【𝐃𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐓𝐎𝐌𝐘】

𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝟎 [𝐂𝐑𝐘 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐊]

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【O P E N I N G】

【NEW LEGEND】
【GALNERYUS】

Hear the voice of the world
Time is calling me
I will see the new legend in the heat
I'm searching for the break in the moonlight
Trying to escape the dark, it's my mission

Can't you see?
Feel a hunger burning deep inside
I'm a devil fighting with my spells
My voice will take me to the sky

I must win through with this cruel game
I will see the new legend in the heat
Do you have the means of keeping your life?
Trying to escape the dark, it's my mission

Can't you see?
Feel a hunger burning deep inside
I'm a devil fighting with my spells
My voice will take me to the sky
Break out

Now the time has come again
Bringing me back my life again
Listen closely it's all around
The way to make me free
Now the time has come again
Bringing me back my life again
Take the saber that is by your side
Run through the fields of rage

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Circa year 2300, the dawn of the 24th century and the coming of a new, exciting age for all of humanity. Mars and even Pluto have already become colonies of the World Government, but they were mere stepping stones for a true scientific revolution. The time to travel to these locations was not commercially viable. It was long, expensive, and dangerous. But, not anymore. Those crazy bastards at NASA had finally done it. They invented the impossible. A superluminal propulsion system. Faster-than-light travel was no longer a distant fever dream, but a real possibility. 

The venerable vessel to don this revolutionary technology was the newly built and manufactured Federation Light Starcruiser, The Discovery. A bold venture into the unknown. The decision to build a whole new class of ship just for this so-called FTL system was nothing short of brave, if a little foolhardy. Just like with the advent of the atomic bomb, nobody could comprehend the true scale of their creation just yet. The Discovery would be the testbed for future models. 

The ship was built in a strange, yet elegant manner. It had a large central saucer section connected to a triangular engineering hull with two prominent and long nacelles on each side. In comparison to the bulky, militarist designs of other vessels, it looked downright alien. The saucer section was divided into two parts, an outer ring and an inner circle. The other ring was connected via four struts to the inner circle which housed the ship's bridge. 

For its somewhat "lanky" and "skinny" design, as some politicians have pointed out, the ship functioned with the minimal crew of just one person. The captain. For repairs, it housed numerous autonomous droids across its hull section, away from the saucer. The saucer was completely full from the inside with rails that accelerated particles to 99.999999999% of the speed of light. The two nacelles were large anti-matter reactors that could function virtually until the end of time, with maintenance, of course. Finally, the ship had no weapons, but instead, featured a prominent satellite-like dish on the front of its engineering hull. The Discovery's graviton shield. It was there so that it wouldn't be ripped apart by space debris. Most new vessels had them, but only The Discovery's were as advanced as this model. 

"Ground Control to The Discovery, do you copy?" came a semi-distorted robotic voice from the ship's communication system.

The ship's only crewmember, one prodigious test pilot known simply as ████ ██████ was seated inside of The Discovery's bridge. The bridge itself was just a small room with no windows, yet it had a full view of the outside universe thanks to various cameras and screens. Just one chair and one console with all the controls at the pilot's disposal.