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Region: Empire of Andrew
Mark stands in the middle of the deserted, burning Presidential Suite in the ruins of Drakonus, examining the skeletal remains of those he just began to know. He stopped in front of the dead bodies of two interns, Elizabeth Connor and Jacob Lyons, each of whom personally worked for Mark for the past few days. Elizabeth's leg had an oddly shaped metallic hand and arm grabbing onto it and it seemed like Elizabeth was wielding a crowbar during the time of her death. Mark began to kneel down in front of the two bodies before staring outside the nearby window that revealed a burnt orange sky and destruction on the land. The planet was split into massive pieces of crust, mantle, and core, in a battle between an unknown force and simple Republic forces on the planet after Mark left to attend a meeting on Coruscant. Mark, Elizabeth, and Jacob were all becoming close friends in the short amount of time that they knew each other, and Mark felt honored to have such kind, intelligent, brave teenagers as the new interns for the Secret Service. The ground beneath the building began to shake as more and more chunks of mantle and crust were ripping apart from the massive split planet. As the earthquake began to settle and objects within the building stopping ever so lightly from falling from the shelves, walls, and ceiling, Mark found a damaged holodisk recorder attached to the helmet of a Presidential Guard. He removed the camera and wired it to his Resolute-Tech Holographic Programming Portable Computer 3000 and played the most recent recordings to figure out any clues as to what had happened while he was away.
The Audio Recording (With V1 being the Presidential Guard from earlier, V2 being a Female Commander, and V3 being a Male General) goes as Follows:
V1 - "Madame, there seems to be massive disturbances in the Charlie, Bravo, Gulf, Romeo, and Juliet Sectors of the Alpha, Delta, and Hotel Quadrants. Communications are being lost with each of those locations and every search team never responds to our radios. Requesting to send more troops to the quadrants to figure things out Ma'am?"
V2 - "Request granted. Send our troops out there to figure things out quickly. We don't want the President to be ashamed and thinking that we never tried. We need to send more...." *Static*
V3 - "This is General...*static*...requesting immediate backup at Delta Quadrant...*static*...unknown enemy forces are destroying our defenses and are lowering our troops...*static*...They seem to resemble...*static*...I repeat they do indeed resemble...*static*..."
After about 10 seconds of silence:
V2 - "We need more troops sent out there now!" *explosion occurs in the background*
V1 - "The enemy has breached the HQ! Everyone evacuate the premises immediately! Everyone out now!" *shouting can be heard in the background*
*muffled voices fill the recording as laser fire can be heard in the background alongside numerous explosions*
Elizabeth - "Oh god, she's dead!"
Jacob - "We need to leave now! The place is being destroyed and there are people dieing outside!"
Elizabeth - "Where can we go?! There is no where for us to go and we may die next!"
Jacob - "There still may be hope for us, we just need to find the President's hidden underground bunker and hide there until this all ends..."
*muffled static covers a nearby voice that can be assumed to approach the Interns*
Elizabeth - "Jacob! It's got me by the leg! Help me loosen its hold and get me free!"
Jacob - "Quick use this!"
*clanging noises can be heard before a deafening explosion cuts off the recording*
Mark then cuts off the wires connecting the Recorder to his HPPC 3000 after saving the recording for later, but as he turns around he feels a sudden sharp pain in his neck. He begins to slowly shake as he reaches for his neck and feels a dark that was shot into his veins. Mark feels the strange poisonous substance flowing through his body at immense speeds and looses consciousness before falling to the ground. Unintelligible mumbling echos throughout the silent, slowly collapsing, building as glowing eyes appear from the nearby room.
