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Edited by Nemesis Black: 9/25/2014 8:51:02 PM
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Jovian Agents and the Lives of Cats

Nemesis Black, Warlock Adept of the Vanguard I've spent some time observing the shadowy vendor know as Xûr and his activites tis past weekend here at the Tower. My Ghost has compiled here an account of my conversations with our tenebrous guest, in particualr thos occasions where I have attempted to push for as much information on the Nature of Xûr's mysterous patrons - The Nine. What I've managed to pry out of him is sparse, but I believe my fellow guardians here will be able put together the pieces and provide those I have missed (yes, perhaps even the Hunters have something worh sharing...) that we may better percieve the larger picture behind this eldritch puzzle. Ghost Transcript follows... Nemesis - Who are You, and Whom do you Serve? Xûr - I am only an Agent. The Nine rule beyond the Jovians. Nemesis - The Jovians? You come from beyond Jupiter and Saturn...So who - what are the Nine? Xûr -I cannot explain what the Nine are. They are... very large. I cannot explain. The fault is mine, not yours. Nemesis - So if you are their agent, what is your mission here? Xûr - I understood my mission when the Nine put it in me, but now I cannot articulate it. Nemesis -You do not appear to be Human, Awoken, Exo or anything familar, Xûr what are you? Xûr -Some of the cells in this body began on this world, how strange to return. Nemesis - You are of Earth? You do not appear as any native life-form here. Xûr- think the cells of this body are dying Nemesis - are you injured? Are you in pain? Do you need assitance? Xûr -So much Light here, I suppose I feel pain. Bodies come and go but the cells remember. And if they forget, the Nine remember it for us.... ...I think it is very possible that I am here to help you. Nemesis - Is that what the Nine intend? They an alliance then? Who are the Nine, Xûr? Xûr - I am only an Agent. The Nine rule beyond the Jovians. Nemesis - yes you have already said this... Xûrr Beyond even the outer worlds, the true deep begins. My function here is to trade, I know this. If I am here, it is The Nine who sent me. We saw the colony fail, not knowing what we saw. But it was the Nine who gave us purpose, and it was the Nine who keep us whole. We came up from the dust, and burrowed into flesh for warmth, and became... something new. The Awoken did not have a choice. We did. (Xûr begins gesticualting, he appears to be agitated or perahps frantically indicating something?) Xûr - I do not entirely control my movements." Nemsis- The Nine...control you? As a puppet, even here? Xûr - My will is not my own." Nemsis - Yes, once again... Xûr - My movements are to a significant degree dependent on planetary alignments. My movements are not predictable, even to me! These inner worlds are very strange... I feel a great many consciousnesses impinging on mine, and all of them so small and lonely. Nemesis -What do they Nine want here on the Tower, on Earth - do they seek to arm us? Xûr -It is my will to speak to you." Nemeis - But you just said... Xûr -The Nine wish to speak to you." Do not be alarmed, I have no reason to cause you harm. The Nine show you these. Nemsis All this items are of familar design, made for human hands but of astounding quality! How did you come by these? Are these of human manufactured? Xûr- Each mote of dust tells a story of ancient Earth. The Nine show you these. Nemesis - Is that all? Do not mistake my words for...ingratratitude but if what you say is true, that the Nine have sent you from beyond Jupiter, from beyond our solar system surely it is for more than relic arms and armour? Please, Xû why are you here? Xûr - I came for the Light, perhaps. To understand the Light. Nemsis- I understand, bu... Xûr - I do not know what the Nine want with you. There is something inside me that wishes to connect.. You are the one I was sent to find! The Nine wish to speak to you. Nemesis - Xûr we are going around in cirlces and your cyptic responses are gett.... Xûr - An end will come. We will be here. This is but one end. I have told you what I can. Nemesis -Wha... Xûr - Guardian! -Your Traveler has a dark mirror. ...End Ghost Transcript Before I could push for clarifcation I was called away by my fireteam to assist in the elimination of a Cabal commander outside of Rubicon, Mars. When I returned Xûr was gone leaving no trace. I doubt it will be last we've seen of this shadowed agent. The only other information I have been able to gather was an intercepted transmission my Ghost tapped into while I was attempting to discreetly map a pirate route into areas of the The Reef. I also include here the collected myths on the nature of The Nine from the Grimoire's of various Guardians, all