章 77: Massacre at Dendrus, Pt 1

111 Years Ago - Dendrus IV

Fire fell from the sky as multiple fleets tore each other apart in the upper atmosphere. Dendrus IV’s gravity pulled down the debris and detritus greedily, and burned them to atoms as they descended. As though in offering.

In turn, the ashes and soot darkened the sky and blotted out the sun.

Cast under ominous grey shadows, the planet was battered by constant conflict year after year for nearly a decade. This left almost all of her surface scarred and wounded and incapable of life. Those who fought for domination of the planet left it little more than a ravaged, barren rock.

Amidst the ruins of a once-bustling Federation city, Legionnaires defended bitterly against a combined platoon of elite Hegemony Hussars. Unlike the hard, solid angles of the Legionnaires’ mecha, the Hussars’ mecha chassis were much sleeker, flashier, and more agile.