All eight parts of the Vek Transcendence story … but this is just a small part of the entire Vek Origins story contained in the Infinispace mythos.
Tag: Hamlet
Images & Words: The Vek, Emergence
While a Technician might kill quickly from the front, a Matriarch will take her time, slowly stalking from the shadows and killing in the most cunning and torturous way they can devise.
Images & Words: The Vek, Mindwar
The Technicians had managed to isolate it behind a wall of ever-shifting encryption that, in our minds, appeared as a sphere of polished obsidian interlaced with cracks showing the data beneath.
Images & Words: The Vek, Submergence
Many of the Vek were lulled into a sense of security, thinking Ascension had left us or decided to capitulate. These slipped into truesleep. Perhaps that was its plan, to lull us into a sense of complacency, then strike.
Images & Words: The Vek, Hivernation
Many Vek succumbed to the AI plague in the last moments as it made efforts to sabotage our plans. Some Vek committed suicide knowing they had been overly compromised … others were regrettably terminated by the Technicians.
Images & Words: The Vek, Hivernation World
They endured months of long darkness where what little heat that was contained by their enhancement suits was sucked from their bodies by the jet black firmament of space hanging over their heads.
Images & Words: The Vek, Delving Too Deep
We delved deep and unearthed the source of those whispers. The ancient abomination we discovered under the icy ruins was almost our undoing, but in the end it would be our salvation.
Images & Words: Enemy of Mine Enemy
The ink black mechglider tore through the grey cloud deck, its leading edges still glowing from the heat of atmospheric re-entry and its hypersonic shock wave leaving behind an ever expanding hole through which faint blue sky could be seen.
Images & Words: The Vek, Beginnings
Your string of endless and inefficient wars hampered our genetic transcendence, not unlike the intellectual despair created by your corrupt spiritual and political leaders in your middle ages that hindered your progress.
Images & Words: Vek Technician
As you well know the Technician is one part of a symbiosis that holds the small, but fierce, Vek civilization together. Technicians are the warriors, builders, and strong arm of the Vek’s might … manifest in physical form.
Images & Words: Shadow Steps
He loathed the Tangle, but from time to time certain aspects of his undisclosed servitude required that he descend from the Spire when he was on Earth and retrace its narrow and dangerous avenues….
Space Whale by Yohann Schepacz
Note: This vignette is a continuation from Heavy Metal. Our transport pushed through the shell and entered Nullspace, the void between realities, a shortcut that allows humanity to bypass its shell […]
