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Years into the future, war has come upon the human race. Religious fantics have split from their breathrend and declared war on all of mankind, labeling most common folk as heretics. Meanwhile, on the final frontier, an even more mysterious threat lerks about. The Darvins, a strange alien with unknown motives to wipe out all of humanity, has risen. With advanced technolgy on their side, they have been successful in their campign thus far. There's only one thing keeping them from victory and that's the location of the Milky Way Galaxy, but even as the Council of Command struggles to ensure that remains a secret, the Darvins gather their forces and send scouting parties into the depths of space to discover the location of the heart of humanity's small empire. Now, with time running out, Command agrees to a desperate mission. On the wartorn soils of Mars, three soilders, three nobodies, have been chosen to undertake a mission that leads directly into the heart of the Darvin empire. Under the command of Grand Admrial Elizabeth , The Hailstorm, the finest ship ever made by human hands, seeks to deliver an elite squad into the depths of Darvin empire. But what will they find? Will they be able to save humanity in time or will they return to learn that all they've ever known has been reduced to ash?
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