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Dec. 3rd, 2005 @ 12:14 am Learning the Rules... (Sionis Saga Pt. 10)
Current Mood: peaceful
Current Music: Joey Cape - Stunt Double
Sionis came to Zolan in total secrecy. He used his ship to create one more wormhole and return to what he thought was the present. His timing was still off however and he ended up twenty years or so to early. While trying to figure out where he was Sionis came across a group of Zolan scientists and immediately realized that they were of the same decent as Bermecians. After several hours working with his translator he was able to make a rough version of their language and began communicating as best as he could.

When Sionis had learned the names of both Haron and Gradias, the three were able to talk of wormholes and time travel and all the things that the Zolan ancestors had achieved before the great migration ruined everything. Hearing that Sionis had actually time traveled with great success Haron quickly taught Sionis the rules of time and made him swear not to break these rules unless he hoped to cause the ripple in time that humans have come to know as the Butterfly Effect. In truth Sionis wished only to return to his own time and Haron believed this. He traded valuable information with Sionis regarding how to use a simple wormhole.

You see... the Zolan had just about mastered time travel once again but only Haron had a true grip of the power behind it. Gradias had come to discover that if a "bent" wormhole was simply straightened out then it would not result in the "bend" in time... instead the traveler would be able to jump a large distance in a matter of minutes. Sionis had given most of the information he knew to Haron who in turn felt that Gradias did not need the knowledge he possessed. In the elder's mind, the Ancestors had locked away such precious information for a reason.
Gradias however did not agree with this and a few years after Sionis left the planet he began testing new forms of "Dark Matter" experiments. Haron eventually revealed this information to the Zolan council and Gradias was sent away from known civilization. Later, Gradias kidnapped Haron's new born child for revenge. He told the man he had killed her but instead experimented on her just as he did so many others.

However, that is a story for another day...

Sionis left Zolan with a hope of returning home but he first decided to make a jump into the future once more just to see what had happened with the Bermecian System. He returned to the future and came to the Sentret sytem to ask. They spoke of an empire long since gone that had hoped to wipe out the "Race of Jenova" but the Order of the Sioni and James Davis had helped the Bermecians escape though no one knew of where they had all gone. Sionis on the other hand knew exactly where they had gone. Taking care not to bend his wormhole Sionis returned to Zolan and found it had changed drastically in the 30 years since he had seen it. It was here that the warrior spoke to dozens of people and learned of a woman named Jenova that had come to destroy some special ship and its pilot but that the Bermecian King and the brave soldiers of Zolan were able to stop her. When Sionis discovered that Cid was the King of the Bermecians he gave up on his hiding and came to the King for the full story. These are the events as Sionis remembers...

"You're alive!"
"I need to know what happened here."
"You need to do a lot of things! How did you survive?"
"I didn't."
"What?"
"Jenova was alive?"
"Oh yeah dude its a crazy story! See there were actually two Jenova clones... the one you beheaded was one and the other ran away and changed her named and everything! OH MY GOSH! Sionis you have a daughter and you dont' even know!"
"I'm sorry but what?"
"The Hylans took your DNA and Angel's DNA and made a hybrid human hybrid! She's off in the alliance looking for you right now!"
"Is James alive?"
"Yeah."
"Where is he?"
"He went back to I-Net. Last I heard he was engaged for marriage."
"He finally went back..."
"Yup finally got his wish."
"Cid, you didn't see me today and as far as anyone is concerned I'm still dead."
"You know you could have at least told James you were alive."
"It's a complicated story."
"Well it's too late now. I'm just saying."


Sionis left Zolan later that day and returned to the Alliance to find his daughter Naomi. He was able to locate her on the ruins of Hyla where she was digging through old research looking for anything about her father and mother. The two were reunited at last and they spent several days getting to know one another... Sionis learning of her hard childhood and the things that had happened with the Kalactans and the ADX... Jenova and Jennifer... James and Cid. Finally coming to a very important conclusion Sionis decided to do a bit more time traveling. He returned to a year when the ADX was still first being built and implanted his message telling James that he had indeed survived and even breaking the rules hinting that the ship needed a certain someone to pilot it (He hoped that James would go and find his daughter... the stories she told of Kalactan imprisonment were unbearable).

Then a very very important thought came to Sionis' mind... he had always heard James speak of how the life he lived was so far away from anything in his old home and that he just wished he could find someone there that knew all that he knew. Putting his last adventure together Sionis knew that he would have to full out break one of the rules of time but so far he had not caused any large ripples so he hoped that what he was about to do would not do more than a little changing...


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Nov. 18th, 2005 @ 11:40 pm An Unexpected Twist... (Sionis Sage Pt. 9)
Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: Patrick Doyle - Voldemorte
"REPORT! Our news teams have just confirmed that fourteen governments have declared war on the United Space Alliance. It is reported that this is just the beginning of a very long and dangerous process. The USA has lost greatly in the fight against the Aldimar and are under great stress from this new rebellion. Most of the governments were not willing to aide the Bermecians and therefore are now quite possibly the owners of a stronger military than the Alliance itself. More details will be given as we uncover more..."

Not more than a week after the Battle of Asirio, the People's Republic of the Universe was formed by fourteen known governments and three more that chose to stay within the alliance and simply "support" the movement. Helio Advares, was elected to be Supreme Crusader in the new fight after the previous leader died.

At first the Alliance tried to solve the disagreements with peace talks between the RPU's council and their own senate and amazingly headway was being made. Meanwhile, rumors were spreading of a very important "Leader" who was in the true control of the Rebellion and was planning to use the military not to prove a point but to instead dominate.
The Alliance did not wish to anger the council on the brink of stopping a war before it would begin but those hopes were shattered when a small squad of fighters destroyed a small unarmed transport carrying the RPU council members.

In retaliation the Leader sent a request to the remaining Aldimar Fleet asking them to help cripple the Alliance.
His offer was accepted and the Aldimar went to work on wiping out the weakened Bermecians once more. The Leader knew of a way to kill two birds with one stone and secretly obtained data on I-Net and its "domes." The Aldimar constructed their own makeshift system and hacked into I-Net to gain control of a small white marble caleld the "White Tara." This was of course only an image of the real tara that sat deep within a vault of the Bermecian System.
Thanks to the leader's spy work, he knew that if the Aldimar could simply hold the marble and say a small series of numbers, the real tara would self destruct... being an energy based weapon the explosion would be large enough to devestate the entire Bermecian System and weaken the race even farther.

Cid and Tiffany Theon had reported to the southern borders to help the Alliance when the first battles had broken out. Back near the Bermecian System, Sionis Sepher was working to discover just what the Aldimar had up their sleeves. Fortunately, he found the invasion plot and was able to take certain measures to see that it would not be successful. Cid Theon was thought dead and later it was reported that Tiffany had commited suicide. Alone, James Davis returned to Sionis' side and learned of the impending attack.

The I-Net Coucil of Saftey found there to be not threat of attack and sent the two away.
Knowing that he must not let the Aldimar gain access to the White Tara, Sionis turned to his old companions and started pulling favors. By the end of the week he had gathered a small force to lead an attack on the Aldimar Planetary Base (where their makeshift I-Net was stationed) and end the Aldimar Threat once and for all.
James Davis was sent to I-Net to warn citizens of the upcoming attack and arrived only hours before the first wave. Together with his friends and family, the boy turned his home town into a defensive stronghold for the White Tara.

Hearing of the attack Sionis quickly led his forces into battle, taking out dozens of the unmanned Aldimar warcraft as they arrived at the planet. General Talkin of the Aldimar Forces had been warned by the Leader to expect a counter attack such as this and had set a small trap for SIonis and his men.
Sionis... always one step ahead... had planned on just such a trap and was able to work his away around the situation and bring down the Aldimar server. The battle for I-Net ended in an enourmous explosion set off when the warrior said his goodbyes, told his men to retreat, and activated a wormhole.

In theory Sionis would have entered the wormhole and been shot out into space in some unknown place only to die moments later in the vacumm of space. However, much to Sionis' joy... things did not go as theory stated...
Instead the warrior created a "bent" wormhole.
He appeared on the surface of the planet in the exact same place, only many many after the Aldimar had come to it. He was the first Human Being to travel through time!

He could see that the battle had left the planet devastated and nearly lost hope of escaping until he found one ship hidden in a hanger undamaged during the attacks. Though he could not understand the Aldimar language he was able to fly his ship into space and to the Bermecian Realm.

What he discovered was unspeakable... The Bermecian System had been attacked... the solar defenses literally wiped out and the planets barren and lifeless...

Sionis landed on Gran Bermeca and found another ship to pilot. One that he could use another wormhole on to travel to a small planet that had once been the Bermecian Homeworld. If there was any hope that the race had survived, they would be found here...


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Nov. 8th, 2005 @ 02:03 pm "Saving Grace" (Sionis Saga Pt. 8)
Current Mood: sympathetic
Current Music: John Williams - Battle of the Heroes
For three years Sionis Sepher existed only as a ghost. He was sick... and he knew it... but the longer he stayed sick the more he didn't care... the longer he stayed alone and without his old life, the more he wanted to find his mother and free her from his half brother's grasp.

He lived in the Kujan Empire for most of the three years because it was simple to stay hidden. No one knew of his past or even cared for that matter... though they could obviously tell he was not of Koeleshian decent; they were more concerned with their lives to bother worrying about him.

So he stayed hidden, studying the Kujan Empire and taking notes of what might lead him to his mother. He did learn of a hidden research base on the first moon in orbit over Mid Terra and after looking more into it he realized that his mother was not being held there but instead James Davis. His care for the boy was greater than the virus' control of him so he quietly and secretly tipped off the United Space Alliance to the boy's location. He knew as well as anyone that the Alliance would send someone... maybe not because of James, but because of the danger in letting the Emperor study a human for so long.

What Sionis did not realize was that when the Alliance did respond, the Emperor reacted with great surprise and suddenly security shifted to the Empire's borders. This greatly improved his search and within days he had uncoverd the location of his mom. The woman was being held in the Invincible under the protection of the Emperor's best military.

The Alliance did get James out of his prison but the boy demanded that the Emperor be put to a stop. The torture the young human had gone through was more than he could bare. Together with a small resistance force, James was able to board the Invincible but was caught by the Emperor once more and thrown into jail.
Sionis was the next person to arrive on the ship and the damage done by James and his friends gave Sionis the upperhand, he was able to fight his way down into the research layer of the ship and free the woman. When she thawed she immediately began fighting and was able to slice down any soldier in her path. When they shot her the wounds would heal only moments later. She was a force that couldn't be stopped. They made their way to the bridge, killed the Emperor, and then returned to the prison level and released James Davis from his cell while the group was sleeping.

