(I) Welcome To Pathspace
[A remote outpost of the Planet Dukis]
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [towers allowed]
01 01 01 01 01 02 02 13 [enemy set]
20 [cooldown bonus]
60 [time]
20 [lives]
100 [bonus cache]
33 [portrait to use (Aa)]
Eh? Newcomer--#
Not many have the courage to ascend to our level: the level of pathspace defense.  You will still be disoriented from the conversion: let me explain.#
The Bavakh are invading your home planet, Dukis.  They are using phasewarp travel, which allows their ships to bypass relativity and strike across great distances.  Though a powerful weapon, it's been countered by a higher dimension still: pathspace, which you and I inhabit.#  
They see only the lines; we see the shapes.  To the Bavakh, we are ghosts, but our attacks are not.#
Practice is the best demonstration.  A Bavakh fleet is attacking an outpost of your world through phasewarp.  Move your mouse to fire automatically at the nearest ship within range.#
We are ghosts, but the situation is very real.  Lives will be lost if the Bavakh reach the end of the path.  Too many lives lost, and we have failed.  So do not disappoint, newcomer--and maybe they will let you return to your world one day--

(II) The Great Aa
[A remote outpost of the Planet Oss]
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [towers allowed]
01 01 01 01 02 02 02 02 [enemy set]
-10 [cooldown bonus]
90 [time]
20 [lives]
200 [bonus cache]
33 [portrait to use (Aa)]
You have a limited appreciation for path defense, I see.  You may become something promising yet.  But you will never equal me--Pul Wat Aa, path defender of the great planet Oss.#
You have not heard of me?  I knew that your planet was isolated, newcomer--but not to have heard of Aa, the great hero of Oss?#
No matter--you'll learn of Aa's greatness soon enough.  I will bestow you with wisdom: you can right-click to charge up a powerful attack, and then click again to release it.  So just fire your little shots, newcomer--watch and learn--and witness the power of Aa's will made manifest!

(III) Fear and Will
[A remote colony in the Dukis Star Kingdom]
01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [towers allowed]
02 02 02 01 01 01 01 01 [enemy set]
90 [cooldown bonus]
120 [time]
20 [lives]
250 [bonus cache]
0 [portrait to use (use fear point)]
Hello.  I am a Fear Point.  I am you.#
Or rather, I am a part of your will used to assist you in path defense.  You can use me to cover certain areas of the path while you focus your attention elsewhere.  I damage invaders, plus I slow them down to give us both more time to stop them.  I can even lower enemy defenses, or cancel any special abilities they may have.  I'm useful, aren't I?#
Just select my image in the Point Palette, hold the mouse button down in the location where you want to place me, wait until I've charged up, then release.  Also useful, isn't it?#
You'll need cache to place me.  You earn cache by destroying invaders.  Since it looks like you already have some from your previous fights, why not learn how to use me right now?  If you make good use of me, you might be able to place more of me as your mission goes on--#  
When you are satisfied with my positioning, press the spacebar or click START to begin the battle.  The Bavakh are coming again--

(IV) The First Assault
[Dukis Central Jump Nexus]
01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [towers allowed]
02 02 02 02 02 02 02 02 [enemy set]
30 [cooldown bonus]
150 [time]
20 [lives]
300 [bonus cache]
33 [portrait to use (Aa)]
You already learned how to use Fear Points?#
You're a quick study, newcomer.  Let's try something a little more challenging--#
The Bavakh are threatening a jump gate two systems away from Dukis.  If they destroy it, they'll be able to phasewarp right into Dukis space.  Don't let them!#  
Know a new secret: if you click on an enemy, all of your Points will attempt to target that enemy.  See how effective your Fear Points can be!

(V) Assault on Bavakh Space, Part 1
[Outer Supply Lines, Bavakh Empire]
02 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [towers allowed]
01 01 02 02 02 02 02 02 [enemy set]
30 [cooldown bonus]
120 [time]
20 [lives]
350 [bonus cache]
3 [portrait to use (Courage)]
You won the battle for the jump gate!  A bold move--now let's try pressing the advantage!#
Fear can only get you so far--and that's where I--the Courage Point--come in!#
I do much more damage than the Fear Point, and have a much longer range!  Why wouldn't you use as many of me as possible?#
There's phasewarp activity on the supply lines in an outlying sector of the Bavakh empire--let's bring the battle to the Bavakh!

(VI) Assault on Bavakh Space, Part 2
[Inner Supply Lines, Bavakh Empire]
02 02 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [towers allowed]
01 02 02 02 02 02 02 02 [enemy set]
20 [cooldown bonus]
120 [time]
20 [lives]
450 [bonus cache]
6 [portrait to use (Ortho)]
You understand fear, and you understand courage.  What you need, though, is precision.  You need me--the mathematical aspect of your will.  The Ortho Point.#
I fire at ninety-degree angles, but cannot fire on the diagonals.  This should help you decide where to place me.#
Also: have you noticed yet that you can upgrade your points?  It costs more cache, of course, but you'll get a much more effective point as a result.  To upgrade, click and hold the left mouse button on a point until the upgrade is charged, then release.  One upgraded point can be worth many smaller points--it's simple math.#
Did Aa not tell you this?#

(VII) Assault on Bavakh Space, Part 3
[Bavakh Staging Grounds, Bavakh Empire]
02 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [towers allowed]
01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 [enemy set]
-10 [cooldown bonus]
150 [time]
20 [lives]
600 [bonus cache]
33 [portrait to use (Aa)]
You are becoming more adept all the time, newcomer!  Already my ears among the worlds tell me that the Bavakh have begun to fear the "ghost of path space".  Will you create a legend for yourself?#
Yet there is more to do before you can return home.  The Bavakh have noticed your attacks on their outlying systems.  They're preparing to retaliate against your home planet of Dukis.  Even now their ships gather at their staging ground.#
Let us fight them off together.  Keep out of my way and use what you know--or perhaps you won't have a home to return to at all!

(VIII) A Lull In The Storm
[Bavakh Phasewarp Conduit, Unclaimed Space]
01 01 01 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [towers allowed]
02 02 02 02 02 02 02 02 [enemy set]
40 [cooldown bonus]
165 [time]
20 [lives]
800 [bonus cache]
33 [portrait to use (Aa)]
I appreciate your efforts, newcomer--amateurish as they are.#
Let me share with you one of my secrets.  The Cut Point--the Point of total ruthlessness--fires a spiral spread of bullets around itself.  It does a great deal of damage, but only if the invaders drift too close to it.  So perhaps your great instincts suggest where to place this--near the path, correct?  Perhaps in loops or at corners, correct?#
There are more uses for my great weapon, as well.  For example, you might try holding your charge attack near them--#
Here is a portion of space where the Bavakh are known to travel.  Why not learn to use Aa's great gift?

(IX) Gathering Clouds
[Fighter Testing Grounds, Bavakh Empire]
01 01 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [towers allowed]
03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 [enemy set]
15 [cooldown bonus]
150 [time]
20 [lives]
1000 [bonus cache]
33 [portrait to use (Aa)]
Curse your idleness, newcomer!  While you were dallying, attacking isolated phasewarp conduits, the Bavakh have developed a new ship--one which they plan to use against your homeworld of Dukis!#
How did they find the time to develop it?  In the two years you've spent in pathspace, of course.  Does it seem like that long, newcomer, that we have been together?  Do you miss your crude flesh?#
This ship--the Jumper--is designed to maximize speed along the paths and to burst through your lines of defense.  Do not let it through!

(X) Reflections on Pride
[Bavakh Phasewarp Highway, Borderlands]
01 01 01 01 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 [towers allowed]
01 01 02 02 03 03 03 03 [enemy set]
05 [cooldown bonus]
180 [time]
20 [lives]
1250 [bonus cache]
21 [portrait to use (Pride)]
I am the Pride Point.  I may not seem like much, but don't take me for granted.#
Whenever I destroy an invader, I gain in attack strength.  Early on, I'll find it difficult to fight effectively without some support.  But after I've gotten some experience, you may find me the greatest in your point arsenal.#
I am the part of you that has allowed you to thrive here in pathspace, to learn to live and thrive without your body.  You are a type of Pride Point yourself.

(XI) Reflections on Love
[Bavakh Phasewarp Highway, Borderlands]
01 01 01 01 00 03 00 01 00 00 00 [towers allowed]
04 04 04 04 03 03 03 03 [enemy set]
05 [cooldown bonus]
180 [time]
20 [lives]
2000 [bonus cache]
15 [portrait to use (Love)]
I am the Love Point.  I am the part of you that is unwilling to fight by direct means.  If you place me near another tower, I'll increase the effectiveness of that tower by a certain percentage.  I may not be willing to fight, but no battle plan is complete without Love, is it?#
Do you remember love?

(XII) Reflections on Friendship
[Bavakh Phasewarp Highway, Borderlands]
01 01 01 01 00 01 02 01 00 00 00 [towers allowed]
01 01 01 01 03 03 03 03 [enemy set]
36 [cooldown bonus]
180 [time]
20 [lives]
2500 [bonus cache]
18 [portrait to use (Circuit)]
We are the Circuit Points.  Alone, we are both useless.  Together, we are death to the Bavakh.#
We create a beam of energy that stretches between us.  When invaders cross that beam of energy, they will be destroyed.  But you must place at least two of us.  And you must not place us too far apart.#
Nothing can survive alone.  Would you have lasted in pathspace without the support of Aa?  Would you have been driven to become the first path defender from Dukis without the support of--someone else?#
Do you remember her name?

