Meanwhile, at the Base (during everything happening in Part 2 post)
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brightbeyond[GAIA is monitoring everything. It's all complicated. Someone might say it's all on fire, but. GAIA is certain things will work out.
She takes stock of what is happening:
-Aloy is in New York City tying to learn what happened to Karak, solving a murder and stumbling on Elizabet's mole in Far Zenith. Possible war with unknown individuals needs more examination. Could they be from other realities? Or more Far Zenith members? Or a tribe with access to that power?
-A war is happening in Kolbeek territory. Dante is helping to fight for their survival against the Ghoaulh and "Karak"-Damian, a member of Far Zenith.Their superweapon was powered by another victim of Project Excelsior but is deactivated. Nero is in a coma and his brainwaves are erratic. The battle does not go well so far.
-Rapunzel is coming to the Base with Helen of Troy. That is...a sentence she didn't think she'd ever parse.
-The nature of AQEN is clear-it is an AI capable of opening wormholes in spacetime. Who was brought in by Project Excelsior using AQEN is still being reconstructed, but it's clear that a side effect of the destruction of the Grand Vancouver Island facility is that wormholes are depositing experiment specimens in different times and-
She stiffens.
Ah.
That's not good. She immediately reaches out.]
Beta, I am detecting energy signatures that could be associated with ER bridge energy formulating near the south of Riverhymn. It's possible that another experiment specimen will be deposited there.
She takes stock of what is happening:
-Aloy is in New York City tying to learn what happened to Karak, solving a murder and stumbling on Elizabet's mole in Far Zenith. Possible war with unknown individuals needs more examination. Could they be from other realities? Or more Far Zenith members? Or a tribe with access to that power?
-A war is happening in Kolbeek territory. Dante is helping to fight for their survival against the Ghoaulh and "Karak"-Damian, a member of Far Zenith.Their superweapon was powered by another victim of Project Excelsior but is deactivated. Nero is in a coma and his brainwaves are erratic. The battle does not go well so far.
-Rapunzel is coming to the Base with Helen of Troy. That is...a sentence she didn't think she'd ever parse.
-The nature of AQEN is clear-it is an AI capable of opening wormholes in spacetime. Who was brought in by Project Excelsior using AQEN is still being reconstructed, but it's clear that a side effect of the destruction of the Grand Vancouver Island facility is that wormholes are depositing experiment specimens in different times and-
She stiffens.
Ah.
That's not good. She immediately reaches out.]
Beta, I am detecting energy signatures that could be associated with ER bridge energy formulating near the south of Riverhymn. It's possible that another experiment specimen will be deposited there.
