Prime Minister Kane

== History ==
===Runway===
Kane Ericson was born on 2122 in a small farming colony called Hllis on the planet Taue of the LGA system. He lived a relatively boring, average farm life, but the day Kane's father completed refurbishing an old crop-dusting plane Kane had found his one true love. During the day Kane would fly the old plane for hours and would spend the rest of the time working on the farm in order to pay for the fuel he had used up. Kane's father, Diego Ericson, was an aeronautical engineer for the Alliance of Humanity's military before Kane was born. Once Diego had fallen in love with Taylor ( Kane's future mother ), he retired from the military and moved with Taylor to planet Taue where they married. Naturally, Diego was quite proud of his son when he learned that Kane wanted to attend the Alliance Air Force Academy to study aeronautical engineering and subsequently become an Alliance fighter pilot.
===Take-Off===
In 2140 when Kane had turned 18 he said goodbye to his parents as he boarded the Alliance transport for Earth. The transport was equipped with one of the old Type 1 Warp Drives so it took significantly longer for them to reach Earth than it would have in one of the newer models, but this was intended as quite a bit of the educational process was about learning the inner workings of Alliance space vessles. When the transport arrived at Earth Kane was now 1.5 years older than when he had left, but the world around him had only past about one month in time. The transport docked at the Alliance Stardock in Houston, Texas. Kane was already halfway complete with his normal college studies from the classes that were held on the ship, and having already mastered the flight simulations Kane was able to go straight to live flight training.
===Ejection===
The Houston Air and Space Alliance Academy was the top military academy, and was equipped with the top professors in their fields. But now that he was back on the ground, Kane found himself less interested in the school and more interested in the girls that went there. Kane had taken to spending most of his free time in the girls' dorms ( which was, of course, against the rules ), and he would often sneak off campus and go to the clubs in downtown Houston. Though Kane's instructors thought he was a prodigy in the cockpit, they found him lazy and unmotivated in his studies. In 2141 Kane's instructors were fed-up with it, and Kane, at the age of 20, recieved a letter of expulsion from the Academy on July 14, 2141.
===Grounded===
In September of 2141 Kane was still staying in his dorm at the academy as the Civil War currently being waged between the Alliance and the Colonial Liberation Front had made civilian transport between the Sol System ( Earth's solar system ) and the LGA System nearly impossible. Kane only knew about the war from what he could gather from news broadcasts, but because of inter-planetary nature of the war, information was low. The war became real for Kane when he read a report of the Alliance carpet bombing the Hillis colony on planet Taue for suspicion of harboring Colonial forces. Kane searched every registry on the web to see if his parents had relocated to a different city in the LGA System, but no such luck, they were gone. Kane was crushed, in a fit of rage he attacked the commanding officer at the Academy and even went as far as pulling a small arm on one of the guards that tried to detane him. Since the Academy also served as a military base during the war, Kane was thrown into one of the prison cells meant for POWs.
===Still Grounded===
5 weeks after Kane was locked in the POW cell a small squad of Colonial spec-ops soldiers infiltrated the base. Assasinating General Stewart, the commanding officer at the base, the spec-ops soldiers sent the base into a panic. The next thing that the soldiers did was release the prisoners. Not knowing Kane was actually a former student at the academy, they armed him and brought him along as they fought their way out of the base to the APC they had hidden as their escape vehicle. Kane went with the colonials back to a small base north of Houston in Oklahoma. The base used experimental cloaking technology that made the entire area invisible to the Alliance's orbital weaponry. When Kane arrived with the soldiers they found out he actually wasn't one of theirs. Despite his objections that he wasn't an Alliance spy they didn't trust him and once again locked him up. Kane was kept in a room with one guard watchng him at all times. 16 days after Kane was locked up by the colonials, the alliance had discovered intel leading to the general location of the base. They fired orbital cannons all around the region of the coordinates they were given, but continously missed. Not knowing why they couldn't hit the base through their orbital weaponry the Alliance decided to send in a squadron of 12 Jets to bomb the base through visual. The colonials at the base immediately got word of the approaching squadron. The base was armed with one S-32 Sky Skirmisher, but all 5 of the base's pilots had died during a recently failed mission where they attempted to destroy the primary Alliance Air Force base of the southern US in Austin, Texas, and hadn't been restored with new pilots yet. They also couldn't escape on the ground as the base was not equipped with any heavy anti-air weaponry ( the cloaking device was supposed to mean that they wouldn't need it ) and the approaching jet's thermals would easily pick them out and destroy them. Kane overheard what was going on from soldiers as they scrambled through a nearby hallway.
