Maybe fate likes fools. Or maybe fools are the only ones smart enough to like fate. Simple game theory dictated that they couldn’t fire on me. I had the formula in my mind and they’d have to tear it out one neuron at a time. They would, so I ran. Out the door, past the cameras, past the guards, and into the alleyway. Living it all as though I’ve done it before, and as though it couldn’t have happened any other way. Down into the sewer, back out onto the street, and running towards the horizon.
The horizon never gets any closer. You run and you run and the only thing you can think of after three days is the knife strapped to your shin. And then it’s all you can do to keep yourself from reaching down in the split second of that insanity they call heroism, pulling out the knife and cutting your own legs off, knowing that if you don’t you’ll keep on running. You can’t run away forever.
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{begin file contents 1/1} An interesting footnote to the UESC/Pfhor war was the long-term effect of the Chimera crashing on Pfhor Prime. In addition to it's human crew, the Chimera carried with it the assortment of fungi and molds that accompany humans everywhere they go. The slow spread of fungus growth in and around the wreckage of the Chimera recieved little attention in the first few centuries after the war. This changed when one strain of fungus formed a symbiosis with a lifeform native to Pfhor Prime.
The result was a highly prolific fungus that rapidly spread across the planet and displaced much of the native life on Pfhor Prime. Other forms of fungi symbionts rapidly appeared, and soon the purple / beige hues of Pfhor Prime were being displaced by the green / brown hues of Earth. Many of the native species were lost forever while others found new niches. The Pfhor suffered centuries of famine until the biosphere of Pfhor Prime reached a new equilibrium. {entry endsegment} {period transfer_getnextEvent&} ------------------------------------------- ---1/1:end_burst_historical_transmission--- -------------------------------------------
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{begin file contents 1/1} The discovery of UESC weapon prototypes in Pfhor laboratories eventually led the UESC to re-investigate the DANGI sector of the Salinger, a little known research station. The Salinger was attacked by the Pfhor in the final days of the war, and the oddies discovered in the wake of this attack were considered to be of little importance and ignored. The re-investigation shed little light though. The main databanks of the DANGI sector were destroyed. The employees of DANGI were either found dead or missing.
Fires had destroyed much of the sector, but some physical documents had escaped. They gave vague hints of a corporation that wanted to maximize it's profits by feeding both sides of the war, but nothing definite was found. A few cryptic memos were discovered that spoke of an "Achilles" project. But the nature of "Achilles" could not be determined. The DANGI sector was sealed off from the rest of the station to prevent tampering with undiscovered evidence. With time, the entire station was abandoned. {entry endsegment} {period transfer_end&} ------------------------------------------- ---1/1:end_burst_historical_transmission--- -------------------------------------------
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{begin file contents 1/1} The UESC victory on Pfhor Prime in 2862 may have been the most costly in human history, but it was also the most complete. The High Pfhor Council was defeated, and with it the foundation of Pfhor society. The UESC was dismayed to learn that the networks and databanks throughout the former Pfhor Empire were completely empty. This was initially assumed to be a last-ditch form of "scorched earth" tactic from the Pfhor, but this was later ruled out. The cause of the empty databanks remain a mystery.
In the years that followed the defeat of the Pfhor Empire, client races and slaves rose up in rebellion against their former masters, creating a power vacuum that many aspiring ex slaves and ex Pfhor military commanders tried to fill. Over the next century, governments on the former Pfhor systems would rise and fall in a constant struggle for power. {entry endsegment} {period transfer_end&} ------------------------------------------- ---1/1:end_burst_historical_transmission--- -------------------------------------------
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