🏠 Hidden Rebel Base on planet Deshan H24C, Centaurus Nebula

📆 Year 3209

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"Commander SN1098, report to the medical bay immediately."

SN1098 aka Commander Jayde of Centauri heard her name being called over the loudspeaker. Standing up from her chair she left the mess hall and made her way to the medical bay.

Entering the pristine medical bay, she looked around for Doctor Shishido Eba. Seeing the small Asian woman she stalked up to her.

"Damn it doc, how many times have I told you not to call us by our designations," Jayde stated coldly.

"You know how much we hate it, we are no longer slaves to the human corporations."

"Er, sorry about that Jayde," Doctor Shishido Eba said sheepishly.

Doctor Shishido Eba was pissed she had forgotten, she had only recently joined the rebel cause after being rescued from being a test subject from a highly classified black ops base in the Delta Quadrant. As one of them, she understood why the people at the station hated to be reminded of their slave status, they have even gone as far as to rename their species to Centauri rather than homo sapiens.

Doctor Shishido Eba was again struck by the commanding presence of the nearly six-foot athletic woman standing in front of her, her ebony hair styled in a sleek bob that framed her heart-shaped face, she had attractive angular eyebrows that framed her bright, intelligent green eyes.

Even though Jayde's eyes were glaring at her Doctor Shishido Eba didn't feel intimated. Those eyes were the first thing she had seen when she was rescued from the isolation chamber that she had been stuck in for refusing to carry out illegal human experiments.

Cold, naked, she had been desperately trying to hold on to her sanity in that cold metal cage locked beneath the earth when the escape hatch above her had opened.

To this day she will never forget looking up and seeing those green eyes looking down at her, filled with compassion and then an arm had reached down, and a musical voice had said four words that had pulled her from the brink of insanity: "You are safe now."

Within days of her rescue, Doctor Shishido Eba and her fellow scientists were safely escorted to the hidden rebel base. One of the first things Commander Jayde has insisted on after they had been treated for their various injuries — was for all of them to choose their own names.

Having their barcoded tattoo, which designated them as property, removed from their face and choosing their own names was just the first step in reclaiming their dignity and freedom. Every single person rescued had joined the rebel cause after that, each swearing to follow this charismatic woman to hell if need be.

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Jayde and all the rebels were genetically engineered humans, many were warriors, otherwise known as GESS — Genetically Engineered Super Soldiers. They had been designed and breed specifically to fight in wars waged between large Earth-based corporations.

Soldiers were not the only engineered humans, the corporations breed different breeds depending on their requirements.

Earthlings no longer fought wars due to race, religion or countries anymore, now everything was controlled by large corporations and wars were fought to control the rare resources available in the known universe.

Due to the fact, genetically engineered humans were explicitly designed, and breed in especially nutritional vats and the exorbitant costs involved in upbringing and training them, the corporations had fought for them to be designated as properly belonging to a corporation.

Most humans were quite happy with this arrangement, as a GESS was superior in all ways to a normal human. They were faster, stronger, more agile, highly intelligent with superior senses and healing ability.

A normal human could never compete with a GESS one and one, so they didn't argue when corporations mandated that a GESS was designated as a product.

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Besides which human would want to go off to some dingy corner in the universe, just to fight in some awful alien environment against either other, a GESS or strange aliens for resources. They would rather stay in the comfort of their own homes, safely on their planets and reap the rewards.

"So what's up doc?" Jayde asked facetiously, knowing that Doctor Shishido Eba had found some old earth children programs that she was watching — something called cartoons.

Blushing slightly at the reminder, Doctor Shishido Eba replied: "He's awake."

"Finally," Jayde said as she turned and walked over to an adjacent room.

Entering the medical ward, Jayde walked over to the only occupied bed. Lying in the occupied bed was a tall, handsome man, with blond hair, and bright blue eyes. Looking at him you would estimate him to be in his mid-thirties, but like Jayde, he was an advanced GESS who was over sixty-years-old.

"Lawrence, how are you feeling?" Jayde asked softly, her eyes filled with concern. If anyone else had seen their leader at that moment, they would have been shocked. Jayde was known to be cold and ruthless. Many of the recruits stated that she was colder and harder than a robot.

Lawrence's lips curled into a small smile. "Sorry to have you worried, Commander," Lawrence replied his voice slightly husky from not being used for some time.

Lawrence came from the same batch as Jayde, they had gone through training together, and out of the thousand babies 'born' in their batch, only Lawrence and Jayde remained. For sixty years they have fought alongside each other, they had gone through thick and thin. When Jayde finally rebelled against the corporations and started the rebellion, Lawrence was the first person who joined her.

He had disappeared two years ago during a daring raid on one of Xi Corporations hidden facilities, and Jayde was convinced that the Xi Corporation had killed him. Her rage-filled grief had spurred her, and for two years she had waged a bloody war against the Xi Corporation. Freeing thousands of GESS from their clutches, until a couple of weeks ago, Jayde received intel Lawrence was alive, and the Xi Corporation was moving him to a new prison.

Desperate to rescue her brother, Jayde quickly put together an elite rescue team, and in a daring raid, they recovered Lawrence from a high-security cell aboard one of the Xi Corporation transport ships.

Devastated to find that Lawrence had been beaten and bearing marks of torture in a small cell aboard the transport ship, Jayde nevertheless was ecstatic that her brother was still alive.

To save Lawrence the pain of being moved, Jayde has immediately sedated him and had him transferred to a stasis chamber and transported back Deshan H24C, and placed under Doctor Shishido Eba care.