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The Two Years War (Worldbuilding)<h2 style="text-align: center">HISTORY | THE TWO-YEARS’ WAR</h2><hr><h3>FORTY YEARS PRIOR TO THE EVENTS OF <em>SOULLESS</em></h3><p style="text-align:justify;">Theia was once split into several independent states, generally cordial with each other and with diverse cultures. However, one state, the Republic of Sinaria, had ambitions to rule the entire continent. The ambitions stemmed from beliefs of an ancient Sinarian culture which had been the original settlers of the land, and thus the sole proprietors of the continent. The Sinarians had been at the forefront of technological advances, drawing the attention of cultures from around the world. This led to an influx of people immigrating to Theia from foreign lands in the hopes of benefiting from the higher quality of life afforded by the Sinarian civilization’s resources and technology.</p><p style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in">The Sinarians were initially welcoming of this movement, seeing as this improved their reputation, population, and power on the world stage. This eventually led to some nations on other continents, particularly Arkania, becoming wary of them and pushing competition and isolationism in their own interests. As a proud people, the Sinarians offered their wealth of knowledge to these other countries as an attempt to offset the challenge to their role as leaders on the world stage. However, this was seen as an attempt to subvert the sovereignty and pride of these other nations and was generally rejected across the board.</p><p style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in">Over time, this made the Sinarians paranoid; they began to worry that these other countries would attempt to subvert them through the different cultural groups which had moved to the Theian Continent. To offset this trend, the Sinarians, backed by their well-known technological prowess, offered the diasporas which had gathered in Theia the protection of their regions via federation of the territories. This led to the creation of several semi-autonomous provinces which fell under Sinarian federal jurisdiction. For over a century, this appeared to offset the ambitions of the competing nations, keeping the world in a relatively balanced state.</p><p style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in">Eventually, having gained greater trust in the peoples of these territories, Sinaria loosened their grip on these provinces to reduce the impact of managing them on their own time and resources, opting for more of a union of independent states, still moderated by the central Sinarian Republic. However, as originally feared, these territories began to be subverted by the influence of the other countries of the world, and this eventually led to them vying for their right to full sovereignty and independence from the Republic of Sinaria’s custodianship. Under oppressive international pressure, the Sinarians had little choice but to give these territories their autonomy. Further efforts to preserve their waning influence in these territories were met with increased hostility over time, further isolating them and worsening a growing blight on their pride.</p><hr><h3>THE TWO-YEARS’ WAR</h3><p style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in">National resentment brewed in Sinaria; the once great power had been betrayed by those they had welcomed, shared their land with, and extended their generosity to. Behind the scenes, their military industrial complex and science ministries worked overtime and continued to be at the forefront of world technological prowess. This brought about the development of the first true Artificial Intelligence program forty-five years ago, which was then leveraged by the Sinarians as a tool of intelligence gathering and subversion against the rest of the world. Within a few years, relations between the individual territories of Theia and other continents began to rapidly deteriorate, leading to a phase of worldwide unrest and the onset of the first year of the war. Several smaller conflicts broke out during this time, during which Sinaria began the work to begin exploiting these to their benefit. Through AI-boosted tools of propaganda and manipulation, they began to subvert their neighboring territories, ultimately with the goal of installing loyalists in the seats of power and returning them to Sinarian rule through coerced elections.</p><p style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in">Knowledge of the existence of the AI, along with a significant amount of its code, was leaked by spies working for Sinaria’s adversaries. Within the year, this led to a new AI which was able to reveal to the world what the Sinarians had been doing, turning the entire planet against them in the second year. However, the Sinarians had prepared a countermeasure for just this type of situation—they triggered a failsafe—an intentional bug in the code of the adversaries’ copy of their AI, turning it into an <i>Aberrant</i>, an AI which becomes self-aware and turns maliciously on its creators while still following its core directives. It quickly determined that the best way to end the conflict was to turn the nuclear arsenal of those adversary countries against them.</p><p style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in">A worldwide effort to shut down the Aberrant AI largely averted disaster, but not before two thermonuclear bombs were set off on the periphery of Sinarian territory as part of the Aberrant’s plan before shutdown. This shocked the world into doubling their efforts against the Sinarians and their AI program. Ultimately, the Sinarians understood that despite their technological advances, they were hopelessly outgunned, and they surrendered after two years of world conflict that they had instigated, largely as a way to salvage their pride.</p><hr><h3>THE WAR’S AFTERMATH</h3><p style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in">The instigators responsible for the conflict were held accountable on the world stage. Sinaria as a country was dissolved and Theia was re-organized into five federated territories, all equal in power and governed by a central government maintained by them. Sinarians who willingly surrendered or were remorseful for the events which had occurred on their behalf were offered conditional integration with the new Theian Federation or effective exile to a new sovereign seafaring city-state called Vazzerstadt to be built by the international community using the advanced technology which had been captured from the Sinarians.