#Ans’hevei’skz

[toxictrannyfreak]

hey hey! you should introduce me to your ocs!

I should, shouldn’t I?

Ok, I have WAY too many ocs and stories for one post, so I’ll pick one of my more recent ones.

So this is a sci-fi story I started working on back in May, I think, though there were some earlier versions that were so different they don’t really count.

It takes place 300-400 years in the future or so, I haven’t figured out an exact time frame, but humanity has more or less explored the whole solar system. The protagonist, Kade Serrano, is a 15 year old kid from Earth who joined the United Terran Forces’ space exploration division. He’s a very talented tactical cadet, so for a field exercise, he and two other cadets, Kai Asif, a gunner, and Elan Sep, a pilot (I’m bad with names, don’t @ me) are assigned to a basic patrol mission guarding a military factory out on Kerberos that’s producing an experimental fuel that they think could be the key to interstellar travel (via wormholes or something, it’s not really important). But something goes wrong, the factory blows up, and the kids are transported way out into space. Their ship, not designed for much more than patrolling, is heavily damaged because of the blast, and Elan is severely injured. After about a week of them desperately trying to save him, he dies. Shortly afterwards, a ship picks up their distress call, and they’re saved.

But that’s just the backstory! So, basically the rest of this needs a timeline, so here are the big events (this entire story is told non-linearly, we start at the very end and we slowly figure out what happened from flashing through the timeline)

Kade and co. get blasted into space, Elan dies.

Kade and Kai are rescued by some aliens. The main ones are Exdar, who is basically a giant shapeshifting slime creature, and a very talented hacker. Hu’s honestly one of my favorite characters. Hu and Kai are bros. Another important character is Garitso Ky’dai Vifepo, or just Garitso, who’s kind of a big, strong mole-looking alien, who’s a really good mechanic. Kade and Garitso become pretty close friends. The other one is Ans’hevei’skz, or Ans, who is basically a sentient pile of rocks (well, she’s a parasite that attaches to and can control a specific type of rock, but whatever). She’s the leader of the aliens, and is REALLY important.

The aliens turn out to be part of a rebel group fighting an evil galactic empire, and they’re like, ‘since you guys have no way of getting home, want to help us fight the bad guys’ (earth’s, like, not on any star maps or whatever, so it takes a long time for them to figure out how to get back) and since these kids were practically raised on Star Wars, they’re like, sure sounds legit (I know this sounds like every Star Wars ripoff ever, but I promise it’s not)

So Kade and Kai join up with the rebels, and for about two years, everything goes exactly like ya sci-fi books always go: the rebellion gains ground, becomes a legitimate threat, Kade and Kai start dating, etc., but something’s not right. Kade realizes that they’re winning battles that they shouldn’t be winning, entire warships disappear, they’re becoming very powerful very fast, and a lot of their allies seem shit-their-pants terrified of Ans. Things just aren’t adding up, so he investigates, and it turns out that Ans has gotten her hands on a nasty doomsday weapon capable of destroying planets.

This is where we get some character info on Kai that becomes really important: Kai doesn’t like killing. At all. He believes that sometimes it’s necessary, but he always tries to make sure as few people die as possible. Planet destroying super weapon is, understandably, something he is not cool with. He doesn’t believe Ans can be trusted with it, as she’s been know to be pretty callous and not care about civilian casualties, but he knows that Ans will never give it up willingly, so he decides to steal it.

He meets with Kinj, a young imperial general who’s trying to change the empire for the better (note that Kinj is NOT a good person, he’s just the best out of a lot of bad options, and Kade is pretty morally dubious at this point) Kinj and Kade strike a deal, where Kade helps Kinj stage a coup to take over the empire, and in return, Kinj protects Kade and the super weapon from Ans and the rebels. Note that, at this point, because of the weapon, the empire and the rebels are roughly equal in terms of numbers and how much space they control.

Kade steals the weapon and switches sides, becoming Kinj’s main tactician. (Despite being on Kinj’s side, he absolutely refuses to use the weapon.) Kai is understandably really upset, because Kade deemed it to big a risk to tell him about all of this. Kade also starts going by Leo at this point, because I love it when characters get new names when they become villains and also it creates a really interesting dichotomy between Kade and Leo and I just really like it.

So, for the next six years, Leo and Kai fight on opposite sides of this massive galactic civil war. Leo tries, at first, to find a peaceful/diplomatic solution, but after years with no progress, he eventually just tries to end the war as quickly and decisively as possible. Things aren’t going great for him though, because after a majorly military coup and stuff, the empire is really disorganized and kinda falling apart while the rebels just get stronger. Kai and the rebels eventually find a way to Earth, which joins the rebellion. At this point, Leo can never go home or see his family again, so angst.

Eventually the war comes to a horrible battle over a planet called Galloran. It rages for six days, and costs billions of lives, including Garitso. Eventually Kinj is defeated and Leo is about to be captured with the super weapon, and believing that Ans would kill so many people with it that it’s worth any price to stop her, he uses the super weapon to destroy Galloran, and escape. (Very ‘you have the thing you once swore to destroy’ vibes here)

Leo goes into hiding, trying to rebuild the empire so he can kill Ans and end it once and for all, while Kai chases him throughout the galaxy, trying to capture him and end it once and for all. This has been going on for about two years by the time the story starts.

So, yeah. Basically my idea was that I wanted to explore the idea of a very morally grey villain protagonist who knows he’s a monster, but still believes he’s doing the right thing, and like a non-linear story where we slowly realize how he became what he is. Also, I very much enjoy gay star crossed lovers and tragedy. The whole thing has a very overt anti-war message that I hope came across here. Very ‘war corrupts anyone it touches, no matter what’ and it’s also very anti-government. Yeah! This took a while, and is incredibly long, so I guess we’re done here.