Fiction:Arcanium Recent History

The Paylkard Incident
CONTENT APPROVED FOR PUBLIC VIEW – High Inquisitor Leondros

Ordolia Xenos Incontinium

Cycle 6 – Day 811 – Days of Strife (Galactic Date April 11th 2793)

07:47 of April 11th Hive Fortress Listening Station Ktys reported considerable seismic activity and heavy energy signatures within the restricted zones of the fallen Arcanial Colony Paylkard triggered alerts from the automated logistics computers of trespassing into Diabolis Space.

Task Force Solo-Horegun comprised of Three Squads of Arcanial Knight Squires from The House of Contempt, four armored battalions from the 88th Taraualion Steel Stallions and the 48th Kokal were mobilised and were in orbit of the former colony at approximately 11:03. Task Force One made up of Knight Squires were Dropped in Orbitally to secure a landing zone near the energy signatures approximately 30 kilometres from the former hive city of Pualo Kunmbra however upon landing Knight Squires reported to come under attack from five unidentified beings of considerable size and power and after taking several casualties from the Unidentified beings, Task Force One requested immediate low orbital bombardment as support for a retreat to a region of greater tactical superiority, this request was granted, orbital overwatch reported that the bombardments were of a mediocre immediate effect on the five unidentified units however the bombardment was able to keep the units suppressed long enough for Task Force One to retreat and observe the unidentified units.

The Remnants from the squads retreated to a nearby ridge and reported into command that the unidentified units carried weapons of considerable power and strength as well as highly effective armour of undetermined origin, it was by this point the Actual of Task Force One reported the unidentified units came under attack by a horde of Runners spawned from a nearby rift in the Diabolic Shroud and had begun to retreat after one of their own was overwhelm and promptly killed.

The reports were sent via on-board Inquisitors from the Cartography and the report was seen by High Inquisitor Leondros initiated an Ordolia Xenos Incontinium Suppression Grace Order and mobilised immediately to the location.

Task Force One were once again approached by the Unidentified Xenos and were forced to engage, the heavy causalities were reported almost immediately however Task Force one was able to greatly wound the supposed leader of the unit with sustained Rivet gun fire and a well placed strike from Knight Squire Captain ████████ The Inquisitor's Heavy Tractor Arrived shortly after at approximately 13:12 and ordered the squad to stand down and secure the area from the coming horde of Runners. At the Time High Inquisitor Leondros reported he contacted the Xenos via telepathy convincing them to surrender and be detained for questioning, the High Inquisitor ordered several heavy lift vehicles to land in the secure area and take the four remaining Xenos units aboard his Inquisition Heavy Tractor where they were detained.

High Inquisitor Leondros wrote in his logs that he allowed the Xenos an appropriately sized containment area which he personally grace shielded for their return to his Aboretum on his planet of operation Colony ████████ allowing them to rest and properly tend to their woundings for the length of the trip back to ███████

High Inquisitor proceeded a lengthy questioning period where the inquisitor determined specifications on each of the remaining xenos.

The Xenos detainees stated they were a group of “hired guns” operating as a freelance mercenary platoon and were working on behalf of Xenos shipping and transportation company that had lost contact with several of their heavy freight ships within Exterioris when the ships had presumably drifted into Diabolis space and been engulfed in the Diabolic shroud.

High Inquisitor Leondros reported in his logs that he had questioned several 'loose ends' in the stories of the Xenos and had come to learn that the Xenos originated from the now long gone Drakodominatus Tyranny and were actually wanted war criminals in hiding and former officers aboard The Baal-class carrier █████████████ who had defected as serious damage to the ship caused it to begin to shut down and order its passengers to abandon ship.

High Inquisitor Leondros consulted the Ordolia Xenos Incontinium and after lengthy discussion with the Inquisition were able to negotiate with the former members of the Drakodominatus Tyranny. Specifically for the acquisition of all information and technology possible in return for their guaranteed safety, protection and for comfortable settlement on an Arcanium world.

After this agreement was reached High Inquisitor Leondros ordered the Detained Xenos be relocated to permanent settlement on a central inner world colony, The Ordolia Xenos Incontinium agreed and on September 20th 2796 the Xenos group was relocated to the inner colony ██████ █████ where they were settled in “Comfortable and welcoming” surroundings “As per their agreement.”

The Xenos are reportedly now in direct line with the Ordolia Xenos Incontinium to offer and provide information, assistance and counselling upon request and are reported in High Inquisitor Leondros' logs to be “Very pleased” with the current arrangement and as of September 1st 2797 are to be refered to in all official documents as “The Advisors” 

The Dark Ocean Incident
CONTENT APPROVED FOR PUBLIC VIEW – High Inquisitor Xteeth Lyly Ordolia Xenos Incontinium

Cycle 6 – Day 1509 – Days of Strife (Galactic Date June 19th 2798)

09:51 of June 19th Expedition Lozero aboard the Inquisition Heavy Tractor Unwise Mistress docked and began operations of research, salvage and study on a supposedly derelict and abandoned Drakodominatus Tyranny Baal Class carrier as per voluntarily surrendered knowledge from The Advisors, the derelict was located approximately 1.8 proxima jumps from ██████ within the Glow of Exterioris which was approximately 1400 light years from predicted position, research got off to a slow start but after a permanent research presence was put in place, the derelict renamed to Artefact A-one approximately two months after salvage begun, engineer teams reported they'd managed to return the ships damaged reactor to a fraction of its operational state and power was partially restored officially three and a half months from beginning salvage on October 2nd 2798.

