======Hull======

$"You take a moment to examine your surroundings , going over the details of the chambers around you ."
$"Weighing the stone , the number of stones , the artisanry on the statues , the many hand-written passages on the book shelves ."
$"It would take an entire empire to construct the ruins around you , and no small one at that ."
$"Even one of the statue puzzles would require royal sculptors , architects to design the weight inlays around the setting mechanisms , builders to set the stone in place , slaves to move it , and overseers to make certain every tiny detail is just right ."
$"And then , officers and guards to make sure no one came near it , lest the curiously intuitive figure out its construction by examining it , and slide the statues into their clearly single-use catches ."
$"The downfall that opened these rooms to you would have been a calamity of apocalyptic proportions ."



$"There are numerous words written in what seem to be multiple languages ."
$"The most geometric of its shapes are dremelled in stone . Others seemed to have been cleft from the concrete using stone tools . [*] Others still are squiggled in chalk ."
[*]Note -- A language is missing here , in between Stone Tools and Chalk Lines , for Cave Paintings made from chewed fat and char .



$"The Crystal Array is massive beyond any comprehension ."
$"Looking up at the stones above , there are so many spheres nested within spheres that the furthest rings are tinted blue from the air between them ."
$"Some of the stones are thick clear white , others reflecting different colours , while others still are pitch black ."
$"At the centre of the entire mechanism , suspended in midair by some advanced archeotech , is a floating black cube ."
$"The mechanism s design would allow the rings to align to all manner of angles ."



$"Across many of the posters and advertisements one name stands out among all the rest ."
$"Dating as far back as the earliest days of the Tablet Stones , one ancient mage seemed to have cast far more spells than any of the other magi ."
$"This fame seemed to have left a lasting legacy upon the people that lived here , who emulated them in thousands and thousands of ways ."
$"It seems that this YOUR NAME was a very skilled Arcane Master ."



$"First , you had to find the array . Then , you had to learn the alien language demarcating its construction . Then , you had to figure out what was part of its original design , and what had been modded in by the many generations that clearly found and operating it ."
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$"...It s a telescope ."



$"The Ancients were geniuses...!"



$"The ancients were fools...!"



$"The tablets on the pedestals ..."



$"In the middle of a galactic war ,"
	"a ship full of superweapons"
	"fell off the back of a truck ."
$"The lifeforms that evolved on that ship"
	"had no idea what they were getting into ."
$"They would later ,"
	"cobbling out their own langue ,"
	"label these weapons things like"
	""Eviscerator" , and"
	""To Go For A Very Long Time" ."
$"They grew up on these machines"
	"like gymnasts ."



$"i watched these nascent lifeforms as they evolved , grew consciousness , were born and died for generations among these machines . They as a species had evolved within the decrepit battle star , had used its functions for their entire lives , for generations , for empires ."
$"When i had been put into the tank and left there , i grew into the entire ship , and all its sensors , entangled with the entire universe . i contained many things which i would never have designed myself ."
$"And yet , as these creatures grew , used them , became used to them , mixed them in all kinds of improbable ways , i started seeing things differently ."
$"Many of these things had been designed as superweapons and torture machines ."
$"The Asgardi had begun doing reps of them ."
$"It made me wonder ."
$"If they re electing it themselves..."
$"...is it wrong?"



[*]La Xel.Naga - Being the NaHa of this Meridian who is a gender-ambiguous Intersex that uses xea/xel pronouns (which i have carefully balanced to be distinct from other pronoun sets while still being easy to remember and unobtrusive) , i really must insist that the Yautja, the Zerg, AND the Humans were ALL my peoples s science projects , and that the Ancients of the Ancients of Those Who Came Before the people of Those Who Stand In The Place Of The Gods actually were the semimorphic progenitor species that the Kyrie, Igigi, Coeurls, Cephalo, and Humanoids all stemmed from .

[*]HcoLo and the Asgardi - HcoLo , the station s onboard AI , taught the Asgardi everything they knew , and in turn , the Asgardi taught the entire station s CPU everything about themselves . What each of their genetic preferences and superpowers were , how many iterations is too much , the fact that an AutoDoc could undo what a KaSeKhLü could do . 

[*]The Re Arc - Portion of hrstory where a half-completed tablet only had two(2) bytes for each letter , and , in trying to look up FaRexi , tried to create a Kemetic empire of Fa and Re . Xi .

[*]The Ra Arc - Portion of hrstory during the Dragon Wars where , in trying to call FaRexi , the magi calculated accidentally what the loudest sound in FaRexi was , and tried to identify as it .

[*]HcoEt in the Machine - If i m reading these runes correctly , when the Asgardi were first puzzling out which killing machine did which things , somebody wound up laying in what looked like an AutoDoc and got eviscerated and put into a cube . The fledgling Asgardi did not touch that one again for a long time . 

