Colossus By Design: Entry 0077 - The Map Revealed

[December 9, 2145]
[Roth-Ma Island, off the coast of the Japanese origin island]

[Research team has finished translating the stone carvings in the heart of the island]


(Thomas Scott): Is there anything else you can glean from those carvings?

(Researcher 1): I'm sorry, but there wasn't anything left translatable.

(Satoshi Yamane): Very well. Climb aboard. We will carry you back to the fleet.


[Freedom of Justice and Serizawa's Light crouch down and allow the research team to climb into their hands]
[Warmongers stand back up and walk towards the beach]
[Warmongers link back up with the fleet off the coast]


(Captain): [COMMS] So, get anything useful?

(Thomas Scott): Maybe. We know that the Alpha, Epsilon, and Zeta are all connected, and that the Alpha is going after the Epsilon specifically.

(Captain): [COMMS] Funny you should mention them. I'm sure you saw the Zeta fly by earlier too.

(Thomas Scott): Yeah. What about it?

(Captain): [COMMS] Seems as though our Alpha friend started following her to God knows where.

(Thomas Scott): Did you inform the G.U.D.?

(Captain): [COMMS] Yep. All stations are maintaining contact and keeping all eyes and ears open, sirs.

(Thomas Scott): Good. Take us home.

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[December 12, 2145]
[Antarctica]
[Global Union of Divisions Headquarters]
[Underground Warmonger holding bay]

[Serizawa's Light and Freedom of Justice are the only Warmongers present for tuning after their mission to Roth-Ma Island]
[Dr. Jiro Ifukube steps out onto a platform at eye-level to the two]


(Dr. Ifukube): I see you've returned. Any complications?

(Thomas Scott): No, sir.

(Dr. Ifukube): Very good. I'm curious, though......

(Thomas Scott): Curious? About what?

(Dr. Ifukube): About the translations of those carvings the research team found. I've already been briefed, but I still find myself wondering about them. What about you, Mr. Scott?

(Thomas Scott): I'm not sure what the question is, sir......

(Dr. Ifukube): Satoshi?

(Satoshi Yamane): Thomas, sensei asks how you interpret what the inscriptions have stated.

(Thomas Scott): Oh.

(Dr. Ifukube): Well?

(Thomas Scott): I don't really know what to think. It gives us a motivation for three of our culprits, but......

(Dr. Ifukube): But?

(Thomas Scott): It's just that last bit about the Atlanteans visiting the natives, inquiring about their gods.

(Dr. Ifukube): Yes, quite a profound connection, that.

(Thomas Scott): Sir, I think there's something more to it than just exploration and curiosity.

(Dr. Ifukube): Is that so? Do tell.

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[Unknown Date]
[Underground Atlantean shelter]

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In the underground shelter housing the last known remnants of the Atlantean population, scientists, engineers, and various other personnel are hard at work on the enormous turtle shell.

On a platform above all the work, Hephaestus looks over all of the operations currently being performed, then back at his personal notes on his table.


(Thomas Scott): *narration* I can't help but feel that the Atlanteans wanted something from the natives' 'gods'.

(Dr. Ifukube): *narration* Hmmmm.......


Out of all the notes and blueprints, a notable few stand out among the others: a blueprint of a Gyaos/Beta with referential corner sketches of the Epsilon, a blueprint of the Delta with referential corner sketches of the Epsilon and a Gyaos/Beta, and a blueprint of the Gamma with referential corner sketches of the Alpha, the Zeta, and a Human.