Prologue

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Info: Prologue is a bit heavy on scientific thought. The real story doesn't begin until chapter one.


In the beginning, there was nothing. Life, in the form it is conventionally perceived, was nonexistent. However, hiding within the galaxy's comets lied the future of a hundred billion generations. These comets were destined for collision with the galaxy's many planets. A lucky few fell into the oceans of more habitable worlds. Others met an unfortunate demise on Crater Worlds- worlds unfit for microscale life.

Over the course of millions upon millions of years, bacteria carried by these comets fled their primordial oozes in hope of a better life upon land. These newly evolved creatures, after encountering life on land's challenges, joined together into herds and packs. They set up caste systems and pecking orders to establish dominance over one another. Independent thought was abandoned so that the more desirable 'hive mind' could take hold. Intelligence grew, leaders were picked, and the first tribes were formed.

Between these tribes came rivalries. Competition over resources: food, water, land, brought the first wars to the galaxy. As technology advanced, so did the ingenuity of sentient species. Cities were built, civilizations were formed, and with them came a new breed of warfare. Combat was no longer restricted to throwing sharpened rods at one another. Entire wars could be fought in the sky by airborne forces. Legions of foot-soldiers could be hidden behind a mobile wall of battle tanks. Many worlds united under a single flag peacefully, knowing that a world divided can only bring destruction to there peoples. Other worlds incinerated in a nuclear fireball, leaving only a lifeless shell of a planet behind.

A lucky few discovered the 'key to the universe', and developed airships capable of interstellar flight. With the new advances in technology came a new chapter in the history of sapience. Interplanetary empires set forth to unite the galaxy for a single cause. Amongst these combating solar empires is a young cadet in the Armonian military. It is with him that the galaxy was forever changed. To know his story is to know the story of all modern life, and like all stories, we must start at the beginning.


"Now these questions are not new. War, in one form or another, appeared with the first man. At the dawn of history, its morality was not questioned; it was simply a fact, like drought or disease -- the manner in which tribes and then civilizations sought power and settled their differences."

-Barack Obama

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

-John Stuart Mill