Arx Capital Exchange office

Meridian Prime Space Station

Kessel Sector

Qaanlug Vlux stared out of the viewport of his temporary office at the small fleet of defense ships orbiting Meridian. His bosses, the Regent and the Empress of Scholae Palatinae, sent him to the godforsaken station on an ‘errand of great importance’. Or so he was told in the orders—most likely drawn up by the secretary of the manager of whatever office the Regent used to communicate with field agents.

The station itself was in disrepair, and while it could have once provided docking and repair for a multitude of ships, it was far too badly damaged after the battle for that role. The lack of readily available docks and repair bays for the Brotherhood's fleets close to Collective space left the Brotherhood at a disadvantage. Their offensive against the enemy would falter without support, the lines would stretch too far and the Brotherhood would open itself to counter attack. Finding a suitable station for their ships was paramount.

He turned his attention to his holo-screen and lodged a firm, impervium-sealed data-disc into the access port. The data had already been reviewed and stripped to a need-to-know format by the Inquisitorius after it’s acquisition on the Matron. The disc itself contained a multitude of coordinates extrapolated from whatever information was found on the disc initially.

“Kastolar Sector?” He spoke as he reviewed the coordinates. “Am I supposed to know where that is? And what’s this Severian Principate?”

Summary

• Iden Sult, majordomo of the Shroud Syndicate, is introduced on the Godless Matron
• Preparations are underway for something major on the Matron
• Through a deal with a smuggler, Sult acquires important intel on Collective movements
• Far off, on the edges of unexplored space, Qaanlug Vlux prepares for a meeting with his peers
• The Severian Principate is revealed to be a faction of interest
• Damien Blackadder and Ness'arin Ohnaka join him to review the intel and come up with a plan
• Meanwhile, on Arx, Regent Evant Taelyan and ACE CEO Rhent Ghosan discuss the condition of the Brotherhood's finances and military capabilities when a plan takes shape
• The Shroud Syndicate, Inquisitorius and Arx Capital Exchange (ACE) join forces to investigate the new possible threat
• To be continued...

The latest chapter in the Brotherhood Rising story arc. Click here to read the full fiction

New fiction update

Greetings programs!

As you can tell by the excerpt, the new fiction update is here. This one is rather special and concerns a completely new faction created for future fictions and events.

The DB Story Group is proud to present: The Severian Principate

A small event accompanies this fiction update and reveal. The competitions include fiction, NPC creation and more.

You will find the container comp here: [Brotherhood Rising] The Severian Principate

• Leaders of the Principate

• Gathering information

• Introspection

• The Cadre

Shoutout to the spectacular work of Tarvitz, Aura "Blade", and Archenksov for creating the Severian Principate during the Rite of Supremacy: Meridian and allowing us to use their excellent work to advance the DB's plot!

The Severian Principate aims to be a new and undetermined faction - meaning they are neither friend nor enemy...for now. The Story Group's intention is to use competitions to influence many of the aspects of the faction by giving members and their ideas the light of day and including particularly excellent ideas and submissions into DB Canon, as we have done with the Collective. It will be up to you guys to decide, through participating and winning competitions, whether the Principate will be to the DB's benefit or detriment.

But more on that in later posts. For now, we hope you enjoy the fiction and the small event that will help shape the Principate even more.

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That's all for now. Hope you have a great day.