Emperor of the Known Universe

**The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Emperor of the Known Universe**

The title ‘Emperor of the Known Universe’ is a title that is as dread-inducing as it is laughably pompous. While certainly conveying extraordinary power, it is safe to say anyone who declares themselves the Emperor of the Known Universe is a man of extraordinary ego—even moreso than your run-of-the-mill emperor. Despite this inherent state, there have been a large number of figures in galactic history who have styled themselves as Emperor of the Known Universe (despite not ruling the whole of the known universe in the vast majority of cases). Below is a list of the most notable individuals who have declared themselves at some point Emperor of the Known Universe.

## **Emperors**

### **Xenu**

Xenu was an ancient alien conqueror who at his peak controlled worlds in multiple galaxies. He was the ruler of a Galactic Confederacy 75 million years ago, which consisted of 26 stars and 76 planets including Earth, which he had named "Teegeeack". The planets were overpopulated, containing an average population of 178 billion. The Galactic Confederacy's civilization was comparable to our own, with aliens "walking around in clothes which looked very remarkably like the clothes they wear this very minute" and using cars, trains and boats looking exactly the same as those "circa 1950, 1960" on Earth.

Xenu was about to be deposed from power, so he devised a plot to eliminate the excess population from his dominions. With the assistance of psychiatrists, he gathered billions of his citizens under the pretense of income tax inspections, then paralyzed them and froze them in a mixture of alcohol and glycol to capture their souls. The kidnapped populace was loaded into spacecraft for transport to the site of extermination, the planet of Teegeeack (Earth). The appearance of these spacecraft would later be subconsciously expressed in the design of the Douglas DC-8, the only difference being; "the DC8 had fans, propellers on it and the space plane didn't". When they had reached Teegeeack, the paralyzed citizens were off-loaded, and placed around the bases of volcanoes across the planet. Hydrogen bombs were then lowered into the volcanoes and detonated simultaneously, killing all but a few aliens.

The now-disembodied victims' souls, called *thetans*, were blown into the air by the blast. They were captured by Xenu's forces using an "electronic ribbon" ("which also was a type of standing wave") and sucked into "vacuum zones" around the world. The hundreds of billions of captured thetans were taken to a type of cinema, where they were forced to watch a "three-D, super colossal motion picture" for thirty-six days. This implanted "various misleading data"' (collectively termed the R6 implant) into the memories of the hapless thetans, "which has to do with God, the Devil, space opera, etcetera". This included all world religions that would come into existence; The two "implant stations" were said to have been located on Alola and Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.

In addition to implanting new beliefs in the thetans, the images deprived them of their sense of personal identity. When the thetans left the projection areas, they started to cluster together in groups of a few thousand, having lost the ability to differentiate between each other. Each cluster of thetans gathered into one of the few remaining bodies that survived the explosion. These became what are known as *body thetans*, which are said to be still clinging to and adversely affecting everyone except those who have performed the necessary steps to remove them.

A government faction known as the Loyal Officers finally overthrew Xenu and his renegades, and locked him away in "an electronic mountain trap". Although the location of Xenu is sometimes said to be the Pyrenees on Earth. Teegeeack was subsequently abandoned by the Galactic Confederacy and remains a pariah "prison planet" to this day, although it has suffered repeatedly from incursions by alien "Invader Forces" since that time. Xenu, would escape through demensions but ended up encountering the god Yog-Sothoth and being obliterated as an annoyance by him.

### **Anubis**

A Goa’uld System Lord (not to be confused with the Old God of the same name), Anubis was not the first Goa’uld to seize control of the bulk of the galaxy. He was, however, the first to style himself as the Emperor of the Known Universe, something that earned him ire from other System Lords. Anubis was banished by Ra and the other System Lords because his actions were deemed unspeakable, even among the Goa'uld. He was believed to have been destroyed, but managed to escape and trick Oma Desala into helping him to ascend. The Ancients did not want the Goa'uld to join them on the higher planes of existence after learning of his trickery, and forced him into a state between mortal existence and ascension. Because of his knowledge of the Ancients, Anubis amassed unimaginable advanced technologies. He gathered strength for hundreds of years before returning to take his revenge upon the System Lords and dominate the Milky Way galaxy, before his permanent defeat in 2005 by an alliance of enemy species formed via the Goa’uld’s own Stargate system.

