Mbaj Perandorinë

The Mbaj Perandorinë is a interdimensional empire comprised of various sculkified lifeforms, spread across several closed dimensions. The Mbaj has complete control over an entire dimension cluster. The only known Mbaj dimensions is Mbaj Uladonia, Mbaj homeworld and formerly Mbaj Sectatia, with unknown amount of other Mbaj dimensions. Although the Mbaj have control of their dimensional cluster, they are currently confined within it and cannot leave.

***Details***

The Mbaj hierarchy is vaguely understood, with only information from Amberlight City being available. Enslaved peoples make up the lowest rankings of Mbaj society, with slum conditions. Above them is the Enforcers (Zbatues) which are a dimension's dominant species that have been 'refurbished' and sculkified. Classes directly above Enforcers are specialized Enforcers such as Air-Enforcers which handle aircraft, or Elite Enforcers which have better equipment and guarded The Core in Amberlight. The highest known rank is the Enforcer-General, with only one unit being deployed in Sectatia.

The primary purpose of the colonies appears to be harvesting resources and lifeforms until the dimension is tapped dry, delivering the resources through the interdimensional portal to an unknown destination. The Mbaj have access to heavily sophisticated equipment/technology, the most well-developed in the multiverse in fact. Mbaj architecture and equipment incorporates itself into the natural environment of a colony world. Despite Mbaj tech prowess, the Mbaj only have portal tech able to cross between dimensions in their cluster, and unable to travel into other clusters. See MultiVerse Map.

The Mbaj lifeforms themselves are sculk-goo parasites that take over host's bodies, slowly enveloping the victim like a fungus in a process known as 'refurbishment'. It is unknown if the Mbaj are a hivemind or just linked telepathically, though evidence leans towards the latter.

***History***

Limited amounts of history is known about the Mbaj, except for newspaper clippings and testimony from Amberlight City, a city in the former Mbaj Sectatia colony and where Stoners 3 took place. The Mbaj Perandorinë has existed for an unknown amount of time, but invaded the dimension where Amberlight City resided and setup the colony called 'Sectatia' in late 2020 / early 2021. Sectatia was already ravaged by war between the various cities of the world, so the Mbaj gathered the remaining population into a walled off portion of Amberlight City as a "Urban Zone". The Mbaj set up The Core, a fortified administrative building in the former airport. The populace was then enslaved to collect resources from the world and deliver them back to the portal in The Core. Many survivors were 'refurbished' and converted into Enforcers, guarding their former people or being deployed in other colonies.

Then in early 2023 Stoners 3 took place. After the Hive Cascade, the interdimensional barrier separating clusters was shattered and various rifts occurred, slipping random things into various other dimensions, one of which was a Mbaj aircraft into Lumeni Season 9. A rift had formed connecting Season 9 and Sectatia, Mbaj forces became notified of a dimensional disturbance from the Hive Cascade but failed to deploy a response. The rift allowed the Stoners to travel into Sectatia, which eventually lead to a organized attack on Mbaj forces and eventually the loss of the Urban Zone and surrounding lands. The Mbaj deployed dozenz more Elite Enforcers through the portal at The Core, before the portal was overloaded by Stoners, leading to the collapse and evaporation of the Sectatian dimension. With the Sectatia now non-existent, the only natural rift out of the Mbaj cluster was destroyed.