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Twilight
of the Apocalypse |
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Prologue |
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Caught in
the midst of an interstellar war, the human race must put aside their |
differences
and unite to survive this chaotic period of time in the early years of |
the 21st
century. Humanity has prospered for many decades, and people live |
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luxurious
lives, carefree and have nothing to fear. Until the Apocalypse. Nothing |
can save us
now, unless we band together and fight this unknown menace. The |
thousand-year-old
question of whether extraterrestrial life exists in the universe |
has now
been answered. |
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When an
Earth satellite detects a massive, foreign object hurtling through space |
towards the
planet, everyone is left wondering what is really is, and can be. But |
minutes
later, a robot probe is sent up to investigate. People all over the world |
watch in
horror as hundreds more of such objects enter the atmosphere. But they |
did not
break up into smaller pieces as expected. Then, other satellites up in orbit |
begin to
cease functioning, and the first of the objects crash on a remote island in |
the Tasman
Sea. |
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Planet:
Unknown, The Milky Way Galaxy, Year: 10,000 B.C. |
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A lone
Tol'Adjun warrior looked through the porthole of his ship and stared with |
envious
eyes at the bleak, desolate planet looming closer and closer. |
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Here was a
planet rich in mineral resources and all the Tol'Adjun race could |
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ever have
dreamed of. Misuse of their former homeworld had caused pollution |
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and
widespread extermination of their planet's lesser species. Their homeworld |
had
eventually been destroyed by a devastating war that annihilated most of the |
inhabitants
on it. Only a few managed to survive and escape in large transports. |
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All around
him, the warrior saw the ships of the vast fleet his race had built for |
the
hundreds of years they remained as refugees in space. For centuries they |
searched,
and continued searching. |
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Finally,
they detected a planet, one that might be suitable for their race to occupy. |
But,
never had they once thought that the planet might be inhabited. Until their |
ships
landed and their forces scoured the vast, empty and barren landscape of |
the planet
had the inhabitants appeared. They emerged from large caverns that |
remained
concealed since their ships had landed. |
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They
swarmed the invaders and a war broke out. Thousands more of the Tol'Adjun |
race died
that day. But their race had fought hard. Within a century, their armies |
had
conquered the planet and enslaved the species who once occupied it. |
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The ship
landed on the surface and the warrior stepped out. This would be his home, |
the new
homeworld of the Tol'Adjun race. |
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As he
watched the ship ascend and leave the planet to ferry more of his people
here, |
he heard
footsteps on the rough metal ground they had constructed. |
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Turning
around, he came face-to-face with a member of the enslaved species. |
How vicious
it looked. Tentacles waved in the air and its oval-shaped head |
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thrashed
about wildly. Another warrior held the creature by its neck and dragged |
it into a
cage. The workers around it pushed the cage into a transport ship, |
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which took
off after its cargo had been loaded. |
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The
Tol'Adjun warrior looked up. Dozens more of such transports were leaving |
the planet
at the same time. Their new homeworld was quickly being populated. |
The slaves
were of no use here, and the Tol'Adjun were sending them to exile |
on a
distant planet at the edge of the galaxy. Soon, he thought, the Tol'Adjun |
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would be
strong and powerful enough to colonize and take over the other nearby |
planets in
this vast, resourceful galaxy. |
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