Setting
New Dev Eru
New Dev Eru, chosen for its centralized location, and rare in the inner ring uncolonized status, is a desert planet in a fairly small solar system with only two other planets. It is about twice the size of earth, and has about 3 times the gravity.
A single day lasts 29.27 hours and a year lasts 390 days. The planet is made up of 11 continents, which make up 81% of the planet's landmass. Water is plentiful in underground reservoirs, though little water or life is apparent form the surface, with much of the Erutin infrastructure and people living underground.
The plantlike organisms on this planets are largely low to the ground, with trees and wood being rare, though some forests do exist nearer to the poles. Native animals tend to be small in size as well, though some larger ones are found nearer to the poles.
The New Palace is in the northern hemisphere, and while it still lies in the desert, it is in a more habitable region. Much of the above ground life occurs closer to the poles, though there are no settlements in the trees, due to the need to maintain the forests of the planet.
Major exports from this planet include sand, diamonds, and quartz, along with more synthetic materials in the form of nanocloth, which the underground communities produce in abundance. Imports include food, though thanks to advanced hydroponics systems, the planet is largely self sustaining.
Major cities are: Rautuin, Kalkola, Niskos, Helingby, and Hevosoja.
"Death says you have to meditate as well."
"C'mon. Torture. I we being serious about this?" the fighter ran a hand through his hair, his black locks sticking in every direction. "You're not ACTUALLY going to tutor me, are you? I thought you were just humoring Rahal. I mean, you MUST have better things to do." He waved a dismissive hand towards his books. "I mean, we BOTH do. What good are those, anyway? I'm a fighter. I train my body. How will knowing what year Henry the Fifth invaded France help be AT ALL in battle?"
"You want to fight? Exercise your brain as well, or the best body in the world will still end with your ass handed to you."
"I'm not a thug, I just like to think practically..." his voice was edging along a growl, "...there are college majors for a reason. People specialize in a SINGLE direction of education because trying to learn EVERYTHING is a waste of time. I'm human. I'll die in sixty-to-eighty years, sooner if I continue my path as a fighter. I don't have the time to learn things that I'll never use."
Torin walked begrudgingly over to his backpack, fishing out his English book. Shakespeare's Macbeth. "Like this! What's the point of this? How is this helping me at all? You don't have to be a thug to dislike a subject. Or have trouble learning about it in the first place." Even when Torin HAD been trying to do well in his studies when he'd first enrolled, he'd barely been managing a 'C' average. Truth be told, the young fighter just had trouble with education. He wasn't a natural scholar.
"I don't see you as mage or fighter material, thug."
Well, for soethign other than a resistance, but still. She expected him to do what she said, that was clear.
Torin groaned. Slumping down into a nearby chair, he dramatically opened the book, eyeing Torture the whole time. Just who did she think we was? The fighter mulled over the question for a few seconds before sighing in defeat. He knew EXACTLY who she thought she was. The girl holding the whip. And for all Torin's arrogant bravado, he was no fool. Torture could probably kill him in more ways then a boyscout could tie a knot.
Before returning to his book, the fighter took one last glance over his tormentor. There was still the same base attraction, of course... but physicality only went so far. Torture was a bitch. A goddamn hot bitch with a beautiful figure and gorgeous face... but a bitch nonetheless. A tutelage under her wasn't going to be easy. Rahal had his respect... not Torture. Not yet.
That wasn't why she was there. Things had changed. Dynamics were changing. The mission remained the same. She was committed to her religion and her people. They just had a different name to fly their banner under.
She stood not far from the Capitol. Loose fitting robes keeping the armor she wore concealed, a hood over her head to hide her recently dyed black hair, and a pair of opaque glasses to hide her eyes.
Andarta didn't need anyone to know she was even on the planet. Not even the military could really know. At least not now. They'd get brought up to speed once the mission was complete.
It took incredibly little, just a walk by scenting in another's form, to prove that she wasn't Erutin at least, if the wardrobe didn't do that already. Erutin fashion on this planet often involved sheer nanocloth, and an alarming to most non-Erutin amount of skin through the sheer. Calmly, he approached her and simply stood beside her a moment or two. "Frau Heller?" He asked after that moment.
