Is this our (Project) DESTINY?

No. No... Noooooooooo! The world... it is destroyed. Lord Recluse... my... what have you done? No, clear thinking. In the name of Science, I will document and then stop this tragedy from coming to fruition.

My lab, luckily, must still have been in some state of repair as I was able to still use the ZR Aegis Transponder to summon my precious robots - still fully functional and deadly despite the aeons that must have passed for the future to get to this point. And what a horrible place the world has become!

This strange desolate version of Atlas Park was scattered with Arachnobots, Rikti and some Malta robotics. No humans, no survivors could be seen amongst the rubble of Atlas Park.

I found evidence that up until recently the Councils' robots had been engaged in some sort of struggle with whatever powers clashed here - this giant Mekman was standing amidst the destruction... powered down. If only I had a way to transport it back with me...

Alas, while I am correctly anchored to my own timeline now following my work with Dr Darksparke I could not fathom leaving until I got to the bottom of this. Science was with me - the lackey of Black Scorpion, one Silver Mantis, had survived this long with her cybernetic systems allowing her to co-exist with the mechanised denizens of the future and to outlive her more human compatriots.

She imparted to me the horrible story of this twisted future. Where Arachnos schismed under mine and Lord Recluse's leadership and the world has burned after this infighting left Arachnos unprepared to stem some external threat - she was unclear on this point. All that is left is this automated robotic life and some Rikti survivors - their dimension burned too, worse than our own.

I must find a way to stop Lord Recluse - I work for Arachnos willingly and would not see him put the future in jepardy like this. I must convince him.... or stop him.

Arachnos Surveillence Report Intercepted

Source: Arachnos Internal Secuirty Monitor - Project DESTINY
Clearance Level: Black - Lord Recluse's Eyes Only

Content: My Lord,

Our security cameras by the Project DESTINY portal have identified Destined One Candidate 21364 "Master Zaprobo" entering the portal, set to configuration Zeta 27-8-b (see attached report from Black Scorpion).

We believe that this configuration should fling him forward in time past the point of "Recluse's Victory" and nullify him from being a threat to your plans.

Unfortunately, it has come to light that previous encounters with time travel has made the Candidate wary and he may have prepared some device allowing him to freely travel back to our own timeline. This temporal manipulator is not linked to any of our own hardware and as such we were unable to nullify it before he transported out.

Be prepared, my Lord, and in your glorious future ensure you have gathered the might to crush this one should he truly be the Destined One.

In Your Name.

Mobile Crafting Now Available!

My increased level of field work recently is leaving me with less and less time to craft new components and inventions for the betterment of ARAD and Arachnos as a whole.

Today was time I did something about that. After an intensive few hours, working with Vanguard and ARAD scientists I have managed to perfect a portable workbench for creating Hypothetical Framework inventions.

Alas, the unit is smaller than I would have hoped and takes an excessive amount of time to repower once used but its better than I had previously! Science, for all!

New Armour: Vanguard Flight Variant

Finally! Vanguard have authorised me to have a suit of their Impervium Armour. As well they might since Gaussian wanted to send me in against some renegade Vanguard Sword (their black ops division) who had kidnapped Lady Grey herself.

Of course, I had to modify the base suit - it was far too.... limiting. Additions of some ZR Aegis Shielding and some ZR Force Wings made for my new Flight-capable Impervium Suit.

While somewhat inferior to my modified Bane Spider Armour it does enable me to move among "hero" society in a slightly more inconspicuous manner. Essential with all this "cooperation" that Vanguard force down my throat.

That aside, I was able to rescue the Lady Grey and with the assistance of her and her Dark Servant we extracted ourself from the area with maximum casualties. On their side.

Introducing: Dr Darkespark

Well, it seems that the creation of a device to anchor myself to my own timeline has proved more of a challenge than I first anticipated. So much so, that I have decided to draft one of my colleagues in on the project - Dr Darkespark - who I shall be taking on as my research assistant.

She joined Arachnos Research and Development during my time lost in the continuum but is an able nanotechnologist. Her nano-bot swarm technologies are in excess of mine - providing area effect repairs and movement impediments. My core robotics skills, of course, surpass hers and hence an exchange of ideas is in order!

Also, as she has seen little of ARAD field testing, I took her on a "tour" of a Crey Research Lab. For the outing I issued her a full complement of Drone ZR's. Their standard "Tank" Armours were on display and proved little effort for six Drone ZR's, two Protector ZR's and an Assault ZR-6.

I am looking forward to working with her in the coming months.