(This world is attached to Project One, announced in the Help Wanted thread with a similar title to this one.) For over 30 years, the human Coalition and the alien Republic (exotic name TBD) have lived in harmony with one another. The empire led by Xiomek was toppled by a carefully executed revolution, and his followers were swiftly sent to the ends of the galaxy, separated by light-years of vacuum. In that time, the two allies have slowly begun to separate. With the death of the entire Republic Senate and Chancellor Xiomek, a power vacuum is threatening to implode the Republic from within. Meanwhile, a powerful alien warlord named Aetayn has taken advantage of this power vacuum and sent his militia to the capital of the Republic. Having disjointed the Republic from the core by detonating a neutron bomb in the Senate chamber, Aetayn faced little opposition when he disbanded the Republic and placed an Empire in its place. Now, all hell is breaking loose. Co-habited worlds are being taken by Aetayn's droid armies at a staggering rate. There is only one ace under the Coalition's sleeve - subspace weapons. By folding the fabric of space, these torpedoes and energy pulses travel at a billion times the speed of light, thus obliterating any target. The weapons have never been fired in anger, and were banned by the Langdon Directive shortly after introduction during the Great War. Now, two new ships - the CSS Hermes and Mercury - are equipped with these incredibly dangerous weapons, and they may have to be put to good use. The Hermes has recently been boarded and captured by alien aggressors. Special Ops Sergeant Michael Hathaway is the last survivor aboard the Hermes as it is sent into the atmosphere of a gas giant for reverse engineering. If the aliens succeeded, they would have one of the most potent weapons ever. However, as he infiltrated the atmospheric research facility, he discovered that it is not temporal weapons they are after. They seek the power to control time itself.