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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GruTheWanderer" data-source="post: 951482" data-attributes="member: 3119">Your brains tingle as the illithid's words insinuate themselves into your minds."As you know, we are seeking artifacts of an elder race.  I call them the Elders, for they are indescribably ancient.  Perhaps the thri-kreen knew them, millenia ago, when the People of the Celestial Mantis had a significant presence in space."Staring at Tiktitik, who stands at the rail across the ship, the mind flayer continues, "Yes, the thri-kreen preceded your races - and mine - into the greater universe, perhaps by millions of years.  The talk little of it now, even those who still dwell in the void.  But they remember the glory.  They remember it very well."You feel the mental equivalent of a sigh, "But as for the Elders ... a mighty race, they were worshipped as gods by many worlds, many peoples now extinct.  I have seen representations of them carved on many ruins and painted on the walls of many caves.  Their form is unmistakeable, even when transformed through the eyes of misguided faith.  And their symbol, the three-pointed star, finds its way into the symbology of many races.""While your races and mine were barely taking our first steps away from our cosmic cradles, the Elders were already disappearing from this universe.  Whether it was by choice or by misfortune, I know not.  I do know, from anicent thri-kreen poetry I have translated, that they left behind at least one outpost.  Deserted, without a doubt.  But there I should be able to find what I need: proof of my theories, proof that the Elders did exist.  I should find it there."  A red-tinged finger stabs at a point on the chart.  Your destination.</blockquote>

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