Reign of a Terran Empire

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## Story

### Prologue

It was around the year 7217, Human Civilisation had now recently taken on an unrecognisable shape.
It was the previous year that it happened. The Federation had fallen, And was replaced by something worse, and the Federation was pretty bad.
A new Emperor had proclaimed himself head of state, he saw many disliked him quickly, mass purges took place in the following months, all who where deemed able to rebel where executed. Only two specific 'cliques' survived, those loyal to the new Empire, which where few, and those who hid, and successfully survived the massacres. Which where yet fewer. Overall only about 22 percent of Man survived.
3 percent of that TwentyTwo hated the Empire.
The world had taken an unrecognisable shape. The Emperor knew some of his enemy's still has breath, and thus, hunted them, like some sick game. The army's of the Empire wiped rebellious thought close to extinction, but not quite. A resistance did exist, and where open about it. Made up mostly of veterans from the Second Nileth War at least 3 years earlier. These where military men and women who knew how to survive. The Emperor knew this. He was ready for any move that could be made. The Terranic Civil War, was in its beginnings.
But the universe is a truly horrifying place, where not even the brightest of souls, or the most civilian, are safe from the terrors of the Cosmos, no amount of science can explain some things…

### Tarson

Jaina Donlo had never technically been part of any military force, but she had fought in a war before, the Nileth War saw civilians take up arms to defend themselves against the Jith, she was a warrior at heart, and knew how to defend herself, and how to perform assault.

This was a good skill to have in the 73rd Century, the 8th millennium. Jaina was a fair skinned woman, very tall, about 6 feet, though that's more an estimate then an exact number. Her hair was bushy and a orange color, in fact most would describe her as quite nice looking. But that didn't matter, what did was her lack of a real profession, she couldn't have one, she was supposed to be killed during the great purges to cleanse the population when the Empire was first installed. She escaped. She had fled with a Marine that defected when ordered to kill so many with no ligitiment reason. His name was James Fawrk, though he preferred to go by Jim. Fawrk was a nice man, infact over time Jaina fell for him and they had a romantic relationship going after an amount of time.
They both joined with a major group of rebels against the Empire, but Jim was needed elsewhere and Jaina would have been a hazard due to the nature of Jims mission. Jaina was left in a safe area on her home planet, Tarson.

Jim was too be gone for at least a month, by that he should be back that week.
Jaina was waiting, looking out a window, she was told she would be picked up in a ship coming from the East.
She did indeed see a craft coming from the East, but it was too recent a design, Imperial. The Empire was finally looking at Tarson, the planet they knew they had, but often ignored. This was a bad thing, considering they only landed 7 kilometres from Jaina's location.

Jaina grabbed her pistol, it was quite old but was advanced at the time it was built, though technological advances has rendered it obsolete.

She checked the ammunition, 133 anti personnel rounds, would be god awful against armor, which most Imperial soldiers are.
She really didn't have the resources to defend herself, they would almost certain detain her and execute her on sight. She opened a metallic locker like object and jumped In, and then closed it. It was a awful hiding place but she was ready to shot if found.
The soldiers where near. Indeed they where after Jaina, they where shouting about asking about her. They must have picked up on the fact Jaina was born here and this is one of the few places they hadn't checked yet. Tarson was quite an obvious place, surprising they only now thought of it.

It seemed as if they knew Jaina was there, they where ordering the truth be revealed. It seemed one of the soldiers became fed up, a he shot a woman dead, before shouting "Tell us what we want, and none else shall be harmed! The Emperor of Man is forgiving"
Then another person shouted at the soldier "We have no clue what you want!"

The Imperials where having none of it, they knew Tarson as a planet is against the Empire, the civilians where certainly lying.
They just shot everyone dead and started looking around.

Jaina wasn't certain as too what to do in the event of her being discovered.
2 hours had passed, Jaina was beginning to become scared, she heard the footsteps of Imperials in the halls and heard screams a they gunned down all who try bumped into.
She was becoming tired, for all she knows she could fall out of the locker she was hiding inside randomly.

This was frighteningly accurate, she was felt like just falling asleep and hoping she isn't noticed, though she knew this was a horrible idea.

Then, she almost had a heart attack when she heard a soldier yell "Hey! Why haven't checked down here yet!"
Then Another one responded "I'll come and look soon, checking over here right now!"

The soldier walked by, then walked back and looked at the locker, he seemed to be neglecting a helmet.
He seemed suspicious.

He then continued down the hall, Jaina quickly basked the door open and twisted her arm around his exposed neck, and dragged him into the locker before knocking him out.

After about 15 minutes, the other soldier came down the hall, and said "Where are you!? Respond at once!"

Jaina had grabbed the unconscious soldiers rifle, and jumped out and fired it blindly at the other soldier, who had a helmet this time.
The soldier fell over and simply wasn't getting back up.
Hopefully, no more would come between then and when Jaina's allies (Mainly a certain Jim Fawrk) come back.

It had been a couple more days, indeed, just two Imperial soldiers killed off most people who where at that settlement, it was dead.
Fortunately a less obviously Imperial craft was about to land, it was in the colours of the old Federation, it was therefore a friend.
It was a small ship, but it was quite imposing due to the hight it's wings went to when they folded up after landing.
Jaina then saw it, the icon of the Empire, a golden bird of prey, but this one had a bright Red Cross sprayed over it. It was probably Jims doing.
The door opened into a ramp, and indeed, it was Rebels that where using the ship, not Imperials. This was a good thing.
A figure that in any other circumstance would be standing in the thick imposing armour of a Marine was standing in the door.
Jaina, without thinking, ran up and hugged him as if exceedingly happy, fortunently, it was infact Jim.
After what probably wasn't that long but felt like an eternity, Jaina quit hugging him and just quickly kissed him, before Jim said
"I see you still recognise me"
Jaina then said, whilst smiling "Yes, of course I can recognise you!"
Jim then clearly went to a more serious matter "I'm just happy your alive considering where we left you"
Jaina curiously asked why, and so Jim said "Imperials have decoded they want to have more control over Tarson, they have a small fleet in orbit"
Jaina suddenly seemed concerned "Isn't there any way to avoid them or something!"
Jim then reassured her that the plan was to get in and then get out.
Jim was shorter then Jaina. His hair was brown and better kept and he physically appeared to be stronger, though wether he actually is is debatable.
Jaina then spoke, "We don't actually need to go back up right now do we?"
Jim then stated "We can do whatever in theory once we get out of the danger of the fleet"
Though reluctantly, Jaina agreed.
They began holding hands and went into the drop ship together.

