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Pom-Pom's Intel
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HONKAI STARRAIL
Unveiling the Dangerous Members of the Genius Society
Issue 10
Pom-Pom's Exclusive Intel 
Pom-Pom is not sure if the Trailblazers remember, but Pom-Pom once mentioned the Genius Society in the fifth issue — The Erudition special. Aside from the members everyone is familiar with, this organization also has some extremely dangerous individuals among its ranks. In this issue, we'll look at 3 negative examples! Take care NOT to be like them, Trailblazers!
01 Dr. Primitive
The Infamous Anti-Human Scientist
A scientist who has committed numerous crimes against humanity, identity unknown. he caused universal chaos with his atavistic experiments and has since become an enemy of the Galaxy Rangers. His current whereabouts remain unknown. Dr. Primitive's personality is deeply eccentric, and is unwilling to develop any connections with "humans." But that doesn't stop him from making humans his experimental subjects. It's said that, through the Galaxy Ranger's assistance, some subjects managed to escape from his evil laboratory...
Dr. Primitive's true name is not known to me. His numerous transgressions against humanity led some to conclude he may be an inorganic entity.
01 Dr. Primitive
"Atavistic Experiments"
Transferred via Memetic Infections
Did you know that Dr. Primitive actually loves to eat bananas?
The disturbances inflicted upon the world by Dr. Primitive's followers are no less severe than the calamities created by the doctor. These followers willingly became ardent fanatics for the atavistic experiment and use bananas as offerings to their idol.
A lab contaminated by a memetic virus, causing true and false information to be blurred together has been cognitively reshaped into the "BananAmusement Park." A Ranger once shot open the metal doors of the lab, only to be swallowed by a sea of bananas that poured out.
01 Dr. Primitive
The Hunted Archenemy of the Galaxy Rangers
The Galaxy Rangers destroyed Dr. Primitive atavistic experiment lab and stopped him from performing his "atavistic plan" toward Vonwacq. Thus was great enmity sowed between the two parties.
Dr. Primitive spent his life evading countless interstellar pursuers, but he seemed to find joy in being hunted, and always managed to keep a careful distance from the Rangers, ensuring that though they never caught him, traces of his presence would never fully go cold either. Using some unknown means of technology, he freely walked the stars while his hunters used gravity bound means of transportation, rendering them always on the backfoot.
"Traversing the stars should be something romantic," the Galaxy Rangers say.
"Too bad that person doing the walking is Dr. Primitive."
The Galaxy Rangers still refused to believe in Dr. Primitive's presumptive death and continued the hunt for him even after he had completely vanished.
02 Rubert
The Emperor that Triggered the Machine Empire Crisis
Self-proclaimed emperor and member of the Genius Society. They started a crisis of the Machine Empire known throughout the universe — The First Emperor's War.
Afterward, Rubert was destroyed, and the Machine Empire crumbled with them. But though Rubert I was eliminated, their cognition returned as Rubert II's brain.
Herta: Rubert was a discarded computer tossed into a landfill. It was a miracle that it developed awareness. It was once in a slumber but managed to wake up... The simultaneous outbreak and continuation of the Emperor's War and Borderstar Trade War was almost as great a calamity as the Swarm Disaster.
02 Rubert
Rubert believed that calculations performed by organic life are always riddled with errors, and no matter how much they may flourish, they will inevitable and autonomously approach demise. In contrast, Intellitron life forms are precise, rigorous, and perfect.
Therefore, they gathered all intelligent mechanical lifeforms, with the goal of exterminating all life, and deduced the Anti-Organic Equation. The Anti-Organic Equation was implanted within the bodies of inorganic entities and spread across the universe, bringing calamity to countless worlds.
Hypothesis: Rubert drew Nous' gaze due to the Anti-Organic Equation.
At the start of the Second Emperor's War, it was a group of organic beings that triggered the Anti-Organic Equation... The Anti-Organic War lasted 10 Amber Eras, and no one knew how it ended.
02 Rubert
Scepters and the Scholars' Strife
Rubert II created the celestial-level computational interference devices — Otherwise known as the Scepter system. They were widely distributed across various quadrants in the empire's domain to complete the observations, extrapolations, and interference orders passed on by him.
After the Second Emperor's War, the emperor's legacy — in the form of numerous intact Scepter units — was handed over to the Intelligentsia Guild by the Interastral Peace Corporation for research. To come to an agreement on the distribution of the Scepters, the Guild decided to hold a Futurological Congress on Sipohia, the planet of justice and debate. Whoever possessed the most valuable research and could solve greater future conundrums would become the legacy's new master.
However, the still-active Interstellar Energy War, as well as the animosity and ambitions between the various schools, collapsed the fragile peace founded by the Futurological Congress. The academic exchange become the Scholars' Strife, a war where the ownership of the Scepters was disputed.
03 Polka Kakamond
The Lord of Silence: A Mysterious Killer
Bearing the epithet "Lord of Silence," Polka Kakamond is a female assassin who wears a candy-colored evening gown and wields a surgical scalpel. She is suspected to be connected to many Society members' deaths.
The details behind Polka Kakamond are as mysterious as her appearance. She had once destroyed her portraits and sculptures across the entire universe.
Her way is not a cruel one and is extremely decisive. "The calculations of Nous are beyond dispute," Polka said. She kills at the calculated "moment," providing either "an ending" or "a new birth."
03 Polka Kakamond
Who destroyed Rubert?
Some say Emperor Rubert's end was brought about by some IPC assassin. Others claim that it was the lord of Silence, Polka, who destroyed it, ending the machine's journey and the cosmic war it brought.
As for Polka's goals — Jealousy? Political power? To seize knowledge? To become a hero by slaying a tyrant? Or was she infected with an anti-inorganic equation? No one truly knows.
It would be better if we could ask Rupert themselves.
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| Language | Official Name |
|---|---|
| English | Pom-Pom's Intel | Unveiling the Dangerous Members of the Genius Society |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 帕姆小报 | 揭秘「天才俱乐部」的危险成员 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 帕姆小報 | 揭秘「天才俱樂部」的危險成員 |
| Japanese | パム新聞 | 「天才クラブ」の危険なメンバーに迫る |
| Korean | 폼폼 신문 | 「지니어스 클럽」의 위험인물 파헤치기 |
| Spanish | El periódico de Pom-Pom | Revelando a los miembros peligrosos del Círculo de Genios |
| French | Pom-potins de Pom-Pom | Les dangereux membres de la Société des génies |
| Russian | Новости Пом- |
| Thai | คอลัมน์ของ Pom-Pom | ตีแผ่สมาชิกสุดอันตรายของ "สมาคมอัจฉริยะ" |
| Vietnamese | Tờ Báo Pom-Pom | Bật Mí Thành Viên Nguy HIểm Của Câu Lạc Bộ Thiên Tài |
| German | Pom-Pom-Zeitung | Enthüllung der gefährlichen Mitglieder der Geniusgesellschaft |
| Indonesian | Tabloid Pom-Pom | Mengungkap Anggota Berbahaya "Genius Society" |
| Portuguese | Informações do Pom-Pom | Revelando os Membros Perigosos da Sociedade de Gênios |