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[the-astral-express-archive]

Honkai: Star Rail | Navigator Artworks From Cosmodyssey Test Reports

Transparent sprites of each navigator also included in the download link.

[xiaodidekuaile]

[dayurno]

thinking so hard and deep about that ec bit about kevin wanting to learn the piano. should we kill ourselves

[zours025]

[boymanmaletheshequel]

I see…

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- I see Lord Dionysus when I enjoy a cold Alcoholic beverage surrounded by others who wish to get lost in the celebration and ecstasy of drunken banter, yet knowing my limits enough to not fully join in.

- I see Lord Dionysus when I am enamored by the body of a beautiful man, beguiled by their masculinity and horny for their body on mine, and the euphoria and pleasure it promises to bind us with.

- I see Lord Dionysus when I have a break in my mental health, and I ask him to sit with me to help me through the aftermath and hold my hand as I recover from it.

- I see Lord Dionysus when I go to the club with my friends, as we try our damndest to hear eachother over the noise of celebration, and I feel his mania as I sing in panicked, yet excited embarrassment to the karaoke in front of everyone on stage.

- I see Lord Dionysus when I must remind myself to find the importance of celebration and of kinship, to stop dwelling in my depression, and to engage in fun, in chivalry, and in tomfoolery alike, to remember the importance of living like I want to.

I see lord Dionysus

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[glitter-alienz]

My amazing digital circus OCs I made back in October of 2023. never posted them because the fandom was a bit overwhelming. but yk what? I need to post my OCs more often so I'm dropping them here RIGHT NOW :)

their names are Isee (guy thing) and Puff (snake thing) 👍🏾

i really do enjoy making fan ocs, so i made them for fun. their lore is pretty basic. main thing is that they're a unit and can't be seperated. and they do fun friend activities like vore and such /half joke

[tapakah0]

Hi Tap

MY GREMLIN SHARING WE HAVE TOO LITTLE SPACE FOR BOTH OF US FRIEND DO YOU HOW DO OYU DO MYAH HOPE YOU DO GOOD

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[lemonsilly]

waughghh. alpha dave #1 fan here hello hi hi very nice okay thank you

-KD

OVERLOOK

[sillysymbol]

new restored tmbg photos so i have to draw them. ok?

[raddestrose]

Ooooh I see what you did there, having the ring land on him

I see what your playing at Wangji

[machinatings]

If it didn’t send people notifications I would like and unlike posts all day. Love to see that little red heart break in two. Gues im kinda twisted that way…….

[cloneslugs]

yes i did think about this. venture twins arent smart enough to solve the kira case but it would be "solved" with their involvement, they investigate and play detective but it doesnt actually go anywhere reasonable and is senseless. hank can guess it's light just by pure boy adventurer intuition but nobody believes him. dean thinks light is an amazing junior detective and light pretends to be a fellow giant boy detective fan but you get constant inner monologues of how he thinks this shit is such drivel, how can anyone over the age of 8 genuinely read this, etc. light eventually thinks the boys are getting too close bc he cant believe they're actually that stupid and also because he tried killing them once but they just come back as clones so he thinks they're some sort of mastermind geniuses. he legitimitely kills brock at some point but brock just comes back because he's brock ,(dia de los dangerous style) & this pisses brock off enough to kill light & he has a hunch that kira = light must be working off some ancient book that kills whoever's name you write inside it (yeah OSI had a similar case a few years back...) everyone either just accepts that or thinks he's ridiculous. B plot is rusty finding his own death note + shinigami and trying to ethically market it while orpheus tries to reason against this

[apileofmoss]

excited to see mutual posting/reblogging things but too scared to say hi in dms or askbox...sigh

[boymanmaletheshequel]

I see….

I see Lady Artemis in the deer that graze outside my home

I see Lady Artemis in the justice I stand for when the women around me are being attacked

I see Lady Artemis in the friendly neighborhood cat that comes up along the street to greet you and guard you as you walk

I see Lady Artemis in the rage women feel on a day to day basis on the account of men’s feelings, unjustly so.

I see Lady Artemis in the Forest, as a bright red bird cherry that feeds and nurtures the woods.

[krawlernyannyan]

AN (APPROXIMATE) TIMELINE OF THE NAVIGATORS

Cosmodyssey's given us a slew of the Astral Express' former Navigators and my first question was, naturally, if we can actually give them a distinct order outside of "Himeko is the current Navigator".

The good news: Two-thirds of them can be cleanly placed on a timeline because most of their backstories imply or directly mention specific universal events. The other third is...blurry, but in my attempt to construct a timeline here I'll be giving my rationale for why I'm placing them where they are.

