Early Life of Lu Yueh

Like all Primarchs, Lu Yueh was lost to the Imperium when he and his brothers were scattered to the far corners of the galaxy. This is a brief summary of his life before the Imperium, his rise to supremacy upon the planet of Jining.

## Landing on Jining

When the Primarch of the IInd Legion arrived on the feudal world of Jining, he did so by landing in the garden of a small noble family within the nation of Dali; a family that had been unable to produce an heir and prayed regularly to the gods to bless them with a son. To the noble family, this boy that came from the sky was the great blessing they had been praying for decades to receive. To show their gratitude to the gods, they would give this child everything they could within their power; only the best would be good for this boy, and all the boy wanted, he would get. To do anything less would be an insult to the gods.

Months passed, and the speed at which the boy grew and learned showed all that this child truly was born of the gods. Within this short span of time, he had learned to speak and read, consuming all knowledge he could. The boy would spend nearly all his time studying and within a year, he had read every book his family could buy, yet still his thirst for knowledge was not quenched. Thus the boy went to look for more to learn himself and he would find it; being a child of the gods, none would dare stop him from entering any building. So even though he was but one year of age, he could enter his home town’s infirmary to watch the physicians do their work. The boy quickly became enamoured with the work the physicians were doing, he felt an innate interest in the sickly and wanted to see them cured.

As he watched the physicians go about their labors, the boy noticed that he knew exactly what they were supposed to do, he knew how to diagnose and treat the patients. He didn’t know why or how but he simply knew now as he looked that the sick and dying. Yet as the boy looked on in worder, he became disgusted with the ineptitude of the physicians. He had read about the treatments they practiced and how they were supposed to work, he also knew they didn’t work and when a plague swept through the nation, this became clear for all to see. Thus he decided to take action and save his home from the ravages of the plague. It would take him a few days and a few now expired subjects but he would find a cure to the plague. His family provided him all he needed and within three weeks he had his cure. Yet when he wanted to present his parents with his achievement he found it had been too late for them, both had been claimed by the plague. Upon their graves he swore to protect the province Ning he had inherited and to make it prosper.

## Ning Independence

As the child of the gods took power over the now plagueless lands, he found his home surrounded by potential enemies. Though the plague may have claimed only a few within his domain, this was not the case for the rest of the nation. The rest had been left at the mercy of the disease and the already fragile balance of power within Dali was completely shattered. This kicked off a time of internal struggle where every Noble House that hadn’t suffered as much from the plague as its neighbours attacked and conquered them. One such House had its eyes set on the province of Ning; with the lord dead and a one year old as head of the House, they expected a swift and easy conquest. The child of the gods would use his new foe’s hubris to his advantage, leading his enemy into a trap. He would make him think he had every advantage up until the last moment, then the child’s men would strike, weapons coated in poison and bodily fluids of the diseased.

Those that didn’t die that day would later fall to disease and take these diseases home where it would spread and weaken the already depleted House more. Weeks later the child of the gods would lead a sizeable force of his own to take the now severely weakened house. The opposing house surrendered the moment the boy’s forces were in sight. Having barely a handful of men still able to hold weapons, even the locals didn’t oppose the Ning troops walking in the streets with a child at their head. Yet after going into the town the troops didn’t sack the town, nor did they harm anyone, instead they distributed medicine in the name of their young lord. After this the loyalty of the people was secured in the hands of the child born of the gods.

After the opposing house fell and its territory added to that of Ning. The child of the gods was named for his deeds as a leader by a local priest, as is customary for those adopted into nobility without a name. The boy would be named Lu Yueh zhi Zi or son of Lu Yueh, the God of Plagues, both for his ability to cure and cause disease.

The newly named Lu Yueh zhi Zi wished to expand the influence of his House further, having now learned of the potential threat the surrounding Houses might pose to his own prosperity. Using all the knowledge on tactics Lu Yueh proceed to lead his forces on a year long campaign to subdue all the surrounding noble houses. When possible he would subdue peacefully, remove the nobles from power and treated the peasants from whatever ailed them. In many cases though, he was forced to take by force. Leaving towns destroyed in the fighting and hundreds of refugees to take care of if they hadn’t fled. It would take a whole year for order to once more come to Dali. All the noble houses having exhausted what little manpower they had left after the plague. The time of internal strife was over and all but twelve houses were no more.

