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RoU 4/7: Observations of MIB Activity

[1] Anchor:

This is a UNN Breaking Report.

Institute observatories have confirmed a startling discovery: the universe is expanding at different rates depending on the point of observation. This finding challenges long-standing cosmological models.

According to The Institute, these variations are evidence of the Men in Black (MIB) at work. By cross-referencing expansion data with regional historical records, analysts have identified the side effects of MIB operations on the very fabric of reality. Where knowledge is suppressed, cosmic growth slows. Where knowledge thrives, expansion accelerates.

While the overall trend shows the universe still accelerating, suggesting the MIB are losing ground, experts warn that this is no cause for complacency. The Men in Black remain committed to their ultimate goal: the destruction of the universe.

(A starmap appears on screen.)

Anchor:

If we focus on this region, where space has slightly contracted, we see the former territory of the Ninsun Empire. The Ninsun were a bovine telepathic species who expanded into multiple star systems.

That is, until their sudden extinction.

(The image shifts to a portrait of the last Ninsun Empress, Ninsumun.)

Anchor:

The Institute maintains an exhibit dedicated to Empress Ninsumun, including her final plea for aid. In her last recorded message, she warned of parasitic brainworms, engineered and unleashed to exterminate the Ninsun herd.

Her words were clear: Beware the males cloaked in darkness.

(The anchor turns as an analyst joins on screen.)

Anchor:

We’re joined now by a representative of the Institute’s Special Security Division. The MIB are accused of genocide against the Ninsun. Why?

Analyst:

Because the Ninsun’s psionic gifts threatened them. Their ability to transmit information across species made knowledge harder to suppress. The MIB could not allow such efficiency of thought to exist.

And ask yourself, who else possesses psionic abilities? Federation citizens… the Elodi. And now, we are facing an incurable plague across both rival empires. Do you really believe this is coincidence?

Analyst (continuing):

The extinction of the Ninsun should have been our warning. The Wolof-Wutukat plague must be recognized for what it is, the latest strike in a war against knowledge itself. We cannot afford half-measures. This is a wake-up call to redouble our efforts and end this menace once and for all.

Historical Commentary

This broadcast aired only months after the outbreak of the Third Elodi–Federation War, at a moment when planetary blockades were failing to contain the Wolof-Wutukat plague. With infection spreading uncontrollably, the Federation Navy prepared the only known solution: orbital sterilization of infected worlds.

The plague was eventually eradicated—but at terrible cost. Entire planets were cleansed, billions of lives lost, and whole star systems left barren. Yet the alternative would have been worse.

At war’s end, the Goddess of the Federation ordered every available resource committed to finding a cure, should the Wolof-Wutukat ever return. Centuries later, despite unlimited funding and unmatched scientific focus, no cure has ever been discovered.

The lesson remains grimly clear: the Men in Black may stumble, but their weapons leave scars across history.


[1] Revelation of the Unraveling

These records speak not of heroes in dark suits, but of the opposite, shadows who seek to unmake everything. The Men in Black described here are no galaxy defenders, but ancient enemies from beyond our plane of reality. They are the architects of silence, manipulators of truth, and destroyers of knowledge.

This series unfolds in fragments, stitched together from what survived the Men in Black (MIB). They are reports, testimonies, transmissions, and memories. Each section is a glimpse into a greater conflict humanity never knew it survived, and the threat it never knew it faced.

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