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GEK PLAQUES
PuzzleType: TRADER_PLAQUE_
Alien: I convulse as I reach out and touch the beautiful stone marker, my mind filling with a deadly knowledge of the true history of the Gek...
We are the masters of galaxies, the overlords of the cosmos. Each foe will submit with bended knee to the ALMIGHTY Gek Dominion.
We are the FIRST SPAWN. Look upon our works and DESPAIR.
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Alien: As I touch the obelisk, images of the planet's ancient past flood my mind. The terrible beginnings of the Gek have been absorbed by this strange stone, and their tale seems desperate to escape...
All who hear our words know of our might. Those who oppose us are broken to our will. Behold the power of the Gek First Spawn.
Galaxies lie at our FEET. We are ETERNAL.
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Alien: Memories imbued into the rock long ago by the ancient Gek channel into my brain. I recoil, but am compelled to somehow understand...
Through time and space the First Spawn endures, eternally, ever watchful, unyielding over its dominion.
Each foe will be CRUSHED. ONLY the Gek will remain.
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Alien: Flickering emblems appear on the stone. Although I do not recognise the language, somehow I can read of the history of this strange planet and the Gek who once resided here.
The foul scent of the Gek cannot be opposed. The First Spawn commands all it surveys. We are masters of the stars, our rule shall endure eternally.
The Vy'keen and Korvax COWER and DESPAIR at our name.
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Alien: The surface of the plaque shimmers, and shakes with the screams of a people that lived here long ago. The words are unfamiliar yet in the sounds of Gek anger and outrage, I can hear meaning.
With each conquered world the First Spawn's resolve strengthens. None shall oppose the Gek for fear their planets shall be shaken to dust.
We will weep when there are no more worlds to conquer.
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Alien: My vision clouds and the words of the ancient Gek seem to emerge on the strange stone structure. I sense that these are words that the forgotten and restless want understood...
The Outer Edge BURNS at the hands of the Gek First Spawn. Our enemies are broken. We are the extinguishers of hope.
In our wake we leave only the lamentations of the conquered. We fear NOTHING.
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Alien: I convulse as I reach out and touch the beautiful stone marker, my mind filling with a deadly knowledge of the true history of the Gek...
The MINOR GEK are the inferior breed, lurking in pools, procreating and dying without consequence.
The First Spawn Gek CONQUER WORLDS, each of their spawns is an imprint on the destiny of the galaxy.
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Alien: As I touch the obelisk, images of the planet's ancient past flood my mind. The terrible beginnings of the Gek have been absorbed by this strange stone, and their tale seems desperate to escape...
The larval pools of Balaron GAVE GLORIOUS RISE to the FIRST SPAWN. As we SPRANG FORTH the Outer Edge RECOILED in FEAR.
None could oppose our rise. None will bring about our end.
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Alien: Memories imbued into the rock long ago by the ancient Gek channel into my brain. I recoil, but am compelled to somehow understand...
The First Spawn is the SCOURGE of the OUTER EDGE. In its wake empires will fall. Planets will crumble. Galaxies will kneel. TREMBLE at our name. For we are the ALMIGHTY Gek.
None can oppose our ascendance.
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Alien: Flickering emblems appear on the stone. Although I do not recognise the language, somehow I can read of the history of this strange planet and the Gek who once resided here.
The First Spawn GREW. WEAKLING PORWIGLE lost their tails to the Spawning Syrup and became MIGHTY warriors.
Each was imbued with the might of the Gek Dominion and its unquenchable will to claim the stars.
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Alien: The surface of the plaque shimmers, and shakes with the screams of a people that lived here long ago. The words are unfamiliar yet in the sounds of Gek anger and outrage, I can hear meaning.
Those born of the Gek who OPPOSED the Dominion were hurled from the spawning pools of the FIRST SPAWN.
Their cherished spawning syrup was replaced with FLAME. Their kind are now merely beasts of the field.
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Alien: My vision clouds and the words of the ancient Gek seem to emerge on the strange stone structure. I sense that these are words that the forgotten and restless want understood...