### **Frieza**

Frieza was a member of a race who's name is lost. They were at first called the Frost Demons, then possibly the Arcosians and finally the Frieza Race after their most infamous member. The Frost Demons were a once powerful race until another guardian species, the Kais, intervened and requested they limit their numbers, killing off several members. The Frost Demons were reduced to only three members when Frieza's mother passed away, which was his father King Cold, himself and his brother Cooler. King Cold was an Emperor himself and would conquer many planets before choosing Frieza as his successor over Cooler. Frieza was an infamously cruel and brutal conqueror, fearful only of the god of Destruction Beerus and the myth of the legendary warrior known as the Super Saiyan, his fear of such a foe led him to commit the genocide of the planet with the blessing of Beerus(who he fooled into thinking had the idea to begin with). Frieza destroyed the Saiyan planet Vegeta, sparing only a handful of Saiyans loyal to him. Unknown to. Frieza, one Saiyan, Son Goku, was sent to Earth. Frieza learned of the legendary Dragonballs on Planet Namek and seeked to use them to wish for immortality. The remaining Saiyans and warriors from Earth confronted him. During the battle, Frieza killed the human Krillin and the Saiyan hero Son Goku, in rage, achieved the power of a Super Saiyan and defeated Frieza, leaving him for dead as Namek was destroyed. Frieza survived and was retrieved by his father's forces, who rebuilt him. The two then attempted to attack Earth but both were killed by the Super Saiyan Trunks. Frieza's brother Cooler attempted to avenge his death but was likewise defeated by Son Goku, briefly returning after being assimilated by the massive Big Gete Star prior to its destruction. A group of Frieza's followers would resurrect their master years later only for him to be killed again. He would be revived a second time to aid in a multiversal tournament in which a loss resulted in that Universe's destruction. He was rewarded by remaining alive for sometime after until he was killed once more for a final time.

### **Aku**

A controversial example for this list, as information about Aku has only been recorded by those possessing the timeline recollection ability sometimes known as ‘Reading Steiner.’ Aku was originally a portion of "The Darkness" a void which threatened to consume the Universe and was beaten back by the gods Odin, Ra and Vishnu. A small portion of the Darkness survived and fell to Earth, crashing into the area which would become Japan during the Cretaceous Period, existing as a pool of tar before continuing to grow. It eventually threatened Japan and the Emperor personally led an army with specially prepared herbs intended to neutralize the spirit. These herbs were actually planted as an attempt by a cult to summon a Demon from Hell and instead caused the creature to obtain sentience. The Emperor was defeated and left imprisoned, forced to watch as Aku destroyed Japan. The Gods Odin, Ra and Vishnu, returned and granted the Emperor a mystical sword capable of harming Aku. With this weapon he turned the tide and exiled the Demon into an imprisonment, believing he had killed the Demon. A rare eclipse resulted in Aku's return. Acting on a long conceived plan. The Emperor's son was taken away with the sword and trained to become a warrior. In the intervening time Aku, with the aid of the Amanto, occupied Japan. When the Prince, later named Jaaku returned a separate timeline was created, one in which Aku sent the Jaaku to the distant future and ruled first Japan, then Earth, and finally the Milky Way Galaxy over a period of centuries.This timeline no longer came to pass due to Jaaku finding his way back to his own time and slaying Aku. For this reason, Aku has been deleted and added back to this list on multiple occasions.

### **White Diamond**

White Diamond was the leader of a race known as the Gems, a mineral-based species. Under White Diamond’s leadership, the Gems sought to take over the cosmos. White Diamond, while a conqueror, created three other Diamonds, Yellow Diamond, Blue Diamond and Pink Diamond. As a result, White Diamond was rarely seen in Gem Society but greatly feared, possessing the ability of mind control. The Diamonds were also very vain, considering portions of the universe to belong to them. Earth was given to the young Pink Diamond. the news came that a Gem rebellion had led to the Gem Rose Quartz killing Pink Diamond. This resulted in the Diamonds becoming obsessed with destroying Earth, while they normally kept to themselves as did the Gem species, making Earth the only other planet the isolationist Gem Society interacted with. White Diamond did little for centuries but believed that Pink Diamond was playing an elaborate game and so did not respond to her death in the ways Yellow Diamond and Blue Diamond did, namely attempting to destroy Earth and preserving members of the Human race and Rose Quartz Gems respectively. White Diamond would be confronted by Stephen Universe, the human gem hybrid son of Pink Diamond. White Diamond(like most Gems) saw Stephen as still being Pink Diamond and attempted to force Pink Diamond into revealing herself. This only confirmed that Pink Diamond was truly dead. White Diamond had a delayed reaction to the discovery and began to cry as well as blush, emotions which were new to her. From this point she began to desire to reconnect with Steven, who she acknowledged as family. Along with the other Diamonds, White began to lessen the dictatorship on Gem society. For White Diamond and Blue Diamond this was easy as the two often relegated most of their duties to what they considered lesser gems. Steven however, wished to remain on Earth once contact with Gem society became more common, though White and the other Diamonds grew fond of the Gem Spinel. Given the end of hostilities, White Diamond has given up the title of Empress.