### Nileth

Jaina was in a dark place, she recognized it, she was here once as a teenager, around when the Nileth War started.
In a nightmare though, she doubted she had ever been physically there.
She heard something rustle some vegetation, as if it just wooshed past.
Soon something wrapped itself around Jaina's neck, and held her above its eye-level, she recognized the figure, black cloak with a pale white mask, shadow spewing from underneath.
Jaina was about to remember its name, but she couldn't breath, it was suffocating her,
She was about to die.
Jaina soon woke, she wasn't about to die, well it didn't look like it at least, she was in a bed in the medical area of the Enterio. Jim was with her, no special equipment was around so it seemed the only thing keeping Jaina in the bed was the sleeping.

Jaina attempted to speak "Jim?" It barely came out, not due to injury but rather exhaustion.
Jim looked at Jaina happily "Your awake!?"
Jaina then said "yea, I think"
"Thank god, Jaina, what the hell happened?"
Jaina then went to answer the question by saying "I've only just woken up an that's the first thing you say?" Jaina then giggled and continued "I don't really know what happened, I launched a bomb and it blew up in my face or something, I don't really remember it"

Jim then said "Spire is really angry at you now too"
Jaina then jokingly said "Spire doesn't like me much anyways"

Jim then said "never mind, ehm, can you walk?"
Jaina then spoke "Dunno, haven't tried"
"Well can you?"
Jaina ten nodded and sat up stright, it hurt her back about but nothing unusual, she then spun herself around and put her feet (which where quite bare at the time) on the floor.
She was soon standing.

Jaina spoke "I am standing, this good enough?"
Jim laughed and said "course it is!"
Jaina smiled, she was feeling rather romantic, she extended her hand out, it was pale and cold , it often was as such, Jim grabbed her hand, his hand was quite warm, both noticed this vast difference but chose to ignore it.
Jaina leaned forward and soon, they where making out.

After some time they where walking together when they encountered Cassie, she looked stressed and tired, but upon seeing Jaina she said "Oh! Your okay! That's thankful!"
She was right, Jaina was very lucky indeed, but Jaina still wasn't sure what had happened.
"How are you then, Cass" Jaina asked, Cassie then said "Fine, well, I'm busy, and need to go, but Spire told me to he needed to talk to you real bad"
Jaina then jokingly said "What, you his messenger now?"
Cassie then said "until the damn intercom is fixed maybe, anyway really needa go bye!"
Jaina waved goodbye as Cassie left, she was genuinely in a hurry.
Jaina entered the room Spire was always in, and he looked at her with quite lot of clear dislikeness in his eyes alone.
"JAINA! What the hell happened back there!!"
This was the most angry Jaina had even seen Spire, he was yelling and maddening other officers in the process, he had an awful temper but this was insane.
"I accidentally hurt myself! I think" Jaina said, trying not to tell back, though she was practically shouting.
"I think there was more to it then that, you not only nearly killed Yourself, but your shot killed parts of our Crew, and remains from the shot hit a friendly destroyer, and blew the thing up, with no survivors! The only reason I haven't had you shot is the fact you almost certainly didn't mean to cause so much damage! I've done my best to cover it up so that my own crew don't kill you in your sleep but that was really bad!"
Jaina was shocked, and almost in tears.
"I- I'm sorry, I didn't know, I-" Jaina was stuttering now, Spire could tell he probably said far too much too fast but how else do you say that?
Spire then said "Dismissed, and DON'T do it again!"
Jaina left the room, practically in tears, partially at how terrifying Spire was, partly at the realization that she had killed People who where on her own side.

Jaina collapsed to a wall, and put her hands on her face, she realized she was actually crying, tears where coming from her eyes.
After what felt like hours Jim found her, upon seeing her he asked her what was wrong and Jaina said "Jim, I can't talk about it here, I can explain if we go somewhere more private, this is serious"

Jim assisted Jaina in walking to her quarters on the starboard side of the ship, Jim then closed the door and asked "What's wrong?"
Jaina attempted to contain her tears and explained what had happened, Jim was half angry at her, and half feeling sorry for the fact she has to know this happened, she was fine before being told.
Jaina spoke more "The Admiral hates me even more now" Jim then said "Jaina, I realize this sounds outlandish but Spire thinks your a good person, I've asked him on several occasions, but he has a job and, it's an important one, and, well, you know what happened, he won't want it to happen again. Plus I'm here, you know I like you, so Spires opinion shouldn't really matter to you that much right this second"
This cheered Jaina up considerably.
Jim grabbed Jaina's hand and she smiled at him, though her face had leftover tears in it, she was however, still distressed, if that's even the correct word.

Jim looked Jaina in her eyes for at least 8 seconds, for whatever reason this made Jaina smile.
"James, how long was I unconscious" Jaina asked randomly, she really just wanted to know. Jim was just a shortened version of James.
"Don't know, at least 2 days I think, depends on exactly when it happened I guess, why?"

"I had, I dunno a nightmare, maybe not that I'm in my twenties now, I'm not twelve but It lasted a couple minutes I think, and I was curious about it" Jaina said.
Jim was curious of something too now.
"What was this nightmare you mentioned?"
Jaina then said "lot like most of the ones I have, some guy in a mask comes and kills me in some unfamiliar place"
Jim then spoke in a more serious tone "Jaina, I've told you already you need to tell a physiologist or something, it likely will only get worse!"
Jaina then raised her voice a bit "Jim, everybody on this hip already thinks I'm a problem, I don't want to also be seen as insane!"
As much as Jim hated to think it, she had a fair point, Jim was one of the only People on the ship to openly be friends or anything Jaina, the others basically consisting of Cassie, Victoria, another woman named Josephine, and that's about it.
"Anyway, I'll just lie down, hopefully fall asleep or something" Jaina said, before collapsing into her bed.

### Repair

Jaina was extremely cold, she was somewhere she did not recognize at all.
She was wondering, trying to keep moving as to not freeze to death.
She heard chattering feet, and she looked in the direction, nothing, but Jaina was suddenly pulled back and before she had a chance to so anything, a blade cut into her throat, and blood came out, it was a specific shade of red, likely from the cold.
Jaina fell to the floor, dyeing.
She then woke up, she was with Jim, everything was fine.
Jaina must have fallen asleep, she knew the feeling, just randomly falling asleep, and then waking up, it's got imperium over you at times.
Jaina was on the side of the bed closest to the wall, she had a nice view, the beds where not designed to house two so it was quite uncomfortable to be squished against a metal wall.

