Chapter 1

Grand Master Reanifict Sheok woke from his first peaceful sleep ever since he was born. He opened his eyes and got off his bed, damn thing was always too hard no matter what he did to it. He then walked over to the full body mirror and looked. (Reanifict = Admiral)

Sheok was a Treanoniman, the oldest and most advanced species in the galaxy. The Treanonimans were bipedal creatures; their legs were large and muscular, but their arms were not as large. A Treanoniman's arms were long and flat but they were only flat because of special spores in the arms that allowed any Treanoniman create small blobs of green energy that when thrown at something could act like an acid and eat away at it, but it could also be slightly modified to cause something to become weightless. Sheok had once seen a Treanoniman without their spores and he found out that underneath those spores were muscles that were both strong and small.

Sheok rubbed his arms with his hands and the six claw like fingers on them, trying to warm up his spores which always seemed to be too cold. He then removed his night outfit to examine the rest of his body. His chest was flat, like all Treanoniman males, it never showed the muscles underneath the thick skin that protected all the vital organs in that area. Treanoniman skin was thick enough to stop many weapons.

One good example of this was when Treanonimans first encountered another space faring creature, which was far less advanced than them and using only projectile weapons and vary warlike. The other species had been encountered on a planet and had fired first, their bullets hit the unprotected chest of a Treanoniman assistant but even being unprotected the assistant's thick skin didn't even bruise from the hit. The Treanoniman weapons on the other had ripped through the other creatures with enough force and power to even kill the ones behind them. That species had been quickly conquered, but they still refused to be underneath the Treanonimans so to make sure they would never be a problem again the Treanonimans stripped the hostile species of their technology and threw them back to just using hands. When last Sheok had heard of the species they were just discovering stone tools again.

Sheok sighed, an old wound had reopened during the night. He was going to have to treat it yet again. That was when he finally noticed the condition of his face. His four eyes all had a look of horror in them, he knew the look was coming but he did not know the look would come as soon as it had. His head was best compared to an insect's head, with one major difference the overall shape was a triangle. They also had several small sensory eyes on the side and back of their heads, sneaking up on a Treanoniman was not an easy thing to do.

The sensory eye in the side of Sheok's head felt something open the door to his room. He turned his head to look, but that wasn't enough to get a good view so he turned completely even moving his three towed, paw like feet.

What he saw was a very embarrassed Female Treanoniman. A female Treanoniman had a bit less muscle but they made up for it with a few more spores in their arms. They also had small claw like arms in the area of their stomach that allowed them to hold a child to their chest so that the mother could bond with their young as well as give the young the nutrients they need through small tubes in those same arms. Their heads also looked more elegant than a male's did, as did the rest of their body.

This female was a relatively new addition to Sheok's Flag Ship's crew and also rather young for her placement on the ship. At the current point though she had just walked in on The Grand Master Reanifict without his shirt on, so she was very embarrassed.

Sheok chuckled, "Yes? What is it untra?" (Untra=private)

The female gulped lightly, "I'm sorry if I am interrupting something sir, but I have a few messages for you."

Sheok nodded, "Alright give them to me."

The female nodded and handed him one devise. The devise was about the size of peace of paper, well a bit bigger in reality. The border was the only thing solid about it; the inside of it was a holographic projection. That projection showed that Sheok had five messages.

Before he could look at them further the female spoke up again, "I saw five messages, one stating the status of the jump engines. One about the shields, another about the weapons, another the fleet. And the last one is from….the civilian you are dating."

Sheok nodded, "Thank you for bringing these to me. You may go and tell the bridge I will arrive in a few partices." (Partices=half hours)

The female nodded and left closing the door behind her.

Sheok sighed and walked over to what was his bathroom. He quickly treated his old wound with some healing paste and a few stitches. And then he cleaned up quickly. After that he went to his personal army and opened it.

Inside of it was his family's personal armor. His family had been using the armor for over a thousand years and it was still the most advanced piece of armor in the fleet. And not just the armor but also high pressure hand held plasma pistol. One shot from the pistol could destroy any of the Hooken's ground forces. (Hooken = Reaper)

Hooken, the very word could send the fleet into lock down and battle stations. They had appeared out of nowhere at the edge of the galaxy over a thousand years ago. At first their numbers were small and the races of the galaxy were able to hold them back. But then they started attacking some of the younger races who were still new to space travel, after that their numbers grew. After around five hundred years of fighting there were only five races left fighting. And the only reason they were still left fighting was because of the Treanoniman planetary shields. The only and best defense that kept them out of the major population centers. But in time the Hookens got past one of the shields and "harvested" the planet. After that the galaxy fell, no shields could stand under the strain that they received from the ever growing Hooken fleet.

After the planets fell the population of the galaxy fled in the remaining ships. After around only two hundred years of trying to fight back in space or just running only one fleet still remains. The Treanoniman fleet was that one fleet.

