PRELUDE TO ASTASHICA
The Aurora Ascendant Oracle
Part 1
The Journey begins, the Aurora Ascendant
embarks on the age-long voyage;
Eye of Grace's precious stone,
Survivor of a lost world,
He is the glory of Astashica.
A Child of Oasis,
O Gracious Star-borne!
Skilled in the arena,
Rise valiant protector!
Take Astashica's shield,
Protect, reclaim, redeem!
Chosen by Astashica, heavenly dove,
Champion of the six hawk feathers;
Imbued with ingenuity and virtue;
O Astashica, Star Vestal virgin!
She delights in the light!
O Astashica Dreamscape world,
artistry of talented hands,
Glory awaits, thee, O Astashica!
Charming, valuable, maiden of the stars,
Heavenly dove; whose bright form
Stands for the glimmered
path of rectitude,
Mighty one, realm of skilled artistry
Of the star Ages borne!
Valiant warrior strength rise,
He lifts up his head,
He will protect the light!
The tyrant is defeated!
Of platinum mane, Worthy and Valiant,
Gray-Blue eyed, the Protector,
He will lead up his people,
Rise up! Lead them to Oasis!
His interstellar flock,
O Child of Oasis!
Fight valiantly, skilled khopesh!
Prince of Asemeri power!
Heir of the abandoned infant!
Worthy is thee, O mighty griffon!
Eye of Grace's precious stone,
Stellar flock in Oasis redeemed.
Spring of sacred waters graced
Rise eternal chieftain and be exulted!
The Sacred Child of Oasis
A large, metallic, ellipsoid-shaped spaceship hovered in the skies nearby. On Mount Taygetus, ancient Greece, an starry night. It was a cold night. A human child, gray-blue eyed and wrapped in faded beige diapers, laid abandoned on the floor of a nearby, ancient Greek temple ruins. He had been abandoned there by his parents. The roaming spaceship slowly descended and landed, near the abandoned ruins. Outcasts from a nearby village were hiding around the vicinity and saw the spaceship still, and laying in the ground. The ship's rear gate opened, and lowering its rear ramp. Ten, 30 feet tall bipedal mechas began to emerge from within the spacecraft. More beings, twenty in total, 10 feet tall, dressed in hight tech spacesuits, with metallic, swept-back helmets with bright glass visors, emerged from the stationary spaceship.
"This mountain is Mount Taygetus, Greece. The Spartans drop their unwanted offspring here. We've come at the right time to explore Earth for human slaves, to take back to planet Asemeri. The galli priests told us beforehand that we can take the abandoned children, if we wanted to. We can take them back to planet Asemeri, one of our planets. We can use them for genetic interbreeding with our Xothek specie," the wingless, human-bat hybrid, the leader of the ship's crew said. "Wait here while I go up the hill to explore those ruins. The rest of you, go around, drive away any onlookers," the Xothek engineer said. His dark cloak waved in the night. He walked about the ruins; his light hazel eyes scanned the environment, searching for something. He continued walking in the ruins, exploring, looking for something. "I've got a feeling about this," he said. The place was painted with high cliffs in the distant background. The group of large, slow moving, bipedal mechas, moving in coordination with the other beings, walked around the ancient ruins. silently. "The gods of the stars have come upon us!" an outcast, a human male in his late thirties, said. Lurking in the darkness nearby, with is companions, his light blue eyes looked with amazement at the Xothek engineers and their mechas, whom roamed the nearby setting.
"Look! I've found a little human child! It looks so cute! Who could have abandon this little one, here, in this stark night, to die? I might as well take him with me," the Xothek engineer, ten feet tall, said. He carefully grabbed the baby in his arms and took it with him, as he entered the spaceship. When they had finished exploring the ruins, they had captured over 70 Laconian slaves, those who were the human outcasts that lurked in the shadows. As soon as they finished exploring, all the Xothek crew returned inside the spaceship. It's rear ramp moved back into place, the gate closed; the spaceship flew slowly into the starry sky. It blazed away to the stars, dissipating in the distance like a dwindling star.
