Where once stood The Anvil

Cosmicdestroyer

Fort_Master_Gustav

I merely wanted to see what the Anvil could create.

Fort_Master_Gustav

Cosmicdestroyer

What indecency! Its creative might is unlimited, you name it and it can muster, such is the power of its holy light.

LeftHandofGod

Fort_Master_Gustav lolololol. Arguing with zealots is not the best idea in the world.

RedAndCosmoteer

"You're talking mad shit for someone who's in Crusading Distance!"

lmao

i could have just posted the meme but

Undated_Abyss

Fort_Master_Gustav
"We are not gentlemen, our species differs greatly. That aside, we come from the Voidborn Empire. The Anvil itself is certainly interesting."

Fort_Master_Gustav

Undated_Abyss
"Hah, we are all nothing compared to its holy light, anyways, enjoy the view, it'll talke a while to get there."

Undated_Abyss

Fort_Master_Gustav
"Surprising this Anvil lacks the capacity for higher speed travel methods, but surely with some purpose to this being the case?"

Fort_Master_Gustav

Undated_Abyss
"Question not its holy foundations, every inch that it spams is the closest you'll have to perfection. We shall arrive there in no time."

Undated_Abyss

Fort_Master_Gustav
"This work I doubt would have been constructed if noone had questioned."

Fort_Master_Gustav

Undated_Abyss
"Constructed? Why express such foolish thoughts this deep into the womb of creation itself? This place dates far back than time itself."

ComradeShiba

@Fort_Master_Gustav

(Hmph.)

...Hyperspace signatures are detected 7 AU away...

Gray and white ships come quickly out after the signature. Their numbers are not much, but they are followed by a battlecruiser.

Other ships came at the same time with them, but somewhat further back.

Fort_Master_Gustav

ComradeShiba
They see, from their perspective, the megastructure's own bright simulated sun eclipsing the sun that it orbits, soon enough, the fleet is detected, however, probably due to the way they deal with strangers, no signals are sent on their way.

Undated_Abyss

Fort_Master_Gustav
"Everything must be constructed by something, be it natural, divine or artificial that is the constructor."

ComradeShiba

Fort_Master_Gustav

...Transmission :

//Transmission

"Hello, strangers. We heard about this megastructure and came to...see it? Anyways, we'll just send a diplomatic group."
Communications are left open...

Fort_Master_Gustav

Undated_Abyss
"You present a lack of faith, and your questioning is futile. Who has the potency to build gods anyways?"

You can feel the brakes of the train start kicking in, it seems that you are arriving at the station, it resides uncomfortably close to the core.

Fort_Master_Gustav

ComradeShiba
The megastructure blasts back a wave in the same frequency:

Welcome to the Holy Anvil, brothers. Witness its divine light.

Undated_Abyss

Fort_Master_Gustav
"The gods are built by greater gods, and them by greater beings. None know the true apex of power, I should think."
The Voidborn seem completely at ease with being so close to the core.

Namek

Ultranova

Once scanning it, they see it is made out of odd flesh... From thousends of kinds of species? You see dozens of eyes, and millions of arms reaching out for help? All merged with its skin.

What is odd, that the deeper you try to scan, the less of a result you get, simmelar like The Anvil.

MEANWHILE.

Fort_Master_Gustav

The suspect, that they were chasing, is still in The Anvil, crawling on the ground towards the center, faster and faster...

ComradeShiba

Fort_Master_Gustav

The ships warp away after quite a while...

Fort_Master_Gustav

Undated_Abyss
Yet something feels... disturbing, somewhat wrong. However, not wrong enough to alarm them, just a small incovenience, an undescribable feeling, and the sudden metal cling of the train stopping and them being ushered out to follow the priest once again:

"Very well then, the blacksmith will be just ahead."

They are close to the core, the decoration has suddenly changed, now it seems really barroque, the priest vanishes beyond a golden semi-circular door with a strange symbol on the center, that whence he was to opened itself automatically at surprising speeds, the walls are now white and ornate with what appears to be gold, while white and cyan streaks of light flow in golden slits stopped by the periodic golden arcs that seem to transmit the purpose of holding the ceiling, but at the same time seem to be more ornate than functional.

Undated_Abyss

Fort_Master_Gustav
"We shall be pleased to meet whomever they may be, then."

Namek

Fort_Master_Gustav
@Ultranova

Outside The Anvil, darkness approuches... Space began to warp, and an unsettling feeling appears...

From quite a distance, a giant ball of flesh appears, with the size Pluto. It is hard to see details from far away, but eyes are visable from afar, stretching kilometers in size, glaring at The Anvil.

It is unsure why it is there, but you remember it was at Zaa's galaxy, and the Bloodcult Territory as well, quite some time ago.

It stays quite some distance away from all the fleets that are in the area, as well from The Anvil, but still in reach from their glaring eyes.

Fort_Master_Gustav

Undated_Abyss
Following the priest, they come towards an ample standing cyllindrical room that culminates on a cupola in the top, with a series of spinning rings, on to each of the sides are golden stairs adorned with cyan lights, on the top of the cyllinder down the center is a golden globe composed of many circles that rotates in a mesmorizing and slow pace.

Fort_Master_Gustav

Namek
As part of the natural contact procedures of the people of The Anvil, there is no transmission sent to the bulging mass of contorting flesh, although the ones inside the structure are more than aware of its presence, and prepare themselves to take defensive maneuvers if necessary.
Interestingly enough, the simulated star's brightness increases by a noticeable ammount, maybe some kind of automatic defense system?

Ultranova

Namek

The Xorxian ships blare into life, scanners activated, weapons online. The captain of the leading Light Frigate shouts orders.

"Keep a sensible distance away from it, don't fire unless it shows that it's hostile!"

Meanwhile, the scanners begin an automatic scan of the creature. Despite their distance, they could snipe the eye out of a deer, at least, if they had to...