((Author's note: This is a strange little idea that has been floating around in my head for the past three years. Each chapter was written while listening to a specific song from the Aida Broadway soundtrack. Each song is the title of the chapter it inspired. If you like, you can do that too! I've hit a bit of a writer's block with this, so hopefully posting what I have and getting feedback will help me figure out where to go next.))
Prologue-Every Story is a Love Story
The moon of New Cairo, circling the planet of Osiris, serves as the central headquarters for the Alliance sponsored shipping conglomerate Pharaoh Corporation. Terraforming almost didn't take, a stunning defeat for this satellite of a core planet. Most of New Cairo is desert, with one inhabitable city, Nubia, occupying a key position on the moon's only river. In fact, the entire moon used to be called Nubia, homage to a long forgotten country on Earth that Was. The river was named "The Nile," and only the few who remained that knew anything of Earth That Was understood.
The original inhabitants of Nubia turned it into an oasis on this desert planet, where culture thrived. When Pharaoh moved in after the war, the Nubians found all their natural resources cut off by the corporation. Survival was insured only by submitting to Pharaoh's "protection". This protection amounted to little more than slave labor in the shipping facilities on planet. But the Nubians had very little choice. The majority were forced to work for the company.
Some however, resisted. The former mayor of Nubia turned to diplomacy, and failing that, to space piracy in an attempt to sabotage the workings of Pharaoh. This is a story about Pharaoh and Nubia, yes. But this is also a story about love.