On the twentieth of February, Starfall year 835, the true form of Legendary champion Joshua van Radcliffe energized at the center of the Vortex of Creation in the Lost Galaxy. The tremendous dimensional tremor caused a chain effect that spread throughout the entire Abyss, with the many Abyssal realms shifting and reducing previous Abyssal maps to scrap paper.
On the twenty-first, the Knowers, in the Multiverse, had followed up to the Mycroft civilization's response, with both ends agreeing to rendezvous and confer on Anassen, a single star world with neither system nor orbiting planets. It was also the second day since scout ships were dispatched to recover Captain Creed's Soul Sphere—the search ended in failure, with Captain Creed declared missing in action.