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The Shadowed Warrior Chronicles, Ep. I: The Invasion - Aquarius
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The Shadowed Warrior Chronicles: Ch. 6, It Begins
It has been a week since Mark has learned of his brothers death and he is slowly slipping into a depression, much like many planet bound Iceidian's as fear of invasion grows in the public's heart. The enemy task force's location has yet to be determined by the military leaders, but many fear it is not far.
In the time of the first fleets annihilation Iceidia lost eight-teen of her colonies and shipyards and seventy-two frontier fleets. The largest of her military forces have begun to fall inward on populated systems and the largest shipyards. To fend of enemy attack. Over two billion deaths have been recorded so far since the first fleets fall. Over two billion in one week.
Defeats are common place now as more and more moral is lost. Victories are few and small compared to the losses. Though, Iceidia remains the gem stone of the galaxy, the highest fortified location in the empire she is slowly weakening as supply lines are cut off one by one. Even the most common place objects, such as Phin fruit that are grown in neighboring empires are rare and are hoarded amoung the people.
Every family, every Kiith, every clan has lost someone close to them in the past weeks. The war that has gone on for fifteen years draws into it's final cataclysm as enemy forces plot their next target, the very heart of the empire, the very soul of the people. Iceidia...
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