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futuradelita) wrote2022-10-29 11:55 pm
futuradelita) wrote2022-10-29 11:55 pm
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Setting and Story
SETTING
The most commonly cited history is that Earth suffered a collapse from the Democratic Instutions that led them, and how ‘veterans took control,’ and brought peace to Earth, finally unifying it as the world known as ‘Terra.” Vowing to bring only the worthy, it strived to become a meritocratic government where only those that were willing to risk everything could take positions of power. All those that threatened the existence of humanity would be facing a unified mankind.
The other part of the history, oft censored by the Citizen Federation, is that of those who refused the Junta’s hold to power, and suffered the most from their repression. People from powerful backgrounds would receive simpler and nonsuffering service thanks to their contacts, while people from marginalized communities would perform long (and sometimes even dangerous) civil service that would never materialize into citizenship.
These resentments from this new political system inevitably caused riots that were violently put down. With the control centered around the Citizen Federation, repression soon spread over many worlds under Earth’s influence. What was at first cited as a way to to take responsibility, became a misuse of power, as those with it used further force by preventing others from ever attaining it.
Knowing what was happening, and what would soon happen when their power increased, there was a massive exodus throughout multiple parts of human space to escape their hold. The great majority of the populations that escaped were of Hispanic descent, particularly of the space colonies that officially belonged to the United States of Mexico, prior to its annexation and dissolution by the government of Terra.
Their place to settle, after months of travel, was an exoplanet in the Camelopardalis Constellation, on a star called Tonatiuh. This promised land was named after the city of myth from the original inhabitants of the latinamerican continent, from which numerous groups would hold under a new society. The planet was called ‘Aztlán’, and its government became known as the United States of Aztlán.
Places outside of their hold existed. A centralized government existed. Democracy, as they remembered, was the rule. However, their hopes for a free, equal society were not to last. The first people that knew of Earth’s future were also the first to purchase the lands and force to protect them. Tycoons, plutocrats, and even politicians that had been bribed into helping the rise of the Citizen Federation on Earth.
Under the pretenses of giving the exodus populations safe shelter from the hold of Terra, many worlds were taken over, and converted into Hacendados. Mini-cities onto themselves unto themselves that had workers mine, farm, buy, sell, educate, and live for the Hacienda they were working for, with no rights to leave.
This fight over territories turned into the Hacienda War of the Carmeopardalis Constellation. Tycoons, companies, and government all fought at first for the territories they were to hold, planets they desired to keep, and laws and taxes they debated among themselves.
The war concluded with the Treaty of Iguales. All inhabited worlds would be controlled by one faction each, with Aztlán as the center of government and armed forces. The government of the United States of Azltán ruling the eponymous worlds, known as the Core Worlds, with a third holding independence and right to self-rule in the form of a federation, known as the Rural Worlds. The final third, controlled by the very Hacendados whose power only increased.
This peace was a bitter one. The Hacendados, seeing further opportunity, made treaties with the politicians. People from the worlds outside of Aztlán were ignored, and the Hacendados gained enough power to not just rival the government, but pull their strings. What's worse, terraforming projects that had been promised to the Rural Worlds delayed for more and more years, and lands that were given to them were infertile, while the Haciendas and the Federal government all got the lion's share. After only fifty years of peace, another conflict began to brew as the discontent not only with the Rural Worlds, but for the people paying off residence debts that have spanned generations. Once again, revolution seemed inevitable.
Then, the enemies of Terra found Aztlán.
First one, the arthropod ‘Tzizimime’, ‘The Evil Arrows’. Numerous theories have been written regarding their existence, whenever if they were the original species inhabiting the nearby systems, if they had been summoned by the very presence of humanity. Like a swarm of locusts, they threw themselves against the Azltanian worlds with a relentless fury, destroying and consuming all they came across. They were fighting for new grounds to feed and breed, and humanity was now in its path.
The Second, the Pillar Empire. Giants clad in white light, with furious glowing blue eyes, and technology beyond humanity’s halcyon dreams. They declared humanity and the Evil Arrows had violated their covenant with all life in the galaxy, and would be civilized and molded according to their image. What followed were living beings vaporized and hunted with technlogy resembling unholy magic.
