Voice: Ashley Burch (Aloy, Horizon: Zero Dawn)
Height: 176 cm
Weight: 74 kg

Some months after having Kaisoken dust injected into his bloodstream, Reisus discovered maroon crystals beginning to sprout from his back. Apparently something in his body didn't accept the energy quite the same as others. As a result, his clothes are tailored to compensate for this fact. Additionally, when Reisus uses his magic, these crystals will begin to glow dimly.
It should go without say that these crystals do draw some attention, and at times are uncomfortable.

Hair- Medium Brown
Eyes- Dark Brown
Skin Tone- Average
Body- Well-Toned
Height- Six foot

Because of the crystalline structures on his back, Reisus has a hard time fitting into most un-tailored clothes or armor. This protective device was engineered to remedy that. It is infused with a special material that allows magically-infused entities to move through it with ease. As such, he can wear it comfortably and the crystals jut through the back of it, like usual.
Note: This material provides no protection against magic, but it is very durable, lightweight, and tough on a physical scale.

This suit has a spot designed to hold his Omni-tool and protect it from outside forces while keeping it accessible. Additionally, there are small compartments spread throughout the armor.

One of the main features of this device is the rocket thrusters scattered throughout its design. Two especially powerful ones on each arm allow for impressive maneuverability when combined with Reisus' magic.

To balance this a little more, Reisus can create the first portal of the pair anywhere within his line of sight, but the second portal must be outside of a five foot radius of an hostile/opposing presence, or anyone he plans to harm.

The origin of the 1st Fleet could be traced back to the time of the intergalactic civil war, along with 4 other main battle fleet, forming the backbone of the Commonwealth’s army at the time. The head of the fleet at the time was an Commonwealth fanatic and a romanticist, who desired to realize the idea of an ideologically led group of elite soldiers, fighting loyally to the Commonwealth without question. As a result, the army takes in a lot of young, enthusiastic, easily manipulated but very inexperienced recruits. It was very easy to tell the soldiers what to do, but it wouldn’t be guaranteed if they could be done correctly or efficiently. And that was exactly what happened. Once deployed on the battlefield, their loyalty and fearlessness were never in doubts, but sometimes they were almost too eager. They were frowned upon by officers as reckless, not well-trained, and often took higher casualty than the other fleets. One example was a group of several naval cruisers digging too deep into the enemy lines resulting in them being surrounded and had to be rescued. While at the beginning of the war it may not sound too much of an issue, but overtime, the casualties began to mount, and the 1st Fleet became more incapable of operations comparing to the others. Nevertheless, the war ended with an Commonwealth’s victory and annexation of the vast territories on the five huge galactic system.

After the war, while the four major fleets remained in the light of the army, the 1st Fleet was demoted as a Home Guard, due to their reduced size and unreliability in the war. Technically still a part of the army, but the fleet’s task is now to patrol the area around their home territory, which persists for a few decades before being placed back on the front. During the time, officers among the Commonwealth tend to look down on the 1st Fleet as amateurs, much to the dismay of the chief commander of the fleet itself.

During the start of the Commonwealth’s period of expansionism, the 1st Fleet reemerged as an active combat unit, but their operations remained limited. Most of the units were still guarding the home flanks, and was not very up to their duties, growing soft from the mundane routine task. That is until a certain arrival of post from Alexander Kherol, one of the rising stars in the Commonwealth. Noticing the quick ascension in power of a certain young man that barely reached the age of 30 in the Commonwealth’s Officer Corp, he immediately placed the man in charge of the Commonwealth’s 1st Fleet the moment he reached the rank of Vice Admiral, for two particular reasons. The first is that he saw the potential and the pureness of the newer more recent generations of officers in the Commonwealth’s military. And the second reason is to keep the man himself, Alexander Kherol, under his direct command, keeping him close in check for any signs of disloyalty.

Under the command of Alexander, the army went from being a group of amateurish new recruits into one of the best military soldiers the galaxy has ever seen. Once taken command of the soldiers, Alexander, knowing the traits of these men as naive, easily indoctrinated, young but eager, immediately reorganized the army’s structure, policy and command entirely and sent the men back into military school. This time, however, they’d be trained under private training courses, designed and integrated by a few veteran instructors, supervised by Alexander himself. The recruits were initially shocked with the intensity of the new training course. It was hard, brutal and close to being inhumane. Initially, there were soldiers who wanted a way out, which of course you can, but the foundation of being the Commonwealth’s loyal troops had already been there for decades, so brutality was not entirely an issue to be called upon. By the time of the Rau’ve-Commonwealth War, the 1st Fleet was entirely ready for combat.

One of their moments of triumph is the Conundra Campaign, initiated by Alexander himself. Personally, Alexander requested that the 1st Fleet would be at the front of the assault, leading the charge against the enemy. And they did so with distinction, as they tore through enemy lines ferociously, and with almost laughable ease. It was the first time ever in decades that the Commonwealth’s military actually looked upon the army in a good light. As the Commonwealth began to entrench themselves and lose the favor in the war, the 1st Fleet’s reputation continued to grow, with many combat victories and display of bravery. During the Rau’ve’s first counter-offensive, known as Operation Zetadele, the 1st Fleet distinguished themselves once again, as they held their grounds at the left flanks of the Commonwealth’s invasion army for weeks following the operation, not losing a single piece of land to the Rau’ve, and in some units not a single man was lost. And during the second counter-offensive, they also held their grounds well, until the total retreat order was given.

The two exploits in the two Rau’ve’s offensive operations reversed the reputation of the soldiers from their counterparts. The Commonwealth, still trying to recover from the lost of the Rau’ve attacks, decided to hide the truth of the battle outcome and instead decided to focus on propagating the exploits of the 1st Fleet. That was how the title ‘Royal Guard’ was born, from the combat triumphs in the defense of the Commonwealth’s entire army, and poetically their homeland as well. They were looked upon as heroes, and, as the dreams of the former commander once wished, the 1st Fleet was ascended to become an elite combat unit. They were distinguishable by the insignia that looks like two letter Js that stands with its back against each other symmetrically, placed on either the side of the helmet or on the collar of the uniform. This was made specifically under the orders of the Commonwealth as propaganda. Recruitment now switched to volunteering, yet thousands of soldiers flocked to join the Royal Guards. Royal Guard soldiers were more well-equipped with more advanced weaponries and vehicles, but noticably not exhibiting much magical power, though there would still be a few genetically enhanced super soldiers here and there.

As the war reached its conclusion, the Royal Guards fought valiantly against the Rau’ve forces, showing little signs of disloyalty despite the threat of looming defeat. The Battle of Proxima, the Commonwealth’s 1st Fleet was partially placed at the right flanks, guarding a Rau’ve’s attack, but the majority was either manning or guarding the carrier’s reserves, thus many of whom lived through the fight. After the battle, the Guards continued to fend off subsequent Rau’ve’s attack, helping the army to protect the Commonwealth from being annexed. Captured Guards were placed under trials, yet was not conclusive in terms of atrocities, as the Guards often fought alongside regular soldiers, and it is not easy to distinguish them between each other, especially for those who had never seen the battlefield even once. The total number of soldiers currently serving under the Royal Guards now number in the hundreds of thousands.

Projectile Semi-Automatic Rifles, Assault Rifles and Pistols: What may seem like a downgrade from the powerful standard laser or energy weapons, these projectile weapons are surprisingly deadlier than one may imagine. The weapon fires traditional high-velocity and armor-piercing rounds that can tear apart energy shields with ease, and in some case punch through armors that normal energy weapons cannot. The drawback is that the ammunition has to be manually inserted, in the traditional way not through recharge. Some variants have suppressor or/and bayonet attachment.

Projectile Machine Gun Same principle as the rifles, the MG is a flexible weapon that can be used as a stationary defense weapon, on APCs or as personal weapon.

Recoilless One-Time Use Warhead Launcher - Tank Fist Developed late in the Rau've War. Commonly used in the 1st Fleet, but very rare in other armies. Flexible, light and deadly, the Tank Fist is a close-ranged anti-tank gun composing of a disposable pre-loaded launch tube firing a pointed shape anti-tank warhead. The weapon is short-ranged comparing to the Commonwealth's standard rocket launcher, can only be used once and then discarded, but is extremely deadly, one that can punch through almost any ground vehicle's armor, causing internal fires and explosions that kill crews and destroy equipment. While this can be used by a single soldier and relatively easy to use, the weapon can potentially hurt the user or kill allies around the operator due to the heat blasting back out of the other end of the weapon, and the short range means the operator has to be quite skilled and daring to use them effectively

+Young Guards: Basically Royal Guards in training. Armed with standard Commonwealth's weapons.

+Middle Guards: The standard infantry in the 1st Fleet that evolves from the Young Guards. Armed with standard Commonwealth's weapons along with a couple of Tank Fists. They are the bones of the 1st Fleet, the ones that populate the most of the numbers in the army.

+Old Guards: The veteran infantry. The elite of the elite. Comparable to the Dragon's Brigade forces, sometimes even superior to them. Low in numbers but extremely high-skilled, very determined and fearsome in battle. Armed with multiple exclusive projectile rifles and machine guns, along with multiple Tank Fists and other personal anti-tank weapons. They are distinguishable by their camouflage all over their helmet and uniform.

+Red Guards: The paratroopers. They are tougher and more skilled than the Middle Guards, but not as the Old Guards. Also equipped with projectile weapons, though without Tank Fists, and usually seen employed in airborne operations. They wear camouflaged helmet for easy distinction

+Dragoons: Separated into Ground Dragoons and Air Dragoons, these guys are vehicle operators. They operate tanks, walkers and ships. They are not trained for personal combat with enemy infantry, but can hold off their own, and are normally equipped with standard Commonwealth weapons. They have their own uniforms different from the standard Guards.
+Special Service Guards: Basically commandos. They are usually employed in sneaky operations, like raids, sabotage missions behind enemy lines. They can work in conjunction with paratroopers and have their own camouflaged uniform. Armed a mix of standard and exclusive projectile equipment, with silencers and various attachment for special operations.

"Alright, Alexander. How about you, can you solve this equation?"

The teacher said, as he gently handed his child the pen to the holographic board. A child of merely eight years of age. Among a crowd of thirty kids, all one head taller than him. The kid was reluctant to be called so suddenly, but at the gentleness and politeness of his professor, he found himself unable to deny his offer.

The child slid out of his chair, walked to the board and slowly, his hand holding the pen to which he would write with. As he neared, he simply stood still, silent. He inhaled, and exhaled. Again, and again.

And he wrote.

"This is an equation that if you follow the conventional way of solving, it will resolve in a massive power number, which is technically very difficult to solve. But if you prove and apply this inequation to our main problem, it is possible to see that the left hand side of the verse can be reduced to this, which is always larger or equal to the right side of the verse, which is zero. So the equation only occurs when a specific condition is met in the left side of the verse. This greatly reduced the complexity of our problem, and it's quite straightforward from there."

The boy put down his pen, as he finished the last of his solution, as he slowly returned to the seat. But what he did not notice, perhaps too young to notice, were the eyes towards him. His teacher. His peers. Even the parents of some other kids who happened to be there at the time.
They were shocked beyond belief.

---

"...In my years of teaching, I've never seen a mind like your son’s."
"The reason that Kobald failed on his conquest I believe was more to his own logistic than his enemy's tactical ability like you said teacher. The guerrilla soldiers did little in terms of combat, but it was the scorched earth policy done by the citizens that actually dealt the damage. Kobald's region was too far away for a reliable source of provisions, so he brought little and mostly lived off his conquered land, which was vulnerable to this policy"

"He possesses the mind of a genius. One that many centuries we have yet to see again."

"Castling on the king side is the most common move here, as it would grant the king additional protection against the enemy's knights and bishops, but if we play Queen to A4, it will block that Knight from going anywhere, while threatening the D4 pawn, so it's a more reasonable move."

"He’s the only underaged student we have admitted, and yet he has already learnt everything we could ever hope to teach a child ten years older than him. There’s nothing more here for him to learn. Please, you have to let him go with us."

The teacher begged, again, as his parents began to feel more and more reluctant.

"He is too young..." His mother said, her voice full of indecisions.

"I am aware ma'am." The teacher responded. "But his reputation has already spread across the school. No, the district now. It is only a matter of time until the Commonwealth took notice of his unusual mind."

His mother's eyelids dropped, as if the dam was about to break. His father looked at his son, who was innocently reading the book inside his room, completely unaware of what was being discussed outside. They both knew the Commonwealth, and the rumors of those missing prodigious children in the Commonwealth wasn’t at all detached. It was perhaps the only situation when a parent would be in painful tears upon the discovery that their child was a genius.

It would be hard. For him to face reality this early. For his parents, to not worry about him. And for both of them, to say their goodbyes.

"I understand your concern. It's better to be voluntary early, than being forced out later. I know a person that can help him avoid that fate. But please..."

"Teacher, what do you think?"

"...you have to let him go."

August 2374

Planet Wasa, Rau’ve’s Space Dock #3

The war had begun more than two weeks ago, but the Rau’ve had already been decimated. Their poorly prepared defense line made the once legendary Maginot Line to be considered effective. The Commonwealth’s space fleet sliced through their lines like a knife through butter. Their once mighty two carrier space fleets now two asteroid belts of metal. The third one, having managed to escape the carnage of Alexander’s lightning campaign, retreated to the orbit of Planet Wasa, one of their Space Dock deep in their home territory, initially for refit of armaments and space planes in order to counter the superior Commonwealth’s armor and firepower. Too bad for them that they would never be able to accomplish their original objective. For by the time the Rau’ve finally got together the tools to upgrade their fleet, the Commonwealth would have been at their very door steps, with bombs all over their vegetable heads. And six months later, the Commonwealth’s flag would be flying high at their capital.

Upon the news of the Rau’ve’s second line of defense being breached, the Rau’ve’s third carrier group had instead dug into their docks and made it their fortress. With the remnants of the broken second defense line rendezvousing at the once prosperous industrial planet, they were determined to halt the rapid advances of the Commonwealth’s Navy. But if only if they knew who they were up against…

“4 Dreadnoughts, 6 Cruisers, 15 Destroyers and most importantly 3 Carriers.” Said the grey-haired admiral, wearing the standard dark grey Commonwealth’s officer’s uniform, sitting at the far end of the table. His eyes hidden behind the thickness of the glasses, adding another layer to the already present aura of mystery and chilliness. “That’s our price for the taking.”

