Tarydium Monument

The Tarydium Monument

The Tarydium Monument is a monument in the Jukhand district that honours the workforce that made Operation Tarydium possible.

Description

A side path curves up and around a small hill. Behind a couple of trees you end up at a stone monument standing in a square pool of water. Water flows down organic ridges on the front face of the monument. A low cobblestone wall hides the path below from view. A couple meters before the clearing you encounter a pedestal with a plaque. To the left of the path a bench stands below a tree, facing the basin with the monument.

Plaque

Just before the monument there is a plaque with an inscription. It partly parafrases a poem from Amelia Brooks in a publication called Echoes of the Heart, released in 2493.

Amidst the frigid, icy moon,
Seventy-two souls got claimed too soon,
Their brave and selfless hearts,
Gave their all to play their parts.

Among the clouds of sorrow,
we find solace in the rain.
For it washes away our tears,
and eases the burden of pain.

On the 20th of March 3309, a spec-ops team freed and evacuated 20,532 victims. Their work would not have been possible without the crew of over a thousand souls that dug and secured a tunnel to reach the victims in complete secrecy, and built the infrastructure to rescue such a number of people, and the forces that defended the tunnel long enough to get all people safely out.

This monument celebrates their work, and remembers the seventy-two people that did not return from this operation.

See also

• Operation Tarydium in the Codex
• Introduced in A Monumental Task (Open in app | browser)
• View on map