The MINOR GEK were purged. It is only through fire that imperfection be destroyed and the path to domination is revealed.
The First Spawn feasted on the flesh of the discarded and GREW STRONG.
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Alien: I convulse as I reach out and touch the beautiful stone marker, my mind filling with a deadly knowledge of the true history of the Gek...
After the OPPOSERS were cast from the spawning pools the Sentinels DESCENDED. Their cause was unjust. Aggressors guided to the fray by the scent emissions of a WAR too GREAT and TOO MIGHTY for the automatons to resist.
The First Spawn would remember this.
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Alien: As I touch the obelisk, images of the planet's ancient past flood my mind. The terrible beginnings of the Gek have been absorbed by this strange stone, and their tale seems desperate to escape...
The First Spawn BRED and PLOTTED while the Sentinels patrolled the skies of Balaron for a MULTITUDE of CYCLES. But the automaton victories were but illusions.
Beneath watchful metallic eyes Gek legions rose.
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Alien: Memories imbued into the rock long ago by the ancient Gek channel into my brain. I recoil, but am compelled to somehow understand...
The HOLY larval pools of Balaron SPRANG FORTH with the PUREST of PORWIGLES. Generation BEGAT generation. Wholesome and strong, iron of fist and with a granite resolve.
We, the wise FIRST SPAWN, held back our TIDE of BLOOD. We waited to ATTACK. The unseen blow strikes the hardest.
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Alien: Flickering emblems appear on the stone. Although I do not recognise the language, somehow I can read of the history of this strange planet and the Gek who once resided here.
The DAWN of the EMPIRE of the FIRST SPAWN was BIRTHED in the SHADOW of the FOLLY of the Great Vy'keen Sentinel War.
The rock and the wave collided as we kept our vigil, awaiting signs of weakness to pave our coming.
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Alien: The surface of the plaque shimmers, and shakes with the screams of a people that lived here long ago. The words are unfamiliar yet in the sounds of Gek anger and outrage, I can hear meaning.
The Vy'keen FOOLISHLY fought a war with no end. Again and again they threw their warriors against the iron tide. The Sentinels SINGED Vy'keen FLESH with LASER. The Vy'keen scorched their foe with righteous fire.
From the SHADOWS the FIRST SPAWN watched and prepared to unleash their reckoning.
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Alien: My vision clouds and the words of the ancient Gek seem to emerge on the strange stone structure. I sense that these are words that the forgotten and restless want understood...
The Vy'keen and Sentinels clashed, SPILLING BLOOD and WHITE METAL through the void, each blow weakening their defences against the fate that awaited them in the shadows.
It would not be long before the First Spawn took their RIGHTFUL place as emperors of the STARS.
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Alien: I convulse as I reach out and touch the beautiful stone marker, my mind filling with a deadly knowledge of the true history of the Gek...
The Vy'keen SPILLED THEIR OWN PUTRID BLOOD and pushed the SENTINEL MACHINES back from the Outer Edge. They drove forward like crashing tides, leaving broken metal in their wake. For a time the Sentinels became SILENT.
In this silence came the GLORIOUS GEK ASCENT. It came with the RIGHTFUL DESTRUCTION of Korvax Prime.
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Alien: As I touch the obelisk, images of the planet's ancient past flood my mind. The terrible beginnings of the Gek have been absorbed by this strange stone, and their tale seems desperate to escape...
Korvax Prime was a VAST and PRECIOUS landscape of MINERAL ORE and POWER. By right of UNIVERSAL RULE the First Spawn claimed dominion over the planet yet the CREDULOUS and FEEBLE Korvax refused to accept their CONQUEST.
They DENIED progress. This: their greatest folly.
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Alien: Memories imbued into the rock long ago by the ancient Gek channel into my brain. I recoil, but am compelled to somehow understand...
Driven by the misguided desire for planetary equilibrium the Korvax REFUSED to delve deep inside their planet and PROFIT from the JEWEL granted them by FATE. Their love for the DIRE WILL of the Sentinels was ABHORRENT to the Gek.
Swift was their end brought about by the First Spawn's STRIKE.
