#codex wiki

“Ah, lemme answer this one,” Mordenna said. “Truth be told, not much. Turns out having memories of your former culture might make you want to go back to it! So the Elders have been doing their best to eliminate everything of the ‘Old World’ regardless of how ‘offensive’ to their current ‘ideologies’ it might be.” Each quote punctuated with air quotes. “Finding anything, especially twenty years down the line as we are, is a hell of a crapshoot. I actually had quite the stockpile in my Hunter’s Lodge just because, y’know, the Elders didn’t like it but it was too beneath them to do anything about it.”

From relatively nowhere, Wiki popped out her head. “I’ve been making it my mission to aggregate everything pre-invasion because I will not stand for this erasure of knowledge.”

Mordenna waved her off. “If you don’t have The Room then there’s no point.”

“Bold of you to assume I wouldn’t have The Room.”

"Demonstrably so!" Wiki gestured to Vix. "I mean, just look at her! You saw all that happen in the narrative." Wiki is cosmically reminded to remain within her narrative confines. "Fine. We absolutely can, and it doesn't even need to be humanoid. This form's just the best for traversal, space, and holding guns and interacting with stuff. If I so wished I could change my form to anybody's on this ship."

“Unless that socket has the power draw to keep a quarter of the Avenger running, no dice. Though...” Wiki taps her chin. “Perhaps, if I worked with Lily, and at agreed times, I could draw some power from one of the power coils. Probably late at night so I’m not interfering at any peak times.”

Shaking the train of thought off, Wiki gives a digitized sigh. “I’ll be truthful with you here--and it’s not like I can lie otherwise--Specters were brought in to contest us, the Codices, and most of the ones I’ve interacted with have lived up to that goal! Schro has all the usual trappings; kind and polite on the surface, maybe even a little well-spoken, but bring up any of the projects you’re working on and suddenly it’s ‘oh, is that how you’re going about that? I almost forgot that Codices were designed by the machinations of a single Ethereal, though you managing what you have is impressive, at least.’ Ugh.”

“‘Where’ is simple. The--” Wiki’s audio seems to glitch out, “--th dimension. It’s pretty much the most accessible of them all and non-hostile for anyone who’s even remotely built for dimension hopping. Practically layered over your clunky default dimension.”

“And just to be clear, while you may be right...” Wiki crossed her arms. “I still want praise of Odin to be kept to a minimum in my vicinity. Yes, the world has him to thank for me and my Codex kin, but he’s still so... stupid. Not to mention he’s also the very reason Specters exist...”

“‘Trouble’ is one way of putting it,” Wiki conceded, sounding off a digitized sigh. “Nevermind the fact that I didn’t realize XCOM was barbaric enough to be stuffing and mounting aliens to a wall! I know O’Leary said it was ‘good for morale at first’ but...” Wiki shuddered, the action causing her to wink out of sight for a split second. “At least she said she’d be taking it down. Still, the sight of another Codex cortex just mounted there... wasn’t exactly the best welcome mat.”