Chapter 536: Resurgence - Legends Pt 2 (1/2)

RIGELLIAN SAURIAN COMPACT

OK, what do you guys think?

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Remember, we've faced this malevolent universe together, let's stick together where it matters.

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MANTID FREE WORLDS

Looks good. Better than the Pubvians.

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PUBVIAN DOMINION

What? What's wrong with ours?

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MANTID FREE WORLDS

It seems a little... forceful.

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AKLTAK SOARING WORLDS

Oh, I gotta see this.

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MANTID FREE WORLDS

Show the kids, Pubvia.

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PUBVIAN DOMINION

Today sucks! But tomorrow might not. The only way you'll know is if you're around to see it! Are you going to give in to a malevolent universe? It's laughing at you! You! Personally! Are you going to just sit there and let it laugh at you? Let it dominate you? Fight back! Scream, cry, but do not go gently into that dark night! Call or text to our crisis management teams! All calls are anonymous.

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LANAKTALLAN FREE HERD

I do not see a problem with that. Terrans are an aggressive people. Speaking to their aggression may work.

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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS

No offense, sis, but yours made me sad.

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MANTID FREE WORLDS

What's wrong with it?

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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS

The whole pictures of empty human cities with sappy music and the whole ”please call us, we're ready to listen” text on it made me sad. I felt like any second you were going to have a blurb for funeral homes or anti-depressant medication.

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MANTID FREE WORLDS

It wasn't that bad.

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RIGELLIAN SAURIAN COMPACT

It made my ducklings sad.

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MANTID FREE WORLDS

Fine. We'll redo it.

Everyone's a critic. We just wanted to let the Terrans know we understood where their pain comes from.

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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS

We know, sis. You care very much. We all get that.

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AKLTAK SOARING WORLDS

We have five Terrans on our worlds. What should we tell them to do?

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PUBVIAN DOMINION

Try not to break shit.

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ALKTAK SOARING WORLDS

I know that.

I mean, what should we do. We're alive and free because of them.

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DIGITAL ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE SYSTEMS

Live. Let them see life still continues.

Our parents are a passionate people. While they are sometimes given to melancholy, eventually they come out the other side.

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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS

Usually chasing someone with a spear and yelling at them to stop running, they'll only die tired.

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PUBVIAN DOMINION

Well, you're not wrong there.

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MANTID FREE WORLDS

It's just so frustrating.

And the seers aren't helping.

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LANAKTALLAN FREE HERD

What do you mean?

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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS

Dude, you don't just come right out and ask about the seers, man.

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LANAKTALLAN FREE HERD

Why not?

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RIGELLIAN SAURIAN COMPACT

Because, they might hear you and then they'll look at you.

You don't want that.

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LANAKTALLAN FREE HERD

That seems very strange.

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DIGITAL ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE SYSTEMS

Seers are strange.

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LANAKTALLAN FREE HERD

Still, I wish to know.

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MANTID FREE WORLDS

We know humans, Earthlings, and Terrans are still out there, so the fact that they keep singing, drawing, painting, and rhyming about them isn't that big of a shock.

We keep asking what we can do to ensure the Terrans returns.

The seers say there is nothing we can do, that Terran Descent Humanity as we know it is extinct.

Then they tell us that the wrath of the Children of Zamin , the Warriors of the Garden of Life, the Sons and Daughters of Lok, will crash down upon those who devoured their previous banquet and seek to take away the banquet set before us.

It's a little more complicated, but that's the basic gist.

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PUBVIAN DOMINION

ooooh, I don't like that.

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LANAKTALLAN FREE HERD

What? It seems to say that humans will return.

That's a good thing, right?

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PUBVIAN DOMINION

Uh, not really.

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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS

Oof, those are some old names.

Jeez, could you imagine some OG humans busting out on the universe?

Those guys were bad news.

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HESSTLA CYBERBURROW

I do CASE OMAHA CASE OMAHA CASE OMAHA not understand. Humans have been good to us.

Sorry. It just keeps repeating every time the Atrekna bring in more reinforcements.

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PUBVIAN DOMINION

Kid, they beat Treana'ad (although it can be argued that Treana'ad over there won the war), they beat us, the beat Mantid, and that's just who survived.

You've met Terran Descent Humanity. Notice the phrase. Notice the way that Mantid's seers phrased it.

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LANAKTALLAN FREE HERD

OH! I understand now.

TDH will not be coming back. Rather, they shall shed their TDH skin and emerge as a new creature, their skin shining with their newness, their eyes flashing with their wrath, and their form terrible to behold and filled with purpose.

They will come marching out of the mists of time, from where they had been left behind purposefully so that their children did not dwell within their bloody shadow. They had been content to stay in the foggy depths of history, but now, when all is in danger, they shall stalk forward with burning eyes and flashing swords to interpose themselves between those who cannot or will not protect themselves and those who seek to turn our universe into a larder for obscene appetites.

Ware, my fellow beings, ware and doom! Can you not hear the thunder of the black iron doors of forgotten history crashing open to reveal that which was laid to rest returning to wrathful life? Can you not see the birds and beasts flee before them? Can you not feel the trembling of the universe beneath their marching boots? Do you not taste the storm clouds racing before them to warn all that a rain of blood shall shower down to cleanse the universe of a taint most foul?

The Earthlings come! The children, the Mad Lemurs of Terra have swept aside the curtain to reveal their wrathful parents, Enraged Hammer of the Universe! They come! They come!

Huddle close to the fire, for the Earthlings stalk the night to teach those who lurk within it the meaning of fear! Sing your songs with strength, chant your tales with courage, speak your legends boldly, for the Enraged Lemurs of Earth approach with their voices lifted in song and their fists raised in wrath!

Hold tight to the iron ring set into the bow of the sailing vessel as the tempest howls about you and the universe itself plunges into the maelstrom!

They come!

They come!

For our eyes have gazed upon the eternity of a purple sky

and in our meditations we have learned even death may die

with fiery sword and wrath unbound

we have seen the man come around

the universe will laugh with glee

as even devils and angels flee

Ware and woe to all who devour

this is thine final hour

for the lemurs come with howling rage

to bring about the end of an age.

They come!

They come!

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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS

What.

The.

Fuck?