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Name
Tios Demaukes
Species
Kalorian
Ethnicity
Half Tygardi/Half Shadowlander
Loyalty
Imperial Kalorian Confederation
Rank
Star Marshal
Imperial Executor
Biography
Tios Demaukes was hatched the second child of Zarn Demaukes, one of the Paramount Lords of Tygard, the dominant nation-state of Kalor and backbone of the Imperial Confederation. He was the middle hatched, after his brother Dyson and before his sister Venna.
Their mother, Sa'ren vin'Sal Demaukes, was not Tygardi but rather a Shadowlander. The Shadowlanders were an ethnic group of Kalorians who had settled in the high mainlands southeast of the Tygard heartland. Often viewed with suspicion, the Shadowlanders were rumoured to practice dark magic in earlier times. A belief that was fuelled by their resistance to the spreading faith of the Golden Talon.
The Imperial Confederation united all of Kalor’s nation-states and stellar colonies under the Tygardi Imperial throne in return for local autonomy. The resulting order was one of peace between the various Kalorian nations and ethnic groups, yet old prejudices never truly faded. Even centuries after Confederation? Zarn Demaukes’ choice to wed a Shadowlander caused no shortage of drama in the court at the Imperial capital.
Still, ethnic divisions were held to be a thing of the past and Sa'ren proved quite capable at carving out a positive reputation for herself within the Imperial capital’s social circles.
Dyson, first hatched and eldest of this union, proved popular enough (and looked enough like his father) to calm any lingering older prejudices about his family line’s new mixed heritage.
Venna’s musical talents likewise earned her a positive reputation as she grew older.
Tios was a quiet one though. Not nearly as outgoing as his older brother or younger sister and not nearly as interested in the arts as the latter, he struggled to find an identity in his youth.
Their mother had remained committed to the mysterious rituals of the Shadowlands, but the Demaukes brood had been raised to follow the Golden Talon, as their family had traditionally done. Tios’ own...insistent...disinterest in religion led to rumours that, unlike his brother and sister, he had fallen in with his mother’s faith and rituals.
Of course this was not true, but it added to his identity crisis as he grew. Eventually leading him to focus his studies on philosophy, as the field allowed him to openly debate and question the madrid of world views he felt constantly prodding at him.
Tios did not choose to pursue philosophical study though, instead choosing to enroll in the Imperial Confederation Military Academy. It was a common enough career path for a second or third hatched son or daughter of a noble, to carve out a dutiful career for one’s self as the family estate and finances passed to the elder sibling.
Some in the capital’s highest social circles were shocked though, that the eccentric second son of Zarn would choose such a conventional path.
Tios thrived in the military, however. The Confederation military had always placed the unity of the Kalorian race under the Imperial throne above all else, and to a young Tios who never knew which world- his mother’s or father’s- he was supposed to embrace? The military gave him a clear vision for which to dedicate himself to.
He became an officer in the Confederation Navy, eventually rising to the rank of Captain, and in command of the Capital Ship the Azyr Light. It was a rank in which he proved capable of, establishing a reputation as an agressive tactician, a loyal officer, and a popular leader amongst those who served under him.
Tios served in the war with the Arem Tellusions duitifully, though he expressed his disgust with the Central Command’s cautious approach to the fighting. The border dispute that had sparked the war had led to Arem raids on border systems, with the frontier between the two powers changing only slightly. Tios and other younger officers believed in waging a war to crush the Arem, while Central Command only wished to maintain a hold on the Kalorian disputed territories.
Still, Tios and those like him served as best they could, respectful of those above them in the chain of command who ordered them to remain cautious.
Then the Higal Raid. An Arem strikeforce slipped passed Kalorian lines and conducted a bombing run on the city of Higal on Kalor’s moon.
The oldest Kalorian off-planet settlement, practically Kalor itself. Struck by this race of scampering apes.
The anger that Tios and those he had gathered around him boiled over. Central Command had allowed the heart of the Imperial Confedeation to be struck by their unwillingness to do what had to be done.