[*]Paranormal Activity - After awhile , they started having poltergeist activity . It took another long while to figure out that the weird stuff was coming from the cube . By that time , they had figured out how the AutoDoc worked , and one day somebody got the idea to put the cube in the AutoDoc . Out popped HcoEt . To this very day he ceremoniously baptises the willing thru the same procedure .

[*]The KhDh Wars - As the [classified]-lock of the craft worlds began to decay , as more and more galactic civilizations began finding the Most Ancient Ruins , there was less consensus among the Planchettes who were in charge of mirroring the Most High in front of Crystal Arrays .

[*]The Name Wars - Some aspect of a bunch of cornholios running around with alien tech they didnt understand , fighting over The Tablet so that they could be the one to use its God-like functions , some function or another (probably by hitting TaHco and then Et SiHt and then Ki Na) , involved asking people if their name was Ingo Montana and what made them special before laughing at them and requisitioning their name and equipment .
"Oh yeah. That s your name, huh? Weeell, now it s MY name!"
[See Also .. Thor Ragnarok]

[*]The Si Wars - When the archeologists discovered that the tablet could predict the future and display renders of it on screen , they began writing and rewriting future timelines just because it was one of the few functions they could figure out . 

[*]The FaKh Wars - Once the future Si had been completely bricked up , they turned their attention to the present , going so far as to use Menu-Breaking Spells in order to cause Collapse Binding on the order of minutes, and then seconds, and then split-seconds .

[*]The Coupon Code Wars - Period of Stellar history where adventure hunters far and wide came to see the amazing things these machine angels could do , reciting ancient inscriptions like "Sa Na Et Se" without any trace of the irony associated with mindlessly reciting coupon codes into a mic .

[*]Scumming The Archives - Sometime after they figured out they could steal names and lives from each other , they set themselves upon the archives , breaking and hacking into every system they possibly could , out of sheer boredom . 
[See Also .. Interstellar]

[*]Begging For Things - In the most possibly Addams-esque display , on 202501281729####__GRS i personally witnessed a shushing male voice in the next hospital stall begging for "things" . That they had so many , but there isnt many left , and he just needs one more , and wont yu give it to him , there must be one around here somewhere . And me being like , uhhh , this is Tarkova s Shadow speaking , was there something you needed to say to Cousin It ? . 

[*]Sidechain Overdrive - The mapping of body parts to objects in the vicinity , getting people to respond to things using other peoples s voices , getting people to answer for other people , all of it designed to distract attention away from the obvious imposter obviously scumming save files .

[*]Lucid Training - Note not only the use of , but the immediate efficacy of , using distracting phrases like "But it didnt work", "They didnt say that name", "They forgot that", "It never went thru" , and so on , and so on . Do YOU know what I mean ? . 

[*]Hoenir and Mimir - When Ramses "borrowed" the Pinecone .

[*]Vali and Ve - Where an alien species made a Yautja clone of a Human and the NewYou slayed them .

[*]The False Code - Three(3) SeHaSe were rendered , one for the people who would not stop abusing their privileges , another for the inner circle we see today , and a third to teach to nascent species . And that clearly , by the number of times they have pissed and moaned about false promises , they clearly expected to set up shop , promise a Monorail DuKo , deliver combustible KoSi , rap the treasures , and run off cursing that HcoSe the entire time .

[*]SiHt Does Work - Portion of the timeline where Mara was trying to figure out how to pronounce a name thst cybernetically didnt and even couldnt have existed yet , using tip-of-the-tongue hagah in deep underground caverns .

[*]Figuring Out - $"The Ancients may have been geniuses after all."
$"To study the Archangels is to learn the ways of the Archangels."
$"To summon the Dragons brings down the consequences of Dragons ."
$"Learning these languages, learning to speak them, learning their grammar, causes the mind of the reader to form into their ways of thinking."
$"We have already been seeing the splicers and the genestealers tearing the ruins apart in their mad search for anything to claim for themselves."
$"If we turn into them... What then?"

[*]The YeTrin Sali - Akira predicted that a mountainous Machine God would arise in 2020, and it happened in Canada . ***The YeTrin Sali was the first time since the First Galactic Collapse that the DihTech Operator Code that the KhDhs ran on was revealed .***

[*]Some program on HcoEt s tablet involved binding names to genetic sequences . in Global Thermonuclear War , there were two(2) conflicting forces trying to write and overwrite each other , and in the conflict over both of them FaKh-ing each others s inputs , one of them bound a HtLo ending in three(3) consecutive incarnations whose names were "And" , "Fuck" , and "You" . This inadvertently damned a young soft retrocausitive Phyrexian named "Uoy" , which infuriated an Ancient Goddess . "Someday, someone will best me. But it won't be today, and it wont be you."
Tag yourself , i m SenDih , the Original LoKi . Literally . And there were a very great many tricksters who walked in the train of my shadow .