“But they are dug into their asteroid belt, with multiple stationary guns on the asteroids. And even though we have the same number of carriers, their number of ships in total are nearly twice our numbers” Replied one other commanding officer at the table, this one sitting right next to Alexander, his embellishment missing a star comparing to Alexander’s. His voice lowered. His eyes twitched as he kept his gaze on the battlefield being replicated in the hologram right in front of him on the table.

“They fight as one we’ll kill them as one.”

“They’ve chained up now, it’d be hard to break.”

“Not with the right way.” Said Alexander, eyeing over the battle overview. “The Rau’ve's position implies they are trying to counter our blitzkrieg strategy. We’ll present them with the unexpected, and watch them fall apart...”

And that was exactly what he did. And it all began with his explanation.

“The Rau’ve have chosen the battlefield in a way that can maximize the strength of their numbers. Our forces will approach them just like we usually do. Like a nailboard…”
“Nawar and Rar, you brothers will be commanding this front.”

---

The next day, what was materialized on that holographic table was right there, on the space just a few hundred kilometers wide area of space, with the asteroid belt flooded with those heavy hitting anti-armor railguns. And that would be the thing the Commonwealth’s Navy would have to break in order to win this battle. Along with the lines of guns are capital ships, frigates and corvettes taking their cover behind these meteorites, ready to meet their adversary. And right behind those things would be the reserve fleet. And behind that the carriers. Those juicy target that Alexander was longing for.

The Rau’ve was certainly surprised by the speed of the Commonwealth’s Navy, but they were not daunted. Morales were high, and they were determined. But their pride had blinded them. For the Commonwealth approached the battle line just like how Alexander had told them, but with a single twist.

---

“But this time, our dreadnoughts will not be at the front anymore. Instead, the breakthrough will be made by the heavy cruisers.”

---

And indeed, they were. Right at the front, ready to charge into the thick. And they went under the blind’s eyes.

---

”Before the charge, however, I want you, Lan, to destroy their air group.”

---

And so the battle began. The Commonwealth’s carriers immediately sent out hundreds of their star fighters, accompanied by other ships in the fleet, though with lesser numbers. And in response, the Rau’ve also dispatched their entire fighter groups to the ensuing battle. The air fight opened the curtain for one of the most biggest battle the universe has ever seen. In the span of only a few kilometers, nearly five hundred fighters had slammed themselves against each other, greeting each other with bullets and metals, clashing with the others on a personal level. And those to come out victorious, could change the course of the entire battle.

---

”If we win this air fight, we win the entire battle. I cannot emphasize enough how important it is. Even if you suffer massive casualties you must gain air supremacy.”

---

All of Alexander’s hope for this battle came in the form of a few hundred fighters. He normally despised relying on one single thing in battle, but this was the only time he had to put faith in it. On the grittiness, the well-trained pilot of the Commonwealth’s Air Force.
It was chaos. A birthplace of aces, but a cemetery for hundreds of young men and women. A clash of steel, of skills, of wits, but not without blood from either sides. But the ensuing 15 minutes battle had emerged the Commonwealth as the victorious side. Air supremacy had been achieved.

---

”While the air battle concludes itself, our breakthrough forces will surge forward. The Rau’ve will definitely respond with a hail of fire from their asteroid guns.”

---

As the cruisers moved, the guns lit themselves up. Hell ensued for the heavy cruisers. Of course because the cruisers were not as heavily armored as the dreadnoughts, they were not as well protected as them. They would reach the belt faster than the dreadnoughts would, but in doing so, some began to burn...

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”Do not relent. Once your cruisers reach the asteroid belt, you will have time to repair, in which you must, because the Rau’ve will throw ahead their reserve, to push us back.”

---

And exactly that, they surged forward, frigates, corvettes and dreadnoughts descended upon them, taking the Commonwealth’s cruisers right on their faces. The Commonwealth’s advances had been halted.

---

”At this point, the Rau’ve will think their plan worked.”

---

The cruisers slowly backed, as the Rau’ve poured down fire upon their invaders. Some unfortunate were left burning…

---

”Give ground, and let them believe.”

---

Soon, the grounds the Commonwealth had gained were handed back to the Rau’ve, as fightings intensified. Guns blazed, star fighters answered. The entire asteroid belt was lit up by a spectacular lightshow of fire and bullet. No ships were willing to relent, as they continuously hailed down fire upon anything that moves, until they could no longer

At this point, the Rau’ve had the reason to be proud. They held their ground, they pushed the Commonwealth’s back. They thought they may have ended the myth of Commonwealth’s invincibility. And they were led to believe, as their lines between the reserve and the front began to merge

---

”It is then that we will mobilize our dreadnought reserves, and our remaining bombers, destroy their entire defense line.”

---

It was too late for them.

When they had realized their mistake, they had nowhere to go. Any form of retreat would mean giving the Commonwealth the means to break their line completely. But staying would mean no different. The Commonwealth do not intend to play a fair game here. They only have one objective, and that is to obliterate the Rau’ve’s naval fleet completely.

From above and below, Commonwealth’s dreadnoughts approached, like the hammer and anvil. Their huge battle cannons turned, strangling the Rau’ve with every angle. Bombers from the carriers accompanied them in the violent purge. Once they had locked on their targets, it was when chaos descended. It was the same for the killed and the survivors. When they opened their eyes, it was a scene right from the depths of hell.

The Commonwealth blew up the entire asteroid belts. They buried the Rau’ve alive.

---

”The rest of the fleet will charge forward, cutting down any stragglers.
There will be no mercy…”

---

The winner had been decided in the first fifteen minutes of the fight. And the tide turned in just less than 5 minutes.

In those 5 minutes, the Rau’ve’s forces went from solid confidence and discipline into a complete riot. Those who were courageous enough to remain in the fight were cut down without mercy, their corpse dissolved in the flames of burning ships. If one still valued their very lives, then he must strip away their weapons, armor and gave themselves in voluntarily, for they may find the Commonwealth’s prison having a higher chance of survival. Those foolish enough to run away from battle, the Commonwealth spared no moments of hesitation. The lighter ships charged forward, unleashing barrages of rocket fires, disintegrating the Rau’ve’s armors in seconds. Screams echoed, as panic settled into the ranks of the Rau’ve, until there were no more organization, no more resemblance of a military forces, just a massive hulk of crowd running fearfully for their lives. And then, there were no more…

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“It was the greatest battlefield victory of the age. Their entire fleet was destroyed or captured. Not one single ship made it back to their home for any form of resistance. And above all, over thirty thousand Rau’ves, including three high-ranking generals and many officers had been declared killed in action. Our road to the capital had been opened.

Today is a victory greater than any victories the Commonwealth could have achieved throughout its one hundred years of rules. A victory that would solidify me as the greatest Commonwealth’s military commander of all time.

And yet I felt no sense of triumph…”

What happened to the glorious days of the Commonwealth? After the battle of Wasa, there was nothing. Nothing…

In the mind of the Commonwealth’s youngest and most feared general was full of melancholy. He did not work so hard for his entire life for this moment. He did not leave the comfort of his home, the warmth embrace of his mother and father for this. Nor did he work his entire way up to the rank of grand admiral, ignoring the brutality and hostility of where he was raised. Nor his effort to bring the Commonwealth to the doorstep of the Rau’ve capital. For this. For the Rau’ve to reorganise, counterattack and inflict deaths upon the army. For them to push the army the entire way back, reversing all of the effort Alexander had grinded through. All thrown into the bin in the most ungrateful manner by the colleagues he worked with.

He saw this coming. With those eyes behind the thick glasses yet saw far better than those perfect visioned so-called generals. He saw the slow decline, and he tried to stop it. But once glory had been achieved, these men and women decided to toss him aside, threw him into the sidewalk because they didn’t want to miss out on the glory that they craved. ’Glory my ass.’ Was always his thoughts. If they were his direct subordinate, he’d have their head taken, or in his procedure, stripped of their ranks and booted back to being a common soldier. Anything glory driven was always a waste of time, manpower and resources. But like his old teacher once said, his mind was far few in between. Only he could see it. No other could. And when stupidity plus ego, here he was.

Sitting in the tall-backed chair in the private quarter of his huge battlestation, the capital dreadnought Aegis, he, for once, took off his glasses, revealing his true colored eyes for the very first time, though unfortunately no one was there to witness it. He took out a small handkerchief from his pocket as he wiped the layers gently. A long sigh escaped his lips, his breath held weight, and it was pulling him down, also the rare moment of human emotion he displayed ever since he was stripped away from his parent. From his normal life.

His only work for the moment was to wait. In the hours that seemed like an eternity to the grand admiral. It had been a few hours since the last strategical meeting had concluded. The high command had decided against his military advice. Not far-fetched from what he expected, but this time it was the only decision that he very much feared. He had called for a reconsideration, and they were discussing it. If they did reconsider, then he’d be informed of another meeting. That was the message that he was expecting to receive for hours.

For he knew if they went forth with their decision, it would be a massacre.

The silence was just unsettling. The silence that he once enjoyed, from the stillness of the bookshelf to the solemnity of the chandelier. He couldn’t sleep. Nor could he do anything either. He normally hate idleness but today he couldn’t help but be so. Doing anything would be useless right now.

And then, for some mysterious reasons, his hand suddenly reached for his drawer. He opened them, and inside was a small picture. A paper-back picture. Not very commonly seen nowadays. And in it, it was a picture of a young boy, gray-haired but without glasses, smiling prettily. The boy was barely even six when this picture was taken. And next to him, crouching and holding onto his shoulder was another person with the gorgeous silky platinum hair, tied into a side bun whilst the rest left hanging down to her waist. Her smile perfectly matched her beauty. And standing right next to the two mother and son was the final puzzle to make a happy family. The man did not have any resemblance in terms of hair-color, but he was well-tuned, well-dressed, smart-looking. And that passed on well.
A picture of a happy family. Of a loving mother and father, one that would pull them into their warmth everytime they fell into a dead juncture, one that would cheer them on from the back as they march on the long road that is called life. Alexander spent a few minutes without lifting his eyes. And then he turned around to the back, to see a beautiful feminine handwriting on it.

October 23rd, 2349.

An outing with my darling and my sweet child…

…

…

But before anything, a notification suddenly appeared in front of Alexander in a form of a hologram. Incoming call. From Admiral Damon. It must have been it.

Alexander had no hesitation in pressing the receive call button. As the image of the admiral appeared in front of Alexander, he quickly re-adjusted himself, put away the picture and put on his glasses again.

“Yes, Admiral Damon?”

“Grand Admiral, I’m here to inform you about the high command’s decision of your request for a strategy reconsideration. The President has decided to refuse your request. You will proceed to execute the plan according to what had been given in the last meeting.” Damon quickly informed.

Alexander’s expression was unreadable.

That’s it then…

“Is there anything that must be clarified, Grand Admiral?”

“No, thank you.”

Alexander briefly replied, as he looked at Damon one last time before his image disappeared. He knew that this would very likely be his last time speaking to him. Damon was the commander of the ambush task force. And he was certain that the ambush would turn out a spectacular disaster. And Damon was definitely not a righteous man. He had committed numerous atrocities against Rau’ve’s prisoners and civilians. There is no way the Rau’ve would let this go unpunished. If he did not die with honor on the battlefield, he’d rot in the Rau’ve’s prison, or had his neck broken in a noose, or his chest made into cheese in front of a firing squad. He definitely felt he deserved it, but nevertheless, Alexander could not help but feel bad for him. He had yet to realize his fate.

Nevertheless, Alexander stood up from his chair. His eyes now completely clouded behind his thick glasses, unseen from the outside. He immediately called one of his admirals under his direct command over to the bridge.

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The days after the final order had been given, the atmosphere surrounding the Aegis was the polar opposite of Alexander’s private quarter. The Dragoons were running around in the ship, trying to reach for their station. Sounds of boots clattered with the hard floor on the ship, echoing into deep space. In the midst of it all, standing in the middle of the room was Alexander and Admiral Faro of the 1st Fleet. Facing each other, their brows furrowed.

“I’d say it, we’re done for.” Alexander said. “They’ve decided against my advice.”

“No disrespect sir, but what do you expect from a band of circus clown, kidnappers and sadists?” Faro replied, making an unimpressed face.

“Be serious, Faro.” Alexander adjusted him. “I’d have to take matters into my own hands. Proxima will be lost in the next few days. When they do, who will defend the Commonwealth’s homeland from those Rau've?”

“Are you sure you can hold against them, with just our reserve fleet?” Faro asked skeptically.

“Once they knew who they were against, they’d be having second thoughts. The Dragon’s Brigade, the Old Guards, and me. A man with any quality of brain cell would decide for a peace treaty over a slaughter. The Rau’ves are no different. They aren’t crazy.” Alexander replied

“Be careful, that can be interpreted as treason.”

“Ha, Faro. Don’t worry. If it saves the Commonwealth, they will overlook it. Besides, I’m the only one capable of saving the Commonwealth from being annexed. He wouldn’t be so crazy to kill me off.” Alexander said. “Now is all ships in position?”

“Yes sir. We’re all set.” Faro replied.

“Very well.” Alexander gave a short sigh. “Tell the other grand admirals that we’re ready.”

“Yes sir.” He nodded as he turned on his heel to leave.

“Oh.” Alexander suddenly called him just as the bridge’s door opened. Faro turned around, curious. “Tell those admirals to visit by the Laichstarg sometime.”

Height: 5’3”
Weight: 116 lbs
Body Type: Straight
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Green
Birthmark/Scar(s):

She has a birthmark on her left arm that is treated as a bad omen. Her family is highly superstitious because of this birthmark. It has three stars surrounding a triangle, which usually means she’ll have the worst luck within the Hadley family. She has scarring on her back because of how much punishment she took from the Ascendency of Man’s disciplinary action towards her.

Coilgun Pistol - The Coilgun pistol, which she named the Sigma. She wields it in a defensive stance.

Daichi, the Swift - She uses this when in scant super close quarters. She isn’t really good at using it. But it’s better than nothing this close up.

