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In another land billions of light-years away and billions of years in time away from the great Fenshian and Dochani war on Dochani Beta there was a world of the Sevlin called Sevle. Many Dochani were sent to many planets to give the people on those planets warnings of the impending hostile visit to them from the Fenshians and Sevle was one such planet.
Kenjin was from a world called Dochani Zeta. The Dochani race was a sentient being that laid eggs. An egg’s incubation period was approximately three hundred years, but could lay dormant for a lot longer than that. Some of the Dochani could travel from world to world with their advanced minds. They are a highly biological race with everything that a typical humanoid has, but with an anatomy that is enhanced far above a typical humanoid.
The Dochani appear human-like as to say that they are bipedal in nature and walk upright with very efficient pointed ears and piercing hawk-like eyes. Some have been known to develop wings and the ability to breath or process water and other substances as though they were air. Also, they were like birds in that their offspring had memories from their ancestors passed from generation to generation.
Traveling to different worlds was hard on her body especially when she was about to release an egg. By traveling to different worlds while close to delivering or releasing an egg she put her child at risk, but she felt that the importance of her message in some ways trumped the well being of herself as it would hurt her more than her child. The council of Dochani Zeta knew the many risks placed on mother and child due to the temporal displacement caused by time shifting from world to world.
It was their duty to warn her of what it would do to her child and she knew what they would tell her, but she had a greater duty towards other civilizations that were not as advanced as hers was and may not be able to cope with the murderous onslaught that would follow in their wake. She left before they could tell her, what she already knew, that she and her child could die or after the egg hatched the Dochani child would be in some way defective or deformed.
Besides the council was always opposed to her traveling and those who were like her because less than two percent of all Dochani could travel the way that she could. There was a time when there were more people like her, but very few could do so after thousands and thousands of years of wars with the Fenshians. The people of Sevle needed to be warned of their impending doom.
Their world was one of the many worlds on the list that were to be exploited and destroyed by the mortal enemies of her home world, Dochani Zeta. These enemies were from the world called Primus Mortus and their peoples were called Fenshians. When you are around for a long time enemies are made every waking moment of your life. Some races were known to become extinct for the minerals on their worlds and Dochani Zeta did carry a mineral called petaleum, which was a gaseous substance found in the petals of most flowers on Dochani Zeta that were used to fuel the Fenshians’ ships.
Most worlds contained this natural fuel although no one developed a way to extract this powerful fuel except for the Fenshians and a little known race of cyborgs even larger in society and older than the Fenshians, if only partially humanoid, called the Mechanaar. The planet Sevle had more of the petaleum than even Dochani Zeta, especially since the Fenshians used up most of the supplies of petaleum on Dochani Zeta.
Thus the ever conquering race of Fenshians coveted their supply of petaleum. The danger lay in when an attack would be made on the Sevle world and not whether there would be an attack on them or not.