"William who is this deity you pray to?" Asked the woman named Lana.

W1LL4M or William as the crew calls him turns to the woman after finishing his morning prayer. He briefly considered whether to answer or not but after careful consideration, he eventually answered her, hopefully, she would be set to the right path after hearing about the great God-Emperor.

"He is the God-Emperor the ruler and deity of mankind" William replied.

"ruler and deity of mankind?" Lana said as this is the first time she has encountered such a strange religion and centering on the deity of all humans.

Now Lana is by no means an expert but she does pride herself in being the think tank of the ship, so she knows a thing or two in a variety of fields.

She had quite a few similar religions but are usually found on some backwater planet, judging by William's gear and the shipwreck he should be from a more or less a civilized world.

Not to mention such a grand title as the God and Emperor of all humans perked her interest quite a bit, so she asked some more about this god Emperor fellow.

"yes, he rules all of humanity atop his golden throne on holy terra, the ancient homeworld of man"

Hearing what William said caused her ears to perk up, all though she highly doubts it as she's pretty sure than humans originated from Coruscant. But scientifically it's pretty uncertain where humans actually originated from.

"So where is this holy terra? I quite curious about the planet humans originates from, perhaps we could visit it someday?"

But William just remained silent as he obviously won't be revealing that information to her, not that she could ever to get there as it's in another galaxy or hope to get pass the myriad of defenses protecting it.

"..." William just stayed silent like the time when she asked where Krieg was.

Having no response from William annoyed Lana quite a bit "irk... Fine so what did this Emperor guy do?"

"He reunified the scattered realms of mankind and brought humanity of the terrible age known as the age of strife."

In Lana's mind the Emperor guy probably just reunified the a dozen or so planets after a terrible civil war or something.

"what is the age of strife?" she asked judging by the name it sounded terrible.

"legend has it that the age of strife came when the previous golden human age came to an end after a catastrophic event which shattered and separated all the worlds of man. I don't know how long it lasted but legends says that it last for a terribly long time and it was a terrible age filled suffering, endless civil wars, starvations and alien invasions."

Lana frowns as judging by the way William spoke of it, it sounded like it all happened a long time ago, so she asked to confirm her suspicions.

"how long ago was it?"

"about 10,000 years ago"

Gasp

Lana gasped as she could hardly believe it, she didn't expect to have happened that long ago.

'the unknown regions is really a mystery, if what he said is true than there's an entire empire full of humans out there that the republic doesn't knows about!'

"wait! If the age of strife is 10,000 years ago then that would make the Emperor..." she is cut off by William

"the Emperor has ruled the dominions of mankind atop his Golden throne for more then 10,000 years and still guides humanity to this day"

This is quite frankly shocking as Lana thinks that this Emperor character must be a truly powerful force user to live that long. She had heard that for force users have longer lifespan particular the powerful ones.

'no wonder he is worship like a god' Lana thought before another crew member who overheard William's fantastically fairytale and made fun of it.

"What a load of rancor crap, a being that lived for 10,000 years? Next, you would say that he rules over a million worlds"

William is naturally irritated by the crewman's disrespect of the Emperor and if he doesn't have a bigger priority he would have already put a las bolt in his head already.

William begrudging stood up from his seat and went to his quarters, leaving behind a still not quite satisfied Lana who looked at the crewman in question angrily.

Faced with the annoyed lady the crewman on the hurriedly skippered along to avoid pissing off the think tank of the ship anymore.

...

Once in his quarters William laid on his bed and thought about what happened these few weeks since he agreed to go aboard this ship.

William agreed to join mercenary band to travel around in hopes of gathering information on this "republic" while saving up money to buy a ship which he'll be using to get back to Krieg space and reports all his findings.

Of course there are a few hurdles he has to cross as not apparently the people here doesn't use warp drive to travel around instead they uses something called a hyperdrive.

Apparently this hyperdrive while much faster than the typical Imperial warp drive is also quite picky in the locations it wants to travel to. As instead of going through a straight line to your destination the machine spirit of the hyperdrive would instead choose to take routes that goes around any objects along the way.

And Krieg space is currently located at what these people calls the unknown regions as that part of space is still uncharted due to the fact that the unknown region is filled with stuff (random space rocks) that the hyperdrive seems to be allergic to.

Unfortunately only the most expensive ship has the machine spirit brave enough to go through the unknown regions. So he'll have to save enough money to buy a ship capable of sending him back.

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Next day

Captain James summons the crew to talk about their next mission.

"alright a request just came in by a warlord from a nearby system. The job is simple clearing out a local rebel hid out..." The Captain then went into the details.