Episode Six
AunwhalCaretaker of the Guardian Facility and Gateway to the Black Gates
You will forgive me, I trust, if out of courtesy to the Black Gate refugees, I convey this information to you in speech rather than via our common direct link. And if I am to describe a weapon related to my story, there can be no more relevant or more devastating weapon than the one that led to the creation of those refugees in the first place—the organo-synthetic virus deployed hundreds of long cycles ago.
We still know little about why it was created. Some, of course, speculate it was crafted to be released as a direct attack by one of the warring states of the time, and they lost control of their weapon. Others, as I do, believe the weapon’s creators intended it as a deterrent for future aggression u
