A VERTEX IS A REGION OF SPACETIME THAT HAS BEEN IRREPARABLY AFFECTED BY KRONOS' IMMENSE GRAVITATIONAL FORCE. VERTICES SERVE AS ACCESS POINTS FOR COUNCIL AGENTS TO PASS FROM OUR FIXED PLANE OF SPACETIME (INFORMALLY KNOWN AS "HOMEBASE") TO AN ALTERNATE PLANE/COSMIC DIMENSION (KNOWN AS A "PARABOLA").
CURRENTLY, THERE ARE ████ KNOWN VERTICES and ███████ KNOWN PARABOLAS WITHIN THE MILKY WAY GALAXY. COUNCIL AGENTS, PLEASE NOTE: VERTICES HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO CHANGE PARABOLAS UNEXPECTEDLY. A VERTEX WILL NOT ALWAYS LEAD TO THE SAME PARABOLA, AND YOUR INITIAL ENTRY POINT INTO A PARABOLA WILL NOT ALWAYS LEAD BACK TO HOMEBASE. THIS PHENOMENA IS KNOWN AS A SHIFTING VERTEX AND ROGUE PARABOLA, RESPECTIVELY.
PLAN ACCORDINGLY WHEN PREPARING TO INTERACT WITH A VERTEX. MANY COUNCIL AGENTS HAVE BEEN LOST TO ROGUE PARABOLAS FROM SHIFTING VERTICES DUE TO POOR PLANNING AND A FAILURE TO FOLLOW COUNCIL HIGH COMMAND INSTRUCTIONS.
ADDITIONALLY: PARABOLAS ARE OFTEN WILDLY UNSTABLE AND IMPOSSIBLE TO PREDICT. IF YOU SUSPECT YOU ARE IN A POCKET PARABOLA (OR A FALSE DIMENSION THAT WAS CREATED, WHETHER UNINTENTIONALLY OR INTENTIONALLY, BY AN ARCHON OF THE GODHAND), THEN FIND THE VERTEX NEAREST TO YOUR CURRENT POSITION AND EXIT THE PARABOLA IMMEDIATELY, IF POSSIBLE.
IF NO VERTEX EXISTS, OR IF YOU SUSPECT YOU HAVE BEEN COMPROMISED BY THE GODHAND, REMAIN CALM AND ████████████████ UNTIL █████████████████████████████████████████████. DO NOT ████████████████████. IN THIS INSTANCE, YOUR IMMEDIATE FAMILY OR OTHER RELEVANT PERSONS WILL ███████████████████████████████████. SHOULD THIS VERY RARE OCCURRENCE HAPPEN, PLEASE REMEMBER: YOU HAVE SERVED THE COUNCIL HONORABLY. TAKE COMFORT IN THE KNOWLEDGE THAT YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND IMPORTANT ENDEAVORS WITH THE COUNCIL OF TWELVE WILL CONTINUE TO SERVE HUMANITY FOR CENTURIES TO COME. REST NOW, OLYMPIAN. PEACEFULLY CEASE TO EXIST.
