Blue Oslei

The Blue Oslei is a legendary if poorly understood artifact that may have pan-temporal offensive capabilities. It is shrouded in a veil of mystery erected and encouraged by the Jakaar government, which claims absolute authority over the artifact. Recent research suggests that the Blue Oslei was responsible for the destruction of the LFM Service.

History
In 4032 MEC, a research team funded by Cayne University completed an extensive analysis of the Service 's breakup and the scatter patterns of its wreckage across the spacetimeline. The team discovered anomalies in the wreckage distribution--such as abnormally dense debris impacts around Cyranapolis in the 1200s, and a strange lack of debris impacts leading up to and following the Oarspur Catastrophe--that could not be accounted for in the traditional theory; i.e., that the Service 's experimental Armbright Engine had simply suffered a catastrophic simulated vacuum collapse. In fact, the researchers maintained, the wreckage distribution provides the strongest evidence yet of a direct and unnatural temporal collision.

The analysis of the Cayne study was supplemented in 4034 by a series of simulations run by the temporally-detached decision engines of the Dhuiss Monastery. After a combined four hundred trillion simulated generations of analyses and rebuttals, the Dhuiss monastics came to agree that while the temporal location of the weapon that had assaulted the Service could not be determined with the evidence at hand, the spatial location of the weapon was definitely in the Baria Canyon.

The Dhuiss announcement led to a re-examination of the archaeological findings from the Baria Canyon, most of which had been discovered and documented more than two hundred years prior. Textual reanalysis of Oarspur scientific writings recovered from the canyon led scholars to believe that references to an artifact called the Blue Oslei--previously considered a sort of proto-Ezrahim superweapon--may in fact have been to the temporal culprit that had destroyed the Service.

Descriptions of the Blue Oslei were varied but agreed on a few basic facts. Whereas a true oslei is a sort of airship, the Blue Oslei was immobile. It was constructed of a blue or gray stone, or possibly a metal, in the shape of a bulbous body atop a narrow pedestal. Some accounts claimed that the oslei was warm to the touch. Others claimed that to look upon it was instant death.

No less than five artifact collectors and two archaeological museums immediately claimed to possess the true Blue Oslei. Of those seven, three of the collectors' pieces were shown to be frauds, one museum's and one collector's piece were shown to be the wrecks of ordinary, if nonfunctional, Oarspur osleis, the other museum's piece was determined to be a type of crude power generator, and the final collector was discovered dead of Azano poisoning.

In 4035 the Arch Vicar of Jakaarith announced that the Blue Oslei was in Jakaar posession and would not be made available to "the stinking lecherous science monkeys of the Marsuline puppet masters." All public information about the artifact since then has been derived from Jakaari press releases.

Physical Appearance
The Blue Oslei is composed of a glossy, reflective metal. It stands between one and three meters high. Most of its mass is derived from its lower half, which forms a sort of tall, narrow pedestal. The semi-spherical upper section of the Blue Oslei rests atilt on the pedestal, and according to Jakaari reports is roughly the size of a man's head. This upper section has small raised bumps along its surface in irregular places.

In a video press release issued by the Jakaarith Vicariat, the Blue Oslei is seen being inspected by white-clad Jakaari scientists. As the scientists touch the raised bumps on the Blue Oslei, distinct pinging and beeping noises are heard, although these may have been edited in to the video at a later time. The Blue Oslei also appears to have blue and green pinpoints of light flashing on its surface in this video, but some analysts suggest that these lights may be reflections of scientific or recording equipment in the room at the time filming is taking place.

Jakaari Claims
The Jakaarith Vicariat has released multiple announcements claiming that the Blue Oslei is capable of henceforth unknown destruction, though no specific details regarding destructive capacity have been provided.

In his biannual tirade of 4036, the Arch Vicar notably claimed that with the Blue Oslei at his command, he could "wipe out a traitor's grandparents and grandchildren in a single flash of glorious justice." He claimed that such power is evidence of the Vicariat's destiny to dominate all centuries at once.

Since 4036 MEC, no new footage of the Blue Oslei has been revealed, leading some to suggest that it has been stolen or destroyed by Jakaari experiments.

~Professor Emeritus Hargallon Botunar