Immortal Empire

Flag of the Immortal Empire

The Immortal Empire was a spacefaring empire which became infamous for its brutality and attempted galactic conquest. Over its history, it managed to take control of just over a half of the galaxy, becoming by far the largest in existence, and almost 2x as large as the Gwilym Republic is today.

#### **History**

Before planetary unification, the Inhae species (the one who would go on to form the Immortal Empire) was surprisingly peaceful and cohabited the planet of Haeser with another civilisation, the Pictroy, for centuries. However in roughly 1750, the king of the Inhae people, Zerakusha I, became paranoid that the Pictroy were planning to invade and so attacked them first, even though there has been no evidence of any sort of invasion plan. He also believed that his species was superior to that of the Pictroy. Once he had defeated the Pictroy and united the planet, Zerakusha I saw how easily the Pictroy were defeated and believed that it was his species' superiority and thus made it so that only the Inhae could be the only intelligent species as the others would just 'waste' resources. What commenced was the complete extermination of the Pictroy and the Inhae's expansion into space. By 1904, the Inhae controlled most of the North of the Gwilym Galaxy and proclaimed the Immortal Empire with Ardashir III being crowned emperor and the subsequent rapid mobilisation of the Inhae military. In 1949, Zerakusha II launched a blitzkrieg style invasion of the galaxy, destroying many empires such as the Dariaak Khaganate, Moid Electorate and the Berlin State. From there it began enslaving and murdering other species for being 'inferior' to their own.

#### **Coalition War**

Unsurprisingly, people were very unhappy with the Immortal Empire and soon revolts began to spring up. To the south east of the Gwilym Galaxy, a group of small states such as the Errimidon and the Cothorian banded together to fight against the Immortal Empire. The Gwilym Republic, which was beginning to expand into space, had heard of the Immortal Empire and its oppressive polices but felt that they weren't in a position to fight as they were still at war with the Gwilym Empire however, in 1988, they joined as they had weakened the Gwilym Empire enough for them to focus resources elsewhere and were worried that if the Immortal Empire arrived in the Gehum star system that they would immediately begin killing the gwilym race. Not only this, but the Keilrun matrioshka brain had managed to gain control of most nearby synthetic computers and robots so began fighting against the Immortal Empire due to the occupation and wanting to help out any organic life from extinction after seeing their creators (the Berliners) become a subject of the genocide committed by the Immortal Empire. Over time, the Immortal Empire was pushed back with the advancing armies seeing just how much carnage the empire had created such as killing billions of people including the Laffrenti, almost wiping out their entire population. The Immortal Empire continued to fight, murdering more and more species as the coalition forces drew closer to the Inhae homeland, until Zerakusha II was killed by Ewan and Gwilym in battle. After this the empire collapsed as infighting began due to a child emperor being placed on the throne.

#### **Aftermath**

After the war, many new states were created as the coalition disbanded, with each country swearing never to commit anymore atrocities like the Immortal Empire did, creating and signing the Earth laws (the Gwilym Galaxy's version of the Geneva Convention). The empire's legacy has been remembered by most of the people in the Gwilym Galaxy as a dark moment in its history. It is estimated that almost 6 trillion people were killed under the Immortal Regime, reducing the galactic population by a quarter. The remaining Inhae fled to the east of the Gwilym Galaxy, remaining in hiding until a gwilym explorer called Gwatrick Gwoneil came across their new planet, creatively named New Haeser. The Gwilyms allowed the people to remain however their were talks of a coup that would remove the hardline fanatics still in power of the planet. Before this could happen however, the Jam Incursion began and the Jams taking over a large chunk of the Gwilym Republic's industrial heartland. When the Jams came across the Inhae, their leaders were willing to cooperate for their safety. Instead, Jam fired a massive freeze ray at the planet, turning it into a frost planet and killing the remaining Inhae, causing them to go extinct, despite the best efforts of the Space Prussians and their organic retrieval drones.