The Astral Rogue

𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚐𝚞𝚎 - 𝙾𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚗

Welcome to the future. Seven thousand years ago, humans had successfully colonized the Moon, Mars, Phobos, Deimos, Enceladus, Titan, Io, Europa, and Pluto.

One person led every single colonization. That person was Falkham Falls. He created an organization called the Travelers.

Their goal was to colonize and spread the human race across the universe. So, they created the first ever Lightwarper.

Lightwarpers were passenger ships so fast that they could outrun the speed of light. Of course, this came with consequences. Normal humans couldn't withstand the sudden acceleration of Lightwarpers, and they were called Strivers.

Strivers were normal humans on earth who worked for and with the Travelers, but couldn't travel to other colonized celestial bodies due to how sensitive their bodies were. At the time, Lightwarpers were the only way to travel. And it stayed like that for a long time, until passenger ships were created.

One day, Falkham discovered a new material floating around in asteroids. Ordering his men to extract it, he studied it in his lab. He discovered that this material was heavy yet brittle.

This new material was called zephyrite. It would soon grow to be used as ammo in the Travelers' weaponry. With how brittle and heavy zephyrite was, it was essentially a heavier hand grenade with powerful shrapnel that could pump your body full of holes.

However, when Falkham died of old age, the second in command, Judas, took over. And he quickly established harsh new laws that divided the other Travelers.

Some felt he knew what he was doing, while others thought Judas was too rash. The tension came to a head on one fateful day, where the first interstellar war began.

The war had been waged on every single Enceladian city. The reason for this was that Judas noticed that Enceladus was filled to the brim with zephyrite.

With the fact that the Travelers against Judas only had a measly number of forty-two thousand, and that the Travelers who sided with Judas were a staggering fifty-three thousand, most of the Travelers got wiped out or forced into life service to the Travelers.

Only a few of them survived with their lives and freedom intact, and they took note of how brutal the war was. It was such a horrible event that later organizations would simply refer to it as "The War."

The remaining hundred or so Travelers organized a new organization, called the Stellaris Council. They appointed a head, and he guided the Travelers to a new star system.

System 6B316-Cancri, located around 30 light years away from the Nebula colony on Pluto. There were two habitable exoplanets that they discovered.

One was a frozen wasteland, but it was just below hypothermia temperature. The other was a scorching landscape, fire raging across the barren rocks.

The leader of the Council, whose name was Heiro, named the icy planet Sleet, while the infernal planet was called Ember.

Heiro called an old contact of his back on Titan, who quickly got to work making Collateral Earth Rings. Using special compression technology, the contact scanned massive areas of land on the main Headquarters on Earth, replicated the areas back on Titan, and compressed them into rings.

Essentially, the rings were mini continents, perfect for galactic nomads who didn't have a permanent residence, or criminals on the run.

After acquiring them from the contact, Heiro put on ten of them around his fingers, and activated them all at once. The result was that a giant chunk of land equal to the size of Earth's land area landed on both Sleet and Ember.

They split up. Half of them colonized Ember and quickly took advantage of the heat to create fire-powered machines, where the hotter the flames burned the more power would be exerted.

Heiro and the other half took over Sleet, and they used hydrothermal energy for their machines, as well as clouds. They created artificial clouds, and soon, humans were the first known interstellar species.

Until one day, a day that would forever be known as the Day of the End. Judas had actually survived the War, and had taken over every single colony in the original Solar System.

When he caught wind of the two new colonies, Judas wanted to claim them to further extend his sphere of influence.

Heiro and Judas had a ferocious clash, the Travelers and the Council both using every single weapon and tactical device that they had.

In the end, Judas reigned victorious. He absorbed the Council, and merged the Travelers and the Council into one, forming the Unity.

Judas and the Unity quickly enslaved the Emberians and the Sleetians, as well as the others in the original solar system. Judas was king, and he reigned supreme.

Anything less than absolute devotion to the Unity was considered treason, and would be executed on the spot.

Until, one man, sick and tired of Unity's tyranny, broke it. He rallied up rebels who wanted to fight against the Unity, called Liberators.

Judas sensed this and ordered a fleet of Lightwarpers to immediately travel to Io, where the Liberators were.
A devastating battle ensued, and all of the Liberators but five perished.

The five that survived went into hiding. The man who organized the Liberators came up with codenames. Their legal names would never exist on the tongues of their fellowship, which they had called the Disobedience.

The leader was called Zeus. The second in command became Hera. Their strategist would become Hades. The pilot was to be called Hermes. The weapon master was Ares.

The Disobedience quietly grew over the years, using guerilla warfare to chip at the Unity. They made contracts with fellow Unity-illegal organizations, and earned acolytes for every single contract they fulfilled. They used the acolytes for their funds, and to further their cause.

There were two contenders in the ring. The Unity and the Disobedience. The Unity had a hell of a punch, and it was gonna take advantage of that.

But there was a hidden third fighter in the ring. One who had defied both organizations, and one who had a 200 million acolyte bounty on their head.
One who was denied by the Disobedience and the Unity alike.

One who had many names, one who avoided detection with ease. One who had destroyed property owned by both organizations, and one who had an organization of his own.

This man singlehandedly forced both the Unity and the Disobedience to work together, to put an end to him once and for all. But they had never found any trace of him.