TheParadigm posted:

Through lowell's slice of life, know that the Emperor Himself was able to engage minds on their own battlefield, on their own level, and win as a mere psyker. The fact that's even a thing, and not a fluke drastically shortens the distance between human minds and culture-Minds. It's straight up a gamechanger.

poor life choice posted:

Who said the Emperor of Man IS man?

JT Jag posted:

The Emperor, by the very nature of how he was created, is pretty much the anthropomorphic personification of humanity, more so than actually being a human himself.

JT Jag posted:

The Emperor, by the very nature of how he was created, is pretty much the anthropomorphic personification of humanity, more so than actually being a human himself.

JT Jag posted:

The Emperor, by the very nature of how he was created, is pretty much the anthropomorphic personification of humanity, more so than actually being a human himself.

B.B. Rodriguez posted:

I had a weird feeling just now about how I really miss just us investigating things and actually having other people around to talk to while doing [random thing]. I would almost be happy with us leaving this pocket like 100 years later and having to essentially start over from the bottom.

LowellDND posted:

BeGiN sEaRcH aLgOrIthMs
...OlYmPuS oFfLiNe...
ZeUs OfFlInE
hErA oFfLiNe
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aRtEmIs OfFlInE
hAdEs OfFlInE
hEpHAeStUs OfFlInE
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i Am AlOnE

LowellDND posted:

“Daughter of Mars, Daughter of Hera, know that we have come for you. Things have been set in motion, things long centuries past. We have seen the future - a chasm, an abyss darker than the space between the stars. It is coming. But we have seen you. A small chance, a small path - you walk past it, through it. We have come to grant you great truths, O daughter of Hera.”

LowellDND posted:

Kaydras continued, ignoring your sudden silence. “We are of one mind, you see. We seek the Staff.”
“The Staff?”
Their voice took on a musical tone. “Ta'maral'ailen, the Binding One. She who Binds Fate, She who Twists the Weave. An ancient and powerful relic of our race.”
“How did it come to my Family? Something with that many titles sounds like you’d kept it to yourself.”
Her voice was sad. “A gift, a gift. Ching Shih, the one who saw, the one who forgot. Who was seen, who was forgotten. Who will rise out of the ice, in time.”
Your breath stopped. “Ching Shih is frozen? She’s alive? Is that what you mean?”
“Now is not her time. Now it is yours. You must find the Staff, once again. It is your duty, it is your destiny, bound to your blood down the millennia.”
“Why is it so important?”
“Can you not see, Child of Mars? She Binds the Fate! She Twists the Weave, bringing things as they need to be, not as they are.”
“What does that mean?”
“You will learn, Child of Hera. You will see.”

LowellDND posted:

“Yeah. So the first gods lived on Olympus.”
Your memories flashed back to the Olympus ship that held Athena, and your heart stopped. You kept your face impassive though, even as more questions.
“Was that like a planet, or something else?”
“No idea. So, the gods were creators. They built art and music and beautiful things.”
“Where did they come from?”
“I don’t know. The stories said a metal lake of some kind.”
“Okay. Were you told their names?”
“Sure.” Her voice took on a sing-song tone. “Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Ares, Aphrodite, Hephaestus, Hermes and Dionysus.”

poor life choice posted:

LowellDND posted:

While we're scooping around in your brains, any memories or experiences or people you want to take a look back on?

Do NOT revisit a memory that identifies us as "child of Mars, child of [Golden Age AI mentioned in the same breath as Athena]

LowellDND posted:

<Why hasn’t the Mechanicus simply taken the ship?>
A faint moment of discomfort. <The Iron Hands Chapter were quite insistent about it. We are to observe it, but not seize it from its Family.>
<And it wasn’t worth jeopardizing our relationship with that Chapter.>
<Just so. The Family - or more precisely, the Lord-Sire that currently holds the ship - believes that their Dynasty was granted it for actions participated in during the Great Crusade.>
<From what their Lord-Sire was shown, they believe that Ching Shih rescued it out of the Warp, renovated it from a Space Hulk.>
<That is correct, as far as the Family knows. The Lord-Sire themselves are shown more data - that the ship came out of the Dark Mechanicus, labeled the Furious Abyss, used to attack the Ultramarines during the Great Crusade. From there, it was cast into the Warp, lost for countless years.>
Interesting, how much Mars knew. And what they thought the Family knew. The only reason you knew these facts was because of your conversations with Ching Shih herself.
<Which part of that is untrue?>
<The Dark Mechanicus didn’t build it, in the Shipyards of Jupiter. They found it there.>

Arkanomen posted:

poor life choice posted:

B.B. Rodriguez posted:

I had a weird feeling just now about how I really miss just us investigating things and actually having other people around to talk to while doing [random thing]. I would almost be happy with us leaving this pocket like 100 years later and having to essentially start over from the bottom.

LowellDND posted:

HeRa OnLiNe

There Bias Two posted:

So uh...are we hosed, or is someone else hosed? Or is everyone, collectively, hosed?

Tomn posted:

Now we get to decide WHICH AI working off WHICH directives is more worth trusting instead of arguing over whether AIs can inherently be trusted! Hooray!

JT Jag posted:

This'll be a game changer if the original ship at the core of the Beast, which I presume was once Hera's ship, still contained an STC.

Tomn posted:

Speaking of which, who's for making a vow that if we get out of this alive, we make it our life mission to shoot every Eldar in their loving face?

I mean that's always a good vow in general, but still.