===Ace===
Kane was not a fan of being bombed to oblivion, and as such took action once he heard of the bases impending doom. Kane immediately started an act of freaking out and told the guard that was watching him that he could see the Alliance Bombers through the window. While the guard was distracted looking out the window Kane knocked him out. Kane quickly put on the guard's gear and unlocked his door stepping out into the hallway in his new disguise. Trying not to draw attention from the scrambling soldiers as they ran for the APCs to make an attempt at escape, Kane ran to the base's runway and boarded the Sky Skirmisher. The soldiers quickly noticed this, but it was to late as Kane was already heading down the runway. Kane took off in the direction of the approaching squadron. The soldiers on the ground waited as the bombers were due to be their in less than 15 minutes and escape was out of the question. 17 minutes later the soldiers saw one of the bombers approaching the base with its left engine smoking. Just before it reached the base a missle struck the left side of the bomber blowing it to pieces. Supersonic debris showered the base as the exploding bomber flew over the soldiers and crashed in the field about a half mile north of the base. The soldiers took cover from the deadly shrapnel and looked up to see Kane's Sky Skirmisher approaching, but it hadn't escaped from the dog fight unscathed. The jet approached the base in a death spiral as one its wings had been nearly destroyed. The plane hit the runway in a massive exploding inferno, the soldiers believed Kane to be dead for sure, but they looked up to see his unconscious body floating back down. He had ejected from the plane just in time to escape alive but was knocked out by the whiplash of being ejected from a crashing plane at that speed.
== Task Force 92 ==
===New Allies===
Kane awoke in an infirmary about 2 days later. The leader of the rebel base that was previously detaining Kane, Major Tritskey, visited the infirmary once he learned that Kane had awoken. After a brief introduction he told Kane that after his heroic act they had quickly dismantled the Oklahoma base and transferred to the primary rebel base of the U.S. hidden in Eastern Colorado. Tritskey informed Kane of the need the Colonials had for skilled fighter pilots in the LGA System and gave him an important decision. He told Kane that he had two options: ally with the Colonial Liberation Front, or be executed as an ally of the Alliance. Kane told Tritskey about what the alliance did to his parents on Taue, and the choice was quickly decided. 6 days later Kane was discreetly shipped back to the LGA System along with another platoon of Colonial forces on a small cargo ship disguised as a care shipment for the Alliance forces stationed on planet Venglar.
===Top Gun===
Over the next year Kane fought in multiple battles for air superiority in the skies over the planets of the LGA System. Every mission Kane and the squadron he led took on was a complete success, and they provided precious air support for large numbers of the CLF's ground forces. Though Kane's squadron gave massive amounts of aid to the CLF, they were only a small fraction of the total Colonial military and weren't nearly enough to stop the push for Air Superiority made by the Alliance. Kane continued to provide Air Support for the Colonial ground forces in the coming months, but nevertheless the Alliance continued to push the CLF back. Kane continued his regular duties until November of 2142 when the leader of the newly formed Task Force 92, Bane, came to Kane with an offer. Bane was looking for an extremely skilled pilot to run transport and air support for TF92 and he had heard from all of his sources that Kane Ericson was the best the CLF had. Kane figured his currently stagnant state in the military was due for a change and immediately signed on. Over the coming years of the Civil War Kane enjoyed his job as designated pilot and vehicle specialist for TF92, and in 2145 Kane became good friends with the newly recruited team engineer, Roy.
===Sunhawk===
On Febuary 2150, the colonials discovered a massive derelict Rohaz space vessel buried under the deserts of the planet Taue. After a 28 day excavation project, Kane and Roy told their leader Bane of the ship and what it could be capable of. Bane then ordered the archeologists that discovered the ship to turn it over to Task Force 92. Once TF92 had recieved the massive vehicle Kane and Roy formed a team of engineers and workers, and for the next year they would spend all of their time in between missions re-engineering the ship. On July 25, 2151, Roy and Kane made the official unveiling of the Sunhawk. The Sunhawk was the most advanced piece of human engineering ever created with multiple with multiple one-of-a-kind defensive and offensive systems. They also added on 500 MIRVS, each one equipped with 50 200-Megaton nuclear Bombs. When the Sunhawk was unveiled Bane merely said it was impressive and walked off, but XtremEvan congratulated them saying that he forsaw great things to come from what they had created. The Sunhawk would remain docked until November of 2151 when the CLF was ready to take its fight back to the alliance on Earth.
