Fiction:Djuro

King Djuro Zu (born 10 June 1970 - 4 July 2010) was a Gaal, general, Lord and King of the Gaal Empire from the late 1980s until his death in mid-2010. Descended from one of the Gaal Empire's most infamous sovereigns, in his youth he led several successful campaigns throughout the immediate stellar region known as the Conquests, increasing the Gaal Empire's power exponentially. His status and reverence as a war hero amongst his people led to his popularity eclipse that of the current king which forced the monarch to abdicate in his favour.

Only several months after being coronated Djuro was contacted by the Grox Empire and was offered an alliance as part of a plan to manipulate the young king into a powerful pawn of the Grox Leader for the coming war with the Anti-Grox Crusade. Tempted by promises of power for his people and empire, Djuro accepted the alliance and alongside his second-in-command and close friend Overlord Cataan Ga led a vicious campaign of assassinations to surpress opposition in the Lord's Citadel. He was given a son by one of his mistresses on the night of the alliance; his obsession with power resulted him in missing Prince Gjaro's hatching.

In 2008 Djuro moved his forces to Galactic Core and crushed any gains the Crusader forces had made in an effort to warm his cold relationship with the Grox. As part of the plan, Anti-Grox Crusade forces regrouped at their headquarters and Djuro, alongside his military hierachy, had planned to wipe the enemy fleets away in one quick battle, gaining the favour of the Grox leadership and paving a way for the Gaal Empire's ascension as a galactic power. This military strategy was extremely flawed and left a wide gap open to the Gaal homeworld which was exploited by Doch pirates and Anti-Grox Crusaders who destroyed the Gaal Empire's capital whilst the rest of the galaxy was engaged in action at the A.G.C headquarters.

Djuro's poor relationship with his son, Gjaro, led the young prince to take part in the boarding of the Anti-Grox Crusade headquarters space station in part of the battle as an attempt to please his father; an act that led to his death in a firefight between crusader forces. This, coupled with the loss of the home of the Gaal Empire, is commonly assumed to have led to Djuro's spiral into psychosis and irrationality. Djuro boarded the Anti-Grox Crusade headquarters in an attempt to both find his son's body and confront both responsible for the two losses he had received; Pirate-King Majoris and the Omnipotent Chod, head of the A.G.C.

Djuro was defeated in the confrontation and near-fatally wounded, but managed to escape in an abandoned fighter before the space station was destroyed and was picked up by the Grox flagship Groxanar, where he was saved by a team of Vowar and Grox doctors. On the orders of the Grox Leader, Djuro was genetically enhanced and was reinforced as a cyborg. His vengeful and psychologically-damaged emotions were only furthered by his inability to control his emotions; perhaps as a result of the cybernetic implants, which resulted in many destructive incidents. Recalled to the Grox Homeworld with other allies for an audience with its leader, Djuro met and fell in love with Skawk Empress Fiction:Tesla. The meeting concluded and was given orders by the mysterious Grox Leader to carry out as his new tool; the first being to exact revenge on the Doch for the destruction of the Gaal Homeworld by punishing them in kind. Nearly all of the orders were personal in nature in order to transform Djuro into the 'Anti-Omni' of the Grox Empire.

Djuro's new consort Tesla hatched a Skawk-Gaal crossbreed known as the first Skawgal, who later became Zu. Fuelled by ambition and dreams of power, Djuro assassinated the Grox Leader's seemingly mortal form and usurped the throne of the Grox Empire. This action led to the dropping of walls in the Grox Empire that allowed the Anti-Grox Crusade to push towards Galactic Core over the space of a year. In 2009 the Anti-Grox Crusade and the Grox Empire met in the skies of the Grox Homeworld, where the flagship Groxanar was boarded by Djuro's nemesis the Omnipotent Chod and was slain in single-combat which signalled the defeat of the Grox Empire.

However, in 2010 with the newly-formed Galactic Crusader Union rising in place of the Grox Empire's power vacuum, the historical galactic religious war that took place millennia ago were being discovered from Grox archives which led to the discovery of divine artefacts of Spode. With the Milky Way facing threat of being invaded by a cybernetic empire known as the Ancient Fire (Latin: Paleos Ignis) and old Grox allies from the Andromeda Galaxy the G.C.U were forced to resurrect Djuro knowing that only he had the military prowess and presence needed to defeat the Paleos Ignis on their home turf. Using the sacred Artefacts of Spode, Djuro and several other deceased heroes were resurrected. D