Eternal Father
Behold for it is I, your most glorious Dark Lord of the Sith, delivering unto you the first of our many story-driven faction threads. The idea for our very first one came to me while I was laying back, reading some good ole John Milton (specifically Paradise Lost) when I came across these passages:With his industrious crew to build in hell.
Mean while the winged heralds by command
Of sovran power, with awful ceremony
And trumpets sound throughout the host proclaim
A solemn council forthwith to be held
At Pandemonium, the high capital
Of Satan and his peers: their summons called
From every band and squared regiment
By place or choice the worthiest; they anon
With hundreds and with thousands trooping came
Attended: all access was thronged, the gates
And porches wide, but chief the spacious hall
(Though like a covered field, where champions bold
Wont ride in armed, and at the Soldan’s chair
Defied the best of Paynim chivalry
To mortal combat or career with Lance)
Thick swarmed, both on the ground and in the air,
Brushed with the hiss of rustling wings. As bees
In spring time, when the sun with Taurus rides,
Pour forth their populous youth about the hive
In clusters; they among fresh dews and flowers
Fly to and fro, or on the smoothed plank,
The suburb of their straw-built citadel,
New rubbed with baum, expatiate and confer
Their state affairs. So thick the aerie crowd
Swarmed and were straitened; till the signal given.
Behold a wonder! they but now who seemed
In bigness to surpass Earth’s giant sons
Now less then smallest dwarfs, in narrow room
Throng numberless, like that Pigmean race
Beyond the Indian mount, or fairy elves,
Whose midnight revels, by a forest side
Or fountain some belated peasant sees,
Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon
Sits arbitress, and nearer to the Earth
Wheels her pale course, they on their mirth and dance
Intent, with jocund music charm his ear;
At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Thus incorporeal spirits to smallest forms
Reduced their shapes immense, and were at large,
Though without number still amidst the hall
Of that infernal court. But far within
And in their own dimensions like themselves
The great seraphic lords and cherubim
In close recess and secret conclave sat,
A thousand demigods on golden seats,
Frequent and full. After short silence then
And summons read, the great consult began.
tl;dr - After Lucifer was cast down out of Heaven with his rebellious army they built themselves a mighty capital called Pandæmonium at the behest of Mammon and constructed by the demon Mulciber who was famous for building the structures in Heaven before their banishment. It was known to be far larger than any construct man had ever built during Milton's lifetime.
And that got me thinking. Why don't we create our own hellish capital? But let's not just resign ourselves to a palace built upon earthly soil, let us ascend to the stars and construct a monstrous citadel to hold our nefarious conclave.
Thus I present to the Ferd'ah Hiozim, which in Epicant translates to the Fist of Heaven. It would be a massive asteroid base hidden deep within the Pacanth Reach (the star cluster Panatha is part of) and would serve as our unofficial base of operations while Panatha fronted as the official one. Naturally such a massive construct would require development, so why don't we assemble ourselves in the still under construction base and use that as development?
I wanna hear what you guys think about the idea, and expect an IC thread later in the day.
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