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Entry 6

Entry 6

19 Krishna

So today was…interesting…I got up early.

Mostly because I wanted to.

Mostly because I wanted to know more about George Marquis Lorillard.

I think I have’ta tell you some stuff about Golordia. I am not real sure why I would need to go over this, but few people know the full details of the Golordia Empire. First of all where is the Empire?

Well those of you who have taken astronomy class know that Golordia Prime is revolving its parent star, Deneb in the constellation of Cygnus the swan. Golordia Prime is the capital of the Golordia Empire and has been for countless years. Golordia Prime is pretty huge considering that there is a civilization living on it. Most scientist would argue for hours saying that Golordi Prime is too big to support any life like ours. And yet here we are.

There are 25 main cities in Golordia Prime, Golordia Alpha being the main city and where the Empire has its central portion of their buildings, government offices and things of that nature. That one is really the only one to care about the other cities are not so great.

Golordia has 13 moons revolving it. 12 are inhabited. Golordia Beta being the biggest Moon of Golordia is often called the second capital of the Golordia Empire. The remaining moons are Golordia Delta, Golordia Gamma, Golordia Epsilon, Golordia Phi, Golordia Rho, Goloridia Sigma, Golordia Zeta, Golordia Iota, Golordia Gamma, Golordia Kappa, Golordia Mu, Golordia Nu. And one dead moon called Golordia Omicron.

I came from Golordia Epsilon, so did my old man. Golordia Epsilon, in my opinion was the prettiest moon of Golordia. Now I am not just saying that because I am from there. It is quite a breathtaking place when you go there. There is a placed called the Epsilonian Gorge and it is probably the prettiest natural landmark of al Golordia.

It has been a while since I have been back home and for now Golordia Prime was my home and home to about one trillion Golordian citizens, and about half a trillion Fakir Citizens that came when that civilization came over. The Fakirs came from two different planets from what I understood. One was from the planet called Saffar which was in the constellation of the Maiden. The other was Antares which was apparently in the constellation of the Scorpion.

From what I understood the original home planet of the Fakirs was Antares. However, some time ago there was a separation of the planet when the Planets hero named Caledfwich on Heim had decided to take people and carry on with their lives. Those who carried on were later called Carrions and they went to another constellation called the hunter. The Fakirs were ruled by a super elite army that called themselves the Iron Hand.

They were led by this General named Aries, he apparently was chasing the Carrions across the cosmos only to have found Deneb along the way. Aries was not actually the true leader of the Iron Hand, that belonged to a long to be dead man named Xavier Yanez Zuniga, who from what I knew had disappeared about a million years ago and then appeared again supposedly. I don’t have all the details about that.

Of the members of the Iron Hand there was the man who everyone thought funded everything that the Iron Hand did here in Golordia and even across the cosmos. He was the riches known being in this sector of the universe. The man named George Marquis Lorillard he was called Greed by pretty much everyone. For reasons I was not quite sure of.

Lorillard was the CEO of the biggest banking company in the known cosmos. The Marquis Bank of Antares, which now a days was just called the Marquis. The Marquis had banks in all the planets the Fakirs ruled over or had association with. From what I knew the Fakirs controlled about 10 planets and had associations with about a dozen more. Lorillard’s influence was known quite well and is probably the primary reason he was called Greed.

And to think I was trying to learn more about him because the Colonel thought he was spying on her. But why her specifically? That was what I needed to find out. Was it something that the General knew? I suddenly remembered the recording that the Colonel said.

I looked through the file and found what I was looking for. I grabbed the recording and placed into my desk computer. A window projected in front of me. It was an image of a audio wave. The wave started to move when the Colonel’s voice came on.

“Hey Dad, business or personal?” The Colonel asked.

“I am not sure yet,” General Redd’s voice came on.

“Dad is everything okay?” The Colonel asked.

“Sweety I don’t know if this line has been compromised,” The General said.

“What’s going on?” the Colonel asked.

“Remember when you were diagnosed with Sigmosis?” The General’s voice started to audibly shake. I had never heard General Redd speak like this. It was disturbing he was quiet well known for being a stable hardnosed man. “And how you were glad all that happened was that happened to you was that you grew extra teats?”

“Dad, you know more than that happened,” the Colonel said.

“Exactly,” The General said.

“Dad what’s going on?” The Colonel asked.

“Be careful with Lorillard,” The General said almost in a panic.

“George Marquis Lorillard?” The Colonel said.

I stopped the recording and realized that the General had given the Colonel quite a bit of hints in this interaction so far. One was referencing the Colonel’s own health and what happened when she got the Sigmosis Plague. However, by doing this he gave her a second hint. He left out other parts of her symptoms that the Colonel faced, by doing so he eluded that either there was something more to Sigmosis that he found out about or that there is something more that he knows about. Even the Colonel caught that one and was why she said what she had. The General then confirmed her suspicion by saying exactly.

Then there was the Lorillard reference, he just called him Lorillard not The Marquis as some people called him now-a-days especially because he was head of that company, but simply Lorillard. This meant that the General knew that specifically Lorillard himself had something to do with the above revelation. I pressed play on the recording again.

“Just be careful, sweetheart,” The General’s voice came back.

“Dad if you feel safer talk to me in Sigmolia,” The Colonel said in Sigmolia, which was a language that came about in Sigma itself. I happened to have studied Sigmolia when I was younger, so I was quite fluent in it.

“Hunraken didn’t find a cure for Sigmosis.” The General said in Sigmolia.

“What do you mean?” The Colonel asked.

“Dad?”

“Dad?”

The recording ended abruptly.

I looked back at the file of Norman Hunraken that the Colonel had given me.  Hunraken was not too old looking but his age was classified as unknown. I questioned this for a moment before I set the paper down. Looked up and quickly rubbed my eyes.

“What in the blue hell are you?” I asked the creature sitting on the chair in front of me.

Krishna I was on a roll now, however the stupid thing started beeping so I will tell you about this creature on the next track.