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SPECIMEN: J-3351F
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Specimen J-3351F
Origin: Forbidden Zone, Moon
Description: a Hive Recording Crystal, Blue in Color.
Notes: found at the crater of an unknown explosion, it is similar to the data crystals found inside hive network systems. Translation of the information has been difficult and required several visits from expert warlocks specialized in the hive language. It appears to be a personal journal of some sort but what it exactly references is above my paygrade.
Researcher: Dr. R. Clapp.
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Transcript of Specimen J-3351F:
The [Mourning Spark]has left. She thinks that she has escaped but in truth we let her go. [Son, Sword, Decoy]says that she will go back to their city below [UNKNOWN] and more sparks will come to feed us, and with the [Fracture One] we will know many more secrets of the sparks. I look into the pit and hear the call of [Son, Sword, Decoy] he say that there is a problem on the far side of our nest. I obey and call for the [Striking Teeth] and the [Bend Knee] to prepare a tomb ship.
As my disciples patrol and search thru the debris. The mountain that held one of the [Knowledge Stones] is completely gone. It has been many sleeps since I have seen this level of destruction. Not since the sparks defeated us as [Whirlwind Glow].
I sense light a distance away from the crater, I go. Five sparklings lay close to one another. The darkness here is heavy and they will not last long. I should feast upon them while there is still something of substance. [Son, Sword, Decoy] calls and tells me to stop. He says that one of these sparklings must be returned to the sparks. What blasphemy I hear from him. He reminds me of the tale from the [Far Seers]. I peer closer at the light from the sparklings. Four of them are the same, [Sense Stalkers] they all hold the taste of [Space]. But the other one is different, its shape flickers and changes at random, primarily it's [World Shaker] but there is a hint of [Thought Wielder]. I wonder if it is.
There is still a spark alive just outside the blast zone, it like the others, it is a [Sense Stalker]. I will kill it and take it and the other's light for my kin and me. The changing one will be taken to [Son, Sword, Decoy]'s temple and its fate will be decided, but for now I have a meal to eat.
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