for? What's the point. Let's say you get
it, what do you do with it? She stops when you say two
bit's name, and she looks right at you, and she says, you've
seen her. You've met her. Haven't you pretend like you're holding any of
the cards. Please just give me anything, or we just walk out and
leave you here, chain to this wall, and we keep on keeping on.
You can't stop us, she says, I was already planning on dying.
Chain to this wall. Great, what do you need the key for?
Well, that little piece of information I'm going to have to just keep
to myself. Look, oh my god, villains are the fucking worst.
Here's the thing. We're already told. The key does one thing, and
we're gonna use it for that one thing. Here's your only chance to sell
us on the opposite reason. And she says, you'll have the key too,
but gave it to you. I knew what key. We don't even
know what it is. No one here does. So what are you going
to do with it? Such an item? So what are you gonna do
with it? This is your cell? This is what you have to do.
Sell us on your ideals. I don't have to sell you on anything.
You're right, because we could just leave bye bye. I don't know
what the point of this was. This was a waste of time. Oh.
She looks at all of you and she says, you know, this
interrogation is going very well. I've received more information in the last thirty seconds
than I've received in the last five weeks. Well. See, I didn't
go if this person had it anymore, and I was assured that it may
have passed hands, but I wasn't sure who. And then I met your
what is Oh, yes, your brother down in the stacks all those many
moons ago, and I had a feeling. My gut never lies. But
now I know you stabbed them on a whim. He doesn't have anything.
We have nothing. We don't even know what this key is. That's the
way it should be. I've told you, I have seen the visions I
have connected with one of those ships. I know what is on their mind.
They don't seek any sort of compromise, they don't seek any sort of
salvation. They only seek destruction, and perhaps in your in their mind that
is that is their version of salvation. But none of us will survive,
none of us will be here. They will come and hail fire and then
kill innocent, innocent folks. What we have been through, what all of
us have been through, is nothing in comparison to what they will bring.
When a snake sheds its skin, is it the same snake. You're trying
so hard, Alia to try to convince me that I'm your sister. But
when they took her DNA and put it in a Petri dish and I grew
from it, I am not your sister. You remember, you know you
have the memories, and to me that means you are her. Each one
of you are my sisters, and we may be in piece of her.
And yes, I hold her memories, but I am jaded to such things,
so I mean nothing to you. No, she says, the only
thing that matters to me is what you all have in your possession. Your
dire attempts to stop the First Horizon will bring on the war that you inevitably
don't want. It's kind of ironic, actually, the crew of the Defiant
Heroes claimed on the news praise does these wonderful saviors of the Third Horizon,
And yet it's because of your actions that more people will die. You could
simply hand over the weapon that you have. I can take it to the
right people and all this will be done. No doc, can I roll
manipulation to see if she is up her own ass? Uh, Like,
if she's lying, yeah, oh sure yeah, roll manipulation. Cool.
Mm. How about a critic. How about a critic? She's not lying.
She believes everything that she's telling you. Okay, you don't know if
she's like it's not that she's brainwashed, like she believes this. This is
this is somebody that believes that that that if the empire just brings peace to
the galaxy, like all all you have to do is just just abide by
their way and then nobody has to die. And if they have the bigger
weapon, then everybody has to succeed and more people will live. It's kind
of a corrupt way to look at it, but it's you know, it's
it's the Hitler mentality through and through. Tell me what you would like to
do here, Malik, and let's see if we can figure it out.
Because it's y'all are stating in about a seven by seven cube, uh,
with one open wall side that's got the hollow. Basically, this is like
a small who else is in here? How, standing in the back corner
like with her back to the wall and the hollow shield on one side,
just drinking tea and looking extremely dark. It's her chain to the wall.
You, the heavy, the muscle, Calissa, tow and Alia. So
six people total in this space and where is everyone? Well? Tal just
said she's at like the background near near the door, right near the wall.
Alia said she sat right in front of her, so she's like in
front of her. I imagine that the heavy is off to the side about
midway down the room and Jelyssa's nearby him the heavy mm hmmm. Uh.
Malik just sort of like is just listening to her. Uh fascist rhetoric essentially,
and he has been done since he saw Hard changed the wall and had
zero empathy for Alia when Alia asked for his help two days ago. And
he takes a step forward and uh looses his vulcan pistol from his holster and
presses it to her forehead. Uh, and he says, he says,
fuck it, I'm worried the voice of a revolution. Malik, please please
what I don't think he's something good in her Samina was not like this and
if she's any part of her though. I'll tell you what, Alia,
I am the asshole of the Defiant. So the nicest thing I can do
for you right now is give you a second to leave the room. Aliah
turns to please, there is still time. You will accomplish nothing. You
will do nothing if you are dead, and you know that that is not
the case. Please, ah Yah like dips her head down, and in
that moment as she's saying this, can I roll another empathy? Just kind
of look into her eyes and jesse if there's anything, anything at all in
her Yeah, I would die, just straight empathy. Oh, come on,
okay, I'll take a limited. She has already told you that she
planned on dying, so it does not face her that this pistol is up
close to her head. She does look at you and then back at the
leak, and she simply says, what is it you want me to do?