### **Giegue/Giygas**

Giygas, originally known as Giegue, was an alien raised from infancy by a woman named Maria and her husband George, both of whom were abducted from Earth in the early 1900s. During this time, George studied the alien's PSI powers without their permission, culminating with his sudden return to Earth. The couple raised the infant Giygas as their own son, and he became especially close to Maria. However, due to George's betrayal, when he matured Giygas was tasked by his people to ensure that PSI could not be used against them by humans. Giygas did not want to betray those who raised him, particularly Maria, but was forced to attack Earth regardless to claim this knowledge back. In the end, he was forced to detach himself from Maria and begin preparations for the invasion of Earth.

Eighty years later, the invasion began, and Giygas was confronted by the great-grandson of Maria and George, Ninten, and his companions. Giygas's influence was seen across the land as inanimate objects came to life, animals turned vicious and strange aliens began to inhabit the earth. During the final confrontation, Giygas, still hurt by the loss of Maria, offered Ninten to come with him back to his home planet. Ninten declined this offer, and Giygas continued to attack. Ninten and his friends quickly proved no match for Giygas; they resorted to singing a lullaby once shared between Maria and Giygas, and the comforting memories he had suppressed weakened Giygas. His guilt and love for Maria distressed him and he was forced to surrender and retreat, but not before promising Ninten that he would return.

Giygas returned to Earth many years later in 1994, though he vastly differed from his appearance due to having gained power. Ten years in the future in 2004, Giygas had taken over the Earth and sent all of it to darkness. He discovered the Apple of Enlightenment which prophecized his defeat at the hands of Ness and so travelled back into the past in order to stop Ness. In 1994, his influence was spreading over the US, in particular to Ness's neighbor Pokey Minch. Pokey became one of Giygas's main agents in the attack against Ness, aided by his jealousy of Ness. Giygas, already unstable from his guilt surrounding the loss of Maria, exerted such tremendous evil power that it destroyed his entire being, including his mind, causing him to become undefinable by human standards. As such, Giygas manifested as what was described as pure evil. Due to the loss of his mind, Giygas became irrational and incapable of thought. To rectify this, Pokey sealed him in the Devil's Machine so that his power would be contained and his mind kept intact. In the final battle, Pokey attested that Giygas wasn't aware of himself or what he is doing, referring to him as "*an all-mighty idiot*".

Now wielding a vast cosmic power which he was unable to control, Giygas becomes a threat to the existence of the universe itself. To stop him, one of the only known beings who managed to escape destruction in the future, an alien insect named Buzz Buzz, travelled back to 1994. Buzz Buzz warned Ness of the impending catastrophe. Ness was given the Sound Stone and instructed to record the Eight Melodies in order to gain the power of Earth and be strong enough to face Giygas. Giygas's influence was further seen throughout the world, mainly in the form of enemies that Ness encountered. Now existing as the whole of evil power in the universe, Giygas was able to manipulate the evil in the minds of living beings, both human and animal, and could apparently manipulate even the forms of inanimate objects.

Ness and his friends, known in prophecy as the Chosen Four, were forced to abandon their bodies and travel into the past in order to attack Giygas in The Cave of the Past. In the final battle, Giygas was held within the Devil's Machine, which was created to contain Giygas's tremendous power. During the battle, Pokey shut the machine off, causing all of Giygas's power to be unleashed; the event surrounded the four children in a chaotic, bizarre dimension of darkness. His attacks were random and incomprehensible, and his speech was erratic and mindless. Although Giygas was too powerful for Ness and his friends to overcome by fighting, he was eventually defeated after Paula called out to the people of Earth to Pray, and the combined prayers reached Giygas and exploit his weakness, the same human emotion that weakened him before. He broke up and was reduced to nothingness, and his apocalyptic future was erased.

