In a decayed and dying alien world that was once center of a vast planetary empire, an embittered rogue knight, soldier to the fallen empire, traverses a bizarre landscape discovering strange and sinister truths about the nature of the leaders he once served and about the mysterious warlords who have now carved the world into their private kingdoms. ************************************************************************************************ Wonderful cover art by Stefanie Saw: @seventhstar

Lincoln, a recent graduate of the Orbital Space Command Academy, volunteers for a high-stakes mission on which the future of his orbital society, as well as his future career, depends. Failure is not an option. After his mission is compromised and he barely makes it back alive, he finds himself on the run with the woman that not only stole his heart but also derailed his mission. As they race across a forbidden, dystopian landscape in search of answers, Lincoln faces the disturbing reality that his life is based on a lie and that the world as he knows it is doomed. The only way he can ensure the survival of the human race is by ensuring the survival of the woman who betrayed him and betraying the society that shaped him. Will he save them both or sacrifice the survival of one for the other? #1 in Science Fiction #1 in Thriller Note: this story is marked Mature only to bypass sites that tend to steal stories with a non-mature rating.

The blinding flash came first, so intense that it blinded even through closed eyes. The deafening thunder followed very shortly after, as the burning light began to subside. The cloud appeared as a silhouette at first against the whiteout, but as the sky returned to normal colour the iconic mushroom could be seen rising into the sky. The heat wave was the first to unleash its deadly power, burning hotter than the sun everything in its path incinerated instantly. Everything from stone to the air itself vaporised in an instant for miles around the blast. Then came the shock wave to finish where the heat wave left off, levelling everything in its path. Everything above ground level ripped from it place and blown to pieces as if it was nothing more than paper. All life for miles around the cloud simply erased from existence, as if it was never there at all. Gone. Gone in only few minutes.

Fortuum is a prison designed to be inescapable and completely fail-proof. Only the deadliest and darkest of criminals are sent there. If you are lucky, you could die during Elimination right on the first day in Fortuum. If you are unlucky, you could slowly burn to death while laboring in the fields under the blistering sun. There is no such thing as pity, and there is no such thing as freedom. Prisoner X is a one-of-a-kind prisoner in the prison Fortuum. All the prisoners are scared of him for some reason, but Prisoner X doesn't know why. He doesn't even know who he is, and why he is here. All his memories were lost. When he looks deeper into his past, he finds that he is charged with trying to bring down the government and also wrecking havoc and death at the Capital. But when he looks even deeper, he finds a truth, a dark truth part of an even darker conspiracy... AUTHOR'S NOTE: This story remains unpublished at the moment until I have completed writing all of the Parts. I hope you enjoy this story of an alternate future (spoiler) prison society! Feel free to comment down below, share with me your thoughts. Please consider voting for this if you think this story is good or is edible, and also please share it with your friends. I am new to the site and would LOVE to hear from you!

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