All that humanity had to fight them were rusted starships, outdated equipment still utilizing NATO rounds, and creativity. Everything else, money, powered armor, and large fleets of new ships, were all left for the Core Worlds, the Hacendados, and Terra.
Just as the Rural Worlds found themselves beset on all sides, it was when the second civil war began.
STORY
Adela Pérez was born as Adela María Pérez Gonzales, as the eldest daughter of tree children in one of the homes outside the hold of the Hacendados, just twenty years after the Treaty of Iguales was enacted to end the Hacienda War. She was born in the planet Puerto Nuevo Vallarta, a world that had not yet finished terraforming, orbiting the sun of Colhuacan.
While in povery, she was never lacking in love and family, and was fortunate enough to have a family that wasn’t chained to debt. She learned as much as she could from her parents, performed many duties for their house, and wanted to follow the traditions of her elders.
The people she loved the most from her childhood were her maternal great-grandparents, which were part of the original generation that fled towards the Camelopardalis constellation. Thanks to the medical technology of the time, they lived through many years, telling little Adelita of the stories of their childhood on Earth before the Citizen Federation, of the long journey to the new worlds, and of the colonization efforts. It was because of them that Adela always strived to be a good person and helping others: Because of how much humanity needed help from itself.
Her maternal great-grandfather, her maternal grandmother, and her father all had served in the military, with the last one having served in the Hacienda War. The later, while tired and embittered over the terms that favored the Hacendados became a loving father to Adela, and became her inspiration to join the miltiary of Aztlán, to help keep the Haciendas at bay when they would try to attack.
Her mother was a bruja. One that engaged in divination and blessing spells, and that even after Adela enlisted into the Aztlán military, that she would constantly come to for hints about what may lay ahead for her. Adela swore to God that she was able to predict the future, and for a strange reason, her predictions became disturbingly accurate as the years went by.
Adela’s mother accidentally predicted the death of her father in his sleep, and of the Hacendados suddenly spreading their hold to Puerto Nuevo Vallarta, by his portrait decoloring in one night, and the coins of the altar suddenly rusting into green. With her father gone, and with the tycoons wanting to expand their hold and enslave them through debt into death, Adela enlisted into the local militia.
Her first years of service consisted in tactical movements to protect against the better-funded Hacendado fleets, but when their attacks spread into other worlds, Adela fought tooth and nail against the tycoons. She came close numerous times to death, betrayal, and enslavement for destruction of corporate property... And yet, she learned the weaknesses of the Hacendados from their raids.
She learned that the more expensive they are, the more costly their defeats; and whatever cannot be obtained in weapons or logistics, you can steal it. With her ranking officers not being trained well enough, Adela commanded raids against "rogue" Hacienda fleets, robbing them of vital elements to help Puerto Nuevo Vallarta, and prevent an invasion and extermination of the colony.
Before the United Forced of Aztlán stepped in to declare Puerto Nuevo Vallarta a rogue Rural World in a show of hypocrisy and corruption, a journalist by the name of Samuel Guerrero brought to light the crimes of the Hacendados. With this public victory, Adela swore friendship to him.
In this period of tense peace, Adela rose thought the ranks, and even gained a commission, to the point of becoming a Second Captain. But it was in this period when she saw the Government of Aztlán care less and less about the Rural Worlds, and doing favors for their bitter enemies just fifty years ago, the Hacendados. All, because of money. No matter who they voted for, they were always bound to the money of the Hacendados.
One day, her mother’s altar lit on fire. The next day, the alien war began.
The Rural Worlds were the first to be targeted by the alien powers. As the war became desperate on those fronts, Adela quickly made use of heavier firepower in order to fight the sudden war humanity had found itself in. But as Samuel Guerrero recorded and transmitted those findings… the government of Aztlán instead reinforced the Hacendado worlds.
However, one man spoke for the Rural Worlds. A new senator by the name Morales Villanueva demanded the government to give the Rural Worlds the aid they so desperately needed. While unintelligent and opportunist, he spread a rhetoric of independence and revolution that Adela found herself convinced by, the more of the alien threat she saw that Aztlán did not care for.
