Knights of the Round Table / 47K

What came first, the number or the blade?

Numerable, but beyond any mortal man’s count. None could estimate its height. An obelisk ivory white. Cratered on a time-forgotten moon…

Cycles passed; all the galaxy’s scientists were stumped. It remained an attraction thought down to a dumb wonder of the universe.

Then appearing Him without a mouth to speak. He as if from nowhere dotted the measurements precisely, delivered them to first UEE Imperator, Ivar Messer. What was the count? Only the Knights know, now.

Their order was formed in the year 2554. The obelisk, currently I imagine in some vault of Earth. The ‘man from nowhere’ leads unseen. I saw his face once during my third and final expedition to the moon in the latter half of the decade. But I cannot possibly describe nor sketch him for you, for this too does memory refuse.

I can give you a few things. They say in battle he wields a pearly shard chipped from the rock. Four fingers wide, seven heads high.

And the table, to which all the Knight’s collect round? A flat copy of the column’s original size.

Signing off,
Retired Archivist
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