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FACTION LEADER: Royarch Khenyakateph Anehekt the Immortal
APPERANCE: Entombed in a suit of resplendent and ornate life-support armored warsuit, Royarch Anehekt the Magnificent stands as a god amongst men from not only the additional height of his suit, but also his very aurora. His death mask has been carved in exquisite beauty and fitted with speakers so that all may hear his roar.
SHORT BIO: Born a genius prodigy under the name of Haval Karine in the Core Worlds, Karine would develop and grow into a cruel and ambitious man, bent on obtaining as much power as he could. Using his intelligence, he perfected the illegal technology of Mind Shackling, forcing those he deemed worthy of serving him to undergo the implantation.
Charged with high treason and unethical science, Karine would make his way to the outer edges of known space where the Central Authority couldn't reach him. Taking his most loyal followers and a legion of mind shackled thralls, Karine would make his way to the colony of Kaliah, a society that seemed to want to emulate the great empire and kingdoms of ancient Egypt. Descending upon the planet, Karine declared that any who would willingly serve him would be granted privileges in his new order. While some of the settlers joined his cause out of fear or willingly, many did not. However, the meager colonial defenses where no match for the legion of undying warriors Karine brought with him who kept on fighting even after death as their implants kept them moving like living robots.
Within weeks the colony fell and the its main city was razed the ground, its remaining population mind shackled and Karine took control, dividing up land between his followers. Renaming himself Khenyakateph Anehekt the Magnificent, he set himself up as Royarch of his new territory and set about rebuilding all he had destroyed in his conquest while also preparing for the future expansion into the sea of stars.
However, something cursed the new leader and he began to show signs of a mysterious illness. He had tossed and turned for days on end, vomiting up blood and bile as his body atrophied. Ordering his Fabricators and researchers to find a cure, he would set his new society down a path that would forever change them: a quest for immortality. Behind closed doors, a suit was built for the Royarch, capable of sustaining him through his illness. However, it was too late as Anehekt had already passed seconds before he the suit was delivered. Saddened and ashamed, the Fabricators used the suit meant to prolong their lord's life as his burial coffin, entombing him into the suit and laying him to rest in a grand mausoleum, using all manner of surgery, genemodding and implants to make him look healthy in death.
A decade would pass as the fledgling empire would crumble into warlordism and civil war as the planet was once again decimated. However, one day, a stray artillery shell cracked open the Mausoleum of Anehekt. Once the smoke had cleared, the figure of Anehekt, still interred in his warsuit and death mask, awoke and saw what had become of his ambitions. In a rage, he roared and declared that he had conquered death and his empire would last a thousand years with him as its undying ruler.
Once again rallying his forces loyal to him, the reborn Royarch Anehekt marched upon his mutinous subjects, nearly turning the world into a barren tomb world in the process but at long last he was once again the undisputed king of all under the blazing sun. Death seems to have changed Anehekt, making him less cruel if only by a little and more willing to use diplomacy. With a new legion of vassals, Anhekt once again rebuilds his world from the devastation he created himself, forever known as the man whose ambitions even death could not take, forever known as Anhekt the Immortal.
FACTION NAME: Anehekt Dynasty
SETTLEMENT NAME: Anehekt
COLONY THEME: Headed by an extremely ambitious man, banished and hunted by the Central Authority due to his mastery of Mind-Shackle Implants. He and his closest followers seek immortality and a dominion amongst the stars to rule themselves as kings and queens.
POPULATION: Very few in the Anehekt Dynasty do not have the ubiquitous Mind Shackle Implant, a mechanical device fitted to a person's spine and skull which renders them entirely under the control of whoever is in control. All but the upper echelons are fitted with such devices however the Mind Shackle Implants can be adjusted to allow for more or less free will from being nearly independent with strong suggestions floating in ones mind to becoming as obeying and loyal as machines.
Only the extremely ambitious ever come to Anehekt, City of Kings, of their own free will. All others are either bred within the shifting sands or they are brought in as slaves, convicts or prisoners whose free wills will be drained and replaced with undying loyalty.
CRITICAL INFRASTURCTURE
ADMINISTRATION COMPLEX: There is a strict hierarchy to things in Anehekt where only loyalty and ambition is respected. At the very top is the Pharaoh who rules all with unquestioned power. Below him are the Viziers, the most powerful individuals below the Pharaoh and often take on grandiose names in a symbol of leaving whatever they had in the past behind them as they now serve the Pharaoh. And serving them are those whose loyalty are so strong that their Mind Shackle Implants are hardly needed, the Heralds who act as their master's eyes, ears and iron fist. The only others who are free of the MSIs are the Fabricators, those who oversee the Implant control networks and its implantation into hosts as well as the entombment of humans into constructs to they may transcend their mortal forms, willing or not.