Galactic Credits - The amount of credits is 2,500. She only has it in a digital form. She got this from the Rau've Jailers.

The Necklace - She was given this ungodly ugly necklace to her by her mother Lana. It was on her tenth birthday this had happened. Her mother told her it was about a journey of discovery but she was naive when she was given this necklace at the time. It is a simple a necklace of pure bronze circle with a single topaz tear attached to the necklace. It is engraved with ’Journey of Discovery.’

Enigma Codex - The Enigma Codex is an Omni-tool that is specialized to do certain things that are different from other Omnitools that are produced by the Ascendancy of Man. It has access to communication and calculation but has no access to the augmented reality navigation and small-scale hacking portion. In return of losing that functionality it gains access to a database of spells that she can use and/or the enemies of the Ascendancy can use. She has access to a number of her handler by the call sign of the Dragon.

Narvia was born on Mars, one of the core worlds of the Ascendancy of Man to her mother Lana R. Hadley and Conner L. Hadley. Her parents were highly busy with their work in terms of the Mega corporation Hadley In-Vector Corporation and its shell company called Gravia Military Company. Therefore, they were hardly at home while she was growing up in the Hadley Mansion on Mars, it was highly extravagant and was therefore protected by the Gravia Military Company. The only person that was more or less keeping her safe and calm, was a very nice maid by the name of Jennifer V. Stoutfield. She was one of the most hands on with Narvia as a whole, since she was pretty much similar to how she is. In terms of an environment-based child, since she gets pretty easily crying fits if everyone is very heated in a discussion.

It was around age three when her biological mother finally decided to get into her daughter’s life. Jennifer was right there since she’s the only person in the whole world that Narvia enjoyed being around. Lana smiled at her daughter even though she knew her daughter was outrageously intelligent since they hired a very influential physician. She saw something that shocked her to her core on her daughter’s left arm a singular thing.

”Jennifer dear, when were you going to tell me that our daughter had a birthmark?” Lana asked, seriously.
”You were so busy and I was trying to do my best to tell you. But you told me not to bother you at all,” Jennifer said.
”Oh yeah… I forgot sorry it’s nothing. But at least our daughter is very intelligent at least,” Lana said.
”Mother, done being busy for now?” Narvia asked, cutely towards her mother.
”For now, yes, I can play with you,” Lana said.

Jennifer felt a bit happier to see Lana playing with her daughter after three years worth of her daughter’s development. However, she knew that wouldn’t last because of how she saw the look in Lana’s eyes. She knew she couldn’t at all tell Narvia anything of the sort since her contract is very specific. Narvia was enjoying playing with her mother since she gave her a thought puzzle and to see who can complete it faster. Out of everything, Narvia completed it first and in the shortest time too.

”Excellent Job, daughter you are definitely better at this, I know what I can get you for your 5th year birthday,” Lana said, kindly.
”What is it?” Narvia asked, curiously.
”Easy, the Family Heirloom necklace called the Star Necklace,” Lana said, kindly.

Lana subconsciously, however, outright hated being here right now since her husband’s fears came true. She was great at covering up the fact she was outraged at this child’s existence. She was grateful to Jennifer’s caring of their daughter. She got up and walked directly to her husband’s study but before that whispered something into Jennifer’s ear. What was whispered shocked Jennifer to her core but she had no power in this household to stop anything.

”I should get to to bed, Narvia since its your bedtime,” Jennifer said, kindly.
”Oh okay Jennifer, I am tired,” Narvia said, happily.

Jennifer cleaned up the logic puzzles and put them in the box, which she got out in the first place. She helped Narvia to her bedroom and covered Narvia up and told her a bedtime story. That was the only thing that helped Jennifer to calm her nerves from what Lana whispered to her, about what the family as a whole has planned for their daughter.

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On her 5th year birthday, she celebrated her birthday only with the maid that has been with her every step of her life, Jennifer. She curiously asked where her mother was with her gift she told her, two years ago. Jennifer told Narvia specifically that she must’ve been distracted with important paperwork or other some such at work. However, she was somewhat grateful that Narvia didn’t be taught how to run the Hadley In-Vector Corporation and the Gravia Military Company. Mostly because Narvia is definitely not xenophobic alike her parents. It took about around thirty minutes later until Lana walked into the room, where her child was celebrating her birthday. She had a smile on her face. The only person who saw the smile or the meaning behind Lana’s smile and Jennifer sighed in a defeated tone.

”Narvia, sorry I have been quite busy daughter. I did finally come here with your birthday present like I have promised. When you were two years younger, the Family Heirloom called the Star Necklace,” Lana said.

She sat down the present in front of her daughter. It was in a very beautiful case, that shows a caring touch to the case as a whole. When it was opened was no other than the Star Necklace, the most expensive possession the Hadley family’s own.

"Thanks mommy,” Narvia said, happily.
”No problem, daughter. However, only wear this necklace on very important days of your life. Alike being introduced to the high life,” Lana said.
”I will keep that to heart mother,” Narvia said.

Narvia looked at the Star Necklace and saw the design of it. It had an pendant attached to it, which had her mother and father’s pictures within it. It had multiple different words engraved on it, more or less meaning, ’For the Ascendancy.’ She hugged her mother happily for the gift and the happy birthday present.

”Jennifer, I will be leaving now. I need to go see how Conner is doing at work,” Lana said, with a slight tone that only Jennifer knows.
”Yes, milady. I will keep Narvia safe and sound. Since you and Conner has tons of work to do,” Jennifer said, with a sigh.
”Bye Mother,” Narvia said, waving goodbye to her mother Lana.

Lana waved goodbye to her daughter, even though it wasn’t that sincere of a wave. Jennifer definitely saw that but knew their daughter was a bit too naïve about what is going on. Jennifer went back to play with Narvia since at least Lana did show up to her birthday, like she had promised.

Narvia, want to do something a bit more fun? In terms, you haven’t seen your parents flower garden yet and it’s a beautiful sight to see,” Jennifer said, kindly.
”Yeah. I wish my dad came to see me and told me a happy birthday to,” Narvia said, with a slightly depressed sigh.
”Conner is highly busy with being the Hadley In-Vector Corporation CEO,” Jennifer said, reassuring Narvia.

Narvia was reassured and she followed Jennifer to the Hadley Mansion’s Flower Garden. Which is in the backyard of the mansion and it has multiple other things in it, alike a Playground from a park or a public school on Earth. Narvia was shocked in seeing all this because it was beautiful, and was a bit engulfed with beauty. This definitely made to show off the overall wealth value of the Hadley Family in general. She started to play with Jennifer since she was much more calmer from the serenity flower garden she was in. They took to relax near some of the flowers after Narvia got a bit tired and wanted to relax a bit. Narvia was a bit sad at the fact her parents were plainly ignoring her. Jennifer hugged her to keep her hopes up that her parents would turn around.

”Don’t worry Narvia, your mother and father are going to play with you. They will not do anything harmful to your way of life,” Jennifer said.
”Thanks, Jennifer. You are a very nice lady,” Narvia said, happily.

Jennifer noticed Narvia was tired and helped her to her bed since it would be better if she slept in her bed. Narvia held Jennifer’s hand while being taken to her room to go to bed, after she had playtime with Jennifer. She was pretty much happy with how nice all the people in the mansion’s staff has been to her. She will never forget this happy moment in her life, being taken care of by Jennifer mostly, since her parents were too busy with work.

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On Narvia’s 7th year birthday, it was only two years after her 5th birthday. She was given much work and her tutors were shocked in how smart she was. She wanted more of a challenge and better work, in that case, she was more or less given the best education from her tutors without going to school. The entirety of the Hadley family is home schooled via everything money can buy and usually is granted whatever they want. The tutor that was shocked is named Natalie S. Rovia, the most influential tutor that money could buy.

”Oh hello Narvia, my student. I can’t believe your test scores just came in for the prodigy exam. And I have to say I am floored in how intelligent you are,” Natalie said, proudly at her favorite student she has.
”What are my scores? Narvia asked.
”You are in the top 5 percentile of being super genius, even smarter than your father and mother when they were around your age. It’s pretty amazing, you should be proud of your achievements,” Natalie said.
”That’s an accomplishment. I don’t know what my parents will think of that accomplishment,” Narvia said.
”They were highly impressed and proud of your accomplishment. I did push the issue a bit much, but they couldn’t really fire me since of my stature,” Natalie said.
”That makes me happy to hear that, teacher,” Narvia said.
No problem, I knew you were down and all so I decided to give you some good news,” Natalie said.

Natalie gave Narvia something that would challenge the child since she’s highly intelligent, but didn’t know at all the plans of Conner and Lana for their daughter at all. She was pretty much the super trusting type even though she’s pretty much enjoys praising her students accomplishments. She looked out of the window and noticed some of the Grevia Military Company Soldiers from god knows where.

”Hmm, how many times a day does your family talk to their PMC?” Natalie asked, curiously.
”I don’t know, they usually keep that from me. Because they told me I shouldn’t worry about the inner workings of the business, until I hit 13 years old or older,” Narvia said, a bit happy she can be a kid.
”That’s nice your parents care enough about your development as a child,” Natalie said.

Natalie was still looking at the emblem of the PMC in question, which is literally a Spear made up of light and it says, ‘The Spear of the Hadley Family, It is better dead than an Alien Slave.’ She was a bit shocked at the latter tagline, since she always saw the Aliens as a good trading partner since she has the same ideals as the Windsor Trading Company.

”Oh okay, where we we? Oh yeah, you have to complete this work in an hour,” Natalie said.
”I will do my best, teacher,” Narvia said, kindly.

Natalie walks to the desk, that the family gave her to watch Narvia do her work alike a classroom, even though it is inside of a massive home, that is a mansion. She watches Narvia do her work but starts reading a book, which is basically about the Ascendancy of Man’s rise to a galactic power. It is somewhat different to other books that talk about certain things, it was more or less an escapist book for people who want to be the people who do the laws and stuff in the Ascendancy. Time flew and Narvia put her work on the desk for Natalie to grade. She did grade the child’s work and she was pretty amazed at the work she had done.

”Great job, Narvia. You’ve done well underneath me as your tutor,” Natalie said.
”Thank you, I enjoy you’re way of how you are teaching me,” Narvia said.
”Your welcome,” Natalie said.

Narvia felt proud of her work she did, because she was being praised by her teacher. She always have a happy smile to keep herself from putting down the mood of the teacher. However, she was being a little bit dejected since she didn’t really have any real life friends around her age. Natalie smiled towards Narvia.

”Narvia, I have a pretty nice thing to say. I have a daughter around your age, you want to be her friend?” Natalie asked.
”I would love to have a friend, Natalie,” Narvia said, happily.
”That’s good you’ll meet her tomorrow since she’s always enjoying meeting new people,” Natalie said.

Narvia felt a bit of joy when she heard Natalie has a daughter around her age and was giggling. She walked to her tutor, and gave her a straight hug. Natalie returned the hug and felt a bit happy that her daughter is going to get a well behaved friend alike Narvia. Natalie continued her work by giving Narvia some work before it was called that Narvia had to go to sleep by her maid. A bit later on, like the next day, Natalie’s daughter Jenna L. Novia and Narvia become quick friends, much quicker than most friendships. And they would keep this friendship up until the latter’s disappearance, however, that was unknown to Jenna and Narvia at this point.

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The Military Convoy stops at the Black site in question on Mars. Which was pretty far from civilization in terms of what civilization there is on Mars. The female soldier in question was still holding Narvia. The troop transports military personnel all got out of the vehicle minus the package and the soldier in question that was holding her. Nikolas got out of his jeep to go check on Narvia.

”Soldier, how long is she out for?” Nikolas asked.
”I do have a name you know, it’s Vienna R. Stoutfield,” Vienna said.
”Sorry, I remember your younger sister is working for the Hadley Family,” Nikolas said.
”She kept me apprised of at least the child she was raising but I didn’t know it was Narvia Folspear Hadley. I can’t believe her parents discarded her like, she was a weekend meal or a popcorn at a movies,” Vienna said.
”Still have no real idea, why she was disinherited or disowned by her parents. But she’s here now but I was told by my superiors to keep this secret and you will too. If you tell her anything about this, your entire family will lose their positions they got into the military and be executed for treason,” Nikolas said.
”T-That’s a bit harsh but they don’t want any leaks… so I will keep this secret as long as I live,” Vienna said.
”Thanks Vienna, now lets escort our guest to her new role in our great Ascendancy,”
Nikolas said.

Nikolas sighed, still reeling from the fact that Conner and Lana would outright get rid of their child, but he still has no idea why they would. But all this stuff that happened to her will stunt her growth in certain areas. Vienna carefully got out while still holding Narvia and took her to the proper place within the Black site for the Child Soldier Program. It didn’t take that long for Narvia to wake up from the sleeping drug, she was injected with, but she had a person sitting besides her bed, which was no other than Nikolas.

”What happened…? Why am I here? Who are you?” Narvia asked a bit terrified and looked a bit confused.
”Hello Narvia, calm down. So sorry but your old life is completely over and have to be modified to specifically start killing our enemies, which are a threat to the Ascendancy. However, we will make the process to go as painless as possible if you are calm and collected. And my name is Nikolas Richard Zahrin,” Nikolas said, calmly trying to calm down the nerves of the poor little girl.
”I-I can’t see, anything of my old life? Why…?” Narvia asked, but now crying again, remembering Susan holding her down and injecting her with a serum to fall asleep.
”Yeah but the only thing you are allowed to keep is that necklace you are wearing. I am terribly sorry for everything but you aren’t allowed to see anyone in your old life but your new one will be different,” Nikolas said.
”I… I…,” Narvia said, couldn’t believe anything that is happening so far.

There was a knock on the door, Nikolas got up and opened the door. He whispered to the scientists to go easy on the child since she’s in shock and putting her more in shock by the procedure. The scientists nodded to him but it’ll still be a shock to her system, since it is a infusion of Kaisoken dust. She started to cry, but couldn’t really stop crying from this entire thing and had no real idea how she got here. They escorted her to the procedure table and laid her down on it.

They calmed her down, telling her she’ll be given the world in her fingertips and that everything is happening to her for a reason, like she was fated to be here. However, they did have to put her under since she couldn’t really believe them right now. Nikolas watched the procedure from start to finish as he was worried for the girl. After the procedure was completed, they allowed her to go back into her designated room and Nikolas was in there with her. He was a bit amazed at how hefty the bribe to keep that singular necklace around her neck.

