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their deep and gloomy metropoli hundreds of meters beneath the surface
of
the Earth's oceans, will remain forever imponderable.
What stimulated them to rise and attack the land-dwelling nations of
the
Earth is also unknown, although in all likelihood the steady shifting
of
the Earth's axis brought about by the gargantuan subterranean
gyroscopes
of Yamm Kerit ben Chibcha were in fact the cause of the attacks.
The Deep Ones emerged and waded ashore in all regions at once. They
wore
only strangely crafted bangles and ornaments of uncorroded metal. They
carried weapons resembling the barbed tridents of marine legendry. They
dragged behind them terrible stone statues of indescribably
extramundane
monstrosities before which they conducted rites of blasphemous abandon
and
unmentionable perversion.
The Laddino Imperium and Khmeric Gondwanaland combined their respective
might to deal with the menace, to drive the strange Deep Ones back into
the murky realms from which they had emerged. By the year 2337 a
unified
Earth lay once more tranquil and prosperous beneath a glowing and
benevolent sun.
The menace of the Deep Ones, at least for the time, was over.
And billions of kilometers from Earth, humanity renewed its heroic
thrust
toward the outermost regions of the solar system.

MARCH 15, 2337
"Not yet," Shoten Binayakya's voice clattered.
"Soon," Gomati countered. She hooked into Khons's radar sensor, letting
cyborged biots convert incoming pulses into pseudo-visuals. "Look!" she
exclaimed, "It's a whole system!"
Njord Freyr stirred, determined to pull his attention away from
frustration, direct it toward a topic that would involve. "There,
there,"
he heard Gomati's voice, not sure whether it was organic or
synthesized,
"Shift your input to ultra-v!"
Njord, hooking into Khons's external sensors, complied.
"Astounding!"
"Yet so."
"Not unprecedented. On the contrary," Shoten Binayakya interjected.
"All
the giants have complex systems of moons. Jupiter. Saturn. Uranus.
Search
your memory banks if you don't recall."
Surlily, Njord sped unnecessary inquiry to an implanted cyberbiot.