Ascendancy

Known only as **The Ascendancy**, they are a mysterious but growing power, known only to few who lived to have encountered them and might have existed around the early years of the colonization of the NewVerse. There have been some information about them only certain factions who believed in their existence as a possible group of trained mercenaries, a militia or a corporation. But others say they were originally veteran players from the OldVerse and joined together to form a coalition. The main location of the Ascendancy remains a mystery within the NewVerse, but have learned that they seek to control and manipulate civilizations from the shadows, for their belief that when the great empires of the NewVerse crumble, the Ascendancy will be those to survive to take their place.

## History

### Origins

The exact age of their arrival into the NewVerse is uncertain but perhaps a few decades before the Fandom Wars began, the Ascendancy was founded after they witnessed the sudden emergence of war and chaos across the NewVerse. They fought for survival and scavenged for ships and technologies left form the battlefields to study and reverse engineer to suit their own purposes. Witnessing the chaos and warfares inflicted by the Warhammer Empire and the genocides by the Anglo-Saxon Dominate convinced that Humanity will never escape its doomed to follow the cycle. The Ascendancy made a new strategy to ‘cleanse’ the unworthy and upstarts, make certain the great empires of the NewVerse do not grow too powerful and manipulate them from the shadows.

### Ascendancy-Valkoldia War

At the time when the W.A.R. Assembly was established and brought the NewVerse at an ease of peace, the Ascendancy took this as an opportunity to begin their plans and grow, hiding in the uncharted regions of the verse to begin their operations. But on a remote planet called Felkat, their forces received a surprise attack not by a sci fi based force, but a gate outside the outpost in the northern region, medieval forces marched the way through and attempted to invade a military outpost in believe they were barbarians. The Ascendancy’s years of training put to good use and fought back, crushing the entire legion and cornered them into a trap. Discovered the majority of them were NPCs and learned more about the enemy who tried to attack them, based from a manga/anime called Gate and inspired by them, wanting to grow strong among the fantasy armies in believe they earned the right to conqour.

The superiors of the organization could not let such an opportunity of a gate travel go by studying the gate and construct their own for potential use. With the limited knowledge of their world, the researchers suggested with little time until their empire sends another legion to invade, they came up with an idea to ‘recruit’ the captives into an army of cyborgs form the ideas of Cybermen and Borgs under their command. Using their own soldiers against their own.

Rounding up the surviving prisoners, subjugating them into horrific convergence into becoming their new legion, the first generation of the Xy-Legion. Using the time they had to test their skills against the remaining legionaires in test combat and have proving well after a few more combats Extracted information through interrogation and scanning the brains from the newly converted Xy-Legion abo to know all about the fledgling nation called the Imperium of Valkoldia. Sending spies to the planet of their origin through the gate and in space, surprisingly not so far from their territory.
While considering their army mostly impressive for a primitive race, they sent out drones and trained officers through the gate to speak with the imperial senate and the emperor with a rare opportunity to join the Ascendancy, to serve a technological advance power in return for protection against other more agressive civilizations in the NewVerse. However, instead of accepting their offer, the Volkadians in their arrogance and blinded with pride, mocked them and insulted the Ascendancy as cowards and nothing but ‘uneducated barbarians’, to even further insult them, the Empire openly demanded their surrender as a Vassal state to recieve the 'honor' of earning their light of civilization. The founders of the Ascendancy knew it was a wast of time and were going to use them as fodder eventually in future battles, but to be insulted by an upstart empire who barely had control of an entire continent had sealed their fate. The Ascendancy resumed their plans for the invasion force not just through the gate, but from orbit above their world to prove their superiority over the planet known as Forelia.

Using the knowledge they’ve gained from the prisoners and turned the battle into a one-sided warfare with the Ascendancy‘s army gain the advantage and other magic users paid for service, they easily began to subjugate the Imperium's territories within days, capturing outposts, castles and vital areas to cut their supplies from any vassal states and colonies to aid them. Taken advantage to the anarchy, the Ascendancy sent agents to the locations of the smaller kingdoms loayl to the Volkadians and created a rebellion, using other races who joined them in return for swearing loyalty to them for promise of greater future. Cutting the imperial army to annihilate them until reaching the capital and the leaders approached the terrified senate, especially the emperor who was the creator of the empire after arriving in the NewVerse.

