more Wandering City lore.....

The Captain and the Adept are in the main lounge, as the starclipper dashes recklessly on through the twists and turns of the astral plane interface with common reality......

"Captain" says the Adept...."I have been told that your City wanders through both space and time.....can you elucidate this concept for me somewhat?"

The Captain tries to explain: "The Wandering City to us who are natives of the place does not in fact wander at all.....it stays in one place and one time.....while the cosmos wanders around it in a disconcerting manner. You see, before the Event that gave rise to the edition of the multiverse which supports this particular galaxy....and the others visible from this one.....the City was already in existence.....in fact, it has always been present....even before what you might call the beginning of Time."

The Adept offers a wide-eyed look, knocks back a dram of whisky, and says "Pray continue."

"You see" explains our Captain..."The foundation of the City is a nexus of dimensional planes....a very rare thing sprung directly from an accident of Chaos.....the normal pulse of All-that-Is does not effect it's history.......the probability-lines and quantum flux of Physics that knit together the space-time of the rest of the Milky Way can't grab a hold of it enough to make it behave in any sane fashion. It might be found in one spiral arm or another....or out at the Rim....or deep down in the Core.....or before your Sol was formed, or long after that star is but a memory.....the City abides, biological and mechanical races of beings come and go....vast empires rise and fall.....the City is still there, beyond eternal."

The Adept frowns, ponders for a moment, and asks...."But you can bring us to this strange place somehow?"

"We are half-way there already, my friend. I was born there, so I share in the essence of the Beyond Nexus, and am thus always linked to it, however much everything else wanders around it."

"So you are not really Human, but of a race from outside of, or before.....this plane of existence?"

"No, I am a Natural Human. I was born of a man and a woman who left Yorkshire, England, in the time of King John.....the one who signed the Magna Carta.....they were abducted by aliens....who sold them as slaves in the City Market.....it's a long story."