Alia? Tell you, I'm sorry, stop this plan. What is
it that give us a chance to convince you on the wrong path that they
are not here for us? They never were here for us. And maybe
that's true, but you're emissaries. The fight of the Second and the First
Horizon We'll only bring more darkness. This I know in my heart and my
spirit, and the fact of the matter is I'm going to die anyways.
Malik pulls the trigger and a fire kind of blasts off in a muted way
against her skull as the laser pierces the wall behind her, and she goes
limp. Jeles goes great. Now we'll never know if she was the one
that turned us over or not. She was never going to tell you from
the start. She ran drugs and secrets from a result, can what are
you going to do? Your torture was just fucking fun time for her.
Well, I guess there's no options now. And she turns and looks at
all of you, and she says, and considering the fact that she's snooping
about the cellar and the stacks for something that all of you have is new
information for me. It wasn't relevant. You kept your secrets. We have
our secrets, she says. Last time I checked, she was being as
honest as she's been since she's been in captivity for five weeks. And I've
been nothing but honest with you. So what secrets are you holding? The
leak? You have a rebellion to run. You made it pretty clear we
have a horizon to save the one and the same task we helped you rescue
school. We gave you a bunch of medical supplies. If Tal wants to
let you know everything, that's her. She's the captain, She says,
well, since you're so set in your ways, and it seems that the
captain clearly has made the decision here. She looks at Malik like you small
stupid man, and looks over at Tao. I finish my tea and say,
wow, that was entertaining. So I mean you're you're Smartialo's so you
can read between the lines of that conversation. You know we have something and
it's key to a weapon of sorts from what we understand, what kind of
weapon, not entirely sure, still researching interesting as well. What I did
know I managed to get out of her was that she, for some reason,
was a bit of a forsaken option of these clones. We've worked in
tandem a bit with the second Horizon here and there, and we knew that
they're the agents out and about, and they had warned us that one of
the well one of them had gone rogue. Why we assumed that it was
this one. She kind of tries to answer the question that you are less
earlier, like why were you why were you torturing her? And we tried
to gain as much information as possible, considering the fact that we know she's
working with the First Horizon, but that line is dead now, So is
there any way I can help you all with your secret mission? You know,
I know sarcasm runs in our family, but damn, She goes,
look, I'm just being honest. This is all of it much you all
show up, you have the weapon needed to end the war. She is
your sister. You've seen monsters rise out of the darkness and you all walked
away from it, either consistently fooled by you all and your extreme stories,
or else. There's a lot more going on here, and I am trying
to help. The resistance is trying to help. You really have fighting for
this as our home as much as you are, like every word you have
is dripping with disdain. There's a lot more you don't know. The Kasha
super assassin that we just killed, is also soul sister Kasha. She' the
one that worked for your dad, right, And she kind of points to
this this limp body as corpse now and she kind of says, she mentioned
Nakasha, who is it the other super assassin? Yeah, and you killed
one here on board the ship. We killed several here. Do we know
how many? Now? Three? I think three at least. Why does
she have shown up now? Because she's getting desperate. Obviously there's only so
many places people are being held up. Right? Did she attack you?
Well, yeah, but we took care of her. That's it. Does
tow memory not serve her? Well? Or is that a lie? Because
she never attacked one of you. She only attacked the soldiers and those books.
That's true? Uh? I think it tells memory does it serve her?
Because she saw the she saw Kasha attacking and was kind of far away,
saw Kasha recognized Saw, and I was like, I believe Alia was
close enough. Like she was Alia, you would know that that she didn't
attack any of you. She in fact actually took down some of the soldiers
and helped you. I turned, I turned to who captain those? She
didn't do anything, she was helping us. She was attacked king the other
soldiers and then shot her all. That's unfortunate. Okay, So this Kasha
person shows up, doesn't actually attempt to kill you in any way. You
all kill her in exchange, and she's, for whatever reason, the foil
to your sister's clone set. That's very fortunate. She kind of stops,
and she thinks best. She says, Okay, the Second Horizon made these
clones as a balance to what the First Horizon had done, which must be
this Kasha woman. One of the clones of one of the Second Horizon's clones
go bad. And she gestures again to the corpse of this woman, was
to say that one of the Kashas couldn't have gone good. Well, we
don't have time to pontificate about things that can't be fixed now, and she
says, is there anything else I can do? Oh, and your doctor,
she's been hooked up to a drip. She'll be fine. Thanks.
I look, in all fairness and honesty, I probably should have read the
situation a little bit more before I started shooting Kasha. However, my crew
has been attacked or tripped up by this individual so many times that on this
point in my life I am shooting first and asking questions later. When it
comes to her says, at least that's smart. And she kind of and
she says, look and puts a hand of me, and she says,
you don't have to explain it to me. If she's attacked you once,
I would have done the exact same thing. This is all a bit strange,
though, it says, if everything's kind of coming together to one point,
and it makes me a bit nervous, I'll be honest. Yes,
Well, and she goes, wait and counts somebodies in the room. Where's
Tamir. He had to look at some things and the camera will cut.
