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Approved Lore Zero Hour: Origin of the Gulag Plague

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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

GENERAL INFORMATION
  • Media Name: Zero Hour: Origin of the Gulag Plague
  • Format: Hologram Recording
  • Distribution: Common (available virtually everywhere with HoloNet access)
  • Length: Medium
  • Description: Zero Hour is the holographic retelling of the narrator's physical journey into the Netherworld of the Force, and her eventual audience with Zero. The very man who unleashed The Gulag Plague on planet Csilla in 425 ABY. Like a quiet bedtime story, our narrator recounts in her own words her mission, desires, conflicts, compassion, her brave companions, and the climax of their journey through spiritual darkness; their audience with the tortured spirit of Csilla's once brightest son.

SOCIAL INFORMATION
  • Author: Karen Roberts
  • Publisher: Planetary Government of Denon, Bureau of Investigations
  • Reception: This intimate hologram recording was first viewed online following a controversial government e-mail investigation into secretive "Force Users" and their cult-like influence on Denon's planetary security. Critically mocked both by the scholarly and securities communities shortly thereafter, (though obvious the recording was never meant to be consumed publicly,) it was curtly classified alongside other "government evidences of magical infiltration" as just another lost Jedi's mentally unstable dairy recordings. Distributed online however, it circulated quickly. Amassing a cult following of blog posters, holo-tube stars, nine-year old armies, and red-letter media commentators. Soon finding itself to be considered a raw diamond of gossip among galactic historians, Corellian refugees, Jedi librarians, and Netherworld Event deniers too. Now remembered by history as little more than 851 ABY's most interesting look into what the Gulag Plague, and it's creator, might have been.


CONTENT INFORMATION

The recording begins simply. A polite reply to another person's digital inquiry. The message then quickly weaves itself into a story time retelling of a magical and terrible journey by the narrator herself into the vast void known to the galaxy as The Netherworld. Or, as it's known to Jedi and Force scholars today "The Netherworld of the Force". Here the story deviates into four noticeable parts or structures.

First. The narrator describes the magical items and the dire circumstances leading up to her long journey into the void. She touches briefly on the state of the galaxy and the planet Denon following the Incursion Event of 851 ABY. Speaking briefly about what sort of desires, conflicts, and mysterious Jedi artifacts that lead to her departure from worlds more familiar. Mentioning with strong distinction the lost pages of Efreet's Journal. The journal of the late First Grandmaster of the Jedi Order of Tython. Teferi Efreet. A Jedi who had spent a great many years of his mortal existence searching for whatever became of Zero and his world-shattering madness.

Secondly in chapter, she describes her adventuring companions and their daring quest to seek out a thousand-year-old "Force Hound". A person of great age and magical ability who could safety guide their party through the deserts of the Netherworld and in seeking out one powerful spirit in particular. Zero. This same strange quest that took our brave companions out beyond the Outer Rim and into the mysterious courts of an secret organization called "The Attendants". These Attendants, ancient Force Sensitive beings with a marvelous and terrible understanding of the mysteries of the Force, of whom, and once a member of their court could be conscripted, then ventured out as a new party joined together by destiny. Star-sailing among secret Hyperlanes of the Outer Rim known only to the Attendants and their alien servants. Sailing out further towards planet Csilla and her physical rift in the material plane that still to this day leads out and into that dark voided expanse of spirit. A rift into the Netherworld of the Force.

Chapter three, and closer to the end now. Our narrator speaks of the party's dramatic audience in Hel, (a nightmarish proportioning of the Netherworlds many structured dimensions,) and in their brief replies with Zero himself. Here our narrator begins the telling of another epic tale. Zero's tale. Or, of how long ago a political struggle for the future of planet Csilla caused him to abandon all love and unleash the most nightmarish plague that our galaxy had ever seen. Now. Noticeably. This fourth section of the holographic recording being the most descriptive of any other. Complete with names, dates, times, factions, events, and of course, jarring political dramas. Included there-in lies a number of interesting motivating factors that all would lead up to the creation, and the terrifying dispersal of, the Gulag Plague on Csilla. Factions and actors such as the Yuuzhan Vong World Shapers and their religious leader Sharuu, the Royal College of the Reforged Chiss Empire and her many scientific engineers, the Great Machine Omni and her captivating supervisor Doctor Akala Ba'Noir, and lastly; The Ambassadors to the Jedi Order. Lead by none other than Jedi Knight Teferi Efreet himself. A swirling cauldron of lies, deceit, love, and eventually banished dreams.