After Puerto Nuevo Vallarta came close to an invasion by the Pillar Empire, and desperately needing the resources to fight, 2Cpt. Adela Pérez raided and confiscated materiel from the Hacendados in order to repel it. While the operation was a success that saved many lives, and even raised morale for the Rural Worlds, Adela was imprisoned and trialed, as the tycoons demanded her to be executed for robbing corporate property.
Once the journalist Samuel Guerrero brought the report of Adela’s actions and subsequent incarceration, the Rural Worlds broke into open rebellion. A movement that sundered the United States of Aztlán with such force, their local militias unilaterally turned against the government of Azltán.
Adela was quickly broken out of jail by the rebel factions, and once word spread of the government’s incompetence and corruption while working alongside the Hacendados, this rebellion turned into a revolution. Adela was suddenly one of the most prominent faces in the war to save humanity from the aliens, and from itself. Even her family, after seeing the corruption the government had descended into, fully backed her and followed her into her corvette.
And yet, even as a warrior that had lost her faith in the law, she wished to help.
She personally led multiple raids against the Haciendas, where she and her squadrons would rob the citadels of powerful tycoons, delete and destroy the hard drives registering all debts anyone would have towards them, and steal their vessels to free the people that had been trapped. These actions garnered her a lot of fame that ultimately helped their movement. All Rural Worlds unified into robbing from the Hacendados in order to protect themselves, and face all threats as a single front.
Knowing the movement ran well, Senator Morales Villanueva proposed using the Hacendados as bait for the Tzizimime. A choice that Adela found herself hesitating to take, given that not even the Hacendados deserved to have alien enemies brought onto them, much less when they had thousands of innocents in those worlds. But Senator Villanueva ordered it to eliminate rivals to their movement. The Revolution assaulted important hives of the Tzizimime Threat, and turned their escape routes towards the Hacendados.
Soon enough, the Hives waged war against the corporate factions. Mysteriously, The Pillar Empire followed soon after, as if drawn towards the weakened human territories, much as it had happened with the Rural Worlds at the beginning of the alien war. Few of the Hacendados survived the onslaught.
Adela got a sick feeling in her stomach as she saw it happen. For now, the Pillar Empire was no longer aiming at the revolutionaries, and was now focused on fighting the Evil Arrows on former Hacendado territory, with humans merely in the crossfire. In the meantime, Adela's mother, during her rituals, noticed the lights would darken even further around Villanueva's photos every time she tried to bless him. She realized was being warned of even worse things to come from it.
Their movement got into besieging Aztlán, and defeating the superior armor and training of the Federal Government, all thanks to neutralizing their supply lines and knowing the ins-and-outs of their armed forces, all thanks to Adela. The revolution became a success, and Villanueva was declared President of the United States of Aztlán. And yet, a shadow loomed there were changes against alternations of power, securing his seat, and his funders, for life.
During their visits to the palace, journalist Samuel Guerrero made a personal investigation on the revolutionary movement... and discovered the true colors of Senator Villanueva. Upon finding previous transmissions from his capital ship, The IAS Espejo Humeante, Samuel discovered Villanueva had promised the Pillar Empire multiple worlds if he was allowed to be made Ruler of Aztlán. He promised them both Hacienda Worlds as well as the Rural Worlds, in exchange for the Dictator's seat.
The war had not only begun, but turned worse for humanity because he sent all non-Core Worlds to the wolves, all for personal gain. Samuel was quickly jailed the moment he was discovered. He was accused of having betrayed the revolution, and came close to summary execution.
Adela was brought into rage, and turned on the revolutionary government once Samuel desperately told her the truth. She besieged the palace in order to rescue Samuel and his findings, while Dictator Villanueva hid inside his bunker and let his generals take command, all but throwing Samuel away so Adela wouldn't direct her rage against him. And yet, in spite of his treason to humanity being brought into full light, Villanueva found allies among the politicians and tycoons he deposed, now supporting him in eliminating Adela, just so they could keep their power.
