The Quicksand Singularity ArQive: Array.init:0

A0T4.2 The Ëchüha Incident (Parts 2+3)

Editors Note: 1.) Content Policy Compliance Warning: Article contains strong language which some readers may find offensive. 
2.) Pronunciation Guide: The letter "þ" is pronounced like the "th" in the word "thing". ArQive also includes in Part 2 and Part 3 names and words in both Kàé Làn and Tan te Wori, with exception of Hvórþ Jórðmanglir which is Yaanis Skaansk.
3.) Additional chapters will not include further pronunciation guides.

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Part 2
IMI Initial Inquiry Report

Imperial Ministry of Inquiries

Inquisitorial Dispatch HKTZ:x-045ca9e3bdaf41220c_21

IMI Frigate Dark Star Piercer

Initial Inquiry Report

Inquiry No: HKTZ:x-045ca9e3bdaf41220c

Date: 12/06/8413 10-III

Inquisitor: Uzumi Katzali

Incident: HKTZ DZ-C_060041386 pitch black anno. Class A 23-13 w/ 10-0. 66-12 w/ possible 66-40.

Details:

IMI Dark Star Piercer arrived in-system HKTZ DZ-C_060041386 [Location] and attempted contact on 9-rota approach. All channels read dark. No contact. Upon arrival at Location, preliminary observations indicated potential Apocalypse scenario. Location shrouded in dense clouds impenetrable to orbital instruments.

Action:

Scouting drone was dispatched to surface [HKTZ:[desg]_21(a)]. HKTZ:[desg]_21(a) was successfully recovered and images captured ruled out 66-99. Signs of catastrophic warfare and destruction evident. 66-12 most likely cause, with indications of potential 66-40 scenario. Situation underterministic. HKTZ:desg]_21(b-d) Drone Scouts ordered to assess environmental conditions, hazards, and risks. HKTZ:desg]_21(e) Manned Expedition ordered pending results of (b-d).

Summary:

Location suffered potential 66-type event. Cause and potential survivors unclear. Further expeditions ordered. Inquiry remains live.

Conclusions: Insufficient data. Investigation ongoing.

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Part 3

Imperial Ministry of Inquiries
Inquisition Dispatch HKTZ:x-045ca9e3bdaf41220c_21€

Dropkick Demons Insertion

Tension, the air stank with it. Every breath carried its taste, an acrid flavour, foul, saturated with the bite of fear and the tang of nerves taut as tripwires. It filled the hold of the drop ship with a heady scent all seven men strapped into their seats knew better than their own mother's cooking. Each one had smelled it on drops both short and long into LZs hotter than a wolf-rayet. They'd been through every hell imagined and discovered a few new ones along the way, hells that stank of terror and death—the lull between shooting matches even more so. The smell, that smell, it was stronger this time, as if the tensile strength of air had strained itself beyond the breaking point and was only held together by sheer stubbornness and the peculiar taint of the Glitch.