   Brought them to their ship and forced to witness their power to those who try fight them, all attempts to plead for mercy and surrender were ignored when they were trapped within the capital. Unable to see the potential use of the Imperium of Volkadia, seeing their forces crushed and would chances of surviving in a chaotic universe where slim had they chose the alternative. The Ascendancy decided to obliterate the civilization, destroyed the entire capital city with orbital bombardment. The planet was too valuable to destroy with the resources they found and ideas of setting up a new puppet state in place of the Valkadians, rewarding the former vassals control over the continent but the rest was for them and in return serve the Ascendancy, unable to risk sharing the same vate of Volkadia. The surviving remnent of the defeated empire were given no choice but to bend to their will, knowing they were defeated by a superior power they tried to conqour, others who resist were exectuted or became the new addition to the Xy Legion as a reminder of those who fought them.

The Ascendancy's new found power allowed them to expand their influence and spend the first few years developing their froces. Creating a stargate-like portal to build a network of gates between the other worlds they discovered and ensure only the highest ranking members have full access to the gates for business deals and milltary purpose.

### Growth of Power

Over the years, their power grew and came into contact with many other cultures, both planet and stellar powers, secretly using their struggle to survive or conflicts for their own advantages, easly manipulating the curropt members of the governments to offer 'membership' in return for their bargain, unaware of being their pawns until their usefulness ended. Instigating civil wars and problems when sending their own to 'cleans' those they consider weak and unworthy, while some thought to them as a mercnary group or militia to end the fighting, but in fact a growing empire from the shadows without even knowing their existence. The Ascendancy had uncovered worlds of ancient civilizations with incredible power and technologies, discovered something more about the NewVerse and perhaps other races explored the once small dimension before Humanity arrived, but yet uncertain with many new worlds created.

Hearing about the United Alliance of Corporations growing in power within the Ulmer Galaxy, approaching one of their branches and made some fair deals within 2042 until a year later, taken advantage of their financial greed during the a war against the W.A.R Assembly and the Union of Communist Republics, hacked into their finances and almost making them banckruped had the Ascendancy used their skilled for members to replace them and take control of their genetic and military resources to expand their power.

With the news of the Assembly bringing a stable law within the NewVerse, but knowig it would not last and prepared themselves for the time war will emerge. Their agents planted within the most powerful empires to monitor and report back to any events such as battle strategis and expansions to turn some rivals against each other, making attempts to prevent such powers from growing while the Ascendancy remains in the shadows, covering their tracks from ever being exposed.

The Ascendancy became aware of the Otaku Federation as a growing superpower in the Yamato Galaxy and send agents to infiltrate for information, however the majority of their agents reported missing or killed, assuming to have been exposed and terminated. This action proceed them to be cautious among the Shogun Clans with the strongest armies that can rival many.

In the 2050s, the Ascendancy began to target empires they could exploit and discovered a group of white supremists known as the Anglo-Saxon Dominate, unimpressive by their attempt to revive a dying human culture and used their lust for power against them, within their territory, their agents infiltrated and gave false messages of a group of Jews and Xenia’s settling in the frontier region near their borders. Easily predicted their actions and created clones with special doze of genetic virus upon contact, unaware of being infected or realise the ‘colonists’ were not really alive, letting the virus to infect the crew and be used as carriers to transmit it to the worlds they came from and pass pandemic within days. Caltured some of their fleets to hack into their softwares to monitor their movements.

## Organization

The Ascendancy started out as a growing organization from the early years of the NewVerse, but after the Volkadian War they grew into a power and to learn of their potential enemies, rivals and alies from the politics, scientific, military to civilians that serve a role useful to the Ascendancy. Believing to know who they could trust or not and exploit possible strengths and weakness. The Ascendancy's belief in the NewVerse to be out of balance by various civilizations that once tried to escape another conflict, ensuring their goals for control, the Ascendancy used the hate and conflict to their advantage to weaken the civilizations for conquest, or extermination if refuse to accept the new order, or even pose a threat to them.

Not wanting to reveal much of their secretes, the founders of the Ascendancy created a few false information should they be discovered, some claim they were a small organisation, locations of bases, mercenary status or who the true leaders are to throw off their opponents.

   The leaders of the Ascendancy were referred to as the Overseers as they are in charge of the organisation and give orders to their subordinates across the Ascendancy’s control.

From the 2030s during the wars, the Ascendancy started out scavenging various technologies and derelict debris from precious battles for research and develop into their own use. Making business deals with corporations and guilds, aided by few allies for resources and trade agreements from worlds under their control or associated with for in return of protection and development. It is possible they have gained a substantial wealth and power from sympathizers who shared negative views on the Fandom Wars when the Assembly fell and some who had no protection and suffered offered themselves to the Asscendancy or form alliances with them. However, the Ascendancy are not so easily fooled by those who only in it for profit and do whatever means to make them cooperative, or silenced from revealing anything about them.

