=Haadiyaa=
*The lytic cycle of viral production has always held an undeniable allure for her, Haadiyaa thinks, and serves as the perfect model for what she intends to visit upon the unsuspecting populace of the planet she watches unfolding before her through the forward viewport of the stolen cruiser she has remade into something akin to the biologically engineered starships of her home dimension, otherspace.* *From the outside the Sadgati looks normal enough, of course - there is no sense alerting their prey to the magnitude of the threat it carries within - but inside it has, by utilizing the hunks of meat that were at one time the Sadgati's crew as organic components, been refashioned. Lattices of webs have been spun throughout the vessel as well, making it feel that much more like . . . home.
The Sadgati, having reached the planet undetected - thereby completing it's equivalent of the penetration stage of the lytic cycle - flys at one third full speed over the forests and mountains that are furthest from the spaceport, scanning for a site from which they can begin the next stage: biosynthesis. Haadiyaa's plan for Ammuud is nothing new, cults have always existed, it differs only in intent and scope. It is not wealth or stroking her own ego that guides her, it is doing the work of the Prophet of the Void - and doing it well - that brings her here. During biosynthesis a virus' nucleic acid uses the host cell’s machinery to make large amounts of viral components, just as a cult recruits followers to carry out the leader's vision. The people of Ammuud, many scared, confused and angry at the recent events that have been visited upon them by the shifting of the powers that are over them, will be looking for guidance, reassurance, a direction for their anger. Haadiyaa can give it to them.*
*Her head tilts so that she can see her reflection in the viewport as the trees and mountains pass in strobic flickers, and Haadiyaa thinks that it is a pity she cannot be the one to recruit the followers herself - her visage is, she knows, as horrific to the humans that make up the majority of Ammuud's populace as theirs is to her.* *The two human replica droids in the Sadgati's upper state rooms, however, are, if the hunk of meat that sold them to her is an accurate judge of such things, what other humans consider attractive, and have been programmed to be friendly and charismatic and engaging. The two HRDs - the male Aabheer and the female Eshanika - will be the ideal messengers; both designed to easily create immediate and intense intimate friendships with potential new recruits. Those manufactured friendships, then, will be used to create a sense of loyalty to the group of little ambulatory viral components Haadiyaa seeks to form. When she has enough, and has shaped them into loyal, unquestioning little viral components, they can begin sending Ammuud into the Void of Death as the Prohet instructs all life must be.*
=Maah'ir=
*Covered in his Charon battle armor, which looks like flexible, organic stone, the male - one of eight sent to guard and serve Haadiyaa on her quest - of the warrior caste enters the bridge by walking along one of the lattices of webbing that have been spun throughout the ship and, in their native tongue, produces a series of clicks and pops that informs Haadiyaa that a suitable site has been located.* *A series of caves in one of the mountains below has been located on the scans, extending deep and winding and turning extensively, they will be easy to protect, and not easily found - it will be, he thinks, like hiding in the intestinal tract of the planet itself.*
=Haadiyaa=
*Lifting one of the four arms on her torso to send Maah'ir away, the bioscientist commands the hunk of meat that was once a human male and now is, essentially, an organic part of the ship itself, capable only of piloting the ship and more like a droid than a man, to find a landing zone near the site that has revealed itself.* *The caves can be made into something like home, and their HRDs can be sent out to begin their work.*
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