(XIII) The Storm Breaks
[Edge of Dukis Space]
02 01 01 01 00 01 02 01 03 00 00 [towers allowed]
01 02 02 03 04 04 05 05 [enemy set]
15 [cooldown bonus]
210 [time]
20 [lives]
3000 [bonus cache]
33 [portrait to use (Aa)]
I have been occupied with matters on Oss for a year, newcomer--and I see that you have developed many new components in your arsenal!  What have you been occupying yourself with, fighting on the Borderlands?  What dark new thoughts have come?#
There is no time for more reflection now!  The Bavakh offense is pushing forward again, this time with a new craft--the Squalid.  These ships will regenerate damage when attacked.  Yet another measure of defense against the great "ghost of phase space", no doubt?  You are making my job more difficult--#
But the great Aa will come to your aid yet again by offering you his greatest weapon yet--the Strategist Point, the integration of your will.  Whenever you target an invader, the Strategist Point will fire.  It will do a certain percentage of damage to the enemy, and it will also lower his defense.  So use your Strategist Points effectively against the Bavakh--and you will yet see victory!

(XIV) The Battle of Dukis, Part 1
[Dukis Jump Gate, Approach B]
02 01 01 01 00 01 02 01 01 00 00 [towers allowed]
01 02 01 02 03 04 05 05 [enemy set]
10 [cooldown bonus]
210 [time]
20 [lives]
3500 [bonus cache]
33 [portrait to use (Aa)]
They still advance--#
They learn from their mistakes, these Bavakh--they've gotten a small force through by using multiple phase warp conduits!  Only two jumps remain before they're within striking distance of Dukis!#
I, the great Aa, will attack one of the paths.  You, newcomer, will attack this path.  If we both do our jobs, we can halt this invasion here, now.#
There will be a great many of them--use all that you've learned!  Do not let any of them through!

(XV) The Battle of Dukis, Part 2
[Dukis Jump Gate, Final Approach]
03 00 00 00 00 03 00 01 03 00 00 [towers allowed]
01 02 03 04 05 06 06 13 [enemy set]
-15 [cooldown bonus]
300 [time]
20 [lives]
5000 [bonus cache]
33 [portrait to use (Aa)]
It has been three years, newcomer.  You aren't a newcomer any more, are you?  You are ready to stand at the side of the great Aa!#
Despite our efforts, some of the Bavakh--their remaining fleets--have made it to the final phase jump.  One attack, and Dukis will fall.  But one successful defense here, and the Bavakh Nightmare is ended--for a time.#
If we are victorious, ghost of phase space, it will end the Bavakh War!  And you, ghost, will return to your homeworld and receive a hero's welcome!#
But I will miss you, my equal--

Endless Assault 1
[Raberata Special Training Grounds]
02 02 02 02 00 02 02 02 02 00 00 [towers allowed-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------]
03 03 04 04 05 05 06 06 [enemy set]
10 [cooldown bonus]
-1 [time]
7 [lives]
0 [bonus cache]
48 [portrait to use (Raberata)]
Eh?  Is that you, ghost of phase space?#
I am Jamesh the Raberata, one of your fellow path defenders.  Pul Wat Aa talks highly of you, and no one can deny the effectiveness of your strategy at the Battle of Dukis.  But do you have what it takes to be one of the greatest path defenders of all time?#
Let's find out!  We Raberata have constructed a simulator that'll allow you to fight an endless supply of enemy drones.  They'll keep attacking you no matter what happens, and they'll keep getting stronger.#
The amount of time you survive in my level will determine the amount of cache you start with in the next campaign. All the rest of your cache will be lost, after this will be a fresh start--so don't hold back, spend it all!#
See how long you can make it before they break through your defense, why don't you?  Then we'll see how good a path defender you really are--#

(XVI) A New Challenge
[Borderlands]
01 01 01 00 00 01 02 00 00 00 00 [towers allowed]
02 02 06 06 05 05 05 05 [enemy set]
-15 [cooldown bonus]
150 [time]
15 [lives]
300 [bonus cache]
33 [portrait to use]
What is wrong with you?  Why have you not responded to my messages these past twenty years?#
Are you still upset that they wouldn't let you return to your body?  Pah--it is just as well.  I have need of you, Great Ghost!  Do not forget your debt to the great Aa!#
Our victory at Dukis was perhaps--prematurely declared.  All we did, it seems, is to sow more chaos in the Bavakh Empire--chaos that has allowed the Brothers Bavakh, Crosh and Ducrosh, to take control.  I know nothing about them, save that they have created a new war machine--one aimed at the great planet of Oss!#
Do they not know the might of the great Aa?  Have they forgotten the two hundred years that I have been in pathspace, guarding my great world against all assault?  Do they not think of me as highly and fearfully as they do of you--oh Great Ghost?#
But to my side!  Do for Oss, Ghost, what I did for Dukis!  And Aa will give you his blessing--

(XVII) Adaptation
[Oss Empire, Border Phasewarp Station]
01 01 01 01 02 01 00 00 01 00 00 [towers allowed]
01 01 01 01 06 06 06 06 [enemy set]
20 [cooldown bonus]
210 [time]
15 [lives]
500 [bonus cache]
12 [portrait to use (Limited)]
Greetings.  I am the Limited Point.  I am the part of your will that your human self never knew.
#My shots seek out their targets no matter where they hide.  I almost never miss--unlike some of your simpler weapons.  Some of your simpler memories of the life you once knew.
#You are learning to be more versatile in the path as well--you have developed new weapons, new attacks.  Perhaps I reflect this quality in you--Great Ghost.  
#You are becoming a creature of pathspace now--

(XVIII) Connection
[Oss Empire, Outlying Systems]
01 01 01 01 01 00 02 00 02 00 00 [towers allowed]
07 07 07 01 01 01 01 01 [enemy set]
15 [cooldown bonus]
210 [time]
15 [lives]
800 [bonus cache]
51 [portrait to use (daughter)]
Father?
#This is your daughter.  Are you surprised to hear from me?  I wasn't even born when the government made you a path defender.  I don't even know your face.  You wouldn't know mine, either.  They say I've grown into a lovely young woman--
#The government is letting me send this message because they're worried about you, father.  Reports are coming in that you're attacking Bavakh fleets near the Theocracy of Oss.  What possible interest could you have with that cult-world?  Have you forgotten about your obligation to Dukis?
#Please come back to us, father.  The scientists tell me they're working very hard on returning you to your body.  Then you can see what I look like, now--and I can see your face at last--

(XIX) Assault on Heaven, Part 1
[Oss Jump Gate]
00 01 01 01 01 03 00 01 00 00 00 [towers allowed]
01 05 05 06 06 01 07 07 [enemy set]
15 [cooldown bonus]
210 [time]
15 [lives]
1000 [bonus cache]
33 [portrait to use]
Theocracy?  Is that what your daughter told you about my planet?  Preposterous.  The people of Oss simply know how to respect their defenders.  I have been defending them for two hundred years, remember.
#Perhaps one day one of my people would worry about your world being known as the "Theocracy of Dukis", hmm?  Perhaps you'd be a God too?
#The Bavakh certainly think of you as a God--or as a Devil.

(XX) Assault on Heaven, Part 2
[Oss Empire, Temple of Aa]
01 01 01 01 01 00 03 00 03 00 00 [towers allowed]
06 05 03 03 04 04 04 04 [enemy set]
45 [cooldown bonus]
180 [time]
15 [lives]
1400 [bonus cache]
33 [portrait to use]
Blasphemy!  The Bavakh approach the Temple of Aa!
#It isn't a real temple, of course.  Merely a small tribute asteroid, dedicated to me.  But what it symbolizes to the Bavakh!  An easy conquest!  A simple church-burning!  Nothing but a moral victory!
#To my side, Great Ghost!  Defend my Temple!  Follow the command of Aa!

(XXI) Blurred Reflection
[Oss Empire, Temple of Aa]
01 00 01 01 01 03 00 01 01 00 00 [towers allowed]
01 02 03 04 05 06 01 02 [enemy set]
50 [cooldown bonus]
210 [time]
15 [lives]
1600 [bonus cache]
51 [portrait to use]
Father?  The government is getting more worried about you.  Why have you not returned to your station at Dukis?
#Don't you remember how beautiful Dukis is?  Before mother passed away, she told me about how you and she used to climb the Ice Caves together and look at your reflection in the frozen lakes.  She said that when the sun shone just right, the reflections blurred, and neither of you could tell the other apart.  It sounded so wonderful.
#I would love to go to the frozen lakes with you, father, when you return.  Maybe our reflections would blur together.  Then how could anyone tell whether I was you or you were me?

(XXII) Second Wave
[Oss Empire, Border Phasewarp Station]
01 01 01 01 01 00 03 01 01 00 00 [towers allowed]
15 15 03 04 05 05 06 06 [enemy set]
10 [cooldown bonus]
240 [time]
15 [lives]
2000 [bonus cache]
33 [portrait to use]
An acceptable job of defending the Temple, Great Ghost.  You defended it like it was your very own.  Maybe you imagine that one day you will have a temple as great and beautiful as mine?  
#What are you imagining?
#But we can't rest now!  The Bavakh have gathered their entire fleet at the Borderlands between the Bavakh Empire and Oss, and the first wave of reinforcements has arrived!  Have you noticed their new weapons--weapons designed to destroy us?
#Do not fail me, Great Ghost!  Do not forget that you owe me everything!  You owe me your very life!

(XXIII) A Sudden Departure
[Borderlands]
01 01 01 01 01 03 02 01 01 00 00 [towers allowed]
01 01 01 01 01 01 15 15 [enemy set]
90 [cooldown bonus]
240 [time]
15 [lives]
3000 [bonus cache]
33 [portrait to use]
Excellent, Great Ghost.  The Bavakh are retreating!  I, the great Aa, have won!
#You will not pursue them, of course.  It is of no consequence to you where they go.  Why not stay here and enjoy the splendors of Oss pathspace?  The Valhalla of the great Aa!
#You will not pursue them!

