LORE

[Burdenking]

200 Years before the start of the campaign, during the age of the old empire, Man was in control of a interstellar empire that, while small, boasted equal power to the current day empire relatively speaking.

This empire, like the one you fight today, was corrupt and cruel to its outer colonies. However, many rebellions had tried and failed to overthrow the empire, which had lived for hundreds of years. No amount of zeal or numbers could withstand the trained and heavily armed peacekeeping forces of the inner colonies.

However, that all changed when a Hero, by the name of Alexander Pale, revealed himself to the world.

Using newly developed weapon that had never before been seen, and running on fuel never before utilized properly, the first of the combat cores fought in a stunningly one sided battle that pushed the empire back significantly.

These first combat cores were small, and wielded modified Space fighter weaponry, but were able to out perform the obsolete fighters well enough to make mass producing them a necessity.

within 6 months, faster then any could imagine, Alexander and his fellow rebels sieged Earth itself, and pummeled the old empire into dust.

Alexander was quickly seated as the leader of the new empire, heralded as Alexander, King of rebirth. And for a time, the empire was just and kind

but, trauma's and loss tore and the good king's Psyche, twisting his once idealistic view of right and wrong. This was passed down to his child, who then had to deal with the thousands of unshackled A.I. who grew conscious during the conflict, and knew no other way.

Worlds were razed and many were killed before the empire came back into play. It was only due to his mothers convincing, that the new king let the practice of Soul smithing continue, only on much stricter laws on both the creators and the buyers.

The third king, the one who sits upon the throne now, has used his power to rapidly expand the inner colonies, wanting the world that participate din the first rebellion to be his treasures, and he decided the new should help with that.

So, through all the power he could muster, the outer colonies became little more then slaves, building planet monuments to his grandfather glory. This created a precedent where nobility and the upper class routinely abused the outer colonies, until rebellion was inevitable.