History Recap / AlbedoErmaFelnaEDFVolumeTwoNumberOne

[[caption-width-right:123:This is [[SexyDiscretionShot the most erotic thing you are going to see here]] regarding the [[CoitusEnsues relationship]] between Erma Felna and Alfon Voga.]]

* OffModel: Somewhat, but the original printed version used half-tones of grey rather than pure black and white, but due to the shoddy printing Creator/AntarcticPress used at the time, many of the art used '''very dark''' tones instead, making the images look very dark and the characters being depicted with very darker colors, almost to {{Blackface}} levels. That's the reason both the Command Review compilation and the version uploaded in Gallacci's homepage used the original B/W art without the tones.

The recap begins with brief backstory of the whole anthropomorphic civilization. It explains how the all the anthropomorphics came from the planet Arras Chanka, the HQ of the ''Extraplanetary Defense Force'' (EDF) and the Confederation of Planets ([=ConFed=]), and how the anthropomorphics cannot explain their own origins. This is further exarcerbated that they don't any traditions or culture beyond what they received at the time of the "Awakening" centuries ago, so they began with a kind of democracy, as [[MasterComputer The Net]] helps them with the most delicate problems, like law enforcement and psychological help. With the time, their society became a quasi-socialist government, when with the help of the state and the Net itself the people could pursue academic or artistic jobs, leaving the hardest parts to the computers. Later on, they begin the colonization of the known space, and thanks to the discovering of the [[FasterThanLightTravel jump technology]], they begin to colonize other worlds, albeit without being able to find any clue about who were the people or civilization who created them. However, due of the cosmic distances between Arras Chanka with the new colonies and the difficulties with communication between them, [[RealityEnsues many of them started to develop their own ideas and cultural differences]] and some of them even went into nasty civil wars along them.

Returning back to Ish-tako, we see Erma and Alfon near a beach, and Alfon comments it's very dangerous to swim because the local sea fauna is extremely hostile, but Erma brought out defensive measure for that case. Later, we see both of them naked after taking a bath, while Alfon is giving Erma a massage, and she decides to take a walk to the jungle near the beach. Alfon cannot avoid to make some comments that the real reason why Erma wants to go the jungle is just to do a "tactical terrain assessment" in Alfon's own words, something that Erma finds annoying, since Erma thinks that Alfon considers her as a paranoic military wacko, but Alfon answers Erma needs to take a break from all her military duties at least for a while and the real reason why she is taking a walk on the jungle is just to find any peeper around them, so she and Alfon can get intimate without problems, Alfon is surprised that Erma, under her façade of a very polite and stoic woman, lies a girl who is also angry for some sex since many years ago, something that excites Alfon. Meanwhile they keep walking on the jungle, while Erma explains carefully about the fauna and its descriptions, as it helps a lot her father Kanoc is an avid collector of xenoflora in his free time (not to mention her family having a botanic garden in [[BigFancyHouse her home back in Dornthant]]) and she knows a lot about the topic from him, surprising Alfon along the way. Erma picks up a lobster-like anthropod, and she happily keeps explaining to her lover about the creature and its characteristics. Alfon cannot avoid to appreciate the beautiful scenary of the planet Ish-tako, but Erma also appreciates she is with Alfon, a person with she ''really loves''. The last scene we see both Alfon and Erma very close to each other... [[SexyDiscretionShot What happens next is left to the imagination of the reader]].

'''NOTE:''' ''The Gallacci's uploading of this issue in his personal homepage omits entirely the recap of the story so far at the beginning of the issue, since it defeats the purpose of uploading of the previous issues so far. For the sake of completeness and also because the recap has additional information not explained previously, the description of the recap here will only include the backstory of the setting and also from the Felna family.''

* RecapEpisode: Only in the printed version though, as the first pages bring a short resume of the story so far and the backstory of the anthropomorphic civilization, the EDF,the ILR and the Felna family.

Returning back to Ish-tako, we see Erma and Alfon near a beach, and Alfon comments it's very dangerous to swim because the local sea fauna is extremely hostile, but Erma brought out defensive measure for that case. Later, we see both of them naked after taking a bath, while Alfon is giving Erma a massage, and she decides to take a walk to the jungle near the beach. Alfon cannot avoid to make some comments that the real reason why Erma wants to go the jungle is just to do a "tactical terrain assessment" in Alfon's own words, something that Erma finds annoying, since Erma thinks that Alfon considers her as a paranoic military wacko, but Alfon answers Erma needs to take a break from all her military duties at least for a while and the real reason why she is taking a walk on the jungle is just to find any peeper around them, so she and Alfon can get intimate without problems, Alfon is surprised that Erma, under her façade of a very polite and stoic woman, lies a girl who is also angry for some sex since many years ago, something that excites Alfon. Meanwhile they keep walking on the jungle, while Erma explains carefully about the fauna and its descriptions, as it helps a lot her father Kanoc is an avid collector of xenoflora in his free time (not to mention her family having a botanic garden in [[BigFancyHouse her home back in Dornthant]]) and she knows a lot about the topic from him, surprising Alfon along the way. Erma picks up a lobster-like anthropod, and she happily keeps explaining to her lover about the creature and its characteristics. Alfon cannot avoid to appreciate the beautiful scenary of the planet Ish-tako, but Erma also appreciates she is with Alfon, a person with she ''really loves''. The last scene we see both Alfon and Erma very close each other... [[SexyDiscretionShot What happens next is left to the imagination of the reader]].

