Remi was a handful. He likes to gamble and I made it clear that if he wants to gamble he can find himself elsewhere. If he barters my ship then I will skin him alive. He said he wouldn't but he still slipped out to the entertainment center and came back with an empty pocket. He blames a bad deck but like I said he is out. The ship is locked so he can't go in there to look for anything to trade so he can gamble so he would go through our stuff. Fortunately we keep ours safe and sound so he has to work a double shift to earn. Regardless he gets his paycheck at the end of the month. We finally had enough so he was transported off world. I would keep in mind the directions I take to go to and from the mines. The chief checks to see if I am hoarding any stones. But he isn't aware that I could use earth manipulation to move the stones through the stones to my bunker. So when I go to bed I simply wiggle my fingers and the stones pop up. I won't take much. It would just be enough to make sure that I can find a place to live in peace. I would take the stones to Lexicon during my monthly check up. But that wasn't fair. After a year of service we bailed out.
Q was happy to see the stars and I was happy to have a stack of emergency funds. Seven happily piloted the ship. I asked them to avoid the Sakura port since they are looking for unblemished ships to transport spice and Café. Q had lost family members to spice so he made it by personal business to avoid Sakura port. Seven on the other hand had escaped a spice lab. Apparently she was used as a guinea pig. They forcefully inject or make her inhale the product before it makes its way to distribution. We had to implement a color scheme system. Black is where we must never go. Red is to be avoided unless absolutely necessary. Yellow means stay for only an hour or a day maximum. Green means stay as long as we like. This left a lot of the galaxy to explore. Q happily transported us to his home Troj in the Antilles quadrant. News reached that Arcan had changed. The royal family was overthrown and injecting chemicals to have the ability to manipulate the elements was now illegal. Any and all biological samples were destroyed so the coming generations will be normal. I was welcomed and we settled down to rest before deciding our next adventure. The borders were closing as there was a new evil. They have been looting places dry. Upon inquiry a scout told. A new evil has sprung.
It goes by the name of the Serpen igneous. Creating havoc was its specialty. Their general was called Alû which means the faceless one. He has no eyes, no nose, no lips and no ears. He controls an army called The Chimera. These were tough brutes that take a hard beating and still keep fighting. They follow orders given by a woman calling herself Tenebrae. She was trying to find a set of wishing stones. It was last seen on the planet Sinistra during the territorial wars of the Karens. A species that wants to convert every and all species into their way of life or kill them. The process involves removing all parents and loved ones. This is done to remove any and all attachments and the feelings of joy. This was their solution to unify the galaxy but unfortunately they were defeated after three hundred years of war. The stones were last seen on the throne of king Portus. Otherwise known as the purveyor of death. The king was strung on his courtyard and what became of the stones is unknown. Many have searched the planet and the so-called path that was allegedly taken. None have succeeded. Now the wishing stones are a children's story.
The Trojian army set a course for the Scotia regions which is besides the Federated system of Kova. These are a collective of systems believing that everyone deserves equal rights and the idea of wealthy and poor is ridiculously amusing. Everyone had a purpose. Everyone works to their best and gets paid accordingly. There are no beggars and there are no useless vagrants loitering around. Everyone serves the army for ten years minimum. The state ensures everyone gets free foods, medicine and education. The only things people pay for are transportation, rent for apartments and utility bills. The Trojians had the approval of the Federated system so they spread their fighterships towards Elyria. The general of Trojians was called the Connoisseur of Massacre. The Trojians wore Morphus armor. This armor absorbs energy from plasma blast and uses it to give out kinetic energy. This is a rare armor only used by the Trojian. The secret is passed down by unknown Troj and if anyone discovers the secret the punishment is death. The Federation sent their army the Levchenko. The finite armored ships looked war ready. Battle hungry these ships are laid out in strategic positions.
The Chimera warships arrived and they opened the lower section to release a swarm of single piloted fighterships. These spear shaped opal colored ships fired red plasma to try and make way for the huge ship Devastator and Malevolent to pass through. Trojians jade wedge shaped fighterships fired green plasma and the federation used old outdated weaponry. Both sides fired till the Chimerean ships emptied their ammo. This was a ruse by the Kovans to convince the Chimera warships to exhaust their supplies so when the Kovans released their actual arsenal there would be no counter measure. Only when they Chimera army stopped firing did the Federation use their latest weapon. The golden sword is a powerful blast of energy that disabled the enemy. Then they use the next weapon in their arsenal. Missiles loaded with nanobots. Once activated they start eating metal and once they have completed their task. They simply self destruct. They started eating the opal ships immediately and the Chimerean pilots were ejected from their ships. Only to be cut into pieces by laser. Then the last was a virus transmitted by a radio signal. It is called Kuklovod which means Puppet Master. This gave them complete control over the ship. The escape pods were forced out and they activated the self destruct mechanism.
I was on board the starburst battleship called the Firestarter as a medic. I made it clear that I am non violent. I volunteered as a medic since their medical cyborg malfunctioned so they didn't harass me about fighting. I had saved their Sargeant after he was stabbed several times by a traitor. He was unconscious the entire time. I was waiting for the wounded when a Federal army official walked in and asked to see my arm. I showed it to him and he pulled out the bandages. He saw the golden tattoo and asked me what I was doing here when I could be resting in Arman. It is a protection. I retorted that the Guardian marshal has been harassing me to join the army even though my record shows me as non-combatant. He listened carefully and cut his hand. He asked me to heal him and I reached for the equipment. But he waved me off. He asked me to use my gifts instead. I hesitated, "I am nobody's tool or weapon and I am not handing over biological samples to make an army." He grinned, "I have no interest in making an army." So I waved my hand and water from the pitcher rose and wrapped itself around his wound. There was a faint light and water lost all its luster and fell to the ground. He stared in delight and wished me a wonderful day. As he walked out a Chimerean soldier came and threw an obsidian dagger. I used earth manipulation and crumbled it to dust. Then he pulled out a blaster and I heated the pistol to a few thousand degrees. He screamed in pain as I used water as a battering ram to shove him out. The Officer gave me a round of applause and thanked me as he walked out of the med bay. I made it abundantly clear that I am not his toy. He gave a curt nod as he entered the elevator. I had a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach and it had nothing to do with what I had for my lunch.