Sylvan Prime

Occurs in

1. Sylvan's Nexus

Beacon Description: Location of Sylvan Prime, your only chance of escape.

*Having been directed here as the supposed location of Sylvan Prime, you find yourself face to face with nothing but the stary abyss. It dawns upon you that, should you choose this moment to leave, there's likely no turning back. If you want to explore the Nexus further, here's your chance.*

1. Stay a bit longer.
	* Nothing happens, you can jump and explore the Nexus further.
2. (Only appears if you haven't met Her) You feel as though you should keep exploring.
	* Invalid option
3. (Only appears if you have met Her) We're ready.
	* Meet Sylvan Prime

## Meet Sylvan Prime

* *Suddenly, behind you appears a massive cruiser vessel, bigger and perhaps better armed than any ship you've ever seen before. A large compartment opens to reveal a docking port, and it seems obvious you should dock. That is, unless you'd like to be annihilated on the spot for refusing this hospitality.*
	1. Dock
		+ *As you exit your ship, you find yourself in a brightly lit lobby full of glistening marble fountains and gigantic statues. Three armored Slugs approach and bow to you. "Greetingssss, ssstranger. Hisss royal divinity, sssir Sssylvan Hektar Prime, has requesssted you attend hisss councccil immediately. While we are certain you will comply, it is my adviccce that you do not facccce the impending vaporizzzation of attempting to flee."*
			1. Go with them to see Prime.
				- *The Slugs march you into an even larger and grander room, with ceilings so high you're certain they defy the possible limits of the ship's size. An angelic choir fills the room as a compartment opens above you, and from the blinding white space above two rings descend in your direction. You watch in awe as a Slug is revealed between them, arms outstretched, a majestic light cast upon him. Still hovering above you, he claps and the guards leave the room.

				"And ssso we meet at lassst, ssstranger. My congratulationsss, on sssurviving until now. I think your effortsss mossst cccertainly dessserve to be repaid. Would you like some tea?" Without even waiting for a response, a white triangular drone enters the room ferrying small cups already full. Prime doesn't take one himself, instead finally descending all the way to the ground. "I do hope my accomplicccesss have been treating you well - and that you've been treating them well in return." Prime turns away from you and floats towards a window facing out into the abyss.

				"Do you sssee thissss, ssstranger? The vasssstnesss of the abyssss? We're at the very ccccenter of the Multiverssse right now. The cccenter of Everything. The cccenter of Anything. Had you asssked me, oh so many yearsss ago, if I would ever sssit here, god amongssst all othersss, well... I think it'sss pointlesss to ssssay I wouldn't have believed it. Ssso tell me, ssstranger. What do you think of it all? If you've done your homework, by now sssurely you've gathered what it isss we do here. I already underssstand that I have been betrayed by multiple of my cooperatives. But what do YOU think?"*
					1. You're despicable, controlling the entire Multiverse like this.
						* *"And ssso another one sssimply failsss to underssstand... failsss to underssstand the fundamental truth. Ssstranger, do you not sssee? I am not the firssst to fill thisss role. And I will not be the lassst, I am certain. For eons, sssinccce perhapsss the beginning of time, there have been a multitude of empiresss that have ruled the Nexusss. The desecrated wasssstesss of whatever they onccce were, burdened by the cruel handsss of time, provide the lassst memoiresss of forgotten puppetmasssterss."

						"The Multiversssse issss infinite, ssstranger. And infinite isss a very unssstable thing. The Multiverssse cannot sssussstain itssself without the hands of ssssomeone willing to carry the burden of maintaining it. It isss a thanklesss job. It is a grueling, horrible job. If only you knew, ssstranger, how much I wisssh I could go back to the old daysss when I wasss jussst a merchant. When I didn't have to play god for the sake of the life of every sssentient being in all of exissstenccce. But I can't go back. I don't asssk for your acccceptanccce, nor your pity. I only asssk you underssstand that what I mussst do issss simply what I mussst do. For better, or for worssse. It is the only choiccce in thisss matter."*
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					2. You're an egomaniac and a mass murderer on a scale unlike anyone else.
						* *"An egomaniac, sssure, I can concccede to that. But, a masss murderer? Ssstranger, many have died becausssse of me, I will not lie. But I do not murder. The cataclysssmssss that befall the realitiesss I contain did not happen becaussse of me, they happened in ssspite of me. Quarantinesss might condemn many to die, but they prevent the inevitable sssspread of disssasssterss that would kill many more. It isss the choiccce between two evilsss, but it isss my unfortunate job to make the call to sssacrificcce a comparative few to sssave the infinite many."

