Empirical Galaxy

The Empirical Galaxy is the primary setting of the Dreadstar family of comic book titles. The Galaxy is divided between the forces of the Monarcy and the Instrumentality - two rival authoritative bodies who have been waging a war against one another for the past two-hundred years.

The War
The origins of the war are lost to history, but many believed that it started over a claim upon a small, unimportant planet called Nimbus. The forces of the Monarchy and the Instrumentality fought a bloody struggle against one another for more than two centuries. The legacy of power was handed down through the generations, until even the inheritors of the conflict could no longer recall why they were fighting. Two-hundred years after the war began, the Monarchy was dominated by King Gregzor, the last in a long line of dynastic kings from the royal Dylogo family. The Instrumentality meanwhile, was led by the vicious Lord High Papal. Under Papal, the Instrumentality maintained a strong advantage over the Monarchy through a doctrine of fear and terror. Those who failed to follow their instruction were threatened with eternal damnation. Over the span of centuries, the two galactic super-powers laid waste to hundreds of occupied worlds, killing millions in their unending feud.

Planets

 * Caldor

Notes & Trivia

 * The name Empirical Galaxy was derived by the Mystical Order of Vieltoor. It was possibly coined by the renegade mystic Syzygy Darkock.