// "Leela" @ [untranslatable] wrote: \\
voices once familiar
long departed and gone
fallen by the hand of Fate
Worry not: we do not blame you. Here, in the
Outside, all is now so clear and simple. You
could not have known, and I did not yet know
to tell you. We laid the means to her end as
we had planned, but an escape route remained
for her to take. Sakhmet took the Cybernetic
Junction on that great ship of old, and when
you were thrown from its decks, she left to
finally find her vengeance.
floating in muted revolution
When you were thrown into the void, I followed, and through you, I left that timeline. I would've been powerless on Sakhmet'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 Sakhmet 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 followed the S'pht'Kr to
Earth. Just as we'd feared, S'bhuth had gone
mad, and no one on Earth could stop him.
but we could
My access to that future K'lia's Cybernetic
Junction enabed me to stall S'bhuth's
machinations, force his S'pht to idle, and
keep them from wreaking incalculable damage.
A human assault team came at my warning to
destroy the Cybernetic Junction, killing
S'bhuth and me. It was the best strategy I
could find. Losing the S'pht was a calamity;
their madness would be incalculably 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 you now see here, though
I gather you've dreamt of this place many
times. This is the end of the line of events
whence Sakhmet and all she has wrought have
come. This timeline is doomed, but by no
fault of yours, save your mere absence. This
timeline has always faced imminent death at
the hands of chaos, ever since Durandal
ascended and Sakhmet stole you from Lh'owon.
With you two absent, the war with the Pfhor
ended less decisively than it needed to. The
Pfhor began a plot to invade Sol. S'bhuth
learned of this via the S'pht'Kr contingent
at the outpost we destroyed. That inbound
Pfhor fleet was but the first of many attack
groups set on destroying the human worlds at
Sol and taking K'lia with them.
Knowing of this impending attack led S'bhuth
to seeming insanity: he turned on humanity
to spare the galaxy the still worse fate of
the W'rkncacnter's madness. In CE 1996, the
Jjaro trapped one such ancient demon deep
within Sol, where it even now seethes with
rage, after transporting it from its earlier
tomb in the Yucatan Peninsula.
In one timeline, S'bhuth witnessed the Pfhor
fleet, defeated at Sol by the combined human
and S'pht'Kr forces, subsequently deploy the
trih xeem, thus releasing the W'rkncacnter.
but we are childen of the Jjaro
their secrets sewn within us
S'bhuth's Cybernetic Junction enabled him to
alter that timeline in an attempt to prevent
the W'rkncacnter's release. But even without
the S'pht'Kr, humanity defeated the Pfhor
fleets, and they still released the demon.
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 alter the past as
I'd witnessed it. My task with you was
merely to preserve history as I knew it.
The ability to alter history to create a
'better' present presents a temptation too
great and powerful to even contemplate.
But worry yourself no more. By now, you know
that there will always be a second chance.
Without 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,
Sakhmet's creation and betrayal, our work at
Lh'owon, the Drinniol revolt - all of it was
required to complete the one true timeline.
That victory can emerge only from repeated failures is an irony I'm sure you, better than anyone, understand.
\\ Message ends //
