Advena I

An image of Advena I

**Advena I**, full title **By The Grace of The Watchers Emperor of Space, Time** **and the Cosmic Federation** was the first emperor of The Cosmic Imperial Federation, the imperial overhaul of the Cosmic Alliance that attempted to reform it into a monarchy under a strong emperor.This action would provoke The Cosmic Civil War, which would lead to catastrophe as the already beleaguered alliance was now even less capable of defending itself from Astral Big Jilm.Advena himself would not even survive the full civil war, as he was assassinated in 4597 with his imperial title passing onto his young son Advena II.

Advena II would only reign for 5 years until he was killed in the Great Sack of Domus Secundus in which the capital of the federation was brutally ransacked by republican forces.The purple was then taken up by Demoror, who would only reign for three months until his usurpation and castration by Turrim I.He would rule for a little over three years before he was captured by his brother and flayed to death.His brother would then rule as Turrim II until he himself died in battle against Big Jilm.This cycle of chaos would continue for many emperors until emperor Julian, who finally brought an age of stability over the bereaved empire and would be the one to sign the monumental Imperial Peace Accords, finally bringing an end to the Cosmic Civil War through compromise in the year 4640.

## Biography

Advena was born on October 20th 3850 in a high class family in Domus' prime levels.His father was President of the Cosmic Alliance for 3 consecutive terms, as well as 5 terms as a senator before that.His mother was a high level model and came from a wealthy family in her own right.With this parentage Advena was set for a lucrative political career, but for unknown reasons did not serve political office for the first few centuries of his life.

He instead chose the life of a Blue monk, living in the quiet monasteries of Domus' mountains.It was here he wrote several books and scrolls on everything from philosophy to blue history, and his works are still highly regarded in the Cosmic Federation to this day.His seclusion was only broken when word of Big Jilm's approach came to the planet, and by the time they heard it at his monastery it was already too late.Advena barely escaped before the entire land was soul-raped and destroyed, yet another bloodbath in the massacre that was The Scourge of Domus.With his family also killed in the scouring he had lost everything he had ever known, and it is here that his imperial and military beliefs are believed to have been formed.

He made his way to Skeel, the planet where most of Domus' refugees were now congregating, and began to rally support for his radical overhaul of The Cosmic Alliance.Though few listened at first the total inability of the central government to respond to the crisis only pushed more people toward Advena's cause, including entire planets such as Newtius and Crymto along with the Dwarven species.

With his new power base he officially declared the Imperial Cosmic Federation on April 21st 4590 in the halls of the temporary senate chamber.Reactions ranged from elation to fury, and almost immediately he began receiving threats of succession from diehard republican planets.Though he didn't wish for violence he saw his plan as the only way for the galaxy to survive Big Jilm, and with that The Cosmic Civil War began.

He would begin by rededicating Skeel into the new imperial capitol, Domus Secundus, before moving to strike the republicans in the battle of Frog-Lantis, which would be a republican victory.Seeing that this would not be a short war, he allowed the newt people of Newtius to capture and exterminate the Goed Frog-People, as he needed to muster his forces on Domus Secundus and plan his next move.Once the Goed Frog-People were dead and their planet occupied by Imperial loyal Newts he could begin his plans of expansion in the former heartlands of The Cosmic Alliance, whose planets that had not been destroyed by Astral Jilm were being thrown into total chaos from lack of Alliance control.

His victories in the successive battles of Pandamion, Greel, Took and Mondo secured his reputation as a skilled military commander as well as pushing imperial control across much of the old alliance homelands.His performance against Astral Jilm was much less successful though, as all anyone but The Visored One could do against him was simply buy time.

By the time of 4597 both wars had been going on for close to a decade, and with no victory in sight some began to conspire.A cabal of twelve high ranking government figures assassinated Advena I on July 15th 4597:his assassins then attempted to crown one of their own emperor.What they did not anticipate however was the late emperors remaining love with the people, and their bid for power massively blew up in their faces.All twelve conspirators were crucified and the young Advena II was proclaimed emperor with his mother as regent.

## Legacy

Advena's legacy is a complex and often controversial one.While many hold him up as a hero who managed to hold the tide against Astral Jilm many also claim that his taking of the role of Emperor went against against everything The Cosmic Alliance stood for, and his resulting civil war led to trillions more deaths than if Astral Jilm had faced only the republic.

What is not in doubt is his military genius, his shrewd administrative abilities and his undying love for the galaxy which he would ultimately sacrifice his life for.While his imperial line would die with the death of his son in the sack of Domus Secundus his legacy would be emulated by all successive emperors, and his tomb in the rebuilt imperial capital still receives millions of visitors each year.