Installation Jan-X 21

Human Narrator: Our story really begins in 4911 IA, on the world of Erde Hoc, at the height of the Chilleon starfaring age. The Chilleon deep space telescopes picked up signs of life on the nearby world Iurth, which lay only several lightyears from their nearest frontier. In 4955 a manned expedition was dispatched to study the planet from orbit and arrived in 4992. The crafts dropped several probes to study the four-armed bipedal creatures closer up and to learn their language.

In 5001 IA, on the world of Iurth, an ancient plague had crept up on the indigenous, sapient, Ulst. The Ulst at the time were on the verge of an industrial revolution, but the pathogens high lethality rate combined with its slow infection time and high transmutability rate threatened to kick the civilization back to the dark ages or even to the brink of extinction. By 5007 the plague had engulfed the whole race, cutting whatever population it contacted to a third, and leaving the survivors to mercies of famine. As the Chilleo watched from orbit they decided to help and sent several missions to aid the Ulst. After six months of studying the worlds biology in depth, they were able to develop natural and artificial immunizations and in the form of both shots and counter plagues to inoculate the population against the more lethal strain. They did their best to attempt to teach and provide the Ulst with relevant technologies and agricultural methods, such as prescribed burns, advanced crop rotation, and fishing methods. They also improved sanitation and built irrigation systems

At the onset of the Chilleo-Miotra war the facility was attacked, and the those who survived were driven off. As the plague subsided, a single battle was fought in the system in 5031 between Chilleon and Miotra forces resulting in the total annihilation of both sides. In the aftermath of the war, all nearby Chilleon systems to the Ulst were severely damaged and both the priority and awareness of their neighbors on Iurth took a back seat. And as time passed the Chilleon colonies and the Ulst system began to drift ever farther apart.

Ancient Ulst Narrator: In 4992 AI, from the ground, the Ulst took note of the new star in their sky. Many of the Ulst were deceived, postulating the birth of a new sun, and foretelling of prosperous times ahead. But little did they know that the star was a bad omen, pain and deaths herald, a sign of ill and dark times. On that perilous night, the titans climbed out of the moonless abyssal sky, seeking the torture and agony of the Ulst. They captured and imprisoned the Ulst, cutting open the dead and injecting the living. They titans then unleashed upon the Ulst sickness and famine, burning their farms and forests, emptying their great rivers.

So our people, the Ulst, the petty of Iurth, prayed to the day star, Elkk, and to the mighty winds, who bring the spring rains. After our seven years of cries, they heard us. Then came the day of our salvation, the day when our sentinels from the heavens paid heed and it behooved them to drive the titans back into the night. The stars of gladness entered the fray on our side and drove deaths herald back into the abyss. We never saw of our saviors, except the deceased who fell to Iurth, and only their records remain, after our fathers returned them to the sky.

Contemporary Ulst Narrator: As time passed, the Ulst studied, learned, and grew for themselves. They reversed engineered both the chariots of the titans and the sentinels. By the turn of the next millennium, they had reached the vacuum themselves. Looking one way, out into the intergalactic abyss and the other, towards the edge of the Ebullience. Over the next hundred years the Ulst spread across and beyond the Elkk system out into the interstellar void colonizing the system's worlds and void's rogues clawing themselves ever closer to the nearest stars.

''Over the one thousand years of learning, the Ulst discovered that the Sentinels and Titans were not too different from themselves. The Titans had half their arms while the Sentinels had double''

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