Gonian Chronicles: Civil War: Beginnings

In the season of autumn of the year ABY 63, Brahmin Bhanu Sharma, son of Brahmin Ahkill Azerf, who is the son of Khaness Pavani Varnasi, who is the niece of the Great Khan Sirrah Freza, came to the Clan Aryan controlled city of Mermidon to pay a visit to the daughter of Khan Mahatma Gandhi. Her name was Bindusara Nanda, the most beautiful Brahminess in any of the twelve clans of Gonia, skilled at many different things and an accomplished Sannyasa.

Bhanu Sharma, was a widower of eleven years, with a young son named Asoka. Bhanu Sharma arrived at the palace to find that the great urban city was being terrorized by a group of pirates, the Black Flag. Instead of courting each other, Bhanu and Bindusara went out together to save the city. With his navy, and her Sannyasa, the pirates were defeated, and by the power of the Force, or the Karma, as the Gonians called it, forged an entire new city out of the remains of the pirate ships. Bhanu married Bindusara.

"The ambassador from Reich has arrived, most high khan," whispered the secretary Ganget.

"Right in the middle of my celebrations!" exclaimed the Khan weakly. "Tell him to wait."

"No father, it is important that you see him," said Bhanu rising. "You cannot make him wait and then give him the bad news. It is undiplomatic."

"Go then, you are much better at diplomacy then I am. We should have all of the family here," Khan Ahkill Azerf added, suddenly aware how few people were present at his victory feast. "Where is your mother?"

"Sleeping with the Sannyasa Grand Master," Bhanu would have like to say, but he was, as his father said, diplomatic. Instead he said, "Shopping with her friends."

"And your brother and sister?"