Number: 57

Title: As It is Called

Type: Original fiction


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Cast:
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James Rahn: Legendary assassin and leader of Durankov. Stopped a group
of blood-thirsty conspirators from plunging his world into war.
"Retired" after said events and keeps mostly to himself, still training
and keeping an eye on the present-day assassins. James is a bit nutty,
but his skill in killing people and generally kicking ass are indeed
worthy of the legends built around him.

Seth Grayson: Born and raised on the planet Crylon, trained from birth
to be a super-strong fighter, Seth was destined to defeat a group of
alien pirates known only as "Nemesis" to protect his world from
destruction. He turned on his creators, but ultimately chose to stop
Nemesis and try to re-build what was destroyed without the mad people to
created him. Seth has encyclopedic knowledge of a thousand martial arts
styles, the power to destroy worlds.

Sen Calliger: A martial artist of skill beyond compare, he uncovered a
5,000-year old secret to incredible power, and was then hunted down by
the few people who welded it. After surviving their wrath, he tried to
help integrate a new species of humans with the world after he
contracted an "incurable" disease. Finally, Sen was taken from earth by
a race of aliens that claimed they pre-programmed his brain to learn
this deadly source of power. He was to free their people from an
oppressive ruling government that held their planet an colonies in a
death-grip. He is extremely skilled in a handful of specific fighting
styles, and has deep academic knowledge of hundreds more. He has yet to
see the true limits of his abilities. He is also immortal.

Dillon Borroughs: A freedom fighter who pulled off the worlds greatest
con on himself, Dillon is a man torn and confused. A lethal killer, all
of his hatred and training have been carefully arranged by an alternate
personality. Though the two personalities are again one, he remains
mildly bipolar and is extremely dangerous. His use of weaponry is
surpassed only by James.

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Organizations/Races:

Majestic 12: Fourteen people (the name is simply a name), who basically
rule the entire world through various political and business
connections. Wish for nothing less than to guide the fate of humanity,
down the to smallest detail, by their own hands. Secretive and
untrusting, they either kill or remove from power anyone who opposes
them.

United Nations Armed Forces: A world-wide military gathered from the
United States, Canada, Brazil, Greenland, the European Union, and the
Western Russian Federation. They stand ten million men strong, opposing
the Chinese National Army, and her allies (pretty much the rest of the
planet, which have resources and manpower equal in number).