Morigena Star System

Morigena Star System

Major Holdings – General Information

History

Ah… Morigena, proud, treacherous, and ever a prize worth the spilling of a thousand banners’ worth of blood.

I have walked its halls when they flew the gold and black of Gewiss, and again when the raven standards hung heavy in its windless vaults. It is a place that does not forget its conquerors, nor forgive them.

The system’s first great fall came in 27,354 AA, when King Guthred the Conqueror drove the Gewiss fleets deep into the Drala Star Cluster. At the Battle of Dyrha, Guthred and Prince Aldhelm the Steadfast shattered a league of kings, Scir, Iniswitrin, Bodunn, and Morigena among them. Three monarchs were slain outright, but Morigena’s ruler fled the field rather than share their fate. The system fell swiftly thereafter, another jewel pried from the crown of the old order. With that strike, the Dungar Star Sector was cut from the lifelines of the Feyan Gate Network, its trade strangled, its fate tied to Gewiss hands.

Only two years later, the fates twisted again. King Cwenhild the Warlord of the Old Ways met the Gewiss in the Battle of Coraun with King Wulfgar the Great of Umber by her side. The fighting bled both sides dry, but Cwenhild emerged with a prize worthy of the blood spent, Morigena itself, granted to her by pact with the Grey Wyvern and the Warrior Kings of Gewiss. Thus the system passed from Gewiss rule into the grasp of Angul.

Centuries rolled by, and Morigena kept its value, a staging ground, a fortress, and a thorn in the side of any who would claim the Dungar borderlands. But in 30,156 AA, the Great Savage Crusade brought fire to its gates once more. Warlord Oughtred the Old and his war fleets swept past Gewiss watchposts and sacked the very heart of Gewiss, the Belgar star system, throwing King Osgar the Great into desperate flight. Betrayals bloomed like weeds, some lords bending the knee to the Skanes, others holding fast to Osgar’s cause.

In that turmoil, Morigena’s loyalty split. System-lord Alkmund Wahner Seaborn of Morigena chose the path of treachery, casting his lot with King Ragnar the Raven Blade and the Skane fleets. It was a choice that sealed his fate. At the Battle of Itcis, Ragnar’s fleet, 1,800 strong, closed its claws around the loyalists of Gewiss. The fighting burned across the void for days. Ragnar fell, struck down when System-lord Viggo Medgar Dreadborn drove his flagship into the Raven Blade’s own, and Alkmund Wahner Seaborn perished beside his new master. With the slaughter of 1,200 Skane ships, Morigena once again found itself under Gewiss shadow.

That shadow, however, did not long shield it. By 30,395 AA, the banners of the raven returned under King Harwyn Forkbeard. He came not to claim, but to raid, his fleets striking Bodunn, Scir, and Morigena alike. These were not wars of conquest but of plunder, swift, cruel blows to remind the old kingdoms that the Skanes had not been broken.

And always there was Bandon, that drifting necropolis of steel within the Morigena star system. Once the wreckage of a long-forgotten battle, it became a nest for pirates and raiders, a warren of gutted starships chained together into a lawless city of five million souls. In time, the lord of Morigena took it as his own, bringing a measure of order to the chaos, but Bandon’s heart remained wild. Even now, its corridors echo with the ghosts of a hundred fleets, some of them mine.

Morigena’s tale, you see, is not merely of banners won and lost, but of the fickle tides of loyalty and betrayal, and the long memory of a system that has worn the crowns of many masters, but never truly bowed to any.