Alloy Heart
In the year 3703, a time where travelling from galaxy to galaxy was made possible by the invention of warp gates and the discovery of a new element called Alonium which could produce massive amounts of energy enough to power a whole nation for a millennium.
With the help of the new technology, humanity inhabited countless planets across the universe, forming colonies and government in every world they inhabit, discovering new species and aliens along the way.
With the aggressive expansion the humanity was conducting, wars with other sentient creatures was unavoidable, however the first colonized planet outside of Earth; Hesperus, quickly rose into power and forcefully conquered the surrounding planets, even its predecessor was not safe from its wrath.
After the resource exhausting campaign, Hesperus along with the countless planets it conquered, formed the Great Hesperian Empire as the people know it today.
From this time forward our hero emerges, Artur Holbach, a resourceful young thief who wants to make a name for himself took on an unusual job from a shady stranger, infiltrating a Hesperian transport ship to steal the data of a prototype mech, the job promised five hundred thousand credits if executed successfully, however a resistance group thought to be dissolved after two hundred years, emerged from the shadows of the galaxy and had the same idea in mind, making Artur's normal tuesday job into an intense, adrenaline inducing escape for his life.
After eventually getting away from the crossfire between the Resistance and the Hesperian ship, he finally realized he's already piloting the prototype mech he was supposed to steal the data from.
Artur was left to figure out what to do as he ended up with a one million credit bounty for his head and a military grade prototype mech on his hands.
obtuse · sci-fi
