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Fireside Fantasies

Synopsis: The evil chancellor has waged war on any planet who refuses to join him, and your home planet has incurred his wrath. You help build a small army of warriors and fighter pilots to protect your home and way of life. One of these pilots is a woman who can outmaneuver any of her male counterparts. As you face off against the evil man attempting to build an interplanetary empire, you fall in love with the woman fighting at your side.

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00:00The air on Xylos always tasted of ozone and cold, clean glass.

00:05Down on the crystalline plains, the ground shimmered, throwing back the light of our twin suns in a million fractured rainbows.

00:12But I barely saw it anymore.

00:15My world had shrunk to the cold, recycled air of the command center and the faces of the pilots I sent out to die.

00:21They called me Commander Jax, a title that still felt borrowed.

00:26Just a year ago, I was Chief Mechanic Jax, happiest when I was elbow deep in the guts of a starfighter.

00:33Now I moved icons on tactical displays, each one a real person, a real life.

00:39Our base was carved into a massive crystal mesa, a fortress of light against the encroaching darkness.

00:45We were pioneers and scientists, not soldiers.

00:48But now we faced a war machine built to grind worlds like ours into dust.

00:53Every day, our pilots launched from hidden hangars, the thin line between home and annihilation.

00:59My job was to make miracles happen with spare parts and sheer will.

01:03Chancellor Valerius, a name whispered like a curse across the outer rim.

01:08He was a tyrant from the core worlds, obsessed with absolute control.

01:13For him, Xylos was more than a strategic asset.

01:16It was a symbol of defiance he couldn't allow.

01:19His fleet, led by the Dreadnaught the Inevitable, was designed for planetary subjugation.

01:24We'd seen the ruin he left behind on other worlds.

01:27No surrender, only lessons in destruction.

01:30For us, this war was about everything.

01:33The right to raise our children under our own sons, to study the crystal in life, to call this place home.

01:39The Dominion choked our supply lines and sent wave after wave to wear us down.

01:44But Valerius underestimated us.

01:46He thought he faced a militia, not a family bound by love for our world.

01:50Our unity was as hard and brilliant as the crystals beneath our feet.

01:54And then there was Alara, the heart of our defense.

01:58She didn't just fly.

02:00She danced with her ship, the Stardust Seraph, a custom interceptor I'd once built for her.

02:06Alara's instincts in battle were uncanny, as if she could see the invisible threads of chaos and weave through them.

02:13The other pilots called her the Ghost of Xylos, following her into any fight because she made miracles seem possible.

02:20I watched her on the tactical display, a single brilliant light moving with purpose.

02:25Her calm voice over the comms steadied everyone, including me.

02:29Jax, I see an opening on the cruiser's port side, sending you the coordinates now.

02:34She saw pathways where others saw only walls of fire.

02:37Alara was more than our ace.

02:39She was the spirit of Xylos, resilient and beautiful in the face of impossible odds.

02:45And I was the one sending her into the heart of the storm.

02:48The day came when the sky turned from violet to obsidian.

02:52Valerius' full fleet eclipsing our suns.

02:55The ultimatum was simple.

02:57Surrender or be annihilated.

02:59We didn't kneel.

03:00We fought.

03:01Our desperate gambit create a weakness in the inevitable shields for one pilot to strike its primary weapon.

03:07Only Alara had a chance.

03:09Alara, it's time, I said, hiding my fear.

03:14The fleet cleared a path as she broke away, the Seraph climbing alone toward the enemy's heart.

03:19The command center was chaos, but my eyes never left her trajectory.

03:23Blue icons winked out, sacrifices for her chance.

03:27I knew their names, their families.

03:30I had sent them there.

03:31My admiration for Alara tangled with a fear deeper than command.

03:35In that moment, it was more than duty.

03:38It was something I could finally name.

03:40Alara flew like a phantom, the Seraph threading through fire and wreckage with impossible grace.

03:46Almost there, Jax, she reported, voice strained.

03:49Then, plasma fire struck.

03:51The Seraph's icon flashed red, alarms blared, and the line went silent.

03:56Ilara, report, I shouted, panic breaking through.

03:59Silence.

04:00Her icon went dark.

04:02The command center held its breath.

04:04Then a whisper, static, then her voice.

04:06I'm still here, Jax.

04:07The ship's torn apart.

04:08I have one shot.

04:09On sensors, the Seraph tumbled, trailing fire but still aimed at the target.

04:14She fired, a single brilliant lance of energy.

04:17The inevitable erupted in a chain of explosions, its rain broken.

04:21The command center erupted in cheers, but I couldn't join.

04:24My eyes searched for Alara's escape pod.

04:27Get me a lock on her pod, I ordered, voice tight.

04:30The battle was won, but all that mattered was finding her in the chaos.

04:35We found her.

04:36Her pod's beacon faint, but alive.

04:39Valerius's fleet scattered, leaderless.

04:42The twin suns rose, turning wreckage into glittering diamonds.

04:46Victory was real, but scarred.

04:48We had saved our home, but at great cost.

04:51I went straight to the medical bay, fear and relief warring inside me.

04:55She was bruised, bandaged, but alive.

04:58Her tired smile met mine.

05:00You did it, Alara, I said softly.

05:03I didn't do it alone, she whispered, gripping my hand.

05:06The weight of command faded, replaced by connection and hope.

05:10As the suns rose over Xylos, we faced a new day, scarred, but ours to rebuild.

05:17I didn't do it again.

05:19I was just sat with the scarf that suddenly came to pass up.

05:23I tried a new day, had the signicine light before I killed me.

05:27I was

05:30to Mu is going to allow myself to tell me, this guy, the other person was looking back.

05:35The tour background line made me look back on all three plus bars of the Bern Thation.

05:39This guy had nothing butarency.

Short Film! The Obsidian Sky

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