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Alien: Flickering emblems appear on the stone. Although I do not recognise the language, somehow I can read of the history of this strange planet and the Gek who once resided here.
The destruction of KORVAX PRIME was VAST, SUDDEN and MIGHTY. In a tide of steel the First Spawn struck, scattering the planet through the cosmos as a warning to the unyielding.
The absent Sentinels could not PUNISH the RIGHTFUL ASCENDANCY OF THE GEK.
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Alien: The surface of the plaque shimmers, and shakes with the screams of a people that lived here long ago. The words are unfamiliar yet in the sounds of Gek anger and outrage, I can hear meaning.
The First Spawn FEASTED on the DEBRIS of KORVAX PRIME, gorging on a banquet of fragments plucked from the void, consumed to fuel the Great Ascendency. The universe shook as the Gek grew RICH.
The Korvax found only DESPAIR. The Dominion became whole.
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Alien: My vision clouds and the words of the ancient Gek seem to emerge on the strange stone structure. I sense that these are words that the forgotten and restless want understood...
A FEAR of the FIRST SPAWN spread throughout the Outer Edge. Planets shook. Systems recoiled. Weak alliances formed and were crushed.
ANGUISH CONSUMED WORLDS. They shall fear us FOREVER MORE.
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Alien: I convulse as I reach out and touch the beautiful stone marker, my mind filling with a deadly knowledge of the true history of the Gek...
The entities of the Korvax were NOT destroyed. The First Spawn are BENEVOLENT. The First Spawn are MERCIFUL. SLAVERY SAVED THE WORTHLESS.
They toiled for their conquerors. Their reprieve was found in servitude.
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Alien: As I touch the obelisk, images of the planet's ancient past flood my mind. The terrible beginnings of the Gek have been absorbed by this strange stone, and their tale seems desperate to escape...
The Korvax knowledge BECAME OURS. The Korvax technology BECAME OURS. The Korvax BECAME OURS.
They serve as an example of our boundless power and mercy.
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Alien: Memories imbued into the rock long ago by the ancient Gek channel into my brain. I recoil, but am compelled to somehow understand...
The Korvax did not dare FIGHT. Respect for the Sentinels is KORVAX WEAKNESS. Weakness is the path to defeat.
Today the Korvax fester in ELECTRONIC CHAINS. The Gek look down upon them from their thrones.
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Alien: Flickering emblems appear on the stone. Although I do not recognise the language, somehow I can read of the history of this strange planet and the Gek who once resided here.
The Gek First Spawn stand on the MIGHTY BRINK of an ETERNAL EMPIRE. It is ENDLESS in TIME. It is ENDLESS in space.
Their dominion will know no bounds. Their armies will know no equal.
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Alien: The surface of the plaque shimmers, and shakes with the screams of a people that lived here long ago. The words are unfamiliar yet in the sounds of Gek anger and outrage, I can hear meaning.
Every Korvax ELECTRONIC REBELLION will be PUT DOWN. Their appeals to their false and non-existent ATLAS are mere SUPERSTITION found through DESPAIR. They are in VAIN. THEY ARE CONQUERED.
The breaking of the uprising shall know NO MERCY. Endless shall be their suffering.
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Alien: My vision clouds and the words of the ancient Gek seem to emerge on the strange stone structure. I sense that these are words that the forgotten and restless want understood...
This Galaxy is VAST but it is KNOWABLE and it can be CONQUERED. It shall be subjugated. The rising tide of the First Spawn will sweep away any that oppose it.
These tablets are our testament FOR ALL TIME.
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My knowledge of the Gek increases.
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VY'KEEN PLAQUES
PuzzleType: WARRIOR_PLAQUE_
#1
Alien: The imprint of an ancient civilization was once absorbed by this strange marker. The story of the Vy'keen somehow spills out, in the language of my own people.
The noble Travellers will be spared. Their journey through the cosmos shall not be thwarted. So it is decreed.
The will of Hirk commands it. The Vy'keen shall honour the judgment and the belief of the Ancients.
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My knowledge of the Vy'keen increases.