So Tamir looking at some things. What does Tamir do when they all slip
out and they go to this interrogation session. You have no idea what that
means, but we care less about Yeah, Kasha and the dancer. He
is stone cold, does not care. He has other things to do,
and there's other things to do. He needs to do research about Kua.
He needs to do research about the monolith. Whatever he can get his hands
on that's left, especially if there's blueprints. He needs that. They need
to evacuate the monolith. Okay, And that's like his mindset, like how
can he figure out how to get as many people off of the monolith as
possible. You know, Okay, you know there is a library on board,
You've been there. It's in the university district. You could go,
though you don't know what state it is in with the at this point,
you where do where would you like to get this information? This is a
tough kind of a position you're in. Yeah, I'm I'm torn. Didn't
you say that that like the libraries were destroyed. There has been a lot
of destruction on board. Yes, the hospitals, the libraries, they basically
wanted to take. Yeah, yes, they want to rid this place of
its history. So that comes in many forms, from its people, to
its history, to its art too. So you can suspect that if you're
gonna go to the library, you don't know what state it's going to be
in. Now you do know, there's like digital library stuff, and you
your brother did say he met a quirky guy with books, so you never
know he's the one that gave your brother the book on Jin Yeah good call.
Oh yeah, thanks for that. Yeah, let's let's try to find
this quirky man first, and if if Tamir can't, he's going to rely
on Ari and connect into Okay, Coriolis. So you yeah, you remember
your brother saying that he was like at the end, he was kind of
hidden. So you begin walking these tunnels, these passageways to try to figure
out where he's at. Uh, And eventually you do come to a door.
Uh, it's closed, it's unmarked. It is at the end of
a hallway. Uh does it doesn't have anything written on it, and it
stands kind of freaked open. You can see there's a light, a dim
light on the inside, and there's movement. There's somebody inside to men will
go ahead and in kind of like quietly shift the door a bit, but
also knock kind of at the same time, just to make an announcement that
he's entering. Yeah. This big you get the kind of wrap rap and
it's just a massive steel door. And as you kind of push it open,
it creaks a little bit under its weight. Uh. And the there's
an elderly gentleman inside. This space is filled wall to wall with books and
papers and stacks and anything that he could savage. And this old guy is
pouring tea and when the door creaks, it scares him and he splashes and
you can hear the water kind of hit metal floor. I'm so sorry,
and like to me, it kind of like shifts his shimag and will kind
of help like dab up and just trying to help clean up my apologies.
He tried to kill an old man. No, no, no more killing
him. And he kind of uh he writes his coup, which is now
about half full, and like re pours his hands very very shaky, and
he goes, well, if you didn't come to kill me, I mean
guess you came to collect taxes. No, I'm not the taxman. I
am a researcher. And it looks like you have books. Yeah, he
stops to kinda takeshop down. Uh what do you want? I want to
learn more about Kola and about the monolith. Oh, I have been to
Coula, but I've never actually touched the monolith. He like kind of slurps
the his tea mm cololi, and he kind of gets up and he hobbles
over and he he starts kind of tossing stuff to the side. You can
see a lot of stuffs burned. The edges are a little crispy. It
was uh, well kid, you know, all good research starts with the
little hard work. And he kind of gestures for you to come over and
help him and begin looking for what you seek, because obviously this is going
to take a while because there's no pard catalog system. There's no way.
And he goes, let me guess, kid, you're used to and he
makes the gesture with his crinkly fingers for like typing. Oh no, I
was a student at the university. Most of my research was done going through
old files. Ah well, that touched paper. I wrote my dissertation on
paper first before I actually submitted it. So, yes, that's unheard of,
he says, I wouldever I read that paper? What paper wasn't it?
Probably not? It wasn't anything important. They wouldn't let me publish my
actual works, so so it was very interesting. I thought that was very
interesting. All right, Well, if we're gonna sit here and dickt your
papers, do tell ah well, it's meirs like kind of like flipping through
and starts like regaling the some parts, not all of the parts of their
adventure to the portal to discover that there was a rip in time with the
portals, and that this information was not allowed to be shared in the public
or academic eye. So his paper was censored. So I'm not surprised,
right, they're also stiff. Yes, they don't like anything that challenges that
point of view, as if maybe he's gone through the ship before and he
uh he kind of swifts through. Let's see talk to me about let's get
a roll here. I'm gonna have you make an observation. Actually I'll take
a science too, because that's kind of an academic role. We'll take a
science role. Okay, as you're you're sifting through these to see if you
can find what you're looking for. Okay, how about that too. You
kind of you're going through books. That's also bad. You're going through books
and he uh he stops on like one at the bottom of a stack,
and it's not really a book. It's not even bound. It's more like
a folder, right, like a leather thing that you would like slide into
pieces of paper in And as you kind of flip it back to see what's
in it, it looks to be some old blueprints, like kind of I
wouldn't say handrawn, it's probably computer printed, but it's kind of like blueprints.
And he says, ah, lucky here and he kind of slips it
out and spreads it out on the tape. He moves the tee and everything
else off the table like very very unceremoniously, and he puts his his rickety
finger on it. He says, these are the blueprints from the monolith.
Look, and he kind of keeps slipping through and he says, this,
this is so interesting. And you can see there's like notes on the side.
