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the inner gate
"Let them in, and take them out."
Through ups and downs, the Moira and the crew have survived much together:
During the first wave of arrivals, the ship docks at a planet that has an addictive substance called Exuo — crew went through mood swings, heightened aggression, and fits of paranoia. Natives attempted to kidnap and sacrifice everyone.
A solar storm caused a power blip, and strange masks were found in every mailbox that gave them unusual abilities.
They reached Caducus Primary, a planet largely comprised of glass. The representative of CP accused the crew and captains of theft; however, they didn’t leave fast enough, and a skirmish caused damage to their Ingress, which ended with Caducus Primary cracking and being destroyed.
The power fluctuates and temperatures drop. One of the captains, Tipota, is found dead. This is the introduction of Ploiatos, who ended up being one of the original crew members affected by the power of the Ingress.
The Moira docks at Emiri, which was comprised of three main cities where the culture was influenced heavily by finding one’s soulmate. The company responsible for this, Link’d Inc, is incredibly popular throughout the universe. However, hints of forced unions, kidnapping, and slavery are investigated by the crew after an attack on all of the cities by a rebel group. The planet becomes locked down. Benjamin Link joins the crew and helps them escape.
Another month passes, and crew dock on Ceta. It is known for it’s unusual atmosphere and its living beings AKA sentient flying whales. They were hunted for valuable organic resources, and eventually, the crew decided to hire mercenaries from outlying planets to protect them from further death.
Soon after, the Moira stops at an abandoned prison station called Del Pascia with a resident AI (D-E-L) who was “irritated and snippy” but did not keep crew from exploring and taking items. D-E-L tried to persuade crew to stay, and when it became clear no one wanted to, D-E-L tried to infect them as she had infected those who’d remained behind in the prison. Everyone fought and escaped.
Amissis-Re is an unregistered planet that had no signs of life — the crew’s next stop. Here, they meet a “host” who had done the impossible and “fixed” the Ingress. However, she only reversed the energy of the Ingress, which created melted worlds and made it incredibly dangerous to discern reality from the time inside these worlds. The host gifts some of the crew with journals after she decides to go through the Ingress and remain there.
The Moira begins to malfunction, and those of Caducus Secondary, along with survivors of Caducus Primary, hunt the ship and those inside it for revenge. Negotiations started while crew tried to set up defenses aboard. Due to prior issues, the Ingress shuts off, resulting in the melding of Caducun glass with the ship and everyone aboard. When the Ingress finally stabilizes, the Moira is now in a different universe: the Runoff.
Some members of the crew are found on a slavery outpost in the Runoff, and others make a stealthy rescue effort to bring them back to the Moira. First Mate Egan and Captain Ira appear through the Ingress, explaining that they are the original members of the Moira designated to pilot the ship. The old captains hand over authority to them as the ship drifts into the Luminous Sea.
The ship crashes into one of the moons within the Luminous Sea where crew find a group of natives who are overly friendly. They beckon them to stay with food, drink, and much more. Unbeknownst to those who stay with them, an entire year passes. Eventually, what is wrong with the Moira is patched so they can leave.
After months of hard travel, the crew explore the wonders of the Mini Colony. A closed ceremony held on the MC caused crew to change in ways they’d never experienced before. Yet, during the festivities, someone triggered the “fear machine”, and crew suffered from phobias once back on the ship.
Those working on the Ingress pick up a signature for the Midway Hub and begin to make preparations to go there. The new species Ploiatos has become is named Mirtis (meer-tees); some of the crew kill him before things get too out of control again as they had in the previous months. The Ingress is then turned on, and the ship falls into a time slip.
The Moira crashes on the Midway Hub.
Captain Ira draws a map and encourages crew to split up and travel to the Inner Gate of the Midway Hub. Once inside the Outer Gate, crew experience de-powering — a safety protocol of those who’d worked on the Hub. Exploration and survival are a key focus during this time. They move through a network of caves to find the entrance to the Inner Gate.
