...Beijing Beta - the planet where all of us lived - was the second casualty in a war that was started by a madman against the Eighth Galaxy named Ares Von. He used his fleets to annihilate Cayley, the capital planet of the galaxy, where I grew up, and then turned them on Beijing Beta, and annihilated it in a second.

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There was no rhyme or reason as to why he chose it short of the fact that it was there. Millions of lives snuffed out in a second.