Cardilli no Senshuken (Champion of Cardilli)
		Prophecy--the First Revelation
					LH-chan! 2000


		Prologue


A motley collection of starships trailed the pirate vessel
Alana’s Pride, as it moved swiftly through the misty void of
tachyon space.
In a shadowed corner of her chamber, deep within the bowels of
the Pride, a lone vixen sat upon the floor; her paws clutched
about her in such a manner that she appeared to be curled in
upon herself.  She was Princess Nyanza Deseray, of planet
Andori's monarchy.
	Andori, the world known throughout the galaxy as a
stronghold of space-pirates.

	Nyanza Deseray was following the lioness.

	Tears sparkled at the corners of her eyes, but she would
not allow them to fall; as she stared down at the object cradled in
her lap. Her royal crown; a gold circlet with wide points where
it would rest upon her temples, intricately engraved with
images of battle, and accented by shining bits of precious
jewels.  Her parents and her brother had each worn such a crown
as well, but because of the lioness--the foul beast Ke’nara
Sycanie--they were gone, dead, all of them.  Simply because they
had refused to bow down and surrender to her when they were
ordered to do so.

	At this very moment, she should have been with her family,
all of them together in the palace for the first time since she was
a youth.  But now there was no palace; there was no planet for it to
stand upon.  When she had returned from her most recent journey,
the whole of Andori, her homeworld, had been destroyed; completely
eliminated from the vacuum.

	None had escaped the planet’s destruction.  The remnants
of starships left outside the area in which the fragments of Andori
still orbited Muria, the star which held all of the planets in
Andori’s system, suggested that all who attempted to flee were
destroyed before they could make the jump to the safety of tachyon
space.

	She had gathered all those others who had also been away
when Andori was destroyed.  Together they formed an understanding
of what had happened to their home, and who was responsible, from the
garbled bits of radio conversation that expanded away from them as
they attempted to collect it.  She had formed them into a small army
under her command and that of her few remaining Captains; their
sole purpose to end the lives of those who had taken their homes
and families from them.  Lead now, under her  crown.

	Nyanza choked back her tears and got to her paws, the
creatures she commanded required leadership. Creatures who lived
to destroy the followers of the lioness Ke’nara.  But she alone
would take the life of  Ke’nara, the one who had given the final
order to destroy Andori.

	No.  She would not cry; not until her family had been avenged.

	Nyanza Deseray was following the lioness!