Chapter 10b: Interbellum

September 8, 2235

Draka Occupied Omelos

Labor Camp 314

The area was very untidy, it was infested with pests, pieces of dead animal or Dilgar, not that anyone could distinguish it in its currently rotting form were littered in the place as no one ever bothered to put it away. The combination of rotten carcases, pests and unbathed Dilgar saw to it that smell of the place was light years away from being pleasant.

Aside from the Draka overseer's quarters which was adored with things they pillaged and a few impaled heads on its front door, all the buildings here was only a step higher than rubble, it is really hard to imagine that this was once one of the most vibrant cities in the Dilgar Imperium.

Suh'miq was an attractive young Dilgar, a bit shorter that the average but that did not prevent endless suitors from lining up for her hand, she belonged to a very wealthy and influential family, being given everything she wanted and more, and being the top of her class in med school meant that she was very smart.

Well that was before the Draka came, now she was dressed in broken, unwashed and very dirty clothes, with a metalic devise on her neck that gave her excruciating pain every time her Draka overseer felt like it. She is currently hammering in a piece of metal, she did not know what this metal was for, but she did it non the less, otherwise her overseers would give her any one or all of the bodily harms they were capable of doing, that ranged from pain brought by the devises in their necks to impaling her or even inserting a very large blunt object into her female organ. In more extreme cases she has even seen an entire labor camp being struck from orbit by one of their ships. Naturally such things would increase her motivation to work.

Suddenly the alarm sounded, this meant that it was time to go home and that today's quota was already met.

She was very glad, as her body was already very tired, and was a few minuets away from passing out due to fatigue, she didn't know how long she had been working, all she knew was that she started working before the sun was up and now it was already the middle of the night, as a student of medicine she knew that her body could no longer handle another month or so of this torturous work conditions.

She began to line up to get her ration, she was one of the first to do so, so it was not that long before she got her food and water.

"The food I gave to my pets before looked a lot better and smelled a whole lot better than this, not to mention it would probably taste really bad." she muttered to her self as she saw her food, not that she was not already used to it, but complaining made her feel a little bit better.

"If you hate it so much why not give it to me." A middle aged Dilgar behind her said.

She did not have the strength to answer him, she was simply to tired. So she just ignored him. Then went to a corner of the camp, it was still very dirty but it was a bit better than anywhere else, then proceeded to eat her food.

"Damn! It tastes worse than last time, a lot worse." She said as she took her first gulp at the unsightly and smelly excuse for a porridge. But she engulfed it in one fell swoop none the less as she was very hungry. After finishing it she then proceeded to drink her ration of water, it did not look sanitized, but it was far better than no water at all. So she finished it quickly and began to sleep, she needed all the sleep she can.

As she was in the middle of her sleep when she noticed that a couple of individuals were running in her direction, fearing that it would be another rape, as she was already raped nearly a dozen times by different individuals she then stood up took the nearest rock beside her and hopefully use it as a weapon, she didn't bother to wake up the individuals sleeping near her as most likely they would not care nor bother to help her.

She was preparing for the worse when she heard a couple of explosions in the background. Then she noticed that the people coming towards her carried heavy weapons, and had big packs on their backs and there were over a dozen of them. Then when the came close enough to her, one of them reached for the pack at his back, he got out another high powered weapon and threw it at her.

"Join the fight! For our freedom!" the guy screamed.

Then it came to her, they were the Resistance! With that thought her tired body suddenly got a sudden jolt of energy, she proceeded to pick up the weapon they thew to her then she ran with them.

"Glad you could join us." The guy she came close to said, when she joined them.

"Glad, you guys came here, I'm Suh'miq by the way." She replied,

"Just call men number 8, anyway we better hurry, as the Draka ships would orbital bombard this place within an hour."

She then nodded then she heard sudden bursts of energy fire, their Draka overseers came firing back as they neared their quarters.

As she re called there were only around a handful Draka in this camp but there were a lot of those creatures they used as soldier, which made her worried.

"Don't worry about the Ghouloons the explosives took care of them." the guy beside her said as he saw the worry in her face.

"Ahhh, Ghouloons, thats what they were called." She thought, as she ran with him, she was too nervous to think about firing.

They are being overwhelmed, she thought as she saw hundreds of Dilgar converging at the quarters, this made her realize that the resistance had probably given arms to most if not everyone in the camp.

