The fall of Alextras (Predalien)
(For correspondence and updates, please go to : https://ricebowl70.blogspot.com/2025/08/updates.html ) The Alextras Colony had always been a rather terrible place to live, the climate on the planet being intolerable to most people and the work only barely tolerable to everyone else who decided to live there. Still, you didn’t have much choice but to work, you needed the money after all, and as such you were back in the factory, working away on the production line for things that people weren’t even buying anyways. However, one day you were walking home and looked up to the sky to see something shimmering in the distance, something that was quickly falling to the ground that had presumably come down from space. You had ignored it at the time, assuming it was just another accident with the freight traulers until there was a report of a major fire fight happening in the city just west of you. A few days had passed with you being forced to go to work even as the fighting drew c...