### **Don Armage**

Don Armage was 'born' millions of years ago. He was, in fact, a conglomerate of several negative emotions and dark energy that spread through out the universe. The more these negative emotions and dark energy gathered, the stronger it got to the point it finally gained sentience. Being filled and only knowing dread, hatred, sadness, and darkness, he made it his goal to take over the universe and make it one without positive emotions.

Don Armage attempted to conquer the universe sometime around the 1700s on Earth, but he was opposed by 88 warriors from the 88 star systems. However, he killed the 85 other warriors, leaving Tsurugi, Orion, and Quervo, whom he later killed when the former shielded Tsurugi from his attack. Tsurugi later bested him in battle after he sacrificed his immortality and killed him. However, he survived and noticed Quervo was also alive, but slowly dying. He offered the Karasu warrior his power to become as strong as Tsurugi, which Quervo accepted and Don Armage merged his essence with him, turning his body into a blend of Don Armage's with crow features: Don Quervo. Now believing he could surpass Tsurugi, Don Armage created a doppleganger of his previous form and sent it after Tsurugi, and continued his conquest of the universe. As he did so, he ordered his subordinates to erase the Earth’s history of the Houou Soldier as well as placing him on the top of his Black List.

Don Armage established Jark Matter's new capital as the planet Southern Cross in the Minami Juuji System, whose ruler Southern King of Minami willingly submitted to the Shogun at the expense of his people due to his philosophy that the weak were destined to serve the strong whom dominated the universe. In return, Don Armage granted Southern King the title of Karo, serving as guardian of the Minami Juuji System.

Acting on his order, the assassin duo of Ikargen and Mardakko destroyed over a thousand planets together. Setting his sights on the Sasori System, Don Armage enticed Scorpio to swear loyalty to him in return for power which he granted by transforming the man into a scorpion monster; initially enlisting Scorpio as an assassin, the Shogun would be pleased enough by his service that he would eventually promote him to Karo of the subjugated Sasori System. Secretly, however, Scorpio aspired to one day surpass in power and kill Don Armage, upon which he would become the new Shogun of Jark Matter and rule the universe himself.

While Eriedrone made contact with the Shogun from the Big Moraimarz, intending to bring him the joyous news of the subjugation of planet Crotus, Don Armage realized that he had been shamed by the Kyurangers and blasted him back, ordering the Karo to eliminate the insurgents before immediately terminating the communication.  Discovering that the Kyurangers had arrived on Earth, Don Armage ordered Eriedrone and Stinger to eliminate them lest they discover the planet's secret. Following the arrival of Ikargen and Mardakko on Earth, Don Armage addressed them with an order to eliminate the Kyurangers. Shortly before Ikargen's final battle with the Kyurangers, Don Armage addressed him and Mardakko; announcing the coming arrival of Scorpio to Earth, the Shogun ordered Mardakko to welcome him, which she did the night after Ikargen's destruction.  At one point, he was seen in the Moraimars of Thunderbird when he bestowed new power over Mika Retsu, a woman who was persecuted by the Earthlings, which was revealed to be the plan of Thunderbird, which pleased Don Armage so much that Thunderbird was promoted into the Karo of Norma. Seeking to hasten completing the process of draining Earth's Planetium and destroying the world, Don Armage ordered a fleet of Moraimarz sent to the planet. Informing Scorpio of this, Don Armage entrusted him with eliminating the Kyurangers.  After Scorpio's defeat at the hands of the Kyurangers and his redemption, giving back the three Argo Kyutama, he ordered Madakko to activate all Moraimars before creating a dark energy projection to annihilate the Kyurangers, only to be deflected by Scorpio himself.

