The Darkness (Faction)

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The Darkness is a faction based off of the philosophy of the same name. Members consist of mostly radical seekers of Obitul, or the superiority of the darkness over the light.

History
While the philosophy of the Darkness has existed for millions of years, the radical seekers of the Darkness only formed a major unified group about 901,050 years ago.

Unification
The Darkness was once a predominant belief of Macrocosmos. It came before the creation of all things, from the multiverse itself, to the sun of a protoplanet. A certain species, called the Eictenebri, rejected the idea of the darkness. They only saw the light as an entity of power and that it should be accepted as a religion. The species as a whole unified in the "word of the light", and began a futile campaign to eradicate the darkness from the edge of their home galaxy.

Forum of the Venomed Leg
Eventually, after eight and a half centuries of a light-led government, an Eicteneb named Enbru Cuyan summoned a group of dark believers for counsel. Each member was of a different race that had been affected by the Eictenbri's light campaign. After several days of discussion and worship, Cuyan proposed a further idea of action against the Eicteneb Lightists. The idea was to rewrite the belief system of the Darkness to perceive total war against the Light. The council concurred in a unanimous decision to do so, and got to work right away in developing a new code of conduct of the Darkness.

"The Holy Revolution"
Ten years after the formation of the Dark Council, Enbru Cuyan lead an attack on the Eicteneb capital city of Tai'an Major. A fleet of nearly 10,000 battlecruisers and hundreds of thousands of assault craft participated in the space battles and bombing runs. Later a million fundamentalists raided the actual city itself, and battled the ground forces that were tasked with defending the city.

After roughly three hours of assault, ground forces unified and began performing the death swarm ritual. The death swarm ritual brought a 100 ft. tall dark energy wave that crumbled the city infractured, and created a huge acidic pit in the ground. Surviving Lightists became engulfed with dark essence and were corrupted to becoming feral, aggressive slaves of the darkness.

Ressurection
After nearly 450,000 years of disestablishment, a human female named Skia Caine created a council relating to the original Dark Council, and at the time unofficially reignited the Darkness's activity. It would take another three decades before the group officially declare war on all Light-influenced nations. During those three decades, the group became notorious for bombings, quick, bloody, and victorious conquests.

Hierarchy
One aspect that has remained unchanged for the past millennia is the hierarchy castes of the Darkness.