After a week of travels the ship landed on the planet Rigov.
Alex wondered about the fact that the journey took a week, so that means it took a week for them to get to his home planet, yet after the met him they left, what was their aim in coming in the first place?
While Alex was dip in thought the crew finally disembarked from the ship. Rigov was what you would call a underdeveloped planet in this time. It was at the outskirts of the Galaxy, which made the reach of the Alliance power limited in the solar system that Rigov was found.
The Alliance is the governing body of the milky way galaxy, humanities government. It was established by ten of the rulers of the major solar systems about tens of thousands of years ago. The Alliance regulated every operation of the Galaxy, the original ten people are rumored to be alive till date and the are known as the COUNCIL. Knowing all this, one would then ask who are the Quantum Syndicate? Well the are a mysterious organization that is believed to have existed long before the forming of the Alliance, the ultimate goal of this organization is unknown, but they are more powerful than the Alliance, so the Alliance has been unable to root them out. Infact it is also rumored that the Quantum Syndicate have much power in the Alliance or might have been the ones to create the Alliance originally, so as gain control over the Galaxy without force, the only way to know a Quantum Syndicate is my the S shaped snake badge their fighters use. They're army is one that appear and disappear after completing their task. No one knew where their base of operation was at all. This is the basic rumor about the Quantum Syndicate.
Alex followed the crew out of the rundown space port, they passed through the town and Alex saw that the planet was close to being a lawless one, but it seemed the had found a way to create their own law.
Oliver noticed Alex darting view and began to talk.
"Since Rigov is at the edge of the Alliance, it isn't easy to watch over it, so the Guild was created."
Alex was confused when he heard the word Guild.
Oliver saw Alex confused look and continued.
"Well the strongest metas on the planet made the Guild, the HQ is in another town north from here. The Guild was just a way of creating stability, the Guild created factions, this factions provide protection to their members. The method was shaky at first, as members of other factions would make trouble thinking they had the protection of their faction, but this always lead to faction wars as all side wanted to protect their integrity. After a year of beating their self up, they realized that I was not worth it provoking any one as their faction would just retaliate for them. Though weak factions can still be bullied by stronger factions."
Oliver stop to take a breather.
" The top factions are the Light Alliance, Tera Crest, Nova and TwinDragon. All other factions are mostly subsidiaries of these four, though they are individual factions but they normally posses strong metas I their rank to back them up. All in all, this factions are subject to the Guild, at the end this is just someones ploy to gain power, but it did help to gain stability.'
When Oliver finished his explanation, Alex had a basic view of the working of things on Rigov, since he was talking to Oliver he decided to ask him about meta abilities. He had the general knowledge but he was sure that Oliver possessed a deeper knowledge on the topic.
"Sir Oliver, how is the strength of a meta known"
When Alex asked the question, Oliver adjusted his glasses before speaking.
"Well metas use a grading system. This system is divided in the following:
I) Source Gathering plane
2) Nexus plane
3) core formation plane
4) Nexus foundation plane
5) filtration plane
6) Nirvana plane
7) Arcane plane
8) Transcendent plane
9) demi-god plane
This are the stages I Know of, though it is said that more planes exist after these ones, each one has 9 stages within, except core formation and Nirvana plane. This two are just a one way stop, when you create your core then you step into Nexus Foundation plane, some people take years to form it while some take days,. Every growth come with it's hardship, as the more we gain power the closer we are to breaking out of the universes hold, so it does it's best to disrupt you."
Alex too a minute to digest the information he received, though he would have research more on the topic.
The group soon reached a house,
"Welcome to your new home he announced to Alex before entering the one storey building.
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A man stood on a balcony on.a floating building on space. He gazed into a distance, his old yet refined look gave him a visage of knowledge. Soon a figure appeared beside him, it was the man clouded in dark smoke.
"So have you begun the search for my nephew's work?." The man at the balcony asked.
The clouded figure responded.
"All we know fir now is that it has been inherited, but whomever inherited it must be a genius, and they tend to over estimate their ability to plan."
"What are you getting at"
"Well, let's give it sometime, the person will surely show himself to us sooner than you expect"
The man at the balcony just sighed as he heard this.
Soon the man in black smoke disappeared.
"You hid it away from me for so long, young nephew, but now I will get my hand on your work,. with it my plans will be completed and the Quantum Syndicate, the dream your father had will finally be. You may have tried to hide it, but now that they key and the.door are together, we will get them in one swoop. Just wait for me kid, I will find you."
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Millions of light years away.
Suddenly Alex felt a chill down his spine.