Space Legends - Resistance (Serialization Episodes 5-10)

By Brandon J. Wysocki

The continuing story of a clandestine group of vigilantes involve themselves in the escalating conflict between the burgeoning Coalition of humans and the mysterious alien race oppressing their world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brandon J. Wysocki
• Release date: Jul 28, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215685099

Brandon J. Wysocki

Brandon J. Wysocki was born and raised in Northeast OH. He is the lucky husband to a wonderful woman, and a proud father to two spectacular children. He's a fan of science fiction, videogames, outdoors, and overthinking nearly everything.

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Space Legends

Resistance

serialization

Episodes 5-10

Written By

Brandon J. Wysocki

Copyright 2023 All Rights Reserved

In With The Enemy

The Faalcomana fortress in this region was the old City Center of Kelgar, modified to better suit the needs of the Faalcomana after they usurped the city. It was four towers connected by fifth story skywalks. The Faalcomana had tailored the South Tower for many ceremonial purposes. Various spiritual gatherings and ceremonies, such as worship and rites of passages were held on its lower levels. Outside of that, it was used for non-military storage. It housed, among other things, the morgue.

Inside the morgue, it was cold and dark, with large stone tables all throughout on which the bodies of the fallen were placed. Although the true origin of the practice was disputed, the romantic explanation was that it was a Faalcomana religious tradition to cremate the remains of the dead to free their spirit in order for it to reach the eternal realm. They believed that the timelier they were in freeing the spirit, the healthier it would be for all that awaited it.

Those viewed as the most disgraceful and unrighteous to the Faalcomana were denied any kind of postmortem rite with the goal of hurting or even killing the spirit within, believing it could essentially be starved to complete nonexistence if it were deprived of the next realm for long enough. There were of course variations of this doctrine, and some believed the practice began more as a pragmatic way to eliminate remains during the long journey in space.

The bodies of the four Faalcomana killed in the confrontation the night before, along with the other three the Coalition group had found murdered, were carefully brought in and placed on the tables, each one of them remained in their bulky armor. Since these seven served and died for the Faalcomana cause, they would be honored and cremated no later than the next sunrise. After all of the bodies were placed, the eight Faalcomana who carried them in exited the morgue, closing the large steel door behind them. With the door closed, the only light remaining in the room were small sconces that barely graced the room with an eerie glow. The corpses laid completely still, fitting perfectly with the dark and lifeless environment in which they were placed.

After a moment, the last Faalcomana corpse that was brought in began to move, and after a slight struggle, it sat up. After sitting up, it began looking back and forth, attempting to survey the room. Then a Faalcomana corpse on another stone table attempted to roll off the table onto its