## A Brief Peace

Now some form of balance was in place once more a time of peace began. Time that each house used to rebuild and repopulate. During these years Lu Yueh learned how to rule over a fairly sizable amount of land. He found himself to be a more than capable ruler. He was able to create very effective laws, implement proper healthcare, improve education and deal with thousands of refugees that flocked to his lands. Though one of the greatest assets he had at his disposal was the legitimacy he received from being seen as a child of the gods. This allowed him to implement reforms that no other would be able to. Lu Yueh could break though certain taboos, such as allowing people to work outside of the caste they were born in without it leading discontent among lesser nobles and warrior families. This all made sure that the lands of Ning recovered from the plague and subsequent wars faster than other houses. Both militarily and economically.

## An Emperor Rises

Yet peace could not last. For after ten years one of the great houses saw its chance to conquer the lands of another. Once more shattering the fragile balance of power lighting the fire of civil war once again. One after the other houses declared war on those next to them, each trying to make some gains out of the situation. Only the lands directly controlled by the Dali emperor remained spared from the civil war. Its lands protect by ancient war machines that no other dared to face. During the first year Lu Yueh focused his forces on defending their home. Isolating itself from the civil war as other houses saw greater threats in each other than in Ning. Only a few lesser nobles saw value in striking at the seemingly weak Ning, only for them to never be heard from again. In the second year of the civil war things started calming down as each house had spent large quantities of manpower either attacking others or defending their own lands. It was now that the first armies on Ning left their lands during the war. Marching on what was now its weakest neighbour and conquering enough of their lands to disrupt supply lines to the other side of their foe’s territory. What followed was the first death of a noble house in the civil war, unable to feed its troops. Their armies deserted and the forces of other houses moved in to take all they could. in the following four years little of note took place. As most houses could not afford to send troops to do more than skirmish. Too much land had to be protected from potential enemy incursions and the loss of any large force would be the death of any house.

At the end of the sixth year of the civil war the stalemate was broken as surrounding nations had recovered from the plague and saw their chance to conquer large chunks of land from Dali. Large scale invasions from the Shun, Han and Guanxi dynasties forced the houses on the Dali border to diverted large portions of their forces to protect themselves against the foreign invasions. It was in this year that Shun and Han hordes broke through the walls that had marked the Dali border for over five thousand years. Rampaging across Dali territory, sacking any city they came across. This permanently tipped the scales of the Dali civil war in favour of Ning as the houses to the North, South and East would soon be no more. Lu Yueh took his chance to take land to his east north and south such that; to the north the mountains would protect his borders from Shun, to the south the border was as short as it could be forcing Han forces to need to break through fortress lines, and finally to the east the vast deserts would leave Guanxi incapable of pushing forward.

Though easier said than done the remaining houses fell fairly quickly. Some of the lesser nobles even surrendered and offered to become vassals after they saw that they hadn’t the strength to remain in power. Lu Yueh took these few up on their offer after he had them swear fealty to him directly. As Lu Yueh had grown considerably over the years and now towered over those around him, it wasn’t very difficult to convince them to serve him. In particular because his very presence let rumours these nobles heard of a child of the gods coming to Ning ring true. After uniting all of the nation that Lu Yueh thought he could hold control over. He and his army marched on the capital to take the throne of Dali and with it his by the gods ordained right to rule over the lands he now controlled.

Using his knowledge of weather and chemistry Lu Yueh created artificial mist to hide his forces when they marched on the walls of the capital, making the ancient artillery pieces on the walls nearly useless. With those cannons only able to shoot wildly into the mist almost all the Ning forces reached the walls and the defenders were quickly overwhelmed. By the end of the seventh year of the civil war a victor had arisen. The house of Ning being the only major house to remain. On the day the throne came into the hands of Lu Yueh, he crowned himself Emperor of the Ning dynasty.

## The Jade Father

Now Lu Yueh had dealt with his most immediate threats he started working towards his next goal, uniting the world under one nation. Ensuring peace and prosperity for his home. For this he needed to do a few things. Firstly he needed to build a nation that surpassed all those around him in regards to military power and economic power. To do this he wanted to increase the supply of food and the efficiency of its distribution. Population grew with the supply of food after all and manpower was needed to both improve the economy and rebuild the nation’s military. Secondly he would need to make sure disease could never again destabilise the region as it did eighteen years ago. Thirdly to ensure the earlier mentioned two points were satisfied in a timely fashion he needed knowledge. The knowledge needed to wield the ancient artillery pieces to be specific. This knowledge was currently in the hands of a group that had been maintaining the last operational factory built on Jining. A group Lu Yueh would soon be visiting to discuss what was to become of their factory under his rule.

