Marcellus Fort, Island Hylar XI
Federation of Ulthranian Islands
Grand Commonwealth.
Field Master Marcellus had always envied this place, he built it with his and the 75th Federated Islanders Corps of Engineers . It took them almost less than a week to build. But after that, he came here to rest from the endless waging of war. It did not have to luxurious, it was his quite, subtle place in paradise. He would, however, be having guests. Highest ranking military officers of the SEC were to come and discuss the reforming of the SEC Coalition Forces, tactics, build. He would make it so...
His servents, all of whom he gave the option of working for him or in a POW camp chose to work for and live within the boundaries of the island. Twelve of them were local rebel islanders, eleven were insurrectionists from Rexta and six were foreign, three Britannians from the Ulthranian-Britannian War when he was a colonel, two Quendi and an Aquillian, respectively. They set up plates, they cleaned the floor and, at the kitchen at the cookery down from the house, they prepped the meals.
The Field Master had instructed the other SEC officers that when they land at Hylar Main Airport to meet up and go to a hydroplane and take them to the island. But until then, he sat on his front patio, he lit up a cigarette, placed his coffee on the table next
to the rocking chair and began to play a guitar, without a care in the world.
He now awaited the other SEC officers...