Shrouded Darkness
Chapter. 2
The planet Xias was at the edge of the galaxy known to humans as the Milky Way galaxy. At the edge of the galaxy, it was in the farthest binary star system. This planets uniqueness came not only from being so far out in space, but from the fact that it was two halves of contradicting planets. One side of the planet was nothing but forest, while the other side was nothing but technological city, and each half held only one sentient species. One was a reptilian race called the kluvecx. They were on the verge of being savage, but were highly intelligent and knew how to manipulate their natural resources to such an extreme to make unbelievable chemicals and biotechnology. The other race was humanoid, completely identical to humans except vastly more intelligent. They had extreme engineering capabilities, and invented inter -space travel far earlier than the humans would have. Even for a very sophisticated race, they themselves had a thirst for power that rivaled that of their reptilian neighbors.
The two races were constantly at war with each other. Prejudice and hatred between the races was high. It took years of warring against each other, losing millions of lives, for the major powers to realize that the war was a total stalemate. In the end, the leaders from the humanoid and reptilian side got together for a one day only conference, on a desolated battle field, right were two fronts were head and head, making sure no one was near their own home turf. No one was allowed into the meeting but those who were participating. After 38 hours, a standard full day for that planet, they came upon an agreement that both sides could work together on. It was ruled that a large wall, technological for shape and organic for durability, would separate and isolate the two races to their respective sides of the world.
It took only over 1000 years to construct the wall. Many people died from the extreme labor. Uncountable scientists and engineers and biochemists wracked their brains for almost impossible solutions to keep the wall perfectly straight, yet go through any obstacle. They hand to demolish whole entire mountains, fill in ocean trenches in specific spots, find exactly where to poor a specific chemical to get a special vine to grow along side the wall, calculate how often repairs would be needed even with the organic self reconstruction.
When they finished, almost everybody was happy. Despite prejudice, the scientists grew a longing to understand one another's technology, to possibly study how this and that works, to see compatibility within their own technologies and their foes. But, it was futile after the wall was up. The wall itself was eleven stories high, and almost as wide across. It contained both sides perfectly.
Sentries on the technology side dutifully guarded their stations. Sentinels in the jungle lived day to day, hunting down any who dare to enter their territory. Several millennia passed, the city grew larger and more advanced, and the jungle was nearly overflowing with plant life. The scene was incredible, savage jungle bordering city jungle. The only communication between the two sides was through scientists, and very limited at that. There was just enough technology going between them to survive illnesses and to change and control weather in order to not leave the planet a dying wreck.
Both sides were so focused on each that they failed to realize impending doom just outside their solar system. A single pod crashed landed onto their planet. Ironically, it crashed straight into the middle of the wall. That was the start of the one day of apocalypse, and the several thousand years of hell afterwards. A being stepped out of the pod. Ancient scriptures depict the character as a humanoid looking creature, with unholy strength, and the eyes of a demon. They called it, the Angel of Death. The carnage that ensued afterwards would be remembered for all times. The satanic creatures' laughs could be heard far and wide as it rained death wherever it went. The planet seemed alive with the screams of the dead. The holocaust this one being produced seemed like an eternity. It was only an hour before the monstrosity left, leaving the planet in desolation.
Forest and city alike burned as one. There were few jungle survivors, and even fewer from the city. Those who had enough time to put up any measly resistance didn't have enough of themselves left for a burial. The few that went into hiding fast enough would be the ones to save their planet. A meeting was held between the two sides. Everybody that was left was to go to the creatures landing spot. It took almost 20 days to find the survivors and to gather them together. Only a million people survived out of almost 5 billion. The two sides' hatred for one another was almost diminished since it was mostly scientists and young civilians who survived, but after what that creature did, it didn't matter who they use to hate. They were forced to forget their differences and start a new life. And so, the restoration of two devastated races was about to begin. The meeting itself lasted several days, until they came upon the most unexpected of agreements. The wall of the planet came down, and so there will no long be one side against another. They will all live as one race.
It was extremely slow and laborious work. Not only did they have to build minor cities that had to be able to harbor both species, but they also had to teach their future children not to hate, in order for a more peaceful life. Some were reluctant at first, but they quickly changed their minds, seeing as they were in no position to defy the community. It took many, many more years for the population to grow. At about the time their civilization regained integrity, the Earth was learning for the first time how burned animal flesh taste. Their scientists worked together in perfect freedom and harmony for the first time. They re-developed space travel by improving on the old models. They started to settle on outlying planets that could harbor life, since their population was increasing dramatically.