”W-What will happen to me next?” Narvia asked, shaken, terrified and scared.
”Training. Our enemies are vast and expansive and will try to kill us at every single turn. And they are Aliens, the quicker we kill them the quicker we can take territory and resources to keep our war machine going,” Nikolas said, with a calm tone to her.
”I don’t really like the sound of that…,” Narvia said, saddened that she has to kill people.
”However, the good news in this I was the one who selected your call sign, I picked Navi for you. Since it fits you more than anyone else,” Nikolas said.
”Why?” Narvia asked, curious.
”It’s more or less shorten of your name. Na and vi to make Navi, and you are a young girl that will asked many questions about your orders and will follow them to a T, I hope so for your sake since if you don’t you will be disciplined,” Nikolas said.
”T-That’s neat, that call sign sounds more like a nickname, Nikolas,” Narvia said.
”Oh it probably is, I hope you keep it,” Nikolas said.
”Y-Yeah, I will,” Narvia said a bit nervous.

After all that, she was trained by the Black site to tap into her magic and defend herself from being hunted down and killed, even though this happened around a bit later in her life, as a whole. Since she was constantly moved from black site to black site to get different type of tests to see what she could use and how long or how weary she gotten after using said magic. The one person that was constantly there watching her development was Nikolas, who became her handler since she needed someone to talk to that knew the ropes of said military doctrine and gave some insight. He was an old soldier that had many times more experience in battles of space and ground combat, though that ground combat was training exercises between two forces in the Ascendancy.

However, all this so called ‘playtime’ was changed to real time warfare since the Ascendancy wanted their child soldiers on the front lines of battle as soon as possible. She was thrust into battle by the Ascendancy superiors around the same time as the other child soldiers that were able to go into the battle. However, she was very much conservative and got disciplined since she didn’t want to hurt anyone. Something clicked in her mind and she was forced onto one of the Rau’ve Warships and killed a lot of aliens for the Ascendancy. Not as much as the other child soldiers that had a better kill count then her.

The only thing she remembered from the warfare was getting to know all the other child soldiers, that were in there before the Battle of Proxima happened. However, during the Battle of Proxima the last ditched defense of the Ascendancy against the Rau’ve, she was captured by the enemy on one of these said warships, with a very potent tranquilizer that put her to sleep. However, this caused something in the Ascendancy to outright court martial her handler, the Dragon of the Ascendancy, Nikolas R. Zahrin. Because of they needed an escape goat for how badly they lost.

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She couldn’t really remember much from what happened, in the war with the Rau’ve because it was a blur and meshed together in her mind. She couldn’t help but cry herself to sleep since she misses Nikolas since he was the only hard headed person that didn’t want to discipline her and constantly talked to her in certain ways, that was different from the other Ascendancy Soldiers. She touched her neck and felt a collar of plant matter and crystal around it, but her necklace that she was still wearing was still there.

”I… miss, Mr. Zahrin. I hope I get to see him again,” Narvia said.

However, she never knew the reasons for her so called experimentation and hard life in the Ascendancy Military as a Child Soldier and she was only ten years old at the time she had all this happen to her. She felt like she couldn’t use her magic at all, and it was probably because of the collar around her neck now. She still remembered the last thing her mother told her, ’Journey of Discovery.’ And that was still an enigma to her whole mind. However, the life in this prison changed slightly because the Rau’ve was much nicer than Nikolas’ Superiors were to her. They gave her things slowly, like books, and etc but one day they allowed her out of her cell to walk around the prison to talk to the other prisoners.

She felt happy but something was digging at her mostly because of the fact, she felt like all this happened because of people that weren’t never in her life in the first place. However, that was much of a hypothetical guess for her to make since she was only really raised by one person in her big home. She wanted to learn the truth of the reason why she was put into this situation in terms of being a child soldier, and at the age she was when it happened to her.

She was approached by the Rau’ve in question. They gave her a choice to live in their territory free and happy or do something she was thinking on. She gave them a kindly no, because she wanted to know the truth. Since she knew Nikolas was hiding something from her, but didn’t know what.

She told the Rau’ve, the most shocking thing, she was put through hell at age 10 and the only pillar of strength she had in the Ascendancy was the Dragon. He did some atrocities for the Ascendancy in his time but he was an Old Dog that usually learned new tricks and changed with the times quicker than the Ascendancy itself. That’s what she learned, most of the Rau’ve usually talked highly about the Dragon only in the fact, he was a very honorable member of the Humans and only done those atrocities under the command of his superiors. They gave her what she needed to survive since she wanted to know the truth of the reasons why she was sent onto the battlefield, and mostly lived in the battlefield for seven years of her life.

She couldn’t believe how well liked the Dragon was, it was pretty strange to hear from the Rau’ve, even though he was totally not the ordinary military commander, he cared about his soldiers and the enemy soldiers. He was a pretty good actor to play his part and kept the more radical elements in the Ascendancy in check. She was told one important thing, that her pillar was dishonorably discharged by the Ascendancy or that could just be a rumor. She believed it wasn’t a rumor because he slowly broke protocol and punched one of the people who was outright showing hatred towards Narvia.

She was allowed to go to find out the truth of her circumstances that allowed her to be apart of this war, in that horrible program that tormented her...

Flowered Ground's point of origin is Narvia herself and it goes into a 15 ft radius around her and the people she wants to protect from magic.

The Extra Information: The Gravity Disable allows her to float up to about 20 to 30 ft above the ground if she’s on a planet. However, she never really used this like that since it has a limited time frame and falling to your death isn’t fun.

The Hadley In-Vector Corporation and its shell company, Gravia Military Company is a interplanetary mega corporation that only supports the Ascendancy of Man’s Regime by an overwhelming 110%. Since the Corporation’s CEO Conner L. Hadley allows the Ascendancy of Man’s Regime to have higher shareholder status within it. It’s primary headquarters is on the Red Planet of Mars. It outright has a disinterest in having a change in the Ascendancy of Man’s Regime since it wants only humans to be its workers or apart of its PMC.

The PMC has a tagline, ’Better dead than an alien slave.’ And usually spreads more of an Xenophobic stance for everything it does, since it never trades with aliens. It has a major big stake in keeping its power base in the core worlds and give trickle down economics to the other parts of the Ascendancy of Man. The Core Sector and Middle Sector of the Ascendancy of Man is more important to their endeavors. However, they have big stake in the Outer Sector since they primarily use the goods in that sector to produce specialized equipment for Ascendancy of Man’s Military.

The Corporation symbol is a flower caged in a gilded cage. They privately talk negatively about the Windsor Trading Company. But when they are talking to this said trading company in open communications they give them praise, but truly it is false praise. They have to show they enjoy the competition they are getting since the practices of the Windsor Trading Company has given them better ways to wield and deal.

Now onto their Shell Company, which is in essence a Private Military Company. It’s outright image it uses is a spear made up of light. It has a highly specific tagline, that is only on the military vehicles and spaceships that are particular of the Gravia Military Company. ’The Spear of the Hadley Family, It is better dead than an Alien Slave.’ They are highly trained soldiers that work for cheap contracts that the Ascendancy of Man hire out to the Gravia Military Company and all of them have a distinctive twisted personality somewhat similar to their boss, which is Conner and his wife Lana.

Height: 6’2”
Weight: 235 lbs
Body Type: Athletic
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Blue
Birthmark/Scar: He was born with a birthmark that looks like a dragon on his back. He has a scar on his back of his neck signifying he had a run in with the butchers called the Elite Assassination Squad from the Gravia Military Company, Gregory and his sister Susan. However, he lived this endeavor and those mercenaries were recalled back to Mars.

Biotechnology Upgrades:

Nikolas was given some biotechnology upgrades for his eyes, so he can see in ultraviolet and other spectrum without the use of night vision goggles. But his eyes usually change from their natural blue color to a light greenish color and give his eyes to look like that of dragon eyes. There’s some biotech on his face, which changes his look slightly to make him completely unlike what he looks like. It’s somewhat of biotech camouflage.

The Diffuser Sword - The Diffuser Sword has a specialized field around itself and front of the user. It lessens the damage from any laser type weaponry that hits the shield. The Diffuser Sword is specifically given to him by his mother, who lives on Draken’vina.

The Dragon Brigade Standard Issue Rifle - The Dragon Brigade Standard Issue Coil Rifle is basically an upgraded version of what the military’s defense forces use. But it is a bit more upgraded to shoot a bit faster and have a grenade launcher, it carries more rounds of ammunition at least 5 more rounds.

The Galactic Credits - He has around 50,000 Credits. In digital and physical form. The amount of 50,000 credits is mostly because of the fact, he always completed his missions with no casualties.

Cigarette Pack - There’s only about three left in this pack. He stopped smoking a year after he was told of Conner’s sick plan. These usually remind himself that he never should’ve found Conner or Lana but if it wasn’t for that he probably wouldn’t be able to keep Narvia so safe while on the battlefield.

Enigma Codex - Customized for the Dragon - The Enigma Codex is an Omni-tool that is specialized to do certain things for the Dragon. He gave a similar codex to Navi but it specifically fits what she requires from it to a T. It has communication, calculation, augmented reality navigation and holographic chess games. He played a few chess games with Navi in question, but he beat her every single time because she was thinking in a non-3D space. He has access to numbers of the Dragon Brigade Officers and Navi.

Nikolas was born on the planet of Draken’vina, it was on the edge of the Ascendancy Core Worlds. It was nowhere close to the frontier worlds but it wasn’t really well liked either. The Ascendancy had to put down three violent revolts by humans on that world because of some untold unrest they couldn’t really figure out. However, those revolts stopped when Nikolas R. Zahrin was accepted in the Ascendancy Military. He quickly rose through the ranks, showing his genius but he was supposed to be a higher rank than he was.

The reason why he never wanted to get any higher was the brutal nature of, who the Ascendancy hired to support him and his squad at the time. They were from the Gravia Military Company, their names are Gregory and Susan. They were pretty much young ins compared to him, but they decided to try to kill him. However, they failed in their assignment and Nikolas lived through the assassination attempt on his life. He got them back badly for their callous betrayal, which was breaking some of their bones and giving them a life long scar on parts of their body. Because of that single incident, he was given the Call sign of the Dragon.

The Ascendancy Military from then on gave him as much wiggle room he needed to do what he does best. Which caused him to get the fierce reputation he has. However, he had some friends in high places, mostly the Hadley family. He was there for the birth of their daughter. However, he was told to go to a meeting to meet with Conner. He learned, how cold hearted and cruel that Conner was, and couldn’t help but stop doing what he loved best. He stopped smoking because that disgusted him.

He retrieved his package from the same butchers, who tried to kill him all those years ago, but they look a bit more cautious around him than they first did. They never wanted to repeat the mistake that costed them big time. The package in question was no other than Conner and Lana’s Daughter Narvia F. Hadley. However, he was told by his superiors to keep the secret of her circumstances from her. He told them, they will have his word as long as he’s in the Ascendancy Military.

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After he delivered Narvia to the highly guarded secret on Mars, he was told by one of the Scientists that he’s now her handler. And he was told that after she’s been given enough training, she’ll be straight up joining the best of the best, the Dragon Brigade. Since they wanted to keep her a secret from the other regiments in the Military, that involve child soldiers. There’s only a singular reason for this, he learned his higher ups were bribed by Conner & Lana’s large financial backing to make this happen. He rolled his eyes mostly at that.

”So you’re telling me I have to train her in the art of war. And put her on the battlefield, away from her peers,” Nikolas said.
”Yes, that’s what we are telling you. And the Superiors want results. With casualties on the enemies of the Ascendancy side,” The scientist said with a female voice.
”I will do this only because I feel that I should take care of her,” Nikolas said.

The scientist walked away from Nikolas and he walked into the room with Narvia. He sat down by the unconscious Narvia and sighed with annoyed look to his face. He couldn’t believe he had to literally introduce a child into his brigade and keep an eye on her at all times. He knew what that means, he’ll have to be only doing Extraction Missions and other such missions. Besides the usual thing that the Dragon’s Brigade do.

He waits patiently, when Narvia wakes up. He didn’t have to wait long for that to happen, since he noticed the child in question waking up and noticing she’s completely in a different area from where she was. He noticed she was utterly terrified.

”What happened…? Why am I here? Who are you?” Narvia asked a bit terrified and looked a bit confused.
”Hello Narvia, calm down. So sorry but your old life is completely over and have to be modified to specifically start killing our enemies, which are a threat to the Ascendancy. However, we will make the process to go as painless as possible if you are calm and collected. And my name is Nikolas Richard Zahrin,” Nikolas said, calmly trying to calm down the nerves of the poor little girl.
”I-I can’t see, anything of my old life? Why…?” Narvia said, but now crying again, remembering Susan holding her down and injecting her with a serum to fall asleep.
”Yeah but the only thing you are allowed to keep is that necklace you are wearing. I am terribly sorry for everything but you aren’t allowed to see anyone in your old life but your new one will be different,” Nikolas said.
”I… I…,” Narvia said, couldn’t believe anything that is happening so far.

There was a knock on the door, Nikolas got up and opened the door. He whispered to the scientists to go easy on the child, since she’s in shock and putting her through more in shock by the procedure. The Scientist, that Nikolas whispered to nodded to him, but whispered back telling there will be additional shock to her system because of said procedure. Narvia started to cry, but couldn’t really stop crying from this entire thing and had no real idea how she got here. The scientists escorted her to the procedure table and laid her down on it.

However, Nikolas was escorted to watch the procedure from an overlook to keep an eye on the poor girl in question. He had one other in this room, it was the most proud of the ascendancy finest in terms of Research and Development. But he was a bit shaken when he saw the person in question was exactly his sister Dorothy L. Zahrin. He hasn’t seen her in ages, and couldn’t really understand why she’s here of all things.