After a brief respite, crew learn that the entrances to Gate A and Gate B are inside one of the caves. Groups are split, TABS are synced, and crew explore carefully until an entrance is found. Crew discover Gate A first, and all crew are contacted to gather there. The captains remain at the cave entrance until all crew are accounted for, and then, they enter through the gate together.
Finally, after entering through the Inner Gate, the crew head down through a system of tunnels that lead them to an underground - and main - section of the Midway Hub. Initial scans show that there is a catacomb of rooms and hallways that seem to have been patched together hastily and messily, suggesting that the builders added on new areas as they were needed. Anyone who has abilities, and tries to use them now, will realize that they are no longer depowered as they had been for the last several weeks. Crew are allowed to explore and are encouraged to look for any evidence as to why the previous tenants are gone, as well as take any supplies found or find ways to radio out for assistance.
☄ FLOOR ONE - jan. 3rd
Deeper in, the first level of the Hub is littered with thousands of papers and notes regarding things on the Ingress. Some are highly classified while others are of the smallest consequence to anyone reading them. Upon closer inspection, some of the things listed might even make sense to those of the crew slightly familiar with Ingress technology—reports of energy distortion and time slips, effects of the energy on those traveling through it, how to isolate particular parts of the Ingress' energy and use them to transport to other places. Only a portion of these documents are legible; the majority have either been torn into pieces or charred. Smaller rooms can be found here as well, offices and labs that are only large enough to hold five or six people at a time, and within some of them, pieces of machinery and electronics can be found. Most recognizable are the circular-curved mechanisms that belong to an Ingress. Yet, rather than just one, there are hundreds. Some have been left in piles of twisted, melted hunks, and some, those parts still (probably) capable of being used if the occasion presented itself, are thrown about carelessly, tossed under desks and under chairs and even embedded in parts of the walls where they - more than likely - exploded.
Not much else can be found on this level. Unless empty cups and broken computers are justifiable as something.
☄ FLOOR TWO - jan. 4th
Crew who travel even further within the Hub will find that not all things have been deserted. Sort of. What greets anyone who explores here is the visible evidence that some sort of intense struggle happened between those who worked on the Hub and a group of outsiders. Dead bodies cover the floors, in hallways, and inside personal quarters. The one constant in the tableau is that none of them died in any sort of peace, and the visceral knowledge of that is clear by the amount of blood spilled and the putrid smell that comes from it having been sealed off for such a long time. Be careful to tread lightly and step with caution. Also, breathing the air for any more than a few seconds without some sort of filter isn’t advisable. Items worth taking might be in the form of blankets and clothes, but most of it seems to have been taken in a rush.
☄ FLOOR THREE - jan. 5th
And even further within the Hub, below the offices and labs and unfortunate death, a power source can be found. From obvious signs, it is clear that someone had lived here recently, and anyone who looks through some of the things left behind will find a list of recordings readily available to them. They are as follows:
audio log 1
audio log 2
audio log 3
audio log 4
audio log 5
☄ FLOOR FOUR - jan. 6th to the 24th
Inside the Ingress Channel, a group of fifteen have taken up a defensive position, standing in a small circle towards the back. When approached, they’ll tell crew to stay where they are; they want to talk to them but with lots of space between. There doesn’t appear to be a leader of this diverse group, but one person comes forward and asks who they are and what they were doing on the Moira as they had seen it crash. With this new group being unwilling to divulge any information, the conversation is slow to reveal anything important or useful.
Through patience and diplomatic efforts by the crew, the following is eventually discovered: these people call themselves Savrii and aren’t native to the Midway Hub. The Savrii aren’t hostile, though they are skittish at first. Their people were sent through the Ingress to destroy all the documented research on Ingress technology and energy that could be found here, taking out anyone who tried to stop them. Their mission was critical, meant to protect the universe from those tampering with such an unstable, natural force. During the incursion, the Ingress machines on the Hub were damaged, and they are what’s left of the group of Savrii that didn’t make it back through before the machine shut down. They’ve seen footage and schematics of the Moira and would have destroyed it, too, if it had landed instead of crashing. The Moirans did the job for them.
