Chapter 77

***This article contains spoilers.***

## Highlights

* Using Irillith eyes, Alyssa projects Tashana's memories of Valada's message, warning about Progenitors to the future generations of Maliri. She is shown to have had telepathy and debilitating migraines.
* The Drakkar raiders start acting atypical by immediately leaving Ashanath territory after eating the crews. The Ashanath are being systematically weakened in preparation for a major invasion of Ashana.
* Several hundred Onyxium-plated Drakkar warships invade Ashanath territory, headed for Ashana. The Ashanath sacrifice ships and deploy mines as a delaying tactic until JohnBlake can come to the rescue. The mines devastate the Drakkar fleet, but don't stop them. Ularean tells JohnBlake they've made "preparations."

## Notes

### Minor Characters

* Vekrok—Drakkar Grand Overlord. His dreadnought is the Defiler. United the clans with the help of The Dark One.
* Itigrut—Previous Grand Overlord who was betrayed by allies.
* Grukig—Vekrok's second-in-command.
* Okug—Drakkar Overlord. Deceased. He was a popular, strong warrior who was eliminated by the Dark One as a potential challenger for Vekrok.
* The Dark One—Guided Vekrok through victories and supplied him Onyxium.
* Ularean—Ashanath Senior Councillor. Believes they should place full trust in JohnBlake, rather than the current pretence of an alliance. Voted to unleash the Legacy.
* Bimarni—Ashanath High Councillor. Believes asking JohnBlake for help could result in enslavement. Voted to unleash the Legacy.
* Rathus—Ashanath High Councillor. Voted to unleash the Legacy.
* Camiri—Ashanath Leader. Female. Commander of a cruiser that was sacrificed to delay the Drakkar from arriving at Ashana.
* Zinareus—Engineer on Camiri's cruiser.
* Barthean—Ashanath Leader. Female. Her Ashanath destroyer is one of the scores of hidden Ashanath ships watching events unfold with the Drakkar. Female.

### Miscellaneous

* If John's father is Mael'nerak, that would make him a great-grand-niece-fucker.
* Tashana can't remember her time in the Unclaimed Wastes, but sometimes she gets scared of things without knowing why. She's also skilled with dual pistols. Alyssa tells her she was in combat in the Unclaimed Wastes, but avoids details.
* Alyssa considers new names for the Maliri Regency: Maliri Protectorate, or Maliri Kingdom.
* While they were in Maliri space, they were invited to an award ceremony on Terra for saving Terra and for the victory against the Kintark in the Battle of Regulus.
* Drakkar keep getting delayed by sacrificed Ashanath ships throwing them into gravity wells, preventing hyper-warp. Meanwhile, the Ashanath lay mines.
* Rachel plans to link autopsy results to the targeting HUD. For example: If she's identified vulnerable areas in a creature, like the locations of a Drakkar’s two hearts, they will appear highlighted in an overlay on any Drakkar looked at.
* Faye installs the new Sonic Cannons for internal defense.
* The Raptor has a dedicated Progenitor power core, so it's possible to mount Dana's new Photon Lasers, which would double its firepower.
* Gaenna sends Edraele 150 engineers for refits. The matriarchs are still getting used to the idea of thinking of the Maliri as unified, e.g. "our ships," rather than "her ships" and "my ships."
* *“Ah yes, Calara,” Talari replied, in his odd whispery voice. “Her mind was even more impressive than the spectacular curvature of her...” The Grey trailed off then, blinking twice in embarrassment.*

### Abilities

Irillith learned **astral cyber-projection**:

* *The room was bathed in a violet glow, Irillith’s eyes shining with a bright inner light. As they all watched in shock, a purple-hued projection of the Maliri girl stepped clear of her body and embraced Faye, wrapping her in a warm hug.*
* This happened when Faye declined to come to the award ceremony for Terra and Regulus, saying it would be in poor taste as another AI.

### Dana's Secret Project

* In space, the mech will be much slower than the Raptor; more like the speed of a bomber.
* It has retro-thrusters built into all of its limbs and it's quite a bit smaller and lighter than the Raptor. It might not be as fast, but it’ll be a lot more manoeuvrable - a bit like a huge version of the Paragon suits in flight mode.
* Its eight beam (Pulsed) Photon Lasers are an improvement over the original Maliri Beam Laser design but they fire in three short pulses. They basically hit twice as hard as the Invictus’ Beam Lasers. They can't just upgrade the Invictus' Beam Lasers the those because they're as hungry for power as the Maliri twins are for John's cum.
* It has a Punisher Gatling, scaled up for a mech.

### Rachel's Research

* Swallowing John's cum resets the girls, restoring their wombs to peak readiness.
* They aren’t on a menstrual cycle any more.
* They're always hyper-fertile and ready to be impregnated.
* John can trigger ovulation.

### Battle Data

When the Ashanath activated their mines:

* 97 Drakkar cruisers destroyed
* 24 Drakkar cruisers crippled
* 15 Drakkar cruisers damaged but spaceworthy
* 5 Drakkar battleships destroyed
* 8 Drakkar battleships crippled
* 12 Drakkar battleships damaged but spaceworthy
* All Drakkar destroyers destroyed