"Crossroads"

* Mia receives a transmission from Eliza, needing her on the bridge.
* Eliza shows a local map of the area upon the command table
* They are approaching The Crossroads, a dangerous area of space.
* It is a large section where time and space are nearly impossible to travel.
* Only Zultans knew how.
* It'd take 3 years to go around.
* Eliza is confident to find a route through, but strange things may happen.
* She figures that the precursors would have also known a way through and to ask Azaria.
* Party are called to bridge by Eliza so she can tell them of the Crossroads.
* Mia finds Azaria alone in his room and casts calming on him.
* He is already calm, so it does nothing.
* He's come to a state of apathy after realizing all his years of fighting has been for nothing.
* Mia doesn't order him, but she tells Azaria that if he wants to help, then do it.
* The ship enters the Crossroads and the ship shakes as if crashing as it enters a spatial distortion.
* The ship begins to violently rock and a few crew members are knocked to the ground.
* Mia suddenly sees someone running through the ship. (edited)
* She chases them before seeing a figure standing at the air lock (Kindreth)
* He begins attacking the air lock before Mia paralyzes him.
* His head turns and he says this is how he died, before vanishing.
* Mia approaches the door and notices scratches on the air lock.
* She asks anyone close by to come to the room.
* Dante rushes there and Iva slowly follows.
* Dante can also see the scratches.
* Mia informs Eliza.
* Eliza informs the ship about potential future/past people may attempt to harm the ship.
* Crew will need to stop them if possible,
* Plon is in Astrometrics, fiddling with the device.
* The screens and lights go off and the door seals shut.
* Plon goes to the door and attempts to open it.
* It slowly opens to reveal space.
* The air suddenly thins and Plon moves away.
* A shadowy figure is in the room and Plon flashes it.
* It's The Imperator (Harrison)
* He asks why Plon is here.
* Plon says they're just going to gamble.
* The Imperator doesn't believe him and opens the door further.
* Plon can hardly breathe and decides to play dead.
* It doesn't work and The Imperator tells Plon his lies will catch up to him.
* Harrison closes the door and vanishes, leaving Plon in the room with Splee playing on the screen.
* Plon decides to not tell anyone it happened, noting the air is still thin.
* Sirena notes the ship seems pitch black inside.
* There is a strange gray substance all over the bottom deck.
* She hears a voice call out for help, coming from the only light source.
* The light is from the Vehicle Bay.
* The substance seems to follow her but stops at the light.
* Sirena hears a whimpering from the vehicle bay and she opens the door.
* She finds a woman, cradling a dead body.
* It is Calli, saying they are coming.
* Sirena strikes out at Calli.
* She tells Calli to get off this ship.
* Calli tilts her head and says fine.
* The vehicle bay door opens, and Calli is sucked out of the ship.
* The vehicle is tied down, so doesn't move.
* Sirena is slowly pulled towards the opening.
* Franz and the others on the bridge are suddenly rocked.
* Franz attempts to stabilize the ship and succeeds.
* Sensors reveal they passed a strong spatial distortion.
* The distortions become worse and worse as they go.
* Things begin to break and explode, while crewmates are thrown about.
* Azaria suddenly runs into the room, offering help.
* As the ship begins to stabilize again, a new figure appears.
* It is an alien, wearing tech that is far too advanced.
* Azaria turns to see him and immediatley says it's not real.
* He accelerates, causing the crew to be pushed to the walls.
* The alien is simply grinning and vanishes as Azaria goes faster.
* Azaria slows to a halt.
* He asks if anyone has seen anything strange.
* Mia tells Azaria of Kindreth.
* The pair then head down to find Sirena.
* Franz runs a scan on the ship to find a life sign in the vehicle bay.
* Azaria and Mia head there.
* They find Sirena on the floor, short of breath. No evidence of the bay being opened.
* She informs them of what she saw.
* Azaria recognizes Calli.
* Mia takes Sirena to med bay for oxygen tanks.
* Sirena and Mia talk about what they've seen.
* Mia doesn't hold what Sirena did against her, regarding the cosmo knight stuff.
* Azaria tells the ship that he's plotted a safer course, but things may still happen.
* When Azaria starts the ship, explosions ring out.
* In the room Plons at, he's forced back as fires spread.
* He grabs a fire extinguisher and puts out the fires.
* Mia hears screams along the ship and goes to check.
* She sees the main Corridor on fire.
* She sees Dante, who grins and vanishes in a flash of purple.
* Putting out the fires, she runs forward to find Dante is gone.
* She asks over comms for Dante but can't find him.
* Scans reveal he's no longer on the ship.
* Sirena scans one final time, to find a life sign from outside the ship.
* It's Dante, he's found his old ship that he was mutinied from.
* The crew transport him back over so that Mia can give a medical scan.
* Scan reveal he's fine, but his mind is slightly altered from time distortions.