===Bogey===
March 15th, 2152 marked the final day of the Civil War. Task Force 92 and the rest of the Colonial Liberation Front had pushed the Alliance forces out of the LGA System. After the CLF fleet, accompanied by TF92's Sunhawk, arrived in the Sol System they proceeded to swat aside all the opposition the Alliance put in their way during the fleet's journey from Mars to Earth. Once the fleet had reached Earth the CLF enacted their plan to bring down Earth's advanced orbital defense matrix. Once the matrix was down the fleet began negotiations about the leader of the Alliance's, Councilman Kent's, surrender with the Sunhawk serving as a constant threat in the space above Earth. During the negotiations, XtremEvan ( now the leader of Task Force 92 after Bane's Death ) ordered Kane to arm the nuclear silos on the hull of the Sunhawk in order to speed up negotiations by scaring Councilman Kent. Kane reluctantly abided and armed the nuclear armaments. In an instant XtremEvan typed in the launch codes and activated the nuclear missiles. Nuclear explosions peppered the entire surface of Earth. Then XtremEvan ordered the Sunhawk's weapons system to unleash the ship's laser weapons on the Colonial Fleet in orbit with them. In less than 10 minutes the entire CLF fleet was annihilated. Kane, Jack, and Roy roared objections at XtremEvan's actions, XtremEvan merely replied that he did what had to be done.
Kane was suddenly struck extremely hard in the back of the head, and he fell to the floor unconscious. Chaos and Hyperion had somehow slipped in behind Kane, Roy, and Jack and incapacitated them without them ever knowing, and the three were thrown in the brig and locked up; and Jack was restrained by a special handcuff system that inhibited his powers so he couldn't use them to escape. The group soon awoke to the sound of gunfire and men screaming, and the three were suddenly blown back as the door exploded and a strange beast stood before them. Kane used his martial arts skills to assault and stun the beast while Roy used his engineering skills to attempt to dismantle the handcuffs on Jack. Kane managed to hold off the beast long enough for Roy to hack into the handcuffs and deactivate them, and Jack incinerated the monster. Knowing they wouldn't stand a chance in a battle against XtremEvan and these strange creatures of war, Kane, Roy, and Jack ran for the infirmary hoping to rescue Starma and the child before they were harmed by XtremEvan or the beasts. The guards and XtremEvan were fighting against the aliens, and in the ensuing chaos Kane was split up from Jack, Roy, and Starma. As Kane ran through a hallway trying to escape from both XtremEvan and the mysterious monsters, another portal opened in his path. When the creatures in the portal saw Kane alone in the hallway they grabbed at him with clawed hands. Kane saw XtremEvan coming down the hallway using his ice powers to kill any of the monsters who got in his way. Kane screamed for help as the creatures pulled him through the portal, but XtremEvan instead knelt down in front of Kane and taunted him. Kane gave a final cry cursing XtremEvan as the portal disappeared, and him along with it.
== The Demons ==
===Experiments===
Multi-colored lights flashed before Kane's eyes as he was transported by the portal the monsters dragged him through. The experience was so disorienting that Kane threw up on himself and proceeded to pass out. Kane awoke to the face of a strange inhuman creature as it shined a light into his eyes as it apparently examined his face. He was laying on some sort of operating table and a respirator was strapped to his mouth. Looking to his left and right Kane saw more of the creatures. He was surrounded by what appeared to be a large diagnostic machine that flashed lasers over the surface of his bare body. Kane's captors spoke a strange language that he could not interpret, but they quickly turned him over upon the table and plunged a large needle into the base of his skull. After the excrutiating injection the language spoken by the creatures began to sound like english to him. They looked at him with fascination commenting on the fragil nature of his body. Kane asked who they were, but though it seemed as if they were saying the name of their people, all Kane heard was "Demon".
In the coming months Kane would spend most of his time in small cell along with 35 other humans who were crew members taken from the Sunhawk in the same attack he was kidnapped in . They were fed by i.v. as they had to wear respirators at all times, and they were only taken out of the cell for more scans and injections. Kane was able to see other cells from his location, but it appeared that they were the only humans at the facility as all of the other cells were filled with various strange creatures. The facilities guards were strange lizard-like creatures that appeared to be commanded by the creatures that he knew as demons. The demons were very humanlike except for their sharp blade-like teeth, dark red skin, horns that potruded from the sides of their heads, and eyes that were a dark maroon color. Kane heard them talking about them on occasion. They spoke about how genetically malleabe the humans were and that they would be useful for the project. Over the next 4 years Kane and the other humans would be put through a series of strange treatments that they didn't understand. As the treatments went on the humans in the cell began developing strange mutations like extra limbs, horns, scales, and horrible swelling that turned them into hideous visions of their former selves. Most died from the mutations while others commited suicide. Kane was still the way he was before he had been kidnapped despite the treatments, but he was changing, and he could feel it.
===Unlikely Friendship===
6 years after Kane had been taken to the Demons' realm he was the only surviving member of the humans that had been kidnapped, and he had developed quite a few changes in his body. His muscles had grown to about 1.5 times their previous size and were incredibly dense, his skin had also become quite a bit more dense to a point that the demons had to keep multiple IVs in him at all times as having to re-injected him was to troublesome. He felt his eye-sight improving and it felt like his hearing was acute enough to catch the skittering of bugs across the ground. He was obvously stronger than he used to be, but he couldn't make any use of his new strength as the demons kept him in a semi-tranquilzed state at all times. During this sixth year he also received a new visitor to his cell, one who wasn't interested in running more tests on him. This new being looked just like a human save for two horns protruding from the sides of her head. She told him her name was "Helioness" ( the human translation of her demonic name ), and that she was the creation of the experiments the scientists had been running on Kane.
