The Matrinis Empire

## Other

### Ideology

Belief in Technological Superiority, Hatred of Organics, Authoritarian and Militaristic

## Summary

**The Matrinis Empire** is one of the Primary Antagonistic Forces of the *UZB Server Games*, being a member of **The Imperium Order**, the Main Antagonists.

## Species

### Matroids

**Matroids** are the primary species of this empire. They are Aquatic aliens who converted themselves into robots for unknown reasons. Pre-Roboticization, they were fast swimmers and somewhat amphibian, able to last for about as long on land as a Whale can on water. They were highly intelligent and had been building robots ever since they first entered their Renaissance Age. They also had rather short lifespans, only sixty years, and were also always decadent, preferring to let slaves do their work for them. In a bid to extend their lifespans, they gradually replaced more and more of their bodies with cybernetics as the ages went by. By the time they had entered the Space Age, they were already about 50% bionic. At some point, they replaced almost their entire bodies, save for some parts of their brains, with cybernetic enhancements, gaining effectively infinitely long lifespans. Due to their new artificial hearts having gills built in, they only need water to live and don't have to worry about running out of power due to their Zero-Point Reactors.

### Mechamen

The **Mechamen** are a very humanoid cyborg species that the Matrinis assimilated into their Empire at an unknown point in time. They have a robotic arm and head, as well as armor covering their Nazi-like attire. They don't seem to feel pain or emotions and are relentless in their pursuits. Prior to being Mechamen, they were called the **Zelvan**, an elf-like race that had been living under a peaceful monarchy. They were sought after by the Matrinis due to proximity and more importantly the Zelvan's immense strength, adaptability, and lifespan, making them perfect soldiers once they were put under control.

### Rihi'Nar

The **Rihi'Nar** are humanoid, cobra-like aliens with some cybernetics attached to them. They are relatively recent additions to the Matrinis Empire, hence them still being mostly organic. They have incredible senses and deadly venom, and are also primarily subterranean, with a few outposts on the surface of their world.

### Numerians

**Numerians** are both strong and smart, being masters at physics and psionics while also being expert warriors. They have moderate cybernetics, and are naturally bioluminescent. They are also one of the oldest civilizations the Matrinis Empire assimilated.

### M'Tok

**M'Tok** are incredibly strong, fast and brutish bird-like Lithoids. Their crystals can be used to create semiconductors and generally channel a lot of energy. They are a recent addition to the Matrinis Empire, and do not yet have cybernetics.

## Planets

### Matrinis

The namesake of their Empire, **Planet Matrinis** is a rather large world, being almost twice the size of Earth. It was also originally an Ocean World, without any landmasses at all. The reason the Matroids were able to first discover fire was due to the presence of caves, and they had for the longest time not known the outside world. During their Reniassance Age, they began to construct artificial islands over their cities, which were beginning to be replaced with metal, and gradually, by the time of the Space Age, the Matroids had fully converted Matrinis into an Ecumenopolis, a City World. Not long after, they constructed an orbital ring around the planet, and outfitted it with weapons, hangars and shipyards.

### Other Planets

**Kulman Mog** is an extremely cold Arctic World.

**Drisk IV** is a rather Earth-like Continental World.

**Loudon** is an incredibly hot and dry desert world.

Many other yet less significant worlds are also in the Matrinis Empire, most not having their own sentient species.

## History

### History Chart

**Stone Age:** 989,978 B.C.E. - 19,978 B.C.E.

**Bronze Age:** 19,978 B.C.E. - 9,978 B.C.E.

**Iron Age:** 9,978 B.C.E. - 4,978 B.C.E.

**Medieval Age:** 4,978 B.C.E. - 4,436 B.C.E.

**Renaissance Age:** 4,436 B.C.E. - 4,321 B.C.E.

**Steam Age:** 4,321 B.C.E. - 4,311 B.C.E.

**Industrial Age:** 4,311 B.C.E. - 4,167 B.C.E.

**Machine Age:** 4,167 B.C.E. - 4,067 B.C.E.

**Atomic Age:** 4,067 B.C.E. - 4,007 B.C.E.

**Early Space Age:** 4,007 B.C.E. - 3,978 B.C.E.

**Space Age:** 3,978 B.C.E. - Current Era

### Stone Age

Originally, the Matroids did not have fire, and as such never smelted or cooked anything during this time. They didn't need fire for their minds however, as they were already highly intelligent, though not as intelligent as they would become. They often built large sandstone and limestone structures, entire palaces and cities, underwater, never during this time even thinking of swimming to the surface.

This Age persisted for about a million years, before the first Matroid to be stranded, **Itthopilles**, came across a cave with rather high-altitude hydrothermal vents in it. The vents cooked any meals Itthopilles found, and allowed his intellect to expand rapidly. He was eventually rescued by fellow Matroids, and when he returned home, he told everyone about the hydrothermal vents. It wasn't long before cities began to be built around these vents, which allowed the rest of the population to become highly intelligent.

### Bronze Age

This Age started when the first fires were started, after Itthopilles' great grandson, **Khiletiation**, managed to use special Sea Sponges to remove all the water from an enclosed environment. It was also here when the Matroids first began to evolve the ability to temporarily breathe above water. The discovery of fire allowed for smelting, which allowed the Matroids to create weapons, armor and vessels, effectively submarines with paddles, from Bronze. Various wars broke out during this age, and some religions began to form, particularly one about a '**Great Dragon**' that sometimes appeared in the sea.

