Interlude #2

Unknown planet

The stars that adorn the sky used to shine so brightly. But since a month ago, those stars are getting dimmer and darkening the once beautiful night sky. In a certain place under the dark sky stood a deserted forest. As usual, the sounds of sliding and mindless whispers are heard from the cursed forest, scaring off anyone near her.

Within the cursed forest, The sound of chanting echoes loudly in the dark hall. In its center, dozens of people wearing tribal dress stand in a circle, surrounding a crude wooden altar. They sing in an unknown language, repeating the whispering sounds in their mind

"What! What! K̨̨̯̯͖̩̤̩̙̠ͪͪ̚'á̺͒ͧ͊ͤ̑̑͠͠ ͇̥̯̥ͩ̉ͫͯͭS͚͘T̶̟̦ͦ̅ͩȇ͔͚̠̘̮̒̾͛̚L̷̷͍̥͚̮͍͔͍̥͚̮͍͔ͯͯ҉̥̥҉̥̥͙̠̳̯̐̑B̨̳̩̫͓̤ͫS̶͖̼̺͈̽ͤ͑ͧ̓N̉ͮͧ̆͌͐҉̝A͖̼̣ ̖͍̅ͤ͜ẻ͍̙̗H̯͗̔ͥŷ̞̯͗̊͗̔ͥ̚͘ŷ̞͗̊̚͘Oͭ̄͋҉͈̠ͭ̄͋҉͈̠͆̉̄̏̒ ̏͋̊Pḧ̭̺̍̚'͓̻̬̙̥͋ͮ̒̓͞͞H̞̦͈͉͎͉̞̦͈͉͎͉̼̙̭̹̩̣̰̟̪͇ͭ̒ͭ̒͒̋ͧ͡B͎͇̳-̛̒͊ͮ ̏̄̍̿Ñ̫̗ͭ̚W̠̦̯̓! ̴͆͋ ͉̣̗̟͙ͩn̤̘̣͚͓͎w̯͉̹̥̬̩! ̤̞̦̜ͬ͌ͪͥ̆ͬ ̟̰͙̭̒͛̈ͣ̑n̷w͙̳͔̣̺̦ͯ̐͒̽͊! ̴ "

Among the dark shadow, something began to stir. The sliding and screeching sounds grew louder and louder, as if they were getting closer. After a while those sounds suddenly stopped

"No Return"

They all stand in silence before the rough altar. No one said anything, until the silence was broken by a cracking noise above the altar. A blue portal materialized above the altar, showing nothing but black. A whisper of gibberish can be heard from within. Some of them were even kneeling and clutching their heads in pain. But, apart from them, everyone else stood in silence, waiting for their god to spawn.

Then she comes. A pale, white-clad child emerges from the portal. He walks slowly while catching them all with his red eyes. Then she stopped.

The mad rumbling that could be heard from the portal suddenly stopped, the various cultists clutching their heads heaved a sigh of relief, but not for long.

"Hello. Do you want to know?" said the creature with a small smile

"What?" One of the cultists stepped back "Did you…"

"Um?" She stepped closer to him. "Why are you surprised?" she stared at him with a curious look

"Sorry, you're… a little different from what I expected…. you are really cute!" he ignored his friends' incredulous looks, staring straight into her face.

"Thanks" she stepped forward, hugging him with her small figure, "Do you want to know?"

"Know what?" his hand patted her shoulder awkwardly

"Everything" Her hand reaches into his eye, as if to pluck it out. "Before that, let me fix your brains. It must be uncomfortable, isn't it, not to understand more?" Her pale hands stopped abruptly and jerked upward. Countless dark tentacles emerge from her shadow, sliding forward towards everyone. As if mesmerized, they all watch the approaching tentacles with unblinking eyes. No one even tried to do anything to escape those tentacles.

"There's no need to worry about anything. Just close your eye and everything will be fine..."

"Wait! Can you tell me what God wants? What can I get by praying to God?"

"What a good question! You see, he doesn't want worshiping, he just wants complete submission.

