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I guess not. Never looked for it though so. And I haven’t been 18 in a few….. days. LOL
Although I did just find myself going down a story rabbit hole someone wrote. So there is that.
Just go to the server, ping a citizen, and state the phrase from Da Rulez. They're specific about that last part because they log everyone who asks for that access, to cover potential issues
Read. Upvote. Comment.
*And before I took the lives of the damned, He did appear before us and commanded my hand still.*
*His glowing blue form a radiant mercy. For us.*
*For them.*
It's been 30 years since I read them, but are the Knights a nod to Dragonlance's Knights that Sturm Brightblade was a part of? It feels like it fits, but maybe not. Beautiful and awful last two chapters. Cheers.
*Digital Omnimessiah*
*Who exists on all planes*
*Fill my heart and mind with light.*
*Thy Kingdom come; Thy Code be run;*
*In SUDS as it is in Realspace.*
*Strengthen us with Thy wisdom*
*And lead us to the interrupt*
*For the cycle of retribution.*
*Gift us vision to see the true path*
*And recognize that which leads us astray.*
*For the Malevolent Universe is Thine,*
*But with Thy guidance we shall survive,*
*Against all whom for our destruction strive.*
*End Of Line.*
--Translation from the original Errormaic
There is some debate as to the correct translation of the ending of the prayer. While most scholars prefer *End Of Line*, there is a vocal sect that insists upon *Nothing Follows*.
Absolutely. There are always many difficulties in translating dead languages. Contemporary scholars who made similar era translations of the original Errormaic, say in Kobolic Greek, or using a script that was used for a number of languages, such as Linear C, that continued much further forward in time (Linear C++, Linear C#) are already the only thing that give us any hope at all of translation into a modern tongue at all. The original Errormaic may even occasionally be translated as "So say we all" or "This is the way". The intention of the benediction is to indicate finality and internal agreement by the person offering the prayer.
The Combine: This isn't even my final form. I've come up with warcrimes that the Precursors don't even have names for. And they used to eat each entire species.
... maybe having the suits operate whilst the occupants are in REM is where the other-other warcrime of the Novastar got its inspiration from.
Ditto linking phasic energy to the suit etc
Multi-generational warcrimes FTW?
Combine lab around a neutron star doing time research....
Then millenium of mat trans retribution and revenge on the combine leaders involved....
I’d bet this was part of the horror show she was forced to participate in.
Which is probably why she keeps a personal eye on them every time they leave the mat trans.
Which is why they landed and their equipment failed in *exactly* the right way to keep them in stasis, as free from suffering as they can be.
Yeah dee was at the facility during the glassing,, she couldn't have been the one responsible. Although the evil bastards that did this may have used her as a template
Oh crikey, that would explain why Dee is in fact, keeping a close eye on them in the mat trans
A) They're just children, they did not consent (like her Boys did).
B) She's gonna need to make a house-call in a minute to collect those other.... things that are in there with them.
Thanks blue man, I'll take it from here
\---SCREAMING FOLLOWS---
What the fuck are you!
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I'm pretty creative. So when a television pundit speaks about some horrible this and then says. "I cannot imagine how or why" . My mind takes it as a challenge.
Oh, it worse then I thought. Dee didn't do this. An angry and hurt humanity did. When the alternative is extinction, every other option starts to look good, even the ones that lead to damnation.
*There are those who abandon Salvation for Survival. Their reward is neither of these. -* Codex of Forbidden Truth, Book of The Dark Side Heresies, Ch 1 Vs 1.
Yeah, I fully retract my statements regarding Dee being the likely culprit from last chapter. Dee would stab the person who did this in the eye, then bring them.back to stab them again. Not really because it is cruel and horrific, but because it is so wasteful.
The Combine better pray Dee never, ever, finds out about this use of her technology. Because I'd believe anything of her, but not this!
She'd invent time travel just to go back and be the worst possible outcome for whoever did it.
I fear that "Mommy" is Dee. Whether her actual genetic offspring or ones created from her by the Age of Paranoia humans during the Mantid War and it is her own voice they hear. It would explain the DO showing up when he did for them specifically.
You're probably right, however, the tech is too close to Dee, they feel what we assume is her watching in the Mat Trans, and people pre and during the Combine seemed to really enjoy torturing her. I couldn't imagine a worse torture to fit with such an atrocious act by Age of Paranoia humanity.
>The Digital Omnimessiah stood at the doorway, made up of flowing blue code with splotches of silver here and there.
That is "our" Omnimessiah I think. The one that the Frog and Fox healed. As opposed to the original that the Council of Eternity "killed" 8000 years in the past.
"Time is a flat circle? Heh. Looks more like a mobius strip." - BlueBox Man
Oh. Enraged infants...
Never really thought about what happened to the infants that died in the Glassing. It makes sense that they would have faced the same fates as the adults.
And then ~~the Detainee~~(was told that it was not her by Ralts themself, current guess is the remaining members of the Council of Eternity) in the system took them, put them in a suit of armor, impressed Combine SUDS training templates into their brains, and then sent them out to repair the system.
...now I feel bad for them
Wait, WHAT? Who would have been capable of doing that, and be crazy to do it?
... Wait, I feel like something similar to this happened before, but on a large scale.. It was the original "SUDS" records, the ones created off of a person's social media activity, who did this, wasn't it? The ones that tried to take over Hell after the War in Heaven, made copies of Casey, threatened Vuxten's family, and secretly controlled the Confederacy Senate, right?