Official Logs from High Inquisitor Xteeth Lyly show it is around this time she detected an alien and as she described “Abominable” telepathic presence emanating from as of a not yet reachable position in Artefact A-one.

On October 8th a major discovery was made as a new section was cleared and opened up for research, when High Inquisitor Zteeth Lyly attempted to finally track down the telepathic presence and the crew discovered a massive Artificial Intelligence core within the lower decks of the ship.

The AI was reported by the inquisitor to show unparalleled levels of an emotion she could only describe as grief and depression, upon communicating with the AI she learned that the AI had been awake the entire period of its abandonment and had begun to go rampant and show signs of insanity due to the radiation and warping of space time slowly effecting its ability to compute on a quantum level.

Despite now instated Ordolia Xenos Incontinium laws demanding all artificially intelligent beings be purged due to the aftermath and summit following the end of the War of Clockwork Men, the high inquisitor seemed determined to try save the AI, citing the current success of integrating The Advisors into Hive Incontinium affairs, High Inquistitor Xteeth Lyly notes in her official logs that tensions were unbelievably high with her research team, her stationed guard regiment and to a lesser extent her Knight Eternal Escort from the House of Fury after she began to converse daily with the AI sharing knowledge and stories, the AI while “Showing a distinct superiority complex” was reported to be curious and incredibly interested in hearing about the History and culture of The Arcanium, it also eagerly and “Somewhat excitedly” retold the history of the Drakodominatus Tyranny and the many battles the ship had been in.

At around the same time communications crew on-board the Unsightly Mistress also noted the ship appeared to be broadcasting a powerful pulse from its comms towers, it was labelled a presumed distress signal given off before the ship was abandoned and the communications crew noted that due to the hyper-spacial and warped nature spacetime within the Glow of Exteriors the distress signal was restrained to relativity and would take years to reach the nearest possible planet and was thus ignored and ruled out as a danger to the confidentiality of the mission.

This was however proven to be untrue was the morning of February 1st 2799. Proximity, radiation and Diabolic Shroud alarms aboard the Unwise Mistress were triggered and the base was put on high alert as an unidentified Xenos ship appeared and approached 311º North North-West Relative to the Unsightly Mistress' designated X axis.

The ship approached and killed engines, shifting itself to present broadside to the research base in an intentionally threatening and hostile manner and requested communications under orders from an unknown Xeno authority, stating they were pseudo inquisitorial figures officially named “Talon Aetheral Corps” and claimed to represent unknown at the time Fiction:Draconid Imperium

The ship demanded the Unsightly Mistress, her fleet and the research base aboard Artefact A-one put down arms and submit as their ships were searched and detained saying that all research and gathered knowledge was to be surrendered, refusal would result in hostile retaliation.

High Inquisitor Zteeth Lyly noted that the arrival and stand off appeared to cause the AI a great deal of stress and even some form of fear as it supposedly showed a great fear of being captured and destroyed by “an old enemy” without being able to defend itself in a fair fight. High Inquisitor Zteeth Lyly noted “It appeared to show more fear of bringing dishonour to itself, it knew it was most likely dead anyway if it attempted to fight back, but it was more fearful and more concerned of being killed without fighting.” Tzeeth Lyly and the research team as well as the stationed naval and guard regiment weighed up options in their allotted time by the Draconid Imperium vessel, despite slight possibility of victory if the carrier was able to reconnect with its weapons and fighter bays, the Inquisitors agreed that it was unwise to turn an incident with an unknown Xenos empire into a diplomatic crisis and instead chose to surrender.

High Inquisitor Tzeeth Lyly noted that she refused to let the AI die in dishonor and offered to end the life of the AI for it by relocating a warhead from the fighter bays of the carrier and detonating the explosive to kill it. The AI while still depressed at its oncoming demise agreed and thanked the inquisitor, the explosive was relocated and the ship evacuated, the AI was then aided in suicide and destroyed by the blast.

This change in pace understandably increased tensions almost to a breaking point, Tzeeth Lyly however noted that she was able to bluff that the ship AI had gone rampant and begun an attack and they were forced to destroy it before it endangered their ship.

All files and all information taken from the research base were confiscated and destroyed and by March 28th the Unwise Mistress was assisted and towed out by unknown means by the Draconid Imperium Ship and allowed to return to the Arcanium.

Tzeeth in these days begun to show regret and even greif noting that she “Lost a possible great asset to the Arcanium, and worst of all, I lost a somewhat estranged friend.” The route home was plotted into the Unwise Mistress' Logistics Computer, however the ship's computers crashed due to a memory error, upon inspection of the files onboard the ships computers the research team reported they found an impossibly sized file implanted and encrypted heavily onto the ships computers, the data was copied and removed to several hundred of the best data-banks the ship could spare and the Unwise Mistress returned back to Arcanial territory on May 14th 2799 submitting the unknown files to the Inquisiton as they docked with Hive Fortress World Shey Taralga.

These files are still being decrypted to this day however the Inquisition has reported what they have managed to decrypted appears to be an incalculable number of documents, blueprints and photos of xenos ships, worlds and technologies far in surpass of current Arcanium engineering and technological understanding, these files are currently under strict guard and are being studied and replicated with help from The Advisors.

Perhaps the strangest of all is a singular printed file which holds no other data but a crude and poorly worded phrase “Tmeh S'grleya Bal'salalaal” while the meaning of this phrase is unknown it was presumed to be an ancient colonial saying from the North Eastern Rimworlds, while incorrectly spelt and phrased it is supposedly a colonial dialect for “To the End Good Friend” a battlecry native to the Agricultural Colony Svehlantus, High Inquisitor Tzeeth Lyly's place of birth and home colony.