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Begin of a New Era



Preface



A week before Union Week Celebrations and near the end of 5060 (OTT) Stahl received a delegation of Kermac Wizards aboard the USS Devastator to accept their unconditional surrender and the official disbanding of the Galactic Council.

The most famous ship of the Union was in orbit around Kermac Prime. The former seat of power and center of Kermac control turned into a waste land of smoldering ruins and ash darkened skies.

Not that there was much left to disband, the Union war machine had started slowly but once it was on the move it swept away everything in its path.

To the average Kermac the Universe seemed to have ended. For countless generations they were told to be the center of all creation.

Other civilizations and beings had one purpose only, to serve them.

When the Shiss Empire fell, the then newly chosen Supreme Wizard rising to the top from the Ministry of Information, saw the beginning of the end. He tried to disengage the Kermac from the now impossible goal of galactic supremacy and set a new course for his civilization. However his attempts of reform were stopped by the almighty Ministry of Control, the Thought Police, millennia of paranoia, the fear of new thoughts. The doctrine of a Kermac centered universe defined a million years ago on Koken was an insurmountable obstacle.

Supreme Wizard Tzwevirnin barely escaped his assassination by defecting and asking for political assylum.

From a small apartment where he was staying under strict guard, he watched the end unfold.

He was not the first Kermac who defected. Command Wizards who could afford illegal Saresii Psi shields, exposed to the truth that was kept from the rest of the Kermac, took this step.

No political assylum was granted so far. They were all kept under house arrest with the decision pending.

The Union celebrated the victory but not in an over euphoric fashion. The end of the war was in sight, the day it started and there was no doubt of its outcome by 5056.

The news of the Ancient Gate network and its galaxy wide activation was much more important.

<p lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;">The Union Bridge project to this day the largest Union wide project was dwarfed by the new gate location and gate network mapping project.

<p lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;">There were a number of so called Ancient Gates known to exist in the M-0 galaxy for a long time.

<p lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;">The similar but apparently non related Golden Gates also provided access to far distant destinations.

<p lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;">The new project aims to guard these gates, map the entire network.

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