Holy Kingdom of Devora

Veraht

Seraht

Koltho

The Holy Kingdom of Devora or HKD, for short was a minor power located in between the Sirlachan Principality, Hegemony of Hazon and the Zed'drath Imperium.

## Government Structure

The Holy Kingdom was ruled by a typical King or Queen, both with absolute power. Each king or queen are chosen out of the Royal family by a group of priests who believe them to be chosen by the goddess. Cabinet members and high ranking officials are chosen by the current ruler while previous monarchy officials are removed in order to form a loyal government to the new ruler.

## Society

The Kingdom‘s racist and authoritarian policies all stemmed from the state religion of Seicism. This religion advocated that their goddess, Senn-Mar, created them and ordered them to ”propagate and expand”. It also promoted that the Breen species was superior over all other species and many Breen grew up on that notion and truly believed it. The three other races that were apart of the kingdom were subject to intense xenophobic scrutiny and abuse. However the younger generations of Breen did not believe in this "law", creating a schism in the religion.

## History

The Holy Kingdom left their system sometime before the Zed'drath did and start to rapidly expand. When they found themselves mushed in between the great powers around it, they sought to expand from within. They eyed the Zanscarian, Tochun and Veraht homeworlds with envy and invaded them, shouting that their goddess gave it to them by right. The Breen began using the the natives as slave labor to increase their defense capabilities against a perceived attack from the Principality or Imperium. During this time however, the growing rift and tension between the Young Breen and the Old Breen were reaching a boiling point. During the summer of 2256, the Young Breen Coalition or commonly known as the Democratic Justice Front, delivered an ultimatum to the King, Lok-Haar and his cabinet to release the slaves and end their ethnocentric views on aliens. When the king refused, civil war erupted throughout the colonies.

### Devora Civil War

The Devora Civil War rage across every planet and habitat station within the kingdom. Loyalists were backed by most of the military and navy while the DJF had only leftover or makeshift equipment to use. The War

began one sided as the Loyalist inflicted defeat after defeat on the DJF, forcing their tattered remains of their forces to Zanscar and Tochun. There they encourage and successfully convinced the resistance movements on the planets to join them in their struggle against the government that had enslaved them. These resistance groups united with the DJF, giving them old but much needed military vehicles, fighters and weapons. They began repelling all incursions by the loyalists and were eventually recognized by the Thurnozi, who began secretly sending them resources to aid them. This help lean the war in their favor and the defeat of the Holy Kingdom. The King and Royal family was forced to abdicate and was forced into exile, presumably to the Principality. The DJF reformed into the Devoran United Suns, while the Zanscarians, Tochun, and Veraht were free to formed their own governments. They eventually would ally under a federation treaty, calling themselves the Union of Planets.