Thorun lore

## The Thorun Empire

**Species:** Thorun

**Place of origin:** Milky Way Perseus-arm Algor system, planet Thorun Prima.

*The Thoruns are a robust, intelligent, humanoid species from the planet called Thorun Prima. The force of gravity at their home exceeds that on the surface of the Earth, because of this, they are characterized by a stronger physique compared to an average human. The Godars were powerful Thorun magnates, feudal lords who, from thousands years ago to the Zahak invaders arrival, ruled most of Thorun Prima from their vast, herediatry land holdings. When the Zahaks attempted to colonise their planet the Godars united, and during the Thirty years War, under the flag of the hero Marendor, they have defeated the invaders. After this event, the rise of the Thoruns began, the clans who had medieval level of technology started to understand the technology gained from Zahaks and travelled to space to begin their saga.*

### History

The Thorun planet is a bigger planet with a warmer climate than Earth, its surface is filled with thousands of active volcanoes, swamp marshes with extremely toxic gas, dense forests and giant deserts. In this vast world, an intelligent species rose up, the extremely warlike, powerfully built Thoruns.

The Thoruns were divided into several tribes, clans and migrated through the lands. In the past, if two clans met, they often fought with each other to take the other's cattles and possessions. Of the mostly nomadic tribes only a few, especially the Herjar clan have established smaller permanent villages and towns to strengthen their power through trade. The societies of the Thorun planet didn’t move further from their medieval technological level until nearly two hundred years ago (around the 18th century), a technologically advanced species, the Zahak appeared with their huge spaceships.

At the time the Thoruns didn’t know the purpose of the Zahak attack, because their technological level did not allow them to discover the exceptional abilities of their planet. The gas in their highly poisonous marshes is no other than Kanoid, an exceptionally rare material that prevents antimatter particle annihilation.

The Zahak's weaponry and propulsion systems were built on antimatter technology, and the Kaonid gas is an excellent source to preserve the various, extremly unstable particles. The Zahaks expected an easy victory against the primitive Thorun, they destroyed their cities and villages on the first day and cremated millions in the following weeks.

But the Thoruns didn’t give up, they used the planets rich cave systems as hiding spots during combat, as well as serving as communcation and supply routes. The cave systems were of great importance to the Thorun in their resistance to Zahaks and with the leadership of a heroic Godar warlord, Marendor, they defeated and scared away their attackers in a thirty year long bloody guerrilla war.

After the Thirty years War the Golden Age of Thorun began, and while studying the Zahak ships, technologies and weapons, they created their own. Marendor became the ruler of the whole Thorun planet, after his death his eldest son inherited the throne, his bloodline is still ruling the entire Thorun Galactic Empire. The Thorun Society is still highly feudal today.

The extremely xenophobic Thoruns have many colonies on distant planets and moons in the Algor system, these serves as provinces and being governed by families loyal to the emperor.

### Technology, weapons

After the Zahaks retreated, their devices became the basis of Thoruns’ weaponry and technology. Their scientists or as the Thoruns call them - the preservers of of the ancestor’s knowledge - invented new destructive weapons, such as dreadful Proton Torpedoes, Antimatter Rays capable of tear down hostile ships' armor.

Many of their weapons have devastating effect on ships’ hulls, but they are powerless against the energy shield systems.

### Economy

Like in everything else, the Thoruns are admirers of grandiose solutions in economy too. With their Extractor drones they refine the asteroids to extract the valuable ores, and deliver them to Material Silos from with the Zoner cargos deliver them to the Capitols, so the resources can be used in their refined form to build battleships or buildings.