Warning! This part of the chapter may contain some disturbing details of a long civil war, mention of a global-scale Holocaust, and a fascist religious group.

Please use your best judgment while reading this.

Life, life as you know it, life on the planet known as Earth.

You humans have endured a wide range of things such as climate change, war, famine and most recently a global pandemic along with an infestation problem with a parasite.

But little did you know life has seated elsewhere.

Intelligent life who has their own story, their own hardships that they overcame and are still struggling with…

Approximately 29,693 light years away from your solar system, lies another.

Uresk, a solar system that's practically on the other side of this galaxy you call the Milky Way.

Seven planetary bodies orbit around Uresk, four of which are terrestrial, the remaining three are gas giants, two of which are divided by two asteroid belts.

At first glance you couldn't possibly think life would find a place here, the terrestrial worlds are either frozen or bathing in radiation.

But if you go, investigate One of the moons orbiting the fourth planet of Uresk, Elysium, you will find our home world.

Avalon, an ice moon teeming with life both above and below its surface, and a cradle world for an intelligent alien race, us Avali.

Our current population on Avalon is 12.9 BIL, if you want to know our current population in general, it will be 36.6 BIL.

You think our home will be a barren icy wasteland on its surface, but you'll be wrong,

We have a large diversity of environments, ranging from tropical mountaintop forests to swamps and ammonia oceans, and deep beneath our world's icy surface, is an entire ocean world filled to the brim with molten water.

Two generations ago our civilization reached an age what some of you humans would say the Star Trek age.

We have colonized many worlds across the Galaxy, from one's orbiting other stars to rogue planets.

That's right, primitive humans. We've outclassed your kind in almost every way possible in terms of space exploration and colonization.

Under our benevolent oligarchy the Illumiaite, peace and prosperity spread out through the worlds that we control.

The ideas of our government are a mixture of two that can be found here on Earth, democracy and communism.

But despite having some socialist ideals, most of our packs have a large amount of freedom.

But it wasn't always this way, for a long time, the history of our people was unfortunately written in the purple blood of our kin.

For an estimated 3,000 years, we were fighting a war, a civil war.

Due to how long it lasted we call it, The Great Civil War.

There are many historical stories about this long war, too long in fact that it'll probably take an entire Earth year to read all of it from start to end.

So I'm going to cut it short from how it began to how it ended.

Long before we Avali had technology, we were roaming around the surface of Avalon, as nomadic hunters and gatherers.

Navigating the surface of Avalon was no easy task, due to glacier tectonics.

You see, the geological features found on most of the surface of our world dramatically change throughout the year.

Because of this, geological features such as rivers, cliffs, and some mountains are absolutely unreliable for navigation.

But despite this major inconvenience, we were living very peaceful and happy lives.

Until a stranger came to our world, the benefactors.

At first, we welcomed these aliens with open arms.

But as their occupation on Avalon grew, more of the benefactors came to ask us for servitude.

At first, we thought they were just looking for help on how to survive here on Avalon, but then we soon learned that they are not here for our guidance.

The benefactors were here for resources, they were looking for workers for their mining operation, they enslaved us!

Those of us who were still free tried to fight back, but we were no match for their technology.

They put us in concentration camps, to “help” them process the materials into weapons and products.

The work conditions in these concentration camps were unbearable and downright cruel.

For example, if one Avali steps out of line they'll get incinerated.

The benefactors for trying to teach us obedience through their iron fist against us.

They didn't even cared about how we as a species operate, for example, we Avali are extremely social creatures.

Though we don't have families but, we do have packs that range from 3, to 6 members.

Avali pack members usually do everything together, we eat, sleep, and work together.

It's been like this ever since we were kits, now imagine having a childhood/family friend being brutally incinerated by some evil aliens.

The only thing the benefactors care about was their factories that they put on our home!

This incineration got so bad that you can call it a global-scale Holocaust.

If this tyranny from these aliens continued any further, it would lead to the extinction of our species.

Fortunately for us, a Avali pack named Renaka, overheard the benefactor is commenting on how we're too primitive to figure out how to work their technology.

Instead of cowarding in fear, the Renaka pack decided to use this information against the benefactors.

They organize a surprise counter attack with other Avali packs against the alien menace.

A revolution was glooming over the horizon, the Renaka revolution.

All we had to do was wait for the perfect moment to strike.

Once that opportunity came we striked fast and hard against the benefactors.

And as soon as it started, like wildfire the information about the Renaka revolution inspired other a Avali packs being oppressed by the benefactors to do the same.

We are using the benefactor's own technology against them, which really took them by surprise.

They didn't expect primitive hunter-gatherers to know how to wield a rifle or operate their war machines.

At first it felt like a losing battle, but over time it was clear that we Avali are the superior sentient species on Avalon.

We finally drove back the alien Invaders that dare to destroy our home with their factories.

Unfortunately the fighting didn't stop there.

It was just beginning...