(XXIV) The Pursuit Continues
[Borderlands, Bavakh Rendezvous Point]
01 00 00 00 00 01 02 00 06 00 00 [towers allowed]
01 01 02 02 15 15 15 15 [enemy set]
25 [cooldown bonus]
210 [time]
15 [lives]
4000 [bonus cache]
33 [portrait to use]
Why did you disobey my order not to pursue?  You--you might have chased them right back to Oss!  Cease your pursuit immediately, newcomer!
#Does it seem to you as if the fleet is headed for Dukis?  Is that what you think?  Absurd!  Cease your pursuit!

(XXV) Potential Energy
[Borderlands, Bavakh Rendezvous Point]
01 01 01 01 01 01 00 01 00 00 00 [towers allowed]
06 04 05 14 14 14 05 03 [enemy set]
35 [cooldown bonus]
180 [time]
15 [lives]
5000 [bonus cache]
33 [portrait to use]
Do you see your folly now?  There are too many of them for one stripling defender to stop!  They are too powerful for you--
#It is so lonely out here--do you realize that you are one of the few minds I have spoken to in my two hundred years of my service to Oss?  Since you arrived in pathspace twenty-five years ago, I have enjoyed our conversations.  Will you not forget these trifling fleets and return to Oss?  I could make you one of my heralds!  It would be glorious!
#Your fight is meaningless!  You cannot defend against them!  The Great Aa demands that you give up!  Give up!
#What keeps you fighting?

(XXVI) A Broken Circuit
[Dukis Empire, Outlying Systems]
01 01 01 01 01 00 01 00 03 00 00 [towers allowed]
15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 [enemy set]
-5 [cooldown bonus]
210 [time]
15 [lives]
6000 [bonus cache]
33 [portrait to use]
Perhaps Aa was too hasty, oh Great Ghost.  Do not be angry with the Great Aa.
#Aa will even join your fight!  The Brothers Bavakh themselves approach your world!  Were they to perish, it would strike a death blow to the Bavakh!  Let us be the ones to strike that blow!
#After all, you must preserve your homeland!  What would you do, I wonder, without the hope of your safe return to your dead wife--to your growing brat?

(XXVII) The Great Star
[Dukis Empire, Phasewarp Conduit B]
01 01 00 00 01 03 02 01 01 00 00 [towers allowed]
04 04 06 06 14 14 07 07 [enemy set]
-6 [cooldown bonus]
240 [time]
15 [lives]
7000 [bonus cache]
51 [portrait to use]
Father?
#The government is urgently requesting that I get in touch with you.  They've sighted the Bavakh on a return course to our planet!  Apparently they've been massing forces on hyperspace approaches since the end of your battle on Oss.
#I won't blame you for failing to notice this.  How can I know what priorities you see as important, so far up there in the sky?  There are legends growing about you, father.  People have named a star after you.  They say, "There is the Great Star that defends us!"
#I don't know about all of that.  All I know is that I'm pregnant with your granddaughter.
#Please remember us, father--I want you to see me again, and to see her for the first time.
#Isn't it strange how life works?  To me, you're a father--to her, you'll be nothing but a legend--

(XXVIII) Between Past and Present
[Dukis Empire, Phasewarp Conduit A]
01 01 01 01 00 02 00 00 00 03 00 [towers allowed]
05 06 14 14 14 05 06 15 [enemy set]
-7 [cooldown bonus]
270 [time]
15 [lives]
8000 [bonus cache]
27 [portrait to use (turning)]
I am the Turning Point.  Or am I?  Hahahaha--
#Where did I come from?  You saw Aa use me before, didn't you?  Maybe you've learned something about the world that Aa knew all along--or maybe I just wandered into your mind, hahaha--into your life--
#Up to this time, reason alone has guided you.  But I am something beyond reason--I am your next evolution--

(XXIX) The Right Hand
[Dukis Jump Gate]
00 00 00 00 00 07 00 00 00 00 00 [towers allowed]
16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 [enemy set]
999999 [cooldown bonus]
300 [time]
1 [lives]
10000 [bonus cache]
33 [portrait to use]
You have fought tolerably.  It is time for the Great Aa to help you achieve your ultimate victory.
#The Bavakh fleet is approaching the Dukis Jump Gate.  One of the Brothers Bavakh--Crosh--is accompanying the fleet.  More to the point--he is the fleet.  He is something more than most Bavakh--something terrifying--
#You understand what this means, don't you?  Destroy the Bavakh leader and you'll have destroyed their government!  You'll have saved your pitiful little world!
#Where is the other brother, you ask?  Leave that to the great Aa!  With His all-seeing eyes, Aa will watch all of the other hyperspace approaches and defeat the brother Ducrosh with a swipe of my all-destroying hand.  Aa will save you from your own limitations!  Aa is ubiquitous!  Aa is all-powerful!  Aa is God!

(XXX) What The Left Hand Did
[Dukis Atmospheric Approach]
03 03 03 03 03 00 03 03 00 03 00 [towers allowed]
16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 [enemy set]
999999 [cooldown bonus]
60 [time]
1 [lives]
10000 [bonus cache]
33 [portrait to use]
So you have defeated one of the Brothers Bavakh.  How good of you.  But the other brother still lives, you've noticed?
#That's because the great Aa allowed it.
#Please understand--I do this in self-defense!  They were too strong--they have a planet-killer bomb!  They would have used it on Oss!  So I wrote them a message in the sky, a message that they read.  I offered a bargain.  Instead of the million dead we would leave them, I would allow them to take a far richer world than Oss--Dukis--for the cost of only a hundred thousand.
#Even now Ducrosh approaches your atmosphere with the planet-killer bomb.  Do not hinder him!  It will be painless.  He will kill your daughter, killing your pain, and he will turn your body to dust, ending your existence in pathspace.
#If you move to interfere--know that the great Aa will prevent it!

Endless Assault 2
[Raberata Special Training Grounds]
02 02 02 02 02 02 02 02 02 02 00 [towers allowed-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------]
01 01 14 14 07 07 15 15 [enemy set]
10 [cooldown bonus]
-1 [time]
7 [lives]
0 [bonus cache]
48 [portrait to use]
This is Jamesh.  I see you've come back.
#We all heard about what Pul Wat Aa did to you.  I don't want to get involved--I don't want my homeworld burning either.
#But I did set up a new Endless training course for you.  You can use the new skills you've developed, and you'll see some of the new enemies you encountered.  Destroy them all, survive for as long as you can--it'll make you feel better.  And it'll get you ready to take your revenge--

(XXXI) Field of Stones
[New Oss-Bavakh Transit Corridor]
02 01 00 00 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 [towers allowed]
01 02 03 04 14 15 14 15 [enemy set]
10 [cooldown bonus]
180 [time]
20 [lives]
175 [bonus cache]
33 [portrait to use (Aa)]
I give you credit, Ghost!  For twenty years since the fall of Dukis, you have refused to give in!  Do not think that even the God Aa overlooks the reports!  A cargo fleet vanished here, a warship scuttled there--do not think that I have overlooked your activities.
#But I will end your pitiful efforts.  I have flooded pathspace with objects of my own creation--barriers of hate against your will.  They will block your attacks, leaving my great fleets of Bavakh and Oss safe to travel the phase conduits.
#I will build a wall of stone around you, Ghost--a tomb, to finally seal your restless spirit--

(XXXII) The Wall Rises
[Oss Supply Lines]
01 01 01 00 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 [towers allowed]
03 04 08 08 14 14 15 15 [enemy set]
30 [cooldown bonus]
150 [time]
20 [lives]
350 [bonus cache]
33 [portrait to use (Aa)]
So smug, aren't you?  Having found a way through my defenses--
#But I will wipe the grin from your bodiless face, Ghost!  From now on, my fleets will be accompanied by the final triumph of Bavakh engineering--the Shrigg!  The Shrigg will emit particles designed to block your feeble path-based attacks, allowing the God Aa to accomplish his designs without interference.
#You amuse me, Ghost.  You refuse to give up your identity as a path defender, even now. 
#Just who are you defending anymore?

(XXXIII) A Crack
[Oss Supply Lines]
00 00 00 01 01 01 00 00 03 00 00 [towers allowed]
08 08 08 08 07 15 15 15 [enemy set]
00 [cooldown bonus]
180 [time]
20 [lives]
550 [bonus cache]
54 [portrait to use (granddaughter)]
Subject K?
#Grandfather?
#Stand by--

(XXXIV) The Rebel Angel
[Temple of Aa]
01 01 01 00 00 06 00 00 00 01 00 [towers allowed]
09 09 08 08 01 01 02 02 [enemy set]
45 [cooldown bonus]
150 [time]
20 [lives]
700 [bonus cache]
33 [portrait to use (Aa)]
Why do you still fight?  Why?
#The destruction of your world was decades ago, now!  The flesh on your family's bones has long since rotted!  Why do you persist in hampering the operations of the God Aa?
#All I wish is to strengthen the ties between Oss and that which was once the Bavakh Empire!  If I must spill some Bavakh blood to do so, so be it!  I have their technology already--they must accept our culture!  They must learn, as you should have learned, ghost, to worship the God Aa!
#Is that who you defend now?  The Bavakh?

(XXXV) Sunlight
[Oss-Bavakh Transit Corridor]
00 01 00 01 00 03 00 01 01 01 00 [towers allowed]
09 09 08 08 14 14 14 14 [enemy set]
95 [cooldown bonus]
120 [time]
20 [lives]
900 [bonus cache]
54 [portrait to use (granddaughter)]
Grandfather?
#It's me, your granddaughter!  I'm alive, grandfather!  And so are you!
#Your daughter--my mother--knew that the cultists of Oss would betray you--betray our world!  So they moved your body and a few key people on Dukis by phasewarp to a small asteroid in the Borderlands.  We have lived here the past twenty years, trying to survive--and trying to find a way to wake you up!
#That's why you still exist!  Your body is still safe, waiting for you to come back to it!  And that's why you have to keep fighting--Great Star of Dukis!
#My grandpa!

