The Crystalline Religion

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The Praetorian Perspective
Year 732 of the JihadXi

"As the Emperors' chief historical clerk, I have the task of sharing the Emperors' perspective and I have set up my own record of my reactions to the great force of the Cryslonite Imperium for my own perusal.

First, the Emperor speaks through me as follows, to all servants of our Lord the righteous and mighty.

'We have tired of the puny weapons of war being used in the Jihad against the pathetic Xi'Chung. They orbit the same sun as we do, and they are our enemies, the great evil nemesis supported by the dark lord god who is the despoiler of our righteous destiny in the stars.

We have fought them with puny weapons suited to their minor purpose. This shall end, We said, for we are the Lord, the Lord shall provide for his people.

The Lord has called upen the great saints and archangels, do not look up them harshly. I have told you, when I was above this physical place, in the great book of Righteousness,

"You shall know an ancient enemy and you shall smite them, your righteousness shall gather with your proper rage at the vile defiler. You shall struggle, your faith in the Imperium shall be tested. But your lord will provide, for the Imperium of the greater place above you shall send its angels brilliant unto the enemy, and the enemy shall scatter, and the enemy shall fall before your Lords' righteous might."

We have seen this Imperium, led by the great Archangel Zexlak. I have called them for the final battle with the defiler. The two Imperiums shall be together, so it is said by Zexlak the Archangel of the greater realm. So it is said by your Lord.

The Angels have already swept aside such a puny force of the defiler, and they are cleansing the foul lands with weapons so great you shall never imagine their ferocity, but to know that the Archangel himself has honored us in there use.

No servant of the Lord shall ever touch that most benighted and cleansed land. It is blessed with your Lords' greatest powers, so that no growth may ever appear in the Defilers place.'

The emperor has stated his position, but I speak for my own ears. Whispers among the Emperors theologians and his great holy court have been spread. They know what the Emperor was to say before he discovered the weapons of this knew Imperium.

One thing was true, it is an Imperium, in dispatches that I received from one named Zexlak, it seems we were nearly the target of the great destruction ourselves. Zexlak was able to show his Imperium that our own Imperium shared in lesser greatness, and had not fouled all things. Zexlak shared that his people were greatly shocked to learn of two more worlds, especially two fighting each other, so close to their ancestral homelands.

It seems they had just finished destroying a great enemy like our own Xi'chung.

When the first reports came out of what is currently happening to the Xi'chung, it shocked the Emperor greatly. It seemed the Cryslonite were well equipped for the job they found themselves doing.

Zexlak was shocked when he learned of our caste system. It seems the Cryslonite have no caste, only temporary working situations. How can that be an Imperium? Everyone knows an empire has an emperor, some nobles of many levels and peasants and slaves.

Attempting to learn anything about the Cryslonite is insanely difficult. All their answers are nonsensical, and the only one they want us to talk to is this Zexlak. He says the rest of them couldn't communicate with us if they wanted to, which they don't.

A billion Xi'Chung residents were killed in the first weeks fighting, that began with a short battle against a remaining Xi'chung ship. Then the Cryslonite fleet came into range of a space station, and destroyed that fairly quickly. And they then made a brave charge into the unholy weapons fire of the Xi.

They wiped out all the planetary shields and the weapon platforms very quickly, and began destroying the planet in some form of infestation that ate away at the Xi slowly, then they began pummelling the planet with some unknown weapon.

Zexlak says they should be finished with the Xi in another two weeks. Two Weeks!!

A seven hundred year old fued settled by outsiders in two weeks. I was surprised when I first saw the massive fleet on long range threat displays in the emperors' war room. I thought they'd be another enemy to defeat.

Working for the Emperor makes one cynical, I even doubt that the emperor is god sometimes. Not in public of course, I know my role. And everyone around here knows the Cryslonite are extremely volatile and could decide to destroy us whenever.

Though I was surprised at their existence as such, the Cryslonite really shocked me with their weapons. They seem custom made to destroy planets. We barely can make enough ships for general use to hurt the Xi. We never caused a single scar on the Xi planet due to those bLasted shields.

I'll send out the emperors' report soon, but I have to hush for now. Hes' coming...

'Historian Malok? Have you sent it yet?'"...