Xerxes

Xerxes is a king within the Jilm Lore who currently resides on the planet of Susa in the Gardion Galactic Planes. Thought to have been assassinated on Earth, he was instead abducted by an unknown alien force and brought throughout the galaxy as a space slave, before breaking free of his bonds and establishing control over his own planet of freed galactic slaves (these regions of space were not members of the Cosmic Alliance yet and as such the alliances ban on slavery was not enforceable).
His new home would not be safe for long however, as the neighboring slave worlds simultaneously declared what would become known as The Hyper Wars, an attempt to destroy the fledgling abolitionist planet lest it serve as an example to their own slave classes. The wars proved to be absolutely brutal, and are still infamous throughout Alliance space as the war that first brought the then mysterious race of Humans to the Galaxies attention, as well as being one of the key conflicts in the history of The Jedi Knights. Xerxes proved to be a surprising military genius, using suicide craft to target the palaces of the neighboring planets to inflict catastrophic losses to the upper aristocracy of the planets he was engaged with. It was around that time those planets began purging their slave population so there was no risk of revolution on their own planets. This proved catastrophic however, as the rash plan left their entirely slave-dependent economies in shambles.
With his enemies poor and terrified, and with hatred in his heart against those who slaughtered so many people he sought to free, Xerxes began the ground invasions of the planets in a campaign dubbed "The Scouring". All inhabitants were slaughtered, with their remains used to fuel the bioships that the King was so fond of using.With this last act the wars were over, and the rebuilding of his region of space began.Xerxes oversaw the explosion of the economies of his new empire due to the shrewd governing he employed, later dubbed "The Xerxes Economic Miracle". Life extension technologies meant his reign could continue indefinitely, and his application to the Cosmic Alliance in Earth year 1560 gave his empire the markets needed to keep their growth continuing for millennia.He is famous for keeping multiple Kaiju as war beasts during this period, as a way to deter any aggression from his planets.
When the Intergalactic Jilm Wars and Cosmic Civil War began Xerxes saw it prudent to stay neutral in the conflicts, though this policy did not work with the Jilm Brothers as you can probably imagine, and he soon realized that galactic extinction could be at hand.It was in this dark hour he heard of The Visored One, and recognizing the dire situation would become one of his most important allies in fulfilling The Prophecy,
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