...I once enquired of Maka'ala as to what had prompted the Legion's return from the outer darkness. As was so often the case, his answer was frustratingly ambiguous: we are come for that which we seek.
This was, as I discovered, a trait that was by no means unique to the Quæsitor and it remains my belief that the reticence of my hosts stemmed from two sources. The first was that I was not of the Legion and as such there were operational details about their undertakings that I did not need to know. The second was simply that they were not accustomed to being asked questions for the sake of curiosity, and certainly not by a mortal such as I.
As we became more conversant however, there were some who became particularly amenable to discussion including Ikaika, Tuel'laewe, Maka'ala, and old Iolani, Throne rest him. But they were always more willing to draw back the veils that occluded their past than reveal what lay in the future and after a fashion I learned not to try to draw forth their views upon events that were yet to pass.
As you might imagine, this made understanding the ongoing situation in Heliopolis and Morqub somewhat difficult and I will remain eternally grateful to the ratings and officers I was fortunate to become acquainted with shortly after my arrival among the Argyntum Stellae who were willing to elucidate on such matters of state with which they were aware and permitted over an amasec or cerevisya in the commisary.
Naturally, I regarded more than a little of the information I gleaned in this fashion as apocryphal at best and of who or what the Argyntum Stellae sought to locate, I was to remain, for a time at least, in ignorance...
Illiatariu. C., Rememberancier Documantist Minoris. To Walk Among Demigods. A Treatise Upon The Nature of The Argyntum Stellae., Published 863.M33, Sector Heliopolis, Segmentum Pacificus.
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