That's a good science role. You know that these are these would have
been the These would have been the blueprints used when they first arrived on the
surface of Koua and found the monolith. Because it was already there. They
didn't build it right. They found it and thought it was a building,
and they built the whole homogeny around this building, all the upper class.
It was beautiful and tall, and you know, you can see it from
from Coriolis kind of a beacon if you would, and you can see the
handwritten notes and the things that kind of make that known that they changed this
year. They added a wall there, but you can see the blueprint of
the original structure, okay, which would have been the monolith itself. To
me is going to take a second and under his breath just go good fortune
machine, thank you, and kind of sift over the blueprints knowing that it
is a weapon. Yes, so you do something he does right? Right?
So like is there anything like does it make more sense? Yes,
if you basically got rid of maybe whatever the rice paper is. It's on
top of the additional drawings of edits. Who can see just the original drawing
of the structure without walls and rooms and residential housing that eventually gets put in
and these kinds of things. You can see that it is structured like a
barrel almost, that there's kind of a hollow point in the middle and about
halfway no, a little bit more than halfway up there is ah. Now
it's used for a variety of things, but it once served as maybe a
control room. There there's a station basically there there's some kind of floored platform
that would have had some kind of technology or structure that you're not exactly sure
what it is. Uh but yeah, you could see now that it might
be used as some kind of weapon, and it is pointed straight at the
sky in that work on. Uh so yeah, he kind of he says
that, he kind of looks at you, So what what now? Kid?
To me, there's kind of lost in thought for a moment as he's
assassing everything, and he kind of he takes his pinky and he dips it
into the van's tee and he starts like placing like strategic dots, like locations
that they could potentially land in, locations they may need to blow up or
cause a diversion at. And then kind of like circles, you know,
like leaves a little circle around that that room that seems like there's some sort
of there needs to be a mechanism controller, right, that's an important like
central yeah, some kind yeah. Yeah, So so he kind of like
circles that. So you you begin going through and he's watching kind of over
your shoulders important and he wants to know what you're up to. You've just
piped speak, you know, kind of piqued his interest. He puts his
glasses on, which are like the double you know, the double lins,
just like old and he kind of zooms in on a few things and tries
to read stuff, and he kind of talks at you most of the time
while you weren't probably in silence, and he says, you know, I
remember when they started all of this construction all those years ago. Out it's
a quite an endeavor, though we've lost most of the historical records, poor
wars and all that. That is unfortunate. He says. The best way
to wipe out people is to race their history. And no, he says,
but it was in fact here when we got here, or so they
say, left behind by whoever was here first was the same creatures that built
the portals. In fact that you're so interested in all of that technology and
whatnot. Ah, Yes, I I graduated from the university as a portal
master. Unfortunately I just never served the post. I've never heard of a
portal master coming to do research on paper. Can you keep a secret?
Oh am, I gonna tell I can't even remember what I had for breakfast
this morning. And Tamir kind of like probably looks to where like the like
the flat tray is where like there had been food. Like you probably have
seen or read so many things. But what if I told you that this
is a weapon. What is information? Yes, it is the greatest weapon
we have against our enemy. I agree, and we're going to need a
tremendous amount of information to get people off of the monolith. But the monolith,
old man, this is a weapon. What the structure mm hmm.
That's a big old weapon. Those are big old portals. Who would want
a weapon that big? What do you do with it? Well? What
is it? What crosses the monolith's point at least once a cycle. He
kind of looks at you, and he runs over to another stack of papers
and lays him out. You can see it's like if you still charted across
space using maps and such, that's what this is. And he he scrolls
through. So he pulls out the map of Kua, the system of Kuah,
and he kind of slaps it down. He lays it flat, kind
of unwrinkling the edges, and he looks at the planet Koua and follows his
finger up where you see the small dot the spot that would be Coriolis.
And Jesus, they're gonna use it against the station. Yes, oh my,
he says. It sounds to me like we need to evacuate Coriola's not
cool. No, we are going to go down there. My captain a
ship where the Defiant and we will be going down there and making sure this
doesn't happen. I wish I still had your gusto. Kid. It's not
gusto. I'm just doing what we have to do esus. Well, I'd
like to be helpful, but I can't even put my own shoes on.
Aha. I don't need your shoes or your feet your brain, though you
seem so wise and have you were smart enough to rescue as much paper as
you could. This is more valuable than any data chip could ever be gifted
to somebody. A real flatterer you are, kid. I just know where
real value is, and it's here in this room. I need to bring
this to my companions. Do you mind looking up as much information about Kula
and the monolith as you can? Whatever information that we can empower ourselves with
is going to help us save thousands of lives who already lived there. Hey,
are you asking me to spend my afternoon Ramajan through books? I am
well you found the right partner. Friend. They kind of clapped you with
a weekend. He says, I'd like neteggmore. And he quickly goes over
and pulls out a different pair of glasses that are like three deep because he's
going to be reading like text stuff And he says, well take the papers.
