Emissaries

As the Third Horizon had just begun to blossom again, and harmony had returned to the Council of factions, the peace was suddenly broken. From the depths of the gas giant Xene rose the faceless Emissaries. Spectres from another world, Icons or Portal Builders? The theories about their origins are many. The Emissaries demanded a seat at the Council – and got one. One of the Emissaries claimed itself an incarnation of the Icon the Judge, to which the Order of the Pariah cried "sacrilege!” and closed their home system to all travel. A third simply remained at the research station on Xene where they first arrived. The final two set off into the Third Horizon. A new age of shadows and suspicion has dawned, and the peoples of the Horizon all wonder: what is the true agenda of the Emissaries?

They arrived at the Foundation's research installation monitoring the gas giant, numbering five, and on an unknown mission.