[b]Lakfakalle, Kalle System[/b]
Admiral Spoor looked out into the cold, black space. It no longer had any planets to decorate it, just the far away stars that the Children of Lakfakalle once roamed freely. New starships floated inside the construction docks at the station, tiny worker bee craft assembling their hulls. Warships jumped in and out of orbit, bringing in recovered Ceramus wreckage from Nikolien to be melted down and used for new warships. Freighters streamed in, carrying newly collected sublight fuel from the remains of Hyphelia.

"Admiral, the remains of Hyphelia are thinning." Said her second in command, Keloush. "Our fleet will be deprived of sublight propellant by mid 32 Post-Starfire unless we find a new fuel source. Our negative energy supplies are fully depleted, as the production facilities were configured to operate using gases from Hyphelia. Once our ships are out of negative energy, FTL travel and communications will be impossible."

The Abh continent came into view, city lights shining brightly through the smog. Spoor frowned at the sight, though thirty years was nothing for a child of Lakfakalle, it seemed to be like a century for the rest of nature. When the [i]Starfire[/i] left, the continent was a shining jewel. Now it was an industrial hell. Smokestacks rose out of very city, fueling the rapid development of space. Even after the supernova, they kept on launching columns of smoke into the air for the sake of building unneeded products, knowing no other way to live. Pure development had distracted them from technological progress, trapping them in their primitive purgatory.

"Keloush, I'm giving you command of the new ship."

"New ship, Admiral?"

"The Yamadai Star Battleship. My own design." She flashed an Abh death stare, confirming that "Star Battleship" was no misnomer. "Ten antiproton streamers capable of firing antimatter shells, four banks of argon plasma interception turrets, a fighter wing capable of taking down a fully-crewed Freidsmekalre-Class Carrier alone, and a new kind of Antiproton weapon taken from that ancient warship at the halfway between Kalle and Nikolien."

"Why me? You explicitly called me 'boring' at our last battle!"

"Boring as you may be, you're a good commander. I've assembled the best crew out of all our personnel. Mostly Abh and common humans. One Loroi managed to get in, apparently she's a good pilot. You'll do good work."