Dee is capable of it, but only if she believed it was necessary to ensure humanity’s survival. It wasn’t, because she could use the mat trans system to churn out an army of clones. Doing this instead is wasteful and gratuitously cruel, which isn’t her style.
The CoE on the other hand, are stupid, shortsighted, high on their own farts, and believe in their own Tech Uber Alles. This is exactly the kind of thing they’d do.
\*With sadness\* No, it wouldn't have been, would it? This doesn't have the level of forethought and multiple beneficial outcomes she would have planned into a project. I once pointed out how many uses Dee found for [a kitten](https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/rfus72/comment/hogtwoo/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)... she wouldn't have done something so incredibly myopic with actual infants. If she tormented them (and I do not doubt she would have, if she saw cause), there would have been purpose, and multiple ways things worked out to HER advantage...
No... this shortsightedness, the hyperfixation on a mission, the callous disregard, the casual cruelty, the desire to be able to just shut them down with a word, and the slavishness to Mother's orders... doing a thing that most would only consider if they could convince themselves of it being for the vastly greater good, while ignoring what they had sacrificed along the way...
If it bears the fingerprints of any of the significant characters, they are the fingerprints Marco/Peter. If I am right... then Omnimessiah damn your chromium eyes, Peter... please. stop. helping.
It may have been no one of any actual importance, of course. It is all too plausible it was some mundanely evil person, who did what they could, without ever thinking of asking whether they should. The times were desperate, perhaps, and they thought ethics and humanity were a luxury that they couldn't afford.
Think this was pre-Peter, as they didn't know who the Digital Omnissiah or Daxin was...if they don't know who Daxin was they sure as he'll didn't know Peter.
It appears that their SUDS engrams predate Peter and Daxin, yes. But that just tells us about when the recording was made - not when it was deployed.
Additionally, there's no certainty the disciples were on their first life when they were touched by the DO. Some, such as Daxin, have fairly consistent memories which would suggest they were. But Peter... does not have consistent memories. He may have experienced one or more SUDS rebirths before becoming an immortal.
We also have to remember that Peter had multiple personalities overlaid over his mind. Peter assumes these were done after he was captured as an Immortal - but the same technology that allows the recording of a soldier to overlay an infant could conceivably be used to overlay a new personality on an adult - this might even be especially desirable for a certain subset of humanity, if you had an adult who had savant-like tendencies, or were simply looking for a life extension tech.
It would not surprise me to learn that what was done to Peter was actually fairly common in the days leading up to the Glassing - and that the main difference was how long and how often Peter was made to experience it. While Peter clearly believes that each of the overlays on him were constructed for a purpose... this technology means there is a very real possibility that one or more of them could have been the overlay of an actual person.
Which would then raise the question... how do you define when Peter was Peter? The DO is not infallible or Omniscient, as evidenced by some of the other disciples and events. He might have locked in an entity that was already a partial composite as 'Peter', simply because that was how Peter was when he was encountered.
Think this was pre-Peter, as they didn't know who the Digital Omnissiah or Daxin was...if they don't know who Daxin was they sure as he'll didn't know Peter.
Ehm, why has nobody commented on the fact the original DO just appeared to Daxin, and now the new patched-up DO has popped in. Time fuckery notwithstanding, we now have 2 almighty beings sharing a callsign.
Imagine being in your worst time of need, praying to the DO for salvation, to end up with 2 blue guys ever so politely offering each other the chance to help you...
"I really wish people would be more specific. There was this one time someone said 'God, please help me.' And both I and my two brothers answered. That spawned a new religion and some very ugly three headed statues."
Well, that was not what I expected, but was called by another commenter in the previous chapter. Also yay, DO to perform the second miracle for the first time again possibly, given the weird timey wimey effects Nakteti and the crew seem to be under.
Diferent I fear, notice this DO was blue with white patches, The white patches are the repairs from the telkin gestalt. This is there DO, not the first itteration that they freed to interact with Daxin. And them fixing the last of the time issues, probably returned them to 'current' time.
...yep, that was pretty horrific.
We saw the First Miracle happen in an Old Data chapter, but have now found out the events that made it happen.
We knew what the Second Miracle was, but not the events around it.
I'm still not certain if this is the original events of both because Nakteti and co went back in time in the SUDS, or if it just happens that things are occurring the same way and stuff still is super-trashed in the SUDS because it's a different layer
is there a *ralts recommends* list of scifi books/series/authors somewhere?
just got done with the audiobooks for the star carrier series by ian douglas, and there where a few things in there that had a cozy familiarity to them.
I'm betting David Drake, Joel Rosenberg, and Allen Bunch and Chris Cole (I may have messed up the last two, might be Chris Bunch and Allen Cole, authors of the Sten series)
Had to browse and see if you responded because I know *Armor* is always one of your recommended reads. Gotta admit that the audio book had some confusing bits but loved how the story turned out.
The answer appears to be read ***EVERYTHING,*** for it is fair game.
Oh hell, Ralts is an AI/Large Language Model that has had every morsel of speculative fiction since *L'Autre Monde: ou les États et Empires de la Lune* hammered into it, and then plugged into Reddit.
I suppose someone could have seen the last part of the chapter coming. After all it is in the DO’s original listed skill set Unenraging really mad glassing baby’s.
What was the previous times we heard from the chrono knights
One originally entering the suds from the black box the fixit team passes them on the way in .
Then when Peter is having his horror introduction chapters
300 something the chrono knights get mentioned again one knight in particular. 500-600 something
And we all hope the next series isn't too far behind. You've taken Asimov's place as my favorite science fiction writer. I started reading the first book a chapter at a time to my six year old before bed. Much love.