Jaina rolled over and looked at Jim, surprisingly both individuals where wearing clothes, perhaps Jaina did just fall asleep.
Jaina then rolled back around and just started daydreaming, thinking about whatever caught her mind, it was only about 9:28 AM Standard Time, and she didn't technically have to do jack unless battle occurs, and she needs to pilot (though in practise she often helps out David with maintaining support craft, which she was fine doing)
Jaina reached into her pocket to grab something, her locket, it was a tiny thing, about five centimetres wide, it was shaped like a heart and was made out of a nice (also cheap to produce en mass) metal known as Kranessium.
She held it within her field of view and opened it, inside was a photo taken several years earlier, Jaina was around 16 at the time it was taken and her parents where with her, both died during the Nileth War, she was smiling in the image.
Jaina thought to her self, whether her parents would be disappointed in what she's become, Jaina didn't think they would be that impressed.

Jaina closed the locket tightly in her hand, she was starting to feel slightly disheartened, she felt as if she was a puppet in some scheme, she was fighting to restore the Terran Federation, but she only recently came to a basic understanding of what that entails. The Federation was borderline authoritarian, and the voting system wasn't a people want Bill to lead, so Bill will lead, it was a people want Bill to lead, so keep the into account when dictating who leads.
Probably was better then the Empire though, by the Empires standards Jaina isn't even a Human being.

Jaina got up, she didn't change as she was wearing perfectly understandable clothing.
She looked out the window, deep space, there was a nearby star but she had no idea where the ship was, probably trying to hide, and she knew to well stealth is near impossible in space, so it was a lost cause if they where.
She looked around, her room was tiny, like every other personal quarters on the ship.
In fact she only had one because the ship was so under crewed the High Ranking quarters where basically free for all.
She looked in a small mirror in the room, her hair was really messy, frankly it didn't matter but she didn't want to look like an idiot so she attempted to tame it, she just quit and put it into a ponytail.
She was about to leave when she saw Jim, still fast asleep, snoring, kinda cute Jaina thought. She got a sheet of paper and a pen and wrote a note "Jim, last time you woke up to me gone you panicked. So I'm just gonna tell you now that I woke up before you and have left the room, don't panic, I'll probably be helping David out, as usual. Love, Jay"

Jaina put it in Jim's hands (she knew he was a heavy sleeper, no caution to not wake him where necessary) and left.
She started to walk towards the large open rooms used to store large vehicles, where David and his crew often where, maintaining the things.
She walked down, took a while but it's a large ship, (570 meters long)
David was indeed down there, with the maze of junk, and vehicles he had in what was supposed to be a cargo hold.

"David! Got nothing to do so I figured I'd see if you need any help down here!?" Jaina said, with a raises voice due to the size of the room.
David then said
"Thanks! Was gonna ask for help if I saw you anyway, wait there, be out in a minute"
About 4 minutes later David, a short dwarf like man with a small beard emerged.
"We do indeed need help down here, first off we looked at the ship you exploded and we know something is wrong with it, but we haven't found actually found the problems yet, let alone fixed them, and there's a ton of other stuff you could help out with, but you probably know your ship better then us, so I think that takes precedence"
Jaina then said "sure, ill look at it, see if I can fix it, if not then, well, we'll see"
She walked to her fighter. She was embarrassed to see it, it's armour plating was scorched at the front of each piece and some plates where missing, the glass cockpit was smashed, likely to get Jaina out, as upon trying to open the door Jaina found that to be stuffed also.
She had quite some work to do.

Jaina pulled pulled of two of the panels to look underneath, it was quite bad.
There was a distinct burning smell.
"Engines busted to hell" Jaina said, upon noticing the fact there was a gaping hole in it, and fuels where leaking out.
"How bad is it!?" Asked David from at least 12 meters away. Jaina then answered "Need a whole new engine, this ones got a gaping hole in it!"
"There should be one in the pile next to you!" David replied.
Jaina looked in the pile and found what she was looking for, she dragged the thing towards her ship and took the old one out and replaced it.
She slowly fixed the entire fighter, she had learned a lot from her farther, who was quite good with mechanical stuff.
"David! All it needs now are new panelling and its good as new!"
David then said. "Great!" He was atleast 18 meters away how.
Jaina walked over, David was servicing a Tank.
"Need any more help, that tank looks a bit much for you?" Jaina asked, David replied "We technically don't need any help, but you came down and you know what you so, I guess if you want you could do your own thing somewhere"
Jaina then said "I came down here because I had nothing else to do, And Jim was asleep, so I couldn't just be with him"
David then said "well, that was some hours ago now, so I guess you can go give him a physical or something"
Jaina then said "Okay, not quite what I had in mind, bit I suppose that could end up taking place"
That was when Jaina left, she felt a bit embarrassed after that mistake of a conversation.

Jaina was wondering the ship, something she did sometimes when with nothing to do, she had found so many practically abandoned parts of the ship, Britannia I Class Battlecriusers are built for around 400 crew, not the around 200 of the Enterio.

She hadn't even shown Jim any of the abandoned places, she felt no need, though she thought maybe she would on a particularly romantic evening.

Jaina continued walking. She though about things, some metaphysical though ultimately irrelevant things, and then about Cassie. It had been a long time since Jaina had actually been with Cassie, they where best friends, they really where, to say otherwise would be ignorant and stupid. Though they hadn’t really gotten to act as if friends much, largely due to how important Cassie is, she was both basically second in command of the whole ship and in charge of all the squadrons of fighters the ship had, both rather important roles.

As Jaina was wondering she thought, she was thinking about Cassie, then Jim and then back to Cassie.
She began to reminisce on the last time she had really had time with Cassie.
They where just sitting down talking and laughing, about various thing. “I just find Spire so angry! Sure he’s bloody brilliant at what he does but he’s a nightmare.” Cassie had said, complaining about Spire.
Jaina then spoke “He’s probably just being pushed to far, I’m not saying I like him but, you know?”
Cassie then stated “He could hurt someone anytime now I imagine”
“I hope not” Jaina said, she genuinely hoped Spire wasn’t able to get angry enough to do that, but she had her doubts.
“Look on the bright side, at least the Insectians aren’t coming back” Cassie said, thinking Jaina was worried, which she was. Jaina knew what she meant, the Insectians being sterilized thousands upon thousands of times was a good thing. They are a species the universe simply doesn’t need; they are far to dangerous.

“Cass, that didn’t help” Jaina said jokingly, smiling.
Cassie then smiled and said “WELL! I’m stupid anyway!”
They both laughed.
Jaina then stopped daydreaming and continued walking for at least 20 minutes.

