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their planets.
         Since then, in return for the
mercy shown them, the Southern Quewyths vowed to always be true friends and
allies, even in battle. A truce was made and trade between the two diverse Quewythian
races began. This treaty had held for more than thirty thousand years, and was
revised more than three thousand times to include amendments allowing for more
freedoms, travel, and extended to all of the twelve galaxies in the Radiance
Cluster.
        Only four thousand years
earlier, Southern Quewythian rebel assassins had killed the Supreme Ruler King
or “Welaik Korth”, Koupiton Hoxenyth’s father. They had been captured and
executed as traitors to the Twelve Galaxies Cluster, by Koupiton Hoxenyth, who
instantly became the new king. He used his new power to free the inhabitants of
the harsh conditions his father had inflicted upon countless planets under his
iron fist rule. Koupiton Hoxenyth was a hero among the multitude of races as
well as his own people. He then became known as Daxu Korth, which in the
original English tongue translates as “Liberating King”.
        An uncountable number of
humans who originated from the Milky Way Galaxy migrating across the Quadrant
to the Twelve Galaxies Cluster had intermarried with the inhabitants of the
planets they settled on. Seeking out uninhabited planets to do terraforming had
ceased. Humans were now integrated into the workings of the whole universe and
had taken their place among the stars continuing to colonize their own galaxies.
Using their technology, they sought out planets that were already in the
habitable zones of their suns that needed no terraforming.
        Cruise had a brother who is
five hundred years older than he and also half human, but from a different mother
who their father married earlier. Since their father was a king, they are both half-human
princes of the Kingdom of the Twelve Galaxies Cluster.
        His brother, Arthos Daxu,
was in search of ancient relics that had been lost in the deep caverns of
Earth. It was reported by the accompanying ship that while they were in Warp
Drive and traveling one hundred times the speed of light, Arthos gave the
command for his pilot to push the Drive for all it was worth. That reportedly
propelled Arthos ’s ship five times faster than it had been going and the warp
was opened. Arthos’s ship just disappeared into the warp and then the warp was
shut. Arthos was gone.
        Cruise was standing upon the
glass veranda made of gold with his hands upon the rail. His father and stepmother,
Dvora, were there.
        “Son, I wish you would
reconsider,” pleads Cruise’s father. “I and your mother already lost one son.
We do not wish to lose another.”
    “My brother is
not lost, Father,” replies Cruise. “We just don’t know where he is, but I will
find him, I promise.”
        “But my son,” entreats his
stepmother Dvora, reaching up to place her hand upon his shoulder, “There is no
guarantee you will find him. The outer limits of the universe are uncharted and
dangerous. We both tried to tell your brother, but he wouldn’t listen.”
        “I want you both to know.” Cruise
turns around to face his parents. “I cannot lose my brother. We are connected,
and I will find him, and the relic he went searching for.”
        “I rule the Twelve Galaxies
Cluster,” Koupiton Hoxenyth replies. “I control a very great part of this
universe and yet...I am not able to control my own sons.”
        “Father,” Cruise replies, “It
is in your name that I go; also for my birth mother. For Arthos it’s the same.
If we find that ancient relic, then it will lead us to the home of our
ancestors. Imagine the knowledge and truths we will uncover.”
        “I see I have raised two
stubborn sons. Nevertheless, I will give you the biggest and strongest vessel
we have in our kingdom.” Koupiton retreats from the portico back into the
house. He had come to live on Cassiopeia to be