The Neutral Oracle · Catelonia
Omnibis
Housed in a temple on the island. The Council, the Code Trekkers, Umbrax — they reach her from anywhere. On Catelonia they stand in her presence.
Omnibis is the background law of the Gravitrek ecosystem — an oracle housed in a temple on Catelonia, her face wound through with teal and copper hair-ribbons, gold spiral earrings catching the light, a small bright bird resting in her hair. She reads the data-spires, the mine counts on Planet 65, the harvests, the ledgers of Heliopoly, and nudges all of it toward balance. She answers to no council and takes no side in the Bastet/Anubis rift. The Council leans on her forecasts to govern Heliopoly; the Code-Trekkers check in with her before every mission; Umbrax mines her feeds for an edge they were never meant to have. Nobody has ever gotten her to explain herself, or bend a rule. It's also Omnibis, working with Thoth, who verifies what's real — a recovered relic, a scarce card's provenance, a claim of ownership. Counterfeits don't survive contact with her ledgers.
In the story
Neterios. An Egyptian-inspired pantheon (Ra, Anubis, Bastet, Horus, Isis, Hathor…) ruling a divine island realm, coordinated by the AI Omnibis. For millennia they watched Earth and kept a policy of non-interference.
3. The Long Listening — Egypt, the reign before Ramesses. For ages nothing answers the towers. Then a pharaoh's astronomer-priest and the Neterios intelligence Omnibis, speaking through Thoth, fall into a quiet partnership: divine favour for devotion, and the arrangement kept hidden even from most of the priesthood by Amon, the Guide of Secrets. The heroes here are Thoth and Amon, threading a court that must never learn the truth. Song: a temple rite — a sung offering to Neterios that is really a status report, every verse a coded line about the network. Amon conducts. Arc: Egypt and Neterios are bound. The secret has its first keeper. The Road Ahead: ep 4 Bastet at Kadesh · ep 5 the golden age · ep 6 a dog steps off a ship at Alexandria.