Chapter 17
Galactic Standard Date: 152,323.09
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Angelic Air Force General Abaddon
(a.k.a. 'The Destroyer')
ABADDON
General Abaddon, commander of the Angelic Air Force, stared down at the Eternal Palace as his shuttlecraft circled for a landing. The Eternal Tree rose out of the center like a church spire, its great limbs spreading outwards over the wildlife refuge it sheltered below. This time of year its leaves changed from fiery gold to silver, the color of Lucifer's eyes. Abaddon shivered each time he stared into that tree and saw something staring out that was immortal. It was rumored to be a multi-dimensional being, drawing sustenance through its roots from Ki herself and casting forth its stabilizing song the same way a real tree breathed out oxygen. Watching it embrace th
