Dark Legion

The History Of The Legion
The history of the civilization that will later become known as the "Dark Legion" begins on an Earth-like planet called "Unity". But Earth-like, it can only be considered conditionally, because unstable tectonics and a weak magnetic field made it a rather harsh place for various organisms to live, but some species were able to adapt to local conditions and begin to conquer the planet

It is also interesting that, as studies conducted in the legion have shown, there is a considerable chance that this is not their home planet, or they were created artificially, the difference between the living species of the planet and them is too noticeable, and there are no common ancestors with other species of living organisms, which may really be the result of their the ancestor of their particular species appeared a long time ago. As a result, it was not possible to come to a consensus, both camps of scientists also could not come to a single conclusion.

The civilization was actively developing and growing, despite some features of the species, which to some extent slowed down progress. Although there were some useful properties, for example, the constant competition between the two largest clans of researchers, whose preferences in research areas proceeded directly from the characteristics of their subspecies of the general species Unitiarnians, that were not a political force and were settled all over the planet, but actively participated in the life of society. But at some point, during another war, some members of this society went beyond reason, using biological weapons based on prions and nuclear weapons, they destroyed a significant part of civilization and planet. However, the survivors soon developed resistance to this, the evolution of Unitiarnians was extremely fast compared to other species inhabiting the planet. Finally, hard times gave birth to a strong people and strong leaders who led this people to the stars. The greatest of such leaders is the "Emperor", which united the entire planet into a single state. His name never became known to the public.

In the future, the dark Legion went into space, and began to conquer it as it once conquered its not very hospitable planet. Decades have been spent on creating the foundation for a future transplanetary state, which in the future became an interstellar empire covering a significant part of the galaxy. Over its 17,3 thousand years of existence, the Dark Legion has become a super-technological state that has explored essentially the entire galaxy, leaving many of its bases scattered throughout the galaxy that are now artifacts of antiquity, and even sent several expeditions to other galaxies. Having met many intelligent civilizations, some of which were just beginning to go beyond their planet, and some were already an interplanetary space civilization. In any case, they received nothing but isolated observation and complete neutrality and ignoring of these civilizations. Except especially violent ones. Those who dared to stand in the way of the Dark Legion's war machine quickly realized how bad an idea it was when the stars of their home worlds turned into supernova in forced mode. An interesting fact is that despite the average life expectancy of Unitiarnians in 550-600 Earth years, the "Emperor" stayed in a place with his country, although he retired from public affairs after exactly 300 earth years, until the destruction of the Dark Legion's homeworld during its last war, which caused the fall of the legion.

The collapse of the legion itself began after the legion's meeting with The Void Titan, which led to the beginning of a series of events. Despite the fact that after a couple of months of the first clashes with the titan of the void and his henchmen, the legion fleet was able to fight, destroying a significant part of the attackers, and seriously wounding the titan himself with one of the planet-killing gravity cannons, mass unrest began in the legion, compounded by the fact that the legion's territories covered a significant part of the galaxy, which did not give to convey information between star systems. The unrest was aggravated by the fact that on a number of planets, where it was more common than on many others, there was a deliberate failure of automated and robotic systems to work normally. In the future, there was an escalation of internal conflicts in the legion. Noticing the weakening of the legion, the raiders and pirates increased their raids, which further aggravated the situation. Nowhere in the legion did the population have a sense of stability and security. As a result, as a result of these events, a coup d'etat took place by a part of the legion's army and navy, which later turned into a full-fledged civil war, which served as the last nail in the coffin of the Dark Legion.

After the fall of the legion, many small states remained in its ashes, many of which soon died or were captured. The largest surviving piece of the legion is Space Socialist Union, who escaped from the dying legion and became space nomads, who were able to preserve a small part of the technology, history and culture of their people.

Also an interesting fact is that among other newly formed states after the fall, there are rumors that the "Emperor" survived, and in the future will unite all their people again. However, it's just a rumor, right?