"I will be brief," Inquisitor Vaarak says once you've taken your seats at the holo-lith table.
"The Tyrant Star has appeared near Scintilla. With the capital world of our sector under threat, I and my fellows in the Tyrantine Cabal have stepped up our efforts to stop the damned thing.
Unfortunately... most of us still have no idea what the Tyrant star is."
As Vaarak speaks, he depresses several studs in the side of the table. A blue-ish transluscent image of the sector appears, with Scintilla highlighted. Not far, along a stable warp route, is Iocanthos. You note that half a dozen planets and star systems have their names darkened, with LOST CONTACT written beneath them.
"The Cabal was formed to study the Tyrant Star, to understand it and, hopefully to stop it if it proved malignant. We pooled resources from all branches of the Inquisition, be they the Daemon-fighters of the Ordo Malleus, the heretic-hunters of the Ordo Hereticus, or the alien killers of the Ordo Xenos. It was our brothers and sisters in the Ordo Xenos who had the most promising leads on the Tyrant Star, but unfortunately, as of Inquisitor Loxley's purge of the Ordo in this sector, they're all dead or in hiding," Vaarak pauses, and spits out a gobbet of fluid on ground. His breathing apparatus wheezes.
With a swipe of his hand, an image of the sigil of the Ordo Xenos appears, along with the faces of a dozen Inquisitors, each with KIA emblazoned across them. Vaarak stares sadly at the names for a moment. His palsied hand reaches to his face, and dabs faintly at the spittle on his lip.
"Friends of mine..." he mutters. In a moment, he has gathered himself and continues to speak. "Only one person still lives within the Sector who might know what the Tyrant Star is."
Vaarak taps a finger to the face of one of the dead Inquisitors. The face enlarges, and text detailing the Inquisitor and known assosciates appears and begins to scroll downwards. Vaarak taps one name,Erminegard Gale, and a new image appears. A dark haired woman with chalk-white skin, piercing blue eyes and a severe expression appears. "
"Scholar Xenosia Erminegard Gale," Vaarak says. " She knows more about aliens and their artifacts than anyone else in the sector, and she got several data-lumes with details on bizarre astral phenomenon, likely related to the Tyrant Star. My intelligences sources indicate she's hiding on Iocanthos.
That's where you come in Inquisitor. I need you and your assassin to find this woman and extract her from the planet. What she knows could mean the difference between Life and Death for the Sector."
(( She plays Adept Gale, by the way: http://cdn2.denofgeek.us/sites/denofgeekus/files/zap-penny-dreadful-season-1-episode-8-grand-gu-019_0.jpg.))
"The Tyrant Star has appeared near Scintilla. With the capital world of our sector under threat, I and my fellows in the Tyrantine Cabal have stepped up our efforts to stop the damned thing.
Unfortunately... most of us still have no idea what the Tyrant star is."
As Vaarak speaks, he depresses several studs in the side of the table. A blue-ish transluscent image of the sector appears, with Scintilla highlighted. Not far, along a stable warp route, is Iocanthos. You note that half a dozen planets and star systems have their names darkened, with LOST CONTACT written beneath them.
"The Cabal was formed to study the Tyrant Star, to understand it and, hopefully to stop it if it proved malignant. We pooled resources from all branches of the Inquisition, be they the Daemon-fighters of the Ordo Malleus, the heretic-hunters of the Ordo Hereticus, or the alien killers of the Ordo Xenos. It was our brothers and sisters in the Ordo Xenos who had the most promising leads on the Tyrant Star, but unfortunately, as of Inquisitor Loxley's purge of the Ordo in this sector, they're all dead or in hiding," Vaarak pauses, and spits out a gobbet of fluid on ground. His breathing apparatus wheezes.
With a swipe of his hand, an image of the sigil of the Ordo Xenos appears, along with the faces of a dozen Inquisitors, each with KIA emblazoned across them. Vaarak stares sadly at the names for a moment. His palsied hand reaches to his face, and dabs faintly at the spittle on his lip.
"Friends of mine..." he mutters. In a moment, he has gathered himself and continues to speak. "Only one person still lives within the Sector who might know what the Tyrant Star is."
Vaarak taps a finger to the face of one of the dead Inquisitors. The face enlarges, and text detailing the Inquisitor and known assosciates appears and begins to scroll downwards. Vaarak taps one name,Erminegard Gale, and a new image appears. A dark haired woman with chalk-white skin, piercing blue eyes and a severe expression appears. "
"Scholar Xenosia Erminegard Gale," Vaarak says. " She knows more about aliens and their artifacts than anyone else in the sector, and she got several data-lumes with details on bizarre astral phenomenon, likely related to the Tyrant Star. My intelligences sources indicate she's hiding on Iocanthos.
That's where you come in Inquisitor. I need you and your assassin to find this woman and extract her from the planet. What she knows could mean the difference between Life and Death for the Sector."
(( She plays Adept Gale, by the way: http://cdn2.denofgeek.us/sites/denofgeekus/files/zap-penny-dreadful-season-1-episode-8-grand-gu-019_0.jpg.))