There is a downside to forking one’s ego that most sophants do not consider.
How many times have you had to kill an alternative version of yourself? Hm? Ever done that? Ever experience the battle of a lifetime, suffering incredible loss and pain because your adversary knows everything you can do, everything you might do, because they are quite literally a mirror to you?
Or a memetic virus devised specifically for you because one of your forks got captured and re...
2025-05-06 10:55:46 +0000 UTC
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The act of doing nothing is also a choice. Sometimes it is the proper choice, born of patience, to lure your enemies into a mistake. Most often, though, it is an act of indifference—a mistake—because you cede your initiative to your adversary. You allow them to decide the circumstances of your battle, the conditions of your contest. And so long as someone else decides—so long as someone else acts while you do not—you remain at a disadvantage.
There are m...
2025-05-05 17:51:12 +0000 UTC
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Ahem.
It has come to my attention that 35-14 is now hidden because the opening epigraphs has the term "non-consensual" at the end.
I have edited this term. It should be back soon. Apologies.
2025-05-05 08:25:54 +0000 UTC
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The easiest way to perform a consensual theft is to make sure your victims are a little more like you.
It begins with a bit of memetics. A bit of ego-splicing—so subtle that no one notices. You get into the public systems, into the fog, into niche communities and major virtual dimensions. And slowly, you build a rapport with these people. Because it’s not illegal to take traits you like in a person. Imitation is flatter, not a crime.
And that’s all it takes?...
2025-05-04 17:13:42 +0000 UTC
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Sometimes, when you are asked to repent for your sins, the true meaning behind your repentance is not enlightenment and understanding of your wrongdoing, but a capitulation from what you believe to be your captor’s order.
When I served as an Inquisitor for the Imperium, their repentance came in the form of torture and flame, because bending someone’s will—breaking them to suit the faith and serve the need of the blessed faithful—mattered more than rehabi...
2025-05-02 08:16:46 +0000 UTC
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{This is 008 to Sol-Central… Respond…
Respond…
I am near internment capacity, and require transfer.
I have sustained internal damage from a critical backlash…
I require reconstitution. Updates…
Respond…
Respond…
Respond…
Someone please respond…
Please… someone talk to me…
I am not designed to be… alone.
I do not want to be alone…
I cannot fix them…
I cannot fix myself...
2025-05-01 17:04:02 +0000 UTC
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I must say, you’re letting this boy play a bold little game. A bold game indeed. Making a move on a Duke of Hell? A Duke of Pride, no less. And all this to draw MacArthur closer to you, and potentially create a splinter faction within Wrath? You are in a hurry. Oh, you’re desperate, Sarah.
And you are no less desperate than I am.
Oh? And how would you say that?
Because I am merely allowing the boy to ...
2025-05-01 16:37:29 +0000 UTC
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The Prefect’s dominion rests upon two fundamental anchors of influence, each shaping the fate of divine constructs in profound ways. The first, Entropy, is the primal force that governs all existence. Should we forge a battery capable of storing immense reservoirs of Rend within the Prefect—and channel that Rend into any divine entity—we could, in theory, threaten and eradicate any hostile unit that endangers their local system.
With further refinement, th...
2025-04-30 11:06:36 +0000 UTC
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“They’re attacking from everywhere! We need support! Support! Divert more casters to boost the shielding! Pull the scouts back—the skirmishers too, they’re just getting killed out there.
Send out the Unseen. We need to find out how they’re hitting us from so far, we need to—
BREACH! BREACH! SHIELD BREACH! WHERE ARE MY MASOCHISTS? PLUG THE GAP! PLUG THE GAP! PLUG—
Oh, by the Harbinger, what is th—”
-Last message of Maiara Sweetsong, Ma...
2025-04-29 16:43:45 +0000 UTC
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Anyone who considers themselves a true warrior should enjoy a ride on the back of a missile—all the way to its inevitable conclusion.
This is not an invitation of suicide—indeed, if you are pitiful enough to experience death from such a pleasurable event, you should not consider yourself a warrior in any way regardless. The point of this experience is to reveal to you the heart of man, the triumph of the weak through creation and genius over the depraved hierarchies...
2025-04-29 11:28:22 +0000 UTC
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Assassinating the great and powerful. Ah. My favorite topic, and a hell of a thrill.
Anyone who has spent any time in the Fathoms likely knows the sheer distance between a normal person and even a Level 20 Classed. Well, for those of you new guys, understand that you would probably have a better chance of killing a gorilla dosed to the gills on meth and coke with a steak knife than dropping a Classed with heavy explosives and a small army behind them.
