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The Holy Ryuvian Empire was the dominant Superpower of the Galaxy since immemorial ages until the establishment of the new Calendar (Year 0). After that it also survived as an independent country until it was finally absorved by PACT circa 503. Not much is known about the ancient times of the Holy Ryuvian Empire, only that it's power reached everywhere known by man and surpassed even today's imagination. After a great disaster that marked the beggining of the new Calendar, the Empire collapsed and retained only a tiny part of it's former territory, comprising the zone between Ryuvia Prime and Far Port. For the sake of clarity, the Ancient Empire will be called Holy Ryuvian Empire, and it's successor only Ryuvia. Take into account, however, that despite the great differences of power and territory both are the same formal entity, and ruled by the same dynasty.


The Holy Ryuvian Empire

It is not known when the Holy Ryuvian Empire was formally created, but the accepted theory is that the Holy Ryuvian Empire was the first power to use the Warp technology to jump instantaneously between 2 places, thus achieving FTL travel. The Ryuvian Empire then used that capability to expand across all the galaxy, using the resources gained from colonies to topple any kind of resistance. It was probably an Absolute Monarchy, in which the head of State and effective ruler was the Emperor, but it still is uncomfirmed. At it's apex, the Holy Ryuvian Empire occupied all the galaxy (and maybe even more) and had a technology the level of which is completely incomprensible today. It's power however was the cause of it's downfall. Even with Relics such as the Talbur, the Holy Ryuvian Empire had countless wars for the succession of the title of Emperor. While it is known of Wars of apocalyptic level 2000 years before the new Calendar, it was a set of particularly catastrofic wars, called the Ryuvian Wars, which finally caused the collapse of the Empire

Whenever pieces of the Ryuvian Legacy are found, they are called Lost Techonology, and mark an increible advance of the current level of techonology whenever they can be properly analyzed. Even in cases that the techonology cannot be properly replicated, they can serve as incredibly powerful weapons and tools.

Present Ryuvia

Despite bearing the same name, after year 0 the Holy Ryuvian Empire was barely a tiny piece of a shell of it's former self. Having lost the secrets of it's famed techonology, Ryuvia was basically a minor power without any possibility of expanding. While it is not known how much of their army or techonology actually remained, it was still not enough to fight against the New Empire and even less to try to recover some of it's former territories (even when they remained independent and not affiliated with any kind of power). It participated in the The Alliance-Imperial War as an ally of the the Solar Alliance. Despite initial hevy losses against the Empire, the Imperial defeat at the battle of Solaris marked a resurgence of Ryuvia, and in succesive counterattacks succesfully recovered some of it's territory. The Alliance however, stabbed the back of it's ally when it refused to return Far Port after having freed it from the Empire. Far Port was a very populous and economically powerful planet in the ancient Holy Ryuvian Empire. Now, while desolate and mostly unpopulated, it was a very important strategic location and symbol for Ryuvia. It's loss marked the final decay of Ryuvia. Without not even managing to recover all of it's pre-war but After 0 territory from the Empire, and losing some to the Alliance, the final nail in the coffin was the treaty of Vespa, which ended the war, but at the cost of making a buffer zone of neutral territories between the Alliance and the New Empire, the Neutral Rim. Having most of it's leftover possessions in this zone, Ryuvia was finally reduced to only Ryuvia Prime and it's surroundings, and with a level of military and economic power not superior to that of neutral worlds like Cera.


Spoiler Warning!


After PACT completed the conquest of the Neutral Rim, it succesfully eliminated what was left of Ryuvia (after betraying a diplomatic treaty that would have absorved Ryuvia in PACT but letting it survive as a formal and autonomous entity) by the year 503. It's last king was Jaylor XII, and the current heir is Asaga di Ryuvia.

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