Star Force: Resurrection (SF84) (Star Force Origin Series) by Aer-ki Jyr Page A

properly equipped ship and
transport equipment from our homeworlds to move you.
We did not know you were here otherwise we would have brought it with us. We
will provide you with food and supplies during the transition, but you will no
longer have to fear the Cajdital. Their time here is over and all of their
prisoners are being freed.”
    “What others?”
    “There are many captured races here, including some
other Kvash. The lizards were keeping you as trophies. Whenever they conquered
a race they kept a few alive and brought them here. I have a lot of people to
rescue, so I ask that you remain patient until we are able to remove you from
this place.”
    “What will happen to us?” the one in front of him
said, finally rising up a bit to its full height. Despite the naivety he sensed
in these Kvash, they were remarkably even keeled. No doubt that was one reason
why they’d built their warfleet the way they had, with such huge ships and starbases that required patience and wisdom to operate and
was the polar opposite of the lizard’s expendable fleet philosophy.
    “I will take you back with us and build up a planet
where you can live free,” Paul said, feeling the urge and opportunity in their
mindsets to go a bit further. “I know you know little of what you once were,
but I will help you reclaim what you have lost and rebuild your civilization.
If you do not want to have any part in that and just want to get away from here
then you may live with us without responsibility. You will be our guests for
the remainder of your lives, but your offspring will be able to reclaim the
lost past and I will show them and any of you that are willing the way. The
same goes for every other race held captive here, but you will have a special
place with us.”
    Paul looked around at all the Kvash, some of which
were moving towards him. “It will take time. A lot of time. But now time is
your ally rather than your enemy. You are prisoners no longer. You are simply
waiting here for your ride out, and from there you will begin a journey
into…things you can’t even imagine,” Paul admitted. “The dark days are over
now, and you need not fear any longer. It will take time for you to adjust to
freedom, but you have a future now. Welcome back, my friends.”
    Several Kvash who had come close looked at each other,
conversing in their own language with Paul picking up bits and pieces of it.
The translation software was severely outdated, given that there hadn’t been
any Kvash alive and it’d been relegated to a dead language.
    “We do not know of what you speak. We only know of
here.”
    “Then let me show you,” Paul said, forgoing the
limited holoprojector that his armor held and accessing their minds directly.
“I have mind powers, and I will show you some of your history.”
    The Archon sat down on the ground casually in his
armor, not noticing the scorching temperatures, and began sending them memories
of his own and visual recordings of battles the Kvash had fought in that he was
actively pulling from the battlemap link they’d run up to the surface and using
to access the fleet databases.
    He was watching it on his HUD and mentally
transmitting what he saw to them, and decided to take a decent amount of time
with them before he headed off to meet and greet some of the other races here.

 
    Several weeks later, when the facility had been
confirmed cleansed of lizard presence thanks to a widespread and exhaustive
search using Archon telepathy, Paul returned to the Excalibur and got in some decent workouts, not having had much
available to him other than some long runs down within the planet based out of
the mobile facilities that they’d set up camp in. After starting to feel a
little better with the workout burn saturating his body, he returned to the
command nexus on the bridge and took stock of his fleet’s positioning and made
a few tweaks while watching the live status update from the others as they
continued to