Half of the Kyurangers went to the past. They saw that Tsurugi really did kill Don Armage. However, when they were heading to Earth, Don Armage, who survived, attacked the Orion while it was heading to Earth and caused it to crash. Don Armage immediately attacked the Kyurangers after they left the ship. Don Armage reappeared when the Kyurangers and Orion were fighting the Vice Shoguns. They all attacked and seemingly killed him. However, he shot Lucky from afar. Don Armage then walked out of the smoke and revealed his true form to the Kyurangers. Through Shishi Red's miraculous power in the form of Shishi Red Orion, Don Armage appeared to be destroyed once and for all. However, when the Kyurangers returned to the present, Don Armage turned out to be still living yet again and remaining in control of the universe. Don Armage had been possessing Hoshi Minato, around the time after he became the universe’s well-known Space King of Pop. Until that day, Kyurangers went undercover to investigate the strange behavior on Minato, with Hammy, Naga and Lucky disguised as a new idol group dubbed “Triple Q” while Spada and Tsurugi disguised as the three disguised Rangers’ managers. Eventually, Don Armage and Akyanba’s cover was blown, just as Armage got out of Minato’s body, freeing the idol from the evil shogun’s possession. He then enlarged himself, only to be battled by both Gigant Houou and Orion Battler. As he was defeated, the shogun declared that while they were able to defeat him, they still can't take his life, implying there were multiple copies of him.

Realizing that Tsurugi Ohtori was seeking to gather the Kyutamas needed to break the barrier protecting Southern Cross, Don Armage ordered Dr. Anton to protect the constellation systems. Anton assured the Shogun that the relevant Karos had their orders, and that Mecha Madakko was with him on planet Ghem in the Perseus System. Space.38: Flaming Spheres! The 9 Crisis Strike!

Learning that the barrier had been broken by the Kyurangers, Don Armage sent Aslan to deal with the matter, specifically ordering him to eliminate Shishi Red. On Southern Cross, Southern King, through the power of Shishi Red Orion, was subjected to his own inner hell which appeared in the form of Don Armage berating him for his failure, providing an opening for Lucky to destroy him. Soon after, Don Armage's image appeared before Lucky as he confronted Aslan, revealing that he was possessing his father to act as a puppet, the Shogun reformed the mask that had been shattered by Lucky, returning Aslan to his control.

Don Armage's plan for Planetium was revealed to be a bomb to recreate the universe from scratch. Don Armage soon confronted the Kyurangers again, only to show his true form as Quervo, Tsurugi's close friend. As it turned out after his defeat in the past, Don Armage, in his ghost form managed to possess Quervo’s corpse as his own to live in few years later as of the present.

After the Kyurangers stopped the Planetium bomb in the Southern Cross galaxy, Don Armage revealed he had a back-up plan: he intended to convert all of Earth's Planetium into Dark Planetium, causing Earth to explode and take the universe with it. After an intense fight, the Kyurangers thwarted Don Armage's plan and defeated Quervo. However, Don Armage had another plan: possessing the body of his sworn enemy Tsurugi. With Tsurugi's power, Don Armage gained the ability to absorb Planetium, which he would use to restore Tsurugi's immortality and become unstoppable. Using this ability, he attempted to absorb the Kyurangers, but they were protected by Shou Ronpo, who he absorbed. He then set about draining Planetium from Earth for 99 hours to restore himself. The Kyurangers fought against the remainder of his forces for day and night, until they were exhausted, allowing Don Armage to absorb them one by one until only Lucky remained. However, Lucky revealed his plan: his teammates deliberately allowed themselves to be absorbed, and when Lucky threw his Kyutama into Don Armage's body, so that all twelve were within him, the combined power of the twelve Kyutamas overwhelmed and freed the other Kyurangers, including Tsurugi and Shou. However, thanks to the Planetium he had absorbed, Don Armage managed to create his own body, following by absorbing everyone in the universe except the Kyurangers to take on his final form. The Kyurangers fought fiercely, but Don Armage managed to momentarily overwhelm them, also revealing his origins as being born from the pain and despair of all life in the universe, with his ultimate plan of filling the universe with despair and sorrow to give himself unlimited power. The Kyurangers, however, were able to overcome Don Armage's attack and rallied all the lives within Don Armage's body. Their hope weakened him enough that the Kyurangers manage to push Don Armage back, forcing him to grow to giant size. The Kyurangers fought him and aided by the power of every constellation in the universe, they defeated Don Armage's ultimate form, releasing all the beings he had absorbed and returning him to his base form. In a last ditch effort, Don Armage attempted to possess Lucky and throw him into space while his body finished off the other Kyurangers. Much to his shock, Lucky managed to resist Don Armage's possession, and flew back down to Earth and forced his spirit back into his body while he and the other Kyurangers dealt the final blow, finally destroying Don Armage once and for all, thus his resurrection is no more

