The Nexusterra Empire stands as the most expansive and feared contemporary power of this galactic era. Born from the ruins of a fractured Terran humanity, it was forged under the leadership of the Supreme Didact, who united it under a single banner. The absolute supremacy of mankind.
This empire encompasses thousands of colonies, where freedom does not exist. Every conquered world is transformed through relentless terraformation. The resources are exploited, its inhabitants are recruited, classified, and, if necessary, modified to become functional components of the vast imperial mechanism.
The Supreme Didact: The central and absolute figure of the empire. His word is law and his desire is the will of the people. A leader who has been turned into a state myth, sustained by totalitarian propaganda. Only the most powerful, wise, and worthy men of his people may aspire to become a Supreme Didact.
The Iron Council: Composed exclusively of the empire’s high-ranking military officials, this body functions as the Didact’s logistical, economic, and operational apparatus strategists, admirals, generals, and armament technopriests.
ALVAR [Augmented Legion for Vanguard Assault and Regulation]: The Supreme Didact’s personal guard. Have been enhanced with cybernetic implants and augmented organs. Are the extension of the supreme teacher's desires. Each one wields melee weapons capable of cleaving through steel doors.
Juggernauts: The backbone of Terran supremacy. Colossal warriors, human in origin, but unrecognizable due to their immense muscle mass and advanced armor. Their skeletons are reinforced with living steel. Trained to withstand collapsing atmospheres and punch through armor, they are Nexusterra’s final card when all else fails.
Alpha Juggernauts: The final evolution. Warriors so altered they can no longer be considered human. Their flesh has been replaced with steel, synthetic polymers, and neuromechanical networks. Only their skull remains as a relic of their humanity grafted with omnidirectional visors, combat software cores, and direct links to the Global Tactical Command. They feel no pain. They do not question. They are bipedal tanks with out souls.
The Nexoguards: Genetically modified soldiers indoctrinated since childhood, the Nexoguards are the cannon fodder of the empire's military machine, made up of civilians, criminals, ex-convicts and anyone else who can be sent to fight on behalf of their empire.
Core Citizens: The administrative and scientific elite, born within Nexusterra’s Core Worlds. They live in controlled conditions, with access to technology, yet under constant surveillance. Their value lies in production, technical innovation, or loyal service to the empire.
Frontier Plebeians: Inhabitants of outer colonies, used as cheap labor, slaves, or test subjects for technological enhancements. Most will never know any life other than to serve and die for Nexusterra in the lower levels of the mega structures where the sun never shines.
Very little is known about the Ferralux family. Some claim that its foundations come from ancient Afro-Russian Terrans that emerged during Day A. Currently, the Ferralux family is nothing more than a scattered group of warlords in the slums of the great war machine. Some still bear the surname, but very few have any real connection to the Ferralux family. However, some are known to be “special” cases with certain gifts that make them different from average humans.
MILITARY COMMAND OF NEXUSTERRA
NEXUSTERRA EMPIRE
NEXUSTERRA ALVAR
Imperial Terran Dactary, or simply Dactary, is the official currency of the Nexusterra Empire. Each Dactario is equivalent to a standard unit of Planetary Material Production (PMP), a metric that encompasses military, industrial, and technological manufacturing generated by Core Worlds and priority colonies. Its use is restricted by citizen strata. A Frontier Commoner may earn Dactarys, but only a Core Citizen is permitted to accumulate or inherit them.
Possessing large amounts of Dactary without authorization from the Iron Council may be considered an illicit accumulation of economic power and is punishable by financial purge or reeducation.
The Cult of the Ascended is a heretical and extremist religious order operating in the shadowed fringes of the Nexusterra Empire. Despite not being officially sanctioned, their influence festers like a hidden cancer within the empire’s outer systems, especially among the exiled, the broken and the abandoned.
The Ascended, not to be confused with the Supreme Didact, is revered by cultists as a divine messiah made flesh. To them, he is a prophesied being of pure human supremacy, an apocalyptic redeemer who will cleanse the galaxy of blue plague. The Cult sees his eventual return not as a matter of belief, but as a universal inevitability. Considered being a manifestation of human perfection: uncorrupted, unconquerable, and destined to reign.
Their doctrine teaches that all Aliens species are perversions of existence, but none more hated than the Gelodians, whom the Cult considers parasitic invaders, defilers of humanity’s sacred lineage. According to them, Gelodians drain planetary lifeblood to fuel their sick reproductive cycles and spread their "plague" across the stars.
Though banned from Terra Prime and hunted by Nexoguard patrols, the Cult has taken deep root in the galactic margins, particularly in the bloodied edges of the Nifelheim System. There, they have formed violent enclaves, complete with sanctified warbands and black altars.
Their most blasphemous act was the development of the Mark of Darkness, something so unthinkable that even the Empire and the Gelodians consider it beyond comprehension. This cursed rune or blessing is said to be forged through the death of magical beings. Through this arcane heresy, they have learned to absorb life force and wield dark sorcery that would otherwise be impossible for humans. These practices gave rise to an underground school of forbidden arts that, on rare occasions, has even taken root within the Empire itself, among its most corrupt members.
Today, the Cult of the Ascended is made up of fugitives, fanatics, mutated priests, failed experiments, and exiles from the core hierarchy of Nexusterra. Though marginalized, they are growing. And some whisper that the Ascended already walks among them…
