I was sitting in my room, on my bed to be more precise. It's now been 10 years ago, that we founded this colony. It's now been 11 years since Romulus and Remus our Homeworlds have been destroyed, blasted out of the sky by a supernova.

The sun of the Nimbus system exploded, destroying the Systems next to it. Unfortunately, Romulus was one of them. One Moment we were citizens of one of the greatest Empires in the Galaxies and the next Moment we were just trying to survive. Billions of people died on Romulus, the remainders scattered all across the Universe. The Major planets got occupied by the Tal Shiar.

All ships were ordered to assemble at the nearest Tal Shiar Outposts. Most didn't respond. We were one of them. The Tal Shiar weren't what could rescue us. They would bring a dictatorship to replace our system and rule with an iron fist!

We searched a year to find anyone of our relatives, looked for friends who survived.

Our search was granted with success. We found around a hundred people wanting to join our cause. friends, relatives and some random people, which had lost everything. None of them my family. I lost them all with my home: Romulus.

Tovan's father knew we would need a new home. He found a Planet suitable for colonisation.

Now ten years later, this colony is filled with life. We build a new home, with our own hands we accomplished something. Many others followed our lead. They colonised what few Planets they could. We were self-sustainable we had everything we needed, and still something was missing.

My family. Everyone had a hard time because they'd lost their home, their Homeworld and most even relatives. But just few lost everything. I am one of them. I was just fifteen when it happened, away with the family of my best friend Tovan.

At that moment, when I was lost in thought, he entered the room.

"What we knew is gone, our home, our lives. All that we were: Dust, blasted across heartless empty skies." I whispered, it destroyed me every day a little more.

"But we live! Our legacy lives, within every ship we fly, upon every world we touch, in our hearts, in yours! There will be challenge. You will know fear, but you will overcome, you will survive, and answer vengeance with blood. You will do as you must, rule cannot be handed to the faithless. Our legacy cannot be lost to villains! Bury the past to face the future!" Tovan said. He knew when and how to cheer me up.

"There is no price we have not paid, no loss we have not felt. Our dead world, our long suffering...." I continued.

"...These are not ends; we are not ended! For your friends, for your people, for this new home. We must face all doubt. We must break the strong who would destroy us, and overcome the impossible!" He cut me off.

"We must fight, against any, and all! We must!..." I said.

"...we will!..." He interrupted me.

"For we are ROMULAN!" We both finished. He told me those words the day Romulus was destroyed. And ever since he told me them again, when I needed it. He encouraged me to move on. It's thanks to him I'm still here.

He sat down beside me. "Is it still that bad?" he asked sincere. I couldn't bring myself to speak a word, to let a tone leave me lips, so I simply shook my head 'yes'. He turned to me. His eyes focusing on mine. His hands holding mine. His presence securing me.

Then he pulled me into a tight hug. "I wish I could do more." He whispered. 'I don't need more than you.' I answered in my head. I couldn't bring the words to leave my mouth.

After a few minutes he ended our hug. "Come on, we've got work to do. You know on this day nobody will do any work." He said, muttering a short "not that they'd do any anyway."

That made me smile. A rare sight, one only he managed to get from me. My smile spread to him, his encouraging me to stand up and do my work.

"We'll meet at the festival?" I asked unsure of myself. "It's not like we'd be constantly speaking through com." He joked.

What's true is true, we always did that. But still I was unsure, still I was unsure how to feel when I saw him walk away, still I was unsure how to feel when I only heard him, still I was unsure why I felt as if he'd leave me, as if I'd lose everything which had worth to me again.