Over the coming years Helioness and Kane grew close through the conversations they would have when she visited him ( though he still remained in his cell ). She was part of some sort of experiment involving all of the alien creatures that Kane saw held in the cells at the facility he was in. She would sneak into the facility between her own visits with the scientists as she felt that Kane was more similar to her than the demons raising her. She displayed amazing superhuman powers that reminded Kane of his time in Task Force 92 among the Osykans and Jack MacTyler. Because he had been there for less than 10 years Kane inquired about her adult appearence and he learned that Helioness had been rapidly grown by the doctors to her full adult form in less than a year. She knew little about the world of the demons, but they liked talking as they were the only two human-like creatures in the demon's domain.
About 13 years into Kane's time in the demonic dimension he learned that Helioness had been taken in as the princess of the Demons by their lord; known only as " The Master". A year later Kane learned that she would no longer be visiting him because of some sort of military action being taken by the demons. For the rest of his time in the demon realm Kane was alone as the doctors would continue to run their strange experiments and treatments on him.
===Runaways===
During Kane's 21st year in the demons realm he had all but given up hope. He would lay inactive in the cell for days at a time and the treatments had become so routine that they no longer bothered him. The doctors said that the project was nearing completion and that soon they would have to dispose of the subject, but Kane no longer cared as death seemed like freedom from a life that no longer meant anything. But despite Kane's apathy over his coming death someone else cared enough to do something. During Kane's 22nd year the scientists were finally finished with him and were taking him to a "Subject Disposal Chamber", but just as they were taking him out of the cell they facilities alarm systems started going off. Kane heard yelling and plasma fire from the weapons of the Lizard-like guards. After a large explosion a figure broke into the facilities prison chamber and killed the guards that were escorting Kane. The strange figure was Helioness who had learned of Kane's coming demise and refused to let her only known brethren die like some lab rat. She disconnected Kane from the IVs which stopped the feed of the chemical that kept Kane in a submissive state. As the strength returned to his muscles Kane felt amazing remarking that he could "Carry the world on" his "shoulders". Helioness said that their was no time for talk and they started sprinting out of the facility. Once they got out of the building Kane had his first glimpse of the demons world which was like a massive industrial city of black towers jutting into the black clouds of a red sky. Before Kane had time to think Helioness had grabbed him around the waste and shot into the air. Kane looked over his shoulder and saw that she had suddenly grown two wing-like protrusions from her back. When he asked how she did it she said that "you can too".
During the flight Helioness had told Kane of the nature of the demons' experiments, which was to assimilate the abilities of the various different races that the demons had conquered across many wars in the "other" dimension. Kane then realized that the other dimension was, in fact, the home of the humans, as well as a number of other alien races across the universe. The demonic doctors had discovered that the humans they had captured had a very malleable genetic structure that could easily manipulated. The idea was to use the humans as a template in order to map out the means of manipulating the genetic codes so they could transfer it to Demon subjects, an idea of which Kane was the only survivor. Helioness was actually the key component to this goal, she was a fusion of largely human genetics ( mixed with the assimilated alien genetics ) and a base of Demon genetics. The purpose of Helioness was to bridge the gap between the humans and demons. She had served as the Master's second in command during a recent war in which the demons had conquered. When Helioness and the the Master returned from the war with victory, the doctors had finally completed the first treatment capable of being used on a demon. The demon to be tested was none other than the Master himself. The treatment had proved a success and the Master had been endowed with all of the powers that had been granted to Kane and Helioness with only one key difference, the advanced nature of demonic physiology amplified the effects of all of his paraphysical abilities. Because Helioness had served the Master well in the war he decided to make her his queen, as she was the only one powerful enough to stand at his side. Helioness then learned that since the doctors had completed a successful demon treatment Kane would no longer be needed. Helioness had never forgotten about Kane and decided that she would rather stand by a human being of compassion than a demonic being of war. She then sneaked away from Master Demon during a delegation he was having with his generals.
===Explanations===
Helioness then told Kane about the ability that all demons possessed ( the demons had this ability without any genetic change ), which was the ability to open and move through pathways in hyperspace. Hyperspace was actually a dimension that stood as a border between the demons' dimension and the humans' dimension. Hyper space was a much smaller dimension than both the humans' and the demons' dimensions, but was stretched across the whole of both universes allowing demons and humans to utilize it to move across their own space at superlight speeds. Kane had been kidnapped as the Sunhawk was travelling through hyperspace. The Sunhawk's hyperspace drive was giving off a large amount of energy as it moved through hyperspace and the demons had been, unfortunately, scanning that sector of hyperspace at the time. When the demons detected the Sunhawk they locked on to the ship's energy signature and used trained hyperspace specialists to open portals onto the ship and sent in their lizard-like minions ( which were actually called the Dracken, an alien race that the Demons had conquered and enslaved during their first invasion of the human dimension ). The Dracken had been ordered to capture any advanced life-forms on board the vessel and bring them back for study, which the Dracken did successfully.