In the end, Adela's mission to rescue Samuel was successful, but costly. It was one where Adela gambled everything she had left, since she owed to Samuel her life and her freedom. Adela's Raiders transmitted the recordings to the planet of Aztlán, fled the system onboard their base of operations, a Corvette by the name of IAS Morador, and returned to Puerto Nuevo Vallarta to plan.
However, this operation gained her infamy in her own faction, as she lost numerous men and vehicles just to save one man she personally knew. For all the resentment her men suddenly held towards her, she defended her decision, no matter how many men she lost. No matter how she was at fault for it all crumbling down. No matter that she ruined Puerto Nuevo Vallarta's plans to be represented by the new government.
Just a day later after Adela's Raiders escaped, Villanueva had his brains blown out by another claimant to power. The civil war continued for humanity in the Camelopardalis constellation, now with a new front beside the alien powers all vying for control of the sector in a free-for-all. Rumors came that the Tzizimime were but one strain of many that invaded space, and that had even waged war against the Citizen Federation of Terra, and had come to Aztlán to fight against everything, even the Tzizimime. And the Pillar Empire, so sure of their glory and of their place in the galaxy, did not notice their own infighting for the worlds they had been given by Villanueva.
During this time, Adela and what remained of her Raiders made efforts to protect evacuations, raid enemies, and liberate other fronts, but with so few resources and so little progress, her movement waned. People slowly deserted by the droves to return to their families or even join the more powerful factions, and the victories achieved had been slowly marred by mounting costs and growing enemies.
This point has led Adela to turn to the bottle, out of guilt and depression, over having failed to save her people in the sector, and being unsure what else to do. While she presents a face of confidence and bravado, she is continuously haunted by the possibility little can be done to change the tide. She was willing to seek any chance to make amends, and solve the problems that haunt not just all life in the Camelopardalis constellation, but for humanity as a whole.
One day, after a night of lone binge-drinking, SUPERBIA contacted her via an e-mail she received while in Puerto Nuevo Vallarta. Knowing the desperation of her situation, and knowing what sort of artifact could not only defeat all corporate and alien powers, but even give humanity the freedom and prosperity it has desperately needed for so long, she took another leap into faith. She accepted.
The most commonly cited history is that Earth suffered a collapse from the Democratic Instutions that led them, and how ‘veterans took control,’ and brought peace to Earth, finally unifying it as the world known as ‘Terra.” Vowing to bring only the worthy, it strived to become a meritocratic government where only those that were willing to risk everything could take positions of power. All those that threatened the existence of humanity would be facing a unified mankind.
The other part of the history, oft censored by the Citizen Federation, is that of those who refused the Junta’s hold to power, and suffered the most from their repression. People from powerful backgrounds would receive simpler and nonsuffering service thanks to their contacts, while people from marginalized communities would perform long (and sometimes even dangerous) civil service that would never materialize into citizenship.
These resentments from this new political system inevitably caused riots that were violently put down. With the control centered around the Citizen Federation, repression soon spread over many worlds under Earth’s influence. What was at first cited as a way to to take responsibility, became a misuse of power, as those with it used further force by preventing others from ever attaining it.
Knowing what was happening, and what would soon happen when their power increased, there was a massive exodus throughout multiple parts of human space to escape their hold. The great majority of the populations that escaped were of Hispanic descent, particularly of the space colonies that officially belonged to the United States of Mexico, prior to its annexation and dissolution by the government of Terra.
Their place to settle, after months of travel, was an exoplanet in the Camelopardalis Constellation, on a star called Tonatiuh. This promised land was named after the city of myth from the original inhabitants of the latinamerican continent, from which numerous groups would hold under a new society. The planet was called ‘Aztlán’, and its government became known as the United States of Aztlán.
Places outside of their hold existed. A centralized government existed. Democracy, as they remembered, was the rule. However, their hopes for a free, equal society were not to last. The first people that knew of Earth’s future were also the first to purchase the lands and force to protect them. Tycoons, plutocrats, and even politicians that had been bribed into helping the rise of the Citizen Federation on Earth.
