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Possession Implies Mastery: Generally averted, as the very large pile of incomprehensible elder-race artifacts sitting around in museums and the vaults of companies like Probable Technologies, ICC would demonstrate. Some of them have been there for centuries, or even millennia, and are still no closer to being understood. Played straighter
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The Plague: In the ancient pre-Imperial past on Eliéra, the Gray Contagion, a wasting disease with the same sort of morbidity and mortality as the Black Death. It was responsible for one of the two great prehistoric population diebacks there (the one not caused by the astrobleme/ensuing Winter of
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Our Dragons Are Different: Inasmuch as the eldraeic mythological aman (“dragon”) was – if you believe “certain not-entirely-accepted parahistorical theories” – imagined in the image of the local Precursors, as were a number of other similar-looking mythologae of the known galaxy. What’s known about them is that they were about the