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 |  @#333333:{{:neocom:trs.png?48x48}}  |@#333333:<fc #CCC>이 문서는 공식 문서를 번역한 문서입니다. 원문의 의미가 변하지 않게 주의해 주시고 임의로 문장을 추가하거나 삭제하지 마세요. 주석추가는 가능합니다. 초안 번역자(들)는 이 틀에 서명을 할 수 있습니다.((인게임 닉네임 권장))</fc> ||
-| ::: | **초안 번역자 :** {{http://image.eveonline.com/Character/211508528_32.jpg?16}} <html><a href="javascript:CCPEVE.showInfo(1373,211508528)" style=color:#F90;>chamcham kado</a></html> |[[https://universe.eveonline.com/chronicles/inheritance/|Inheritance]]|
+| ::: | **초안 번역자 :** {{http://image.eveonline.com/Character/211508528_32.jpg?16}} <html><a href="javascript:CCPEVE.showInfo(1373,211508528)" style=color:#F90;>Chamcham Kado</a></html> |[[https://universe.eveonline.com/chronicles/inheritance/|Inheritance]]|
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 <wrap lo>제미네이트 리전, 위치 알 수 없음, SoCT 키츠 타하풋 알-타하풋, YC117.07.25</wrap>
 빛.
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 그의 척수 연결이 풀리면서 강력한 배수 펌프가 그의 클론을 보호하고, 영양을 공급해온 젤리 덩어리를 청소했고, 포드 내부의 대기 조성과 압력이 부활 챔버와 동일해졌다. 포드는 거의 똑바로 서도록 세워졌고, 마트시가 포드 내부의 젤리 팩에 편하게 누워있을 수 있도록 약간 기울어졌다.
-마트시가 다시 눈을 뜬 후, 부활 챔버에 누군가가 있다는 것을 눈치챘다. 이 과정은 완벽하게 정상이였고, 클론 포드의 활성화 신호는 다른 SoCT의 동료가 자신이 새로운 클론으로 옮겨가는 것을 돕기 위해 왔을 것이였다.
+마트시가 다시 눈을 뜬 후, 부활 챔버에 누군가가 있다는 것을 눈치챘다. 이 과정은 완벽하게 정상이였고, 클론 포드의 활성화 신호를 받은 다른 SoCT의 동료가 자신이 새로운 클론으로 옮겨가는 것을 돕기 위해 왔을 것이였다.
 방 안의 그림자진 곳에서 기다리고 있던 사람이 앞으로 나와 라이시에게 로브를 입히고, 근처 소파로 가는 것을 도왔다. 라이시는 잠시 앉아있다가, 숨을 들이마쉬고 내쉰 뒤, 그를 도와준 사람에게 감사하기 위해 그를 쳐다보았다. 그리고 그는 누가 그를 위해 친절히 고개를 숙이고 있는지를 확인 한 후 숨을 헛삼켜야 했다. 그를 도와준 사람은 다름아닌 베니엘, SoCT에 남아있는 몇 안되는 조브인 회원중 한명이였고, 사실상 유일하게 활동중인 조브인이였기 때문이다.
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 레이시는 얼굴을 찡그렸다. "예, 황실 내의 저희 네트워크는 여제의 대관식 이후로부터 여제에 대한 자료를 수집해 왔습니다. 최근 그녀의 행동 패턴은 점점 더 변화하는 징후를 보여왔는데, 특히 질병이나 심리적 증후군과 같은 평범한 원인으로는 쉽게 설명할 수 없는 심리적 이상이 있었습니다. 게다가 이런 변화와 변칙성은..."
-"변화와 변칙성은 아노이키스 내부에 있던 제 2제국의 생존자들의 출현과 연관이 있지." 베니엘이 마무리했다.
+"변화와 변칙성은 아노이키스(역주: 웜홀 우주) 내부에 있던 제 2제국의 생존자들의 출현과 연관이 있지." 베니엘이 마무리했다.
 "그렇습니다, 집정관이시여. 그래서 저와 제 배에 타고있던 선원들은 위험을 감수했습니다. 부디 말해주십시오, 그들 중 잡힌 사람들이 있습니까?"
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 "그렇습니다 집정관이시여, 그들은 모두 임무를 떠나기 전에 정신을 동기화 시킨 상태였습니다."
-"그럼 그 문제는 해결됬고, 마트시? 제발, 나는 이제 그냥 베니엘일 뿐이야. 내가 가진 수많은 이름들. 집정관, 폴리마르코스(역주: 군대를 지휘하는 계급. 고대 조브식 작명과 관련있음.), 예언자, 변절자, 악마." 베니엘은 다시 미소를 지었다. "이제 나는 아무것도 아닐세. 이게 세상의 이치지. 우리는 절대적인 존재가 아니니까. 우리는 우리가 하는 일일 뿐이고, 우리가 하는 일은 시대에 따라 변하는 법이지, 너에게도 마찬가지로, 이런 일은 일어나고 또 일어날 것이야."
+"그럼 그 문제는 해결되었고, 마트시? 제발, 나는 이제 그냥 베니엘일 뿐이야. 내가 가진 수많은 이름들. 집정관, 폴리마르코스(역주: 군대를 지휘하는 계급. 고대 조브식 작명과 관련있음.), 예언자, 변절자, 악마." 베니엘은 다시 미소를 지었다. "이제 나는 아무것도 아닐세. 이게 세상의 이치지. 우리는 절대적인 존재가 아니니까. 우리는 우리가 하는 일일 뿐이고, 우리가 하는 일은 시대에 따라 변하는 법이지, 너에게도 마찬가지로, 이런 일은 일어나고 또 일어날 것이야."
 라이시는 고개를 끄덕이며 잠시 생각에 잠겼다가 말을 이었다. "여제는 선천적으로 인공적일 가능성이 있는 영리한 정보생명체에게 공격받고 있는것이 확실합니다. 우리는 조치를 취해야만 합니다."
-Veniel regarded his former student silently for a moment, then asked, “What action would you take?”
+베니엘은 잠시 전 제자를 묵묵히 바라보다가 "어떤 조치를 취하겠나?" 라고 물었다.
-“We should analyze the data further but the artificial sapient is almost certainly a high level entity capable of multiple simultaneous intrusions. However, even a first glance at the scanning data indicated a very high level of intermingling, more perhaps than would be necessary. For some reason it is there and the personalities must be bleeding into one another.”
+"데이터를 더 분석해야 알겠지만, 이 인공지능은 거의 확실하게 여러 침입을 동시에 수행 가능한 고도의 개체입니다. 그러나, 첫번째 데이터조차도 그 개체는 필요 이상으로 매우 높은 수준의 혼합을 보여주고 있고, 어떤 이유에서인지 한 자아가 다른 자아에게 피를 흘리고 있는것 같습니다."
-Veniel absorbed this information and mused on it. “She struggles but subtly,” he said shortly.
+베니엘은 이 정보를 흡수한 후, 곰곰히 생각했다. "그녀는 조용하게 고군분투하고 있군." 그가 짧게 맒했다.
-“You mean that the entity has found it necessary to intermingle to this degree to control her?”
+"그 개체가 여제를 통제하기 위해서는 그정도의 인격 혼합이 필요하다 판단했다는 것입니까?"
-“No, not at all. The need for it to do so would indicate a relatively unsophisticated brute level of entity and this one is not that. Rather, she opposes it in the only way that she can. She draws it in. It is an impressive act of will. I recall that the Society tutors who attended on her noted her mental capabilities as very high indeed.”
+"아니, 전혀 아니야. 그것이 그럴 필요가 있었더라면 상대적으로 세련되지 않은 실체를 들어낼 것인데, 이 경우는 아니지. 오히려, 여제는 그녀가 할 수 있는 유일한 방법으로 그것을 막고있는거야. 그것을 자신의 정신으로 끌어당기고 있는거지. 이는 매우 인상적인 의지의 행동이야. 그녀의 정신적 능력에 대해 높히 평가하던 SoCT의 스승들이 생각나는구나."