Sionis' mother suffered from a far more intense version of "Dark Matter Sickness." This virus consumes those who are infected and drives them to dominate... trust no one... and fight against all that have angered them in their lives. What occured from that point on was that all who recieve a certain amount of her DNA will fall to this sickness... but instead of suffering as Jenova does, these people become a victim to her and are able to be controlled by her. Sionis is the prime example of this but Sionis always fought this control as best he could. The best example of this is when Jenova confronted the Emperor and tried to control him. As he gave to her will Sionis pulled his blade and killed the man, unwilling to fight beside the man that had caused so much harm to the Humans.
Jenova who is in fact a woman from the planet Zolan, then told Sinois that she was part of the long lost Zeltron Empire and that there was a weapon hidden in their old Realm that could wipe out all who opposed them. She of course wanted this weapon for destruction... where Sionis was determined to get it for the Protection of the Human Race and in honor of the lost Milky Way Galaxy.

So at this point Sionis and Jenova set off to unlock a weapon that could be used to dominate and protect, while James and his friends were determined to find Sionis and stop him. They ran all around the Kujan Empire and for a while it seemed like no one was ever going to get anywhere but when James uncovered a part of the Zeltron mystery that Jenova recognized, she was able to gain control of the weapon. When Sinois and Jenova took this control the woman uncovered to Sinois her true identity and her true intentions. She told how the Zeltron had built this weapon as a last resort to stop her from destroying their realm over 2000 years ago and how she had used her cells to infect and control an army back then.
Then Sionis revealed his secret...
He had known she wasn't really one of the Zeltron all along. He told her he had done his studying as well and knew that the Omega Fleet was designed by the Zeltron to kill anyone infected by the Virus. He had already released them to make sure she could not do it again.

In a total rage, Jenova turned on Sionis and tried to kill him but the warrior overcame her and cut off her head. He then took control of the weapon with a his plan to wipe out the Kujan Empire, the only true enemy of the Humans. The Invincible fired it's weapon directly at the ship/weapon and were able to critically damage it. Sionis' only option was to crash his new weapon directly into Mid Terra to cripple the Empire and await for it to suffer a total economic collaspe.

This plan failed as well when James Davis and his small team was able to board the ship and find Sionis.
Sionis and James faced off against one another, the young human was so overwhelmed with the fact that his mentor had turned, and Sionis in a state of shock that the boy he trained was fighting against him.
As James' friends set up a final attack to destroy the weapon before its impact, James and Sionis stabbed each other, the human taking a blade that had contained Sionis' DNA. They both would have died from their wounds but James had been infected by the Virus... though he was to get very sick, at the moment, the cells reproduced very quickly and much like Jenova, James' wound healed in only a few minutes. Both of the warriors escaped from the ship just before it was wiped from existance.

From this point on James and Sionis went back into hiding. James had known almost immediately that he was falling to the sickness that he had seen Sionis go to three years before and spent his time alone, focusing on fighting off the virus.
Sionis however, had come to the understanding that if Jenova had died, her control over him should have died with her. He turned his attention back to the Hylan scientists that had helped to create the Geneva Serum and just what they knew about the virus.

He learned a very very horrible truth... Jenova had been cloned... she had been experimented with far more than anyone realized... the Jenova he had killed on the weapon was not the true Jenova but a copy that the Hylans had put in the real Jenova's place so that when the Emperor of the Kujan Empire had come to steal her, he would take the fake. Another Jenova clone had been allowed to grow from the beginning, was given a new name, and it was tested to see if she would turn out to be controllable. The final experiment he learned of was a young girl made with his and his lost love Angel's DNA. The girl was only a fraction of what Jenova was but she too was to be raised and tested as an experiment. Sionis began to dig deeper in the Hylan affiars and started to learn more about the old portal ring that had connected Earth to Hyla and a way to create a smaller, and less stable form of one.
Sionis had just uncovered a hidden Hylan project to create a personal Wormhole.

Finally uncovering a hidden Hylan file that gave the location of a planet too far away to even imagine. Thinking on this Sionis realized that there was a great deal of things he would never be able to uncover. Unless he could stay dead, and as long as James Davis stayed alive, he could not do this. He finally met with the human and set up a time for a duel. The two would end this debate and then he could continue his study of where his daughter may be and what they had wanted her for.

They met on Sentret V for their final fight and Sionis prepared to kill his friend but when a figure the warrior couldn't make out interuppted and injected him with something, he began to feel Jenova's control slipping away from him. James was injected as well but not before mortally wounding the other person that had injected them with the cure. Sionis passed out and didn't wake up for several hours while the Sentret system fell under attack.

Taken into the Bermecian system and placed under the protection of the Queen James and Sionis began working to put an end to the Aldimar Empire. Sionis worked more so on his studies while James worked on trying to reconnect with his friends. Though they were now free of Jenova's control, Sionis knew that there the real Jenova, and another copy still existed in the Universe. The real Jenova was still rumored to be locked away in the Hylan chambers deep beneath the planet's surface.

The Aldimar's Threat began to gain more attention from both Sionis and James, the two were finally beaten in the Asirio system of the Bermecian realm at great cost to the Bermecians. Sionis decided to uncover his studies to the High Lady who in turn completed his work with what several historians had been studying. Together Sionis discovered a way to create a wormhole. He could now simply disappear from existance himself and head onto finding his daughter and ending Jenova’s control over anyone once and for all.

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Nov. 2nd, 2005 @ 03:11 pm "The Next Generation" (Sionis Saga Pt. 7)
Current Mood: nervous
Current Music: Breaking Benjamin - Firefly
The next ten years were probably the most boring and tormenting for Sionis Sepher.
Though he would never admit it the warrior had lost Angel... and he could no longer bury himself in war to make up for this loss.
The Grant was put under the control of a very willing and able captain but the warrior was never able to warm up to him.
Sionis wasted his time looking into Emperor Kujanias' past and what it was that made him so special. His findings were not what he had hoped to find and soon enough the truth of Sionis' mother was revealed and the worse part was that Jenova was not only his mom but Kujanias' as well! When he confronted the Hylans about this they admited it was true but that Jenova's frozen body had been stolen years ago by Kujanias. It was from this point on that Sionis slipped into a kind of privacy that none had ever seen before. He spoke to very few people and was seen by even less.

2296 was the biggest year for the Human Race... Sionis Sepher returned to his home world to oversee the removal of James Davis. To the surprise of a great many, the young boy seemed to adapt far better than many of those before him. Sionis was glad to see this response and delivered the boy to Bantari for a short six month training session.

It was here that James was able to talk to many other young Crusaders and learn about what had made him so special. It was believed by a great many that James was destined to be the next Supreme Crusader... though he didn't want to admit it... James hoped very much they were right.

At the Crusader Placement, James was not given the Supreme Crusader position and was assigned to report to Hyla for further infantry training when Sionis Sepher stepped in and asked permission to keep the boy with his special forces. Not willing to tell the leader no... James soon found himself on board the Ulysses ready to take on any new adventures.

However... those adventures took a LONG time to get there...

James spent a little over a year with Sionis... being one of the few who actually spoke to the Supreme Crusader. The two learned a great deal from one another and considered one another to be good friends.
When the time came for Sionis to stop a military event on the planet of Hyla... he asked James to come with him.

The two were able to stop an attempt to reactivate the terrible weapon that had been used against the Janolian Empire so long ago but had no time to celebrate. During this situation the Kujan Empire had declared war against the Alliance and out of nowhere a terrible battle had broken out. Sionis reported to system 407 planet 7. In all honestly the planet was the eighth in orbit but James had commented on a television show in which a military hospital was named the 4077th...

The time on this base was spent trying to stay alive and young James came to learn what a battle really felt like. Then in a terrible turn of events, a spaceship named the Invincible ripped the planet apart using a weapon unlike anything seen before.
In a bold move, Kujanias declared that he wanted the Milky Way system for himself now more than ever and would take it by force. He uncovered his own portal ring that his scientists had built just outside of the human galaxy.

Sionis returned to his home system once more and helped to lead the human forces in battle after battle against the Kujan Empire. The war presssed on but it was a losing battle. Soon the Invincible penetrated Earth's solar system and the humans were forced to evacuate. I-Net and the rest of the population was taken from Earth and moved to the Alliance, to the planet within the now safe borders of New Human Space... the same borders that Sionis helped to fortify decades ago. As soon as the humans had completed their evacuation the portal ring connecting Earth to Hyla was destroyed and the portal snapped shut.

In a grand retaliation Sionis learned that the Invincible had been badly damaged from the battle and was in orbit over a lifeless planet for repairs. Using two huge Battle Cruisers known as the "War Bandits" Sionis took an offensive against the Invincible crippling it's laser but in the end still failing to destroy the ship. One of the Bandits was lost and the warrior had the surviving ship fall back to Bantari. Here they evacuated the population and
prepared to leave themselves when Sionis found a hidden Koeleshian Science Research area.


Hoping to find secrets of the Invincible's weapon, Sions instead found Jenova in a containment of liquid ice. In a panic to free her Sinis turned on his friends and killed a young Supreme Crusader named John Stanton. James Davis confronted his friend and stabbed the man before he could do any more damage but was wounded in the process.

His friend Tiffany Saranac helped him back to the small town but James sent her away in his ship and stayed to die. When Kujanias arrived he found James waiting and after the young Crusader put up a fight, he decided not to kill him. Knowing that Sionis had taken great interest in the boy, Kujanias wondered if there was something more to James.


A wounded and very sick Sionis hid in a rocky area off a cliff as Kujanias came with a small squad of soldiers and removed Jenova to a more secure location. When everyone had gone, Sionis came into the night and stood by the burning buildings of Bantari's town and swore to the night sky that he would find Kujanias and kill him. He would free his mother from her frozen cell and learn the secrets of her life...

Sionis had fallen to what would later be called... "The Jenova Virus"


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Nov. 1st, 2005 @ 01:38 pm "Two Worlds...One Place" (Sionis Saga Pt. 6)
Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: John Williams - The Battle of Endor I, II, and III
"SPECIAL REPORT: Day three of the 'Web Crisis' has ended with a horrible assassination attempt on Michael Stanton. The paradise world that he created has now started to fall apart. Communications with survivors of the events are reporting that buildings have started to vanish, water freezes in place and several dozen glitches have led to three people's deaths. In a move of sheer desperation a group of five hundred thousand Crusaders are joining with the virtual world in a hope to bring order back to the chaotic lands..."


Stability...

If Michael to get more servers running the problem would be fixed... simple...

It took nearly a ten days... but they activated the new server towers and amazingly it worked just as he had planned... I-Net had become stable once more.

