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Cargo Lifter Operation Manual

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Thank you for purchasing, renting, or stealing the FreightSpace HCL-47 Hypermagnetic Cargo Lifter for your project/war effort/subjugation/picnic. With the HCL-47, we’re sure you’ll be successful/victorious/profitable/relaxed. Here are just a few of the special features that set FreightSpace apart.
– FreightSpace’s patented Micro-Suck Waves find the metals in any object – organic or mechanical – right before they attune a primal magnetometor to that
frequency. Then they suck, lift, and manipulate with the same raw power that made the HCL-46 the best cargo lifter you’d ever need – until now, that is!
– Internal FreightSpace BalanceSure Gyroscopes ensure you’ll never knock your giant metal-moving machinery off-balance or out of whack! Because nothing’s more awkward than being knocked over by your own cargo.
– FreightSpace knows that operating levers and pushing buttons can be truly exhausting work, which is
why the HCL-47 cab boasts 20% more head clearance than the HCL-46, all-new heated seating options, additional cup-holders, even a charger socket for your datachron so you’ll never mess a call!
Repulsion Mode is the latest time-saving feature from FreightSpace, and it’s built right into the HCL-47! Yes, usually you’ll want to be lifting – but sometimes, you need to repel things as fast as you can! By reversing the polarity of the neutron flow in
the power convertors feeding into the HCL-47’s central magnatron, you can turn your lifter into a serious pusher.

Approved for military uses by both FCON and the Dominion Military.

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Nerissa’s Diary Vol. 35

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[This diary – the latest of many, it seems – reveals Nerissa’s secret life as Scarletta Bloodheart, writer of romance fiction both torrid and turgid.]

And Trees Also Have Roots

by Scarletta Bloodheart

The trees of her home village always struck the young matria as a bit too familiar. A bit too much like family. And like most families, the trees of Lushleaf had a
few residents who didn’t play by the rules. Neither did the trees.

Matria Fondi Hoogleheart was the third daughter of village hunters who had earned no great repute, she had never planned on taking over from her second cousin, the beautiful and righteous Matria Tanallyra Oakenheart. The unexpected and mysterious death of predecessor, who
did not survive an attempt to make peaceful contact with the enigmatic and savage stemdragons of Nexus, left a gaping wound in the Weave that young Fondi could not hope to heal so soon. Instead she was too focused on just keeping her new job. She certainly wasn’t expecting her consorts to so quickly become so important to her, three extensions of her very
spirit, helping her to navigate the first fragile steps of her stewardship of the village.

And she had certainly never expected to fall in love.

But on that first walk through the forests of Celesttttttttttttiiiiiiiizzzzzzzzzz

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Ravenok Racer Illustrated #119

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ALL THE RAVENOK RACING NEWS YOU CAN HANDLE!
In this issue: Racing forms! Ads for specially bred speed-enhancing splorg bait! Full-color holograms of all your favorite ravenok racers! AND MORE

CONTENTS

Page 04…..THE FUTURE OF RAVENOK RACING! It’s the hottest new competitive, timed, animal-based sport on the Fringe – and beyond! Who’s the greatest ravenok racer? Who’s got the hunger to knock them off their lofty perch? And who will be the great
ravenok racers of the future? We’ve got all the inside analysis!

Page 12…..RRI HALL OF FAME UPDATE! Who are the fastest ravenok of all time? Who rode those ravenok to greatness? We polled experts and our own reporters for to find out, and you can see all our current rankings on the hall of fame charts. Will Feathered Fury finally reach the top spot, or will Beak Dancer maintain her three-issue winning streak? Can anyone break Chua jockey “Dangerous” Dozzi Nak’s record of
thirteen straight victories? Probably not, but you won’t know until you read the article!

Page 16…..BLOOD ON THE TRACK! Will the tragic events of last year’s Wilderrun 5000-Meter Dash be repeated, and if so, how many in the crowd might be slaughtered by aggressive, intelligent, predatory birds that are barely domesticated and generally pretty surly to begin with? We’ll lay down the odds for all your bookmaking needs.

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Relics of the Gods

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And how, then, did these items come to be handed down to we inheritors of the Eldan legacy? Many ways, but all of them driven by a divine and unique purpose. No base understanding can arise from these relics without the vigilance of the true faith of our ancestors.

