Empyrean Iris Story Collectio...

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Part 3 of A growing collection of Humans are Space Orcs stories that details the adventures of Dr. Krill, Ada... More

The Guardian
Closure
Dispatch
In the Arms of a Human
Fire and Brimstone
Swarm
Infrasound
Kappa
Problems
Fun Facts
Chatter
The Return
Generations
Drawing Power
We
Nakt
Crystal Snow and Ice
Worth Revenge
Pick Your Poison
High On Humans
In Every Corner
Drug Runner
On His Own Supply
A Promise
An Outside Perspective
The Way Things Are
When Humans Attack!
Countering the Council
Public Service Announcement
Air Vent
Through the Crowd
On the Average Day
Kinks?
White Noise
Working Up
In the Name of Pain
An Agreement
Testing Positive
Narobi
Assistive Technology
The Forsaken
Purple and Orange
Something to Tell You
Private Message
Class Reunion
What Do We Have Here
First Time
Generous Donation
Treading Water
Another Inconvenience
Vanth
Barely Alive
At the End of the Hall
Every Fear
Farewell to Fear
DnD
The Specimen
Autocomplete Interview
Grief
Throne
Agent of Chaos
Pulling Punches
Seven Rings
Crystal City
Slip of the Tongue
Personal Questions
The Emperor's Fear
Words of Desperation
We are Not Alone
It Grows
Anti-Human Propaganda
A Guide to Diplomacy
Pineapple
Admiral and the Convict
Polaris
The Polaris Question
The Eden Project
The Constructs
The First Allseeker
Children of the Makers
Little Star
The Awakening
Under Sun and Darkness
Infection at the Heart
Destination Unknown
The Forth Direction
Ready or Not
What's Right
Blinding Light
First Man
Malevolent
Followed
The First Legion
Grey Out
A Surprising Proposal
The Fates
Knockout Night
Eyes of the Council
After Life
Metal and Sky
Human Skin
We are Legion
The Eye
Reflections of the Past
The Vascular System
Vector
In Opposition
Contamination
The Habitation
Beam Me up
The Catch
Support System
The Steel Eye Files 1
Forged
Unarmed Combat
Yield
Steel Eye Files, "Gods of War"
Between Events
Domestic Disagreement
Dark Persuasion
Until the Stars Burn Out
At the Hand of the Son
The Void that Was With Us
You are the Axis
Three Minutes and 56 Seconds
A Pirate's Life
A New Purpose
Shot From A Cannon
Fealty
The Hippodrome
Jellyfriend
Unknown Options
The Lone Hunter
Welcome to Arcadia
Falling Apart
Pool of Moonlight
Annihilation
Godhunter
Provocation
Manipulation
Storming the Pearly Gates
Impetus
Prometheus
Sunrise on Genesis
Cradle of Life
Empyrean Iris
Thermonuclear
A Second Star
Rebel Reunion
Golden Boy
One Pride
Power by Proxy
Bloodlust Lost
Unconscious Belief
Citizen404
Power Grid Out
Psychic Scream
SmileMan
Unmasked
Standing In
Rogue
Unintentional Suggestion
Approaching Fates
Road Trip To Revolution
Through the Fog
Hidden Depths
A Plan to Unite
The Sins of the Few
Racing the Reaper
New Anatomy
The Triumvirate
The Gathering
Silhouette
Into the Storm
A Missed Appointment
An Unexpected Visitor
Visions in the Ash
Power of Anima
Still Waters
The Dark Place
Access the Anima
Arcadia Rain
Sleeper Agent
Hunter and the Hunted
Collateral
Sob Story
Casket
Domestic Threat
Babysitting
Running Parallel
A Good Performance
Global 1
On the Mountain
Iron Cloud
The Voice of the Voiceless
Sanctity of Life
Blood in the Sky
The Bridge Between
Supernal Energy

Growing Divide

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Vidtube

Spacemandan

"I can't believe this is happening, our world is going absolutely batshit insane and no one else can see that it is a total conspiracy. Its like I am standing there looking at the most obvious thing in the world and everyone else is just suddenly blind as hell I mean.... Come on! Like lets just look at this logically right Admiral Kelly was like Admiral Vir's mentor right. He flew the enterprise for her, accompanied her to Proxima B, and the first time they met was while he was still in school. In every interview they have ever had asking him about what got him into this he talks about how Admiral Kelly was like.... His hero. I mean, come on there was no way he had anything to do with any of this.