(XXXVI) The Crucible
[Transit Corridor Anomaly]
01 00 00 01 00 00 05 00 00 00 00 [towers allowed]
02 01 02 01 14 14 14 14 [enemy set]
35 [cooldown bonus]
180 [time]
20 [lives]
1100 [bonus cache]
54 [portrait to use (granddaughter)]
Perhaps I can help you, grandpa--like you helped all of us, so long ago!
#Science has advanced in what remains of Dukis.  We now know how to read the hyperspace paths just as well as you do!  And we've been analyzing the movements of ships from Oss.  You've done a super job of destroying those murderers!
#There's something interesting about the path from Oss to Bavakh space--something you may not have noticed.  All the Oss ships will have to pass through one crucial system--but it'll slow them down, grandpa!  And it'll be the perfect place to strike!
#Avenge us, grandpa!  Avenge Dukis--and avenge my mother!

(XXXVII) Purity of Will Is To Love One Thing
[Oss-Bavakh Transit Corridor]
01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 [towers allowed]
01 02 08 09 14 14 14 14 [enemy set]
-25 [cooldown bonus]
165 [time]
20 [lives]
2300 [bonus cache]
54 [portrait to use (granddaughter)]
Great job, grandpa!  I'm proud to be your granddaughter!
#Now let me teach you a trick that our path scientists have discovered.  It's a certain way of focusing your willpower--Danmaku, it's called.  It's super big and it's super hard to use sometimes, but if you've got the energy to bring out a Danmaku Point, you can annihilate even more of the murderers!  Its attacks are based on the pattern of pathspace, and even Aa's hate debris won't divert it from that path.
#Just think about it a minute--I'm sure you know how to use it, really--you've been up there for so long--

(XXXVIII) Sunlight And Storm
[Borderlands Of Oss]
01 01 01 01 01 01 02 01 01 01 01 [towers allowed]
10 10 10 03 03 14 14 14 [enemy set]
33 [cooldown bonus]
180 [time]
20 [lives]
4000 [bonus cache]
33 [portrait to use (Aa)]
Devil!
#You've destroyed an entire fleet!  Murdered millions of poor Bavakh!  I am the God Aa and you are the Devil!  There is no other explanation!
#There is Devil-magic in you--that new point you use.  The new power of your charged attacks.  Where did these come from?  What do you know, Devil, that even the God Aa does not?
#I will avenge the deaths of my worshippers, Devil--they will not have been sent to hellspace without reason!

(XXXIX) Forty Years In The Desert
[Borderlands]
01 01 01 01 01 01 02 01 01 01 01 [towers allowed]
08 09 10 01 02 14 14 15 [enemy set]
30 [cooldown bonus]
180 [time]
20 [lives]
6000 [bonus cache]
33 [portrait to use (Aa)]
Why do you plague me?  Why do we plague each other?  Devil, it would be so simple if we could be friends again--
#Don't you understand that we are Gods?  And as Gods, we require worship!  The blood of heathens is nothing to us!  You slay my forces, I slay your family--that's equality!  What is wrong with that?
#We require worship!  Without worshippers, who would maintain my body in stasis within the Temple of Aa?  Who would enact my designs for the universe?
#Who is worshipping you, Devil?  Who maintains your body?  And where--

(XL) The New Garden
[Borderlands]
00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 01 [towers allowed]
01 08 09 05 06 14 10 15 [enemy set]
25 [cooldown bonus]
180 [time]
20 [lives]
8000 [bonus cache]
54 [portrait to use (granddaughter)]
Grandpa!  Guess what--we can all be immortal too!
#I don't understand quite how it works!  But it's some kind of new technology--a nano-something--and it fixes your body as it gets old!  You stay young forever, and you don't ever die!  Think of it, grandpa!  I'll never get old and die!
#We can fix Dukis, grandpa!  We can return in triumph, and we can make it the most beautiful planet in the galaxy, like it always was!  And you'll shine down on us forever--like the Great Star you are!
#And we can always be together, grandpa!  Always!

(XLI) God Of Thunder
[Borderlands, Dukis Colony Approach A]
01 01 01 01 01 02 02 01 01 01 01 [towers allowed]
03 07 04 14 03 04 07 14 [enemy set]
25 [cooldown bonus]
195 [time]
20 [lives]
12500 [bonus cache]
33 [portrait to use (Aa)]
You--have made a mistake, Devil.  Did you think you could hide your movements--your attention--from God?
#Consider well whether your body is safe or not.  And consider this--merely the first assault.

(XLII) The Sky Is Sealed
[Borderlands, Dukis Colony Approach B]
01 01 01 01 01 02 02 01 01 01 01 [towers allowed]
02 11 01 10 08 09 14 15 [enemy set]
25 [cooldown bonus]
195 [time]
20 [lives]
17500 [bonus cache]
54 [portrait to use (granddaughter)]
Grandpa?  We're picking up lots of pathspace activity--all around us!  Just like before--just like on the old Dukis!
#They're coming again!  Grandpa, we don't have anywhere else we can go!
#Please, grandpa!  Even the nano-something can't save us from this!  You have to stop the cultists of Oss!  You have to stop Aa!

(XLIII) Plague of Locusts
[Dukis Colony Outer Defense Approach]
01 01 01 01 01 02 02 01 01 01 01 [towers allowed]
15 15 15 15 10 10 14 14 [enemy set]
05 [cooldown bonus]
210 [time]
20 [lives]
20000 [bonus cache]
33 [portrait to use (Aa)]
You wonder how I found you here?  Can the Devil do anything that God does not know about?  I watched your will focus itself--watched it return again and again to this rock in space--watched it listen--
#This is it, isn't it?  This is where your body is kept--this is why you remain here in my heaven, plaguing me--
#But it is time for you, Devil--you and your worshippers--to accept this plague in return!

(XLIV) The Seals Smash
[Dukis Colony Inner Defense Approach]
01 01 01 01 01 01 00 01 01 01 00 [towers allowed]
08 09 10 11 12 13 12 13 [enemy set]
-75 [cooldown bonus]
90 [time]
5 [lives]
30000 [bonus cache]
33 [portrait to use (Aa)]
You can not defeat me!  You can not kill a God!  All I have left, Devil!  All the worshippers I have left--my priests of Oss in their shield-ships--my Bavakh slaves in their Shriggs--all of us converge upon you!  You can not stop us all!  God will triumph!  God will triumph!

(XLV) The Thousand-Year Reign Of The Lion
[Dukis Colony Final Approach]
00 02 02 02 02 03 02 02 00 02 01 [towers allowed]
17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 [enemy set]
99999999 [cooldown bonus]
360 [time]
1 [lives]
30000 [bonus cache]
33 [portrait to use (Aa)]
Do you think you have killed us all?  You have killed only the religion.  The God--the primal, bloody God that is Pul Wat Aa--endures, great Devil.  Great Star.
#Now God himself faces you.  My body itself is before you--removed from the Temple of Aa and loaded into this Graveship.  Everything on your rock will be burned.  All of your blaspheming worshippers will be killed.  
#And I, the Great Aa, will wake from my long sleep.  I will walk to your tomb on my own aged legs.  I will put my own hands around your throat as you watch, helpless, from pathspace.  I will kill the body of the Devil with my own hands.
#For so many years we have been together--it is right that it ends this way--

Endless Assault 3
[Raberata Special Training Grounds]
01 01 01 01 01 01 02 01 01 01 01 [towers allowed-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------]
08 09 10 11 01 02 14 15 [enemy set]
00 [cooldown bonus]
-1 [time]
7 [lives]
0 [bonus cache]
48 [portrait to use (Aa)]
So we really are ghosts, you say?  None of us get to go back to our bodies, ever?  We're just souls adrift for the rest of time until we choose to vanish like crazy old Aa?
#All the more reason to enjoy our immortality, isn't it?  I've tried to duplicate some of the conditions from your recent campaigns--let's see how much better you've gotten.

(XLVI) Stirring The Ashes
[Dukis Colony Outer Reaches]
00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 [towers allowed]
04 04 03 03 04 03 01 02 [enemy set]
05 [cooldown bonus]
180 [time]
15 [lives]
1250 [bonus cache]
54 [portrait to use (grandaughter)]
You did an excellent job at defending us against Aa, Grandpa!  I know he said that you're a ghost for life now, and that you'll never be able to come back down to us in the flesh.  But you know what?  It doesn't matter.  I can always look up in the sky and know that you're up there somewhere, protecting us all.#
Help to protect us again!  Some of the Oss forces are still out there, guarding all the exits from our little colony world.  Defeat them, and make sure that all that's left of Dukis survives!#

(XLVII) A New Voice
[Secret Oss Restaging Ground]
00 01 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [towers allowed]
04 04 03 03 01 01 02 02 [enemy set]
10 [cooldown bonus]
180 [time]
15 [lives]
2500 [bonus cache]
36 [portrait to use (cory)]
Great Star?  Is that you?  Do not be surprised, Great Star!  If only you knew how long I've watched you--admired you!
#My name is Corybantes.  I'm a Bavakh, as you can see.  When the Theocracy of Oss defeated us in combat hundreds of years ago, we Bavakh were enslaved.  I was forced to work as a slave, a maintenance man in the laboratory I once ruled--an insult to what the Bavakh once were, and could be again!
#In the confusion of the Monster Aa's war against you, I was able to use the machines in the lab to communicate with path space--to seek your aid, Great Star--my idol!
#Here's one fact I've learned.  The path has started to change--there are fewer path defenders now, and older parts of pathspace are returning.  Different colored parts of the path will now have different effects on ships in hyperspace--blue will speed them up, yellow will slow them down, and green and red will determine whether the enemy ships move normally or stop in their tracks.
#More importantly than this, I can give you the location of a surviving Oss fleet, en route to their homeworld.  Please defeat them in transit--and strike a blow against the legacy of the Monster, your enemy and mine!

