Sylux: Origins
On the world of Cylosis; capital of the thriving Cylosian Reich, a great power on the cosmic scene; an infant boy was born to parents Heinrich and Eva Sanders, coincidentally within the same 24 hour period as a infant girl native to K-2l in the year 126,789 A.D; this boy would be named Samuel. Heinrich was Kanzler of the Reich, a powerful man who held most of the political power in the reich and only answered to the Kaiser, who at the time was Fredreich LVIII.
He had done his best to ensure that his nation, which held eight times less planets than the galactic federation and had a mere quarter of it's population, would have the most profitable diplomatic situation possible. He had tried to play the four cosmic superpowers, the Galactic Federation, the Space Pirate Confederacy, the Kriken Empire, and the Vhozon Kingdom against one another in the diplomatic court while secretly picking away at their holdings and subsuming other great, regional, and lesser powers.
It turned out that though Heinrich did his best to ape Bismarck's diplomatic style, his best was certainly not enough. The galactic federation chairman at the time was an alien who was chomping at the bit for an opportunity to go to war, and he used Heinrich's bungled diplomacy as a cover for a secret military buildup to topple the Reich. But what of Samuel? The boy was well adjusted, and had the best of what life had to offer, as is natural for the only child of a head of government. But some time after he turned three, his life was about to change for the worse.