Vidtube

Alienapex

Hey everyone, so today I wanted to go over a topic that I think a lot of us are having a hard time with right now. I decided to make this video after watching something Spacemandan put out on his channel about how its very unlikely that admiral Vir would have betrayed Kelly , and honestly I agree with him. I have been doing some research, I have read all the documents looking into what happened, and I can honestly say that soemthing doesn't add u. Like don't you think it is just a little suspicious that the literal minute after the pro alliance candidate is sworn into office she is brutally murdered by a Drev that can be linked back to admiral Vir and Oh, since she had vise president hunt were already sworn in, that means Hunt automatically becomes president? So you see how it seems odd that he was loosing the election, but the one way to make sure he got voted in was to make him vise president and then kill the president? Like is anyone not seeing this. I feel like it was a total setup to push the blame on admiral Vir and force people to trust the anti-alliance party. I am going to keep going into that train of thought, but I encourage you to go back and watche spacemandan's video, which you can find linked in the description below.

Vidtube

Bodybias

Hello, hello, hello everyone, its me Katie Kenny, body language expert. I know that these past few weeks have been crazy for everyone.... You know with the world completely falling apart, our religious institutions imploding, and the fifth world war on the horizon, but today I thought I would take a look at the footage of Admiral kelly's death, specifically of Adam Vir to see if we can't examine his body language and determine if or if not his reactions seem genuine. Now before I get into it, I want to preface this by saying that just because his reactions do something, it isn't definitive, like just because he appears sad it might not be because she died it might be for another reason, but with that being said it still is a great place to start when looking through all of this. No I know in the past I have openly shown my support for admiral Vir, but I am going to try to be as unbiased as I can during this video.

Alright, so this frame, right here, this frame is important. You see right before the portal opens up he exchanges this look with Kelly right here. See the widening of the eyes, the furrowing of his brows, and the opening of his mouth right here. This is a pretty clear expression of surprise and fear, which honestly you wouldn't really expect from someone who knew what was coming.

Now through these next parts this expression right here as he is holding her in his arms.... A lot of people say that he could have been faking this reaction, but honestly I don't think so. Usually when people fake grief or pain like this they forget to activate the muscles in their forehead and it just looks flat, but if you can see here, there is the scrunching of the forehead, the lines around the eyes and.... Honestly this is one of the most perfect demonstrations of pain, and anger I have ever seen. If I were to look at this picture with no context, I would say that he is the most devastated out of anyone in this crowd right now.

Chatter

hotasballz

"Just remembering that time the government had President Kelly assassinated to install president Hunt.

#AdamVirisInnocent #Proalliance

Chatter

ClaytonEllis Verified

"I know admiral Vir personally and as a friend. I think that the behavior of our government is disgusting, and if Adam did what he did, I believe he did it for a good reason."

#AdamVirisInnocent #Proalliance

Interview:

Independent Media Tonight

Dr: William Wizinski: Infectious disease specialist

To answer your question, what's going around o the news and the kind of information the government is allowed to put out there is complete bullshit, and yes I am going to say that on live TV because it is. I WORKED like so many others on the Void outbreak. It is NOT a sexually transmitted illness and to blame it on LFIL relationships is stupid. Because you want to know who else got the illness.... A vrul for one, and they reproduce like fish, they don't even touch each other during intercourse. And then you know who else got it?.... his parents! That would have to have been some hardcore Alabama West Virginia shit for it to have spread to his parents. In fact a good portion of the bridge crew was infected which would suggest that there were nightly orgies going on on the bridge of the Omen for everyone to have been infected like that, which of course we know that's not how it spread because "I" was the one who looked into it.

No no no

Don't try to wave me down, the people deserve to know the answer to this, and of course I am mad!

