Space Riders

The year was 4022 and much had changed in the modern world. Many discoveries had been made such as flying cars that could travel from planet to planet as human life began to stretch across the galaxy. You see, in the year 2050, we put our first set of human beings on mars and the world was soon changed as the colony thrived like nobody had imagined. Soon, with the help of advanced science and engineering, we were able to go to previously uninhabitable planets and make them habitable by using machinery to create dense atmospheres, climate control devises to program weather patterns, and then using advanced agricultural machines to create crops and vegetation. By 2500 we had perfected light travel and space jumping: the act of pressing one button and being at the planet of your desire within the blink of an eye. Soon, we were populating the planets with animal life by the year 3000, and by the year 3020, we were putting human life on these planets to populate and live in new, livable worlds. The big thing was our discovery of other inhabitable planets that were already possessing everything but humanoid life. Or so we thought... It wasn't long before we were confronted with our first encounters with life from other planets, our first confirmable cases of human to alien contact, beyond a shadow of a doubt, was an encounter that took place on the planet called, Delta 42. It was at this place that human beings came into contact with the dreaded Grey Alien race who were ruled by the Amonoids: a race of beautiful giant humanoids that were irresistible to the eyes of any man or woman, not to mention the fact that these aliens had a telepathic/mind-control ability to where they could command weaker willed people to do their will, almost like a type of hypnosis. Mix-breeding of the races occurred as a result of this and a new race of hybrids were formed with special powers of superhuman ability.

Back on earth, human beings learned of these happenings on planet, Delta 42, by the arriving of another humanoid Alien Race known as the Hantienz: pronounced H-an-sh-inz, and translated as 'Travelers'. The Hantienz looked much like human beings but possessed larger eyes that were oval shaped and usually colored all black (males), all yellow (females), or all White (elderly). Their skin also possessed a dark pink color, and the hair of the woman is always long and sun Gold. The younger men either being bald or possessing short or shoulder-length silver hair, and the elderly men always having long Platinum colored hair. They as well had figures and physical appearances that would attract almost any human they were attracted to. The leader of this Alien group, a male named, Kinpore (pronounced Ken-porr-rech) met with the leaders of earth and the human leaders of the other neighboring planets of earth that had been made habitable, such as: Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, and Saturn. Kinpore explained to the human rulers that there were many different Alien races in the galaxy and Universe around them and that they were all at war with one Alien race: the Amonoids who ruled the Greys.

In addition to the Hantienz, there were the Langortz (pronounced Lane-gortsh) a race of Aliens who resembled Orcs of fantasy books on earth. They possessed large muscular figures and had lizard-like dark green skin with the texture of a snake. They had red eyes, and the only real difference between their facial appearance and an Orc's is the fact that they looked more human than an Orc and didn't possess the pig-like tusks as did Orcs.

The next race of Aliens were the Yantees (pronounced Yahn-tease): they were a race of humanoids that possessed purple skin and blue or red hair. Besides their skin color, they looked very much like humans and even shared some of the same ailments such as diminishing of the hearing or sight etc.

The next race were the Urnfurs (pronounced Ern-Furs): they were a race that resembled humans crossed with animals. They even had different ethnicities that separated them into tribes and groups. Once they arrived on earth and made peace with the humans on earth and around the galaxy they asked the humans to name them because they'd only separated themselves into ethnicities by appearance, but never had names for those ethnicities. Man named the six different groups and the Urnfurs translated those titles into their own language. There were the Dokefins (Doe-keh-fins) or 'Dog-men'. Then there were the Ketacins (Ket-ack-sins) or 'Cat-ones'. The Yackuns (Yack-wans) or 'Yeti-Beings'. Leipfins (Lye-pah-fins) or 'Leopard-Folk'. The Feijins (Fee-jans) or 'Fox-lookers'. and the Crocilidians (Croc-oh-lyd-ians) or 'Amphibious Crocodile men'.

The next and final race of Alien beings to visit for the large Universal and Galactic meeting were the beings known simply as the Greens. Literally the little green aliens of legend. However, they weren't so little, they actually ranged anywhere from '3-'9 feet tall but all possessed slender figures and communicated telepathically as compared to speaking vocally.

