Parthenos, 80,000 light-years from Earth Deep beneath the surface, right above the planet’s mantle, there’s an impractically large well. No mortal ever sets foot here: maintenance is the duty of robots, whose memory is periodically deleted to avoid any chance[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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After running through fifteen floors, Ganos Lal is finally able to let Noriko Null get off her back. They’re still inside of a stone building, but now they’ve come across something that doesn’t seem to belong here: a hatch. <It’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Argos, 100 light-years from Earth The Mortal Senate building is by far the most impressive sight on the planet; after the damage taken during the invasion of Selene years ago, it was completely renovated. Now it celebrates the diversity of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The air on top of the mountain was quite thin. The surface gravity of the planet was quite similar to Earth’s, and the climb was quite steep; few humans would’ve been able to survive the journey. Ulysses was far from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Myridia, 50 light-years from Earth Vesta is floating above the giant hole in the ground where the Grand Cathedral used to be; from her vantage point, she can see the crowd still evacuating the area. It’s a lot less people[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Noriko Null wakes up feeling that something’s not right. She’s in her bed, and everything around her matches her room at Null Tower, but she can’t shake off the feeling that she’s missing something: she can’t feel the constant hum[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Fermi crater, far side of the Moon The N01-Ragnarok emerges from the Shadow Network’s portal, rapidly followed by another dozen ships of similar design. While the others waste no time to set up a course to leave this solar system,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Infirmary of the N01-Ragnarok The ship is orbiting the planet formerly known as Eden, and there are two women monitoring the medical equipment: the goddess Vesta and the Egyptian Shabti, reborn without her cybernetic implants. The patients are Noriko Null[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Vesta can’t really wrap her head around what she’s watching: Noriko Null emerged from the planet’s core, floating in the air, her body glowing with energy just as much as her golden eyes. The Eden seem to be reacting erratically:[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A second ago, Noriko Null and Quantum were inside a mental projection of Eden’s original planet: a lush garden with no technology whatsoever, not even clothing. Now the representation of the first Eden host of the Nexus has changed the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…