The Xothek Interplanetary Wars
The Xothek Imperium Order spanned the entire Xothek Galaxy; an irregular galaxy in the Corona-Borealis supercluster. Thousands of years later, one thousand Xothek kings rose up against their mighty Emperor Mekbal III, who had subjugated them and ruled the over them for hundred of years. Suddenly peace shattered, and the Xothek subjugated kings rose up in rebellion against their emperor. The Xothek Imperium soon collapsed under an apocalyptic, cataclysmic civil war. The thousand Xothek kings tried to overthrow the emperor. One of the Xothek kings was Xil'rath. He led the rebellion against Mekbal III. They Xothek commanders launched billions of Azurevat cataclysmic missiles, which consumed countless worlds in the Xothek irregular galaxy. As the azurevat missiles hit them, annihilation ensued in grand, vast explosions, damaging the temporal space-time fabrid of their galaxy. It resulted in producing numberless, gigantic supernovas which wiped out all life and entire Xothek, subordinated worlds in the galaxy. No one was expected to survive this disaster.
Xothek Imperium Command Base
The immense, interstellar star vessel, measured 37 miles long times 5 miles wide. Two days ago, the colossal, Xothek Imperium, star vessel SV Defiance Vanguard, briefly stationed in a command interplanetary base in planet Asemeri. Arrived there scarred from battle, for repairs, maintenance and refilling. All its crew had gone outside the star vessel to be treated of their wounds in planet Asemeri. Four hours were remaining, until it had to return back to space, until its recovered crews returned inside, to continue fighting in the interplanetary war, in space. But Six Asemeri leaders, Cosmus, Meiannia, Val'katl, Salgar, Gorak and Uxnal, plotted to take over the powerful Xothek star vessel Defiance Vanguard.
"Ours is a plan of survival for our people; we need to save our specie from total annihilation. The entire galaxy is falling apart due to the use of the Xothek's cataclysmic azurevat missiles. The Xothek dominion-class star vessel SV Defiance Vanguard is built out of an scarce, exotic, Kuprix metal. Kuprix, a highly exotic and rare metal element, is found only in our Xothek galaxy. It is typically used for building star vessels, weapons, electronics and used as coin currency. Kuprix further possesses magnificent health properties, healing and regenerative abilities," Cosmus said. "But if Kuprix is used in weapons, like the azurevat missiles, it is able to deliver thousands and thousands of gigatons of powerful destruction," Val'katl said. "That's why we remain doomed if we stay here any longer, and do nothing about this, in this condemned planet. Which is about to die. We will be annihilated utterly, by the azurevat missiles!" Cosmus said. "Those who are with me in this design, those who are my followers, including Val'katl, Salgar, Meiannia, Gorak, Uxnal, and Ixtiel, gather our people and lets take over this ship now!" Cosmus said.
Planet Asemeri
"Seize the SV Defiance Vanguard, now!" Cosmus, the commanding, tallest Asemeri, said. The five asemeri followers, Val'katl, Salgar, Gorak, Meiannia, Uxnal and Ixtiel, who were with him, did as he had commanded. They all led together, 2 million Asemeri hordes each, towards the stationed star ship. They fought valiantly against the Xothek forces that guarded the interplanetary star vessel. They had managed to enter the colossal star ship and found it empty. It's wounded crew, from a recent battle in space, still were in the exterior, Asemeri infirmaries, treating their wounds. In the distant, lime orange horizon, there could be seen countless, emerald plasma beams, criss-crossing. The ground shook constantly, and countless, fallen, fighter spaceships' debris covered the ground. Great explosions could be seen in the distance. Fire, smoke and the fallen, all blazed around. The ground shook, from falling titanic star vessels, which in the far distance, could be seen falling. Thousands of 30 feet tall, coordinated, Formicron mechas moved all about, moving towards their positions. "Its a magnificent war of machines, spaceships and cataclysmic missiles, the likes never seen before ever," an male asemeri citizen, who hid from shrapnel, nearby, said.