(XLVIII) Second Exodus
[Dukis Approach A]
01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 [towers allowed]
03 04 01 01 01 02 02 02 [enemy set]
15 [cooldown bonus]
180 [time]
15 [lives]
3500 [bonus cache]
54 [portrait to use (grandaughter)]
Grandpa?  I have wonderful news--#
The special machines that make us immortal on the Dukis Colony--we've found a way to adapt them to restoring planetary life!  Our prototype is finally ready to use on our old homeworld of Dukis!  Dukis will live again!#
All we need is your help, Grandpa.  A small pocket of Oss ships is stationed in the pathway from our colony to Dukis.  They'll move to attack us through hyperspace when we try to get to Dukis.  Don't let them leave hyperspace alive!

(XLIX) The Seed Is Planted
[Dukis Outer Reaches]
01 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 09 00 00 [towers allowed]
03 04 01 01 02 02 05 06 [enemy set]
00 [cooldown bonus]
180 [time]
15 [lives]
4500 [bonus cache]
54 [portrait to use (grandaughter)]
We made it, Grandpa!#
The nanomachines are already working.  Any day now, the plant life will come back and we can move out of our starships and breathe the air.  We can wait a lifetime--we're just as immortal as you, remember!#
But some of the Oss ships are trying to retreat back to their homeworld--catch up with them, Grandpa!  Punish them for what they did--and teach them they can't ever fight Dukis again!

(L) Friend of My Enemy
[Borderlands]
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 00 00 00 [towers allowed]
03 04 01 02 05 06 05 06 [enemy set]
-45 [cooldown bonus]
180 [time]
15 [lives]
7000 [bonus cache]
36 [portrait to use (cory)]
Great Star?  It's me, Corybantes, once again--#
It is--wrong to assume that I have much in common with a great hero like yourself, of course.  But we do have one thing in common: we both hate the Theocracy of Oss for what it has done to both our worlds.#
I've heard that a new weapon is being developed on Oss.  I don't know what they're going to use it for--maybe to kill your colony, or maybe to kill the remaining Bavakh.  But a fleet of ships is transporting technical data for the weapon to Oss even as we speak.#
I'm sending you the location of their hyperspace path.  Stop them--for both our worlds!

(LI) Memory is Dust
[Borderlands]
01 01 01 01 01 01 02 01 01 01 00 [towers allowed]
03 04 01 02 01 02 11 11 [enemy set]
00 [cooldown bonus]
180 [time]
15 [lives]
12000 [bonus cache]
36 [portrait to use (cory)]
There isn't much time to talk--the Oss fleet has sent another copy of the technical data.  Again, I'm sending you the coordinates.  They still can't tell who's interfering with their plans--if they did know, they'd surely kill my fellow Bavakh freedom fighters.  It is kill or be killed, Great Star.#
We have legends about you, you know.  None of us Bavakh know why you appeared--only that you are the eternal enemy of the Monster Aa.  Some of us think that you are a Bavakh, really.  Is that true?#
I hope it's true--it just puts me that much closer to you.

(LII) Memory is Life
[Dukis Approach B]
01 01 01 01 01 01 02 01 01 01 00 [towers allowed]
03 03 03 03 04 04 04 04 [enemy set]
-80 [cooldown bonus]
45 [time]
15 [lives]
20000 [bonus cache]
54 [portrait to use (grandaughter)]
Here's a report on the progress of regenerating life on Dukis, Grandpa: today, the first blades of grass began to break the soil.  Ever since Aa destroyed this world a thousand years ago, there's been nothing but ash and dust here.  But now, there's grass--there's life.  And it's all thanks to you, Grandpa--#
We need you one more time.  A stray convoy of Oss ships has been sighted in our space.  We don't think they're hostile--but you can never tell with traitorous Oss, can you?#
Destroy them!

(LIII) The Battle Is Joined
[Bavakh Homeworld Final Approach]
01 01 01 01 01 01 00 01 01 01 00 [towers allowed]
09 08 15 15 06 06 10 14 [enemy set]
100 [cooldown bonus]
300 [time]
15 [lives]
25000 [bonus cache]
36 [portrait to use (cory)]
Great Star!  Why didn't you answer me?  I couldn't reach you--you were occupied with something--#
But the Oss technical data got through!  I tried to warn you, but it got through!  Construction of the Oss Superweapon has begun!#
We can't waste any time now.  In a moment, I and my fellow freedom fighters will begin our coup.  I may not speak to you again.  Many of us may die.  But soon, our homeworld will be liberated--soon, I'll be a hero like you.#
I need your help to cut off Oss's reinforcements.  Once the Bavakh world belongs again to the Bavakh, we can begin to strike back at Oss!

(LIV) Blood Red Sky
[Bavakh Homeworld Outer Approach]
00 01 01 01 01 00 00 00 00 01 00 [towers allowed]
11 11 11 09 10 08 01 06 [enemy set]
45 [cooldown bonus]
180 [time]
15 [lives]
30000 [bonus cache]
36 [portrait to use (cory)]
We--we have done it.  We managed to take control--thanks to you, Great Star.#
They say that you left nothing alive in heaven--that burning ships were falling all day from the sky.  The sky was red all day with--with death--#
Great Star, you are a hero in the soul of every Bavakh living today--and I would never question you--but did they all have to die?

(LV) The Launch
[Bavakh-Oss Border Gate]
00 01 01 01 01 00 00 00 00 01 00 [towers allowed]
12 14 12 14 12 14 12 14 [enemy set]
-30 [cooldown bonus]
210 [time]
15 [lives]
35000 [bonus cache]
36 [portrait to use (cory)]
You've bought us enough time.  We've taken over every Oss ship stationed on our world.  The government is stable, under my control.  And we're preparing to launch our first military fleet against the oppressors--#
I wish that I could join you in pathspace.  I could do it now, if I wanted.  But my people need me--just as your people, somewhere, must need you.  But to serve your people, you left them behind to become a star.  I must keep my feet on the ground.
So we must rely on you, Great Star.  Be a hero to us in the world, as well as in our souls.  Help guard the fleet as it makes its journey to Oss--to free us, once and for all!

(LVI) A Poem So Lovely
[Oss Outer Defense Lines]
01 01 01 01 01 01 02 01 01 01 00 [towers allowed]
05 06 14 03 04 14 10 11 [enemy set]
05 [cooldown bonus]
180 [time]
15 [lives]
40000 [bonus cache]
54 [portrait to use (grandaughter)]
Here is our second report, grandfather.  The biosphere is stabilizing.  Oxygen content is increasing.  And the trees are returning--#
I couldn't wait any longer, grandpa.  I took an oxygen suit and went out of the ship onto the planet's surface.  I couldn't feel the grass beneath my boots, but I walked to the oldest tree we have--some twenty years old now, Grandpa.  I took a knife and I carved your name and mine in the bark.#
Was that bad?  It hurt the tree, just when it was trying its hardest to grow and to save us all.  But maybe you need to hurt things sometimes in order to know how much you love--other things.  Isn't that right?#
Are you hurting the killers from Oss?#

(LVII) The Last Day Of Rome
[Oss System Outer Approach]
09 00 00 00 00 09 00 00 00 00 01 [towers allowed]
07 07 03 14 03 11 13 12 [enemy set]
-20 [cooldown bonus]
120 [time]
15 [lives]
50000 [bonus cache]
36 [portrait to use (cory)]
Success!  And it's all thanks to you, Great Star!#
Our ships--which you helped us to defend--have broken through the Oss defense perimeter!  We only have a few jumps to go before we reach the Oss Homeworld!#
Don't worry about the Superweapon I told you about--they can't afford to launch it, now.  Their government is in chaos--apparently the Monster Aa abandoned them, and the priesthood is losing its grip on the people.#
Just a few more battles, and we can force their surrender.  We can win our freedom!  Buy us that time!#

(LVIII) The Priesthood Wavers
[Oss System Final Approach]
01 01 01 01 01 01 02 01 01 01 01 [towers allowed]
11 12 15 14 10 08 09 13 [enemy set]
-10 [cooldown bonus]
300 [time]
15 [lives]
61250 [bonus cache]
36 [portrait to use (cory)]
This is a great day in the history of the new Bavakh Republic!  The High Priest has contacted our fleet commander.  Nothing has been accomplished yet--just a few threats on either side--but I believe that this battle will decide everything.  They can't launch the Weapon on us.  They can't win the battle--not against you.  If they want to survive--they'll have to surrender!#
Our victory is in sight!

(LIX) The Temple is Overturned
[Ruined Temple of Aa]
01 01 01 01 01 01 02 01 01 01 01 [towers allowed]
03 04 03 04 05 06 14 14 [enemy set]
-10 [cooldown bonus]
360 [time]
15 [lives]
75000 [bonus cache]
54 [portrait to use (grandaughter)]
Grandpa?  You're at Oss, aren't you?#
Why are you listening to the Bavakh?  Don't forget that you went into the sky to defend us from the Bavakh in the first place!#
As long as Oss exists, Dukis isn't safe.  You know that, right?  And you know where their ships are moving--you could wipe them out, even now!  They're helpless--the killers!#
Corybantes won't mind--he hates the people of Oss too!  Do it, Grandpa!  Dukis is about to be reborn--don't let any threat to it remain standing!