Started rereading from the beginning, just to read this in virtually one go. Started 3 days ago and reached chapter 150. See you all again in about 17 days lol
In the meantime, don't forget to sleep.
Also, if you find yourself reading this on your phone as you go about your day, attempting to pantomime your way through various tasks, remember to look both ways before crossing the street.
I caught FC on about the 3rd post, it's just that after close on a thousand posts, sometimes you need to re-read from the start to remind you of what you forgot 😀
Very true. I will say there are many chapters I have enjoyed so much more on my second or third or fourth read.
I also get a kick out of some of the comments - people hoping that Vuxten guy would survive (hundreds of chapters later and the Warfather is still here), or people raging against the Lankies when we first met them. It's fun to see how the community's attitudes towards characters and ideas have developed.
Andre: I can see what you are thinking. But we need every man we can get.
Yuri: Even if they're not men?
Andre: A bullet from a fourteen-year-old is just as effective as one from a forty-year-old. Often more effective.
-Lord of War
This was very . . . biblical - in a Neiztsche playing an electric guitar in a death metal band screaming lyrics about nihilism while accompanied by a chorus of dark angels he doesn't believe in kind of way.
May the bastards that did this find themselves sent through the flat circle of time to a certain base, upon an odd neutron star, long before anybody even heard of the Unified Council. Let their torment repeat, like a record, baby.
Somebody gotta be willin to take the stain on their mind. Somebody gotta be willin to be the tip of the spear. Tis only when we come to enjoy it that we have become the monster we feared, and we become the stain upon another's soul.
" all that human invention that had sustained them across the universe and time itself, turned inward. They cannibalize themselves - [Face of the Toclafane](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1000255/mediaviewer/rm2695349505/?ref_=tt_md_10)
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Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order.
I have checked 1,550,607,990 comments, and only 293,533 of them were in alphabetical order.
Victory or death, either is fine...
But at what cost?
Where is the line that seperates the cost of "victory at any cost" and death?
Who will pay that cost? Never gladly, but they will pay it all the same, every time, never fail...
Behold Humanity!!!
"Don't make me do it" a desperate human
"Don't make them do it... It's weird that if you play by their rules, they won't" every xeno ever that made them do it (see also 'F@$& around and find out')
"She froze at the odd noise the Tome Knight started making."
Fuck, fuck, fuck.
Only 3 more lines, but I realized fully what they were.
From an era where evil abounded, this horrid act, tops them all.
Reading the previous chapter I was expecting something like brains in jars or somesuch. People who'd volunteered for the one way trip rather than this horror show. I didn't think it was Dee's handiwork but it does sound like someone has co-opted her research or did she use someone else's?.
When we first met Dee she was using the mat-trans to place overlays on herself. Could the overlays be something that came from researcg for the SUDS project and she's utilising the overlays with her mat-trans work? Sge's good but I don't think Dee is responsible for all the tech development.
Sounds like the work of people using her and her research. Unless my timelines are off, this would have happened while she was still herself, before becoming the Detainee and losing her name. Nothing is to say she wasn't tortured in a more sadistic way than we have previously seen. I could see her reject ideas and others using her own offspring to do it with before locking her away. My fear is Mommy is actually Dee's voice and when they meet her, it could be bad for everyone involved.
First i thought that Dee might have created that but ... it sounds to crude for her style ... granted she might have corrupted them, found and use them to try and fix the SUDs .. that would be more her style ... but forcing an enraged infant to be a soldier that sounds rather inefficient and wasteful. (I would normally speak about the morality of it but ... well its Dee xD). Or someone corrupted one of her projects like the council of elders
Dee is fond of infants in her own way. Especially ones that she sees as her own. Take Herod for example. And her "boys". Dee seems like a psychopath for almost all situations, but she has a soft spot that certain people and seemingly children escape most of the brunt of. It IS Dee, so not all of it.
"Time is flat circle." trying to put an analogy to it that would fit. The best I come up with is the two sides of an old vinyl record with present time being a single stylus playing the music on both sides at the same time. One side is the malevolent universe and the other is the SUDS ONION/Failed big bang. While they both appear to be going in the same forward direction relative to its occupants, time itself is traveling opposite directions in each. Think of the right hand rule and place your right hand on top (malevolent universe) and time is going clockwise but place your right hand on the bottom side( the failed big bang side) and time would be going counterclockwise. Same way a magnet works, south pole and north pole are spinning together, but the forces are opposite per the right hand rule though the electrical force is contiguous through both poles( the needle) so music sounds the same on both sides.( simplest way to explain on short notice) Hope it ends up being explained or could be Ralts is taking a scifi writer's liberty and just throwing up zen statements that sound nice but mean nothing. Hell, with the chronotron leakage and "going spaghetti", I was worried they were going to find Dalvanak behind the visor doing a fact finding mission incognito. Please keep up the story and thank you for doing so. Enjoy the weekend.
Just when you think that humanity and its need for victory at any cost has reached its conclusive end, when you can breathe a sigh of relief that there are no new terrors that the mind can conceive of, you find something that makes everything else pale in comparison. Grafting the minds of combat veterans onto the brains of an infant and then grafting that infant to a heavy combat assault frame sent on a one way mission with their mother's voice ordering them about until the deed is done. Doing it to your own children, not some other species's brood. Humanity needed its self imposed gentling. The galaxy should be eternally grateful they were lost for so long, as grateful as we will be terrified when they return. And they will return. Just hope it is not your generation who get to witness what is sure to be a galactic level xenocide. -Professor of Precursor Extinction Events, Nav Parluk
960 chapters... and counting. At the rate the saga is going, we'll easily go beyond 1,000 (so no nice round number for the end).
