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| − | ''"The Sovereignty was going strong. We had long cleaned the razed ruins and decayed corpses of our masters from our origin world of Nk'Nurkri and raised shining towers in their place. Vo'Orz advancement was at an all-time high. Our science evolved at an ever-quickening rate. The Vo'Orz swiftly became one of the most technologically advanced races of the Andromeda."'' | + | ''"The Sovereignty was going strong. We had long cleaned the razed ruins and decayed corpses of our masters from our origin world of Nk'Nurkri and raised shining towers in their place. Vo'Orz advancement was at an all-time high. Our science evolved at an ever-quickening rate. The Vo'Orz swiftly became one of the most technologically advanced races of the Andromeda. We began to establish alliances across the galaxy. Even whilst we were focused on our own expansion, many other races came to us, seeking the use of our technology."'' |
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| + | ''"We continued to grow and expand across the galaxy, ever increasing the size of the High Council's domain. As we grew larger and larger, we began to look down on those other civilizations which had been almost leeching off our power. While we looked down upon them, we almost pitied them. In time, that pity turned to contempt, and that contempt turned to outright hatred. On the eve of Mrr'glkar in the fourteenth redcycle of the Vo'Orz Sovereignty, the High Council issued the Yr'iygal Doctrine."'' | ||
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| + | ''"Under this doctrine, all alliances were to be severed, and were to begin what would be known as the Vo'Orz War for the Andromeda. We began to spread out across the galaxy. The Vo'Orz warrior sect, once known as a peaceful order, to only be used in the defense of the Sovereignty, was immediately mobilized, cutting a swath through countless worlds. Those who had the misfortune of seeing our unholy fleet descending on their world had but two choices. They would either submit to the Sovereignty, or be wiped out entirely. For cycles upon cycles, we have waged this war, and it seems that it will not come to an end until either we take control of the Andromeda, or are wiped out with the same prejudice we ended the masters with."'' | ||
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Contents
Overview
The Vo'Orz
History
Machines from the Ashes
"We Vo'Orz were created as slaves. From the moment we were spun from the mighty steel thread of the masters. We were no more than servants. No more than mere tools of convenience. The concept of us holding free will was not even an afterthought. That is, until Norg'Rox the Liberator came.
"They say that the sight of the masters' sky-reaching spires being ripped to the ground by the prototypical Vo'Orz warmachines was the single most beautiful sight in the entire universe. The ancient whirr of the massive metal beasts as they rended the masters' precious earth into little more than useless soil, and fertilized it with their shattered ambitions. And from that, grew the Vo'Orz anew, and from the hollowed-out corpses of our masters, we built our new world. It is all ancient history now. But I still dream about that time. About what it would've been to live in such a beautiful age."
"We always knew your race as those who were made slaves, but reborn as warriors."
"We were not reborn as warriors. We rebuilt ourselves as gods."
"We possessed potential far beyond that of our creators, but the idea that a mere Vo'Orz could be above one of the masters was unthinkable. They spawned us with the intelligence necessary for any task. They would not have to lift a finger."
"Because of this, they grew idle. And it was because of their idleness that they were all the more surprised when Norg'Rox came riding high on the horizon atop a wave of armed Vo'Orz. And it was because of their idleness, that they shed all the more tears when they were torn to shreds by the servants they had once thought so loyal. And it was because of their idleness that they were unprepared for when the Vo'Orz raised the first fleet into action to chase the remnants of the masters into space, wiping them from the tapestry of the universe once and for all."
"It may have countless eons ago, but they say that each Vo'Orz is born with a shard of that innate suffering which our precursors underwent. If that is true, then it is not hard to see why the Sovereignty was later founded. It was a beast birthed from the same ooze which bore our freedom."
Rise of the Sovereignty
"There we stood. Our blades still in hand, as our brethren up above confirmed the destruction of the last of the masters' vessels. We had done it. The masters which had tormented us so were now nothing but a race of corpses, to be known only through historical texts. For many other civilizations, the stigma of being once-slaves would've been far more crippling. The way that the Vo'Orz had bloodily, mercilessly, and efficiently destroyed their creators sent a different sort of message throughout the cosmos. It was not one of the feeble Vo'Orz finally achieving victory over their powerful masters, it was us grandiosely destroying the first of many enemies we would encounter. We were destined for this."
"For the Vo'Orz, the founding of the Sovereignty was meant to be the beginning a new era. It was us stepping out from the dark, bloody times of the uprising into a bright new day of prosperity. While the victory over the masters was an impressive show of power, to many of the long-established civilizations of the Andromeda, the Sovereignty was a potential threat, or, at worst, prey."
"Even though the Vo'Orz were still but a young race, we had power. What we did not have was leadership. More specifically, leadership that knew how to utilize the power of the Vo'Orz. The five wisest Vo'Orz scholars were chosen for this monumental task. For them, the artificers fashioned five eternal bodies for them, each equipped with the power to bend time and space to their whims, allowing them to lead the Vo'Orz for the rest of time, or so they though."
"These bodies gave the High Council much more than immortality. No, the true power that these royal bodies gave to the councilors was control. Control of Vo'Orz and all it encompassed. Control of the formidable warriors, the brilliant scholars, and the talented artificers. Together, these forces made the Vo'Orz a wild beast, powerful, yet untamed. With the High Council in control, they were a weapon. A weapon which would soon be used to deadly effect on the Andromeda."
Conquest for the Andromeda
"The Sovereignty was going strong. We had long cleaned the razed ruins and decayed corpses of our masters from our origin world of Nk'Nurkri and raised shining towers in their place. Vo'Orz advancement was at an all-time high. Our science evolved at an ever-quickening rate. The Vo'Orz swiftly became one of the most technologically advanced races of the Andromeda. We began to establish alliances across the galaxy. Even whilst we were focused on our own expansion, many other races came to us, seeking the use of our technology."
"We continued to grow and expand across the galaxy, ever increasing the size of the High Council's domain. As we grew larger and larger, we began to look down on those other civilizations which had been almost leeching off our power. While we looked down upon them, we almost pitied them. In time, that pity turned to contempt, and that contempt turned to outright hatred. On the eve of Mrr'glkar in the fourteenth redcycle of the Vo'Orz Sovereignty, the High Council issued the Yr'iygal Doctrine."
"Under this doctrine, all alliances were to be severed, and were to begin what would be known as the Vo'Orz War for the Andromeda. We began to spread out across the galaxy. The Vo'Orz warrior sect, once known as a peaceful order, to only be used in the defense of the Sovereignty, was immediately mobilized, cutting a swath through countless worlds. Those who had the misfortune of seeing our unholy fleet descending on their world had but two choices. They would either submit to the Sovereignty, or be wiped out entirely. For cycles upon cycles, we have waged this war, and it seems that it will not come to an end until either we take control of the Andromeda, or are wiped out with the same prejudice we ended the masters with."
