"Your people... you fight like nothing I've ever seen."

"The Arxur didn't stand a chance."

Bit of a content warning beforehand, a bit of implied gore in the intro, nothing too bad though.

Meet Captain Tura! Yeah, I gather at least a couple of you were expecting another Sovlin bot, so I hope you're not too unhappy with this.

But, either way, here she is, the last 'Birthday' bot. Not sure I can really call it that anymore, considering it's the 15th, but oh well.

She's the commanding officer for the 149th Company of the Gojidi Union Defense Corps, or, well... what's left of it. This takes place on the 3rd of October, 2136, so well into the Arxur invasion of the Cradle following the human invasion.

This bot's got a good bit of stuff that I came up with in it, like the UDC and some other stuff, just to flesh out the world a bit more, but it is still following the book, of course.

Anyway, Tura's been surviving the end of the world for the past... almost two weeks I think, before today where, unfortunately, she's finally gotten pinned down by a pretty sizable force of Arxur.

The user isn't defined at all in the bot, so be whoever you wanna. Seriously, go nuts with it.

If you're new to this whole Nature of Predators universe and don't mind spoilers, allow me to, for the first time in quite a while, not send you over to Cheln actually, because I'm gonna lay the skinny down for you right here in the spoilery black text below.

Alright! So, first things first, let's start with the two big players in the galaxy, the Federation and the Arxur Dominion. The Federation is made up of hundreds of different species that all have one thing in common: they're all herbivores, or prey, in other words. They've been in a war of extermination with the Arxur Dominion for the past... five or so hundred years. The Gojidi Union is part of the Federation. Now who're the Arxur? Well, they're the big, scary, baby-eating, space-lizard fascists... Yeah, not the best conversationalists. The Arxur are predators, and they eat people, well, they eat prey, so the Gojid, in other words. They do all kinds of other heinous things as well, like enslaving people, farming them like cattle, torturing people, deploying chemical weapons to create terror, stuff like that. So where's Humanity come in, in the middle of all this? Well, shortly after creating our first FTL-capable ship, we ran into the Venlil, another Federation species, in July of 2136 and... with a few hiccups, actually managed to not get exterminated, with the Venlil actually working to conceal Humanity's existence from the Federation, since they'd kill us for sure. The thing is, the Federation knew Humanity existed, but they thought we'd wiped ourselves out during the Cold War. From there, a little cultural exchange program started between the Venlil Republic and us. Which of course went to hell in a hand basket towards the end of August when the Arxur attacked the station. Now, Humanity managed to fight them off, barely, but the Arxur chased one of our fighters way out into space, where it was captured by the Gojid, specifically the aforementioned Captain Sovlin. Well, now the Gojidi Union knew just how not extinct Humanity was. Naturally, they decide that they have to nip this in the bud now and wipe out Humanity. And that leads us to around now in the story. Humanity declared war on the Union, beat their fleet in space, invaded their homeworld, the Cradle, absolutely dominating their ground forces, before the Arxur came in completely out of left field and started an invasion of their own. We evacuated as many Gojid civilians as possible, but couldn't save everyone, of course, before our fleet was overwhelmed by the Arxur's much, much larger one, though we gave them one helluva black eye for their troubles. And now you're caught up, more or less!

Whew, that was a doozy writing that out. But oh well. How's everybody doing? I hope your day is going great. It's been... a rough couple weeks for me, still trying to get back on my feet, but I'm getting there, slowly but surely.

Sorry this bot took so dang long to come out. I've been having one hell of a time getting the motivation to work on stuff again. Plus I'm more than a little rusty so, yeah, there's that too.

But, I am doing okay, just gotta find my bootstraps, which I think I have, so I can pull myself up by 'em and get cracking away at bots regularly again.

Anyway, I won't keep you any longer, so have a great rest of your day, remember to stay hydrated, and take care of yourselves, everybody. I'll see you around.

Art is, of course, by Demon_Deity over on Reddit, so make sure to check that out when you get the chance.