Igarin Empire

The **Igarin Empire**, or the **Nineteenth Galactic Empire** (Igarin: Kjari Ikkawanne/Kjari Darewol Prumenne/Kjari Karagane; "Igarin Empire"/"Nineteenth Galactic Empire"/"Haragarid Empire"), was the galactic superpower during the Sarmelonid era.

## Flag

The Flag of the Nineteenth Galactic Empire (or simply known as the Igarin Empire) is a dark blue rectangular banner with a stylised *haraga* (karaga) bird at the centre, the corvid symbol of the Haragarid Dynasty that dominated the empire's history.

## History

See also: Galactic Empires, Poreseai emperors, Igarin emperors

The Igarin Empire was the successor of the Poreseai Empire (the Twelfth Galactic Empire), whose rulers banished the other Igarinoid races to the rest of the Galaxy. The Poreseai once competed against the Pilakurumat for galactic dominance millennia ago, while the Igarin Empire was infamous for the devastating Plague Wars against the Old Konjors' rebellion.

It was at war with rebels, the Two Supercorporations, and other rising civilisations that sought to displace its much-coveted power. The Konjor Supercorporation reemerged from the ruin of the Plague Wars, and to the east, Rigara reunified the corrupt Theocracy of Novantir to create the Malendor Supercorporation to challenge the Igarins and the Konjors.

Eventually due to their Emperors' incompetence, their empire was replaced by the Galactic Community and the Cyan Senate. The surviving heir of the final emperor Faneson X, Faneson Nilwarad, fled to Kalawar B where he established a reformed government, but after he lost to a Konjor siege, he surrendered and became a viceroy, ending the Igarin Empire for good.

## Geography

### Northern Section

* Gausari (capital)
* Kalawar B (remnant capital, surrendered to the Konjors)
* Krawenos (headquarters of the Sacrificial Fleets)

### Southern Section (disputed)

* Gilwirag (Gilwitar Sector) - capital of Soskaril's domain, the Gilwirades.
* Kerason (lost)

## Government

Its government is a theocratic monarchy that worshipped its Emperors as the representatives of the solar god Faneson.

### Factions

* Sacrificial Fleets - led by the high priest of Faneson, Ikleturoz Norötol Hellmaws.
* Plunderers - several human armies exiled from Jerde. Although they were atheistic, their attacks against temples were the reason why they were not sacrificed, but recruited by the Igarin emperors as raiders. Their main goal was not necessarily to enforce secularism, but to have vengeance against the Jerdiskar by conquering their planet.
* Anolidöles - another faction of humans to the north of the Plunderers, near the Galactic core. Although they were more organised and neat than the Plunderers, the Anolidöres were brutal and fanatical, gladly seeking more people to slaughter and sacrifice to the Emperors.
	+ They regarded the Plunderers as their stupider counterparts for not being as militarised as them.
* Gilwirad, Gilwirades - led by the duke Soskaril, who governed the planet of Gilwirag. An ally of Futabol, a Konjor lord.
* Talakleres (Dry Blades) - the exiled prince Faneson "Klederek" Nilwarad on Kalawar B. He tried to reform the Igarin Empire, but his rejection of sapient sacrifices led to him almost being killed as a sacrifice.

## Military

See also: Sacrificial Fleets

The Igarin Imperial Army was made of fanatical volunteers, cultists, sun priests, military clones, and thousands of hateful Terran humans, all united as a force of mass destruction.

Igarins also had mechas, but they primarily relied on massed infantry attacks and superpowered abilities from the sun priests.

## Economy

The Igarin Empire leaned closer to corporatism. Its currency was the *skoro*.

To replace the many impoverished subjects that the empire had murdered and sacrificed to its gods, the Igarin emperors built massive foundries, where entire towns were inhabited by fanatically-loyal clones. Some towns and cities were nothing more than enormous industrial and temple complexes, where the clones built the immense weaponry of the Imperial fleets.

## Society

See also: Igarin language, Igarin glossary, Igarin calendar

Poverty is viewed as a great curse: ever since the riots at the planet of Pelgurna where the rioters literally ate rich people like animals, Imperial Igarin society despised and feared poor people as though they were all savage barbarians who want to exterminate anyone with wealth or intelligence, causing society to become more treacherously competitive and greedy.

Whenever an Imperial Igarin was about to become impoverished or bankrupt, they would try to commit suicide to avoid experiencing poverty, or attempt to kill off whoever whom they blamed for their financial problems before they die.

