Island of Voices

The Island of Voices is part of the semi-permanent accretion mass of wreckage on the edge of the stable region of The Charybdis Graveyard known locally as The Scrapnest Cluster.  

Rumours and Whispers:

Local legend has it that this area of the Graveyard is haunted. Prospectors, Salvagers and even the Maulers stay away from this area - though there are many legends of people who didn't and never came back.   Possibly for this reason the Island of Voices is one of (or, the only) home of the followers of The Prophet Jarod Westguard. It’s rumoured to be a place where the desperate go to find one of the 'Westguard' and hope to seek a prophecy or find healing.  

Location Information:

Very little facts are known about the Island of Voices. Like much of the Cluster it's (at least in part) a dangerous, treacherous area of twisting wreckage, gravity distortions and most likely Swarming Mangler nests. The Island is/was also on the border between Mauler territory and what many consider Forsaken lands - although the Maulers are said to have an arrangement with the Westguard to allow free passage.   It is confirmed (as of 7.31.5011) that most of the "middle city" hold pressure and is inhabited. These tribal inhabitants are living in a mostly ruined dense urban-technical wreckage and likely have little understanding of their situation.    A recently recovered pre-war plan of the area:    

Tribal techno-barbarians:

Some sections of the Island of Voices have been charted now. There is still a small but significant population there apparently exiting in the classic techno-barbarian phase of survival.   The only catalogued tribe is the Seenit'un who seem to consist of a mixture of a variant on the Themis and humans living in some kind of symbiosis. The Seenit'un have developed a complex mythology based around appeasing mysterious entities known in thier language as "Wetchers" who seem connected to the "the Mist" - Inquisitor DeLandry categorises these as artefacts of fringe warp incursions.   Since the cleansing of the local area after the events of 7.11.5011 it's been confirmed that "the Mist" and "Wetchers" seem to have disappeared. This will of course cause changes in the Seenit'un society.   Near Seenit'un territory is a large 'Botanical Garden' built around a central luxury resort. The botanical gallery is overrun and overgrown, but teeming with plantlife and represents a significant biomass resource. The central resort is in poor repair, but has been used for a long time as the base of operations for the followed ofWestguard A.K.A. The Prophet.   

Devona's Prescient Visions:

The seer Devona has been able to fill in details about the Island of Voices:  

"What most people mean when they refer to "The Island" is a large Voidstation swept by particles and gravity tides from the Reef. Before the war it was primarily habitation blocks for middle-class citizens of the Aegean Hypercomplex. The outer layers of the Island Voidstation have suffered extensive damage, and are mostly open to the void. The 'city' on the upper surface is almost entirely ruined after it's protective crystalline dome was shattered during the Ork attack that destroyed the Hypercomplex. There are still many millions of vacuum-desiccated corpses trapped inside former homes and places of work. There are many mundane treasures to be found by picking through the dead city."

 

"Large sections of the Voidstation have been further devastated over the decades by debris impacts, and the tides of the Scylla Reef. Though structurally it is sound, especially the inner sections. There are paths through the wreckage to safe docking areas that lead almost directly to the interior."

 

"Deep inside the Voidstation are areas that still hold pressure and life, and this is where Jarod Westguard has established his mission. There is a device there, built into the decaying halls of a once-great temple to technology. The Empyrean swirls here, and even prescient visions offer no solidity, both past and future are in flux."