Az had spent the shore leave cooped up in the archives with the captain, working on a new puzzle from the Lexicon. He had left the archives about an hour ago to clear his head a bit from being cooped up with the captain. Clearing his head, however, meant cooping himself up in his own work area by himself. While working with the captain, Az had sent images of the Lexicon to his own terminal via his glasses. At his own work station, Az began cross-referencing the name “Titan Hammer” over multiple channels to see what he could find on the artifact. The only information his search returned was his own notes and general information on the lifeforms, but nothing on the artifact in question.

Az huffed and shook his head at the display. He really hadn’t had much hope on anything returning on those general terms. It was never that easy finding anything out about the archaic entries in the Lexicon. Az instead began searching for any legends from different cultures to do with the Titans or their tools. Most of the returned information from this search was about different cultures worshipping the Titans as gods, building holy places in the shells of giants they believed to be the bodies of Titans, and them believing the Titans to be the ones who built the Astral Gate.

“Now that’s interesting… If they can construct whole worlds with their tools, maybe they could have been the ones to build the Gate. Or maybe they were closer to being the work force for the real masterminds, living tools themselves.”

His voice carried through the empty room and out into the hall slightly. A crew member passing by the open door stopped for a moment and stared at the navigator strangely. Az turned to peer at the crew member, causing them to hustle off toward the kitchen. The archaeologist turned back to his terminal, muttering under his breath about the crew member being the crazy one for going toward the kitchen. He attempted new search terms for the “Titan Hammer”. This time he searched for strange prehistoric structures resembling the shape of a hammer. Once again his search yielded little results. There were some cultures noting strange structures predating their civlizations, but nothing resembling anything close to the “Titan Hammer”.

Az huffed again as the bell sounded about the ship. The captain’s voice followed the bell, summoning the bridge officers to the archives. Az locked his personal terimanl up before making his way back to the archives. Az arrived shotrly after the android master-at-arms of the [i]Nova Dawn[/i]. Upon entering the archives, Az walked up to the captain and leaned down, noticing the presence of the books and writing utensils. It would seem the captain hadn’t stopped his research either.

“I was uanble to find anything else of significance on the ‘Titan Hammer’ by corss-referencing it across different channels. I did find something interesting that got me thinking, however… but, that can wait,” Az whispered quicky to the captain before withdrawing to his own seat at the table. He watched the rest of the officers enter before the captain spoke up.

"Valkyr Sector. Not far outside of Arc Luminous space, but mostly uncharted. Cosmic gigantiform activity too strong to permit colonization, and its position too remote to demand timely cartography. The Lexicon tells me of planet Eris in this sector, and of the treasure we may find there: the 'Titan Hammer.' I have ascertained its coordinates, and I plan for this to be our next destination. I await your concerns, if you possess any."

His simple debriefing was followed by a few concerns from the other officers.

"Do we know exactly what this is? This [i]'Titan Hammer'[/i]?"

"If the captain wants it does it really matter? Anything with “titan” in its name usually is worth the bother. Well unless it's just a big hammer. Please tell me it isn’t just a big hammer. Besides gigantiform life sounds delicious!”

[color=hotpink]"Same question as Eleven, over here. As dopesauce as this 'Titan Hammer' sounds, I'd like to know what it is too."[/color]

[color=seagreen]"Ignore her, Captain. Point the way, me and Bubba'll get ya' there. So long as we get a good payout, it's fine with me."[/color]

Az had opened his mouth to reply to the concerns of his fellow officers when Valk was abruptly cut down from his perch by the ship’s engineer, who then threatened the Sapkir. For a moment, he watched the two with his mouth agape but quickly composed himself enough to launch into an explanation.

“The Lexicon claims it’s a tool that was used by the Titans themselves to construct or destroy whole worlds, so it would seem it may be a literal hammer or some sort of machine used by the Titans called a hammer. If the planet in question is still at the coordinates we found in the Lexicon, then the Hammer should still be there as well, since the Lexicon says something along the lines of the planet being unable to survive in the absence of the Hammer, though that could mean a multitude of things when you consider the archaic language used in the Lexicon.”

After his longwinded explanation, Az leaned back in his chair away from the table and his fellow officers.