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Chapter One
“You will use no weapons other than your pulseblades, aegis and your training in decoria.” Marianne announces the rules to our spar. My brother and I stand in the centre of a beautiful courtyard. At my feet, pale-white marble spreads like the sea, unblemished and unbroken even after milennia. Twelve pillars stand watch over our…
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A Conquest of the Stars: Prologue
The bridge of my dreadnought the Rache is dark as pitch as we ghost along the darkness of space. Hidden by two moons, kept off scanners due to the intense radiation from the dying red star of this system, we are all but invisible. A fleet of fifty-thousand ships, just over two-hundred-and-fifty million infantry, another…