The war that destroyed a million worlds. Part 1

Three Arm cruisers made their way through the tossing waves, running back to their main harbor after sneaking through Core occupied seas, Their valuable cargo still intact. The cargo of Supreme Commander Pyron - 253. Pyron sat quitelly on the bridge of the cruiser Redeemer, content to watch the soft lights of the Distant harbor slowly approach. He sighed, this world, he thought, like so many others was almost destroyed. It was a shame to, this world had been colonized long ago, but a great disaster had destroyed the tecnology of the colony and the war had prevented a rescue team to be sent. The people gradually forgot that they had come from another planet and had been blissfully unaware of the war that raged sometimes just a few lightyears away. Now of course, that had all changed. In the blink of an eye resource hungry Core scouts had landed, and though they were repelled by overwhelming numbers of the populance they had returned later, desperate for metal. The most Ironic thing was that the date the Arm had begun to battle the Core on this system just so happened to correspond with a supposed doomsday prophecy, somthing called 2012.... Oh well, Pyron thought, nothing was going to change that now. The "Earth" as the natives called it had been striped of more than half of it's resources and Billions of locals were killed in the process. The rest had ether fled, joined the Arm, or were patterned. Now that the Core was begining to pull out, The natives would no doubt attempt to rebuild, but that would take years. Pyron looked up, A force of Hawks and some incredibly advanced native fighter (though still very primitive compared to the Hawk's VTOL engines) known as "F-22s" flew above them to provide some air cover. Pyron fingered a control panel bringing up a hologram of the Solar system that Earth resided in and looked at the planet that had been one of the reasons they had come here in the first place. The planet that had been named for the messenger of the gods, but a substance had been found upon it. A substance that would make it the messenger of Death.