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A piece from: The tourists guidebook to Atlantis

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A piece from: The tourists guidebook to Atlantis

Crossing the Nedakh bridge we come to Platon Island, off the coast of the city proper, at the edge of the Emerald basin. A vibrant hub of knowledge and learning, Platon Island hosts Atlas academy, the city's foremost research institution with a history of scientific innovation dating back to before the submerging. While the campus complex does take up the majority of the island there is still plenty to visit, such as the variety of Museums dotted about the island, all showing off remarkable accomplishments of Atlantean society and culture. The principal one to vist is the Museum of Atlantean History where you can see all kinds of exhibits detailing the history of our marvellous city, starting from its founding 9000 years ago. Heading to the far side of the island we arrive at Makria street; the island's little hub of fine dining and entertainment. This includes numerous restaurants that cater to variety of social rates, the Seven Seas Aquarium home to aquatic life from across the planet, and the most popular local attraction, the Minora amphitheatre; the little sister to the Grand Colosseum in central plaza, which is a forum to all sorts of competitions, performances or lectures.

Moving further out of the city; over the Periphery falls, is the outer rim of the city where the city's critical rural infrastructure is located. Containing a great variety of sustainable farming areas; all maintained by the city’s state of the art hydrodynamic irrigation system, which provide the city with it’s vital supply of plant products that are used for industries ranging from manufacturing to grocery. Also present in the outer rim is Atlantis’s famous Guardian installations, the four of which maintain the membrane barrier that holds back the ocean, provides us the light of Solaris and protects our great city from any dangers. While not the go to destination, if nothing else have a trip to the rim inorder to spend some time in one of the observation platforms, which boast a breathtaking opportunity to see the wonders of the ocean floor no matter the time of day.

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Emergency report of Observation Team Vespucci on Uldor V - Subject: Rho Aliens

I’m writing this report due to a recent development in the technological progress of the primary native species of Uldor V, designation Rho Aliens. On 1130.170112134 Standard Galactic Time orbital observation station Alpha detected a burst of low energy gamma radiation from grid 47-21, consistent with the detonation of a grade 1 nuclear fission weapon. Long range sensors and imaging were able to confirm the readings and agents currently embedded in Rho Alien nation states were able to report that the weapon was deployed as a proof of concept and show of strength by the sovereign nation state self-designated: Union of Zigtran.

We had accelerated the timeline of the shepherd program in a hope to implant agents into key positions of leading nation states on Uldor V, to dissuade and prevent the acquisition of existential threat technologies. Unfortunately the recent incident has shown that given their recent discovery at an already late stage Tier 6 civilization, we were too late to prevent this. Currently, all relevant agents report either the initiation or intensification of nuclear weapons programs in all significant Rho nation states as well as an increase of military build up. Me and my team agree; taking into consideration the current military industrial complex of Uldor V’s major nation states, general key aspects present across many Rho cultures, and the Rho Aliens studied psychochemistry, we are looking at a cold war scenario at best and a potential NK-class self extinction scenario at worst.

It is our recommendation to the Pre-interstellar Alien Observation and Contact committee that a first contact event with the Rho Aliens be initiated as soon as possible. We realised that this may present itself as an extreme solution, and we understand that standard protocol is to only make formal first contact with Tier 9 civilizations. However we feel that this is the best course of action to take in order to assure the continued existence of the Rho Alien species, as we feel we will be unable to deploy enough agents or have enough time to cause any significant societal shift towards acceptable parameters. A document outlining our plan for the first contact event, potential concurrent societal shift missions as well as an integration assessment have been sent to you along with this report. We hope the committee will accept our proposal, in the name of the Mantel which shelters all life.

-Commander Memories-of-Eternal-Day of Observation Team Vespucci

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Various excerpts from: From Kingdom to Empire: The Reign of Empress Valendra I

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Various excerpts from: From Kingdom to Empire: The Reign of Empress Valendra I

In 1622, at the age of 27, Queen Valendra I of Burgundy married Grand Duke Alban de Derocles III of Aquitaine. It has been thought that Valendra extended the proposal in a bid to diplomatically seize control of Aquitaine. At the time, Grand Duke Alban was desperate to keep his throne out of the hands of his cousin King Prudencio V of Aragon who had sought to claim the throne after the death of his brother, Alban’s father. Valendra and Alban’s marriage came with Aquitaine's protection from any hostile claims to it’s throne by the armies of Burgundy. However while Alban did keep his throne, with his new position as Valendra’s king-consort, and the protection of his realm dependent on Burgundy, it essentially left Aquitaine under the de facto rule of Valendra. Later in 1624 Queen Valendra bore a son, Prince Lorcan, before her husband's assasination that same year. The culprits behind her brief first husband's death were never uncovered, and with his death the crown of the Grand Duchy of Aquitaine fell to Valendra instead of her son and Albans heir.

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While the queen had hoped the newly formed alliance would ward off the Novgordain’s conquest of western Europa, her hopes were shattered in 1637 when the armies of Tsar Kresimir VI advanced west into the Burgundian Low Countries, capturing much of the region before Valendra I could raise troops in a defence. However, soon after the declaration of war, the allied republics marched directly into Novgorod heartland on a scorched earth policy, following one of several battle plans set out by Valendra I during the negotiation of their alliance. This led to Kresmir VI pulling back a large number of his forces in order to try and repeal this invasion from the south. Due to Queen Valendra’s strategy of laying out contingency battle plans for alliance members to follow, she had no need to rely on directly coordinating with allied forces; it forced her opponents into actions she could easily predict.

