Issue 2.7: Shifting into the Quantum System

Last time the Vanguard helped lead a rebellion against the Lore Republic's Punishment Station, freeing the Grue Homeworld and rescuing the Grue Metamind. With the assistance of the Metamind the Vanguard learned of a possible vocation of the Red Sacramundi Stone. They traveled to the mining facility on the planet of Phuddj to find the ruins of an ancient underground Gruen temple. There they were ambushed by the Arcane Masters, Grue cultists in service of the Collapsar. After a brief but tense battle the Vanguard discovered the source of the Sacramundi energy. Instead of the Red Stone of Potential they found the unconscious form of Princess Lorik, crown sovereign of the Lore Republic. The Princess was prisoner of a Metamorph Caul, a membrane creating a genetic link between the Princess and a Arcanist Metamorph. The truth of their discovery is devastating. The largest interstellar government in the galaxy is under the control of a secret cultist plotting to destroy the universe and in possession of not one but two Sacramundi Stones. To make matters worse the Vanguard are about spend the next few moments of their life...