Prologue-
She has slept for hundreds of years, buried away by those who feared her more than any other. Her empire has fallen but not been destroyed, only hidden from the sands of time to one day awaken again and take back what was and forever will be hers. And now at the moment when all whom still know her name think her only to be a myth, she will awaken. Her wrath will spread across galaxies and no world with go untouched. Her mark will be burned into the mind of all whom see her, and those who stand against her will fall. So it is written, so it shall be…
The first of the loyal followers awoke with a sudden stir, he had been asleep for hundreds of thousands of years, but it had only felt like moments. Immediately he began to awaken the others, walking down halls and corridors filled with what looked to be golden caskets. At the end of each isle the man pressed a series of buttons on a complicated and quite obviously alien control panel. As he finished pressing in each code rows of the golden caskets opened and other beings stepped out. Most bore the mark of a large bird in flight on their forehead, but some were unmarked and clearly not like the others.
The follower relieved his task of awakening to another man with a marked forehead. He then turned and nodded for at least a dozen of the marked men to come with him. "Come Jaffa." He said in a firm tone. The Jaffa did not hesitate or even speak, but followed the man without question. They traveled through a maze of halls until they came to the grand doors of a chamber. The follower pushed the doors open and looked into the center of the almost empty room. With great haste the follower rushed into the center of the room to where a large, decorated golden and gemmed sarcophagus lay.
With great anticipation he reached forward and tapped a gem on the top, immediately the sarcophagus began to open. Inside a beautiful woman awoke, her eyes glowed for an instant and she sat up. "Bartis." She said turning and looking at the man who had opened the tomb.
"My Goddess." Bartis said with a bow to the woman as she climbed gracefully out of the sarcophagus. "The time has come, your army awakens." He said and looked at her with a small smile hopping she would be pleased.
The woman looked at his bowing figure and smiled enjoying being worshiped once more. She then walked past him without a word and made her way through the lined up Jaffa who stood statue still. She stopped in front of a window that looked out on the now lit corridors where the many other caskets were and smiled. Before her stood an army of hundreds of Jaffa, her army. "It is time that the universe feels the wrath of Athena." She said.