For the sanctity of life, they broke his bones, laid him bare, and injected him with painful nanites. Primary One was the first of the Aeon Project warriors. He was broken and filled with darkness, until Yurie. Her love and their children kept him alive. Then they took Yurie away, and they bound him in Command Programming. At their parting, he vowed to protect their sons. He never suspected she was still alive after all this time. Yurie was fully aware during every moment of the twenty-three years she spent trapped in a cryo-chamber, her neural implants malfunctioning. Only the faint memory of her sons and her husband drew her from the prison of her mind. After her escape from cryo, Yuri wandered the empty halls of the vast abandoned Emperius laboratory facility until a stranger appeared to take her away. But there were others watching Emperius, and they would make sure that One and Yurie didn't get out alive.