OK, So I'm bored.... ================================================================ 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.