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as the main topics of life or law start to wind down I wanted to use this time to talk about some
of the other parts of lightfall's story that are worth covering there are a lot of topics
around Cloud Striders and neomuna that absolutely fit into this description we should really talk a
lot more about this stuff because after all it is a second City I mean previously we thought
we were the last human civilization in Seoul and it turns out we're not that should be a cause for
celebration and for questions so yeah let's talk about nyamuna and let's start with something a bit
Grim I know happiness abounds until it doesn't for a very long time the people of nimuna have
had to live alongside the Vex today we're going to explore how seemingly bad that once got for
them in the lore of a warlock exotic called the swarmers so aside from being shot out though what
is the real harm of living alongside the Vex as Clovis Bray discovered when he was doing
his work on Europa it's not just the physical harm they can do it's also about the terrible
digital disruption and infiltration that they are capable of before we really talk about all of that
though and what that meant for niyamuna let let's get some ideas about the situation for the near
Mooney people in place and then at the very end we'll get to the swarmas law tab which is where
all of this really ends up it's clear that one of the earliest inventions of the neomuni was
the cloud Arc its ability to interface with the veil and create a simulated reality of sorts for
the citizens of neomuna to exist within has been a clear Boon to their citizenry even early on in
their history but it certainly hasn't come without cost I'm fiddling in a lot of blanks here because
there isn't too much to go on when it comes to the precise chronologies of things and what happened
early in the days of nyamuna but it appears that after the cloud Arc was created the citizens of
nyamuna found themselves at War the enemy of these wars isn't made clear but I think we can safely
presume that it must have been the Vex considering the lack of any other entities within the system
that could have taken their place in the times before the Cloud Striders it was clear that the
whole of neomuna's citizenry would fight and would have some nanite augmentation to varying levels so
that they could Stave off whoever this antagonist might have been and again it isn't ever stated
that it's the Vex but there is no other enemy at least there isn't an enemy from within yet that
does happen at a certain point in nyamuna's story but not here and ultimately there's no
other enemies such as the Elixir or the hive that could possibly have taken their place so we have
to assume it's the Vex and yeah the citizens fight them off with nanite technology and augmentations
it wasn't until the creation of Strider the very first Cloud Strider that many of the augmentations
that we would see would be so heavily implemented but it's clear that many of the Protectors of
nyamuna had them from here our understanding of how the neomuni interacted with the Vex is still
not clear though and again whilst they aren't clearly the aggressors there's no one else who
really fits that bill I'm sure there are some bits of idol dialogue from the digital citizens out
there that tell us little bits and pieces but for now there's just writing on the wall which tells
us something of what we need to know our first source for all of this and something that relates
to the relationship between the neomuni citizenry and the Vex is from a neo-muna kids program
stay with me I promise it's actually I mean the context is weird but it's actually talking
about something very important I know it sounds ludicrous but I'll explain as I go
we're going to look at the Maelstrom and blue jay law entries from the cloud Strider legacies
law book the law entries that give us all the titles of the cloud Striders as opposed
to their actual names are all presented in the format of a children's history program this is
the sort of Ideal history that the parents of nyamuna are trying to teach their children and
I'll be honest it's very revisionist we're not going to go into an example of that revisionism
but for the sake of knowledge know that it is very much perfected so to speak it
is washed over for children it's simplified and oftentimes it's just trying to inhibit something
which would cause moral deviancy trying to make them good citizens of neemuna you know
anyway take a listen to maelstrom's entry in this and you'll get an idea of what I mean
one two three eyes on me Ninos it's Thursday and you know what that means that's right it is cloud
strike today what did the cloud Striders do right again they keep us all safe and how do we tell
them thank you by remembering them today we'll learn about Maelstrom that's a new word isn't it
do you know what it means a Maelstrom is a big storm a Maelstrom is loud and
scary and it can cause a lot of damage the cloud Strider who picked Maelstrom as her
call sign was also loud and scary but she wasn't scary to us she was scary to the vex
she was a strong Warrior who could fight as well as any of the Vex but she was also
a very smart leader who told all the other people on Neptune how to defend ourselves
this first entry just shows us that the Vex conflict does indeed go back a long while
Maelstrom is not the first of the Striders not even close but they certainly are quite
far back by the looks of things and even though this is the first of the entries
of the neomuna law that actually mentions the Vex chronologically I think it's fair
to say that Maelstrom was not the first to fight the Vex more importantly though for
the immediate context of things this gives you the vibe of the children's broadcast here it's
important for understanding the context of the blue or J entry and for what comes next
one two three eyes on me Ninos it's Thursday and you know what that means that's right
it is cloud stride a day what do the cloud Striders do write again they keep us all safe
and how do we tell them thank you by remembering them today we will learn about blue jay the blue
jay is a very clever bird you might have seen one in the Parklands some can even talk the
cloud Strider who picked Blue Jay as his call sign was very clever many Cloud Striders Are Soldiers
or Engineers but blue jay was a game designer do you know what a game designer is children
that's right a game designer makes vid games maybe you have played a video game with your parents in
the cloud Arc blue jay was the very first person to make a vid game in the cloud Arc before that we
did not know it was a whole world we could not use it to make art or visit friends we just put things
in it to save them for later like the closet under the closet seems scary at first doesn't hit Ninos
but if you are brave you can find lots of fun things inside so blue jay helped us expand how
we use the cloud Arc he made it a place where we could play or even live if we needed to and when
