Chapter 26
Galactic Standard Date: 152,323.09 AE
Delta Sector – Command Carrier ‘Syracusia’
Centauri Cavalry General Kunopegos
KUNOPEGOS
The Centauri had been genetically engineered to be the Alliance's cavalry. Spliced together from the powerful running portion of that extinct animal, the horse, with the torso and intellect of the equally extinct sentient creatures, humans, the Emperor had created soldiers powerful enough to leap over obstacles and run into battle, weapons blazing, to defeat his enemies, without the inconvenience of hauling around beasts of burden or mechanical equipment from solar system to solar system. But like all hybrids, the inbreeding necessary to maintain their recessive genes came at a price. Over the millennia, inbreeding had rendered most Centauri sterile.
