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[quote][b]Remus (Jul 14, 2003 12:17 p.m.):[/b] [b]BACKSTORY[/b] [i]Divergence[/i] Until the slaves' escape from Commonwealth space, the difference between the realities was minimal. An inconsequential child had died, and inconsequential child had lived. A slave who had remained on Arraxis' plantation had stayed only a short while. A girl with dreams of revolution died before she could incite an uprising, and the uprising went on without her. A wealthy slave owner who had been disgraced was instead violently killed. But after the escape, things changed. Jaelis, believed to be the divinely-chosen terran messiah, built up an army of terrans and sympathizers in remarkably little time, and brought it to bear against the Commonwealth. But the Order of Balance, which had been watching Jaelis almost since the moment of her emergence from Commonwealth space, decided that intercession was required, before Jaelis could upset the galaxy's balance any further. On the evening before the battle, a Guardian called Rook attacked and subdued Jaelis, and sealed her in stasis for the duration of his trip back to Tianar. Baffled by the disappearance of Jaelis, the senior sub-commanders did not tell the armies that their leader had gone missing, and instead decided to press on regardless. The rumors did their work, and the army was thoroughly demoralized when it met the draconan forces on the battlefield. The terran forces were utterly smashed, half deserting and one in ten of the remaining escaping in life pods. [i]Consequences[/i] Fueled by national solidarity, the draconans pushed began an outward push, in the name of cleansing the galaxy of terran vermin, that would last sixty years and triple the size of Commonwealth space. Meanwhile, on Tianar, an unconscious Jaelis was loaded into one of the specially-designed "psionic cells", designed to inhibit both movement and use of any abilities while still allowing the inhabitant to remain conscious in a dream-like state, to think about their crimes. As the years passed, senior Guardians came again and again to the cell, probing Jaelis' mind to determine whether or not she was beginning to understand the danger she represented. And again and again, all that they found was rage. The years became decades, which blurred into centuries. Jaelis, suspended in stasis, did not age a day, while the Guardians around her learned of her in textbooks and visited her as journeymen and attempted to find redemption in her as elders. The psionic cells had never been used for so long, but the senior guardians, fully aware of the burning rage inside her, did not dare set her free. [i]Reckoning[/i] What generataion after generation of senior Guardians failed to understand, precisely because the cells had never been used for so long, as that the semi-conscious state that the prisoners were allowed gave them ample time not only to think over their crimes against balance, but also to refine their abilities. As the root of psionic power is introspective meditation, a being left in a cell for centuries, with nothing to do but think, can learn a great deal. The Guardians did not learn of their folly until it was too late. Jaelis overpowered the cell, and overpowered the Order. Each and every last Guardian was killed, and Jaelis' wrath was only just heating up after the long hibernation. She crossed space without need of a starship, creating her own wormholes and jumping dozens of systems at a time. And Jaelis, demi-god and scourge, laid waste to the Commonwealth. The draconan ships were peeled open and turned inside out. The foot soldiers were cooked in their armor. The civilians fell to any number of disasters: freakishly powerful electrical storms, earthquakes born of tectonic activity, boiling seas and falling meteors. No planet was spared. It was over in less than a month. The rest of the galaxy scrambled to assemble a defense against the mysterious destructive force the Guardians had apparently unleashed, and Jaelis destroyed what forces that were sent to kill her, and then destroyed those who sent them.[/quote]
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