They have been lying to us, the Void disease is a heretofore unknown spreading Virus which targets the Anima itself. Yes it spreads through your damn soul. Of course we couldn't tell you all this before the document was leaked, but we were briefed on all of this before we started working, and that is how the disease spreads. It spreads through an infection in the anima itself and then moves on to symptoms in the body. It requires a close personal connection with someone to spread, more like heart to heart infections, and generally speaking when you are close to a group of people you are also emotionally close to those people. You may not believe me, but it is physically impossible for it to be a sexually transmitted disease. Not to mention that it couldn't physically spread to Mikes or Lumin, who do not have anima like the rest of us.

Interview

News on Point

Dr. Ina Mohandi: Noncultural Professor University of BlackPeak

"This would not have been a move by the Drev. Drev are a warlike race but they have strict codes of honor regarding assassination. No government leader among the Drev would have ever sanctioned an assassination like this because it is considered cowardly. Spying, sneaking all of that in general is considered a stain on one's honor. Now, I did some interviews with Drev on Anin about general kazna and what I found was actually rather interesting. Based on what they told me and her history, is that she was once a great war general, almost led her clan at one point, but after the loss of multiple children to miscarriage she sort of lost herself. In Drev culture of course there is a lot of pressure put on their women to be able to produce strong and viable offspring to create a battle-brood. Now the drev population is already very low, so researchers believe that this desire, isn't just culture it is inherent in their DNA in order to preserve the species, that's why, it is extremely uncommon for Drev to present without the desire to have children. Now General Kazna is actually the one to have really encouraged the Drev war from their side. Drev describe her as angry and unstable in many circumstances, and it is even reported that her daughter Chalan, the Saint of Anin had a very poor relationship with her own mother as Chalan would be considered physically deformed by their society standards and thus was treated poorly by her own mother.

Yes

Yes from what we understand General kazna has broken multiple tenants of the Drev creed, First by raising her children as she did, second by making a personal Vow against humans which culminated in her attempted murder of Adam Vir. Then ou have Adam Vir and Sunny teaming up to defeat Kazna, which they do, and she has been in a supermax detention facility for the last three or so years, whish makes me wonder. How she got out?"

Interview

Anonymous

Jaxi Corcoff Warden Turma Supermax: Space Division

We are doing everything in our power to determine how she escaped. General Kazna had been placed in supermax isolation, and at that point In time she was unable to walk. Medical records that we have on file, and with my own eyes, I saw that the tendons on the back of her heels had been severed, rendering her unable to walk upright. We reviewed the footage on the night of her escape and there is.... Some kind of blackout during which time she was able to escape. It doesn't make sense of course because the power was not cut, during this blackout our systems readings say that the power WAS on. Not to mention that the time it took that blackout to happen, was not nearly enough time for her to have escaped through the facility. We simply have to assume the same portal technology that she used to kill president Kelly was the same technology she used to get out of the prison.

***

Alexandria Egypt

Admiral Palmer was exhausted, he stood in the war-room in the SteelTower just outside the Alexandria library, standing where Admiral Kelly had stood many times before him. It had been a fight over the last month to get this promotion. Considering he was pro alliance like Kelly had been the president had threatened to veto the action, but popular uproar from critics and other members of congress had caused him to back down.

Even so Palmer wasn't sure he wanted this job. As acting fleet admiral, it was not his job to find and hunt down Admiral Vir, which was now top priority in the UNSC.

"By the way you are talking Mr. Palmer I would say that you have some ties to Ex Admiral Vir."

He felt his cheeks tighten, "That is because I DO. He was a friend and student of mine out of the academy and I am having a hart time believing that he could be involved in any of this."

"He committed an act of treason."

"Yeah and why would someone like Adam Vir commit an act of treason? Likely because he knows or suspects something we don't."

"You support him."

Admiral palmer crossed his arms, "Until Admiral Vir stabs me in the back, I tend to think that we should at least give him the benefit of the doubt, try to talk to him before we go about raining hellfire. There is soemthing that doesn't add up here and I am willing to be that he would be more than happy to communicate with us."

Looking around the room he could see that, the vast majority of the other genera"ls weren't unsympathetic to him. He knew a lot of them had not necessarily liked Adam Vir, but it was not for his politics, it was simply for his status and station as a younger man. Now that he wasn't here, the group of them could openly admit that this was out of character for the Admiral.

