[ KARUUN ] — FORBIDDEN WORLD / 4TH OCTANT [ LOCATION ] — TEMPLE OF QUANTUM AWAKENING [ CHARACTERS ] — REKHA / YANTRA / GERRAN [ STATUS ] — TO STAND HERE IS A CRIME. ———————————————————— Karuun is not dead. That is the strange part. The people are gone. The world went on without them — alien herds in the empty plazas, insects keeping the old machines warm. A planet sealed by decree. To breathe its air is trespass. Which suits them well, being heretics already. ———————————————————— Three came up to the temple anyway. Rekha first. Nayan8 trained her, once, to find people like the ones she now keeps alive. Yantra second, carrying not a key but a code — spoken into its keeping by a machine that calls itself an oracle. Gerran last. A young geologist who believed in their cause. ———————————————————— They came for the conduit. A device, they believe, buried in the temple — the one means left of speaking to the consciousness beneath it. Below the temple sleeps Omnith. It slept, a...