DREDGEN KNOWHERE

Chapter 1: Walking On Thin Ice

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Spent a year or two planet to planet, I stripped what loot was left of the Prison of Elders after a gang of Fallen offed that gunslinger, and made my way to Europa. Before this it was just me and Specter, our ship barely in tact and scraping by with other Guardian's leftovers while we kept a low profile.

I lowered my ship through the planets snowy fog, but my hastiness drew to a close when an enormous silhouette began to emerge through the mist. I lowered my ship into a ravine for cover, the only thought going through my mind was of the amount of loot I could scrape up from a building that big on this Exo Planet. After shutting off the engine and transmatting to the surface, I felt the deathly cold winds of the planet topple my stance. I struggled to push my way through the fog and up a hill, but nothing could've prepared me for what I saw once I reached the peak.

It was a Pyramid ship, just idle on Europa. I thought I was the first one there, but once the fog cleared up while I stood in awe, I could see Eliksni ships divebombing in to drop its troops. Saw some Guardian interact with a Pyramid obelisk, then they casted these ice sickles that swept the battlefield conjuring tornadoes of snow and ice freezing, then shattering Eliksni like glass.

This Guardian took on Servitors, Captains, and even what looked like a Brig all by themself. I waited long for them to finish their battle and as soon as the Guardian left I entered the ship, stepping in and feeling a deep warmth that eerily contrasted the cold weathers of the planet. I explored the endless corridors, saw statues of guardians, Cabal, Fallen, even horses, all carved in the midst of actions set up like a stage.

At the end of the hall was a stairway that led upward too far for me to see the peak. As I walked up these almost endless stairs I came to a veiled statue that towered over me. I ran my hand across the pedestal below and my ghost came out and raised in front of the statue. She started talking, it was Specters voice, but within was another voice which sounded like echoes, "YOU COME IN SEARCH FOR MORE."

I couldn't tell if she was talking to me, she was looking past me as if there was an audience, or as if I wasn't even worth looking at, "Specter, are you ok?" I ask, "Can you hear me?"

"REACH OUT AND YOU TOO CAN HAVE WHAT YOU DESIRE." She said as she lowered down to me.

I reached out to recall her and in that moment an ice crystal as thin as a flower stem burst out from the ground beneath Specter and pierced right through my palm. 

The Ice crystal retracted immediately and Specter came to, "W-What happened?" she whimpered in her own, singular voice.

"You don't remember!?" I asked while still on edge gripping my hand out of pain.

"I don't know. I-I felt this overwhelming power flowing through me, it was like the light, but stronger..." She then rambled as if she desired more of this power, then looked down and noticed, "Your hand! No, did I do that?" She asked shakily.

"It's fine." I said softly to calm her down. I then ripped a piece of cloth from my cape and wrapped it around my hand to stop the bleeding. "Can you get us out of here? I feel like we've been here longer than we should."

"Copy." She began to transmat us out, but something was wrong.

"What's taking so long?" I asked anxiously.

"I don't know, somethings interfering with my connection."

I grab her and make my way to the exit swiftly, but I freeze. I couldn't believe it. "No." There in the frame stood a man. A hunter, one arm covered by his cloak and the other held a gun. The one and only Golden Gun. "How did you find me? I covered my tracks, I made sure not to take too much." No response from him, he stood there with a red and black fiery glow emitting from him casting his shadow onto the floor as if he were a giant. He stood there as a silhouette "Shin Malphur."