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Once a year, the Divine Discernment takes a trip dangerously close to the Adversary—Perennial—orbiting the very core of the galaxy. From there, it can see everything, all at once, breaking the rules of time and space in exactly the ways Divines seem sometimes able to do. It saves this view, rendering it out as an image impossibly high in resolution, giving those with access to it incredible strategic and tactical advantages—so long as they generally know where to look and what to look for. As such, though Devotion itself is not a dedicated war vessel, it is as responsible for the deaths that follow it as the accurate sight of the rifle or the targeting computer of the missile are.
“Perhaps,” the leaders of Millennium Break think, “we could put it to better use.”
This week on the Road to PALISADE: Stealing the Throne
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Opening[edit | edit source]
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[Phone ringing]
[Sound of pickup]
AUSTIN as CYNOSURE WHITESTAR-KESH: [muzzily] H-hello?
JACK as THE LACE OF DIVINITY: Good afternoon, sir. It is my unfortunate duty to speak to you today about a matter that, uh, we think better to bring to your attention.
CYNOSURE: Who is this? It's evening here.
THE LACE: Uh, this is the Lace speaking.
CYNOSURE: [sighs] What is it you needed to call me about?
THE LACE: Well, the Divine Discernment, you're familiar with it, sir?
CYNOSURE: Big one. The, the eye?
THE LACE: The camera that sees everything. Uh, Nideo have lost it, sir.
CYNOSURE: Yes, yes — Nideo have lost it?
THE LACE: The Divine's gone missing.
CYNOSURE: It's gone missing?
THE LACE: Well, to be more exact, uh, we believe that it has been stolen.
CYNOSURE: Stel Nideo lost the, the big camera?
THE LACE: Uh, the camera that sees everything, sir.
CYNOSURE: Was this the Pact?
THE LACE: Hah! No, sir, as we understand it it's those revolutionaries.
CYNOSURE: W-who?
THE LACE: They call themselves Millennium Break.
CYNOSURE: [angry] These abso — [sighs]
THE LACE: Sir, we didn't believe that they had the capability for this, stealing a Divine, but the more that we've looked into it it seems like —
CYNOSURE: They don't have the forces! How could they even...
THE LACE: They only needed four, sir.
CYNOSURE: Four battalions?
THE LACE: [laughs] No, sir. Uh, uh, four individuals made off with the camera that sees everything, sir.
CYNOSURE: Where are you right now?
THE LACE: I, I beg your pardon?
CYNOSURE: Where are you, right now.
THE LACE: Well, uh, when I spoke to you last week, sir, I was on vacation, and I remain, uh, on the planet Iraleph.
CYNOSURE: Stay there.
THE LACE: Sir?
PHONE SYSTEM: Please hang up. Please hang up. Please hang up...”
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I am Layer Luxurious and that was once again Cynosure Whitestar-Kesh, and if you thought you heard a little annoyance in the voice of the "Peaceful Princept" as he spoke, you are not alone. Some historians believe that it was this conversation with the Lace that led old Cynosure to draw the Curtain and begin the so called civil reclamation of his side of the Principality. But that is for a future episode.
Today on Perfect Imperfect, a podcast about the final days of the Perfect Millennium, we are instead going to unfold how the radical group Millennium Break remained involved in this galactic struggle. They knew that if they wanted to support the people from Partizan to Palisade and beyond, they would need to stay one step ahead of the Pact and the Curtain. And to do that, they would need something special. This is the story of the impossible theft of the camera that sees everything. Let's kick it off.”
Plot[edit | edit source]
Omi, Kinoki, Fingers Crossed, and Robet Shpache engage in a daring heist to steal the Divine Discernment, which is capable of taking a photograph of the entire galaxy. The Curtain is currently transporting the Divine Discernment from the center of the Galaxy, near Perennial, back to Nideo space, in order to discern the location of Palisade. In order to steal Discernment, the crew has to pass through several layers of security, including an encounter with its Elect, Vigna, who is revealed to have been the ex-sibling of Fingers Crossed. Robet Shpache dies in the escape attempt, but the other three are able to escape, thanks to Fingers Crossed dueling Vigna to the death. Omi and Fingers Crossed go on to begin to devise plans for Millennium Break to protect Palisade from incursions by the Curtain, while Kinoki begins the process of hunting down the programmer who created her - who had been the last person to heist Discernment.