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The Operatic Collective

Operatics · Operatic

The collective-mind species whose warlord performed the only prior casting of War Crime.

Story so far

The AI identifies the only previous caster of War Crime as an Operatic warlord, who parked atop a circle of power and combined Fireball and Paralysis on roughly 200 mantid mercenaries during The Mantid Massacre.

Afterward the warlord supposedly had to go for an identity reset once his crawl was re-absorbed, and part of his essence eventually formed into the Warlord Hortense Leadership Unit — which The AI suggests explains Hortense's twitch. The AI adds that collective minds should really have learned by now how to peel off their own impurities, otherwise they are just wallowing in used bath water.

Role

The collective whose war criminal's essence still circulates through its leadership units.

Relationships

The Mantid Massacre — Perpetrated by one of its warlords.
Warlord Hortense Leadership Unit — Partly formed from the caster's re-absorbed essence.
War Crime — Its warlord was the spell's only prior user.
Sources — 13 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 4
  • A faction-wars team, co-founder of the Bloc, and presumably the outfit built around the banker called Operatic.
Chapter 17
  • Rival faction team known for hiding rather than fighting, badly exposed by the new saferoom and blood bar rules.
Chapter 19
  • Holders of territory two, the rolling-hills wedge on whose border 100,000 enemy troops are massing.
Chapter 27
  • Team in Spot 2 whose border hosts the largest gathered enemy contingent, drawing most of Team Retribution north.
Chapter 29
  • Team entirely absent from the southern enemy trenches, per Tran's reconnaissance.
Chapter 41
  • Faction fielding the Weepers armored regiment; two of its tanks are captured into Carl's warlord inventory.
Chapter 43
  • A mortgage-enforcing faction whose mercenary commander Volteeg destroys along with Hortense and more than ten thousand troops.
Chapter 44
  • The slime-run faction that is wiped out by its own soldier's fragging incident, forfeiting all assets to the Bone Clan.
Chapter 48
  • Faction whose castle serves as the coded stand-in for Carl's real target, the nagas.
Chapter 54
  • Defeated faction whose former territory the Posse now advances through, still littered with their traps.
Chapter 55
  • Defeated faction whose former territory forms the northern border Florin was ordered to push across.
Chapter 66
  • Eliminated faction whose sector two is now held by Florin's 101st Crocodiles.
Chapter 86
  • The collective-mind species whose warlord performed the only prior casting of War Crime.
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