Ah, Steve.

He was one of the nicer beings I met on my travels. I can't say he was perfect, what with his cryptic references, but nobody's perfect.

At least, nobody who is interesting...

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After collecting the box from the ruins of the Mulos, I continued toward the galactic core. With no resistance on the way there, it was an uneventful journey.

As we approached the core, my loyal followers were curious at where we were heading.

"Oh great one, why do you seek the core?" asked Tylos. "Is there something here that will help you reclaim your powers?"

"...Yes, but there is also someone I'd like to meet there. Now please, be patient and let me finish this."

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Eventually, we reached the core. I started scanning around to see if I could find Steve. I didn't end up finding anything, though considering the fact that the core made my sensors go haywire, this wasn't very surprising.

"Greeting, my friend!"

Speak of the devil. The minute the speaking started, my ship was caught in the pull of the galactic core. My followers became worried, but I told them not to worry: we weren't in danger."

"You've travelled far to get here, and overcome many obstacles."

Yeah, yeah, get on with it.

"Which is amazing, considering where you were only a short time ago."

Yeah ye-WAIT WHAT?

"You know, many like you don't make it this far. Some face threats that superior firepower cannot solve. Others lose themselves to the power they've been granted. And quite a few had the bad luck of meeting them...

Who?

"But you've managed to avoid those pitfalls. What happens now, well, I can't say, because I don't know. Maybe you'll rise to legend, that will slowly fade to myth. Maybe you will return home, to return to the rather dull life you had. If you're really unlucky, you might fall to them, and face the doom of being forgotten by all but your family..."

WHO THE HELL ARE THEM!?

"But you've made it this far and that's pretty impressive. So, I offer you a gift to help you in your travels. One that I believe you very much desire."

At this point, we'd finished our voyage, which Steve took as his queue to appear. The ufo was oddly comical to look at, considering it was based on the SimCity 2000 UFO.

"Nice spaceship. You must have enjoyed designing it."

"Yes I did."

"Well, I respect That. By the way, you should be receiving my gift now."

Indeed, the staff of light had appeared in my cargo hold. Probably needed to be installed in some place before it could be used properly.

"Well, now, I have to go. I hope you achieve whatever goals you have and don't lose sight of who you are."

"Thanks," I responded, not really sure how to take this statement.

"Oh, and one more thing," replied Steve.

"Yes?"

"... Good luck, **** *********."

"..."

"..."

"..."

"... How do you...?"

"Know your real name? Well, I think the best way that I could be described is as a Random Omnipotent Being. I'm different from the one who sent you here, before you get angry. I can't say I'm happy with how my... peer acted, but it's not my place to act.

"Anyways, good luck."

With that, Steve disappeared, leaving me and my followers alone in the void for a moment, before some kind of portal appeared and took usback to the edge of the galactic core.

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After I recovered from my shock of meeting another ROB, I decided to head back to my origin system. First, though, I made a detour to earth, terraformed it to T3, and made it a wildlife preserve.

Then I headed to Terminite and held an epic celebration. As cool as it was, I don't really believe it needs describing.

Then, finally, I built a dimension gate, and headed back to hub.

Now, it was time to examine the Grox Box, as I'd taken to calling it.

The results were... rather unsettling.

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AN: Owing to a suggestion on Spacebattles, STEVE stands for Space Time Entity of Vacuum Energy. It's also his real first name.

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