"Robert E. Mills - Starfighter" - читать интересную книгу автора (Mills Robert)

Prologue

It was a time of tragedy and alarm; it was a time of hope
and wonder. A dark, encroaching evil was loose in the
universe, aforce that harnessed the creative powers of
consciousness to the dark and terrible forces of nature,
to the negative pole of the Infinite. It was a time when
the powers of good and evil met in a combat of cosmic
magnitude. It was the time when the Primula galaxy
became a graveyard for the crews and starships of the
Dark Empire's mighty armada.
Of all beings in the known universe, Ylang- Ylang, the
Dark Empire's lord, was the most wondrous. . . and
the most terrible. God-like and incorporeal, a self-
created immortal whose basis appeared to be energy
itself; it was a thing devoted entirely to the works of evil
and the domination of all sentient creatures. The heart
of its empire was the black planet Flaigon, home of its
ancestors, the extinct Mordlings. The last survivor of
this titanic race, Ylang had transformed itself into a
deathless being, a great andfearsome mass of corrupt
energies whose very sight was too much tobe borne by
the eyes and minds of mortal creatures.
Its heritage was the incredibly advanced science and
refinements of evil developed by its ancestors, whose
lifespans ran in excess of six thousand years. Its will-
to-power was as limitless as its appetite for evil was
insatiable. Ylang fed upon the energies produced by the
torment and agony of other s.entient life-forms, literally
consuming its victims in the process; hence its title, the
Great Devourer.

The Chronicles of Tallin

The forces of the Dark Empire seemed to be irresist-
ible: its black starfleets ranged far and wide, extinguish-
ing the light of freedom in galaxy after galaxy, creating
in this manner the mightiest empire ever known among
the stars. Rebellions were virtually unheard-of in that
vast slave-empire, for the reason that their occurrence
brought forth punishments of unbelievable severity.
The elite fighting force of the empire was the Death
Legion, commanded by yet another elite, the Ysss: a
race of fierce reptiloids who held the empire's highest
offices and kept the counsel of the Dark Emperor. They
worshiped death and lived to 4estroy; friendship, kind-
ness, pity and compassion they regarded as mere signs
of weakness; they were creatures bred to murder. Chief
among the Ysss overlords was Blorg, the Supreme
Commander of all the empire forces and the being