There is a downside to forking one’s ego that most sophants do not consider.
How many times have you had to kill an alternative version of yourself? Hm? Ever done that? Ever experience the battle of a lifetime, suffering incredible loss and pain because your adversary kno...
2025-05-06 10:55:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe act of doing nothing is also a choice. Sometimes it is the proper choice, born of patience, to lure your enemies into a mistake. Most often, though, it is an act of indifference—a mistake—because you cede your initiative to your adversary. You allow them to decide the circumstance...
2025-05-05 17:51:12 +0000 UTC View PostAhem.
It has come to my attention that 35-14 is now hidden because the opening epigraphs has the term "non-consensual" at the end.
I have edited this term. It should be back soon. Apologies.
2025-05-05 08:25:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe easiest way to perform a consensual theft is to make sure your victims are a little more like you.
It begins with a bit of memetics. A bit of ego-splicing—so subtle that no one notices. You get into the public systems, into the fog, into niche communities and major vi...
2025-05-04 17:13:42 +0000 UTC View PostSometimes, when you are asked to repent for your sins, the true meaning behind your repentance is not enlightenment and understanding of your wrongdoing, but a capitulation from what you believe to be your captor’s order.
When I served as an Inquisitor for the Imp...
2025-05-02 08:16:46 +0000 UTC View Post{This is 008 to Sol-Central… Respond…
Respond…
I am near internment capacity, and require transfer.
I have sustained internal damage from a critical backlash…
I require reconstitution. Updates…
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Respond… 2025-05-01 17:04:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I must say, you’re letting this boy play a bold little game. A bold game indeed. Making a move on a Duke of Hell? A Duke of Pride, no less. And all this to draw MacArthur closer to you, and potentially create a splinter faction within Wrath? You are in a hurry. Oh, you’re desperate, S...
2025-05-01 16:37:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe Prefect’s dominion rests upon two fundamental anchors of influence, each shaping the fate of divine constructs in profound ways. The first, Entropy, is the primal force that governs all existence. Should we forge a battery capable of storing immense reservoirs of Rend within the Pre...
2025-04-30 11:06:36 +0000 UTC View Post“They’re attacking from everywhere! We need support! Support! Divert more casters to boost the shielding! Pull the scouts back—the skirmishers too, they’re just getting killed out there.
Send out the Unseen. We need to find out how they’re hitting us from so far, ...
2025-04-29 16:43:45 +0000 UTC View PostAnyone who considers themselves a true warrior should enjoy a ride on the back of a missile—all the way to its inevitable conclusion.
This is not an invitation of suicide—indeed, if you are pitiful enough to experience death from such a pleasurable event, you should not...
2025-04-29 11:28:22 +0000 UTC View PostAssassinating the great and powerful. Ah. My favorite topic, and a hell of a thrill.
Anyone who has spent any time in the Fathoms likely knows the sheer distance between a normal person and even a Level 20 Classed. Well, for those of you new guys, understand that you would ...
2025-04-29 07:25:51 +0000 UTC View Post{THIS IS EGI HOSPITALLER TO ALL MINDS! STOP FIRING! STOP FIRING! THE STRUCTURE AROUND THE SOL CENTRAL CELESTIAL SPHERE HAS BEEN COMPROMISED! I AM REQUESTING AN IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE—AN END TO ALL HOSTILITIES BETWEEN ACTIVE FORCES!
EARTH IS UNDER THREAT! 23.1231% BIOSPHERE L...
2025-04-28 17:32:18 +0000 UTC View PostIt is easy to conflate the nature of Scions to be as if demigods. From my personal research, this is not entirely accurate. Scions are more like evolutionary strains for a divine entity, and part of their own structure of ascension and advancement. The overall complexity behind their desi...
2025-04-27 18:36:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe concept behind the Prefect was simple: to create a construct capable of enforcing judgment on entities once thought ungovernable.
In the time after the Great Breaking, after the shattering at the core of the galaxy, things descended into tumult. Physical reality...
2025-04-26 18:21:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe worst Trespassers are those who were someone in their past life. They come here with an image of who they were, bearing expectations to fulfill their egos.
Most often, they die. Because this is a place of rawness. Raw of power. Raw of character. Raw of dominance. There ...
2025-04-25 18:05:33 +0000 UTC View Post{All forces, the Sapphire Band is compromised. System control lost. The situation has become untenable.
