Venn-Station was a construct floating in high remote skies. It was a vessel of science. To study light, further away from the constant colorful dynamics of Shatter-Sky. From afar the Venn-Station looked like an overly large and complex gyroscope. The sun here was purer. The light was to be as flavorless as possible. In a room filled with mirrors and prisms, loaded with papers of Venn's diagrams he fiddled with the scientific instruments. Venn had been splitting light for the last seven days, noting the results.
He looked again through the large built-in spyglass directly and the white sun. Like always, there were the classic faint patterns. Venn could marvel at them for hours. But then some small black speck appeared. It was moving across the sun. The size and distance of the thing was hard to judge through the lens, but Venn hoped it was as distant as possible, to maximize its possible size. Venn went outside starring into the windless, white, and bottomless sky.
The shape was much clearer. And to Venn's disappointment it turned out to be close and not that big. A small vessel, looking like the combination of a ship and a vintage aircraft in the color of obsidian. From within a figure stood up, Venn knew her. Half her face was black, the other golden. Both her wings and antennae were relatively small for a Switterlind. She wore elegant but simple black-white clothing, looking very professional. Nicknamed "Mis Baker", she was a high profile capitalist, owner of a chain of bakeries. Her iconic shtick was hunting down smaller bakeries in an attempt to establish a monopoly. Her appearance here was very strange. Venn was a scientist of the Rainbow College and the only other individual currently anywhere in this realm of existence. He only ever went into a bakery to order a Mandelbrot.
Mis Baker had brought a new toy with her. Venn had to admit he interpreted "fire-arm" more literally. Freshly acquired, the bolt-action-rifle Mis Baker was currently aiming at Venn still had a "made in Tepror" sticker with a cartoony head of a winking Skimtari. Any regular individual would have been overcome by self-preservation instincts in this moment, but Venn was an intellectual. He had never died before, so statistically he was immortal. Plus, as a scientist you couldn't just leave right when something interesting was about to happen.
A bang and a fiery flash. Mis Baker was alone again.
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Some might say the Chromafey Season is a stable system. Some might say it is utterly chaotic and unpredictable. Indefinite Color was a hurricane. Its continued existence was contingent on the requirement to keep moving and spinning, or suffer the fate of being dissolved. At the hurricanes core, things were surprisingly quiet, unusually consistent. The Color Court remained. It ruled the many forces and factions, trying to keep things moving indefinitely. A balance and harmony in weighted imbalance and discord.
The Rainbow College was the leading force in the Court of Indefinite Color. They have setup this system. Counterintuitivly, the status quo is kept by forcing constant change. The Rainbow College loved drama and art and spectacle and diversity. You needed pain and love and sorrow and fury and euphoria. You needed comedy and tragedy. Oh what a colorful and wonderful world. Raigen was to remain the ruler of the Chromafey Season. They were the enormous wings of rainbow that stretched from the Capital of Prisma Spectra, the city of light and smoke and mirrors. Raigen, the Origin of Rainbow. Raigen carried all the colors. And the Rainbow College expands the palette indefinitely by making new ones, pulling them from non-existence, as if they always had existed.
There were many factions that would have loved to take the throne in Prisma Spectra. The competitiveness of Indefinite Color kept them turning and fighting and gaining and loosing. The elites all met in the Court, the kept it turning. One faction that had been having significant influence in recent times, was the Gild Coronal League. They were the nobility, the wealth, the upper-class, the corruption, the capitalism. They had formed the Season significantly.
Venn together with other Rainbow Disciples had observed the emergence of the Carmine Corrosion, a terrorist anti-nobility movement, headed by the maybe-fictional Monsieur le Guillotine. The Rainbow College always liked a new twist and turns. An existential threat to the Gild Coronal League was fabulous. So Venn with a few colleagues had been helping setting up some favorable conditions for the Carmine Corrosion.