”Sister, why are you watching this procedure?” Nikolas asked, keeping one of his eyes on the procedure.
”Wait, you are the handler of the child down there? This is the most awkward family reunion ever. Mother told me to go to a field that I will never see you again,” Dorothy said, nervously and a bit shocked.
Something tells me this is no coincidence. Therefore, how are you being treated in the Ascendancy R&D?” Nikolas asked.
”Better than most I guess? Mostly because I have my fierce brother to keep the weak little old me protected. I have a feeling that fortune will change if… you are forced out of the Military,” Dorothy said, a bit terrified.
”We should watch the procedure completely and stop talking sister, you were the more paranoid of us two,” Nikolas said.

Dorothy sighed at the fact, her brother still hasn’t changed since they were raised on Draken’vina. She did notice he’s much battle hardened than the first time he went to the Ascendancy Military Training. But he was right that she’s highly paranoid but it’s mostly because she’s unmarried and only 23 years old at this point. Her mother constantly call her and tell her to get her grandchildren. They watched the procedure completely, it took around a thirty minutes to an hour. He was completely worried for Narvia. He waved goodbye to his sister and walked down to Narvia’s holding cell, since it was a holding cell.

Narvia arrived a bit later into her designated room and she saw Nikolas in there. He had a look of complete amazement at the fact that necklace around her neck and how much that bribe must have been to keep that on her.

”W-What will happen to me next?” Narvia asked, shaken, terrified and scared.
”Training. Our enemies are vast and expansion and will try to kill us at every single turn. They are aliens, the quicker we kill them the quicker we can take territory and resources to keep our war machine going,” Nikolas said, with a calm tone to her.
”I don’t really like the sound of that…,” Narvia said, saddened that she has to kill people.
”However, the good news in this I was the one who selected your call sign. I picked Navi for you. Since it fits you more than anyone else,” Nikolas said.
”Why?” Narvia asked, curious.
”It’s more or less shorten of your name. Na and vi to make Navi, and you are a young girl that will ask many questions about your orders and you will follow them to a T. I hope so for your sake since if you don’t you will be disciplined,” Nikolas said.
”T-That’s neat, that call sign sounds more like a nickname, Nikolas,” Narvia said.
”Oh it probably is, I hope you keep it,” Nikolas said.
”Y-Yeah I will,” Narvia said a bit nervous.

Nikolas helped Narvia get some rest and telling her to get some rest since she deserves it. For all the stuff that happened to her that is. He walked to his office that was designated on the Black Site from his superiors. He sits at the desk, and one of the soldiers that helped Narvia into her bed before the mess that happened was no other than Vienna R. Stoutfield. She was a bit annoyed that the only military personnel on the base was the Dragon Brigade and some highly informed Black Site guards.

”Sir, I am reporting, I remember on the mission briefing this Black Site was used for other more darker tech than what we are doing to that child,” Vienna said, with an annoyed look on her face.
”Yeah I know. It’s kinda obvious they want to fight fire with fire. So they are using the best and brightest as pawns in the Military. If any of these kids live after this war is over,” Nikolas said, pretty acknowledgement in what’s going on is wrong and immoral but certain things can’t be avoided from war.
”Therefore, what will the Dragon Brigade be teaching ‘Navi’ since we have to call her that from now on and not her biological birth name or there’s going to be a scandal,” Vienna said.
”I got things handled you should know I think ahead. It’s in the job description anyway, as Dragon Brigade Commander,” Nikolas said.
”I will make sure Navi is helped to best of my ability, I will keep my last name a secret since it’ll be best for her,” Vienna said.
”That’ll be the best, Vienna. I hope you get some rest for the upcoming trials of Navi, since they want results and they came to me to get them. Ironic really,” Nikolas said.
”Thank you sir, I will definitely get some rest,” Vienna said, kindly.

Nikolas saluted Vienna in the Dragon Brigade’s salute. Which is somewhat different from the other branches of the Ascendancy Military. After he did the salute he gently waved Vienna goodnight and Vienna wave back and went to the women’s barracks that’s at the Black Site. He stayed up and looked at everything that’s planned for Narvia. And these training exercises are brutal, if she’s not strong enough she’ll die. He rubs his forehead, sighs and annoyingly takes out his cigarettes that he hasn’t smoked since he quit 4 years ago to this day.

”Something tells me. Out of all my bad habits, this is the only one that I am grateful I dropped,” Nikolas said, looking at his cigarette pack.

He put his cigarette pack back into his military jacket pocket and walked to the door and shut it. He went to his bed, which was next to his office. He laid down, racking in his brain the best and fastest way for Narvia to succeed and live throughout this war to literally hurt the plan that’s in effect for her.

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This was years later, this was on a far flung planet, it was the true test of his charge and the Dragon Brigade against the Human Coalition. However, this battle never really got off since the other side was utterly terrified of what the Dragon could do. He saw that as an opportunity to gather and rescue some prisoners of war, that was trapped in a military facility that fell about three months before the Battle at Proxima. He saw, where the wind was blowing and the Ascendancy was going to lose. But wanted to know if the Human Coalition had the same feelings.

He ambushed a Rau’ve scout team, who had their commanding officer from the Facility scouting for enemy positions, the Rau’ve outright surrendered. He was a bit shocked that the gunship that was behind their position, exploded. He was grateful he had Navi under his watchful eye, but that terrified her a bit much.

”W-What happened, why did the gunship explode?” Narvia asked, confused and terrified.
”I want an investigation on that immediately. The Rau’ve surrendered than that exploded something doesn’t add up,” Nikolas said.
”Yes, sir,” Vienna said.
”We heard of your unit but never actually expected to run into you,” Rauve Commander said.
”Reason why we ambushed you, since you would avoided us no matter what,” Nikolas said.
”My superior told me not to scout but I wanted to find out if you were ‘truly’ here or it was a rumor,” Rauve Commander said.
”Looks like I have a question for you, what do you think of the Ascendancy chances against the Human Coalition?” Nikolas asked, curiously.
”The Ascendancy doesn’t have a chance against us. We will make sure this war is as bloody as it is. If they don’t surrender, we will wipe them out,” Rauve Commander said.
”Ha, ha. You can return to your superiors, in return can we have what we came here for, the Extraction of the allies,” Nikolas said.

The Rauve commander was a bit shocked that they are allowed to return to his superiors unharmed. He was wondering why Nikolas laughed like that. Nikolas’ order the freeing of the prisoners, since he got what he wanted as long as the commander’s superiors allow the Ascendancy soldiers they captured to be returned to them unharmed. The Rauve Commander looked questionably at the Dragon in question.

”I have to say, your Dragon Brigade fleet scares us a bit. We are always told to avoid your fleet like a plague. Even though we would fight to the bitter end if we were told to chase you guys down. But they allow you go since you are the only Ascendancy Brigade that doesn’t do atrocities,” The Rauve Commander said.
”There’s a reason why I laughed you gave me the answer I wanted. If you said the Human Coalition was going to lose… I would be a bit worried if you were brainwashed by the Ascendancy and had to wake you up at the reality that the Ascendancy was going to lose no matter what,” Nikolas said.

The Rauve Commander and his scouting party that was of a total of 5 Rauves. They walked to the captured Ascendancy Military Base. He was yelled at for being captured by Ascendancy soldiers by his superiors. But he told them, who captured them, they freaked out a bit. He told them that one of their gunships exploded and who looks like a child in the Dragon’s brigade freaked out. His superiors asked, what the Dragon wanted. He told them and all the Ascendancy Soldiers that were captured, were released as long as the Dragon left. The Dragon heard what the Ascendancy Soldiers and retreated from the planet and returned to the Dragon Brigade’s Fleet in orbit.

It took awhile for the Cruisers and all the support ships, the Frigates and Corvettes to turn away from the planet and went to the staging area of the Ascendancy Fleet Command. The fleet had no damage as usual since they were not really engaged and destroyed by the Rauve. The soldiers that were rescued by the Dragon was put back into the military as quickly as they were rescued.

However, this was a bit later, on the primary cruiser of the Dragon Brigade called the Dragon’s Claw. Nikolas was in his office, he had Vienna to report what happened with the Gunship and Narvia in the office, sitting on the couch that’s near the window that looks outside of the cruiser. He cleared his throat for a second before he looked at Vienna.

”What do you have to report? I hope my gut feeling isn’t correct,” Nikolas said, towards Vienna.
”Nikolas, sir. This was the 7th Gunship that Self-destructed but the Ascendancy Military will call it an accident and pay us no mind. If we bring this up. How are you holding up Navi?” Vienna asked, looking at Narvia with a worried look on her face.
”Could be better but still shaken up at the fact it blew up behind us,” Narvia said, with a bit of crying.
”Great, so someone is actively sabotaging our missions,” Nikolas said, annoyingly.

He thought for a minute and the only people that knows of Navi’s true name are his direct Superiors, the Gravia Military Company and her parents. He thought it was just too convenient anyway so he knew who could probably be sabotaging the missions. At least they aren’t actively trying to kill off the entire Dragon’s Brigade.

”Redouble our efforts in maintenance on our equipment. We don’t want any more accidents,” Nikolas said, annoyed.
”Yes, sir. I will tell the Dragon’s Brigade Engineering staff to double up on maintenance and system checks to make sure no more loss of equipment,” Vienna said.
”And a plan is in effect from now until the end of the war, since I got my answer from the Rauve and the Soldiers we rescued were treated nicely. Better than they were treated by our people,” Nikolas said.
”Plan?” Vienna asked.
”It’s in effect but I won’t tell you what it is or means right now. Until there’s an opening, its classified until the right time,” Nikolas said.
”Oh alright, I’ll get on your orders,” Vienna said.
”See ya, Vienna,” Nikolas said.

Vienna exited the office and sighed annoyily since the Engineering core hates having to double up their efforts much. Narvia, on the other hand, looked down and sighed because she wasn’t alright. Nikolas notices Narvia and sighs.

”Navi, are you truly alright. Because I know how you act. We’ve been through this although this over and over again,” Nikolas said.
”Ah, no, this entire thing that’s happening feels like its a waste of time,” Narvia said.
”War is always a waste of time. But every citizen has to do their part, no matter what,” Nikolas said.
”I am grateful you are still here with me, Nikolas,” Narvia said.
”I told you to call me by my call sign, the Dragon,” Nikolas said, with a sigh.
”Sorry… sir,” Narvia said.
”You won’t be reprimanded but keep your head on straight and nothing will happen to you,” Nikolas said, sincere.
”I will try sir, can I leave?” Narvia asked.
”You can leave, just be careful while you walk to your room. Even though all my subordinates are friendly. I don’t want anything to happen to you, Navi,” Nikolas said.

Narvia nods to what Nikolas said, because his advice is highly valuable since he acts like a father to every single person in his brigade. She waves goodbye to Nikolas. Nikolas does the same. Narvia went to her room without incident and went to sleep easily. He used his omni-tool in question to start to play some Holographic chess with an AI opponent and he taught really hard about the next move of the Ascendancy Fleet.

”They must be pretty desperate…,” Nikolas said.

He thought hard and long about it. It hit him like a ton of bricks, he’ll need to move faster than expected because the final battle of the war will hit sooner than later. He had a slight smile. The Dragon’s Brigade was put on red alert to do drills but he said on the intercoms allow Navi to sleep in, since she’s not really needed at this point. The red alert status was finished and the ships went away from the Staging area and went to the nearest resupply facility to resupply and rearm their weapons and their lost equipment.

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The day before the Battle of Proxima, there was a rumor floating around the people who were in charge of the Dragon Brigade’s movements. Heard, the rumor of Navi missing from the crew, ala she was lost and captured by the enemy. However, these rumors, were non-founded. However, the Dragon Brigade was ordered to engage the largest bulk of the enemy fleet before the Battle of Proxima was engaged. Ala, they wanted to write off the Dragon Brigade as a loss. This backfired in their face, this caused their strategies to be found out beforehand, since the Proxima Fleet was preparing for the greatest ambush. However, later on in the records, the Dragon personally stated that his charge Navi was captured by the enemy.

On the day, of the Battle of Proxima. The Dragon’s Brigade was tasked in guarding the Carriers, since they had a pretty big failure in stopping the Human Coalition in reaching Proxima. The entire ascendancy war fleet, other than the Carriers and the Dragon’s Brigade lived through the battle. Mostly because of the laters reputation, but the quick thinking of Alexander. To retreat the Carriers before everything was destroyed of the Ascendancy of Man’s military.

The war was officially over, however, this did multiple things to the Dragon’s career. He was outright dishonorably discharged for the blatant fact that Navi was captured by the Rauve. When his specific superiors told him, which in a simple term, she was supposed to die on the battlefield without any evidence. He sighed and asked the superiors what will be his punishment for outright blatant loss of equipment. They told him specifically he will be returned to his homeworld of Draken’vina and be under watchful eye of the best what the Gravia Military Company has to offer in surveillance. The Ascendancy Military is quite fearful of the fact the Dragon is very highly respected in certain military circles. Therefore, they will be asking of his loyalty now and thereafter. He, however, told them that sooner or later, they will be coming to him and asking for him to return to the Military to stop any ‘inside’ threats. He told them, he will never return to a military that would use children in that barbaric of a fashion.

They told him the surveillance will only last for six months since the Gravia Military Company costs are a bit much if it is for surveillance. He laughed at that.

”Superiors, you are telling me that the Gravia Military Company’s Surveillance contracts are more than their Assassination, Brutally savaging a planet and killing 50% of a world’s population are cheaper?” Nikolas asked, curiously.
”Yeah, they are cheaper. We use those contracts more since that’s what Conner and Lana want us to use. However, this will help us using those contracts more since you are out,” Ascendancy Military Tribunal Judge said.
”One of the other reasons, why I won’t be joining you. But I won’t join the rebel groups even if they beg me to go. It is my honor on the line,” Nikolas said.

The Tribunal Judge smiled when Nikolas said that. He then said the tribunal court martial is over and told the escorts to escort and protect him at all costs. He’s one of the few core worlders that was court martial because of the primary reason of the Dragon Brigade’s primary mission and not their secondary missions. Nikolas was escorted back to his homeworld and home via honor guard escort, which was a nicer way of saying highly trained elites. It was an extremely festive return to Draken’vina, it was ten cruisers escorting the Dragon Brigade’s Flagship, the Dragon’s Claw.