WARNING SIGNS YOU MAY BE IN A POCKET PARABOLA: — IF YOU EXPERIENCE HALLUCINATIONS OR VISIONS OF AN INCOMPREHENSIBLE NATURE, YOU MAY BE IN A POCKET PARABOLA. — IF YOU EXPERIENCE SPONTANEOUS NOSEBLEEDS, SIGNIFICANT BLEEDING FROM THE EARS OR EYES, SUDDEN AND ACUTE MIGRAINES, TEMPORARY BLINDNESS, OR A SHORT PERIOD OF LOUD TINNITUS FOLLOWED BY TEMPORARY DEAFNESS, YOU MAY BE IN A POCKET PARABOLA. — IF YOU HEAR UNIDENTIFIABLE VOICES THAT DO NOT BELONG TO ANY OF YOUR FELLOW AGENTS, YOU MAY BE IN A POCKET PARABOLA. — IF YOU HEAR VOICES THAT DO BELONG TO ONE OF YOUR FELLOW AGENTS BUT YOU ARE UNABLE TO LOCATE AND CONFIRM THE SOURCE, YOU MAY BE IN A POCKET PARABOLA. — IF YOU HEAR DISEMBODIED SCREAMING, WHISPERING, OR CRYING OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN, YOU MAY BE IN A POCKET PARABOLA. — IF YOU HEAR YOUR NAME BEING CALLED FOLLOWED BY A HALLUCINATION OF SOMETHING OR SOMEONE THAT LOOKS LIKE YOU BUT IS NOT YOU BECKONING YOU (WHETHER PHYSICALLY OR VERBALLY) TO THE ████████, YOU ARE IN A POCKET PARABOLA AND IT ALREADY TOO LATE. YOU HAVE BEEN COMPROMISED. REFER BACK TO EARLIER INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO PROCEED. — IF YOU DIRECTLY ENCOUNTER AN ARCHON OF THE GODHAND WHILE EXPERIENCING ANY OF THE ABOVE SIGNS/SYMPTOMS, YOU ARE IN A POCKET PARABOLA AND IT IS ALREADY TOO LATE. YOU HAVE BEEN COMPROMISED. REFER BACK TO EARLIER INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO PROCEED. — MOST IMPORTANTLY, IF YOU ████████████ █████████ ██████████, YOU ████████ █████████████████ ████████████████ █████████████ ███████████.
DUE TO THE HIGH LEVELS OF ████████ RADIATION SPORADICALLY EMITTED FROM THESE LIMITED REGIONS OF SPACE, ALL COUNCIL HIGH COMMAND SPECIAL TASKFORCES ARE FORBIDDEN FROM APPROACHING AND/OR INTERACTING WITH A VERTEX. ONLY COUNCIL AGENTS MAY APPROACH AND ENTER AN ACCESS POINT.
THE COUNCIL OF TWELVE: ACCESS FILE: VERTICES / PARABOLAS
> TODAY'S DATE IS 9622/03/24, 1929 HOURS.
> ACCESSING FILE: KRONOS
> ACCESSING SUB-FILE: VERTICES / PARABOLAS
> CLEARANCE LEVEL 5: ACCEPTED
> DISPLAY FILE?
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A VERTEX IS A REGION OF SPACETIME THAT HAS BEEN IRREPARABLY AFFECTED BY KRONOS' IMMENSE GRAVITATIONAL FORCE. VERTICES SERVE AS ACCESS POINTS FOR COUNCIL AGENTS TO PASS FROM OUR FIXED PLANE OF SPACETIME (INFORMALLY KNOWN AS "HOMEBASE") TO AN ALTERNATE PLANE/COSMIC DIMENSION (KNOWN AS A "PARABOLA").
CURRENTLY, THERE ARE ████ KNOWN VERTICES and ███████ KNOWN PARABOLAS WITHIN THE MILKY WAY GALAXY. COUNCIL AGENTS, PLEASE NOTE: VERTICES HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO CHANGE PARABOLAS UNEXPECTEDLY. A VERTEX WILL NOT ALWAYS LEAD TO THE SAME PARABOLA, AND YOUR INITIAL ENTRY POINT INTO A PARABOLA WILL NOT ALWAYS LEAD BACK TO HOMEBASE. THIS PHENOMENA IS KNOWN AS A SHIFTING VERTEX AND ROGUE PARABOLA, RESPECTIVELY.
PLAN ACCORDINGLY WHEN PREPARING TO INTERACT WITH A VERTEX. MANY COUNCIL AGENTS HAVE BEEN LOST TO ROGUE PARABOLAS FROM SHIFTING VERTICES DUE TO POOR PLANNING AND A FAILURE TO FOLLOW COUNCIL HIGH COMMAND INSTRUCTIONS.
