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Tatterdemalion: The Lunar Province of Secunda

Author: 
Temple Zero
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This text was posted in a thread with the same title on January 1st, 2012, by Michael Kirkbride. The accompanying image of a docking Mothship was drawn by Lutemoth and posted by him in the thread on January 3rd. The picture of the mananaut suit was drawn by Lady Nerevar, but posted by Michael Kirbride. Originally, each was hyperlinked to the text in the post, we've chosen to instead show it in line.

Prior to writing, Kirkbride had this to say about this portion of the Pocket Guide:

Tatterdemalion is going to take the middle road to all of this. It cannot combat the beautifully sublime Elsweyr-on-the-moon with one more overtly comedic throughline of hijinx. It's going to be matter of fact, inasmuch as portraying voidmoths, Imperial moonsuits, and dead god geography can try without falling into crazed blabber. It knows it's been waiting to come out for awhile, so all excitement will have to be tempered with my best attempt at "the encyclopedic monotone"that I can muster. I suspect it will be the section that most emulates my work on the original PGE.

Imperial subjugation of the lunar territories began as early Reman the First. His failed conquest of the Underworld (and its terrestrial consequences) ended in the loss of his mid-wife wives, and the only anodyne to his grief was a reckless void-eyed hubris. In 1E2757, he circumvented the bureaucracy of his own throne, including all county courtships and trans-provincial authorities, to make plans to colonize Tamriel’s twin moons. He commissioned the nachronachs of the Immaterial Harmonics Institute of Incongruitech and Extrinsic Travels to begin work on the first genegineered Megalomoth vessel-fortresses, “to reclaim all extramundic holdings and grant lands from the maddening nighttime tatters of Shezzar’s proof of Man’s provenance”.

When Reman’s efforts were finally revealed, there was a large discomfort throughout his sovereignties and even outright dissent in the Elder Council. These iconoclasts feared daedric vexation for unritualized trepass into the Void, and perhaps rightly so. However, this was all quickly dissolved when the Sixteen-Plus Princes of Tumult lent their nymic oaths in their first display of coalition since the Fall of Lyg in the previous kalpa. Conjecture points to some machinations of Nocturnal, who took on her mantle of Ur-Dra of Oblivion, and it was by her primogeniture that Reman was able to pursue his cosmic acquisitions without further censure.

Alas, The Cyrodiil did not live to see the completion of the Megalomoth vessel-fortress, which he wanted to christen as the NVN Manywife with Interest. Ash-bitten knives of the Dunmeri assassin's guild, the Morag Tong, ended him in 1E2762. Its final construction, and its first landing on Secunda, was overseen by his son, Reman II, who renamed it either capriciously (or just more simply), the NVN Accrual. Of that famous planefall, we turn to the records of Bethalamet Grieves, Imperial Mananaut of the New Void Navy:

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Bethalamet Grieves


[DIAMOND-IN-DIAMOND ZIGGURAT [VESSEL OF MOTHMOTH] BEHOLDS REMAN-IN-REMAN, LET IT BE KNOWN THAT EVEN THE PALACES OF CYROD WILL BOW THEIR HEADS GRACEFULLY TO THEIR EMPEROR. OUR EYES AS SIGILS, SPINNING LIKE PLATES IN EFFORT TO LIFT BEYOND THE PRIMUNDUS, TOWARD {SHEZZAR-MAUSOLEUM-CORPSE-LANDGRAB} ------------+++//]