The citadel was eerily silent. Tension and dread filled the air. Mars was under attack. Fools clinging to a dead dream, a dead vision for the galaxy, had come. They came to take what wasn’t theirs. To impose their values on those who thought differently. The usual way of human civilisation. But with them had arrived something worse. SHE was here. The calamity herself stood outside the city and demanded their surrender to the rule of a fledgling empire. Imperial oppression had risen from the grave it should have stayed buried in and brought with a nightmare.
Something that shouldn’t be. She looked human. The videos that everyone had seen proved otherwise. No one knew where exactly the footage had come from, who had filmed it and let out, but it was spreading like wildfire. Across every co
