>>6347879 An image flashed before Your mind’s eye: a memory that you never lived. A young face, vaguely matching the one before you. It is followed by the stifling, crushing memories of Old Night. Vast, incalculable amounts of power set against one another in a gridlock of terrible dystopian cold war backed by technologies that could dismantle stars or depopulate worlds at a whim. Only your superhuman efforts kept Terra in one piece, ravaged and unrecognizable though that piece was.
“Ah.” You murmur, flexing your lower lip in an expression of appreciation. “An early attempt at creating a council of like-minded Perpetuals to guide Humanity through that perilous time. I remember. I see it was not without its flaws; for you have aged.”
“Yes, my Lord, though my natural life was extended for centuries—centuries that I used to perfect the processes within my own body and eventually reach the precarious equilibrium between runaway cancers and geriatric degradation. NeuAnder may have been destroyed, but I have remained loyal to your vision. It was not until I witnessed your Custodes in action in Akkadia and Indoia that I was able to narrow down your identity once more. If you will forgive my impudence, I have always believed that you are the rightful Emperor of Mankind.”
“I must confess I have had my Custodes look into you, as well. Like any Perpetual, you have amassed your own impressive power base. Your Sigilites are called technomages. You are regarded as something akin to a wizard.”
“Alas, my Lord, the Sigilites are no more. I was the first, and I remain as the last. My order has been destroyed for the so-called Standard Construction Templates we were thought to possess by the ignorant. So, if You wish to interpret as such, I am merely crawling to you as another defeated Perpetual with no other options. The truth is that I wish I could have presented you with my entire faculty of Sigilites had I known sooner of your identity. I do have a handful of in-tact properties that I believe you will find of great use, however. Once we make a move on one of them, the other powers on this world will move against the other assets. You must regrettably choose.”
>Fleet Formica PacificaColossal earth moving terraformers that can reproduce themselves over time with the resources they dig up.
>Academy Starship TalentiaEquipped to educate 1,000,000 pupils at a time to Federation standards.
>A warehouse of 1,000 highly illegal Men of IronEquipped with Zero-Point Impact Carbines, these highly adaptable weapons of war can assume any face, are proficient in any task, and make excellent spies, assassins, or lone wolf commandos. Just one can level a hive city.
