Council
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Council is the first record in chapter II, and is a continuation of Reservoir.
Synopsis
After at least seven rotations' time, a small meeting is held in The Church to discuss progress and plans for the future. The biggest difficulties the Chevrin brush up against are twofold, both having to do with the Llokin. The first challenge is capture, and the second is containment. Many fruitless ideas are pitched, which eventually ends up leading to arguing.
Capture
WARES, after sending a team into the Caldera, managed to discover some things about that environment. For one, the Llokin seem to be more technologically advanced than the Chevrin anticipated. This implies that it has potentially been hundreds of years since a Chevrin had made contact with a Llokin village. The village seems to have had rudimentary defenses, because the team was promptly attacked upon reaching said village. The attack, plus the unbearable heat of the Focus, meant that the team had to turn around and retreat. Since the Chevrin are creatures of sub-zero temperature, this might mean that even room temperature would be uncomfortable to them. During the meeting, WARES suggests tunneling under the ground to use as a shield against the heat. NERAN suggests cooling down the Caldera itself, and later has the idea of using smoke from wildfire to lessen the light coming from the Focus. The main problem with cooling down the Caldera is eventually revealed: the temperature would probably kill all the Llokin. Thus, the Chevrin are forced to play by the Llokin's rules, at least for now.[1]
Containment
As for keeping the now-captured Llokin alive, it turns out that such a deceptively simple task has many facets that are worth considering. For one, The Church is very obviously cold. As mentioned in Reservoir, a Llokin would not survive long. Second, a source of food has seemingly not yet been located. The natural foods that the Llokin eat are simply not possible to grow beyond the Terminator. Keeping custody of hundreds of thousands of Llokin seems impossible, according to IGLAS.
Trivia
- This record contains the first reference to starfruit.
- NERAN mentions a "200 year plan" which establishes that the Chevrin have given themselves two hundred years to make their offering to NYXEM.
- NERAN's plan to put smoke into the air above the Caldera implies that the Focus lies within the atmosphere of the Caldera.
- TARAN reveals the existence of a forest underneath the Focus.
- WARES says "I am cooperating", which is a reference to what Sabre said in an earlier record.[2]