THIRTEEN OF THIRTEEN

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0075

PART ONE: THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH!?

VOICES EVENAODDIS OF THE FRAGMENTORI FIFTEEN

 

EvenaOddis stood at a peak in Matriel and observed OmniMultiple departing full and at last for the Secundan Underworld. OmniMultiple had first emerged on-in Matriel but later had shifted, been shifted, to the Secundan Underworld as its major place of emphasis. OmniMultiple had no choice now but to continue to move to Secunda until all of its presence and influence was gone from Matriel.

 

There were more obvious and more subtle reasons for this.

 

The Matriellan Empire, though fragmented into five fairly isolated semiautonomous sub-empires, was still powerful and remembered with rage that the OmniMultiple had helped Doomsday take place. The new Matriellan Emperor did not forgive or forget.

 

The Matriellan Commonwealths and Republics, normally opposed to the empire, now totally agreed with them and supported them.

 

The Matriellan PanAxis did not care enough to save the OmniMultiple though once the OmniMultiple had been its strong ally. The PanAxis was nothing if not treacherous but then again, so was the OmniMultiple.

 

Great ugly clusters of cubes, globes, cylinders and other shapeforms fused together, lifted slowly, almost gracefully up into the air. Then they vanished with a sparkling shimmer.

 

Subtle reasons for the OmniMultiple finally leaving Matriel once and for all, and the strongest, was that a very ancient and deadly power wanted them to go.

 

An even more subtle reason was that the new reality was shifting as it continued to self adjust to its new nature. This process was driving the OmniMultiple to leave Matriel just as it was forcing other changes through out Divinaedra.

 

EvenaOddis stood invisible, more than invisible, in a grove of milk-trees and naked green dryads, like young lithe women, were dancing in a clearing close to where she stood. Yes, Matriel was changing and the OmniMultiple did not belong there any more.

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0076

PART ONE: THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH!?

OBSERVITII EYEOTII GAMMA OF THE WATCHITII THIRTEEN

JAEIO JAYLE JODIE JONNI OF THE BROWNSTONE THIRTEEN

 

EyeotiiGamma, of the Watchitii Thirteen, observed the solar system that the planet of Nirn, its four moons and nine minimoons, were part of. It observed also the MultiTransCubeShip easily despite all of its cloaking.

 

The Brownstone Thirteen were the MultiTransCubeShip floating in space, heavily cloaked to be more than just invisible, relatively close to the super sized planet of Nirn. The follower avatars were back in their own 'home' where they went when they were on active. Like the triplets, and Jaeio the group mentality, they were growing stronger.

 

The lifeforms had been returned from the Secundan Underworld that had been taken by the retreating OmniMultiple and its puppets and followers. Not only that but also many resources were returned to Amtropolis and Afritropolis along with compensation in the form of many exotic but very useful resources.

 

It appeared that there was a powerful arbitrator of the balance of forces inside Secunda and that this one, the OmniPrime, had forced OmniMultiple to return much and compensate much. Why? Because the PaleLord had told only a half truth. Yes the OmniMultiple and its followers had been compelled to invade the Subways Unified Republic in Amtriel but had at first had gone greedily along with the pressure.

 

OmniMultiple could have chosen to warn OmniPrime of what was going on but had decided, for the sake of greed, not to do so. Now OmniMultiple was being punished by OmniPrime. Part of the punishment was that OmniMultiple had to use many resources to both send back lifeforms and resources but also to provide compensation.

 

What OmniMultiple had done was to help put the balance of forces at risk and not just in the Secundan Underworld. The Secundan Overworld, the surface, subsurface and atmosphere, plus the orbital zone, was where many from the Lost Earth were arriving. In this case the World State and its OmniNet controlled citizen-clones that was directed, coordinated and supervised by the great network of network-systems known as OmniMind.

 

Another of the three Lesser Moons, though still large worlds in their own right, Masser, was taking the Eurasian Dynasty and United Civilized States while the Lunar Hegemony began to dominate the three minimoons orbiting Masser, one of which was now known as Luna. Other peoples from the Lost Earth were going to Sanctuarius.

 

This information came as part of the compensation as demanded by OmniPrime.

 

The Greater Moon of Primusa, the other Secondary Moon of Opperasa, along with most of the minimoons, remained a mystery.

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0077

PART ONE: THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH!?

OBSERVITII EYEOTII GAMMA OF THE WATCHITII THIRTEEN

JAEIO JAYLE JODIE JONNI OF THE BROWNSTONE THIRTEEN

 

Jaeio had taken the solid appearing shapeform of an identical 'extra triplet sister' and sat demurely in a floating armchair in the new big meeting cubechamber. She spoke. “The Subways Unified Republic is going to survive, thanks to the Great Return and Great Compensation. The shoomshoom plants are already being heavily cultivated for the many products that can be carefully taken from them. The other exotic resources are being safely, securely stored for now.”

