The Fall of Thor, Retrospective
19 Aug 2024Daedalus Spyke
8/19/3310Thor just exploded.
I decided to attend the funeral in my favorite ship this time, the Imperial Eagle, and had a great time flying around the Titan without much worry of harassment. The spectacle was just like I'd seen five times before now and while I did have a good time, the feeling of "enjoyment" was somewhat absent. I took my time leaving the system though to really soak it in since even if you have seen it many times before, you don't get to see it very often and this is going to be one of the last ones we get to watch at all.
A funny thing happened once I left though. On my way back to my carrier I noticed a familiar name in my Nav panel; one I hadn't seen nor thought about in a long time. It was "The Dedicant".
It took me a moment to even recall where I'd heard that name and then my memory was confirmed correct once I dropped out of supercruise at its signal. For anyone else who forgot: It was the megaship owned and operated by the Cult of the Far God. Operating word: was.
A history lesson.
The Cult of the Far God were a troubled group of people who worshiped a deity said to be in deep space. Once the Thargoids showed up, the looneys decided that those bugs were the manifestation of their god. I kinda get it, really. You worship an unknowable being out in the black and then an unknown being comes out from the black... It's not hard to put two and two together in that situation but their math was definitely wrong here and this wreckage is the proof of that.
After getting arrested and subsequently given a barely civil ejection from their homes in Federal space, they were scheduled to be shipped to the open arms of Alliance systems and security. The cult decided they had a better plan though and they escaped their bonds, hijacked their own ship, and jumped it to an unknown destination.
Well, we eventually found it and the logs show they were visited by their "gods" who were only too happy to attack the ship and capture everyone on board, believer or not, and ship them off to the nearest Titan for packaging into a pod and who knows what else.
Seeing this wreckage again and re-listening to those logs, which may be the last time some of those
I don't know if those cultists were ever rescued from out of Thor before it went critical and part of me would like to ask them what they think of their "god" now that they've been thoroughly acquainted with it. But at least the number of people who would meet a similar fate is shrinking every day and that alone is almost enough.