Organism
Ophian Strand
A serpentine exo-organism dredged from beneath Umbra Reef and braided into the Cobra line. Driven past overburn in the uprising, it could not keep the second decant alive — so after he died in the sterilization it rebuilt him in the trench it came from. What it wants with him, and how much of him came back, is unset.
Lanes
Connected entries
- recovered beneathUmbra ReefA Combine extraction colony over the trench bed where the Ophian Strand was found, staffed by indentured labor and clone conscripts before the uprising and sterilization.
- basis ofProject OUROBORANThe Combine program that braided the Ophian Strand into a specialist's genome and produced three Cobra decants with radically different answers to ownership.
overburning inKOSCHEI
On the timeline
When it happened
- Ledger Wars
The Meridian Combine recovers the Ophian Strand and creates the three Project OUROBORAN decants.
- Late Ledger Wars
Months after the sterilization, the uprising's dead commander walks out of the water below Umbra Reef, rebuilt by the Strand. His soldiers rename him Koschei, from an old Cradle story about a man whose death is kept outside his body.
- Ledger Wars