Given that it seemed to be the quickest thing to resolve Lu Yueh first visited the last operational factory. It was situated within the walls of the capital and was part of what would have once been a giant factory complex. Streets were made of a form of stone now impossible to remake and giant buildings made of a combination of the same stone and metal remained as empty yet ever enduring ruins, even if the machinery inside was destroyed and eroded beyond the point of repair the buildings stood. At the centre of the ruins was the final working factory, though it had changed much over time. Many additions had been made over time using scrap and chucks of other buildings. These additions to the works of their ancestors weren’t made to improve upon the original though. Lu Yueh saw the additions for what they were. They were religious symbols. The building had been remodeled as a temple. Something almost never seen on Jining. Temples serve little purpose when people kept their faith to themselves and within their own home or workplace. This was the first sign to Lu Yueh that those who laboured here might not be desirable allies. Zealots are often rather set in their ways after all and Lu Yueh wanted to bring great change to his lands.
Upon entering the ancient factory Lu Yueh for his meeting with the head of the factory he entered a large room filled with machines for production. This was not odd in and of itself as this was a factory. What was odd was what the labourers were doing. They often weren’t working on machinery or overseeing production. No, they were praying. Praying to the machines. It was clear they didn’t pray to a god who would give them the ability to work better or inspire them. No, they prayed to objects built by mortal hands. To Lu Yueh, and any other on Jining, this was little more than madness. One did not pray to objects, one prays to the god that supports the work of the mortal that used the object. Or one would pray by performing work in the name of god.

Why would a god of machines care for words spoken by mortal men over the work these men did to maintain the machine? As he was led through the facility he only saw more and more things that showed the madness of those who laboured here. Many organic body parts of the labourers were replaced with mechanical parts, though this was not what Lu Yueh saw as a flaw. It was the state in which they were kept and the way they were attached to the labourers’ bodies. The parts often seemed like they were falling apart and were in a state of disrepair, they got in the way of the labourers’ work more than it helped them, another blasphemy to the god they supposedly worshiped. Then there was the way they were attached. Every added mechanical part looked as though it was being rejected by the body. It was something Lu Yueh had seen when performing surgeries and experimenting with replacing failed organs. Though here it was even worse. The added parts always looked as though they were about to just fall off. He even saw infected tissue drop on the floor every now and as he made his way through the factory. After seeing all this Lu Yueh had made a decision these fools must be removed, within a century they will destroy the last bit of technology left behind by our ancestors. This must not happen. After being brought to the head of the factory he did not mention any of this though, or show any emotion on his face to indicate his disgust. He just listened and accepted the terms he was given. Ammunition for the ancient artillery pieces and their assistance in maintaining them in exchange for new recruits, preferably children.

With this they gave Lu Yueh exactly the opening he needed to get everything he wanted out of them. Resources in the short term and an opening to take control of the factories using people he would indoctrinate himself. He would pick children from those now in his education system and pick a few to tutor himself. He would send these children to the factory to take command over the factory, it might take a few sets of children. But in the end he would have his factory and so secure technology to bring prosperity to his lands.
After his visit to the factory Lu Yueh started making preparations to improve his nation’s economy and army. Starting by expanding the education system and improving the healthcare of his citizens through the use of his own knowledge and research into medicine and the human body. These actions would lower mortality rates drastically in every area affected by them and allow for more people to live longer lives and thus work longer. As a side effect this also reduced mortality amongst children which would cause a spike in population which would allow much of the nation to be repopulated.

After three years of work Lu Yueh had found the first children that would eventually be sent to the factory. These children would from then on live in the imperial palace and almost live as the children of nobles would. Though the transition wasn’t as easy many of the children. Lu Yueh found that orphans made the transition to living with him much quicker, never having to leave any family behind. This was helpful as he only had so long to teach them before he needed to send the first to the factory. Teaching them cost a good portion of his time slowing down the rate at which his reforms would take effect. He did come to enjoy teaching these children and would later be dumbstruck for the first time in his life when one of the children called him father. When one year later the time came for him to send off half of the children in his care he found it hard to do so. Even if he had been preparing the children for exactly this purpose. After this year he would make a habit of selecting six to twelve gifted children from his schools to adopt into the royal family. These children would not be the ones he would send to the factory though, these children he would raise himself as his own flesh and blood. He would leave the teaching of additional recruits for the factory to the schools in the capital.