						Prime sighs and hangs his head. "The Multiversssse issss infinite, ssstranger. And infinite isss a very unssstable thing. The Multiverssse cannot sssussstain itssself without the hands of ssssomeone willing to carry the burden of maintaining it. It isss a thanklesss job. It is a grueling, horrible job. If only you knew, ssstranger, how much I wisssh I could go back to the old daysss when I wasss jussst a merchant. When I didn't have to play god for the sake of the life of every sssentient being in all of exissstenccce. But I can't go back. I don't asssk for your acccceptanccce, nor your pity. I only asssk you underssstand that what I mussst do issss simply what I mussst do. For better, or for worssse. It is the only choiccce in thisss matter."*
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					3. You're doing what has to be done. I can't fault you for that.
						* *"An unexpected resssponssse to be cccertain, ssstranger. I... I do not know if you are being truthful with me, or merely trying to avoid the inevitable. But... well sssometimesss I can fault myssself. Thisss job comesss with no inssstructionsss, no guidanccce. I can only do what I think isss right, but if what I think isss right isssn't good, then god help usss all..."

						"The Multiversssse issss infinite, ssstranger. And infinite isss a very unssstable thing. The Multiverssse cannot sssussstain itssself without the hands of ssssomeone willing to carry the burden of maintaining it. It isss a thanklesss job. It is a grueling, horrible job. If only you knew, ssstranger, how much I wisssh I could go back to the old daysss when I wasss jussst a merchant. When I didn't have to play god for the sake of the life of every sssentient being in all of exissstenccce. But I can't go back. I don't asssk for your acccceptanccce, nor your pity. I only asssk you underssstand that what I mussst do issss simply what I mussst do. For better, or for worssse. It is the only choiccce in thisss matter."*
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## Ask Sylvan Prime something

* *"Well, maybe there wasss a choiccce onccce, ssstranger. But thossse daysss are long gone now. But, enough of thissss. We have busssinesss to attend to, but I'm afraid I have been a mosssst terrible hossst. I can only imagine you are overwhelmed with information, but I will grant you one final chanccce to underssstand. To underssstand anything. It won't matter sssoon, anywaysss."*
	1. (Obyn) "Where is your Obyn? Obyn Prime, I assume."
		+ *Prime pauses, taken off-guard. "Well... uhm... Hello, Obyn. It hasss been... it hassss been ssso long sssince I have seen my Obyn. That sssoundsss rather posssesssive, don't you think? MY Obyn. But... well... he isss no longer with me. And - do not asssume the worssst. I would never hurt him. We sssimply had a... disssagreement. One which I could never quite patch, and ssso we went our sssseparate waysss. I would prefer not to dissscusss it further."*
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	2. (Billy) "WHAT IN THE GOD DAMN ISSSS HAPPENING?!"
		+ *"Oh, Billy... my brother, it hasss been ssso long sssince I have ssseen a verssssion of you." Billy seems to be on the verge of a panic attack. "YOU ARE NOT MY BROTHER! MY BROTHER DOESSSSN'T WEAR A TOGA, AND FLY AROUND IN SSSSOME SSSSPINNY RINGSSS! HOW DARE YOU CLAIM TO BE MY BROTHER, TO SSSSPIT ON HISSS NAME, TO... to... to..."