And while this was happening, the next scene changes to Dornthant, Erma's homeworld, when we see Tasak Felna, Erma's younger brother returning home from the local HomeGuard base after his training session. The narration quickly explains, while he's a member of the HomeGuard, he is not a member of the EDF because he was rejected, as it was explained previously by the Net. His mother Eda was preparing some tea to Kanoc, her husband, who was doing some gardening outside. After drinking the tea, Kanoc explains to Eda how the local plants growing, but the discussion ended in a abrupt way when Eda tells him that Tasak was in home, as Kanoc doesn't want to see his son in an uniform and then, he begins to furiously pluck the plants from the ground, while [[MadnessMantra screaming like a lunatic]], much for his wife's consternation. Tasak was also worried by his father's behavior, since he is afraid he could hurt his mother, but Eda quickly explains he never attempts tp hurt anyone in his fits of lunacy, and the only thing she can do is crying for him.

Meanwhile in the planet Keptsuah, Itzak Arrat incidentaly manages to find some members of his former crew and he warns them beforehand of the whole deal of the EDF trying to discredit them, and he advice them to record everything they say among them, so that there is no evidence of suspicion among their ranks, and checking their personal logs on the Net and comparing them with the official data, just in case. Once that Arrat is alone, he and the Net discuss about the current events and how his father, Joseph Arrat, has been granted a seat in the goverment of Dornthant and how his mother is well. Also, he received a note of a girl named Roheeta Diamet and her friends, who will accompany him on his trip outside the planet. Arrat manages to figure out what the Net is trying to imply and he replies he has no time for lewd stuff. The Net answers [[MySensorsIndicateYouWantToTapThat he needs all the sex he can get, as he has no socialization since the day he became a captain]], but Arrat replies he has other important things to do, something that the Net doesn't buy that by the fact Arrat is technically ''unemployed'' right now, so the Net not only brings the aforementioned Roheeta, but other three Equine girls, named Betti, Donna and Vicki, who wants to accompany Arrat in his long travel, much for his surprise.

One of the members of the ILR military, a colonel named Tom Dannahasham, gives a RousingSpeech towards the ILR goverment council about the imminent doom of the ILR since a economic crisis seems to be coming. The rest of the members dismiss his concerns as expansionist stuff, but he warns about the stagnation of the ILR if they don't do something to remedy the whole thing. Other members of the council wants to hear him anyways, because they were scared of the unemployment rates they received in their reports. While continuing with his speech, the Colonel admits the whole First Lepine War they fought decades ago was a utter act of greed and imperalistic ambitions and it was doomed to fail anyways, but the situation has starting to become more dire for the Republic and he blames the [=ConFed=] for stealing assets he think they belong to the ILR, and a further sacrifice is necessary. The rest of the council points out the Republic cannot stand more sacrifices because the people is already overtaxed and their markets are in decline. Col. Dannahasham gives to the members of the council his plans, which include diverting the existent civilian resources towards the military, while those industries will receives juicious guarantees after the hypotethical war is over. The side-effect of those plans is all the civilian employees will become basically members of the army, but they will receive the same pay and benefits of a regular soldier. What the council didn't know is ''the whole thing'' is a elaborate plan from him to convince the ILR goverment to wage another war against the [=ConFed=] and the EDF, by invoking their patriotism and greed at the same time, without them figuring out.

The story begins in the innards of the Independent Lepine Republic, when a reunion of many of their high-ranked members is about to begin. The narration explains how the previous war, who was fought just to sustain the way of life of their citizens, while the government itself is trying to feed their citizens an ilussion of an unlimited economic growth. Even after the war, the ILR's economy is still working like a war-era economy, when the capital that is normally destined for vital investments now is directed to feed the military machinery of the Republic, and [[CapitalismIsBad the consumerism of its citizens does not help things either]]. Although the ILR is a democratic capitalist republic in theory, in fact those who have the reins of government are the clans who controls many of the vital industries, while the military dictate the political and economic policies. And they will tryo to keep their influence and power at ''any cost''.

Two of these colonial planets, named Hiahhoch and Baliannian, whose population is mostly of Lepines (rabbits), established a somewhat democratic goverment, but with a capitalist background, in stark contrast of their communist neighbors. This change of the status quo was caused partly of the [[ApatheticCitizens apathy and conformism of their citizens]], but with time it became progressively [[ANaziByAnyOtherName authoritarian and xenophobic]] to the grade they started to expel from both planets any other non-Lepine and dissident at force. After that, both planets became the backbone of what it will become the ''Independent Lepine Republic'' (ILR) and, as a way to keeping the lifestyles of their citizens intact, the ILR began a bloody campaign of planetary invasions to their neighbors, beginning the ''First Lepine War''. To counter them, the loyal colonies and Arras Chanka created the Confederation of Planets and later on, the EDF as a way to deal with the new threat. After many years of bloody battles, the EDF managed to defeat the ILR, but the Republic survived the war, even if they weren't able to expand anymore so far, while the EDF now controls most of the known space.

!!A Brief Resume of The Events So Far

'''NOTE:''' ''The Gallacci's uploading of this issue in his personal homepage omits entirely the recap of the story so far at the beginning of the issue, since it defeats the purpose of uploading of the previous issues so far. For the sake of completeness, the description of the recap here will only include the backstory of the setting and also from the Felna family.''