AN: Greetings, for older readers, you might have noticed I've once again changed something, that's because I've removed the "Eldar Influence" in this story and took some time to design a few unique ships for the Vanu.

Screw the time line stuff it's too complicated .

One century had past after the Great Auraxian War, with Auraxis fully conquered and colonized, the Vanu Sovereignty once again looked to the stars. With peace on Auraxis, the Auraxians finally had the time to build permanent settlements, settlements soon grew to towns, then to massive cities reaching the sky, and of course, with a slight Vanu touch. Floating sky cities were built, these cities were hovering above the ground, providing even more space for the populace to use. Then they moved to the void, all sorts of facilities were put in orbit to accommodate the ever growing population.

After Auraxis, the Vanu colonised the Luminaire system. Said system consisted of several more colonisable planets. The most significant one was Tauxis, Auraxis' twin planet. The planet was home to many Technological wonders, one of them being a Vanu shipyard.

The star system was quickly filled to its maximum capacity, the Vanus colonized even more systems with the help of wormhole technology found on Tauxis. Speaking of colonization, there are two species in the Vanu Sovereignty. The first obviously being Humans, the second one is Artificial Intelligence . Weaker AIs were created during the Great War, where shortage of manpower was becoming problematic. They served as mostly vehicle crews, until more efficient and advanced bodies were created to allow them to serve as infantry.

The Legio Auraxia is basically the robotic army of the Vanu Sovereignty. A.I.s serve as officer, while drones serve as foot soldiers , though they are capable of gaining sentience over time.

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Patrolling in a Vanu escort vessel was Adept Helena of the synthetic species after the Great War. Helena gave out a robotic sigh, it was her first year after the Naval Academy and she was assigned an escort and sent to a patrol mission, reasonable but boring. She was curious of everything, being created only mere years ago. Like organics, synthetics also want to feel, discover and experience things. It was this thought that convinced her to join the military, though she had to temporarily leave her more..human body, and serve in the standard chassis.

Her orders was to secure a recently discovered star system, scientist and explorers claimed that the planets there would provide a significant amount of biomass for the nanites to use, not that they couldn't be recycled. After all, it is better more than less.

The lone frigate patrolled the system for the next few days, apparently there was some sort of delay, not that she cared about it. She was about to enter standby mode when the sensor alerted her, being an AI, controlling a ship was an easy task, so most AI's would either "live" in the systems of the ship, or connect their bodies to the ship.

Being linked to the ship also meant being linked to sensors, external cameras and stuff like that. The sounding sensors on her "HUD" appeared to be gravitational spikes, followed by messages Indicating the planet's moon that she was to protect, which was at the edge of the system, was about to break apart.

She quickly diverted power to the wormhole drives and the shields, attempting to get herself to safety.

With that, the small spacecraft disappeared in a flash, appearing one million kilometers away. The planet began to break apart, it was truly a fascinating sight. She could see chunks of the moon, and some sort of glimmer within the moon. A few more hours of observation later, what was in the moon was now fully uncovered. A huge device which look like a tuning fork with a glowing blue orb in the middle.She immediately reported her findings to Helios, the massive space station protecting Auraxis.

Now that, is interesting.

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Fleet command, Star fort Helios

"Sir, a message from Captain Helena just came through, it's listed as a priority message."

"Put it up."

The hard light projector came to life, on it was Helena sitting on the captain's seat.

Greetings Commander, a possible Vanu artefact is located, Instructions?

Standby and wait for reinforcements. A vessel with advanced sensor arrays in the vicinity will be dispatched.

Understood. Helena out.

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Honored Veterans, or Great War Era soldiers to be precise were a rare sight in the modern Vanu military, their sole purpose was to defend Vanu borders. Though in times of war, they too, can act as offenders.

During the Great War, the Sovereignty had a population of approximately three million , two third of them were military while the rest were scientists. After the war, only about half a million remained in the military, most opted to sleep in stasis, a technology once again blessed by Vanu on Tauxis, only to be woken when they are needed again. The rest would wake up periodically. One such example was a Centurion who goes by the name, Lux.

Six months ago from current time

Classified facility in the Luminaire System

" Welcome back, honored one. We have awaken you in five years intervals as you requested." A metallic voice spoke.

The man stepped outside of the stasis pod, looking left and right, he was greeted by the sight of several technicians dressed in robes with protruding mechanical limbs bowing to him.

The female technician looked at her datapad and a sense of admiration appeared. The veteran in front of her fought for 8 years, 8 long and bloody years, though when compared with older veterans it was only a small feat.

She was young ,at 25 years old she had applied for one of the most sacred duty in the Sovereignty, tending to the sleeping ancient warriors . These people were legends to the current Vanu population who only appeared in History books and children's tales. Not a lot of citizens have the privilege of meeting one of those who fought in the Auraxian War. Even if the general populace went to Auraxis, they would only see the normal citizens, not the Great War Era Auraxians since most of them were in Stasis or returned to civilian life with a new identity, just like the one in front of her.

Lux looked around and tried to massage his temples, there was always a slight headache after waking up from stasis, only to touch the sides of his helmet. He lowered his hand and looked at the young female.

"Allow me to perform the necessary checkups, honored one." The metallic voice spoke again and he was immediately swarmed by the surrounding technicians. As for why they are technicians but not doctors, almost all of his body was synthetic and filled with cybernetics. Which was quite common for the citizens of the Vanu Sovereignty. He had always wondered why the people respect them so much , not that he dislike it.

"Technician," he asked, " What of my outfit, Scions of Vanu?"

"One moment," she said before taking out a datapad."Still 2500 strong, with only a few, including you awaken."

"Good...good." Lux muttered," Anyways, inform the Legio Immortalis of my awakening, I wish to...acquire new skills."

" Of course honored one" She bowed again " I shall inform them immediately and arrange transport back to Auraxis."

With that, the technicians finished the check up and left, leaving him all alone in the stasis pod room. Lux walked outside and went to the observatory.

From there he could see the entire Luminaire System and tens, if not hundreds of military space stations and defence platforms.He suddenly noticed a slight distortion in the corner of his eye, he looked at it and a sleek, angular and scaly ,dark purple ship appeared along with a transport ship, which was the arranged transport.

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A halo appeared in the middle of the void, a few kilometers to the left of Alanis's frigate. She had seen it far too many times, which was a wormhole being generated.

Seconds later, a graceful void craft appeared from it. It was 150 meters long, standard for an escort just like hers. It was painted white instead of the normal dull gray, complementing it was purple platings and extra protruding sensors antennas. Such customizations were only for honored veterans. The voidcraft flew pass her frigate, she then noticed the words Eternal Light engraved on the platings, it was a Corona Class Escort vessel of 150m, just like hers and most of the Vanu Navy.

Sitting alone in the cockpit of the Eternal Light was Lux, and his A.I. co-pilot-Luna. The corona class escort, like most Vanu vessels are quite small and nimble, with a minimalistic crew quarter and a bridge, which was more akin to a fighter's cockpit.

One might ask why there's only a mere 1 person crew, to answer that the ship was controlled by advance optical neural networks and an onboard AI, which was Helena, where they could control a vehicle all by themselves. Since veterans of the Great War have awakened, crew members have been increased to two, one AI and a human.

A message appeared on her HUD, it was from the Centurion. After some scanning, apparently the construct was some sort of FTL propulsion System, which utilizes mass reducing fields. She was also ordered to go through it and scout ahead.

With that, the small escort broke off and flew towards the construct. In a matter of seconds her ship disappeared in a flash of blue light.