Under the pretenses of giving the exodus populations safe shelter from the hold of Terra, many worlds were taken over, and converted into Hacendados. Mini-cities onto themselves unto themselves that had workers mine, farm, buy, sell, educate, and live for the Hacienda they were working for, with no rights to leave.
This fight over territories turned into the Hacienda War of the Carmeopardalis Constellation. Tycoons, companies, and government all fought at first for the territories they were to hold, planets they desired to keep, and laws and taxes they debated among themselves.
The war concluded with the Treaty of Iguales. All inhabited worlds would be controlled by one faction each, with Aztlán as the center of government and armed forces. The government of the United States of Azltán ruling the eponymous worlds, known as the Core Worlds, with a third holding independence and right to self-rule in the form of a federation, known as the Rural Worlds. The final third, controlled by the very Hacendados whose power only increased.
This peace was a bitter one. The Hacendados, seeing further opportunity, made treaties with the politicians. People from the worlds outside of Aztlán were ignored, and the Hacendados gained enough power to not just rival the government, but pull their strings. What's worse, terraforming projects that had been promised to the Rural Worlds delayed for more and more years, and lands that were given to them were infertile, while the Haciendas and the Federal government all got the lion's share. After only fifty years of peace, another conflict began to brew as the discontent not only with the Rural Worlds, but for the people paying off residence debts that have spanned generations. Once again, revolution seemed inevitable.
Then, the enemies of Terra found Aztlán.
First one, the arthropod ‘Tzizimime’, ‘The Evil Arrows’. Numerous theories have been written regarding their existence, whenever if they were the original species inhabiting the nearby systems, if they had been summoned by the very presence of humanity. Like a swarm of locusts, they threw themselves against the Azltanian worlds with a relentless fury, destroying and consuming all they came across. They were fighting for new grounds to feed and breed, and humanity was now in its path.
The Second, the Pillar Empire. Giants clad in white light, with furious glowing blue eyes, and technology beyond humanity’s halcyon dreams. They declared humanity and the Evil Arrows had violated their covenant with all life in the galaxy, and would be civilized and molded according to their image. What followed were living beings vaporized and hunted with technlogy resembling unholy magic.
All that humanity had to fight them were rusted starships, outdated equipment still utilizing NATO rounds, and creativity. Everything else, money, powered armor, and large fleets of new ships, were all left for the Core Worlds, the Hacendados, and Terra.
Just as the Rural Worlds found themselves beset on all sides, it was when the second civil war began.
STORY
Adela Pérez was born as Adela María Pérez Gonzales, as the eldest daughter of tree children in one of the homes outside the hold of the Hacendados, just twenty years after the Treaty of Iguales was enacted to end the Hacienda War. She was born in the planet Puerto Nuevo Vallarta, a world that had not yet finished terraforming, orbiting the sun of Colhuacan.
While in povery, she was never lacking in love and family, and was fortunate enough to have a family that wasn’t chained to debt. She learned as much as she could from her parents, performed many duties for their house, and wanted to follow the traditions of her elders.
The people she loved the most from her childhood were her maternal great-grandparents, which were part of the original generation that fled towards the Camelopardalis constellation. Thanks to the medical technology of the time, they lived through many years, telling little Adelita of the stories of their childhood on Earth before the Citizen Federation, of the long journey to the new worlds, and of the colonization efforts. It was because of them that Adela always strived to be a good person and helping others: Because of how much humanity needed help from itself.
Her maternal great-grandfather, her maternal grandmother, and her father all had served in the military, with the last one having served in the Hacienda War. The later, while tired and embittered over the terms that favored the Hacendados became a loving father to Adela, and became her inspiration to join the miltiary of Aztlán, to help keep the Haciendas at bay when they would try to attack.
Her mother was a bruja. One that engaged in divination and blessing spells, and that even after Adela enlisted into the Aztlán military, that she would constantly come to for hints about what may lay ahead for her. Adela swore to God that she was able to predict the future, and for a strange reason, her predictions became disturbingly accurate as the years went by.
Adela’s mother accidentally predicted the death of her father in his sleep, and of the Hacendados suddenly spreading their hold to Puerto Nuevo Vallarta, by his portrait decoloring in one night, and the coins of the altar suddenly rusting into green. With her father gone, and with the tycoons wanting to expand their hold and enslave them through debt into death, Adela enlisted into the local militia.
