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✦ The Arrival of The Dominion

Year 0 A.E. – The First Conquest

Thar-Korr was once a sovereign, untamed world—its skies veiled in aurora storms, its mountains humming with raw elemental force, and its underground rivers glowing with bio-luminal crystal veins. The Zherathari, ancient stewards of harmonic knowledge, lived in balance with the land, shaping song-temples and communion groves tuned to the planet’s pulse.

But that pulse was heard across the stars.

Then came The Dominion—an intergalactic power driven by conquest, extraction, and psychic suppression. They did not descend with war cries, but with harvest fleets, terraforming drills, and psychic dampening fields that silenced the very songs of the land.

Their vision was simple:

Strip the world.Break the stewards. Fuel the empire.

The First Dominion War lasted less than a decade.The Zherathari were outmatched in force and overwhelmed by tech-powered illusions.Many fled into the Wastes, others were taken, bound by neural chains, and forced into servitude.

✦ The Industrial Binding

The Labor Pits were born.

Cities were replaced by pit-complexes.Temples collapsed into refineries.And the sky—once filled with singing light—turned sulfuric, red, and silent.

The Dominion harvested the crystal ley-veins of Thar-Korr, refining them into a potent interstellar fuel: Vaelithium. This became the foundation of their Technospire Network, linking conquered planets across warped space-time.

The Dominion installed Command Overseers, cybernetic governors who ruled through thought-control infrastructure, turning emotions into currency and obedience into law.

✦ The Erosion from Within

Year ~350 A.E. — Cracks in the Empire

But something began to stir within Thar-Korr’s crystalline core.

The Dominion’s conquest had unearthed more than fuel—it had awakened an ancient psychic frequency: the latent memory of the Zherathari’s biospiritual grid. As extraction deepened, so too did the resonance backlash—subtle distortions in thought, dream, and desire.

The Dominion’s neural net began to malfunction.Its leaders, once cold and calculative, became consumed by impulses, fears, and obsessive hunger.This was the first emergence of The Wanting—not a weapon, but a consequence.

A psychic virus.A sentient hunger born of imbalance.

It infected minds. It restructured desires. It turned leaders into tyrants and workers into husks.

✦ The Rise of the Tyranny

~400 A.E. — The Matriarch Ascends

As Dominion control fractured, power collapsed into chaos. A vacuum formed—one filled by an enigmatic figure known only as The Tyrannical Matriarch. Whispers say she once served The Dominion’s elite, perhaps as a neural empath or pleasure architect—until she allowed The Wanting to fully possess her and survive the madness.

She did not destroy the Dominion.She absorbed it—becoming the new frequency carrier of control.

Under her reign:

• The Enforcers were formed: a caste of warriors still wired with Dominion tech, now loyal to her illusion of divine order.

• The Crimson Fire Sect emerged, built on restructured Dominion rituals warped into cultic devotion.

• The Labor Pits evolved into psychic reconditioning centers, not just for work—but for desire realignment.

✦ What Now Remains

Present Day – 1075 A.E.

The Dominion is no longer a name on banners. It is a frequency embedded in the bones of Thar-Korr—a lingering pattern of control, embedded in technology, memory, and neural scripts still active in key systems.

• Their machines still churn beneath the surface, maintained by corrupted AIs.

• Their symbols still appear in nightmares, encoded in subconscious programming.

• And their original psychic architects—now malformed and ghostlike—are trapped between dimensions, lingering as Echo Lords in the Wastes.

The Aquarian Rebellion knows that to free Thar-Korr, they must not only break the Matriarch’s illusion…They must reprogram the Dominion’s lingering imprint.