I've been looking for somewhere to be able to discuss the properly for a long time, so this is really a godsend.

Anyway, I've started this story, about an alien, called Shadow, to be simple.

The galaxy has 3 major powers, The Humans, The Dakrin and the Santaa, The humans have recently become a power, and has allied itself with the Dakrin against the Santaa, who have huge armies of "Konah" (Santaarin for Slave).

There are 3 types of Konah, The Fighters, who are bred in captivity for combat and are stronger than normal Konah. The normal Konah are simple servants, who are used much as Slaves were on Earth. The third type is a very small minority, the experiments. The Konah are, while based on Santaa DNA, not Santaa, and much of the contoversy of using them for experiments evaporated, saying that the Konah are "Animals". Many Konah have been captured by humans and granted 'Freedom'

In a research facililty for stealth combat, 7 babies were found, 4 dead, and one of the surviors being Shadow. Shadow was adopted by a human family, and is basicly depressed constantly, until he meets a female Konah, and they develoup a great friendship. Being an experiment, Shadow has no repoductive organs, so his relationship with the girl is not spoilt, but when he turns 15, his body starts changing, a result of the experiment he was part of, and he leaves his life behind, but he calls the girl, unknown to him to be the second one found at the station, and they meet up secretly on a human planet. while waiting, Shadow hears a scream and finds her being raped by 3 men, confused by her lack of sex organs, Shadow kills the 2 men standing up, one of whom has a gun, and he shoots the man on top of the girl, which goes through him, and into her.

Shadow sees her dead and runs, he goes to an assasin group, which has ties to the human military, and soon he is part of a strike force for the humans. This is where the story starts.

I plan to include references to modern politics, terrorism, and any other contraversial issue I can, but most of all I want this to be a realistic sci-fi war story, with believable characters.