Trance Gemini takes one for the team, Rommie explains the Prophecy of Baltria and Ch’kadau

Captain Dylan Hunt, Trance Gemini, The Abyss/Beka Valentine, Lt. Cmdr. Telemachus Rhade, Rommie, Seamus Harper and Andromeda : Conduit to Destiny “Destiny is the promise I give to you. Hope, the part you play, Is trusting me to keep this promise.“ The Prophetic Tetraglyphs, CY 9573 The Abyss/Beka Valentine: Any luck? Captain Dylan Hunt: Yeah. Well, we had her cornered here, but she walked right through the wall. Trance Gemini: She vanished. The Abyss/Beka Valentine: People don’t just vanish. There’s obviously some kind of The Abyss/Beka Valentine: Secret entrance. Captain Dylan Hunt: What do you know? Holographic architecture. The Abyss/Beka Valentine: Well, this is going to be interesting. Which way’d they go? Trance Gemini: I can’t tell. I’m not sensing anything. Lt. Cmdr. Telemachus Rhade: I am, unfortunately, and cursing my Nietzschean sense of smell. That way’s the sewer. Captain Dylan Hunt: That must be the way to the fortress. Trance Gemini: Maybe they went down that way. Captain Dylan Hunt: All right, we’ll split up. Beka? The Abyss/Beka Valentine: Uh huh. Captain Dylan Hunt: Trance? Trance Gemini: I’ll take one for the team. Captain Dylan Hunt: Thatta girl. Captain Dylan Hunt: Fair enough. Lt. Cmdr. Telemachus Rhade: Another dark room. The Abyss/Beka Valentine: Surprise, surprise. Lt. Cmdr. Telemachus Rhade: The further we go, the older these chambers get. Colonization run amok. When they covered every square inch of the planet, they started building on top of what they’d already built. The Abyss/Beka Valentine: And buried these in the process. Look, Tetraglyphs. The Abyss/Beka Valentine: Look at this one. Lt. Cmdr. Telemachus Rhade: Looks like an old Commonwealth insignia. Lancer division. The Abyss/Beka Valentine: Hmm. Do we know anything about these symbols? Rommie: Crystalline displacement dates the tetraglyphs to CY 9773. The language is consistent with ancient Ch’kadau. The Abyss/Beka Valentine: Ancient. Right, so these weren’t made by the Ch’kadau we’re after. Rommie: Correct, these were made by the original Ch’kadau. Because Baltria was a member of the old Commonwealth, I was able to find translators in my database. The tetraglyphs tell of a prophecy. Seamus Harper: Please tell me what a bunch of primitive pictures have to do with the prisoner. Captain Dylan Hunt: Let’s hear the story. Rommie: For generations, Baltria was beautiful, populated by the peaceful, nature-loving Ch’kadau. The only artificial structure on the planet was a shrine, built to house the Gol-Rashen, or Life Giver, the Ch’kadau’s energy source. Trance Gemini: It’s in the fortress now. Patrius showed it to us. Captain Dylan Hunt: It was never moved. The fortress was built around the shrine. Rommie: One of the first changes the new group made in their quest to build an industrial civilization. The Abyss/Beka Valentine: And exploit Baltria’s resources. Lt. Cmdr. Telemachus Rhade: That’s not prophecy, it’s history. Anyone who’s familiar with CW records knows the only reason the Ch’kadau joined the old Commonwealth was to get help stopping this destructive trend. Trance Gemini: Just like Patrius rejoined so that he could get help moving the Gol-Rashen. Rommie: The prophecy foretells of an answer to the Ch’kadau’s prayers in the form of a young girl, a symbiant, who upon coming of age would be united with the Gol-Rashen by a man, a Conduit. This joining would empower it, thus empowering the still faithful Ch’kadau to take back their planet. Seamus Harper: All right, that much I can see, but what’s with the wavy lines that look like a river? Rommie: Well, Harper, that’s because they mean flowing river, something which Baltria no longer has any of. Captain Dylan Hunt: No, but Trance and I found that it does have a sewer. Try GPR, see if it ties to an underground spring. Andromeda: Performing scan. Rommie: I wonder if any Ch’kadau still believe in this prophecy. Captain Dylan Hunt: Everyone is entitled to hope. Andromeda: Sub-structural water source located. Rommie: A spring. It’s inside an abandoned settlement. The Abyss/Beka Valentine: Would it be stating the obvious to mention that we’re wasting our time on a prophecy that has nothing to do with the people that we’re looking for? Captain Dylan Hunt: Any place that was once sacred is now probably in the hands of the bad guys. Lt. Cmdr. Telemachus Rhade: It’s all we’ve got. Seamus Harper: Well, that is stating the obvious. Seamus Harper: Nietzscheans. _ (Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use“ for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.)