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With the extended era of prosperity and peace following the 3 Years War; Queen Valendra I, the lords of her various slavic vassals and lords from each of the Allied Republics came together in 1648 and signed the Acts of Union, formally declaring the founding of the United Empire of Europa. In doing so Valendra would abdicate her crown as Queen of Burgundy to her son; now King Lorcan III, and instead be crowned Empress Valendra I, first high lady of Europa. With her ascension Empress Valendra now held sway over most of the continent, the United Empire's lands stretching from the Atlantic ocean to the edge of the Baltic sea as one consolidated nation state.

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Snippet from: Fundamentals of baryonic matter transfer through higher 4th dimensional space via extreme space-time curvature

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Snippet from: Fundamentals of baryonic matter transfer through higher 4th dimensional space via extreme space-time curvature

Using a pair of rapidly oscillating gravitoelectromagnetic fields to generate low-frequency gravitational waves inside a mass boson plasma, allows for the subsequent formation of higher-frequency waves. This is achieved by utilising the interaction mass boson plasma has with gravitational waves; a dense enough mass boson plasma is able to reflect gravitational waves, confining them and preventing them from dissipating, allowing the waves to build up into a higher frequency state. Now at a sufficiently high energy state, these waves then apply enough stress on the surrounding space-time to create a strong shear in the contravariant energy-momentum tensor. While under normal circumstances this stress would dissipate as high-frequency gravitational radiation, forcing the stress to build up in a localised area allows the tensor-field to develop a high-curvature structure in the space-time fabric.

This structure takes the form of a ‘tentacle’ of extremely distorted, high-curvature space-time. This ‘tentacle’ forms outwards from the point of origin, tunnelling through an underlying 4th spatial dimension of our universe. The structure itself constitutes a self-avoiding 4-manifold which tries to continually grow further from itself. The tip, where the curvature is highest, acts as a sort of ‘magnet’ for space-time, and given a high enough curvature a similar extreme space-time curvature ‘tentacle’ can develop in locations where space-time is likewise under high-frequency gravitational distortion. These two curvatures are attracted to one another and provided the high-energy density is maintained consistently, they will meet and form a stable space-time conduit through a higher spatial dimension. Resulting in the formation of a tunnel, a conduit connecting two distant regions of space.

The higher dimensional space that the ‘throat’ of the conduit trunnels through in order to connect to another region of our known space-time is not well understood. Though many deductions as to its nature can be inferred. It was theorised initially that the higher dimension only consisted of a single point, where no actual distance between points in our space-time existed, a sort of ‘null-space’. However, this was disproven due to an observable light delay taking place through a conduit. Instead, because of the proven time occurring during transit, coupled with tests showing that the distance travelled through a conduit is always 1 million kilometres; no matter the perceived distance between points from our frame of reference, it stands to reason that the geometry of the higher dimensional space does not conform to our space-times geometry. It instead consists of some form of nonlinear, non-euclidean geometry, where every point of our space-time is embedded in the membrane of the 4th dimensional space, equal distance to all other points.

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Section of: An account of the First War of the Flesh

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Section of: An account of the First War of the Flesh

After the fall of Ebonford in Esmarment of 857, the Sarkic armies lost most of their momentum when faced with the Salahadesi desert. The Sarkites were too reliant on their tactic of transforming large swaths of captured populations into short lived flesh beasts, which they then unleashed against fortresses and cities. This tactic was hampered by the vast distances between the small settlements past the Paravimvata mountain range, the majority of which had already been evacuated westward in the face of the advance. This gave the Alliance a much needed respite in order to regroup their forces after their routing at the devastating battle of Saghaal, as well as await reinforcements from the city-states of Cannor.

With the reinforced Alliance armies able to hold the Sarkite advance at the Tamakhan pass, the commanders of the Alliance began to look for other options in order to free eastern Haless from the blood rule of the Karcists. Some proposed an advance south on the Sarkites' holdings in eastern Sarhal, but with the Zombasa jungles hampering the movement of any army, and the fact the lands were merely colonised not conquered, left them undesirable targets for a counter offensive. It was suggested by Lord Azazel II of Varainé that a naval invasion into the region of Rahen via the gulf of Rahen would cut the main Sarkic armies off from reinforcements and aid, allowing them to be pincered between the advancing invasion force in the east, the Dwarven companies from the holds in the Tree of Stone to the north and the Tamakhan defence in the west.

The invasion was launched on the 14th of Bloomsdawn 858 using ships the Alliance had managed to construct over the months since their retreat, by using wood transported across the desert from the Brassian oasis. General Ira’s ships were the first to make landfall, under her leadership their meger force of 1000 men were able to liberate the coastal city of Dhenijansar from the Sarkites, securing a beach-head for the rest of the Alliances invasion. With the full force of the Alliance armies landed, they began to press north up the Dandasana river towards the main Sarkic encampment which was prevented from moving by Ser Wymerus leading his army defending the Tamakhan pass in an offensive attack on the Sarkic forces gathered there. While outmatched they were able to use the terrain of the pass to their advantage and hold the Sarkic forces long enough for the invading Alliance forces and the Dwarves to close in and flank the Sarkic army, led by Grand Karcist Ion. The following engagement would then live in infamy as the battle of Blood.

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