A good end. Basically, the origin system is a mess, but full of possibilities. The definition of interesting times.
I think Gunny Smith was a fool to accept the job of Warden. He lost the chance to finally rest. Forever. And considering the legacy of Nikkis, golden leeches who escaped the bloodbath and how many characters realted to Karl's Shadow are becoming Wardens, looks like Talia's Mandate is becoming anachronic.
And one thing is really missing: who will be the unlucky bastard who will take the mantle of master of the Dead

This sentient family looks too human for me.
There's a graffiti in my city that says "The greatest show to man is and will always be man himself." I guess your tale is just another example.
All this bravado of Natah and Erra, using people and their kin as pawns, but gloating about nobility and honor, they sound like nobles; flowering words to disguise amoral pragmatism and hunger for power. And every time one of the sentients say "you will serve", such exclamation is all orokin to me. I guess they inherited their creator's megalomania. I bet Perintol would be proud.

We who are about to die salute you. Did'nt think Eliza would die, but you killed one of many.
Now it came to me: was Eliza a Bioshock reference all the time? If not, it's a strange coincidence, or not strange at all.

In World war 2, outside movies, i don't think any atlantic convoy exchanged words with a lone tiger...
A lone tiger with Scimitar level of cloaking, what will you use to bring it down, i wonder. Exploit mistakes? Tell the truth, that Zato is gone? Deus ex machina? All of that? The plot thickens.

End of an era? i guess some readers will doubt, just like comic books, where no one is really gone unless they are support characters, right?
If this is what really happened, i guess the old fart will have a last trick. Choosing his replacement, and i suspect the burden will be a punishment.

One day you will have to tell the readers how Nikkis knows where trouble is and how he magically appears at the right dramatic time. Does he tell beloved Janet to peer into possible futures like an eldar farseer? Then jumps into a portal like the hat of a Limbo?

Now that i know what tht Epsilon class railjack is, how do you see it Kal? i mean, how does it look like? Ohio, Akula? Or something else?