Excerpt: The Epic Mechaverse - Book 1

Prologue

One could call our world peaceful.

The world itself, and the state of the affairs occurring on its surface, if you will. We live in an age where all things, good and bad, come to pass with relative ease- good or bad, everything flows by. The government remains the same, impassive and unchanging, unweathered by time. Revolutions start and revolutions end; there is no war, nothing altered.

We write here of one revolution, presently in progress. We write here of an attempt at change.

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It is the age of Hyder and Samon, and influence of the continent Nebula has spread from its great city Vipul to cover the entire world. At the head of the government that has ruled Nebula for as long as it matters stands the Divine Marduk, a spiritual guide for the nation and world. All has flourished under her great reign, owing greatly to her powerful influence over more or less everything of relevance, including the world's strongest corporation, TemuJin.

There are only two cities in the continent of Nebula, and beyond their borders almost nothing. The one most controlled is Vipul, residence of the Divine Marduk and CEO Adia Temujin; the one in which we begin is Udile, where many people of great importance live, and none so important as Astra.

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Here is a boy with a simple, forgettable story: a father working to fuel the machines of TemuJin, a mother running a small bakery on her own on the streets of Udile. He is sixteen.

Here is a boy with a sadder, but just as common story: All of the above, but the father is dead now, and he's leaving his mother to take that father's place, to work under a man named Sitara Inai until he meets the same fate.

Here he is now, signing the papers that will give him his master's name.

Astra Inai is drafted and shipped out less than twenty four hours after the medics declared his father dead.