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"the trees rustle in the evening when we stand uneasy before our own thoughts."
With the events of Del Pascia behind the Moira, things are only now beginning to settle—and not very well. Through the combined efforts of some of the crew, D-E-L and her permanent residents were incinerated into the dust of space. While it’s not the most peaceful end, it is one, and not many are going to be thinking back on how nice Del Pascia’s facilities were for quite some time. Repairing what they could of the ship’s interior and putting as much distance between the Moira and the prison as possible, those aboard are informed by Navigation that they are approaching another planet. This means, of course, the potential for better supplies, as some things are beginning to dwindle, and the Captains elect to dock so long as the crew follows protocol. WELCOME TO AMISSIS-RE
Amissis-Re is an unregistered planet with no documented histories or signs of life. The Moira’s Navigation crew have scanned the planet for any usable resources and have discovered a faint signal emitting from beneath the surface of Amissi-Re. Using the transporters and any other crafts located in the Cargo Bay, the crew are able to travel to the source of the signal. Upon arriving in its exact location, they’ll find a small series of lakes that lead to a tower-like structure that appears to be in use. Crew must cross a poorly assembled bridge system that sways and dips when weight is applied to it in order to gain access to the entrance. Once there, a woman comes out to greet them and explains, excitedly, that she is so very happy that they have come to Amissis-Re.
Everyone can go home.
Their host insists that she has done the impossible and has somewhat fixed the Ingress that’s been built on Amissis-Re a long time ago, and what’s more, she can send crew home for short bursts of time. Upon following this woman inside, crew will find that the planet is not, in fact, barren at all. Diving deep into the underbelly of Amissis-Re, it’s like an eternal factory of machines, and while vast, for whatever reason, it also seems incredibly welcoming...
☄ LEAP OF FAITH ( 05.01 and on ) The barren planet of Amissis-Re is devoid of vegetation and organic life except for a lone woman, and the planet itself is an intricate honeycomb of machines that go for miles below the surface. Yet, that seems insignificant and unimportant in comparison to the news that the crew has just received. After Thán has looked at the Ingress, he tells the crew that he cannot say for certain that it is properly functioning, but Emiri native, Ben Link, will volunteer to test it out.
An elevator takes crew down to a glass platform that overlooks an inverted Ingress portal. In order to return home, the Moirans will have to take a leap of faith and jump in. Ben, in order to show his commitment to the crew and willingness to help get them home, takes that jump with Captain Thán seconds behind him. Jumping feels like dropping through wind; lights swirl, it’s warm, and a soft buzzing encompasses you as you fall. You don’t feel the landing. One moment you’re falling, and the next, you’re in a new world.
A few hours pass before a similar elevator rises from below and to the left of the Ingress, stopping beside the platform. Ben and Thán step out unharmed.
It works, and everyone can temporarily go home. Will you jump? ☄ COMBINE THE EXTREMES ( 05.01 and on ) The woman that greeted the crew and led them to the platform will allow anyone that wants to go home the opportunity to go. There’s only one catch: it’s not permanent. She’s worked for years to fix the Ingress so that she can return to her own home but hasn’t been able to make the trip an everlasting one. Everyone always comes back. Always. They go for a few hours, at first, but that amount of time increases with each visit.
The one guideline, she says, is that you can’t go alone. Each trip requires a partner, or it becomes too much for the mind to bear. These rules are simple: the world takes shape depending on who jumps first, but if crew go hand-in-hand and leap at the same time, the worlds combine. This new world will be populated with people that existed in both and may appear to be a jarring combination of both worlds. It may seem unusual, but if the woman is asked, she’ll explain that the combined world does exist as there are more universes than can be imagined. The Ingress tries to take the person to their own home, their original home, but when jumping together, it finds the closest possible match and deposits them there instead.
From that point on, you can travel the world together or split up, but remember, this world is a living, functioning world. It doesn’t matter if it’s the home of one crew member or a combination. You meet other people. You can get hurt. You influence and are influenced by others.
Be cautious, and enjoy your visit “home”. ☄ LINGER ON ( 05.05 and on ) The more times the Amissis-Re Ingress is visited, the more it seems that your trips last longer and the experience becomes even more vivid. More real and harder to distinguish from the current reality that you know. It’s difficult to explain why, but you get the feeling that maybe if you went without the aid of the host, that perhaps you’d be able to stay. Forever. It takes some subterfuge, but in time, you see your chance: she’s nowhere in sight, and you take it.
