TL;DR: Great updates! Thanks, Leon!!!
the third Law was one that I did not know but called to me nonetheless. It was a ring of golden light with letters in a language I did not know, but it was resolute in nature and thus I took it for the coming process, and the final was a Law of Fire.
I will admit, I read this and immediately thought "The One Ring to Rule Them All."
My paranoia didn't subside until I read the sigil shifting to a scroll, a ways later.
I could hear the xeno preparing a medical room, even from here and I knew that if I looked within I would see a scene horrible in its innocence. What did it mean when an enemy of man was more human than humans?
Ouch.
"Horrible in its innocence. More human than humans."
Very well described.
power was deeply in me hands
Typo: me->my
I would, if it was in the past where hope yet remained, I would have slain the xeno without a second thought, but now in this era where hope is dead and gone and all that remains is night, they can do little worse than let her live another day.
Osiris wields his despair as his shield.
Again: ouch.
as I enter the skittering of legs gave a faint moment of glee as the massive xeno scurried to the side of the room trying to make itself look small and harmless.
OK. Even I - who quite like Atraxas - find this amusing.
I don't want him to feel like he
has to, far from it, but the image of a 15 foot 10-legged metal tarantula... trying to look
small... Yeah, that's pretty funny.
The surface roiled with something seeming akin to excitement, even as the xeno stroked the metal orb and revealed a fractal image within its matrix to me. An undying tree of golden fire etched into every mote of the substance and within the roots of the tree a sword that I Knew rested, the Emperor's Sword carved in perfection out of golden fire and ashen roots held within the grip of the tree of flame above. It could not have been from the xenos for he would never have seen the glorious blade of his, but where could it have come from and what did it mean for it to be so shown in glory.
The golden ring was a reference to the Emperor (or one of his attributes)? Nice!
become a local of misery and torment
Typo I think. Locale? Locus?
At the moment Atraxas hasnt learned the economics of the Imperium so his baseline assumptions is self sufficiency for worlds. Once he realizes just how crap a lot of worlds are he is going to be very aware of the value of that super slow but super safe Gellar Field.
Nice!
Also, as a note for any upcoming planning:
- We really REALLY want a Gravity Barge and a shipment of Calculation Hearts (plus Meta Shield schematics and Alloys - or possibly the Meta Shields themselves?) next turn.
- Talk to Archmagos Luraia Teral, Akiona Mino's Augments, and maybe "Open Trade Talks with Mining Worlds, and offer to trade Wealth for Resources" are all fairly high-priority but not essential. Talk to Nameria might also be important; hard to say.
- We (probably) don't want to start Forge of War next turn - but rather the one after.
- Don't give a calc-heart to Balkavus; he'll dismantle it to spite us.
BTW,
@Leon12431, would Augmenting Akiona Mino have a chance to reduce her critical multiplier to something a bit saner?
