The Queen could not use her Harbingers against them-if she did, Imogen Rife and her fleet and all the people of Pallas would have been killed as well.įor years the siege endured. Under Skolas' vassal Pirsis, called Pallas-Bane, the Wolves amassed the largest Wolf fleet that had been seen since the Scatter. As a reward for his service, the Queen bequeathed him Rife's place among the Seven Paladins. Hallam Fen brought Drevis to Vesta, years after Imogen Rife had set out to do so. Then the combined forces of Commander Fen, Paladin Leona Bryl and Paladin Kamala Rior slammed, capturing Pirsis, Pallas-Bane and driving the rest of the Wolves off. It worked-the false Harbingers so scared the Wolf fleet that they broke ranks. Working with the Techeuns and the Crows, they created an enormous visual illusion of the Harbingers, making it seem as if the Queen had finally decided to cut her losses and destroy the asteroid. Paladin Rife destroyed Kaliks-4 to prevent the Wolves from recovering it, and eventually the Wolves were forced back-but not before Pirsis slew Paladin Rife with her own blade.įinally, Commander Hallam Fen, Imogen Rife's protégé, was able to establish a line of communication with the rest of the Reef. Pirsis might have escaped, but she refused to retreat without Drevis. Pirsis' strike team managed to free Kaliks-4, but Paladin Imogen Rife cut them off outside Drevis' cell. This time Pirsis, the Bane of Pallas herself led another strike, blasting through the same Athens Hull breach that Weksis had weakened in his assault. ![]() Weksis' attack may have been unsuccessful, but it inspired another, deadlier assault. The fight became known as the Fortuna Plummet, as are, on occasion, the remains of Fortuna and Tinette as well.Īfter the Fortuna Plummet, one of Prince Uldren's Crows returned with a message from a Fallen, by the name of Variks of the House of Judgment. Beltrik was easily captured in the ensuing chaos, and brought swiftly to the Queen. Carybdis caught asteroid Tinette in its beam and flung it into Fortuna, destroying both and severely damaging Beltrik's fleet. But in secret, Abra deployed her second fleet with a weapon the Reef had been working on since Bamberga: Carybdis, a gravity weapon strong enough to knock asteroids off course. She separated her forces in two, and engaged Beltrik's veil with what he thought was her entire host. He believed that Paladin Zire would attack the screen and destroy her fleet against the shield wall.īut Abra Zire's fury over the Battle of False Tidings had chilled over the years into an icy, clever resolve. His ships landed on Fortuna one at a time, the rest forming a defensive screen around its surface. STATUS: Escaped from the Prison of Elders AT LARGEįinally, Beltrik, the Veiled left the Hildians and massed his fleet at Fortuna, to replenish his ketches' Ether from the organic compounds found on the asteroid's surface. There, new claimants to the Kellship quickly arose: Irxis, Wolf Baroness Parixas, the Howling and Skolas, the Rabid. The remaining Wolves scattered, burrowing deep into the Belt for cover. Her Harbingers ripped into Ceres, destroying the asteroid and killing Virixas, Kell of Wolves and more than half his House. The Queen's decision was this: attack the House of Wolves, thereby saving Earth but revealing the Reef's presence to any and all enemies in the quadrant or remain silent, preserving the Reef's invisibility but allowing the City to perish. Seemingly oblivious to our existence, the bulk of the Wolf fleet stopped to regroup at Ceres. As soon as we saw them it was clear that if the Wolves reached Earth, the City would fall. Their army was hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions strong: a dark wave that washed over the Reef, rushing toward the Earth. We thought we would be able to do nothing but watch.īut then the Wolves arrived from the Jovians. ![]() We had no interplanetary arrays-no way to warn Earth. Tactics suggested they were planning a massive attack. ![]() Then the Techeuns looked Earthward-and saw the Fallen there becoming bolder. That was a thing that had never happened before. ![]() Lacking, at the time, the ability to crack Fallen encryptions, the Master of Crows could discern only that the Fallen Houses were all talking to each other. The transmission was broadcasted on all Fallen frequencies. STATUS: Unknown, Unconfirmed INTEL REQUIRED
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