he made his game in there he also learned that the Vex used the cloud Arc II they could not get in
but the cloud Ark was so strong they could use it to do their work for them even from outside using
the force of the veil to turn their own machines like when the wind turns a turbine blue jay
learned he could jump from the cloud Arc to the Vex Network and he sabotaged their machines from
the inside the Vex were very confident and did not think he could find them so they were careless
and so blue jay scared them and they ran away and what we learned is that being careless with
the cloud Arc is dangerous isn't it that's why you always close your open ports and keep your
passcode secret because the Vex remember being scared and they'll frighten you to get us back
that's all for today ninos three two one now have fun and remember thank you Cloud striders
Carlita capybara capybara Corner season 44 episode 23. crikey I uh oh Lord that's that's a lot of
seasons of content anyway um the blue jay entry yeah it's a very revisionist history of Blue Jay's
story in reality blue jay was reprimanded for creating games within the cloud Arc at first and
they were kind of forced to continue their work and research and yeah that's a totally separate
story and it just gives you an idea of the fact that again this whole thing of what they're trying
to teach the children is very much revisionist I'm focusing a lot on the kids of nyamuna and there's
a reason for that it's because of the swarmers law Tab and the story that it tells us there are
some seemingly contradictory things that are being stated in this kid's program and that's related to
our story and well going over the most important one is that firstly it states in this latest thing
that we read the season 44 episode 23 thing of Carlita Capybaras capybara Corner that the Vex
can't get into the cloud Arc and yet it also states that the children should always close
their open ports and keep their past codes secret because the Vex remember being scared and they'll
frighten you to get us back seems kind of odd I mean if the cloud Arc is a closed system but the
Vex can't technically get into it well that's kind of odd and what's this thing about being adjacent
to the cloud Arc is that true is it something where they maybe can get in it's really not clear
they've certainly tried in the process of rescuing ceteria so what's going on here the whole ports
and passcodes thing does not need to apply to the whole of the cloud Arc of course it could
just apply to technology generally and maybe this is just children's messaging here that's reading
like a bit of a cautionary tale and maybe I'm reading too much into it but the way that they
phrased it it feels as though they're underplaying the threat of the Vex quite substantially here it
almost feels like the cautionary tale that you'd hear from kids wartime propaganda
you know if this had been the UK in World War II it would have been don't worry the bombs
can't hurt you as long as you have a basement or an Anderson shelter that's the kind of vibe it
gives you know it's very much a hey we have this deadly threat around us but don't worry you know
it's it's all going to be fine that's the kind of vibe it gives and it's well it's not really
telling the whole truth the Vex are a clear and present threat to Nia Muna and I think they have
been for some time and I think that's something that the people of Nia Muna know from experience
to see why I say this let's go ahead and take a look at the swarmas law tab finally which is
something that reads like a bit of children's media again it's a nursery rhyme of sorts but
one that comes off like a much darker nursery rhyme this is troubling and to those of you who
well I'm sure it's a bit late for this now but to those of you who do have problems with the idea of
children being kidnapped this is a Content warning for you because yeah it kind of pushes this idea
listen my child and come to behold of what came to pass in our histories of
old before nyamuna was the city you know our defenses were weak our security may show the
Vex they did plague us for we knew not filled our Cloud Ark with viruses and Carnage they wrought
in the depths of our suffering a Trojan did come the axis mind Aesop promised us but a crumb
of course I will lead these Vermin away I will heal your network keep the viruses at Bay in
exchange you will give me one simple thing I ask only loyalty think of me as your king
Aesop The Sovereign as he called himself then made his promise of Refuge we'd be safe
once again the people refused Aesop's bargain precluded think of your dear children a threat
was eluded the people held fast Aesop's Menace ignored and upon them he Unleashed his digital
horde the children went dark the connection was severed we knew then we had lost near muna's most
treasured a sop withdrew and left us to mourn I'll return one day to us he did warn since
then we have labored each day and each night to keep our Cloud Arc safe locked up good and tight
should Aesop return he'll be met with a wall the most powerful Vigilant and mighty of all
I don't know if this is just a children's rhyme that is simply a tale that implies
things much like the Pied Piper you know don't run off with mysterious strangers
don't do anything where you shouldn't trust people stay with your parents it could just
be another typical children's rhyme that is trying to impart that basic logic to them
but yeah the fact that this is something which specifically references all of this and the fact
that the entirety of neomuna's History seems to be about fighting the vex I mean all of this fits and
if you think about it well this is a very valid reason to go to war if a Vex mind did steal an
entire generation of children from out of the cloud Arc then yeah I think that the parents of
neomuna would absolutely go to war it needs to be done at that point from their point of view
the scary thing is the fact that it implies what the power of the Vex is over the citizens of
neemuna within the cloud Arc and yeah it makes me hope that this isn't real researching the Vex mind
Aesop doesn't return anything on Ishtar Collective this is the first time we're hearing about them in
particular and therefore they might not be real but then again this is also the first time we're
hearing about Nia muna's story so we have no real way of knowing what happened regardless if
this is real this would undoubtedly be one of the darkest moments of New Moon as history an entire
generation of children stolen from the cloud Arc by the vex yeah that's a good reason to go to
war and it's an even better reason for everything that motivated Strider who had a child of her own
something which I think is very important to remember in the context of why she was willing
to make that ultimate sacrifice for now though we can only guess and only hope that Aesop is
in fact a children's Tale and not a real Vex equivalent of the Pied Piper that might have
stolen a whole generation unless we get more clarification on it we won't know
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