Her body was recovered from the wreckage of her voidfighter and her soulgem retrieved. Once sleek and golden, the Crown of Thunder was gunned down in the far depths of the Spiral where she had pursued a fleet of Hellstars. No sorcery could reach her, but for the three weeks it took to find her, a tiny glimmer of hope existed amongst the Eight Nations.
Merela had witnessed everything in the past four millenia. It was she who was the Tyrant's Sun consort. Unable to understand why the Tyrant Sun; he who styled himself the Unconquered Sun during those times had betrayed his host of Solars, she found the strength to formulate a plan for survival. She was there as well, one of the few who spoke to the Great Maker, to escape with as much of humanity as they could bring. In the plan to transform Autochthon to a war-deva capable of standing up to the Primordials, she too created many of his weapons. She had navigated through different parts of the Spiral, finding mineral-rich planetoids. She gained popularity among the people when she spoke against the Solar Deliberative, instead arguing that a representative order was necessary. She was an ace voidfighter pilot, her voidfighter prominent against the stars of the Spiral as it traced a flaming trail.
How unfortunate then, that the last battle did not have simple Akuma pilots. Instead, the Hellstars were piloted by the Chosen of the Primordials themselves, the Sovereigns of Theion, the Malefactors of Cecelyne, the Defilers of She Who Lives in Her Name, the Scourges of Adrian and the Fiends of the Dragon's Shadow and although each was individually not as skilled as she was, they formed a deadly squad. Did Merela know this, and still race after them, in the hopes that she could do as much damage to the Primordials as she could? Did she still harbor a grudge against the Tyrant Sun for kneeling before the Primordial King, pledging his loyalty away from his Chosen and the humans? The recovered Soulgem knows, but it will forever remain silent.
Gunstar Autochthonia is a chapter in Shards of the Exalted Dream, which details an alternate history - the one in which the Primordial War was lost. It's not written in much detail, but the gist of it is that in the final days of the Primordial War, the Unconquered Sun pledged his loyalty to the Empyreal Chaos, betraying humanity, the Solars, the Lunars, the Sidereals, Gaia, Luna and Autochthon. They all fled in Autochthon's body, and over the years, are building him into a Gunstar, defending their home as they wander the coils of the Spiral, weaponizing Autochthon so that they can fight back against the Primordials.
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