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Necroepilogos, astrum - 6.10 (Patreon)

Published:
2023-06-22 15:03:13
Edited:
2023-06-24 19:32:07
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2026-09
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Zombies in the ruins, monsters to the rear, and fallen god beyond, waiting for its prophet. Here we go, final chapter of the arc. What can I say except good luck, Elpida? Well, I hope you enjoy this one, dear readers! I certainly did. And! There is a 50/50 chance of next week's chapter being an interlude, rather than straight on to arc 7. We'll see, I'm not 100% sure yet. Here we go ...

https://necroepilogos.net/2023/06/22/astrum-6-10/

Password is: exfiltration

Epub version of the chapter is also attached!

P.S. I'm writing this little postscript on Saturday, so several days after posting the chapter itself. I very rarely do this, but I've actually made some small edits to the chapter based on reader feedback. At least three readers mentioned that they were under the impression that Elpida was in shock during one of the pivotal moments of this chapter, that she was too shocked to move, etc. But that isn't what's happening. If it was just one reader, I'd probably chalk it up to personal interpretation, but three readers all with the same misapprehension means it's my fault. I'm afraid I may have been a little flowery with the prose there, so I've tightened up some lines and expanded others, to make it extra clear what's actually happening to Elpida during that moment, and spelled out the implications. This probably isn't of interest to many readers, but I thought I better mention it anyway, so it doesn't look like a retcon later on!

Comments

Tarmandan

The plot thickens even more. Is it next week yet?

HY

Haha, thank you! I wish I could launch right into the next chapter, right now, today, this very minute. I'm so excited for what's up next and I really hope everyone is going to enjoy it too.

Twi

Zombies to the left of me, monsters to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with youuuuuuuuuuu

HY

Hahaha, okay, that's not one I thought of. Hope you enjoyed the chapter, thank you!

Twi

I gotta reread and catch up first, but I'm sure I will!

HY

In that case, I hope you enjoy catching up!

Twi

I caught up! It was good! I read! IT was very good! Aaa I can hardly wait

HY

Hooray! Thank you so much, I'm really glad you enjoyed reading!

Tarmandan

Having slept over it all of my current theories are neither more nor less likely after the chapter. My main theory still is that only the dangerous "commander" got executed in the powerstruggle, as a concession to the covenanters. The Green already sounds like planet scale nanomachines, same self repairing ability as the current environment. Teliocopolis also sounds like the main core is some AI controlling nanomachines. So my theory continues that humanity seized and hacked the control units of the green and then took over the world again. They built the new orbital ring and so on and everything was great. Until Elpida's sisters, who had neither forgotten nor forgiven struck. Since they were the ones who helped seize the central AIs of the Silico in truth they had not hacked them but instead established contact, driven by revenge and desperation to get Elpida back. So suddenly they seize control over a big part of the world, creating the graveworms and tombs to start the attempt to bring Elpida back. Humanity of course is both scared by the loss of control as well as loss of resources and starts a war. That's how I explain the existence of the tombs before the end, since they seemed to be central battlegrounds in the before, otherwise they would not have abandoned fortifications around when the keep everything the way it is switch was flipped. With the implied capabilities the war probably was very short and very intense. And the necromancers are not truly alive but were created by the Silico AIs as mobile command units. They look like Elpida because the AIs tried their best to understand the complicated humans and to soothe them. Which is why the necromancer, the tomb AI and the graveworm could not really identify Elpida as the sucxessfultarget of resurrection, as they are all still AIs, alien to humanity in a way, the AI in the tomb more than the graveworm and necromancer. And they can't filter for "mech pilot" in the revival process because they somehow can't really peoperly grasp what it means so they are interested in Elpida because they are a) bored and b) gathering data to determinate whether to call to one of the real big shots aka Elpida's cadre to investigate. If I had written this on PC I would even have used paragraphs, but on phone I can't, so I do apologise for the wall of text

HY

Oh gosh! Ooooh I wish I could say more here, haha, but I don't want to tip my hand and reveal which parts of your theory may or may not be on the right track! I love this though, thank you for sharing all this theorizing! It's very exciting to see readers starting to figure out some of the possible connections between different narrative elements. Thank you! If that really was a Necromancer, we might be about to find out a little more about them. Maybe.