Jim had saw Jaina as she was wondering, and said "There you are! I need to talk to you, privately"
Jaina then said "About what?"
Jim then said "Look, if I felt comfortable telling you that here I wouldn't want to talk privately now would I?"
Jim had a point.
"So do you know anywhere then? Because I don't reckon you do"
Jim then sighed and said "Indeed, no idea where we aren't under Spires eye"
Jaina jumped a bit and giggled and said "I know just the place, follow me!"
Jaina then ran off whilst holding Jims hand"
It was a broom closet, not used since the Nileth War, the Enterio fought even back then, it fought the Jith though, not the Terrans.
"A closet? What did you expect me to need privacy for exactly?" Jim asked, questioning the extreme privacy of this closet.
"Dunno, just came to mins and I got all excited, was thinking about showing you before you asked actually" Jaina responded.
"SO, what is it?"
Jim seemed stressed as all hell, he said "I was gonna ask you something-"
Jaina then said "Again, what is it?"
As if just trying to get it over and done with, Jim pulled a ring out and asked the ultimate question. "Will you marry me?"
Jaina looked at him and smiled as she sad "YES! Of course I will!"
Jim seemed quite relieved.
The ring that was presented was quite pretty, it was just a small metallic ring with lines engraved onto it with a Dinadonian gem on it, which is rare as heck this far away from Dinadon.
Jaina then asked "Huh, so why did you need privacy for this?"
Jim then said "Was to embarrassed to propose to you in full view of everyone and also cameras"
Jaina laughed and said "And it's things like that that made me fall in love with you"
Jim then said "it's you saying things like that that made me fall for YOU"
Jaina then jokingly asked "is that true?"
Jim then said "No, just wanted to say something that fits with your comment"
Jaina laughed, so did Jim, it was the most fun they had had in bassicly ever.
Jaina then asked "You know when it's happening then?"
Obviously Jaina was referring to the date of the wedding.
"Two months, on the 16th of August, you'd probably make a nice dress by then won't you?"
Jaina then said "Yes I would! Wouldn't want myself not to be perfect for that day would I?"
Jim then said "No, I guess you wouldn't want to not be pretty at that day"
They lost track of time and where in that closet all day, and they walked to Jaina's room together.
Both Jaina and Jim got into bed. It was the end of shift A, the Enterio operated like that, Shift B went on when shift A goes to sleep, so the crew can function properly and not be tired constantly.
Jim kissed Jaina good night (despite the lack of distinction between night as day in space) Jaina then kissed Jim's forehead and told him good night.
About 7 minutes later Jim was fast asleep. He was such a heavy sleeper.
Jaina thought it was kinda cute.
Jaina frankly just wanted to actually get some sleep for once.
She succeeded.
Jaina woke up suddenly, something woke her up. She looked out her window. Just empty space, she continued to look, a horizontal pillar came into view, it was dark green, an glowing neon in many areas. It looke as if it was constructed by the Vossk, though she really didn't know.
A large ring came into view, spinning, inside was a lighter green glow, it appeared to be a jumpgate.
But it clearly wasn't designed by Terrans, it wasn't built In a way they would allow.
The view became distorted and simply turned to black, as if the fabric of space and time was being bent to someone's will.

It had been several hours of just black until suddenly colour came back.
It was an old Jumpgate, looked like it was built around 7003
Though it was unclear.

Jaina was tired. She just went back to sleep.

### Assault

Jaina was on Tarson again, she was in the middle of a swamp, she could see the mountains over head.
She knew generally where she was, she had been there before.

She heard whispering. "Follow, follow"
Jaina did as the whispers commanded almost instinctively.
Jaina felt, understood, by the voice, she didn't know why.
She reached the source of the whispering, but nothing was there, aside from a small pond of liquid.
"Touch, touch"
She instinctively touched the pond, just for a second.
Something grabbed her, a pale hand of a young woman.
She was dragged under the liquid. Whatever it was was trying to drown her!
Jaina kicked the attacker multiple times, after the 22nd time she got out of her grasp, she looked down and saw her face, literally, she saw her own face...
She got out of the liquid, only to be faced with a being of even more terribleness.
A skeletal figure was over her and plunged a huge scythe like weapon into her neck, she was attempting to scream but couldn't, she had a gaping hole in her throat, the being attacked her again.

Jaina woke, screaming, Jim jumped and looked at her, startled, "what the hell was that?!" He asked her, Jaina then said "It was just a bad dream"

"You looked like you where distressed in your sleep" Jim said, Jaina then said "Well then"
aina looked out the window, there was a Wreckage, many wreckages, as if a battle once took place there.
"Where are we?" Jaina asked.
"No clue" Jim replied.
Jaina got up and asked Jim "What are you doing here anyway, you never wait for me to wake up"
Jim then said "Spire wants to talk to us, and many others to, says its important."
"Well I'm up now, aren't I?"
They both left and headed to Spire. Jaina was worried, and rightfully so.

Jim was the first to enter the room, Jaina entered second, Cassie was also there, so was another Cassie that was onboard the ship, the whole of Valiant squadron was also there, Josephine, Victoria, Mikey, Arnold, Manny and Luke to be exact, and of course Jaina was there too.

Necten Squadron was also there. Jaina didn't actually know any of there names.
Jaina was silent.
Spire began to speak "Jim, your in the wrong place right now, go down to the lower hanger"
Jim then went out of the room.
"Right, the Marine forces are gonna be searching the wrecks for supply's, thing is we recently discovered a tracking device on the hull, so it's possible we might be attacked, infact it's considered highly likely, so you need to make sure your ready"

As ordered by Spire, all squadrons were on standby, all just sitting in there craft, waiting for an order to attack.
Ships from other warships where going around, searching for anything useful.
This went on for several hours.
Jaina was beginning to think that the Empire wasn't gonna randomly assault them.

Suddenly, The now fixed intercom sounded, it was Cassie "Now! We"re under attack! Go!"
It caught Jaina of guard and she hit her head on the controls of her ship in startlement, as soon as she could she burned the engines for a short while, and then shut them off, se had enough speed.
It was already mayhem, Jaina was almost shot down within the first 3 seconds.
She could already see that the destroyer Karnifex was destroyed.
It didn't appear many survived merely that first 3 seconds.
"Is anyone still alive out there? Report back" Cassie asked, she was in command of the fighter squadrons.
Victoria was the first to report back, saying "I'm here, I'm not fine but I'm here"
Jaina then reported back "I'm fine"

Only one man from Nectan Squadron reported back, Kandon his name was, shortly after the 7th Valiant Squadron member reported back, who's name was Luke.
"That it, only four of you survived?" Cassie asked, Victoria then said "No one else has reported, so I guess so"
Cassie was clearly out of ideas, she began swearing a whole bunch.
"Okay, form a group, best we can do, we haven't been able to communicate with the rest of the fleet, so we can't join up with them!"