There were problems all around in the Programmer's world... broken code, failed drivers, and weak network connections... I-Net had strained for so long that damage had occured to just about every level of its programs. The extent of this damage was not well known until the first group of 1,000 citizens were removed from the program... an exit application failed to respond and the group was killed. There were no survivors.

The small glimpse of hope faded and the virtual world slipped back into dismay. Finally, in an agreement made by the Human government it was decided that those within I-Net would have their memories erased and rewritten. They would have no realization that the Earth they lived on was not the one that they had been on just weeks before. Those imprisoned in the virtual world reluctantly agreed to this and the long process of brainwashing began.

I-Net had saved Earth's future... but it was here to stay...
Now, the Hylan scientists and programmers turned to their next great mission...
finding a way to make the exit application respond.

During these turbulent years, Sionis' mission is put on hold and the warrior is told to protect Michael from harm.
The Supreme Crusader had been watching I-Net's situation very carefully and missed a situation where a Koeleshian spy slipped into the human solar system as a victim of war. The spy nearly killed Sionis but a young Crusader named Daniel Davis was able to come between the two taking a sword through his arm in the process.

In honor of his bravery Sionis offered Daniel a personal favor and the Crusader told him that his family had been selected as part of the original 2 Billion placed in I-Net. He wished very much to be rejoined with his loved ones even if it meant he would have to lose his memories to do so. Sionis agrees and with the help of Michael Stanton, young Daniel is placed in I-Net.

Michael Stanton transfers to the planet Hyla where he can devote more time to fixing the glitch in I-Net...

Congress soon passed a law to expand I-Net's servers once again after it is declared unfair to separate a child from its parents... baby's born from parents in I-Net are to be placed in I-Net as well. This would only continue until the glitch was fixed and every single human could be removed safe and sound.

On Hyla, Michael and his team of programmers are able to learn that the glitch did not result from the damage of the unstable server... it had infact been programed into I-Net from the beginning and was encrypted so that no one could fix the code without causing I-Net to shut down and kill everyone.

Determined to solve this problem, Stanton designed and created the "CORE" which was a place connected to I-Net not physically but through the server connection. This allowed programmers to actually work with I-Net from within and begin working at the encryption. Soon this plan to fix the flaw is abandoned as well when a type of I-Net "virus" is found within the "CORE." Michael knows he is still being sabotaged and is completely enraged.

Firing every single scientist on his team except for those who he can be absolutely sure have not betrayed him, Stanton started from scratch and had the virus hidden away deep within the Core. His team is later to discover that they can successfully remove a single person from I-Net but when the application is used, it will lock up for ten years until another can be removed.

The exit application is used with complete success and a young male is removed...
he is approximately twelve years old and has a very hard time adapting to reality...
His parents, Crusaders from the 500,000 that had come to quiet the chaos... led him to have a "Natural" form of the serum in his blood... when he grew up this form showed to be stronger than an ordinary Crusader. Sadly this man was killed less then five years after his removal.

Sionis had been watching I-Net very very carefully as it had started to evolve and finally left when the Janolian Empire had a complete economic collapse and a man named Gion Retorf had taken complete control. He is a Koeleshian being who is given the Janolian name of Kujanias Zordanos. Sionis' mission becomes a high prioity once more and the Supremem Crusader finally takes his leave of known Human Space. A year later the Koeleshian Empire is overthrown by rouge Koeleshian military and Kujanias steps in to restore order. He is praised by his people and the Empire accepts him as ruler. It is at this time that the Kujan Empire is born.

It was in 2280 that Michael Stanton had finally created a computer program that could run the CORE without human interaction. However, a single year later, another advancment allows a program to actually run within I-Net itself without use of the CORE at all... with the virus locked in the CORE shutting it down would also in a way act as an extra safety measure. Therefore, Michael agrees and the CORE is shut down...

Sionis Sepher had nothing more to do but desk work as the 2280's pressed on. The Kujan Empire was showing rapid economic growth but there was no sign that it was building to its military. The man who was born to be a warrior had finally run out of wars. The Crusader named Angel continued to sign up on some of the most dangerous missions that came up and their ships, the Ulysses and the Grant, continued to help tame the United Human Space of the Alliance for another decade. Sionis did not age as a normal human would... by the time he was fifty he seemed like he had reached his early thirties... Angel on the other hand had already passed her prime and eventually left Sionis' side to train Crusaders on the planet of Bantari.

When the time came for a Natural Crusader to be removed Sions checked up on Daniel Davis and found he had two children and a third on the way. He made the suggestion that ten more years should pass and the newborn child would be around ten... the perfect age for removal. This Crusader would also be part of a new experiment in which he would have a normal version of the Crusader serum added to his already Natural form. Just like Sionis, this next Crusader would be one of a kind...


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Oct. 31st, 2005 @ 03:01 pm "Earth's Salvation" (Sionis Saga Pt. 5)
Current Mood: mellow
Current Music: Jack Johnson - Fall Line
"CRISIS EARTH: Sudden Changes in our planet's atmosphere have been causing great changes in weather among other things. Hylan Scientists studying the situation has come to say that our world is coming to a breaking point. Our population has stripped Earth of vital resources to stay alive and the clock is ticking. Some estimate the planet's end is only a year away and others say that we have just over fifty years. Either way we are in trouble and our very smartest are scrambling to come up with a solution..."

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Sionis Sepher had saved his people from the Koeleshian Empire... he had been called Earth's Guardian Angel... but now... he was totally defenseless. He had failed his home and his race. He was beginning to lose hope... that is until he spoke with Michael Stanton who had become one of Earth's highest ranking military scientists.

Stanton had come up with a plan to save Earth... Kalactan Terraformers were being set in place to rebuild Earth's damaged atmosphere but without a large drop in population, the massive number of humans on Earth would continue to worsen the situation. With the terraformers only prolonging Earth's demise, Michael had come up with a solution to the population problem. When a group of ten Crusaders enter a Geneva dome, they use only a fraction of the resources they would before. His plan was sketchy and had a lot of holes but for the most part it seemed like it would work... large scale domes could be built... millions or even billions of people could be put into this type of suspended animation while teams of humans work on the outside taking care of them.

Sionis gave his full support after hearing that the government was contemplating a massive human relocation outside of the Milky Way Galaxy. Gathering support from Humans that are not willing to leave the planet they worked so hard to save, the government eventually gave and Project WEB went into action.

Meanwhile, the governement is able to claim a large section of empty space and a planet very similar to Earth is discovered within this section. It is decided that a team of Humans need to go to the Federation to lay claim to their lands and establish their borders. Sionis is put in charge of this team and though he is reluctant, he feels that having a place where Humans can someday live among the Federation is a good idea and accepts the mission.

Less than a year later, the Hylans have run dozens of successful tests on their project and a virtual paradise has been created for the humans to relax in while Earth begins the long road of healing. It is calculated that only two billion of Earth's population must enter the virtual world though many more wish to live in the paradise.
On the large scale tests there are a few glitches that warn the server may not be able to carry so many people but in the rush to finish the team overlooks this.

Sionis soon left Earth to begin his mission, taking some of the highest ranking Human Crusaders... including the lovely Angel Golgie.

Two Billion People came to enter their domes on the day I-Net was to be activated and by five o' clock that evening the power was turned on. There was amazement from all around. The project had been a complete success for its first five minutes and then the first alarm sounded and then several more... within another three minutes the world fell into panic... the I-Net server had overloaded... it was nearly at critical and about to give out... two billion people would die if it gave out... Michael and his team went into overdrive in a hope of activating more "server towers" to stabalize the program... only now... people were turning against him...

Inside of I-Net, the citizens were told that they were prisoners and could die at any moment... this of course was a decision that historians cannot understand... riots erupted and there was total chaos... people wanted out... they wanted to live...

Earth was safe but now a large portion of its inhabitants were hanging in the balance.


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Oct. 31st, 2005 @ 02:11 pm "Another Step Up" (Sionis Saga Pt. 4)
Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: Jack Johnson - Sitting, Waiting, Wishing
The mission to Diago II was one of the most remembered in all of Human History.

For Sionis Sepher and Michael Stanton to actually kill THIRTEEN Hyperion soliders with no back up broke every record the Space Federation had held.

From this moment on... Sionis became the SUPREME CRUSADER... of the ENTIRE League!

Michael was put into the Supreme Crusader of the Humans in Sionis' place and the two became household names.

The Koeleshians constantly tried to take control of different resource systems and with Michael's brain and Sionis' strength, the Crusaders always seemed to keep one step ahead of the Koeleshians...

The news of Earth's success is heard all through the Federation and in a hope to stop the Koeleshians once and for all, several governments take a strike against the Koeleshian Empire without declaring war.
Unfortunately this move resulted in the Janolian Empire pulling away from the Federation and joining the Koeleshians... War erupted in 2254.

The Janolians had always been a quiet government that caused no trouble and never experianced any either. In this time the leaders had constructed a military unlike anythinhg the Federation had seen before. After a single year of war, the Federation came to the Hylans in hope of a weapon that could end this war and fast.

The Hylan people called the Leaders of the three major powers in the Federation to their planet. The President of the United Humans, the Emperor of the Kalactans, and the High Lady of Bermecia arrived and were given control of a weapon that could creat destruction unlike anything seen before. The three leaders would need to be present to use this device and great security measures were taken to ensure that it never fall to those who could use it for the wrong reasons. Three keys were made and placed within a stone on three rings. There were handed to the leaders and they departed to deliver this news to their people and vote on whether or not it was necessary to use such a power... they later returned with the decision not to use the weapon but the Hylan King told them to keep their rings and return to their lands. If they ever changed their minds, they would have to reunite.

Back on Earth, Sionis continued to lead his forces into one victory after another.
He was a hero, a strong but caring leader who would leave no man behind if there was any hope of salvation. His determination keep the Humans moving, and the Koeleshians came against a species of beings that never seemed to accept surrender or defeat.

The Space Federation however, was up against the armies of the Janolian Empire. Their fleets swept through Federation systems destroying men, women, and children. The Kalactans suffered heavy losses and called upon the Bermecians to use the weapon. Earth was contacted and George Stanton came to Hyla the very next day.

There are no records to describe exactly what the weapon did... some say it uses wormholes to destroy... others say it is simply a device that wills things into motion... the only thing it truly shows is that humans, Bermecians, Kalactans, and even Hylans are ignorant to the powers that exist in this universe.

The three leaders used their keys and activated the weapon, together they told the device to stop the Janolian Fleet. It seemed that nothing happened at first and the leaders shut the weapon down and returned to the King's palace.

