2022 REWRITE IN PROGRESS

After being rudely awoken from Cryo-sleep, John-117 finds that the Forward Unto Dawn has been sucked into a gravity well, causing it to fall towards an unknown planet. In the crash, he is separated from Cortana and falls alone into the Everfree forest. In addition to this new complication, old memories from a scarred and tragic past haunt his dreams, putting his remaining sanity on edge.

However, he has little time to ponder these thoughts, as he encounters the planet's... peculiar... inhabitants.

First 19 Chapters proofread by Bravo 539 and Shadownamesto.
Credit for the intro sequence goes to Blaze Spectrum.

Current rewrite will not necessarily follow the old story but certain events and details may be reused.

My name is James Clark, and I am a Private Military Contractor. No, not Mercenary. Yes, there is a difference, but that's beside the point.

Ok, where was I? Ah yes, I was just entering my office in Downtown Houston one afternoon to hear a job offer. When I got there, I found a beautiful, robe-wearing woman waiting for me. Now, in this day and age, most people would find that strange. I didn't for two reasons.

1) In this line of work, you run into a few crazies. If I had a dollar for every nut-job I turned away, I could buy a small European country.

2) It was Halloween. Hell, I was on my way to a party dressed in a replica suit of Veteran Ranger Armor from Fallout: New Vegas, complete with gas mask and real riot gear I borrowed from a friend on the SWAT team. I was gonna win the costume contest for sure!

I'm getting off topic, aren't I? Anyways, this weirdo offered me a job without going into much detail. No location, no objective, not even a dollar amount The only thing I got out of her was the promise that I would be saving thousands, if not millions of lives.

Every instinct told me to turn the job down, and yet I still accepted it. Maybe the idea of playing hero again had its appeal.

God, I had no idea what I was getting myself into.

The Vanu Sovereignty has found an ancient alien complex beneath the surface of Auraxis. The data they extracted from this object contains information about the highly advanced civilization that once populated Auraxis, the very same civilization that was directly responsible for the creation of the Sovereignty, and many of its technological advances. The High Priestess, the leader of the Vanu, takes this discovery and the information to be a sign. A sign that if the population of Auraxis is to survive, they must leave the planet and take to the stars.

The fascist Terran Republic is hot on the Sovereignty's heels. They want what the Vanu have, and they will stop at nothing to get it. Some have speculated that the Vanu may have finally found the coordinates of the lost home world of the human race; Earth.

The New Conglomerate, a collection of megarich corporations and capitalist enterprises, is willing to fund and assist the Vanu Sovereignty after the Vanu trick them into thinking that they have the coordinates to Earth. A half-truth, but, in the Sovereignty's eyes, the only way to walk the Path; the Path to the Stars. The Vanu do indeed have the coordinates of Earth, and they've had them since their founding. Only when one of the best infiltrators in the NC military dissapears through an alien portal do the New Conglomerate leaders suspect treachery.

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A few days ago, RC-1207 "Sev" was pounding a Seperatist ship with Wookie turbolasers when he was overwhelmed. Now he's in a prison camp a few lightyears away. His cellmate is a male quadruped calling himself "Big Macintosh". He doesn't know where his brothers in Delta Squad are, or even where he is.

RC-1000 is the newest member of Tau Squad. Or was, rather. After the rest of Beta Squad was killed in action, he was assigned to Tau, who had just lost their own brother. They were tolerant but distant, and on his second mission with them the "new guy" got captured. Now he's sharing a cell with a female quadruped named "Octavia".

They're going to bust out. And as they try to adjust to the thought that they each might be the sole warrior on the planet, they will think more than a clone, even a commando, normally would. They will fight to defend their new friends. To defend aliens that care about them in ways they haven't experienced as mere soldiers.

Taro the Dragon Rider is sent to Equestria by order of his mentor and Princess Celestia. He poses as the greatest angel warrior from Earth. His dragon, Thatch, stays with the other dragons of Equestria until the time comes to reveal who they truly are. The event in Canterlot, plus an anonymous threat during said event is the cause of Taro's entry.

Part 1 of a Trilogy

The star system Omega Centauri was just another oddity on a map to scientists in the not too distant future. However when they found the star was orbiting an earth-sized, earth-like planet instead of a black hole as its motion had suggested, a mission was scrambled to investigate this most unusual of celestial behaviors.

Hamstrung by politics, and nearly crippled before it began, the 'Lone Ranger' mission was reduced to just one crew member and left to his own devices.

These are the logs of Arrow 18 and its lone commander. This information is classified TOP SECRET by the Global Space Agency.

Do NOT tell the princess.