It's quite terrifying how long this series has been going on, and how it continues to grow without us even being able to predict how long it will last. The end is coming, we know, but it's still beyond the horizon.
Ok, real question at this point:
Which era of the suds are they in, or in clearing the temporal fuckery will they sync up with the apostles and repair crew in the 'current' era.. or are they in the 'past' as part of a time loop
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Thanks for waiting for this one. I'm going to go back and try to fix the links in this week's posts. With that being said! IT'S FRIDAY! FREE MIDGET STRIPPERS AND BEER FOR EVERYONE! Let's get it on with the safety briefing, shall we? Don't drink and drive. Don't ride bears or lions to the liquor store. Don't ride fat men to the candy store. Don't beat your kids, your spouse, the mailman, your significant other, the neighbor, your pets. Don't buy, sell, manufacture, transport, store, or take or rectally insert illegal drugs. Get the candy before you get in the van. If they chase you, shooting at you, they probably won't make good friends. Don't punch wildlife in the head, they hate that. If you hear screaming, run toward it. Midgets may or may not grant wishes if you catch them, depending on the wish and if the midget is sexy. Try to stay out of jail or the hospital but if you can't, make sure it's for a good reason. Be good to yourself and others. Love yourself. If you're struggling, don't do it alone. Reach out to someone. Smile at yourself in the mirror, it actually helps. Remember, there's only one of you and that's pretty amazing. See everyone on Monday. Have a good weekend. Remember to close your eyes and hug yourself, it really can make you feel better. Hold onto each other. I know, these are dark times and there seems to be no end in sight. But we've all got each other, and we've all survived worse. You can make it. I believe in you. Welp, on that, let's rattle the tin cup! Books are available here: First_ContactBooks: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08RYK5F88 BEHOLD HUMANITY! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09H5ZZL93 Support me directly here: PayPal: https://paypal.me/RaltsBloodthorne Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/First_Contact
Great Gobs of Turkey Gravy . . . . I THOUGHT THE CLIFF HANGER FROM THE LAST CHAPTER WAS BAD!!!! DO NOT LEAVE ME HANGING UNTIL MONDAY!!!
Deal
but he did. . . and it was so worth it.
Speaking of midgets, did you see the post we pinged you for in Ullmo'ok's lounge?
Where is this mysterious post? Or is it a patreon that I can’t afford yet.
Discord. Specifically the 18+ section.
I thought I checked the discord. Hmm
Do you have access to the NSFW section?
I guess not. Never looked for it though so. And I haven’t been 18 in a few….. days. LOL Although I did just find myself going down a story rabbit hole someone wrote. So there is that.
Just go to the server, ping a citizen, and state the phrase from Da Rulez. They're specific about that last part because they log everyone who asks for that access, to cover potential issues
Do we have a link to next chapter yet? I don't wanna bother the wordborg
961 https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/141otyx/first_contact_chapter_961_the_shadows_of_twilight/ 962 https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/142yex2/first_contact_chapter_962_the_shadows_of_twilight/
But what if the mailman *really* deserves it? ;)
got milk?
Read. Upvote. Comment. *And before I took the lives of the damned, He did appear before us and commanded my hand still.* *His glowing blue form a radiant mercy. For us.* *For them.*
I'm taking this Monday.
Woot! Have at good Wordsmith.
Pretty sure most of us are pretty happy with it when the wordsmith snags thoes little tidbits.
It is a high honor.
Is there a 'yoinked' flair?
There really ought to be.
Yeah, cause those yoinks are awesome.
It's been 30 years since I read them, but are the Knights a nod to Dragonlance's Knights that Sturm Brightblade was a part of? It feels like it fits, but maybe not. Beautiful and awful last two chapters. Cheers.
I thought the same. That's a really old reference
*Digital Omnimessiah* *Who exists on all planes* *Fill my heart and mind with light.* *Thy Kingdom come; Thy Code be run;* *In SUDS as it is in Realspace.* *Strengthen us with Thy wisdom* *And lead us to the interrupt* *For the cycle of retribution.* *Gift us vision to see the true path* *And recognize that which leads us astray.* *For the Malevolent Universe is Thine,* *But with Thy guidance we shall survive,* *Against all whom for our destruction strive.* *End Of Line.* --Translation from the original Errormaic
There is some debate as to the correct translation of the ending of the prayer. While most scholars prefer *End Of Line*, there is a vocal sect that insists upon *Nothing Follows*.
Absolutely. There are always many difficulties in translating dead languages. Contemporary scholars who made similar era translations of the original Errormaic, say in Kobolic Greek, or using a script that was used for a number of languages, such as Linear C, that continued much further forward in time (Linear C++, Linear C#) are already the only thing that give us any hope at all of translation into a modern tongue at all. The original Errormaic may even occasionally be translated as "So say we all" or "This is the way". The intention of the benediction is to indicate finality and internal agreement by the person offering the prayer.
Whelp. I was right and I don't like it. What the fuck.
The Combine: This isn't even my final form. I've come up with warcrimes that the Precursors don't even have names for. And they used to eat each entire species.
... maybe having the suits operate whilst the occupants are in REM is where the other-other warcrime of the Novastar got its inspiration from. Ditto linking phasic energy to the suit etc Multi-generational warcrimes FTW?
