12:25 PM stgarrettjr: Where is the Mad Queen's world then? Right up by Karlack space or at the furthest extent of where the Karlacks once roamed when they first surged over the galaxy?
12:25 PM Cochengo Sarsaparilla: Pyrrhon
12:26 PM stgarrettjr: I'm pretty sure you had the karlacks do that. Some initial surge that was eventually contained by various powers.
12:27 PM Cochengo Sarsaparilla: yeah the karlacks were everywhere in ancient times
12:27 PM Cochengo Sarsaparilla: uh
12:27 PM Cochengo Sarsaparilla: (but like these borders aren't like real-life borders so conceivably if you're unlucky some long-ranging karlack splinter can pop up far away from the critical mass)
12:28 PM Cochengo Sarsaparilla: I'd say the Mad Queen is like to the righter-half of the Cascade
12:29 PM stgarrettjr: Toward the Free Worlds and the Savannah/Bounty?
12:29 PM Cochengo Sarsaparilla:
https://scontent.ftpa1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/ ... e=5D5521C3
12:29 PM Cochengo Sarsaparilla: whoops LEFT I mean
12:29 PM stgarrettjr: Oh, i see that as the left side
12:30 PM stgarrettjr: Hah
12:30 PM Cochengo Sarsaparilla: yeah my bad
12:30 PM Cochengo Sarsaparilla: but then again she can move who knows
12:30 PM stgarrettjr: Heh
12:30 PM Cochengo Sarsaparilla: she might not be static
12:30 PM Cochengo Sarsaparilla: she might be "on a stroll" with her flock around her
12:30 PM stgarrettjr: Hrm.
12:30 PM stgarrettjr: How about both?
12:30 PM Cochengo Sarsaparilla: yeah she can have the usual haunt and then also sometimes move around
12:30 PM stgarrettjr: The world she's on was blown free from its solar system by one last outlashing of sheer psionic will as she succumbed to madness.
12:31 PM stgarrettjr: It now moves through the void of interstellar space passing through one system or another every century.
12:31 PM stgarrettjr: A ghost planet for the broken husk of a great hero.
12:31 PM stgarrettjr: Many try to find her world. They fail. A few succeed. They're never heard from again.
12:32 PM Cochengo Sarsaparilla: oooh yeah that's great
12:32 PM stgarrettjr: Only some faint cries through the subspace aether and the psionic realms to speak of their horrible fate, and to provide what little knowledge is known of this fallen heroine.
12:32 PM Cochengo Sarsaparilla: and the masses of swarming monstrosos
12:33 PM Cochengo Sarsaparilla: I wonder if it'd be unreasonable if she has enough juice left to FTL the world sometimes
12:33 PM stgarrettjr: She wails in inconsolable grief on her dead homeworld while the broken, undead husks of Phyrron and Karlack forms fight an eternal battle around her,.
12:33 PM Cochengo Sarsaparilla: yes
12:33 PM Cochengo Sarsaparilla: there you go
12:33 PM Cochengo Sarsaparilla: or IDK if the critters are undead, maybe they should be alive
12:34 PM Cochengo Sarsaparilla: some equilibrium of mass murder and eating
12:34 PM stgarrettjr: And breeding?
12:34 PM stgarrettjr: Okay, if you want.
12:34 PM stgarrettjr: She tried to save her people, even as the Oversoul dimmed and died. One last gasp of power. She would die, but her people would live!
12:34 PM stgarrettjr: The ravening hordes would be expelled from her world!
12:34 PM stgarrettjr: BUt she drew too much. She couldn't control the power.
12:35 PM stgarrettjr: Instead of destroying the Karlacks and Phyrrons, the energies blew the planet out of its orbit around its star.
12:35 PM stgarrettjr: Her world died, her people - save a few who managed to flee the planet, maybe? - did too.
12:35 PM Cochengo Sarsaparilla: Hah!
12:35 PM Cochengo Sarsaparilla: Sure yes
12:35 PM stgarrettjr: And within her, the last shard of the Oversoul continues to exist.
12:36 PM Cochengo Sarsaparilla: (Well there are other shards actually)
12:36 PM stgarrettjr: Okay, a last shard
12:36 PM Cochengo Sarsaparilla:
12:36 PM stgarrettjr: Fueling her power, allowing her to move the world (at FTL) at times, even as she's gone mad from grief and horro(r) at what she's done.
12:36 PM stgarrettjr: Trapped in nightmare.
12:36 PM Cochengo Sarsaparilla: yes
12:36 PM stgarrettjr: The nightmares of what's become of her, of her world, of all her dreams.
12:36 PM Cochengo Sarsaparilla: mang this works since Vic and I decided that the Oversoul was also involved in some weird ass dimension-folding hooohah that made ancient Apexai territory "on top" of most of the galaxy
12:37 PM Cochengo Sarsaparilla: some Gallifrey-like thing where it's a pocket realm that's "close" to a lot of other places it shouldn't be close at
12:37 PM Cochengo Sarsaparilla: when Byzon punched a hole, Apexaia "crashed" in the K-Zone
12:38 PM stgarrettjr: Heh.
12:39 PM stgarrettjr: And yeah, all around her the Karlacks and the Phy-whatevers continue an unending war, cut off from any connection by hive mind or psionics to the mroe sapient intelligence of their species. Mindless berserkers killing and eating each other and mindlessly spawning to commence the cycle anew.
12:39 PM Cochengo Sarsaparilla: yes
12:39 PM stgarrettjr: Arguably even extensions of the Mad Queen herself now.
12:39 PM Cochengo Sarsaparilla: the Broken King jumped into the middle of the Bragwar and killed probably fleets worth of then-not-paleo-cruisers
12:39 PM stgarrettjr: There will be theories, but none know the truth.
12:39 PM Cochengo Sarsaparilla: but everything around him was a nuclear waste and so he limped home
12:40 PM Cochengo Sarsaparilla: his sword broken from cutting all sorts of warships
12:40 PM Cochengo Sarsaparilla: and he's a war god who ran out of warring
12:41 PM Cochengo Sarsaparilla: and later on he had to talk the Ferryman out of using cosmic necromancy, or using a ritual where he'd slay a whole bunch of planets (that in the map would form a bagua or star or something) to anchor the souls of the fallen people he cared for (or Apexai or both)
12:41 PM Cochengo Sarsaparilla: so instead, coming to temrs with loss, he now just ferries beings to the other side
12:42 PM Cochengo Sarsaparilla: IDK and probably won't be figuring out where SOTS' Space Styx is located