Knights of Dex-Starr

The Knight's Crest

**The Knights of Dex-Starr** was a Knight organization based in Eastman, who fought in many important battles during the history of Under-the-Dome. Founded in 2039 by Snoke, they were made up of weeaboos and grugandan furries who wanted to learn the ways of furafinity, and Ionian martial arts.

Their primary weapon was a red hardlight laser sword (originally known as the weeaboo multi-tool) that locals nicknamed "lightsabers." Members of the Knights would traditionally take the title "Kylo" as part of their name, a word form the Vastayan dialect of Ionia that meant "Guardian". Many knights also took a second name that rhymed with "Ben", as part of a generic in-joke. In their later years this practice would fall in popularity, and Knights would instead take the name "Ren", a Vastayan word meaning "Avenger." For a completely arbitrary example, a knight named, say, "Kylo Ren", could translate their name as "Vengeful Guardian", or, alternatively, "Lethal Protector." Many members of the Knights were "Catkin", otherwise normal memetic humans that, for some inexplicable reason, were born as feral kittens. At advanced enough age, Catkin would sometimes develop "Catboy Maddness", an affliction that slowly transformed them back into feral cats.

## History

The Knights of Dex-Starr were founded in 2039 AMS by Snoke, who had recently traveled to Eastman after helping the Grugandans win the First Weeaboo War. Setting up a base inside a dead celestial titan, Snoke would begin a training program to teach people how to be noble warriors, using both anime and furry cultures as the backbone of his new organization. Initially, only his nephew Kylo Ben and adopted son Mort (who would later go by the name Jotaru) were members, but over time, a large number of recruits found their way to Eastman, from former Weeaboos to Grugandans to Shurimans. At their prime, the Knights would number at around 200, where they routinely trained and traded with the continent's other factions.

In 2621 AMS, after the destruction of Woodberry by Weeaboo saboteurs, Snoke would deploy his nephew to investigate. After Kylo Ben too went missing, Snoke sent another team of Knights, only for them to die against the weeb forces. Though Kylo Ben's sacrifice would ultimately help Nicolas Gregigan win the war for Gruganda, Snoke was left emotionally devastated, and began to neglect his duty as Knight King. In the years that followed, many of his Knights would begin to leave the base, while infiltrators loyal to the Lynch King began to convince members of the order such as Forbus Ren that, somehow, wanting to be a cute fluffy animal and want to be a fascist were compatible worldviews. These Nazifurs would go on to attack many of the loyal knights during the Sacking of Eastman, burning much of their original base and killing many members of the order such as Kylo Sehnn. Snoke would emerge to fight at this time, but he could not stand against many of his now Nazi students, and by the end of the battle only a handful of knights remained. Those who survived, save for the loyal Jotaru, would form the Knights of Ren, basically the same thing as the Knights of Dex-Starr but without furries. The Knights essentially ceased to exist at this time, surviving in name only as a member group of the resistance. Those that chose the Lynch King would later be killed in purges, as they were never truly considered to be "pure".

After the Racism War, the Knights of Ren rejoined the Knights of Dex-Starr, and an influx of new members restored the order to it's former glory. Under Knight Queen D'arc Ren's rule, the Knights would establish an even stronger relationship to the people of Under-the-Dome, helping solve disputes and protecting those who could not protect themselves. This time of prosperity for the order would sadly come to an end during the Winter War, as the knights found themselves a rival faction known as the Mordered Doomsday Cult. These crazed warriors believed that the spirit of the ancient dread Prince Mordered was speaking to them from the afterlife, and that the sooner the world ended, the better. The Knights clashed with the cultists for many years across Eastman, and in one particularly brutal battle, D'arc was killed by their leader Makuta, and the Knight Fortress was destroyed. New leader Rapino Ren decided to split the surviving Knights into smaller sub-factions in an event known as the second founding, and ordered the other "chapters" to spread out and protect other areas of the world. Chapters included the Arcbears, Stormcorgis, Seaweasels, Gnollfires, and Ramwinds.

A short time later, Makuta and his cultists would siege the Ionian capital city of Madrigal, hoping to destroy the Crystal of Kinkou that sat within the city. Were this crystal to be destroyed, the energy trapped within could potentially devastate the entire continent. Alongside his chapter of fifty Arcbear Knights, Repino Ren defended the city for several weeks, fighting to the last man against almost 20,000 Doomsday Cultists. Though the crystal would be destroyed, and Ionia wiped from the map, Ionian Leader Shen Kusho was able to contain the blast enough that the rest of the world was saved. Regardless, this event is considered by historians to be the end of the Golden Age, and the start of the apocalypse.

During the end of the fifth age, as the surviving realms declined into chaos and devastation, the remaining chapters of the Knights would either die protecting their pockets of the world, or disband and scatter to the wind. Jotaru would remain alone in the frozen ruins of the knight's castle, trying desperately to coordinate the efforts of the remaining chapters. By the dawn of the Sixth Age, the Knights of Dex-Starr were no more.

