Mark here was the perfect man."I shrugged and kissed Ashley's bare shoulder. "What can I say?" I asked. "Ashley brought the passion and the love. The ...rest was pure fireworks."Jason groaned. "Now you're bragging," he complained as he allowed himself to fall backwards. "And I have to wait two more months before I'm fourteen and can test." You'll get a chance after that," I said. "Now did Julio tell you why he was looking for me?"Jason scowled. The darkness in his expression was fierce as he sat. It was founded some 500 years after interstellar flight was perfected on Earth. Two hundred years after its founding, the collapse of the Earth Federation began.Because of their distance from Earth, and the time it took to receive the newer technologies or other advanced equipment, Brighid had depended on older technologies that were easier to produce locally. Theirs was a mostly agrarian economy with only light industry.When the planetary leaders received word of the Federation Collapse, they. He then turned to stare at Odin. A smirk again crossing his lips. A shake of his head had Odin's mouth dropping open. "If I am going to help all of you, if what you said is true? Why do you feel the need to lie or hide something from me?"A heavy sigh escaped Odin's mouth even as Frigg was starting daggers at him. "I again am at a loss, this trust that Freya told me of is a very foreign thing. You might have noticed that I am not at full power." I was wondering that, you're the first I haven't. Though known of in arcane circles for centuries Spell-Jamming ships rarely visited Holy Terra, warned away by their priests because of the grand contest occurring there. However, when The United Federation of Civilizations heard of the existence of this new avenue for expansion they poured resources into discovery of the secrets behind Spell-Jamming magic, soon enough creating one of the only Helm Foundries in all of space not controlled by the "Arcane". A Spell-Jamming 'Helm' is a peculiar.