Mithun M.K.

I can't help but agree.

The Man of Sins was likely sent to us because the creature believes us to be its most significant obstacle.

So what do you propose we do, Balin?

We need to get aboard the Valiant.

From there, with the right equipment, we might have a chance of putting an end to the machines the creature uses to affect the weather, among other things.

The same.

We believe that the machines produce a kind of field, and once something is caught within it, certain aspects of physical reality can be altered.

This includes inducing hallucinations, mutating certain materials, specifically the black liquid we discovered, altering the weather, and likely many other aspects we haven't yet determined.

You know you love it.

We need to begin isolating the special properties of the machine's output.

So far, I can't see exactly how it connects with some kind of grand endpoint concerning whatever work the creature intends to continue.

If we adhere to the most basic ideas concerning hell, then demons are fallen angels, vastly superhuman agents of a divine power.

If human beings create technology as a product of their intellect, I suppose angels, now demons, would be capable of the same thing, just on a much larger level of accomplishment.