Appearances wise, Anehekt sports a "glamorous ultiariansm" where while many of the buildings start as simple gunmetal colored buildings, they are soon covered in glyphs, art and detailing made of gold and jewels and iconography of death in an almost mocking way. All light is produced by obelisks and many buildings feature glowing lines of color to show whose domain it is. This creates a clashing sense of both ancient tombs and futuristic cleanliness that is all the more jarring with the silent, lifeless looking thralls who wander the streets doing their master's bidding.
SPACE ASSEST: The Obelisk of Heavens
A great space elevator that shoots straight into the stars, the Obelisk is the primary port of entry for many of the resources and ships the colony demands. It is also a key part of the control network for the Mind Shackle Implants and thus heavily fortified and defended both in orbit and on the ground.
WRITE-IN ASSESTS:
1) River Lybria Agriopolis
A massive farming center with many dozens of layers of massive farms so great that they have taken up the entire water supply of the River Lybria. All of the food for the colony is grown here and is also one of its chief exports to anyone who doesn't mind eating food harvested and grown by mind controlled tenant farmers. While mostly food is grown, a number of dyes are also grown for the used both to export and to color the cloth to display the magnificence of the Viziers and the Royarch.
2) Embalming Catacombs
Part cloning facility, part Mind Shackle implantation facility, the underground Embalming Catacombs plays a critical role in Anehekt. Very few people come to the Conclave of their own free will and the even the act of buying prisoners of convicts isn't enough to quench the thirst for manpower. Thus dabbling in the forbidden art of cloning has been used to create legions of loyal, obedience thralls with little free will of their own to act as everything from guards to farmers.
3) Mausoleum Manufactures
Some tasks require a more muscular and brutish application of force. As such, Anehekt entombs people into constructs loving designed and carved by the Fabricators believing that the undying loyalty of a mind shackled human is far greater than that of a corruptible AI. From these factories, constructs march out -some just taller than a human, others towering statues and titans- ready to serve their masters as they stand perfectly motionless like statues, awaiting orders.
4) The Carrion Call
All of the control and command orders are routed through the Nexus Archive, sometimes called the "Carrion Call", boosted through the Obelisk of Heavens and further subdivided between Pylons that act as extensions of the network. It is through this which the will of the Viziers are done and the minds of the people controlled.
APPERANCE: Entombed in a suit of resplendent and ornate life-support armored warsuit, Royarch Anehekt the Magnificent stands as a god amongst men from not only the additional height of his suit, but also his very aurora. His death mask has been carved in exquisite beauty and fitted with speakers so that all may hear his roar.
SHORT BIO: Born a genius prodigy under the name of Haval Karine in the Core Worlds, Karine would develop and grow into a cruel and ambitious man, bent on obtaining as much power as he could. Using his intelligence, he perfected the illegal technology of Mind Shackling, forcing those he deemed worthy of serving him to undergo the implantation.
Charged with high treason and unethical science, Karine would make his way to the outer edges of known space where the Central Authority couldn't reach him. Taking his most loyal followers and a legion of mind shackled thralls, Karine would make his way to the colony of Kaliah, a society that seemed to want to emulate the great empire and kingdoms of ancient Egypt. Descending upon the planet, Karine declared that any who would willingly serve him would be granted privileges in his new order. While some of the settlers joined his cause out of fear or willingly, many did not. However, the meager colonial defenses where no match for the legion of undying warriors Karine brought with him who kept on fighting even after death as their implants kept them moving like living robots.
Within weeks the colony fell and the its main city was razed the ground, its remaining population mind shackled and Karine took control, dividing up land between his followers. Renaming himself Khenyakateph Anehekt the Magnificent, he set himself up as Royarch of his new territory and set about rebuilding all he had destroyed in his conquest while also preparing for the future expansion into the sea of stars.
However, something cursed the new leader and he began to show signs of a mysterious illness. He had tossed and turned for days on end, vomiting up blood and bile as his body atrophied. Ordering his Fabricators and researchers to find a cure, he would set his new society down a path that would forever change them: a quest for immortality. Behind closed doors, a suit was built for the Royarch, capable of sustaining him through his illness. However, it was too late as Anehekt had already passed seconds before he the suit was delivered. Saddened and ashamed, the Fabricators used the suit meant to prolong their lord's life as his burial coffin, entombing him into the suit and laying him to rest in a grand mausoleum, using all manner of surgery, genemodding and implants to make him look healthy in death.
