But no sooner had Katabasis died again than Gilgamesh revived him, telling him he was done. Katabasis asked Gilgamesh not to revive him immediately after his next death, to wait instead until they found rescue, because not even a Guardian's Light can take that eternal onslaught…or a Guardian's Ghost. The crew fought back, tried their best to cut the connection and return Glykon to normal space, but one by one they fell until only Katabasis and Gilgamesh were left. Gravity waves pulsed through the Nothing, rearranging the ship's geometry in impossible ways and reanimating any Scorn that hadn't been incinerated. Katabasis himself sent distress signals pleading for rescue, offering his prize rifle to any Guardian who'd brave the Scorn to find him and his Ghost, but no one received them. The Scorn tore loose and rampaged through the ship, whose crew had no way to escape, to signal for help, even to go outside. The emperor in whatever apotheosis had swallowed him had left the carrier behind in absolute Nothing. Still Calus hammered on.Īnd Calus was gone.

Cabal ensnared by it fell into comatose eternity, their minds swallowed up.

Strange fungus began to infest the ship, its slender, flower-like spore stalks resembling the Sarcophilus ('flesh-lover') fungus that grows aboard the Drifter's Derelict crossed with the psychoactive Royal Nectar plants from Leviathan. The Scorn went into a perpetual frenzy, breaking loose again and again to kill whatever they found. Glykon hadn't entered the anomaly, but the attempt had changed it. That tantalizing glimpse motivated him to keep trying, to everyone else's regret. A Voice of Darkness that embodied it the same way the Traveler embodied Light*. Furious, Calus tore apart the failed Scorn himself but then he thought he detected something else, something different from the Pyramids' attention: an Observer. Calus' plan worked in that through the Crown he yoked the Scorn's prepared minds and inhabited their senses the same way he's been dividing his consciousness across his robot proxies, but even though they reached the very edge of the Mars anomaly, Calus' words fell into nothing. And now that we know what he was up to just after said worlds were swallowed, I hope that motherfucker stays gone.Īnd failed. Hey, remember Calus? The hedonistic Cabal ex-Emperor madman lounging aboard his prison-turned-pleasure barge Leviathan, indulging in delirious celebration of the end coming on the points of the knife-edged fleet he saw at our galaxy's edge? Remember how he proclaimed himself the Darkness' herald, prophet of the world's doom? How's he doing now that that end has literally arrived? Darkness is here, the Pyramids hang in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't, and Calus and Leviathan disappeared along with the four worlds Darkness swallowed up. Disillusioned when the Traveler stood by as the City burned during the Red War, the pair listened when Emperor Calus offered glory and riches to Guardians who might rally to his banner. One of the ones who didn't was the Hunter Katabasis and his Ghost Gilgamesh. Guardians don't have to listen to the Vanguard.

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