Author's Note: The series' "Silent Enim Leges Inter Arma" and "The Empire Strikes First" will be a series of non-consecutive chapters which will form the climax of and wrap up the events of the infighting between human factions prior to getting deeper into the aliens story arcs along with some major reveals which will be quite different from what the show presented. The story will jump between the two arcs as well as being punctuated by chapters showing events off world and human vs alien battles that take place within the same time frame. Some of these chapters will be quite short while the more action oriented ones will be rather long, I'm trying to break it up based on core events instead of lumping it all into one gigantic chapter. Personally when I'm reading other stories I like it where I can down a chapter in a single sitting and kind of use that as a way to mark my place and kind of have that in mind when writing. Yeah I know there are a few chapters in here that are real beasts upwards of 50-100 pages each, but going forward I'll try to break things down into more digestible chunks, unless of course I hit a chapter cap and then I'll have to go back and combine chapters until they all are enormous monsters so that I can get to a decent end point. This method will also allow me to keep some semblance of regular updates going as my motivation for writing in general now is lagging to an all time low and what little creative energy I have is being spread out among other projects at the moment. (could always use a good kick in the ass if you want to see more directed to one particular story or the other. Hopefully I'll pull out of this slump over the summer and can start pounding out more material in the fall.) That being said I couldn't do that for the prologue since I wanted to give the reader an option to quickly skip the fluff and go straight to the action. Just so everyone knows I haven't given up on this, the updates might just get a little slow in the months ahead. Please bear with me and thank you to all of you who have stuck around through this nifty little learning experience here. Cheers!
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Chapter CVI: The Empire Strikes First - Part 1
1 Nov 0600 KST
Gangnam District, Seoul, South Korea
Kwang-su paced back and forth in rage in front of his lieutenants in the east lobby of their underground headqaurters. A few hours of rest had done nothing to damped his rage. Ever since the alien motherships pulled out of orbit they had been making steady progress. The aliens had been pushed back and no human they encountered dare question their claim to head up the resistance. Then they dared to cross a line.
"We made one push north of the river and they bomb us down to such a level we are succeptible to this shit!" Kwang-su shouted in frustration.
His lieutenants held their peice as he fumed. They knew better than to try and calm him down now lest they incur his insufferable wrath. He simply had to get it out on his own.
"None of these people would ever have opposed us before! They would have joined, ran or died, but what the fuck people!" Kwang-su shouted as he knocked over a stack of boxes with his fist.
He kicked over a drum of diesel fuel, a very valuable resource to them and threw several uncut lengths of PVC pipe across the room. His men stood there and let the fuel drain out.
"Pick that shit up!" he demanded. Two of his men hurried over to salvage the fuel inside the drum.
"From now on we stick to the south of Seoul! Alright?" Kwang-su turned and adamantly charged his men.
"Yes sir." said Sung-hoon.
"Whatever you say boss man." Sang-hoon concurred.
"Sang-hoon! Get a posse together and go find those fucks! Hunt them down and kill every last motherfucking one of those those god damned motherfuckers!" Kwang-su furiously commanded his lieutenant.
It was more important to him to attain and maintain control over the human population of the parts of Seoul which he already claimed dominion over than it was to take the fight to the aliens. They would never gain ground on the aliens if they had to deal with dissention within their ranks and so long as there was a percieved milder alternative to his rule there would be dissention among the weak minded in their company.
Sang-hoon nodded, grabbed Chang Beom-seok and his squad and quietly but sternly went to the parking garage to grab a few vehicles and bring some more fighters in on the task. From there Sang-hoon would head to a factory complex where the Empire kept additional heavy vehicles to pick up a pair of APCs prior to starting a sweep of the area, starting with Gangnam District and working their way out from there to locate the 4th Korea's hideout and exterminate the lot of them. Meanwhile Kwang-su waited for one of his most savvy warriors to bring him back the heads of the men and women who defied him.
