Refugee to General PT1 : It begins
13 Oct 2024Constance Flux
My name is Constance and I'm a survivor. I used to live in a Bio Dome on a water world of the HIP 10792 system. That was until a rogue meteoroid, meandering its way silently through the cold dark vacuum of interstellar space, strayed too close to the gravitational pull of our comparatively youthful Class A star. An ancient chunk of ice and rock, that had been ejected unthinkingly from a distant solar system as its star and planets formed eons ago. It entered the atmosphere of planet 9 without warning. Out on the fringes of the Bubble, none of the typical sensor arrays that might be expected to detect such dangers exist. So the sonic boom was followed by a terrible pressure wave and 20 minuets later by a devastating Tsunami that rampaged across the large island on which we lived. My father was a terraforming engineer, working out at sea when the wave struck. My mother was a exo-geologist, running research in the lab. I was at the colony's only school. Lucky for me, as it was close to the emergency pods. The small contingent of people close enough managed to scramble to the emergency pods, seal the doors and activate the distress beacons before face of the planets was washed clean, like the story in the archaic religious books of the past. Such stories of death and disaster are not uncommon among the pioneering colonies that bravely attempt to expand the realms of mankind, but this happened to me and set in motion my journey from refugee to a General in the Paladin Consortium, that you will discover if you continue reading.