Galaxy at War: Son of Septim

**Galaxy at War: Son of Septim** is the first official expansion for Galaxy at War, intended to begin sometime in 2021. The story takes place post-Colonial Wars and follows the son of Alexander Romius - Rassilon Romius and his attempt to restore the Orisa Empire while continuing the Empire's long war against it rival now calling itself the Unified Governments of the Republic. Along the way Romius discovers many allies, enemies and things that were better left unfounded.

The expansion is named after Rassilon Romius being the technical heir to the throne of Orisa Septim as well as the son of Alexander Romius.

## Story

Prior to the end of the Colonial Wars, Emperor Alexander Romius had secretly formed a large expeditionary force armed with the latest and greatest weapons, including prototypes that the Orisa Empire had to offer. This expeditionary force included his sons as well as the Empire's flagship, a modified Federation Zarion-Class Capital Ship known as "The Alexander". This force was sent to the far outer rim of human space to the Dawn System to recover Doctor Fredrick Burke who played a pivotal role in the Empire's war, as he had developed the Imperial Knight and its possible future successor the Imperial Paladin, something the Orisa Empire desperately needed as their war with the Republic of Horizon and Theron Protectorate.

The Dawn Expeditionary Fleet of the Orisa Empire had departed in 18 BEW with over twenty warships at its disposal and led by Admiral Kaeso Dax, whom was one of Alexander Romius' most trusted men. By the time the Empire's forces arrived to the Dawn System, the war had already been lost and the Colonial Wars ended. However, news spread slow especially to a system so far off the grid like the Dawn System. The Empire was met by Theron Protectorate strongholds and ships, the Protectorate had imprisoned Fredrick Burke and planned to return him to Thera to benefit the Theron Protectorate's technological development.

The Protectorate had established themselves on two of the four planets, Dawn III and Dawn IV. Admiral Dax divided his fleet to cover both planets unbeknownst to him that the atmospheric pull from the planets would force ships into the planet's atmosphere both Protectorate and Empire. The two warring factions fought long and hard on the mountainous planet of Dawn III and the frozen planet of Dawn IV. Eventually Fredrick Burke was recovered and the Protectorate defeated, however, soon the Empire realized that their ships could not leave atmosphere due to ionized storms and the powerful atmospheric pulls, the only way for the expeditionary force to leave would to be wait for the planets to do a full rotation which would give them a small window to escape, but the rotation of the planets took five years each.

When 12 BEW came around, the expeditionary force had established itself on Dawn III and Dawn IV, forming small colonies which were quickly abandoned as their fleet became mobile again. With this, Admiral Dax began their voyage back to Orisa Septim with Burke in hand. Seventeen ships of his fleet had remained active but lacked proficient provisions to continue to Orisa Septim, the fleet detoured to Orisa Nova which had fallen under the Theron Protectorate only days after their initial departure from Orisa Septim some six years prior.

The Protectorate was caught off guard at the large imperial fleet arriving FTL, as well as the imperial fleet leaving FTL. The two forces scrambled to face one another, in the midst of the conflict the imperial fleet had lost well over nine of their ships whilst the Protectorate had lost well over nineteen. Admiral Dax retreated with the forces he had, something he was not fond of doing nor had he ever prior to this insertion. Leaving FTL to unknown coordinates the remaining fleet had discovered the truth, Emperor Romius was dead and the Orisa Empire had lost the war. The UGR had become the dominant superpower in human space with the Theron Protectorate close behind. With this, eyes were on Rassilon Romius who had now essentially become the only living heir of the Emperor which in turn made him his father's replacement. Rassilon was experienced, smart and calculated but he had never taken up the burden of his father's legacy as he had to now, but alas Rassilon took up the mantle of Emperor.

By 8 BEW, the expeditionary force had remained low, facing off against pirates and disrupting UGR logistics. The only major conflict they faced off in after the Orisa Nova incident was at Feroth. Which had involved the UGR and imperials clashing, resulting in three additional imperial ships being destroyed but an entire UGR fleet decimated in the process. Afterward Rassilon had had enough of the hit-and-run and guerilla warfare, instead vowing to restore the Orisa Empire and speak the truth about his father, how he was not Vance Thaddeus, the man of whom his father had hated and sabotaged to have killed. Rassilon declared a new order, that they were not the Orisa Empire until they had Septim back. The fleet reorganized themselves into the Imperial March and Rassilon now calling himself Bastion would began their journey.

Bastion had been unaware that other imperials had survived and were fighting back, calling themselves Imperial Chapters, many waged hard conflicts against the UGR and Protectorate. Many of whom were looking to claim the Empire for themselves, others looking to rejoin their kin against their enemies. Many of whom blamed Alexander Romius for his failure to win the Colonial Wars. The chapters were far and wide as were their ideals.

Before Bastion proceeded to rally these imperial remnants, a signal came in hailing him extremely close to the core of the Cerberus Galaxy itself, this would forever change Bastion Romius...

## Characters

* Rassilon Romius
* Fredrick Burke
* Kaeso Dax

Many more will be added in the future!