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#2
Alien: The memories of a long deceased tribe of Vy'keen warriors flows from the stone marker, forming into a ghostly essence that fills me with wisdom.
The Book of Hirk speaks of the rise of the Travellers. They shall ascend, delving into the boundless void. The Vy'keen shall not impede their ascent for the Travellers must prevail.
So decrees the word of Hirk.
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My knowledge of the Vy'keen increases.
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#3
Alien: Ancient knowledge passed down through generations of Vy'keen warriors spills from the marker stone, filtering into my mind like a long forgotten memory.
None hamper the path towards Dryn'dargh as The Sentinels. They must be destroyed. Their time will be ended.
So has it been written, so it shall come to be. This the Vy'keen swear.
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My knowledge of the Vy'keen increases.
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#4
Alien: Runes take shape upon the stone. Burning with light they sing to me of the Vy'keen Ancients in the language of my people.
The Sentinels are not of the natural order. Things must fall apart. In their endlessness and replication the automatons prove themselves abominations. They must be purged from existence.
All should die, whether through righteous battle or the assault of time.
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My knowledge of the Vy'keen increases.
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#5
Alien: Strange writings form upon the stone, revealing secrets from the time of the Vy'keen Ancients. How I understand them, I do not know.
Hirk foresaw the weakness of the Vy'keen warrior kind. The star ascent of our noble race was blocked by the weak-minded Sentinels.
Nine times nine fold, Hirk commanded, we would have our vengeance and dash the metal demons against the rocks of damnation.
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My knowledge of the Vy'keen increases.
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#6
Alien: The whispers of the Vy'keen Ancients fill the air. Suddenly words etch themselves upon the marker, and then deep into my mind.
It came to pass that the Great Monolith awoke. It heard the challenge of Hirk. Five times Hirk called upon it and was met by silence.
On the sixth cry it awoke.
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My knowledge of the Vy'keen increases.
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#7
Alien: The imprint of an ancient civilization was once absorbed by this strange marker. The story of the Vy'keen somehow spills out, in the language of my own people.
The Great Monolith spoke to Hirk of the Travellers. Their coming should not be met with fire. Their coming was but one dream in an infinite Universe. Their reach would be that of the endless.
When Hirk asked of the Sentinels, the Great Monolith said nothing. Hirk was troubled by its silence.
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My knowledge of the Vy'keen increases.
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#8
Alien: The memories of a long deceased tribe of Vy'keen warriors flows from the stone marker, forming into a ghostly essence that fills me with wisdom.
Hirk returned to the Vy'keen. 'Grah!' they spake atop the sacred mountain of Dun's'kaareen. And proclaiming loudly to all who had gathered there, their leader said unto them, 'The Great Monolith has answered me. It has awoken.'
'It has told of the coming of the Travellers. They will be spared. The Vy'keen shall honour this decree.'
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My knowledge of the Vy'keen increases.
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#9
Alien: Ancient knowledge passed down through generations of Vy'keen warriors spills from the marker stone, filtering into my mind like a long forgotten memory.
The crowd cried for Hirk to reveal the Great Monolith's judgement of the Sentinel threat. “The Monolith stood silent!” Hirk spake forth, but the people were not satisfied. They muttered amongst themselves and those blessed with tendrils did extend them.
Then with raised voice Hirk decreed, “The oppressors will be eradicated! Gather your arms for the time of reckoning is upon the enemy.” And the Vy'keen adored their leader.
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My knowledge of the Vy'keen increases.
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#10
Alien: Runes take shape upon the stone. Burning with light they sing to me of the Vy'keen Ancients in the language of my people.
As Hirk stood upon the sacred mountain Nal climbed to its peak and there with fist outstretched challenged Hirk. 'Fool!' Nal cried. 'The Sentinels cannot be vanquished!' Hirk, with furious rage struck the fool from the mountain.
For three moons and suns Nal fell before being claimed by doom.
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My knowledge of the Vy'keen increases.
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#11
Alien: Strange writings form upon the stone, revealing secrets from the time of the Vy'keen Ancients. How I understand them, I do not know.
Hirk's rage against the upstart Nal inflamed the hearts of Nal's followers who upon their leader's demise felt the blood of the ancestors rise within them.
