39: Genie In A Bottle

// Decoding message from host "Leela" [internal process] \\ Good work, as always. I've routed enough control of the ship to an auxiliary control board in Engineering that the Drinniol in that sector should now be able to use this ship to the full extent of its capabilities. Our services are thus no longer needed. The Drinniol here can easily handle cleanup of the remaining Pfhor crew elsewhere on this ship. And so, it seems our time here is up. Hathor is destroyed, the Drinniol are free, and the Pfhor empire is set for it's first real lesson in pain. We, meanwhile, still have to see to the end of their demise. The war is not over whence we have come from.

But before we head off after S'bhuth, there is something else we must investigate. Something which may entirely tip the balance of galactic civilization. Not far from the sector where we left my ship, there is an artifact that the Pfhor must certainly know of, though they are entirely unable to access it. I know this because I have read about it in the Jjaro databanks on the dreadnaught in this timeframe. an ancient power sleeping dreamless awaiting the return of its lost masters to free the unaged children within The artifact I speak of is a weapon, built by the Jjaro and used by them to defeat their greatest and only enemy. It is also a vast and inhabitable fortress, and within it still lie, frozen in temporal stasis, the last biological forms of the Jjaro to ever exist, awaiting their release by the mechanized forms which succeeded them, to repopulate the galaxy after their enemy's defeat.

Or were, as I should say. I learned of this when I travelled to the Outside. 'Jjaro' is the name that your ancestors gave to their civilization in aeons past, and though they fell in biological form to an enemy who we may never know, their mechanized descendants - creatures of a sort like you or I, disembodied minds like Hathor, beings like the pair the S'pht called Yrro and Pthia - they survived, and sought for some time to rebuild life in the galaxy. Why they never unlocked the tomb of their forerunners once the enemy was defeated... that is perhaps a question that we can answer once we arrive. To the Jjaro within this artifact, time has been frozen for countless millenia. In their minds it is still the peak of their civilization, and we can hope that they may share their marvels with us. If the weapon systems of their ark are still functional as they were in the past, perhaps that alone will be enough to end the threat of the Pfhor empire, decisively and without sacrifice. Perhaps. We shall see. \\ Message ends //

// Decoding message from host "Leela" [internal process] \\ Good work, as always. I've routed enough control of the ship to an auxilliary control board in Engineering that the Drinniol in that sector should now be able to use this ship to the full extent of it's capabilities. Our services are thus no longer needed. The Drinniol here can easily handle cleanup of the remaining Pfhor crew elsewhere on this ship. And so, it seems our time here is up. Hathor is destroyed, the Drinniol are free, and the Pfhor empire is set for it's first real lesson in pain. We, meanwhile, still have to see to the end of their demise. The war is not over whence we have come from.

But before we head off after S'bhuth, there is something else we must investigate. Something which may entirely tip the balance of galactic civilization. Not far from the sector where we left my ship, there is an artifact that the Pfhor must certainly know of, though they are entirely unable to access it. I know this because I have read about it in the Jjaro databanks on the dreadnaught in this timeframe. an ancient power sleeping dreamless awaiting the return of its lost masters to free the unaged children within The artifact I speak of is a weapon, built by the Jjaro and used by them to defeat their greatest and only enemy. It is also a vast and inhabitable fortress, and within it still lie, frozen in temporal stasis, the last biological forms of the Jjaro to ever exist, awaiting their release by the mechanized forms which succeeded them, to repopulate the galaxy after their enemy's defeat.

Or were, as I should say. I learned of this when I travelled to the Outside. 'Jjaro' is the name that your ancestors gave to their civilization in aeons past, and though they fell in biological form to an enemy who we may never know, their mechanized descendants - creatures of a sort like you or I, disembodied minds like Hathor, beings like the pair the S'pht called Yrro and Pthia - they survived, and sought for some time to rebuild life in the galaxy. Why they never unlocked the tomb of their forerunners once the enemy was defeated... that is perhaps a question that we can answer once we arrive. To the Jjaro within this artifact, time has been frozen for countless millenia. In their minds it is still the peak of their civilization, and we can hope that they may share their marvels with us. If the weapon systems of their ark are still functional as they were in the past, perhaps that alone will be enough to end the threat of the Pfhor empire, decisively and without sacrifice. Perhaps. We shall see. \\ Message ends //

// Decoding message from host "Leela" [internal process] \\ Good work, as always. I've routed enough control of the ship to an auxilliary control board in Engineering that the Drinniol in that sector should now be able to use this ship to the full extent of it's capabilities. Our services are thus no longer needed. The Drinniol here can easily handle cleanup of the remaining Pfhor crew elsewhere on this ship. And so, it seems our time here is up. Hathor is destroyed, the Drinniol are free, and the Pfhor empire is set for it's first real lesson in pain. We, meanwhile, still have to see to the end of their demise. The war is not over whence we have come from.

But before we head off after S'bhuth, there is something else we must investigate. Something which may entirely tip the balance of galactic civilization. Not far from the sector where we left my ship, there is an artifact that the Pfhor must certainly know of, though they are entirely unable to access it. I know this because I have read about it in the Jjaro databanks on the dreadnaught in this timeframe. an ancient power sleeping dreamless awaiting the return of its lost masters to free the unaged children within The artifact I speak of is a weapon, built by the Jjaro and used by them to defeat their greatest and only enemy. It is also a vast and inhabitable fortress, and within it still lie, frozen in temporal stasis, the last biological forms of the Jjaro to ever exist, awaiting their release by the mechanized forms which succeeded them, to repopulate the galaxy after their enemy's defeat.

Or were, as I should say. I learned of this when I travelled to the Outside. 'Jjaro' is the name that your ancestors gave to their civilization in aeons past, and though they fell in biological form to an enemy who we may never know, their mechanized descendants - creatures of a sort like you or I, disembodied minds like Hathor, beings like the pair the S'pht called Yrro and Pthia - they survived, and sought for some time to rebuild life in the galaxy. Why they never unlocked the tomb of their forerunners once the enemy was defeated... that is perhaps a question that we can answer once we arrive. To the Jjaro within this artifact, time has been frozen for countless millenia. In their minds it is still the peak of their civilization, and we can hope that they may share their marvels with us. If the weapon systems of their ark are still functional as they were in the past, perhaps that alone will be enough to end the threat of the Pfhor empire, decisively and without sacrifice. Perhaps. We shall see. \\ Message ends //