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Kratu Announcement:
Compulsory Workforce Candidate within range. Prepare to initiate first contact.
Ready boarding team. Salutation Enforcement Armaments prepared. Commence boarding.

Life force reading acknowledged. Search the vessel.
Broadcast greetings and welcome message.

Kratu:
We bring to you the majesty
of culture and civility
We bring to you this day a brand-new life

We bring to you a purpose grand
progress, work, and betterment
We bring you out of darkness into light

We bring to you the splendor and
a glory you can’t understand
The beast emerges soon from out the wild

Things you cannot grasp we bring
like honor and integrity
We bring you out of darkness into light

Rainu:
Be careful now, you can barely stand, here let me help, come take my hand
Whatever happens, just keep calm, my colleagues slaughter without pause
I’m sorry I know it’s not fair; they’ll make you work now, they don’t care
I don’t agree with this you know, but there’s no changing how this goes

You’ll work the mines, it’s tough I fear, but you’re young; you could live ten more years

Jenna:
I don’t understand, leave me alone. All I want is to go home

Rainu:
I know you’re scared; I wish that I was not here too, but they’ll take your life

Jenna:
Why can’t you just leave me alone

Rainu:
The mines I fear will be your home

I know it’s bad, there’s nothing I can do
I’m trying to make this easier for you

Jenna:
Well, that’s nice but still, from what you say
you’re still taking me to be your slave

Rainu:
Stop! We don’t say or use that word

Jenna:
How else would you say it?

Rainu:
Well, we prefer: Compulsory Workforce Opportunity Recruit

Jenna:
Seriously? Are you kidding me?

I mean no offense cause it seems like you
are trying not to be a pluke it’s true
But you’re still kinda being a pluke, how is it not the same?

Rainu:
Wait, the others, they’re on their way

Kratu:
We bring to you the majesty
of culture and civility
We bring to you this day a brand-new life

We bring to you a purpose grand
progress, work, and betterment
We bring you out of darkness into light

We bring to you the splendor and
a glory you can’t understand
The beast emerges soon from out the wild
(The beast emerges from the wild)

Things you cannot grasp we bring
like honor and integrity
We bring you out of darkness into light
(From out the darkness into)


Kratu Announcement:
Prepare processing and transfer of new Involuntary Workforce Recruit to Mining Planet 9A

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Narrator:
So Jenna has been taken by the Kratu, still alive
where she’ll work the mines for kelys for the remainder of her life
Kelys is a mineral that their scientists believe
might allow the Kratu to alter time, at least its speed

The amounts they need are massive, and the mines they are not safe
Go too deep you disappear or at least you go insane
But now that we’ve met Rainu, let’s just pause right here a bit
and take a closer look at what might make dear Rainu tick

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from The Puppetshade Chronicles 1: The Black Beyond, released March 4, 2024

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Cama’s attempt to commune with higher beings failed; she only found Decadent Dottie. Together they roamed, indulging in dangerous forms of psycho-neural self-exploration which Cama hoped would present the key to her people’s further evolution. It only led to her destroying her people so that one of their pets could evolve. She sat in her former civilization's rubble and listened to Paul Shapera. ... more

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