Sudaetti

*"Sudaetti has been at the centre of trade for centuries and has reaped the rewards and continues to do so whilst the rest of us settle for scraps well many of us here say no more, we work hard for our pay and we would be damned if we don't reap our own rewards!"* - Imperial senator's speech moments before the Corporate War begins

Sudaetti is the capital and home-world for the Empire of Sudaetti orbiting within the Centre Core of the galaxy, during the years prior to the Empire the planet slowly became the centre of trade and commerce being originally a grassy plains planet with many rich and wealthy merchant families operating from their family manors whilst the world was run by the Tillo Dynasty. The planet originally acted as a resort world for many neighbouring planets to visit alongside visiting for business trips and by the year of 1505 A.G.C the Empire of Sudaetti was formed on Sudaetti, due to the massive amounts of imports and exports that the planet saw the Empire would construct large cities over the centuries before 1505 and by the year of 1831 A.G.C the planet would become a citywide world no longer harbouring the grassy plains it once held. The world would go on to serve as the capital of the Empire even after the Knights of Procyon are disbanded by 3000 A.G.C and Orron Halcorr becomes the new Emperor.

## Description

The origins of Sudaetti is unknown however it was noted that the planet a relatively grass covered plains world with some forests and mountains taking over some portions of the planet, during this time the many humans that live on this planet almost immediately had the technology to travel and so established their own merchant families within the Centre Core by trading with other planets and the wealthiest family the Tillo Dynasty would garner the most wealth and power to oversee all trade and commerce on the world. As the world became the centre of all trade and commerce in its era the planet would rapidly become more populated leading to more land being built on which only increased by the time that the Empire of Sudaetti was formed in 1505 A.G.C, the next few centuries saw the planet eventually becoming the citywide world it would be seen as for the next few thousand years forming the Imperial capital. By the year of 1831 A.G.C the planet was fully civilised with no sight of its former greenery or plains the world once had and instead in its place would be buildings and alleys.

## History

### Tillo Dynasty

#### Merchants and Empire

When the very first Knights set out to explore across the galaxy with their special astral powers they would connect each planet with their own pathing creating a navigational map of the galaxy so that every planet would eventually have the means to travel fluently from world to world, after each Knight has performed their duties many of them would retire to a chosen planet where most of them spent the rest of their life. One of these Knights landed on the planet of Sudaetti which he foresaw greatness from to not only connect the galaxy but to help each world through trade and so began helping the people on the planet to build their own ships and forming trading families in which one the Knight started himself named the Tillo Dynasty, many other trading families on the planet helped each other to establish trade routes and deals with other worlds which in turn would make Sudaetti the centre of both trade and commerce within the galaxy. With the growing wealth and power would also come the many problems such as criminals and outlaws who robbed trade caravans and convoys which led to bigger trade issues from the merchant families who realised that they would have to do something to protect their deals and so the Tillo Dynasty would create the Sudaetti Protectorate which acted as a security force for the entire planet including protecting the trade transports off-world, this formation of a security force would establish the Tillo family as the overall leaders of Sudaetti being the wealthiest and powerful of all the other families. The current leader of the Tillo family named Vero Tillo who himelf was a Knight began to grow disillusioned with the idea of Knights just simply cleaning up after the galaxy as they had been doing within the Outer Ring and knew that for the galaxy to be protected like the Centre Core was they needed to be unified under one banner, this ideology would have many of the Knights agreeing believing that the galaxy was their birth right to look after and protect but also to rule in a fair way which put Vero at the head of the Order and the new Empire of Sudaetti that he formed in the year of 1505 A.G.C making his home world Sudaetti act as the capital for the new Empire.

As the Empire's influence grew to each system eventually combing over the entire Centre Core Vero knew that in order to provide his armies with the latest armour and weapons he would need a lot more factories to provide this bulk amount and so made the hard decision to begin building over the grass plains that covered his planet, whilst Vero did not live to see the Empire become the biggest powerhouse in the galaxy it would be by the year of 1831 A.G.C that the planet of Sudaetti would be completely covered in a city wide world alongside the numerous factories and companies that helped fund the Empire. By this time the Empire had now covered the Centre Core and Inner Ring with each Emperor being a descendant from Vero whose idea was slowly coming to fruition however as the centuries passed each Emperor became lazier than the last and whilst the Empire itself became the biggest faction currently within the galaxy it also became fat and lazy which allowed for the planet Sudaetti to harbour new criminal organisations and syndicates that operated in the planet's underworld, by the year of 1922 A.G.C the planet would suffer its first war being the 10 Year War which was a civil war between the current Emperor and the Grand Vizier Odon Kilian who saw the laziness and corruption of the Empire pledging to stop it. After the war was done Odon would be crowned as the new Emperor and so began a new dynasty.