– Only the Vigilant can learn from the gods directly, and only the gods may state the true purpose
of any relic. Anything else, no matter how scientifically justified, is mere guesswork.

– Only the Vigilant should come in contact with relics that once touched Eldan hands. This weakness in our souls, the need to touch that which the gods did touch, must be overcome before Vigilance becomes innate.
– Would the gods not expect their holy church to oversee their
legacy? Who better? And who better than I to lead this effort? I, Bro–

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Lost Science of the Eldan

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Can the Vigilant Church explain the true mysteries of Eldan technology? Can platitudes and parables reveal the secrets of long-range matter transmission, planet-wide A.I. constructs, or the workings of genetically optimized omni-plasm? Of course not! This does not mean the Vigilant themselves have no place in our work, merely that theirs should not be the
only voice guiding this research. Without science, faith is founded on ghosts and memories, nothing more.

Most egregiously, I cannot stand idly by while functioning Eldan artifacts we barely understand – technology which could provide unlimited power, talismans surging with infinite sources of primal energy, and records which could contain the secrets of
creation itself – are seized by clerics so devoted to the gods that they dare not regard their divine gifts too closely lest their simple faith face any kind of complex test.

Who am I to question the sacred order of things? Someone practical enough not to want to die for my statements. Someone to value the shadows as I work to free the true scientific knowledge of the gods from the church that would claim to speak for them.

Dr. Anonymous

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The Curious Canimid

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[ILLUSTRATION: A cartoon representation of a smiling canimid.]
This is Cappy. He is a canimid. He comes from the planet Nexus. He is curious about the world around him. He is going to dig his way around the world!

[ILLUSTRATION: Cappy burrows up from the ground with a smile on his face.]
Cappy sure likes to dig. Hello, Cappy! Your enormous claws sure do make good digging tools!

[ILLUSTRATION: Cappy stalks a jabbit.]
Cappy lives under the ground. He does not have
many friends. Will this jabbit be Cappy’s friend?

[ILLUSTRATION: Cappy smiles and looks sleepy, patting his belly.]
Nope.

[ILLUSTRATION: Cappy stalks a snoglug.]
Uh-oh, Cappy. That might not be a good idea. I don’t think that snoglug wants to be your friend.

[ILLUSTRATION: The snoglug spits poison in Cappy’s face.]
Ouch! That sure must sting. Maybe Cappy’s curiosity won’t get the best of him.

[ILLUSTRATION: His eyes swollen shut and his face covered in a nasty rash,
Cappy tears apart the snoglug in a shower of guts and shell fragments in a variety of cartoonish colors that are perfect for children.]
I guess Cappy was curious what was in that snoglug after all. Guess it wasn’t an antidote for snoglug poison.

[ILLUSTRATION: Cappy stalks a Dominion warbreaker tank.]
Now that’s a curious machine of war and destruction. I wonder what Cappy makes of it? Better think this one through, Cappy!

[ILLUSTRATION: Cappy’s upper half is vaporized
by a wide-beam disintegrator ray and the tank rolls on.]
And the moral of the story is, don’t be curious. Or you might end up like Cappy, kids!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Cerico Tylus is an educator, inventor, and a self-trained canimid biologist who at the time of this writing has shot, stuffed, and mounted over seventy-three canimid since arriving on Nexus. He recommends those troubled by the events of this children’s educational tale contact their Dominion governors or other appropriate officials
and tell them that in the midst of a war that will decide the very fate of the galaxy, they should focus on a children’s book. His precise words are, “See how that goes over, why don’t you?”

ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
Illustrator Optex of the Imperial Corps of Intelligence has studied the native fauna and flora of Nexus in order to form a complete catalog of the emperor’s domain. His favorite native fauna is the Nexus canimid, and he keeps a trained canimid as a pet at his home in Tempest Refuge.

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To Seek the Gods

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My own brother told me that what I suggested was the rankest heresy. Yet how can the search for truth ever be heretical? How can employing the mind and thought bestowed upon us by the gods ever be anything but pure and just?

Just look at this wondrous place. Take it in, and walk the steps the gods themselves laid before us. My brother, I fear, is blinded by the words of mere men. I seek the works of those who ascended to another
plane of existence. I shall find the truth of their disappearance, or I will die. Perhaps both. And maybe, one day, Toric will understand why.