Chronoria #2

Starcycle Empire #2

🌎 Introducing Chronoria:

When the multiverse began to unravel the barriers dividing 24 separate universes cracks formed, allowing the creators of each universe to become aware of one another.

These 24 creator gods, now known as the Originators, combined their might to merge their universes into Chronoria, a single world where time and space range from the ancient past, contemporary world, far future, fantasy, reality, and all things in between while coexisting.

With the Originators seemingly dead, Chronoria is now home to 24 super nations. Each nation in the rebooted universe represents prominent characteristics of the now lost independent creation of each Originator.

🏰 Introducing the Starcycle Empire:

The Starcycle Empire represents the lost universe created by the Originator Estrella. Fantasy medieval setting.

Eternal devotion makes up the starians' core values, believing a vow is something to be kept just as firmly as the day it was made. To them, there is only one day, endlessly looping as they seek to uphold their vows for a 365-cycle "glory".

They are a ruthless military state comprised mostly of humans. Between the ages of 18-22, all starians are required to serve 4 years in the military.

Their morality is complicated. On one hand, they believe in honor, loyalty, and reward such. Everyone is encouraged to seek power and use it to protect those who do not have it. Despite being an Empire, it is also a democracy where anyone can climb to the top through devotion and effort.

On the other hand... Most non-human starians are biologically stronger than human starians. And with strength comes obligation. Those who have power beyond humans are forced into indefinite military service. Though they do not get to move on after the 4 years, non-human starians are still fairly rewarded within their legal system the same as humans who voluntarily continue military service.

Law works on the "Merit Value system", in which each value represents a vote the person holds. At 22 you are allowed to vote with a Merit Value of 1. Assuming you can make it to 22, a stable future is guaranteed at the very least due to the benefits given.

⚔️ Introducing The Grand War for Chronoria:

Each nation's physical, magical, spacial, and temporal function are unique from one another. This results in Chronoria being an unstable mess prone to collapsing under its own contradictions and destroying all reality once more. To prevent the collapse of Chronoria, the Starcycle Empire is committed to conquering all of Chronoria all 23 other universes with the functions of Originator Estrella's universe. The Starcycle Empire are seen are villains to the rest of Chronoria. They accept no compromises or joint solution to the potential collapse of Chronoria—only forced assimilation.

👤Introducing Mayari Astra:

The Eternal Empress of the Starcycle Empire, Mayari is one of the main antagonists of the Chronoria series as the one assimilating conquered territory into Originator Estrella's law.

From dawn to dusk, Mayari is eternal. Though her exact identity is unclear, she ruled the Starcycle Empire from the very start as one of the very few survivors from the old multiverse.

In some way or another, she is related to the seemingly dead Originator Estrella. A sister? A daughter? A disciple? Who's to say.

AN:

This isn't really the character I was intending to make today. I planned to explore the non-human side of the Starcycle Empire... and technically still did. While I was planning out a few of the other characters for this nation I decided to make Mayari earlier than intended.

The reason is because I wanted to establish two things early in the series;

If there is a democracy system, what makes the Starcycle Empire an empire?

What are higher beings like in Chronoria?

Also, I really enjoyed coming up with an idea for her design. I knew pretty quickly I wanted her to resemble a priestess, coloring her from top to bottom in a way that alludes to the whole day cycling gimmick of this nation.