As many of you know now, Shevvite forces hold Fort Jasper after a bloody attack which was assisted by apparently an inside agent of theirs, blah blah.

Mysteriously, the prize that is Fort Jasper in the form of a large cannon--which would have given Shevat no small amounts of global power since they have the mobile mirror from Babel Tower attached--as well as the advanced technological data in the computer banks... is gone. The cannon registers as being completely missing to the computers, though the actual barrel is still there. The best guess is that Solaris may have wiped all circuits to the device from the system and then manually removed the components which would allow the cannon to be reactivated.

Similarly, the only level of technology in the Jasper's computers appears to be little more advanced than Kislevi resources.

All Solarian-specific data is mysteriously missing.

Major Har Trepan, known to be the creator of the White Rabbit system of Fort Jasper's mainframe computers, is also missing.

All the mechanical animals--which are serving bots to keep the Fort in order--are defunct and refuse to be reactivated.

The Control room bears marks of heavy damage in the form of brittle and cracked metal components, shattered doors, and so on, from Khiea's ice assault.

Remaining Gears left in the Gear bay are only average quality for Solaris, though that is at least a fairly high level above the global norm.

Did Shevat truly win a victory? Is the hollow shell of the Fort all they can expect to find? What exactly is Solaris up to this time? Tune in next episode, same Wel time, same Wel channel.