Mirror Crystal Timeline: 120 hours ago
His name was Lurtor, and in the Mirror Crystal Timeline, he had helped the United Tribes wipe out the Colonial leadership of the Earther Colonies and the EEF. Even VLAD wasn’t safe, as Lurtor triggered a VLAD Strangulari War over actions comitted on an independent dimension in a place codenamed SteamGate.
He had seen the Carriages of that dimension personally in his timeline and our own. The steam powered devices that pulled the carriages, with their network of brass and steel pipes. He watched as they had pushed excess steam through a set of valves mounted near a metal cup filled with a liquid incense. The device acting like an articial lung, breathing out scented air as it passed.
There was something about the design he found so intruguing. His own prototype stood before him. He had impressed hundreds of Rehsedians smith into working on the design, and he was rather proud.
Instead of a carriage, this device would have an extended body and dispensors provided by the enslaved alchemist Onderal. The Tor’Lallur, through their mutual hatred of the GulTor’Gor for wiping out their most blessed unholy site the Pit of Filth, were pleased to supply the fluid the steam coneyance would carry within its “scent cartridges”. It would also mist the are with a subtle spray of nanites of a unique design. The nanites would counter the symptoms of the Tor’Lallur diseases…until they were shut off.
The Mirror Crystal Lurtor was ready to deploy the first of many weapons on the suspected GulTor’Gor colonies in our own Timeline.
Using a small jewelers drill, Lurtor gently pried off a tiny flake of the mirror crystal in his timeline and placed it within the control housing of the automaton cart, and then directed the full energy of the Mirror Crystal towards the device. It disappeared.
The Mirror Crystal Lurtor wondered if the experiment would be a success. If not… it was not to worry, as he looked over at his next set of experimental weapons lying the corner, another creation by the imprisioned Alchemist Onderal.
Mirror Crystal Timeline: 48 Hours ago
There was a squalk from his most important commcrystal, waking Lurtor from a deep sleep. Lurtor picked it up and responded, “How can I help?” before the question was even asked on the other end.
Lalder said, “We have reports that your experiment broke through at the Museum of Brez. A cart matching its description smashed its way out of the Museum, leaving a trail of bodies in its wake. Automated artifact weapons on the cart cut down any guards who got in its way.
The cart made an interesting tactical decision, jumping the hovertrain as it passed out of Brez, and took it all the way to Simonburg. It got off there. After lingering in Simonsburg and killing off some known members of Krodnok’ Disciples, the Automaton turned south.
It has reached the Ruins of Karov, and is in the Shadow Dome of Karov.”
“A Shadow Dome in that timeline, a Crystal Dome in this timeline,” murmured Lurtor, “I still find that incredibly odd.”
“Little things change big things,” replied Lalder evenhandedly, “I am also calling to tell you the fleet will be ready to launch within two days. Have your device lay low until I give the order. We will eliminate their threat with one step.”
Lurtor held his breath for a long moment, wondering how he should break the news, “Unfortunately I don’t quite have that type of control over the device. It is what the Earthers would call a Fire and Forget weapon. It will either take out its target or fail in the attempt., There is no shut off. Short of destroying it… but that will kill enough Olgogs to throw the entire UtR into Chaos in the enemy timeline.”
“Lurtor…I would have liked to know that aspect before it was deployed,” said Lalder, “But we can’t change the past, or I would have undone my deal with the Djinni long ago…As long as the threat of this evil Timeline exists we must do all we can to contain its threat.
The Djinni may have caused this connection between our rightous timeline and their evil timeline but how we handle this connection is up to us.”
Mirror Crystal Timeline: 24 Hours ago
Lurtor had parts set out in front of him. He had seen Technomagi waved their hands and simply assemble devices and he would learn how to do so. His work with nanites told him that he should have the capability to do this as simple as a parlor trick. But yet something about the process was eluding him.
There was a chirp from his commcrystal and once again he found himself being interrogated, “Ahh well yes it is true there was some Nanites I dispersed using the device.”
“I thought I told you to use Healing Leyas to control the diseases,” scolded Lalder, “That was what we agreed to. Both the Unity and the Fleet of Fate Delagations have been livid since they learned we deployed a Nanite weapon on an alternate timeline. Apparently that is frowned upon.”
“The Unity won’t move on us while Kalok holds power over the molten cores of their Unity Extension planets. So what say our allies in the Fleets of Fate?” asked Lurtor.
“The Unity Spawn and their Technobabble are already moving into position to assault the Enemy timeline with a full mobilization,” said Lalder dismissively, “Kalok has already warned us many times not to trust the Demonspawn of the Unity nor their ill-begotten children in the Fleets of Fate.”
“Wait…the Fleets of Fate have gained a foothold in the enemy timeline?” asked Lurtor in genuine confusion.
“They claim they are moving in to prevent your actions from being seen as a Temporal Warcrime,” said Lalder angrily, “You try something like this again, and I will personally send you to the Kul Gul Rapi for reeducation.”
Lurtor shuddered as he thought of the terrifying vampyrs and their extreme methods.