(LX) The Eyes Of The Universe
[Oss Space]
01 01 01 01 01 00 02 02 00 01 01 [towers allowed]
18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 [enemy set]
99999999 [cooldown bonus]
600 [time]
1 [lives]
30000 [bonus cache]
36 [portrait to use (cory)]
What are you doing?  Just what are you doing?#
You destroyed civilian ships!  The Oss government is in a panic!  They don't believe that we'll allow them to survive, now!  Even though it means their death--they've launched the Superweapon!  The Panopticon!#
We are lost!  We're all lost!

Endless Assault 4
[Raberata Special Training Grounds]
02 02 02 02 02 02 02 02 02 02 01 [towers allowed-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------]
11 12 11 12 13 13 14 14 [enemy set]
00 [cooldown bonus]
-1 [time]
7 [lives]
0 [bonus cache]
48 [portrait to use (raberata)]
I don't know that I can approve of your course, really--it's awfully similar to what Aa did to you, once.  But I guess that's justice.  And after all--none of them can understand us anyway.  The mortals.  They barely matter to me any more--why should they matter to you?#
Let's just forget about it.  I've redone the training course again.  Go to it--

(LXI) The Unexplained
[Dukis Approach]
01 01 01 01 01 03 02 01 01 01 01 [towers allowed]
20 20 20 01 02 02 14 15 [enemy set]
-25 [cooldown bonus]
180 [time]
10 [lives]
6000 [bonus cache]
54 [portrait to use (grandaughter)]
Why are you upset about Corybantes being silent, Grandpa?  You know he only spends part of his time talking to you.  He's probably dealing with affairs in the new Bavakh Republic.  Or he's dead.  Normal people die, you know!#
Fortunately Dukis is safe.  We've almost finished reconstructing the cities.  It looks just like you remember it, Grandpa.  You'd love it here.  I visited our tree the other day, and I visited the frozen lakes.  All the places that meant something to us.  I thought of you, Grandpa--you who gave us all of this.  Thank you--#
Could you do one thing for us?  Some unexplained ships are approaching Dukis--I don't trust them, and neither do our scientists.  What does the outside world need with Dukis?  Let's get rid of them--#

(LXII) Flies
[Dukis Jump Gate]
01 01 01 01 01 03 02 01 01 01 01 [towers allowed]
21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 [enemy set]
235 [cooldown bonus]
120 [time]
10 [lives]
9000 [bonus cache]
54 [portrait to use (grandaughter)]
What's happening, Grandpa?  We're picking up still more strange ships approaching.  Don't they know that Dukis is under your protection?#
Maybe they're behind the changes in the path lately?  The multiple entrances and exits--the parallel courses?  It's so strange--but it must be their fault!  They're trying to destroy you, and us!#
Kill them first!

(LXIII) The First Moments of Waking
[Borderlands]
01 01 01 01 01 03 02 01 01 01 01 [towers allowed]
25 25 03 04 01 05 14 14 [enemy set]
-10 [cooldown bonus]
180 [time]
10 [lives]
15000 [bonus cache]
36 [portrait to use (cory)]
Pathspace Defender!  This is Proconsul Corybantes, of the Bavakh Republic.  You know me.#
Two of our science fleets have recently vanished in hyperspace near the area where the planet Dukis once existed.  Do you know anything about this event?  Has the Monster Aa returned?#
We are sending a small military research fleet in the direction of the disturbance.  Great Star--I ask your assistance in their investigation, and in determining the source of the threat against the Republic's ships.

(LXIV) What We Fight For
[Dukis Borderlands]
01 01 01 01 01 03 02 01 01 01 01 [towers allowed]
23 23 04 01 07 05 04 15 [enemy set]
15 [cooldown bonus]
180 [time]
10 [lives]
22500 [bonus cache]
54 [portrait to use (grandaughter)]
Did you hear him, Grandpa?  He said "where the planet Dukis once existed".  Is he an idiot?  He doesn't even know about the miracle we've made here--#
But he should never know!  If anyone knows about us, they'd destroy us!  Even though Corybantes is your friend, you need to make sure that none of his ships get through!#
Make sure none of them hurt me, grandpa!

(LXV) The Benefits Of Doubt
[Dukis Borderlands]
01 01 01 01 01 03 02 01 01 01 01 [towers allowed]
25 03 04 14 14 23 23 13 [enemy set]
10 [cooldown bonus]
180 [time]
10 [lives]
35000 [bonus cache]
36 [portrait to use (cory)]
Path Defender, I must insist that you give me all the data you have on the region of space near the former planet of Dukis.  We have lost not only science vessels, but military fleets in transit in the area.  If Aa--or any other force--is at work here, I need your assistance!#
I'm transmitting the course and location of a small military force that's set to explore the Dukis system in three days' time.  Please cooperate with this force, and let the Republic know anything you might discover about the disturbances.

(LXVI) Preemptive Defense
[Bavakh Supply Lines]
01 01 01 01 01 03 02 01 01 01 01 [towers allowed]
23 21 20 08 09 10 14 13 [enemy set]
00 [cooldown bonus]
180 [time]
10 [lives]
50000 [bonus cache]
54 [portrait to use (grandaughter)]
He doesn't even call you Great Star anymore, does he?  What nerve--after you helped free his people!#
He's plotting something against you, Grandpa--and against us!  Why don't we shut down a few convoy fleets--just to make sure he can't try anything--he'll never know who did it!#
Then the path will go back to normal, and you'll be the Great Star again!

(LXVII) Another Cheek
[Bavakh Supply Lines]
01 01 01 01 01 03 02 01 01 01 01 [towers allowed]
11 11 21 21 11 11 21 21 [enemy set]
-05 [cooldown bonus]
180 [time]
10 [lives]
60000 [bonus cache]
36 [portrait to use (cory)]
I must issue a strong protest against your negligence in this matter--and, I must offer an apology.#
I haven't spoken to you in nearly a hundred years.  I haven't been using the path machines often--only briefly, to prolong my life or to gather data on the new changes in pathspace.  Quite a mysterious phenomenon--to which I can't devote much time.  I work so hard in the Republic, now--#
I can't fully share your existence.  I don't choose to.  So I don't understand--what it's like, existing immortally, with nothing that you can call your own, materially.  I'm writing a book on the subject.  I'll read it to you, when it's finished.#
Please accept this token of friendship--Path Defender.  And please help the Republic to solve this mystery--

(LXVIII) Two Metaphysical Attitudes
[Bavakh Outer Reaches]
01 01 01 01 01 03 02 01 01 01 01 [towers allowed]
20 12 20 12 20 12 20 12 [enemy set]
-05 [cooldown bonus]
180 [time]
10 [lives]
70000 [bonus cache]
54 [portrait to use (grandaughter)]
That was more like it.  I think he's learned his lesson about messing with you, Grandpa.  Let's just take out a few more ships and we can be sure that we're safe.#
He didn't seem to know about the changes in the path, did he?  I wonder what that means--but I guess it's something that you have to cope with more than I do.  Your troubles are so far above mine--#
I know that's what Corybantes said, but I mean it--differently, I guess.  He says it, but he mistrusts the fact that you're so great.  I say it, but I say it because I'm grateful to you.  We're all grateful to you here.#
Just one more attack, and then I can tell you more about our life here on Dukis--

(LXIX) Justification
[Dukis Outer Approach]
01 01 01 01 01 03 02 01 01 01 00 [towers allowed]
21 15 15 21 15 21 15 21 [enemy set]
-10 [cooldown bonus]
180 [time]
10 [lives]
80000 [bonus cache]
54 [portrait to use (grandaughter)]
Grandpa?  We've picked up two raiding fleets en route to our system--what's going on?#
Has Corybantes betrayed you?  I knew we should never have trusted him, or any Bavakh--#
The next time you see him--kill him!  Protect me!#

(LXX) The Trials Of Immortality, Part I
[Dukis Outer Approach]
01 01 01 01 01 03 02 01 01 01 01 [towers allowed]
20 20 23 23 21 14 25 13 [enemy set]
-15 [cooldown bonus]
180 [time]
10 [lives]
90000 [bonus cache]
36 [portrait to use (cory)]
Path Defender.#
Let me read to you from my book.  "The trials of immortality--and we must consider life in pathspace to be immortality--are difficult for we mortals to comprehend.  Yet the greatest trial, I think, is loneliness."#
Do you understand?

(LXXI) The Trials of Immortality, Part II
[Dukis Inner Defense Perimeter]
01 01 01 01 01 03 02 01 01 01 01 [towers allowed]
02 04 06 20 21 23 14 13 [enemy set]
-25 [cooldown bonus]
180 [time]
10 [lives]
100000 [bonus cache]
36 [portrait to use (cory)]
Let me read you more from my book.  I insist--#
"Understanding the nature of loneliness helps us to understand even the Monster Aa.  Aa was one of the first--and some say one of the greatest--of the path defenders.  Yet to be the first means, essentially, to be alone.#
"A man alone desires understanding.  Later, he desires agreement.  In the end, he desires worship.  And this is what Aa got--before he received his ultimate end."#
Does any of this sound familiar to you--killer?

(LXXII) The Trials of Immortality, Part III
[Dukis Inner Defense Perimeter]
01 01 01 01 01 03 02 01 01 01 01 [towers allowed]
23 20 25 10 09 08 14 13 [enemy set]
-30 [cooldown bonus]
180 [time]
10 [lives]
100000 [bonus cache]
36 [portrait to use (cory)]
Are you enjoying my book?  Are you enjoying the death of my people--people who loved you?#
"Essential to the religion of the enslaved Bavakh is the opposition of two forces: the Monster Aa, the Devil, and the Great Star, something like a God.  What I propose is that those two forces stem from the same root--and that one inevitably becomes the other.#
"Aa was a God on Oss, and he became a Devil to the Bavakh.  The Great Star was a God to us.  What he will become--we are only beginning to guess."