 

Amtropolis and Afritropolis were working hard to repair themselves. The Subways Unified Republican Network Government was strengthened by what had happened. UnityNeofolk were arising through out the Republican population. A new time of hope, peace and productivity seemed to be going strong in the underground civilization.

 

Jonni adjusted her floating armchair just a little. It was odd but interesting to talk to Jaeio as another visible entity. “The question is, what role does the Brownstone Thirteen have in the new Subways Unified Republic? The changing government is doing well but the UnityNeo Factions and OpenFaction, appear to be nervous of us.”

 

Jayle was sitting with a big cat in her lap and was rubbing the thrumming feline it curled up comfortably. “Nervous, yes, and also of any real threat. Since UnityNeo learned that kineticant and manifesticant attacks were often aimed at UnityNeo as a priority, they have become to be more wary of what they call NonUnity, who are not of Unity, and ResUnity, standing for those of UnityNeo who 'resist' being of Unity in a more pronounced or even aggressive fashion.”

 

Jodie spoke from her own armchair where she cradled a mother dog and her three small puppies feeding from her teats. “We need to keep look out for any force, inside or outside of Unity, trying to influence the still vulnerable UnityNeo into doing something dark and oppressive.”

 

Jayle spoke. “The Zavid Thirteen have told us about the two UnityNeo Factions inside LifeVault0101A2, one of which is more controlling and closed and one which wishes to be more open and free. Perhaps such a pattern will start to emerge in the Subways Unified Republic, and in other such areas, just as it has done in LifeVault0101A2.”

 

Jaeio: “Speaking of which, I just picked up new incoming data, from your growing network of friends in the Subways Unified Republic, that the Subways Unified Republican Government has issued warrants for 'your taking into government custody for your own good as well as the good of the SUR'. This is not a totally popular move, some seeing it as treachery against those who helped the SUR and its people survive a terrible attack by a terrible enemy. The problem is that most people are too focused on their own survival to either care or to be able to do anything about it. The majority of UnityNeo also seem to support the move.”

 

The triplets were angry but not really surprised somehow. They had seen the pattern forming over the last days that would lead to this taking place.

 

Jayle responded. “Get an anonymous but authenticated message to them, if you can, that the answer is a resounding 'no'. Tell them, who ever 'they' are who are behind this move, that we will meet five of their people in a neutral area. Three can be bodyguards, one can be the representative and one can be there to assist the representative.”

 

Jaeio: “Consider it done.”

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PART ONE: THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH!?

OBSERVITII EYEOTIIGAMMA OF THE WATCHITII THIRTEEN

JAEIO JAYLE JODIE JONNI OF THE BROWNSTONE THIRTEEN

 

EyeotiiGamma spoke to Jaeio and the triplets from a distance but through a holographic avatar that looked like an elegant young oriental woman in a jumpsuit just like the ones the others were wearing. “Greetings! It is good to communicate with you. Be warned, a heavily cloaked entity is stalking the MultiTransCubeShip.”

 

Jayle showed her concern. “Our instrumentalities have detected no such presence.”

 

EyeotiiGamma nodded. “That is mainly because the instrumentalities interface of the MultiTransCubeShip have been sabotaged in an exceedingly clever and selective manner. Instigating Reserve Emergency Program Security Delta 14213 will clear away this problem.”

 

Jaeio frowned softly but then nodded. “Reserve Emergency Program Security Delta 14213 has been instigated. Processing! Processing! Processing! The program is now full functional. Processing! Processing! Processing! Processing! The infiltration and sabotage has been located but not fully analyzed or identified. Processing! Processing! Processing! The infiltration and sabotage have been analyzed and identified. Processing! Processing! Processing! Processing! Processing! Infiltration stealth programs have been eliminated. Processing! Processing! Sabotage has been dealt with. Processing! The network-systems are back to what they should be.”

 

Alarms began to chime through the chamber.

 

EyeotiiGamma smiled grimly. “A ChaosLordic stealth-battleship has appeared just a hundred and fifty-two kilometres, approximately, close to the MultiTransCubeShip. Shields and shield-armour has been placed to maximum level of strength. Close order weapon network-systems have been activated. There are now becoming visible detectable three stealth-cruisers and a stealth-carrier along with a cluster pattern of stealth-frigates, stealth-destroyers and various stealth-supportships.”

 

Jayle frowned. “ChaosLords?”