## Unification

During the following years little of note happened. Lu Yueh rebuilt his nation and prepared for what would later come. Raids had started again from the north and south trying to enter the lands of Ning. But these posed little actual threat. There was one large raiding force that managed to get through the desert that now made up the eastern border of Ning. But most of this force had died in the months they had spent in the desert. Too few were still alive to pose much of a threat.
It would take eight years before Lu Yueh was convinced the nation and its military had rebuilt enough to retake the lands lost to the Shun dynasty in the north. An army one hundred thousand strong marched north. Though half of them would die they did manage to drive out the larger tribes that roamed the lands that once belonged to Dali. After their successful campaign these troops would be ordered to garrison the larger cities close to the border of Ning and assist in repopulation efforts. It would take four years but in the end all major population centres were retaken and rebuilt and the northern border would be restored to what it was before the civil war.

Four years after the north had been retaken Lu Yueh determined that it was time to retake the fertile farmlands in the south. An army two hundred and fifty thousand strong marched south to drive out the hordes, this time with Lu Yueh leading the campaign personally along with one of his adopted sons. But even with their emperor leading them this expedition fared much worse than the one in the north. The Han dynasty had a great many more tribes settled in the conquered lands. With each tribe being significantly more numerous and capable than any force teh Shun tribes could individually muster. After a one year campaign but half of the land that had been lost was retaken and only a fifth of the original army remained. Given the fact that the fortifications on the original Dali border would be needed to maintain the lands retaken Lu Yueh was forced to return home and leave these lands to Han once more.

Within two years he had recruited the necessary force and marched south once again. Now three hundred thousand men would march south. Yet unexpectedly there were few tribes to oppose Ning forces. Infighting had broken out within the Han dynasty as the great Kahn had died of disease and various tribes fought in support of one of the five hiers. Luck appeared to be on Lu Yueh’s side. For now that Han had weakened itself Ning forces to march south nearly unopposed. retaking old fortifications and ruined cities,one after the other. Until they reached the old border and were forced to halt their advance. Han might now be weak but on the vast plains to the south the Ning forces would be decimated. Thus Lu Yueh ordered his men to begin reconstruction of the great wall and protect the movement of civilians in the resettlement effort. Rebuilding the lands in the south after the campaign took memrely two years as a result of better infrastructure and terrain that was simply easier to traverse than the steppes in the north. A large influx of people who wanted to return to their ancestral homes was also a great help in repopulation and reconstruction.

Upon returning to the capital from the campaign in the south Lu Yueh received a letter from one of the children he had sent to the factory. The former head of the factory had had an ‘accident’ and his son had now replaced him. Putting the factory effectively in the hands of Lu Yueh. After going to the factory to meet with those he had sent there Lu Yueh found that they had all received some of the same augmentations, the same he had seen on the labourers when he had been there last. The first thing he did now was treat those who had received augmentation so their wounds wouldn’t get worse and they wouldn’t die of infection. Which was something that had occurred fairly often in the factory and which was the reason that they constantly needed new recruits to perform labour. Yet treating these wounds was not child's play for Lu yueh, it was easily dealt with after weeks of putting all the layborours on the operating table and treating them. What was a problem was reverse engineering the machines in the factory. After reading through all the books left within the factory and notes from each head of the factory, Lu Yueh found out these fools actually had no idea how the machines functioned. They had given up on learning how they worked long ago. They just tried to keep everything in working order.

Lu Yueh concluded after this that the machines had to be reverse engineered to try to figure out how they worked. Though then there was the chance that they would learn nothing by doing that as a result of how much the machines had been tampered with over teh millenia. He now called upon many of his adopted sons and daughters to help him in this task in the hope they would together succeed. The gods knew he could not do this alone.

In the end it would take five years for Lu Yueh and his children to reverse engineer the machines and get working replicas of the original machines. This work in the end paid off though. Now they had gained a basic understanding on the workings of these machines. Many of Lu Yueh’s children had thought of ways to implement many of the components of these machines in other parts of society. Funded by the royal treasury many of these ideas saw success within a year and this kickstarted a golden age for the nation. As new technologies derived from the factory saw widespread use and more primitive copies of the factory in the capital started cropping up within two years, producing all sorts of products with greater ease, greater quality and in greater quantity than ever thought possible.