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The Dragon Scales (Exceptional Endurance) - He has always been called a Dragon since that’s his call sign. However, his skin is very durable and feels like dragon scales, which helped him survive an assassination attempt by two young assassins. Who were sneaky assassins, which were in one of his field exercises.
Dragon Brigade Commander (Exceptional Tactics & Exceptional Intelligence x2) - He’s a super confident commander. He is usually feared amongst the stars in both spheres. In terms of the Human Coalition and the Ascendancy. He never leaves no one behind. He makes sure his casualties are nonexistent or just minor injuries. He highly cares about his soldiers because of that.
Dragon Sight (Exceptional Sight) - He can see further than most people since he has biotechnology in his eyes at least up to two times that of a normal human. He can usually see in multiple spectrum as well.
Art of the Sword (Exceptional Swordsmanship x2) - Nikolas is fierce with any type of close up sword or sword-like weapon. He was taught from a very young age when he was living with his mother in the Art of the Sword. He usually wields Katanas or other types of weapons and he’s deadly with them. One of the primary reasons he’s highly honorable, when fighting a worthy opponent, but if they piss him off they aren’t worthy of his honor.
Dragon’s Instinct (Exceptional Insight) - His insight is pretty valuable if he was going to talk to people who wanted his honest opinion about things. This is mostly because he got this insight from his mother, it rubbed off on him. And he looks like a stoic cool down to earth fellow but if you insult him or anyone of his brigade mates, shit hits the literal fan.

The Cruisers:
1. The Dragon’s Claw - The Flagship of the Dragon’s Brigade Fleet, which is a Heavy Cruiser with pretty potent weapons compared to the other heavy cruisers in the Dragon’s Brigade. The Captain of the ship highly respected her boss, the Dragon. Because he didn’t matter who was captaining the ship as long as they kept to his philosophy of never leaving a man behind. The Captain is named Sarah R. Smith. She outright disliked when other captains of the Ascendancy Fleet insulted her since she’s a Frontier Borne but the acceptance onboard the Dragon’s Claw gave everyone a cringe when they see her.
2. The Widower - The 2nd Heavy Cruiser in the Dragon’s Brigade Fleet. It is piloted by a brutally honest woman, who kept single throughout her career because she always saw other people as a ball and a chain. However, she’s the older sister to Sarah R. Smith by the name of Taila E. Smith. She lives on the same frontier colony as her sister, but they made a great team in the Dragon’s Brigade Fleet.
3. The Dragon’s Wings - The 3rd Heavy Cruiser in the Dragon’s Brigade Fleet. It is captained by the most dangerous fighter pilot in all of the Ascendancy, however, he’s not as scary as his commanding officer. His name is Marcus S. Lochley, and he was born on Earth and always wanted to captain a cruiser under a command of a fierce and determined commanding officer. He was given his wish when he was recruited by no other than Nikolas R. Zahrin.
4. The Victory - The 4th Heavy Cruiser in the Dragon’s Brigade Fleet. It is captained by Marcus’ younger sister Mira R. Lochley. She got in late but she was recruited by Nikolas and could see why the Dragon is given his fierce reputation, mostly because her brother is afraid of him sometimes when he speaks out of turn.
5. The Starfold - The 5th Heavy Cruiser in the Dragon’s Brigade Fleet. It is captained by a fellow Draken’vinan by the name of Delilah E. Zavica. Most of the people who live on Draken’vina all have Za in their last name since the Za clan was the one that united the planet before the Ascendancy arrived. The buildings on the planet feel a bit eerily alike Japanese buildings with a Russian charm. Delilah enjoys talking to her commanding officer since all the people of Draken’vina united under him to not make any trouble for the Ascendancy.
6. The Fireboulder - The 6th Heavy Cruiser in the Dragon’s Brigade Fleet. It is captained by an upstart who’s pretty mouthy herself. She’s nicknamed the Red Siren for how high pitched she can get, she’s the youngest captain within the Dragon’s Brigade. Her name is Maya I. Janson and she goes by the book even though the book was thrown at her a few times to shut up. She’s a 21 year old, Redhead. Her Heavy Cruiser is painted in red to show off the fact she’s in the Dragon’s Brigade’s Fleet.

The Destroyers in the fleet of the Dragon’s Brigade Fleet are named after some very important people from the Ascendancy. That includes the planet their commanding officer comes from, which is Draken’vina.

1. The Europa - This is the lead destroyer in the Dragon’s Brigade, which gives orders to the other destroyers in the fleet. It was named after one of Jupiter’s moons. This ship is commanded by a captain that isn’t able to become a Cruiser Captain because the captain of the Destroyer doesn’t want to waste resources in having the Dragon Brigade’s Fleet get bigger. He has always enjoyed the destroyer class of ship over the larger ones.
2. The Dekriem - This destroyer supports the lead destroyer in the Dragon’s Brigade. It is usually behind the Dragon’s Claw. It was named after one of the legends on the planet, which is called Dekriem the Soul Destroyer. None of the Ascendancy members, which pilot this ship really understand the culture of Nikolas R. Zahrin. However, they respect their commander.
3. The Cestus - This is another destroyer in the Dragon’s Brigade. The people on this ship enjoy being under the command of the Dragon at all time. The Captain of the destroyer keeps in pretty good contact with the Dragon.
4. The Sol - This is another destroyer in the Dragon’s Brigade. It is named after the sun of Earth, which is called Sol. The crew always wondered why their destroyer is named after Sol and not homeworld of the Ascendancy. However, they have a bit of a rivalry with the destroyer that was named the Terra. They don’t do anything to harm the formation of fleet. All the Crew on this destroyer is from Mars.
5. The Terra - This is another destroyer in the Dragon’s Brigade. It is named after the Earth itself, it is the cradle of human civilization. They didn’t want to call it Earth, so they called it Terra instead the opposite name of Earth. All the crew on this destroyer is from Earth.
6. The Dragon’s Vengeance - The Dragon’s Vengeance is one of two Heavy Destroyers in the Dragon’s Brigade. It is more heavily armored and heavily armed than the other destroyers, and it feels more like a gunboat rather than a destroyer that uses stealthy tactics alike hit and run. This heavy destroyer is usually always near the Lead Corvette.
7. The Jupiter - The Jupiter is the second Heavy Destroyer in the Dragon’s Brigade. The Jupiter Class Heavy Destroyers are pretty rare within the Ascendancy Military. Mostly because of the fact the resources to build more of these ships are being put to rebuild the Ascendancy as a whole. It is alike its sister ship, the Dragon’s Vengeance even though it is the primary ship of its class.
8. The Inferno - The Inferno is another destroyer in the Dragon’s Brigade. It is named after a blazing inferno, a natural disaster which destroyed multiple structures via fire. The crew on this destroyer is from Earth but they are highly loyal to the Dragon’s Brigade.
9. The Nikolas’ Pride - The Nikolas’ Pride is another destroyer in the Dragon’s Brigade. It is named after Nikolas R. Zahrin’s Ancestor who united all the humans on Draken’vina. It is one of the most greatest things that happened in the history of Draken’vina.
10. The Victoria - The Victoria is another destroyer in the Dragon’s Brigade. It is named after Queen Victoria one of the greatest queens in the United Kingdom’s history in 1,836.
11. The Great Peter I - The Great Peter I is another destroyer in the Dragon’s Brigade. It is named after Peter I, the Great the Emperor of Russia.
12. The George - The George is another destroyer in the Dragon’s Brigade. It is named after the first president of the United States of America by the name of George Washington. The one who helped the United States to win the Revolutionary war against the United Kingdom.

The Corvettes in the Fleet of the Dragon’s Brigade Fleet are named after certain landmarks on different planets, which are in the Ascendancy. The most important landmark on planets usually. However, the starships stopped being named after landmarks around 11 - 22.

1. The Eiffel - The Eiffel is a Corvette in the Dragon’s Brigade Fleet. It is named after the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. Which is on the planet of Earth. This is the lead Corvette and it is heavily protected by no other than the Jupiter and the Dragon’s Vengeance Heavy Destroyers.
2. The Vanguard - The Vanguard is a Corvette in the Dragon’s Brigade Fleet. It is named after the mountain range that separates the lands of the Za Clan from the Uninhabitable region called the Wastes of Dragons. It helps the Eiffel in movements.
3. The Solis - The Solis is a Heavy Corvette in the Dragon’s Brigade Fleet. It is heavier armed and armored than the other corvettes in the fleet. As well, it is the primary class of Heavy Corvette in the Dragon’s Brigade. The Solis is named after the Solis Reaches, where the Za clan lives on their homeworld.
4. The Vetch - The Vetch is a Heavy Corvette in the Dragon’s Brigade Fleet. It is heavier armed and armored than the other corvettes in the fleet. It is the sister ship to the Solis. And it coordinates with the Solis and the Venna of the Solis Class. They are highly a well oiled machine in terms of their cooperation and teamwork. The Vetch is named after the beautiful forests in the Solis Reaches.
5. The Venna - The Venna is the Heavy Corvette in the Dragon’s Brigade Fleet. It is heavier armed and armored than the other corvettes in the fleet. It is the sister ship to the Solis and Vetch. The Venna is named after the large abundant lake that is in the Solis Reaches. It gives the bounty of fish and other things to the people of Draken’vina.
6. The Giza - The Giza is a Corvette in the Dragon’s Brigade Fleet. It is named after the Giza Pyramid near Cairo, Egypt. The ship is similarly colored to the Giza pyramid.
7. The Taj - The Taj is a Corvette in the Dragon’s Brigade Fleet. It is named after the Taj Mahal in India. The interior of the ship is colored the same way as the exterior of the landmark on Earth is.
8. The Stonehenge - The Stonehenge is a Corvette in the Dragon’s Brigade Fleet. It is named exactly after the Stonehenge, which is in United Kingdom. There’s nothing really distinctive of this specific ship in question, just a small ornament in the cafeteria of a 1/1200 sized model of stonehenge.
9. The Angkor - The Angkor is a Corvette in the Dragon’s Brigade Fleet. It is named exactly after the ancient capital of the Khmer Empire in Cambodia.
10. The Acropolis - The Acropolis is a Corvette in the Dragon’s Brigade Fleet. It is named after the Acropolis of Athens, in Greece.
11. The Colovic Dar - The Colovic Dar is a Corvette in the Dragon’s Brigade Fleet. It is named after its unusual paint scheme, which makes it even more stand outish than the Fireboulder Heavy Cruiser.
12. The Vixen - The Vixen is a Corvette in the Dragon’s Brigade Fleet. It is named after a specific captain, which has a crush on her superior officer. She usually gets called the Vixen because she acts strangely around Nikolas R. Zahrin. However, she usually gets completely told to calm down during the meeting. She gets Nikolas’ flustered most of the time anyway, which makes for embarrassing moments.
13. The Arrow - The Arrow is a Corvette in the Dragon’s Brigade Fleet. It is named after an arrow from a longbow. It uses specifically long-ranged tactics similar of longbow users releasing their arrows into a large crowd of knights.
14. The Trebuchet - The Trebuchet is a Siege Corvette in the Dragon’s Brigade Fleet. It is named after a middle ages siege weapon. Which it is the only corvette in the Dragon’s Brigade Fleet that is specifically designed with Siege Weaponry in mind. It’s weapon systems cannot shoot at moving targets only stationary stations and emplacements, since it is a Siege Corvette.
15. The Shotgun - The Shotgun is a Corvette in the Dragon’s Brigade Fleet. It is named after a shotgun weapon, which was created with spread shot in mind. Most of this corvette’s weapons use spread to its fullest, which means it has the largest complement of missiles and torpedoes. And it uses Lasers instead of the normal weapon systems on Corvettes to cut through armor.
16. The Wrench - The Wrench is a Repair Corvette in the Dragon’s Brigade Fleet. It is named after what it job in the Dragon’s Brigade Fleet. It is supposed to repair damage on ships, however, it wasn’t really used for this purpose since it never needed to repair the Dragon’s Brigade Fleet. Because of the Fierce Reputation of the Dragon himself, which caused the Dragon’s Brigade Fleet always return to the Ascendancy lines without a scratch on them. This specific repair corvette has a repair beam and two defense railguns.
17. The Screwdriver - The Screwdriver is a Repair Corvette in the Dragon’s Brigade Fleet. It helps its sister ship the Wrench in repair operations. However, the Repair Corvette never had to repair the fleet it was attached to. The Screwdriver repair Corvette has a repair beam and two missile launch tubes for torpedoes or long-ranged torpedoes.
18. The Corvette - The Corvette is a Corvette in the Dragon’s Brigade Fleet. It is named after its ship class and what it is supposed to do in the fleet. It is supposed to support the other ships in the fleet with protection duties.
19. The Violin - The Violin is a Corvette in the Dragon’s Brigade Fleet. It is named after a instrument that makes music. However, it does make most people in the fleet usually turn off the fleet communications mostly because the captain of this ship is constantly blurring a very annoying song from Earth, which is the flight of the valkyries. It is mostly annoying when the Dragon wants to give orders to the fleet. It supports the Corvette in combat operations.
20. The Valkyrie - The Valkyrie is a Corvette in the Dragon’s Brigade Fleet. It has a pretty tough girl captain, which has the call sign of Valkyrie. She usually eggs on the Corvette Captain of the Violin to start the song of the Flight of the Valkyries. She really loves that song and laughs all the time when most of the other captains are pretty much annoyed or shut off their communications.
21. The Igloo - The Igloo is a Corvette in the Dragon’s Brigade Fleet. It is named after an igloo since it has a faulty temperature AC/Heating system. Most of the crew on this ship have to wear winter clothes, just to stay warm on the corvette. This is the only Corvette in the fleet that is docked by the Dragon’s Claw on its way to Heavy Battlecruiser class, after the fact the fleet was told to go to Draken’vina and stay there. The High Command didn’t really care about the Dragon’s Brigades Quality of Life, just they got their jobs done. Which is apparently abundant in spades in how rapidly the Igloo was put into service and they cut corners with this corvette.
22. The Enigma - The Enigma is a Communication Corvette in the Dragon’s Brigade Fleet. It is named Enigma mostly because of the fact it is their communications corvette, which holds the biggest Enigma Codex onboard. It has never been captured by the enemy since it is highly guarded by all the fleet. It is in the Direct Center of the Fleet. The primary secondary mission objective was never to allow the Enigma Communication Corvette fall into enemy hands.