Here, Put fourthly. Zero weaves his own tale through our narrator's reoccurring words. Speaking with great fury and anguish about the great biological and political events which caused him to lose all hope towards a benevolent rebuilding of his beloved planet Csilla. Speaking of his people's lost purity in the eyes of their Gods, the far-reaching destruction of Csillian climate change, and about the heretical influence of the Yuuzan Vong's suddenly peaceful galactic offerings to help save their planet forever. An offering of a miraculous and lost world-shaping technology. An all-encompassing magic that Zero himself would later poison with his righteous indignation. Poisoning it fully into a great plague of darkness with the help of a Great Machine and it's dark Kwa Priestess. Even despite a young Jedi Knight's naive and foolhardy attempts to stop them.

Zero does not speak of his death in life. Nor of the slumbering of the Great Machine. Nor of even of the disappearance of the magical Kwa woman Akala. For it is at this moment in the story when the last of the mysterious Attendant's arrive in Hel. Having followed the breadcrumb trail left by their Hound companion deep into the Netherworld of the Force. A sudden arrival. Unbeknownst even to our narrotor's surprised companionship. The Attendants still seeking after all these years their rightful and vengeful due. A lost payment for a forbidden covenant made hundreds and hundreds of years ago. Still seeking what they called "A debt of the Force." Even deep into the dark worlds of the dead. A debt that a lost and banished Zero must now repay. In full.

The recording closes sharply thereafter. The Narrator obviously omitting the most succinct and satisfying of resolutions. Still, she pauses a moment only then to sudden thank the original writer for her questions and interests into the far-flung subject. Smiling faintly and eventually admitting that, like Omni and Akala before it, the matter has finally "been put to rest". And lastly in parting, more to a cure to the disease, she can only shake her head and shrug,

"...And of that, only time will tell."



HISTORICAL INFORMATION

Zero Hour: Origin of the Gulag Plague is a holographic recording created and titled by Doctor Karen Valerie Roberts in late 851 ABY and later published online by the planetary government of planet Denon following a controversial security inquisition. Created originally as a private reply to a fellow associate's inquiries at the Denon Academy of Science. An organization of which Mrs. Roberts was at the time, a Director. No doubt had the government "witch-hunt" against Force Users never occurred later that year, the recording would simply have been deleted or lost to time. Alas, or maybe hurrah. The recording was later released publicly by the government. Classified as further proof of magical corruption and infiltration of their peaceful planet by Jedi and Sith cultists alike.

Shortly after it's publication the recording went viral across the whole of the planet. Clamored up by watch dog groups, holo-tube personalities, religious orators, and the mainstream media itself. Becoming both the figurehead pictorial for "real news", vengeful government oversight, public privacy concerns, and this week's best gossip for drama personalities everywhere. This blue-haired Jedi scientist and her strange short story about a long dead Chiss madman now withering down in Hel, had left it's mark on the world. And, if holonet viewership statistics are is to be believed? Maybe even out into the wider galaxy too.

Ah. But. Like so many things one can find while surfing the holonet these days. Bah. Humbug. It's probably just a bunch of rubbish anyway.

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[member="Jay Scott Clark"]

Excellent use of the media template, very interesting read.

I need you to tweak two things before I can stamp it-

  • Author: Karen Roberts
  • Publisher: Planetary Government of Denon, Bureau of Investigations
Hyperlink to Karen Roberts' character sheet and hyperlink to the wikia page of Denon here. (If the Bureau is a canon thing you can hyperlink that here too)
 
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