Inkarri Theocracy

**Dev. Status** | Conceptual

*"Sunny, thank you for the truth you let me see.*

*Sunny, thank you for the facts from A to C.*

*My life was torn like a wind-blown sand,*

*And the rock was formed when you held my hand."*.

*Sunny one so true, I love you."*.

- Sunny, by Bobby Herb, commonly sung by Inkarri members when in their religious services while taking the lyrics a little bit too literally.

## History

### Revival

The new century wasn’t very welcoming the Andean countries of Peru nor Bolivia, coming from an humiliating defeat in a devastating war after having suffered political unstability and a terrible economic crisis, the people of these countries began to long for the older better days.

Pessimism and a distrust of the oligarchy made people to look instead elsewhere, the politicians and the discourse of these new “enlightened European countries” simply didn’t cut it anymore, for they began to realize, they used to be powerful, not only powerful, but THE greatest power on the continent, nobody dared to challenge the Inca Empire, an empire that was benevolent to it’s subjects, had an extensive an excellent infrastructure, some dare say even better than what they actually had at present and the wealth of the people was simply unquestionable. People simply began to notice and simply started asking, why? What had happened to this once glorious land?
Is the European way, the way of the conquerors who sacked and destroyed everything of value, leaving the territory to be left in ruins and the people to be persecuted in the name of their gods, is it truly the way to go?

Soon many began to question these sentiments, looking back to their indigenous groups, at first it was very subtle, traditional festivities suddenly started to having a greater public, the Inti Rayma slowly started to gather more people, Ayllu communities in the Andes started to grow gradually, Amautas had some degree of political power again, but most importantly literature began to be written about this, newspapers and books that promoted the indigenous way of life and how may Peru and Bolivia should be no more, but the Inca Empire to be restored, promoting the benefits of this union and the consequences should it fail, that the very spirit of the continent was in danger, and that people should do something to make up for this, most of the population didn’t even mind this radical rethoric, as these indigenist revivals were nothing new, it was clear that they frequently just happened, every time things went wrong in the country people would just take to their traditional roots in their reminiscence, or at least the tales of, better days in the past, always clamoring how things would be better if the Inca Empire would just be restored, often falling in deaf ears.

This time however, things actually got different.

The Government, still clinging to the ideals that came from Europe, for the most part dismissed this revival as a passing fad, as many times it had happened before, the economic unstability however was anything but, the countries simply never truly getting back on their feet from the blows that they had received at the turn of the century, going from one unstable regime to the next, from one crisis to another, until finally someone intervened. Someone coming from beyond the seas, going after the promises of a land where the wealth was awaiting whoever dared to adventure in this new world, as long as you were ruthless and merciless, quickly imposing their culture and denying that of the locals deeming it inferior, seeking to deface it wherever they found it. This entity of course was the Mediterranean Syndicate.

The sudden irruption of the ideal of sheer capitalism and the imposition of the culture it brought with it did nothing but confirm the fears of the indigenists that were fighting for a greater recognition for their people, making their quest for the restoration of the rightful government in the region a much more real fight, something they had to work hard for, something they may have to fight for, in a literal sense, if they must.

Unbeknownst to most however, there was a group that had been waiting for this opportunity for centuries.

### The Final Countdown

The Cult of the Inkarri can trace back it’s legacy for centuries, being almost as old as the fall of the very Inca Empire that gave it’s inspiration.

The very principles this cult are based on are relatively simple, and can be explained by a little bit of historical background.

As the Inca Empire was subjugated, the Spanish tried at first to assign puppet leaders to give a degree of legitimacy to their reign, this tactic however backfired often, as these leaders still held enough power and, more importantly, hatred towards the conquerors that in practice this often meant that their reigns often descended in rebellions between the native factions led by a new appointed leader and the invasors and whoever supported their cause, in the end, the Spanish opted for a more brutal method, if they couldn’t justify their reign through the appointment of leaders, they would justify it by a reign of terror.

This way they began to dismember, aside from other tortures and humiliations, anyone who dared to oppose them and was captured alive. This of course left a great impression on the native peoples, but not for the reasons the Spanish wanted.

As the remains of their leaders were cut up and scattered throughout the land in the hopes of the locals to get the message, they instead started transmitting a different message, their leaders were being returned to the land, hidden and separated for their power was too big for the Spanish to contest them and as such their leaders had the power to rise up, once again, and lead their people to their final victory, this was seen not as a belief, but as a simple and uncontestable fact, it was just a matter of waiting, hoping and having faith that, some day, all the missing parts of the messiah that through the centuries began to become one and the same, to be finally gathered, put together and restored, so he may finally lead his people on a cataclysm that would shake the very foundations of the Earth, destroying anything the usurpers may have built on his land, and protecting the faithful so that they may join him in a new world order, a new order were the Inca would take again their position as the prime power of the world.

This cult, though underground, held for centuries, stood strong and started striking at key moments in history in the hopes that it could restore its rightful position in the world, their strange nature however, gave a complete mythology that shrouded them in myth, it was said that they could control the climate and cast volcanic fury upon their enemies, most enigmatic however was how tectonic activity always seemed to be a constant that accompanied their rare appearances in the public eye, it was rumored that they had some means to predict, or indeed trigger, earthquakes, yet nobody was completely sure.

This 20th century revival was a godsend for them, it was the signal that the days had come for them to come out of the shadows and begin the final campaign against the world, for the Messiah to truly be brought back to life and drive them to victory, the Tawantinsuyu restored to its true glory!

They now had a captive public, a clear enemy and a purpose, and with their newfangled weapons, adaptations of traditions and technology brought by the new century, they were sure that nobody would be able to stand on their way.

## Technology

### Traps

The Inkarri use defenses and traps. All traps are stealthed.

### Volcanic Artillery

The Inkarri do not use conventional artillery, and instead settle for something slightly different. Inkarri Artillery vessels are capable of deploying into small structures with huge build radii equaling (or excelling) traditional artillery ranges. These structures can freely create structures that can be placed in only their build radii (like the Continental Construction Truck, other buildings cannot be placed inside these radii). These structures, generally tectonic events, deal damage to units (like the magma well), or randomly lay waste to bases from within.

## Units and Buildings

### Volcanic Artillery Buildings

These are created by volcanic artillery to ensure random destruction.

## Behind the scenes

The Inkarri Theocracy is inspired by Milleniarist end-of-the-world-cults and Latin American indigenous rebel movements, as wel as the Cuotl.