(LXXIII) A Rebuttal
[Dukis Approach A]
01 01 01 01 01 03 02 01 01 01 01 [towers allowed]
20 20 20 23 21 14 21 13 [enemy set]
-30 [cooldown bonus]
180 [time]
10 [lives]
100000 [bonus cache]
54 [portrait to use (grandaughter)]
It's not true!  What he's saying--it's not true, Grandpa!#
So what if the Bavakh thought you were a God?  That's ridiculous!  You're not a God to anyone--not to Oss, not to the Bavakh, and not even to us!#
You're just my Grandpa.  You're protecting your granddaughter.  You're protecting your homeworld.  That's what they sent you up there to do--and that's what you'll keep on doing.  That's all you have left to do.#
Forever, Grandpa--you'll protect me forever--

(LXXIV) What Is Right
[Dukis Approach B]
01 01 01 01 01 03 02 01 01 01 01 [towers allowed]
04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 [enemy set]
-90 [cooldown bonus]
120 [time]
10 [lives]
100000 [bonus cache]
54 [portrait to use (grandaughter)]
Maybe we made a mistake, you and I, Grandpa--maybe we were too suspicious.  Maybe that's what's causing all this trouble.#
But he's not right either, Grandpa.  So a few mortal Bavakh died.  You gave him a planet to rule.  And he wants to take away your planet.   He wants to kill us--to kill me!#
Don't listen to his theories.  He doesn't know what's right.  You and I know what's right.  And we'll defend it.  We'll always do what's right, you and I, until the universe collapses and all time ends--and we'll be together in that last, perfect moment.  And your mission in heaven will finally end.

(LXXIV) The Unseen, The Unloved
[Dukis Final Approach]
02 02 02 02 02 07 02 02 00 02 01 [towers allowed]
19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 [enemy set]
9999999 [cooldown bonus]
300 [time]
2 [lives]
100000 [bonus cache]
36 [portrait to use (cory)]
I want to ask you--murderer--just what is it you want to gain?#
It's obviously at the center of this system.  But we've scanned this system, over and over.  We can find nothing.  You've been killing us--I know that now--in order to keep us out of here.  But just what is it that you want to keep in?#
I've worried about this day for a long time.  I've prepared a weapon to stop you.  Our Gods, whom I have brought to life--the Noyaties 19. We're launching them now into the Dukis System.  You thought you were a God--now face beings that truly deserve the name.#  
Whatever you're guarding on that planet--it will be exterminated soon.  Then maybe you'll leave the Republic alone--#
God, Great Star--I loved you so much!#

Endless Assault 5
[Raberata Special Training Grounds]
02 02 02 02 02 02 02 01 01 02 01 [towers allowed--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------]
25 23 21 20 01 11 14 15 [enemy set]
-100 [cooldown bonus]
-1 [time]
7 [lives]
0 [bonus cache]
48 [portrait to use (raberata)]
You again.  You seem troubled--#
Did you know that I was the first path defender?  I've seen all of you come and go.  Aa was only one of the ones who vanished.  There've been others.  All of them fixate on something--all of them ruin their minds, defending that something--and all of them give up and vanish.  And I tinker with my training course, and I watch them go, and I laugh, sometimes, at all of you and your obsessions.  It keeps me from following you into the darkness.#
I've redone the course again.  Forget your troubles.  Let's enjoy ourselves--#

(LXXVI) Gottendammerung
[Dukis Protected Zone, Outer Reaches]
01 01 01 01 01 05 02 01 01 01 01 [towers allowed]
14 14 21 21 21 21 21 14 [enemy set]
15 [cooldown bonus]
210 [time]
5 [lives]
10000 [bonus cache]
42 [portrait to use (cory xxv)]
This is a proclamation, directed into the Dukis Protected Zone of the New Bavakh Empire.  I am Emperor Corybantes XXV, presiding.#
For thousands of years, the Empire has refused to enter this place of damnation.  We were told by our great ancestor, Proconsul Corybantes I, that to enter this system was to enter death.  We were told that the destroyer--the Great Morning Star--resided here at the graveworld of Dukis.#
We do not believe in myths, as a rule.  But we have watched our ships die mysteriously on even simple jaunts through this territory.  And we have looked into the path, sometimes, using my great ancestor's technology.  We have seen terrifying things develop in recent years--vortexes, irregularities in the path, and sometimes even worse things.  Path beings--angels of death, swooping around the hyperspace conduits.  Your domain--whomever you are in there--has begun to resemble a kind of Hell.#
So we will choose to believe in the myth to protect our Empire.  We are sending our fleets into the Protected Zone, toward Dukis itself.  In our mythology, Dukis is the Devil's home.  Burn the Devil's home--and destroy the Devil.#
At any point, you may give up your pointless defense, if you choose.  But we are coming, regardless.#
We are coming to kill you.

(LXXVII) What Is Death?
[Dukis Outer Reaches]
01 01 01 01 01 05 02 01 01 01 01 [towers allowed]
24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 [enemy set]
00 [cooldown bonus]
210 [time]
5 [lives]
25000 [bonus cache]
54 [portrait to use (grandaughter)]
This is unbelievable!  You can't let them do it, Grandpa!  You can't let them destroy all we've built for millennia!#
They're wrong about you!  The old Corybantes was wrong then, and this Corybantes is wrong now!  Dukis isn't a dead world!  It's a living world--full of trees, lakes, people--memories--#
Our names are still carved together on the tree--the most ancient tree in the world, now.  People come from all the provinces to see it, and to remember you.#
Nothing is dead if you remember it, Grandpa!

(LXXVIII) What Is History?
[Dukis Inner Defense Perimeter]
01 01 01 01 01 05 02 01 01 01 01 [towers allowed]
08 08 08 08 08 14 14 14 [enemy set]
00 [cooldown bonus]
210 [time]
5 [lives]
50000 [bonus cache]
54 [portrait to use (grandaughter)]
Dukis existed for thousands of years before you were born, Grandpa!  It's existed for thousands of years since your ascent!  This new Corybantes talks about you like you're--like you're some kind of crazy story.  A myth.  But you're real, grandpa, and Dukis is real--as long as you protect us!#
Don't let them in!

(LXXIX) What Is God?
[Dukis Perimeter Remnants]
01 01 01 01 01 05 02 01 01 01 01 [towers allowed]
10 02 11 10 14 06 11 13 [enemy set]
-10 [cooldown bonus]
210 [time]
5 [lives]
75000 [bonus cache]
54 [portrait to use (grandaughter)]
Corybantes thought that you were a God, or that you wanted to be, Grandpa!  That's why they're calling you that horrible name now!  That's why they want you--want us!--to die!#
But what's a God, Grandpa?  A God protects a world, yes--but a God also creates a world!  And you didn't create us, Grandpa!  Did you?  You didn't!

(LXXX) What Are People?
[Dukis Inner Approaches]
01 01 01 01 01 05 02 01 01 01 01 [towers allowed]
23 23 23 14 12 12 12 13 [enemy set]
-15 [cooldown bonus]
210 [time]
5 [lives]
100000 [bonus cache]
54 [portrait to use (grandaughter)]
There are so many people here, Grandpa!  There are so many people that live here forever!  I'm alive, Grandpa!  So is your friend from the pathspace project!  So is the director who put you up there!#
So's your daughter!  And so's her husband who you've never met!  And so is your mother!  And your grandmother!  And the girl you kissed when you were ten years old!  And the nurse at the hospital who delivered you!#
It's a miracle of science!   We're all here, Grandpa!  We're all alive!  Alive!#
Don't let them take all of us away!

(LXXXI) What Is Defense?
[Dukis Inner Approaches]
01 01 01 01 01 05 02 01 01 01 01 [towers allowed]
14 14 14 10 10 10 13 13 [enemy set]
-25 [cooldown bonus]
210 [time]
5 [lives]
125000 [bonus cache]
54 [portrait to use (grandaughter)]
You can't stop defending us!  We're real, Grandpa!  Defend us!#
You went up there to defend us!  You've defended us for a million years!  What are you, if you aren't defending us?#
You have no name, Grandpa!  You've forgotten your name!  You're just a path defender--

(LXXXII) What Is Murder?
[Dukis Approach A]
01 01 01 01 01 05 02 01 01 01 01 [towers allowed]
04 20 12 03 04 12 20 13 [enemy set]
-35 [cooldown bonus]
210 [time]
5 [lives]
150000 [bonus cache]
54 [portrait to use (grandaughter)]
So what if by defending us, you're killing them?#
We're real because you love us!  But they hate you, Grandpa!  Does that make them more real?

(LXXXIII) What Is Understanding?
[Dukis Approach A]
01 01 01 01 01 05 02 01 01 01 01 [towers allowed]
05 05 05 06 06 06 14 13 [enemy set]
-15 [cooldown bonus]
210 [time]
5 [lives]
175000 [bonus cache]
54 [portrait to use (grandaughter)]
They hate you, Grandpa!  They can't understand you!#
We understand you here because you're a part of us, Grandpa--and we're a part of you.  We're all immortal here.  We'll all live forever.  They'll die sooner or later--what does it matter if it's sooner or later?  It won't change anything for you, will it?  It won't put you back where you were before you entered pathspace--it won't put you back in the arms of your wife--it won't let you look me in the eye, just before you vanish--#
Instead we're together, forever--and we understand one another because we are one another--#

(LXXXIV) What Is Duty?
[Dukis Approach B]
01 01 01 01 01 05 02 01 01 01 01 [towers allowed]
14 20 20 12 22 20 25 13 [enemy set]
-25 [cooldown bonus]
210 [time]
5 [lives]
200000 [bonus cache]
54 [portrait to use (grandaughter)]
Does this depress you?  That we are one another, Grandpa?  That maybe you are defending an empty planet?#
But you aren't!  You aren't!  You aren't you aren't you aren't!  You know you aren't because that's not what you went into path space to do!#
You gave yourself a duty the moment you stepped into the machine, the moment the energy killed your body and set your soul free.  You still have that duty now: the duty to defend Dukis, whatever Dukis may become.  Act on that duty!