The Vy'keen nations were bathed in righteous war for sixty-six moons.
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#12
Alien: The whispers of the Vy'keen Ancients fill the air. Suddenly words etch themselves upon the marker, and then deep into my mind.
On the sixty-sixth moon the war cry of the Vy'keen of Nal was silenced. After surveying their bodies, Hirk gazed unto the heavens and there beheld a great Sentinel host descending upon the Vy'keen.
The great Vy'keen Sentinel War was at hand.
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My knowledge of the Vy'keen increases.
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#13
Alien: The imprint of an ancient civilization was once absorbed by this strange marker. The story of the Vy'keen somehow spills out, in the language of my own people.
For a multitude of cycles the yoke of the Sentinels had strangled the civilizations of the galaxy in their mewling cribs.
Hirk was displeased with the world of the Vy'keen. As the automatons descended, Hirk gazed upon a planet ravaged by weakness.
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My knowledge of the Vy'keen increases.
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#14
Alien: The memories of a long deceased tribe of Vy'keen warriors flows from the stone marker, forming into a ghostly essence that fills me with wisdom.
Progress, prosperity and war: these are the things forbidden by automatons. But the Vy'keen were the first to break the shackles, casting the old ways into the pit to herald the birth of a new age.
The Vy'keen were the dam that overflowed. Righteous is the flood.
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#15
Alien: Ancient knowledge passed down through generations of Vy'keen warriors spills from the marker stone, filtering into my mind like a long forgotten memory.
Grah! The Sentinels are the enemy of progress and civilization. They are not of the natural order. Their interference is an affront to the virtuous Vy'keen crusade, which seeks to balance in all things through blood, ashes and iron.
This affront to the Vy'keen and their creed cannot go unpunished.
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My knowledge of the Vy'keen increases.
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#16
Alien: Runes take shape upon the stone. Burning with light they sing to me of the Vy'keen Ancients in the language of my people.
Before the coming of Hirk the Vy'keen feared the Sentinels. Like all races our people cowered from their unquestioning violence, shrank from their tyrannical rule. But the coming of Hirk heralded a new dawn.
Through their leader, the Vy'keen became strong. Now their courage knows no bounds.
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My knowledge of the Vy'keen increases.
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#17
Alien: Strange writings form upon the stone, revealing secrets from the time of the Vy'keen Ancients. How I understand them, I do not know.
Hirk looked to the skies and witnessed the pitiless destruction of the Sentinels that smothered all races brought forth out unto the Outer Edge.
Worlds withered and died beneath their relentless gaze. The anger of Hirk was unleashed.
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My knowledge of the Vy'keen increases.
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#18
Alien: The whispers of the Vy'keen Ancients fill the air. Suddenly words etch themselves upon the marker, and then deep into my mind.
And so it came to pass that on the eve of the eighteenth moon of Drun'Gala Hirk cast the shackles of the Sentinel oppressors into the pit.
The Vy'keen were the glorious first, the rising water that broke the dam. The endless war began.
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#19
Alien: The imprint of an ancient civilization was once absorbed by this strange marker. The story of the Vy'keen somehow spills out, in the language of my own people.
The death of Hirk came during the endless war. Hirk's body was ravaged by old age, becoming ancient and useless. Bellowing, Hirk tore this failing body in two before the Great Monolith, as is the Vy'keen way.
The echo of that dying roar can still be heard throughout the Outer Edge. Hirk lives in us, the most venerated of the ancients.
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My knowledge of the Vy'keen increases.
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#20
Alien: The memories of a long deceased tribe of Vy'keen warriors flows from the stone marker, forming into a ghostly essence that fills me with wisdom.
Countless cycles sifted through the claws of time. Attrition was great. The battle against the Sentinels raged endlessly. But through righteous fire the Vy'keen endured and the Sentinels burned.
The oppressors were pushed back. Back into the dark of space.
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My knowledge of the Vy'keen increases.
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#21
Alien: Ancient knowledge passed down through generations of Vy'keen warriors spills from the marker stone, filtering into my mind like a long forgotten memory.