The weapon had worked... soon reports began to pour in from everywhere... the entire fleet, its crews included... had all been destroyed. Within hours the Janolian Empire was calling that they would surrender. The Hylans had discovered the true extent of their weapon and following the events locked the device away.
George Stanton fell out of politics, handing his Presidential powers over to a new leader and giving his key to the weapon to his son. He died less than a year later... none can confirm it but some feel that using the weapon claims several years of a person's life... this would explain George's sudden death... seeing that the Bermecian High Lady was still very young and can live as long as three hundred years... while the Kalactan Emperor can live over five hundred.

Back in the Milky Way Galaxy, the Koeleshians were forced to surrender as well. The Federation had taken the planet Bantari... the last planet that can harness life before reaching the capital planet Koelesh.
This was Sionis' higest moment of glory. His home planet had stayed protected...
there were those who said his powers made him invincible.

Soon enough though... it was discovered that EARTH was not invincible at all...
in fact, weakening atmosphere and stress from the human and alien presence on and around the planet were killing it...


To Be Continued...


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Oct. 27th, 2005 @ 03:20 pm "Stepping Up To The Plate" (Sionis Saga Pt. 3)
Current Mood: cold
Current Music: Hans Zimmer - The Way of the Sword
Earth 2253:

"SIGHTINGS! Reports continue to pour in from the solar rim that the Koeleshian Military has finally arrived at the Milky Way galaxy! Be aware that Earth will be entering a Code Red LockDown until further notice! Please stay tuned for the latest and stay safe!"


This was the first time humans had ever felt pressure like this.
The Crusaders and regular soldiers had been scouting space what seemed like forever.
Only one man had not started to feel cramped in his star ship and that was Sionis.
He had grown up in space; this was his home.

The ships had stayed close to the solar system and sent scouts out to see how the resource systems were doing. One scout never returned from his duty and it was decided a few Crusaders should go investigate. Sionis Sepher and Michael Stanton voted to go alone and they arrived on a small ice covered planet only a few hours later.

Days before they had left, the Space Federation had awarded the human Crusaders with a group of fifty X7 Spaceships. These ships were small and fast, strong and stable. They were to eventually be awarded the best design for any of the Kalactan X Models. In a last minute move, a Kalactan General had one of the ships painted white for the Supreme General of the Human Crusaders to fly.

Michael and Sionis stood looking out across the snowy field and Michael turned to look at the Supreme crusader, "You know I can barely see your ship cause it blends in so well but in that black outfit you stick out like a sore thumb.
Sionis turned and replied, "Navy Blue doesn't exactly fit here either."
"Why do you get black?"
"I get black because it shows I'm different."
"You're different?"
Sionis nodded slowly as he continued to stare into the snow.
"I am the first Human Crusader, traces of my DNA can be found in each of you."
"So you get to wear black? I don't get it."
Sionis smiled, "Let's get moving."
"That's not fair, I still don't see why you get to wear..."
Sionis' hand shot up and Michael stopped talking. The two waited quietly until they could hear footsteps and a man asking, "Are you sure this is where they came down?"

Michael ran behind some rocks and Sionis followed. He pulled a "stinger" from his weapons holdster and Michael looked at him in disbelief.
"Hey, other than training... how many of people have you killed?"
"I guess..."
Sionis' movement was too fast for Michael to follow and he collapsed to the ground as the stinger went off in the Supreme Crusader's hand. Recovering from the sound, Michael rolled over to see a Hyperion Soldier fall lifeless to the ground missing half of his head.
Sionis grabbed Michael and pulled him around to a different hiding spot and kneeling back down quietly whispered, "I suspect that was my first."
"we heard somoene else," Michael replied, "There are at least two more of them. This guy must have been a scout."
Sionis stood slowly and pulled Michael up with him.
"They usually do recon missions in a group of about fifteen."
"We can't kill fifteen of these guys! This one practically got us by himself!"
"Did he?"
"Well..." Michael could see that Sionis was smiling and nearly shouted, "You knew he was there? Why didn't you tell me?"
"Oh that would have been smart! Then he would have taken cover before I could kill him."
Sionis froze again and waved for Michael to get down. Taking no chances he did as told and watched as Sionis quickly moved behind a rather large rock. The two sat quietly for a moment and then the two soldiers they had heard talking before came around a corner and saw Michael sitting there. They pulled their weapons to fire but Michael was faster and shot one in the neck, severing his head completely. The second soldier had taken aim but before he got the shot off Sionis had brought him down.

"Are you okay?"
Michael looked up at Sionis but couldn't respond. His stinger was sitting in his arms just as they had when he took his shot.
Sionis shook his head, "Listen Michael there are still thirteen of those guys out there so if we are going to kill them then we need to get moving."
"Kill them?" Michael asked in a shout as his vocal chords suddenly sprang back to life.
"Well we can't just leave them here."
"I don't see why not! We'll go back and tell everyone what happened. The Kalactans can send one of their big Cruisers to take care of these guys."
Sionis threw his arms up in the air and shouted, "Did you even READ the mission briefing? This planet contains the supplies needed for FUEL! They are scouting so that the Koeleshian fleet can come here and fill up before heading on to Earth. If we kill these guys then the Koeleshians will figure this planet is guarded and go somewhere else. That should stall them for a few days at the least."
"Yeah yeah I understand. Let's just get this over with then."

The sun was beginning to go down and the warriors were worried about fighting in the dark but just when they thought they might not even find the Hyperion camp site Sionis heard voices.
Careful not to say anything, the Crusader put his finger to his ear and pointed to a rock. The two quickly shuffled behind it and listened in on the conversation below.
The first voice sounded older and deeper, “Where is Silas? He should have been back from patrol by now.”
Another voice answered, “He probably got lost in the desert.”
Others seemed to laugh at the statement and Sionis leaned to Michael to say, “I’m thinking six Gamehoppers.”
The partner nodded in agreement, “Are we going to take them all on?”
Sionis smiled, “Exactly.”
"Didn't you say there are usually fifteen?"
"I'm not always right."

Making sure his stinger was loaded Sionis counted to three then the two Crusaders came from around the rock and opened fire.
Sionis hit two Gamehoppers wounding one and killing the other while Michael killed one as well. The one who had escaped harm ran for it but Sionis was already on him. Michael went over to the wounded Gamehopper and asked, “How many of you are there?”
The bleeding warrior looked him in the face and laughed, “Fifteen.”
“Oh.”
Michael took his second kill and then stood to see Sionis running after the other Hyperion.
"SIONIS! You were right! There are more around here somewhere."
Sionis didn't hear what Michael had said but he had just dropped his stinger to lighten his load. He ran as hard as he could and then finally pounced on the man bringing him to the ground. The Hyperion turned around and slammed Sionis in the face but the Crusader just returned the blow knocking the soldier back.
The Crusader then reached down and picked the man up by the collar of his shirt and said, “Go tell you leader there are hundreds more of us waiting for them. Tell him you won't win if you start a war with us."
The Hyperion seemed to nod and Sionis stood. The soldier took off running again and Michael looked over at the kid and handing Sionis his stinger said, "There were fifteen. You just let half of the recon squad get away and I doubt the Koeleshians will doubt that as a heavy defense.
Sionis nodded slightly, "Let's get back to our ships."
"Oh you want to shoot them down? Won't work, they'll be halfway through the atmosphere by the time we get our ships on and start priming the engines."
"Quit whining and lets get back to the ship."

The two walked back to the ships rather slowly and Michael was starting to feel the cold air through his uniform. As they came to the area where the ships were sitting Sionis stopped once more and looked at Michael.
"Do you have any ammo?"
"Yeah, what's going on?"
"Is there enough to get nine people?"
"Should be."
"Then lets just get this over with."
"What are you talking about?"

Sionis said nothing but pointed forward and said, "The Hyperion squad is going to ambush us. We go about ten more feet and then we break. When they realize we are on to them they'll start to panic and lose track of their plans. Don't show fear that will help them stay calm and in control."
"Right," Michael said with a chuckle, "I'll be emotionless with seven soldiers gunning me down; sounds like fun."
"Good."
"I wasn't being serious..."

Before Michael could finish his sentence Sionis had started walking again. He counted the steps the Supreme Crusader made and then as soon as he reached his tenth the two bounded off in oposite directions.
Just as Sionis had predicted the Hyperions came out from hiding to get a better shot at their targets. Sionis moved fast and took down one of the soldiers with ease. He was beginning to notice that even against these enhanced soldiers, he was faster and he was quickly learning to use this to his advantage.

There were eight soldiers left but Michael could only see four. He quickly dove behind some rocks and took some blind shots hoping to God that he wouldn't hit Sionis. There was a shout and he looked out to see he had actually hit one. The man was holding his chest and feeling very guilty Michael shot the soldier in the head to put the man out of his pain.
Suddenly Michael noticed that all of the weapon fire was being drawn away from him.
He climbed on top of the rock and looked out to see that Sionis had killed three soldiers now and was pinned behind a rock by the five others.
He slid down and returned to moving from rock to rock until he was right on top of the enemy soldiers. He waited patiently for the very thing that he knew Sionis would be waiting for and as soon as it came, the two Crusaders took aim and fired. The Hyperions, who had stopped shooting to reload their weapons, didn't see this coming and were taken down in the assault.

Michael and Sionis met up by the soldiers and saw all five huddled together where they had been shot. Sionis picked up his weapon to fire again and Michael grabbed it.
"We don't have to mutilate them."
"What if they are still alive?"
"Then they'll sit here and die in the cold."
Sionis paused for a moment but finally put his weapon away.
Michael patted him on the back and said, "So we killed fifteen soldiers today. I'm guessing that's a new record."

Sionis spent nearly twenty mintues checking his X7 over for enemy devices before finally saying he would leave. Michael nodded and then started priming his engine when he saw movement among the dead bodies. Two of the soldiers had gotten up and were running for some very large rocks. Michael opened his cockpit and shouted to Sionis that they were getting away. The Supreme Crusader grabbed his stinger again but it was too late the sound of a large ship could be heard in the distance. Michael was about to turn his engine on when Sionis nearly jumped into the cockpit and shut the ship off.

Michael shouted, "What are you doing?"
"I'm saving your life!"
"This is stupid! Just let me go after them!"
Sionis shook his head, "That is a Kujan transport! It has missile launchers and if it targets us we are as good as dead. You get out of this ship now and lets move!"
"We can't let them escape!"

The Transport was pulling away and Sionis gave up on pulling Michael from the ship as it climbed out of sight.
"Recon Squads don't have ships like that," Sionis said quietly, "They were testing us. They just wanted to see how we would react to them."
"So what comes next?"
"Honestly," Sionis said with a shrug, "I have no idea."