Helioness then told Kane that the demons had no easy means of reaching the human dimension, only hyperspace, and that they could only invade the human universe after the sentient race they planned on conquering had completed a specific task allowing them to come. Unfortunately, Helioness had no idea what this task was.
===Portals===
Helioness then told Kane that she would have to move them through hyperspace in order to get further away from the demons that would soon be chasing them. Kane braced himself as she opened a portal around them, it took her about a minute to charge the portal to full capacity. She then quickly closed the portal around them. Kane felt the same nausea he felt when he was originally taken to the demon realm, and when they suddenly landed in a room Kane proceeded to empty the little contents of his stomach. Kane looked up at Helioness and asked Helioness where she had taken them, but she had a look of surprise, and fear, in her eyes. Kane looked up to see a figure standing before them. Helioness then muttered the word "...Master...", and Kane realized that this was the Master of the demons that she had spoken. of. The Master had used is own honed Hyperspace abilities to reroute Helioness's Hyperspace pathway. The Master then quickly used his new ( and mastered ) abilities to strike down Helioness with one powerful punch. Helioness was no match for the Master and was nearly knocked out by the strength of his strike. The Master knelt down to Helioness, who was now on the ground, and delivered another powerful blow to the side of her head. Helioness grabbed Kane's arm as the Master raised a glowing hand above his head to deliver a final strike to Helioness's skull. Kane clenched his eyes closed in fear of what was about to happen. But, when he opened his eyes he was no longer in the mysterious demonic environment he had grown accustomed to, but a much more fond and familiar environment.
== Return to LGA ==
===An All New Xtreme===
Kane and Helioness found themeselves in a hallway onboard XtremEvan's warship; the Sunhawk. Kane had teleported them back to the exact spot that he had been taken by the demons 20 years earlier, or at least what he thought was 20 years earlier. Seeing that their were no guards in the hallway Kane ran to a nearby control console and accessed ship logs, they were in orbit of planet Venglar and the date was, to Kane's immense surprise, May 12th, 2152. Hardly 2 months had passed to the world of humans since Kane had been kidnapped by the demons. Kane knew that trying to speak with XtremEvan wouldn't be a good idea as the last time Kane had seen him he was allowing Kane to be kidnapped by monsters. Kane remembered that the planet Demith had been relatively neutral during the Civil War and decided that it would be their best bet. Kane quickly queued up one of the Sunhawk's escape pods to head for Demith. Kane and Helioness sneaked through the Sunhawk to the escape pods only encountering one guard along the way that Helioness quickly incapacitated. Boarding the escape pod they headed for Demith.
2 days later Kane and Helioness arrived on Demith. The people at the Stardock were wary of letting the infamous pilot of Task Force 92 and the Sunhawk through security, but Kane found out that Jack MacTayler had survived XtremEvan's attempt to kill them and got him to vouch for them. In order to keep people from being frightened by Helioness' horns she wore a hood. Kane and Helioness went with Jack back to his apartment in Demith's capital city; Nebelous. Jack told Kane about what had happened after he had disappeared aboard the Sunhawk and how he and Roy had escaped, but had lost Starma in the process. Jack then told Kane about the new Empire that XtremEvan had created under his banner. Kane knew that whatever XtremEvan had in mind it couldn't be good. Jack then told Kane that the first thing Roy did when they had gotten to Demith was set-up an orbital defense matrix designed to stop an enemy invasion force in case XtremEvan launched a preemptive attack on Demith.
Jack then told Kane that Roy had been promoting an effort to create an assault force to launch an attack on XtremEvan in hopes of ending his rule before he could do any damage. This didn't sit well with much of populace and even worse with Demith's politicians. The councilman of Demith did not want to start a war, and while they were fine with setting up precautionary measures for the safety of the citizens, they did not want Demith to enter a military state. The Demith government put out a warrant to bring in Roy in hopes of stopping his tirade. Kane learned that Roy had fled the Nebelous authorities and that no one yet knew where he had disappeared to.
===Better than Nothing===
Kane and Jack knew that XtremEvan could not be left to his own devices, but they also knew that the Demithian government would never agree to creating an offensive military force. They also knew that such an effort would be in vain, as the epsilon military was far to large and powerful for any offensive force they created to stand a chance. After weeks of closed-door meetings with the councilman of Demith, Kane and Jack finally got permission to start open recruitment for the DDF or "Demith Defense Force". Kane and Jack promoted the DDF as a purely security related effort as they didn't want to get on the bad side of the politicians or people of Demith because they didn't want a repeat of what happened to Roy, and signing up for the force was a purely voluntary. But, through tactful PR and advertising, Kane and Jack managed to recruit many more volunteers than they expected.