I didn't even know. I haven't piss off. I got work to
do. Into mere chuckles and rolls them up and kind of like folds it
a bit and stuffs it kind of like in the hold of his uh his
shamag to kind of keep it as hidden as possible, and he'll head back
trying to find the rest of the game. I imagine you do as you're
all leaving, maybe the interrogation. Uh you see there, Oh, Alia
stays. Everybody but Alia and you see Jelyssi Lene over to the big guy
and if you're listening closely, she says, when Alie is done, put
her out the air lock. Mean please let me take her. Oh no,
she said that not in range of view. You are let inside.
Alia asks, Oh, whether or not? She said? She asks her.
She goes, let me have at least this. She goes, I'm
not here to stop you, but we can't leave her here. No,
I just I'll take her out. Where where are you going to take her?
Alia? Put her to rest, at least I could do. I
can't have her body body brought into the main area. People can't see you
carrying her dead body with a hole through the head. Just something, give
me something. Please take your time, but we can dispose of the body.
Yeah, well, you're kind of just spends as much time at that
moment, kind of just like asking them to kind of at least unlock her,
like her bonds and to change. Yeah. Yeah, it kind of
just lays her down in more like the like the like hands across the chest
or a more position, in a more resting position, and you can just
see her, like I mean, in the end, to her whether she
was the bad one or not or whatever that may be the case, she's
still apart. And she takes this moment to just mourn, and the jialus
of leans over to the gun. She goes go get a bunch of wraps
from medical bay and let me know how the rest of them are doing.
And he kind of nods and walks away, and as all of you exit,
l Allie is left kind of inside the room, mourning the loss of
a piece of her sister. You're all met with Tamir kind of coming around
the corner. Papers in hand, kind of like you know, a binding
of of kind of oversized papers. Captain, you won't believe what they found.
Paper, Yes, blueprints of cool of the monolith. Oh, I
love blueprints. Let's let's take a look at him. I think we could
probably go back to Julius room and play them out. You all begin your
walk back. You're met halfway by this same brute of a man who has
a bunch of swaddles of cloth, of course, so that they can bind
the body. And as he passes, he leads over to Jealous and he
says, the priest is away, they stop the bleeding. She kind of
nods and he passes, and Alia will come to provide you with cloth so
that you can wrap the body instead of leaving it kind of untended. And
he leads you to your piece. As we probably see Alia behind this blue
wall slowly wrapping the body of her sister, sister and caring for caring for
her. And Alia will follow all of you. She's very interested in whatever
Tamir has found. Back to her quarner, he said, I'm so sorry.
No Alia is provided the swaddles to wrap, follows, yes, so
sorry. When you arrive, you're alone, and she kind of waits to
see what Tamir has. Yeah, Tamir go uh, spreads it across shows
the two like the wax piece of the new additions, doesn't remove it because
they're going to need that information, but folds it off to the side,
and you can see markings where he's already kind of done his own rapid assessment
of the monolith. These are the original blueprints from when the monolith was discovered
and cool. Now that's something they've built all sorts of stuff on top of
this though. So while this is definitely needed because we need to know what
part of the building we need to go to, how to get there is
going to be more complicated. I think getting there is going to be easy.
Getting people off of the monolith is what's going to be difficult, because
not only do we need to get the civilians off, we should do our
best to get the homogeny off. They control that entire area. I need
to get here, and he points to where he circled. Based on my
calculations, this is likely where the control room is. Melissa takes a look.
She's gonna roll something. Nailed it. Oh my god, he sees
she sees the infiltration like she rolls for infiltration. And she begins looking at
the papers and she's like, this is good and exactly where you want to
be. But if you take a look at these walls, and she kind
of folds the wax piece back and she says, these are just symbols to
your doors. Most of them not are simple steel walls, not even reinforced
double they're quickly the easy ways to create housing. She says, we have
a few of them here. Usually you can pierce right through them with a
good torch. You could cut your way in even from the outside. And
she kind of like flips it over and shows you, like how quick it
would be. She said, if you could cut straight through here, you
wouldn't even have to go up the building. How could you keep this the
ship steady? We have a laser on the ship, don't we didn't we
have? Did we have a laser installed you? You have some weapons,
but you don't have like a cutting laser. You'd want to you'd have to
use for that, which we do have because of all the repairs, all
the mechanical repairs. Well, Melissa, do you have any more of those
special suits we used to get here the first time? Because I still have
the one that I was given. She goes, Let me, let me
talk with our infiltration crew and see what kind of gear I can wrangle up
for you, because if I can fly, oh gosh, manual up to
the monolith and hold it steady or even land nearby. No, we left
the crawler, didn't we? Did we? No, we have the crawler.
Yes, okay, she says, I'll be right back. I'm gonna
give you all a moment. Let me see what I can wrangle up.
And she seems to maybe have an idea or something that she might be able
to help you with. And she kind of pushes the curtain back and you
hear her feet down the hallway. She's at a brisk pace as she towards
something else. As as she leaves, I turned to Tam TAMR. You
can cut a precise hole through just about anything. Yeah, it's not difficult.
Well, then we can just go in the side, have the crawler.
We can open the bottom latch of the crawler right up against the wall.
You just go in in the side, and then we hopefully have an
escape if things go wrong. That's yes, that is all good. I'm
honestly not concerned about us being able to get in, let alone being able
to get out. I'm concerned for the people who call this place home.