The events of what happened next have still yet to be fully revealed.
What is known is that Captain Tios Demaukes and a cadre or other like-minded young officers seized control of Central Command. The Star Marshal was slaughtered, and after a tense meeting with the Empress? Tios Demaukes became the youngest Star Marshal in Kalorian history.
Tios elevated his co-conspirators to positions of authority, and re-focused the Kalorian war aims.
No longer would the Confederation military try and hold its side of a disputed boundary. The war was now a war of near-annihilation.
Kalorian hunter-packs stalked and tore into Arem capital ships, refusing calls of surrender with the aim of killing as many of the enemy as possible. Daring offensives the previous Central Command declared too risky brought heavy fighting to the Arem colony worlds on the frontier. And fleeing refugees were targeted without concern for the rules of war.
The Arem were knocked off balance by the early vicious assaults of this new offensive, and never regained their footing. Fleets were torn apart, refugees that managed to escape flooded the inner colonies and Arem itself, until the fighting reached even that planet.
The Battle of Arem was one of the bloodied and intense battles in either Arem or Kalorian history. The sky above Arem blazed as defences did what they could to hold the line. Once they cracked, however, Tios Demaukes ordered his capital ships’ cannons to target Arem’s surface.
Kalorian fighters swarmed the Arem defenders while Arem itself was torn apart. Continents shattered, entire seas boiled. All while refugee ships were picked off on the Kalorian Star Marshal’s orders.
The Arem state fell that day. The government literally destroyed by fire from above as its ships were torn apart.
There was no formal surrender. No terms. Kalor simply anhilated Arem Tellusion civilization and declared the burnt out husk theirs. What Arem weren’t killed or enslaved became refugees living on the fringes of Grohl or Tellusion space.
It was a near-complete decimation of the enemy for Tios. It was more than that though. It was a revitalization of the Confederation’s military might. It was also a demonstration of the strength of Kalorian unity. The ultimate expression of what his race could do, what they could claim, beyond the petty divisions of the past. It was the ultimate fulfilment of the Confederation’s promise, centuries after it had been first made.
And how fitting that a half Tygardi/half Shadowlander had delivered such a promise.
The war made Tios a hero. To the Kalorian people as well as the lower ranked officers and enlisted soldiers of the Confederation military. Older officers who disapproved of his coup found themselves unable to move against the Star Marshal, if only because their own subordinates held him in such high regard.
And the Empress? The ultimate symbol of Kalorian sovereignty made her favour of him well known by granting him the rank of Imperial Executor. Enabling him to now speak for the Imperial throne.
Then the mysteries of the Ansief. The Ansief were a long-dead race of beings who had once held sway over the areas now under Kalorian control, including the newly conquered Arem territories.
Kalorian archeologists had studied the Ansief’s myths and relics for centuries. And the most famous myth told of the end of
the Ansief themselves. The war that split their people, and the weapon that could sheer a planet of its very atmosphere.
Such a weapon was rumoured to still exist, but the claim was never taken seriously. Until an Imperial Confederation Archeological Reliquary survey on Arem’s moon uncovered supposed schematics for such a weapon.
Word reached Tios and he, using the authority of the Imperial throne, brought the Reliquary under military oversight. The schematics and all Ansief tech was to be funneled to the top secret station Gandel Horizon.
A weapon capable of sheering a planet was developed, and a ship large enough to power it. Partially, at least, with material strip mined from Arem and its colony worlds.
The weapon, however, was incomplete. It was unable to function without a specific Ansief power source. And it was then that Tios turned back to part of his old life; the mystics of the Shadowlanders.
Myth held that the original Ansief weapon and its powersource was lost on the storm planet of Kosol. A world thought to be a myth itself.
Even as Tios sent Reliqaury agents and military expeditions to search for Kosol? He confided in the mystic rituals of his mother’s heritage, embracing the teachings of the Shadowlanders. Knowing that the path of the shadow is the one constant in the universe, and through the dark all points of creation can be reached.
