Not all the participants took part unwillingly.
People who had watched the Liandri Tournaments with savage glee found themselves on the arena floors fighting for their lives again and again, as the alien technology ripped them back from the brink of death until their minds finally collapsed under the strain.Įxamples were made of the more vocal dissidents, each broken and remade in the image of the darkest nightmares, to show the scorn the Emperor felt for the weaklings who opposed him. The Emperor and his counsel, at first repulsed by the idea of the tournaments, soon began to see the advantage of providing the populace with a form of entertainment that both enraptured the viewers and reminded them where disobedience would lead them.Īrena worlds were picked from the harshest of the prison planets, and the training began. But for those who would not kneel before their new rulers, death awaited them on the prison planets scattered across the sectors. Those who swore allegiance to the Emperor found that life wasn't so different under the new rule, and for some it even improved. The empire quickly established a foothold among the worlds of its latest acquirement, using propaganda and brute force where necessary. Humanity, a race that had taken pride in its freedom, suddenly found itself bound by the shackles of an ancient race vastly superior in numbers and technology. Seventy years ago an invasion fleet appeared in Human space, wiping out virtually all resistance before it could begin.
"Over a century has passed since Liandri Corporation first began the tournaments, and while the tradition lives on, much has changed in the world around it.
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