This is going to be long so I'm putting it under a cut.

Capy Baba is the earliest of the Navigators given to us in Cosmodyssey, and it's very easy to discern why. Their backstory explicitly mentions they took the helm at the end of the Swarm Disaster and that their "predictive pathfinding" helped the Express avoid the Swarm. They also existed in a pre-Synesthesia Beacon period of history and needed a human translator to aid them. Their work helped revitalize the Express' star maps so well that they're still in use today, and eventually Capy Baba retired peacefully once they were done with their work.

I'm not sold on the precise order of these next three, only that they're after Capy Baba due to the presence of the IPC in two of their backstories and the third being an Intellitron. For the former two, the IPC wasn't formally established until the Swarm Disaster was over (I've double-checked since originally posting and it did exist pre-Swarm Disaster, it just saw massive expansion and reforms after the Disaster), and I don't believe you start seeing independent Intellitrons until after the Emperor's War is finished.

Sometime after the IPC is formed and starts hiring bounty hunters, the crew and passengers of the Astral Express mysteriously disappear. A bounty hunter named Oakley is enlisted by Pom-Pom to act as Navigator in the wake of the disappearance, and they accept. They help the Express fight off "star beasts" while helping find the missing passengers and recruiting new ones. This takes place over the course of six months, and once the crew is suitably replenished Oakley quietly leaves the Express. They still hold the record for the shortest recorded stint as Navigator.

Bob, formerly of the IPC-wanted crime syndicate Tarantula, joins the Astral Express as a guard. Eventually, it's discovered that he's joined under a false identity and his exposure results in his assignment to the role of Navigator. It's mentioned he had a hatred of mechanical life but still invited them onboard "in times of war" (which I take as a sign his stint was either during the Emperor's War or right around the same time). It's unknown how he met his end, just that he died in a heroic defensive battle.

Sam-3000 is an Intellitron and her tenure is the most distinctive out of the whole bunch since she led an entire fleet of Astral Expresses. There's likely a long period before and after her time as Navigator where the trains are constructed and then fall to the wayside, but her backstory mentions her career was during "an era of enterprise". I feel that's supposed to point towards her leading the Express during the Second Prosperity (a 500-Era economic windfall for the IPC that gets more explicitly mentioned later). She only retires once she's unable to replace her own parts.

For the rest of the Navigators, the order is very linear and defined.

Dolly was a musician from Tiafoe whose music was able to attract many new passengers to the Express, and even brought Akivili back onboard. It is during her tenure that the fall of Akivili occurs, an event experienced by all Nameless, and the moment starts Dolly's anomalous crystallization. Before she is completely petrified she's able to assign a new Navigator.

It's explicitly noted that Isee's historical record has been tampered with repeatedly by History Fictionologists, but assuming the story we're given is correct: Isee oversaw an important period in the Express' history, covering the fall of Akivili and the subsequent birth of Nanook. Their career was defined by the chaotic schisms and diaspora caused by the loss of the Trailblaze, but they remained steadfast even when the Express was reduced to two passengers. They eventually stepped down from the position, and it's explicitly mentioned who succeeded them in the role. Notably, the Omen Vanguards begin to appear in the universe after they step down.

Falcon Amundsen is listed as coming into the Navigator role shortly after Isee, and it's under him that the Express regains the glory it lost in the wake of Akivili's fall. He's explicitly mentioned as taking the helm during "the early days of the Cancer of All Worlds", and was likely the first navigator that had to deal with Stellarons. Falcon's efforts to rebuild the Star Rail inspired a new generation of Nameless, but he passed on before he could see the ultimate fruits of his work.

Granholm eventually takes the mantle of Navigator at the age of 17. His career was in "a time marred by disasters and fractured worlds" (Stellarons), and the Nameless are transformed into cosmic heroes under his tenure. Granholm spends his life on the Express and passes on peacefully of old age.

It's shortly after Granholm's passing that the Express falls into disrepair due to the influence of Stellarons on the Star Rail and the universe. The train eventually crashes into an unknown planet and remains unfound for so long that its legacy begins fading into myth.

Eventually, a teenage Himeko finds the stranded Express and spends many years fixing the train. Once her work is complete the Express takes to the stars again, with Himeko becoming the new Navigator. She is the current Navigator and (we hope) she'll stay in that position for a long time to come.

We obviously haven't gotten an exhaustive list but this is a lot of Navigators and we can draw a pretty clean timeline of who was in charge in important moments in the Star Rail universe's history (or, at the least, where the gaps are for when certain events happened). Even if we don't know every single person to ever fill the role it's still very comforting to be able to place people and cosmic events in relation to others like this.