The Offer you can but shouldn't refuse

[Ki'Shar]

It is dark, everything lies covered in darkness and yet you can feel warmth, you can feel something luring you forward, like if sweet and vibrant voice of young woman was whispering sweet words into your ear.

„This scene… This scene explains how everything has begun. Our journey through eternity, where once a mere mortal human stood and breathed, now eternal being ponders and schemes next steps.”

Suddenly a blue spark of light appeared far away in darkness, its diminishing light calling you. Warmth, joy and happiness in otherwise cold, depressive environment.

“Where we once walked alone and in despair, with our destiny sealed many times, events occurring faster than we could solve them all… We saw hope and warm welcome among those despised by most of us.”

Slowly passing through the darkness, the blue light grew bigger and bigger, joy and happiness was overwhelming negative emotions. Something has moved and you could feel it, your right eye aimed at the object, yet you couldn’t move your head at all. Gallic insignia, that’s what it is. It disappeared mere second later and everything is focused at blue flame now.

“That is also a part of our history… You have to remind yourself, swear to never forget what happened in the past, otherwise you might repeat mistakes of the ancestors. We were so close and yet so far. They feared us, they all did. You can find some comfort and solace in this, because we caused so much dread among them, they had to unite under one banner to defeat us. Our grave mistake, our pride, our faith in the King, our faith in dream of everyone bending their knees and backs to our dynasty, our faith in our Navy.”

The blue spark stopped growing, but instead it slowly began to travel farther and farther away from you.

“We were hopeless, we felt betrayal, we wondered how our failure was possible… We were destined to win, we were supposed to obliterate them, we were supposed to rule Bretonia instead of their Queen.”

And then the blue spark disappeared. But voice remained echoing in never ending darkness.

“We lost hope, our brothers and sisters turned their backs against us. They saw no strategic use of glassing Leeds; it was beyond their understanding because heart in these individuals prevailed instead of pure logic. Have we left that planet untouched, Bretonia would reclaim it and fasten its recovery. Can I blame them for their betrayal?”

A silent pause took place instead. 30 seconds or 30 minutes, one can only guess.

“Partly.”

The once lost blue spark appeared again with silent thunder following suit.

“There were people that shared my ideals or agreed with destruction of that brown rock on which our people and Bretonians lived. Hope began to exist again, like minded individuals united… We still believed everything could be restored and brought back to the DeFrance family even if their whereabouts were unknown.”

You are once again moving toward the blue spark, but it has changed colour from blue to purple.

“In all of this madness of my life, I completely forgot about my true goal and purpose in the universe. I served the greater good, I followed something much bigger, bigger than some Royal blood and skirmishes of thousands of vessels.”

The purple flame roared and grew rather rapidly now.

“I was a mere servant in the theatre, my strings once pulled by other people that used to be above me, Maréchals, Royal court and even Le Roi himself. But in greater abyss of my mind, I was free.”

A sigh of victory could be heard, flame began burning your eyes and flesh on your fingers which desperately were trying to touch it.

“I had to leave everything behind, my family, my friends, my ancestry and everything for one damn reason.”

The flame moved out of your reach, unable to touch it your arms were once moved to your sides.

“The Order. My kin and people I have done everything for… People I have sacrificed my whole life for… The service I was living happily through… All in vain because of one rumour delivered by them. It was the truth but who falls for one rumour.”

A scene resembling void with the asteroid field in the background appeared. A burning ship, a very huge ship crippled by fire and many sparks coming out of its hull… On the sides you could recognize Gallic insignia.

“We were lost… I was lost.”

The scene has ended, and now small purple flame has reappeared again in a very compact size.

“Twice in a short time I went through despair and loss of any hope. The ship on which 3 generations of our family served, most of them as commanding officers… The ship we sacrificed everything for was torn apart by our very own.”

Sudden flash blinded your eyes. It took your eyes several seconds to adjust to brightness of purity, where once lived shadow and darkness, now light remains.

“I was reborn… I was given another chance to serve… No. I was given another chance to live but not among people but among another community, much friendlier, divine and yet so strong.”

With two more flashes, you appeared back in darkness.

“Where once my life would end in few years, now stands eternity. You can kill my body, but I will always rise again. I am walking the divine path, I am watching generations of people killing themselves, while my new family never and I repeat never walks away from you. Where I suffered and was betrayed, I now stand firm with family behind my back.”

New scene appears again for a second.



“We don’t know betrayal, we don’t know hostility toward each other, we are all equal and our thoughts always heard and discussed. The fire of humanity is dying and will be eventually extinguished by humans themselves.”

Then everything goes dark again… Few seconds later however a hand from darkness reaches out to you.

“Will you join us? Or are you willing to end your journey here?”