Chapter 25
Galactic Standard Date: 152,323.11 AE
Victor Sector: Beylan
Leonid Major Orias
ORIAS
Once upon a time, the Alliance's half-lion, half-human multi-purpose fighters had numbered in the millions, but with less than 2,500 Leonids left in existence, Major Orias was painfully aware that each life this war against Shay'tan took from her pride meant one less life to introduce genetic diversity into her dying species. Situated where they were on the volatile border with the Tokoloshe Kingdom, Parliament had not yet pulled her flight group from defending the resource planets which the cannibals coveted for their precious metals … yet.
But she knew it was only a matter of time…
She stared into the Beylan's rec room at the new hope Lucifer had gifted to her species. A male. A single,
