A brief history of Telios: Emissary of Bao

It's one of those scorching hot summer afternoon here on Selrak IV, the year is 2496, only a few years shy from the 26th century if we are still alive to see it comes. The interstellar co-operate alliance known as Sentient Mileu which governed this region of the galaxy for millenia has collapsed under the massive invasion of the IIvux. Nearly entire region has fallen into a complete state of anarchy, only a handful of sanctuaries and outposts in remote corners were left untouched.

This would soon change as IIvux forces advancing deeper into territories once part of Mileu's area of inglurence. Earth was drawn into the chaos during the early days of invasion. Few of us who survived have evacuated in small convoys of generation ships heading off to the unknown space looking for refuge far way from the carnage. Some disappeared to the unknown regions, and were never heard from again. Some others like us have partnered with other races that were also affected by the war, hoping any form of alliance can prolong our collective existence a little while longer.

After more than a decade of traveling, our ancestors on Utopia convoy 209 have allied with the pacifist Cyreen, whose home world was destroyed by IIvux planet killer. Nearly two centuries has come and passed, both humans and Cyreens have slowly integrated into one single civilization with a common goal of finding ways to live freely from the wraith of IIvux. We wouldn't enjoy the rare peace for long. IIvus's armada finally caught up with us after decades of calm while we settled in a remote corner of M88 cluster at constellation Hydra. The desert world of Selrak IV is one of our last remaining strongholds. The 4^th planetoid of the Selrak trinary system located 620 light years away from the cluster core deep inside M32 "Swan" sub cluster at Delta Orionis. Planet's unique magnetic field and atmospheric properties have protected us from the trinaries' lethal gamma radiation and shielded our signatures from ships attempting to scan the surface. We thought we finally found a safe heaven, we were so wrong. IIvux scouts discovered the location and eventually found a way around to defeat the natural protections. Their armada unleashed wave after wave of armoured-clad silicon based drones onto the surface. Our positions have been pounded on for thirty-six days straight. When it seemed our demise was near, event started to take a strange turn. Two standard days ago when the latest wave was about to breach the inner defense perimeter, it was unexpectedly thwarted by a single humanoid being. We have no idea where it came from, all we witnessed was it dashed from behind the invasion force like a beam of light streaking across the air. Sliced through the columns like a hot knife on butter, wrecking havoc within the drones. Drones after drones were thrown aside from the mayhem like rag dolls. The melee however, ended as soon as it started. In the heat of battle, that metallic blue humanoid released a ball of light, engulfed everything in its perimeter. including every single drone. Just as the bright flash of light started to diminish, the being itself disappeared into thin air. It has left no trace of battle on the sand dunes, not even any wreckage of destroyed drones. Next moment can only be described as astonishing. Many of our Cyreen comrades were stone froze; some kneel on their feet and started weeping uncontrollably. We asked one of the elders the reason behind this surreal event. He can only describe it as impossible because that being we just saw is suppose to exist only in their ancient folklore dating back thousands of years. Known to Cyreens and their sister species Telerians as Telios - the Emissary of Bao. According to legend, Telios was one of the four mythical creatures that resided in Bao nebula near Teleria Prime who would protect both species during their time of need. Telerian died out three millenia ago along will almost all of their historical records during a massive supernova eruption. Based on archaeological findings long before the great war and few remaining manuscripts; some alternative modern Cyreen exobiologists have however elaborated that Telios and the other three mythical creatures were merely some kind of super soldiers or weapons of immensely destructive power that Telerians engineered.to protect their interests. The same scientists also suggested that the reason for Bao nebula to have anything to do with this probably because the nebula was a known local subspace corridor portal. Likely ancient Telerians have the four creatures hidden in the corridor as the guardians of the portal and called for their service with some sort of homing beacons.

If that is in fact the case, then the activation codes must have survived the carnage of time. Someone out there or perhaps even here must have activated the code, but who could that be? Then again, Telios is a savior to most Cyreens from ancient to present day, and to many of us Earthlings here on Selrak. Perhaps it may turn the tide of resistance to our favor, at least for the time being.

We shall see.............