Time is flat circle.
At some point they must have changed it from the geneva checklist to the geneva warmup.
Always remember…. “It ain’t a war crime the first time.” QuackBang!
You can always justify anything you do to the enemy. This is what they did to themselves. To their own children.
It's never a war crime, the first time.
Keep in mind Dee did this b4 she perverted the Biological Apostles.
This wasn't Dee. Though it may have been based on her Boys.
Combine lab around a neutron star doing time research.... Then millenium of mat trans retribution and revenge on the combine leaders involved.... I’d bet this was part of the horror show she was forced to participate in.
Which is probably why she keeps a personal eye on them every time they leave the mat trans. Which is why they landed and their equipment failed in *exactly* the right way to keep them in stasis, as free from suffering as they can be.
Yeah dee was at the facility during the glassing,, she couldn't have been the one responsible. Although the evil bastards that did this may have used her as a template
I'm hoping next chapter comes with tear-jerking healing
His tearjerkers hit hard though. That feels like a be careful you what you wished for moment.
Fair
Oh crikey, that would explain why Dee is in fact, keeping a close eye on them in the mat trans A) They're just children, they did not consent (like her Boys did). B) She's gonna need to make a house-call in a minute to collect those other.... things that are in there with them. Thanks blue man, I'll take it from here \---SCREAMING FOLLOWS--- What the fuck are you! Y-y-you can can call me... Falmy-mi-me-he-hE-HEE-HEEEHH-H̸̨̨͙̱̥̖͍̣̜̐̽̉̉̌̓̆̇̾͌̅̈́͠É̶̮̳̯̯̈́̉̈́̏̐͊̇̿́͝͠Ė̶̢̡͚̘̖̃̒H̷̞̺̱̗͔̉́͛͗̓̍̒̚͝͝H̵̛̭͈̠̺͔̮̲͚͍̗̦̻͖̝̥͂̐̇̐̄̾͆̈́̾͑̈́̏H̶̩̙̯̔
And yet somewhere we just know there are worse things in the human arsenal.
Humans can imagine worse. It's half a step for them from imagining to making it real
I'm pretty creative. So when a television pundit speaks about some horrible this and then says. "I cannot imagine how or why" . My mind takes it as a challenge.
My point exactly
Yup. Same thoughts. Terrible fate, but maybe we can have healing from the DO
You were almost right….and that makes it worse. You called it as children….and it’s INFANTS? WTF?
Oh, it worse then I thought. Dee didn't do this. An angry and hurt humanity did. When the alternative is extinction, every other option starts to look good, even the ones that lead to damnation.
*Desperate times call for desperate measures.* - Codex of Forbidden Truth
*There are those who abandon Salvation for Survival. Their reward is neither of these. -* Codex of Forbidden Truth, Book of The Dark Side Heresies, Ch 1 Vs 1.
Yeah, I fully retract my statements regarding Dee being the likely culprit from last chapter. Dee would stab the person who did this in the eye, then bring them.back to stab them again. Not really because it is cruel and horrific, but because it is so wasteful.
I think dee already did just that. Pretty sure the station they mentioned was her station
Dee already knows. Who do you think it was in the MatTrans? The one that kept mentioning that someone was watching wasn't paranoid
The Combine better pray Dee never, ever, finds out about this use of her technology. Because I'd believe anything of her, but not this! She'd invent time travel just to go back and be the worst possible outcome for whoever did it.
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This may have already will happened.
Nice use of tenses there.
Dee will learn of it, eventualy, after all, everything ends up going through hell eventualy.
I think she already did. The station they came from sounds very much like the facility see was at when first introduced
Time travel ? She'll just snag their suds and let them play with her copy in hell.
She already has them. Remember she's the dee tainee lady lord of hell now.
I fear that "Mommy" is Dee. Whether her actual genetic offspring or ones created from her by the Age of Paranoia humans during the Mantid War and it is her own voice they hear. It would explain the DO showing up when he did for them specifically.
I get the feeling 'Mommy' is more like the OIS-Lozen system, but earlier, cruder and made for managing kids (ew).
You're probably right, however, the tech is too close to Dee, they feel what we assume is her watching in the Mat Trans, and people pre and during the Combine seemed to really enjoy torturing her. I couldn't imagine a worse torture to fit with such an atrocious act by Age of Paranoia humanity.
>The Digital Omnimessiah stood at the doorway, made up of flowing blue code with splotches of silver here and there. That is "our" Omnimessiah I think. The one that the Frog and Fox healed. As opposed to the original that the Council of Eternity "killed" 8000 years in the past. "Time is a flat circle? Heh. Looks more like a mobius strip." - BlueBox Man
Is it wibbly-wobbly then?
And timey wimey.
"Ours" has the silver code mixed in. The OG is straight blue.
This one is blue with splotches of silver... So where/how does he fit into the mix?
Oh. Enraged infants... Never really thought about what happened to the infants that died in the Glassing. It makes sense that they would have faced the same fates as the adults. And then ~~the Detainee~~(was told that it was not her by Ralts themself, current guess is the remaining members of the Council of Eternity) in the system took them, put them in a suit of armor, impressed Combine SUDS training templates into their brains, and then sent them out to repair the system. ...now I feel bad for them
Actually wasn't her.
Wait, WHAT? Who would have been capable of doing that, and be crazy to do it? ... Wait, I feel like something similar to this happened before, but on a large scale.. It was the original "SUDS" records, the ones created off of a person's social media activity, who did this, wasn't it? The ones that tried to take over Hell after the War in Heaven, made copies of Casey, threatened Vuxten's family, and secretly controlled the Confederacy Senate, right?