"Who are fighting here?" Cosmus, who was nearby, said. "The Xothek kings have risen against Emperor Mekball III. King Xil'rath is leading them. Soon, the Xothek Imperium forces of the emperor will arrive in this planet, and annihilate us all with azurevat missiles," the asemeri citizen said. "Do you want to live? Come with us, with your family!" Cosmus said. The asemeri citizen and his family of five, ran with Cosmus, towards the SV Defiance Vanguard's lowered ramp. The twelve million asemeri beings, led by Cosmus' followers, had already entered the stationary star vessel. Cosmus was leading the final, 1000 asemeri beings into the star vessel. Then the star ship pulled its ramp up and sealed it shut in its belly.
SV Defiance Vanguard Bridge
Cosmus, Salgar, Val'katl, Meiannia, Gorak and Uxnal, now stood inside the bridge of the SV Defiance Vaguard. They had defeated any remaining Xothek forces within and outside the star vessel. "We have secured the SV Defiance Vanguard!" Cosmus said. The twelve million asemeri beings were now inside the star vessel. "We are ready to leave the planet! We can escape the ending of this galaxy" Salgar, a female asemeri, said. She was part of the asemeri beings who plotted the hijack of the star vessel. Cosmus, who sat in the star vessel's commander seat, in a circular dais, laid in the bridge.
"Set the ship in motion, now. Let's go at once! So long, planet Asemeri, our motherland!" Cosmus said. The other Asemeri beings sat in the bridge operator seats. They immediately began to work, controling the holographic screens of the ship's control panels, and began powering the ship on. They managed to lift the star vessel up. They powered on, a powerful electromagnetic field around the ship. The EM energy envelop helped the star vessel move up. Auxiliary antimatter, coordinated, twin engines helped the titanic ship move forward, once in the sky. Then, at once, the SV Defiance Vanguard flew high up to the planet's atmosphere and went right through to space, the the planet's orbit.
Planet Asemeri's Orbit
Once in planet Asemeri's orbit, the SV Defiance Vanguard encountered an small force of Xothek Imperium fighter star vessels, small, agile spacecraft, designed for quick skirmishes. They were fighting against King Xil'rath's fleets. "SV Defiance Vanguard, return to the base immediately!", the Xothek commander of Asemeri's orbital patrol fleet said. Cosmus or the bridge of the massive ship did not respond. The massive star vessel continued going forward path to space.
"Fire at them with the emerald plasma cannons!" Cosmus said. The bridge crew controlled the plasma cannons located in the upper hull of the ship used it; fired an emerald plasma beam at the Xothek fighters' energy barriers. Did not destroy the spaceships, but the emeral beams of the SV Defiance Vanguard were so strong that they just damaged the navigation systems of Xothek fighter spaceships. They lost power to their electronic and propulsion systems; their spaceships laid unmoving. The SV Defiance Vanguard kept going towards space away from the planet. More Xothek Imperium fighters and warships poured arrived from warp trajectories, joined the battle and pursued them in space.
As the Xothek fighter spaceships closed in, the SV Defiance Vanguard shot their emerald plasma beams at each those ships, totally destroying their energy barriers and navigation systems. The SV Defiance Vanguard got itself attacked with plasma beams all over, but the ship's strong energy barrier had sustained all plasma beam attacks. But the massive star vessel's energy barrier was draining the ship's batteries too fast, as the repulsion of each plasma beam attack consumed great deals of power.
"Fire an azurevat missile at their ships, now!" Cosmus exclaimed. "It's the only way we can stop them from persuing us!", Cosmus added. Thousands, and thousands more, Xothek star vessels, smaller than the SV Defiance Vanguard, had just dropped out of warp. They poured in like swarm of ants. The new ships which just joined the battle, started to close in to the slow moving SV Defiance Vanguard. They began to open fire at the colossal vessel; thousands of thinner, emerald plasma beams criss-crossed around the SV Defiance Vanguard. "They're trying to rip apart a section of the ship!" Val'katl said, as he manipulated a holographic control panel nearby, in the bridge. "They probably want to board us, to take control of the ship out of our hands!" Cosmus said. "How many more azurevat missiles are the current ship's armament?" Cosmus asked. "300,000" Val'katl said, manipulating a holographic control screen, nearby, around the commander seat. "There was more, like 1 million in total. But the ship did not manage to refill its stockpiles fully, when it was in the planet," Salgar, a female asemeri, one of Cosmus' followers, said. "Fire all all we got at the enemy!" Cosmus said.
