The Eternal Throne

Chapter 3 Memories

Seventeen years ago

Astroll watched his wife walk up to him, she seemed troubled. He was standing at the command deck of his ship looking out at the battle taking place over the planet of Rith. He had already crushed the republics fleet but the communications to the ground forces was cut. His wife walked up to him and said, "Astroll, I can't deal with this anymore! You're spending all your time fighting this war, your daughter was born a month ago and you've only seen her a few times, and you've seen me maybe four times, and I'm tired of feeling like my life is at risk. I'm leaving. Don't try to stop me."

Astroll looked at her as a rage boiled inside of him as he then simply asked, "And why are you telling me this, instead of just leaving like anyone else."

"Because unlike you I wanted to see my mate one last time, I'm taking Lilith, since apparently you don't want her."

Astroll looked at her as she started to walk away. Part of him wanted to kill her, the other part of him kept that part at bay as he then violently hit a table next to him, cutting it in half. He then retreated to his quarters on the ship, only to be disturbed roughly a hour later.

A droid walked into his quarters and saluted before he said, "Permission to speak my lord."

"Permission granted droid, but make it snappy."

"Your wife took an escape pod that we had a tracker on. She went to the ship of the Templar master Bukhara, she is suspected of treason. Also, your father has been slain, you are now the ruling king of Saxony, although it may be temporary until you are sworn in."

Astroll was never one to like his father, in fact, he hated his father and he had purposely leaked information of Saxon battle plans to the republic to get him killed, but that wasn't what saddened him. It was one thing for his wife to leave with his child, it was another thing to turn against him with those Templar filth. He felt betrayed, he felt like the entire world was against him. He sighed and then looked at the droid his eyes staring into the emptiness that was the red eyes of his droids.

His voice was low and angry as he looked up at the droid and then he said, "Get me a representative from the republic, I'll sign their treaty, I have lost everything due to this war, I will end it. The republic has won this war, but they will not win in the long run."

Five years ago

Astroll was walking around a planet known as Keyshi, it was one of he more impoverished planets under his control and had a large amount of lyzards on the planet, and he had a few ideas with that. Nothing bad, but he had been running the Syndicate, something he had recently taken control of, and he was quickly realizing that the Syndicate needed more members and so he decided that he needed to get an apprentice, besides, it might be nice to have someone that would be as smart as he was that he could work with, or someone as smart as him that he could count on to do his dirty work. He was walking threw a fairly large city when something interest in the corner of his eye got his attention.

There were a group of poor looking teenagers and children sitting around a singular taller male lyzard. He was tall and bulky, he looked like a bruiser and the scars all over his body and his limbs he had definitely seen his fair share of fights over the years. That made Astroll smile, he was constantly getting in fights when he was a kid. He was a rich kid and went to the best schools but he was always proving himself and making everyone know he was strongest kid in the class.

The kid in the middle of the group looked out at his group of roughly twenty kids and teenagers, and he reached out his hand and pointed it at a cup which was sitting on top of a chair. Slowly the cup started to float over the chair, they were outside so there was no one he was using any sort of rope or other trickery. The kids were amazed and two other larger teenagers started making them pay for the right to watch whatever this was and that, that made Astroll a little mad, he was one to use extortion to get his way but that was always against other rich people, but this kid was extorting other people that were just like him.