All of them knew that soemthing was going on and the only ones who couldn't were the ones who were willingly covering their eyes in order not to see it.

"Look Admiral Palmer don't you think it is odd that Adam's lover, the Saint of Anin's mother was the one to kill Kelly, using portal technology which is unknown to most of the universe, while at the same time he is simultaneously friends with the most technologically advanced and most secretive group of aliens in the galaxy, the Celzex."

"The saint of Anin hated her mother, and so did Adam. Adam was the one who Killed General Kazna's mate." The room went silent, "She would enver have worked with him in a million years. The crazy bitch is set on revenge, so doesn't it make sense that she would frame him and turn all of us against him as one of those ways to get back at him?"

The room devolved into more fighting, and he pressed his fingers to his temples.

This was going to be a long day

***

TSCAA

Del Rio Texas

Master Sgt Kimball

He stood at the edge of the launch field , boots planted at shoulder width, ACUs hugging his frame and soaking up his sweat in the Texas heat. He could feel a line of sweat trickling down his lower back and into his crack, which he didn't appreciate. It was hot as balls here.

Always had been

He had a UNSC issue duffel bag slung over one shoulder.

His lower back ached lightly.

Kimball had served for almost twenty years now, and even being in as psychically good shape as he was, age was still beginning to creep into his bones causing his back and his knees to ache under the strain of simply living.

He lookd up at the cloudless blue sky.

He would have retired at the end of the year.

But he knew he wasn't over yet, not anymore, not with the world going the way it was. He turned his head back to look at the camp behind him, and knew that as soon as he took a step out onto that tarmac, there was going to be no turning back. All of his life would change.

He was not surprised when MS Dixon pulled up beside him, her long blond hair shoved under her cap.

"hey there old man."

He grunted, "Buttercup."

She grunted with a slight laugh before lapsing into silence.

"You going somewhere/" she wondered staring straight ahead.

He knew she already knew where he was going.

"Yeah, just taking a trip to see an old friend." He said vaguely, "You take care of these idiots while I'm away. Keep Em safe, teach them what they need to know."

He felt a hand drop down to rest on his shoulder, 'You can count on it, sir."

Her hand slipped from his shoulder and he nodded once, not turning back around as he took a step out onto the tarmac and began his walk across the open field towards a transport shuttle on its way to the Kuiper belt.

The shuttle ramp was open for him and he took one step onto cold metal, sighing as he rested his hand against the frame closing his eyes.

No going back.

And then he heard the sound of boots behind him, many of them marching in formation. His heart sped up and leaped into his throat turning as he expected an entire platoon of MPs to show up behind him, but instead he paused in shock watching as a column of cadets jogged up the tarmac in two orderly lines, their gear over their shoulders, and jogging behind them, a sheepish looking Sgt Dixon.

He stepped forward about to rip her a new one when the cadet at the front of the line pulled in front of him and saluted, "Ready to board, sir!"

"Cadet Houser, get your skinny ass back to barracks, and Dixon, can I have a chat with you."

The skinny bespectacled boy stepped in front of him, "its not Sgt Dixon's fault sir, it was my idea."

He raised ean eyebrow before remembering himself and allowing a frown back over his face, "Well it was a stupid idea, now GIT!"

"With all due respect sir, no!"

"NO?'

"Moment you stepped on that shuttle sir." He leaned forward, "You've committed an act of mutiny, which means you are no longer our commanding officer." The boy stood straighter a grin on his face.

Kimball felt his face flush red, "What in the star spangled fuck are you talking bout, get your asses back to barracks."

The recruits stubbornly stood their ground. Looking them over he could see that it wasn't the entire class, just the majority of them.

"No sir, you're going to take us with you."

He glowered at Dixon who blushed sheepishly, "You told me to take care of them, and I couldn't stop them so I.... Guess I'll have to come too."

"Oh for fuck's sake." He looked the group of them over and sighed staring at eager, determined, frightened and excited faces, "You know who you remind me of?"

The cadets tilted their heads at him like a group of curios dogs.

"You remind me of Adam Vir, stubborn goofy dumbass that he was."

He sighed deeply.

"Alright, may the Architect have mercy on my soul." 

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