Eternal
You’re not going to waste time on a possibility that doesn’t even have any proof behind it. There is no knowledge of land west of the ocean and there just isn’t time to mobilize a half cocked plan to evacuate people who might die a slower death on the open sea anyway. Better to stay and fight.
You continue organizing your forces and mobilizing them in the best way that you’ll think that they will be the most effective.
Year 566
As you lie on your deathbed weakened by your own physical frailties the war with the Xi still carries on and not in the Empire’s favor.
You struggled as best you could, but it just wasn’t enough. The Xi are indeed a relentless force that even you cannot stop. Quala has completely fallen. Rask has been cut off, you have no idea if it’s been overrun as well, but it hardly matters by this point. Your last report states that possibly within a year or even six months the Xi will completely overrun Nalin.
Anyone who was remotely close to you is gone. David was taken by natural causes, Sightmaster Crowley in battle, even Jennifer was killed along with her entire family by a surprise Xi attack on Dalt.
You believe there were some last ditch efforts of escape via ships. Some have successfully done so, but it’s hard to imagine where they will go. Makes you wonder if setting up an escape plan might’ve been a better idea to at least save some people to possibly keep the Empire alive, but you dismiss such thoughts.
No, you are the last of a dying Empire. The old one and now this one. When you die, it will die with you.
Your only regret is that you didn’t decide to face death in battle when you at least still had the strength to do so. Your body hurts so much right now that you almost wish the Xi were here just to put you out of your misery.
Eventually your pain comes to a quiet end when you manage to drift into unconsciousness and finally death.
And just as you believed, the Empire follows you in death soon after, though perhaps not quite as quietly.
You continue organizing your forces and mobilizing them in the best way that you’ll think that they will be the most effective.
Year 566
As you lie on your deathbed weakened by your own physical frailties the war with the Xi still carries on and not in the Empire’s favor.
You struggled as best you could, but it just wasn’t enough. The Xi are indeed a relentless force that even you cannot stop. Quala has completely fallen. Rask has been cut off, you have no idea if it’s been overrun as well, but it hardly matters by this point. Your last report states that possibly within a year or even six months the Xi will completely overrun Nalin.
Anyone who was remotely close to you is gone. David was taken by natural causes, Sightmaster Crowley in battle, even Jennifer was killed along with her entire family by a surprise Xi attack on Dalt.
You believe there were some last ditch efforts of escape via ships. Some have successfully done so, but it’s hard to imagine where they will go. Makes you wonder if setting up an escape plan might’ve been a better idea to at least save some people to possibly keep the Empire alive, but you dismiss such thoughts.
No, you are the last of a dying Empire. The old one and now this one. When you die, it will die with you.
Your only regret is that you didn’t decide to face death in battle when you at least still had the strength to do so. Your body hurts so much right now that you almost wish the Xi were here just to put you out of your misery.
Eventually your pain comes to a quiet end when you manage to drift into unconsciousness and finally death.
And just as you believed, the Empire follows you in death soon after, though perhaps not quite as quietly.