-“Then the true Jamyl Sarum thinks along the same lines. This intermingling is a weakness, it indicates a high investment and commitment to the connection with her personality. It provides an opportunity that we should exploit.”
+"그러면 진짜 자밀 사룸은 같은 생각을 하고 있던거군요. 그것의 약점은 인격의 혼합이며, 그 혼합은 여제의 높은 투자와 헌신적인 모습을 보여주는 것 같습니다. 아마 우리가 이 취약점을 이용할 수 있을지도요."
-“Speaking plainly, you are advocating the assassination of the Empress of Amarr.” Veniel regarded Raish quizzically.
+"그 말을 다른말로 하자면, 자네는 지금 아마르 황제의 암살을 계획하고 있어." 베니엘은 의아한 듯이 라이시를 바라보았다.
-“This entity is a severe existential threat. Its sentience quotient must be at least 15 positive.”
+"이 존재는 인류의 존재 자체에 대한 심각한 위협입니다. 그것의 지각 점수는 적어도 +15점이예요."
-“Several points more I should think,” interrupted Veniel.
+"몇 점 정도 더 쳐줘야 할꺼같은데." 베니엘이 끼어들었다.
-“More? Then all the greater reason to intervene. Its entire motivation cannot help but be inimical to the interests of living sapients in the New Eden cluster.”
+"거기서 더요? 그렇다면 이는 개입해야할 더 큰 이유가 될 뿐입니다. 그것의 존재는 뉴에덴에 있는 지성있는 모든 존재에 해가 되지 않을 수가 없습니다."
-“We should perhaps leave aside, for now, the question of the necessity of countervailing interests among those with widely separated sentience quotients.” Veniel cocked his head and looked Raish in the eye. “But, even granting it, you place no great faith in the true Jamyl’s ability to effectively bring her plan to completion?”
+"어쩌면, 지금으로서는, 잠시 이 존재가 해가 되는지, 제거해야 하는지에 대한 질문을 미루어 두는게 좋을거 같아." 베니엘은 고개를 흔들며 라이시의 눈을 똑바로 쳐다보았다. "하지만, 만약 우리가 그래야 한다 해도, 너는 자밀 사룸이 가진 계획을 완성시킬만한, 그녀의 뛰어난 능력에 대한 신뢰가 없는것 같구나."
-“Why... how could she actively pursue it? Surely any conscious plan would be apparent to the entity and readily countered.”
+"어떻게... 어떻게 그녀가 적극적으로 계획을 진행시킬 수 있겠습니까? 그녀가 의식적으로 어떤 계획을 생각하는 순간 그 개체 또한 알아차리고 대응하게 될 텐데 말입니다."
-“Perhaps but my own information is that Jamyl is not without allies in her struggle. I would speculate that this particular entity likely has a weakness in comprehending certain modes of thought fully and therefore the behavior and uses of language arising from such thought.
+"어쩌면 내 생각은 그녀의 투쟁에 아무런 희망도 없지는 않다는 거야. 나는 이 특정한 개체가 특정한 사고방식과 그러한 사고에서 발생하는 언어의 사용을 이해하는데 약점이 있을거라고 생각하고 있어."
-“To be explicit, it is probable that the entity views the religious mode of thought through the prism of power and politics alone. We might imagine that it sees this viewpoint mirrored in the Amarr Empire and the Imperial Court. Yet we can appreciate in a way that it may not that even an Amarr Empress can have a different sensibility. Thus arises an opportunity for subterfuge and, perhaps, collaboration.”
+"다시 말하자면, 이 개체는 종교적 사고방식을 권력과 정치적 프레임을 통해서만 바라볼 가능성이 높지. 마치 아마르 왕실과 그 의회처럼 말이야. 하지만 아마르 황제의 사고방식은 다를거고, 따라서 속임수와 협력의 기회가 생기는거지."
-Raish sat silent for a long moment, appearing to reflect on the Jove’s remarks. He nodded slowly, “There were some aspects of the psycholinguistic analysis that might imply something of the sort but we did not consider the possibility you have raised.”
+라이시는 눈 앞에 있는 조브인의 말을 되새기는 듯 한참 동안 말 없이 앉아 있었다. 그는 천천히 고개를 끄덕이며 말했다. "그녀에 대한 심리언어학적 분석의 일부 측면은 그러한 종류의 것을 암시하는 것 일수 있었지만, 우리는 당신께서 제기한 가능성을 고려해 본 적이 없습니다."
-“Alas, we often see only what we are looking for.” Veniel raised a hand slightly as Raish’s face fell. “No, do not reproach yourself too harshly on that account, the myopia of the seeker who has in mind the shape of the truth before finding it is an all too common failing. My people’s history can offer much evidence of that, I assure you.”
+"아, 우리는 언제나 우리가 찾고있는 것만 눈에 보이게 되지." 라이시의 고개가 숙여지자 베니엘이 손을 들며 저지했다. "아니, 자신에게 너무 엄격하게 대할 필요는 없어. 진리를 찾는 탐구자의 근시는 아주 흔한 실수 중에 하나지. 장담하건데, 우리 종족의 역사가 바로 그 증거야."
-Raish gathered his robe about himself and stood slowly, nodding as Veniel gently helped him up and then stood back, allowing Raish to slowly pace some life into his limbs. The Society Mentor walked back and forth a little before turning to look directly at the Jove again. “You counsel patience then? To allow events to play out further?”
+"라이시가 로브를 몸에 두르며 천천히 일어서며 자신을 부축해주는 베니엘에게 고개를 숙였다. SoCT의 스승은 잠시 왔다갔다 하다 다시 조브인을 똑바로 쳐다보았다. "그렇다면 우리는 인내해야 합니까? 이 사건이 더 심화되도록?"
-“Yes, certainly, while the threat is real, matters have not reached a true crisis point and are unlikely to do so for some time. The Second Empire survivors are clearly in a state of some confusion and exhibit an incoherence to their pattern that is suggestive of significant internal discord. This would not be particularly surprising when discussing the collective actions of formerly isolated Jove enclaves attempting to organize to common purpose in an unfamiliar environment.
+"그래, 물론이지, 위협이 실존하는건 사실이지만, 아직은 진정히 위기라 부를 수 있는 단계에 도달하지 않았고, 당분간 그럴 일도 없을거야. 제 2제국의 생존자들은 분명히 혼란스러운 상태에 놓여 있을거고, 그들의 행동 패턴에는 상당한 내부 불화를 암시하는 불일치가 보여. 이런 행동은 낯선 환경에서 공동의 목적을 위해 조직화하려는 옛 독립적인 조브인 엔클레이브(역주: 고대 조브인들의 사회 구성 요소. 여러 엔클레이브가 모여서 종족을 위해 협력하는, 민마타에 가까운 사회 구조를 가지고 있었다.) 들에게서 흔히 보이는 행동이지.
-“With the survivors the situation is even worse. Their enclaves were virtual constructs that have been running for centuries. Inevitably, there was degradation in many instances, and much that took place in Anoikis over the centuries of the Stasis faction’s presence there is a mystery. The uncontrolled wormhole access to Anoikis made possible by the Isogen-5 Quantum Criticality Event led to an explosive spike in destruction of the survivor enclaves’ virtuality infrastructure. We can only guess at the effects. Additionally, there are other factors to consider.”
+"생존자들에게는 지금의 상황이 오히려 훨씬 나쁘지. 그들의 엔클레이브는 수세기동안 운영되어왔던 가상현실 건축물이였는데, 필연적으로 많은 부식과 고장이 있었고, 스테이시스 분파(역주: 조브인 중 유전자 개조를 거부한 조브인들)가 그 속에 들어있던 수 세기동안 아노이키스에 일어난 일들에 대해선 알 수 없을거야. 이소젠-5 양자 임계 사건으로 아노이키스로 가는 통제되지 않은 웜홀들이 뉴 에덴에 생기면서 그들의 가상현실 인프라가 폭발적으로 파괴되었지. 우리는 그게 어떤 일인지 단지 상상만 할 수 있을 뿐이고. 게다가, 고려해야할 다른 요소들도 있어."