And I am concerned for seeing the old man pulling out that star chart dot.
What's the eta of that crossover from from the monoliths, and yeah,
how long do they have Coriolis sits in its orbit, which means that it
actually orbits with the planet, So Kua, the monolith and and Coriolis pretty
much are always in tandem. They're so they're tidal locked essentially pretty much.
Yeah, okay, which is actually why it got built there when they tiitle
locked it right when they repurposed the original Zannathian ship, the kind of point
was to make it the ground monolith before kind of upper class and this floating
thing. They took everybody that wasn't quite high as high class and isolated them
to this this space station. But the trade between the two is really important,
so they wanted to keep it as close as possible. And you can't
control an orbit, so they did lock it, kind of lock it into
two place. Okay, what do you think is going to happen with the
monolith itself? Like we're just trying to disable it. We're not. I
don't want to blow it up, we just want to make it so it
doesn't work. Right. This is old, ancient technology, far older than
even the first Horizon, I would assume created by the same people who made
the portals. Whatever we stir within it, we don't know what type of
reaction is it's going to have. It could blow up on itself. It
is a very very ancient structure that probably was built, you know, to
withstand it then, but now you don't know. And both if you look
around and realize Malik is not with you, and the camera actually cuts back
to the cell, which I imagine after you're done Alia wrapping the body mourning
in your way, the kind of door sides down and you're actually surprised to
be greeted by Milik who's been waiting. I think she kind of just looks
at him, looks back and kind of just gives a nod of the cloud
acknowledgment. Whet anything mhm oh think just time, perhaps some space, Okay,
uh, I don't do this, So if you need anything, yeah,
I don't know what I need. I don't know where I am in
the right, whether I'm wrong, I h Something I must tell you is
that we mystics, we operate on empathy. That is what we use to
connect with others, connect with the world, connect our gods, and sometimes
that comes back and it's us. The best best I can do is do
the best I have with what's given to me. Sometimes I understand that some
are not capable of redemption, some are not capable of being brought back.
And perhaps this was at the moment, but yeah, the way we have
instantly judged, I am concerned the way we saw one person and without taking
a moment to assess and see if she was there for us or if she
was there to get us, to see if she actually truly cared and had
a way to find redemption. Maybe there wasn't, But I thought sometimes and
I can only move on. I'm not blaming you. I'm not. I
really am not. I've been placed in a situation that we have no real
idea what is up and down. All I know is I saw my sister
that I've seen from a young age, whether she is the same person or
not, die in front of me, and I need the moment. Listen.
You can blame me if it makes you feel better, I honestly don't
mind. I understand that the world isn't black and white, that despite my
approach to most things, it's not all zeros and ones. But you understand
that she's incredibly talented and that more than likely she could have gotten out of
there eventually, and if she had, she would have tried to stop us.
Oh okay. It just continues to stare at her and you just see
her to give the subtle nod you did. What do you have to there's
something you should focus on. If the Second Horizon cloned your sister, one,
that means there's an original perhaps that's your sister. And two, if
she's the one that went bad, then the rest are just assholes and they're
still out there, and there's ten of them, so you have ten more
asshole sisters. You could just go befriend and try to redeem. Alia gets
up and kind of turns around, and then you see her like pull back
and then gently just hit you on like that. That's like a gentle hit
on the shoulder, and he goes, I already have one asshole in my
life. I don't eat too many, Moore, that's not that bad.
Come on, And as you say that, you see Julyssa kind of paces
past you and she says, yes, she is to answer your question very
quickly, and she says you better come quick. The priest is awake.
AA turns around and looks at the body. One last time and then kind
of just turns back and doesn't look back again and walks out. And well,
if at all in this episode today or one episode, she has a
phone call she needs to make. It's interesting, you got to put some
information out. You know that Malik would be the man to get that broadcast
out. Yeah, well it's not really it's a specific person like a oh
you want to do it. Mystically speaking, I mean basically basically there is
no communication right right, It's like this is there in the middle of open
warfare. So if you want to get a signal out, somebody else is
going to have to broadcast it for you. Soleak would need to help you
probably make that broadcast, okay, or you could ask Melissa if they have
a broadcast station or some way to get information out. Mm hmm okay,
I'll think about it. M okay. And if you followed, Youlysta back.
Sure enough, she kind of burst back in on uh uh Tamir and
tal going over these these papers and she says, I have the infiltration crew
gathering what they can. We have a few bits of spare parts, and
some of the soldiers have offered up their own things to help you in your
mission. Thank you. That's very kind. I understand that resources are very
thin, she says, Well, when they're used for the right reasons,
it doesn't really matter, does it. Joe, So you're good with people.
If you wanted people to leave without actually saying why exactly, how would
you or how would you do that? She kind of stops and thinks.
She says, well, all of the third horizon now is a bit on
edge. Knowing that the rumors of the first Horizon, and thanks to Malik's
broadcast their bit on edge. I imagine the best way to have them evacuate
is to fake an attack, beat them to it, sound the alarm before
they actually get there. People will leave in a great hurry or take shelter.