"Can you tell me…his will?" That cultist stepped forward and knelt before the cubs

"Don't worry, you'll know when I fix your brain!"

The tentacles that had been stopped suddenly moved towards them. And so everyone turns a blind eye. Holding their breath, they all wait to see what will happen...

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Q Continuum

Members of the Q Continuity were engaged in a debate in a certain chamber. The chamber saw many meetings as they discussed what to do with the coming disasters that would come straight to the center of the universe. They were stuck at a dead end, but as usual, they decided to try to point people in the 'right' direction.

That was until they felt it. A pulse of unknown powers began to spread through countless stars. This wave of power seems small enough to be imperceptible, but members of the species known as Q can hear a low scream among the stars as something alien begins to spread its influence.

Then the visions began. Everyone fell to their knees in pain, their minds trying to make sense of the strange visions. Countless eyes in their shadow, a black web of souls and giant tentacles crawling across the stars. After a while, their visions converge to a single point. A black giant sat on a throne of obsidian, with dozens of strange creatures kneeling around him.

All week Q had been discussing the meaning of those visions. It doesn't help that every attempt to see is a complete failure, as all I can see is a black giant sitting on an obsidian throne.

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Federation News Network

22.10.2330. 10:17 p.m

Written by: Jace Rocheford

Breaking news: The famous Vulcan physicist mysteriously went crazy

One of the best volcanic physicists, Sybok, mysteriously went crazy after strange claims made more than a month ago.

To recall, Sybok claimed for more than a month that his new energy detection machine had discovered a mysterious new energy that would revolutionize the scientific world. Sybok claimed that this energy had never been observed before and that it would help to understand the laws of physics.

Sybok's acquaintances claim that in the last 2 weeks he isolated himself from everyone and that he started speaking in a strange and unknown language. Before his admission to a mental institution for a suicide attempt, Sybok allegedly said quote "IT'S NOT LOGICAL, IT'S NOT LOGICAL", "WE ARE ALL WORTHLESS" and he mentioned according to witnesses that we live on a peaceful island of ignorance in the middle of the black seas of infinity and we were not meant to travel far.

Our sources from the mental institution where he was admitted say that Sybok descended into a screaming and crazy wreck of his former genius self.

We currently do not know what could have driven this genius scientist crazy, but we wish Sybok a speedy recovery and we will inform you about new developments related to these unfortunate events.

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Borg Cube 1111, Delta Quadrant

More than a month ago, a mysterious energy pulse crossed the galaxy. Small enough that most civilizations didn't even notice, let alone understand what it was all about.

The Borg were one of the few species that boasted enough technological know-how to capture and retain a small fraction of the unknown energy. Most drone and ship processors tried to decipher and understand the energy pulse. After more than a month of painstaking work and many mistakes, the energy is mostly deciphered.

Decrypting most of the energy and loading it into the ship's data, numerous anomalies and errors begin to appear.

{CORRUPTION}

{Err..lada...!..adf.%%%...Error...REBOOT}

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{Stability restored.}

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[CORRUPTION!KORUPA>>>>KORUPA>>>>KORUPA! ERROR 46%..ss.fa.s.f.v.faiil.....REBOOT! REBOOTOOOOTOTO!>

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[Function has been restored]

{CORRUPTION! UNKNOWN ERROR}}}

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.// WARNING: UNKNOWN ANOMALY DETECTED. TRANSDIMENSIONAL WARP/QUANTUM FILAMENT/HYPERSPACE INTERACTION OCCURRING WITHIN AN ACTIVE MEMORY STRUCTURE.

A sudden growth of flesh began to appear on some parts of the ship, accompanied by spatial anomalies.

The screens begin spewing out text in an anomalous language

{ELDRITCH TRUTH}

The Borg Queen urgently orders the destruction of the infected cube as more and more strange text begins to appear on the screens of the infected cube. The affected drones begin to show signs of mental degradation and violent insanity. There is a fear of infecting the rest of the Borg hive mind.

By the time the other Borg cubes had opened fire on the infected cube and destroyed it, all of the Borg cube 1111 drones had descended into a violent frenzy attacking everyone in sight.