Her first years of service consisted in tactical movements to protect against the better-funded Hacendado fleets, but when their attacks spread into other worlds, Adela fought tooth and nail against the tycoons. She came close numerous times to death, betrayal, and enslavement for destruction of corporate property... And yet, she learned the weaknesses of the Hacendados from their raids.
She learned that the more expensive they are, the more costly their defeats; and whatever cannot be obtained in weapons or logistics, you can steal it. With her ranking officers not being trained well enough, Adela commanded raids against "rogue" Hacienda fleets, robbing them of vital elements to help Puerto Nuevo Vallarta, and prevent an invasion and extermination of the colony.
Before the United Forced of Aztlán stepped in to declare Puerto Nuevo Vallarta a rogue Rural World in a show of hypocrisy and corruption, a journalist by the name of Samuel Guerrero brought to light the crimes of the Hacendados. With this public victory, Adela swore friendship to him.
In this period of tense peace, Adela rose thought the ranks, and even gained a commission, to the point of becoming a Second Captain. But it was in this period when she saw the Government of Aztlán care less and less about the Rural Worlds, and doing favors for their bitter enemies just fifty years ago, the Hacendados. All, because of money. No matter who they voted for, they were always bound to the money of the Hacendados.
One day, her mother’s altar lit on fire. The next day, the alien war began.
The Rural Worlds were the first to be targeted by the alien powers. As the war became desperate on those fronts, Adela quickly made use of heavier firepower in order to fight the sudden war humanity had found itself in. But as Samuel Guerrero recorded and transmitted those findings… the government of Aztlán instead reinforced the Hacendado worlds.
However, one man spoke for the Rural Worlds. A new senator by the name Morales Villanueva demanded the government to give the Rural Worlds the aid they so desperately needed. While unintelligent and opportunist, he spread a rhetoric of independence and revolution that Adela found herself convinced by, the more of the alien threat she saw that Aztlán did not care for.
After Puerto Nuevo Vallarta came close to an invasion by the Pillar Empire, and desperately needing the resources to fight, 2Cpt. Adela Pérez raided and confiscated materiel from the Hacendados in order to repel it. While the operation was a success that saved many lives, and even raised morale for the Rural Worlds, Adela was imprisoned and trialed, as the tycoons demanded her to be executed for robbing corporate property.
Once the journalist Samuel Guerrero brought the report of Adela’s actions and subsequent incarceration, the Rural Worlds broke into open rebellion. A movement that sundered the United States of Aztlán with such force, their local militias unilaterally turned against the government of Azltán.
Adela was quickly broken out of jail by the rebel factions, and once word spread of the government’s incompetence and corruption while working alongside the Hacendados, this rebellion turned into a revolution. Adela was suddenly one of the most prominent faces in the war to save humanity from the aliens, and from itself. Even her family, after seeing the corruption the government had descended into, fully backed her and followed her into her corvette.
And yet, even as a warrior that had lost her faith in the law, she wished to help.
She personally led multiple raids against the Haciendas, where she and her squadrons would rob the citadels of powerful tycoons, delete and destroy the hard drives registering all debts anyone would have towards them, and steal their vessels to free the people that had been trapped. These actions garnered her a lot of fame that ultimately helped their movement. All Rural Worlds unified into robbing from the Hacendados in order to protect themselves, and face all threats as a single front.
Knowing the movement ran well, Senator Morales Villanueva proposed using the Hacendados as bait for the Tzizimime. A choice that Adela found herself hesitating to take, given that not even the Hacendados deserved to have alien enemies brought onto them, much less when they had thousands of innocents in those worlds. But Senator Villanueva ordered it to eliminate rivals to their movement. The Revolution assaulted important hives of the Tzizimime Threat, and turned their escape routes towards the Hacendados.
Soon enough, the Hives waged war against the corporate factions. Mysteriously, The Pillar Empire followed soon after, as if drawn towards the weakened human territories, much as it had happened with the Rural Worlds at the beginning of the alien war. Few of the Hacendados survived the onslaught.
