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“Alright, how will we know where to go?” Mathias asked.

“The shuttle will have the coordinates already programed in.” She said.

Mathias thought for a moment. The resistance would need to have someone on the inside in order to pull this off. And since there wasn’t a chance in hell that a Ra’a’zani would betray their own, that meant a collaborator. It made sense, there were humans that had greater access than the other slaves. The resistance would have been stupid not to insert their own into them. Mathias just didn’t want to think about what that person had to do to prove himself to the Ra’a’zani. He shuddered as he remembered the stories.

“Ok.” He said. An hour later, they got the order from their Ra’a’zani overlord to take a spare part to the mining station a few hours away. They got into the shuttle, and got on their way as planned. They waited for any sign that they were safe to turn away from the course, and then they lost all communications with the station.

“I guess that means go.” Gloria said.

Mathias changed course and started towards the coordinates programed in the shuttle, after putting in the course, he deleted the coordinates. They spent the next few hours on going deeper into the asteroid field. The only thing they saw out of the cockpit were rocks. They were now deep enough that the interference was big enough so they couldn’t be detected. Mathias suddenly grinned, he was free. He looked at Gloria and saw the same expression on her face. He knew that they might die. The shuttle had food for only a few days, and if they don’t get picked up by resistance they would be forced to either starve or go back. But it didn’t matter to Mathias, he would never go back, he would rather die free.

“Look, is that it?” Gloria pointed. Mathias followed the direction she was pointing at. At first he didn’t see anything and then he noticed it.

“Is that a ship?” He asked slowly.

Gloria only nodded, not taking her eyes from the ship they were now approaching, Mathias didn’t see her nod, as he also kept his eyes glued to the ship.

“That’s not Ra’a’zani.” Gloria said.

“No.”

They spent the next few minutes trying to find a way in, and then finally they found an access hatch. The Ra’a’zani shuttle had adaptive hatch tube, so they managed to dock with the ship. When they entered, the first thing they noticed was that the air was stale, then as they stepped deeper inside, the lights came on. Immediately they noticed writing on the wall, it was a schematic of the ship, showing all the compartments and the routes to them.

“This is written in English!” Mathias exclaimed.

“Wait, it think that this is its name “Olympus Exploration Ship Star Gazer”.” Gloria read of the bottom. And then frowned. “What’s Olympus?”

“I have no idea.” Mathias said. “This says bridge, let’s go take a look.”

Two minutes later they entered the bridge, it was powered down like the most of the ship.

“Do you think that it still works?” Gloria asked.

Mathias opened his mouth to respond, when the light turned on, suddenly there was a figure standing in the corner on a small floorplate, it looked human, but for a second before the image sharpened, Mathias could swear he saw an alien with four hands.

“The ship is still operational.” The newcomer said.

Gloria jumped back. “What the hell!” She exclaimed.

“Relax Gloria, that’s a hologram, the Ra’a’zani have them as well.” Mathias said.

He then turned to the hologram. “Hi, mind telling me who you are.” He asked, he reasoned that it was an interactive program, probably modeled on another person.

“My designation is Autonomous Survey Unit Mark 77321, but my friends gave me the name Asumy.”

* * *

May 2164

Tomas Klein was the first one to step foot on the new world, there was only around a thousand of them who were awake, there was no need to wake the others until they build the structures for them to live in. They chose a high plateau for their landing, and also for the spot of their first city, it had ample access to water, and was on the part of the planet with a mild climate. Tomas looked at the night sky, it was a lot different than Earth, there were no stars, and the night sky had a teal tint to it, with streaks of purple and red, it was the Nebula, and it completely surrounded the system. The few bright spots in the sky were the other planets in the system. The two small moons that orbited the planet were a lot smaller than the Earth’s Moon, but were a lot closer, and so appeared bigger. He looked around, it was dark with only the light from the transport illuminating the surroundings. He knew from the images they took earlier, that the plant life had a teal tint to it instead of green as on Earth, and that trees tended to grow much higher than those back home. No, this is home now. He corrected himself. The air was of the same composition as on Earth, but without the pollution, it had a sweet taste to it. He took a deep breath. Yes, this will be a good home. Seo-yun walked out of the transport to stand beside him. She looked around taking in as much as she could.

“Any thoughts on a name?” She asked.

“Yes.” Tomas said. “Let’s call it Sanctuary.”

Author’s note

Olympus is the first book in the Rise of the Empire series, it sets stage and introduces characters for the main storyline in the series, and it is the beginning of the journey that will see humanity become a true galactic Empire.

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