"Kandon. Whatever your name was where are you?" Jaina asked.
Kandon then spoke
"I should be near you, yea I can see you, bout' 2 K's"

"Great, try to hurry"

Kandons ship flew by, he spun around and accelerated, slowing him down.
Jaina saw several Imperial Trifighters as they where called barreling towards Luke from behind, his ship didn't have working radar, he wouldn't know.
"Luke! Your being tailed!" Jaina shouted, she then realized. The radio wasn't working, as if it was jammed.
"Anyone here me!? HELLO?!"
It wasn't working.

Luke manages to shake the attacking craft off.

Jaina caught up with Lukes craft, and Victoria and Kandon followed best they could.

They where unable to communicate, they where just sticking together.
That's when Jaina discovered the Empires latest toy...

Fast upside down Y shaped craft flew in, they where pearly white and flew so unnaturally gracefully.

They opened fire, bolts of energy hit the side of Jaina's craft, an engine short circuited as a result.
Luke's ship spun around whiles still moving forward and fired at the ships chasing Jaina, they simply changed targets and fired at Luke's ship, it was destroyed with a couple well placed shots.
Jaina spun around and launched a full salvo of missiles at the attacking craft, one of them was knocked of course by the force and collided with a Destroyer.

Jaina knew she needed to get out of there, fast, but she needed to keep with Victoria and Kandon, but she had no way to communicate with them so fleeing would leave them behind.

Jaina fired more missiles at the enemy ships, they where strong.
"Jaina! Anyone hearing this!?" Cassie shouted. The radio was working, "Cass! I'm hearing you!" Jaina shouted quickly.
"Can anyone else?"
Victoria and Kandon said yes.
"Where's Luke? He was with you!" Cassie said.
"He's dead Cassie. I saw it" Jaina said.
"Oh, sh-"
Jaina heard gunshots and running. Cassie screamed as if in pain, "What's going on in there!?" Jaina asked, no response.
She heard more shooting, then what sounded like climbing, "Jay, you there?" Cassie asked, slowly and quietly.
"Cass, I'm here, what happened?"
"I need to be quiet, they boarded us, got to the CIC, opened fire. We've fended them back but they are still trying to get in"

Jaina then said "Cassie, you sound hurt"
Cassie then said "I'm fine, alright?"
There was a loud crashing noise, Jaina turned her body around to look at the Enterio, it had just been rammed.
Jaina heard Cassie loose her balance.
"That looked bad" Jaina said.

Cassie then shouted "I KNOW, sorry, I lost it, I'm stressed, but yea I know, you and whoever else is left need to take out the ramming ships engines, alright?"

"Yea, we will" Jaina then replied.
The three fighters fired missiles and torpedoes at the engines and they exploded, the Enterio manages to break free of the rammer.

Suddenly Spires voice sounded "All support craft return! We're pulling out! We've sorted out the enemy boarding and its safe!"

Jaina, Victoria and Kandon flew back into the hanger of the Enterio. It was terrible. Many spare craft were on fire and the landing pads where buggered, they barely landed.

Jaina ran out of her fighter, trying to get to the CIC as fast as possible, something was wrong, Cassie was denying it but she felt it in her gut.
She knocked people over as he ran, as fast as she could, literally.
She busted through the door.
Dead Imperial marines lied on the floor, dead.
As soon as Jaina saw Cassie's state she ran to her, Cassie was shot, seemingly with a shotgun of some sort, most of the shots hit her leg but some hit her abdomen as well.
She was on the ground, Spire was with her.
"Your not okay! You need to get assistance!" Spire said, he actually seemed genuinely concerned, "I said in fine, my leg doesn't hurt any more" Said Cassie, she then tried to rise but collapsed on her leg and screamed, she was clearly in agony.
Jaina bent down to Cassie, her eyes where bloodshot and blood was present in her hair. Though her hair was still clearly black.
"Jaina" Cassie said, Jaina then responded "Cassie"
They where looking each other in the eyes, Jaina then said "Cassie. Your, what happened?"
Cassie then whispered "What the fuck does it look like?"
Cassie indeed did not appear to be ok and had clearly been shot.
"Your not okay, you need medical assistance, you've been shot!" Jaina said, trying to reason with her.
"It's not that bad, really"
Cassie seemed to genuinely think she was fine, she thought it wasn't as bad a it looked.
"Cassie! Just think about this! Even if it wasn't bad going and checking would be a good idea!"
There was a loud crash, the Enterio had been hit.
"Think of your husband, what would he think?"
Cassie then said "I don't think I want to know how he would handle me dying, but even then it's null and void as I'm not going to die!"
She was clearly becoming weak now, she wasn't moving at all.
"It's either you come, or I force you to come" Jaina said in a stern voice.
"IM FINE!"
Jaina then said picked her up and physically carried her to the medical facility, she was too weak by then to put up a fight.
In truth, Cassie genuinely thought it wasn't that bad.
A medic was there, in fact a lot of medics for there, everybody who knew what to do was there, not just the medics.
They where quite busy, many had it worse off then Cassie did.
Cassie was placed on a makeshift bench, actual ones where there but the facility was overwhelmed at this point.

A medic came, "What's wrong ?" She asked, Jaina then said "she was shot"
The medical officer looked at Cassie and was startled and concerned, he could tell by sight she was bleeding out, not rapidly but enough for death to be within 2 days if she is left without help.
Jaina left, hoping to find Jim.

The battle was still raging on outside, Spire was unable to get the Enterio out of there.
Fortunently everybody was on the ship.

Many of them thought they had better survival chances not on the ship, considering it was being shot to hell.
Jaina was waiting, she was told by Spire that Jim was safe, though Spire has been known to lie.
Infact he probably lies on a daily basis.
Out of the 16 ships that went to the wreckages only 2 returned. Both where barely functional.

Jim had indeed managed to survive.
Jaina saw him and ran into his arms.

