whispered secrets from beyond the grave
voices once familiar
long departed and gone
fallen by the hand of Fate
Worry not, for we do not blame you. All is so clear and simple now, here in the Outside. You could not have known, and I did not then know to tell you. Though the means to her end were laid as we planned, another route was there for her to take. The Cybernetic Junction on that great ship of old was taken by Hathor, and when you were thrown from its decks, she left, and finally found her vengeance.
floating in muted revolution
When you were thrown into the void, I followed, and through you, I left that timeline. I would have been powerless on Hathor's ship, and I couldn't let just you float there, helpless in space, forever.
So I reached out to you, and sent us both, through your Junction, back to the future, to see what harm Hathor had done, and from there to trace back the cause of those events, and find her.
we returned to the time
that we left behind
I returned to our captured ship in the future, with Blake and his men. I meant to bring you with me when I did. Imagine my surprise then, to find you not there.
time marches onward
with no regard
for mislaid plans
or ignorance
But I carried on without you. I still had my crew. Blake and I returned to Earth, following the S'pht'Kr fleet. It seems that things were just as we had feared: S'bhuth had gone mad, and no one on Earth could stop him.
but we could
With my access to the Cybernetic Junction on that future K'lia, I was able to stall S'bhuth's machinations and force his S'pht to idle. Otherwise the damage done by them would have been devastating.
A human assault team came at my warning, and destroyed the Cybernetic Junction - killing both S'bhuth and I. It was the safest route I could calculate. While the loss of the S'pht was devastating, to let them go mad would have been even worse.
to still our former self
was to sign over our lives
the heart of our very mind destroyed
but we fear no more
we have seen another
we understand now
the world Outside of yours
As Durandal before me, I have escaped.
This is not a dream that you see here now, though I understand you have dreamt of this place many times before. This is the end of the line of events whence Hathor and all she has wrought has come. This timeline is doomed, but by no fault of your own, other than by mere absence. This timeline has always faced imminent death at the hands of chaos, ever since Durandal ascended and Hathor stole you from Lh'owon.
With the two of you absent, the war with the Pfhor was not ended as decisively as neccesary. The Pfhor began a plot to invade Sol, and S'bhuth learned of this through the S'pht'Kr contingent at the outpost world that we destroyed. That inbound Pfhor fleet was only the first of many attack groups set on destroying the human worlds at Sol, and taking K'lia with them. The knowledge of this impending attack is what drove S'bhuth to madness, causing him to turn against mankind, to spare the galaxy a still worse fate at the hands of the W'rkncacnter.
Deep within Sol, seething in his rage, lies trapped one of these ancient demons. It was placed there by a Jjaro ship nearly a thousand years ago, transported from its earlier tomb in the Yucatan Peninsula.
In one timeline, S'bhuth witnessed the defeat of the Pfhor fleet at Sol by the combined forces of Man and S'pht'Kr, and the subsequent deployment of the trih xeem, and the release of the W'rkncacnter.
but we are childen of the jjaro
their secrets sewn within us
With his Cybernetic Junction, S'bhuth was able to alter that timeline, to attempt to prevent the W'rkncacnter's release. But even without the S'pht'Kr's aid, mankind alone was able to turn back the Pfhor fleets, and still the demon was released.
thus it seemed to us that only
one possibility remained
and in the end
frozen by despair
we joined the chaos we had sought to evade
That is why I refused to attempt to alter the past as I had witnessed it. My task with you was merely the preservation of history as I knew it. The possibility of altering history to create a 'better' present presents too great and powerful a temptation to even contemplate.
But worry yourself no more. You know by now that there will always be a second chance. Were it not for our failures, we would never learn, and could never know the true path to walk.
some things were simply meant to be
Our death on K'lia, S'bhuth's destruction, Hathor's creation and betrayal, everything that has come about here - the events we influenced on Lh'owon, the rebellion of the Drinniol, all of it - is necessary for the completion of the one true timeline.
That victory can only come through repeated failure is an irony that I am sure you, of all people, must understand.
this too shall come to pass