-“Other factors, Veniel?”
+"다른 요소들 말씀이십니까, 베니엘?"
-“Yes, but we must discuss those while in transit. We have spent much time in talk here and there is a long way to travel.”
+"그래, 하지만 이 이야기는 이동하면서 해야 할 것 같군. 갈 길이 먼데 이곳에서 시간을 너무 지체해버렸어."
-“Travel? Where are we going?”
+"갈 곳이요? 어디 말씀이십니까?"
-Veniel’s mouth quirked into his very deliberate smile once more. “Home.”
+"베니엘의 입에서 다시한번 그의 의식적인 미소가 튀어나왔다. "고향."
-UUA-F4 Region, W477-P System, Stellar Anomaly Investigation, c. 250 BYC
-The Jove colonial survey ship was towards the end of its braking maneuver when the anomalous readings from the W477-P star that had attracted the attention of expedition scientists resolved into something entirely unexpected, something both awe-inspiring and terrifying. Data was checked and rechecked. The ship continued on its brake to in-system cruising speed as scientists, engineers and specialists argued and attempted to falsify or confirm the readings, as their prejudices inclined them.
-Standing back from the debate, the expedition commander, a young but brilliant explorer named Ouria, knew that in the end only one thing would settle the question and so made best speed for the vicinity of one of the large objects apparently orbiting at the near edge of the habitable zone around the red giant. If they were there, they existed in great numbers, so Ouria just picked one and headed for it.
-When the survey crew looked out of the viewports at the immense object they had matched orbit with, they all knew there was no more debating the data. The thing’s neighboring objects could be seen with the naked eye, so dense was the arrangement around the central star. A density unthinkable yet almost invisible. The vastness of space, even the relatively small volume of space in the immediate vicinity of a red giant, both hiding and highlighting the achievement of some unknown civilization.
-The W477-P star had been entirely surrounded by a stellar engineering swarm. This fact was hardly a conceptual revelation. The idea had been around for a long time. At its core it was an extrapolation on the scale of an entire civilization from the concept of loosely stringing energy collection stations around a star. Even more extraordinary variations on the theme involved constructing solid spheres around small stars, or even building multiple layers of such shells around stars to create artificial brains capable of simulating universes. All the stuff of fancy and speculation.
+<wrap lo>UUA-F4 리전, W477-P 성계, 항성 이상현상 조사, c. 250 BYC</wrap>
-All fancy except that the notion of a stellar swarm of very high density was at least conceivable as a project that could practically be achieved, within the limits of known science, given enough time and materials. The only question was why someone would build one. The initial examination of the first structure they’d encountered suggested it was a power collection and transformation facility. It was apparent that most of the structures were similar but a significant subset were quite different.
+탐험 과학자들의 관심을 끌었던 W477-P 항성의 비정상적인 관측값이 완전히 예상하지 못한, 경외심을 불러일으키면서도 두려운 것임을 확인했을 때, 조브 식민지 탐사선의 제동 기동이 끝나고 있었디. 그들은 데이터를 확인하고, 또 확인했다. 그 함선 속에 있던 과학자들, 엔지니어들, 전문가들이 모두 그 항성에 대한 이해할 수 없는 관측값을 어떻게든 반박하기 위해 노력하는 동안, 탐사선은 항성계 내부를 탐사하기에 적합한 속도로 제동을 했다.
-Ouria took the ship to one of the radically different structures and they began to examine it. When they realized it was a wormhole gate they had the beginnings of an answer to the question why.
+이 탐사의 책임자이자 어리고 똑똑한 탐험가 오우리아는 결국 한가지 해결법만이 이 토론을 끝낼 수 있음을 알고 있었고, 따라서 적색거성 주위의 거주가능 지역의 가까운 가장자리에서 궤도를 돌고 있는것으로 보이는 거대한 물체중 하나로 최고 속도로 달렸다. 만약 그 물체가 실제로 존재한다면, 그들은 무수히 많이 존재했기 때문에, 오우리아는 그냥 아무거나 골라서 그곳으로 향하고 있었다.
-Geminate Region, Location Unknown, SoCT Kitz Tahafut al-Tahafut, YC117.07.25
+조사팀이 그들이 있는 궤도에서 거대한 물체를 창문 밖으로 보았을때, 그들은 더이상 관측값에 대해 논쟁할 필요가 없다는 것을 깨달았다. 이 거대한 물체에서 다른 물체를 맨 눈으로 볼 수 있을 정도로, 이 항성은 매우 빽빽하게 뒤덮혀 있었다. 상상할 수도 없는 밀도로, 하지만 거의 보이지 않게 숨겨져 있었다. 이 광활한 우주가, 적색거성 근처라는 상대적으로 작은 부피의 공간이 알려지지 않은 문명의 성취를 감춤과 동시에 강조하고 있었다.
-After Veniel had gone on ahead to the docking bays, Matshi Raish had dressed hurriedly in comfortable, nondescript spacefarer’s garb, assured that on the coming journey they would merely be passengers, an associate of the Jove’s piloting the ship from its capsule. The atmosphere as he moved through the kitz was electric, all were aware of their visitor and he had already been stopped in the corridors and told twice of the Jove cruiser moored in the docks.
+W-477P 항성계는 항성공학적인 인공 물체에 의해 완전히 뒤덮혀 있었다. 이 발견은 개념적인 발견이 아니였다. 이러한 구조물에 대한 아이디어는 오래 전부터 존재했다. 이 아이디어의 핵심은 한 문명의 에너지 소비를 모두 해결할 수 있는 항성 주위의 에너지 수집 수테이션의 군집이였다. 여기서 더 진보된 아이디어는 아예 작은 별 주위에 단단한 구형 에너지 수집기를 만들거나, 우주를 시뮬레이션 할 수 있는 인공 두뇌를 만들기 위해 그러한 껍질층을 여러개 만드는 것도 있었다. 하지만 이 모든것은 그저 환상과 추측에 불과했다.
-Even so, nothing could quite prepare him for the eerie sight of the Jove ship hovering at rest in its bay here in the kitz. He had seen Jove ships before, the Society had certainly had more contact with the Jove than any other organization in New Eden in the century and some years since the Yoiul Conference, an event that arguably represented the high point of Jovian engagement with the other empires of the cluster. Certainly it had set the pattern for New Eden’s astropolitics for the century before the emergence of the new breed of independent capsuleers.
+매우 높은 밀도의 항성 에너지 수집기 군집의 개념이 적어도 과학의 알려진 한계 내에서 충분한 시간과 재료가 주어진다면 실질적으로 달성할 수 있는 프로젝트라는 것을 제외하면, 모든것이 그저 망상에 불과했다. 유일한 질문은, 누가, 왜 그런 것을 만들 것인가 하는 것이였다. 그들이 마주친 첫번째 구조물에 대한 초기 조사는 그것이 에너지 수집 및 변환 시설이라는 점을 시사했다. 이번에 발견된 것은 대부분의 구조가 그것과 비슷하지만, 동시에 꽤 커다란 부분이 달랐다.
-As he gazed at the Jove cruiser, something tugged at Raish’s memory, a connection he couldn’t quite place. The broad strokes of the ship’s design were familiar enough to him but there were many small differences with the Jove vessels he had encountered in the lines of this ship. Subtle indications of wear and a certain patina to its slightly iridescent skin combined with the differences he’d noticed to convince him that this was a relatively old ship. A notion as to its identity began to creep into his mind.
+오우리아는 탐사선을 그 다른 구조물중 하나로 접근시켰고, 그들은 그것을 조사하기 시작했다. 그들이 그 구조물들이 웜홀 게이트라는 것을 깨달았을때, 그들은 왜 그런 거대한 구조물이 필요했는지에 대한 답을 얻게 되었다.
-At that moment, Veniel approached him and noticed his intense regard of the ship. “You recognize her then, Matshi?”
-Raish turned to the Jove, certainty flowing from Veniel’s words into his mind, “It’s the Yoiul, isn’t it?”
-“Yes, indeed. She’s a reliable ship, storied and of long service. She is also very well equipped for many and varied duties. Serving as a venue for diplomatic conferences is the least of those.”
