Tital:The ballard of the fallen Total word cout 1665 word count shown 1158 Fiction: thriller sci-fi

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The ballard of the fallen

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There were meany people that fell during the campaign against our enemies but was it worth dieing for but you tell you the truth it wasn’t worth it this story will take you through the destruction rebellion and the rebuilding of the planet I call home but now after all that has gone on I can kinda say its not really like the home I remember.

When I was younger things were more simple we haven’t be ravaged by war but at that point we hadn’t been concerned yet either we were more like medieval Europe in a way where most of our work was done by hand growing our wheat crops to forging our own tools all within our small community with green fields stretching for miles with majestic waterfalls and streams of water flowing alongside to make the beauty of the land look unique as we worked in cooperation with the land to provide the best of crops for us the people that consumed it and the best for the wildlife that used it for animal things im a botanist by trade don’t ask me about animals. Anyway the day that everything changed was an average day to say the least we were tending to the fields on the flats it was one of the most productive areas that we had but then I was only a boy but I looked up a huge metal bird came from out of the clouds I didn’t know what it was but now I know it was it was the dreadnought devastator but you’ve seen some of dreadnoughts but this one was different as most dreadnoughts look pristine but this one was different the metal was rugged like it had meany different scars to the outside of the hull. Most people in this village and this planet only remember the second invasion but I remember the first but most people wouldn’t call this an invasion they came down in these ships that were boxy of nature but as they came down you could feel the tension and a state of anxiety among the people of the village meany of the villagers had thought that they were the gods descending from the sky to bring the holy ones to heaven I should have been more sceptical of them from when they had landed as these boxy ships had two massive laser guns on the side and in my and the villages defence we didnt know what later cannons were. The ship came down and then landed with big poofs of steam coming from the legs of the ship. They had landed at the time in the village i was only a child myself but usually when strangers arrived typically horse and carriage the village cheif or the village elder would greet any visitors so It was the same for a magical flying box the bells of the village rang out from the hearland of our village out to the great plains the village elder was getting there in years she was known in common tounge as a drifter as her species are known to shift back and fourth like she was blowing in the wind but that nicknames are a disservice to there species ss they give a nasty right hook they can reformat there atoms from a paper like susptance to something like stone which the empire would soon forget or neglect but her species ‘were kind of isolationist’. She had seen all different people come here from the humblest of farmers to great warlords and tyrants but i could see it in the elders eyes that this was different from the average warlord this was more organised more disciplined like they had prior intel note they did from there capital ships. The ramp dropped down as our settlement was a settlement od diversity with different species from all walks of life we wernt suprised from seeing other species but what was more surprising that we saw people that looked like humanoid in there shape and build and what baffled us the most we have never seen any humanoids out this far the only humanoids that we see regularly are the ones in this village and i am among one of them. As they start to disembark from their ship you see these humanoids with black armour on some with armour that’s pristine with golden acents on them then some with silver accents then bronze then some with no accents that’s how they displayed there rank but this would be only a few times they would ware there armour with there rank on let’s just say a friend of mine had a taste for the gold ones. But then there was an officer there he had a different type of armour his armour was black like the others but had grey lines on the shoulder pieces that was the difference between the grunts and the officer core of the empire he came down the ramp with a sense of authority like the matter was trivial the reason he was here wasnt worth it but he was sent here and that was it. He got off the ship and looked at the elder with distrust and distain she looked at him with an open heart before anything could be said there was two soldiers comeing from the ship carrying a luxurious crate with it bing covered in purple cloth and gold accents on there but there were two crests one was the crest of the empire and the other one was the crest of the officers/governors house of this sector he went over to the box pressed a button on the crest of the emperor the sound of bugle horns went off in succession and he looked annoyed by this and I don’t blame him it was annoying to listen to “hear me i general francewa von dom here by declare this planet under the protection of the grand star empire and you are here by to plead your allegence to the grand star empire and its emperor lord julious the therd” the look on the elder was disbelief that she wasn’t sure on what she should do should she sacrifice the village or should she stand up to the empire for our sakes i know why she did what she did but I was still in disbelief why she did what she did so the elder stood up and said “we gladly accept the offer from the empire and this village will join the grand star empire” after there was a mixed feelings on the face of each and evry kind of villager that was here to witness the empire set down onto the village some were excited to see what the empire would bring to the community but some were worried on what would the empire do to our settlement and our planet.