Sheok put on his armor and made sure it was in working order and then put the pistol at his side where it always was. He then walked over to the one window in his quarters and looked out at the fleet. He could see almost the whole fleet as it drifted through the darkness of space between star systems.

Sheok sighed and began to look at his messages. The first one he looked at was his jump engine reports. From what the report said the ship's jump engines would soon be ready for the galactic jump they had planned for later in the day. The jump was the fleets last attempt to escape the Hookens, they could do nothing more. The fleet had been on the run from the Hooken fleet for three hundred years and they could not keep it up for much longer.

He then looked at the shield and weapons reports, standard activity but they were almost ready for the shutdown necessary for the galactic jump. But the report for the shields also stated that they had finally found a way to keep the shields online just as the jump was commencing. That had always been a major weakness with Treanoniman shields, the instant a ship activated their jump engines weapons and shields went offline for a little bit to allow them to power up. It was the ships greatest weakness and the best chance to take down a Treanoniman ship no matter the classification or design model. But now they had a fighting chance if they got attacked and the report also said they were handing the information over to the rest of the fleet.

Sheok thought of looking at the fleet report next but decided he would look at the private message. The Instant he opened it he smiled, it was indeed from the female civilian he was dating. The night before they had gone on a date and he asked her to be his life mate, and to his surprise she actually agreed. Thinking back that was most likely the only reason he had been able to sleep well. The message said she had informed the rest of her family and they were overjoyed by the news.

When Sheok finished reading the message he looked out his window and towards the ship his future life mate was in. It was one of the few civilian ships that a large arsenal of weapons and a strong shield, if any ship had the best chance to survive a Hooken raid it was that ship and the military ships. She was safe, and he knew it.

Sheok finally looked at the fleet report. It had been a few days since he had gotten a fleet report so he was glad he had gotten one today. He knew that each of the 58,589 ships under his command was still intact but it was still nice to know the status of each one. The main ones he was interested in were the ships that were necessary to keep the fleet alive and functioning; all of those ships were still around and working beautifully.

The next ships he looked for were his carriers. Those ships held the majority of his fighter force. The best and fastest defense he had against Hooken destroyers and their Drone Fighters. The carriers under his command were all there and in top shape as always, the million fighters they carried were also ready to go at any time.

Sheok then looked at the rest of the fleet. The civilian portion, which consisted of almost three quarters of his fleet, was reporting operations as normal; the destroyers were all good, battleships and cruisers also good. The fleet's last five Dreadnoughts was also good, through the thousand year old Dreadnought they had was having some problems with its engines but it was not a big enough problem for them to not be able to jump. The Battle cruisers were all good, as were the frigates and the corvettes.

All in all the fleet was ready to go.

Sheok smiled, he deactivated the data pad after reading the information. He then went to his quarter's kitchen and got a quick breakfast. As he ate it he left the room and started to head to the bridge.

Sheok's ship was huge, far bigger than anything else in the Treanoniman fleet, well now it is. It was a Flagship class ship so it had the most advanced…well everything, it was also the biggest class there was.

But this flagship had not always been the main or only Flagship in the fleet. There had once been many flagships, but over time they were all destroyed until only his remained. Heck when Sheok had become the commander of the ship he was only a standard Reanifict, and not much younger than he is now. But at the time there was another Flagship in the fleet. It was bigger, more advanced, and newer than the one he commanded. But it was destroyed some years ago when the fleet drifted to close to a Hooken fleet.

The Grand Master Reanifict at the time had been on the other Flagship and he had sacrificed his ship so that the fleet could escape. And in doing so he had given his rank to Sheok who was the only one with a high enough rank to do so. But in getting his rank Sheok became the youngest Grand Master Reanifict in the history of the Treanoniman. At the age of 235 cheashion he became protector of the last of the Treanoniman race and the highest ranking officer in the fleet. But that wasn't it, with his rank came dealing with the leader of the civilian people, a dealing Sheok hated every day. (Cheashion = 1/10th of a year, which means our friend was 23.5 years old when he took command)

Yet despite his young age every member of the fleet respected him and for five years they have followed him without question. Even to this day they still do. That was evident as Sheok walked through his ship to the bridge and every member of his ship stopped and saluted him as he passed.

Sheok's quarters were near the center of the ship just like the bridge, but unlike the bridge his quarters was at the outer hull. The bridge was buried behind countless layers of armor and several layers of shielding and security, its placement was a bit off the center of the ship. The exact placement was different for each ship but for the most part each Treanoniman designed ship was the same.

Now there were some ships in his fleet that were designed by the other races that are now dead, but each of those was civilian ships. But Sheok was still worried for those ships; their bridges were right up in front of the ships. That position was a prime target in a space battle which was why Treanonimans never put the bridge there they had always considered it crazy. Now the view was nice but with the right equipment even a bridge buried deep inside the hull of the ship could have the same view.

And speaking of the bridge, Sheok finally reached the bridge. He put his hand onto the scanner and the doors slid open truly starting the day that would change all of their lives forever.