She then saw Dilgars being shot down, while they ran towards the quarters, thankfully none of them were near her. She could see at least twenty being shot down.

"Damn, they are not taking cover, and you should take cover too." number 8 her said, as he was hugging the ground while firing. Realizing what he said Suh'miq tried to do the same, but when she tried to leap for the ground the guy in front of her was shot and that was the last thing she remembered other than the extreme pain on her left arm.

Sometime later

Her body was feeling a lot of pain, it felt like she was again subjected to that pain devise on her neck, plus coupled with the feeling of weightlessness.

Then she realize she no longer had that metal thing on her neck, as she tried to open her eyes. Realization came to her, that she was no longer in the planet anymore.

How did I get here? What the happen? Were the first things that came to her mind. All she could remember was falling into unconsciousness, feeling herself, she realized that she had bandages on her left arm.

Opening her eyes, she could see that she's in some sort of ship, and by the looks of it, she was in some cargo hold, this could possibly be a cargo ship. Moving her head side to side she could see other Dilgar in the ship just floating there looking at a single direction, they were looking at something opposite her but away from her view.

She then moved to an angle where she could view what the other Dilgar were looking at. It was a monitor of some sort, and the image was of a planet and the space around it.

"Is this outside?" Suh'miq asked a nearby Dilgar who was also floating in the ship.

"Yes, it is ma'am." Replied another, yet familiar voice. She then turned to see who it was, it was number 8.

Then the view of the monitor changed as the ship changed its angle.
It was now showing two space black Draka ships surrounded by debris, but she was not versed enough to determine what classes they were, but she it was already obvious from the looks of those ships was they were severely damaged, as they were ozzing out matter from their insides.

"That's whats left of their occupation ships in the system, and don't worry they are dead in space, and it will take at least three hours for the reinforcements to arrive, we would be long gone by then."

Number 8 told Suh'miq as he saw the puzzled look on her face.

"How did we ever manage to do that?" she replied in astonishment.

And as if to answer her question she saw a single fighter speed towards the Draka ships, from the looks of it, it was Dilgar, then boom. It collided with great force, much greater than what she would have expected, then obliterated the two remaining ships.

"Courtesy of the Deathwalker and the newly established Dilgar Republic. It was a modified single person star fighter filled with some kind of explosive. Don't ask me what cause I dunno, but from the looks of it, anti matter." number 8 explained about the fighter they just saw.

"Jah'dur? She was declared dead. A new Dilgar government? What else have I missed?"

"Yes, the Warmaster is very much alive, I dunno the specifics other than she is not dead. Yes apparently our government expected the worse when the Draka joined the war. They seem to have enacted some worst case scenario protocol which they managed to save more than a hundred million of our people and relocated where the Draka could not reach, well they could reach but they have to put themselves whiskers deep into Centauri space."

"So that's where we are going right?" Suh'miq asked as the monitor now showed the image of Omelos' jumpgate, it was active. There were a lot of ships of different designs going into it.

"Yes! I believe they renamed the system as Dakar." This made Suh' miq shrug a little.

Dakar was a Dilgar word, who did not have an exact English translation but what closest translation would be extreme defiance, the word was used several times in Dilgar history where a vanquished would vow revenge and eternal resistance from their place of refuge which they name as such.

As they were only seconds away from entering the vortex, the ship's alarm suddenly rang, it was very loud, making everyone inside uneasy and wonder what was going on.

Then ship's camera rotated showing the view of the planet, a fleet of Draka ships suddenly appeared. She could not see how many exactly but from what she saw it was well over several hundred.

"They were supposed to be hours away." Number 8 muttered, as he saw some of the ships hit the Dilgar ships they could reach, thankfully they were well away from them. While some ships also bombarded the surface of Omelos. The camera could see parts of the surface lighten up by the bombardment. She could hear other people gasp at the horror, as they knew that each of those shots would have killed hundreds of thousands if not, millions of Dilgars.

Then all of a sudden something occurred that gave a great shock to everyone on board, their sun exploded. But before they could see the extent of the killed or see it reach Omelos, they were already inside hyperspace.

As the ship kept on going inside hyperspace, instead of the previous chatter that they could hear, the place was very silent. Everyone was shocked no doubt, even number 8.

She was dumbfounded to say the least, she could hardly comprehend that the Draka were capable of detonating a Star or even resort to it.