Steven's POV
My name is Steven Freer, proud soldier of the Vician Ducal Guard. I serve the ruling Grand Ducal House with my blood, sweat and tears just like my father and his forefathers, sadly just like my father I had no Duke to serve.
Two centuries ago his grace the ruling Grand Duke at the time Vladimir Druman was assassinated without an heir, the assassin was found and identified and we found out who ordered the assassination.
There were three minor ducal houses serving the Grand Ducal house, the house's of 'Juni', 'Gararn' and 'Telemar'.
After interrogating the assassin with numerous methods it was found out that the House of Juni had ordered the assassination, this information was proven true by an undercover investigation.
Once it was found out who ordered the assassination the Grand Duchy's Naval forces in great anger destroyed any House Juni ships they came upon and the House Juni capital world Janos was blockaded by a Vician Battle-Fleet consisting of one heavy carrier, two light escort carriers, two battleships, one battlecruiser, four heavy cruisers, sixteen light cruisers, twenty-one destroyers, thirty-three frigates and seventy-eight corvettes.
After weeks of the siege and orbital bombardment of Juni military facilities and forces, the military troop transport ships finally arrived. 9 large troop transports each carrying 18,200 Vician marines in stasis along with their power armour, weapons and supplies needed for a long campaign lasting two to four years.
Once the transports reached the orbit of Janos the invasion began, 163,800 marines - 63,800 heavy infantry and 100,000 light infantry - landed on the planet and began assault on all entrenched positions that could not be destroyed via orbital bombardment, also clearing out cities of Juni soldiers.
Five months passed and the invasion ended due to all members of the Juni ducal house being caught and detained, after that any remaining Juni forces surrendered and the war ended.
A week after the end of the conflict all members of the Juni ducal house were executed on live broadcast which was sent to all corners of Vician territory, this was both punishment for their folly and a warning to any others that may desire to follow in their footsteps.
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Due to the Grand Duke Vladimir's will, it is known that he has an heir that is on an unknown primitive planet called Earth, of course this fact was only known to the Vician loyalists that set out to find Earth.
After a century the search ended. Earth was found, it was impossible to search for the Grand Ducal heir due to lack of reliable medical records on the surface, after another century of slowly providing slight technological knowledge without the humans noticing the only possible Heir was found.
His name was Fedor Kurenov, this brings us to present day.
"A letter was sent with a tempting offer, if he does not accept it then you will kidnap him without his knowledge Steven. You must not fail, the governments of this world know of our existence, but they do not know what we want and they cannot pinpoint our locations." The Druman family head butler Andrew Innings intoned, after a faint knock on the door was heard.
"Enter." Andrew called towards the door.
The door opened and a man in a butler's uniform entered carrying a letter to which he passed to Andrew, 5 seconds was all it took to open the letter and see the signature at the bottom acknowledging Fedor's acceptence.
"He's accepted, go with Lili to pick him up, we'll meet at extraction point Alpha understood?" He asked me.
"Yes sir." I said along with a Vician salute, which was putting my fist over my heart.
He nodded to me and I turned around and left the room, walking down the corridor and down a flight of stairs into an underground garage.
The android Lili was already in a primitive human car so I walked up opened a back door and got in, closing the door behind me.
"We have our mission let's go." I said on my comms to her.
"Acknowledged." She responded, starting the car and our journey to pick up the future of Vicia.
My father was unable to serve a Grand Duke, hopefully this Fedor is his heir and I would have Lord to serve.
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Fedor's POV
Comfortable is the one word used to desribe my bed I thought as I lay with my eyes closed thinking what a strange dream that was, I mean it's not every day that you dream of getting kidnapped by aliens or whoever they were.
Wait a moment. My bed wasn't this comfy the last time I checked, I open my eyes and shoot up into a sitting position. What I see is not my familiar bedroom and bed but rather an unfamiliar room and bed.
The bed being a large luxurious one with red silky sheets and fluffy pillows, while the room having metallic looking light grey walls whereas the ceiling is a dark grey and the floor a white.
The room itself is quite bare besides from a few lockers, a small table with 5 chairs, a few framed pictures on the walls and a closed door with what looks like a digital control panel alongside it.
It's a will reading they said, it'll be fun they said. Well, they didn't say it'd be fun and I'd assume funeral's are not fun but my question is. Where. On. Earth. Am I? Or am I still even on Earth?
It's not fun being kidnapped, it's a shame I can't do much to my captors due to the missing arm. I think it'd be best if I do what they want of me, I mean I doubt they did it for a malicious reason because if you kidnapped someone with evil intent would you lock them in a room with a luxury bed? Well, I hope they're not malicious...
My musings and pondering on the meaning of life were interrupted when the door swished open and a man in a butler uniform entered followed by a man in fatigues of a sort.
So these are my captors I'm guessing...