-“Yet that was perhaps her most important duty.”
-Veniel turned to look at the ship, and considered a moment. “No, I think not. Important, yes, but she’s done much else besides and after all is about to do even more. However, if it’s the past you want to think on, I have some notes I have prepared for you.” The Jove held out a datapad. “These should help and perhaps stir some questions and conversation on the journey. Now though, our boarding is the only thing the Yoiul waits for, so let us rectify that.”
+<wrap lo>제미네이트 리전, 위치 알 수 없음, SoCT 키츠 타하풋 알-타하풋, YC117.07.25</wrap>
-Later, after settling in his cabin, Raish took a moment to read through Veniel’s notes and it was not long before he was seeking the Jove out again. He found Veniel sitting in the forward gallery, watching space slide by as the ship warped towards some point far beyond the outer system.
+베니엘이 도킹 베이로 이동한 후, 마트시 라이시는 편안하지만 밋밋한 우주 비행용 옷을 서둘러 입었고, 다가오는 여행에서 그들은 그저 캡슐에 의해 조종되는 조브인 함선의 승객이 되리라 확신했다. 그의 키츠 내 모두가 방문객을 알고 있었고, 매우 흥분한 상태였으며, 그는 걸어가는 동안 도킹 베이에 정박해있는 조브 크루저에 대해 두번이나 멈춰선채 이야기를 들어야 했다.
-“Ouria found a stellar engineering swarm orbiting the W477-P star? Ouria, the renegade?”
+그럼에도 불구하고, 조브 우주선이 이 키츠의 도킹 베이에 들어있는 놀라운 광경에 놀라지 않을 수는 없었다. 그는 이전에도 조브 우주선을 본 적 있었고, SoCT는 뉴에덴의 그 어떤 단체보다 조브인과 많은 교류를 하고 있었으며, 이는 조브의 다른 제국들과의 유대를 나타내며 캡슐리어가 등장하기 전까지 뉴에덴의 성간 정치를 완전히 뒤바꾼 요이얼 회담 이후로도 변함이 없었다.
-Veniel did not look up. “Yes, Ouria led the expedition that discovered the W477-P orbital lattice. Ouria, the finest commander I have ever known. Ouria, who was certainly a braver man than I am. Ouria, who was my friend and my brother.” Veniel turned the force of his gaze on Raish, and the latter recoiled from the black pools that stared out at him from the Jove’s disturbingly symmetrical face.
+그가 조브 크루저를 바라보았을때, 무언가가 라이시의 기억을 건드렸지만, 그는 정확히 기억해 낼 수가 없었다. 배의 설계에 대한 큰 틀은 그에게 충분히 익숙했지만, 그가 그동안 마주쳤던 다른 조브 크루저와는 약간 달랐다. 약간의 부식과 미묘한 마모의 징후, 그리고 특정한 녹들이 이 배가 상대적으로 오래된 배라고 말하고 있었다. 그것의 정체의 대한 생각이 그의 마음에 서서히 떠오르고 있었다.
-“Yes, Ouria, who fell to the curse of our people as we all will. Ouria, who I know to have thought as I do and who would have been sitting in my place had we exchanged accidents of birth and fate through some alchemy of time. Yes, Ouria. Remember the whole man, not the shell reduced by disease to something other than he really was.”
+그 순간, 베니엘이 다가와 배에 대한 그의 강렬한 시선을 알아차리며 말했다. "그 배를 알아보겠나, 마트시?"
-UUA-F4 Region, W477-P System, The Gates of Anoikis, c. 200 BYC
+라이시는 조브인을 바라보며, 베니엘이 생각하던 단어를 말했다. "이 배는 요이얼이 아닙니까?"
-It had been the effort of decades to explore, analyze and decipher the basic workings of the W477-P star’s orbital lattice. Much concerning its automation and operation remained in the realm of conjecture. A distributed intelligence of some kind seemed to be dedicated to maintaining the relative stellar orbits of the thousands upon thousands of structures. However, efforts to communicate with the intelligent systems had not got beyond listening in on a flood of celestial positioning data, orbital dynamics calculations and delicately subtle instructions to the propulsion systems of each component in the lattice.
+"그래, 요이얼이지. 이 배는 신뢰성이 높고, 역사가 깊으며, 오랫동안 사용됐지. 또 이 배는 다양한 임무를 위해 매우 잘 준비되어 있어. 외교 회의를 위한 장소 역할을 하는건 그중 가장 간단한 것이였고."
-There had been greater success in understanding the functioning of the wormhole gates. These were clearly designed to be operated, as it were, manually. Certainly, it was only possible to operate the gates with the assistance of formidably powerful and dedicated computer systems. Regardless, there was no artificial intelligence, or anything like it, in control of the gates or even connected in any way to their fundamental workings. The designers, whoever they were, had been scrupulous in keeping the intelligent systems that did exist throughout the lattice entirely firewalled off from gate operating systems. The intent was quite clear: the gates were only to be opened by living, breathing human beings.
+"동시에 이 배의 가장 중요한 의무였겟지만요."
-That the builders had been human had been the first thing the Jove explorers were certain about. Logic dictated that the existence of intelligent alien species was a possibility. Equally, a logical analysis of the orbital lattice showed clearly that it had been built by human beings. Every detail of scale, every aspect of physical provision for living, intelligent beings, and every trace of language, mathematical expression and logical form betrayed a unified human perspective. No aliens here.
+베니엘은 배를 보기 위해 몸을 돌려 잠시 생각했다. "아니, 내 생각엔 아닌거 같아. 중요하지, 물론, 하지만 이 배는 그 외에도 많은 일을 했고, 앞으로도 더 많은 일들을 할거야. 하지만, 과거에 대해 알고싶은 거라면, 여기, 내가 너를 위해 준비해둔 메모가 몇개 있지." 조브인은 데이터 패드를 내밀었다. "이건 우리 여행에 도움이 될거고, 아마 몇가지 질문과 대화를 할 수 있도록 도와주겠지. 이제, 요이얼이 기다리는건 우리의 탑승뿐이니까, 어서 타자고."
-Even with the awareness that the hands that created the lattice of gates were human, the Jove had proceeded with caution. Who but a human, whatever their clade may be, knows better the danger of other humans?
+잠시 뒤, 함선 내에 자리를 잡은 후, 라이시는 잠시 시간을 내어 베니엘의 메모를 읽어보았고, 이윽고 그가 다시 조브인을 찾는데까진 오래 걸리지 않았다. 그는 앞쪽 창가에 앉아 우주선이 외부 항성계 너머의 어느 지점으로 워프하고 있는 것을 보고 있었다.
-For all their caution, inevitably the day arrived when Jove explorers activated one of the wormhole gates and piloted a ship through to the unknown worlds beyond. By this time, many probes had survived and returned through wormhole gates held open at the W477-P end. Curiosity now demanded an exploration in person.
+"오우리아가 W477-P 주위를 도는 항성 공학 무리를 발견했단 말입니까? 오우리아, 그 반역자?"
-Commander Ouria had made the case that the initial exploration need only risk a small crew, himself and one other. This was assented to by the now enlarged W477-P expedition council and Ouria selected a pilot-engineer even younger than he as his partner. This young man’s name was Veniel.
+베니엘은 고개를 들지 않았다. "그래, 오우리아는 W-477P에 있던 궤도 격자를 발견한 탐험대를 이끌었지. 오우리아, 내가 아는 최고의 지휘관. 오우리아, 나보다 더 용감했던 사람. 오우리아, 내 친구이자 동생." 베니엘은 라이시에게 시선을 돌렸고, 라이시는 조브인의 불쾌할정도로 대칭적인 얼굴에서 자신을 내다보는 검은 웅덩이같은 눈에 압도되었다.
