Covenant

[Foxglove]

The information provided by the Keeper would need to be translated into something the Vagrants could visualize. To them it appeared as though the construction was more of a stabilizer, the intent of which was to counter the inherent fluctuations of a jump hole. Whoever had created this knew what they were doing, as it looked compact and portable. It was definitely a technology well beyond the reach of humanity at the current time. The only possible explanation was that they were some sort of alien influence that were not created by the same entities that had made the Nomads.

We believe that whoever is behind this Cult may not be human. They display no discriminatory behavior when it comes to fighting us or your kin. They are likely a third party masquerading behind a veneer of your technological appearance. They worry us greatly.

A degree of distress could not be suppressed over their link, as it was obvious that the possibility of someone with even greater technological prowess than them was something that posed an existential thread to the Nomads, who were used to everyone being against them, and not entirely undeservedly so.

If the Collective is to cooperate with you on this, then the Advisors are willing to create a gateway between your worlds and ours as long as it does not bear an overly large risk of it being turned against any one of us as a weapon by a third party.

As wonderous as their technology was, turning their own technology against them was likely the best way of fighting the Nomads, which the Vagrants realized. One of their jump gate was supplied with enough power to obliterate parts of an entire solar system, as the disaster of Omega-58 had shown.

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