(LXXXV) What Is Victory?
[Dukis Approach B]
02 02 02 02 02 05 02 02 00 02 01 [towers allowed]
17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 [enemy set]
300 [cooldown bonus]
210 [time]
1 [lives]
250000 [bonus cache]
54 [portrait to use (grandaughter)]
You're stopping them--slowly, but you're stopping them!  Their ranks are crumbling!  You killed the Bavakh, then brought the Bavakh back to life, now you'll kill them again!#
And one day, a new enemy will come to life, and they'll attack Dukis, and you, with your duty, will kill them! #
Live!  Die!  Live!  Die!  Forever!  Forever!  Forever!  That is victory!  That is defeat, and that is victory!

(LXXXVI) What Is Sanity?
[Dukis Approach B]
02 02 02 02 02 05 02 02 01 02 01 [towers allowed]
18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 [enemy set]
300 [cooldown bonus]
210 [time]
1 [lives]
300000 [bonus cache]
54 [portrait to use (grandaughter)]
Crazy old Aa!  Aa went crazy in the end, didn't he, Grandpa?  But you'll never go crazy!  Because you're my Grandpa!  And my Grandpa is always right!#
You have a duty!  You have an identity!  You have a mission!  Never ask why!  Grandpa is always right!

(LXXXVII) What Is Moral?
[Dukis Final Approach]
02 02 02 02 02 05 02 02 00 02 01 [towers allowed]
19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 [enemy set]
600 [cooldown bonus]
210 [time]
1 [lives]
350000 [bonus cache]
54 [portrait to use (grandaughter)]
Grandpa, let me tell you a story that was written a million years ago, was just written, and will be written a million years from now:#
A king left his city with a torch that he was to carry to the king of another city down the hill.  He ran for a thousand years, chasing a plume of smoke on the horizon, and he found the charred ashes of a city awaiting him.#
He walked to the ruins of the city square where he saw his own footprint on the ground.  He knelt and presented the torch to an invisible king.  But the king, to him, was not invisible, even as the torch slipped, the embers burst into flames, and the fire healed the charred wood, and the city suddenly burst out of the earth, intact and immortal, Grandpa.

(LXXXVIII) What Is Truth?
[Dukis Final Approach]
01 01 01 01 01 05 02 01 01 01 01 [towers allowed]
22 01 03 20 21 13 14 02 [enemy set]
-30 [cooldown bonus]
300 [time]
5 [lives]
400000 [bonus cache]
54 [portrait to use (grandaughter)]
What if we aren't real?  We're real to you--

(LXXXIX) What Is Love?
[Dukis Final Approach]
01 01 01 01 01 05 02 01 01 01 01 [towers allowed]
22 24 11 12 15 06 16 25 [enemy set]
-10 [cooldown bonus]
300 [time]
5 [lives]
450000 [bonus cache]
54 [portrait to use (grandaughter)]
What if we aren't real?  We've been together for so long, Grandpa--we must love each other!  Don't you think?#
Don't you think?  Don't you think?  Don't you think?  Don't you think?  Don't you think?
Don't you think?  Don't you think?  Don't you think?  Don't you think?  Don't you think?
Don't you think?  Don't you think?  Don't you think?  Don't you think?  Don't you think?
Don't you think?  Don't you think?  Don't you think?  Don't you think?  Don't you think?
Don't you think?  Don't you think?  Don't you think?  Don't you think?  Don't you think?
Don't you think?  Don't you think?  Don't you think?  Don't you think?  Don't you think?
Don't you think?  Don't you think?  Don't you think?  Don't you think?  Don't you think?
Don't you think?  Don't you think?  Don't you think?  Don't you think?  Don't you think?

(LXL) What Is Noble?
[At The End Of Everything]
01 01 02 02 02 09 02 03 00 01 01 [towers allowed]
01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 [enemy set]
60 [cooldown bonus]
1200 [time]
20 [lives]
500000 [bonus cache]
54 [portrait to use (grandaughter)]
I love you, Grandpa.

Endless Assault 6
[Raberata Special Training Grounds]
01 01 01 01 01 09 02 01 00 01 01 [towers allowed---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------]
01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 [enemy set]
00 [cooldown bonus]
-1 [time]
7 [lives]
0 [bonus cache]
48 [portrait to use (raberata)]
I've been here from the beginning.  Once I tried to play the part--once I tried to defend my enslaved people from the Bavakh.  Did you know that I developed the technology that turned us all into path defenders?#
Think about what that means.  I allowed you to exist.  I kept your planet from being overrun.  I was right, in that.  But I also allowed Aa to exist.  I was wrong, in that.  I allowed you to exist.  Maybe I was wrong in that, too.#
And that's why I tinker, tinker, tinker with my shooting gallery.  I'm a builder--this is what I'll build, whatever the result.  And whatever the result, I'll build it well.#
You've done well, defending your dead planet.  Whether you've done any good, I don't know.  But you've done well.  Accept that.#
Let me tell you what I think.  There's one thing you can rely on in this universe: being wrong as often as you are right.#
So whether you're right or wrong--be exceptional at it.  That's morality.#
But then, I run a shooting gallery--

(Hellspace I) Temperment of Defense
[Gates of Hell]
02 02 02 02 02 02 02 02 01 02 01 [towers allowed]
26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 [enemy set]
00 [cooldown bonus]
300 [time]
1 [lives]
-10000 [bonus cache]
45 [portrait to use (path woman)]
What--what are you doing in hellspace?  Who are you?#
Did you come here after Aa?  Yes--that must be it.  You must have sensed Aa--Aa must have brought you--#
I am a path defender, like you.  But I abandoned my path, and came into hellspace.  Aa did the same--but there is something twisted in Aa.  And Aa has learned how to manipulate Gutei--#
I will not tell you what Gutei is.  Your mind couldn't handle it, I think--but you must know this.  Aa is bringing Gutei up from hellspace.  Pathspace is above hyperspace, and hyperspace is above normal space.  Normal space is above hellspace--and hellspace is above Gutei.#
If Gutei comes into normal space--everything we tried to defend will be lost!  Gutei would then proceed up through hyperspace, pathspace, and all the levels above that!#
I will help you--go further into hellspace!  Stop Aa--and Gutei!

(Hellspace II) Indra's Net
[Hellspace Antechamber]
02 02 02 02 02 02 02 02 01 02 00 [towers allowed]
26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 [enemy set]
00 [cooldown bonus]
300 [time]
1 [lives]
-100000 [bonus cache]
39 [portrait to use (Aa hellspace)]
Great Ghost?#
It is excellent to see you again, Great Ghost--we have much to discuss, you and I--#
I can almost make you out--but you are not low enough, yet.  Go lower.  Go lower--and come to Aa.#
Follow me into Hellspace--into Gutei--

(Hellspace III) Deeper and Deeper
[Hellspace Proper]
02 02 00 00 02 02 02 02 01 02 00 [towers allowed]
26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 [enemy set]
00 [cooldown bonus]
300 [time]
1 [lives]
-1000000 [bonus cache]
39 [portrait to use (Aa hellspace)]
Are our powers not infinite, Great Ghost?  How do you think that you are following me?  Are you aware of how complex your powers--our powers--have become?#
Complexity is the universe, Great Ghost.  Indra's Net is the universe.  I know you have seen it--in glimpses, out of the corner of your mirrored eyes.  The connections that bind all living beings.#
Do you trust it, Great Ghost?  Do you trust Indra's Net?#
I despise it.#
The Great Aa has had enough of complexity.  Once I desired worship--and worship is only a form of connection.  You, too, have seen the lie that is connection.  Better to worship simplicity--#
The Great Aa prefers simplicity--the Great Aa prefers Gutei--#
Come lower.  You and your ally--come lower.

(Hellspace IV) Gutei's Line
[Depths of Hellspace]
00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 [towers allowed]
26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 [enemy set]
00 [cooldown bonus]
600 [time]
1 [lives]
0 [bonus cache]
39 [portrait to use (Aa hellspace)]
Jamesh told you that it doesn't matter whether what you do is good--it matters whether you do it well.  Aa--and Gutei--tell you otherwise.#
Indra's good is complexity; Indra's evil is simplicity.  But one cannot kill enemy after enemy after enemy, marching down the line, and not lose some awareness, not become something simpler, not fall into this simpler world. When your awareness diminishes like that, there's no going back.  It's not what you do that matters--or how well you do it, as the Raberata would have you believe--it's whether what you do elevates the mind into accursed complexity, or solidifies it into glorious simplicity.  And there's nothing simpler, nothing more hypnotic than shooting things on a line, is there?#
Gutei is simplicity--and Gutei is infinity.  Gutei is immortality--at the lowest level of being.  One long being--one infinite being.  An infinite finger.  Gutei is the denial of complexity.  Gutei is the denial of connection.#
Gutei's finger points at you now, Great Ghost.  Gutei will point his long, long finger at every space, and all of Indra's Net will know enlightenment.  Why not join us?  Why fight Gutei's Finger?#
For there is no defense against Gutei's finger.  And with the help of the Great Aa, soon there will be nothing left but Gutei--