under standard encryption for those wish it. Ghost Fragment: The Queen [spoiler]For a while the only lights were the eyes of the Witches tending to the cell. The drone of the soul machines echoed through the prison. Gas billowed and ebbed into the shadows. She entered. They scurried to their points around her, the method of their arrangement precise. "The Archon Priest has been retired, my Queen," said the Witch to her right. Far from throne and audience she moved without theater. "Any word of Kaliks Prime?" "We still sense something among the Anankes." This voice came from behind her. She did not turn to acknowledge it. For the span of a brief silence she moved between the sealed cells of the Wolf nobility with her Witches in constellation around her. "More of your brother's Crows have entered the Cauldrons of Rhea." The Witch directly before her spoke with a dry buzz. "The Nine do not approve." She stopped a moment to study the sealed face of a cell. The cloud of her breath mingled with the slow exhalation of cryonics. "Send them one of our prizes. Something to commemorate our mutual victory." "And which of your prisoners would you gift?" If she paused to think it was only for an instant. "Send them Skolas." "A lovely gesture." "Mm." She cocked her head as if listening for a frozen heartbeat. "And remind them this: the Crows are mine." It appears to be a communique from the Queen regarding the transfer of what I suspect is a ranking Fallen in stasis from The Prison of Elders as a...diplomatic gift... to the Nine for surveilance drones tresspassing in within a zone of Saturn's moon Rhea. The Queen appears to be searching for a lost Prime Servitor of an unknown house (her Wolves?) Could Saturn then be assummed to lie dominion of the Nine? [/spoiler] Ghost Fragment LEGENDS 2: [Spoiler] *"The Nine are survivors of the cis-Jovian colonies who made a compact with an alien force to ensure their own survival. The Nine are deep-orbit warminds who weathered the Collapse in hardened stealth platforms. The Nine are ancient leviathan intelligences from the seas of Europa or the hydrocarbon pits of Titan. The Nine arrived in a mysterious transmission from the direction of the Corona-Borealis supercluster. The Nine are the firstborn Awoken and their minds now race down the field lines of the Jupiter-Io flux tube. The Nine are Ghosts who pierced the Deep Black without a ship and meditated on the hissing silence of the heliopause. The Nine are the aspects of the Darkness, broken by the Traveler's rebuke, working to destroy us from within. The Nine is a viral language of pure meaning. The Nine are the shadows left by the annihilation of a transcendent shape, burned into the weft of what is. [/spoiler] And why nine? One ancient Earth religion believed there were nine levels of HelI. Are the Jovian environs that inimical? Are these their lords? Nine was the Number of planets in our solar system until Pluto was re-classifed in what I believe was the 20th Centrury. Nine was also a consider a lucky number by the pre-Collapse Chinese culture, sounding the same as their word for "Longlasting" - do the Nine consider this auspicious? The same culture also equated Nine with the mythical Dragon - a creature symbolising magic and power. Certainly as a Warlock this resonates upon my psyche also. Perhaps more relevantly the historic Greeks civilsiation, upon whose gods we named our planets spoke of Nine Muses - spirits of inspiration poetry, comedy, tragedy - and also- astronomy. Is to signifaicant within the context of our galaxy? perhaps, or perhaps I'm grasping at straws... Most optimistically in classical Europe The Nine Worthies were mythical figures who, in the first millenia AD, were believed to personify the ideals of chivalry. Could it be we have sincere allies out there? Dare we believe that? I can only hope in time The Nine will make their true natures and motives clear, before we are forced to act blindly either on their behalf or against them. May you walk in the Light into the dark places. Nemesis Black, Warlock Adept of the Vanguard Addendum: I've spent the past few hours being gnawed at by something: Xûr's last words to me - about the Traveller's "Dark Mirror"... At first I believed it a dramatic remark refering to The Darkness itself, or more likely The Black Heart we've nullfied within the Vex's Black Garden. But the more I think upon it, the more I wonder if Xûr was being more literal. Consider: What if he is refering to another of the Traveller's kind - one full of Darkness, not Light. Why do we assume the Traveller is unique - that there are not others, who perhaps did not fly as it did ? What if they instead fell to - or gave themselves willingly to the Dark? I must find the Nine, I must know for certain. I must prepare.

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