New Characters for a new story

Since I took a break from SOC, I started working on its followup story. Mostly for myself and cause I just had to get the ideas down somewhere as a "just in case".

Returning Characters:
Jack Wells; prisoner (male human from the territory Rulnudor) {Arrested for killing the Emperor}
Rhys Jones; fugitive (male human from the territory Libertia) {WANTED for suspected brainwashing}
Jessica Green; fugitive (female human from the destroyed city Calassa, now from Rulnudor) {WANTED for suspected brainwashing and assassinating the Emperor}
Tamara Lamnar; prisoner (female human from Libertia) {Arrested for being brainwashed and spreading Rulnudor propaganda}
Jori; fugitive (female human, origins are unknown) {WANTED for suspected brainwashing}
Kyle Daly; prisoner (male human from the destroyed city Calassa) {Arrested pending investigation of unknown circumstances}
General Tixe; general of the Rulnudor Special Operations Brigade (male human from Rulnudor)
Griff Wahl; prisoner (male human from the territory of Libertia) [moved from the original prologue and epilogue of SOC to here. His events have been erased] {Arrested for bribery}

New Characters:
Y; prisoner (female Mar'ahli) {Arrested for old prejudices}
Master Tesqui-Wiit; Ji-Jorhan martial arts instructor (male Ji-Jorhan from the territory Raji-Jorha)
Rou'tre; mechanic (female human from the territory Hydronkkers)
Sarline'batra; prisoner (male Azzaery) {Arrested for political reasons}
Oph'la; prisoner (female human/Hydronkker) {Arrested for sabotaging Rulnudor and Libertia vehicle compounds}
Bylee; prisoner (female Ji-Jorhan) {arrested for "threatening" an emissary}
Mira; Ji-Jorhan student (female Ji-Jorhan from Raji-Jorha)
Emperor Malton Alhai; ruler of Rulnudor (male human from the territory of Rulnudor)
Chief Walrot; ruler of Libertia (male human from Libertia)
Jeksonn Alhai; son of the Emperor (male human from Rulnudor)

New Prologue

I have written a new Prologue. It is a total of four pages (well, three and a quarter, but who's counting) and features Lieutenant Q in a training exercise with his fellow commandos from Rulnudor (Rool-NEW-door).

I've created a couple of new weapons for the book. One is a Torkil (TOR-kill) Manufactured repeater. The Torkil developed when I was vacuuming (that word never looks like it's spelled right) my stairs and took out the top hose in the accordion stretch tube. It was shaped as below:
___________===== (scope/energy holder)
|       _________=============== (barrel)
|___// (energy housing/grenade housing*/hand grip/trigger)

It looks like this:

Or something like that. I will try an post a picture up by tomorrow soonest. If you flip it upside down (the Torkil, I mean), then it becomes a grenade launcher. The energy power runs from the bottom into the "scope".

*Note: You must empty all grenades before you can have the Torkil resume itself as a laser rifle.

The other weapon created is a ca'barde (Kah-bAIR-D). It is a sword made of bone and metal. It is a weapon of the ancient warrior race, the Mar'ahli (Mar-AHWlee). It is honed to a fine edge and can cut through metal and flesh and circuitry like...well, butter.