So far they have been making several projects and researching from several worlds and keep themselves hidden from the closest inhabited systems. Something that may consider potential use against their enemies or watch and observe the battles between civilizations for potential data.

## Military

    Despite being so few they have somehow created a strong army made from cloning technologies using genetic samples of the Grineer, Clone Troopers, supersoldiers, even robotic forces to be completely loyal to the Ascendancy to replenish most of the forces, yet they have 'convinced' many to join the ranks to serve them to maintain control of their armies. Instead of one, the Ascendancy has granted each branch their own army in a similar way to the Space Marines: The Xy Legion, the Crimson Dragons, Shadow Beast as the main examples

While their armies are a mix of both troops and cyborgs, the majority of their armies are actually artificially created in order to maintain their numbers, but have natural born individuals to build strong developments and improve themselves and adapt.
Their soldiers would be trained for many hours each day to learn of their enemies' skills and limits over how to face super-soldiers and even Space marines.
While the Ascendancy's main use of technology and science, they are not without knowledge of magic and have recruited some to their ranks to combat against fantasy armies and allow some groups they interpreted provide information and provide use of opening portals between both worlds for their soldiers to act as the shock troops, especially when up against magic users such the *MTG, D&D* or even the *Warhammer*.

They've begun using limited number of mechs, mostly from business deals with corporations at first unti for heavy support to bring down enemy defences when up against other forces using mobile suits such as the Otsku Federation or the Covenant.

Like all interstellar civilisations, the Ascendancy has a strong advantage of stellar combat and while been numbered they could launch a computer virus to sabotage their weapons and navigational systems until the rest of the fleet emerge to finish them off. However, they've slowly improved over the years and the number of their fleet is currently unknown but able to subjugate a planet.

## Members

* Frelainn Tr'mahl
* Balthasar Arsch

## Relations

### New Horizon

The major conflicts so far would be against the New Horizon, considering them fools into believing they can be one of the remaining voices of reason to restore the balance in the NewVerse. Only fought a few dozen times but the first conflict was July 5th, 2134 after their failed attempt to stage a sabotage on a Star Wars Federation cruiser to make it as if were caused by the Disney Kingdoms, those proving the New Horizon's theory that there were other plays at work to continue the wars then just the Warhammer Empire. The Ascendancy considered them as one of the possible threats to be eliminated and possible allies they have.

### Anglo-Saxon Dominate

So far the Ascendancy have launched their attacks in the shadows to eliminate those they consider a 'dying breed'. Sent out agents and branches of the order into the frontier territories of the Anglo-Saxon Dominate, seeing them as one of the many faults of humanity and attack without warning. Rumors of any survivors would witness biological warfares and would believe to be the cause of someone else, any who see them in person would be the target to be silenced by associates or be discredited in public. So far, the white-supremacists remain unaware of their existence or the atrocities they committed in the frontier colonies.

### Otaku Federation

The Ascendancy had remained cautious of provoking the Shogun Clans and the anime-based civilisations in the Yamato Galaxy, knowing they are bound by the Unspoken Golden Law would risk targeting all branches. The leaders of the order made certain that all members must stay clear from it unless they have allies within to do the job for them and sleeper agents to make secret trades for their technologies such as their mechs and science.

### Star Wars Federation

Remain caution to the members of the Jedi Order who can sense others with their powers, however, they have some respect for the Sith and trade knowledge to maintain strong and keep the Jedi and the Galactic Republic busy with their conflicts towards the Disney loyalists to fulfill their own agenda. Rumors that some members confronted were force sensitive during assassinations and missions.

### Warhammer Empire

Even as one of the most powerful empires in the NewVerse, the Ascendancy remain caution of provoking the Empire but saw it as a valuable tool for their plans. Despite wanting to take something from the galaxy, knowledge is the main target to learn their limits. The Ascendency knew eventually like all great empires, the Warhammer will eventually fall in time, but must not be too powerful and manipulated several key individuals to hide their presence. A small but growing number of deserters such as the Chaos worshippers and members of the Mechanicus, traitors wanting to return to the good old days and secretly named their so-called leader the "Mad Emperor“. What operations they do in the certain Warhammer territories is uncertain.

### United Alliance of Corporations

So far the Ascendancy made some allies within the U.A.O.C. and offer some to steadily grow, but made themselves a strong client in requirements for research and experiments to study in cybernetics and bio-weaponry. But any member of staff of that company try to steal from them is... never heard from again or replaced to infiltrate their ranks. However, the Ascendancy take advantage of their greed and their war with the Union of Communist Republics