Editing Urehikau Kauaeroa (section)

== The Coming of the Emperor ==
With Atua gone, Urehikau led the Kauaeroa to dominance over the rest of Tekikinga, absorbing the strong and driving the weak into subservience.  He ruled from Atua’s fortress, the faceless corpse of his adversary crucified above the entrance.  But the heavens proved that they had bestowed their last visitor upon Tekikinga when dispensed one final guest.

On great columns of fire came the golden ships of the Emperor.  They alighted before the great fortress, opening wide to procure the ruler of man and father of Urehikau.  But the Emperor’s gaze first met the sight of the body above Urehikau’s hall, and in his horror he nearly wept for the loss of his son.  But Urehikau stepped from the doorway to meet the stranger, and the golden warrior’s grief was exchanged for confusion.  The man standing before him was surely his son, but no death world could produce such a being as was crucified before him.

The Emperor’s eyes met with Urehikau’s, and this time is was Urehikau who recoiled, then knelt.  He had seen those eyes before.

As the Emperor escorted his lost son back to humanity and his Legion, but ordered a team to scour the planet for evidence of his son’s birth pod; sure enough, two were found.

Both were marked XXI.