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Siphon, Ian and Vanessa stepped through the gate onto a planet that looked like it ought to have life. Well, it technically did, there were plenty of plants and trees around, a lush area to say the least, with a little bit of overgrowth onto the gate platform even. Still, this lush landscape held secrets, and they knew it. Something had happened here a few years ago, something had killed off every human life-form on the planet, and left only Cassie alive.
As they walked down the platform, Siphon let out a small sigh. Ian and Vanessa weren't going to like this one bit.
"Alright, I did a little digging back into the files on this planet, P1M-269 officially. When we first brought Cassie here, she said that the only thing she could firmly remember was that the children went to some wooded area about a mile from where the old village was. They all went there when they reached their 16th birthday, which they considered adulthood. Now in each case these children were sick when they left the village. All of them displayed strange signs, some displayed telekinesis but on a wider level than your own Ian. Some could melt things by looking at them, others seemed capable of telepathy. Now when I first read it, I thought maybe we had left something behind, that these kids were naturally evolving into something more advanced, much like we did ourselves. I figured, it had to be Lantean technology, or maybe even descendants here. Now maybe the Klarnell saw that and wiped them out rather than taking prisoners, perhaps they felt this was too big a threat to let mature. Then I read the back half of the file."
He paused a moment, mind sifting through things before continuing on.
"However, after coming into the forest, and remaining absent for three days, every single person returned. When they did, no trace of their super abilities, and they had no memory of even having them to begin with. Team 5 confirmed this shortly before whatever happened here went down. They weren't allowed to follow the children into the forest, but they did mark down the route they took to get to the tree line from afar. After some debate, the elders of the village allowed them to take samples of blood from a young child, one who's powers manifested, but before they went into the forest, and from those who returned seemingly 'cured' of their sickness. What we found was evidence that those who returned or had powers manifest had different DNA structures from those too young to have undergone it. We think that someone was messing around with their genetic structure. Sound familiar?"
Vanessa's eyes widened, and she shot a look to Ian.
"My god ... you think Nirrti had something to do with this, and these people being wiped out?"
Siphon nodded glumly.
"That's my theory right now. The Klarnell surely wouldn't do something like this, not their style. Another Ancient, maybe, but it sounds more like Nirrti. My guess is she realized we'd found it out, and terminated the experiment harshly so we wouldn't uncover more details. There is however one other small thing that intrigued me, and I wanted to wait until we were here before I mentioned it. I took the liberty of examining the sample of blood we took from Cassie when we first found her. Her DNA possesses advanced traits, but they aren't the same as the DNA patterns of the people who lived here. I don't think she was one of their kind at all, I think she arrived after whatever happened went down. Or, Nirrti left her alive for some reason and managed to strip her of her memories, but either way, she's not Maltaran. Interestingly enough, her DNA structure, though definitely somewhat different ... it's very similar to mine and Aya's. The others we examined here were more like the Ancients as a whole, but Cassie is much different. I'm not entirely sure what to make of it, but ... something tells me we may find some answers to all those questions here."
Siphon, Ian and Vanessa stepped through the gate onto a planet that looked like it ought to have life. Well, it technically did, there were plenty of plants and trees around, a lush area to say the least, with a little bit of overgrowth onto the gate platform even. Still, this lush landscape held secrets, and they knew it. Something had happened here a few years ago, something had killed off every human life-form on the planet, and left only Cassie alive.
As they walked down the platform, Siphon let out a small sigh. Ian and Vanessa weren't going to like this one bit.
"Alright, I did a little digging back into the files on this planet, P1M-269 officially. When we first brought Cassie here, she said that the only thing she could firmly remember was that the children went to some wooded area about a mile from where the old village was. They all went there when they reached their 16th birthday, which they considered adulthood. Now in each case these children were sick when they left the village. All of them displayed strange signs, some displayed telekinesis but on a wider level than your own Ian. Some could melt things by looking at them, others seemed capable of telepathy. Now when I first read it, I thought maybe we had left something behind, that these kids were naturally evolving into something more advanced, much like we did ourselves. I figured, it had to be Lantean technology, or maybe even descendants here. Now maybe the Klarnell saw that and wiped them out rather than taking prisoners, perhaps they felt this was too big a threat to let mature. Then I read the back half of the file."
He paused a moment, mind sifting through things before continuing on.
"However, after coming into the forest, and remaining absent for three days, every single person returned. When they did, no trace of their super abilities, and they had no memory of even having them to begin with. Team 5 confirmed this shortly before whatever happened here went down. They weren't allowed to follow the children into the forest, but they did mark down the route they took to get to the tree line from afar. After some debate, the elders of the village allowed them to take samples of blood from a young child, one who's powers manifested, but before they went into the forest, and from those who returned seemingly 'cured' of their sickness. What we found was evidence that those who returned or had powers manifest had different DNA structures from those too young to have undergone it. We think that someone was messing around with their genetic structure. Sound familiar?"
Vanessa's eyes widened, and she shot a look to Ian.
"My god ... you think Nirrti had something to do with this, and these people being wiped out?"
Siphon nodded glumly.
"That's my theory right now. The Klarnell surely wouldn't do something like this, not their style. Another Ancient, maybe, but it sounds more like Nirrti. My guess is she realized we'd found it out, and terminated the experiment harshly so we wouldn't uncover more details. There is however one other small thing that intrigued me, and I wanted to wait until we were here before I mentioned it. I took the liberty of examining the sample of blood we took from Cassie when we first found her. Her DNA possesses advanced traits, but they aren't the same as the DNA patterns of the people who lived here. I don't think she was one of their kind at all, I think she arrived after whatever happened went down. Or, Nirrti left her alive for some reason and managed to strip her of her memories, but either way, she's not Maltaran. Interestingly enough, her DNA structure, though definitely somewhat different ... it's very similar to mine and Aya's. The others we examined here were more like the Ancients as a whole, but Cassie is much different. I'm not entirely sure what to make of it, but ... something tells me we may find some answers to all those questions here."