In addition to these races was the finding of the Mythical lands of Legend thought to be purely fictional by the human race until shown to them by the Kinpore. He showed the human governments and Military how to navigate through the white hole portal that is the Bermuda Triangle and take them to the lands of Atlantis and Avalon where they not only found a human society that was advanced far beyond their own but also a land full of mythical creatures such as Dragons, Elves, Vampires, Werewolves, Fairies, Unicorns, Centaurs, Minotaurs, Griffins, Sphinxes, Hydras, Trolls, Orcs, and any other mythical creature thought to be only legend. To the surprise of most the regular earth and galactic human society, many of the Vampires, Werewolves, Minotaurs, Centaurs, Elves, and many of the other Mythical beings were quite civilized and cultured and were ready to fight along side the humans and other races to save the Universe. Most helpful were the Dragons who could not only talk but could also travel from planet to planet in a teleportation type style.

The first encounter with the Amonoids and Greys who took over the minds of the colonies of, Delta 42, was in 3132, and the meeting of what would become the United Races of the Galaxy and surrounding Universe (or U.R.G as they're now called) took place in the year 3150. What followed was a war that lasted until 3776, where the untied races fought back the Ammonoid and Grey Alien race almost to the point of extinction before the agreed upon treaty was signed that resulted in the peace that we enjoy today. But the devastation and carnage of the war caused the Races to require regular monthly meeting of the U.R.G council and form a new Military-Like organization to police the Universe that would be made up of one eighth of the five Alien races that fought along-side human beings in the war, One eighth of the organization would be reserved for the mythical creatures that fought on the side of humans in the war, such as: Vampires, Werewolves, Orcs, Elves, Dragons, Minotaurs, Centaurs and other mythical beings. Then Humans would make up the remaining quarter and also be in charge of running the organization as voted on unanimously by each represented race in the U.R.G. It was to be the biggest police-like force ever imagined in existence, and as such, included a total number of fifty thousand members and would be split up into universal districts that would police a certain number of combined planets in addition to the regular military and police forces established on those planets.

However, there was one slight problem: all of the Alien races and Mythical beings had what one would consider super abilities or super powers. The Urnfurs had the abilities of the animals they resembled; the Yantees possessed super speed and intangibility. The Greens were super intelligent and possessed telekinetic powers. The Langortz possessed super strength and the ability to regenerate from most injuries, and the Hantienz were a race of super inventors and were virtually immortal. It seemed that humans were the only beings possessing quite low abilities beyond the ability to adapt to anything which is what led to the other races electing them leaders of the Universe and majority in the new organization. But in 3862, new legislation was passed within the U.R.G council to allow humans to volunteer for top secret experimentation. In these experiments, each human volunteer would be put into a giant metal dome machine where they would then be injected with different genetic serums that had been invented by the Greens in correspondence with the Hantienz in hopes of giving humans extraordinary powers. Unfortunately, at first, many volunteers died, not having the physical ability to adapt to their new body changes that were being forced upon them by the machine. So, in the year 3900, a new stipulation was made: before someone could volunteer, they had to meet physical requirements. This proved to work as planned, and fifty men and women were subjected to the experiment and lived to tell the tale. However, as there always is, one man used his new acquired super abilities to fight against the others and raised an army among the organization and among outcasts in other galaxies and planets to wage a new war that lasted from 3906 to 3982, ending with the man's death and leaving only eleven of the humans that went through experimentation. The then President of Earth demanded the machine be destroyed and that the remaining eleven Super-Humans be released. However, the motion to release the Super-Humans was voted down by all of the other races because of the universe now being populated by the offspring of human and alien hybrids. These new Super-Humans were the only hope against the hybrids if they would ever band together or revolt.

The machine, however, was destroyed so that it could never be used for evil again and the remaining eleven were then voted into high positions within the organization by the Urnfurs, Yantees, Langortz, Hantienz, and Mythical being races. With only the representatives of the Greens, and Humans voting against the motion. The reasoning given for the Super-Humans being voted into such high positions was solely because of their heroism shown during the war and their involvement being the sole reason the war was won.

