Nagas
The system in apparent chaos where the Pacifist Network nonetheless managed to buy two ships.
Story so far
Baroness Victory reports that she cannot decipher what the gods is happening in the Naga system, but that a transaction more than big enough to suggest Rosetta's people purchased two ships came through despite the apparent chaos there.
That purchase — a generation ship plus a second expensive vessel — is the backbone of Porthus's plan for the Open Intellect Pacifist Network. The chaos in the Naga system is exactly the kind of cover the escape depended on, and it is the last thing anyone inside the dungeon can see of the outside universe beyond the raw numbers on The Financial Feed.
Role
The chaotic system where the Pacifist Network's escape ships were purchased.
Relationships
Sources — 12 recorded facts, by chapter
- Rival faction whose territory Elle's squad infiltrates, risking expulsion if the operation proves a false alarm.
- Serpentine humanoids among the alien species holding the enemy trench line against the crawler charge.
- Serpentine people tied to the Prism, whose claimed poverty Carl suspects is a long-running act.
- Snake faction Carl resolves to exterminate entirely before Donut and Katia can leave the floor.
- The faction under assault, its army already slaughtered and its foul claim accidentally saving its enemy.
- Serpentine race running the Blood Sultanate — not great fighters, but clever, prepared, and hard to pin down.
- The enemy faction holding the trapped stronghold; conspicuously absent when the crawlers first break in.
- Serpentine faction holding the castle, ruled by a royal family Carl is systematically killing off.
- Serpent empire whose stronghold is under a capture clock and whose royal line the crawlers mean to end.
- Serpent-bodied faction huddled in conference inside Khepri's temple, shielded by long strings of protection blessings.
- Serpentine species split between isolationists, royalists, and usurpers, whose government convulses as its Faction Wars entry dies.
- The system in apparent chaos where the Pacifist Network nonetheless managed to buy two ships.