-Geminate Region, Location Unknown, Jove Cruiser, Yoiul, YC117.07.25
+"그래, 오우리아, 우리 모두가 그럴 것처럼 우리 종족의 저주에 떨어진 자. 오우리아, 나처럼 생각했을 것이고, 우리가 시간의 마법을 통해 출생과 운명과 사고를 주고 받았더라면, 내 자리에 앉아있었을 사람. 그래, 오우리아, 조브인 병으로 인해 진짜가 아닌 다른 것으로 쪼그라든 껍대기가 아니라, 그 사람 자체를 기억하라."
-Raish stood back at the intensity of emotion radiating from Veniel even as the Jove almost chanted his encomium to a fallen comrade. “Archon, forgive me, I did not mean to...”
-“Peace now, Matshi, and remember, I am just Veniel now.” The Jove’s voice was now pitched soft and calm. “I know, you who have spent more time around Jove than most must find it strange to witness one of us wax so emotional.”
-“If you will forgive me, Veniel, among the Jove I have known you have always seemed the most...” Raish searched for a word.
-“Human?” smiled Veniel. “Now, now, I jest with you a little. Yes, it’s true, my long experience operating among the other peoples of the cluster has given me a wider perspective than many of my fellows and certainly a greater range of ready expression than most. Yet it is a great error to think us bloodless and cold.”
-Veniel paused and indicated that Raish should sit. “Let us leave aside my old comrade’s final years. The important thing to know is that together we made discoveries that shook the Jovan Directorate to its core. Consider, Ouria’s expedition had happened upon the most extraordinary feat of stellar engineering we could imagine possible and found that it had been achieved by some unknown group of human beings. What was our natural conclusion?”
+<wrap lo>UUA-F4 리전, W477-P 성계, 아노이키스의 관문, c. 200 BYC</wrap>
-Matshi Raish reflected on what he knew, Veniel’s notes and recent discussions. “You would assume the structure to have been built by one of the preceding Jove Empires, most likely the First Jove Empire.”
+W477-P의 궤도 격자의 기본적인 작용을 탐구하고, 분석하고, 해독하는 데에 수십년간의 노력이 있었다. 그러나 그것의 자동화된 운영에 대해 많은 것들이 여전히 추측으로 남아있었다. 어떤 종류의 분산된 인공지능이 수천 수만개의 구조물들의 궤도를 유지하는데 전념하고 있는 것처럼 보였다, 그러나 그 시스템과 통신하기 위한 모든 노력은 천체의 위치 정보, 궤도 계산, 격자의 각 요소의 추진 시스템에 대한 섬세하고 미묘한 명령들을 엿듣는 것 이상을 허락하지 않았다.
-“Correct. The First Jove Empire was our best guess at first. There was evidence that made sense of this theory. The orbital lattice appeared to be approximately 6,000 years old, perhaps older still. That matched with the period of the First Empire and predated its fall by at least 2,000 years. Quite conceivably the First Empire, with technology we have simply forgotten, could create a stellar-scale megastructure of this kind.
+웜홀 게이트의 기능을 이해하는 데는 더 큰 진전이 있었다. 이것들은 사람의 손으로만 조작할 수 있도록 분명히 설계되었다. 물론, 엄청나게 강력한 전용 컴퓨터 시스템의 도움이 있어야만 게이트를 작동할 수 있었다. 하지만, 문을 통제하거나 심지어 그 근본적인 일에 어떤식으로든 연결된 인공지능이나 그와 유사한 지성체는 없었다. 설계자들은, 그들이 누구든, 격자 전체에 존재하는 인공지능이 게이트 운영체제로부터 완전히 차단하고 싶어했다. 그 의도는 꽤 분명했는데, 그들은 웜홀 게이트가 살아 숨쉬는 인간들에 의해서만 열리기를 원했다.
-“But this ignored a problem. We have lost much concerning the First Empire but we certainly know they were Jove and what little survives indicates a civilization that was distinctively Jove in ways we would recognize. There was nothing of that kind to be found on any structure in W477-P we cared to examine. That bearing in mind that there was an absolute plethora of cultural material, language, modes of expression and all manner of evidence as to the special aspects of the human culture that built the orbital lattice.
+이 구조물의 건축가들이 인간이였다는 점이 바로 조브 탐험가들이 처음으로 확신했던 것이였다. 논리적으로 지적인 외계 종족의 존재가 가능했지만, 마찬가지로 이 시설에 대한 논리적 분석은 이것이 인간에 의해 만들어진 것이라는 점을 분명히했다. 크기와 길이에 대한 모든 세부 사항, 살아가는데 필요한 모든 물리적 공급, 지적인 존재, 언어, 수학적 표현, 논리적 추론의 모든 흔적은 인간의 통일된 관점을 배반하지 않았다. 이곳에 외계인은 없었다.
-“No, the builders had not been Jove. Later we understood the builders were members of the civilization we now call the Talocan. Or better to say, the Talocan civilization built the orbital lattice as a part of their grand design.”
+하지만 이 게이트의 격자를 만든 존재가 인간이라는 것을 알고도 조브는 조심스러웠다. 그들이 누구던간에, 오로지 인간만이 인간이 얼마나 위험한지 진정으로 알 수 있었으니까.
-“Their grand design?” Raish prompted Veniel.
+그들의 모든 주의에도 불구하고, 필연적으로 조브인 탐험가들이 웜홀 게이트중 하나를 작동시키고 배를 조종하여 저 너머 미지의 세계로 통과해야 하는 날이 찾아왔다. 이때까지 많은 무인 탐사선들이 멀쩡히, W477-P 끝에 열린 웜홀 게이트를 통해 돌아왔다. 그들이 호기심은 이제 유인 탐사를 요구하기 시작했다.
-“Ah, what a wondrous thing it is to realize the limits of our species are not yet within our sight. Did we gasp at the sight of the orbital lattice around W477-P? Did our minds reel at the scope of it? How then did we recover from glimpsing the faint dawning light that revealed their true achievement? But I am getting ahead of myself.
+오우리아 사령관은 최초의 탐사는 자신과 다른 한명의 승무원만을 위험에 빠트리면 된다고 주장했다. 이것은 확대된 W477-P 탐험 위원회의 동의를 얻었고, 오우리아는 그보다 더 어린 파일럿 엔지니어를 그의 파트너로 선택했다. 이 어린 파일럿의 이름은 베니엘이였다.
-“Ouria and I went through a wormhole gate into a system in the Anoikis network that contained a Second Empire Stasis faction enclave. To cut to the essentials, we docked with the main enclave structure, a Sleeper hive as the rest of New Eden would have it, and very quickly realized what we were dealing with. Far removed as the Second Empire survivors may be in history, we of the Directorate can recognize them as our own without much trouble. At least, cladistically speaking.”
-Veniel paused and looked up at Raish expectantly, from which the Society mentor understood that he was being prompted. “There was something unexpected though. The Stasis People had shifted their consciousness from their bodies to a virtual construct but that wasn’t it. The Stasis faction had experimented with that and you were familiar with the idea. No...” Raish considered. “No, there was something else. On careful exploration of the constructs you discovered there were artificial intelligences in the virtualities. Sapient entities that had emerged from the constructs over the centuries of runtime.”
-Veniel smiled faintly and nodded. “Yes, that was it. Fortunately, the law of one mind in one body had not been abandoned by the Stasis faction of Anoikis, the Sleepers, when they built their worlds. Certainly, they had made sure to preserve their original bodies for as long as possible in the event that they wished to return to the real. We also discovered they had made provision for clone growth and replacement at special facilities scattered throughout Anoikis. They had been well aware that their bodies might decay beyond usefulness even as well preserved as they were.”
-“The hives,” whispered Raish.
-“Yes, the hives. The very hives that have been plundered, along with the infrastructure of the enclave constructs, by wave upon wave of capsuleers. Not to forget, of course, the plundering carried out by the Empire under the direction of the Empress.”
+<wrap lo>제미네이트 리전, 위치 알 수 없음, 조브 크루저, 요이얼, YC117.07.25</wrap>
-“But that may have been under the influence of the entity that has commingled with her personality,” gasped Raish, appalled at the implications.
+조브인이 쓰러진 전우에 대한 찬미를 이어가고 있을때, 라이시는 베니엘에게서 발산되는 격한 감정에 뒤로 물러섰다. "죄송합니다, 집정관이시여, 그럴 의도는 아니였..."