		Prime seems genuinely upset. "Billy, I am not your brother. I am a verssssion of your brother, yessss. But I am not the versssion you know, nor do I claim to be. We lived different livessss in completely different ssstretchessss of ssspace and time. I know thisss mussst be bizarre, and painful, and truly incomprehenssssible. But that isss what the Multiverssse isss. It issss infinite, and in infinity anything can happen. Try not to think too hard about it, okay? I don't think it'll matter for much longer anywayssss..."*
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	3. What IS the Nexus really?
		+ *"Hard for me to sssay, ssstranger. The Nexussss isss sssomething I don't think any of usss quite undersstand, excccept of courssse for... er... nevermind. From what I wassss taught by the onesss who helped me find thisss placcce, the Nexussss ssservesss asss a sssort of tunnel between realitiesss, located in what you could call the cccenter of the Multiverssse. How it got here, I have no idea. The ssstarsss and planetsss ssseem to be artificccial, or perhapsss brought here by passst empiresss. Persssonally I try not to think about it too much, it givessss me nightmaresss."*
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	4. Why has no one heard of this place?
		+ *"Ssssome have. Long ago, when I gained power, the realitiessss who had been incorporated into the previoussss empire sssent ambasssadorsss to me to negotiate peaccce. Thossse like G-Van, and Dylan, and... well I'm not quite sssure who you've met yet, but they all come from very different and advanccced clusssterss, ssstranger. But outsssside of that? We've been very careful to keep thisss all a sssecret. It isss crucccial thisss never leaksss. Every onccce and a while we get a Pirate, a Rebel, a Renegade, but they usssually don't make it very far. I have to congratulate you on sssurviving for ssso long, though I dread to imagine how you managed."*
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	5. How come you've never intervened in the war? You have all the power to stop it!
		+ *"Ssstranger, you do realize what we are dealing with here, yesss? I have an endlesss number of realitiesss to watch over, countlessss numbersss of reality destroying cataclysssmss to watch over. Thissss isss why we've sworn to an oath of neutrality, in all waysss we can try to enforccce it. We Ssssylvansss could change the courssse of hissstory in every reality for the better... but we could alsssso change it for the worssse. Thisss iss the only way to make sssure we don't become the thingssss we work so hard to prevent. Thissss Multiverssse needsss Order, not Chaos. We have no time to handle futile warsss in every reality, no matter how bad they have become. Ssso long asss they do not threaten reality, then it issss not our placcce to intervene."*
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	6. Can you help this can of beans? [Only occurs if the player has **Beans** as a crew member]
		+ *"I uh... what? Sssylvrick, isss that you?"
		The can of beans grunts in acknowledgement. "Yesss, jussst get me out of here already."
		Prime sighs. "God damn it, you promisssed to ssstop it with thessse absssurd... oh whatever. It doesssn't matter right now."*
			- (You lose a crew member - **Beans**)
				* (You gain a crew member - **Sylrick**)
	7. We have no further questions.
		+ *"Oh... ssso... I guesss we're done here then. I wisssh we had taken longer, but I sssuppossse we cannot ssstall any longer, ssstranger. I'm sssure you've prepared yourssself for what happensss next, but I want to try and make an offer. I know it may sssseem feeble, but if you want to ssskip the bloodsshed, perhapsss there'sss a sssolution yet. All I care about isss preventing you from leaking the exissstenccce of thisss placccce. While I cannot entrussst you to keep the sssecret on your own, perhapsss... we could sssimply erassse your memoriesss. You wouldn't die, just ssssimply forget everything. I know it ssssoundsss unnegotiable, but consssider the alternative. I don't want to kill you if I don't have to, and sssurely you don't wisssh to die, sssstranger.*
			1. The only way out of this is for us to fight.
				- *"Asss I unfortunately sssussspected. Well, alright. I'm sssorry it hasss to be thisss way ssstranger. Goodbye."

				As Prime's hulking ship lurks closer, you shut your eyes and pray for help to come. But help isn't coming. You're all on your own for this fight.* [If you did not spare Sylvan and/or have more than 3 nexus notoriety.]
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				- *"Asss I unfortunately sssussspected. Well, alright. I'm sssorry it hasss to be thisss way ssstranger. Goodbye."

				However, as Prime's hulking ship lurks closer, a salvo of lasers erupts from behind you, pattering against Prime's shield! A familiar ship jumps in... it's Sylvan - your Sylvan! "Ssstranger, the cavalry hasss arrived!" There's no more time for words to be exchanged, you have to fight! For as long as Prime's defense drone stays active, you aren't sure how effective Sylvan will be, but if you can take it down you might just stand a chance!* [If you spared Sylvan and have 3 or less nexus notoriety.]
					* (A 14 second timer at the top of the screen spawns, showing how long you have until you can request Sylvan's help.)
					* (A Button spawns below the item toggle button, which allows you to summon Sylvan's 12 shot support volley when available)
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			2. Accept the compromise.
				- *"Really? Well, I'm ssssurprisssed, but I'm glad there doesssn't need to be more bloodssshed today. I'm ssssorry it hasss to be thisss way, ssstranger, but you ssseem to underssstand. No offenssse, but I hope we never meet again."*
					* The game ends as a loss.

## Request help from Sylvan

When you click the support button, Sylvan will unleash a 12 shot volley as a power surge from your ship (similar to phase 3 of the MV Flagship). The shots are randomized each time, and are pulled from the following lists:

1. 2 shots from a Normal Sylvan Mod Laser
2. 2 shots from a Normal Sylvan Mod Laser
3. 2 shots from a Normal Sylvan Mod Laser
4. 2 shots from a Challenge Sylvan Mod Laser
5. 2 shots from a Challenge Sylvan Mod Laser
6. 2 shots from a Challenge Sylvan Mod Laser

A Normal Sylvan Mod Laser can be any one of the following:

* Fire Laser
* Fire + Stun Laser
* Fire + Lockdown Laser
* Hull Laser
* Hull + Stun Laser
* Hull + Lockdown Laser

A Challenge Sylvan Mod Laser can be any one of the following:

* Cooldown Laser
* Fire + Cooldown Laser
* Hull + Cooldown Laser

## After Defeating Sylvan Prime

**(Reducing Prime to 3 Hull or 1 Crew will trigger a forced surrender)**

The C.E.L Cruisers will be unlocked immediately when the surrender message appears.

Normally, you can choose to either "Spare Prime" or "Disable the Rings", and the ending will vary based on the option you choose and the notoriety you have gained in the Nexus.

If you possess a certain chaotic entity on board your ship, you do not get to choose from the above options, but instead will be forced into a specific outcome depending on your notoriety.

For more detail on these endings read here.