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 After that is Ritual, a Medium Threat mission for Delicate Harmony and additional appropriate characters. The circlet has more to show you. Assemble at the ZAB-JPC-RCI base on Kylal to receive enlightenment.
 ===== Characters =====
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 ===== Summary =====
-  * Delicate Harmony receives indications from the gem in the diadem retrieved from the Pentagonal asteroid [[shared:mission ???? ]] that it wishes to share more information with him, to show him something of its history, or maybe the history of the civilisation? Delicate Harmony agrees to receive whatever information it wants to share, and Budding Leaf comes along too into some kind of vision of the past, or the gem's memory of it.
+  * Delicate Harmony receives indications from the gem in the diadem retrieved from the Pentagonal asteroid ([[shared:mission:gatekeeping]]) that it wishes to share more information with him, to show him something of its history, or maybe the history of the civilisation? Delicate Harmony agrees to receive whatever information it wants to share, and Budding Leaf comes along too into some kind of vision of the past, or the gem's memory of it.
   * The party experience a strange vision of a rainbow, distant far away from them, which seems like the target they are aiming for. However, they are repeatedly thwarted in their attempts to reach it by strange beings who radiate strange sensations and cause problems in their actions:
     * An entity that looks large and spherical, and exudes a feeling of great weight, which pushes the party around
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 ===== Aftermath =====
-  * Bullet points of what characters did in the aftermath of the mission
+  * Delicate Harmony sends out a system-wide message covering a lot of what has been found out, particularly asking for those who are interested in Gate creation and options to come for a discussion. The information shared with the hackers by Stellar Glory regarding Aspexx's procedure to make Gates has also made its way around the system by now. This results in a large group discussion between Delicate Harmony, Gathering Flow, Budding Leaf, Iron Cold and Faulty Banks, plus a few others who drop by, about the pros/cons of the various options for recreating gates. In summary:
+    * It is agreed that Aspexx leading unknowing people to their death is bad, although maybe if all the startouched involved were volunteers it might be ethically okay?
+      * During this discussion, Gathering Flow corroborates the information Stellar Glory sent out
+    * The fact that Aspexx's IP and brand reputation damage has now been spread all around the system causes some concern of the 'would they rather just wipe out the whole system before letting us reconnect to the rest of the galaxy' variety, too.
+    * However, there are also some significant drawbacks perceived with the 'Pentagonal method' of gate creation, too:
+      * This method requires multiple ship hearts which potentially already have to have some kind of strong connection with each other, and which fully consent to the process - certainly the five which formed the Pentagonal Gates appear to have had a long association while their respective Startouched worked together. The only known similar connection in system is between Endeavour and Hive IV, and no-one is sure a) that they would even care or b) whether Hive IV would be a suitable shipheart for this kind of thing.
+      * There is also no known way with this method to essentially 'teleport' the other end of a Gate where you want it: the Gates will come into being in the positions the shiphearts are at the point the process happens. This means no connection back to the rest of the galaxy for a long time, although the captain of the //Unquiet Journey// does volunteer their services in that matter - apparently the peripatetic Fleet 19 ship was already having internal discussions about whether they wanted to move on from the Keter System by striking out into the black on their own anyway. They reckon it would take 50-60 years to get back to the Fjenix system while towing whatever a new Gate ends up looking like - a long time, but not an impossibility.
+      * There is also some discussion of 'is it even worth reconnecting? The Keter System is self-sufficient now', but most people are interested in exploring all Gate options fully before making that decision.
+  * After these discussions, Delicate Harmony takes charge of sending out two system-wide messages:
+    * One to all the shiphearts in system, asking if any would be willing to consider doing something like this
+    * One to all the startouched in system, confirming the information the hackers leaked and asking if any startouched would be willing to step forward anyway to sacrifice themselves for the sake of re-creating a gate
 ===== Consequences =====
-  * Breakdown of consequences for characters - rewards, effects, contacts.
+  * The system-wide messages start to receive interest, not only from individuals but also from planetary and galactic governments. A day or two later, the Galactic Cooperation send out a system-wide message asking for all polities, corporations, powerful individuals and ship heart representatives who have interest in these matters to gather aboard the //Firebrand// for a discussion.
-  * Also mention any wider consequences for the world
 ==== All Characters ====
-  * Consequences
+  * +3 Clout with one of either Zeitgeist or Botanists, for new scientific knowledge gained.
+  * Gain access to all the levels of the [[:experimental_abilities#star_hearted|Star Hearted]] tree which they meet the criteria for.
-==== Character 1 ====
-  * Consequences
+==== Delicate Harmony ====
-==== Character 2 ====
+  * MkII on the wiring-yourself-and-a-circlet-into-a-holodeck gets you, essentially, a circlet with electrodes. This enables a deeper ability to communicate directly with the diadem gem itself - it can now talk to you fairly easily and even project occasional static images for you to look at while you are wearing it. If you connected yourself and it back into a holodeck you would expect get the same level of simulation veracity you achieved on the //Firebrand//.
+  * Synthesis with the holodeck-enabled Harvest of the pentapodal high-powered startouched gives you a strong innate sense of how he saw ship hearts and their capabilities. You feel that, together with your Total Perspective Vortex, this will let you clearly evaluate the options for recreating any part of what the Pentagonal civilisation powered through ship hearts. This might let you understand, for example, what kind of connection might exist between two or more ship hearts, and what you think could be achieved with that connection. Side effect 1: you are now absolutely certain that the 'Pentagonal method' cannot split a single ship heart (or send half a ship heart to another system) in the way Aspexx plan to - it relies on the connections between two or more ship hearts, and it does not extract any power from the ship heart, merely forces all the power into a new form. Side effect 2: You feel the part of the Pentapodal person you synthesized insisting that its name was/is Alytoth, and now you feel you might involuntarily respond if that name were called.
-  * Consequences
+==== Budding Leaf ====
-//Be sure to add tags for the characters//
+  * You are besieged with many scientists begging you to write up more papers soon.
-{{tag>mission character_1 character_2}}
+{{tag>mission delicate_harmony budding_leaf}}

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