A/N: After a hiatus of refining my writing style a bit and realizing the series wasn't goin' where I wanted it to, I decided to start fresh. Still, RR. Also, when you review (for god's sake review), please tell me if my writing style has gotten better or worse. I'm open to any comments, except flames of course.
The Jericho Chronicles: Book 1
Prologue
Today is the age of the extraordinary. Today is when it would be believed that the human race would be nomads of the stars, roaming the universe in peace. Today was when man would come together, in a common yearn for knowledge, to explore the grand universe they called home.
Or at least, that was what it should have been. Today, man is in a dark time. Over the millennia, they had come together to traverse the stars and learn. They saw new and wonderful things that both baffled and amazed them. They were finally coming together as a species; into a golden age of peace. But, as every empire before it has, the human empire soon reached its highest point, and quickly fell apart; losing so much including the very technology that allowed them to cross the stars and survive in their cosmic dwellings. As of late, the galaxy has descended into a dark age. A dark age where man has once again picked up its lain-down weapons and strived to take what they believe is rightfully theirs. Now in this Dark Age, man resumes its conflict, with new and terrifying weapons. They have made massive war machines, many stories tall and many tons heavy, to wield these new horrifying weapons. These great iron warriors are now the supreme weapon of the battlefield. There has been many a warrior, soldier, and civilian who only saw a luminous shadow appear on the horizon, before they were vaporized into dust. The titanic battles have altered the very universe with their presence; destroying lives while giving birth to others. It seemed that these dark times would only get darker, as humans continued to perfect their tools of destruction. It seemed that they would be their own downfall, as they created more darkness and shadow that would eventually swallow the universe into total, permanent blackness…