Jim unexpectedly made an ow sound, Jaina, who was understandably confused, asked him "what's wrong?"
"I was shot, in the arm, several times, you just ran into it"
Jaina looked at his arm, it was indeed shot, it was bleeding, they clearly had by even a bandage available.
"Sorry, did they not have anything to help?"
Jim then said "They had bandages, but they where saving them incase something worse comes up. This was right before getting onto the ship that got me out of there"
Jaina then said "Christ, who the hell came up with that idea"
Jim then said "Spire told the whole fleet to save medical supplies for the worst of the worst. Of course he left what that is up to interpretation, and nobody thought being shot with unidentified bullets to be worst at least looking st to make sure it isn't worse then it looks"

Jaina then said "I have some bandages and maybe some other stuff in my room, don't ask where I got them from"
They both went into the room, Jim was in much pain but he could walk, which made things easier.
"Sit down. Would make it easier" Jaina said. Jim complied, he was unsure how good with this stuff Jaina was, but she was the only one willing to help, his trust made him ask "you know what your doing?"
Jaina answered "I don't plan to really help much, I don't really know how to extract a bullet, I only plan to look at it, see of I can see what the hell hit you, and put a bandage on it"

Jaina got some bandages out and an old lens she had laying around.
She looked at a small bullet lodged in Jims arm through the lens and said "Well, it looks like its just a normal bullet, can't tell if its poisoning you or anything but as far as I can see its just an average bullet wound, you'll need to see somewhere who has any goddamn idea what she's looking at though"
Jaina then put a bandage on it to slow the bleeding, that she knew how to do.
"Thanks" Jim said, before Jaina said "don't mention it"

Jim got up, and asked "are you okay?"
Jaina then said "I, I don't know, I mean I guess I am considering most of my squadrons dead, but, I just don't know"

Jim then said "wait, wait you squads dead? What the hell hap" Jim then sighed and continued "Are you okay about talking about it?"
Jaina then said "Jim, it was a nightmare out there, I'm surprised Victoria and I even survived! We lost communications for a lot of it too, your goddamn lucky your not allowed to step foot in a cockpit"

### Spires Fury

The battle outside was worse then it was before, the Enterio was under heavy fire. Spire was running out of options.
Thousands of shells and O shapes of superheated Plasma where being shot at the Enterios Engines, this was very bad, as they function by bashing microscopic amounts of matter with equally microscopic amounts of normal matter, and electromagnetic fields shove charged Pions out to create thrust, they work well but are kind of dangerous, for three reasons reasons.
First off, it releases gamma rays, gamma rays are not good, secondly, one could accidentally cause an electron-positron antimatter annihilation which would cause an explosion of antimatter, and thirdly, as one can imagine an antimatter anything should not be shot at, when they are, it can cause it to blow up, and antimatter explodes quite big, and bassicly won't stop until it finds an area of absolutely nothing, at all, as in literally no matter of any sort whatsoever in an area, which is not common.

Spire knew this, the problem was he needed the things to get out of the battle.
He ordered them be activated at full power for as long as possible, quite an arrogant decision considering how fragile Human beings are, and the fact the speed of things in space is limited only to the speed of light itself, there is nothing to slow stuff down.
The ship was flying in the direction of out of the battle, hoping to escape it and just wait.
A powerful shot hit one of the engines, it was weakened to the point the thing could blow up at any instant.
"We need to decouple D sir!" Sand an Officer, Spire agreed, but reminded the office who was the admiral and who was just some officer.
The D Engine (lowest engine on the right) was decoupled, of it was to blow up at least it would do so away from the Enterio.
This left the ship was 3 engines, and it began to slowly spin, which for a ship with a large wing like protrusion at the bottom stern spinning makes not colliding with things difficult.

Indeed soon that wing hit some wreckage and the whole Enterio felt the collision, people in the CIC flew forward, Spire included, Jim fell back into a wall, Jaina fell onto him. Cassie who was still in the medical bat just slid a bit, she was bassicly fastened down as Spire wanted the anesthesia to be saved. So anything they did hurt her immensely.
Further shots came in towards the engines, Spire didn't wish to lose them.
"Sir, they will blow us to hell!" Said one officer, Spire then said "THEN WILL DIE FIGHTING FOR A WORTHY CAUSE!"
A female officer then said "Even then we won't be able to continue with that cause if we're dead! We need to get rid of those god damn engines!"
Spire was furious "NO! IF YOU WANT THEM GONE YOU GOTTA GET THROUGH ME! WE WILL GET OUT OF HERE! NOONES GONNA STOP ME FROM MAKING THIS SHIP DO JUST FUCKING THAT!"

That same female officer then shouted "SPIRE! Your fucking mental! Your gonna get us all killed! We need to get rid of those fucking engines, if you don't, I will!"
Spire was well above his reasonable threshold indeed, he grabbed a chair and threw it at the officer, it hit her abdomen and she fell into the tactical map, Spire then ran at he holding a pocket knife he has on him for safety reasons and dug it into where the chair hit, and tore he guts out with the knife, and then stomped his boots into her neck, squishing her windpipes just enough to still function but not well enough to ensure survival.

"YOUR FUCKING INSANE!"
shouted an understandably concerned officer, Spire then said "If I didn't agree I would be doing the same do you, we WILL get out of here, wether physically using our engines, or through death, Obey, that is the only way through this battle I'm afraid"
Jaina heard a scream come from CIC, she happened to be nearby, she opened the door and a male officer grabbed her and hid her.
"Jaina, the hell are you doing in here!?" He said.
"I heard trouble, I was gonna help"
The officer then said "Well Spire probably wouldn't take kindly to that, he's now running the place like a dictatorship, you wanna help, try to pull the levers that decouple the engines, Spire thinks they are our only hope but there gonna blow up any moment now"
Jaina then said "Well then, I'll go do that"
Jaina stood up and Spire noticed "Why are YOU here!!?" He said, Jaina then said "I heard your causing a major safety risk, mind to confirm this?"
Spire then yelled "WE NEED THE ENGINES, WE NEED THE SPEED TO ESCAPE!"
Jaina then ran at the levers, Spire ran at Jaina with his knife and attempted to slicer her throat with it, but Jaina ducked out the way and pushes Spire, his weapon flew out of his hand, landing elsewhere in the room, Jaina ran and used the levers, decoupling the engines.
Spire was suddenly furious, "You, you, YOU'VE DOOMED US!" Spire ran at Jaina seemingly senselessly and jumped on top of her, in a bowing like position, just she was the floor and he was readying to beat her until she stopped moving.
The location of Spires boot made it hard for Jaina to breath as well, making the punches Spire threw at her worse, she couldn't do anything.
"YOU'LL DIE HAVING BETRAYED YOUR COMRADES! BUT LET'S BE HONEST, YOU SEE YOURSELF AS PERFECTLY SANE, BUT YOUR NOT FOOLING ANYONE! YOUR LOSING IT!"
Spire punched her more, Jaina was seeing quadruple, just the 3 extras where red blue and green. Spire punched yet again, Jaina's nose was broken and bleeding, Spire then punched again and dislodged her jaw.
He just didn't care, he had gone mental.