The azurevat missiles, each of them, had the destructive power of 1 million gigatons. So just one can erase an entire continent. The SV Defiance Vanguard shot thousands of azurevat missiles at the Xothek Imperium forces who pursued them, and attacked them and gave them battle, and annihilated them. The powerful blasts punched the local, time-space fabric, constantly. The explosions had thrown the SV Defiance Vanguard, in a helical motion, forward in space. But the crew managed to stabilized the motion of the ship and returned back to its normal course, forward, into deep space.
"Is everyone alright?" Cosmus asked. "We're good Cosmus, but the ship sustained significant damage to its batteries, due to this mad criss-crossing of plasma beams we just engured!" Salgar said.
"That's fine. Good, let's keep going" Cosmus said. "Let's leave the Corona-Borealis Supercluster. Let's go to the Virgo Constellation in the Milky Way galaxy!" Cosmus said. "To the Milky Way galaxy? Are you crazy Cosmus? That's an immense distance!" Salgar said.
"We've got no other option. We will be safe there. This galaxy will collapse soon! We must go somewhere, fast! There's no much time to plan where it's best to go. These mad Xothek kings are emptying all their triillions of azurevat stockpiles upon themselves. The galaxy will soon collapse on its own self. We don't know how far this annihilation is going to go. We must distance ourselves as much as possible, from the galactic collapse, so to the destination I've given you we go. It is the safest place in the universe, currently there's nothing there that could threaten our existence. But the distance to our our destination must be vast enough," Cosmus said. "Then we should go where you have indicated," Salgar said, as she manipulated a holographic screen near her, in the bridge. She was near the commander seat.
The SV Defiance Vanguard powered up a thousandfold its energy barrier. The energy was so intense it became enveloped in a negative antimatter plasma field. The energy field, though, could not damage the interior of the bubble. The interior of the ship was full of another energy field which protected against the exterior, powered up field. The star vessel began to 'fall forward' into the fabric of space-time, like entering an space-time wormhole tunnel. The bridge crew traced the ship's destination to the Virgo Constellaion, to Ross 128. It traveled faster than the speed of light, enveloped in the hottest plasma energy egg in the universe. The star ship traversed vast, immense sapce, in the time-space conduit, during a two week period. After two weeks, the starship dropped out of warp.
The SV Defiance Vanguard, now stood before Ross 128, in a safer star system. "Fellow asemeris, welcome to Sol Leonia Regnum!" Cosmus exclaimed. This was the name they gave to the star system where they arrived. "Look! There it is, a habitable planet!" Salgar said, as she scanned the star system environment with the ship's sensors.
"But Its a tidal-locked world. The dense core of the planet is probably cold. No strong electromagnetic fields have been detected around the planet. It is why it doesn't rotate. But its big enough! It looks good enough, probably good for living, with terraforming. We can terraform it, reclaim it for ourselves as our own. We should take it now. Anybody, what do you want to do?" Val'katl said. "I think its a good choice, we can settle there, at least temporarily. Let's see what it is there and if its good for us, we can call it our new home." Salgar said.
And the colossal star vessel began its trajectory toward planet Ross 128 b and orbited it around for several months, while the asemeri crew ran thousands of scans, analyzed the big planet, in their ship's supercomputer. The two million hosts of asemeri beings, the survivors of planet Asemeri, gathered togethere with their temsek, human, slaves could see the magnificent planet, from behind gigantic rectangular windows in the ship's hull.
"It's a beautiful planet" A female asemeri, one of the survivors said. The planet that she seen with her eyes coulb be barren, and rocky, lifeless, but with the eyes of her heart, she saw another planet, another planet Asemeri, and saw a future garden-paradise world. "We can work this planet out and transform it into a marvelous, subtropical rainforest, garden world. But I wonder what's in the night side," an Asemeri male, who was next to his elderly mother, said. The ship orbited around Ross 128 b planet, with a renewed hope, and a new chapter in their history began. "I wander what will become of his vast number of people I lead," Cosmus thought to himself. A new beginning has begun for the new asemeri dominions that will reshape Astashica. The stage has been founded, for the future rise of Tlandar, the hero of this story...