### **Paul Atreides**

Atreides, also known as Muad’dib, stands out among the Padishah Emperors of humanity not for the title of Emperor of the Known Universe (which they all embraced), but for his position in the history of the Padishah Emperors. Atreides overthrew House Corrino, a human supremacist dynasty that had ruled humankind for thousands of year and ended the Corrinos’ policy of genocide of all non-humans, though this was replaced with a fanatical belief in Atreides as a divine figure and forced conversions became the rule for alien races subjugated by his followers. Paul received condemnation from his own firends and family for violently enforcing the philosophy of the Fremen people in his empire and began a bloody Jihad that lasted 12 years and claimed Billions of lives. Emperor Paul Atreides eventually subdued all outright rebellion. The order of the Known Universe was maintained through the replacement of Corrino imperial power, which was supported by Sardaukar military strength; with Atreides imperial power, supported by Fremen military strength.

Paul frequently had visions which guided him. This included the decree that Arrakis be transformed from a barren desert planet into a lush and fertile world, with the exception of a small desert for the sandworm to remain alive and keep producing spice. By the end of his rule this plan was well on its way to succeeding. This program had begun under Pardot Kynes as an attempt to harness a planet; however, under Paul, it became part of a plan to save humanity.

Despite his strong leadership and formidable prescient abilities, Emperor Paul Atreides began to feel building pressure from discordant groups within the Empire: notably the Bene Gesserit, Bene Tleilax, fringe groups within the Fremen, and the dethroned but still powerful House Corrino. Among the schemes of his enemies were the detonation of a stone burner near where Paul and his forces stood in Arrakeen, which resulted in his physical blindness. Upon Paul's recovery from this incident, he shocked all by his ability to 'see' despite not having eyes. His perfect prescient abilities allowed him to perceive the world around him.

After the death of his wife and the birth of his children, Ghanima and Leto, Paul became convinced he had lost his prescient abilities; he did not foresee the birth of his daughter, only his son. Therefore, as no more than a blind Fremen, Paul disappeared into the desert, offering himself up to Shai-Hulud, as was the Fremen custom for the blind. This action made a powerful statement: it signified to the Fremen that Paul's interest was for the tribe, and that even he, Usul, Paul who was Muad'Dib, was not above Fremen law.

Many years after his apparent death alone in the desert, and while the Atreides Empire was under the regency of his younger sister Alia Atreides, a new figure, The Preacher, appeared from the deep desert. By urging civil disobedience against the Atreides Empire, and warning of the consequences of a green Arrakis, The Preacher attracted an ever increasing number of followers. Many believed this thundering blind stranger to be Paul Atreides, as he was blind and led by a boy. The Preacher eventually revealed himself to his son Leto, and the two of them travelled throughout Arrakis, breaching the water storage of every sietch so that it would spill out onto the sand. Eventually Leto and the Preacher returned to Arrakeen to confront Alia, who had clearly shown herself to be Abomination by this time. Eventually rising tensions saw Alia commit suicide in front of her mother and Duncan Idaho. During the ensuing chaos, The Preacher was assassinated in Arrakeen, but not before he had revealed beyond a doubt to Gurney Halleck and Jessica that he was indeed Paul Atreides.

Thus, the great Paul Atreides, son of Leto the Just and the first Atreides to ascend to the Golden Lion Throne since its inception more than ten thousand years prior, was dead, passing into legend for eons to come, laying the way forward for his son to take the Golden Path to its logical conclusion.

While Paul envisioned the Golden Path, the ultimate transformation that would see his humanity dissolve into a sandworm frightened him. Upon revealing himself to his son, Paul confessed that his desire to maintain his humanity, and the fear of abject loneliness that the Golden Path would bring, were too much for him. He related that he walked away from what he knew he had to do, and admired but lamented for his son who had taken on the mantle that would see humanity restored, but at the cost of his own.

### **Leto II Atreides**

Leto II and his twin sister Ghanima were born on planet Arrakis during the reign of Emperor Paul Atreides. Their mother Chani died shortly after giving birth to the two children, due in large part to complications arising from large amounts of contraceptives that were surreptitiously given to her by Paul's legal wife Irulan Corrino. Paul had anticipated the birth of a daughter, Ghanima, due to his prescient visions. However, Leto's arrival came as a surprise to the Emperor. Both children were pre-born.

