Again the golden glow covered the fortress, whatever power the spheres of light had, had begun to act there was something within the pools of real space, something ancient and long forgotten, slowly the fortress was heading towards it, unfortunately, the compass was hell-bent on following its master's orders.
So with every passing second, the specs of light were forced to move the ship into a certain direction.
Like oil, stuck to a birds feather, the goop attempted to stick to the fortress only to be burned away by the combined golden light and the fortress many shields and yet the ship was moving at a snail's pace.
In truth had each fragment not been able to act on its own and gather together under their own power the journey would have taken hundreds of thousands of years, it still would, but at least the collection of the fragments, as well as of certain important relics would be considerably shortened.
Finally, after ten hours of painfully slow travel through headspace, they arrived a single pillar stood floating in space, wasting no time the golden fragments, convinced their power and bypassed any of the defenses the pillar had, before quickly retreating as they felt the pillars energies surge.
Instantly lightning erupted from the pillar, before it let out a blast of green light, that seemed to force real space to act as if it was in pain.
Slowly green specks of light began to grow in every direction announcing the reawakening of the ancient pylons of Necron construction, headspace that had long since mixed with the unnatural energies of the warp began to be separated from it and as if reality screamed the two realms were finally removed from one another.
(One down)said the soul fragments all at once, in a voice that did not exist.
(Jose )
Jose looked at the sick green glow of energy spilling from the black pillar in front of the fortress and he was about to open fire, only stopping as he remembered that the reason the thing had even activated in the first place, was because of the golden beam of energy the fortress had fired at it./p
"Full speed ahead, let's get out of here before I change my mind." Jose said as he realized that it was now possible for the fortress move without any problems
Soon the engines would be cool enough to make a jump but for now, he had to rely on the fortress many engines to move.
As minutes became hours, he looked through the ship's computers hoping to find any hint of water or sugars drink and to his surprise, there was one can of soda left, a floating skull delivered it to him and Jose sat down enjoying the view.
It was right a sight really, as he moved he had begun to see, what looked like living spaceships, twisting and tearing themselves apart, while entire planets had strange light's lifting themselves from them.
The fortress's many computers light up showing the signs Warning all over them, it was best to stay away from them. Strangely enough, a small fleet had begun to gather behind the fortress, for a time they hesitated, but considering that the various space stations, fortresses and ships, his own ship was pulling didn't have anyone inside them, they all eventually landed and settled in.
"It's better they stay out there than come in here." Jose said to himself, as he tried to justify his fear of meeting the people that had landed on his property.
A green light began to glow as the engines needed to use the gravity well for faster than light had finally become useful again, it was time to head for his next destination gathering of several golden lights.
Slowly the many shields began to cover the fortress and hidden sets of armor plating covered areas that would normally be uncovered.
Unbeknownst to Jose, however, the fleet of hundreds of thousands of ships he had passed earlier had returned and begun to land on the many stations and were unable to escape, as the fortress shields forced them to stay within the ships protective energies.
The depressing energies of the gravity well quickly took over everything and the fortress and it unwilling passengers began their long journey, however, there was something else inside the dimension, the sound of a bell far into the distance.
As Jose listened to it, he sent out a small drone to see where it was coming from and his surprise the drone emerged, directly in front of the space station he had left behind after fighting all if the space bugs.
The drones programming was simple give any information it had to the friendlies on its files and seeing as Jose gave the station to the people there, it gave them the information of the previous discovery, as well as the locations of the area of space Jose, had just left behind, before activating miniature version of the gravity engines and returning to the fortrese's side, however it was unable to enter it again because of the ships force fields.
Jose stared at the computers, there was a spark of green light echoing from the inside of the fortress, like if it was calling out to someone something and that was dangerous. The gravity well is a place that exists everywhere, if there is a planet there is gravity, if there is a small rock floating through space, it has gravity.
Hell even people have gravity, so whatever that light is calling out to will eventually hear it, if it's not in a form by words then it's by intuition.
The computer began to sound, the fortress would soon exit the gravity well and a hole, in reality, was formed and the fortress exited the gravity realm, instantly the golden spheres erupted in power and for a brief instance Jose swore he was able to see a pair of eyes looking directly at him from the outside of the ship.
The computers liked up a small figure floating in space, what was interesting was that the figure still seemed to give of life signs, the second the figure seemed to be Human or as close to human as it could be.