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Oct. 24th, 2005 @ 04:50 pm "The Question" (Not Connected to James Davis)
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Okay,

So lately I've been walking around and I hear a lot of people complaining about how bad their life is and how much they want things like girlfriends and new cars... it totally blows my mind and so I'm inviting anyone that reads this to think with me for a few minutes... I'm not saying EVERYONE does this and just because you know who I am doesn't mean I'm targeting you for a great deal of the people I speak of are people I don't know well... they have sparked these thoughts in my mind and I have decided to pass them on to all who wish to read on...

First of all, most of the people I hear complaining are college students... people who have somehow (either by parents or their own hard work) have made it into college, which is something that is worth being HAPPY about considering it is something that many people in the world don't get to do.

I guess I really just want to point out that... while we don't always get what we want, it is the things we take advantage of that we really need to focus on...

For example,

Many of the people who whine of their current situations do so on this very website or a website like it... A blogging tool where they announce their most important problems... this means that the person has access to or perhaps even owns a computer that connects to the internet.

Do the people have vehicles to get them to and from work and school? Why yes they do... but because of a few rust spots or perhaps just out of date looks, this car has lost its purpose and is classified as "trash." Do be aware that there are many people even here in New Smyrna that only wish they could have a vehicle so that they didn't have to walk to and from work every day... adding to the fact that they wish they could have gone to college to make more money at their current job...

Where do the people who have terrible lives live? Do they try and find cover from rain within a recently emptied dumpster? I doubt this because they would have a hard time hooking their computer up without power... in this situation I am lead to believe that they have a home... some big and some small, but all HOME to the person. Take into consideration the number of people in your area that are without homes and find contentment in the cover of the trees.

These less fortunate people do not live on the other side of the world... they live right in the same town, making their way through each day as each and every one of us do. Many of them complain just as so many I have heard... but many more are happy to have a couple of dollars left on the ground for them to buy some hot food from McDonald's.

Let's look beyond our own world... into the areas of the Tsunami and the children of Africa who have never heard of "Filtered" water and computers. They wake each day happy to be alive... happy to make it for 24 more hours without starving or catching a disease that will end their lives.

To glance at the way things are in other parts of just this single world, helps to open the eyes of those who decide that a life without a girl is a life not worth living...

Do I feel that the people who complain are stupid or spoiled... in rare cases yes... but for the most part I believe that they have lost sight of just how much they have... and how much they should be happy to have. Even I have my bad days and wish I could have better and I regret it once it has been said... but lately I see that people are keeping these attitudes far longer than just one day... they continue to speak as though living in their shoes is an unspeakable punishment that none should ever be put through... yet there are millions of people who would give their lives just to feel what is like to live like a great deal of us do for just one day!

So I beg you to think as your writing your next entry... maybe I really don't have it as bad as I think... just consider the children that die everyday because their parents are too sick to buy them food... or that have to drink from the same water that is used bathing... or people who may be less than a mile away from you with no place to go, and those who walk to work each and every day, using all their energy just to get by... wishing that they had been given the chances that many of us got.

I don't write this to offend anyone... I just write it as a proposel... in a hope that a few people will take a moment to see that there is a world out there that is falling apart... and WE can either help it along or try and do something about it... the choice is ours.


Thank you,
Joel
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Oct. 24th, 2005 @ 03:09 pm A Unique Child (Sionis Saga Pt2)
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Current Music: Itzhak Perlman - Home
The trip to and from Earth gave both Sean and Sionis a taste of space that many humans had yet to find.

When the young Sionis Sepher turned fifteen years old his father came down with a strange sickness and died before the Hylan ship could make it back to Earth.

Sionis Sepher stepped onto his home planet for the first time in 2230 and was almost immediately sent into special military programs that the Kalactans had been setting up for the humans. The Jenova Cells within him quickly proved to do as it was suspected and Sionis became one of the strongest, fastest, and smartest soldiers that there had ever been. The Kalactans quickly caught onto his success and the man was taught important things about the Koeleshian Empire and their plot to overthrow Earth and take what was now being called "The Promised Land."

The Milky Way Galaxy as it was known by Humans is a place full of resources. There are dozens of planets that hold the chemicals for rocket fuel. Frozen metal asteroids that carried the precious materials required for constructing ships and missiles. The entire galaxy was the one place that any Empire would need to claim as their own if they wished to create a military that could control every one else.

The Space Federation and all of its inhabitants were very far away from the "Promised Land" and the Koeleshians knew that if they could bring their fleet to this place, the Federation would be outnumbered by the Hyperions and outgunned by their resources. The Universe would fall to the Koeleshians...

Sionis learned of all this and with the knowledge he turned to prepare his home for the Koeleshians' arrival. His plans were going well but it was all for nothing. When a rogue journalist published information on how dangerous the Koeleshian Empire really was, panic spread through all of Earth. George Stanton, President of the United Countries of America decides that the Hylans need to use the serum. He has seen how well Sionis has turned out and news has come that the rest of the Federation has already started building their genetically enhanced armies.

The first human was injected with the serum in 2236, his brain began to overload and the man died.
Studying into the problem, George Stanton and the Hylan Scientists prepare the GENEVA project. The computer generated program allows the brain to run faster than in the physical world and the humans here can learn how to control their new abilities before being removed again. The project is a success and the first GENEVA dome is built to for a wave of soldiers to recieve the serum. The first ten newborn children are placed in the dome and train to control their powers for the first ten years of their lives. George Stanton's child is selected as one of the first ten.

For the next decade Sionis Sepher is stationed with Kalactan forces overseeing the final steps of a Hylan experiment that will create a portal to bridge Earth to the rest of the Federation and in 2250 the portal is completed.
The portal ring is activated and the first ship to arrive on Earth is a Bermecian Cruiser. The fifteen year voyage is cut down to only a fraction of a minute. More military ships are sent to back up the human forces but Sionis Sepher only allows a few because he believes that the human are now prepared to fight for themselves. The King of Hyla reveals that Sionis is also a genetic and was the first human form of one ever created. Taking this news very well Sionis is placed in command of not only the human forces but is chosen as Supreme General over the entire "League of Crusaders" that has been formed.

Michael Stanton and the ten other newborn children are now only 12 years old but their powers are recorded at six times that of a normal human. They are placed into special groups called "Grand Crusaders" and Michael is placed second only to Sionis as the "Supreme General of the Human Crusaders."

Earth and her solar system now had a defensive line of ships and weapons ready to take on any attack the Koeleshians could bring and Pluto had been modified so that a miltary depot could be stationed here. At this point the preparations had been made. The League of Crusaders had been born and the United Humans stood ready to fight.


To Be Continued...


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Oct. 23rd, 2005 @ 05:37 pm A New Story??? (Sionis Saga) Pt1
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Current Music: John Williams - Various Star Wars Collections
One day at a time...

Where is the day that I start to understand it all???

Today I'm going to tell the story of a man named Sionis Sepher...

Born in the year 2215, Sionis Sepher grew up with his father Sean Sepher. His mother had supposedly died giving birth to him and for most of this adult life he blamed himself for that death.

Sean Sepher had not told Sionis of his true origins. The boy had been a genetic experiment... a Human/Zeltron Hybrid according to the Hylan Scientists that had created him.

His true mother... named Jenova was a Bermecian Woman that had long ago left a planet named Zolan and arrived in the Koeleshian Empire where she led a military assult and lost. Sent to her death on a frozen planet, the woman was found thousands of years later by a team of Hylan and Koeleshian Scientists.

Her cells had survived the time frozen and it was discovered that if thawed, there was a chance she would still be alive. The scientists decided that her brain would remain frozen and only certain cells could be harvested for study.

Chemicals and Matter within her blood were found that showed she had a great deal of abilities above and beyond anything of modern day species and it was decided that a smaller and less potent form of the DNA could be put into a lifeform and cause it to gain some of these abilities.

Koeleshian Tests began and soon a hybrid Koeleshain had been created. This hybrid had its DNA removed and the chemicals within it were removed to make into a syrum that could be added to others and cause an even less potent version of the abilities. This syrum was then given to military soldiers and it allowed them to overtake their enemies with ease. Soon after this the Koeleshians began building an army and their Hyperian Soldiers were kept as a hidden weapon to be used when the time was right.

Bermecian Spies were able to learn of the Hyperians and the Space Federation demanded the Hylans help them to create a similar syrum or they would surely be defeated when the enemy Empire attacked. The Hylans had already started to understand the damage they had done and set out to bring a balance to the power once more.

At this time in history Jenova was believed to be a Zeltron, this was widely accepted because the Zeltron Empire had stopped a complete military assault that had nearly wiped out the Koeleshians. The history of Jenova's true identity was hidden within a nebula that was considered sacred by a great many and it was forbidden to enter. After the war had taken place, the Zeltron had disappeared and the Koeleshians had to start over. Some believe that the Zeltron simply migrated away and some say they all died out. When Jenova was found she was the first and only Zeltron ever seen in modern days.

United Human Space sent Sean Sepher to the Hylan planet and he volunteered his DNA to the project. The creation was a success and Sionis Sepher was born.

The baby boy was sent back to Earth with his father after his DNA was removed to create a syrum for the humans.
His father raised him with the story of his beautiful mother that had died when he was born. He always made sure his son knew he was special and that there would come a day when he would be a great leader. A leader stronger than any of those who came before him...
Sean had no idea just how right he was...


To Be Continuted...


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Oct. 19th, 2005 @ 09:47 pm The Chance is Here
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Ask any questions of James Davis that you may have... and it shall be answered.
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Aug. 8th, 2005 @ 10:13 am Painful Times... (James' Journal 24)
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The enemy forces came at us like an ocean wave, as the officers and other men and women fired, the Aldimar seemed to bring two more in place of every one that fell.
The guns firing sounded just like home, a massive battle had broken out and I wouldn't have felt so awful if it hadn't been in a place were I was useless to help. As they marched on, the Aldimar did not return fire but simply kept their arms at their side pressing forward toward their goal.

At that very moment, Sionis' fleet had arrived on the Aldimar surface and were in the middle of penetrating the dome protection areas. My friend had ordered his fleet to press on only until he was within the domes and then to back away from the fight and retreat from the Aldimar system. They did as ordered and the moment that Sionis was safely within the dome wall, they fell back and left the planet at great speed. He worked his way through the domes fighting off any guards he ran into and arrived at the very center of both domes.

We were still fighting but it seemed almost futile now. The Enemy was pressing against the outer walls of the school. The officer beside me ordered a retreat of those too young ot fight and women who volunteered to leave. Not a single woman lifted her arm and the youngest were forced to leave against their will. More than two dozen boats had been docked at the rear of the school and the students were preparing to leave when an explosion rocked the island itself. James looked to the skies above and saw an X8 preparing to fire it's second missile into the massive group of enemy soldiers.

