CHAPTER 9

FINA'S STORY

When I was eighteen years old, I was not the only Silvite. There were over a hundred of us all together, ranging from eight to eight hundred. I will explain about that later. When I was eighteen, I did not live on this world. I lived on a distant planet known as Arcadia.

This planet held a human civilisation very much like the one on Earth.
Arcadia is a strange world. Well, strange compared to Earth.

There was no oceans to be spoken of. Arcadia you see is a Gas giant, but has Islands, that float in it's upper atmosphere, some large enough to live on. Ranging from small rocky masses, to hunks of land the size of Earths Russia. The people get from island to island via a sort of flying boat.

You see, when I was there. The world was in what would be conceived as the 16th century, with ships that are powered with the combination of sail and Moonstone, the fuel source of the planet, with the exception of one civilisation, known as Valua, who were far more advance then the rest of the world, and flew in ships that would look more modern to your eyes.

Before this world though, there had been another. Six civilisations, each bathed in the light of one of the planets six moons, each more technology advanced then anything the Empire, the Procyon's or Earth has ever seen.

Each was named after the colour of the moon above it:

The Red Civilisation, the Green Civilisation, the Blue Civilisation, the Purple Civilisation, the Yellow Civilisation and the Silver Civilisation. There were constant rumours that there was a seventh Black Civilisation, but they were never found.

Now, because of the immense gravity of Arcadia, Moonstones would rain down on the planet. Each moonstone had different properties.

The Red Moonstones had the power of Fire and Strength. The Green Moonstone, the power of Poison and Healing. The Blue Moonstone, the power of Wind and Dexterity. The Purple Moonstone, the power of Ice and Quietness. The Yellow Moonstone, the power of Electricity and Power. And the Silver Moonstone had the power of Life and Death,

For centuries the great civilisations lived in peace, but hen something happened.

No one cane remembered what had happened, but for some reason or another, the civilisations went to war, and created the Gigas.

The Gigas. A living weapon of mass destruction. The weakest could walk through molten Lava like water. The strongest could smash a continent the size of America to pieces. Each civilisation had there own Gigas.

Recumen, the Red Gigas.

Grendal, the Green Gigas.

Bluheim, the Blue Gigas.

Plergoth, the Purple Gigas.

And Yeligar, the Yellow Gigas.

Each was controlled by powerful distilled Moonstone, called a Moon crystal.

These Crystals acted very similar to the Moonstones, only they were thousands…no, tens of thousands more powerful. For example, the Green Moonstone could heal cuts and bruises, but the Green Moon Crystal had the power to re-grow Commander Dearing's…erm, missing parts.

Each more powerful then the last, these Gigas terrorised these five Civilisations, while the Silver Civilisation watched on.

Finally, my people could take it no longer. They created there own Gigas, Zelos. The most powerful of all Gigas.

By collecting up each of the six crystals, the Silvite Elders used Zelos to bring down what history records as the Rains of Destruction. Moonstones the size of houses rained down on the world, while the Elders and a handful of Silvites escaped the carnage by propelling themselves into orbit, where they remained.

After the rains fell, the crystals were scattered to their respective continents and hidden, while Zelos was locked away on the Silver continent of Soltis and buried into Deep Sky.

It was my mission, three hundred years later, to retrieve the Crystals, for the Civilisation under the Yellow Moon, now known as the Valuan Empire, was planning to gather them up and use the Gigas for their own evil purposes.

No sooner had I reached the planet, I was captured by the Valuans, yet I was saved, by a boy named Vyse, and his friend, Aika. They were Air pirates and they saved me.

After that, with their help I managed to recover the Crystals, only from them to be taken from me by my evil brother Ramirez, and his Valuan deserter commander, Galcian.

With the six crystals they revived Zelos and were posed to take over Arcadia.

It was then I was told of the true purpose of my mission, not to make sure the crystals did not fall into Valua's hands, but to call down the Rains once more.

In the end, we saved Arcadia, but at a terrible price. The remainder of the Silver Civilisation was wiped out, leaving me alone. The Silver Crystal gave me the gift of immortality and eternal youth. Vyse and Aika grew old and died, as did the friends I had made along the way, until I was left alone, on an island near Valua, Vyse's base of operations. Crescent Isle.

Being alone allowed me to think. I realised the Silver Crystal granted me other abilities as well. It allowed me to access the great Silvite Visual Library.

I cried for days after I discovered a way of giving my immortality to Vyse and Aika. By dividing the Crystal in me, I could have saved my friends, but they had been dead for fifty years, the Crystal could not help them.

Another thing of interest was the Gateway Stations.

During the time of the Old World, that's what the Arcadians called the time of the great civilisations, the Silver Civilisation was the most advanced of all of the Civilisations. It had been the only one to explore the stars, in ships that could go faster than light. But we found a way to travel even faster, instantaneous even.