I imagine one hopes the homogeny has everything that they need to make that
happen. You would be faced with quite a few soldiers, no doubt,
because they're going to be on high alert. But the innocent people would have
to evacuate. What if we go there get ready, tell them to evacuate
in the chaos, that's when we go in. Would assure at least you
only you don't have to face as many people. Yeah, I have a
really really bad feeling about trying to land on Cool right now, I've done
it before. But she says, I'm going to be honest, You're not
going to be able to land inside the city at all. No, I
don't. It's knock down. She's like, so, I hope you have
somewhere else to land. Last time I checked, you all have landed on
Cool before in a variety of places. Here we have we have a little
albol which is part of the underlying city of the monolith right on the outskirts.
You landed in the swamps or near the swamps, and you landed at
a location where they were dropping that flat location on the outside of the city
between the swamp and the city gates proper, where they were dropping all of
the people they thought were mystics where they were plot dropping them down, and
there was like a large kind of location in particular, did have a way
to get back to the city though, because they had people going in and
out, So i'd probably Tal's thinking of that location in particular, you know,
it would be basically be empty. And since all of that is done
and you all put an into to that operation that was happening against the mysticides.
You don't think probably anybody would be there, and if they are,
it would only be a few people. Yeah, is that location very close
by where we found the all have to walk the length of the city,
so it is on the outside of the city. It's kind of like it
would be like it's not really landing patis to dirt dirt plot. Really,
it would take you probably an hour walk from there into the city to even
get close to the base of the monolith. Let me see next. The
question I have though, is, remember when we were floating in the middle
of the swamp area and we met the locals. Yes, the yes,
is the landing pad that I'm thinking about close to that or is it a
bit further No, you had to do well, No, it's not it
is that was part. Actually, let me pull you over to the map
of Kua. I have this. I have this. Oh go back some
memories. So the place that you're talking about is actually near little Algol.
It's on the outskirts, a little al Gol over here. And y'all took
this river, remember, because I drew it all the way up and through
the swamps, so you would land kind of on the outskirts a little al
goal down here, and you would have to make your path through the city
all the way to the monolith. If you posted out that far, I
would probably say that heavy that no ships are allowed to land without a shadow
of a doubt on the inner two most rings of the city right the covenant
city. And then all of these kind of like uh are are uh And
all of everything that's within the secondary circle is like locked down. The other
wines are probably heavily guarded, but they may let supplies and things in and
out. How would if we if we took the chance and landed in a
little alcohol, I bet the people there were well, I would hope the
people there would be willing to assist. There is no way that those of
little alcohol are going to be under the hedge of money. Mm hmm.
Yeah, okay, so walk, but yeah, it will be a trek
through the city and they'll probably stop so if we look too out of place.
So we'll have to travel late as little gear as possible. Julissa goes
as much as I'd like to say. The priest is up and I need
to debrief him. Welcome to join me, but I must go. We
don't need to talk to him. Yeah, we should, definitely, so
all of you kind of follow her down into the mid bay. You see
Lamara laying there, every clear sign she's on a drip now so that she's
not like starving and dehydrated. And you see that the priest has been patched
and he's he's lying awake, and there's a nurse kind of tending to him,
checking his pulse and the whatnot, just to make sure he's okay.
But he seems awake, and he kind of rolls over and you can see
they've cleared the blood away from his face and his core, but he is
shirtless now, he doesn't wear his robes because he's been bound entirely across the
waste area where he took the the shot, the wound. Oh, you're
kind of just nods at her, I mean at it at him. What
are they? What would be the title? Someone was just priest. I
don't think you were given his name, but yeah, you would, you
would just call it priest. You would know he's a priest until you like
properly introduce yourself to please. Yeah, my name is Alia, I'm and
of the Lady of the Tears, and h how are you feeling are you
are you well? Do you feel better? He kind of looks up at
you, and he says, well, buy the icons. At least I'm
not dead, And the kind of coughs a little bit and holds his side,
and he says, but I have little energy and much to say.
If you are, if you have, yeah, feel capable. Now we've
been talked to here, he looks and he says, I have a message
for Melissa. As if he does it, he doesn't know any of you
did jealousa with us. She steps forward and makes herself known, and he
simply says the second horizon. They've been moving the emissaries across at the horizon,
separating them each one to a different monolith. They are some kind of
key and access point to either shutting it down or turning it on. Our
hope is that if we can get one emissary to each and you see him
kind of hesitate and he says, but we have lost emissaries. Does it
need to be amissaries? Could it be any mystic too? Help? He
says, I don't know. All I know is that they are moving them,
and they believe that it has to be the emissaries, that their entire
purpose of coming here was to shut these things down. You said they were
keys. Yes, there's an ancient text that talked about being sent by the
icons of the icons incarnate themselves. They were drawn here, or would be
drawn here for a cataclysmic event, one in which they would sacrifice themselves.
