In the year 2017, a woman named Hokusai Gimura finally finished building
herself a little spaceship. It was decades more advanced than anything the
world had at the time, and that was because she had a little help from the
world of salmon and choosing ones. She integrated temporal powers into the
ship’s systems, which allowed her to travel beyond the reaches of the solar
system, and land on Durus. She was looking for her daughter, Hilde, who was
in Springfield when the Deathfall transported the entire town to the rogue
world. Hokusai knew that her daughter would be long dead by the time she
arrived, but she was unable to procure technology that would get her there
faster, and she hoped someone at her destination would have the ability to
travel backwards in time. She quickly discovered that this was not the case.
While the mage remnants did possess extraordinary abilities, none of them
was strong enough to get her back to 2016, or even anywhere close to it. She
was stuck in 2161, but even though she might never see her daughter again,
that didn’t mean there wasn’t work to be done here. As soon as she arrived,
the authorities took her in for questioning. Had she come just a few years
earlier, she would have been very poorly treated, but since Amrit Bax took
over as leader, she was just treated not super great. They didn’t celebrate
her like a hero, but they didn’t lock her in a cage, and make her drink her
own urine either. Bax and his friends had changed a lot about how the
government was run, but they hadn’t fixed everything, and she was still
considered an untrustworthy person. The fact that she was smart enough to
build a spaceship, and travel here all the way from Earth was something most
could not believe. She must have stolen it, and set it to autopilot.
Hokusai started making waves when she showed up, but not because of anything
she said. She was kept pretty well hidden from the public, or at least her
words were. She knew she was in a different culture, and even if she didn’t
agree with it at all, she couldn’t just go around trying to kick up a stink.
Her first priority was surviving, and then maybe she could join the
revolution, or something. Even so, news of the visitor spread across the
city as fast as lightning, and soon people were attributing thoughts and
ideas to her for which she couldn’t take credit. Of course, people had
already been trying to move the planet towards a state of true equality, but
sometimes hearing the same thing from a different source can change how it’s
received. Nevertheless, her arrival alone would not be enough. They needed
more. They needed her to actually do something. Well, that wouldn’t be easy,
but she wouldn’t have much of a choice anyway. Hokusai, and the rest of the
world, would soon learn that Durus was hurtling towards Earth, and would
collide with it unless something could be done about it. Certain scientists
and other experts had been trying to come up with a solution since they
found out about this, but the government’s official stance was that it was
not happening, and that one day, it would all go away, like a miracle.
Hokusai’s ship was vital to a plan that a small group of time travelers had
come up with. And Hokusai herself was the one to pilot it. She literally
steered Durus through space using time technology, and saved both planets
from complete annihilation. This prompted a companion event to the
Deathfall, which would later be called the Deathspring, but had she done
nothing, they would have all been doomed. Now they owed her, but all she
asked was that they change everything about how they did everything.
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