### Iron Age

After about ten thousand years, the Matroids started to smelt Iron instead of Bronze, creating far better armor, weapons and vehicles than before. However, due to iron's immense ability to rust, these constructs were normally only used to the bare minimum for anything. This is when their architecture began to become more ornate and intricate, and various philosophers, most notably **Azrupilles**, appeared, first pointing out that the world they lived in may seem infinite, but that if they swam up, they might find something more.

### Medieval Age

It was during this age that the Matroids started forming entire kingdoms and empires due to their ability to travel long distances increasing. The most notable things at this time were the arrival of the powerful **Emperor Rokupilles**, who formed what was for a long time the largest Empire in the Matroids' history, an Empire that spanned the whole world, and the warrior **Hansakkun** defeating and killing the Grand Dragon from their myths. Researching its scales allowed the Matroids to forge incredibly powerful armor, and they began hunting and either killing or domesticating the spawn of the Grand Dragon.

Rokupilles ruled for his entire life, and his Empire persisted for five hundred years, but eventually, it fell, and its various factions began splitting off and warring for dominance.

### Renaissance Age

During the Renaissance Age, the Matroids managed to forge Steel, which allowed far greater weapons, armor, and vehicles than ever before. But now, they were also using the Steel for various devices, creating their first mechanical golems, submarine/tank hybrids, telescopes, and artificial islands. It was here that they first learned that they were living on a planet, and realized just how much more was out there.

Many influential Matroids made their appearance during this time, pushing their species and civilization towards greater and greater scientific achievements, as they began to ponder whether or not they could eventually surpass the gods they still believed had created them. As after all, they once viewed the Grand Dragon as a goddess, and yet they had defeated her and domesticated her kin.

### Steam Age

When steam power was first discovered by **Eshpilles**, it was used to create the first trains and flying machines, which marked a huge step forward in transportation. Robots, vehicles and weapons were all upgraded using steam power, as the Matroids began to wonder whether or not they could extend their lifespans using machinery.

### Industrial Age

Once Coal was discovered, it kicked off a huge Industrial Age, with factories being commonplace and the first proper firearms being invented using magnetic railing rather than gunpowder. Scientific advancements somewhat slowed down during this time, but every corner of the ocean began to have structures be built in it, wildlife tamed no matter what it was. It was also during this time that the first bionic limbs came into existence.

During this time, **Khiletzakkun** began to create the first models for spaceships, using her observatory to spot other worlds, both in their star system and out. She would give rise to the first strike craft, which allowed for very rudimentary, and often wildly unsuccessful, attempts to go to Matrinis' moon, **Malet**. However, the fact that anything got into space sparked the imaginations and ambitions of many Matroids.

### Machine Age

Khiletzakkun's daughter, **Hannitart**, began an immense scientific revolution, inventing much better cybernetics, robots, weapons (Including the introduction of missiles) and vehicles, as the first radios were created and the first small satellites were sent into orbit. The pollution in the water was becoming increasingly toxic, which sparked a movement to remove it before all life in the ocean perished.

### Atomic Age

At this point in time, **Maharbaal** discovered how to split the atom, which led to an arms race to develop the best technology. Nuclear missiles, nuclear firearms, nuclear power plants and nuclear-powered cybernetics were all experimented on, to varying levels of success. The arms race led to a massive, world-wide war between all factions that came very close to wiping out all life on the planet. Eventually, Maharbaal was able to discover nuclear fusion, as the fragmented nation states began to merge, and the world was almost entirely covered in islands that made it almost an Ecumenopolis.

### Early Space Age

At this point, cybernetics had been mostly perfected, and most Matroids were almost more machine than Matroid. Satellites and space stations were becoming the norm, as were space explorations, various new fields of science such as biology and computing, and the further unification of the world. Maharbaal's daughter eventually had a grandson, who she named Rokupilles after the Emperor who had lived so long ago.

Rokupilles grew up in an extremely privileged lifestyle, being in one of the wealthiest and most influential families on Matrinis as he began to become more and more decadent and warlike, often participating in gladiatorial arenas for the sake of it. As he learned more and more, and did more and more, it soon became clear that he was the most intelligent Matroid since Itthopilles, and the most ambitious Matroid since his namesake, Emperor Rokupilles. This ambition, intelligent and especially decadence and authoritarian nature began to scare his peers, especially with Rokupilles replacing more and more of his body with cybernetics, more than any other Matroid had done before him.

Eventually, Rokupilles gained enough influence to become the Head Scientist of the entirety of Matrinis, and thus, its Heir. However, he was becoming increasingly untrustworthy, while he began working on his greatest project yet--building a completely robotic body and transferring his mind and soul into it! Before he could transfer a fish into another robot body for testing, **King Aldrich** and his forces attacked Matrinis, subjugating it under their rule. During this time, Rokupilles was cast out of Matrinis with his robotic body, which he had no choice but to transfer his mind and soul into, and luckily for him, it worked.

### Space Age

At some point, Amphibia's forces left Matrinis, making it independent, as the Matrinis Empire properly began, and expanded to start controlling territories of less advanced species that they found. During this age, **Abdmelqart** started construction on Matrinis' Orbital Ring, and made Matrinis fully into an Oceanic Ecumenopolis, while the Matroids almost fully converted into cybernetics, leaving their brains and hearts as the only organic parts left.

## Plot

Eventually, Rokupilles returned, under the name of Robogog, and attacked Matrinis with the aid of the Imperium Order, which he was now a part of. After a swift war, Robogog subjugated the planet and thus all territories it controlled, truly becoming the Emperor of the Matrinis Empire. After this, the standards of living for the Matroids improved drastically, though all other beings on the planet were enslaved.