Igarin society also feared any manner of reform, ever since the existence of the rebellion, authoritarian government, massacres, and warmongering of Ironworld. This resulted in more purges to stop any potential threats possessed by suspected reformists and their works.

In spite of their accusation of cannibalism against the poor, Igarins considered it acceptable to eat meat and blood harvested from slaves, criminals, and clones. That practice was what the Free Igarins and the Nandegakkovians tried to avoid, aside from the cruelty of the Igarin state religion and its mass murder-sacrifices.

### Demographics

Most Igarin subjects are of the Igarinoid species.

During Imperial times, around forty-percent of the Empire's people were cloned slaves, programmed only to serve the Emperor and his commanders and sun-priests. They were under the freemen, the citizenry and elites of the Empire. The domains of the clone-subjects, who mostly lived in industrial or religious complexes, were under the rule of autonomous governors who were given free rein to build their armies and wage war on other civilisations.

There were other races under Imperial rule. Most lived in fear or toiled as tortured slaves, while a handful were equal to the freemen due to their destructive nature. Among them were the Terran humans, corrupted by their hatred of Jerde and their fanaticism into being among the cruellest warriors of the Imperial armies. Because of their destructive attitudes, they were seen as very expendable, so most of the same humans were killed in battle or "spent" (killed very brutally) as sacrifices to Faneson and the Dark Gods when their masters were simply in a bad mood.

Some of the cloned slaves, especially the smarter and deviant ones, joined the Galactic Community as it spread north.

## Religion

See also: Igarin mythology

The state cult of the Igarin Empire was a polytheistic religion that focused on the solar god Faneson, his consort, and the Emperors.

Ritual murder-sacrifices and mass murders were commonplace practices used to appease the Igarin gods, and those same deities were believed to devour people's souls after their deaths. Sacrifices to these gods were performed either by mutilation or stabbing with blades, or by being mutilated and then burned alive in a pit. War against any other existing power was believed to ensure favour between the empire and the gods. Although their ultimate goal was the iron fist of the Emperors' rule over the whole Galaxy, bloodshed was considered the most pleasing of all offerings.

Information during Imperial rule was heavily restricted: any opposing data was viewed as "heresy" to be destroyed, and anyone preserving such "heresies" was put to death.

Igarin soldiers tend to be supported and accompanied by "sun priests": frenzied devotees and chaplains of the Sun God who stir their men into becoming waves of bladed death. Many of those priests became into fire mutants, to represent their devotion to their god. Igarin soldiers preferred fighting in melee, and preferably with blades, as a reflection of the sacrificial deaths of their captives in their altars.

The Igarin Empire managed to avoid an early collapse by having an army and workforce sustained by disposable clones and droids, being governed by autonomous governors who led their own armies, and by having fanatical populaces who swore to slaughter the Galaxy for their sun god. Many of the sacrificial victims were slaves from colonies, prisoners of war, and Terran humans who were simply being killed as "beasts" whenever their irritable masters were just unhappy.

## Notable Imperial Igarins

* Emperor Prunowetsa III
* Emperor Faneson I
* Emperor Trimagan I
* Emperor Trimagan II
* Ikleturoz Norötol Hellmaws - leader of the Sacrificial Fleets, fought in the Siege of Nandegakko and was killed.
* Emperor Faneson IX
* Emperor Faneson X
* Soskaril

## Trivia

* The Igarin Empire was inspired by the Roman imperial cult (and its persecution of Christians), the Khorne armies of Chaos and the persecutions by the Imperium in Warhammer 40,000, the medieval Inquisitions, and the human sacrifices of the Aztecs.
* The numbers 5, 56, 58, 72, 78, and 98 are considered unlucky numbers in Igarin culture.
	+ There were five primal forces of chaos, which created the five hells to house themselves.
	+ There were fifty-six or fifty-eight countries that waged a devastating global war between three anti-theist empires. For their association with these countries' genocides and cruelty, the two numbers were feared in Igarin culture. Also, "fifty-six" and "fifty-eight" became terms directed towards atheists, who were collectively considered guilty of the same sins as those of the Third Gausari World War.
	+ There were seventy-two tyrants in ancient Poreseai history.
	+ Seventy-eight unlucky constellations loomed over anyone who went into the wrong places at the wrong times.
	+ 98 is believed to be the number of divine punishment, or the number of curses towards the worst offenders in society that await them in the five hells.