Not all Asikiwa left. The ancient reptilian aliens who could control time and had memory and intelligence unmatched, were extremely class oriented. The lower class, often Asikiwa who committed crimes or those ravaged by violence or disease, were left behind, with nothing.

The Great Asikiwa took even thier cities and farmland with them.

One of those left behind in the wasteland of Kielan was a female named Yuashotha. She was old, past egg-bearing age and her once beatiful greenish yellow scales were now mostly grey.

Yuashotha was a shrewd business official who stole the equivalent of a billon credits from her company over a few years. The Great Asikiwa wanted to make an example of her by descaling and declawing her and send her into a gladiator fight against 2 lesser evolved Kerewa.

They left before this was carried out, leaving Yuashotha in her cell in a prison to starve or dehydrate to death. It almost happened until an Enemy Teshin adventurer named Lanac found her.

Loyal to his Asikiwa masters, Lanac freed Yuashotha and took her to his hidden moonbase on am earthlike moon around a gas planet near the border of Teshin and Asikiwa space.

Lanac had stolen all kinds of technology from his Teshin bretheren and even from the Altiki, including restorative technology to restored Yuashotha to a beautiful youthful form.

Her wits weren't dulled by time and she helped him organize a business to exploit others for money. They hired another Enemy Teshin named Raler and began to work out of that moonbase.

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Time went by, they gained the notice of the Commonwealth, which jealously guarded thier jewel of the Core, Colony 3 and its glittering capital Tiat Si. But the Commonwealth and its feared military, the ACDF, were busy elsewhere.

Yuashotha was afraid that her Asikiwa form would be thier doom and they began looking for a way for her to become something else.

They found a way to make her Teshin like them. She became a female Teshin with blue eyes and dark yellow blonde hair.

Yuashotha noted how they were not doing as well as she had envisioned and suggested that they get into the sentient livestock trade, legalized slavery.

Certain uncouth aliens had banded together to enslave Keerchi and were asking for other, forbidden sources of slaves.

They scoured low tech worlds for intelligent animalistic creatures suitable for slave tasks, which ranged from dishwashing/housekeeping to gardening/agriculture to industrial work and labor.

Yuashotha found some Asikiwa records of explorations and discovered a world called Ivau Eta, home of the Ivaea, a race of intelligent anthropomorphic sleek catlike bear creatures with soft fur and sharp, retractible claws.

The Ivaea were exposed to A4 Galaxy technology in the late 6200s when a war flotilla came to battle the Asikiwa only to be victims of a strange place and no supplies. They came to Ivau Eta and recieved much help from the Ivaea.

To the Ivaea's industrial culture, it was a great thing. They gained new techonolgy, higher industry and had thriving agriculture, providing food for most of thier�area of space. They also formed tight bonds with several A4 Galaxy cultures.

Most of all Ivaea worked in agriculture. Ivau Eta was mostly farmland and processing factories. It was a little larger than earth and had two moons, one of which had a massive spaceport.

Billions of Ivaea, ripe for picking. They had no military. Thier friends in the A4 Galaxy were too far away to help them.

Yuashotha bought capture gear and both Enemy Teshin, trained in such work during the constant wars in Teshin space, set to work, searching for Ivaea who would not be missed or those easy to catch.

They took a rebuilt Asikiwa white ship, a biotech stealth warship/transport, outfitted it with 30 livestock transport pens, and went to Ivau Eta....

To be continued with The Red Ivae.