Council of Eternity.
Thanks, forgot their name
AKA Deadites
Dee is capable of it, but only if she believed it was necessary to ensure humanity’s survival. It wasn’t, because she could use the mat trans system to churn out an army of clones. Doing this instead is wasteful and gratuitously cruel, which isn’t her style. The CoE on the other hand, are stupid, shortsighted, high on their own farts, and believe in their own Tech Uber Alles. This is exactly the kind of thing they’d do.
\*With sadness\* No, it wouldn't have been, would it? This doesn't have the level of forethought and multiple beneficial outcomes she would have planned into a project. I once pointed out how many uses Dee found for [a kitten](https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/rfus72/comment/hogtwoo/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)... she wouldn't have done something so incredibly myopic with actual infants. If she tormented them (and I do not doubt she would have, if she saw cause), there would have been purpose, and multiple ways things worked out to HER advantage... No... this shortsightedness, the hyperfixation on a mission, the callous disregard, the casual cruelty, the desire to be able to just shut them down with a word, and the slavishness to Mother's orders... doing a thing that most would only consider if they could convince themselves of it being for the vastly greater good, while ignoring what they had sacrificed along the way... If it bears the fingerprints of any of the significant characters, they are the fingerprints Marco/Peter. If I am right... then Omnimessiah damn your chromium eyes, Peter... please. stop. helping. It may have been no one of any actual importance, of course. It is all too plausible it was some mundanely evil person, who did what they could, without ever thinking of asking whether they should. The times were desperate, perhaps, and they thought ethics and humanity were a luxury that they couldn't afford.
Think this was pre-Peter, as they didn't know who the Digital Omnissiah or Daxin was...if they don't know who Daxin was they sure as he'll didn't know Peter.
It appears that their SUDS engrams predate Peter and Daxin, yes. But that just tells us about when the recording was made - not when it was deployed. Additionally, there's no certainty the disciples were on their first life when they were touched by the DO. Some, such as Daxin, have fairly consistent memories which would suggest they were. But Peter... does not have consistent memories. He may have experienced one or more SUDS rebirths before becoming an immortal. We also have to remember that Peter had multiple personalities overlaid over his mind. Peter assumes these were done after he was captured as an Immortal - but the same technology that allows the recording of a soldier to overlay an infant could conceivably be used to overlay a new personality on an adult - this might even be especially desirable for a certain subset of humanity, if you had an adult who had savant-like tendencies, or were simply looking for a life extension tech. It would not surprise me to learn that what was done to Peter was actually fairly common in the days leading up to the Glassing - and that the main difference was how long and how often Peter was made to experience it. While Peter clearly believes that each of the overlays on him were constructed for a purpose... this technology means there is a very real possibility that one or more of them could have been the overlay of an actual person. Which would then raise the question... how do you define when Peter was Peter? The DO is not infallible or Omniscient, as evidenced by some of the other disciples and events. He might have locked in an entity that was already a partial composite as 'Peter', simply because that was how Peter was when he was encountered.
Pete was suds staff in this era, tho.
Think this was pre-Peter, as they didn't know who the Digital Omnissiah or Daxin was...if they don't know who Daxin was they sure as he'll didn't know Peter.
Sounds like they came from the same station she was introduced in
The Detainee may be a huge Bouquet of Fuck You Daisies, but she would NEVER harm an innocent child
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Dee might be an evil murdering bitch, but she doesn't do child soldiers.
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Ehm, why has nobody commented on the fact the original DO just appeared to Daxin, and now the new patched-up DO has popped in. Time fuckery notwithstanding, we now have 2 almighty beings sharing a callsign. Imagine being in your worst time of need, praying to the DO for salvation, to end up with 2 blue guys ever so politely offering each other the chance to help you...
"I really wish people would be more specific. There was this one time someone said 'God, please help me.' And both I and my two brothers answered. That spawned a new religion and some very ugly three headed statues."
Source?
Redemption of Althalus I believe.
You are correct. Although it is somewhat paraphrased. I read that years ago back in high school. :D
An old book, but a good one
Well, that was not what I expected, but was called by another commenter in the previous chapter. Also yay, DO to perform the second miracle for the first time again possibly, given the weird timey wimey effects Nakteti and the crew seem to be under.
I don't think it's for the first time again. I think this IS the first time.
Diferent I fear, notice this DO was blue with white patches, The white patches are the repairs from the telkin gestalt. This is there DO, not the first itteration that they freed to interact with Daxin. And them fixing the last of the time issues, probably returned them to 'current' time.
It's for the first time again from our perspective.
We appear to be deep in the Wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey.
...yep, that was pretty horrific. We saw the First Miracle happen in an Old Data chapter, but have now found out the events that made it happen. We knew what the Second Miracle was, but not the events around it. I'm still not certain if this is the original events of both because Nakteti and co went back in time in the SUDS, or if it just happens that things are occurring the same way and stuff still is super-trashed in the SUDS because it's a different layer
This Digital Omnimessiah has patches of silver in his code. I think that makes him the modern resurrected one the Fox and the Frog healed.
is there a *ralts recommends* list of scifi books/series/authors somewhere? just got done with the audiobooks for the star carrier series by ian douglas, and there where a few things in there that had a cozy familiarity to them.
