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--- game_systems:traveller:insearchoftheancients:adventure_journal [2025/10/06 14:26] – [Foes From the Past] Bryan Stephens
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 ==== The Exploration ====
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 It takes the team around two days to [[game_systems:game_systems:traveller:worlds:Twilights_Peak|survey]] the facility and the surrounding areas. What they find bothers them greatly. The base itself is still active, much the way the base on Dawnworld was once they repaired the power supplies. Like that base, this is powered by geothermal energy. They find in active drones, workshops, teleportation circles, and manufacturing equipment. That is all normal. It is the biological things that upset them.
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 ==== Pushing Buttons – Sort Of ====
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 With two days past, and a sense of urgency that they are only sure of being one week ahead of Omicron, Vincet pushes the group into action. Most of the technology not only uses controls, but psionic interfaces. Lucas gets to work in the main control room. Mostly he is looking for data. After a good 7 hours, he has a report on what they can do. The machinery here can be used to upgrade their ship’s hull, their suits, even make antimatter warheads and psi batteries. They can also upgrade their ship’s weapons. Each item will take time. They decide to prioritize defense. First the ship’s hull, then anti-disintegration fields for their suits. Psi crystals for Maria, and then energy crystals to be added to their turrets.
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+==== Tellsadiu, Servant of an Ancient ===
+|Game Date|09/4/24|
+|Campaign Dates| 319-1100|
+{{:game_systems:traveller:npcs:attendant.png?200 |attendant}}
+The gloves are off, and the group uses their disks to ascend to the top of the shaft. There they find what is obviously a droyne warrior, complete with an alien looking gun, and surprisingly, a human dressed in shimmering robes. He tells them
+//”Tellsadiu is waiting for you and seeks to talk to you. He is this way.”//
+Even though they are linked telepathically, the four still glance at each other. Their weapons are still drawn. They follow the attendant through the grand ritual chamber and reception area, past two other warriors, to the command center. The real command center for the complex. The command chamber for the installation is grander than the others, as might be expected. It has a wide dais, upon which stands an imperious looking man, in black and gold robes.
+{{ :game_systems:traveller:npcs:telisidue.png?300|Tellsadiu }}
+A globe projected in the air beside the command position. There are two subordinate workstations, each with a droyne technician on either side. A warrior and a second attendant stand at the edges of the room.
+Tellsadiu speaks,
+//”You did better than I expected against the Gythe. Now you will get to see the coming of my master, Tsyamoykyo.”//
+Ama-gi snorts mentally across the telepathic link,
+//That one? He was one of the most minor of the Ancients. He went down rabbit holes on obscure science and experiments of a minute nature resulted in him being sidelined and garnering little support. While others were moving planets or accelerating the lifespan of stars, Tsyamoykyo was fiddling about with the genetic code of unimportant servitor species. Others, like my master Kraverse, had similar interests but their projects were bigger and. At some point, this one’s master became useful as a subordinate and was quickly brought under the control of others. This man is most likely a descendent of Earth.//
+Tellsadiu answers their questions, as if they are slow children. He speaks a little slowly, making everyone wait for information. It is clear he holds everyone beneath him in contempt, and has utter reverence for his master. He expounds on the coming event, and clearly expects all four will serve him, realistically unable to understand they would reject him. Tellsadiu tells them how wonderful everything is going to be. It is a horror.
+Tsyamoykyo is aware that he needs to move carefully. Upstart civilizations among the former servitor species pose a threat to his plans. The Imperium, Zhodani and the other civilizations in Charted Space are as ants to an Ancient such as him, but there are too many ants for open conquest. An army of Gythe creatures could change that, holding planetary populations hostage or eliminating those which did not want to serve their rightful master.
