Purple Imperium

The **Purple Imperium** was an empire situated deep within the eastern reaches of the Central Expanse region of the Cassiopeia Galaxy. Their capital was the planet of Gorrindol. The Imperium's territories stretched across dozens of planetary systems, including the Myllana System, spanning over a hundred light years.

c. 5840 ASA, the Purple Imperium was fractured while its territories on different worlds continued to don the name of the empire. An imperial presence on planet Myllana continued to exist with several dozen settlements scattered across Myllana's largest continent.

## History

### Conquest and Fragmentation

The Purple Imperium had its foundations on the planet Gorrindol. After becoming the central government of its home planet, the Imperium began to colonize the other orbits in its planetary system. This conquest grew into a mass colonization effort across multiple star systems over a hundred light years apart. The Purple Imperium held control over its territories for hundreds of years.

Eventually, a calamity, be it a war or some other mass conflict, led to the fracturing of the Purple Imperium and tore apart its foundations of order. By the year 5840 ASA, the empire was left shattered, with its former territories deciding whether or not to become their own polities or to continue using the name of the empire.

Followers and colonies of the shattered empire on the planet Myllana continued to reign as the Purple Imperium under a local ruler titled the Purple Regent. A woman named Leontyne Bardanes once held the title of Purple Regent on Myllana.

A good number of imperial citizens fled after the Imperium's fragmentation. One such migrant was a Human woman named Iris Vivino, who alongside her family found a home on the planet Autumnia, where Iris herself later married an Autumnian man.

## Organization

Citizens of the Imperium adhered to a class system accompanied by a code of honor. Those who were worthy and performed honorable acts in the eyes of the crown were granted social mobility and specialized royal titles and privileges as a result.

At the top of the hierarchy was the **Purple Sovereign**, who either went by the title of **Purple Emperor** or **Purple Empress** depending on their gender. They were the overarching ruler of the entire Purple Imperium. Those who ruled over the different colonies of the empire were placed second in the hierarchy. These were local governors given the title of **Margrave**, and were held to high respect. Other such titles existed beneath these highest ranks, such as **Yeoman** and **Magistrate**.

## Society and Culture

During the modern age, the Purple Imperium managed to stay on a technological level akin to the United Cassiopeian Republic. The Imperium was easily the most advanced polity within its occupied region of space. Some denizens of the space formerly occupied by the empire thought them to be pretentious and ostentatious because of its rigid class system.

Evidently, purple was the representative color for the Imperium and was used as a symbol or royalty and allegiance to the empire. Ivory was also used as a secondary royal color.

## Astrography

The territory of the Purple Imperium saw its influence in several dozen planetary systems found in the eastern reaches of the Cassiopeia Galaxy's Central Expanse region. The capital of the Imperium was a planet called Gorrindol.

Once the Purple Imperium shattered, its former colonies made individual decisions regarding sovereignty and loyalty to their empire. Myllana was one such world, just several tens of light years away from Gorrindol, that continued to live under the Purple Imperium by name.

## Trivia

* The Purple Imperium is based off of a randomly-generated faction from the sandbox video game *RimWorld*.