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hello and welcome to the channel my name
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is Christopher Rocko author of the sun
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eater science fantasy series and
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nine-year Veteran of the publishing
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industry the sun eater is a Space Opera
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meets Epic Fantasy Adventures set about
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20,000 years into our future in an age
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when mankind has conquered a huge swath
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of our galaxy it is the story of a man
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called hadrien Marlo written in his own
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words a man who runs away from home in
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his place as a nobleman in the great
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Solen Galactic Empire only to find
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himself embroiled in the midst of a
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terrible war between that Empire and the
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seelen a marauding alien race bent on
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Humanity's destruction hadrien tells us
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on page one that he is the man who ended
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that war and killed all of the celson
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his story is about why and how and about
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all the things that didn't make it into
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the official history James ESS Corey of
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the expanse called Empire of Silence the
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first book in the series science fiction
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at its most genuinely epic if you
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haven't read the books before and are
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just stumbling on to the channel you can
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find links to purchase them below and I
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would be honored if you would check them
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out but this video will be delving into
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spoiler territory specifically for the
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fifth book in the series ashes of man if
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you missed my recap of the first volume
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in the series Empire of silence or my
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recap for any of the other books uh you
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can find a link to all of those in the
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description down below and I've set up a
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playlist as well I've been making these
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summary videos for each of the main
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books in the series and with the release
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of book six dis quiet Gods coming up on
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April the 2nd of this year which is
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20124 and with the electronic Advance
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copy of this book coming out on January
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16th of 2024 which is just a couple of
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weeks from now the time for me to make
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this summary of course is right now so
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check out the description below for
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links to order the earlier books in the
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series as well as a link and
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instructions on how to pre-order a
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signed copy of diset gods and if you
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don't want to be spoiled this is where
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we part ways for now and now this is The
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Story So
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Far ashes of man opens a mere night
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after the conclusion of book four
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kingdoms of death Adrien Marlo our hero
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has just buried the body of his friend
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and Mentor Tor Gibson of Syracuse the
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time has come to end his and Valk anda's
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self-imposed Exile and to return to the
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broader Galaxy but first Adrien makes a
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stop at the Imperial library on Cultus
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where a meeting with the library's
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director reveals Gibson's prior identity
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he was Philipe borbon a prince of one of
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the greatest houses in the Imperium one
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sentenced to the prison planet of Balia
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for a crime of sedition against his own
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brother what is more Gibson was the
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father of Augustine bbon one of the
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ministers who orchestrated an earlier
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attempt on Hadrian's own life and whom
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hadrien had killed in return
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surrendering themselves to the Imperial
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authorities hadrien and Vela are
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interrogated by the governor general of
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cules with whom they both share details
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of the failure of the red company at
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padmar and their soour in among the sea
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Elson orders come down at hadrien and
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Vel are to be returned to nessus and
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they are escorted then by one sir Hector
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Oliva on nessus hadrien has his injuries
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treated including having his lost
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fingers regrown and is reunited with
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laurian aristedes the only other
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survivor of the black Feast at akumu
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laurian joins hadrien and Vela for the
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Journey To Cara where they are to
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rendevu with the emperor himself the
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emperor has come to Cara to preside over
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relief efforts in the wake of a seelen
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attack there and to Aid in the
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Reconstruction as part of his effort to
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secure the Imperial provin es with him
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is Young Prince Alexander Hadrian's
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former Ward turned political rival in a
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private meeting the emperor and his
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Chamberlain nphis reveal to Adrien the
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fact that the Empire have long been
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aware of the Watchers the powerful
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extraterrestrial beings worshiped by the
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SE Elson have known about them in fact
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since well before Humanity's first
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contact with the SE Elson themselves
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what is more they reveal the Empire has
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long been working on a method to combat
