Drazarian Empire

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The **Drazarian Empire** was an absolute monarchical order in the Cassiopeia Galaxy that oversaw hundreds of worlds throughout its history. As the empire of the draconic Drazarian people, their territories and areas of influence were found in their own pocket of space in the northern Central Expanse region. They quarreled with the Zhuyin Empire in the southern Central Expanse during what was known as the Dragon Wars, and afterwards maintained a deeply-rooted and mutual hatred for the opposing empire.

## History

### Neutrality

Throughout its history, the Drazarian Empire and its colonies often kept to themselves, staying out of major galactic conflicts like the Artifice Wars unless such struggles directly involved them. This placed the Drazarian Empire in a position of neutrality for most large-scale galactic conflicts.

### The Dragon Wars

→ *Main article: Dragon Wars*

At some point in history, a supposed Hamadry diplomat from the Zhuyin Empire visited imperial Drazarian capital of Drazaria Prime, under the guise of defection from the Zhuyin. In reality, the diplomat was sent to assassinate the current monarch of the Drazarian Empire, to which they were successful.

This act of regicide sparked the beginning of the Dragon Wars, and thus began the constant feuding between the Drazarians and the Zhuyin throughout thousands of years of galactic history. Over the course of thousands of years, many citizens from both empires had forgotten the initial reasons on why they hated the other, but such rivalries and hatreds continued to persist throughout history.

Most if not all of the fighting during the Dragon Wars took place on uninhabited or abandoned planets.

### Sparks of the Second Crusade

The First Crusade, carried out by the Vespasian Empire, ended c. 2400 ASA and began an era of galactic peace known as the Two-Hundred-Year Calm. As a sign of good faith, the Vespasians dispatched diplomats all over the galaxy in order to apologize for their transgressions during the First Crusade. This included the Drazarian Empire, which was especially notable due to the Drazarians' reputation of neutrality. This diplomatic decision under the Vespasian Empire was ordered by the then-current Sentinel of Vespasia, and as such the current Caesar.

But at the end of the Two-Hundred-Year Calm, an unexpected tragedy struck the many empires of the Cassiopeia Galaxy. Many rulers of galactic polities and empires were suddenly found dead, including the Monarch of the Drazarian Empire. Having lost their ruling monarch, the Drazarian Empire was given a new monarch thanks to the ease of continuing the clear line of succession. At the same time, the Drazarians were still rightfully struck with immense shock and grief as they were forced to go through the proper formalities of massive funerary services and coronation ceremonies.

With the Drazarian Empire and the other polities of the galaxy in despair and confusion, the Consultum Senate of the Vespasian Empire sent out a message to both Vespasian civilians and former military personnel currently living on planets that were either liberated or taken away during the end of the First Crusade. Vespasian embassies across the galaxy began to close temporarily for unknown reasons. All of these decisions on behalf of the Vespasian Empire began the Second Crusade, in which the Drazarians were forced to take part in due to the sudden, mysterious death of their Monarch.

### Fall Into Vampirism

At some point in their history, the Drazarian Empire and its territories struggled from intense food shortages that left many worlds under imperial jurisdiction in states of immense starvation. A good number imperial worlds were abandoned by the Drazarian Empire, as a result. This included the planet Rahonavis.

To combat the shortage, the Drazarians began to develop a gruesome diet for the blood of other beings, including sentient species like Humans whose blood they preferred over mere animal blood. This vampiric practice eventually became engrained into nature of many Drazarians living within the Empire after generations of nothing but blood as the preferred source of sustenance.

The Drazarians continued to consume the blood of others even during the 60th century ASA.

### Territorial Disputes with Borealis

By the year 5957 ASA, the Drazarian Empire was involved in an ongoing dispute between the planet Borealis—specifically with the Borealan Noble House, House Nuñez—regarding the ownership of the planet New Augustine, which itself was named by the Borealan colonists.

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## Organization

The absolute monarch and ruler of the empire was referred to as the **Drazarian Monarch**, or simply the **Monarch** by the Drazarians themselves. Monarchs either went by the title **King** or **Queen** depending on their gender. These rulers passed down the crown through a right of primogeniture, meaning that the firstborn heir of the current Monarch was the first candidate to the throne.

Members of the royal family were granted control over different worlds throughout imperial Drazarian space. For example, the **Prince Consort** of Queen Cynthia IV ruled over a colony of Dracamidans.

## Society and Culture

Like those who govern them, the people who lived under the Drazarian Empire focused on the ongoings of their own pocket of space instead of the galaxy as a whole. This gave many imperial citizens a neutral standpoint in most galactic affairs, unless such affairs directly involved their empire.

Within Drazarian society was an established hierarchy with the different sentient species found within imperial borders. Of course, the Drazarians themselves were at the top of this hierarchy because of its The gliding Dracamidans and the thorny Horroloch.

After the Drazarian Empire arguably fell from grace during the shift to a vampiric diet, an unfortunate number of citizens throughout the Drazarian worlds grew crazed over the prospect of drinking blood as they inevitably ran out of such supplies. These Drazarians were not able to return to regular means for sustenance as the blood-drinking practice had been too deeply engrained into Drazarian society.

## Astrography

The territories of the Drazarian Empire were situated in a region of space within the northern Central Expanse referred to as Drazarian Empire space. These territories stretched across around a dozen light years and were composed of hundreds of colonized worlds, with the planet Drazaria Prime as the capital. Drazarian Space was a wider region of space that surrounded the eastern and southern borders of Drazarian Empire space, composed of worlds where Drazarian presence was also generally found.