We call once more upon You, Great Keepers of Knowledge and Endless Wisdom, to answer a plea for advice and assistance. For many cycles of past have We have contributed, United, towards Our future, yet now We risk throwing all that has been accomplished away into the void of space through our inaction.
We remain confused as to this inaction, thus We come before You to sing many a lightsongs with regard to the metal-shells now closest to Our Great Hive of 'Omicron Zeta'.
Then hear, and be guided. We have given to the Gateway Hive a guardian. Husas, The Fortress, The Defender, brings incursions to a halt and learns greatly of control this way. From the Gateway Hive through our Trinity Seas of Light, Husas defends. Neither Curse-Bearer, Flat-shell, Coward-One, Schemer, or Corruptor will bring wounds to us, not through Husas, our Fortress.
Now let it be known: do not mistake silence for lack. We hold a great philosophy in our current actions. Letting our enemy believe they are superior is how we shall keep them from becoming so. The Great Reflection, Nannasuen, is underway. Coward-Ones and Fanged-Shells do war against each other. Soon they may drag Curse-Bearers and Flat-Shells into their conflict, and those forces we keep under the Fortress will be put under the Bloodletter, and we may hunt out the threats to the Gateway.
Yet this is not our only concern. Wounds tear at the fabric of what was, and is, and is to come. We know from where they come, within the seas the Blue-Shells infest. We know not where they go. Feel it as we have felt it:
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We soon intend to take a greater control of the Cleansed Sea, and with assistance of Ashura's Infiltrators, learn what horrors the Blue-Shells have wrought upon the oceans. We have felt through the Cleansed Sea, and a pathway towards the Blue-Shells lies there.
The Wild Hunt rumbles with anticipation. They foresee something, and all the rest of Light must be prepared to react, adapt, and take action with their choices, movements, and ambitions.
Be assured, keeping our movements hidden does not equate to inaction. Patience sharpens fangs slower than action, yet without the risk of breaking them. Our movements will be known soon. Make thyself ready for that moment.
We understand Your intentions, but We cannot agree to them all. Let Us inform now You of the great metal-shell by name of 'Kadesh' in the Voids of 'Omicron Zeta', corrupting away the very fabric of who We are. Such arrogance from the petty beings of flesh leads Us both down a path of uncertainty. We know not what shall happen should the husks band together against Us. Truly, by allowing Them to believe They are superior, We have fallen also.
Yet Our intent is not one of bringing chaos, but one of reaching a consensus. We demand Your assistance in these Voids, for it is Our desire to bring forth a song of spitfire that shall ravage the near Seas and Cleanse them all the corruption brought upon them by the flesh. We must strike powerfully and without mercy, and We further advise the Great Keepers to incorporate such one approach in coming cycles.
We wield a great 'sword', it is only proper We put it to use.
The Wild Hunt
We know not of these distant Voids you bring songs of, even so, the 'horrors of the Blue-Shells' shall now become a centerpiece to Our infiltration's efforts. We shall not sing at great lengths on Them, as We will heed your call of patience. Nonetheless, We shall move to the Voids of 'Tohoku', inside which the Arch lays, holding immense archives of the flesh's moves in cycles gone.
You know, then, of the Coward-Ones' metal-hive. Know now as we know, it is protected not only by Coward-Ones, but as well by Cursed-Shells and Flat-Shells, as their metal hives are within the same sea. To attack the Coward-Ones' metal-hive is to unite the Cursed-Shell and the Flat-Shell against us. An unnecessary expense of our resources when, in turn, we could turn their attentions elsewhere.
Take to your Dreams with this: Should we move the Frilled-Shells against the Cursed-Shells in the water they call home, and should we draw the attention of the Coward-Ones and the Flat-Shell towards the Fanged-Shells and the oceans they inhabit, then we would expend much less to destroy this metal-hive.
We will bring your advisory and attent before Minerva. They will be called upon to bring violence upon the darkened seas soon, and this metal-hive will be within their sight as well.
We intend to relocate Our shells to the Voids of 'Sigma-15'. We call upon Your support in observing and crushing any Corrupted Shells encountered in these distant Seas.
It is within these very Seas that the 'Corsairs' have also struck only some four cycles prior and from which We expect 'Rheinland' to defend. 'Valhalla', should We succeed in either luring, destroying, or capturing any Metal Husks, will lay open, even if for few cycles; that shall be Our queue to strike further.
You have vastly underestimated the blockade of "Valhalla". Those Warring and Infiltrating castes of the Green-Shells are seldom in agreement, but in the blockade of "Valhalla" they are united quite harmoniously. Actions in the Blue-Mist will not lift that blockade, and no strike that would not weaken us greatly in other fronts will break that blockade. "Valhalla" has not Reconstructing-Cells, and that blockade keeps us from introducing the necessary materials to grow one. We have conferred with the Wild Hunt, "Valhalla" was lost when it was first blockaded, and all that surrounds it now are the death throes of a suffering animal. It is our best interest to lay traps within and abandon it, yet there is no passage for materials from it through that blockade.
Now, We question You. Under who's strategy have you laid these intents? The Fanged-Shells fight with the Coward-Ones in nearby oceans. Their actions in the Blue-Mists are of far less concern.
We already seek to draw the Cursed-Shells and the Flat-Shells towards this conflict, to release their grasp in the Gateway Void. Distracting the Fanged-Shells at this moment risks easing the conflict, even if slightly, and that is a risk we do not take lightly. If your desire is to strike at the Green-Shells, then pay heed: Strike within their reach, not without. To be within the grasp of that blockade is to more easily allow them to sacrifice the forces of that blockade to reach for you, rather than extraneous nodes that would cause little change. Barely within their reach, so that they must stretch to grasp at you, and in that time you shall pull away to where they cannot. To rest within the Blue-Mist you seek now, and strike at the sea they call "Frankfurt" would do well. The Wild Hunt will make their move soon, and they shall bite the Green-Shells with barbed fangs. To have the Green-Shells distracted when that moment arrives will surely prove boon to The Wild Hunt, no matter how small.
If your desire is to strike at the Fanged-Shells, then take yourself amidst the conflict already ongoing. When the Cursed-Shell and Flat-Shell come hunting, treat them in the same manner as we have instructed you against the Green-Shell, but be wary: They have no blockade to maintain, and they can hunt you without let or hindrance. Instead, bring another, and let them hear your fangs bite in one direction, and another's fangs bite in another direction. Let them chase both and catch neither.
To show our movements is to prove to our enemies the capabilities of our movements. An enemy who thinks us harmless is an enemy unready. An enemy who thinks us distant is an enemy unprepared. These are the fruits that are nurtured by the logic of making the enemy appear superior to us in order to keep them from becoming superior to us. Keep in mind this lesson, learned through Bloodletter and Infiltrator: Those who know ~how~ to do battle shall win many battles. We who know ~when~ to do battle shall never lose one.
Take this logic, and feed on it well. Let your desire to strike be tempered from all those many imprecise strikes that will only serve to alert, awaken, and strengthen the enemy into a few precise strikes that will cripple the enemy, or that will introduce flaws that can be later exploited.