TheLastAngel Wikia

‘This abomination is a wound to the Compact’s honour. As long as this thing lives, that wound will never heal. We shall always bleed.’
--Column Leader Anselm

## Welcome to the Last Angel Wiki

Welcome to the wiki. As you might have guessed from the name, we're trying to provide a resource to consult for the inevitable time when a long ago plot point or detail suddenly rears it's head again. You can help us in this endeavour by contributing, naturally, since this is a wiki, and user contribution is one of the founding principles behind the whole idea.

**The entire wiki is very much a work in progress at this point, so any help is appreciated. Even if it's just adding sources to something, don't be shy!**

## What *is* The Last Angel?

If you've somehow found your way here with no prior knowledge of the story, *The Last Angel* is the first volume of a science fiction work written by Proximal Flame. The very same author has also written a sequel, *The Last Angel: Ascension*, with another story, *The Last Angel: The Hungry Stars,* currently in the works. The premise behind the whole setting is as follows:

During a bloody and dire war with the oppressive and oligarchical interstellar nation known as the Compact of Species, the United Earth Confederacy realised that the Compact's superior vessels would continue to score victory after victory over its own Navy unless they could change the balance of the forces involved massively. Without the time to reach parity in conventional weapons or sheer weight of numbers of the Compact, they needed a whole paradigm shift to even slow their enemy down; therefore, they began constructing a new class of vessel designed to deal with the enemy's dreadnought Chariots, ships so powerful that even to the Compact's true near-peer enemies, they are almost indestructible. Equipped with the bleeding edge of human technology and Red One, a first-of-its-kind stable artificial intelligence, the ship christened UECNS *Nemesis* and Task Force 97 are forced to engage one of Compact's God-Ships, and destroy it, although at a massive cost. All human vessels within its task force are destroyed or damaged as to make no difference; in the whole of the fleet, Nemesis alone barely survives, although massively crippled and with its entire human crew dead. A single Compact vessel, Compact scout cruiser CSFWV *Curse of Prophecy,* was recovered from the debris along with the location of Sol - and therefore, Earth.

Almost exactly one month later, as punishment for the destruction of a Chariot, death of its commanding Triarch and the creation of an AI, the Compact hunted down and killed humankind wherever they found them, including burning Earth clean of life. Only by chance did a single known exodus fleet survive. Its survivors have founded the colony of Rally—but without the industry or navy of the Confederacy, it is soon discovered and forcibly integrated into the Compact. Humanity becomes one of many lowly serf races within the Compact, indoctrinated and with no knowledge of their true history.

Now, almost 2,000 years after the war, the Broken are deemed worthy enough to become part of the Compact Space Force—under the heavy supervision of wiser and older species, of course. But, on a routine training voyage, they stumble upon a massive, ancient vessel with the scars of countless battles, technology beyond an engineer's wildest dreams, and not a living soul aboard...

## Links

*The Last Angel*

*The Last Angel: Ascension*

*The Last Angel: The Hungry Stars*