Xun is back, and didn’t have any good news. The Shivan fleet on its way here is three warship-class Leviathans. There’s no way Xun can take out all three, and based on their non-Shivan formation, they’re being commanded by a non-Shivan, so standard strategy models are useless. If Hohen is over there, it may be our only chance to tip the scales ( Read more... )

Shodan is going to continue to be a problem. Elijah and I were able to take out the source that had been detected, and it definitely was Shodani, but it wasn’t Shodan herself. Corbin checked over the footage and told us that was we destroyed was one of four organelles that grow on node maws. Somehow, Shodan managed to restructure it to have its ( Read more... )

Legion has detected AI activity where there are no known Talosians, and there is a node maw in about the same location. It has to be Shodan, so Elijah and I are going to go throw a nuke at her. I wish we could take our ship, but it’s too distinctive and doesn’t have a slipstream engine. I should get with Remi about that - hah, in our copious ( Read more... )

Legion . . . is doing well. His mind is more flexible than anything I’ve ever seen. They built a marvelous creature and I’m proud of their achievements. Still grieving, but glad it wasn’t for nothing. I will mentor him as best as I can, but I don’t think I’ll ever shake off the bitter resentment entirely - I know he’s not responsible, and I ( Read more... )

She’s gone, they’re gone, they’re all gone. They left me, they tricked me, they made me build their death - I don’t care that it was for a good cause, they left me alone in the wretched doomed universe with no one. She lied to me, she fucking lied, she lied, she lied to me. She can’t do that, she shouldn’t do that, she owes me. She fucking left ( Read more... )

Robert told us more about the Gate - it’s even harder to resist than I imagined, even one moment of consideration is capitulation. Elijah thinks that with his natural psionic ability and braintwin thing that he’s the most likely not to fall into temptation, so I’m going to finish everything that I can and we’ll fire it up after the Mark 6 is

Found a . . . glitch. The Abstractor, it doesn’t just resemble a Gate of Truth; it contains one. That’s the source of it’s “logic” - it can pull information out of the Gate without having to make a deal. The rest of the apparatus is just containment and failsafes. But none of it works without an opened Gate. And for the Gate to be open, it ( Read more... )

My lab is practically alive now. It responds to me, to my thoughts, even to my subconsciousness sometimes. I guess all the AI code and thaumatological experiments have synergized into a new kind of machine, it’s like a cybernetic link without the cybernetics! The way it’s allowed me to work without having to explain...it’s like being able to to ( Read more... )

I am Hollow. I . . . don’t know exactly what that means except that I’m probably doomed. Well, more doomed that I realized before. Robert knew a lot more than I imagined and I’m glad he decided not to kill me.

We managed to destroy the station she was on, but with the data blast she did beforehand, it looks like she managed to subvert a Shivan node maw, so we need to find it somehow and take it out before it can re-propagate. And the, the presence behind the reality gate. I can’t - it happened and it’s still unimaginable. I felt like an ant under a ( Read more... )