Tios Demaukes
Species
Kalorian
Ethnicity
Half Tygardi/Half Shadowlander
Loyalty
Imperial Kalorian Confederation
Rank
Star Marshal
Imperial Executor
Biography
Tios Demaukes was hatched the second child of Zarn Demaukes, one of the Paramount Lords of Tygard, the dominant nation-state of Kalor and backbone of the Imperial Confederation. He was the middle hatched, after his brother Dyson and before his sister Venna.
Their mother, Sa'ren vin'Sal Demaukes, was not Tygardi but rather a Shadowlander. The Shadowlanders were an ethnic group of Kalorians who had settled in the high mainlands southeast of the Tygard heartland. Often viewed with suspicion, the Shadowlanders were rumoured to practice dark magic in earlier times. A belief that was fuelled by their resistance to the spreading faith of the Golden Talon.
The Imperial Confederation united all of Kalor’s nation-states and stellar colonies under the Tygardi Imperial throne in return for local autonomy. The resulting order was one of peace between the various Kalorian nations and ethnic groups, yet old prejudices never truly faded. Even centuries after Confederation? Zarn Demaukes’ choice to wed a Shadowlander caused no shortage of drama in the court at the Imperial capital.
Still, ethnic divisions were held to be a thing of the past and Sa'ren proved quite capable at carving out a positive reputation for herself within the Imperial capital’s social circles.
Dyson, first hatched and eldest of this union, proved popular enough (and looked enough like his father) to calm any lingering older prejudices about his family line’s new mixed heritage.
Venna’s musical talents likewise earned her a positive reputation as she grew older.
Tios was a quiet one though. Not nearly as outgoing as his older brother or younger sister and not nearly as interested in the arts as the latter, he struggled to find an identity in his youth.
Their mother had remained committed to the mysterious rituals of the Shadowlands, but the Demaukes brood had been raised to follow the Golden Talon, as their family had traditionally done. Tios’ own...insistent...disinterest in religion led to rumours that, unlike his brother and sister, he had fallen in with his mother’s faith and rituals.
Of course this was not true, but it added to his identity crisis as he grew. Eventually leading him to focus his studies on philosophy, as the field allowed him to openly debate and question the madrid of world views he felt constantly prodding at him.
Tios did not choose to pursue philosophical study though, instead choosing to enroll in the Imperial Confederation Military Academy. It was a common enough career path for a second or third hatched son or daughter of a noble, to carve out a dutiful career for one’s self as the family estate and finances passed to the elder sibling.
Some in the capital’s highest social circles were shocked though, that the eccentric second son of Zarn would choose such a conventional path.
Tios thrived in the military, however. The Confederation military had always placed the unity of the Kalorian race under the Imperial throne above all else, and to a young Tios who never knew which world- his mother’s or father’s- he was supposed to embrace? The military gave him a clear vision for which to dedicate himself to.
He became an officer in the Confederation Navy, eventually rising to the rank of Captain, and in command of the Capital Ship the Azyr Light. It was a rank in which he proved capable of, establishing a reputation as an agressive tactician, a loyal officer, and a popular leader amongst those who served under him.
Tios served in the war with the Arem Tellusions duitifully, though he expressed his disgust with the Central Command’s cautious approach to the fighting. The border dispute that had sparked the war had led to Arem raids on border systems, with the frontier between the two powers changing only slightly. Tios and other younger officers believed in waging a war to crush the Arem, while Central Command only wished to maintain a hold on the Kalorian disputed territories.
Still, Tios and those like him served as best they could, respectful of those above them in the chain of command who ordered them to remain cautious.
Then the Higal Raid. An Arem strikeforce slipped passed Kalorian lines and conducted a bombing run on the city of Higal on Kalor’s moon.
The oldest Kalorian off-planet settlement, practically Kalor itself. Struck by this race of scampering apes.
The anger that Tios and those he had gathered around him boiled over. Central Command had allowed the heart of the Imperial Confedeation to be struck by their unwillingness to do what had to be done.