It was best to confirm. "Kampf für immer, frau." He greeted, knowing that had been how her handler had been supposed to greet her. A ridiculous statement for a ridiculous religion, but given how it had resulted in the empres worshipped as a goddess, it was a ridiculous nation in general that promoted it. It was good for them to be under Erutin rule now.
Andarta pulled her hood down to reveal her long hair, the sides somewhat short in comparison to the rest. "Who, what, are we fighting for?"
"We fight for what we have always fought for. The glory of the empire, and for Kampf. We fight to retake Scatter, and to expand the empire so all may know him." Laying on the religion was par for the course when dealing with former citizens of the hegemony.
"So, business as usual?" Andarta asked, "That's good to know. That means my efforts weren't all for nothing." She continued, pausing for a second before she spoke up again.
"Speaking of, during my mission I found myself on a distant planet called Hera Prime by the locals. It's a lawless world, like many in Coalition space. But, there's a man there. A man with an army. He employed myself and my team as mercenaries." The Austran woman told Daggi.
"This army is massive, but also extremely dangerous. There is something off about them, about their leaders, Lochlyn Haley and a never seen older man named Elias Crowley. I can't place it, but I've seen some things happen that I can't reconcile with my faith."
It would have been appropriate to say that Andarta was unnerved for the first time in her life. Doubt cast on her faith for the first time.
"How are they off? Do they represent a threat to the empire?" All these things were important. an army, a single one, wasn't much against the empire's forces, but he well knew how dangerous a single strike team could be from his years of leading on and being in one. A strike team employing guerilla tactics could disable larger and more powerful forces. He had seen it don in his youth and to the rebel houses of the Hegemony, who died as they betrayed their empress. Let it not be said that they were not very careful about taking care of the rebels, sch as they were and such as they still existed, few in number though they may be.
"You never see Crowley, Haley never emotes. Not unusual on their own, but Haley speaks about history, ancient religions, our religion, as if he was there. As if he has intimate knowledge of events. I figured he was just a studious man at first, but..." She stopped to think.
"But..." Andarta began, "I've heard people talk about him as if he was a God. There are older men and women who claim to have seen his miracles in person. They build their army using clones, enhanced clones. Supersoldiers bred, designed, to crush empires. I asked about it before and was told it was all in the blood."
Andarta reached into her robe, slipping out a vial of blood. It was a dark red, darker than human blood was and it was thick. It could only pass for human blood if one didn't pay much attention to it.
"It's his blood. And it doesn't match any known race, species, or mutation. We had someone look into it."
"Still, he could surely just be long lived and using some for of technology to manage these miracles of his." He said, firm on this. "There are long lived species in the galaxy, and they have been mistaken by gods before by other societies." And he was certain that was all this being could possibly be.
"Other than that, Crowley and Haley keep information very compartmentalized. All we know is that his fanatics talk about changing the universe. He's had me recruiting mercenaries. They have agents everywhere and as far as I can tell many don't know who they're reporting to." Andarta explained, "Thinking you're passing information to rebels and that rebel leader is one of Haley's people. The actual rebels are dead or just as in the dark."
"It's an impressive intelligence network, I admit."
After this mission, they'd pull her from the field awhile, let her recuperate with the offices and surrounded by loyal seraphim and special ops. This one was clearly disturbing her, somehow. The people certainly sounded disturbing to him. They'd have to investigate further, but Andarta could remain where she was for now.
"I'll see a priest once the mission is complete. It's been a long time." The Austran told Daggi, making her way to the exit. Halfway there she paused, turning around to face the Erutin.
She let show the shadow of a smile, "Kampf für immer." Andarta said to him, "It's appropriate for people like me. I don't even remember life from before I started doing this."
The Austran nodded, continuing on her way. "But, such is this life."
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Getting permission to come here and blog as a non-citizen was tricky, and involved agreeing to have her work looked over before she left. or she posted it. The fierce markings on many of the citizens faces set them apart and made her feel rather more intimidated than she would like to admit. Regardless, she was having fun exploring this new land as evidenced by the grin stretching wide across her face as she strolled down the street, a rucksack slung on her back and carrying all the worldly goods she needed. No weapons, as per regulations here. Those required special permission. But this planet was so beautiful and clean, she doubted that she'd ever need to protect herself.
Her universal translator locket blinked a dull red at her neck periodically, recording and digitizing the different languages here so that it could translate what she said in the native tongue and not just in galactic standard.
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