## Members

### Leadership

* **Snoke** was a former Weeaboo catboy who, after defecting shortly before the end of the first Weeb War, founded the Knights as a way of keeping his furry culture alive while also giving back to the world. he served as the order's Knight King for many memes, before passing away shortly after the start of Grugandan Golden age.
* **D'arc Ren** was the order's second leader, taking over after the Racism War and Snoke's retirement. A child of Weeaboo immigrants to Gruganda, D'arc had experience taking care of orphan Catkin. A friendly and peaceful leader, D'arc had little experience as a warrior, and ultimately perished during the Winter War against Makuta and the Mordred Doomsaday Cultists.
* Born Yasuo of Ionia, **Repino Ren** was an agile swordsman who fled his home nation after being falsely accused of murdering his master. As D'arc's second in command, Repino coordinated the order's combat missions and training. During the Winter War, he ascended to the role of Knight King, and split the Knights into smaller chapters in order to ensure their survival in the event of his death. Only a few memes later Repino would die defending Ionia during it's destruction.
* One of Snoke's adopted sons, **Jotaru** was never officially a Knight King, spending most of his time as the Knight's doctor. In the final memes of the 5th Age, however, Jotaru took up residence in the abandoned Eastman Castle, and coordinated the efforts of the order's surviving chapters. Eventually, he would use the stand "Green Day" to project himself into battle against Sprite Cranberry, saving several couriers from the arrival of Vibehead. This effort, however, would cost him his life.

### Other Members

* **Kylo Ben** was the nephew, and adopted son, of Snoke, and served as the order's first recruit. A curious and confident youth, Kylo Ben was heavily involved in the Second Weeb War, becoming corrupted by Wasabi-Fel in a battle against Weeb Infiltrators, and ultimately sacrificing himself to save Nicholas Gregigan. Snoke would be deeply affected by his death.
* **Kylo Sehnn**, nicknamed "Sylvie", was a Knight recruit and master duelist. She was close friends with Kylo Ben and Jotaru, the three of them often sparring together during the order's early days. Shortly before the Racism War, renegade Knight Forbus Ren betrayed the order, and the two dueled: though she was able to defeat Forbus, the traitor's pleas for mercy caused her to let her guard down, and he struck her when her back was turned, killing her.
* **Forbus Ren** was a Knight turned alt-right traitor turned Stomach Prince turned corpse. He held a dismissive attitude towards Snoke, and regarded heroes of legend like Nicolas Gregigan and Protodermis Ken as beta cucks.
* **Kylo Sven** was a Knight Scout who teamed with the tracker **Kylo Len**, and the warrior **Kylo Ten**, to investigate Kylo Ben's diseaprance during the Second Weeb War. Len and Ten were killed by Weeaboo meme thralls under the command of Stomach Prince Jude, while Sven would die at the hands of a Wasabi-controlled Kylo Ben. Kylo Ten's lightsaber would end up in the hands of Nicolas Gregigan, who wielded it for many memes.
* **Kylo Ryko** was a Knight Scout, and one of the order's few members to survive Forbus's betrayal. Feeling that Snoke had failed as a leader, he and the rest of the survivors would found the Knights of Ren splinter group. A passionate speech from Snoke would convince the Knights of Ren to re-join the order during the Racism War, and they would serve with distinction for many years. Ryko would become the chaptermaster of the Ramwinds after the second founding, though he and his Knights would perish several memes before the Sixth Age.
* **Vandermeer Ren** was a member of the Seaweasel Chapter, acting as the group's second in command. He and his comrades primarily patrolled the coastline of Under-the-Dome, and during the start of the Sixth Age, attempted to pass through the ports of Norway on their way down to Shurima. Due to his chapter's proximity to Vibehead's arrival only a few days later, it is unknown what happened to him.
* **Elena Ren** was the Captain of the Guard of the Gnollfire Chapter, protecting the chapter's massive fortress in Novac during the late Fifth Age. As her Chaptermaster began to descend into catboy madness, an assassin from another world assaulted the fortress, killing everyone aside from Elena and a Follower of the Apocalypse scribe. Elena and Sapiosexual were eventually rescued by Champa, another Follower, and joined Dendy Speedwagon's coalition to defeat Xanos, but she was killed by the snap before a plan of battle could be assembled. Shortly before her demise, she had begun dating Sub-Nero.
* **Acee Ren** was the chapter master of the Gnollfire Chapter. Also known as "The Cat King", they protected the region of Novac dutifully for many years until they began to succumb to "catboy madness", leading their knights on fools errands to retrieve kibble from abandoned petco. After an incursion by an assassin destroyed most of their chapter, Acee dueled the attacker before being distracted by Catnip, running into the woods and never being seen again.
* **Jax Ren**, **Dorbo Ren**, and **Kylo Makob** were all members of the Knollfire Chapter during it's destruction in 8996 AMS.

Kylo BenSnoke and Ryko in battleJotaruKylo Ryko and the Knights of RenElena and Acee RenA young Acee Ren, alongside two other Catkin and D'arc RenKylo LenKylo TenKylo SvenJax Ren and Kylo MakobDorbo Ren, reporting to The Cat King