The Gateway Stations.

In total, the Silver Civilisation built around twenty of these Planet sized stations. Five were prototypes, ones which could only gate to two or three other places. Your Planet Saturn is one of them, designed so we could observe another culture, yours, evolve. Another fifteen could only access planets in this galaxy, like Treasure Planet and this one. The final five were experimental, the Silver Civilisations attempt to breech the boundaries of the galaxy and into others. Unfortunately these ultimately failed, leaving them abandoned and stripped of any technology in the farthest reaches of the Galaxy.

I discovered that the Elders had pulled everyone back to the Silver Shrine after we had escaped the Rains, so we could observe Arcadia and watch it grow again.

I found that by combining the power of the six crystals, in the Map Room of Soltis, I would have access to the keys of these stations.

I had been on that Island a while, so to pass the time, I would fix clean and sometimes even enhance the Delphinus, Vyse's ship when he was alive.

Although she was now well over seventy years old, I kept her in good shape. I would keep her spotless, change whatever components I could, and even enhance her engines and equipment, to make her faster and more powerful.

It was time, I decided, to finally leave Arcadia and Crescent Isle once and for all.

The six moon crystals were at the bottom of Deep Sky, at the top of the tower of Soltis. I had to take the Delphinus down and retrieve them.

Well, to cut a long story short, I found the Crystals and brought them to the Map Room.

When I activated them, I was surprised to find that most of the keys were missing.

The Keys you see, are small puzzles, like the Map Commander Dearing found. Most had been on the Silver Shrine, which had been destroyed when the Silvite Elders and the remainder of the Silvites had sacrificed themselves to allow me and my friends to enter Soltis and kill Galcian and Ramirez. Several were unstable, seeing that they had been the keys to the experimental stations. The Prototypes weren't the nicest planets. They were mostly Gas and metal wiring, Which is why your people never discovered it's true purpose. Of the fifteen Stations that were the Silvites pride and Joy, Seven hadn't been destroyed by nearby explosions or black holes. Three of these looked like Treasure Planet, Mostly barren or full of fungi-looking plants or something worse. The Station you call Treasure Planet was at the time controlled By Captain Nathaniel Flint, and later destroyed by you. Out of the three remaining Stations, this one seemed to be the most preserved, and had a large hanger for the Delphinus, as well as grassy fields and plenty of places to grow food.

There was a small housing building with everything I would need, which is the place you stand in now. And so, I activated the gate, brought the Delphinus through and never looked back.

I have been on this planet for over a hundred years, growing my own food, finding how what technology, such as the replicators, could help me. During the day I would farm, clean, and sometime upgrade the Delphinus. During the night, in my dreams I would explore the Silvite Visual Library.

It was then, fifty years after I left Arcadia, that I discovered the Prophecy Document.

This was a detailed text, telling of the Black Civilisation, and it's own Gigas, Aidacra.

It told of how a Silvite Priest had discovered the civilisation during the war, and how they too had watched the other five civilisations clash with their Gigas, and had created their own. A Gigas so powerful it had the power to turn a sun Supernova.

You see, the Black Moonstone reverses positive energy to negative and vice versa. The Black Moon Crystal, however was not like other Crystals. While the other Crystals had the power of Tens of thousands of Moonstones, the Black Crystal had no power at all. For it to work, it had to be placed in the centre of the Gigas, and fuelled by a substance called Corerillium, the only known fuel not effected by the Black Moonstone.

The Prophecy Document told of how the Silvites discovered that the Black Civilisations planned to totally destroy Arcadia and her Solar system, by causing her sun to go Supernova, while fleeing themselves.

The Silvites though, sabotaged their Corerillium supply after they had left, before sending Aidacra into deep space.

The Prophecy Document then went onto a prediction. It predicted that the Procyon Armada would find Aidacra and figure out how to work it, and use it to take over the Galaxy, first the Terran Empire, then the rest of it.

The Prophecy told of a Silvite not born of Silvites, A Silvite that would be out of place when he was found, that would destroy the Black Gigas, and the Procyon Armada, by sacrificing his home planet, Earth, by using a power of equal force to make the sun go Supernova before it's time.

Being Silvite, I could actually see into the future, and ability I did not know about until the library was opened up to me.

I could not see what would happen to the Black Gigas, but I could see far enough to see a young man, escaping his deranged mother in a small ship, eventually becoming First Officer of a ship. That person was Daniel Kennedy Dearing.

I decided to observe this boy for a while to be sure.

Using Silvite mind trick, I could hide myself from everyone, except Daniel, making him believe me to be his Imaginary friend.

I watched him for years, even after he had grown up, I watched the Prophecy unfold, until today came and I could finally play my part in it.

It was I who opened the Gateway, saving you from certain death, and presenting you with the weapon that will give you the power to destroy Aidacra, the Procyon Armada, and save the very Galaxy itself.