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CONTFICT IMMINENT
KRISTINE SMITH
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Thalassa
Commonwealth Colony of Elyas
Summer, Year One
My name is Torin Clase, and I have been charged with writing the story of Jani
Kilian. Who she is, and how she came to be.
A quarter century ago a Vynsha priest named ni Tsecha Egri prophesied that one
day his race, the idomeni, and my race, the humanish, would blend in the
fullness of time to form a single people. In his quest to promote his vision,
Tsecha compelled his people to allow humanish to live on the idomeni homeworld
of Sherd, and to establish a consulate on the outskirts of the dominant city
ofRauta Sheraa.
Tsecha also compelled the idomeni to allow humanish into their dominant
educational institution, the Academy. That first class of six students learned
documents protocols from the race that devised them, as tensions grew between
those bornsect idomeni who feared the humanish presence within the Sherdin
worldskein and those few who believed that Tsecha's blending prophecies
defined the future.
When these tensions erupted into civil war, one of those six humanish
graduates, Jani Kilian, had attained the rank of Captain in the Commonwealth
Service. As she worked to mediate relations between humanish and idomeni, she
learned of illegal dealings between them that would have
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given victory to the ultraconservative elements of the idomeni and bolstered
repressive forces within the humanish government. But when she acted to expose