Darknyss

### Affiliation

Terran Confederacy, The Nosferatu Initiative, Confed Diplomacy Security, The Goths

## Appearances

### First Appearance

First Contact Second Wave - Chapter 158 (Darknyss)

Darknyss is a Terran psychological nanite warfare system designed to use Terran cultural references to vampires to undermine, threaten, and exact revenge upon hostile governments for harming Terran Diplomatic teams. He was designed with the same technology in the Black Citadel, possibly using Deadspace to teleport. His programming makes him seem ridiculous to individuals familiar with TerraSol's culture, but terrifying to those who are not. His nanites allow him to access planetary weather systems, move silently and vanish, and create props or scenes to intimidate people. His primary role is to exact revenge and make it appear that curses are real, but further escalations include undermine legal systems with "street justice" seemingly inspired by batman and the heavily classified "Overproject Mordor".

## Description

Darknyss is a tall, thin, pale human with severe features. It has a long face with a dent in the chin, shiny black hair in a widow's peak, pointy ears, shaped eyebrows, and hypnotic red eyes. It had fangs. It wears formal black clothing with a white shirt, and may have a cape. It can dissolve into a cloud of black mist, form into a bat, and disappear. He has some control over weather satellites and creates both fog and lighting issues to enhance his spookiness. Appearing out of fog on the streets, creating scenes, appearing as other people, and hypnosis are all within his powers.

Darknyss is a Terran DS designed by an intelligence agency to protect and gain revenge for attacks on Terran diplomats. It is shipped around in a coffin following diplomatic teams, and is activated by encoded memories given to Terran diplomats. If they are attacked, the diplomat screams out curses and the Nosferatu initiative is activated.

## **History**

### Early life

Darknyss was created hundreds or thousands of years ago by a Research and Development team for the Confed Military Intelligence. It was designed as a revenge weapon in case a diplomatic team was harmed, using Terran vampire lore as a pattern. Records are unclear, but it has been in a stasis chamber following Terran diplomatic teams by freight shipping for that entire time. Darknyss was largely forgotten about until the Lanaktallan attempts to murder the Mantid diplomatic team. When *Dreams* was being escorted from the council chamber, she shouted a number of dramatic curses at the council. One triggered the Nosferatu Initiative to terrorize the council.

### Revenge Campaign

Darknyss entered the system on an cargo ship whose crew had gone missing. His cargo container was taken to a warehouse on the Council World, where he hypnotized two Lanaktallan workers and wiped their memory of him, giving a worker overtime pay and extra rations and making his superior become his servant, Renfield. The Lanaktallan moved Darknyss's supplies under the city, where he established a base of operations and made contact with the Confed, to the amusement of the Mantid gestalt. He then began terrorizing Da'amoo, the Most High of the City Maintenance Guild until he took a medical leave of absence, suborning the city maintenance systems, and terrorizing various Lanaktallans.

### Stage 1

Darknyss began stalking and terrorizing the Lanaktallan Most High of Planetary Security, Dratmo'o. In one evening, he followed Dratmo'o on his drive home, appearing at various points until the Lanaktallan panicked. His appearances included an altercation with an elderly Shavashan female, riding across an intersection on a tricycle, standing around, and tearing up the Most High's favorite pillow. At this point, Darknyss had successfully eliminated two officials vital to the running of the Council planet.

### Stage 2

Darknyss terrorized the Security Most High of the planet, Hu'urmo'o, accosting him at work like Dratmo'o, this time with a video of lanaktallans filming a rap video on his car. Darknyss allowed security officials to chased him around the building, parodying various Terran horror/comedy media, before leaving Hu'urmo'o unconscious next to his car. Darknyss then attacked Security Second Most high Shmo'ogo'o at his home, parodying Terran horror films until the Second Most High broke down and had to be tranquilized. This was seen as humorous by the Confed, but inspired fear amongst the Lanaktallans.

### Escalation

During the attack on the Lanaktallan council by the Jed and accompanying Agent Smith, the Gestalts apparently attempted to deactivate Darknyss. However, instead, it appeared to have caused it to escalate its tactics. After the Lanaktallan serial killer Second Most High Vru'umo'ot of the Itzmagani corporation bribed his way out of punishment, Darknyss offered justice to the detective who had been working on his case. Darknyss forced Vru'umo'ot to confess to his crimes then kill himself on Tri-vid.

## Overproject Mordor

After the Terran Declaration of War with the Lanaktallans, Darknyss was contacted by a unknown terran in a Lanaktallan bioform. The Terran used Lanaktallan Executor codes to acquire the locations of the Lanaktallan evacuation sites, then gave codes to Darknyss to activate Project Nazgul, which split Darknyss into 13 individuals. Shortly afterwards, heavily armed Lanaktallan LawSec ventured out to attempt to arrest the Night Terran. They found him sitting at a red light on his signature tricycle, which was suspiciously clear of fog. The encounter was broadcasted online as the LawSec attempted to arrest Darknyss, who did not react to what appeared to the internet as a excessive and ridiculous use of force. After ringing the tricycle bell, the Lanaktallan's APCs shut down and fire suppression systems knocked out the troops inside while a black Lanaktallan with flaming hooves, blades for hands, and silver studded flank coverings sprinted across the intersection. Darknyss then removed some of his signature fog to reveal the other 12 copies of himself. The copies all imitated each other perfectly, ringing their tricycle bells.

Darknyss then began to pedal quickly but move slowly across the intersection while doing the finger snap popularized by the pre-diaspora meme "Tough Guy Finger Snapping." The Lanaktallan LawSec routed and fled the scene, losing credibilty in the eyes of the many people who were viewing online. Darknyss ended the broadcast by informing the viewers that "THESE ARE THE ONES WHO THINK THEMSELVES YOUR MASTER" and vanished into the fog.

### Project Nazgul

Darknyss is used in Project Nazgul to create Lanaktallan Matrons by bringing female Lanaktallan to the Black Citadel to undergo conversion. The first Matron created in this manner was Va'anklo'oma.

## Related Characters

### Lnosvumo'o

The Cowmissioner Gordon to Darknyss' Blahtman. He helps direct Darknyss to worthy targets who have escaped proper justice. This section is a STUB

## References

1. ↑ First Contact - TOTAL WAR - 211 (Recruitment)
Part 158 (Darknyss) - early history, esp. in comments section.

Part 159 (Darknyss) - Stage 1

Part 160 and 161 (Darknyss) - Stage 2

Part 170 - Escalation.