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Blue "Captain" hissed the speaker, "Captain Serus!" The crackling was more insistent. She rolled over and hit the speaker button, interrupting the flow of static. "What is it Kale?" "Cassius IV is approaching" replied the metallic voice.  At this she scrambled out of her small bunk, pulled on her cargo trousers and grabbed an old knitted jumper from where it lay strewn across a pile of star charts on the table. She climbed up the ladder, out of her cabin and raced along the shuddering gang plank to the navigation deck. The navigation deck was not really a deck at all but more like a small room, there were two seats, surrounded by flashing

Prologue The bright moon shone dutifully over the already neon lit city sprawl. There was once a need for such things as the white orb above, but as humanity grew and moved further from nature, they forgot. They forgot about what was once all they needed. Fortunately, the time had come for humanity to remember their origins, for time has not forgotten. "…hither from the false lights comes one, true too all, this shall be, when twin swords cross, in the name of the elementals, we shall be saved…" - Drasius, Prophet of the Third Class. Chapter I   The dewy grass tickled Rayne's ankles. Through the broad green leaves the dappled light o