Quote:Our relentless expansion throughout the Sirius Sector disturbed the Nomads from their long sleep and they awoke early to find the Daam- K'Vosh gone, their worlds overrun, their birthright stolen. Rage coursed through the Nomads -- they had been abandoned, worse, they had been left to the mercy of these aliens -- and they wailed like petulant children screaming to hide their anguish. But the Nomads were not children in any human sense of the word: they were intelligent and devious. They had once waged war against the very beings that created them, and they had learned to bide their time.
The Nomads didn't awake angry, they awoke curious and interested in humanity. They stayed deep in the Nomad Worlds for over five centuries before they finally made a move, when humanity stumbled on more Nomads.
Quote:Miners who stumbled across Nomad enclaves provided new source material and it wasn't very long before the Nomads determined that humans were no different; in particular, the neurological functions of humans were relatively easy to access and then supercede (though fine-tuning the process
damaged more than a few test cases, who were then discarded).
The Nomads weren't planning the Nomad War for years, they didn't experiment on miners as miners didn't mine anywhere near the Nomad Worlds.
Humans were mostly ignored with the use of the natural cloak, so Nomads could explore unnoticed and untouched.
Quote:In the process the Nomads learned quite a bit about humanity and began to understand how we had appropriated the knowledge that the Daam-K'Vosh had intended for them. They also realized that our own civilization was technologically more advanced than their own -- but much as humanity had taken the remnants of the Daam-K'Vosh civilization and made it their own, so the Nomads decided that they would take our civilization and rebuild it in their own image. We had already unlocked secrets of the Daam-K'Vosh that it would have taken them millennia to uncover. Besides, human bodies were warm, their senses exquisite, and they reproduced so quickly as to make any one body expendable. The Nomads thought that, yes, they could grow quite accustomed to making their homes inside of us...
The Nomads didn't intend to overtake humanity and remake it in their own image. Such a thought is very un-Nomad for the Disco Nomads. The Wild being the future of the Nomads with the humans being interesting toys was a strange thought, as the Disco Nomads see humans as closed-minded and fragile, the pure Nomad form is better preferred for them.
The humans also unlocked a small fraction of a percentage of the knowledge in Vahalla One, much less than is explained in Vanilla.
Quote:But the Nomads were not strong enough to directly wage war on humanity, nor were their numbers large enough to take over en masse. They had to be slow, careful, and discreet, working through subterfuge and misdirection. But as they learned more about us and our politics, they realized that they wouldn't need to fight us: we would do all the fighting for them. All they had to do was apply pressure in a few critical places and humans would surrender to their natural violent instincts. Once we had expended ourselves in a futile fight waged against phantom aggressors, the Nomads would easily be able to assume control and use humans as a vehicle to expand throughout the galaxy.
The Disco-Nomads are much larger and stronger, able to destroy human colony planets with a little effort put in, but it wouldn't serve them any purpose and is unnessesarily destructive.
Quote:The Nomads spread like a virus, hopping from one individual to another and leaving a string of damaged psyches behind them that spouted impossible stories of faceless monsters and giant worms. They moved intentionally, with a goal, always departing one host for another that was more highly placed in government or industry. They ignored the minor factions -- the Outcasts, Corsairs, GMG, freelancers -- and concentrated instead on the major houses. After years of moving from body to body, they succeeded in occupying the most important public positions in Rheinland.
The Nomads infected and moved into Rheinland first and formost, as the Rheinland science expedition stumbled on them and forced them into the Nomad War.
There was no 'hopping' between places, they picked Rheinland and went for it.
Quote:Within Valhalla 1 lies the secrets that would have allowed the Nomads to disengage themselves from this field, to "mature" and become entities completely independent of the Daam-K'Vosh for the very first time in their history. The Daam-K'Vosh had intended this to be their penultimate lesson, allowing their children to then open the hypergates and go forth to explore the universe -- but neither humanity nor the Nomads are aware of this.
This isn't completely true in the Disco Nomad lore, the Nomads in Disco were interested in Valhalla 1 for the secrets that could let them leave Sirius forever, but after the Nomad War, the Nomads alone learned their own method of maturing and seperating from the Daam K'Vosh energy field, allowing a genocide such as the Order at the end of the Nomad War, not to ever happen again.