===Old Friend===
===Safe and Secure===
===Disagreement===
===Strength in Numbers===
By December of 2152 with the help of Kane, Jack, and Roy ( among other former military personnel ) Demith had accumulated a sizable defense force. With the use of Roy's engineering skills, and data he had gained from hacked military files he had helped Demith set-up factories to produce firearms, military combat-armor, vehicles, and military space-vessels (Though Roy aided in the construction of Demith's military infrastructure. The DDF had scout ships scanning LGA space for any signs of Epsilon aggression, but it had been more than a year since XtremEvan's destruction of Earth and people were starting to become complacent that the Epsilon was not going to launch an attack. Though Roy, Kane's best friend, aided in the construction of Demith's military infrastructure he did not agree with Kane and Jack in that they should focus on defense, and believed that the fight should be taken straight to XtremEvan. Because of this, Roy was largely aloof while Kane and Jack worked worked on the DDF. Though Kane's best friend didn't agree with his initiative Roy's initiative was about to be taken for him.
On November 4th, 2153 the DDF headquarters on Demith were getting reports that a large squadron of ships containing an entire platoon of infantry, armor, and aircraft were heading straight into Epsilon space towards planet Venglar. They had received no orders for such a maneuver, and they would surely incite unneeded aggression from the Epsilon with such an action. A day later on November 5th, 2153 the rogue battalion made an attack directly on the Epsilon capital city of Arktavia. The attack was sure to fail do to the Epsilon vastly outnumbering them, but Emperor XtremEvan had not anticipated a preemptive attack from the neutral Demith. Troops stormed the streets and aircraft bombed the buildings, and Arktavia took a big hit that day. Though the Epsilon Military dispatched the rogue battalion, the damage had been done.
Unbeknownst to both the Epsilon and Demith was that the attack was actually made by a platoon of Ghost Troopers from the Society of Chaos who had replaced the entire battalion of Demith soldiers. The goal of which was to end the complacency of both nations' militaries and bring on an all-out war.
===The Battle of Demith===
After the attack on Arktavia, Kane knew an Epsilon counterattack was incoming. Kane told the Councilmen of Demith's capital city, Nebelous, that they would have to move the entire city north to a safer location or the initial attack from the Epsilon forces would surely annihilate them. The city of Nebelous was the original ship that carried an entire city, prebuilt on top of it within an artificial atmosphere when humans first colonized Demith. It was one-of-a kind and had a massive number of jump-jets built into its hull enabling it to move long distances across a planet an re-plant itself in the ground if needed. This could only be done once because after one use of the jump-jets it required months of maintnence to get them back in working order again, but one use was all they needed. They moved the city over 2500 miles north and, unfortunately, had to leave the surrounding suburbs behind as they were not part of the city built into the ship, but almost all of the civilians had been moved into the city's disaster shelters before the move initiated.
On November 8th, 2153 when XtremEvan's forces approached Demith the new Orbital Defense Matrix protected the planet from being attacked from orbit. The matrix didn't save the day though, as dropships containing ground troops, armor, and aircraft were being launched from orbit towards the surface. The Battle of Demith raged across most of the large supercontinent on the surface. The DDF put up a valiant defense against the Epsilon forces, and they actually stood a fighting chance with the aid of the Superhumans enlisted in the DDF. Demithian superhumans fought alongside the normal troops and vastly increased the strength of their forces. Kane was north with the DDF forces defending Nebelous. He and Jack MacTyler had a large amount of experience in military command so they were conducting the large-scale warfare from the capital. Kane had, at this point, been taught by Helioness in the use of the majority of his powers (though he had not mastered their use yet), and had a regiment of troops along with superhumans Roger Jackson, Henry Gellroy, and Jack MacTyler to help him defend the councilman should the capital be breached. The DDF clashed with the Epsilon Forces around the edges of the city, but 3 platoons of Epsilon soldiers cut through the eastern defensive lines and sneaked past patrols in the city. When the platoons attacked the Nebelous capital building Kane and the others inside were caught by surprise, but they were prepared.
Kane, Jack, Roger, Helioness, and Henry held off the Epsilon forces and it looked like they would able to easily handle the soldiers, but during the battle one of the entrances into the building was undefended and one of the platoons used it to flank Kane's forces. Three of the Epsilon soldiers fired RPGs at Kane's troops and the explosions nearly killed all of the soldiers that were with Kane leaving only the superhumans, Helioness, and a few normal troops left. The flanking soldiers made their way towards the capital building's Councilman Chamber and Kane ordered Roger and Henry to hold them off while he, Helioness, and Jack held off the troops from the front. Helioness, Kane and Jack finished off the troops in front, but when they went back to check on the councilman they found the Epsilon soldiers, Roger, Henry, and all of the councilman dead. A massive explosion had been set off in the center of the room killing everyone within.
