Chapter 18
Galactic Standard Date: 152,323.11 AE
Sata'an/Alliance Border
Former Supreme Commander-General Jophiel
JOPHIEL
Former Supreme Commander-General Jophiel passed through the cavernous hallways of the Eternal Palace until she reached the wing which jutted out of the building like the tail in the letter 'Q.' Two enormous, ant-like Cherubim stood sentry at the entrance.
"Supreme Commander-General," the Cherubim spoke in unison.
Jophiel did not remind them she was no longer a general. They bowed their heads and un-crossed their staff-like naginata to grant her egress to the Emperor's real seat of power, his genetics laboratory.
She slipped past cages full of animals the Emperor had spliced together from older species. Some said the Emperor created life, but technically he impro