I remember being totally amazed that I was seeing all of this within my home. The Aldimar seemed overwhelmed and started to fall back themselves. This good news was also cancelled out by the fact that the soldiers now pulled weapons and began firing at the X8 and various parts of the school.

Sionis slowly pulled the Sword of Jenova and thrust it into the ground as hard as he could. Then with all of his might he started bending the sword sideways... the blade began to give under the pressure and sparks from the massive energy within began sparking around the room. The warrior took his communicator and called me in the last seconds and said, "My debt is repaid, I can die in peace. Thank you James. Thank you for everything. You forgave me when I deserved death."

Then the blade broke and the resulting explosion destroyed both domes and left a rather large crater in the surface of the Aldimar homeworld. The soldiers firing at us suddenly vanished from the system and the empty streets of Daytown were filled with cheers of victory. I found my friend David who had been taking care of the White Tara and he looked as white as a ghost. He had gotten a call from Jade, General Talkin had kidnapped her and was holding her swearing to kill the girl unless the White Tara was handed over to him.

Sadly the general had been keeping updated and when Sionis' team had left the planet, he ordered he and ten soldiers be taken away from the main domes.
They were still in I-Net and still prepared to do whatever it took for the Tara. At this point I was unwilling to lose another friend. I took the Tara and went to south Daytown with the marble in my hand. We ran into a group of police officers that were searching for survivors and they quickly gave us a ride to where Jade was. As we were passing the local shopping center I saw a few men enter the building and figured some survivors had hidden here. We pulled into the parking lot and suddenly heard gun fire. We bailed the vehicle and hid behind it while we were shot at time after time.

The officer had seen the shooter on the roof and swore he could hit the man he just needed to get a clear shot. I then decided that this man was in our way. I told him that when I started running to pop up and take the shot because it may be the only chance he gets. Then taking a deep breath I took off running. There was a shot, I escaped it... then the second got my ankle and I fell to the ground. I saw Talkin on the roof taking aim... closed my eyes and BAM. I looked up and saw the Aldimar general fall from the rooftop. I turned to the officer and told him he was better than he let on... to which he replied he hadn't taken the shot. From behind Jade had stepped up with a hand gun and told me she had been pretty good at handling herself. Suddenely from behind two more Aldimar soldiers came onto the roof. She swung around to shoot them but the officer on the ground took his shot and got them both with one bullet.

It had started midday... lasted what felt like forever... and ended at five.
Sitting down by the officer with my now very bloody ankle, I relized the battle was over. I-Net had been saved.

When the Alliance heard of what went down they felt very bad and quickly put all their programmers to work on setting people's memories right so that none remembered the events of that day. The Aldimar were done for good now, the remainder of their military had been wiped out and their General was gone.

I sat down in Cid's bedroom that night on Bermecia... I had lost everyone now.
They were all gone. I had nothing left out here. I had finally decided that the time had come, in the morning after Sionis' funeral I was going to go to New Earth and beg them to put me back in I-Net with my family and friends.

I fell asleep on the verge of tears that night and woke to find that I didn't feel any better. I attended the funeral, gave a few words, and the came back to Cid's. I felt awful and contemplated just laying in bed for a few days before going to New Earth. I was preparing to leave when Cid's house informed me that James Davis had a message. I opened it and found a letter from my two friends that explained everything. Cid had faked his death to get out of his responsibilities as Grand General and to begin hunting the Bismarck. Tiffany had learned about the false death and contacted Cid. In fear that she might blow his cover the Bermecian had planned a fake death for her as well. Since then they had been happily fighting aside one another against the RPU and this mysterious "Leader."

With Joy suddenly flowing through me again I ran to my ship and started the pre-flight preparations when I saw a small device Cid had talked about before. I wasn's sure what it did but I remember Cid talking about great speed from it. Installing it was very simple and the next thing I knew I was on my way to my friends. Bermecia was grwoing smaller in size every second and then something terrible happened... my ship started sparking and messing up and the computer informed me that the portal jumper had malfunctioned when it was activated... I didn't know what the comptuer was talking about but of course had my suspicions. Then I remember there being a blinding light blue light in front of me, a horrible twist that made me slam my head on the cockpit wall and pass out.

LATER DAYZ,
James Davis

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Aug. 8th, 2005 @ 08:52 am Making a Move... (James' Journal 23)
Current Mood: sympathetic
Current Music: Bad Astronaut - Break Your Frame
My home, the one place I always knew I would return to one day, was now in more danger than it had ever been before. I knew it was my fault and I suppose that makes it worse. The White Tara program was right in Daytown, sitting quietly in a drawer... just waiting for the Aldimar to come and claim it. They would destroy anything and everything to get to it if they needed to.

Now I want you to understand, that as I sat and looked over what appeared to be the certain doom of at least my town if not I-Net, I was a bit overcome with pain. I was totally oblivious to the fact that both Cid and Tiffany were alive and well. I was in a position of total loss, my friends were gone, never to cry, laugh, talk to me again. My home was going to be invaded and the Alliance wouldn't help me. I was dying inside; the will to live was draining fairly rapidly.

Sionis had been very hard to keep up with and I couldn't find him on several different occasions. Then one day as I flew the White Dragon around Asirio VII, I saw a very old Human Space ship in orbit... to my amazement it was the ORIGINAL Ulysses, very much like the one I had first worked with Sionis on.
My friend had been pulling strings and with him was a small invasion force of his own. It consisted of Crusaders, Medical Teams, Mercenaries, and Bomb Experts. He had a plan and it was already in motion...

Let me take this moment to explain something...

I never know what is going on... either no one feels I need to know, or they don't feel I SHOULD know. It's just like I'm that mascot and they know I'll eventually catch up with them.

Without thinking I helped Sionis to put his army into order and everything seemed to be falling into place. For the first time in several weeks possibly over a month... I felt like there was hope of saving someone.

We put the plan into motion and the time finally came. I was showing maps of my small town to Sionis when suddenly, an unregistered hack was made on I-Net. Sionis told me to get in there and get as many people as I can to leave. The city was going to be under attack soon enough.
Before I left he grabbed my arm and told me that one of his friends was a programmer and had edited the sky over Daytown to fade to a dark black with swirling clouds when the army arrived. I entered I-Net knowing that this could be the very last time I ever did.

Daytown was bright and sunny as it usually is and not a single person would think that anything like an invasion would be just a few short hours away. I quickly called my folks and though they sounded a little worried they promised to believe me and started calling as many people as they could. I drove down to my job and told everyone there to make their way to the local high school. I don't know why I picked the school but I knew it had limited access and would make for a good fort. I got funny looks but that quickly changed when the sky suddenly started to turn a deep blue and then darken to pure black. The sun had disappeared and the city was nearing its final hour. I left the building while the workers were busy grabbing their things and calling their families to tell them about the danger.

The time was ticking and I finally got a call from Sionis who let me know that his fleet was nearly to the Aldimar homeworld and their own invasion would be beginning soon.

The High School was PACKED by the time I arrived. IT seemed like everyone that wasn't close enough to evacuate Daytown had reported to the school in a hope of avoiding the storm... for many had no idea that the danger they were in had anything to do with anything but the dark clouds above them that looked as though they may become a single giant tornado all at once.

Fortunately there have always been some people here in Daytown that no doubt wanted nothing more than to hold a gun and fight against something so it wasn't hard to arm and prepare to fire at the coming soldiers who were now only a mile or so away. We used vechicles to block one of the bridges and blew one of the others. The soldiers would be slowed enough for us to gun them down, or at least we hoped.

Meanwhile, a team of scientists were busy editing I-Net's code to make sure that we would have ammunition and they were also frantically searching for a way to block some of the enemy files.

It seemed like years when the soldiers were finally at the bridge. They had halted for a few moments and were preparing themselves for a charge. I hadn't been able to make anyone listen to me until finally one of the police officers that had come to help saw me trying to talk and offered to help me. From that point on he took my command and repeated it to other officers who did just as he said. Meanwhile, The White Tara was now locked in a classroom at the back of the school grounds. I hoped at the very least that the Aldimar would not get to this marble before Sionis was able to destroy the domes.

Then it finally happened...
There was a horn blowing in the air...
The soldiers charged...
I quietly said, "Now."
The officer next to me then shouted, "OPEN FIRE!"

The Fight for I-Net had started.

LATER DAYZ,
James Davis

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Aug. 5th, 2005 @ 11:05 pm Used but Improved... (James' Journal 21)
Current Mood: thankful
Current Music: Good Charlotte - The Day That I Die
I was out for what seemed like five minutes... I remember feeling the INCREDIBLE pain, passing out, and then waking up very very drowsy and uncertain where I was.

I remember hearing Michelle the reporting asking a doctor about the many "changes" that my body had undergone. I had just finished telling myself it was all a dream. I was certain that it must not have happened at all... the pain I felt was so intense... that when you look back on it now... you wonder if it was even real...

But my hopes of it all being a far cry from reality were smashed when the girl's voice said, "So what about the arm he lost?"

I quickly threw back my sheets and saw my arm sitting there attached to my shoulder just as it had been before the battle. A very small and barely noticable scar was running across the right side of my chest and made a coplete circle with some of my back as well. It was almost as though I had simply had a new right torso put on. I looked in a mirror and saw that my face had already healed to the point where I could not even see a scar, and my right eye, which I was VERY certain had been damaged beyond repair looked just as it always had with the slight glow of the Jenova Virus still evident. I was slightly confused and was about to stand up when I realized the doctor and Michelle... plus a very worried Cid... were stepping into my room at the exact moment.

The doctor said he was pleased to see I had woken and wanted to give me a quick summary of all that had been done. I figured it was better I let the man talk and sat down to hear all my upgrades!

The first and foremost was my arm, three ribs and a portion of my skull and jaw bone. The explosion had shattered a good deal of the above named and I now had a replacement material for my missing skeleton in the appropriate places. This material is not metal of course but instead some other kind of high tech substance that acted as a normal skeleton only stronger. The next thing he wanted me to know was that the arm had all the parts that a normal hand would and would always repond as my old one thanks to the technology that he had helped put the finishing touches on. All of this was of course enclosed within a protective case and then with more wonderful skill, the doctor had new skin grown for all the places I was now missing and with hours and hours of work connecting tiny nerve after nerve, I gained feeling back to all of my damaged parts. Indeed, I was the same James I had been before... only "slightly better."

