Story:Devastation

Devastation is a story that explores a future age of the Tsuinaron in an unknown parallel universe. It is set in the year 2497 CE, and features the T.S.S. Uraniko X, a future version of the current vessel, part of a Starfleet of one of the states that arose after the Democratic Federation of Species in the Norma Arm dissolved.

Chapter 1
Captain Okura Natsu sighs as he looks at the map of the Norma Arm in front of him. He had heard that, a century ago, most of the Norma Arm had been united under one government. Since then, this state, the Democratic Federation of Species in the Norma Arm, had collapsed under the feuding governors of the DFSNA's territories. Now, each system is an independent nation-state.

There are now over 20 thousand of these nation-states. Natsu and his crew, serving the T.S.S. Uraniko X, fights for the Puqortian Democratic Shogunate: a state ruled by the Great Shogun Makirahito and his Council of Lords. Natsu sighs with disappointment at the fact the his nation's society had devolved into that of a barbaric feudal nation. He wonders why he fights for the Shogun. Not that he had a choice, anyway. He was drafted into the Starfleet for the Fifth Normarian War.

Natsu really wished he could've been born somewhere else. Like in the territory of the Delson Hegemony. Arguably the most peaceful state in the galaxy at this time. Or even on Technosilis, now ruled by the New Achrisian Technocracy. That wouldn't have been that bad. Achrisians were good people.

Natsu continues to stare at the map when his first officer, Oraki Tsunai, walks into the room. Tsunai is just as miserable as Natsu is.

"You called for me, sir?" asks Tsunai.

"Yes, Tsunai. Please, have a seat," Natsu replies.

Tsunai sits down on the only free seat in the room.

"Don't tell the rest of the crew yet. I don't know how they would react. But, I know you will agree to this," Natsu cautiously informs Tsunai. Natsu takes a deep breath before continuing. "I have had enough of the Shogun and his Shogunate. I think it is time we ran away to some place else."

"Sir?" Tsunai asks, as if he didn't understand. But Natsu knows that Tsunai understands the meaning of everything he said.

"Perhaps we went away and defected to another nation-state," Natsu continues. "Say, to the Siagla Democracy--"

"You know that the Siaglans wouldn't let us join them," Tsunai replies, with sadness. "They would think we were spies trying to infiltrating."

Natsu sighs.

more to come...