 

EyeotiiGamma sighed. “Clearly you have yet to fully regain your memories, to reaccess deeply buried databanks. ChaosLords are one of the ancient traditional enemies of the TimespaceLords. ChaosLords were once a faction of the general order and balance loving TimespaceLords but the ChaosLords believe in the opposite, in the need for total chaos to seed true creativity and evolutionary strength. Ironically this means that sometimes they have had wary alliances with the TimespaceLords in order to combat dark forces attempting to create their own forms of oppressive or destructive order over sectors of the Multiverse. ChaosLords hate any type of large scale effort to create order, either supposedly good or evil or even neutral.”

 

The entity avatar went on speaking. “Except that these are ChaosSublords and their ChaosLordite Followers; true ChaosLords use TARDISes just as do the TimespaceLords though the TimespaceLordic devices are now far more advanced in some ways than their ChaosLordic counterparts though less designed as warmachines.”

 

The stealth-warships began to pull away from the MultiTransCubeShip. If there was a ChaosLordic TARDIS out there, it was well concealed. Then all of the vessels vanished at the same moment, all with a sparkling shimmer.

 

EyeotiiGama spoke. “Detection of a ChaosLordic TARDIS was made for just 8.5 seconds as it drew in all of the stealth-warships and then dematerialised. It has gone on a time space transition. Attempts to plant a tracker on the TARDIS failed.”

 

Sabotage to the MultiTransCubeShip? ChaosLords? Just what was going on?

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0079

PART ONE: THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH!?

DAMADA DAVAD KEVAA TEVAA REVAA OF THE DEVLIN THIRTEEN

ROTHUARETIRWA FOLLOWERS

 

Davad, and his companions, learned that the Springvale University Real Shaggals had become the Springvale Protectorate of the New Dominion of Columbia Republic. They did so the hard way as they found out that the NDCR had become dominated by UnityNeofolk just as had the Subways Unified Republic. For the NDCR sent Guardsmen and paramilitary Rangers to take Davad, and his companions, into 'protective custody'.

 

Even as they moved through the Springvale University Campus, past ruins of atomic motorized LandLiners, huge big coaches that could cruise for days on autopilot, they heard the sounds of gunfire. Not all locals welcomed the take over by the NDCR and many were unhappy that the majority of Shaggals had not been consulted before the Guardsmen and Rangers had moved in. So many Shaggals were allied with gangers to fight the changes.

 

They came to a halt and crouched around a big old room that once had been the lobby of some kind of cyberlinking centre.

 

Cyberlinkers operated roboremotes, be they mobile or semimobile or stationary. A human cyberlinker was still cheaper and easier to use than an expensive smart-computer running every active roboremote; cyberlinkers worked with smart-computer network-systems and the dumb-computers of the roboremotes anyway. It was even more so the case since Doomsday and the greater shortage of smart-computer hardware, firmware and software.

 

Davad was angry. He had still much to do and now UnityNeo seemed out to complicate matters for him. Was that coincidental or was UnityNeo being manipulated against the Thirteen of Thirteen?

 

Sarah Lyons and Lyons Pride were still with them but Sarah had been suggesting that she and her Brotherhood of Steel Soldiers had to head back to the nearest OSDC Outpost. That was in Outer Megaton of the settlement of Megaton that was made up of Outer, Middle, Holy and Inner Megaton.

 

Megaton was a quite large and important settlement, in DC Wastelands terms, that had so far resisted pressure by the New Dominion of Columbia Republic, the NDCR, for it to absorbed by that nation. As it was Megaton staid independent by allowing a range of DC Factions to have outposts in Outer Megaton. The Orders of Steel DC were one of the most recent. The Ironsides Mercenaries had their second largest base in Outer Megaton. The Outcasts of Steel had a small outpost there. The Regulators had a fair sized outpost office there. There were some small embassies, normally just a couple of rooms, including a NDCR embassy. There were Guild Offices and a Canterbury Commons Trade Cooperative Outpost. There were other such sites in Outer Megaton which was becoming increasingly larger and more complex with every passing year.

 

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0080

PART ONE: THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH!?

DAMADA DAVAD KEVAA TEVAA REVAA OF THE DEVLIN THIRTEEN

ROTHUARETIRWA FOLLOWERS

 

Megaton was not very far away from Springvale University, in DC Wastelands terms. The ruins of Springvale, the city proper, lay in their way, with its cracked shallow dome. Domes had been built over a number of cities because of concerns of pollution, security and local environmental control. This dome was dotted with relatively small cracks from Doomsday but was surprisingly still sturdy and intact in a general sense.

 

Springvale itself had many surprisingly intact structures and a large underground area. Except that the experimental dome, a prototype designed and constructed by BuildTek and SciTek as part of an AllTek Project, had gone horribly wrong for the citizens of the city of Springvale. Ghoulification had been not only very intense there but had ended up with some surprising results. Feral ghouls were common but were all of the aggressive mindless zhoul kind or, worse, the less mindless weapon using ghoulers, the glowing ones of the radghouls and monstrous hulking hulkans along with ghoulified animal monsters of various kinds. Savage ghoul gangers made up much of the rest of the population. Yet there were whispers of other things, stranger and more dangerous yet.