The last thing the doctor informed me about was my eye... a work of technological genius. It recorded data and sent it to my brain just as my old eye would but with a wonderful optical implant that worked with my new robotic arm, I could turn on a targeting system, simply look at what I want to shoot, and my new right hand you aim right at it. For a Crusader like myself this was good news, now... I literally had no thinking to do whatsoever... HA HA HA

So I left the hospital looking over myself, still surprised that I was in any way different than before... even the touch and feel of my arm was for the most part the same. I do remember two things about that day... one I thought of how if Altor had been lost to the enemy, I most likely would have died and hundreds after me would never have known the mercy of the technology that saved me... The second was that I had been half tempted to stab my own arm... yeah I know... strange but true...
that is until the doctor reminded me that the nerves had been reconnected... though I wouldn't be able to sever my arm... it would still hurt like the Dickens.

Did I mention I was sent to Hyla after the Battle?
You should know that by now.. Hyla = Technology... got it?
So if you ever find yourself missing and arm or eye... where do you go?
...Hyla...

Anyway, the news was spreading about the Aldimar Empire teaming up with the RPU and the Alliance was starting to feel like a high school student who only has a few minutes left to start and finish their SAT...
I however, didn't care...
I know it sounds rough but the honest to god truth was that I had just been blown up and felt very lucky to be alive, much less spared from living as a mutilated human being for the rest of my days.

Cid Theon was much less like me in this case for he loved the idea of facing off against the Aldimar General's flagship now called the Bismarck. Apparently, it was a ship that took a hit from the Invincible itself and survived... I don't recall that event but that's what the gossip said and when have the rambling citizens who weren't even at the Asirio system during the battle been wrong???

Okay I apologize... that was mean... but I watched a planet take a hit from the Invincible and literally rip apart... I never actually saw the Bismarck but I still don't believe it lived up to that rumor.
So anyway, Cid decided to head off with the now second only to Helio Crusader named TIFFAY SARANAC! Yes, that's right, James Davis the Natural Crusader that was trained by Sionis Sepher himself was managing a life following Cid around as a pretend general while ol' Tiffany had just climbed the ranks yet again. I'm not sure where Sionis was during all of this... I think he was simply overwhelmed with the things he had done under the Jenova Virus that he needed some time alone.

Now where was I?

OH YEAH...

Cid and Tiffany went on their way while I did in fact meet up with my old teacher and the two of us started to investigate what had appeared to be a simple robbery in one of Mid Terra's museums... we went thinking that perhaps Kuja was up to something but instead discovered a plot that the Aldimar had put into action to once again... you guess it... attempt to destroy the Bermecians forever...
Sensing a pattern?

With Cid off getting himself into trouble I went with Sionis to look more into this ordeal but was cut short when terrible news came through that the Bismarck had invaded Kujan Space... they were after the good old White Tara... the same weapon designed by the Zeltron that had stopped Jenova about six months prior...
Cid and Tiffany had been taken captive and things turned sour very fast. No one is sure what happened next but weapon fire was heard and Tiffany screamed, the Aldimar General... who had introduced himself as Talkin, shouting something about ruining his plan. I flew to the Bismarck... somehow didn't get blasted out of the sky... got Tiffany... fairly easily too... then came back to Sionis.

I have to admit... that was one of those days that when it is finally over... you just try to forget it and not even think about how much happened and confuse yourself trying to figure out how it happened the way it did. I had to just accept it happened and continue on my way.

Cid was dead (or so I thought), Tiffany was mental, and the Aldimar were actually getting close to pulling off their enourmous plan (with great help from the RPU which seemed to be growing in strength every day). With Cid gone, it was up to Sionis and I to save the Bermecian race, ending the Aldimar Threat once and for all!

Before I close for the night... I think I must point out where I had arrived on the mountain... I had worked and worked and reached the summit... Cid's death was the part where you start going down the other side and suddenly trip and it suddenly hits you... it's a long way down and you're going to be falling the whole way.

LATER DAYZ,
James Davis

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Aug. 5th, 2005 @ 06:12 pm Fighting once more... (James' Journal 20)
Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: Sum 41 - My Direction
So the Battle eventually started and at first the enemy was slaughtered! They didn't even have a chance to get to the wall before we had destroyed the entire first wave!

Of course our ammunition started running a little low and when the second wave was halted at the wall's edge we were starting to wonder if we could stop another attack. Of course we didn't have much time to figure that out because wave three arrived fairly quickly. We put up one of the best fights ever and managed to hold them off but they were getting closer to damaging our wall, which would allow them into the city.

Things got worse when the next wave consisted of low flying ships that began crashing right into our defenses. I was nearly hit at that point but managed to avoid it when I was instead blown off the wall by a small bomb. I managed to get up and gather a group of Crusaders to meet the enemy at the broken wall.

It was one of those moments that seems to last for an eternity but when it is all said and done you realize it has only been a few minutes. I hadn't really been up for any combat and only fought a man with my sword or hands if absolutely necessary. The RPU's soldiers seemed to start POURING in through the hole and I couldn't quite figure out where all these men had come from!

I didn't know it, but Cid had managed to take a ship and head into the skies where he had been shooting down enemy ships before heading to space with a message for his fleet (who had been waiting for this attack just a single system away) to come on over. They flew in hard and fast and I remember thinking the soldiers would maybe start a retreat but the enemy seemed determined to press on. The most interesting part was that many of these soldiers were humans. I continued trying to fight and as time passed their numbers seemed to thin out.

Then... well, that's when things got really bad. The remaining soldiers decided they had lost and now put a suicide bomber position. Dozens of explosions started going off within the city and I realized what was happening just in time to throw a soldier as he pulled his trigger. I guess he was in the air for a good three seconds...

...I don't really remember what happened... I remember the whole bright light thing... and then a burning pain SO incredible that I knew I was on fire... but of course this pain lasted only seconds and then stopped... of course with it I lost all feeling in my arm shoulder and right side... the skin had been burned off and the nerves had been damaged to an extent that they would never heal... I figure I took the most severe type of third degree burns that there are in this universe... at least on one side. My right eye felt like it had quite literally exploded right in my socket and I'm pretty sure my ear had completely melted away...

Not really sure how to explain it of course... but like it's a pain so bad that you want to kill yourself just to be rid of it... but if you dare make a move, the pain becomes so intense you're pretty sure it alone is going to kill you... anyway by the time I tried to lift what was left of my right arm, I threw up and passed out there on the city streets.

Word has it that General Saranac and Supreme Crusader Helio were seperated for most of the battle but while she distracted the last group of enemy soldiers he snuck up and took them by surprise. The city of Altor was purified and the Bermecians were busy blasting the RPU ships from the sky... honestly... I'll say it now in case I haven't before... only one enemy has ever held it's own against the royal fleet... and they might just destroy us all someday... but as far as the RPU was concerened the royal fleet was equal to certain doom.

My lifeless body was found twelve minutes after the battle had ended and I was taken to the Altor hospital hanging by a thread... the doctors were amazed of course... that I had managed to survive... it was indeed a miracle that I was able to last the night in the shape I was in... there was a reason for my survival though... that much I am certain of.

Now the real miracle came in... a Hylan Scientist had been on Altor helping with a project to replace lost limbs and such for Crusaders that suffered from blows as I had. Looking over my hospital bed, I don't know what went through his mind, but he quickly told the head doctor that he was going to make me a lab rat for his new technology. Figuring I wouldn't mind, the doctor agreed and I was on my way to the next stage of my life.


LATER DAYZ,
James Davis


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Aug. 5th, 2005 @ 08:44 am Altor... (James' Journal 19)
Current Mood: good
Current Music: Sum 41 - Over My Head (Better off Dead)
I'm not certain how it all went down... I think I was actually on Hyla the day the senate heard the RPU's declaration of war. I was shocked that this "leader" would even bother. What was there to gain? The attacks started almost immediately, the worst part of it all was the fact that several of the RPU's government had been using Standard Kalactan fighters... used almost everywhere in the Alliance... in the heat of battle no one could tell who was on their side. Space battles were far too dangerous to continue this way. The RPU began a new tactic of making small attacks and then retreating... while the Alliance learned new forms of flight that the RPU did not use, with new colors on the wings of the ships, the Alliance started to learn how to keep track of themselves. The Kalactans had of course put their best engineers to work and were soon thinking up a new ship... the X9.

The X9 was to be fairly different in design so that no one got confused but their first test ships met Supreme Crusader Helio Advares and the human constantly shot the idea down and asked for something more practical. Sionis of course went to teh Sentret system, which was still recovering from the attack on the fifth planet of their system, and announced that he X9 was a very well built ship and production should be put into motion soon. The Kalactans of course listend to Sionis over Helio and the Supreme Crusader saw just how little "real" power he had.

It was shortly after this that wave after wave of RPU fighters came down on the Human borders. The planet hit hardest was named Altor and was the only inhabitable planet of its system. I was told to report there at once and I did just that.

I arrived to find a very amazing city built under a very large dome that protected the innocent from the constant attacks (the dome was originally built when a small government of unidentified aliens had tried to overtake the planet nearly fifty years prior).

I landed my X7 as usual... or badly... whichever. I came out to find a group of older men waiting for me and they looked completely overwhelmed to see me. I had started wearing a Crusader outfit once more and stood before them with my sword at my side. No doubt I seemed to be the very symbol of hope in their eyes... but that soon faded when they learned that I had not brought back up. Helio was still arguing heavily with the President that back up was not needed (he sill wouldn't accept that he wasn't in total control).

The planet was warm... very much like the Arizona climate. I first met Michelle here and what a firecracker she was. She was a reporter no doubt and I was glad to have here there as angry as she made me. I had not had someone see me as the very imcomplete human I was in a very long time. Indeed she seemed to think that I was someone who had grown very arogant due to the recent events of my life when in fact, I had no idea what to make of the events.

The young reporter sent an article to the Alliance speaking of the recent chaos brought to Altor and requested back ups for the sake of the innocent lives on the planet and thankfully her article was printed all across the Alliance. She was able to Cid Theon to the planet and General Saranac came as well.
Oh yes it's true... in the midst of all this fighting and war and death... Tiffany was upset with me because I had not expressed my undying love for her after being cured from the Jenova Virus as she had the day she thought I had died. I could not tell her about this for it was hard to explain as I have tried earlier in my entries that the Jenova Virus begins to change the very being you are. While I was indeed saved from becoming a Jenova slave, I was still no longer the James Davis I had been before... I cannot remember if I loved her, I am sure no doubt that I gave her the impression. To this day I believe that Tiffany was like a sister... I could not have loved her in any other way. I think she soon learned this of course...

So the two general discussed the outlook of this planet's defenses and Cid made it very clear that with backup, the RPU was going to find this planet to be a threat and no doubt attempt an invasion. Considering he was the Grand General... I decided he was probably right and let him handle the next few steps.

