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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
"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 Vo'Orz 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."
