hey people ^^ i figured id give an early release its important that you read this. Chapter 19 will be out an hour from now because i have been to busy at work and have not bothered to put it on my work laptop so i will have to head home and upload it from my rig but i wont let that deter me from posting this. also ch20 will be out tommorow :( i know i know i promised 3 consecutive releases. but i *cough * accidently deleted the chapter and im waiting for my pr to send me another copy. [th_107_.gif] is bassically how i felt ;/

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In 2136, after Hope had landed, Terraforming was almost immediate and things were going successfully. They used a process known as ‘Bubble’, which would require several people in astronaut-like suits to venture around with a mechanical tank known as ‘Growth’. Growth was designed to create a large Dome of energy that would mimic earth's atmosphere, act as an insulator, and deflect all harmful rays and radiation.

Growth also had a second use. It could be filled with a chemical that was infused with synthetic particles and Microscopic nanobots after the Dome was created and it be used to infuse the special particles and nanobots into the soil of mars.

The nanobots, which contained a chemical known as I-20, would use the particles as an energy source for a chemical reaction with I-20 that would allow a near-instant or accelerated growth of fertile land that could be used for farming.

After continually repeating the process for five years, mars started to look as if it had been cured of its desolate past. Civilisation began to spring up near Hope, which had landed prior to the Terraforming. By 2148, Earth received the first of its shipment of supplies. However, Earth itself had not remained idle. The people were trying to help in any way possible. The supplies were indeed needed, though.

In 2159, technology had advanced even further, allowing light speed travel, and by 2464, the human race had gone galactic. Hundreds if not thousands of planets were being colonized. Brink had formed into the main technology dealer of the newly formed EUF (Earth United Forces) which lasted for centuries to come.

Of course, not everything transpired perfectly. With newly inhabited worlds under the EUF’s control, people on distant planets demanded autonomy and wars were fought on a planetary scale. With war came crime and looters and with that came criminal organisations.

Even as newly terraformed planets were made, new species of creatures were found in some environments. They were not dubbed as aliens, as they were not as sentient as humans, but life in itself other then humanity was the latest thing for at least a decade.

Unfortunately, with the spread of humanity, narcotics and illegal contraband sprung forth like never before and it became nearly impossible to deal with it in trade routes. Had it not been for the heavy EUF presence and their warships designed by Brink, there would have been chaos. Brink was profiting quite well.

In fact, after a few supply runs to earth, they had even paid off the Australian government, which was no more. Earth had formed into one single hierarchy who also lead the EUF with an appointed Overseer and under him were the judges. Judges could overthrow the overseer if they unanimously voted to do so.

Under these judges were the generals and commanders of the EUF's forces. These individuals were not plentiful. Only a handful was ever around at any given time in the EUF's centuries long history. In the year 2999, a certain individual had just graduated from one of the EUF's academies (which numbered in the thousands now, due to humanity being so widespread).

Avrin Sygin became an exceptional soldier. In his first battle on Iosa-II, he infiltrated a crime den and, from the inside, ended every single one of those 234 lives using their own life support against them as their hideout was on a non-terraformable volcanic planet.

He had made it so the life support system, instead of removing the carbon dioxide and putting it outside, had would bring the extremely toxic gas inside. Without so much as a drop of blood being shed, he had gained the rank of Lieutenant.

Avrin went on to do extreme feats, from obliterating crime organisations to saving platoons of captured EUF soldiers. In 3007 he was promoted to a commander of the EUF. Unfortunately for him, it was also the year the Ziox virus mysteriously appeared from one of Brink's under-the-radar facilities that was experimenting with recoding human DNA in search of giving people superhuman abilities without the need for cybernetic implants. They wanted to be gods and the EUF didn’t even know.

That being said, the Ziox virus went on to take the lives of billions. If you thought the black plague was bad, it was a sneeze compared to the Ziox virus. This was due to humanity being so widespread and constantly on the move. One person would infect someone on one planet while setting off a chain reaction. Before the symptoms kicked, people would move to other planets for trading or visiting and the process would be repeated.

The EUF had to cordon off sectors and enforce them heavily. Refugees were either destroyed in their small ships if they did not listen or contained on single planets used as sick bays.

In 3010, the worst ever case of Ziox virus occurred on Votera Prime with 99.9% of the population infected and cordoned off. Of course, people began protests and things became violent. The one looking after the cordoned sector was none other than Avrin.

He knew the kill rate of the Ziox virus was perfect, with some cases being cured with no treatment. You either had the luck to win a lottery a year straight or you didn’t – that was the chance of being randomly cured.

Avrin figured that these people were as good as dead and what made matters worse, due to the entire population being infected, he could not risk soldiers down there to police it all. It was a bad situation, as the people of Votera Prime were starting to flee to the planet's ships. The planet itself was earth-like to begin with, very popular, rich in resources, and had quite a reputation.

Avrin, instead of taking the chance of seeing these people flee, decided to end it and save them the misery. He used a super weapon equipped only to flag ships that EUF commanders possessed. Its nickname was ‘the Meteor’. It was an Ionic Burst Covered in layers of assorted unstable particles with a dark matter core.

Avrin used it on Votera Prime and the giant mass of energy plunged into the capital of the planet – Marleth, a sort of resort city near the ocean. The burst exploded sending a shockwave of flame and lightning across the surface of Votera and destroying everything it engulfed in a near instant. No one was safe unless they were deep, deep underground as the radiation sunk beneath the planet’s surface as well.

Arvin’s own crew turned against him an hour after he had destroyed everything on the planet and set off a chain reaction. Unfortunately for him, the moment he pulled the trigger the cure had been discovered.

Avrin had gone from zero to hero and now he was less than zero. Killer of millions, overthrown by his crew, locked away, sentenced to death. Unluckily for him, he had no son or family to pass on his name. He was the last of his bloodline. He was thankful though that he would leave no one behind to be persecuted for his own actions.

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Avrin opened his eyes slowly after his somewhat rest. It had felt like a dream within a dream as he remembered taking those lives and how his own crew turned on him for his actions.

"It seems it will haunt me for a while – if not for the rest of my life. I’ll have to find a way to stop it. I’d rather not think about those shitty memories again." He frowned to himself and stretched, even though he felt weird doing so. It was all in his mind, after all. But he felt extremely refreshed, as if he had been healed and was now even stronger than before.

“I need to find a way out of here.” He looked around, trying to remember that vine-like magic that had engulfed him. Sitting in the open void, his legs crossed, he let his body float randomly. He didn’t know what was up or down –there was no gravity.

Avrin blinked as a crack appeared in the open void that leaked a white light. He was not so dumb as to not approach. It seemed to be healing, but every now and then, it would crack again and turn a bit larger.

"Bingo...."

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