This new golden age of progress caused a great boom in population over the next 10 years as technology improved at high speed and soon there became a need to expand. Not for resources, Ning had enough natural resources all over the nation. No, the nation needed room from food production and living space as cities became more cramped and Lu Yueh expected that rushed construction would lead to small cramped housing that could quickly cause disease to spread once more throughout the nation. Thus Lu Yueh set his eyes on the remaining fertile grasslands in the south controlled by Han. Now he would not suffer as he did the last two times he marched south though. Now his armies were equipped with something that came close to the weapons of old, firearms and iron cannons. Now once more five hundred thousand men marched south led by Lu Yueh and one of his sons. Now they wiped out all who opposed them with minimal casualties. Though these lands had not seen civilisation for more than seven millennia it took but two years to populate the fertile grasslands and even large chunks of the southern steppes, though the tundra’s remained unclaimed by Ning.

Next came the lands of Shun in the North which were invaded by a force of two hundred thousand men a month after the invasion of Han had begun. All lands in the north west were taken and what was left of the Shun tribes either fled into the frozen wastes even farther North or they remained in the north east, where they would soon be conquered by the Guanxi dynasty when they saw the opportunity to.

For the next three years Lu Yueh had his nation prepare for an invasion of Wu. An invasion where for the first time in decades he would once again use chemical warfare to strike down his foes before he even fought them. He would release a deadly chemical on the most developed cities in Wu so he would be able to take these cities while causing minimal damage to existing infrastructure. He would deploy this chemical using a newly reverse engineered flying machine when the time for war came. During this time expeditions into the southern tundra also whipped out the last remnants of the larger Han tribes.

After these three years had passed an army, a million strong, invaded Wu lands and within four years they would take all of Wu while losing only a quarter of their number. Now Ning owned almost four fifths of the entire world. Though it was at the cost of almost half the population of Wu.

Now the only threat that remained to the prosperity of his homeland was the Guanxi dynasty and Lu Yueh had already started making plans to conquer them. He made a disease that he would spread to Guanxi lands one year before invading. This disease wouldn’t kill like the chemical, it would only weaken and cause the infected to be unable to do just about anything. This would fulfil the same role as the chemical, only now the lands would still be populated afterwards. He would only need to enforce the law. It would take him two years to make but he succeeded. He also made a cure for his own forces should they fall ill.

He let the disease loose upon Guanxi the moment he had made the cure and produced an amount of it he deemed sufficient. One year from that day Ning would march upon Guanxi. Not because they actually needed more land. Just to finally unite the world and be one step closer to ensuring the prosperity of his homeland for milenia to come.
In the meantime the nation of Ning had advanced greatly as more and more of the ancient technology was remade, even if in a more primitive form. Many of the old factories in the Capital had been put to use once more as they were rebuilt bit by bit day by day. This caused rapid modernisation in Ning as more and more advanced technology is created. Due to how rapid these improvements have gone the market couldn’t keep up and the government has stepped in to take control of all industrialised sectors of the economy. Only Lu Yueh’s abilities to keep control of the state and keep bureaucracy in check kept the nation improving at the rate it has been for the past decades.

After one year had passed since the disease was released upon Guanxi eight hundred thousand men invaded the nation, with Lu Yueh and three of his sons leading the force. There was little special about this war. Forces dealt with any opposition that remained with minimal losses. Within two years the final foe of Ning was no more. There was one thing different about this war than the others though. During this war Lu Yueh would often enter seemingly random villages and towns to distribute his cure to the locals, sometimes personally giving some the cure. Another peculiarity about this was that all who he personally gave the cure were children. A few years after this one of these children would be adopted by Lu Yueh.

## Looking Outward

Now the world was once more whole Lu Yueh set his eyes upon restoring it to its former glory. There were many ruins of old factories across the world and Lu Yueh went to work on restoring all of them and turning the lands around them into prospering cities. The first years of having the world be united would be the most crucial. Lu Yueh’s ability to rule a united world would be what would legitimise his rule. He would not disappoint. After uniting the world the rate at which prosperity grew only increased as conquered lands became compliant to his rule. After five years of great effort the most populated parts of the world had caught up and Lu Yueh had started looking towards the sky. Lu Yueh wanted to make the last steps towards reclaiming the glory of old. To have his people reach to the sky and rebuild the last few things their ancestors had left them. Observatories had spotted two objects in space, one within orbit of Jining and one within the orbit of Bao’en, the closest world to Jining within the system. Two objects that looked like they had been made, two objects that must have been floating there since the beginning of the age of strife. The people of Jining would return to space once more and reclaim these last treasures left behind by the ancestors. Soon the first craft would be ready for testing. Within a dozen years the last treasures would be reclaimed.