Adela got a sick feeling in her stomach as she saw it happen. For now, the Pillar Empire was no longer aiming at the revolutionaries, and was now focused on fighting the Evil Arrows on former Hacendado territory, with humans merely in the crossfire. In the meantime, Adela's mother, during her rituals, noticed the lights would darken even further around Villanueva's photos every time she tried to bless him. She realized was being warned of even worse things to come from it.
Their movement got into besieging Aztlán, and defeating the superior armor and training of the Federal Government, all thanks to neutralizing their supply lines and knowing the ins-and-outs of their armed forces, all thanks to Adela. The revolution became a success, and Villanueva was declared President of the United States of Aztlán. And yet, a shadow loomed there were changes against alternations of power, securing his seat, and his funders, for life.
During their visits to the palace, journalist Samuel Guerrero made a personal investigation on the revolutionary movement... and discovered the true colors of Senator Villanueva. Upon finding previous transmissions from his capital ship, The IAS Espejo Humeante, Samuel discovered Villanueva had promised the Pillar Empire multiple worlds if he was allowed to be made Ruler of Aztlán. He promised them both Hacienda Worlds as well as the Rural Worlds, in exchange for the Dictator's seat.
The war had not only begun, but turned worse for humanity because he sent all non-Core Worlds to the wolves, all for personal gain. Samuel was quickly jailed the moment he was discovered. He was accused of having betrayed the revolution, and came close to summary execution.
Adela was brought into rage, and turned on the revolutionary government once Samuel desperately told her the truth. She besieged the palace in order to rescue Samuel and his findings, while Dictator Villanueva hid inside his bunker and let his generals take command, all but throwing Samuel away so Adela wouldn't direct her rage against him. And yet, in spite of his treason to humanity being brought into full light, Villanueva found allies among the politicians and tycoons he deposed, now supporting him in eliminating Adela, just so they could keep their power.
In the end, Adela's mission to rescue Samuel was successful, but costly. It was one where Adela gambled everything she had left, since she owed to Samuel her life and her freedom. Adela's Raiders transmitted the recordings to the planet of Aztlán, fled the system onboard their base of operations, a Corvette by the name of IAS Morador, and returned to Puerto Nuevo Vallarta to plan.
However, this operation gained her infamy in her own faction, as she lost numerous men and vehicles just to save one man she personally knew. For all the resentment her men suddenly held towards her, she defended her decision, no matter how many men she lost. No matter how she was at fault for it all crumbling down. No matter that she ruined Puerto Nuevo Vallarta's plans to be represented by the new government.
Just a day later after Adela's Raiders escaped, Villanueva had his brains blown out by another claimant to power. The civil war continued for humanity in the Camelopardalis constellation, now with a new front beside the alien powers all vying for control of the sector in a free-for-all. Rumors came that the Tzizimime were but one strain of many that invaded space, and that had even waged war against the Citizen Federation of Terra, and had come to Aztlán to fight against everything, even the Tzizimime. And the Pillar Empire, so sure of their glory and of their place in the galaxy, did not notice their own infighting for the worlds they had been given by Villanueva.
During this time, Adela and what remained of her Raiders made efforts to protect evacuations, raid enemies, and liberate other fronts, but with so few resources and so little progress, her movement waned. People slowly deserted by the droves to return to their families or even join the more powerful factions, and the victories achieved had been slowly marred by mounting costs and growing enemies.
This point has led Adela to turn to the bottle, out of guilt and depression, over having failed to save her people in the sector, and being unsure what else to do. While she presents a face of confidence and bravado, she is continuously haunted by the possibility little can be done to change the tide. She was willing to seek any chance to make amends, and solve the problems that haunt not just all life in the Camelopardalis constellation, but for humanity as a whole.
One day, after a night of lone binge-drinking, SUPERBIA contacted her via an e-mail she received while in Puerto Nuevo Vallarta. Knowing the desperation of her situation, and knowing what sort of artifact could not only defeat all corporate and alien powers, but even give humanity the freedom and prosperity it has desperately needed for so long, she took another leap into faith. She accepted.