Imperium Ascendant

The Imperium Ascendant is a major galactic power in the galaxy of Proteus Vex.

History
The Imperium has an incredible ancient history, spanning at least eighty millennia. Historically this era would be the heart of a galactic war known as First Conflict and be the earliest of a series of bloodshed in the centuries to come. This would be also the same time when an emissary of the Imperium approached the leader of the Scorcher s to deliver news of a discovery of a star-dwelling race similar to the Scorchers. The news though was dismissed by Scorcher leader, and refused to consider such a revelation as it conflicted with her race's uniqueness in the galaxy. Out of respect, the emissary agreed to suppress knowledge of the race and any other races of similar makeup as such information would upheave Scorcher civilization.

1400 years before the start of Proteus Vex, the Imperium Ascendant encountered a new race known as the Obdurates. Initially the Imperium reached out in peace to the Obdurates, but were met by violent aggression. The encounter with the Obdurates soon encompassed into a galactic war with the Obdurates leading a warpath of carnage, aiming to wipe all other races. To combat the Obdurates and for the very survival of galactic civilization, the Imperium Ascendant formed the Alliance, made up of various kingdoms such as the Seaborne Coagency and the Unaligned Worlds. However despite the other galactic powers uniting, they were no match for the sheer brutality of the Obdurates. The conflict prolonged for centuries with the Alliance drawing it out as a war of attrition.

General Netores Edge having fought twenty-four engagements with the Obdurates and the greatest of warriors in all the Allied worlds approached the Scorchers to join the war. Her diplomatic mission was her only recorded failure as the ancient race did not care for the fates of what they perceived as lesser races. Desperate for aid, General Edge concocted a scheme with the Imperium's most skilled agent, Proteus Vex to bring the Scorcher into the war.

Proteus Vex piloting his ship the Farrago rammed into the vessels of the Eight Obdurate Fleet, and drew them to the world of Rixxot Minor where a Scorcher colony was located. The Alliance having inserted comm relays in the system, activated, causing communication chatter to erupt, fooling the Obdurates into thinking that they stumbled unto an Alliance military base. Seeing it as a greater threat, the Obdurates bombed the colony, unaware that it was actually nursery for the Scorchers young. Nine Scorchers were killed in the massacre, and finally forced the Scorchers into the war to avenge their dead.

The Scorchers allying with the Alliance gave the galaxy a fighting chance against the Obdurates, though even with the aid of the ancient race, the Obdurate threat was still ever present. To land a decisive blow against the Obdurates, a plan was enacted by the Alliance to teleport a dying white dwarf star into the heart of the Obdurate homeworlds. The plan was a success and saw the death of billions of Obdurates. Though many Obdurates forces still persisted, the Alliance was able to neutralize them, leaving on a handful of survivors left. After the end of the Obdurate War, the kingdoms split the territories of their enemies among themselves.

Culture
The Imperium Ascendant is a major power in its galaxy, being the forefront in all events of galactic importance from the Obdurate War to the Scorcher War. While structured as an autocratic empire, the Imperium Ascendant is made of multiple races that are given equal rights and protection.

The majority in control of the Imperium Ascendant appear to be a thin lanky humanoid race, though other races have been shown to hold high rankings in the government structure, which indicates that the Imperium allows equal opportunity of advancement, at least within the military.

The main currency of the Imperium is silver.

Among the races that compose of the Imperium Ascendant are:


 * Troxillan
 * Sekkillarian
 * The Silent