1.45 hours before, or 3.96 Soku Cycles…
The horseshoe crab-shaped Dream Cradle Soku spaceship moved towards the yellow-green atmosphere of Vuenek Lu, the world of superdense clouds covered in most of its surface by dense forests and wide valleys, where the sun could only be seen as a patch of light at the yellow fume above.
Valva Soka Okiel found himself on the third deployment sector, where eight of his most trusted soldiers charged the batteries of their weapons, sharpened with heat-suspensors their battle blades, or calibrated the intensity of their energy projecting barriers.
He could see it in their faces; everyone was eager to explore and fight if the need arose. The Soku had always considered themselves an oath of strength and intelligence; aggressivity and precaution, curiosit
