The Tears of Balore
This is an old story ... but also a new story. This is what happened, 2000 years after the first story; on a world much like our own, and yet not ...
Zaren's family had always worked in the mines … he had searched the memories of his ancestors as well … there had to be something somewhere, why else had he been the first ?!
The world had changed, and yet it hadn’t … a millennia had come and gone, and another millennia more … The Yarogs were still in power; now searching for a way to encase their star, empowering them to travel the galaxies … But they needed ever more minerals and materials, of an ever varying nature …
Two thousand years of prophecy still unfilled; the people were growing weary, the guard had grown lax … drugs were growing, both in availability, and potency … though one drug remained above them all …