Chapter Four Prologue: "Homecoming"
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Meanwhile...
Epsilon Eridani II,
Epsilon Eridani System
10.5 Light years from Earth...
An obsolete T'Miur-class space exploration vehicle, approximately 70 metres in length, approaches the planet. A fleet of seventy ships guide the ship, as if it is guiding a lost sheep, to the space station. The exterior, still filled with nano-repair droids fluttering around the titano-ferric armour plating, are doing last minute touch-ups. Inside the cockpit, a female alien, near-human, let out a sigh of happiness as she saw her home planet. The alien has been travelling for sixty years. Despite the large amount time that passed, her appearance remained the same. Short, yellow hair, pink, soft lips, and a fair skin with most of her body covered with a green and red uniform that held close to her body. Pinned at her left breast of her coat is a name tag. "Yuzuki" it read, according to the translations.
According to the Manual, the aliens call themselves "Eridanians." Known to the galaxy because of their human-like physical appearances, they are well known to be aggressive when provoked. The Eridanians also have a long life span, lasting up to the age of 250. Physically, their bodies do not undergo a cellular degradation process called "Senescence" as they maintain the constant appearance of a middle-age human. A rapid cellular degradation or "Hyper-Senescence" will occur during the last few months of their lives.
Ten years after the Eridanian Civil War, the Eridanians have established a military state. With a Chamber of Twenty governing, the State also have a total planetary system count of 45, making them the tenth largest interstellar state in the Milky Way. Due to the State's military policy, it maintained a large fleet of ships. With a total number of four million ships, making them the second largest military and economic power in the Galaxy and is one of the three major powers in the Milky Way. Eridanians are also known to be in a cold war with the Galactic Federation, and engaged the Galactic Federation Defense Force in a skirmish in neutral zones.
"My planet." Yuzuki placed a hand on the screen showing her planet. "Those Terrans," she gripped the control stick tightly "They will pay for the atrocity they caused against us." after receiving a message from the space station to land in the capital city to meet with the Chamber of Twenty, she hovered the ship over the planet's exosphere, then plunged the ship into a near-vertical dive to the planet, a standard Eridanian procedure when entering the planet's atmosphere. With shields up to maximum polarity, her plunge to the surface of the planet is a lot safer. Two hundred metres in, and the shield began to react to the friction of the heat. "I'm almost there." Yuzuki said "I will have my revenge." her eyes, glittered in anger as the glowing ship plunged through the Kármán line.
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A/N: Hello guys, as you may have seen, I am not dead... yet. This is the beginning of a new story arc that I will be integrating to the story. A short update to my ongoing fic. Don't be sad, I have the next chapter ready in a week. I suppose I have to apologize for my inability to update my stories, I have my reasons, I better not speak about it. (Except for the spontaneous computer hard disk clusterfuck which caused ALL of my files to fly to the stars.) Well, I suppose that's it.
See you guys in a week,
-D. Alighieri
