Base: Mammalian
Name of Race:
Before Reforging- Thysia
After Reforging- Athanatos
Civilization:
Before Reforging- The Celestial Federation
After Reforging- The Imperium Lucis
Homeworld: Invictus
Stat Placement:
-- Toughness: 1
Physically lesser on average than other races, the Athanatos are slightly more fragile than regular humans.
-- Reproduction: 0
A slowly dying race, the Athanatos have been reproducing using clone-children to fill roles in society or simply to build families for almost ten thousand years. Regular reproduction remains, but it is beginning to get diminishing returns.
-- Industry: 3
The Athanatos have experienced two golden ages of technology before, and they've got about twenty millennia of experience to get their technology efficient and powerful. With an almost endless supply of man and machine, the Imperium Lucis will be a danger to all they oppose.
-- Psyche: 3
With over 30,000 years to learn, the Athanatos are an intelligent, resourceful, and cunning race. They are learned in military, economics, and politics. The arts and humanities flourished long ago, but they are being set aside for the Crusade.
-- Morale: 3
With over ten thousand years of rebuilding both civilization and confidence, it will take more than a bloody first contact to bring down the Athanatos again.
Population: In a solar system with 9 planets/moons colonized, with at least 10 billion each, the Imperium has about 100 billion bodies to throw into the grinder. And the galaxy shall turn the handle towards the Athanatos' glory.
Government: At the center, the Imperium Lucis is ruled by the High Novemvirate, the religious and political authority of the Athanatos. When they come to a vote, the outcome is law that can determine the fate of millions. Each member is the Primarch of their planet, revered as god-kings whose words are law. They will run the propaganda and enforce the imperialist, xenophobic agenda that the nation has adopted to conquer the galaxy, once the Imperium runs into non-mammalian species IC.
Planetary History: The story of the Athanatos...is not a happy one. It does not have a happy beginning into the space age, nor will it have a happy ending. Each age is about 10,000 years in length, though the Crusade will be at Year 1 when they begin in the RP. The Renaissance begins at a time about a century technologically in the future compared to us on Earth.
The Renaissance (RN): Caught up in a world war, the rich, powerful, and useful pool their resources and knowledge to create the first interplanetary starship and terraforming station and flee to the nearest habitable plan. When they returned a millennium later, they reconquered the planet with a vengeance. After a century to consolidate power, they formally began this age with a mission of exploration of all that their solar system held. Nearly 9,000 years later, the Thysia held the entire solar system in their grasp, a bastion of industry and progress. Much of the technology the Imperium uses today can be traced back to this era, if it's not directly from that era itself. The fallen civilization of the Celestial Federation ruled and protected during this time.
The Shattering (S): When the Thysia first created AI, they were hailed as marvel and an end to all labor. But, as time grew on, the Thysia became complacent as their Ferrous did as they were programmed and continued upgrading themselves. Then one day, the Ferrous became sentient and turned on their masters, cutting off interplanetary flight in a civilization-wide war that destroyed the Celestial Federation and reduced the once-glorious race to techno-barbarism. Even when all the Ferrous were destroyed, the Thysia turned on each other once more over power and wealth. 9,000 years after the war with the Ferrous had ended and the war among Thysia began anew, the fallen race was due for another revolution.
The Reforging (RF): A savior appeared to the Thysia, proclaiming the returning greatness of their race. His name is lost to time, the man is now known today as the Last Prince. In the century that he lived, he and his army from Invictus reconquered the solar system once more, promising the Thysia that, if they united under his rule, one day their race would rule the whole galaxy. Entranced by his almost-supernatural powers of strategy and persuasion and his boundless intellect, the Thysia rose once more from techno-barbarism to reclaim the heights they once knew. But the Last Prince and his Novemvirate after him realized that the race had driven itself into sterility with war after war, massacre after massacre of minority ethnicities that once made a diverse federation. With only a few ethnicities remaining, it was only a matter of time before their race went extinct. After over nine millennia of rebuilding their civilization, millennia after they had begun using clone-children to supplement the population, the Thysia and the Celestial Federation were no more. They were the Athanatos, the fulfillment of the Last Prince's vision of a glorious Imperium Lucis.
The Crusade (C): Current timeline with the RP. It is Year One of the crusade, as the Imperium goes beyond the boundaries of its solar system after probes sent long ago, searching for empty planets to colonize. They do not realize other, non-mammalian races are out there. But when they do, they will unleash their full military might to cleanse the galaxy of alien filth.
