Why do humans constantly glamorize the life of us Gods in their novels? Seriously. I wish they would stop. We who are called Gods by the ordinary mortals of the planet Earth are anything but. Say, do you know the story of Superman, from the comic books? On his home planet, he's a regular Joe and when he's on Earth, he's got super powers. Well, the same goes for us so-called deities. In our own Universe, we're just like you. I hail from another Universe. It's not another planet, it's an entirely different galaxy. We call it Woll. You humans call it Andromeda. The name is Matok, by the way.
Anyone looking at me would see a six-foot-three, broad-shouldered and well-built man of African descent. I don't look a day over twenty five. I presently live in the City of Ottawa, Ontario. It's a hot spot for so many immigrants in Canada and it's a quiet town so I thought I'd fit right in down there. I go by the name Adam Matok, Criminal Justice student at Carleton University. I live in the capital of Canada, and it's my new home. I came to the planet Earth unwillingly, I'm afraid. I was once a soldier in the Imperial Army of Lord Markhos, the Crown Emperor.
My species call ourselves the Zenith. We look exactly like earth humans, but we are different. We are spread across thousands of planets in what the humans call the Andromeda Galaxy. There are billions upon billions of us. Until recently, the five thousand planets and the nine hundred billion Zenith men, women and younglings inhabiting them were all citizens of the Empire. The Crown Emperor and his family ruled over us, and the Emperor's will was enforced by the Imperial Army, better known as the Legion. I was a Captain within the Legion. For the first few decades of my life, I served the Empire faithfully. One day, Prince Ander, the younger brother of Crown Emperor Markhos left the throne world of Zen, ancestral and nearly mythical birthplace of all the Zenith people, and declared war on the Crown. He rallied thousands of worlds to his cause, and the Empire was plagued by Civil War.
The Zenith people were at war with one another for the first time in centuries. It was brother against brother, friend against friend. My older brother Harok sided with Prince Ander, and I faithfully followed the Crown Emperor into battle against the enemy forces, which included my brother. The war lasted many years, but in the end, the Empire prevailed. Prince Ander was captured, and the Crown Emperor declared victory. The war was basically over. My brother had risen to the rank of General among the enemy forces. He escaped from custody with about eighteen hundreds of his followers via an experimental machine called the Trans-Galactic Teleportation Device or T.S.D. They escaped from our Universe of Woll, better known as the Andromeda Galaxy, into the Milky Way Galaxy. They came to the planet Earth, the Abode of Man. There, among a species which looked exactly like ours, they made their new home.