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Eden, heart of the Kaiern Kingdom, home to a powerful clone race and mass producer of a navy unlike any other. Surrounding the planet is a number of space-stations and star-factories, all which are dedicated to producing the kingdoms massive ships and great fleets.

One of these new ships was just at that moment finishing being cold-welded, the method where two pieces of metal are placed together at such extremely low temperatures that they fuse completely together, this particular ship was one of many of the Kaiern cruisers being built at that point. The ship followed standard design and was triangular in shape, with an elongated and bulky strip along the base of the hull, it was also a smoothly shaped ship, crafted with an exterior hull of tri-tanium, a metal at least 3 times stronger than regular titanium, its polished black edges reflected the star light of the surrounding systems.

Striding into the sleek and shining command deck of his ship was Farstrider, so named for his ability to outrun the majority of men in his first regiment, his red cape billowed out behind him as he made his way to a raised balcony situated above the operations deck, where the ships navigator, pilot and other executive officers were posted. All the men rose from their positions in acknowledgement of the higher rank of the Ships Commander, waiting until he had sat down in his command chair before they themselves retook their own positions, he turned to the Kaiern at his side, known as Skyglide.

"Under Commander." He said in a formal tone, some men in command were more lax and informal than him, yet he believed that discipline must be maintained when at ones post at all times. "Situation report."

Skyglide nodded and stepped forwards. "All situations normal, Ship Commander, systems are at maximum capacity, ammunition and supplies are fully stocked and the men are awaiting our heading, sir." Farstrider waved him away and moved to call down to the deck bellow when a shout came up to him from his comms officer.

"Incoming transmission, sir, putting it through now." Normally this would be a breach of conduct, unless the transmission was coming one of higher rank. Indeed it was, all Kaiern snapped to attention, their right hand closed into a fist over their heart in salute as the face of Commander took up the view screen. Commander was the eldest, greatest and highest ranking all of the Kaiern, he was both the first Kaiern and second most powerful in the entire Kingdom, naturally he commanded respect with his image alone.

"Ships Commander Farstride." Though Commander had lived for centuries and faced every single bloody war along the way, always leading from the front, he had never lost a sense of humor and as such was very informal despite his rank. "I see you were planning on leaving us without saying goodbye. Good luck out there Farstrider, hopefully you won't need it, your patrol route is going out beyond our territories though, keep on guard for The Enemy at all times Ships Commander." With that the transmission suddenly cut out, due to the fact there was always a delay in these communications it was usually a lengthy affair and most simply got everything they needed to say out all in one go.

Farstrider gestured to the Kaiern bellow to set course out of the star-docks and to travel away from the debris fields that were dotted around the low orbit, after a few minutes the ships navi-computer lit up, declaring the ship clear to vibro-jump away. "Navigator." Farstrider began. "Set course to the Zelia colony, vibro-jump when ready."

The ship quickly set about to preparing for the sometime difficult jump across space, unlike the other races Kaiern ships contain a molecular destabaliser and energiser, which can only be fitted only larger ships such as cruisers just to have enough space to power them, when activated massive vibrations power through the ship, destablasing the molecular bonds between atoms, then projecting them to wherever they are needed to go. With a few pulses the Farstrider visibly shook and then gently disappeared.