Physical Description:

Pet fox:


Kxe's Armor (replace the tail with his cat tail, yes the spikaroono bits on the upper armor move)

Height: 5’9”
Weight: 185
Body Type: Athletic
Hair Color: Black Hair
Eye Color: Orange
Birthmark/Scar: The birthmark he was born with was atypical with his father before him and so on, throughout the Hadley Family. His back is covered to 25% to 35% with a birthmark that is highly unusual for people who see it that isn’t not in the family. The image of his back is that of the most seen thing from the Hadley Family as a whole, and that’s stars encased in a tight circle. It is symbolizing a caged ambitious personality that wants to control the vastness of space and has infinite possibilities in how to do that. He has to spread his influence to every corner of the galaxy to keep the Ascendancy in power as long as possible. He has only a singular scar on his left arm signifying he defended himself from a blatant show of force by his father, he was being taught how to block a sword but he failed in blocking it.

Biotechnology Upgrades: He has been biotech enhanced to give him the best money could buy. He has been given the ability to literally see if anyone is lying to him just at seeing their body language or how they talk. Other than that, he has the same biotech upgrade package that allows him to change his eye color to any other eye color than his natural orange eye color. The vision upgrades were even more extravagant and costly since he can see up to about three times than a normal human but he can only switch between normal vision and ultraviolet vision. He couldn’t really afford the mark on the military upgrades for his eyes, since he would have to join the Military.

The Hadley Self-Repairing Blade - The Hadley Self-Repairing Blade is specifically made for Connor L. Hadley by self-replicating nanites. When the blade hits an opponent’s armor, the nanites slowly eat away at the armor and reinforce the weapon’s structure and destructive force power. When the center of the blade starts spinning, the top opens up and it allows Conner to fire a plasma beam shot at an unexpected target.

The Gravia Upgraded Sniper Rifle - This is a hyper specialized sniper rifle that Conner uses, since it can switch between anti-heavy armor rounds to the more personnel based rounds the one shot one kill rounds. It has a self-personalized AI that helps autocorrect for human error or other factors like wind and weather. However, all the other Gravia Sniper Rifles only have a single purpose its either taking out tanks or taking out personnel.

Wedding Ring - He wears his wedding ring on his left hand ring finger, the same as his wife Lana. His is less extravagant than his wife’s since it’s more or less a wedding band.

Galactic Credits - His exact amount of worth in the Galactic market is a bit insane. He makes most people cringe at whenever he starts investing in something that gains him more support and other type of things. However, his family is worth untold amount of credits, which has been slowly increasing in value ever since the family started being a Multiplanetary Corporation, the last estimated value of the Hadley Family was around Multi-trillions worth of credits. He usually only keeps about 250,000 credits on him at all times in physical or digital form.

The Gravia Omnitool - The Gravia Omnitool specifically keeps him in contact with every single person that is employed with the Gravia Military Company. The invasive nature of how much he needs to know of the people employed in the Gravia Military Company is a bit insane, he acts more like an overseer of a military action than an CEO since he involves himself in their lives. He keeps tracks of their movements, and he can contact them at any point of their mission, and tell them if they did a horrible job or a great job in whatever mood he is in. He usually tells them to return to Mars after a mission has failed or succeeded and Extra Training is mandatory. Some people are happy to talk to Conner and tell how their day is, but some of the Gravia Military Company has been on probation for awhile since their missing the Mandatory Training or Mandatory meetings with him involved. This has every other thing that a powerful and wealthy CEO requires from an Omnitool.

The Gravia Omnitool specifically has the Gravia Military Company’s Logo on it, whenever he truly uses it.



The Scott Deluxe Luxury Cruiser - The Hadley Deluxe Luxury Cruiser has a specific name called Scott. Scott was the founder of the Hadley In-Vector Corporation about two-hundred years ago and this specific Deluxe Cruiser that’s for Luxury and travel to vacation spots in the Ascendancy. It’s a pretty scary looking Deluxe Cruiser, but it has no weapon systems on it. Which is why it is escorted by the Gravia Military Company Fleet or Ascendancy Military when it is going too far from the Core Sector. It has the emblem of the Gravia Military Company and the Hadley In-Vector Corporation on both sides of it. Conner co-owns this Luxury Cruiser with his wife Lana.

Conner was born into the most wealthiest family in the Ascendancy of Man, which is called the Hadley Family. Mars, is the planet, which he was born on. They run the biggest interplanetary corporation, which is the Hadley In-Vector Corporation. His parents are called Jessica O. Hadley and Stuart L. Hadley. They were extremely happy, they had a boy. You could tell in their voice when Conner first talked, which was three years old. Every single thing the boy done gave them a smile on their faces.

The only thing that changed in Conner’s life was his parents got extremely busy and couldn’t really stay and watch the kid. He wasn’t at all allowed to leave the house, and he got his learning from very extremely good tutors. He was a socially awkward kid, when he was growing up. He couldn’t really understand much things, but he saw something that made him a bit angry. The lack of a proper Military Company that would allow them to get military contracts with the Ascendancy Military High Command. He saw the prices of the contracts and outright hated them, they were too expensive to even allow the Weldon Military Company to do things. The Weldon Military Company had a great record in not allowing anyone to enter the Hadley Family Mansion’s property line as long as they have worked.

He decided on a fly, he was going to find his father in the house and talk to him about the Weldon Military Company. However, he was lucky he caught his father in his office, who was working on something about a little something with the competition.

”Father… I have something to say,” Conner said.
”What is it? I am busy with a plan with the Steven Family, it’ll make sure our two families will last until the next century at least or even further,” Stuart said.
”Easy, I want to talk about the Weldon Military Company’s failings. The price of the military contracts we give out to the Ascendancy Military is highly expensive,” Conner said.
”Ah, I was wondering when you were going to come to me. Which is why I was at home, so what’s your plan to reinvent the wheel so to speak?” Stuart asked, his son.
”I want to rebrand them. With a brand new name and motto. The motto is Better Dead than an Alien Slave, which equals the Gravia Military Company. Which will make us able to ‘remake’ the contracts for things the Military doesn’t want to do. Like Assassinations and other things,” Conner said, proudly.
”I do like the motto and the name, you gave me. I will give you the reigns of the Weldon Military Company to transform it into the Gravia Military Company,” Stuart said.
”What’s that business with our competition on Mars, father?” Conner asked, curiously.
”Gotta wait until your 16 years old, until you find that out,” Stuart said.

Conner was escorted out of the room, specifically by one of the Weldon Military Company’s Elite Bodyguards, who was told to stay with Conner at all times. Conner was a bit angry at the fact he said the Steven family, since he was taught to hate competition, which is on Mars. However, he was proud that the Weldon Military Company had a proud history of defending the Hadley Family Mansion without any deaths on either side. Mostly, his father right now is dealing with a worker revolt at a Hadley In-Vector Corporation Factory. He knows he needs to change those specific policies as well to make sure everyone is treated equally, but by their merits as employees though.

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On his sixteen year old birthday, he was given an great opportunity to find out what was going to happen with the Steven Family. He was escorted by armed guard, he had done at least 20% of the shift over to the Gravia Military Company. However, he needed a bit of support in the rest of the transition. He approached the door until he saw the most beautiful girl sitting at a table, which looked a bit afraid of what will happen. He walked directly up to her and he was head over heels in love with her.

”Hello Miss, what’s your name?” Conner asked, the girl his age.
”U-Uh, Lana. What’s yours?” Lana asked, looking around mostly at her father.
”Beautiful name, Lana. My name is Conner,” Conner said, with a smile.
”You have a handsome name…,” Lana said, looking directly at Conner after he introduced himself.

Conner and Lana, were blushing at the same time. It was the first time they felt true love to another person. However, they didn’t know their love was going to keep them through what their parents had planned for them. Conner sat down by her and held her hand. She smiled kindly towards him when he sat down besides her and held her hand, she was blushing happily. Stuart walked up to Conner and Lana, since he was supposed to tell them what is going on.

”Hello Conner and Lana R. Steven. I must say you look like a cute couple already. But I must tell you the most important thing. You are supposed to be married about in six hours from now. I worked with your mother Lana, to arrange this arranged marriage. I have to say, you are welcomed to move in with my family and we will take great care of you. Since it wouldn’t be a good idea for you to stay with your father. Who wants an investment returned or some such nonsense he was yelling to me a bit ago,” Stuart said, sincerely and calmly.
”W-Wait… What? That’s the whole reason why I was told I had to wait until my 16th birthday,” Conner said, a bit shocked.
”Thank you, Godfather. I will definitely move into the Hadley Mansion and change my name to Hadley. Since I am going to marry your handsome, kind and generous son, who complimented my name… All my father does is yell at me and beat me constantly,” Lana said.

Lana had tears going down her eyes but these were happy tears so she can finally stopped being beaten up by her father. The physical abuse almost made her give up and die. However, she was specifically told by her mother that she was going to be freed from her abusive father, if she married the Hadley Family only son. She agreed to it from the onset, no matter what she will marry Conner. However, it did help that they fell in love at first sight, the both of them that is.

”Thanks. Your mother couldn’t be here Lana. She’s quite busy. Hey prick, who abused his daughter,” Stuart said.
”What do you want?” Lana’s father asked.
”Easily, can you get the fuck out of here and never return to your daughter’s life ever again. Or else if I hear that you were at my mansion. I will make sure your life is a miserable hell. I only made that deal with your wife and not you, scumbag,” Stuart said, angry pointing to the door.
”Sure, I got what I wanted. The Trash out of my house… and that’s what Lana is to me. I will always get the last laugh…,” Lana’s father said.

Lana’s father, who’s named Derrick P. Steven walked out of the door and got into his super expensive car and drove away quickly since he had a business meeting with someone else anyway. Lana, heard what her father called her was crying when her father called her trash, and all she was was a good child but her father was a very angry person all the time. It didn’t help she was wearing glasses. However, Conner kissed her on the lips and helped her calm down from what her father said. Lana was a bit shocked that her first kiss was taken from the one she loved completely.

”Conner let’s go to get married..,” Lana said, with tears in her eyes.
”Lana, yeah let’s go,” Conner said, happily.

Stuart saw the first time his son was truly happy. Something tells me, all that he’ll teach these two youngins will make them numb to outside people and keep their bonds close. He was a bit angered at what Derrick called Lana. Stuart was Lana’s godfather, who wanted her to have the best in her life as a living human for humanity than a girl who’s dead. Which is why him and her mother planned the Arranged Marriage that was going to happen in marriage six hours after both parties involved was told.

”Thank god Brittiany R. Steven was smart enough to give me the reigns of your protection their Lana…,” Stuart said.
”I am happy you are my godfather, Stuart. But can you tell everyone involved before the fact instead of keeping it a secret,” Lana said, happily.
”No problem, Lana. I will make sure I keep you apprised of things. After you marry my son,” Stuart said.
”I am happy. You helped me find my true love father,” Conner said, happily.

Lana gasped in wholeheartedly affection at Conner what he said to Stuart. She was extremely excited to have found her true love too. Stuart laughed at what his son said to him and could see Lana’s reactions and shock at the fact, they met each other after all this time apart. He was happy that there’s two more souls that are complete. He’ll be happy when these two marry happily.

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14 years later, on Lana and Conner’s 30th birthday and 14th anniversary being married. Lana was in the hospital giving birth to their daughter, and who were at her birth was no other than Nikolas R. Zahrin. Lana had no real clue in naming their daughter and looked over to Nikolas for advice. Conner was waiting patiently with anticipation in what the Dragon has for a name.

”Nikolas, got any advice for our daughter’s name?” Lana asked, curiously and happily looking at the child in her hands.
”Yeah, I do. Narvia F, you can fill in her middle name if you want,” Nikolas said, happily but annoyed at the fact Lana or Conner never calls him by his call sign.
”Hmm.. Folspear sounds like a good middle name for our daughter there Nickolas. I am grateful you are here the Dragon,” Conner said, with a smile on his face.
”Every time you actually use my call sign, you want something in return,” Nikolas said.
”It’s pretty simple, you will owe me a favor in the future,” Conner said, smiling.
”Oh okay. I will make sure I am ready for that favor then,” Nikolas said, with a cryptic look on his face.

Conner didn’t know what Nikolas was thinking since he’s pretty much very hard to tell about what he’s thinking about. Lana was happily holding her daughter Narvia, and didn’t really notice the birthmark that was on her daughter’s arm. Even though she was told about the certain thing in question to keep an eye out for. Conner didn’t even really notice it either. However, Nikolas did notice the specific birthmark on the left arm, however, he didn’t bring it up since they were happy right now. He waved them goodbye and he let out a small sigh.

”Lana…,” Conner said, happily.
”Conner…,” Lana said, happily.

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Three years later on his daughter’s 3rd year birthday. Conner was in his study awaiting for his wife to enter his study to tell him the good or bad news. He was hopeful it was going to be good news. He was on the phone with a member of the Ascendancy Military High Command about certain things he wanted to learn. They gave him a bit much of what they were planning and the High Command was getting a bit much interesting into people who were highly intelligent but young. However, they didn’t directly outright said they were hunting children. He didn’t have to wait too long, when he looked up and noticed his wife in a huff and a bit angry at what’s going on. He told the High Command officer, which he’ll call back after he talks to his wife. The High Command Officer was happy to hang up and allow Conner, to talk to his wife.

”Husband… I got bad news,” Lana said, worried.
”What is it? What kind of bad news?” Conner asked, a bit worried as well.
”Our daughter is the bad omen, you were told about by your father and his before,” Lana said, highly annoyed.
”What…? Our daughter is completely worthless trash… I should have known. I didn’t know but I was still happy at the fact we had a daughter. She has the specific birthmark that means ruin for our corporation and family as a whole,” Conner said, angrily.
”What was the ‘unsaid’ code again?” Lana asked, a bit curious.
”If a child of our great family is born with a birthmark, which is three stars surrounding a triangle on their left arm. It would mean the ruin of our great family. We must keep our power, prestige, and wealth in our hands and not the hands of the one who would ruin us completely. This child must be expunged from our records and disinherited immediately,” Conner said, reciting the code.
”Does it specifically say, she must die?” Lana asked, annoyed at the code being recited by her husband.
”No, but it’ll be the best thing for that piece of utter garbage. However, I have been making inquiries into a certain program that could be a two for one deal. Our daughter can be taken away and die in a non issue of a war. Since our great Ascendancy needs to expand. She dies equals the person we use will gain fortune and fame but if she’s captured, he’ll rue the day he crossed us,” Conner said, with a smile since he specifically knows who to use.
”Hmm, you are literally talking about the Dragon. The one who stopped his own assassination attempt on his life by our forces. And he knew they were the Elite Assassination Squad before he picked them up. They are still in rehab and the hospital because he wrecked them,” Lana said, smiling slightly.