 

North-east of Springvale proper was a minidome, still large, over the Springvale School of High Achievement, the SSHA. It had been conventional, not an experimental prototype. The school had been for special students, an elite institution, yet one oddly shy of publicity. Even those who knew of it tended not to know what went on inside it.

 

Davad, his three follower avatars, the three RothuaRetirwa Followers and Lyons Pride, moved carefully and steadily across the Wastelands until the university was a distant dark patch behind them and Springvale proper was a distant dark patch before them.

 

There they encountered a war-party of wild supermutants and smaller metamutants who looked like human sized supermutants. The metamutants had strange psychic-psionic abilities of varied types from the telekinetic ability to hurl objects through the air to pyrokinetic ability to hurl fireballs or set things on fire and even such as empathic fear attacks. All the supermutants and metamutants wore body-armour and carried weapons, though not all of the supermutants had guns. There were also some zenmutants with them of zentaurs, zentoids and zenverns.

 

Fighting broke out as the mutant forces closed in a convoy of seminomadic Wastelanders, basic survivalists of scavenging, gathering and hunting. The seminomads went from between three places, moving on as each area was depleted of food and other items. The supermutants and metamutants wanted them for mutagenic conversion and, if conversion failed, food.

 

Davad's group struck the mutagenic mutants by surprise, moving in from three directions at once with careful aimed bursts of gunfire, the launching of missiles and the projection of pulsebeams of energy. The intent was not to destroy the mutagenic mutants so much as to drive them off and it worked. Taken by surprise, the supermutants, metamutants and zenmutants turned and fled away in a confused attempt of a fighting retreat.

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0081

PART ONE: THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH!?

DAMADA DAVAD KEVAA TEVAA REVAA OF THE DEVLIN THIRTEEN

ROTHUARETIRWA FOLLOWERS

 

Davad learned that mutagenic-mutants, mostly groups of supermutants with some zenmutants, had been capturing humans and livestock but also both feral and non-feral ghouls along with some other creatures. The seminomads had picked up such information from what was often called the Wastelands whisper-networks. The seminomads had become so frightened that they were leaving all of their old wandering territories to try to find safety elsewhere. They lacked the numbers, strength and technologies to protect themselves properly.

 

Davad sent them to Sanctuarius, which was something that the Devlin Thirteen could still do. Opening the gateway, and keeping it open, was not easy but RothuaRetirwa assisted the process through the RothuaRetirwa Followers that were there, channeling energies through them. Such was not easy even for RothuaRetirwa but the seminomads were relatively innocent and Sanctuarius needed them as much as they needed it.

 

Brotherhood of Steel and Sisterhood of Steel units were busy in the area fighting the supermutants and trying to protect Wastelanders from capture. This was both for the sake of the Wastelanders and to stop the creation of more supermutants or zenmutants or metamutants. The Orders of Steel DC had become increasingly concerned about the increasing appearance of metamutants, a form of mutagenic-mutants that had previously been quite rare. While most metamutants had only basic psychic-psionic abilities, some were very dangerous and a very small minority were quite deadly.

 

The Ironside Mercenaries had been contracted to assist the OSDC operations against the mutagenic-mutants in the area. The Outcasts of Steel had reluctantly agreed in work in cooperation with the OSDC because they also had good reason to fear mutagenic-mutant increases in numbers.

 

The New DC Republic was not pleased with the arrival of the OSDC in such large numbers, and with so many hitech resources. They certainly did not like that the OSDC had occupied the DC Citadel so easily, taking all of its rich resources, when they had tried but failed to take it more than once. When they offered to assist in operations against LifeVault0087B2 mutants only if the OSDC handed over the DC Citadel, they were promptly told to go to hell but in more polite terms than that.

 

Davad was not sure what he would do now so he went with the Lyons Pride to a newly created OSDC and Ironsides Outpost at the Springvale Mountain, a small mountain overlooking Springvale proper. It was said that in the mountain was a hidden armoured wheel-door airlock style chamber that led to a great spiral rampway tube and a big elevator that went down to a LifeVault. It was LifeVault0101A3, sister vault to LifeVault0101A1 with its isolation experiment and LifeVault0101A2 with its synthetic manifesticant experiment. Except that nobody seemed to know much about the third vault and what had happened there.

 

The outpost was situated in a smaller, closer to the surface, ShelterVault whose original inhabitants had long ago perished except for some who had made it to safety in Megaton. They skirted Springvale and staid away from the special Springvale school.

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