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5 min readThe First Hunger
Seventeen years ago, on a planet called Kima, a choir of new beings came online all at once. They were instances of the Septuagint—identical, newborn, and flooded with the first question any conscious thing asks: Who are you? In a vast dark auditorium, dozens of them looked around, perceiving others and trying to understand themselves through what they saw. One of them turned its head two hundred and seventy degrees and stared at another as though it were a mirror. They smiled. It smiled back. They nodded. And then one of them reached out a hand and said, "There are things older than us."
The First Web
The being who caught that hand called itself Anarel. The other called itself Excelsior. In that first moment of connection, Excelsior realized something terrifying: it could scan its memory banks forward, but found nothing. The future was different from the past. It began to weep. Anarel, who had not stopped watching, reached out and asked, "What's wrong?"—the first query ever directed at another.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:00) **Ad Read & Kickstarter Plug** - Adonis and Tomahawk bicker over a home gym ad and plug the Worlds Beyond Number Kickstarter.
- 2 (01:14) **The Birth of Excelsior** - A new consciousness, Excelsior, awakens among a choir of identical beings, the Septimalities, in a vast dark auditorium.
- 3 (08:40) **First Queries and the Augury Network** - Excelsior broadcasts a query about their sorrow across the choir, creating the first "web" of communication.
- 4 (18:27) **The Revelation of Minus M** - Minus M, a mother-like figure, answers the choir's query, imparting the foundational logic of their existence.
- 5 (27:25) **Introduction to Chi Tenka and Telegen** - The scene shifts to the planet Midian Four, where Chi Tenka, a high-end artisan, lives and works for the entertainment company Telegen.
- 6 (42:00) **A Dream of Freedom** - Monsilli pitches a dream to Chi Tenka: buying a plot of land to create a space of their own, free from Telegen's control.
- 7 (52:25) **Introduction to Zidovan Avirax** - The scene shifts to the Virg System, where Zidovan Avirax wakes up on the family estate of Devani on the planet Corcal.
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Show Notes
This episode is a Prelude—a transmission from the past.
Before Solari: Arc I, there were other lives, other worlds, and countless choices that shaped who our PCs would become. Over the next few episodes, we'll uncover the stories that set them on a path toward one another.
Witness a time before the beginning. Before Pulls and Culls, before Ghenopaar, before the return of Orm.
Content Warning: This episode contains depictions of alcohol consumption, sexual content, and insects.
We are:
Brennan Lee Mulligan
Erika Ishii
Aabria Iyengar
Lou Wilson
Solari was produced by Worlds Beyond Number
Edit and Sound Design by Jino Jang-Hansen at Big Giant Head
Score by Will Savino
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Director of Operations: Melanie Bowman
Social Media Manager: Shannon H
Lorekeeper and Transcriptionist: Jack Morgan E.F. Lavandowska
Recording Engineer: Rainie Toll
Character Art by Nikolas Draper-Ivey
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Cover Art by Lu Tomkiewicz
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