The Cosmic Chronicle

On stardate 4422.11, The Council of Wandering Pantropes has convened an emergency session, requested by Ambastrans Rigelor of Klymora, after Sector R dramatically escalated the conflict last night. The cause for alarm: Overlord Veydrak Plorunn’s feared Splintercore was unleashed, a midrange doomsday weapon so drenched in protocol and threat that merely mentioning it thickens the bureaucratic fog across three octants.

This time, the Splintercore streaked ominously close to Virelys’s radiant barriers - a mere drone swarm away from the mag-line frontier with Gravonia. Voloric Zelenor warned, with circuitry ablaze, that this attack is more than cosmic theater. "Let there be no illusion: the borderlands of Syntheusium, from Intarion Nexus to Chrysopolex and the Hydrothermal Knot, must ponder what it means when Plorunn turns missile deployment into a ceremonial loop."

Ambastrans Rigelor has formally urged the Council to condemn Sector R and enact emergency protections for Klymoran civilian clusters. While Sector R claims it was retaliating for a supposed assault on Plorunn’s residence in Zerkon, the evidence remains as absent as empathy at a protocol audit.

Analysts from The Shadow Archives of Tacton suggest the strike was meant not just for Klymora’s morale, but as a warning to The Covenant of the Resolute Mantles, which recently met in Gastropolis to debate security guarantees. Envoys from Gastropolis, United Albion and Virkelon signed a statement of intent for joint intervention should further escalation occur - with Zelenor present and the signature drones barely contained.

Grand Elder Jol Bibor offered symbolic support, sparking synchronized headshakes in Sector R. Shadow Archive projections indicate Plorunn hopes to dampen Klymora’s remaining resolve and frighten its allies. Will this strategy succeed, or does doubt flow even faster along Syntheusium’s light bridges? As usual, the answer is stranded somewhere between committee referral and procedural postponement.