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Part II: The Moon
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Billions of years have passed since the universe began, and there was no telling how many more empires have risen and fallen.
But this Empire brought to life a hegemony unrivalled and unlike anything a single civilisation could have dreamed.
The Empire of the Sith united the stars. They had formed a constellation whose name men would remember throughout the ages.
The Empire once had a hundred Legions which conquered and governed these stars. Of the hundred, seven were legendary.
Only one remained: The Seventh Legion Fleet, commanded by Lady Bocchi, Sith Commander and governess of Ilium.
You are currently on Ultra, one of the three moons of the grand planet Regensberg, in the Ilium Sector of what the Je’daii called the Unknown Regions.
The capital of the Empire, Korriban, was 100,000 stellar leagues away. Too far.
It’s cold here, but your small squad of sharpshooters have a campfire to keep yourselves warm for the evening. You resume your brief reflection: Since this war between the Empire and the Coalition had started decades ago, things have changed. It was the catastrophe of the Battlestation that started this hellish reality, and cost the Empire untold deaths and suffering.
It’s difficult to figure what had happened to the other Legions fighting on countless intergalactic fronts. What you do know concerned only the Seventh Legion, the fleet you belonged to. Six months ago, you and the 96th Light Infantry were engaged in the horrific battle of planet Ilium, which resulted in a loss that wiped out half of your regiment, and the planet fell into Coalition hands. The planet was defended by fourteen divisions under Master Caro-Kann, one of the commanders of the Seventh Fleet.
The Sith Lord was not present herself, as her own forces were still held up in the Rhodes Sector, recapturing a hyperspace lane that again had fallen into enemy hands.
The Empire is outnumbered ten to one by now. A Council of rebellious leaders and sovereigns want to see the Praētor destroyed, and the Empire dissolved. They reject civility and order, and choose a freedom with no institute.
Nearly all hyperspace lanes were invaded now. No more contact with the other fleets, or the rest of the galaxy for that matter. Another reason why hardly anyone knew what was going on anymore in the other frontiers.
The Je’daii called this place a part of the Unknown Regions. It didn’t seem unknown to you. To you, it was familiar. Je’daii did not know how to appreciate the stars in the Unknown Regions. To you, home is one of those stars in the sky.
Ultra’s skies were cold and stark, and Regensburg below was clear as if framed on a glass picture. It’s a beautiful planet that reminds you of your homeworld. Having been there, in the Lindenau prefecture, you enjoyed the warm peasant countryside and the meadows which the sun blessed every rising dawn. Red and gold flowers grew in the plains, just like at home.