Their people don’t believe in fighting or chaos, unless the Ingress energy is being manipulated in any way. The ship was the first of its kind, created by severing some of the energy from the whole. This upset an already delicate balance and caused issues with Ingresses all across the universes. The Savrii liken it to taking a child away from its mother. When the crew explain that they were only passengers, the Savrii believe them. They lower their weapons and open the floor to peaceful discussion. From this point, crew learn that the Savrii have been surviving here as they try to fix one of the Ingress machines, which they are close to but are lacking one of the key elements. Science technicians from the Moira, who have studied the Ingress will realize that after sorting through the wreckage the part they need survived the crash, and with help, the crew are able to assist in replacing the broken element.
When the Ingress is rebooted, they send one of their group through, who returns a moment later with good news. The damage on this side didn’t affect the Ingress Complex on the other, a place where the Ingress Energy was first discovered and built around. They tell of their home, with the largest and first Ingress machine, that is a mecca of travel and culture. It might not be the crew's original homes, but the Ingress there is functioning, and they can use it.
The Savrii can go home. The Moirans are allowed to come with them.
Step through the Ingress and
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thisavrou_log2017-01-03 09:25 pm
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Yeah. Already thought about that some. I tried to talk to Ahab about it, but- [He shrugs his shoulders.] -He told me that we'd just keep trying until we made it out. I admire the confidence, but I know that, if I have to, I have the capacity to start again.
[He's done it often enough.]
Glad I wasn't the only one worried about that, though. [Though he did have a similar conversation with Liquid. That he told him that if the man had a choice, he should try to get out while he can. That this mess with Cipher is a quagmire.]
Small goals. I want to know why these people think it's alright that the workers in this facility were acceptable deaths. [Then he steps close to Snake, tips in close, speaking near his ear in a way that he shares space with his secrets.] I'm also wondering if the Ingress should even exist. [As selfish as Kaz is, the value of the greater universe is far greater than the value of one asshole's megalomania. Or the value of starting his own family in more typical fashion.]
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If Snake and Miller are on the same page about the reality of the situation, though, that's what matters. Snake hasn't really broached this subject with anyone else (because he wanted to see how his mentor would react first, maybe?).
Snake nods in solidarity with Miller, then begins to move out of the room so that they can find themselves some more privacy. Even if they'd already been out of earshot, better safe than sorry. ]
My guess is they thought the deaths of the people here would prevent many more deaths out in the greater universe. [ It's a common argument. If a handful of deaths can stop so many more from happening, isn't it the right choice? Snake doesn't think he's qualified to answer that, even if he's carried out that philosophy in the past. ]
Hnn. Even if the Ingress tech probably shouldn't exist, I'm not sure that's the kind of train we can stop. [ It's something worth thinking about, though. ]
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[But that's about all they got right now.]
I think Cipher felt that way when they destroyed the MSF. All it did was create Outer Heaven, and dozens of other PFs. We both know the way to stop this was with warning. If one person can discover the Ingress, so can another. Murdering them before they can misuse it was never the answer.
[The obvious answer was stopping the misuse by educating them. Showing them how the Ingress was a living thing. Kaz looked at some distant point through the wall, nose wrinkling as he considered their utter lack of options. Sure, Miller in the future had been complicit in the destruction of Big Boss's work later twice over. But that was revenge; in the end, he had known better. And in the long run he had tried to teach his students to be better than him in the same breath that he was teaching them to survive.]
All it proves is that they're flawed. Far-sighted enough to create the Ingress, naive to think that they would be the only ones who would be able to access it.
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Cut off one head, three more take its place, right? [ It's still surprising to hear someone as war-forged as Miller talk about finding another way, something that isn't related to violence, but Snake isn't about to argue the point. It's a matter of strategic thinking, too. Brute force isn't always the best way to accomplish something, as much as they might be trained for it. ]
I think there's probably some ego coming into the equation too. [ Isn't there always? It's the common tale. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should, and thinking they were the only ones advanced enough to make use of the technology had been the Savrii's first mistake.