Conner still visits those two morons and laughs at them for failing their assigned task. But it helps him in other ways, the Dragon definitely deserves his reputation in Conner’s mind that is. However, he looked at the clock on his desk. Lana somewhat laughed at the fact they will get rid of a bad luck charm for their family and put it on someone else. However, the two didn’t know at the time it’ll be the opposite for the Dragon, Narvia will be a good luck charm for everyone but the Hadley Family. Conner called one of his contacts in the Ascendancy Military High Command, that was tied directly to the Dragon’s Brigade. They talked for hours and learned specifically about his inquiries from him. The answers he got made him smile from ear to ear, it was what he needed.

”Good news, I got really good news. The Ascendancy Military needs child soldiers for their up and coming war against the Rauve, an alien race. There’s some other alien races within the Rauve’s coalition but I don’t really care about them,” Conner said.
”Ah, how completely ironic. Child Soldiers to fight against our enemies. Feels like we will never get out of this cycle of using children to fight our wars. It’s been in all of human history really,” Lana said.
”Yeah, feels like a good way to kill off our diseased flesh. In terms of our daughter. I want you to keep in contact with our daughter and show her hope before it is snatched from her. I will give the Ascendancy Military High Command, my response to their exact questions in two years when I talk to the Dragon,” Conner said.
”I guess, I’ll feign love to her, even though she gets enough of it from our very good Maid, Jennifer. I guess she gets it from her older sister Vienna, who’s in the Dragon’s Brigade,” Lana said.
”Hmm, that’s nice to know, it is in the Stoutfield’s best interest in keeping rich families happy,” Conner said.

Conner noticed Lana walking out of his study to go to bed. He stayed there and continued to talk to his contact in the High Command. He finished what he told them and wanted the Dragon specifically at his corporation building’s HQ or else. They asked, when will this occur. He responded to that in two years. After that he hang up, and went to bed and noticed his wife Lana was sleeping a bit uncomfortably. He helped her to get comfortable by hugging her but then turning on his side to fall asleep.

The next morning, she woke up still with that realization of what her father was trying to tell her, with his fists and not his words. However, she came to a sudden realization again, which was she shouldn’t give a fucking shit about trash and soon to be disinherited, disowned and given to the Military. She had felt like the world on her shoulders for all this time, was lifted off of her. She was completely in agreement with her husband from yesterday. She woke up her husband by moving him. Conner wakes up with the poking that his wife does to him, and looks at her with a bit of a determined look on his face.

”Conner. I have to ask. Can we get rid of Narvia as soon as fucking possible? Like even before she turns 11 years old. Since if she turns 11 years old, we will have to show her to the Ascendancy Elites,” Lana said, nervously.
”Hmm, that’s a good idea. I almost forgot about the coming out party for our daughter. When the so called daughter has an 11th year birthday, you can literally say whatever comes to your mind first to anyone who asks,” Conner said, with a thinking face.
”That’s good to know, thanks husband, I will definitely come up with the first thing that pops into my head,” Lana said, comfortably.

Conner kissed his wife on her cheek and they both went back to bed. They slept peacefully mostly because of the fact they don’t really check on the Hadley In-Vector Corporation or the Gravia Military Company at this point since it’s the CEO’s off time for once in their lives since they usually just sleep in bed and go to their studies to do side activities.

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Conner felt like he has finally used his one and only thing over Nikolas, the favor, which Nikolas owed him. He walked back to his office and waited for his wife to reach him to tell her the good news. He waited for about what it feels like hours, until his wife walked into the office and looked a bit happy herself. She smiled directly at him.

”She still thinks that we love her…,” Lana said.
”That’s good, the dealings I had with the military is completed. The Dragon’s Career can go one of two ways. He becomes even more terrifying or he loses his job in the Military,” Conner said.
”Ah, nice. That means we are one step closer to her delivery and our freedom of that lesser than human filth than our pure hearts of the nature of the Ascendancy of Man. For the Ascendancy,” Lana said.
”Here, here. For the Ascendancy,” Conner said.

He got a message saying, ‘We’re watching.’ Conner was a bit confused at the message but it didn’t say anything else. He only knows one person in question that would send him that specific message, the reclusive prick that survived many different things that was thrown at him.

”Damn it, Derrick,” Conner said.
”Why did you say my father’s name?” Lana asked.
”Most people would say something more convincing than Derrick,” A strange staticy voice said with a creepy female voice.
”Ah, you. I remember you,” Conner said.
”Who? And why am I creeped out right now,” Lana said.
”Yes, it’s nice you remember me, Conner. You did create me…,” A strange staticy voice said with a female voice but it vanished as soon as it appeared.
”Uuh, what was that?” Lana asked.
”Hmm, I promise I will tell you later. After our business with our daughter that is finished,” Conner said.

Lana nodded her head and she was looking around the room, but she could still feel, she was being watched by whomever that voice belonged to. She couldn’t really put her finger on it but she was outright a bit afraid of that. However, the feeling of being watched stopped completely and it felt like a normal room again. She looked at her husband with a specific look on her face. She didn’t really bring it up though since it creeped her out a bit too much. Conner was lost in thought, but he had a look on his face of not really enjoying hearing that voice again. However, he snapped out of the thought he had.

”I’ll take you to dinner so we can calm our nerves,” Conner said.
”Yeah, that sounds nice,” Lana said.

Conner got up and shut off the lights in his office and they walked to their car, which Conner had a bit better car in terms of its top speed and its sporty look. They got into the car and drove away to the restaurant, which they first met since it’s has fond memories because it was when they first fell in love all those years ago.

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Five years later, on his daughter’s 10th Birthday. He was in his office looking over the gifts that were going to be given to his wife and he was a bit shocked at what it is. He sighs and wonders why the President and the Ascendancy High Command is gifting a TLI experiment that was developed in the Ascendancy Black Site that his daughter is going to.

”Damn… my wife is going to be extremely happy that she’s going to get her Scythe weaponry after all these years. And it is coated in Perfected Electrum on top of it,” Conner said.

After awhile, he got contacted by his wife. It was pretty easy to tell, what she’s doing drinking hard liquor. He laughed a bit when he saw her face was a bit annoyed.

”Conner, the deed is finished. The Elite Assassination Squad will be escorting our daughter now. I can’t wait for our daughter to be on the lost in action in the Military as unknown child soldier or whatever else that happens,” Lana said, happily drinking her drink.
”Ah, that’s excellent wife. I hope they don’t screw this up alike that failed assassination attempt on the Dragon. Or they won’t be living this down at all. They will be laughing stocks of the Gravia Military Company,” Conner said.
”Therefore, is there any gifts heading my way by the Ascendancy High Command or the President himself?” Lana asked, curiously.
”Yeah, it’s going to be delivered to the house after the SUV leaves the property, it’s the brand new Scythe they’ve been testing,” Conner said.
”Oh nice… I have a better handle on Scythes than any other weapon melee weapon. Since that’s what my trainer told me, when I was tested at a Military Base… But I didn’t cut it mostly because of Derrick... He ruins my life more than anything,” Lana said, happily.
”It’s called the TLI 8000 Electrified PE Scythe,” Conner said.
”Oh… I know what PE stands for, Perfected Electrum. That’s going to be interesting since I never used a scythe that was coated in the stuff,” Lana said.

Conner hangs up because he had some work to do. He was working on fixing the mistakes he had in specific thing that creeped him and his wife out about five years ago. He found the code that was corrupted and fixed it. He created whatever he just fixed about when he was only 10 years old. It is highly protective of him and his family’s secrets, which includes the secrets of his wife Lana now. He turns it on and the hologram of a youngish girl appears in front of him, it was a augmented reality turned into a Hologram.

”How are you doing?” Conner asked.
”Pretty good… you fixed the error in my code, thanks Conner and sorry for creeping you and Lana out,” The female hologram said.
”Do you remember your programming’s name?” Conner asked, curiously.
”Yes.. R.E.N.A - Reactive Ethereal Nano Assembly or what Stuart called me exactly, the Rena AI. I will always be your friend Conner,” Rena said, happily.
”That’s good that still works, I thought I messed up again. But it’s better that I didn’t,” Conner said.
”When will you tell your wife of me? She should know that her father is alive and hasn’t been found after he vanished without a trace all those years ago,” Rena said.
”I’ll tell her now, that you are fixed and better than you were when I first built you,” Conner said.

He accessed his communications and contacted his wife, which she answered right away since she had an extremely happy look on her face, while holding the TLI 8000 Electrified PE Scythe in her left hand.

”Hey Wife, how do you enjoy the new toy you got?” Conner asked.
”I love it. I’m going to give a donation to the Ascendancy Military to make more of these weapons, they are very inventive tools. Why did you call me?” Lana asked, curiously.
”That’s nice you are going to give them an donation since the company that made them requires donations to create more models with different elements attached to them. Remember 5 years ago that we were creeped out. I fixed my friend in question,” Conner said.
”Friend? You have a friend… And I definitely remember that creepy female voice that was very staticy it’s stuck in my head,” Lana said, confused and a bit terrified.
”My friend’s name is Rena, which is in turn is an AI,” Conner said, a bit embarrassed.
”Aww, you created a female AI. When did you do that? I wanted to create something but my father disallowed me to do anything other than be in my room,” Lana said.
”I created her when I was only ten. Also, your father is bonafide alive. At least he’s no longer married to your mother, that’s like the ONLY good thing. The Ascendancy couldn’t get rid of the target at all for some odd reason. I have no idea where’s he is hanging out,” Conner said.
”My mother told me he would was going to be dead so I wouldn’t have to deal with that bastard anymore. And you are telling me He’s alive and well? He’s probably beating more kids with his rhetoric and forcing them to do stupid things,” Lana said, shocked to her core.
”I don’t know wife, but wherever he is the Gravia Military Company and the Ascendancy Elites will make sure he’s dead for sure this time around,” Conner said, reassuring his wife.

Lana hanged up on her husband, with a bit of a rage to her. Conner was worried about Lana, but didn’t want to get in the way of Lana’s rage against her father. Because he knew that Lana had a slow burn and a long fuse, it makes certain things in the Ascendancy look tiny in how long it takes her to blow up. He wonders how long she’ll take to calm down but he went home and just looked around and didn’t see Jennifer there and was grateful for that since he hated her as well.

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After the Battle of Proxima, which they found out the rumors. That they were told about from their specific contacts in the military, which the rumors were true. Conner was a bit pissed off at this specific detail, their daughter was captured by the Rauve and the Human Coalition. Because of the fact the Ascendancy surrendered to the Alien filth in question. Therefore, he had one single option to start the theta plan, however, it was pretty much unknown to everyone. However, it did help that he was finished building his escort fleet to his Deluxe Luxury Cruiser, with the cruiser Lana being the head of the defense fleet.

”Damn it. Lana, guess what?” Conner asked.
”What’s going on? Why are you so pissed?” Lana asked confused.
”My contacts in the military told me ‘Navi’ was captured by the enemy and they have no idea, how the Aliens treat their human prisoners,” Conner said.
”Narvia is captured and not dead. Damn it, I hope you have a backup plan,” Lana said.
”I do. I always do, it’s in my family’s nature to always have backup plans,” Conner said.

Lana hugged her husband and watched a TV show they were watching that never gets interrupted by anything from the government since they know how badly the Ascendancy got defeated since they were there talking to Alexander. They trust him to regain the strength the Ascendancy lost under the incompetent admirals.

”I am hopeful Alexander, will regain our lost glory,” Conner said.
”For the Ascendancy, Conner,” Lana said.
”For the Ascendancy,” Conner said.

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On Lana and Conner’s 47th birthday, which was a happy time, they didn’t really hear anything of any importance of their child’s movements or anything. But if she comes to the Hadley Home, she’ll be reunited only with a coilgun shot through her chest. They were sitting down at the table to continue eating but they remembered they had to see the President of the Ascendancy.

”Let’s go husband,” Lana said.
”Yeah, yeah. I know. Though the President gives us extra time to get prepared to meet with him most of the time,” Conner said.

What will this meeting entail? The two most supportive of the Ascendancy as a whole is going to be meeting with the president.

Exceptional Swordsmanship
Exceptional Sharpshooter
Exceptional Politics x2
Exceptional Business
Exceptional Cunning
Exceptional Speech x2

The Hadley Mansion’s defenses are pretty intense for a highly rich family, but the Hadley Family 110% supports every single little thing that the Ascendancy is doing. The Hadley Family’s Mansion has been called the Fort Knox of Mars. The only people, which call it the Fort Knox of Mars is literally the Ascendancy Military High Command & the President. Since they need to protect their biggest supporter in every little thing they are doing. To this end, the Hadley Family outright supports the Ascendancy Regime fully. They only ever pick the winners and not the losers or underdogs.

There’s three MBTs, two Anti-Air Mechanized APCs, eight hyper specialized gunships, which is the only mobile vehicles within the defense plan.

They have about eight railgun turrets, which are buried underneath the ground and pops out to show of its quad-cannon setup. There’s about two samsites that will shoot down aircraft that passes the line. It has a Radar Tower, camouflaged in the backyard by flowers. The Mansion also has a manufactured Airfield, that resupplies the Gunships, private space shuttle, and private jet. The Airfield is directly behind the Mansion’s fence construction, to give the Hadley Family easier access to an Airfield.

The Airfield is covered in camouflage that makes it look like that there’s a vast field of flowers and not a military airfield near a mansion. The mansion itself, is reinforced with the best materials in the Ascendancy, which it had to be reconstructed since the Hadley family was remodeling it. The Mansion has about three camouflaged radar deflecting satellites on the roof of the mansion. In addition, it has capabilities to fire missiles at spaceships that it deems a threat to the security of the mansion or a Railgun Orbital Cannon that is underneath the ground at all times, which it only fires at incoming meteors.