So what’s Eltera’s story? I saw ghost ship and I’m curious.
It's really something I should turn into a whole series, especially since the lines that are involved are my original trolls.
I'll try and summarise to at least catch up to the modern day.
LATER ADDITION: And now, after I've written all that, I'm gonna write a shorter summary.
Eltera is a former rebellion leader who ended up getting caught and handed in to the fleet. With powerful psionics, she was used as a battery. She made a habit of fucking with the ship though, with the ability to 'enter' the very circuitry and computers of the ship. Her body eventually died and she became part of the ship itself, impossible to remove, still killing any crew that tried to board due to her madness induced by fleet re-education, and the ship was condemned to a scrapyard where it still lives today.
Accidentally 500+ words even though I was REALLY trying to keep it as short as possible.
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Eltera, known then as The Preacher, was a rebel leader, and a very successful one, rallying an unstoppable force of low and midbloods, protecting mutants, vying for the end of slavery and the permitted existence of mutants of all kinds.
Because her rebellion was not strictly against the caste system, although against one of the systems it uses, she got a lot of support. And one of those supporters was Kezrae. Kezrae had the ability to transfer her mind into the bodies of others and control them.
Their main opponent was of course, Jarobexx, His Imperious Malignancy, although it wasn't explicitly stated as part of the propaganda. Which is important, because while you would have thought that a rebellion against the system would OBVIOUSLY be against the leader holding it up, but some of the midbloods/slightly higher-castes didn't really think about it like that. Their opponent was the vague nebulous 'entity' of mutant oppression, and Eltera allowed this ignorance if it helped her achieve her goals.
Kaormi, the Discreet, was a former laughassassin who was spying on the rebellion for the sake of Jarobexx and discovered that Kezrae was a part of it. Kaormi approached Kezrae, to ask what was going on - it didn't make sense that Kezrae was part of a rebellion against her childhood friend. Because Jarobexx, Kezrae, Kaormi and Vrilia (not involved here) were all grubmates.
Anyway, Kezrae (who is a ceruleanblood seadweller) had joined because of the mutant aspect (due to being a seadweller.) and hadn't really considered that! And so Kaormi convinced her that the rebellion needed to be ended, for their childhood friend's sake. (Like he couldn't just deal with it himself.) (He could he just didn't want to.)
And so, Kezrae possessed Eltera and turned her in to the authorities, to cut a long story short. The rebellion fell apart despite some members trying to keep parts of it together, and it faded into history. Eltera was placed into a ship due to her powerful electric psionics.
She made it hell for everyone on board. She would fuck with the temperature, gravity settings, lock doors and open airlocks. Her electric psionics were strong enough to jump her conscious into the circuits of the ship, where she could mess with anything she wanted. And through experimentation, she found ways to kill the people on board without killing her own body.
Several times, she was dragged out for fleet re-education, and while she forgot a sense of her identity, her past, and many parts of her understanding of people, her deep hatred and growing madness remained. And she kept killing people.
[There's some parts here that I need to rework that I wrote in the past.]
Eventually, the fleet decide that despite the sheer power of her psionics and helmsmen ability, it was not worth it, and try and drag her out. She kills them and herself in the progress, however her consciousness jumps to the ship's circuitry because she uses electricity to kill everything in the room. They try and install a new helmsman in the now lifeless ship, but [Paradoxical Rebellion] is now engrained in every wire, and anything that displeases her is immediately 'dealt with', including passengers, other helmsman, and anyone in range of the ships weapons.
[I'll figure it out one day, uncertain paragraph over.]
The ship was condemned to a scrapyard, where it still sits today. The residual power still lingers, and Paradoxical Rebellion lives as the ship.
