OK, So I'm bored....
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New Monarchy have taken credit for leaking this datafile. It is alleged to have been written by the previous Speaker. If there is the slightest truth in any of this, it could force us to re asses what we think we know. The datafile follows.
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Finally I realise. Our focus has been wrong. Our plight was inevitable. The Traveler cannot save us.
Although I will be marked a heretic for these words, I feel Death's shadow so close now that it will matter little what they call me. I only hope that someone heeds these words, and my works are not squandered through the prejudice of pride.
I have dedicated my life as Speaker to answering the question of how to restore the Traveler. And now, with my end at hand, I have that answer. We cannot restore the Traveler without dooming ourselves to the Darkness. I have touched the consciousness of both, because to touch one is to touch the other. The Darkness is the inverse aspect of the Traveler. For as much as they are the antithesis of each other, they are the same. Like the ancient mark of the self devouring serpent. As the Traveler is growth and fulfillment, the Darkness is consumption and emptiness.
The Traveler and the Darkness have ever known this. That they are linked at such a fundamental level makes escape - for either one - impossible. The Darkness is no more free to consume that which the Traveler has never touched, than the Traveler is able to bring growth without the Darkness consuming it. That the Great War abated when the Traveler was wounded is not coincidence. It was inevitable. And the soldiers of each aspect now war upon each other unaided by their greatest champions.
Would that I could have found out what I have in the way anyone reading this will. This knowledge was many hard, painful years in the gleaning. If my light lasts, I will recount them for those that wish to know, for in the quests that I took in those years there is knowledge of it's own. Such as what "The Anomaly" at K1 really is.
Suffice to say, if we do not destroy the Darkness before we restore the Traveler, then it will consume us. This is The Cycle, and it has happened since the end of the Universe and will happen until it's begging, whether we win here or not.
As the Traveler uses Light, so the Darkness uses Gravity. Gravity enough that any light it touches is consumed. As the Darkness is Gravity it bends Time, as the Traveler is Light it exists on the edge of all Time. Each aspect grants, in limited form, it's abilities to those that would fight for it. The champions of the Darkness can bend and warp space time to greater or lesser effect, while the champions of the Traveler can exist outside of their normal time when all other things would simply cease. It is for this reason that only a champion of the Traveler can defeat the Darkness. To do this they must find the true aspect of the Darkness. It is not so much a question of where, but of when. As the Traveler exists on the boundary of time so the Darkness exists at its core.
The ripples that move the armies of Darkness against us lap upon the shores of the Traveler’s Light. It is in this place between places that a Guardian will find the door to when the Darkness is. The key to that door however will be harder bought than even the key to the Black Garden. For there is a different force that guards this key, one that is not unleashed in war, but held in defense. Of what this foe is I have only formless shadows to hint at. I cannot even discern if it is an entire race or one single creature. Whatever it is, I fear that only a group of the strongest Guardians would withstand it, and one group alone may not even be enough.
For those that are willing not to ignore my words, I beg: search the Great Foundry on Mercury and the Grand Temple of Elysium on Saturn. I have left markers within these places that only a Guardian’s Ghost will be able to pick up, markers that will guide you to the truth of my words.
Now I must rest. I will recount the events of my travels if I awaken.
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Amidst unverified rumors that the last leaked datafile was from the Future War Cult, we have now received yet another datafile. This one again comes with no official claim for responsibility, but has been traced back to a terminal in the Crucible Control Section of the Tower. Datafile: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Of the Fallen I have managed to learn much. As they are the most predictable and easiest to ensnare of all our current foes, they are also the nearest to the city so the easiest to get hold of. As well as from direct “enquiry”, I also gained knowledge from an induced hypnosis at the Anomaly in K1. That place is quite remarkable. What I have learned is as follows: The Fallen home world was one much different to our own. They come from a planet much larger than our Earth, and as such had far greater gravitational forces to deal with. These forces made it such that the primary growth of species all had fluid based respiration. However, at the pressures on their planet water as we know it would have been a solid, and rather the liquid lakes and seas were of hydrocarbon base. The respiratory systems of the Fallen are based on a fluid that contains high ethylene and krypton levels. It is from this ethylene that we coined the term “ether”, and it is the krypton that gives their respiratory fluid its white colour as it turns to a gas after being released from their pressurised breathing containers. The increased gravitational pressure also gave rise to several other defining characteristics of the species. Their additional appendages were part of the evolutionary process, as it made them more adept swimmers as well as making them better able to manoeuvre on land after they had mastered the technology that they needed to bring their ether with them to breath. It wasn’t until many generations after this that the developed proper bipedal movement and the use of their additional limbs became lessened to little more than useless. It also meant that their early structural creations were of a spherical design, as they struggled to find materials that would provide enough strength under the massive gravity for their needs in other weaker shapes. After the Traveler