Once long ago humans lived on earth but there numbers became so many the earth could no longer sustain them, So they left earth to find a new home. That they did.

They came to a new solar system with many planets and many moons. Each one of them was Terra-formed to be new homes for humans, New Earths, a process that took decades. When complete the colonization began. The inner planets formed the Alliance, and held themselves high over the outer worlds who they viewed as savage and uncivilized. They sought to control all in this new system, all the worlds under alliance control. The War was devastating. The outer worlds called the Independents or Brown Coats, lost many and fought true but eventually fell to the Alliance at the Battle of Serenity Valley.

The higher ups of the Brown Coats called the battle a loss and surrendered with ships still in the air and soldiers still rockside. We still had a fighting chance. And after that those of us that were unlucky to not have died for our cause were captured and held for varying lengths of time.

When the surrender was called I didn’t want to believe it. I was a pilot in the 82 Air Combat and Troop Support Battalion, Angels of the Black. On board one of our mid-bulk transport ships modified for aerial and space combat, Firefly class, name Angel’s Hammer. I miss that ship.

We got the call on the Broad wave, and the fire stopped, both sides were confused. ‘What do we do now’, was the thoughts on our side, and a shocked ‘We won?’ was theirs. Me and my mates we looked at each other, then to the captain.

“What do we do, Cap’n. We still got people rockside.” Hunter my copilot said, scared. Like everything he believed in, all of his world came tumbling down.

The Captain just stood there and Hunter said,” We cant leave’m to die.”

The captian looked around at his bridge crew: Lt Hunter, my co-piolt, our com officer Sgt Remerez, and me, Jackson Fauss Lt. I was stuck. I couldn’t believe what was happening. I had nothing left but the Brown Coats, I was from