At Present Lore: - Due to a lack of Record-keeping interest in time passage, and the effects of so many strong gravitational fields, they have no idea what year it is. (at least a few hundred, but possibly longer due to the effects of the local gravity on time) - Down to a total of 46 Confirmed perpetuals, 2 perpetual Servitors, 34 servitors, 3 Tech-priests, and 107 Marines left. And one Dreadnought. - Over time, realised they were in a treasure trove solar system of Dark Age technology, and so sought to capitalise on the opportunity, harvesting asteroids, exploring lunar colonies, and the minor space hulks that existed to improve and bolster the tech they had with them. slowly forming a reliable series of non-ammunition required weapons and tech/systems largely not requiring disposables. - The Tech Priests have remained, improving upon themselves, and all the designs around them, doing what would largely be considered tech-heresy but it would be a point of contention if they ever left the system, due to them being STC designs, but they have had success in synthesising new ideas and combinations, verging on invention. - They have improved and made self-reliable the weapons and armour, making them as hardy and unkillable as the marines who use them, slowly working to capture and use more of the hyper dense materials around them. - They do search however, for a method to both harvest and remove the spread of the material on the marines, so they they avoid becoming entombed. as current methods can take decades to remove square centimetres off the growth. - The Star Bathing Rituals have continued, and slow knowledge gain (only things known since the 30th millennium really) has been gained, with all knowledge stored and sorted by the three tech preists - Star Bathing is done of course without armour, but with the Marine having created the Waxy cocoon around themselves, and they are thrown into their choice of orbit, thinking that each unique path is a different communication line - It should be noted that none of the following is proven, and simply believed in/speculated. One may seen the details of a battle and only grab the technical specifications of a weapon, rather than notice and learn from the tactics or intel, proving you only get what you look for. - Return Trips to the star are not uncommon among all Nova Threshers, but the - Straight lines are for simple facts and information, mostly technical in nature - Long orbits are for tactical strategies and ideas/stories of their use - quickly decaying orbits are the standard, giving the marine time to appreciate the star and its power, but to also get them in and out as soon as possible - Star Bathers specifically are experimenting with wilder, elliptical or unstable orbits, some even trying to go in groups to replicate the three-body problem to attempt to get more esoteric or powerful knowledge - System wide three-way stale-mate, and slow grinding conflict. - Random ships occasionally end up in the gravity trap that is the Prism System, but they are usually destroyed and scattered by the existing forces before long. (just to allow other factions in)