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Chapter 54 ~ The Csa Pravni and the Csa Zyrani

With Stellan loyal at her side, Romena went on a mission from planet to planet, trying to set things right. First she went to planet Luena, a planet that never fully recovered from the horrific aftermath of the former machine empire. After reducing the towering skyscrapers to rubble and destroying all advanced machine technology, Romena and her posse invaded other planets, finding faults she sought to fix.

Ghatom was too messy, too populated, too unregulated and an entirely different kettle of dish. Some planets like Alaskis were too stuck up and cold, unable to be tampered with. Their planet's defense systems were some of the most highly advanced in the entire galaxy.

Romena went to planet Gikiro when she noticed the Gikirians had devastating rates of poverty. While working with nearby cheese planet Wiss to bring imported food to help sustain the Gikirians while harvests and crops were being restored, Romena and her posse became aware of a new sensation amongst the Gikirians: Aubergine.

Aubergine was a music band comprised of fifteen band members. The music genre was a mix of several different kinds of music including opera, pop, rock, metal, rap, and disco.

One of their most popular songs "Cloud Foil" started off as melodic pop before turning into melodic metal, crescendo-ing to heavy metal, then alternative rock, then opera with some dance elements, then rap and electronic metal, before finishing off with disco rock.

Blaise loved Aubergine; it was instantly his new favorite music group. He loved the creativity and genius of combining several different genres into one song, creating an entirely new genre of music. They played around with calling the new genre 'multi-gen' before officially patenting it as Aubergine, naming it after the band that started it.

But Romena banned it, wiping out and deleting all digital copies of Aubergine music. Blaise was lucky he kept the entire discography on his iPod; otherwise it would've been deleted. Horrified Romena would ban music because she thought it was "absolutely atrocious", Blaise fled the planet with his treasured iPod. Shocked Romena went too far, the Csa split up, either following Blaise or supporting Romena's vision.

Romena and her posse were dubbed as the 'space gypsies' because they were a nomadic group of people traveling across the galaxy. The Csa who sided with Romena were called Csa Zyrani, in order to differentiate them from the Csa Pravni, the Csa who sided with Blaise and Stellan. Stellan made the tearful decision of breaking up with Romena to side with Blaise after realizing her ambition proved detrimental.

Blaise and Stellan worked together to keep the Csa Pravni organized under their co-leadership, until Mallen and Iérti were informed of Romena's doings. They followed the Csa Zyrani as they made a surprise trip to planet Earth where they knew Mallen and Iérti were currently residing.

While monitoring Romena's actions, Blaise and Stellan were confused when Romena went directly for the fairytale castle that was once Mallen's home. She brought back to the ship lots of European chocolates, having grown fond of chocolate even though Csa didn't need human food.

Still suspicious, Stellan sought to locate Mallen while Blaise watched Romena. The Csa Zyrani appeared to be taking a break, being tourists exploring the land while keeping an eye out for any wrongdoings.

They killed murderers, rapists, gang members engaging in criminal activity, drug lords, sex traffickers, and pedophiles. They were so quick nobody knew what killed them, not sure if it was even one mystery killer or several.

Because the Csa Zyrani weren't doing anything particularly out of order, since they were killing criminals rather than innocents, the Csa Pravni didn't interfere, thinking they were actually doing good for society. "Something vampires should've done," Stellan murmured, thinking how much it would benefit both humans and vampires by allowing vampires to feed on bad people and thus getting what they need while protecting innocents. The Csa Pravni continued keeping tabs on the Csa Zyrani, watching their every move.

The Csa Zyrani noticed Earth had a major problem: landfills. They saw how trash and pollution affected the ecosystem and sought to end it by building connectors, which were huge cylindrical tubes that flung all the Earth's trash towards a black hole.

The way they set them up was by building thirty connectors in every town and city. People's trash would be gathered up from centers that took the trash to the connectors. Those connectors connected to a gigantic connector that acted like a vacuum, sucking up all the gathered trash and aiming it towards a gravitational pull that would lead it towards a black hole. It wasn't perfect, but most of the trash did fall neatly towards the black hole.

In addition to solving a major trash problem, the Csa Zyrani forced humans to live organically without harmful products and waste so they wouldn't produce so much trash that caused pollution. They banned harmful chemicals and materials, destroying all harmful waste facilities by using a connector to suck them up into outer space. Nuclear waste was dealt in such manner. The Csa Zyrani were not sure how to deal with radiation, so they let the humans figure it out.

While conversing with humans and helping them clean up their planet, the Csa Zyrani learned about irangels and how Earth was once in connections with Iredescent. The Csa Zyrani told Romena, who researched every piece of information Earth had on Iredescent.

Romena was appalled when she learned of the irangels. She believed they were a creation that shouldn't have been made, believing humans should remain humans and Iredescents should remain Iredescents. She glossed over the irangel influence on planet Earth and planet Iredescent, seeing irangels as the Frankenstein creation of the modern world.

Part of this stemmed from her own dislike of being transformed into something else. Romena had always been a vampire even before she was brought to the land by a fictional book. She felt it was wrong and unjust the way the Ileín cursed the vampires to become the Csa. Despite her feelings, Romena saw no choice but to live according to her own sense of justice now that she was a different kind of lifeform.

Because Iredescents had always had Iredescent rulers, Romena thought it was wrong for some of the irangels from Earth to become Iredescent rulers. "They're not native Iredescents, so they shouldn't have the right to become rulers. Irangels are not pure Iredescents; they are former humans who became Iredescents. They need to be removed from Iredescent and turned back into their original form." Knowing the irangels would refuse to turn back into their original form, Romena planned to kill the irangels.

Stellan learned of her plans and immediately set a course to planet Earth, saddened by Romena. Shortly after becoming the Csa, Stellan fell in love with Romena, who eagerly reciprocated his affections after being turned down by Mallen and Iérti. Things were good until Romena decided her own way of justice was more important than their relationship, causing Stellan to reluctantly break up with the woman he loved and oppose her.

Stellan sighed, knowing Romena must be stopped now that she was planning to murder innocent people. It is within the Iredescent peoples' right in deciding how they should manage their own planet, not for the Csa or anybody else to meddle in foreign planets' affairs, Stellan thought, having voiced his thoughts to Romena so many times, but to no avail. We will need Mallen and Iérti's help in stopping my own love from carrying out such horrible intentions.

The Csa Pravni had successfully delayed the Csa Zyrani by sending them on a wild goose chase after desert legends on planet Torra, claiming there were some creatures terrorizing people. It would buy the Csa Pravni enough time to warn Mallen and Iérti and gather the rest of the Csa to join them in stopping Romena before the Csa Zyrani would figure out they were tricked and thus begin their fated trip to planet Iredescent.