Following Chani's death, and the apparent death of their father in the desert of Arrakis, Leto and his sister became the legal responsibility of Paul's younger sister, the regent Alia. Though they were granted a fine upbringing, little attention was bestowed upon them by their aunt, who was possessed by Abomination and enthralled by her own power and the mysticism developed around the Atreides name by Paul.

When they were nine years old, Leto and Ghanima gained the attention of their paternal grandmother, Lady Jessica, who returned to Arrakis from Caladan to inspect them as part of her obligations to the Bene Gesserit. While visiting, Jessica sensed the latent power present in the twins, and upon the realization that they could be a threat to the psychologically unstable Alia, pressed her Fremen allies to help protect them.

At this same time, Leto's prescient powers began to emerge. Through visions and intuition he discovered the Golden Path that his father had earlier uncovered and begun to follow. However, unlike Paul, Leto developed a greater understanding of the Golden Path's implications. He sensed not only its dangers but also the painful steps that had to be taken to avoid it unraveling, which would be to the peril of humankind. After Leto and Ghanima escaped a failed assassination attempt by House Corrino, the two split up, with Ghanima conditioned to believe her brother was dead, so that if she were to be interrogated on his whereabouts, she would not be able to tell the truth. Leto then slipped into almost total anonymity, using the time and relative seclusion to build a foundation of power and knowledge through which the full impact of the Golden Path could be realized. To enact such steps required a strong (almost brutal) grip on power, and a longevity that would override the shortsightedness and impatience of Man. Thus, after spending time amongst a variety of fringe Fremen elements, including The Preacher, Leto accepted sand trout upon his body and began the conversion into a human-sandworm hybrid. This transformation (which, at the beginning, was essentially a form of exoskeleton), boosted Leto's strength, reflexes and speed immensely, and he was able to move across large distances

After his transformation had progressed to a sufficient stage, Leto emerged from the desert and returned to the city of Arrakeen to confront the possessed Alia and claim the throne of the empire. After Alia managed to briefly overcome her possession and take her own life, Leto claimed the title of Emperor and promptly married his sister to consolidate his hegemony. The marriage was purely legal. Ghanima accepted Farad'n Corrino as her mate, however their descendants would be known as Atreides.

Toward the end of his reign Leto sensed the need for the next step on the Golden Path, and knew that his rule must end for further progress to occur. Thus using Siona - a distant descendant of Ghanima and her concubine Farad'n - and a Duncan Idaho ghola created by the scheming Tleilaxu, he sowed the seed of the Atreides genes for future generations. Additionally, he began the reversal of the terraforming on Arrakis, and witnessed the planet begin to revert into a desert world from the realised Fremen dream of a lush paradise.

Concurrently, Leto fell in love with Hwi Noree, a direct gender-opposite clone of Leto's former friend and advisor Malky, who was created by the Tleilaxu in an Ixian no-chamber. Since Hwi was conceived and raised outside of his prescience abilities, Leto was unaware of her until she was presented to him as an ambassador. Leto was instantly smitten with Noree, and within a few months proposed marriage to her, and set the date of betrothal. A few weeks later; Leto, Hwi, and his chief minister Moneo Atreides lost their lives when Siona ordered the bridge they were crossing to be cut by a lasgun by her assistant, Nayla, and they all fell into the Idaho River.

During and after his reign, Leto II was viewed as an extremely controversial figure. Following Leto's death, a chain of dramatic events took place over a span of 1500 years, that included the Famine Times, the Scattering, and the recreation of the sandworms on Arrakis, which emerged from the sandtrout that escaped from Leto's body when he fell into the water.

Many of the established power brokers who existed at the start of his rule were either destroyed or significantly weakened, due to his draconian tactics and a monopoly on the Spice Melange. To his admirers, Leto II was known as the God-Emperor, but to his enemies (including the Bene Gesserit) he was labeled the Tyrant of the known universe.

It was also said that within each sandworm that grew on Arrakis after his death, a pearl of his consciousness existed. This theory was supported when, approximately 1500 years after his death, an Arrakeen girl named Sheeana, who was a direct descendant of Siona and Duncan Idaho, had the power to control the worms.

