The Four Gods and the Emperor Are False Gods

968.M30.

The northwestern reaches of the galaxy, the Cradle of Serpents.

Before the viewing porthole of the destroyer Eye of Vostonia, Arkan Land gazed at Planet III as it passed between the Twin Stars.

Arkan held a Data Slate in his hands, his stylus sketching out one trajectory after another.

He had not rested for eleven days and nights, but three months ago he had been blessed by god and become a Perpetual. Thus, even without mechanical augmentation, he did not feel the slightest fatigue.

Ever since he had discovered several Sacred Templates named after his own surname—Land—among the archaeological ruins of Mars, he had been buried in affairs.

Arkan had spent decades before he finally shook off the eyes of every faction and reached Lord Nimrod's territory, the Carium Gate.

After arriving at the Cradle of Serpents, he had immediately received a gift from Lord Nimrod, the incarnation of the Omnissiah, and become a Perpetual.

Arkan then obeyed the Omnissiah's decree and carried out observations within the star system. His mission was to discover an astronomical phenomenon.

He looked up at the video screen. Void scenes captured by the Auspex and ground images captured by the Auger Matrix flashed past at high speed.

This data did not come only from the destroyer beneath his feet, but also from sixteen warships including the Shadow of the Throne.

Arkan's eyes suddenly lit up, and his stylus wrote at blinding speed.

[When Planet III passes between Serpent Alpha and Serpent Beta, forming a 3.3-degree angle with the connecting line, the light of the two stars interferes with each other.

On the surface, at coordinates NB 5-69 27-04, the region illuminated by both binary stars simultaneously loses light and falls into darkness for 8.7 seconds.

```At coordinates HN 2-94 37-64, it loses light