The make up of the organizational positions were rather different than that of a military organization. On day one a member was given the rank of Cadet, after completing training in a classroom, and virtual reality environment they were sent into the field as a Probie under the supervision of a Lance Corporal. After the probation period that was to last no longer and no less than one and a half years, they were then made Deputies. This is where most people stopped progressing because of the extremely high standards set by the organization to make it to a position higher than Deputy. But the next step beyond that was that of a Lance Corporal who were in charge of training new incoming Probies. Then there was the position of Corporal, who's sole purpose were to lead a squad Deputies (that could consist of anywhere from 3-9 Deputies) in the field in the execution of operations. Next were 1st Sergeants who were assigned to protection details such as taking care of citizens in witness protection, protection of assets in cases, escort protection of beings from planet to planet if needed, and any other regular protection detail. Staff Sergeants who simply oversaw Cadet training and passing of successful candidates and then assigning new Probies to a Lance. Corporal. Staff Sergeants also oversaw regular Quarterly Training of all positions below them and assigned regular weekly training details for all Probies, and monthly training details for all Deputies, Lance. Corporals, and Corporals. Next were Master Sergeants who ran planetary precincts that they were assigned to and did monthly evaluations of all positions below them. After that were the higher up positions.

2nd Lieutenants were in charge of the field training of new Sergeant Probies. Each new Sergeant went through a long six month training in a squad lead by a 2nd Lieutenant. Then were 1st Lieutenants who were much like Sergeants in the sense that they were assigned to protection details. But 1st Lieutenants were assigned to what were called 'Special Protection and Escort Details and Programs'. They did, however, get to chose what detail they wanted to be assigned to or what program they wanted to go into. The Special Protection Details were usually the escorting of higher up officers, Diplomats, or elected officials from planet to planet or galaxy to galaxy etc. an Protection Programs were more like being a permanent body guards for Diplomats or Elected officials.

Then were the Captains, a position shrouded in secrecy. They were the elite of the elite field agents and participated in classified Special operations. The position above that, Majors, led squads of Captains into those special operations and were commanding officers on the field. Then were Colonels, the bosses, the ones who ran the organization as a whole. They ran the organization by the guidelines set forth by the leaders and founders. They handed down the operations to the lower leader positions: Majors, Master Sergeants, 1st Lieutenants. They came up with operations and handed down Special operations.

There were other more specialized positions, of course. Such as Armorer/WeaponSmith who took care of all Laser Blasters, Cannons, Rifles. Counselors, Doctors, and I.T. Specialists/Data and Computer Hackers.

At the very top of the organization were three positions, given only to voted upon members of the organization, Voted by a special Committee in the U.R.G and given those positions for life unless proved incompetent by 3/4 of the committee of four beings or C.O.B as it was called.

The lower of the positions was 'The Seneschal' and 3rd in command was given to Acadia, a large, short, white woman with glasses who had been one of the eleven surviving human volunteer experiments. She possessed the ability of Far-sight and could see events yet to happen far into the future. As such, she was guarded by a detail of fifty 2nd Lieutenants, and worked closely with Diplomats and Representatives from every Race. She was also who passed down orders and operations to the Colonels who would then make strategic plans and edits before the passed it down to Majors and Master Sergeants.

The next in line and 2nd in command was 'The Marshall' and her name was Kiera Vox, a fit black young woman who in addition to being 2nd was also commander of a group known only as 'The Knights'. A secretive Black Ops operation group. Kiera was in command of all Black Ops operations and often accompanied her team into battle against the lowest of the scum of the Universe behind her friend Phoenix. Phoenix and Kiera were also both experiments and as such they both possessed Super-human powers. Kiera was immortal and virtually invulnerable to harm, she was also an expert marksman and fighter. Phoenix possessed a rapid healing factor and Super-human strength. He was a slender/athletic built dark complected man. Some of the other 'Knights' as they were called, also possessed Super-human abilities as well.

The last position and highest up in the organization was the position known as 'The Grand Marshall'. But nobody knew who it was, presumably for that individual's own safety. What was known to everyone was that 'The Grand Marshall' could do whatever he wanted however he wanted at anytime and anywhere in the Universe. That person actually had more authority in the Universe than any other being in existence including the elected officials that put them in that position.

To the Galaxy and the Universe the military like policemen were known simply as 'The Space Riders'!