Having made their way a good distance down the hall, Snake leans himself up against the wall and sighs, his shoulders deflating in frustration. ]
Well, we've gotta go through that portal anyway.
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Probably. [He agrees with the statement of ego, with a similar train of thought.] We did see how dangerous the Ingress could be, but the people working on it here went into this knowing nothing.
[Venom and Big Boss, though, were ten years older than him and he clung to the notion of even partnership with them. He commanded men ten to twenty years his senior in Central America. And he tries to live up to the mentor that Snake had, but he can see right then how he and this man are nearly the same age, and right now both carry a lot of weight, a lot of responsibility that they are now realizing they may never meet.]
[But here he acts as a peer, a friend, and when he stands in front of him and settles his hands on his shoulders to reassure him, it's as that.]
We'll figure something out, Snake. We'll keep building ourselves up so we can get a foothold. We don't know what's through there. But we'll face it together. [They're not going into this alone. And to punctuate it, he pats him roughly where he held him.]
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I'm not gonna assume they had only good intentions in mind, but... [ Slaughtering the scientists still seemed like an overreaction, and Snake doesn't think there's any way around that. He doesn't really want to hear the Savrii's excuses, either. Hence moving away from them to begin with.
It's not like he hasn't stared down plenty of unknowns in the past. This is on an entirely different level, but at least Snake isn't going it alone. He nods to Miller, shifting his grip so that he can settle his fist against Miller's chest, knocking it lightly. ]
I'll leave the building to you. [ It's not Snake's nature to draw other people under his lead, but Miller could pull it off. ] Just let me know where I can help.
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[He backs off, giving David his personal space back as he's feeling a little more secure that he's going through with capable people.]
Do you know anyone else who's going to agree to this?
[Honestly he's expecting most.]
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[ There isn't even safe passage off of the planet, not with the Moira crashed and most of the evac vehicles in similar states. Maybe someone smart enough to build a new ship from all the scrap could pull something off, but other than that, they're basically stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Of course, Snake has to ask -- or at least, he feels obligated to. It still takes him a few seconds to actually get the words out, though. ]
... Have you talked to Ahab?
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He's not happy about these people, either.
[To be honest, for once Kaz thinks he's the only one unwilling to result to torture for answers in this situation. And really it's only because they're lacking in power to defend themselves properly.]
We're going to go. [He puts his hands in his pockets.] We've um... been doing a lot together lately. So I think it'll work out as a real partnership. [Not just what he and John had in the old days, something genuinely more reliable. Or at least he hopes.]
[Then a pause as he realizes how that sounded.]
We didn't do that- [Not to any great extent, anyway.] I mean we've just been doing a lot more cooperative work together and been okay with sharing each other's space for long periods of time.
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There's definitely such a thing as too much information, and it's Miller's insistence on clarifying his original point that's more incriminating than anything else.
Snake doesn't really want to go there, though. Whether or not something's going on, he probably doesn't want to know about it. ]
Guess everyone's had to, since we've been camping out. [ He's definitely been in closer quarters with people than he would normally want, but it had been necessary. ] But it's good, you... uhh... working together. [ He averts his gaze. Why did he bring this up again? ]
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[He had been worried about their partnership, though, that it might not work as a functional working relationship when they returned to the field with the full awareness of what each other was. Kaz, a man who could no longer subscribe to the dream of Big Boss. And Venom Snake, simply not Big Boss but trying to be (maybe?)]
[But they're doing fine and that's important.]
[So is the fact that he's not going to bail on this Snake, either.] If we're together it means that in an emergency we can work as a reliable team.
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If it came down to it, Snake would put his reservations aside and act alongside Ahab. It would be enough to give him whiplash the entire time, but it's not like he hasn't set aside personal feelings for the sake of some greater cause before. ]
Yeah. [ His response is delayed, but he nods. ] You can count on me. And I'm counting on you, too.
[ Snake's loyalty belongs to Miller, not Ahab, but maybe that's good enough. ]