* Restoration has no effects.
* Azaria scans and sees that Dante and his past self have merged.
* Dantes motives have changed since he doesn't remember TASKFORCEs mission.
* Azaria drags Plon along to transport to Dantes ship.
* The ship is a shit heap, filled with empty bottles, but works fine.
* Find a room of treasures.
* Plon take a small amount, enough to not be noticed.
* Sprinkles some creds and gems under a bed to avoid suspicion.
* Mia rids Dante of STDs.
* Dante leaves on his own ship.
* Azaria asks over comms if Plon had anything strange happen.
* Plon says no.
* Azaria then tells the crew that his past seems to be coming up a lot.
* He intends to show them things with the Holo Deck.
* Mia and Iva talk, trying to sort things out.
* Iva feels she has no choice with things.
* Mia feels she does have a choice.
* Iva goes the Holo Deck.
* Mia gives Plon his locker.
* They head down to the Holo Deck
* Azaria boots up the Holo Deck and the party are transferred somewhere.
* AZARIAS HISTORY
* We start off, seeing where he was born.
* Precursors were dominant species.
* Genetically modified to be super beings.
* At cost of infertility.
* Project to avert Mass Extinction, creating Artificial Genome.
* 4 fetuses were created.
* Alpha, Gamma, Delta and Omega.
* Alpha = Azaria
* The 4 were all that were made with the genome.
* They were raised in the lab.
* As they got older, tutored by finest AI in the empire.
* Not allowed a Precursor name, so they chose their own.
* Azaria means Guardian
* Sister took name Sienna.
* Other sister took Uriel.
* His brother took the name Null, fought a lot with scientists.
* Siblings got along very well.
* Precursors were benevolent. Gave massive tech boosts to everyone who joined.
* They only conquered one world. Titan.
* Dropped their peaceful ways to take Titan.
* Reason is for the Continuence powers that Titan had.
* Titan obliged and gave up their power.
* The powers were decided to be given to the future of Precursor kind, the 4 children.
* Sirena asks about how many Continuence their are.
* Azaria says there is 10.
* Azaria Perserverance: Amplifies his primary trait (I.E. STR/DEX/CON etc.)
* Sienna Convergence: Amplifies Control. (Half of Vysagoths)
* Uriel Incoherence: Amplifies imagination and makes thoughts reality.
* Null Malignance: Amplifies offensive abilities, but makes insane over time.
* Each of the children were heavily experimented on.
* They were locked away for 50 years.
* People who had powers before children were called Guardians of Titan
* Hiroshi was the man who had Azarias power before him. Could see the future.
* Holograms change to show Azaria at work.
* Azaria could learn fast and accelerated through education.
* He was fixated on the science of everything, building and creating.
* He created the first Temporal Core, being the first man to make Time Travel.
* He placed rules in place to stop abuse.
* He couldn't stop there though, and cracked dimensional theory.
* He created a method of Dimensional Travel, but was stopped.
* Azaria eventually got drafted.
* Precursor homeworld was destroyed in attempts to advance selves.
* New world, EDEN, was an artificial world they lived on now.
* Azaria worked on defensive technology.
* High Council wanted a way to police the empire and ensure others don't leave.
* Null was the one who was brought on to help him.
* Null is the same being who appeared on the ship during Time Distortions.
* Azaria and Null created Nova Arrays, stations that could police the Empire.
* They're equipped with powerful weapons that could destroy species.
* It could also copy genetics of species to seed planets and bring it back if so.
* He went further however, and created The Etherium Engine.
* A device at the center of the galaxy, that could weaponize thought.
* He DNA locked the device to his own being, allowing it to not be used.
* Null never turns his Continuence off.
* Plon asks about the drawbacks of the Continuence.
* Azarias forces his body to move in defence of others, without his thought.
* Precursors had comfort in being the strongest and never worried.
* Then they heard it. The screams at the edge of the galaxy.
* Stars went out, planets vanished and scout teams went quiet.
* Went the scouts returned, their ship had the grey material.
* Both biological and technological, it wanted to destroy all living things.
* The scout team were warped into creatures who Precursors couldn't kill.
* The Precursor Empire, once so assured of their strength, lost it.
* Precursors became warped and wanted the destruction of this being, no matter what.
* They lured the Geist into primitive people while the Precursors tried to learn how to fight it.
* Nothing Precursors did would work as Geist absorbed everything.
* Eventually, they learnt how to repel and delay them, but it didn't last.
* Azaria finally found himself at the top, with the High Council.
* 4 seats, 3 filled.
* Kharina, Magister Red: Military.
* Morkath, Magister Grey: Infrastructure.
* Azaria, Magister Blue: Sciene
* Vysagoth, Magister White: Rule
* Vysagoth took a Continuence for himself, Convergence.
* Convergence: Absolute Charisma. Convinced people that whatever he said was right.