### Kilian Dynasty

#### The New Empire

Having assumed power over the Empire Odon would reorganise the structure of the military within to train both soldiers and Knights more effectively turning the Knights into legions making them an actual military force rather than just royal guards to the Emperor's family, with this reorganisation came extreme success in combatting many of the Empire's enemies making Odon one of the Empire's great conquerors having subdued or defeated many opposing rulers of rebelling systems. Since the new Empire was reorganised Odon would have his first competitor who sought to vanquish the Empire and rule the galaxy themselves being the Arczon Kingdom in what would lead to the Arczon War, this war would see the Empire fight their very first organised enemy that controlled more than one planet which would put their new military to the test in what would be known as the first brutal war in the Empire's domination of the galaxy. The Empire would fight the armies of the large primal lizard species who even without the armour that many of their current descendants have were hard to kill as their skin acted as armour plating to them, alongside the tall stature of these lizards and their armoured skin during the early stages of the war the Arczon Kingdom would gain ground and significant advantages over the Empire until Odon Kilian would order a bulk of new armours to be built for his military Knights to reinforce his base infantry acting as a countermeasure for the Arczons and their species advantage. With this new armour the Knights would now be officially recognised as a military force to the general public and not to just the Emperor in which he now utilised within the war which saw massive success as the armour was nearly as durable as the Arczon's skin, the war would end in 1951 A.G.C with the Arczon King becoming the Empire's vassal and having a place within the Imperial senate to represent his system and world.

By the year of 1980 A.G.C the Empire began to work on economic reforms in hopes of stabilising their economy across the galaxy whilst also helping numerous planets and systems outside their borders in hopes of giving them supplies and equipment for mining or other types of work these corporations did which was also done to entice and give incentives to new planets within the Orion Expanse and the Helius Zone to join and live under the Empire however whilst this worked for many planets and corporations certain companies who had assets and operations both in and outside of Imperial territory refuted their help, one of the companies that openly spoke about this was the Jackal Guild being the largest non Imperial funded mining guild having some of their mining operations being inside of the Empire's borders did not want to be restricted to the Imperial tax as the company operated on their own payment and taxes. Despite the mining company refusing to acknowledge these reforms the Empire would continue to do these acts in hopes of tightening their grip on the many systems in between the Mid Ring and Inner Ring having controlled the latter, the following 3 years would be lively and active within the Imperial senate with many senators advocating for a tax bill on every company within the Imperial territory in order to establish a better economy and stability while some disagreed and wanted their profits to go straight into their own pockets. Around approximately 1983 A.G.C the Imperial senate would put forward a bill of taxation on corporations profiting within the Empire's borders which would pass however this would also spark many companies and corporations to actively defy the Empire with the Jackal Guild rallying many smaller companies beneath it to form their own security to combat the Empire defending their assets, this would be the beginning of the Corporate War which saw the Empire's funds suffer a severe cut due to the many organisations having left the Empire. As the Jackal Guild and its other companies that had allied with it did not have anything outside of their corporate security army they would utilise their funds to hire many mercenaries to help reinforce their security and smugglers to go in and out of Imperial borders to conduct their business that they couldn't do, this mass hiring of independent spacers would give rise to some of the underworld organisations who profited from loaning their mercenaries and smugglers whilst also giving birth to some galactic legends. One such legend was Thaddeus Burcham who was a spacer that had gone head to head on his own with two large Imperial cruisers destroying them both with his small vessel, by the year of 1990 A.G.C the Corporate War would come to a close with the Jackal Guild being officially disbanded by the Empire and the following smaller companies would fall into line aligning with the economic bill and operated within Imperial territory.

#### Vulkid Collective

By the year of 2106 A.G.C large portions of Knights began to go missing from stations that were in the border between the Mid Ring and Outer Ring who hoped to discover more of the unknown regions of the galaxy and after many years of investigation the Empire would discover the identity of a large faction known as the Vulkid Collective who were a pirate conquering army, during this time the senate called for a harsh response from the Empire to deal with this enemy but the Empire were prohibited from flying their fleet through neutral space that blocked them from reaching the Vulkid meanwhile the news and media that covered this new threat would make our how truly evil the Vulkid Collective were instilling fear in many within the Imperial capital. By the year of 2117 A.G.C the Ravaging War would commence and due to the large losses that the Empire suffered rapid amounts of recruitment would occur across many Imperial worlds which saw the most recruits coming from Sudaetti itself who were the proudest supporters of the Empire, whilst the Empire eventually retreated just before the Vulkid lost the war the soldiers and Knights that would return would be celebrated as war heroes and veterans commemorating the day as "Sudaetti Day" to celebrate the Empire and remember the soldiers and Knights that have given their lives in service and protection to the Empire. This holiday would be celebrated for centuries with each generation continuing to celebrate and boost morale across the board when it came to the Empire's military and their service.

