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Chief Cannoneer Nox’s Personal Log

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Galeras Deployment Day 20.

Somebody’s been in the ammo stores, and I damned well know who it is. That lowborn sot Voski has had it in for me for months, and I’m certain he’s thieving from our extremely limited supplies. One of his class might be selling imperial property to the Marauders, or bandits, or even the Exiles. I would not put it past someone like him.

And what better way to cast aspersions
on my own performance? After all, a mere arms officer is little more than a quartermaster with a clip board. A cannoneer such as myself is responsible for maintaining and firing the largest manually operated weapons in the entire Dominion arsenal! If just one thing goes amiss, it could mean disaster. And that sneaky little lowborn pig knows precisely what kind of trouble to cause.

Mark my words, this will not end well… for him.

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Chief Medical Officer Terentius’s Personal Log

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Galeras Deployment Day 21.

Something bloody strange is in the air around here. Maybe it’s just a side effect of this whimfiber. When I scan the stuff, I pick up some residual kind of energy that the human eye has trouble seeing. It’s got to be due to the heightened primal energy in this place. The Focus of Air charges everything with it. Some Cassians appear to possess a sort of allergy to it that makes them aggressive and irritable, but my equipment isn’t sensitive enough
to pinpoint exactly how it affects the nervous system. I suspect it’s causing a lot of trouble among some of the officers, because the number of soldiers coming through my tent with black eyes and cracked ribs has risen by three hundred percent since we’ve been stationed here.

It’s not that unusual for troops on base to get into a scuffle now and then, but this seems like an unusual increase. I need more data. I’ve asked any officers who witness such issues – or who are feeling increased
irritability or aggression themselves – to report the details to me immediately.

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Chief Arms Officer Voski’s Personal Log

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Galeras Deployment Day 22.

They should not have pushed me. I knew it was them. Making the noise. The buzzing, the screaming, the weeping. Gods, the screaming. Such agony, where never there should have been pain. Such darkness, where only light was meant to strike.

And the humming. But now… where is it? I thought it was inside them. I broke them, broke them open. The answer is me. The sound escaped. I still hear it. The
humming, the buzzing.

It is in me now. It is me now. And there is nothing left to break that will make it stop. Nothing but one thing. Only one way. One way to end it. The buzzing. It’s in the air, all the time, everywhere.

It stops now.

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Geologist Fardrum’s Field Journal

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Expedition Day 7

Gale Canyon has proven to be a downright wondrous site for research! Despite the presumably significant age of Nexus, naturally occurring fissures such as this one are surprisingly rare. Indeed, planetwide scans indicate a significantly younger geographic age for the planet than is typical for a planet orbiting a wild star.

Such worlds are by definition “beyond the Fringe” and are usually captured rogues from
another galaxy or systems so ancient they’ve nearly escaped the gravity of the galactic core itself. Worlds that are sometimes tens of billions of standard years old.

But Nexus? No way. How did a species like the Eldan find time to even evolve here?

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My Friends the Thundercall

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By Junior Xenosociologist Branchgood

Draft 1. Not for publication.

The Thundercall tribe of the Pell have shown me their ways, and I reckon they’re just about the friendliest darned tribe I ever did meet! Why, they didn’t even try to cast any of their crazy curses on me, like they do with some folk. No, sirree, they plumb welcomed me into their village like I was one of ’em!

Though I’m sure glad I ain’t. One of ’em, I mean. Them suckers are
friendly, but whooooeee! They are some ugly sons of guns, I tell you what!

Anyhoo, I’m just packing up a few pieces of gear, because guess what? They invited me to LIVE AMONGST ‘EM for a while! Just think of what I’m gonna learn from these folks! They’ve been on Nexus as long as anyone can remember, includin’ them. And I’m basically gonna become an honorary Thundercall Pell, JUST LIKE THAT. Ain’t it cool? I sure think so.

Well,
they’re gettin’ all chanty out there, so I’ll just leave this voice log in the tent, just in case. Don’t wanna get it fried by the Focus of Air or nothin’ like that! Which is probably where I’m goin’. Oh man, this is gonna be SO MUCH FUN.

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Area around Journal is blocked with green shield. Final step of quest “Power Unleashed” disable it.

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Glory Unto Osiric, Say We

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We, Disciples of Air and Sky,
We, craven things not worthy,
We, who guard his lair, his tomb,
We, who call the Thunder unearthly.

Osiric, gift of the masters above,
Osiric, great and terrible and father of storms,
Osiric, how can we serve your design?
Osiric, how can we be worthy of your love?

Deep, beneath the Canyon of Gales,
Distant, but near to the Callers of Thunder,
Far, but close as the heart of the storm,
Here, a new god,
a Thunder God, to share Osiric’s glory.

Osiric, how can we serve your design?
Osiric, we offer our own.

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REWARD: ELDAN ARTIFACTS

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The DARKSPUR CARTEL will pay good coin for any Eldan artifacts found in Gale Canyon in the Galeras region of Nexus. No questions asked, so get those relics anyway you can! They’ve got a specific signature we know how to detect, so all items will be subject to inspection by a Cartel archaeologist.

FREE ADVICE: The Exiles sent a science expedition to Gale Canyon to make contact with some local creeps called the Thundercall
Pell. The XAS and the Pell probably got plenty of Eldan junk that will go for a nice price on the black market.

Don’t make us draw you a picture.