Captain's Log Stardate 25213.0 (August 1st 2025)
"Whispers of a Waking God"
Captain's Log, supplemental. It has been two centuries since the J-Class Temporal Drive aboard the USS Urland Universe ripped us from our dying world, a ghost ship escaping the final moments of the Klon Star Spider Empire's assault on Earth. We were meant to be a legend, a tragedy, a story of humanity's last stand. Instead, we were thrust two hundred years into the future, into the uncharted territory of the Leo Galaxy.
For decades, we were all but ghosts, a crew out of time hiding within the derelict Leo 1 space station. It became our new home, our secret star base. From there, we watched a new Empire of Urland rise from the ashes of our scattered descendants. We chose to remain hidden, working in the shadows, upgrading our ship with the best technology from every major race in this new era, including the near-perfect Moon Elf cloaking technology. We prepared in silence for a threat we hoped would never return.
We were not entirely alone in our isolation. The Ether Dragons, the very beings who controlled the multiverse portals and aided in our escape from the past, have been our silent partners. It was their knowledge of the ether—the raw, multi-dimensional energy that flows between worlds—that allowed us to stabilize our damaged Temporal Drive. With their guidance, we didn't just repair it; we upgraded it. We integrated their methods into a new Etheric Drive, turning the Urland Universe into a vessel capable of navigating not just time, but the very fabric of reality itself.
Today, after all this time, the first mission has come. The Ether Dragons' silent observation has ended. They have reached out to us with a plea that resonates with the dire warnings of our own history. They spoke of a cosmic apocalypse, not as a future event, but as a slow, insidious process that has already begun. A Great Old One, an Elder God, is stirring from its slumber, and its subconscious ripples are unraveling the very fabric of our universe.
This "Waking God" is the origin of what we've previously called the "cosmic apocalypse." This is the ultimate "Nocturnis Twist," an entity that doesn't act with malice but whose very existence, as it begins to stir, will create, control, and eventually explode or implode all of reality. The Ether Dragons believe the source of this "waking" is a place known as the Whispering Planet. They have tasked us with an impossible mission: to secure the multiverse portal on that planet, which has been corrupted by the Elder God's influence, and prevent the cosmic apocalypse before it brings about the End Times to the entire galaxy.
My crew is apprehensive, but my Occult Lore and Unyielding Faith tell me this is no ordinary battle. This is a no-win scenario, but perhaps with the Urland Universe's new Etheric and Temporal Drives working in unison, we can find a solution that no one else can see. We're no longer just survivors; it's time we become guardians.
This is Captain Hedges, signing off.
I'll update a gamemasters section post later for all of you to run this story arc for your gaming groups.
