Triumvirate of Garl
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The following paragraphs contain spoilers for: | Rogal Dorn: The Emperor's Crusader (Novel) |
The Triumvirate of Garl was a Human empire located within the Occluda Noctis that managed to survive the Age of Strife. During the Great Crusade, the empire was brought into Compliance by the Imperial Fists, as part of the Night Crusade.[1a]
History
In the distant past, the Triumvirate's worlds were once part of a larger empire known as the Greater Republic. The Republic eventually fell and gave rise to the Second Republic, which also failed. Afterwards several of the Second Republic's worlds would form the Triumvirate of Garl, clustered around their Capital Primeworld for mutual protection. Primeworld also housed a Greater Republic beacon, a device which allowed the Triumvirate to maintain contact with other Human worlds within the Occluda Noctis that had once belonged to the Greater Republic. However, as generations passed, these beacons fell silent one after another and the Triumvirate lost contact with the worlds the beacons resided on.[1a] It was also during this time that they became enemies with another Human empire known as the Damareen Consensus, until contact was lost with their foes as well.[1c]
Eventually the Triumvirate thought they were the only Humans that remained in the Galaxy and they focussed on trying to preserve their empire. They came close to disaster countless time, though, as Primeworld was struck by Cults that were thought to have been destroyed. While these Cults were defeated once again, they came close to turning the Capital into a mass pyre. Other disasters would also strike the empire as a whole, as it withstood a civil war, outbreaks of diseases and the failure of their technology. However, the unity of the Triumvirate gave the empire's population the strength to carry on.[1a]
Great Crusade
Later, the Great Crusade reached the Occluda Noctis. Though the Triumvirate were unaware of this, their worlds began receiving interstellar transmissions that spoke of a new Human empire called the Imperium, that was united under a Terran Emperor. The messages also called for Human worlds to continue to stand strong against the nightmares of Old Night, as the Imperium was coming to aid them and unite them with its worlds. This filled the Triumvirate's population with hope, as they now had proof other pockets of Humanity still existed. They eagerly waited for the Imperium to make contact with them, but none was ever made and their hope dwindled. While Primeworld's beacon detected nearby space ships 16 years later, it would not be until nearly 2 years after that before a warship finally made contact with the empire. At first the Triumvirate were unaware of who the warship belonged to and prepared for. However, when it began broadcasting messages similar to those they had heard before, the Triumvirate knew the Imperium had finally reached them. This warship was part of the Imperial Night Crusade, which sought to claim the worlds of the Occluda Noctis, and after contact was made, the Imperial Fists arrived at Primeworld. Shortly afterwards, a team of officials from the Capital World were dispatched to the Phalanx, where they eagerly signed the paperwork that sealed the Triumvirate's Compliance with the Imperium.[1a] Ironically, the Damareen Consensus had been forcibly brought into Compliance by the Imperial Fists earlier before and these two ancient foes now stood united under the Imperium's rule.[1c]
The Triumvirate's Compliance proved to be a boon for the Imperial Fists, as they gained access to the former empire's stellar charts. These were gained when the Triumvirate was still part of the Greater Republic and, while the information was at least a thousand years out of date, the maps stretched nearly two hundred light years towards the Occluda Noctis' core systems. At least a score of these once belonged to the Greater Republic and the Imperial Fists made these systems a priority to visit next.[1b]