The religion of the God-Emperor(later becoming merged with another figure in the God Emperor of Mankind) continued on Arrakis, until the attack on the planet by the Honored Matres, and also with those returned to the Old Empire from the Scattering, who called Leto II Dur or Guldur.

### **Aun'Va**

The Ethereal Supreme of the Tau Empire, Aun’va was also known as Master of the Undying Spirit. Like other Ethereal Supremes of the Tau, Aun’va was committed to the ideal of the Greater Good (insofar as his species viewed it at least) and led his empire in the war against its many rivals from the Imperium of Man to the Forces of Chaos. Aun’va commanded fanatical devotion and love from his people, as was the case with most leaders. Aun’va wass the first of the Ethereal Supreme to hold the title of Emperor of the Known Universe, as it was appended to him by his predecessor Aum’wei who had presided over great expansion of the empire. Aun’va would ultimately be assassinated and his fate led to the Tau to eschew this title for future emperors, fearing that it would draw bad luck.

### **Horde Prime**

Horde Prime is an unusual example of an Emperor of the Known Universe owing to the fact all of his subjects were under his literal control. Horde Prime’s origins are not too well-known, but it is believed at one point he was the last of his species. However, fortunately for him, he discovered the wreckage of a Borg spacecraft and proceeded to figure out how to replicate their methods of assimilation, as well as generate clones of himself he could integrate into his hive mind. Horde Prime created an army of clones of himself and used them to conquer vast quantities of the known universe. He has survived by moving his consciousness from one clone body to another, allowing his reign to last for centuries. At some point, he encountered the First Ones and destroyed their empire. One of his clones would later become known as Hordak. Hordak was his greatest general, but was cast Hordak aside due to him being deemed defective by Horde Prime. After this happened, Hordak fell through a portal and landed on Etheria, where he starts building an empire to prove his worth to Horde Prime. Horde Prime himself discovered Etheria and attempted a conquest often repelled by the former Horde member and Eternian royal family member Adora, though he would succeed in cloning Adora, a clone which ended up in his service only to betray him. His empire would collapse following the attempt to invade the planet Etheria.

### **Sheev Palpatine**

Palpatine was selected as Chancellor of the Galactic Republic during that nation’s Clone Wars against the Trade Federation. Palpatine, unbeknownst to many, was in fact a powerful Sith Lord, the former apprentice of Darth Plageuis and used his abilities to mount a coup that overthrew the Republic and formed a Galactic Empire under his rule. Palpatine would wage a war against an alliance of rebels and created the Death Star weapon used to destroy the planet Alderaan. Palpatine would lose power initially due to his apprentice Anakin Skywalker betraying and seemingly killing him. However, Palpatine would live on through clones, first encountered and believed destroyed by Anakin's son Luke Skywalker. A Final clone would survive and attempt to retake control of the galaxy with the aid of the Empire’s remnant known as the First Order. However, this effort failed and led to Palpatine’s final death.

## **References**

Anubis-The System Lord form Stargate

Xenu-The main source of evil in the Scientology religion. I added him because I view Scientology as pure fiction.

Kryptonians-Superman’s race from DC Comics.

Yog-Sothoth-One of the Outer Gods in the Cthulhu Mythos. He is the gate and the key (to destroying Scientology).

Frieza-Major antagonist from Dragon Ball Z.

Aku-The main villain of Samurai Jack

Reading Steiner-The ability of Okabe in Steins;Gate to recall the timeline as it was before using his ability to send messages to the past to change the timeline, as named by him. Here it caught on.

White Diamond-The leader of the Gem Homeworld in Steven Universe.

Giegue/Giygas-Giegue is the version of Giygas from the original Mother game. GIygas in that game is quite different from how he was in EarthBound

Don Armage-The main villain of Untu Sentai Kyuranger

Paul Atreides, Leto II-Both are from Dune.

Aun’va-Ethereal Supreme of the Tau Empire in Warhammer 40K.

Horde Prime-The ultimate villain of She-Ra: Princess of Power and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. Here the latter characters are clones of the original.

Borg-From Star Trek.

Sheev Palpatine-The Emperor from Star Wars. This is all a very abridged summary of Star Wars.

## **Notes**

All credit goes to Anarcho Occultist for the information provided