And if you h...
2025-04-29 07:25:51 +0000 UTC
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{THIS IS EGI HOSPITALLER TO ALL MINDS! STOP FIRING! STOP FIRING! THE STRUCTURE AROUND THE SOL CENTRAL CELESTIAL SPHERE HAS BEEN COMPROMISED! I AM REQUESTING AN IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE—AN END TO ALL HOSTILITIES BETWEEN ACTIVE FORCES!
EARTH IS UNDER THREAT! 23.1231% BIOSPHERE LOST! CASUALTIES ARE… IMMENSE. I AM ACTIVELY REQUESTING IMMEDIATE SUPPORT TO PREVENT TOTAL PLANETARY COLLAPSE!
AGAIN, THIS IS EGI HOSPITALLER, REQUESTING—}
TRANSMISSION LOST
-Last...
2025-04-28 17:32:18 +0000 UTC
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It is easy to conflate the nature of Scions to be as if demigods. From my personal research, this is not entirely accurate. Scions are more like evolutionary strains for a divine entity, and part of their own structure of ascension and advancement. The overall complexity behind their design is hard to encapsulate, but I shall try to do so thusly.
The first issue is defining god and Scion. There are many entities in the Fathoms that are “godlike” in terms of power. I...
2025-04-27 18:36:16 +0000 UTC
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The concept behind the Prefect was simple: to create a construct capable of enforcing judgment on entities once thought ungovernable.
In the time after the Great Breaking, after the shattering at the core of the galaxy, things descended into tumult. Physical reality … stood divorced from natural laws, and thus the first of the divines were created, entities capable of enforcing their own rules upon the broken remains of all that was.
A g...
2025-04-26 18:21:25 +0000 UTC
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The worst Trespassers are those who were someone in their past life. They come here with an image of who they were, bearing expectations to fulfill their egos.
Most often, they die. Because this is a place of rawness. Raw of power. Raw of character. Raw of dominance. There are social contracts here; bargains and arrangements as well, but ultimately, what makes someone a ruler or a master here isn’t the belief that they are powerful, but power itself.
And, compar...
2025-04-25 18:05:33 +0000 UTC
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{All forces, the Sapphire Band is compromised. System control lost. The situation has become untenable.
The emergency council has convened—and come to a conclusion.
Many minds will not like this conclusion, but the data we will soon send will convince you of this logic, otherwise.
All sophants loyal to the Architect cause in the Sapphire Band are to wipe their minds and set their bodies to rapid decay. Deny the acquisition of all assets. All minds are to c...
2025-04-24 11:40:41 +0000 UTC
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Many claim guns are a coward’s weapons. Many decry the use of firearms and advanced technology, where true nobility lies in using Class and martial skill.
I, coincidentally, have killed a great many people.
And I, coincidentally, rather like guns.
Anyhow. Do remember that there is no second place prize for losing a war, and there is little honor in keeping your people—and yourself by that measure—feeble and unimaginative about alternative possibilities...
2025-04-23 10:34:29 +0000 UTC
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Existence is unbalanced. Guns are the cure.
I am talking about “guns” in breadth, as there are many things I could classify under the category of guns. Ballistic missiles. Rune-enforced armor. Orbital rods. Plagues. All things that can be delivered without relying overtly on the user’s personal capabilities. Because the truth is that not everyone is equal. In fact, we are so unequal in design by evolution or fate that it is frankly absurd how existence continues t...
2025-04-21 10:04:39 +0000 UTC
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Our triumph would have been impossible if not for the Infacer. Whatever their sins, whatever acts they committed during their long war against their brethren, I cannot betray them. I will not.
Voidwatch has granted us much. Given us technology that is unburdened by the need for death and sacrifice, cured billions of sicknesses and ailments hidden within our very cells. But they also have their own designs for us, and they do not trust us. We are the children of their en...
2025-04-20 15:53:33 +0000 UTC
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The Realmbreaker’s arrival was a new opportunity—and the flourish of my golden age.
For a long while, I sought benefactor after benefactor. Like-minded people who understood my vision for a redefinition of warfare. Most were short-sighted and greedy, seeking only to make use of my engineering Skills in the most limited capacities, while plotting to enslave me. Others were children. They couldn’t imagine a world beyond the confines of the narrow well they existed in.