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the Watchers and has been planning to
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hunt them down back in Camp hadrien
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narrowly survives an assassination
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attempt but the wbe Killer escapes
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hadrien suspects Prince Alexander aiming
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to simplify the political equation the
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emperor dispatches hadrien vka and lauan
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along with bander Lin to the star system
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DB 639 where the extra salarian group
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known only as MOS has recently been
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discovered to have a base on the planet
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DB 639 D known to MOS as ganal
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Hadrian's team discover the purpose of
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the extra salarian research base there
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by resurrecting certain ancient marican
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Arts the minoan scientists have
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successfully engineered a viral form of
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cancer designed to attack Imperial
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planets and so leave them vulnerable to
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celson assault after their presence on
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ganalon is discovered hadrien and Vela
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are captured by the machine sorcerer
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Urbane who plans to hand them over to
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his seelen allies led by one of the
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generals of the Prophet King iani dorica
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Hadrian's allies in turn attempt to bail
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him and vka out and with the help of
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some surprise allies they are victorious
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Vala kills Urbane and hadren is taken to
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meet with their surprise Aid the jadan
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Navy under the command of Crown Prince
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kimim D Otranto himself in meeting the
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prince they discover that he is none
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other than sir Allin milta the jadan
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Knight who assisted hadrien on EMES when
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he was barely more than a boy and the
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man who gave hadrien his first H sword
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as well as the man whose support
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launched his initial quest to find vsos
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at the end of Empire of Silence together
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with Kim Olin Hadrian's party sets sail
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to Ronda with the emperor but halfway
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there they are intercepted by Prince
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Alexander who informs him that the
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emperor never arrived at his destination
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and has been trapped on the planet pugum
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by a great sealon Armada under the
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command General ugin atava intent on
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capturing the solent emperor alive with
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the Ian and bander lind's Fleet hadrien
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launches a rescue operation leading the
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team to recover the emperor from
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Colonial Storehouse catacombs beneath
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the surface of pugum along with vka
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lauran and the chadians hadrien manages
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to get inside the catacomb bunker a
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massive underground complex designed to
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house millions of future colonists
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slumbering in cryogenic sleep it is
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these people the emperor has come to
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pugum to save and he will not flee the
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planet and save himself until he has
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succeeded realizing that hadrien has
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come to pugum the SE Elson redouble
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their efforts at entering the bunker
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complex and battle is joined laurian and
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Bender attempt to coordinate Escape
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efforts between the Surface and orbit
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and hadrien and Vela work to escort the
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survivors to Starships in the bunkers
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for launch during the fighting a cave in
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in the tunnels causes Adrian and vka to
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be separated and she is taken to one of
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the evacuation shuttles the situation on
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the surface becomes dire the base is
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overrun and the final wave of Escape
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flights is shot down valka's ship is
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among them vka is killed and the grief
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of her death breaks hadrien adav Isa
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gloats over the holograph and hadrien
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uses his Growing Power to destroy the
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sealon captain with a thought shattering
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the windows of its Starship hadrien and
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what remains of his party escape with
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the emperor to safety safely in deep
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space a grieving Adrien is brought
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before the Emperor who thanks him for
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for his role in the rescue and Grieves
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with him over V's death and here the
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emperor makes a fatal mistake and offers
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HRI in the hand of his daughter seleni
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in marriage dismissing falk's memory
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hadrien refuses his offer violently and
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Strikes the emperor across the face in
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the eyes of all his court left no
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recourse the emperor has hadrien
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arrested and plans to pack him off to
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Belia the Imperial Prison Planet to save
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Faith enter laurian aristedes
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together with bander Lin and Prince k
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the good Commander has arranged to have
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hadrien Spirited Away to Jad where he
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will be safe in Exile lauan says his
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farewells and takes the Fall For The
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Conspiracy to free hadrien hadrien
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himself is retrieved by the jadan after
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the Imperial Fleet breaks up and he
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begins his long Exile on Jad the planet
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of fire here ends book five ashes of man
