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The Embryonic Hyperparasitoid of Xshor.
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An Address to Humanity, From the In-Human Presented by Hidden-Wings-Burning and Silver-Moth-Dust of the Sophont Studies Collective |
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 ⠀ We are Xshor. ⠀ We are your "plague-born". Your "infected". Your "corruptors". Your "soul-stealers". ⠀ We are your neighbours. Forced by circumstance upon this planet, as you have been millions of years prior. ⠀ We have both suffered from each other's presence for far too long. But our coexistence need not be so fraught. ⠀ We believe that our planet has room enough for us both, if only we can see each other clearly, unshrouded. ⠀ We offer to you our stories, our visions, our world, in the name of lifting our shroud. ⠀ We are Xshorians. We are a new people upon this world. ⠀ And we have so much to tell you. |
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Introduction
Nestled within the polar seas of northeastern Errah, on the opposite side of the planet from humanity's last bastion in the land of Shajās, is the continent once known to you as Hvëarn - what our kind know as the All-Hive's-Cradle, home and birthplace of Xshor. This name can mean several things to us, though ultimately they all converge into one - "Collective", "Ingroup", "Totality", "Kin", "Us"; the geopolitical entity with sovereignty over the Cradle, the culture & society that arose within its settlements, the biologically distinct half-human post-human race that inhabits it. All of these are Xshor, and functionally they are all the same - they live and die with each other, so far as our history has been concerned. ⠀ This history has long been marked by opposition with humanity at large. Our emergence alone sparked a greater wave of bloodshed than any war between humans in preceding times, and in those early years of our existence we have preyed upon your kind, been exterminated almost to completion, and when the dust settled we rose out from the emptied corpse of your greatest nation to establish ourselves in a wasteland of our own making. But it is from humanity, at least in part, that Xshor originates. The precise nature of the other part remains a mystery even now, but what is known is that it took up residence in human bodies - that before its violent, rapid spread in what became known worldwide as the "First Plague War", it found its first dwellings in miners under the Hvëarner Federation, who unearthed it to be industrially exploited for the country they served. It was then, too, that the denial of humanity in Xshor's forerunners began, as these people, once unequivocally human, became changed by exposure to this new presence, increasingly cast aside as their "strangeness" mounted. Whether the subsequent conflict could more appropriately be called an outbreak of disease or an uprising of a desperate underclass... we of Xshor tend to lean one way, and perhaps humans might tend towards another. Regardless, once it eventually became mutually clear that there were two distinct entities, their coexistence on Errah has been marked by a level of violence unlike anything in preceding human history. ⠀ Yet while we may find it convenient to paint ourselves as your misunderstood kin, born from victims of human ostracism and prejudice, such would be a disservice to creating an honest image of our existence together, of what must be overcome and reconciled. In our blind hunger upon emerging from the proverbial womb, we have slaughtered, terrorised, and devoured your people throughout this continent and beyond. And in the name of bringing the "Second Plague War" to a close, millions upon millions of humans were lost to a reckless stroke of slaughter. These are facts of history that may never be undone, or perhaps forgiven. Our aim is only to build towards a future in which such horrors need not be reinflicted, in which we acknowledge our sins and see each other's souls before snuffing them out. ⠀ In progress... ⠀ |
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About the Authors
Hidden-Wings-Burning Main article: Hidden-Wings-Burning (placeholder) ⠀ A prolific and somewhat controversial historian over the past 20 years, and a founding member of the SSC leadership, Hidden-Wings-Burning has been among the most prominent voices in Xshor for peace and rapprochement in the postwar age. [...] ⠀ In progress... |
Silver-Moth-Dust Main article: Silver-Moth-Dust (placeholder) ⠀ An emergent pioneer in the field of differential linguistics, Silver-Moth-Dust has been substantially involved in many of the recent advances in facilitating translation of Xshorian thought-signals into the syntactic frameworks of phylaxic sophont languages. [...] ⠀ In progress... |
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cute, isn't it. |
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What do you mean? |
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this is what they've been working on all this time. |
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And you have something that is. |
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all this, it's for them to see. not for us. |
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...That's - right. I do. |
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you're going to want to know us. |
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