Grandmagos Ceulfan

In the wake of the Vardket's disappearance, Ceulfan began to rebuild the networks that they had left behind. The Forshu combed the land, securing the many research and defensive installations that were either abandoned or left to their own devices, and what they discovered unsettled the young man. The more they looked, the more they found that there were contradictions and cracks in the very beliefs that they had held true over all these years. Yet one thing was sure: their ancient enemies began to emerge in force from the bowels of space near Orebus's star, their golden yellow ships glittering against the dark as if challenging all who approached with their might. It was then that Ceulfan broached the idea of reactivating one of the Vardket's experimental superweapons to his only ally. If they could destroy their enemy's fleet, the Vardket would surely return in triumph and thanks. But waking the biosynthetic behemoth's vast array of weapons was not a task lightly undertaken, for it could only reactivate its systems with necromancy and bloody sacrifice. So the two began their preparations in earnest, even as Greherd deserters warned the other family-factions of their efforts. Soon, they managed to wake the weapon and power up its main armament: an anti-orbital energy cannon that could blast battleships in the deepest reaches of space. As the commanders of the other family-factions fought their way to a bloody reunion with Ceulfan and his ally at the behemoth's reactor core, he managed to fire off a blast against their enemy's fleet. Yet despair gripped his heart as the shot simply glanced off their ships, the vast armada not even bothering to defend itself. The last thing that he heard were his screams as he tried to get one more shot off...