### The Endless Emperor

#### Knights End

For thousands of years the Knights of Procyon were celebrated as the heroes and protectors of not only the Empire but also the galaxy being widely liked across the galaxy for their wisdom and constant service to those in need whilst in secret a new faction known as the Serpent Order were secretly undermining the reputation of the Knights and all of their work, this would begin 12 years after the Ravaging War where the Order and its leader Orron Halcorr began infiltrating the Empire in various different sections and divisions with Orron targeting the senate as he knew this would be the biggest factor in the downfall of the Knights. After some time passing in his plan to make his way into the Empire Orron would work his way up to eventually becoming a close confidant and adviser to the Emperor, this position of power allowed him to sway the politics and the Emperor's decisions which saw a lot of plans and eventual battles that occurred tarnish the once great reputation of the Knights over the following 10 years. Not long after these many battles and skirmishes the Knights began to notice a distinct pattern in the places that they were sent which led them to conduct a secret investigation on Sudaetti within the Imperial senate who with the help of the other Serpent Order members acting as spies and operatives would sway many senators in favour of getting rid of the Knights as a military force, Orron knew that should the Knights uncover who he was and what he was up to his plan to take over the Empire and destroy the Knights he would almost certainly be killed or imprisoned by the Empire. Despite his best efforts to maintain the anonymity and secrecy of the Order the Knights would manage to discover their existence through one of the senators that the Serpent Order were manipulating and the Council of Six would petition the Emperor to act on their warnings and accusations of a new growing threat that could destroy the Empire, unknown to them at the time Orron would manage to divert both the senate and the Emperor to ignore these plights as nothing but suspicion and ramblings since it would not be enough to act on something without any form of proof.

In what would officially be the end of the investigations into the Serpent Order the Knights would be lured by Orron who orchestrated a set up on a far away world claiming to be the supposed home-world of the Order which prompted the Knights to send out large amounts of them to go and destroy showing that they deemed the Order a very deadly threat, every single one of these Knights would not return and were assumed to have been killed which only lead them to once again plead with the senate to act against this threat on this newfound planet but according to the senate and Emperor this supposed planet did not even exist on any star charts or navigational systems. With no viable proof or evidence of their existence the Knights had no choice but to once again act on their own in what would be known as the Shadow War where they went on to target worlds and hideouts of the Serpent Order all which were carefully chosen by Orron to satisfy their bloodlust, by the time the war had ended in 2300 A.G.C and the following 20 years on the Knights reputation would have been ultimately destroyed with many favoured planets and politicians calling for their abandonment of their Order believing they had too much free reign. In the year of 2400 A.G.C the senate meeting were once again firing up on the topic of trade and freedom from the heavy taxation that the Empire had implemented which saw many systems suffer economically, a group of disgruntled senators who were in part manipulated by the Serpent Order would form the political faction known as the Trade Alliance which wanted to originally ease the heavy taxations on many systems that operated further out from the Empire's Centre Core however over the years gradually became more vocal and confident so much so that they would eventually declare their own independence which all went according to Orron's plan. This new war branded by history as the Knights End would span for 600 years and by the time of 3000 A.G.C the Knights numbers would be at an all time low alongside their morale and reputation which only lead to further rioting and protest from the public on the Imperial capital world, by this time Orron would call on his apprentice Mar Vondar to slaughter the leaders of the Trade Alliance whilst he conducted a mass purging of the remaining Knights by convincing the Emperor to destroy them by convincing him that they were plotting to kill him and once again place a Knight on the throne. This event would be known as the Knights Exodus with the Imperial army invading the Knights temple and killing off the remaining Knights with only few being able to escape and some who were not on the planet at the time, during this chaos Orron would secretly murder the Emperor and pin it on the Knights moments before their temple was invaded which only assured the public that their hatred and now bloodlust of the Knights was justified. After the Knights were wiped off of the world Orron would declare himself as the new Emperor making it a priority to destroy what was left of the Knights whilst moving the Imperial throne to the former Knights temple now being the centre of Imperial control.