Three years had passed before the first object was reached. It was a space station. One that had been left almost completely undamaged. Most of its systems still functioning. Only its life support had failed, causing its former occupants to die of asphyxiation or exposure. Their bodies conserved perfectly in the vacuum. The station also contained many records. Records all written in a language none understood. Even voice recordings were found. Though their meaning was unknown. After a year of further testing with space craft it was decided by Lu Yueh that it would be safe for him to travel there to try to decipher the language of their ancestors. After about a year Lu Yueh had deciphered the language and thought it to the ship’s crew. What he found were notes describing much of the technology on board this station. A station that according to the recordings only contained the minimum required technology to function properly. The notes also described the eventual intended purpose of Jining as a world that would produce vast supplies of weapons for a now long forgotten nation. Even if not all information recovered proved useful most opened a path to repairing the station. Which they did after half a year of work.

During the time Lu Yueh had been busy deciphering the ancient language and the space station was repaired, one and a half years of endless progress had taken place. As more and more about the ancient machinery was understood and ever improving copies of it were made. In these two and a half years the greatest minds on Jining had worked tirelessly to get to the last treasure left by their ancestors and now they had succeeded. By the end of the third year after the space station had been repaired, a single ship had reached that final treasure left behind by their ancestors.

A huge four kilometer space vessel. To say it was damaged would have been an understatement. The ship had clearly suffered multiple collisions with various asteroids. Still the team in the vastly smaller ship looked for a place where they could leave their ship to search the ship left by their ancestors. In the end they landed their ship in what must have been some form of hanger bay at one point. After the crew entered the ship they found that certain parts of the ship were still pressurised as when they forced a door open they were blown back by a strong gust of wind as the room beyond was depressurised. They also found that each room that had been pressurised still contained corpses.. The ship was surprisingly intact on the inside, the ship’s armour having apparently been able to stop the asteroids from doing extensive internal damage. After a while the group made their way to the bridge. Here they found what must have once been the captain of the ship. After studying the bridge for a while they found a few things of note beyond the corpses. Firstly there was no gravity in space, yet there were chairs on the bridge. Secondly the bridge was fully intact as they spotted no damage besides the last thing of note.

A single set of wires hung loose from the ceiling. This wouldn’t have been strange if it hadn’t been the only damage on the bridge and if there hadn’t been electricity flowing through them. The ship’s reactors having apparently survived for all these years and havign never been shut down. Thinking that this wire led to a system of life support or some other system that would have kept the crew alive as they starved all those years ago, they connected the wires. This caused power to suddenly return to the ship as the lights turned on on their own. After a minute of looking at the now functioning equipment and once more questioning why there were chairs on a spaceship. The gravity seemed to turn on as they all were suddenly pulled down, with two of them connecting face first with the floor. After marveling for a few seconds and working the monitors for fifteen minutes to see if they could find any useful information on their ancestors. they suddenly saw a purple light through the windows on the bridge. Turning towards this light they saw what looked like a tear in reality. This was then followed by the tear slowly closing and a shock going through the ship like an earthquake. Within a moment the ship was no more as the warp drive exploded.
In the year after the last treasure of the ancestors had exploded progress had slowed down. Eagerness and hubris had caused recklessness. During this time many observatories and new deep space scanners had been looking for another ship or honestly anything else the ancestors might have left behind. In the hopes that maybe they hadn’t destroyed their only chance at such precious knowledge. Yet as they searched, exactly a year after the disaster they found something. When Lu Yueh happened to be on the space station for inspection. The on board sensors discovered a multitude of ships within the solar system. They were spotted when they when they had passed Bao’en on their way to Jining. Moments later the on board telescope would confirm that there were indeed over a dozen ships in the system and that they were moving towards them. This caused quite a lot of commotion among the crew as they started speculating where they came from and how they got here. As debates raged on the unidentified ships slowly come closer.

After hours the ships were close enough that Lu Yueh could see distinguishing features on them with the naked eye. The sips were absolutely massive and were clearly military ships looking at all the weapons that had mounted on them. All ships also had one main feature in common, some form of sigil that had a dot in the middle from which two lightning bolts originated. Moments later one of the communications devices on the station reported that they were being hailed. Lu Yueh answered the call and immediately he was greeted with a face that seemed oddly familiar to him, only then heavily scarred by war. Nonetheless he gave a curt bow and introduced himself to the visitor in the language he learned on the station, in the hopes they could understand him. After bowing Lu Yueh looked up again only to see the one he was speaking to had not moved an inch, his gaze boring into him. Then finally after what seemed like an eternity, the man spoke, a single word rumbling forth. “Brother.”