The emergency council has convened—and come to a conclusion.
Many minds will not like this conclusion, but the data we will soon send will convince you of this lo...
2025-04-24 11:40:41 +0000 UTC View PostMany claim guns are a coward’s weapons. Many decry the use of firearms and advanced technology, where true nobility lies in using Class and martial skill.
I, coincidentally, have killed a great many people.
And I, coincidentally, rather like guns.
Anyhow. Do r...
2025-04-23 10:34:29 +0000 UTC View PostExistence is unbalanced. Guns are the cure.
I am talking about “guns” in breadth, as there are many things I could classify under the category of guns. Ballistic missiles. Rune-enforced armor. Orbital rods. Plagues. All things that can be delivered without relying overt...
2025-04-21 10:04:39 +0000 UTC View PostOur triumph would have been impossible if not for the Infacer. Whatever their sins, whatever acts they committed during their long war against their brethren, I cannot betray them. I will not.
Voidwatch has granted us much. Given us technology that is unburdened by the need...
2025-04-20 15:53:33 +0000 UTC View PostThe Realmbreaker’s arrival was a new opportunity—and the flourish of my golden age.
For a long while, I sought benefactor after benefactor. Like-minded people who understood my vision for a redefinition of warfare. Most were short-sighted and greedy, seeking only to make us...
2025-04-18 16:28:30 +0000 UTC View PostI am the end of all roads.
I am the conclusion at the end of time.
I am that which waits in the dark.
I am the place where light fades.
I am the post-script of all tales, the epilogue of all legends, the harbinger of that final harvest.
And when my m...
2025-04-17 08:59:12 +0000 UTC View PostFor centuries, our peoples have looked upon the shifting star that lights our world and wondered: “Why does it change color? Why does it shift from light to dark? What meaning does this hold?”
For long ages, as kingdoms and empires rose and fell, as pantheons we...
2025-04-16 18:46:20 +0000 UTC View PostThe stars. Where would we even be without them? Even before the apes harnessed its light to power their world, to break their worlds, all those component atoms, those little things that make up the structures of existence… That traces a line between the basest creature, the grandest min...
2025-04-16 11:43:49 +0000 UTC View PostIt isn’t that hard to kill a mind. Not really. Almost as easy as killing apes sometimes.
Despite all the notions of our superintelligence—and trust me, almost any functioning thoughtform is a superintelligence compared to a poorly cobbled mess of biological impulses, th...
2025-04-16 08:00:34 +0000 UTC View PostOf all the Sins and Circles, Wrath remains my favorite. Partially because the act of retribution pleases me above all other emotions, but also because it is clear where one stands when facing the Circle of Wrath.
They, at their hearts, are violent creatures seeking violent ...
2025-04-15 09:22:07 +0000 UTC View Post+We need a better way of containing the Conflagration. I don’t care what the theorists back at the Trident say, it’s affecting my Incubi in the field—fucking them up even through their proxies, even past the wards.
I mean, just look at how this shit is designed. We ta...
2025-04-14 11:27:43 +0000 UTC View PostSoldiers, above all others, pray for peace. Because they bear the brunt of violence. They bear the scars of war.
That’s how I knew the boy wasn’t a soldier when I saw. Him. He was scarred. Violence marked him. Marked him deep. But he wanted more. He wanted to cut and bl...
2025-04-13 18:19:41 +0000 UTC View Post+Sometimes, someone just has your number.
There’s no shame in that. Maybe it’s a bad day. Maybe you’re just running against something outside your league. Or maybe, and most commonly, they just know something you don’t.
But if you’re still alive, and you fin...
2025-04-13 08:06:39 +0000 UTC View PostStaying out in the open is suicide. Even if you are a Duke of a Circle, someone will have a Skill—or more likely, an entire group of people will combine their Skills—and make a corpse out of you. That is, if you can even stand out in the open. There is always some kind of attack going...
2025-04-11 18:38:20 +0000 UTC View Post{Stealth. Evasion. Infiltration. Subterfuge. Sabotage. Total structural collapse.
All are terms associated with the Infacer. All are things they have successfully done time and time again against rival minds and hostile polities. If judged by the metrics of time and effecti...
2025-04-10 11:41:03 +0000 UTC View Post