in a future not to far away there is a small but strong few who remain in the barren wastes of earth now i guess i should probably tell u the year and date before i tell u the rest of the story it is the year 2055 and the date is the 27th of tetrova our leader was know only by her humor side of life which she still suprisingly had was known only as bunnyfluff now she might not be the strongest but she has the stead fast dedication of a true leader and the determination and firey bight know only to my historical knoledge to a select few fire breathers well nough bought her and her quite scavenger second incommand She stood on the bridge of her flagship surveying her crew... There at the com center was a new communications officer whom she realized she did not know. They had put him on at the last minute before she left starbase. What was his name now.... cell? hmmm maybe his parents named him that because back in the 90s cell phones were big with the public. Of course now everyone has implants that allow instant mental command of all data bases in range of an individual. She wonderd if he was up to deep space missions and she knew from his vid file that he was ambitious and firey tempered especially when provoked and that was both his strength and his weakness. Her eyes went next to her second in command as he busied himslef playing with the scanners trying to get a better view of some object that was on the edge of their sensor range but had been big enough to cause the red alert which even now pierced through the souls of everyone on board. Turn off that damned noisey claxon we know there is something out there and we don't need to go deaf while we try to figure out who or what it is." She barked to her number two. Almost reading her mind he had already shut it down. BK everyone called him and they had been through the AFG wars and so many other campains both together and separately that they couldn't even rememer how they met. She vaguely rememberd that her ship was tore up and the distress beacon was broadcasting an alert and her com jumped to life and he was there offering assistance. Cell had also been through the AFG wars that the leaders started and then ran off to their bunkers like cowardly dogs to hide till it was all over. She got angry just thinking about it and she wanted to hunt them all down and make them pay for the millions that died that day. But she kept it inside it was enough to know that her crew was the finest in the alliance and would die or better yet live... to a man by her side! So what waited beyond brought only minor curiosity... She could remember when all the leaders, mostly politicians and hand wringers who couldn't think their way ( strategicly ) through any situation that involved anything except credits for their pockets, all ran off to their bunkers to hide because they could not face what they brought down on the colonies. Small matter that millions would die so they could get rich. They didn't have to fight their wars or see the bodys floating in space and being ground up by the recyclers as they blindly went about mining the rubble that floated in space from the millions of homes and factories and mines that those untold millions had worked and lived in. She felt the sting and pain of those losses but did not dwell on them. Pushing back the thoughts as they flickered briefly like a firefly behind her deep blue eyes and winked out to be replaced by a steadily blackening cloud of wonder at what had put her ship on red alert out there in the astroid field. She turned her attention now fully to her second in command. "Well?" she hesitated as he tweaked the gain on the main dish to reach out and pull the object that was sending his instruments into such a frenzy, closer so he could get readings. "Unknown Commander" he said dismayed at the fluctuating instruments before him. He wanted to take a blaster to them the way they winked in and out and gave only a teasing view of the object. He to could not indulge the feelings of mixed curiosity and frustration at somthing that had a full scan on them and yet was out of their range to get any kind of equally solid ID on. He finally pushed the button even as the commander said," Ok enough launch the probe we have to know whats out there and we have had enough pussyfooting around with this thing. Even as the probe shot from the launch tube the instruments sprang to live with the data stream.... ASTROID!! She half knew before she got the report and it came up on the viewscreen. "HARD ABOUT!! She shouted and the huge destroyer lurched. and now for our weapons maker and demo specialist cruze1987 he was found in the barrens of earth 5 years ago not much has been gotten out of him since then just the weapons he has made us from the parts i have scavenged and The next order she gave was to that very officer whom she relied on for the weapons that he provided even if she was unsure at times of how effective they might be in a tight spot. "Shields up! Charge all aft weapons tubes! Fire on my command!" The orders were carried through the internal com system for all to hear. "We won't run from them but we can't face an astroid base in open space either so move us to a geo syncronos orbit behind that moon till we can prepare a little surprise for our friends out there!!" The crew set to their tasks and in moments the fell in behind the small moon. "Now we know they are there and if they persue we will see if that new BH weapon will do as our weapons officer has advertised so proudly and so we waited and while we waited the helmsman adamo21 tested the new holo game dune racer from hell how the heck he got the copy on board i have no idea but i think his pickpocketing skill might of done that but then again i think he might have a friend in the games industry who knows maybe he is a bootleger of stolen information anyway i asked bunnyfluff if i could talk to her in private for a couple of minutes and she said yes and i told her my peoples most intermate secret that our races name is syldarie and that i have lived for over 1055 years and i was awoken when the last of the sildar trees of earth were destroyed and the last five of my people awoke at the same time me and shuanti and luanti survived the resulting battle and we lived in fear that if the last sildar tree seed was destroyed that we would die so i made a voe on that day to protect the seed with my life and so to did shuanti and luanti but that is the part i wanted to talk to u most of all about they are here onboard the ship shuanti reports engineering is alright and luanti reports medbay is alright also umm yea i forgot to tell you that the three of us can read each other's minds and other peoples as well we try not to catch thing from behind closed door if we can help it we can see what people are planning but enough of that could we use one of the hydroponics bays for the seed so that we can get it to grow so that we may come back from the brink of utter death and the captain reluctently said yes so i set off straight away for the hydroponics bay and start to plant the seed and shuanti and luanti came in and started to help and after we planted it and pour some of our blood on the seed we watered it and went about our business then i shut myself off from our connection and i started meditating and pouring soul energy into the seed making it grow faster then normal and i started to feel shuanti and luanti probing for my where abouts and they came flying into the hydroponics section at a run and saw me pouring my soul into the seedling and they are speechless and they started to wonder what i was doing but they knew as soon as i fainted and my mental barrier collapsed they called for a medic and i commanded them to guard the tree with there lives and they agreed then i went to sleep and i aged 5 year from that first transfer of energy we made a pact to spend 5 hours at a time and we also got some beds brought upto the hydroponics bay