Hadronite Empire

### Location

Within the Local Group and several former territories of the Intergalactic Commonwealth

## Governmental Information

### Type

Fascist state under a totalitarian dictatorship

## Societal Information

### Official Languages

English
Xenzo

## Historical Information

### Most Major Conflict(s)

Fall of Earth
War of the Armadas
Imperial-Resistance War

The **Hadronite Empire**, also called the **Commonwealth Empire**, is a totalitarian, anthropocentric, interstellar dictatorship that replaced the Intergalactic Commonwealth following the Fall of Earth and the Siege of the Nexus. Under the leadership of Hadron, it came to power by promising the preservation of humanity from the Calculator's genocide, and installed a harsh military rule within the territory of the former Commonwealth. An empire dominated socially and politically by humans, it enforced a state persecution of all the non-human races within its borders. By 5422, a large resistance had risen against it, seeking to restore the democratic government and end Hadron's tyrannical reign.

## History

### Foundations

In the aftermath of the Battle of Borealis, the second major battle of the War of the Armadas, Hadron managed to flee and tracked down the *Zeroeremento*, a clan of cyborgs that developed bioenergenic abilities by exposing themselves to element C. Believing such an army would make him unstoppable, Hadron absorbed the power of their Holy Stone, the clan's most sacret artifact, and seized power over the *Zeroeremento*, becoming their Dark One and supreme ruler. Hadron then set out on a rampage across the Settled Systems, absorbing c-energy wherever he went and vastly increasing his biogenic powers.

Hadron's increasing influence and desire to save humanity from the Scourge's intergalactic rampage resulted in a pact between him and a clandestine deep-state within the Intergalactic Commonwealth; in exchange for Hadron receiving no disruptions from the Commonwealth or the Nexus Council, the deep state would sabotage the efforts of the Confederacy and Elijah Rayes to rally the people of the Settled Systems against the Scourge, believing that the Calculator would spare organic life if they became subservient to it.

### Rise of the New Order

In 5410, the Commonwealth deep state revealed itself by attempting to assassinate Elijah Rayes on Nexus Station. This sparked open conflict with the Confederacy's Guardian Corps, of which Elijah was a high-ranking member, and was quickly followed by the *Zeroeremento*'s attack on Nexus Station, performed with the aid of Commonwealth soldiers. The attackers opened a tear that connected the station to the planet Hell, where the typhon, under the Calculator's command, were preparing to invade the Settled Systems. These preparations were stopped by the *Unreliable*, who destroyed Hell by detonating the temporal drive of the lost *Artemis*; the explosion wiped out the typhon and closed the portal as well, but not before a badly burned Hadron was able to escape to the station. While his siege was short-lived, Hadron was now filled with c-energy from the Nexus and presented with a collapsing intergalactic government. He subsequently seized Earth's government in a bloody coup, wiping out any who dared opposed him.

The remnants of the Commonwealth's government, all now loyal to Hadron out of greed or fear, declared Hadron their supreme ruler, giving him absolute authority within what was the Commonwealth. In order to preserve security and continued stability, the Commonwealth was reorganized into the Hadrontie Empire, with Hadron was emperor. With the *Unreliable* - and thus Elijah Rayes - missing in action, both Hadron and the Scourge were allowed to expand with impunity, putting all life in the Universe at risk of extinction.