[look in the chapter where Esquian goes off to sacrifice himself and hold off the Advent. somehow (you readers don't know how) he closed off the wormhole and trapped the Advent on the other side, forcing them to spend several more years searching for a route into the Trader Coalition of Planets. it might be split between two chapters, but it starts with Esquian leaving a message with Num'pol saying that he has found a high radiation disturbance, and has gone to investigate.]

[sorry, look at one of my above posts. only one mini-story per character. i just can't do Sinners and a lot of mini-stories at the same time.]

[Caught that. And I don't blame you one bit.

We know that you are portraying the Vasari Mani'k who captured Kol. We also know that it is after the start of the game, and appears to be before Entrenchment. Entrenchment's description says that the war has been going on for "nearly 15 years". I'm assuming that you didn't shift that too much. Based on the various Orbital Cannons having existed and been built for some time, and no knowledge of the Starbases, my best guess for the time frame is anywhere from 5 to 10 years into the war. Which, unfortunately, is still a large time frame. Right now, I can't think of how else to narrow it down. Something might come to me later though.]

[no that time frames fine. wat i basically look for on time is before or after an expansion, or between what two expansions. (i.e. the last one was after 2nd and before 3rd expansion.) just that general timeframes good enough. how else would you be able to narrow it down? so you have the time, that just leaves us the who and the where. you still havent asked the right questions to get those answers....so the game goes on.]

[quote who="C.I." reply="6" id="2319922"]Yess.....how did you know that? Right after the fact that the human Kol had overtaken the Platinum, Flankx went personally to the planet of the Mani'k and asked for my assisstance......note the ASK there..........even my superiors step lightly around me.........remember that PORKY.........when you're least expecting it.....I will hunt you down. Mercislessly. I swear it by the honor of the forefathers and the Spirits. Mark. My. Words.[/quote]

[This isn't the who? My pardons if the partial quote didn't work. Where you say. I'll think of some questions overnight to try and discern that.]

What fleet be thou affiliated with?

For thee shall know the name Tarkin, and shiver in fear upon its very uttering.  FROM HALL TO HEARTH!

 You sssspeak with a strange tongue, child.....are you a newly ascended Vasari? Accents sometime ssstick around for a few days....and I am affiliated with no fleet. I am of all fleets and none......wherever my services are needed most....that is where you shall find me....the Mani'k belong to no one but myself, and I belong to no Vasari.....

[I'm sorry, what's the question? I didn't understand that.]

Da'Mani'k, then, as the great battlestations have not yet been deployed, be you in friendly territory, or hostile?  And be yea still aboard the ship of Flanx?

for if so, I know where to send my specters...

Tell me, child, what are specters? I do not like that which I do not know......and I am in friendly territory, obviously, or why would I be talking with you? Why would this be my planet, my DOMINATION, if this was hostile territory! And Flankx is not a ship, ssstupid, ssstupid child, he iss the Admiral Commander.....and I was never aboard his ssship.

[but good job, you now have part of the 'who.' I've just released Chapter 10, part 1 in Sinners, so now you have a full name for my character, so just Da'Mani'k won't cut it. But you have a last name from Sinners, and a first name from the Mind Game! Just put it all together, and that just leaves you with where. Or did I just answer that? Damn, I think I did. Well, that just leaves you with putting it all together.]

["object" of "person" means that person owns the item.  kind of like "person"'s "object".  it doesn't mean that person is the object.  and where is chapter 10?]

Specters are beings of unimaginable power, those who once were living, now are dead.  they have the strength to break through a ship's hull with their bare hands, and the agility to leap the length of the spinal elevator shaft of a Kortul.  They are as shadows, appearing from the very walls and disappearing without a trace, but for the missing body.

[o right, i remember specters now. sorry, my version of what's chasing the Vasari is much different. you'll see it in part 3, i think. probably not sooner. and haha, i wrote that post before putting up chapter 10, but then it took me around half an hour to post it, between quick corrections and the fact that I have to redo all font styles and sizes once I post it. and i had a lot of things in italic in that chapter. its done now tho! for real this time, haha.]

[yes, I make many, many references to my, or other stories.  here, probably just mine.  and maybe Halo.]

Irstangwak Fokxnim, the Da'Mani'k, eight years ago, before the great Battlestations were deployed and after the primary offensive lasting the first decade, on Dominion, prepare for a visit from my minions.

[mkay, so Fokxnim's been figured out. His first name amuses me.....so should we start a third character? It seems a lot of people have left this. Is it worth it to do another?]

all the clues were already out there... I don't know why no one had figured it out yet.  the only part not said was the planet.