CH 4: The hall of memories
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[Bastard i mean The Skever]
{Location Ark Terra homeward of the tribunal}

I stand within the hall of memories once more to hear the stories of our past glory's told by the elders, in years past our people were warriors without equal but now we will peace loving lives and are stagnating and only here could i imagine what my ancestors had fought through.

A long hallway with many doors leading into them with dates over their frames and names telling of different parts of our long history such as our strife's and victory's so long ago that there is no one to tell the stories anymore to several of the small scale civil wars our people have gone through and the old who lived though it tell their tales.

Or the honor halls where Heroes who arrived during times of peace are immortalized from the greatest hunter to the person there at the right time to do what was needed and even the cruel and monstrous where enshrined within from people who would willing destroy entire planets or commit genocide and remove a entire race from our universe no one was denied their rightful place inside.

But at the end of the great hall stands two statues with a door between them the first statue on the left is of Vush warrior two of his arms grabbing the right statues arms while its third held a blade that came out the back of the second and in his fourth hand he holds the head that looks like that of a human but with no mount ears or nose only three almond shaped eyes.

The second statue who is intertwined with the first statue is a man with six arms with one of them missing its body is smooth and it is missing its head and its arms that were not restrained seem to hold the warrior in an embrace of death as the creatures still tentacles come out of his back

The piece was named 'The Magnus and The Overmind' and was constructed after the consuming war when the brave hero The Magus found the home world of the Overmind and sacrificed himself to kill it and destroy its entire world removing its connection to its underlings the overlords allowing the galaxy to recover safely for over 200 years.

In this hall the Brother of The Magnus tells stories from the darkest place in history and turns his memories into warnings and stories for our people to learn from or to just enjoy the fact that we got past it all, Today i have come to meet with him.

"-But even though he knew it was dangerous he was determined to head there and cripple the Overmind's grip over the galaxy and so he and a full company descended to the planets surface to find away below so he could place the beacon- "-Soul Singer

Damn its already near the end, oh well i already know most of the story from start to finish anyway so maybe when these guys leave i can ask most questions without being bugged so i stay by the door as to not interrupt them.

"-Everyone though they were goners and that everyone would die on that cursed world but after only 40 hours the beacon was activated and cut though the interference and with that the entirety of the extermination fleet locked on and blew the world back to hell at the cost of the company and The Magnus."-Soul Singer

"Mr. Singer!, why fight the Overmind while there were still Overlords fighting?"-Young guest

"The Overlord had a powerful form of Psychic field which seemed to extend to the overlords, places and creatures it controlled making them much stronger while the overmind controlled them but Magnus's ability that let him latch onto the waves was countered by the overlords own power but not by the overmind and so he said 'Well then I'll just find the overmind instead then.' and traced its signal back to the overmind much faster then expected and so effort was put in to deal with it."-Soul Singer

"Its like this"-SS
Sing raises his hand and what looks like a small stormy cloud appears in the air with a flat screen on it facing the group and on the screen a badly drawn scene appears with a man with six arms pointed outward surrounded by a big circle with a small one inside and then a bunch of badly drawn stick-figure soldiers outside shooting at him.

"We were these people and we are on the outside of the shield over here the shield protects him but we can break it but it would be hard because if we break the first we still have the other and he can attack us still while we can't."-SS

The picture gets wiped away and is replaced by another similar scene but this time the shield is by itself but very large but inside was another person fighting inside of it instead of from outside.

"Magnus believed that he could break the shield from inside easier then from the outside so he created signal beacons he planned to place inside of the overmind's field to allow the fleet direct access instead of fighting with it in a power struggle while it had the advantage and in the end it did not have the time to get reinforcements from its overlords to stop our assault from space and its death weakened the overlords."-SS

"Even i was surprised by how well the plan had worked and so we went to finish our crusade against them and without another overmind to create more overlords they were stuck with what they had and every planet they controlled was basted to a lifeless husk and all of the overlords were slain by our hands and i don't think it would have been that easy if it was not for the overmind's early defeat."-SS

I have heard some of the other old timers speak about the battles during the crusade and it sounds like he left out the part where he killed two of the overlords himself but hey its his story, i stop hyper focusing on the story and let time fly by and as the rest of the guests asked their last minute questions and began to leave in entered the room.

In the room sat the Singer in a plush armchair with two of his arms fiddling with a guitar with the other two folded behind his head one of witch is pure silver in contrast to his yellow skin as he looked towards the tablets on the wall that told the stories of others immortalized so that others could still know their stories.

As i walked in his attention shifted from the long tablets to me and a smile crossed his face and he set his guitar to the side of the chair got up and stretched is limbs and then beckoned me to him.

"Ah yeah!, hmm there you are Skever your late what took you so long?"-SS

"Sorry got caught cup with some family business anyway you said you wanted to see me got another story to tell me?"-The Skever
His Smile faded before taking out a data-slate and passed it to me, this was the telltale sign for a job, it was not strange for me to get a job from the elders as i am a thief and a smuggler by trade and name but Soul Singer has almost never used my services.

"Its been screened, its a report we got from one of our spy's in the empire territory they are rumors but what they imply is no laughing matter and he could not anything else before he had to leave the scene. "-SS

On the first page was a recording from a wiretap that was edited to keep non-important info, it has a group of scientists talking about their experiments which involve their failed creations which in appearance's sound distinctly like that of the long dead overlords but it seems like they are failing to get any results from their tests.
"The hell? they found a overlord corpse?, i thought they were all recovered during the end of the consuming wars, but they can't really get a overlord out of a corpse right that's ridiculous!"

"I had the same ideas when i got the report but if there is even a sliver of a chance we need to know before we can justify sending a extermination squad, which is why i want you to go into that lab and get me proof."-SS

"Because of my ability's right, your faith in me will be rewarded, and when i get back your gunna tell me how you lost your arm!"-Skever
He handed me a set of files and said nothing else before i was sent off to find him his proof, i wonder if i can get a second name for completing this task, that would be Sick!

(End)
(This chapter was getting kinda long  and i had to rewrite half of it when my laptop crashed so there will be a part two before we see XI again, thank your very much for reading.)

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