USH'S STAR WARS GAME- CAMPAIGN II EPISODE V (DARK SIDE)- The Prisoner of Datura

Is Almir going to need air to guide us out with the survey map?

His DNA sample? What on earth would she want with that? Not that Edana thinks the seer is likely to tell her.

Edna laughs it off. "Is she planning on cloning him and raising him as her child? She doesn't seem the mothering type!"

Well, using the survey map in some respect is likely a good idea!

But Almir is finding it near impossible to speak.

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"It's a lock to a door we cannot open," says the Seer.

"Don't you ever get bored of talking in metaphors?" Edna starts to hope she isn't stuck on this rock with the seer for too long or she could seriously start to lose her patience!

"Kuylen was the only person I've ever known who helped me without without wanting something I wasn't willing to give in return. I've spent a long time searching for answers alone with little success. I learnt more about myself in the years I spent with Kuylen than anywhere else and I've run out of places to search for a meaning. I guess you could say I'm coming home. Assuming he is even here, which somehow I seriously doubt."

"It's only just a metaphor," she says. "Kuylen's DNA is literally a key. We have a message we want to read but its coding cannot be broken. It will only play when unlocked by Kuylen's DNA.

"But not even I can see if he is here."

"Where did you find the message? Are you sure it is Kuylen's? You seem to be going to an awful lot of trouble. What is it abput this message that's so important?"

"The message was added to a data crystal. The crystal was Adelmo's. It was stolen by a thief; it was he who encoded the addendum that we wish to see. As to who found it again- take a guess..."

"You're saying Adelmo is doing all this just to read a message that a thief left for Kuylen?" Edna looks unimpressed. "She must be pretty certain that thief knew something important. I can't say information I've ever had from a thief has ever been worth the junk it was written on!"

"Well the thief was no casual thief; he knew what he was doing and why he was taking it- and even where to hide where Adelmo would be loathe to follow, which is why Galder and the others were sent to retrieve it.

"As to what is so important... well. We can't tell until we read it, but we suspect it will explain the contents of the crystal."

"Explain the contents of the crystal? What is on the crystal? I am assuming Kuylen knew of its existence. And if it is as important as Adelmo thinks it is then I sincerely doubt Kuylen is going to come quietly and let Adelmo decode it."

"I don't think Adelmo intends giving him a choice- and dead works just fine.

"The crystal is an ancient relic. A fragment of the long lost Meloneth Opus' By chance, it found its way into a hands of a Jedi on the planet Damaria on the first day of the Malphan Wars, and then by the strands of destiny of many, many centuries hence into our hands.

"Each of those crystals contained secrets some would say no-one was ever meant to know."

"And are you certain Adelmo is the best person to be in possession of such secrets? Perhaps that is why Kuylen has made an art out of remaining hidden from her. She's very confident of her power against Kuylen. He has evaded her, dead or alive, for this long. I think she could be waiting some time for her answers. I would strongly advise against underestimating him"

"And what is your interest in all this? What do you hope to gain from Adelmo having access to a power so great that no-one even seems to know what it is?"

"Because I am sure she is the right person to know it."

"Guess he'll have to show us rather than tell us," Galder says about Almir.

Almir is vaguely gesturing upwards, and also gesturing for some air.

"So where was the data crystal that Adelmo couldn't go there to collect it herself? And how on earth did the thief manage to steal it in the first place? She hardly seems short on security!"

"I don't know the details, but the Thief was very talented and knew what he was doing. He did himself- and the crystal- amongst an army of robots. We can't influence the behaviour of robots and nor did we have the numbers to fight the army."

Do any of these routes seem to slope upward?

"Guide us out and you'll get more than air," Galder says sharply. "Come on, let's move, we're wasting time!"

Shouldn't we maybe give him air?

Hard to tell when it is this dark!