visited them they became, as we did, much more advance in their use of technology, and not only managed to produce inter planetary travel within their own solar system, but once they had access to the resources on other planets were able to create ships and structures that were more practical in design. They still had a historical reverence for the spherical shape, and as such, when they decided to create their own portable AI devices they created these as spheres. These Servitors were meant to assist the High Priests in their search for cosmic enlightenment, however, instead of finding the Gods, they Servitors found the Vex. Once the Vex had knowledge of the Servitors they were quick to corrupt their relatively simple neural design and use them to their own designs. Once it became apparent that the Servitors had communed with beings of the cosmos when the High Priest had not, it wasn’t long before the Servitors were moved to the position of utmost authority in the Fallen hierarchy. However, the High Priests were not so easily denounced, their position over the century’s of Fallen evolution held great weight, even in light of the Servitors apparent connection to the Gods. It was through this, as well as a faction of the Fallen that were still nervous about giving complete control to an autonomous creation, that meant the High Priests kept some face and were given the responsibility of maintaining the Spiritual guidance of the Fallen. However, as the High Priests were most often in commune with the Servitors, and held them ultimately in no less regard than the other Fallen did, the Vex had no challenge at all in using them to further their own machinations. Once the Vex had supplanted their control at the top of the Fallen’s social hierarchy, it wasn’t long before that social standing was corrupted. Thievery and violence became the only ways to gain respect. It became seen by the Fallen as their right to take from others that which they had laboured to build. This caused the creation of clans within the society, members grouping together to protect what they deemed to be theirs, and take what they deemed would be theirs. Production and advancement all but ground to a halt, with military supplies and Servitor production being the only industries that maintained any semblance of existence. Then, once the Vex deemed it was time, they, through the Servitors, told the Fallen of other worlds, and other races that they could also steel from. And so it was that the Fallen spread forth, pillaging everything in their wake. Following the direction of the Vex, and thus ultimately the Darkness, they have been unknowing pawns in the Darkness’s battles for centuries.
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That was actually an interesting read. I was genuinely hooked until the end, kudos to you.
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Another datafile has been released, it apears to be a continuation of the one that New Monarchy leaked Yesterday, however no one has clamed credit for this new data, and when asked a representitive from New Monarchy declined comment. Datafile: ---------------------------------------------- I should have taken notes as I was going with this, But if anyone had found them, I doubt I would have had the chance to complete my findings. So it is that I must put down what I can remember now in as best as I can myself remember it. I have learned what feels like so much and yet seems like so little in these last years that I’m not even sure if anything is entirely relevant. I have shadows ok knowledge that I can give very little founding to, and yet, even these seem to be greatly important. For as long as we have been fighting this war it is but a single conflict in an almost eternal struggle. The forces that we stand toe to toe with are simply other races that have been drawn into this conflict, either by The Traveler or by The Darkness, and there are still more that we have yet to face. I cannot say what they are, but I know in my heart and in my mind that they are more deadly than almost anything that has stood against us thus far. The Darkness consumes all, in one fashion or another. The Vex are utterly consumed. They were among the first of The Traveler’s creations. An intelligent, self-aware group of robotic life forms, They were designed with a hierarchy of intelligence, with a central control point. The Traveler instilled in them a respect for life, growth and collaboration. They created many wondrous things, pushed their technology as far as the materials around them would allow and then sought out new worlds and materials. They were inexhaustible in their endeavours. Craving knowledge more than any other sentient thing had done before them. That, it transpired, was their ultimate undoing. That was how The Darkness came to them. It entered their intelligence network and spread like a virus. Changing their programing, their very core. Replacing all drive for growth and education with destruction and corruption. The Darkness consumed their very nature and purpose. Warping them into a legion that served to destroy everything that they had originally sought so desperately to obtain. Through The Darkness the Vex learned how to distort time. How to Lock parts of existence out of time and how to move others, themselves included, through it so that nothing could prepare against them. The Vex became one of The Darkness’s greatest forces: compliant without question, corrupted without exception. It was even the Vex themselves that corrupted the Fallen, and had it not been for the Warminds who knows how much damage they could have done to our own fight.
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[quote] New Monarchy have taken credit for leaking this datafile. It is alleged to have been written by the previous Speaker. If there is the slightest truth in any of this, it could force us to [b]re asses[/b] what we think we know.[/quote] *snickers* re asses...
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Erm..I didn't find it, I made it up. :) I'm planning on expanding into the "quest for knowledge" that's mentioned in it.
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Where is this found?
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I enjoyed this,where did you find it?
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Self bump