The Vy'keen saw borders stretch between the stars. Onwards they delved with legions at their back, scorching Sentinel metal from their fiery chariots and attack ships.
The Vy'keen gazed upon their conquests and saw that they were righteous and good.
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#22
Alien: Runes take shape upon the stone. Burning with light they sing to me of the Vy'keen Ancients in the language of my people.
The Vy'keen rose in glorious victory, yet noble warriors grew tired and weak. The onslaught against the machines endured for ninety-nine times ninety cycles. There was attrition and incalculable death, but victory eluded them still.
The endless replication of the Sentinels slowed, but could not be vanquished.
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My knowledge of the Vy'keen increases.
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#23
Alien: Strange writings form upon the stone, revealing secrets from the time of the Vy'keen Ancients. How I understand them, I do not know.
Grah! The Sentinel hordes were pushed back. The oppressors fled into the sanctuary of the cosmos. The spirit of Hirk surveyed the field of battle, and saw that the Vy'keen victory was glorious and just. The automatons became silent as the nation of Hirk feasted upon grahgrah.
The songs of the victorious echoed to the edges of the galaxy.
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My knowledge of the Vy'keen increases.
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#24
Alien: The whispers of the Vy'keen Ancients fill the air. Suddenly words etch themselves upon the marker, and then deep into my mind.
And thus the Sentinel horde congregated in the dark places of the void. There they watched in the in-between nothingness. The blackness of space.
Thy waited beyond the limits of the Outer Edge. As millennia passed they replenished, growing a force to return their order for countless ages.
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My knowledge of the Vy'keen increases.
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#25
Alien: The imprint of an ancient civilization was once absorbed by this strange marker. The story of the Vy'keen somehow spills out, in the language of my own people.
The Vy'keen licked each other's wounds during the Silence of the Sentinels, while the dishonourable Gek First Spawn chose to destroy Korvax Prime.
The Vy'keen condemned this crime, but lacked the strength to fight.
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My knowledge of the Vy'keen increases.
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#26
Alien: The memories of a long deceased tribe of Vy'keen warriors flows from the stone marker, forming into a ghostly essence that fills me with wisdom.
The Gek Empire flourished. It spread its empire into the depths of the cosmos. The Vy'keen victory in pushing the Sentinels back from the Outer Edge gave rise to Dominion of another.
No world, moon, or race could have opposed the Gek onslaught.
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My knowledge of the Vy'keen increases.
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#27
Alien: Ancient knowledge passed down through generations of Vy'keen warriors spills from the marker stone, filtering into my mind like a long forgotten memory.
The brutality of the Gek First Spawn called back the automatons that were hiding in the darkness. Their forces had grown. Their technologies had developed.
The foolish Gek beckoned the monster back into the places where our nations might have dwelt in strange harmony. True Sentinel domination of the Outer Edge began.
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My knowledge of the Vy'keen increases.
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#28
Alien: Runes take shape upon the stone. Burning with light they sing to me of the Vy'keen Ancients in the language of my people.
Within a single lifetime the Sentinels had returned. They came to dwell on every world we knew. Every world we went on to discover.
The pathetic, idiotic Gek had doomed the Outer Edge to aeons of their rule.
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My knowledge of the Vy'keen increases.
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#29
Alien: Strange writings form upon the stone, revealing secrets from the time of the Vy'keen Ancients. How I understand them, I do not know.
The dominion of the Gek First Spawn crumbled. They fell apart through idiocy, and through the unchanging will of the beings they enslaved but could never understand.
Their power is but a memory. Their crimes forgotten by so many.
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My knowledge of the Vy'keen increases.
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#30
Alien: The whispers of the Vy'keen Ancients fill the air. Suddenly words etch themselves upon the marker, and then deep into my mind.
The Gek changed. They became peaceful. Their spawning pools bred in the name of commerce. They Vy'keen accept this peace, but we do not forget as the other beings of the Galaxy are so keen to do.
Dishonour is unchanging. Crimes marked in blood do not fade. We do not forget.
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My knowledge of the Vy'keen increases.
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