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| - Two months had passed. MinCol remained mostly the same, despite the loss of over twenty percent of the civilians to establish two additional colonies and a badly shaken Minister who was so inept that he could not effect any change to counter this "adverse current". Gettysburg was preparing to establish a second colony to appease the elements of the population that wanted to relocate elsewhere. There was also a tactical reason for doing so. Meanwhile, during those same two months the more efficient leaders of the rebel factions established a foothold into the nameless realms of the asteroid belt. They were the true pioneers of the next era, in which colonization would occur ever more faster. For they were both racing against time. They both knew that MinCol would be secretly building a new fleet, laced with new technologies, to begin a second hunt that would wipe them out. So these rebel factions also built up their respective fleets, and prepared for war. But Andarin always had in mind that he would be the sole ruler of the asteroid belt. He could not bear to share power with another rebel faction, the rulers of which were, when compared to his own surprisingly strong intellect, were but the scums of the earth. After all, they HAD copied his splintering from the MinCol to suit their own purposes. And so, animosity between the two factions developed. And Andarin was prepared to take the war to the Sons colony of New Haven to establish superiority with a preemptive strike. And he hoped in the meantime that MinCol's scouting shuttles would not find them waging war with each other.The Double Edged Sword
Andarin's fleet took a week to reach the Sons colony of New Haven. Unbeknownst to him, the Sons triumvirate had also come to the conclusion that Andarin was dangerous to them, just as he was dangerous to the Minister's own rule. They wanted him crushed, or at least forced into aiding them in defeating the Minister. Therefore, they had brought their own fleet into position overlooking the Nobody base of Au Andarin. If the Nobodies tried to do anything, their base could be rent apart in minutes. The few defenders that Andarin had kept guarding his colony would prove to be insufficient. Andarin's vanguard fleet (which Andarin was in at the time) engaged the Sons' rear fleet in just another nameless spot in the asteroid belt. The vanguard fleet had the better technology and triumphed. But when word of the engagement reached the Sons' vanguard fleet, they sprung into action and captured Au Andarin. The majority of the Nobody rebels were thus placed under the control of the Triumvirate. When reports of this reached Andarin's vanguard fleet, he quickly brought his forces away from annihilating New Haven and instead ventured deeper into space, where he set up a provisional capital colony of Tal Darin.
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