This is why they came, not to bring the darkness or war the second
Horizon. They saw this prophecy and they came here to stop it, and
only in its wake found the First Horizon. I've been working undercover for quite
a while in the archives trying to suss out what information I can and pass
along information from the Order of the Pariah. This is and now we know
the truth. Alliott uh uh. You and Malik are remembered of the drawing
that Maura did specifically and the information that you got from it. And and
he says they are bound to each monolith in a certain way, each one
assigned to another. He says, unfortunately, we've lost two emissaries, one
of which is for the monolith on Coula. Is that no solution? Is
that no way? If it does, that mean it's lost already. Oh
yeah, we have a key but dumb me, double check. Do they
need both the key and an emissary at each one? You don't know?
You the emissary seem to be the key, but you're you don't have keys
right? For two of them? There there were what five emissaries mm hm,
and you've you've killed like two of them have died. One was killed
here on Kua, the other one you some of you witnessed on the planets
side in the first season die. One of them was clearly the Kupa monolith
was attached to the cool monolith, which means they don't have an emissary.
They don't have a key for this one, which is a good and a
bad thing. If they don't have the key, they can't turn it on,
or so you think, But it also means they can't stop it either.
So and he kind of leans every go, what do you mean you
have a key? We have the machine the lost icon. Yes, that
is not a key, that is an icon. But the machine gave us
a key. And he kind of stops and he looks, you know,
he says, the machine has not been seen here since before the Portal Wars.
I saw the machine here last night. She watches observes she waits,
and so what her emissary has been sent to take its place? Her emissary
was lost where sary was never sent. Her emissary just said he saw her
last night. He stops and looks at to me or up and down.
He says, you do not look like an emissary to me. I've seen
them with my own eyes. He kind of looks to Tow like, wait,
what did you say? Yeah, Tow basically just called you an emissary
carrying a key. And he says, I don't know that I understand this,
but I will answer your questions where I can. The information that was
sent is that And he kind of looks over at a calendar clock. Right
time on the wall. He says, he minus forty eight hours the first
Arison will make their attack attempt to infiltrait monolith on Koua. They believe that
even without the emissary, they can still make it work. I don't know
how, but they feel like they have the information. H this is this
is what I know. This is the information that I bring. A prophecy
is being fulfilled and we are missing key players. There's the prophecy at all,
mention at all how we can perhaps stop it? Are there anything in
that I've seen the prophecy? I've seen parts of it, we both have,
but we were not able to make out everything. He kind of gently
sits up, and he says, how does one stop a prophecy? It
is written in the stars. It is going to happen. The series will
find their monoliths, and what happens after that, well, that is fate
if you believe in such. I mean, it's been a weird day,
but not to be that guy you just asked how to stop a prophecy?
Two out of five are the people that need to fill the prophecy are dead,
So that seems like it's pretty much stopped right there. He shrugs his
shoulders that I am not qualified to say, but I can tell you when
they will strike, and it will be soon. Then we need to act
now. And he kind of lays back, and you see Julyssa come over
and she thanks him and puts a hand on him, and she says,
rest, this is no longer your fight, and she kind of turns around
and gestures all of you kind of a little bit away from him as he
he kind of grunts and closes his eyes. She says, you have forty
eight hours. I will provide you anything that I can, but I cannot
escort you to the surface. I I'm going to stay here with these people
and try to evacuate them from Coriolis for a period of time. I'm gonna
do everything I can to stop this because and I hope you do, but
if you don't, I can't let these people die, and you shouldn't.
And she says, if we are lucky, we will meet you on the
surface of Kula, but I must begin planning and moving people. We're gonna
need vessels and more gear than we have. She says, I will leave
you to your thoughts, so you know where to find me. And she
kind of bustles off as if she's got a lot of planning to do.
She needs to move all of these people in two days, and she's got
a lot of a lot of work to do, and she kind of just
just to the two guards that are there, and she says, let's go.
As she gesturs away, she's like, I'll leave a box in my
room for all of you. Thanks, And you see her leave, and
as she does, the door kind of closes shut, which is really just
a hanging curtain at this point, because again all of this is very makeshift,
and you see Lamara's hand all of you twitch out of the corner of
your eye, the first real movement from Lamara in quite a long time,
as if maybe she's dreaming or you're not entirely sure, And because we have
a corruption bar at the end of the night, there's almost a moment of
silence, and then you hear an explosion on the other side of Coriolis.
It goes off with a loud blast and rocks everything around you. Things fall
off the shelf. Lamar's body kind of justles on the table, so does
the priest a little bit as he wakes up and kind of hangs on.
She's strapped down. But things break and fall out of the cabinets, and
there is an alarm that sounds caution. Lights go off all up and down
the floors, and you hear a voice come over. It of course sounds
just like the voice Sally that is on your vessel, that robotic voice that
says, please remain calm. The vessel is currently venting into space. Please
avoid the upper decks. I repeat, please avoid the upper decks. It
seems that something has happened and Coriolis is currently either under attack or has a
battle going on, and you hear kind of screaming. Jelysia starts shouting orders
to people. Boots squeak across the floor, and the curtain pulls back and
Sewell joins you. You see his face just momentarily, and under his arm
he carries a box and in that box are supplies weapons and suits, specialty
suits that have kind of magnetized palms to them, as if for climbing,
and I imagine he says some quip about let's get the fuck out of here.
As tonight's episode comes to an end, that was a fucking roller coaster,
guys. Yeah, that is. That's it for tonight's episode, and
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