"Your a good person Jaina, but your a burden to the ship, your a hazard, WE CAN'T ALLOW THAT!" Spire said before punching again, and again, Jaina was beginning to be unable to breath, and was being beaten up by her admiral.
She then just shouted "Hehlp!" Spih-"
Jaina was interrupted as Spire punched her jaw again, making it more dislodged, any further speech would be incomprehensible.
Jaina felt life slowly leave her body, her vision was fading to black.
Spire for off her. Air came back into her and she regained vision, and hearing as it turned out. Spire hasn't gotten off her out of choice, someone had jumped on him and began punching him up, saying "Get the fuck off her!" As he did it, it was Jim.

Spire then grabbed a second knife and stabbed Jim's arm, the one that was shot, and then dragged the knife down it, cutting a long wound into it. Spire fell off screaming in pain, he stood up and said "Traitors, not siding with the Empire clearly, or us"
Suddenly an officer yelled "Stop it!" And fired a pistol at Spires leg, it hit and he fell to the ground.
Jim crawled his way to Jaina's body, he could see what Spire had done. She was bleeding, barely capable of breathing, now had brain damage, was unable to get up, and her jaw was bassicly disconnected from her skull.
"Jaina, Jay say something. Anything" Jim said, Jaina said "Ihm sohrriehhe, James"
Jaina'a breathing became rather erratic, and soon a familiar sound for Jim appeared, her breathing was ghost like and hissy.
She body was failing.
Before long her breathing seemed to outright stop
"Jaina! Say something!" Jim began to Have tears fall from his Face "Anything. Jaina. Please. Just say something."
Jim saw that blood was in A pool in Jaina's mouth and her eyes where looking as if they lost muscle connection and just, fell in there sockets.
Jaina was also cold, very cold.
"No, your not" Jim said, though it was barely legible under actual crying.
Jim picked up Jaina's body and carried it to the medical facility's.
Many people notice Jim transporting her dying body in his arms.
Cassie was better and could stand now, which she was. She saw Jaina as she was layed on the bench and asked "Wha- what happened? Jim, what happened to her, if you don't mind"
Jim didn't know wether he minded or not, "Spire hurt her, she can be healed!"
A medic by the name of Cassie Rictor (The other Cassie being Cassie Marshal) looked at her and said "Jim, she's dead, I'm sorry but she can't be healed"
More tears came from Jim's eyes. He was truly crying now.
Cassie also began to lose it.
"What the fuck possessed him to do this"
She walked closer and saw for herself that she was truly dead. Blood was now overflowing in her mouth and coming out, it was a awful sight.
Jim then spoke slowly and clearly "I loved her"
He spoke more, but angrily "I fucking loved her and that son of a bitch killed her!"
Cassie Rictor then spoke and said "I'm sure it was just a misunderstandin-"

Jim yelled as if insulted "THAT WAS NOT A GODDAMN MISUNDERSTANDING! YOU WHERNT THERE! SPIRE KILLED HER IN COLD BLOOD! SHE WAS MURDERED BY HER OWN ADMIRAL!"

Cassie Marshal then spoke "Jim, I know your angry, and its understandable, I want to kill her murderer now too, I was her best friend, but we don't know the full story, under no circumstance would Spire have been doing the right thing in killing her but, we don't know what he was thinking"
Spire trusted Cassie, They where actual best friends, there where perfect for each other, and she had a good point"
"We should talk to him about it, if he turns out to be a murderer then we can deal with him, but he knows how to work a fleet, no one else here does"
Jim spoke
"Okay, we'll talk to him soon, just want to do something first"
Jim saw her locket in her hand, or atleast it's chain, he could open her hand up easily as rigor mortis hadn't set in yet, Jim had indeed gotten her locket, he always thought is to be a bit unnecessary but it was suddenly the most beautiful thing.
Jim saw her necklace too, he wanted to leave it with Jaina, but he saw it was snapped, it would fall off if it was left and get lost.
Jim picked it up to see if he could fix it, and maybe return it to her, both the locket and necklace had sentimental value but the necklace had been Jaina's mothers once, and her grandmothers before that. It belonged to her more then it did to Jim.
Jim grabbed Jaina's hand and said "Jay, I have no idea what you would do in this situation, but, I love you, if your hearing this, I hope you are, I won't let you down, and I'm sorry for what happened to you, it would've hurt"
Jim then left.
Jim, Cassie and the medical Cassie where walking towards the CIC, they where trying not to attract to much attention while entering, which running in would do.
The Enterio was hit again, the whole ship felt the force and Cassie Marshal almost cracked her skull on blunt metal upon falling into the wall.
"You okay?" Jim asked. Cassie looked at him and remained silent.
The three continued to walk, every step seemed to further solidify the distrust in Spire. Perhaps he was a traitor, perhaps something more, or less, which didn't matter. What did was the fact the titanium door was in front of Cassie, who was always considered the one of the calmest people on the ship, if anyone had any self restraint it was her, but these circumstances where, unique.
Cassie opened the door, she saw Spires back before e turned around, for a second he seemed furious, but upon seeing Cassie he seemed more collected.
Cassie knew this would happen, one of the main reasons Cassie was in the CIC so much was the fact Spire found her calming.
It had reached the point the thought of we being there was calming, and now
Cassie was physically there.

Jim and the other Cassie came out from behind her, Spires face became less calm and more worried.

"John Spire, I heard you did something that could be considered seriously detrimental?"Cassie said, Spire then said "I never gave you permission to call me by my first name"Spire had dodged the question.
"I don't care" Cassie had said, Spire was still calmed by he but she was pushing him, he could tell she was trying too.

Spire was remaining silent, so Cassie said "You killed someone, I know you did. I saw her body, your beat her to goddamn death! Just, why?"

Spire then looked a mix between horrified, shocked, a saddened. He said "she's dead? I didn't wa- wish that to happen I-"
Jim then interrupted by shouting "THEN WHY'D YOU ATTACK HER! WHAT'S YOUR EXCUSE FOR THAT!"

Cassie then told Jim to stop, Cassie cautiously walked forward, she then saw what was left of another woman, who looked like her death was intended, considering her guts where ripped out.
"What happened there?" Cassie asked.
Spire then said "I lost it, I'm sorry, I didn't know what I was doing"

Spire seemed genuinely effected, he didn't appear to be lying.
"Jim, I'm sorry but I think Spires telling the truth, I don't condone what he did but, look at him" Cassie said, Jim was silent.
The other Cassie was outside the room now.

Cassie then said "We can resolve this at a better time, at the moment we can be blown up at any second"
Jim then exclaimed "One more thing"
Jim walked up to Spire, who looked understandably terrified.
Cassie then realized what was gonna happen and shouted "Jim! Don't!"
Jim then punched Spire in the gut as he said "This is for Jaina you fucking son of a bitch"
Jim then stepped away. He still hated him for what he did, Jaina was the love of Jim's life, the fact they where to be married a couple months later made it so much worse.
Perhaps that's why Spire didn't approve of the relationship, he knew some day one of the two would die and leave the other wanting revenge.