A decade would pass as the fledgling empire would crumble into warlordism and civil war as the planet was once again decimated. However, one day, a stray artillery shell cracked open the Mausoleum of Anehekt. Once the smoke had cleared, the figure of Anehekt, still interred in his warsuit and death mask, awoke and saw what had become of his ambitions. In a rage, he roared and declared that he had conquered death and his empire would last a thousand years with him as its undying ruler.
Once again rallying his forces loyal to him, the reborn Royarch Anehekt marched upon his mutinous subjects, nearly turning the world into a barren tomb world in the process but at long last he was once again the undisputed king of all under the blazing sun. Death seems to have changed Anehekt, making him less cruel if only by a little and more willing to use diplomacy. With a new legion of vassals, Anhekt once again rebuilds his world from the devastation he created himself, forever known as the man whose ambitions even death could not take, forever known as Anhekt the Immortal.
FACTION NAME: Anehekt Dynasty
SETTLEMENT NAME: Anehekt
COLONY THEME: Headed by an extremely ambitious man, banished and hunted by the Central Authority due to his mastery of Mind-Shackle Implants. He and his closest followers seek immortality and a dominion amongst the stars to rule themselves as kings and queens.
POPULATION: Very few in the Anehekt Dynasty do not have the ubiquitous Mind Shackle Implant, a mechanical device fitted to a person's spine and skull which renders them entirely under the control of whoever is in control. All but the upper echelons are fitted with such devices however the Mind Shackle Implants can be adjusted to allow for more or less free will from being nearly independent with strong suggestions floating in ones mind to becoming as obeying and loyal as machines.
Only the extremely ambitious ever come to Anehekt, City of Kings, of their own free will. All others are either bred within the shifting sands or they are brought in as slaves, convicts or prisoners whose free wills will be drained and replaced with undying loyalty.
CRITICAL INFRASTURCTURE
ADMINISTRATION COMPLEX: There is a strict hierarchy to things in Anehekt where only loyalty and ambition is respected. At the very top is the Pharaoh who rules all with unquestioned power. Below him are the Viziers, the most powerful individuals below the Pharaoh and often take on grandiose names in a symbol of leaving whatever they had in the past behind them as they now serve the Pharaoh. And serving them are those whose loyalty are so strong that their Mind Shackle Implants are hardly needed, the Heralds who act as their master's eyes, ears and iron fist. The only others who are free of the MSIs are the Fabricators, those who oversee the Implant control networks and its implantation into hosts as well as the entombment of humans into constructs to they may transcend their mortal forms, willing or not.
Appearances wise, Anehekt sports a "glamorous ultiariansm" where while many of the buildings start as simple gunmetal colored buildings, they are soon covered in glyphs, art and detailing made of gold and jewels and iconography of death in an almost mocking way. All light is produced by obelisks and many buildings feature glowing lines of color to show whose domain it is. This creates a clashing sense of both ancient tombs and futuristic cleanliness that is all the more jarring with the silent, lifeless looking thralls who wander the streets doing their master's bidding.
SPACE ASSEST: The Obelisk of Heavens
A great space elevator that shoots straight into the stars, the Obelisk is the primary port of entry for many of the resources and ships the colony demands. It is also a key part of the control network for the Mind Shackle Implants and thus heavily fortified and defended both in orbit and on the ground.
WRITE-IN ASSESTS:
1) River Lybria Agriopolis
A massive farming center with many dozens of layers of massive farms so great that they have taken up the entire water supply of the River Lybria. All of the food for the colony is grown here and is also one of its chief exports to anyone who doesn't mind eating food harvested and grown by mind controlled tenant farmers. While mostly food is grown, a number of dyes are also grown for the used both to export and to color the cloth to display the magnificence of the Viziers and the Royarch.
2) Embalming Catacombs
Part cloning facility, part Mind Shackle implantation facility, the underground Embalming Catacombs plays a critical role in Anehekt. Very few people come to the Conclave of their own free will and the even the act of buying prisoners of convicts isn't enough to quench the thirst for manpower. Thus dabbling in the forbidden art of cloning has been used to create legions of loyal, obedience thralls with little free will of their own to act as everything from guards to farmers.
3) Mausoleum Manufactures
Some tasks require a more muscular and brutish application of force. As such, Anehekt entombs people into constructs loving designed and carved by the Fabricators believing that the undying loyalty of a mind shackled human is far greater than that of a corruptible AI. From these factories, constructs march out -some just taller than a human, others towering statues and titans- ready to serve their masters as they stand perfectly motionless like statues, awaiting orders.
4) The Carrion Call
All of the control and command orders are routed through the Nexus Archive, sometimes called the "Carrion Call", boosted through the Obelisk of Heavens and further subdivided between Pylons that act as extensions of the network. It is through this which the will of the Viziers are done and the minds of the people controlled.