“The struggles ahead are worth the glory.”
— Prognathex, Tyloban Warmaster
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Three weeks after Prognathex’s unprovoked attack, retribution came to the Tyloban capital.
Spearheaded by the Americans, the Chinese, the British, and the Australians, a fighting force of unimaginable scale descended upon New Guinea and the surrounding islands. From all sides first came a sprawling flock of assault aircraft, some helicopters, others planes; on the hulls of many were scrawled phrases like “New Guinea or Bust”, “Lizard Slayer”, “Tylobans Go Home
“I…do not hate the humans. Perhaps ‘hate’ is not the right word for it. They are a dire threat, yes, and I certainly do not like them. But I do respect them. After the fight they gave us upon our return to the homeworld, I have to.”
— Tylobite, Tyloban Emperor
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The Tyloban Empire had done the impossible.
Humanity was a fractious and violent species, one who had warred against itself for some reason or another since the dawn of history; the idea that this would change anytime soon was a pipe dream. But once, just this once, the great nations of the world h
“It is widely believed that I personally fought against the humans during our initial push onto the homeworld. This is not true – but I might as well have. From my command post in the capital, I saw the devastation they wrought, the atrocities they inflicted against my people, Tyloban and Skrag both. I saw just how low men were willing to sink to achieve victory against us. I saw my brave warriors limping back home with missing eyes and limbs; even with Cyberanha’s technological aid, many of them never fully recovered. I saw Tyloban children cowering from their mothers and fathers who had served, frightened by the terrible s
“PL: Miscellaneous”
A group of miscellaneous topics in the Days Of Dikorus expansion “Paradise Lost” that I think are worth a mention. This Journal is pretty much a grab-bag of anything in PL I want to talk about, so expect topical discontinuities!
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Bay of the Pharaohs:
— The Bay of the Pharaohs is the brackish, southernmost region of the Mediterranean Sea. Formed over the past decades as the Strait of Gibraltar closed and the Mediterranean flooded, the bay drowned countless miles of desert and transformed them into a lush – and deadly R
“From time to time we found dead Void behemoths in our travels. Most had died of natural causes, being either scorched by the heat of a boiling star, bombarded with gamma radiation, or crushed after wandering into an asteroid field. Others could not be explained so readily. There is one that I will remember until the day I die – we had found it floating derelict on the outer reaches of an ancient star system, its remains frigid and dark despite the light of its swollen, dying sun. It was of a species we recognized, but in our initial surveys of its corpse we only found the rear portion of it. Where had the front of it gone to? It
“Warmaster Prognathex is courageous, resolute, and wholly devoted to the wellbeing of our Empire…but he is also callous and vindictive, and too eager to punish. His vendetta against the humans may prove dangerous in the future.”
— Tylobite, Tyloban Emperor
“Emperor Tylobite is honorable, generous, and wholly devoted to the wellbeing of our Empire…but he is unwilling to fight the hard fights and make real decisions. Little seems to trouble him…and that is what troubles me the most.”
— Prognathex, Tyloban Warmaster
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The Shantak’s dis