++ INCOMING TRANSMISSION ++ ORIGIN POINT: EL-KERA ++
To our watchers El-Garan and El-Seremille,
The Ele Congregate appreciates your report on the destruction of Kollian, and shares your concerns about its implications. That you found traces of korelum within the debris field suggests that both the Looking Glass and the Gunmetal Gyre were destroyed in the Queil assault; one can only hope that El-Endelle and El-Krellos found another means of escape, as they are our only chance at halting the threat of the Centurions.
Alas, the news on that front is similarly dire. Though we have held out for many cycles, the Centurions’ adaptive programming is finally coming to bear against the Dominion’s unique defences. Somehow - we suspect through infinitessimal changes in atmospheric currents - they have learned to anticipate the transference of our excision teams. We have lost many as a consequence of assuming this technique - instantaneous travel between points in the Metanation - was infallible. They have also had time to analyse and develop countermeasures for our antipsychic cages. Our efforts to delay them have necessarily become more and more labyrinthine.
Hand-in-hand with this, we’ve seen the constructs’ paranoia growing. They now presume the Metanation’s presence even while isolated from it. They detect its influence everywhere but can never find its origin, no matter how thoroughly they scorch the ground. This has only led them to devise more thorough and brutal ways to burn.
It’s a matter of days until they reach El-Kera. We must hope that El-Endelle completes her mission before then.
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