Ultimus: Current Setting

Year: 2364

Location: Camacho International Forest (The last wildlife park on Earth), 11586 kilometers away from Arat Prime and 8344 kilometers away from Sanctuary

Ultimus Chapter One

Hunter Lang and family lived in Camacho International Forest with his wife and son. His wife Kim was the lead Biologist and was stationed here to take samples and study how the wildlife was effected after the war. He was a major computer programmer and hacker that was the main programmer on a major program that allowed him to work at home temporarily.

He sat at his desk in his home home office. He was looking at hundreds of lines of code on his screen. All of it giving him a headache at the moment. He looked to the side of his desk where he had a family photo. His son Andrew up in front. Andrew was schooling at home by computer due to being stationed. He had turned eleven several months ago and was finishing work on his first degree. He loves his son, but it was getting hard for him to do his work and be a father. Especially with what the Terran Federation pushing him harder and harder. As a high ranking programmer and lead on the project for them his time away from the project was important time wasted for the Federation. But for him, it was necessary time spent with his family. They were trying desperately to get him to come to the main site but he continued to refuse because he was needed with his family just as much. Looking at all this code made it all frustrating to him.

His computer made a chime sound and He looked up to see he got an email. It was addressed to Kim from the Terran Federation. He was tempted to read it, but he was going to let Kim read it first. The Terran Federation assigned her to this station and they might be requesting a quarterly report. She always has one pop up around this time of year and she had been getting it ready for their request.

Hunter got up from his computer to go look outside in the backyard. He saw Andrew playing out their with his new Rottweiler pup. Andrew hadn’t named him yet, he said that he was looking for the perfect name. He only had owned him for a week and he will have ten years of memories to build with him.

Hunter went to his bedroom and looked in his wife’s mirror in her vanity. Hunter was a tall man, medium build, dirty blonde with blues eyes and glasses in his his late thirties. He looked to his left where two Terran Federation flags were folded neatly on the drawers. It had been over fourteen years since he and Kim met as soldiers fighting against the URE. Now he works with them, go figure. He went into the bathroom and opened up a medicine cabinet and grabbed some aspirin. He took one and went back into the bedroom and laid on the bed and closed his eyes.