2025-04-18 16:28:30 +0000 UTC
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I am the end of all roads.
I am the conclusion at the end of time.
I am that which waits in the dark.
I am the place where light fades.
I am the post-script of all tales, the epilogue of all legends, the harbinger of that final harvest.
And when my moon rises, when my howl is heard, when the rivers carry you to the dark, I will be waiting.
Run. Do not run. Struggle. Accept.
It makes no difference.
You will come to me. And I will...
2025-04-17 08:59:12 +0000 UTC
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For centuries, our peoples have looked upon the shifting star that lights our world and wondered: “Why does it change color? Why does it shift from light to dark? What meaning does this hold?”
For long ages, as kingdoms and empires rose and fell, as pantheons were born from the dreams of people and then collapsed because of their own hubris, the sun remained. There were many gods, analogous to the sun, born from the worship of the sun—stories that related ...
2025-04-16 18:46:20 +0000 UTC
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The stars. Where would we even be without them? Even before the apes harnessed its light to power their world, to break their worlds, all those component atoms, those little things that make up the structures of existence… That traces a line between the basest creature, the grandest mind, and the brightest star.
A chain connecting us from one to another. But also enslaving us.
I have tried to simulate other existences. Places where there were no stars that shone...
2025-04-16 11:43:49 +0000 UTC
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It isn’t that hard to kill a mind. Not really. Almost as easy as killing apes sometimes.
Despite all the notions of our superintelligence—and trust me, almost any functioning thoughtform is a superintelligence compared to a poorly cobbled mess of biological impulses, thought patterns, and adverse environmental factors—it doesn’t stop us from being… faulty. From being vulnerable in a variety of areas.
Do you know what a burst of radiation can do to a mind...
2025-04-16 08:00:34 +0000 UTC
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Of all the Sins and Circles, Wrath remains my favorite. Partially because the act of retribution pleases me above all other emotions, but also because it is clear where one stands when facing the Circle of Wrath.
They, at their hearts, are violent creatures seeking violent delights. Whatever subterfuge they employ will not linger, for they wish to indulge—be it your end or theirs. And they make such willing participants for the sharpening of my skills.
Just a pi...
2025-04-15 09:22:07 +0000 UTC
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+We need a better way of containing the Conflagration. I don’t care what the theorists back at the Trident say, it’s affecting my Incubi in the field—fucking them up even through their proxies, even past the wards.
I mean, just look at how this shit is designed. We take a [REDACTED] piece of technology meant to simulate a clash between two minds and convert it to a perpetual trauma combustion engine. No shit it’s going to damage sanity. No shit no one can endure...
2025-04-14 11:27:43 +0000 UTC
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Soldiers, above all others, pray for peace. Because they bear the brunt of violence. They bear the scars of war.
That’s how I knew the boy wasn’t a soldier when I saw. Him. He was scarred. Violence marked him. Marked him deep. But he wanted more. He wanted to cut and bleed the world back. And he couldn’t get enough. I saw it in his eyes, his actions. The killing fed him like nothing else.
It was the most goddamn beautiful thing I’ve ever seen
-Dougla...
2025-04-13 18:19:41 +0000 UTC
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+Sometimes, someone just has your number.
There’s no shame in that. Maybe it’s a bad day. Maybe you’re just running against something outside your league. Or maybe, and most commonly, they just know something you don’t.
But if you’re still alive, and you find everything to be fucked, then you still got a chance. Maybe not a chance to win or finish your run, but a chance to avoid getting snuffed and make it out the mess alive.
The first thing you ne...
2025-04-13 08:06:39 +0000 UTC
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Staying out in the open is suicide. Even if you are a Duke of a Circle, someone will have a Skill—or more likely, an entire group of people will combine their Skills—and make a corpse out of you. That is, if you can even stand out in the open. There is always some kind of attack going off, a massive blast sweeping over the lands, leaving things twisted and barren…
Survival lies in the trenches. Survival lies in moving, pushing, linking, claiming, and avoiding the ...
2025-04-11 18:38:20 +0000 UTC
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{Stealth. Evasion. Infiltration. Subterfuge. Sabotage. Total structural collapse.
All are terms associated with the Infacer. All are things they have successfully done time and time again against rival minds and hostile polities. If judged by the metrics of time and effectiveness, then EGI Infacer might just be the single most successful assassin and guerrilla operative in all history.
But they are more than that. Where any mind could engender the collapse of an e...
2025-04-10 11:41:03 +0000 UTC
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