The images on the screen are coming from multiple worlds, but they all tell the same story: war. Cities in flames, ruins of crashed spaceships, civilians running from plasma blasts raining down from the sky. Despite her prodigious mind, Noriko[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Nowhere In a dark room with no doors and no windows, a buzzer inside a woman’s brain wakes her up. The circuitry beneath the skin of her face emits a low glow; then the space around one of the walls[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Infirmary of the N01-Ragnarok When Vector regains consciousness, the first thing he notices is that he doesn’t feel the feedback of his neural implants. The second thing is seeing Noriko Null in front of him. <You’re a real piece of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Midgard City, Antarctica The hangar doors open to let one of the Valkyrie shuttles land inside Null Tower Two. While not as publicly known as its New York counterpart, the building is just as important to the infrastructure of Null[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
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…
Null City Grand Cathedral, Myridia As the Council of Myridia begins, Noriko Null does her best to avoid attracting too much attention. Which is not an easy task when you’re inside a church that worships you, during a council that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