Soon after this, the Superhuman team that Kane and Jack had sent to board and destroy the Sunhawk from within successfully completed their task ( with a few casualties ), and the Sunhawk came plummeting towards the planets surface. When the ship crashed into the ground its anti-matter core destabilized and the anti-matter within made contact with air unleashing the largest explosion ever witnessed by man. The explosion unleashed a blast that annihilated everything in a 2000 mile radius and sent shock-waves that were felt across the entire planet. The entire central continent was gone, along with all of the military forces and civilians. The area where the Sunhawk crashed was the main staging area for the battle as it was near the original location of Nebelous ( the Epsilon Military believed it was still the location at the time of the attack ) and near a large number of civilian colonies that were unable to head north with Nebelous. Since almost of their ground troops were gone, the DDF was pushing back the attacking Epsilon troops on the ground at Nebelous, and Orbital Defense Matrix was still intact the Epsilon Fleet went into full retreat. Despite their losses, Demith was still intact and most of its population was still alive. Demith had survived the Empire's assault.
== Aftermath ==
===Leadership===
In the weeks following the Battle of Demith, Kane and the people of Demith worked on the long process of fixing the damages, and the less pretty jop of cleaining up the bodies. Repairs had to be made to Nebelous's infrastructure and they had to find out a way to help the people who had been displaced by the battle. The explosion of the Sunhawk had destroyed multiple buildings in Nebelous due to its shockwaves, and some people had been killed by flying debris or being thrown. The crater of the explosion left almost none of the central continent intact, and was so large that it was beginning to fill with water and would soon become a part of the ocean, leaving the continent as two separate continents instead. Once the deaths of the councilman went public, people were clammoring to find out who would lead the government in its current state of war. Multiple poloticians that lived on the planet stepped up, but failed to gain public approval. The people of Demith knew what XtremEvan was, and the status quo of political leadership wasn't going to cut it against a being who was, arguably, not even human. They needed someone who knew modern war and someone who could stand against XtremEvan if it had to be done. The DDF voiced open approval for Jack MacTyler and Kane, as they had led the forces in the battles across Demith as generals. The DDF opinion had quite a bit of weight after the battle and soon the public's apporval soon followed. Jack MacTyler said that though he enjoyed his experience of "Fighting with an eye in the sky" ( a metaphor reffering to his experience as a general in the Battle of Demith ) he preffered to see things get done from the frontlines on the ground, the same way he did in Task Force 92. That left Kane as the #1 approved candidate to lead the Demith nation in its new state. On April 6th, 2154, after a large number of public hearings, Kane was uplifted to a position as Prime Minister of the Demith Dominion.
===Omega===
With Kane as the new Prime Minister of Demith he had to oversee all the major projects the were being undertaken after the war. Most of this consisted of paperwork concering contract workers and the like. Kane also spent time appointing executives to manage the new sectors of settlements being created to house those who had had their homes destroyed. But it wasn't only the cleanup of Demith that had Kane concerned, he had to prepare Demith for the coming war and they were outnumbered and out-teched by the Epsilon on multiple levels, the only thing that had given their forces a serious leg-up against them was the superhumans that had aided the normal DDF troops. Kane knew that the same "ragtag" method they used to throw the superhumans at the epsilon wasn't going to work twice. Also, the public was wary of superhumans, and if Kane didn't do something they would start being feared by people. After discussing his idea with his political advisors, Jack MacTyler, and a number of other people who served larged roles in the battle, on September 21st, 2154 Kane founded the "Operational Metahuman and Extra Ground Action Force" or "Omega Force". The Omega Force worked through an orginization of Squads manned by 4 superhumans each, and would run missions that aided the normal DDF forces as well as missions that were too dangerous for a small squad of normal humans to handle. The Omega Force was politically painted as an orginization of Superheroes by the public relations people. Kane appointed Norman Grelborn, a superhuman who had led the largest group of superhumans of the Battle of Demith against Epsilon Forces in the Giamo Forest far south of the central continent, as the Commanding Officer of the Omega Force, and placed Jack MacTyler as the leader of the first Omega Squad; Omega Squad Designation A ( or Omega A for short ).
The Omega Squads would go on to be major players in the war against the Epsilon, and would greatly influence many of the events to come.
== Current Times ==
Kane Ericson spends most of his time working on paperwork and shuflling through the complaints of various sector executives. He has gotten the hang of most of his superhuman abilities thanks to the mentoring of Helioness. He will ocassionaly spar with the Superhumans of the Omega Force, and must oversee the recruitment of new superhumans after they have been cleared by Norman Grelborn. Kane also makes numerous public appearences in order to keep in the good graces of the public and is also a large advocate in the PR campaign to keep superhumans as heroes in the eyes of the public. Though Kane possesses considerable power from his demonic treatments he rarely uses his abilities in any real capacity as he cannot risk himself as the executive of the Demith Dominion.
