Destiny

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New Berlin was cold. The Transport had flown halfway around the planet due to the docking rings geostationary orbit placed it in the Sundown, or dark year, which plunged temperatures to below minus forty on average. Here on sunside, it was a balmy zero degrees centigrade which stood ready to greet me as I stepped off the boarding ramp.

As my foot touched down on the frosted spaceport surface, I heard a dull crackle as spilt H-Fuel was evaporated by the heat radiating from the soles of my feet. Pulling my coat tighter around me, I set off for the spaceport terminal building, the RFP officer tailing close behind. On either side of the door a marine stood, identified as members of the GottKanzlers Legion by the insignia stitched onto their combat smocks. One of them barred my entrance with an expensive looking rifle.

Well be needing da passes, now. The Officer stepped up and handed over a data slate. The guard skim-read it, ticked something on the screen and hoisted his weapon out the way. Both him and his comrade clicked their heels together, as a sort of salute before barking, For da GottKanzler. The doors behind him glided open, allowing us to walk into an airlock type system, which I presumed was used to conserve heat during the Sundown year.

Inside was marginally warmer than outside. Steel girders lined the walls, giving the room the feeling of a hastily repurposed manufactory rather than a continental class spaceport. ceiling high posters ordained the walls - sepia coloured pictures of a powerful looking man. Praise the GottKanzler was stencilled below in huge bold letters.

I had fixed feelings for the GottKanzler'. I quietly admired him, he was after all, an embodiment of power his people worshipped him as a living God, but there was also a sharp voice that rang clear in my mind, that possesed only scorn. There were greater things in this galaxy than the Chancellor, namely the great and powerfull Dom Kavosh I had dedicated by education to studying. I was dragged back to reality by a desk clerk coughing at me.

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