A gold beam of light teleported the figure into the medical bay, again the golden spheres were acting on their own. Instantly the various machines began to strip away the man's armor, it was not a pleasant sight.
The man's body was completely burned, nearly all of his bones were broken and his lungs were almost collapsed, not only that from what the computers said they would need to amputee one of the man's arms.
Unfortunately, as of the moment, most of the most significant medical technology was used up, so the less pleasant ones were going to have to be used.
As Jose looked at the armor he chose to paint the entire thing black, as well as create a helmet to match it, just for him to be able to say rize Darth Vader.
Either way that was enough looking around for the person it was time to see where exactly he had arrived to.
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She could feel it, feel them, the generations long since gone calling out to her, or better yet calling out to her other self.
Isha began the process of releasing the primitive machines of human construct and yet her heart was filled with uneez, something was moving through space, something that didn't care for her, for the fortress or even the lives of those onboard the ship, no what it cared for were the souls of the dead.
She stood inside her garden her powers already growing thanks to her children's love, soon they would have new forms and begin to do what new life does.
Yet she felt as if something was wrong, but partner had yet to provide the much-needed care for their children, like it or not, that human was her mate now and he had failed to do what was needed.
She needed to be integrated, a new generation needed to come forth, Eldar souls, while ancient were far too old and arrogant, human souls were far too brittle and short-lived to be odf any significants.
No, a balance needed to be found between the two and that's where they both came in, as things stood she was no goddess, just nothing more than an incredibly attractive woman and he... Well, he wasn't her first, or billionth choice.
Still, she couldn't help but shake her growing sense of worry, something was moving and it was forcing her to turn her none corporal eyes into the vastness of space, she covered hundreds of light years, distances so vast that even her children couldn't ever hope to reach and yet she found nothing.
There was nothing here, nothing alive, not even dead, get she swore something was moving.
Slowly she turned her eyes towards the fortress and found it being shielded by the fragments of the Humans now dead emperor, they too had felt the strangeness of this area of space and had begun to act.
Finally, after discovering that there was indeed nothing here, Isha decided to return to her current home and continue to mold it into an adequate cradle for her children. To think that something as primitive as the fortress would become her wound ant soon become her children cradle nearly made her laugh of the absurdity.
Yet the songs of the dead kept calling to her, her children souls were crying out for salvation, yet there was nothing here, yet for an instant, a small spark of light echoed through the void and her machines found something incredible.
Hundreds of thousands of crystalized worlds all moving slowly, as if they were being moved by in unseen force.
Slowly the machines moved closer attempting to see what exactly was going on and Idha found herself wanting to scream, a shard it was a C'tan shard. The reason these worlds were moving was my because they were willfully being dragged, no the C'tan had garbed the various stars and left with them.
Every single world there was simply pulled by the shards gravitational distortion.
"Strange" Isha thought to herself, normally the shards would be trying to cause as much suffering as possible, after all the suffering of mortals was the best telecast the universe had and yet this one wasn't trying to do just that.
Everything on those worlds was dead and even now the dead called out for salvation, yet their cries of pain weren't filled with desperation.
Isha looked closer and began to realize what exactly was going in on, a thick cosmic cloud covered every crystal world shielding them from the uncaring universe and the C'tan itself ate the stars completely ignoring the fact that those worlds even existed.
The truth was something far more horrifying that she could have ever believed, a complete C'tan one that had not been driven insane, the sheer amount of power the creature had at its disposal was incomprehensible even to someone as herself and yet the creature was completely uncaring for anything around it.
Isha smiled, perhaps there was a way to make this work for her, those were Eldary worlds after all and the C'tan itself didn't seem to care for them, then perhaps there was a way to reclaim both the worlds and the souls.
There was just one issue however, the captain wouldn't allow such a thing unless it benefited him, so for a fraction of a second Isha thought about something that could work as an incentive for him to risk using the fortress.
Then she stopped realizing that if the worlds were crystallized, then they were free of corruption, meaning that even all of their technology however limited and in small number it may be was free for the taking.
Instantly Isha pulled back ulher incorporate form and ordered her machines to return, while at the same time ordering them to give the ship the coordinate of the locations of the worlds and what was there, she made sure that no mention of the C'tan was present within the reports.
She could feel her womb move, the infinity circuits were forming nicely, soon the souls would forget who they were and start anew, soon they will acknowledge her as their mother and soon it will all start anew, but first thing was first.
She needed to get the souls in those worlds