The world you are in now is completely your own, whether another crew member accompanied you or not. The people you know are there, everything around you is exactly as you remember. A few hours pass, and you don’t feel that familiar tug, that invisible hook at the base of your spine that signals that your visit is over. Even more time goes by, and you’re still in that world, your home. When the first day has passed, you begin to question if you’ll ever go back, or if life on the Moira was all a dream. The person with you won’t be able to convince you otherwise, and they’ll start to feel less real, a stranger that you used to know.
There’s only one way to go back to the Moira. Someone from the other side has to come in and retrieve you both. Once in, contact with a third will jump-start a link through the Ingress, and it will pull all crew back to the platform.
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It was a short email, but Tali dwelled on every word, savoured each one. It might be the last connection to her aunt she would ever have.
"I almost want to go over there," she said, looking longingly over towards where she could see them - her people, so close she could almost imagine she could hear them talking, "but I feel like that might cause trouble."
But she almost wanted Shepard to tell her the opposite, all the same.
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[... Great, she still ended up with Tali crying. At least she doesn't seem to expect a response.
[After another look over at the quarians and geth working together, she turns back to Tali.]
Put your mask back on. The others probably won't have immune systems fixed up like yours; you'd probably scare them. If you know them, pretend to be checking back in from the Normandy or something, don't mention the Moira or your last ship. It sounds insane, and I'm on the Moira.
[She won't be responsible for some kind of diplomatic incident.]
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"They might not even recognise us," she goes on as she walks. "Most people I know are in the military, they'll be off-world."
That's without stating the obvious: literally no one would recognise her to look at. That was more Shepard's problem than hers. Only her voice would give her away, and surely only to her friends.
"I'll just have to keep my hands in my pockets." She flashes her bare hands, then does indeed jam them in her uniform pockets. Her suit was too badly damaged on the prison outpost to wear at all or she would have, but the strange uniform should hide her lack of one. Mostly.
They're approaching the group, close enough now for Tali to see that the geth are Prime units, only a few of the standard platforms milling around, platforms roughly of human height. There's an armature class setting up what looks to be a permanent communications array for the area visible in the distance now. It's breathtaking. It's nothing she could ever have imagined. And she can't help finding it a little disturbing. Nobody is armed. Except her and Shepard. And of course, all the geth with inbuilt weaponry.
She takes a long, shaky breath and looks down at the ground. The ground of Rannoch. It's rocky and sandy, and a couple of tough little plants are forcing their way into the sun.
"This world was worth destroying a planet for," she murmurs to Shepard, and it's the first time she's said anything about the CDC since that party where she blurted it all out. "Making peace is nothing."
She looks at the commander, the sight of a Prime hauling metal sheets over her shoulder a momentary distraction.
"Right?"
I was waiting until we'd spilt the planet/system destroying beans :D
Right. Destroying Macha, you saved Rannoch. [That's war.] You made this possible.
Now go say hi.
[For her part, she hangs back. She doesn't want to go over and claim credit for whatever Shepard did, not when it's something she wouldn't have done herself. Easier to do that from a distance. This is the closest she's ever been to more than one quarian at a time, and the first time she's ever seen geth in person. Everything she knows about geth screams that they'll attack; being in such close proximity to them is making her tense.]
o/ feel free to drop this holy shit i'm sorry
Shepard still makes it sound like such an easy thing, though. Like something that could be virtuous in some other universe. Which, of course, it was.]
Hi. Right...
[There's a tiny hint of nausea rolling in her gut, but more than anything else, it's nerves. She steps forwards a few paces, into the colossal shadow of the Prime, which notices her and looks round, down at her.]
Creator Tali'Zorah. [Creator. A lump in her throat she hadn't even realised was there swells suddenly, and she glances around as if to see where Shepard is, why she's not there beside her.] Are here to oversee repairs?
[She falters a little, uncertainly.] No--No, I'm not in charge here. I just wanted to come and take a look. I haven't been down here yet. We...we were in the area, so I thought I would...
[Sound more nervous, Tali.
...It occurs to her briefly to wonder how the Prime knows who she is without suspecting for a second she doesn't belong here, but she's too busy helplessly looking around at Shepard to put too much thought into it.]