Well, I can't explain the mechanism, but tests show neurochemical cascades increasing in frequency and severity over time. "I will read it-and share a sitrep with the board next quarter-but a summary of principle findings wouldn't be out of order." You can read it for yourself, but I think we both understand the gravity of the situation." : Exhibit Record 456, FILE//REPORT TO RASPUTIN THREAT RESPONSE: Forward for Medical Review THREAT DETECT: Level 8, 9-Possible Psychosis, Crew Impairment LOCATION: K1 Dig Site 4, Logistics, Infirmary Instruments failed the moment we broke through. "It? So what is it? What does it look like? Show me the feed, the diagnostics, everything." The machine chewed through a pillar or something that held it up, and-" The readings were all over the charts like in the other dig sites, but the borer broke into a tunnel and… Well, we almost hit it with the borer. "Nearly twelve hundred meters deep in Site 3.
: Exhibit Record 12, FILE//REPORT TO RASPUTIN THREAT DETECT: Level 10-Protocol Incompliance LOCATION: K1 Dig Site 2, Communion, Command Center Tanis Lee, Commander Kuang Xuan, Captain Hou Ye Just don't make me think about it too much, okay? We've got a lot of work to do." "Nobody remembers the second guy to walk on the Moon." "What's the hurry? It's just another day at the office." There's a whole other mission serving as a cover story! This is huge!" A science only just discovered and a source on that wavelength or whatever is buried in the crust of the Moon. Don't you see how momentous this is? Can't you feel it? We're on the Moon mining for what might be-" Delete this footnote upon the actualization of this history.THREAT DETECT: Level 7, 10-Unauthorized Cognizance, Protocol Incompliance +The scribe employed at this future date shall adjust the name mentioned here, should I, Scribe Ixolt, expire before the publication of this record. The last to see it, to see Death as It consumes everything in this world, will be the great Emperor himself. This will be the end of everything: all living things and non-living things, all that is real or theoretical. Death will soon arrive to the universe, and claim all of it for Itself. Even so, these good creatures are not exempt from the miserable clawing of others, who thrash blindly against the inevitable end.īut, we know from the words of the Great Emperor, the suffering will end. This warring, which goes on even now, is due to a futile desire to postpone the end of things when no such deferment can possibly occur as such, the civilizations of the Sol system do not partake, for they accept the coming end as shown to them by their beloved Emperor. Next, a great war broke out across all varieties of civilization, be they naturally war-minded or peaceful. Many deaths occurred in this intervening time before the end. The people of these worlds, having been subjected to this strangeness and adversity, began to grow afraid and suspicious of one another.
All worlds, no matter their natural or synthetic geographies or climate, grew cold. His description is indeed what came to pass, and is happening now, 118 years after the Emperor brought liberty to the Sol system.įirst, a veil of darkness descended on all the worlds of this universe, such that the people of these worlds looked into the sky and saw only night. The Great Revelation, which the Emperor Calus received at the end of the universe, was described by the Emperor to his Royal Scribes.