Bataritus Star System

Bataritus Star System

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History

Ah… the tale of Bataritus, Kerweg, and the Magon folk, it is one of those tangled skeins in the tapestry of the Drucos Nebula, a thread woven with both ambition and indignity, and one I have long enjoyed tugging at in my studies.

The Magon, a proud tribe of the Furse, claimed the Bataritus and Kerweg Star Systems as the beating heart of their Star Kingdom in the year 27,355 AA, under their Kings of House Magon Ghostborn. From these twin worlds, they reached out like the roots of an old oak, drawing in lesser holdings across the Dodunn Star Sector. Their rule was stubborn and steeped in their own customs, at once insular and fiercely defiant of greater powers.

The Star Kingdom of Magon was one of two star kingdoms that rose in the Dodunn star sector by the Glessum Furse. Or that is, two that rose to power. There was the Magons, and the Star Kingdom of Hywych of House Jordayne Smokeborn. Both contested the Dodunn star sector, waging war with one another often.

I have walked the vaults beneath old Bataritus. In some, the walls still bear the seal of Tribe Magon, untouched since their first kings held court there. Others lie looted and defaced, whether by their Angul conquerors or by their own kin fleeing in haste, I will not say. Some speak of treasures spirited away in those final days, the hoard of Wicgamor they call it, said to be buried so deep that even the star’s heart would have trouble burning it out. But such tales… well, one learns to take them with a draught of salted ale.

In 27,457 AA came the clash that broke Magon’s sovereignty, the Battle of Bataritus. Cwenhild the Warlord of the Old Ways, King of Angul, bore down upon them with her war fleets and shattered their fleets. The Star Kingdom of Magon bent the knee, though the Magon kings were left to keep their title, for a time. Angul’s banners soon flew over Bataritus, and the Magon stars began their long, slow slide into vassalage.

The years that followed saw the Feyan Faith stake its claim as well. In 27,545 AA, the Great Holy Feyan Council of Bataritus was convened by Sector Pontiff Sibylla Magia Nexusborn. Pontiffs and princes gathered from every corner of the Drucos Nebula to argue over marriage bonds and the reach of holy authority. I was but a youth in appearance then, though well past my first millennium, and I can still recall the murmurs in the temple square, the mix of awe and suspicion the common folk had for so many lords of the Faith under one roof. A year later, vast tracts of Bataritus land were granted to the Faith, and a Great Temple was raised, its spire meant to pierce the very vault of the heavens.

Yet the Magon kings were not done with the shifting tides of war. They submitted fully to Uhtred the Great in the later years of the 27th millennium, paying tribute and even fighting alongside him, though in 27,611 AA, at another Battle of Bataritus, they and their Angul allies were driven back by the combined arms of the Teyrnllwg and Honthy Combrogi. Such reversals were common in that age. Power shifted like sand under the tide.

The centuries ground on, and with them came the Skane. From 30,228 AA onward, Bataritus endured their raids, reaver fleets burning trade-ports and besieging the world itself. It was High King Wulfrun the Elder who, in 30,242 AA, broke the Skane fleet in a great battle and began to rebuild the scarred world. Her successor, Osmund the Glorious, founded the royal Mint and Hoard there in 30,252 AA, giving Bataritus a renewed role as a treasury world of Drala.

But make no mistake, beneath all the coin and ceremony, the spirit of the Magon people still lingers. Even now, their lesser lords hold small fiefs, and their blood runs in the veins of many a captain and merchant in the Dodunn Sector. The proud oak may have been cut down, but its roots still twist unseen beneath the soil, waiting for their chance to drink deep once more.