PISCES was a proposed system capable of destroying all Talonorium structures. It offered a direct way to eliminate Talonorium weapons and corruption but would also have killed Maitdiné, whose existence depends on the living substrate.
¶ Proposal
PISCES emerged during the crisis involving The Rot, HexForge, and Pailisto's militarization of Talonorium. Its total-destruction logic treated all connected structures as one target.
¶ Rejection
Moonshade stopped PISCES from being deployed after establishing the cost to Maitdiné life. The crew instead pursued the Great Healing, which cleansed Talonorium and allowed it to refuse weapon use.
¶ Status
PISCES was rejected and never deployed. Its existence remains an example of a technically simple solution that would commit species-scale or ontological destruction.
¶ Distinctions
PISCES is separate from VIRGO, The Weapon, HexForge, Chloinite, and the Great Healing.
¶ Appearances
- Starship Dominatrix — PISCES appears in this work.
- Starship Dominatrix: Flesh and Steel — PISCES appears in this work.
¶ See Also
- Maitdiné — Maitdiné appears in the documented history of PISCES; The Maitdiné are time-walking beings connected to Talonorium and the repair of spacetime.
- Moonshade — Moonshade appears in the documented history of PISCES; Moonshade is a Maitdiné keeper of time, Talonorium attunement figure, architect of the New Jack resolution, and officiant of the Great Healing.
- HexForge — HexForge appears in the documented history of PISCES; HexForge was a six-pod Talonorium planetary-erasure platform supported by Pailisto's government.
- Talonorium — Talonorium appears in the documented history of PISCES; Talonorium, also called The Element, is a sacred living or person-like substrate capable of memory, bonding, choice, corruption, and healing.
- Chloinite — Chloinite appears in the documented history of PISCES; Chloinite is a superluminal destructive technology capable of solar-system-scale devastation.
- The Rot — The Rot appears in the documented history of PISCES; The Rot is a form of Talonorium corruption causing madness, phasing, disappearance, unstable perception, and social collapse.
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