Chapter 8 Galactic Standard Date: 152,323.11 AE Sata'anic Empire: Hades-6 Emperor Shay'tan SHAY'TAN Some called him the devil, but dragons were an ancient species, blunt instruments created at He-who's-not's insistence to protect HER from Moloch's constant incursions. Moloch was a cancer; whatever he infected needed to be excised. But where the Dark Lord's power was so vast HE destroyed entire galaxies, dragons drew upon a specific force of nature, thereby diluting the Song of Destruction enough that only a single planet or continent would be destroyed. She-who-is still wept to see her playthings broken, but it was at a smaller scale, more manageable than the wholesale chaos of the Dark Lord, and as the dragons evolved, they had learned to dampen their power. As the millennia passed,