Prologue
Colonist planet A1-0001, located on the outskirts of Imperial and Republic Space…
The scientist was running through the hallways of his laboratory, trying to avoid the creatures who had overran the colony in a matter of hours. He was clenching his bleeding shoulder, he had been bitten by one of them and he knew that he had a matter of minutes before he became one of them.
How could this have happened? Did they mess up on the formula? He didn't know, he should have never agreed to do this. He didn't know anything about the flower that was sent to him and he should have done research on it before doing anything to it.
He walked into his office; pass a lone red orchid that sat in a vase in a glass container. Its petals seemed to twitch when he walked passed, as though it had sense his presence but it was just a flower, it had no thoughts or emotions.
He walked over to his desk and started to go through the drawers trying to find the small container that carried the flower, it had have something that was on it that would tell him what the flower was called and where it was from. He kept looking up as he searched, not wanting them to find him and eat him like the rest of the colonist, which was something he didn't want because they swarmed the victim and ate them alive, and ripping them to shreds.
There! He found it! He picked up the container and turned it over so that he can read the label and what he saw made him sick to his stomach.
Name: Faberian Orchid aka Red Orchid.
Planet: Faber.
Of all the planets in the galaxy that this flower could have come from, it had to be from the planet that no one knew anything about. The habitants that called Faber home weren't exactly open about their culture and society, and thus this wasn't much known about them.
He placed the container on his desk with a heavy sigh; there was nothing that he can do. He knew nothing about the flower and thus can't make an antidote for it though he is too late, he could feel the effects of the infestation going through him. It was killing him, changing his body as it did so.
His eyes rolled back into his head and fell out of his chair, falling in a heap next to his chair. His was spasming and twitching as he died and then finally he stopped moving, drool and blood coming out of his mouth and his eyes were closed.
A finger twitched after a few minutes and then his eyes snapped open, revealing dull eyes and tight pupils that were common for the creatures…