Cassie then said "Jim, please, try to restrain yourself"
Cassie was trying not to do what Jim did plus so much more, on board the ship Jaina and Cassie where best friends. Cassie was equally as effected by her murder as Jim, though she believed Jim to be more effected, he was closer to her then Cassie.

Spire then said "All four engines of ours are now lost. We are stuck at our current speed"
Cassie then said "it's not a problem, just defend the ship are we should eventually get out of here, okay!"
Cassie was becoming increasingly tense and could tell she would loose it at any moment.
"I'm sorry I need to go, I'll be back, don't worry, I just wanna, talk to Jim about something" Cassie said.
Cassie then left the room with Jim, they walked down the hall together.
"Cass, I need to tell you something" Jim had said,he had never called Cassie Cass, intact the only person who ever called her that was her mother and Jaina. She liked the name. "What?"

I found something in the wreckages, I don't trust Spire at the moment and, well, your really the next best thing"
"Jai- Jim this can wait till after the battle" Cassie said, she never really talked to Jim, whenever she says J her mind always seemed to default to Jaina. "You said-"
"I know what I said! Sorry, I didn't mean to snap, it's just, gonna be tough you know, she was the only person on the ship I really enjoyed being around, we felt like when we where young, it was the kinda thing you wish to never end, but I got so little time with her, Becouse of my constant required presence near Spire."
Jim then said "I think he likes you, the way he calmed back there"
Cassie then said "can't wait until he realizes I'm taken"
She wanted to find any humor in any of it, but just couldn't.

Jim then got back to his original point "Anyway. Cassie, I'm the only one who knows where what I found is, I think it's some old robot but I don't really know, if we don't survive this battle that thing will be lost"
Cassie agreed to come.

As the two where walking to the location of Jim's find, Cassie asked a question "Jim, are you okay?"
"What do you think?" Jim said.
Cassie simply said oh.
They had entered the largely abandoned areas of the ship, it was dark.
Cassie lost balance and fell into the wall and let out a little scream, the ship was hit by several torpedoes. Jim quickly shouted "Cass! You okay!?"
Cassie got up and asked Jim to shine a light on her shoulder.
Jim obliged and saw that there was now a huge gash there.
"Nothing we can do now" Jim said, Cassie agreed.
They continued walking and walked through a door.
It was an old maintenance shaft, it was extremely dark and claustrophobic.

After some crouching and walking the two went through a hatch.
"We're here" Jim said, Cassie then said "I can't see anything"
Indeed, it was pitch black in the room.
"I have a flashlight"
Jim turned on the flashlight and Cassie was startled more then she had even been, she had indeed screamed. Cassie had turned around, and asked as if terrified "Why is a corpse there?"
Jim then said "it's not a corpse"
Cassie slowly turned around.
A humanoid figure lied in the dark, a body, at least 7 feet tall and its eyes where black and dead.
It's skin silver in colour.
It's face was emotionless and pure white, and hairless...
It was no Man, it was a machine.
Jim had found an Android...
"JIM! You know I don't like those things! There scary!"
Jim had forgot about Cassie's Automatonophobia
as Jim was pretty sure it was called.
She found humanoid things that simply are not Human rather unpleasant.
"Oh, I forgot, I'm so sorry, you can leave if you wan-" Jim was cut of by Cassie saying "Yea I'm going"
She then left the room.
Jim came out too.
Cassie then said "What the hell where you thinking!? An Android!? There's a reason they aren't used much! One minute they can be helpful, then they find something of and suddenly there's a secret government conspiracy!"

Jim then yelled at Cassie.
"Well maybe the android conspiracy theory is right!" He felt awful instantly, he though Cassie was nice.
Cassie then spoke "Jim, what would a robot come up with that we couldn't figure out ourselves, hmm?"

Jim then said "I don't know, Jaina seemed fairly convinced we where quite, useless, in the grand scheme of things, she explained it, it went over my head"

Cassie then wanted to tell Jim Jaina was paranoid, which she was, in fact over time she was becoming many things.
Cassie chose not to say that, Jim had been an actual Marine. To insult host dead girlfriend would probably end badly."are you sure she knew what she was talking about?"
She asked, Jim replied, "no"

### Dead Weight

Cassie was on her own, she hadn't been on her own in a very long time.
Her and Jaina where close, her death, at the hands of someone she trusted was hard for her, she was becoming conflicted.
What's more important? She thought. The Cause? Or her own happiness?

One would assume they would go hand in hand but with Jaina gone she realizes exactly how close they where, she was actually really glad to know her.
They really where best friends.
Jim said he was going to look at his android, Cassie urged him to destroy it but he just ended up yelling at her.
He thinks the android is the key to everything.

Cassie wanted to tell someone an android was on the ship but, Jim trusted her, no one else.
Spire thought Jaina's body is dead weight and if those closest to her don't do something he will.
So those closest to her where going to hold a makeshift funeral.
Her body was to be shot out of the ship into space.
Spire had found out the attack that Jaina was murdered in was orchestrated by General Wammy.
Every attack since Tarson was him...
For a General he was a great Naval man.

Jim had looked through Jaina's stuff, she didn't have much. Mostly just some spare clothes, many of which he had only seen her wear once or twice, and there where a couple photos of her and her family, and one of her and Jim.

Jim then found one of the few things he despised about Jaina.
Thynome Brand Cigarettes...
Jim had told her repeatedly that she was doing more harm then good and Jaina didn't really seem to care much. Fortunently she rarely used them.
But that didn't really make it any better.

But the scary thing was, they reminded Jim of her, in a good way. What used to be happy memory's with her became sad after her death and the sad ones became seemingly became happy.

Everybody on the ship was informed of the casualties of the battle at once. Even Spire seemed disheartened.

The engines of the Enterio where replaced

### Otherworld Is Coming

But in the end, what progress was made? The Rebels only stepped backwards. All there gains where lost in the end.
Except one...
The Universe is an unending yet limited place, beings of eldritch and cosmic horror exist out there, and entropy is gaining the upper hand in the war of the universe…
The Quantum Watchers of Spacetime have come to our Plane of this universe.
They shaped the events of this universe, so that there messengers of discord, the Hun, shall come and clean up the mess Humanity has left.
Children of Arckenoss the Wise, be fearful…
There Project, is defying its rule, there wish’s, against his will…
Humanity is now a parasite within the universe….
For they have broken a wall.
But, is this truly a bad thing?
Naturally you think the answer is no, it is not a good thing, but you are a Human, therefore your biased against your own goodness.
Project Otherworld, is coming...

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