Chapter One

The year was 3040.

Mankind has spread to the stars, spreading its wings and taking off into outer space, and slowly beginning to form colonies and assimilate other planets under their rule, into a bounteous republic, which began to flourish as races traded with each other, and peace reigned among the sector of the galaxy under the dominion of the Terran republican council.

But all good things come to an end. In the forty first galactic year of the third millennium, another society revealed itself to the Terran republic.

A society unlike those the Terrans had previously encountered, which were either technologically inferior to their own society, or were technologically superior, but lacked the appetite for conquest.

This society bore itself under a different banner. It had both technological supremacy and it had the will to explore and to conquer. Some claimed they were like the Terrans in their lust to see the wonders of the universe…

But both sides scoffed at that. For the Sorn Imperium, a vast empire stretching to the farthest star, whilst tolerant of the little republic on their borders was condescending and arrogant, in the position that they considered appropriate as masters of the stars.

In this atmosphere of cold war, both sides began preparing for the hot war that both sides considered inevitable. It began with a slight border skirmish that rapidly flared up into war.

The war was both long and merciless, lasting for thirty long and bloody years, in which stars were blasted from the skies, and planets were ripped apart in bloody battles between the imperial navy and the Terran stellar defence force.

But, in the last years of fighting, three ships were made by the Imperium. The ships were known as the Wanderer class of Destroyers, and they were truly horrific weapons to behold. In size, they were nothing significant, barely a kilometre long, which was standard of all imperial destroyers of the age, and certainly bigger ships existed within the imperial navy, such as the fou