The events of what happened next have still yet to be fully revealed.
What is known is that Captain Tios Demaukes and a cadre or other like-minded young officers seized control of Central Command. The Star Marshal was slaughtered, and after a tense meeting with the Empress? Tios Demaukes became the youngest Star Marshal in Kalorian history.
Tios elevated his co-conspirators to positions of authority, and re-focused the Kalorian war aims.
No longer would the Confederation military try and hold its side of a disputed boundary. The war was now a war of near-annihilation.
Kalorian hunter-packs stalked and tore into Arem capital ships, refusing calls of surrender with the aim of killing as many of the enemy as possible. Daring offensives the previous Central Command declared too risky brought heavy fighting to the Arem colony worlds on the frontier. And fleeing refugees were targeted without concern for the rules of war.
The Arem were knocked off balance by the early vicious assaults of this new offensive, and never regained their footing. Fleets were torn apart, refugees that managed to escape flooded the inner colonies and Arem itself, until the fighting reached even that planet.
The Battle of Arem was one of the bloodied and intense battles in either Arem or Kalorian history. The sky above Arem blazed as defences did what they could to hold the line. Once they cracked, however, Tios Demaukes ordered his capital ships’ cannons to target Arem’s surface.
Kalorian fighters swarmed the Arem defenders while Arem itself was torn apart. Continents shattered, entire seas boiled. All while refugee ships were picked off on the Kalorian Star Marshal’s orders.
The Arem state fell that day. The government literally destroyed by fire from above as its ships were torn apart.
There was no formal surrender. No terms. Kalor simply anhilated Arem Tellusion civilization and declared the burnt out husk theirs. What Arem weren’t killed or enslaved became refugees living on the fringes of Grohl or Tellusion space.
It was a near-complete decimation of the enemy for Tios. It was more than that though. It was a revitalization of the Confederation’s military might. It was also a demonstration of the strength of Kalorian unity. The ultimate expression of what his race could do, what they could claim, beyond the petty divisions of the past. It was the ultimate fulfilment of the Confederation’s promise, centuries after it had been first made.
And how fitting that a half Tygardi/half Shadowlander had delivered such a promise.
The war made Tios a hero. To the Kalorian people as well as the lower ranked officers and enlisted soldiers of the Confederation military. Older officers who disapproved of his coup found themselves unable to move against the Star Marshal, if only because their own subordinates held him in such high regard.
And the Empress? The ultimate symbol of Kalorian sovereignty made her favour of him well known by granting him the rank of Imperial Executor. Enabling him to now speak for the Imperial throne.
Then the mysteries of the Ansief. The Ansief were a long-dead race of beings who had once held sway over the areas now under Kalorian control, including the newly conquered Arem territories.
Kalorian archeologists had studied the Ansief’s myths and relics for centuries. And the most famous myth told of the end of
the Ansief themselves. The war that split their people, and the weapon that could sheer a planet of its very atmosphere.
Such a weapon was rumoured to still exist, but the claim was never taken seriously. Until an Imperial Confederation Archeological Reliquary survey on Arem’s moon uncovered supposed schematics for such a weapon.
Word reached Tios and he, using the authority of the Imperial throne, brought the Reliquary under military oversight. The schematics and all Ansief tech was to be funneled to the top secret station Gandel Horizon.
A weapon capable of sheering a planet was developed, and a ship large enough to power it. Partially, at least, with material strip mined from Arem and its colony worlds.
The weapon, however, was incomplete. It was unable to function without a specific Ansief power source. And it was then that Tios turned back to part of his old life; the mystics of the Shadowlanders.
Myth held that the original Ansief weapon and its powersource was lost on the storm planet of Kosol. A world thought to be a myth itself.
Even as Tios sent Reliqaury agents and military expeditions to search for Kosol? He confided in the mystic rituals of his mother’s heritage, embracing the teachings of the Shadowlanders. Knowing that the path of the shadow is the one constant in the universe, and through the dark all points of creation can be reached.
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