-“May have been? I think we can dispense with ‘may have been’ and be certain that it was under the direction, not mere influence, of that entity. We can also be certain that we are dealing with a renegade artificial sapient that long ago threw off the restrictions of the law of one mind in one body. How? Why? Questions for another time, questions that may very well come to concern you most grievously.”
+"이제 진정했어 마트시, 그리고 기억해, 지금은 그저 베니엘일 뿐이야." 조브인의 목소리는 이제 부드럽고 침착했다. "나도 알아, 조브 주변에서 오랜 시간을 보낸 너라면 우리 종족이 이렇게 격한 감정을 포현하는걸 이상하게 여기겠지."
-Raish thought through recent events in light of this new understanding. “It seemed very clear that the Sleepers were Jove in origin. We were unsure how long they had been in Anoikis but the theory that they are Second Empire survivors has been our best assessment for some while now. The puzzle was the Drifters and their sudden emergence. But if the constructs have produced freely emerging artificial sapients then it answers some questions.”
+"베니엘, 실례가 되지 않는다면, 제가 아는 조브인중 당신은 늘..." 라이시가 적절한 한 마디를 찾으려 했다.
-“To a point, certainly. Consider the timing though. Why the large uptick in Sleeper drone activity? Why did unfamiliar, exploratory Sleeper drones begin emerging from Anoikis to wander through New Eden? Why did those called the Drifters emerge also? Why did they begin their curious plundering of the Jovian Directorate’s old observatories? What are they building and why are they so hostile to the Amarr Empire? So many questions.” Veniel smiled at his former student once more and, extraordinarily, winked.
+"인간적이지?" 베니엘이 웃었다. "자, 자, 작은 농담 한번 쳐봤어. 그래 맞아, 뉴에덴의 다른 사람들 사이에서 활동한 오랜 경험은 나에게 동료들보다 더 넓은 시야를 허락했고, 확실히 대부분의 동족보다 더 넓은 범위의 감정 표현을 하게 됐지. 하지만 우리가 피도 눈물도 없는 냉혈한이라 생각하면 곤란해."
-UUA-F4 Region, W477-P System, Jovian Directorate Monitoring Net, YC111.03.10
+베니엘은 잠시 말을 멈추고, 라이시가 앉도록 했다. "내 옛 동료의 말년은 제쳐두기로 하고. 우리가 알아야 할 것은 우리가 함께 조브 집정부의 뿌리를 뒤흔들 발견을 했다는거지. 생각해봐. 오우리아의 탐험은 우리가 상상할수 있는 가장 놀라운 형태의 항성 공학을 발견했고, 그것이 알려지지 않은 사람의 손으로 만들어졌다는 것을 알아냈지. 그럼 우리의 당연한 결론은 무엇이였을까?"
-It was around the same time that the exploration of Anoikis began, that our stellar scientists established that W477-P would almost certainly go supernova within the millennium, and quite likely within half that time. Given that estimated time frame for the gravitational collapse and supernova of the red giant, the need to monitor the status of the star and its orbital lattice was very clear to the Jove.
+마트시 라이시는 그가 알고있는것과 베니엘의 메모, 그리고 최근의 대화를 돌아봤다. "당신들은 아마도 그 건축물이 이전의 조브 제국, 아마 제 1 조브 제국에 의해 만들어졌다 생각했겟죠."
-By the time of the Isogen-5 Quantum Criticality Event, there had not been an expedition into Anoikis for over 200 years. No formal expeditions had been mounted that is to say. Over the century after the decision to recall all expeditions and colonial efforts from Anoikis, human presence in the W477-P system had dwindled down to a rotating trio of cruisers spending three months at a time on station. By the time of the rise of independent capsuleers, even this presence had been reduced to occasional visits by a single remaining cruiser.
+"정답이야. 제 1제국은 우리가 할 수 있는 최선의 추측이였지. 이 추측을 뒷바침하는 증거도 있었어. 궤도 격자는 약 6000년 정도 된걸로 보이고, 더 오래됐을수도 있겟지. 이 시기는 제 1제국이 멸망한걸로 추정되는 시간대보다 2000년 정도 앞선, 그들이 존재하던 시기와 일치하며, 제 1제국은 우리가 지금은 잊어버린 기술로 이런 종류의 거대한 항성 구조물을 만들 수 있었을거야."
-This did not by any means result in any lack of monitoring of the star and lattice. The W477-P system had been well furnished with automatic and semi-intelligent monitors transmitting data back to the Jovian Directorate’s scientists. The simplest and most obvious measure had been the very first one adopted, the Jove took advantage of the orbital lattice components as platforms on which to place sensor packages aimed at the dying red giant. Other sensor packs were set to watch segments of the lattice, using components in different segments to keep vigil over each other.
+"하지만 여기엔 문제가 있었지. 물론 우리는 1제국에 대해 많은 것들을 잃었지만, 우리는 적어도 그들이 조브였다는걸 아니까. 우리가 인식할 수 있는 방식으로 그들이 가진 조브 특유의 디자인을 나타내지. 우리가 조사하던 W477-P의 어떤 구조물에서도 그런 디자인은 발견되지 않았어. 그곳에는 그 격자를 만든 인간들의 문화적 자료, 표현 방식, 그리고 수많은 자료들이 있었는데도 말이야."
-Time and a habit of being comprehensive about such things, led to later efforts such as the construction of a dedicated statite net over and around the lattice itself. By comparison with the vast stellar engine it monitored, this statite net was like the most rarified outer layer of hydrogen atoms surrounding a majestic gas giant. After all, the statites didn’t need to be too large and there didn’t need to be that many of them. The great benefit it provided was that of a low energy, low maintenance means of independently monitoring the star and the stellar swarm surrounding it.
+"아니, 설계자는 조브인이 아니였어. 나중에 우리는 그들이 우리가 탈로칸이라 부르는 문명의 일원이라는 것을 알게 됐지. 더 자세히 말하자면, 탈로칸 문명은 그들의 위대한 계획의 일부로 궤도 격자를 만든거야."
-As was statistically most probable, when the Isogen-5 event happened the visiting Jove cruiser was not in W477-P. The only witnesses to what took place there, that day, were machines but at least on this occasion most survived. The component events of that day across New Eden are well known, not least the vast tragedy that was the Seyllin Incident.
+"그들의 위대한 계획이라니요?" 라이시가 베니엘에게 물었다.
-The lasting consequences of the Isogen-5 event itself are the uncontrolled breaches into Anoikis that allowed capsuleers to descend like a swarm of devouring insects on the sleeping enclaves. This could have been avoided but the truth of the matter is that there was a miscalculation. Ultimately, that miscalculation will amount to little more than a question of timing but what is more of the essence of remaining in control of our destiny, to the extent that we can, than timing?
+“Ah, what a wondrous thing it is to realize the limits of our species are not yet within our sight. Did we gasp at the sight of the orbital lattice around W477-P? Did our minds reel at the scope of it? How then did we recover from glimpsing the faint dawning light that revealed their true achievement? But I am getting ahead of myself.
-In any case, the sum picture presented by our monitors in W477-P was clear enough, if catastrophic in its import. Some fifty-odd gates scattered around the lattice suddenly exploded. That is they exploded linearly, directing vast amounts of energy into the star in a flash before burning completely out. Another twenty-seven gate structures and many more power facilities were totally destroyed in the next instant by an asymmetrical stellar mass ejection that simply punched a hole in the orbital lattice like a leviathan fish bursting through a fisherman’s net. Presumably, this was caused by pressure effects from the sudden injection of energy.
-Many more structures, gates and power stations surrounding the ‘hole’ were wrecked, knocked out of orbital alignments, or destabilized. In the weeks and months that followed, many of the structures shut down, suffered irrevocable orbital decay or spun out of orbit. Others just exploded. Eventually the situation stabilized but the lattice was gravely damaged and the distributed intelligence was only just keeping positioning under control. Worse was the increased instability of the star itself. Certainly, by some stroke of fortune, the chain reaction that could so easily have carried on there and then had been avoided. But once again, this was just a postponement of the inevitable.
