VESTIGE
A CEPHALON ARCHIVE OF THE ORIGIN SYSTEM
MEMORY INTACT · RECORD OPEN · TAU IN SIGHT
RECORDS CURRENT THROUGH: JADE SHADOWS: CONSTELLATIONS
NEW TO ALL OF THISCross the ThresholdWhat this place is, what the story is, and where to begin.AWAY A WHILEThe story so farEvery chapter recapped in order, patch by patch. Pick up the thread where you left it.READY FOR WHAT COMESThe Dossier: Before TauSeven threads of lore required to understand the next revelation.HERE FOR EVERYTHINGEnter the stacksThe records, the Chronicle of eras, and the Weave of every thread between them.
THE RECORDS
ordered as the archive orders time
RECORD 01FALLEN
The Orokin Empire
The empire that owned the Origin System so completely it mistook itself for permanent.
SOVEREIGN POWER · EXTINCT
RECORD 02EXTANT
Cephalons
The Orokin answer to a dangerous question: what if memory itself could be made obedient?
CONSTRUCTED INTELLIGENCE · CUSTODIAL
RECORD 03RECORD ONGOING
The Zariman Ten Zero
A colony ship that left for Tau and arrived somewhere else entirely.
COLONY VESSEL · VOID-LOST
RECORD 04PERMANENT
The Void
The space beneath space. The Orokin used it as a road, and it used them back.
EXTRADIMENSIONAL EXPANSE
RECORD 05ACTIVE
The Sentients
Machines sent to build a paradise in Tau. They finished the job and drew the obvious conclusion about their makers.
SELF-DIRECTING TERRAFORM ARMADA
RECORD 06CLOSED
The Old War
The war the empire deserved, won by the weapon it deserved least.
ERA RECORD · TOTAL WAR
RECORD 07ACTIVE
The Tenno
The system’s last honest weapon. What they are is a harder question than what they can do.
WARRIOR ORDER
RECORD 08ACTIVE
Natah · The Lotus
Sent to end a bloodline. Chose to raise it instead.
GUIDE · CONTESTED NATURE
RECORD 09REMADE
Hunhow
An old god of machines, buried at the bottom of an ocean, patient as sediment.
SENTIENT PROGENITOR
RECORD 10CONTESTED RECORD
Erra
A name from the Old War’s casualty rolls that stopped being a casualty.
SENTIENT · WAR-LEADER
RECORD 11STRUCK FROM CONTINUITY
Executor Ballas
The empire’s most gifted maker, and every gift a knife eventually.
OROKIN EXECUTOR
RECORD 12REVELATION IMMINENT
The Tau System
The destination that built the modern age. One man has now reached it, and sent back nothing.
STELLAR SYSTEM · TERRAFORM DESIGNATE
RECORD 13LISTENING
The Indifference
The other party to the oldest open contract in the record. It wears your face when it comes to visit.
VOID ENTITY · NATURE UNRESOLVED
RECORD 14RECORD ONGOING
The Entrati
The family that opened the Void, and has been paying its toll ever since: in names, in bodies, in centuries.
OROKIN SCHOLAR HOUSE · VOID CUSTODIANS
RECORD 15RECURRING
Duviri
A bedtime story made real by the Void and ruled by a child’s worst mood. The child grew up. The book did not.
POCKET WORLD · CONCEPTUAL EMBODIMENT
RECORD 16EXTANT · REPEATING
The Hex · The Year 1999
One walled city, one doubled plague, six survivors of a cure. The year is 1999. It is not done being 1999.
PROTOFRAME CELL · LOOP-BOUND