== Personality ==
Kane is a relatively calm person though he can be critical of things he does not approve. Though he works hard on the needs of the public he can appear docile when it comes to military matters as he is always extremely wary of making offensive maneuvers as he does not want to put the country at risk. Because of his time he spent in the demon realm he is extremely protective of the current way of life he has gained since escaping. Kane is relatively casual, and often makes visits to his friend Jack MacTyler in the Omega HQ during his free time. Though he was good friends with Roy during his time in Task Force 92, Kane rarely makes contact with him outside of military affairs as Roy has gone into hiding as the leader of the illusive F.O.I..
== Powers & Abilities ==
Kane was endowed with numerous superhuman powers spliced into his genetics. The powers he gained from the treatments are all abilities gained from the genetics of various alien races the demons have conquered in their wars across the humans' universe.
===Perception of the Dracken===
The Dracken were the first race conquered by the demons when they first came to the universe of humans. The Dracken existed in a galaxy far from the Milky Way, outside of the humans' observable universe. In appearance they are lizard-like and stand tall at about 7.5 feet on average. Though they are stronger than humans, the ability Kane gained from their genetics was vastly improved hearing and eyesight. Kane can see things with extreme detail over 100 yards away and can easily view objects that are nearly microscopic. With his enhanced hearing Kane can hear the chatter coming from a cellphone 100 ft. away and the footsteps of a spider across the floor (though he can easily block out excess noise).
===Strength of the Titans===
The Titans are a gigantic race of beings who populated the Planet of the Dracken. The Dracken were also primarily lizard-like in appearance and could stand up to 120 ft. in height. Some were bipedal, while others were even capable of flight. Kane was granted the strength and durability of these immense creatures. Though his strength doesn't compare to top powerhouses of strength; Krein and Bane, Kane is capable of pressing over 700 tons with a decent degree of effort. The durability Kane gained from the titans allows him to shrug off high-caliber rounds from small-arms ( though it does cause him pain to be shot repeatedly ), and take direct hits from explosives like RPGs and Fragmentation Grenades without sustaining injury.
===Flight of the Skyriders===
The Skyriders were the second race conquered by the Demons. They resided in the Whirlpool Galaxy about 23 million light years from the Milky Way. They stood at about 9 feet in height with fur covered bodies and hands and feet that had 3 claws each. On their back the Skyriders possessed two wings with the appearance of spikes. These spike-like wings manipulated the magnetic properties of atoms changing the attraction between atoms in a specific direction forcing the wings to carry the Skyrider in the desired direction. When Kane uses the ability he gained from the Skyriders two wings expand from the bones and skin on his back. The organs allowing the wings to manipulate the magnetic properties of atoms grew over the course of 4 years while Kane was trapped in the demons' facility and reside in his lower abdomen until he expands his wings. Kane can fly anywhere where atoms exist in abundance around him (this usually means he requires some sort of atmosphere), and he can fly at speeds of up to 650 mph.
===Reality of the Benders===
This ability was gained from the Benders, a race of amphibious creatures that existed in a universe separate from both the demons and humans. The demons encountered them in a massive super-ship containing over 100,000 Benders as it traversed Hyperspace. The demons never discovered the Benders' universe of origin but made use of their strange genetics in the treatments used initially on Kane. The Benders, and Kane as a result, possessed the ability to change the way creatures percieved reality involving themselves. This power allows Kane to make himself appear as if he is moving at blindingly fast speeds and cause people to misjudge his actual position and end up attacking nothing when they believe all of their strikes to be on target. Kane can only use this ability on a maximum of one target at a time as he is still learning to understand how it works. In fact, not even Helioness knows how the ability works exactly.
===Hyper-Space Travel===
When Kane was receiving treatments to give him the genetics of the races that the Demons conquered, he was also spliced with a template of the demons' genetics. Over time this granted Kane the same ability that the demons themselves possessed; the ability to open and traverse pathways through hyperspace. These pathways can be used to traverse unmeasurable distances in an instant. In order to this ability Kane must know of the location he wishes to "land". With skilled use, portals can be opened even in places the user has not seen, but Kane has not yet reached this level of skill yet. Kane can transport any number of other people within a 10 foot distance of himself using this ability, but because he does not trust himself to allow the people he is transporting to land safely he only uses the ability on himself and Helioness when he does. Unlike the demons, who could only transport themselves between hyperspace and their own universe (they cannot use their ability to reach the human universe), Kane seems to be able to transport himself between all three dimensions as he escaped from the demon dimension by transporting himself and Helioness to the Sunhawk.