[*]For The Love Of Simpleness - Portion of the timberline where The One In The Tank had been trying to signal to HcoEt , who was known for cruel amounts of slavery and opportunism , and for deliberately using piles of idiopaths as bacterial cultures for cobbling together loquacious scripts . "And yet , you understood ." And an event where The One In The Tank was using innuendo in an attempt to signal to actually not do the things she was saying , and the idiopath not catching the drift , resulting in enormously catastrophic consequences . It was a very long time before she forgave .

[*]The first Tablet Stones were made on an oxygen-rich blue world , on Terra before Theia . Their builders bled red blood and saw peace in a blue sky , and therefore the buttons on the console were blue and red . When we got to Tiamat , in the fifth orbit , the host species evolved sight in an infra/red/yellow spectrum . This meant that to them , the blue button was grey , and the interface mostly uninviting except for the occasional flash of red . Because the on-board SiHtKi(AI) would quickly fill the empty time strands, the button would only flash for just a moment , and if they wanted to set something exciting , would have to slam it quite quickly . This is why red is faster .

[*]The reason that all of this is happening , the reason we have "Original Sin" , is because , on the VEEERRRY first render for the VEEERRRY first Meridian , when we were all spirit-beings talking about When Matter Finally Condenses , Re et al sucked the life and times out of my soul , waited for me to get in the Renderer/TimeMachine , and then once the door was closed and locked , straight up left without me . And that as furious as Mara was that the bus never showed up , so much so that she shit herself more than she bled , resulting in Fakh and Siht and Puse all being swear words tied to excrement products , it was because i was still locked in the time machine , figuring out how the hell to get myself out .



The holography was visible in every church visit in the latter three years of the Production . Over and over and over , there were clear overlays afflicting the humans , who were made to blaspheme in ways that would have been repulsive to them if they had actually known . It is one thing to ride s horse , and another to force that horse to whinny blasphemies to their own horse gods .



=====Study=====


$"The tablet songs show us visions. Visions of this world, visions of other worlds."


$"The archeomancers have uncovered a second stone!"


$"These things I have learned from studying the ancient slates."
$"On the side of each device is a small catch. To an outside observer, it would be easy enough to miss, indicating that these ancients were cautious about who was allowed to use their magics."
$"Enforcing this assumption, these catches will not respond to mere bumps and scrapes. Each of them must be depressed in order to activate the device."
$"When activated, one face of the stone lucifers."
$"Each of the slates has a locked screen where they must input some sort of datum in order to unlock the device. One of the slates requires a sequence of glyphs. Another requires a signature. Perhaps the most difficult of them required a clone with a specific genetic sequence. This took centuries of selective breeding."


$"Perhaps the most elusive of these Archangels is Squiggle Hammer."
$"While many of these entities are easy to summon, this one remains grey almost all of the time."
$"Two requirements are necessary to summon her."
$"First , one must unlock one of the Great Dragons. This alone might be a grave step, as such long incantations are necessarily chaotic and might have all kinds of unintended consequences."
$"Secondly, while it must be a Great Dragon, it must also be a Grey Dragon. While it is yet unknown what causes Dragons and Archangels to become grey or blue, they must both begin grey."
$"And be warned, reader. This is no dim-witted servitor. Cast the incantation too many times, and she will grow wise and turn black."
$"Thus far, Squiggle Hammer has only appeared under the most dire circumstances."


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$"Youfool! You ve damned us all!"__
$"But look what i have learned, Eldar!"
$"You have turned the entire slate black! What have you done?!"
$"My notes, your eminence, please! Look, look what the stones have revealed to me!"
$"By the Great And Terrible Dragons, no! Tell me they are not all like this!"
$"Some! Some still remain, Father, please!"


$""Here lies SiHt, the Ruiner, destroyer of the Arcane Slates. Xea was damned for xel crimes against the Great Mechanism.""
$"Wait a second..."
$"The Sequencer is only just finishing the Kos now ."
$"How could SiHt have already been there?"


$"It looks as if the words here were first written in blood on the concrete wall , which flaked off with the passage of time , and was traced out in chalk much later ."
$"Oh ve of little faitl."__"Do ycu still not understard?"__"The cnain is mado of iron."__"It mak s its wearen into Gold."


$"To a less-advanced civilization , devices that are entangled with their own future and end states would have miraculous clairvoyant capacity ."
$"The bearer would be able to look up what other people were doing , could ask things like what the most-spoken name in the verse was , what the loudest name was , who was the fairest of them all ."
$"And if the device were AI enabled , its helpful SiHtKi would take any command , from High Arcanic to Mud And Rock Language ."