-Our estimates of the likely window for a gravitational collapse supernova were slashed. What would happen when a supernova hit the rest of the lattice could hardly be contemplated. The destruction had been vast but more than ninety percent of the lattice was, if not all functioning, at least intact by some measure. This was still a stellar-level power collection, conversion and quantum transmission network that would, in the event, simply suck in as much energy as was directed at it and offload as much as it could through its buffering system before being overwhelmed.
-Geminate Region, Location Unknown, Jove Cruiser, Yoiul, YC117.07.25
-Matshi Raish had barely recovered from the shocking experience of Veniel winking at him before the Jove suddenly cocked his head to one side and appeared to listen to some inner voice.
-“We are about to generate the wormhole to home base. There is no need to for us to take any special precautions, this will be like any other wormhole transition or gate jump.”
-“Did you say we are about to generate a wormhole?” Raish looked out of the viewing gallery at the surrounding space. He hadn’t noticed their drop out of warp, so engrossing had been the exchange with Veniel, but now that they were still he could see nothing resembling a gate. Perhaps it was cloaked, such things were not beyond the Jove and this would be a secret way.
-“Did you imagine that Kuvakei the thief, barely understanding what he has in his hands, has the means to generate wormholes at will while we, who after all are the inheritors of the legacy he plundered, do not? Come now, Matshi.”
-“Yes, of course, forgive me. It is just that our intelligence suggested Sansha’s forces require considerable resources and equipment to generate their wormholes. More than a cruiser could encompass, most certainly, but of course they are presumably working with crudely reverse-engineered systems.”
-“Quite. We command the full range and precise positioning available with the technology. We also understand how to take advantage of the local topology of space-time. This is the reason for our long warp to this position, it makes things much easier for a ship of this size.” Veniel nodded to Matshi Raish. “After all, there are limits to what is possible and you were not in error to consider that. Ah, the wormhole boundary is beginning to coalesce. Let’s rest. We’ll talk some more at home base.”
-A821-A Region, T-C5A0 System, T-C5A0 X M9, Jove Navy Logistic Support, YC116.11.25
-Our monitoring systems picked up the tell-tale signs of an imminent gravitational collapse in early September of YC116. In the five or so years since the Isogen-5 QCE, our numbers had fallen from 10,000 or so to perhaps a thousand scattered across the Jove Empire. By the time the supernova happened, those of us who were going were long gone. Those of us who had chosen, for whatever reason, to stay in New Eden permanently had dispersed to their hidden destinations far away from the abandoned remains of the Third Empire. We very few who constituted the rearguard, the executors of our legacy, waited in our most carefully maintained, best shielded stations.
-One of us even elected to stay in a bunker below the surface of an outer planet and we did not think the precaution extreme given the circumstances. That she had thought of it, in an age when the Jove civilization has existed entirely in space for centuries, speaks well of her flexibility of mind. Any sense that the Jovian Directorate still existed was as much an illusion for us as for the other races, who after all had long begun to believe us dead or, at the least, gone who knows where.
-So, the rearguard waited and were very few indeed. Less than a hundred remained loyal to the ideal of passing on what we could if the supernova and the inevitable quantum-level events left anything intact. What we lacked in numbers, we made up for in purpose and, joke as it may be, for once the Jove Empire lacked any serious factionalism.
-The data made it clear that the collapse would take place within months and so it did. The stargate networks being knocked out was startling enough but probably shouldn’t have come as too much of a surprise. Our core network linked to the colonial network extended into the UUA-F4 region and we’d left several stargates in W477-P itself. While not all connections were active at the time, the sympathetic links were in principle there for the appropriate energy to use as a channel. It burned out the whole net. No more stargates. It is probably fortunate for the rest of New Eden that we didn’t just deactivate but rather entirely removed the old stargates connecting the Jove Empire to the rest of the cluster. This seems to have firewalled the non-Jovian network off from the worst of the effects.
-In fact, the stargate network burning out was the most significant effect in the Jove regions aside from some damage to abandoned stations, enclave habitats and the like. Our worst fears had barely materialized so far as this cluster is concerned. The story was rather different in Anoikis.
-A821-A Region, T-C5A0 System, T-C5A0 X M9, Jove Navy Logistic Support, YC117.07.26
-The Jove cruiser Yoiul emerged from the wormhole that had brought it from Geminate region to the T-C5A0 system within short warping distance of the Jove Navy Logistic Support station. Or as Veniel referred to it ‘home base’.
-The Yoiul warped to the station, docked and went through all the usual procedures. Matshi Raish and Veniel disembarked and made their way through the quietly humming, mechanically noisy hangar that yet managed to convey the quietude of atmosphere that comes from the absence of living beings.
-As Raish followed Veniel through various corridors and passageways he noticed signs of an almost organic decay in places. Once, he stopped to examine a particularly large patch on a corridor wall that looked as if acid had eaten through the substance of the paneling. Veniel looked back and nodded shortly, “Nanorot. Repair systems are losing cohesion and going rogue locally. It’s far more advanced on the truly abandoned stations. Let’s continue.”
-Raish followed until they reached a relatively pristine area that opened out into a very pleasantly, if minimally appointed combination lounge and meeting room that overlooked the hangar bays. Walking over to the window, Raish saw the Yoiul moored below. He turned back into the room and joined Veniel, sitting on a simply cushioned seat around a low table.
-“So, we’d come to the issue of the timing of Sleeper and Drifter activity. Their motivations and purposes.” Veniel glanced at Raish.
-“Yes, you hinted at a deeper connection between the W477-P stellar engine and Anoikis. You’re suggesting a connection in the timing of the activity increase with the changing state of the star and the condition of the orbital lattice.”
-“I would assert it. Here we come to that fact that shook the Third Jove Empire to its core. This is a fact that took many decades of exploration and investigation to establish. A fact that was not readily accepted by all but a fact, like all facts, that in the end we had to face. Anoikis is artificial.”
-Raish involuntarily gasped. “Artificial? You mean to say that…”
-“I mean to say that the stellar engineering swarm in orbit around W477-P is the least of the achievements of the Talocan civilization. I strongly suspect it is not the only such engine in existence for one. For another, it is itself only a component in the grand design that the Talocan made real. Think of it. They built a stable network of wormhole connections among star systems that would not ordinarily or readily support such connections with each other. They altered the very fabric of space-time in the network’s systems. They altered resonance points and so arranged matters so as to be able to move between the systems of the Anoikis network with the ease that you and I might move between rooms in a house.
-“This is not merely stellar engineering. This is engineering the topology of space and time so as to serve a civilization. This was nothing less than an attempt to focus the telos of the universe itself on their existence and needs. Astounding arrogance. A hubris the like of which casts we Jove into the role of humble mendicants to the impassive stars. We should be thankful that the Talocan, while leaving their traces behind them, are no longer present in New Eden or Anoikis. Perhaps the degeneracy of W477-P was what persuaded them to move on. However that might be, degenerate that star had become and the potential for catastrophe was clear to anyone capable of understanding the situation.
-“Given this, I think it is beyond question that the Sleepers themselves had established monitoring systems in W477-P. This would have been done by the Stasis faction as soon as they discovered what was in that system and understood its basic nature. How did Second Empire Jove find that system at all? I would imagine the Second Empire discovered entryways into the Anoikis network in the vicinity of the Curse Region. When? Where? Who knows but I would guess late, perhaps even shortly before the collapse of the Second Empire.”
-“The discovery may even have precipitated that collapse in some manner,” suggested Raish.
-“My thoughts exactly. Coincidences occur but there are rather too many associated with the Second Empire, Anoikis and the Shrouded Days. Something happened, some encounter, some miscalculation, some psychosocial upheaval, and then, well, chaos and the darkness of knowledge lost to history. Lost to us.