For you see, we had a taste of what technology is like, and since the benefactors left many pieces of their tech behind it was bound to cause another conflict.

No one really knows how it started.

Some say it was a dispute between how technology should be used.

Others say that after seeing the destruction that technology can bring, they wanted to use it to control others.

Whatever the reason was one thing was certain, The great civil war has begun.

At first it started tribal, with bows and arrows and spears.

But over time it became more industrial with bullets and bombs.

Two countries have emerged during this time.

You already know about the Illumiaite, we were trying to figure out how to make our lives easier by using technology, but there was another country the Traditionalists.

During that time period, The Traditionalists feared that those who don't follow their religion will bring great evil to our world, kind of ironic in my opinion.

Why? Because they became the very thing that they swore to destroy.

It would incinerate any Avali pack that they would deem a heretic to their religion, and they rule their religion with an iron fist.

It was a never-ending arms race that happened for a long period of time long before we started to even record our own history.

Eventually the Traditionalists unfortunately discovered a superweapon, the nuclear bomb.

Unfortunately, for the Illumiaite during that time, the Traditionalists frequently used that super weapon to set an example of what would happen to those that had don't follow their religion.

The heat from the explosion of the nuclear bomb causes a firestorm thanks to Avalon's atmospheric conditions, It got so hot that it even broke through the icy surface of our world.

Which cause extreme natural disasters is across the effective area.

After seeing such destruction, our government gave up, there was no way that we could counteract such a dangerous super weapon.

We thought it would be better for the Traditionalists to take over our cities instead of being blown into oblivion.

Unfortunately we were wrong, when the Traditionalists took over our cities they rounded up every citizen from very old to very young kits that they can find, and burned them with fire.

It was an absolute massacre, we called it the Coocaw'chrr osaka teep Hweh'oi which translates to, the Burning of the Innocent.

After seeing such religious tyranny, the survivors of the massacre escape to the mountains and form a rebellion.

But a rebellion alone won't be enough to get rid of the Traditionalists for good, they needed to be well trained in combat.

Fortunately for them, even though the Illumiaite government surrendered to the Traditionalists superweapon, the Illumiaite military didn't.

When the rebellion discovered this Illumiaite military base in the mountain that they retreated to, they were really eager to join our ranks.

Why is a military base under the mountain, you may ask?

Over the years of the great civil war we learned that military bases on the surface can get easily bombed to oblivion.

Learning from our mistakes. We put them underground instead but makes it very hard to destroy or even be found fine the enemy troops.

Through years of hard work and training we turned the rebellion into well-trained troops and even some were eager to work on a new secret project that would turn the tide of The Great civil war.

Project Ckck'err Qrkh'mm, which translates to project Elite Marines.

A typical Avali soldier pack usually specializes in one form of combat due to our need to rely on each other.

Elite Marines are going to be trained to specialize in multiple kinds of weapons and military vehicles, as well as having an in specialized augmentation to enhance their performance.

In other words, Elite Marines are super soldiers.

At first, the augmentation for the first Elite Marines ended in disaster.

But eventually the project finally bear fruit, the avali pack Eiloli, were successful of surviving the augmentation process of the project.

Their code name Inferno Catchers, their mission is to cut off all of the industrial supplies for the Traditionalists, capture or destroy their super weapon, and assassinate those who were responsible for making the nuclear bomb.

This was a pretty tough agenda for Khazuyo, Eikuli, Jasyo, and Nesuko.

But the success of the mission will be the key to a swift victory, and putting an end to the great civil war once and for all.

It was only a matter of time before another revolution would arise.

The Phoenix revolution, originally it was called The Great revolution but we then name it after a mythological Earth creature, because just like it, we rise from the ashes.

Meanwhile, leaders of Traditionalists were living like a bunch of pigs, they really thought that they have complete control over Avalon.

Of course this was part of our strategy, to put the enemy in a false sense of security.

Though one thing stays clear about the Traditionalists, they don't seem to be able to go with one day without incinerating someone that they don't like.

Meanwhile, the Illumiaite troops were waiting for the right moment to strike against the Traditionalists and take back the freedom that we once had.

And once the opportunity came, we swooped in out of nowhere liberating the cities that the traditionalists took from us.

Meanwhile, the rebellion is giving us crucial information about the Traditionalists war factories.

And wants the information was sufficient one by one.

We took away the military supplies for the enemy.

Meanwhile, the Inferno Catchers team did their part of the job, things were going so well.

Until the Traditionalists decided if they can't have Avalon then no one will.

In other words, they tried to destroy Avalon with every single nuclear warhead that they have.

Seeing the incoming catastrophe, Khazuyo, Eikuli, Jasyo, and Nesuko made the ultimate sacrifice to save our world.

They sabotage the remote controls for the other warheads then detonate the bombs inside that traditionalists main war factory.

With this selfless sacrifice, the great civil war was finally over...

For the first time in who knows how long, we Avali are finally free from the clutches of tyranny.

But we will never forget what was lost.

End of part 1.