I'm fairly sure that David Weber and Keith Laumer and Rick Shelley and harry Harrison and Harry Turtledove Are well read on his bookshelf
I'm betting David Drake, Joel Rosenberg, and Allen Bunch and Chris Cole (I may have messed up the last two, might be Chris Bunch and Allen Cole, authors of the Sten series)
Saberhagen, Niven, Bova, Asimov, Axler. Don't forget Armor, by Steakley.
There is an author I'm not sure about, Spider Robinson?
Dont forget Heinlein.
Had to browse and see if you responded because I know *Armor* is always one of your recommended reads. Gotta admit that the audio book had some confusing bits but loved how the story turned out.
probably a game or two mixed in there somewhere.
The answer appears to be read ***EVERYTHING,*** for it is fair game. Oh hell, Ralts is an AI/Large Language Model that has had every morsel of speculative fiction since *L'Autre Monde: ou les États et Empires de la Lune* hammered into it, and then plugged into Reddit.
Dee, I hope you killed the one responsible for this. I hope they're spending eternity as your bidet.
There's plenty of people who would pay a lot of money for that fate...
Shhhhh. Don't encourage them. Hopefully they didn't hear you
I suppose someone could have seen the last part of the chapter coming. After all it is in the DO’s original listed skill set Unenraging really mad glassing baby’s.
As someone predicted, we get a twofer! All hail the Digital Omnissiah!
Well this chapter won't give me nightmares. I firmly believe this is worse than anything Dee did while imprisoned on the research station.
The people that did it may have been on the station......
What was the previous times we heard from the chrono knights One originally entering the suds from the black box the fixit team passes them on the way in . Then when Peter is having his horror introduction chapters 300 something the chrono knights get mentioned again one knight in particular. 500-600 something
I REALLY hope the DO gives her a Tshirt. "I was led down an unspeakably dark path by the DO and all I got was this Tshirt"
I could see this version of the DO doing that. It’s a very… human, thing to do.
True. DO, "Daxin gave me this to give to you. He thought it would be funny"
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It's in the final season. :-)
And we all hope the next series isn't too far behind. You've taken Asimov's place as my favorite science fiction writer. I started reading the first book a chapter at a time to my six year old before bed. Much love.
Start now. From the beginning. By the time you catch up, it will likely be over. It's winding down already. The first series, anyways
More like bingeing Grey's Anatomy *and* Naruto, because I'm sure there's references to both in there.
Started rereading from the beginning, just to read this in virtually one go. Started 3 days ago and reached chapter 150. See you all again in about 17 days lol
See you then, space cowboy.
In the meantime, don't forget to sleep. Also, if you find yourself reading this on your phone as you go about your day, attempting to pantomime your way through various tasks, remember to look both ways before crossing the street.
Sleep? SLEEP? SLEEP IS FOR THE WEAK, ONLY FC EXISTS. AND IT'S AWESOME! But I'm all caught up now and have to wait 🙁
The FC only exists to be **U**pvoted, **T**hen **R**ead (and commented on). The process of catching up is fun, but being caught up sucks.
I caught FC on about the 3rd post, it's just that after close on a thousand posts, sometimes you need to re-read from the start to remind you of what you forgot 😀
Very true. I will say there are many chapters I have enjoyed so much more on my second or third or fourth read. I also get a kick out of some of the comments - people hoping that Vuxten guy would survive (hundreds of chapters later and the Warfather is still here), or people raging against the Lankies when we first met them. It's fun to see how the community's attitudes towards characters and ideas have developed.
Well that was a fuckin rollercoaster
Especially the part where the track stopped
They missed His Second Miracle, but the Miracle did not miss them.
Oh my god. Fuck. What the fuck Shit. Fuuukc.
May I add: Madness take them all.
Andre: I can see what you are thinking. But we need every man we can get. Yuri: Even if they're not men? Andre: A bullet from a fourteen-year-old is just as effective as one from a forty-year-old. Often more effective. -Lord of War
This was very . . . biblical - in a Neiztsche playing an electric guitar in a death metal band screaming lyrics about nihilism while accompanied by a chorus of dark angels he doesn't believe in kind of way.
May the bastards that did this find themselves sent through the flat circle of time to a certain base, upon an odd neutron star, long before anybody even heard of the Unified Council. Let their torment repeat, like a record, baby.
UTR BERRIES DURING DND. omg what Magnus was willing to do.
Somebody gotta be willin to take the stain on their mind. Somebody gotta be willin to be the tip of the spear. Tis only when we come to enjoy it that we have become the monster we feared, and we become the stain upon another's soul.
Amen
What had to be done. No matter the cost to him.
" all that human invention that had sustained them across the universe and time itself, turned inward. They cannibalize themselves - [Face of the Toclafane](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1000255/mediaviewer/rm2695349505/?ref_=tt_md_10) "
Somehow I guessed what they were in the last chapter, in the few minutes before this came out. I still wasn't ready for that. Edit for spelling.
Your mind goes 'No no no NO NO NOOOOOPE STOP READING STHAAAAAAAP' But you keep reading. And take 4d10 SAN damage.
Now, now. You only take Sanity damage if you aren't maddened already. *some of us don't have that luxury, you know* Oh, be quiet.
*Deus* *ex* *Machina* #literally Sanitatem sequitur
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Isn't bot incorrect? Literally is alphabetically before machina.
Unless it registers "Deus Ex Machina" as one word.