</p><p style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in">Following the war, AI as an <em>artificial intelligence</em> construct was effectively banned via worldwide regulations, as were nuclear weapons. Most nuclear weapons were dismantled, and what remained were left in the custodianship of the Worldwide Federation of Scientists, in case of the event of a planetary defense scenario. All AI technologies following the war were largely restricted to what became known as <em>Augmented</em> Intelligence, focusing on supplementing the existing abilities of the world’s several sentient races, rather than effectively replacing them. Following the discovery of harrowing experiments on human subjects by the Sinarians, other things, such as human cloning, were also effectively banned worldwide. The planet has been in a relative state of peace since.</p>27th OC, Nyxeris PhobiaName: Nyxeris Phobia Age: 21 (physically), 1,809 (chronologically) Gender: Female Species/Race/Ethnicity: Theelin (some traces of Sith ancestry) Sexual Preference(s): Lesbian Nickname(s): Little Night, Darth Phobos II, Night Witch and Night Sith Alias(es): Darth Nyx, Fear Incarnate, Night Empress, Fear Empress and the new Hidden Fear Birthday: December 21, 1800 BBY Birth Place: Abandoned Sith Academy, Korriban Affiliation(s): The Galactic Empire and the Sith Order (reformed Order of the Sith Lords) Previous Affiliation(s): None Occupation(s): Galactic Empress, Sith Lady and Dark Lady of the Sith Previous Occupation(s): None Location: Jedi Temple/Imperial Palace, Coruscant Height: 5'10 Weight: 150 lbs. Appearance: Nyxeris is a pale, red Theelin woman with black stripes along her arms, thighs and chest, a few small curved horns on the sides of her head and thick reptile-like feet along with sharp, clawed hands and pointy ears. She has a strong yet rather attractive physique, shaggy dark blue hair and heterochromatic eyes with one amber-yellow and the other a dark red along with black sclera. Nyxeris is ambidextrous, but favors using her left hand. Her attire consists of Sith Apparel made from Sith Alchemy and Armor weave. She wears a skin tight, armored hooded top and black dress with purple outlines, a black belt with a red skull buckle used to hold her lightsabers, steel toed boots, bladed gauntlets and a skull-like mask. Also wears a Sith Amulet around her neck. Personality: Nyxeris Phobia is a charismatic and kindly woman, rather odd and usual for a Sith yet there is a hidden manipulativeness within that comes out when she wants something done her way or wants someone to be made an example of. Rarely giving into anger, Nyxeris is patient and tolerant, letting others speak and have their say before adding in her own input and getting her point across. While she is willing to be cooperative and listen to others, she will put them in their place if they get out of hand, showing a rather sadistic and dark humored side of her especially if she's in one of her moods. At times, Nyxeris can be quite the hedonist especially during one of her off days, being rather seductive and perverted when she's with one of her lovers. Background: The daughter of the Hidden Fear.... Darth Phobos. Nyxeris Phobia was brought to Coruscant secretly as a baby by her mother to enact a final revenge on the Jedi and fellow Sith for what they've done to her. There, long after her mother passed away and became one with the Force, Nyxeris would be kept hidden and safe in a Force Bubble despite a few instances of Jedi Masters such as Yoda detecting a powerful surge in the Dark Side yet would be unable to pinpoint its exact location. She would soon be found by Darth Vader during the aftermath of the Great Jedi Purge after the Force compelled him to locate the old Sith Shrine down below where she was kept in stasis along with the Sith Holocron of Darth Phobos. The Sith Lord would raise the Theelin child as a Sith Apprentice and keep her far away from his master. About 17 years later, a near adult Nyxeris Phobia alongside her master Darth Vade and fellow Sith Apprentice Galen Marek (Starkiller) confront Emperor Palpatine aboard his flagship near the constructed Death Star above Yavin. Nyxeris severed the old Sith's connection to the Force and he is soon struck down by three lightsabers along with being drained of his knowledge and power. Vader soon took control of the Galactic Empire for a few short years and smoothed things out such as restoring the Galactic Senate and putting the stop on non-human racism before passing away and handing off the reins to Nyxeris Phobia. As the new Galactic Empress, Nyxeris worked out to reform the Sith Order and abolished the Rule of Two, allowing new members to fill the ranks and fix up and reopen the Sith Academy on Korriban. As for the Jedi Temple, she had it reformed as the Gray Order and made Galen Marek its new Grandmaster. Though she said that new generations of Jedi were necessary to maintain balance, in truth she kept them around to keep an eye on her fellow Sith and make sure they wouldn't rebel against her. As Nyxeris worked towards a better and more stable Empire, she manipulated the Force to destroy much of Hutt Space and kill them off as a species mostly as a warning to others on why she shouldn't be crossed and to slow down the Slave Trade. Weapons/Equipment: Dual-phase-Crossguard Lightsaber mix (main Lightsaber, Kyber Crystal is crimson red) Inquisitor Lightsaber (ringed emitter is made of lightsaber resistant metal) Darth Phobos's Lightsaber Bane's Heart (lightsaber and crystal) Sniper Blaster Rifle Two RSKF-44 Heavy Blaster Pistols Cortosis Shield The Telos Holocron Darth Phobos's Sith Holocron Two Sith Swords (resemble katanas) Sith Amulet Powers/Abilities: Alien Physiology (Theelin) Enhanced Condition Enhanced Strength Enhanced Beauty Enhanced Charisma Enhanced Vision Keen Intellect Leadership Mechanic Longevity Regenerative Healing Factor Expert Lightsaber Duelist Lightsaber Combat/Forms Enhanced Swordsmanship Enhanced Gunmanship Fear Inducement Fear Empowerment Illusion Manipulation Hypnosis Hypnotic Voice Mind Control The Force Various Dark Side Powers Various Light Side Powers Sith Magic/Sorcery Sith Alchemy Teleportation Bloodlust Aura Killing Intent Darkness Aura Multilingualism Elemental Manipulation Weather Control/Manipulation