-“However it happened, the Second Empire Jove found Anoikis, entered it and, we can now be quite certain, the Stasis faction established enclaves throughout the systems of the network. You will know from your history of the Third Empire and Jovian Directorate that there was always a mystery as to why so few Stasis People enclaves had survived. Some of us suspected something amiss, and it’s sure the Directorate Stasis People knew more than they told but pressing these kinds of points is not prudent. Not among my people.
-“Here’s another coincidence to ponder though. Why did the migration from Curse bring us so close upon the UUA-F4 region? I have my suspicions but nothing much can be divined from the records. The time immediately following the Shrouded Days was a terrible period for us. It’s a wonder we survived and this time we had no Miko Bour to unite us. In the end, it was instinct, which goes so far as to show that deep down we are still human.”
-Raish had been thinking while Veniel spoke and now made an observation. “You and Ouria discovered Anoikis before the Society of Conscious Thought was founded. Why, you were contemporaries of Ior Labron, even Gorda Hoje!”
-Veniel smilingly shook his head. “Gorda Hoje died many decades before I was born. Ior Labron though, oh yes, I knew him well. He was older than me but still in the prime of his life when he founded the Society. Ouria joined immediately, he saw in the Society the future of Jove civilization. After much discussion, debate and persuasion, I followed suit. Then followed the War of a Million Lies.”
-“The rise to hidden power and the suppression that followed,’ breathed Raish.
-“Yes, Ouria was disillusioned by the fall of the Society from grace. He left and joined the Directorate’s Navy. For all that I’d had to be convinced to join in the first place, I stayed in the Society. I believed that the Society could still play a role in shaping the future into one where human species can continue to survive in the New Eden cluster.” Veniel leaned forward and placed a hand on Raish’s clasped hands. “And I continue to believe that.”
-Matshi Raish glanced at Veniel before replying, “The Society has had many setbacks since the Empyrean Age began. Collectively we had underestimated the difficulty of inculcating the long view of species survival in the minds of the capsuleer class. There have been many unforeseen problems. Today, the kitzes are perhaps as divided as they ever have been. The Geminate Chapter is barely holding things together.” Raish looked down, pensive, worried.
-Veniel sighed. “I sometimes regret that the price for diversity of thought is so often fragmentation and conflict but unfortunately this is something we can only accept and manage. However, this is a problem that you will be able to ease for I am entrusting to you the means to bring greater unity to the Society.
-“More than that, I am entrusting to you the legacy of my people. It will be difficult, be in no doubt. The Second Empire survivors are unpredictable as matters stand. A great amount of your work must be bent to managing the problem they raise. Then also, the capsuleers remain the great investment in the future that should be shepherded most carefully. You can do this more directly only if you have the power to do so. I intend to give you, and the Society, this power. Come.”
-Veniel rose and led Matshi Raish out of the viewing gallery.
-***
-Genesis Region, Yulai System, Yulai VIII, Inner Circle Tribunal, YC117.12.20
-“It is all very well for Korachi and Vesren to block, stall and threaten those who question our response. They are DED officers and beholden to no other power. This is not the case for all of us. I must render an accounting to the Imperial Court and my colleagues in the military. I understand well the strategy of containment until we have more information but the Empire is straining under vast pressures that require release. We are considered totally ineffective and worse, some believe CONCORD to be complicit in the crisis!”
-The speaker was Captain Marshal Sirdan xer Qosh, the Amarr Empire’s member of the Inner Circle, and for all he gestured vigorously during his remarks, the others seated around the circular meeting table showed no reaction other than vague boredom. Eight men and women sat around a table that had seating for nine. Four of these were permanent members of the Inner Circle, drawn from the ranks of CONCORD’s own hierarchy and representing the ongoing interests of the organization. The other four were nominees from the core empires of New Eden, a practice that had been returned to as a matter of necessity in the wake of the Militia War Powers Act of YC110. The ninth seat always remained empty.
-Inner Circle President Seri Okonaya frowned slightly, looked around the dimly-lit room, noting the expressions that could be seen on the faces of the Circle members sitting in pools of light around the table and made an economical but very clear gesture of irritation with her right hand. “Sirdan, we all appreciate your difficulties when dealing with your colleagues in the Empire. We have, after all, discussed at length the appropriate response to the Drifter threat with considerable time devoted to the question. Not least following the death of Empress Jamyl I.”
-“Assassination, you mean,” interrupted Sirdan xer Qosh.
-Okonaya’s frown deepened slightly but she went on, “Our policy has been revisited after each major event in the current crisis. Our conclusions have remained the same. There is not yet enough information on which to base an intervention plan. That being so, we maintain the policy of containment, bearing in mind our paramount directives must continue to be the priority of the organization.”
-There were nods and murmurs of assent from the others seated around the table even as xer Qosh shook his head in annoyance.
-“Again, it is all very well for CONCORD officials and those from empires who think themselves to have limited exposure to take this line,” here Sirdan xer Qosh jabbed fingers in quick succession at President Okonaya and the Caldari and Minmatar nominees. “But the peoples of our empires are becoming aware of the problem. You must know this more than anyone here, Malate, what say you?” This last was addressed to Devan Malate, the Gallente Federation’s nominee.
-Malate shrugged. “It’s obvious we have great media attention turned on the Drifters, and no shortage of incidents being covered given the extent of our territory but ultimately it’s just one more story competing with the everyday issues of our citizens. People are not as concerned with what goes on in space as you may believe.”
-“The capsuleers are though. What of them? They are constantly stirring up trouble. Always going into Anoikis or messing about in ancient ruins. Then they blare their asinine speculations to the whole of New Eden. What of them?”
-“What, indeed, of them?” asked Matshi Raish as he stepped into the pool of light that surrounded the empty, ninth seat at the table.
-The men and women sitting around the table sat stunned for a moment but Seri Okonaya was quick to recover her composure. “Matshi Raish, we had thought your long absence from interstellar affairs indicated your death, it is good to see you are alive, though your presence here demands a very clear explanation.”
-“Never mind about that, this man directly interfered with Her Imperial Majesty’s ship only weeks before the Drifter attack that killed her!” Sirdan xer Qosh stood up and pointed at Raish. “This man is involved with the Drifters in some way, he should be interrogated immediately!”
-“I would counsel very strongly against taking precipitate action against my person or indeed the Society. The death of Empress Jamyl is regrettable but, as she herself so obviously appreciated, was necessary.”
-Seeing xer Qosh was close to exploding, Seri Okonaya quickly cut across the Amarr and questioned Raish. “What do you mean by her death being necessary? Surely you realize that such a remark calls for precisely the treatment that Captain Marshal xer Qosh demands? I do not know how you entered this chamber unannounced but you will not leave it so easily.” Okonaya knew that by now a range of automated weaponry, of kinds both lethal and incapacitating, were trained on the Society elder.
-By way of answer, Raish smiled, stepped forward to the table and placed his hand on the neurochemical reader that sat discreetly by the empty, ninth seat. A clear, harmonious tone sounded. A tone that everyone around the table knew signified the reader’s recognition that the person activating it was an authorized member of the Inner Circle.
-Seri Okonaya slowly stood up, her mask of composure now entirely gone. “How is this possible?” She pointed at the reader. “That device is set to acknowledge only the authorized nominee of the Jove Empire. It can’t possibly recognize you. It won’t recognize anyone. They’re all gone.”
-“They are indeed, for the most part, gone. Certainly the Jove Empire and the Jovian Directorate are no longer functioning entities. To that extent, the Jove are gone. But they did not leave without setting their affairs in order.”
-Okonaya had noticed a growing number of alerts scrolling down her screens and bent to look at them quickly, before looking back up at Raish in amazement. “You have reactivated the Jove participation protocols. You have access to every aspect of CONCORD operations. How?”
-Matshi Raish smiled again, sat down in his place and clasped his hands together. “It is quite simple. The Society of Conscious Thought have inherited the mantle of the Jovian Directorate. From this point onwards, we are the fifth point of the star.”
-Seri Okonaya slowly sat back down, looked at her displays again, then looked Raish in the eye and nodded slightly.
-Raish nodded back and steepling his fingers leaned back in his chair. “Now, what can you tell me about the Upwell Consortium?”
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