+Maria and David steel themselves for a fight. Both have sworn to defend the People of Imperium, even if Maria’s was not formal. Vincent simply cannot bring himself to believe in this madness as his mind rejects it instead of taking in the horror. Lucas feels a rising primal urge, and even utters a growl. It is only with the strength of their telepathic link that he does not start shooting wildly. Instead, David coordinates a response. Vincent has a little less discipline and open fires on Tellsadiu.
+The beam of his laser simply dances along a pilar of light extending from the dais to the ceiling. Tellsadiu laughs and notes //”There is no need for that,”// but the fight is on.
+Vincent fires again, this time into a technician at the console in front of him. The laser strikes the shimmering robes and is partially absorbed, though clearly some burns the worker before it can even react.
+David follows up with a burst of automatic fire from his gauss pistol, striking both the technician and the warrior in the room just as Vincent fires. To his trained mind, he sees the robes are less effective against the powerful gauss rounds -either it stops them totally or does not -and this thought flows to the group. Important for Maria who opts to use her psi-blade as she strides back into the reception chamber to engage the three warriors there.
+Her blade pulses blue-white with psi energy, slicing a warrior almost down. The three fire their fusion guns into her, but armor withstands the attack easily. In the new reflect mode, the initial energy of the fusion beams is reflected away with a technology that is unknown to Imperial Science. Her own telekinetic energy defects even more, with the absorbing outer armor easily taking the rest. Bathed in heat and fire, Maria bears down, her blade flashing as she becomes an avatar of Alecto.
+{{:game_systems:traveller:npcs:droyne_warrior.png?200 |}}
+In the command center, the other warrior fires into David, his armor and shield mostly ignoring the effect, but the excellent shot catches him in the head, rattling him inside. Lucas shorts the warrior and his gauss round penetrates easily. Vincent tries a gauss round on the force field, but again it does nothing. Lucas drops the warrior, and David fires at the other technician, but one of the attendants dives in the way, taking a heavy hit.
+Meanwhile, Maria is fighting the three warriors. Ama-gi recognizes these guns and floods them with alarm. They can be fired at much higher power using more of the charges. Enough to destroy them. David’s head whips around to see Maria fighting. He goes to shoot, but his gauss gun disintegrates in his hands as Tellsadiu gestures. David takes his carbine off to fire into the room to support Maria as he moves up.
+Thinking that a power gun would help them with the force field. Lucas grabs the gun from warrior. It has no firing mechanism of any type. It must be telepathically operated.
+//”Give it me!”// cries Vincent, who takes it.
+//”Aim for that spot on the podium,”// Lucas thinks, rather than saying, to Vincent, trying to send him an image.
+Lucas then turns and mans the control console. On the maps of the base, Omicron forces are fighting drones in the base. Worse yet, they are unable to even target and defend themselves for the horrible gythe. While he could not use the fusion gun, Lucas already has days of experience working the controls of this base. Indeed, he can work far easier with the partially telepathic controls than he could with a normal keyboard. He uses the sensors and the bases comm transmission to reach the Omicron forces.
+//”ATTENION OMICRON FORCES! THIS IS DR LUCAS VINDERVOLK. YOU ARE UNDER ATTACK BY ALIENS YOU CANNOT SEE OR REMEMBER. PREPARE YOUR HUDS TO RECEIVE AN OVERLAY. I WILL SEND THE ALIEN’S LOCATION DIRECTLY”//
+//”This is Captain McGuffin, responding. Doctor, that would explain things. Standing by!”//
+Lucas then sends out location information and a masking image to prevent them seeing it. In this case, a giant fuzzy bunny.
+David and Maria fight the remaining warriors, taking them down one at a time, while Vincent tries to get the gun operational with his limited telepathy. One of the attendants comes to him and says,
+//”You really should not be trying that. One such as you cannot use it”// in a patronizing voice. However, it is then that Vincent finds his mind touching the controls.
