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	Re: The hindmost creche
	Posted By: Aaron Freed	Date: 9/22/21 8:45 p.m.
	In Response To: Re: The hindmost creche (VikingBoyBilly) : I forgot that thread. : So Her Hindmost 'leads from behind.' I'm still not certain whether this : refers to a character, a group/collective, or a place. What terminal(s) : did it come from for context? I'm thinking this came from Tfear (praising : the player? threatening his underlings?) One Thousand Thousand Slimy Things, final terminal. : Very impressive. The primary function of intelligence is the subordination : of our instinctive desires, the mark of a strong species. Which is why : your kind will serve well the needs of the Hindmost Creche. The : Hindmost is of an intelligence so vast, it encompasses the span of the : Pfhor, and to those privilege to serve Her, appears insane. That is the : final function of the Commanding Rank, the thought that we keep forever : in our minds, that we deny our selfish, willful needs, so that the Empire : will survive. The Hindmost Creche can’t be a group; Tfear explicitly uses the pronoun “Her” (capitalised as though She is a figure of some religious devotion, though there’s also a small possibility that this is a typo) to refer to Her. “Hindmost Creche” (as a reference to the ruler of the Pfhor) is almost certainly a metonymy, however – I compare it to how we use “White House” to mean a presidential administration, even though we obviously aren’t referring to the literal building when we make such references. My speculation (although I should clarify that I’m purely making this assumption based on parsimony; nothing in canon explicitly confirms this) is that Tfear is using “Hindmost Creche” as a metonymy for the Great Mother crouched behind the Throne (to whom he refers in “Aie Mak Sicur”), who is only referred to in passing, but seems to be a figure of similar religious devotion. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were intended to be the same individual. : The trih xeem broke against my dying vessel and smashed a fine patina : across the mystery shields of this station. My crew battled the aliens : during the blast, and the silence which came after was sullen and : deafening--the pure silence of victory. : ^^^alks897 : ^^^^rwx777 : ^^rw-664 : But the trackless whisper chattering through the hollow space in these : cursed walls buzzes and threatens madness. The abomination cracked : the shells of my crew and sucked the husks, tossing them unseen and : shattering the spindle like a dried creche. : : The shields are gone, not down, but gone, and so are the engineers. It's : coming back, I'm sure: and my last mercy is immolation. : : Great Mother crouched behind the Throne, I make this wrong right. Note the appearance of “creche” in this terminal as well. This is hardly an explicit confirmation that the Hindmost Creche is a metonymy for the Great Mother, but if a link between the two was intended, this could’ve been meant as an implicit clue as to its existence. ¯\(°_o)/¯

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	The hindmost creche	VikingBoyBilly	9/22/21 5:11 a.m.
	Re: The hindmost creche	Godot	9/22/21 5:44 a.m.
	Re: The hindmost creche	VikingBoyBilly	9/22/21 4:19 p.m.
	Re: The hindmost creche	Aaron Freed	9/22/21 8:45 p.m.
	Re: The hindmost creche	VikingBoyBilly	9/23/21 3:55 a.m.
	Re: The hindmost creche	pfhore	9/23/21 5:17 a.m.
	Re: The hindmost creche	VikingBoyBilly	9/23/21 8:10 a.m.
	Re: The hindmost creche	Aaron Freed	9/23/21 10:52 a.m.
	Re: The hindmost creche	Tim "Mordeir" Branin	9/23/21 3:01 p.m.
	Re: The hindmost creche	Aaron Freed	9/25/21 11:51 a.m.

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