Cross-Over

  Anything you want must be worked for-must be earned.  Love, trust, money, even family.  Family. It's the only thing you seem to have in your life at times. When those times do come along, you cannot look for love or support. You must look for a way to protect your family. 

  Protection can only go so far. Our creations can only do so much damage.  When we attack, we don't use strategy or tactics. We use brutality and force. It's not as if we don't know any other way. It's the fact that every other method has failed us-trail and error. Our approaches have gotten us this far, and our Dux reassures us that our System cannot fall. However, I once heard a story of a ship called "Titanic". The captin thought that the oversize contraption could not sink. He thought it was unsinkable. However, the "Titanic" sunk. It's not the same  with our Dux and our System. He has it imprinted into our brains that our world is indestructable-unsinkable. And it is.

My name......well I can't say much about it since we are known by our Lables. We have Lables for everything and everyone. A baby is a Novus. A child is a Levi. A young adult is a a Peto. An adult would be a Ducis. The elderly are Prudens. We all have our places in the System. You start as a Novus and die as a Pruden-if you're lucky. You could easily die in an attack and you could be a simple Peto. You are important, but the System must go on.

Oh yeah......my name.....it's Sidra. That's all there is to it. You don't get a last name until you become a Ducis at the age of of thirty. I'm only fiteen- still a little Peto in the eyes of the Dux. No, the Dux is not a a psycotic dictator that took control and made us work. Believe it or not, our people chose this lifestyle. They figured that we had no choice. The government crumbled practically in front of us and the Dux came in not long after and settled us down. Before he came into the picture, everyone went wild. I won't go into details about the situation, but I will say that it was best that the Dux stepped up.

No one knows exactly where he came from. I've always thought that he came from the Structure- the other part of the Empire.  He is the only decent person that could ever come out of there if you ask me. There is little communication between us and the Structure. We choose not to stay in contact. It's better if everyone just stayed in their sections. No interaction needed. I don't like the Structure or anyone in it for that matter. I just know that those poeple talk about us and how we aren't as "put together" as they are. Whatever that means. However, we have had people go out of the System and go to live in the Structure.

 Anyone one that denies their life in the System is foolish. People have chosen to leave the System. No one has ever stayed and denied their chosen life and, frankly, I don't think anyone should. There is absolutely nothing wrong with our section. We have everything we need and want. The Dux takes care of us and would never guide us down the wrong path.

One day, I'm going to meet him and let him know that I am his fully dedicated soldier. The Dux is always right. He never makes mistakes.......never.