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Wandering Stars
A tablet with the following inscription was recently uncovered in the ruins of a temple dedicated to Hermes. Its origins are unexplained.

You mortals constantly attribute your greatest achievements of exploration to the influence of the divine. But do you ever wonder why we choose to intervene? Did you ever consider that we are sending you a message? Take, for example, the moment when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin planted that American flag on the moon. You might have seen the clear influence of both the god of love and the god of war in that moment, but I am sure you did not comprehend the message they were sending you all the way from where they reside. Let me aid you, mortal; it was simply "B." Now tell me, what do these events really mean?
  • With the aid of the god of thunder and the god of the sky, Orville Wright pilots the first airplane.

  • With the aid of the god of love and the god of time, Sir Francis Drake returns from the second circumnavigation of the world.

  • With the aid of the god of love and the god of the sea, Charles Darwin returns to England aboard the H.M.S. Beagle.

  • With the aid of the god of war and the god of the sky, James Cameron pilots a tiny submersible to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

  • With the aid of the god of travellers and the god of time, Henry Stanley delivers his famous line, "Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?"

  • With the aid of the god of war and the god of time, James Cook sets out from England on his journey to Australia.

  • With the aid of the god of war and the god of the sea, Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.

  • With the aid of the god of time and the god of the sea, Ponce de Leon sights Florida.

  • With the aid of the god of thunder and the god of time, Henry Hudson arrives in his namesake bay.

  • With the aid of the god of travellers and the god of thunder, Robert O'Hara Burke, William John Wills, and company set out from Melboune to cross the Australian continent.

  • With the aid of the god of thunder and the god of the sky, Che Guevara begins his famous journey on his motorcycle, La Poderosa II.

  • With the aid of the god of war and the god of the sea, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark finally reach the Pacific Ocean.

  • With the aid of the god of the sky and the god of the sea, Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person in space.

  • With the aid of the god of love and the god of the sky, Vasco da Gama becomes the first European to reach India over water.

  • With the aid of the god of war and the god of love, Auguste Piccard and his assistant Paul Kipfer become the first humans to reach the stratosphere.

  • With the aid of the god of war and the god of the sea, Ibn Battuta sets out from Mecca for the first time, turning his Hajj into a journey of 75,000 miles.

  • With the aid of the god of travellers and the god of the sea, Arthur Eddington, observes an eclipse and confirms Einstein's theory of general relativity.

  • With the aid of the god of love and the god of war, Leland Stanford drives golden spike that completes the First Transcontinental Railroad.

  • With the aid of the god of war and the god of the sky, Charles Lindbergh begins his famous solo flight across the Atlantic.

  • With the aid of the god of the sky and the god of the sea, Ferdinand Magellan sets out to circumnavigate the world.

  • With the aid of the god of war and the god of the sea, Jack Kerouac publishes On the Road, the novel that defined the Beat Generation.

  • With the aid of the god of time and the god of the sea, Christopher Columbus reaches the New World.