Suddenly a break-through in the fields of space technology, bioengineering, and chrono technology shook the world. It took a while to get permission from the governing body to use a "willing," subject, but the government gave in. The scientists did the most horrible of experiments on the subject, pure and absolute torture in the name of science. It took almost 14 years to get the technology complete, safe, and pain free. An ultimate device in space travel that humans would never be able to create on their own: space fold.
The normal interplanetary vehicles made jumps into hyperspace for a very short time, then jumped out for course redirections. Now, this new technology can make either one person or entire armadas go unspeakable distances across the universe. As to what happened to their subject in the end, or how the technology actually works, was kept classified. The normal person used this new devise to go to beautiful planetary resorts or to meet a relative who decided to move to a different planet. The government, on the other hand, had much bigger plans. These plans involved the recreation of weapons and an army.
A thought rang through all the plans. What if we encounter the Angel again? So, all eyes turned to the precious and extremely intelligent scientists. To the surprise of all, the scientists were already ahead of them in the plan of creating the ultimate weapon. While in the process of developing space fold technology they had developed the ultimate bio-soldier. Using the technology from the previous technology jump they put it to use on their new lab rats. The first bio-soldier, from the kluvecx species, was called T'kalo which meant "unfortunate one", since he couldn't remember his own name. He was in for a surprise when he awoke.
He had all the same powers as the angel! In fact, the scientists based their ideas off of a theory called ki. Not only had he awakened the power he held within himself but that power was increased ten fold. An added bonus was that he could increase his power rapidly with extreme training. Unfortunately, the process that the patient underwent left them with permanent amnesia. The conversations in a specific counsel meeting went as so…:
"well…the crime and arrest rate has been increasing lately, and soon our containment areas will be overfilled."
"true, true, and most people are against executions, me include.,"
"then it's decided, any person who is arrested for crimes of imperial offense, will be elisted into the army and trained as soldiers. Make the criminals useful for once."
And soon, it began. It turned out to be more of a success than expected. Crime rate decreased almost 60% within the next five years. Plus by then, they had more than enough people for an army big enough to defend against attackers such of the likes of The Angel. A little before the unveiling of their newest weapon, however, explorers came across a new race of sentient beings. Their technology was poor, compared to theirs. What they could gain from them, though, was not only expansion of their empire, but these new creatures had connections with other aliens as well. They discovered from their encounter with the aliens, that they were highly apt at negotiations. Their explorer party integrated this new planet and others nearby into their own empire. And the power struggle was on. The only other person in the system who had power was King Cold, and his son Frieza.
The rat-race for the control of the galaxy was hard. Whenever the Xian Empire integrated another planet and its race into it empire it had to make sure that it wasn't blow up by the Cold family. It didn't look as though situations would improve. Then, something peculiar happened. On a backwater planet, although very beautiful, the King as his son were both annihilated, by one man. This didn't scare the high powers though. They took this in as an opportunity. Strong allies meant less trouble from outside forces. Their actions were canceled for a short time, however, because of a small financial crisis in which they didn't have enough currency to back up any projects.
Acting quickly to get rid of the problem, they look out to some planets once desolated by Frieza, and sold them off to some wealthy civilizations, planning to gain them into the empire after they were finished. Setting the plan into action, they sent out a negotiator first, consisting of a diplomatic convoy and two gunships. As they expected, they were destroyed. Then they sent out their first wave of attackers, consisting of only of cruisers, battleships, gunships, and carriers, hoping that they would at least show to the earthlings that they meant business. After months of waiting in the dark, their questions were answered when a single lifeboat ship, with two survivors, both on heavy life support, returned.
One of the men would survive, but had such an extreme case of shell-shock that he became mentally challenged and retarded. All they could get out of the other one, before he died of blood loss, was "HE said… t-thank you for-r the of-ffer, but…but no thank you," A meeting was held, all the high powers within the empire, including the strongest of crime lords. They would all pitch in to bring down this one planet. It would be utter humiliation and disgrace if the whole galaxy could not bring down one planet….
A/N: I know, I really should be working on my other stories, plus this one I am really not too proud of, but I really need to stay in touch with FF.net. I have been out of the loop for so long that I did not even notice the changes going on. Well, hopefully this will satisfy a few people while I catch up on my Sonic story.