I had been turned into a general as punishment... but the title simply wasn't for me. I had always grown up in the shadow of someone else's glory... (ex. Sionis was famous... therefore when he picked me to train... I was somehow special). The Bermecian was always far a far greater mind at military stratagy and I sometimes think I was only good for hunting select people. Cid no doubt stayed by my side in case I sparked any more fighting...

So the day passed fairly quickly and I learned that a wall had been built that when in operation would close the city tight within the dome to make it nearly impossible to penetrate. Well... at least to the aliens that attacked fifty years ago. The RPU, I figured, would have a better chance of getting in. It was decided that he wall would provide cover one way or another so someone needed to activate it. Once again Cid was chosen because of his extreme skill with any type of electronics or mechanics.

Finally, the Humans issued some back up and none other than Helio escorted the small number of Crusaders to the planet. When he learned that I had been sent here as well, he was of course full of very nasty comments about Sionis and myself... I found myself missing young John Stanton... who had simply had me discharged... did I mention I didn't seem to get along with the Supreme Crusaders?

So anyway, pretty soon one of Cid's small observation ships caught sight of the RPU's invasion force and we were pretty sure that they had sent their entire fleet but soon learned otherwise when we heard that a major battle had broken out nearly four systems away. Helio made contact with the President of Human Space and begged with him to consider Altor lost so that a defensive line could be reformed closer to New Earth.
The part that really got me... was that the President said ok...
Altor was cut from the Human's protection. I of course responded by attacking Helio... (I didn't get along with him you know)
After a few minutes of arguing, the Supreme Crusader seemed to suddenly change his mind and decided to stay and help defend the planet.

The battle was just about here... the civilians were told to mass at the city's center and prepare to run for their lives if the defense failed... which we were all fairly certain it would. Michelle of course did not want to go and after having a short talk with Helio decided I wasn't so bad.
We started reporting to our posts to fight whatever the RPU threw at us and I remember thinking as I settled into a gun turret that all we needed now were some explosions and dead bodies... but soon enough I would be wishing I had never thought that.

LATER DAYZ,
James Davis

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Aug. 5th, 2005 @ 08:25 am The People's Republic of the Universe... (James' Journal 18)
Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: John Williams - The Face of Voldemort
The days passed...
No word came from the now independant systems...
Then one day...
A group of ex-senators reported to the Hylan Senate to report that their new government (the RPU) had officially been formed. They claimed that the new government was to be a government run by the people and not the powerful.

Of course the Alliance was slightly confused for it was the closest thing that anyone could have to a democracy when dealing with such a large number of individuals. The RPU disagreed and made an invitation for any other governments to join them making sure to mention that they were not going to be going to war with anyone.

Three days... that is all it took and the senate was in an uproar. Twelve more governments had left and the RPU had suddenly become a fairly large dot on the map of the known universe. Comprised mostly of systems on the southern edge of the Alliance, I couldn't help but notice, that the only large government close to them was Human Space.
The senate wished to do something but no military action could be taken. The heavy losses at Asirio had more than crippled the Alliance for the time being and several of the original governments to break away had not sent their small fleets to the battle. Which clearly meant that the RPU no doubt held a larger military power than the Alliance itself.

No one tried to think of war... the very thought of more fighting made some people sick. Sionis and I had gone to Mid Terra in a hope to find out if certain rumors were true... it was being said that Kuja had not been killed by Sionis but merely a genetic decoy used when the Emperor felt he was in danger. Of course this seemed like the slimeball to us so we made our way into the Kujan Realm once more but sadly didn't get very far when we were nearly killed by an assassin. Cid Theon had been informed of the plot and rescued us both, then filled us in on a horrible situation back in the Alliance.

It seemed that a small invasion force had been sent to one of the Alliance's military bases. Though the soldiers were caught, they would not speak of why they had been sent. One soldier cracked but with all he knew it was only gathered that someone known as "The Leader" had somehow taken control of the RPU and was now putting a plan into motion that he had been waiting for the right time to execute.

This wasn't the first time that a man has hidden behind some secret identity to complete his tasks and the fact that this new foe wore a mask before even his own men could only mean one thing... he was someone working both sides. A simple idea, but a very true one. The Alliance was not certain of this but they too knew that things were not going to be as smooth running as they had once been. Sionis and I were once again asked to fight for the Alliance and once again... and far too soon I think... I watched as the small military the Alliance had was sent to the southern border to keep an eye on the RPU. Again the Kujans, who had a great majority of their miltary left as well, sent several dozen ships to aid the Alliance.


LATER DAYZ,
James Davis


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Aug. 4th, 2005 @ 12:37 pm Back in the USA... (James' Journal 17)
Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: Good Charlotte - Wondering
My life was about to come full circle.

I was arrested with Sionis when we reached the Bermecian system and the High Lady punished us... by making us Generals in the Royal Bermecian Army. Since the royal army was a part of the Alliance, my friend and I became Crusaders again... we were right back where we had started.

Together we began investigating the Aldimar Threat which I must say turned out to be quite an adventure. I learned that the Bermecians had migrated to their home system almost two thousand years ago. They had arrived and settled next to a species of people known as the Aldimar. These people held great anger toward the Collective of Intelligent Beings for not involving their race in the meetings. What angered them even more was when the newly arrived Bermecians were accepted. The Aldimar were ordered to give up a portion of their land to the Bermecians and when they refused the Royal Army initiated its first battle in this section of the universe. The Aldimar were very stong at first and though it cost them great amounts of lives, the enemy destroyed great amounts of the Bermecians technology. The Bermecians took heavy losses and the King was killed in one of the last attacks by the Aldimar. His wife assumed his role as ruler and led the Bermecians on a path to victory. It was believed that the Aldimar had been wiped out completely by the queen, who would not be happy until her husband's death had been avenged.


Sionis and Cid continued their investigation while I reported to New Earth to make contact with the new Supreme Crusader, Helio Advares.

I am not certain why I even went there, I do remember that Helio and I had a very large fight and it nearly ended with me in the brig once again. I guess that I just never had the ability to get along with people that abuse power...

It was finally figured out that the Aldimar were going to pull a very large and complicated invasion to rid the universe of the Bermecians once and for all. The High Lady, Cid Theon, Sionis Sepher... they all went to the Senate and made their voice heard that the Aldimar would not stop when the Bermecians were gone.

There was a kind of tension in the air... things were going on deep within the bowels of the Alliance, troubling things that I had yet to hear of.
Finally after a meeting that made me feel like I couldn't breath, it was decided that a vote would be taken. If less than half of the senate chose to go to war then we wouldn't go.
This was the first time since the USA's formation that this kind of vote had to be made.

52.6% said they wanted to go to war. The Alliance sent all of her ships to help. The trap was set... and the Aldimar fell into it. Our plans went as we had hoped and we claimed victory by great skill on the Bermecian's part and a little bit of luck on my part.

Of course this final stand against cost the Alliance a very large amount of Crusaders. The Battle of the Asirio system... is much like it sounds... our forces were litterally spread through the entire solar system fighting against the Aldimar. They outnumbered us ten to one and it seemed like we were going to lose time and time again... yet each time something new would happen that brought a small flicker of hope back into our minds. At one point in particular I figured we were all doomed and then out of no where the Invincible... now under the control of President Reeve (a good guy)... showed up out of no where and started wiping out large numbers of the Aldimar forces.

This of course only added to the larger problem that I still had yet to see...

Politics is not my battleground... it never will be and I am content with that.

Before the battle had ended, it was determined that victory would be ours. The Alliance Senate was called into order and while soldiers were giving their lives in Asirio... the new war had already begun.

Fifteen systems under the control of eight different governments withdrew from the Alliance because they now felt their voices were not being heard. It was a small uprising that of course made the already unbearable tension even harder to manage but the Queen of Hyla was certain the event would solve itself within a few days of the battle. This however... was not true.


LATER DAYZ,
James Davis


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Aug. 3rd, 2005 @ 10:03 pm The Dark Horizons...(James' Journal 16)
Current Mood: hopeful
Current Music: Seether - Remedy
The next step of my live came in the knowledge that I had contracted the "Jenova Virus."

I was slowly losing my very identity and falling to the power of the Bermecian Experiment gone wrong. The effects of the virus are small at first, night sweats and fatigue is common. Your skin begins to lose its color and you start to see things through a different light. The mutating cells grant a victim bursts of great strength and the ability to calculate with fair accuracy what is going to happen within a few seconds of the present time. Slowly the strength slips away and you begin to feel weaker and weaker... of course this isn't true, what happens in this stage of the virus is your brain fighting for your very being... who you are and once were. You'll find you answer questions with a yes... that normally you'd say NO!

You feel as though you are becoming someone else and indeed you are.

It was roughly four months from the time of my infection that I was forced to interact with my surroundings. Sionis Sepher was confirmed to be alive and was making headlines constantly for wiping out yet another Pro-Kuja Military Faction.

Tiffany was in the hospital on Mid Terra for a very long time... during which Cid was elected to be the Grand General of the Bermecian Fleet. A very interesting action by the High Lady considering that Cid was half human. Eventually with the help of some very interesting characters, Sionis and I decided we would fight to the death once and for all... both infected... I figured it was only a matter of time before I lost myself as Sionis had done as well.

Sentret V was as busy as ever when I arrived and I amused myself by wandering around the streets of the town for a great deal of time before a dark cloud in the sky got my attention. I sat and watched it grow with fairly great speed. Before I knew it a roll of thunder and sheets of rain overwhelmed me. I was about to return to the main city when I realized the Kalactans had broken into massive panic.
Turns out that whenever it has rained on Sentret V, something TERRIBLE has happened afterwards... every single time... trust me... I looked into it.

So with the streets clearing out and the skies filling up, I returned to watch the ships leaving the star port with great haste.

My time away from the United Space Alliance was of course a very bad thing. I did not know as Cid and Tiffany did that an alien race known only as the "aldimar threat" was heading straight for the almost empty Sentret.

The next day I met with Sionis and talking for a brief moment I asked him what it was going to be like losing my very identity. He replied that he didn't know for he had locked his identity away and allowed the virus to take over... but somewhere within him, his very inner soul remained whole.

A robot appeared as the two of us were fighting and immediately tried to break us up. He managed to grab Sionis' arm and then got me too just as I sent him into a solid stone wall. AGAIN, I was not told that the robot carried a cure to the virus within a vial in his arm... thankfully a famous scientist had built him and he was able to inject it into my blood stream when he had grabbed my arm. A large Bermecian craft landed...er...crashed...kinda... I don't know... it's like not right to say that Cid CRASHED... but he did I guess.

Anyway,
He managed to get us and with some help from his newly acquired fleet, got us off of Sentret V to find out more about the Aldimar Threat and their purpose in this wonderful little universe.


LATER DAYZ,
James Davis

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