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Sykes blinked twice, as he saw the ominous Empire script letters popping up in a corner of the screen. "What the...that can't be. How can that be???" He said visiblely surprised as his world suddenly contracted to the obvious glaring information. He paid no heed at the confused retinue of the king that had been cowed by a dragon. Something long forgotten lit in his eyes. The yearning. Hope. A SEED user. Everything was not lost then.

At any rate... the farce would be over. He gripped his arm, and undid the bandages that covered a crest in his hand. A marked star, in the Hand. Similar, yet unlike to the fabled Mark of the Hero. This one bore three points, the Mark of the Overseer. It glowed ominously, as it reacted with a piece of equipment he pulled from his cloak. The strange metal case came to live, stretching, expanding. Showing a dozen of different contraptions inside. Twisting a dial and pressing a couple of buttons, Sykes spoke to the Device.

Throughout the Old Imperial communication frequencies, his voice was transmitted in the archaic tongue of the empire. "Unknown. Please identify yourself. This is Adjutant Overseer Sykes, in charge of the 456-Beta Mission. I repeat, Identify yourself." 

Sykes eyed tensely his surroundings then. He had hoped his hunch was true.