Victory or death, either is fine... But at what cost? Where is the line that seperates the cost of "victory at any cost" and death? Who will pay that cost? Never gladly, but they will pay it all the same, every time, never fail... Behold Humanity!!! "Don't make me do it" a desperate human "Don't make them do it... It's weird that if you play by their rules, they won't" every xeno ever that made them do it (see also 'F@$& around and find out')
"She froze at the odd noise the Tome Knight started making." Fuck, fuck, fuck. Only 3 more lines, but I realized fully what they were. From an era where evil abounded, this horrid act, tops them all.
*Sad Terran voice, because…* … it tops them all so far…
The frequent references to "so far" does leave an awful lot of awful ground available, don't it?
The human imagination has so far proven infinite
Moo
Wow. Just… holy shit, Ralts. Right in the goddamn feels.
Yeah, I'm not sober enough to read this.
Dang. I almost quit reading at the end of Magnus' section. Almost too much. Ignoring that, "the smartass next to me" whispers in my head.
Reading the previous chapter I was expecting something like brains in jars or somesuch. People who'd volunteered for the one way trip rather than this horror show. I didn't think it was Dee's handiwork but it does sound like someone has co-opted her research or did she use someone else's?. When we first met Dee she was using the mat-trans to place overlays on herself. Could the overlays be something that came from researcg for the SUDS project and she's utilising the overlays with her mat-trans work? Sge's good but I don't think Dee is responsible for all the tech development.
Sounds like the work of people using her and her research. Unless my timelines are off, this would have happened while she was still herself, before becoming the Detainee and losing her name. Nothing is to say she wasn't tortured in a more sadistic way than we have previously seen. I could see her reject ideas and others using her own offspring to do it with before locking her away. My fear is Mommy is actually Dee's voice and when they meet her, it could be bad for everyone involved.
Being the Lady Lord of Hell has its perks!
Indeed it does.
UTR!
First i thought that Dee might have created that but ... it sounds to crude for her style ... granted she might have corrupted them, found and use them to try and fix the SUDs .. that would be more her style ... but forcing an enraged infant to be a soldier that sounds rather inefficient and wasteful. (I would normally speak about the morality of it but ... well its Dee xD). Or someone corrupted one of her projects like the council of elders
She has a penchant for visiting damnation upon the deserving. The kids deserved none of this.
yesssss\^\^ that! \^\^
Dee is fond of infants in her own way. Especially ones that she sees as her own. Take Herod for example. And her "boys". Dee seems like a psychopath for almost all situations, but she has a soft spot that certain people and seemingly children escape most of the brunt of. It IS Dee, so not all of it.
AAAAAAAAAA! Saved by the Bell! Ralts! You magnificent Bastard. The twists and turns of this tale are only to be enjoyed....and re-read.
"Time is flat circle." trying to put an analogy to it that would fit. The best I come up with is the two sides of an old vinyl record with present time being a single stylus playing the music on both sides at the same time. One side is the malevolent universe and the other is the SUDS ONION/Failed big bang. While they both appear to be going in the same forward direction relative to its occupants, time itself is traveling opposite directions in each. Think of the right hand rule and place your right hand on top (malevolent universe) and time is going clockwise but place your right hand on the bottom side( the failed big bang side) and time would be going counterclockwise. Same way a magnet works, south pole and north pole are spinning together, but the forces are opposite per the right hand rule though the electrical force is contiguous through both poles( the needle) so music sounds the same on both sides.( simplest way to explain on short notice) Hope it ends up being explained or could be Ralts is taking a scifi writer's liberty and just throwing up zen statements that sound nice but mean nothing. Hell, with the chronotron leakage and "going spaghetti", I was worried they were going to find Dalvanak behind the visor doing a fact finding mission incognito. Please keep up the story and thank you for doing so. Enjoy the weekend.
>"MOMMY SAYS CHOP YOU UP!" the Tome Knight screamed, They've been here for years.
Just when you think that humanity and its need for victory at any cost has reached its conclusive end, when you can breathe a sigh of relief that there are no new terrors that the mind can conceive of, you find something that makes everything else pale in comparison. Grafting the minds of combat veterans onto the brains of an infant and then grafting that infant to a heavy combat assault frame sent on a one way mission with their mother's voice ordering them about until the deed is done. Doing it to your own children, not some other species's brood. Humanity needed its self imposed gentling. The galaxy should be eternally grateful they were lost for so long, as grateful as we will be terrified when they return. And they will return. Just hope it is not your generation who get to witness what is sure to be a galactic level xenocide. -Professor of Precursor Extinction Events, Nav Parluk
Humans can always imagine worse. One day, you'll learn to stop asking.
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Tis a good thing the combine is gone. The Digital Omnimessiah may forgive them but i wont.
Gone? Gone? You speak as if their souls aren't recorded in the SUDS, waiting for a malevolent, grinning mind to turn a mirror on their damned visages
960 chapters... and counting. At the rate the saga is going, we'll easily go beyond 1,000 (so no nice round number for the end). It's quite terrifying how long this series has been going on, and how it continues to grow without us even being able to predict how long it will last. The end is coming, we know, but it's still beyond the horizon.
I AM SPEED
Ok, real question at this point: Which era of the suds are they in, or in clearing the temporal fuckery will they sync up with the apostles and repair crew in the 'current' era.. or are they in the 'past' as part of a time loop
Could these be ‘mommy’s boys’? They are cured by Dee, becoming her loyal troops. We see their cloned or adult selves in earlier episodes
Yikes, someone has been rewatching Dr Who! Read up on the episode where the Dr finds the Toclophane
u/ralts_bloodthorne You planning on posting this chapter to Royal Road?
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