* Only people it didn't work on were other Continuence users.
* Empire are taking many losses from Geist war.
* Vysagoth has a solution; Reset
* He proposes they use all of Azarias devices to tear open reality until it collapses.
* They would be at the center and become thought itself, like Primordials of old. Gods.
* The Final Solution.
* Azaria thinks it would be foolish and such a thing wont work.
* Put to a vote, they all wish for it except Azaria.
* Azaria can't accept it and Vysagoth will not have treason.
* If Azaria steps outside that door, he will be a traitor.
* Azaria leaves.
* Vysagoth was so worried about his lack of immortality, he took a successor; Sienna.
* He gave half of his convergence to her.
* Sienna left to become a guardian and had a child.
* She passed on her Convergence to her child; Kiara.
* Geist are a hivemind that want to destroy life.
* Azaria was now between two races who wanted to stop him.
* While the methodology of The Final Solution was insane, he believed it could still be edited to work.
* If he wiped out every species, but used his arrays to re seed the planets, they could win.
* He travelled to The Etherium Engine. Ready to wipe the slate clean.
* Sienna tried to stop him, but got her into a temporal pod so she'd survive.
* He gave the Nova Arrays a year delay to re seed planets, and then activated the engine.
* In a second, every sentient being, every construct, gone.
* From that moment, he swore he'd dedicate his life to protecting others.
* Franz claims Azaria is the worst person he's ever met.
* Azaria agrees.
* The Holo Deck shows the final scene, Azaria on a table, being experimented on.
* He'd landed on earth, and the humans there took him in.
* Radiation was killing Azaria, before he regenerated.
* He set his regeneration into becoming a human, so that he wouldn't be out of place.
* Humans kept him locked up.
* 60 years passed by and Azaria earnt their trust.
* He began to build an FTL drive to leave, but it was too primitive.
* He poisoned himself with radiation and was ready to let himself die.
* The general who found him originally found Azaria and convinced him to be the change.
* Azaria would be the change humanity needed, to show them the stars.
* Azaria regenerated and became the one who'd push Humanity to the stars.
* He truly believed he'd finally given life a chance.
* Mia wonders if Azaria could use his Dimensional Travel method could work.
* Potential to send Geist to a new Dimension.
* Sirena worries the Geist could go for The Etherium Engine.
* Azaria suddenly remembers The Continuence called Clairvoyance: Path To Victory.
* It allowed someone to achieve anything if they could do it. It set their path.
* It also allowed one to see into the future and use it to help.
* Franz thinks what Azaria did was wrong.
* Sirena asks what happens when The Continuence are brought together.
* He believes that it could make one into a god.
* Simulation ends.
* Plan is to deal with CARNAGE for now, then take on Geist.
* Plon believes that they could use Azarias Dimensional Travel to win.
* He tells Azaria to give up his Convergence to someone else, it might help.
* Azaria says that a small spherical device has recordings of Dimensional Knowledge
* Azaria might be able to reach out to Ingrid in CARNAGE to make them aware of Geist.
* Plon thinks Azaria is very dumb despite his heightened intelligence.
* Azaria is confused on how no one remembers Ingrid.
* Franz believes she has a Continuence.
* Franz is unhappy with Azaria and leaves.
* Plon follows him, happy with planting the idea of giving up his Continuence.
* Azaria believes the Queen of Titan might have a Continuence still.
* There is also a warrior, shrouded in green, who wonders the galaxy.
* Mia, when alone with Azaria, aplogizes for guilt tripping him earlier.
* Azaria was happy it happened, because it broke him from his rut.
* Mia once again offers to be a therapist for Azaria.
* Azaria believes Franz was right to act the way he did.
* Mia and Franz meet in the Med Bay.
* Franz brings up his drug usage, Zero.
* Franz claims that he needs it to function, especially in combat.
* Mia disagrees.
* Franz says he only has one dose left. He doesn't want the withdrawls.
* He doesn't want it to happen in the field, potentially ruining things.
* He asks if Mia could make Zero or find a substitute.
* She says no, a drug creation kit is needed.
* Mia can nullify the drug withdrawls for now, but does not condone his usage.
* She offers to help Detox, but will need his last shot of Zero.
* Franz reluctantly hands it over.
* Mia eventually removes the effects of the drug, keeping only its addiction.
* Franz removes some armour, to show a scar across his left arm.
* He asks Mia if she can diagnose it and pain it causes.
* Mia doesn't understand how the scar is there. It seems generated.
* Franz says it's been growing.
* Franz mentions he only noticed it after he got his Continuence.
* The only thing Mia can note is that when touching it, it feels like she's been set on fire.
* She remembers Crookshanks having his body covered in the same scar.
* Mia thinks she can amplify some permanent nerve damage in his arm to stop the pain.
* He'll be able to use his arm, but it'll be strange since there's no feeling.
* Mia will need time to do it properly.