Introduction
‘The Coalition is a big place, a really big place; thirty years old and I’ve only travelled to two other planets. Three, if you count Kronedegor, but I don’t, none of us did. For years, the Red Lands – y’know, the OE, Outer Empire – had been a festering ground for anyone with a beef against the UC, UCON, the Coalition right? I mean, history class depicted the place as a virulent bastion of monsters and wolves in sheep’s clothing; Yusuma lo Nadeev* and those guys, Zharkov and Khariq of Red Halo*, guys that wanted to kill everything the United Government stood for, watch it burn. They were about as right as a Murlduke calling a Tarsan white, stupid huh; the Coalition were the bad guys in the OE, man, the worst of the fuckin’ worst – ten years left out of the history books between the Colonial Military and the new Apparatus, did you ever catch that?
Probably not; no one did. We all just took it at face value and let the government sign our papers for us. Y’know how they’d trap people into the PDF? They would take a brief skirmish in the OE, run it on every major news outlet in the Forge, the Inner Empire, the Republics, and then they’d put this political spin on it – ‘they’re radical Yusmas*’ or ‘Sectarian nationalists’. It wasn’t just political either, they’d get the Holy Church involved in that stuff too, Oriyak Orthonicans* were discriminated against, hell they still are today, and the media would just eat that shit up. I’m dead serious. I was young and dumb back then, every kid fresh out of Fourth-Ed* was.
I joined because my maximum hold-off was up; you can only put off your mandatory service for two years, I was actually two and a half over mine. They came knockin’ on my door and said ‘Boy, you’ve got a month to organize your things, and then you’re off to the Defense Force.’; I wasn’t too concerned, though, the OE had calmed down, it was 2600, the Insurgencies were long gone by the time the PDF started deploying to the planets in the Red Lands – sorry, Outer Empire. That place was sure different than I thought it would be; I half expected to see giant Yusma worship towers when I got off the dropship at Japori Prime, hell, Japori Prime doesn’t even have a population over 2 bil.
The Outer Empire was a free fire zone, no matter how many guns and bodies the Coalition pumped into it. Even today, you can go to a village in the OE and not see a lick of Coalition influence on an entire continent; they’re back in the stone age out there, attached to a culture that had died away for a century or two before someone finally just put their flag in the ground and said ‘Back to the Mali*’. The Outer Empire is massive, you have to understand this; hundreds of worlds, billions – possibly trillions – of people still leashed to religious pragmatism and secluded agendas. The Oriyaks, the Hykans, the Azriks, the Soruks, Taijha, Arrokan, Mesric, there’s a little bit of all of them in the Outer Empire; it’s practically endless man, so many fucking people that subscribed to a ‘simpler’ way of life. Some people don’t even call them Scatterrans anymore – they lump them in with the ET’s, the Scraps, huh?
Out in the OE, most people don’t even know that the Coalition isn’t the only government in this galaxy. Ask an Oriyak from Esrayat, there’s a distinct possibility he’s never heard of a Terran, or the Hundred Lions; he’d laugh in your face and run you out of town, they don’t quite like a process of thought that challenges a thousand years of cultural isolation. Not the kind of people you have a book club meeting with.
For good reason, too; the Coalition is oppressive, doesn’t matter which way you cut it. Forced consolidation of the Scatterran Charter, exclusive production of goods and resources only with government sanction, hell, they’ll even segregate people based on religious belief – ‘separation of Church and State’ – to the extreme. Those people didn’t flee the Coalition to later bring about it’s downfall, they fled because we wouldn’t give them any alternative, they fled because we were the epitome of every sin they were against. And we are.
You know UCON treats the water, right? Treats the atmosphere and oceans, using the wind currents to spread nanomachines the size of water molecules; they drop it in high-orbit, let it settle on the planet and let them replicate, and in a decade they have a tightly controlled environment. They can kill crop yields in days if someone says something the government doesn’t approve of, can wipe out entire species of indigenous animals that people make their livings off of if some governor doesn’t sign the right paper. It’s fucked, and all any of us ever did was just shrug it off and not give a damn.
Until Kronedegor, that is. It was a agricultural world on the edge of the Massiv Nebula, a metaphorical ocean separating the OE from the Radriclif Avenue, leading to Outland through the Veil. I couldn't have even found it on a map before I'd gotten there; fresh out of PDF training -- which wasn't training, barely 2 months of just exercise and live-fire training -- the Coalition announced it would be replacing the Marine Infantry Corps in the OE with the PDF. They needed the Marines to fight the ET's, the Taiyou, the Aschen, the Belkans, those people. People I personally doubt even exist, in all reality. Back on track, it took my regiment three months to redeploy from the Forge, to the farthest reaches of the Outer Empire. To the Kronedegor system. It wasn't even a system, in all honesty; just two stars and one lump of rock that somehow managed to survive. In the past million years or so, the star system had accumulated about three other planets, two that were habitable, the other was a gas giant. The gas giant collapsed when the binary stars gravity tore it to shreds to feed one of the dwarf's burn -- the Kronedegor system is dying, in the next couple thousand years that red dwarf will run out it's mass and collapse into a neutron star, by that time I hope Kronedegor is nothing but fucking ash.
When we got there, man was that a shell shock. I'd seen pictures from the Outer Empire; some of the planets barely had 2 billion in population, 2 billion, that's the population of some cities on other Coalition worlds in the Forge. Kronedegor had a population of 16 million, all scattered across small villages and slightly larger cities situated around the resources. The Apparatus population? Less than 2 million. That's less than 600,000 trained soldiers to maintain 16 million people on a planet where a gun was as necessary as water. To say that we were walking into a powder keg was an understatement; everyone knew Kronedegor could erupt into revolt at the drop of a hat ... '
'Why? Well, we had no clue of course. Heck, I was surprised they greeted us so kindly -- it started making sense the longer we stayed there, though, the longer we thought what we were doing there was 'police work' instead of 'fucking guinea pigs'.
"What happened at Kronedegor?"
'What happened at Kronedegor? We all fucking died. The government got us killed. All of us.'
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