A young man named Jason Hiro is depressed and feels as if his life is aimless, thus he volunteers to enter a cryogenics program so his body will at least be useful for science. He wakes up 100,000 years in the future, only to discover that humanity has gone nearly extinct, the humans who remain are all slaves, and the slave masters are the Demons. Humans are nothing more than chattel for their new overlords.
Demons now rule the galaxy, but Jason discovers he has a unique power called Wordsmithing, a magic which descends from the legends of King Arthur and Solomon, one that can rewrite the fabric of reality based on his imagination and cast by speaking a single Word of Power. Will Jason be able to uplift and save humanity? Or will the forces of evil prove too powerful to overcome?
Earlier that day. Hope Hiro prepares his mind and body. He fully assumes the figure of an ordinary Changeling, a Second-Class Initiate Observer named Xainir. His face and head morph into a bald, bulbous skull with giant pitch-black eyes. He dons a standard white uniform, one that vaguely seems like something a human scientist might…
The Founder’s Spear travels at Warp 9 for just a little over six hours. Eventually, it decelerates and drops out of hyperspace inside the outer reaches of a certain star system, one that appears barely any different to all the other systems Jason has visited since his awakening six years before. As soon as Jason…
As Jason walks alongside the First Founder of Volgrimkind, a seemingly passive and benign fellow with no outward aggressiveness, he also communicates with his mind-wife, Fiona, in secret. [What do you think of the guy so far, honey?] Jason asks. [He’s definitely perceptive and picking out new clues about me and my true goals as…
Jason Hiro pushes open the doors leading into the First Founder’s Sanctum. The sight that greets him is one of almost religious significance. He enters a room coated in white stone floors, walls, and ceiling. This stone resembles marble, but it also has distinct cloudy patterns etched into its texture, and as Jason gives the…
The Volgarius system is far, far larger than Jason Hiro’s former home, the Sol System. It has significantly more rocky worlds within its confines, though it only possesses a single gas giant. The distances between these planets are also much greater, with the furthest planet in the system ten times more distant from the system’s…
Jason Hiro stands on the bridge of Kordonis’s vessel, the Hatoraxia, watching as a timer counts down the last five minutes until arriving inside the Volgrim’s home system. He turns to the side, where he observes Kordonis sitting in the captain’s chair, fiddling with a screen Jason can’t quite make out. "This is the VLL…
The VLL Hatoraxia draws ever closer to Volgarius, but back on Tarus II, plenty of events continue to play out, even with neither of the Wordsmiths around. Despite the two Heroes disappearing, everyone believes Hope is inside the Labyrinth, hunting down Mephisto to slaughter him. Nobody doubts Hope’s hatred of demons, to the point that…
A week passes while the VLL Hatoraxia continues traveling at Warp 7 to its destination, Volgarius. With the journey half-over, and a week still to go before arrival, most of the people among Jason’s group have gotten relatively used to the atmosphere on board the ship. It’s on the seventh day that one of the…
Jason and his comrades raise their eyebrows in surprise as several crew-members of the Hatoraxia walk into the Leisure Hall. While presently, only the Captain and Jason’s men are inside, ordinarily this room will have as many as one or two hundred Volgrim inside. Therefore, it currently feels quite empty, with only one of the…
As the Hatoraxia lifts off Tarus II’s surface, Jason and his soldiers stand idly for ten or so minutes, watching out a nearby window while their homeworld fades into the distance. Even Jason, a man who has gone to space many times in the past six years, feels a sinking sensation in his stomach as…