+//”Third time’s the charm!”// he says, //Now you do full power!// and he blasts the podium. A great hole is blasted into it, and the force field flickers. For the first time the Servant of an Ancient looks concerned. The attendant lunges for the gun, but Lucas catches him dead center, knocking him backwards. The attendant staggers up and Lucas puts him down for good as Tellsadiu fires the disintegrator into Vincent. Again, their upgraded armor works, and the shifting outer skin shrugs off the effect.
+David comes back down the hall, and fires his carbine into the hole in the podium, but does not seem to add to the damage. Maria grabs a fusion gun from a fallen warrior, she too follows. Vincent unleashes a second blast, again hitting an internal node, weakening the force field further. Then David finds his mark inside that hole, a central spot that seems important.
+It is.
+The force field drops as Maria raises her fusion rifle. Tellsadiu can do nothing but look stunned as he is enveloped in the blast and erased from.
+{{:game_systems:traveller:insearchoftheancients:lore:monster_omicron.png?600|}}
+There is a moment of stunned silence broken when Lucas pops up and blows the head of the remaining technician. Now all is quiet other than the beeping of the controls. Lucas feels his shoulders sag. The geothermal rod as scrammed into the earth. The base is going to self destruction. If Tellsadiu’s master cannot have it, no one can.
+//”This mountain is going to be gone! We need to leave!”//
+//”What about Omicron?”// asks Maria, though it is clear she would be happy for them to die. With their link, she knows that they will have to say something. David goes to link to the base comms, and then Vincent jerks upright from grabbing one of the other fusion rifles.
+//”The cryo-vault! It’s full of kidnapped people! We have to do something!”//
+//”Whatever we do, we have less than two hours to do it, based on these readings.”// Lucas notes.
+The group gathers their “loot” and discusses what to do as they move to the lower part of the base. Maria suggests telling Omicron they can go through the teleporter to the far planet. That is a non-starter for the rest of the group. David says,
+//”We are taking them with us,”// and contacts Omicron
+//”Captain McGuffin, this base is self destructing. Meet up at our ship in docking bay 1. You may come with us, but you will leave your weapons behind. Keep your suits for emergencies.”//
+He and Maria head down to manage Omicron, with David going to the Captain and Maria the //Wandering Providence//. Lucas and Vincent head to the cryo vault. The pods themselves are in a semi-airless area. They decide to use the one use rods that produce goop suits, transparent goop at each endangered person. This expands almost instantly into what appears to be a soap-bubble covering their clothing with a larger bubble for the head. Lucas easily cycles them out, one at a time, while Vincent not only goops them, but masterfully soothes them as he puts them onto a floating disk to be whisked to the //Wandering Providence//. They save 36 various species of imperial citizens. The mass of dryone from the past are going to be casualties.
+Maria flies up to the ship seeing Aurther standing outside arguing with a Omicron shocktroop. She floats up behind him, her sword drawn. She orders him to disarm and wait outside while the get the refugees inside. She then heads into help with that, afraid of what she might do if she is left to guard him.
+The ship is packed. Maria locks herself into her room, her mind and body still aflame. Omicron is an old foe, and one that’s first purpose was the hunt down people who’s only crime was having psionics. This is not forgivable in her heart.
+David has the 12 surviving Omicron stay in the planning room. He directs Ami-gi to put a feed of the mountain up for everyone to see what is happening. He then roars into space as the whole of complex collapses in earthquakes and eruptions from deep within Lydia.
+Twilight’s Peak is no more.
+A brief stop at Lydia City, the only outpost, allows them to off load their survivors, including Omicron. Captain McGuffin notes that Omicron has an Imperial Warrant, but that he appreciates the rescue and will make nothing of it. David promises they will send someone here after their next port of call.
+The //Wandering Providence// heads back up to jump. The crew debates where to go from here. They need to get a message to Mercades, but that can be from anywhere. Should they run, head out of Chartered Space? They decide they will report to Her Grace the Lady Avaraja Astaarte Muktheswara, subsector Duchess of Glisten.

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