ADDITIONALLY: PARABOLAS ARE OFTEN WILDLY UNSTABLE AND IMPOSSIBLE TO PREDICT. IF YOU SUSPECT YOU ARE IN A POCKET PARABOLA (OR A FALSE DIMENSION THAT WAS CREATED, WHETHER UNINTENTIONALLY OR INTENTIONALLY, BY AN ARCHON OF THE GODHAND), THEN FIND THE VERTEX NEAREST TO YOUR CURRENT POSITION AND EXIT THE PARABOLA IMMEDIATELY, IF POSSIBLE.
IF NO VERTEX EXISTS, OR IF YOU SUSPECT YOU HAVE BEEN COMPROMISED BY THE GODHAND, REMAIN CALM AND ████████████████ UNTIL █████████████████████████████████████████████. DO NOT ████████████████████. IN THIS INSTANCE, YOUR IMMEDIATE FAMILY OR OTHER RELEVANT PERSONS WILL ███████████████████████████████████. SHOULD THIS VERY RARE OCCURRENCE HAPPEN, PLEASE REMEMBER: YOU HAVE SERVED THE COUNCIL HONORABLY. TAKE COMFORT IN THE KNOWLEDGE THAT YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND IMPORTANT ENDEAVORS WITH THE COUNCIL OF TWELVE WILL CONTINUE TO SERVE HUMANITY FOR CENTURIES TO COME. REST NOW, OLYMPIAN. PEACEFULLY CEASE TO EXIST.
WARNING SIGNS YOU MAY BE IN A POCKET PARABOLA:
— IF YOU EXPERIENCE HALLUCINATIONS OR VISIONS OF AN INCOMPREHENSIBLE NATURE, YOU MAY BE IN A POCKET PARABOLA.
— IF YOU EXPERIENCE SPONTANEOUS NOSEBLEEDS, SIGNIFICANT BLEEDING FROM THE EARS OR EYES, SUDDEN AND ACUTE MIGRAINES, TEMPORARY BLINDNESS, OR A SHORT PERIOD OF LOUD TINNITUS FOLLOWED BY TEMPORARY DEAFNESS, YOU MAY BE IN A POCKET PARABOLA.
— IF YOU HEAR UNIDENTIFIABLE VOICES THAT DO NOT BELONG TO ANY OF YOUR FELLOW AGENTS, YOU MAY BE IN A POCKET PARABOLA.
— IF YOU HEAR VOICES THAT DO BELONG TO ONE OF YOUR FELLOW AGENTS BUT YOU ARE UNABLE TO LOCATE AND CONFIRM THE SOURCE, YOU MAY BE IN A POCKET PARABOLA.
— IF YOU HEAR DISEMBODIED SCREAMING, WHISPERING, OR CRYING OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN, YOU MAY BE IN A POCKET PARABOLA.
— IF YOU HEAR YOUR NAME BEING CALLED FOLLOWED BY A HALLUCINATION OF SOMETHING OR SOMEONE THAT LOOKS LIKE YOU BUT IS NOT YOU BECKONING YOU (WHETHER PHYSICALLY OR VERBALLY) TO THE ████████, YOU ARE IN A POCKET PARABOLA AND IT ALREADY TOO LATE. YOU HAVE BEEN COMPROMISED. REFER BACK TO EARLIER INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO PROCEED.
— IF YOU DIRECTLY ENCOUNTER AN ARCHON OF THE GODHAND WHILE EXPERIENCING ANY OF THE ABOVE SIGNS/SYMPTOMS, YOU ARE IN A POCKET PARABOLA AND IT IS ALREADY TOO LATE. YOU HAVE BEEN COMPROMISED. REFER BACK TO EARLIER INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO PROCEED.
— MOST IMPORTANTLY, IF YOU ████████████ █████████ ██████████, YOU ████████ █████████████████ ████████████████ █████████████ ███████████.
DUE TO THE HIGH LEVELS OF ████████ RADIATION SPORADICALLY EMITTED FROM THESE LIMITED REGIONS OF SPACE, ALL COUNCIL HIGH COMMAND SPECIAL TASKFORCES ARE FORBIDDEN FROM APPROACHING AND/OR INTERACTING WITH A VERTEX. ONLY COUNCIL AGENTS MAY APPROACH AND ENTER AN ACCESS POINT.