Fiction:Tarmealox Hierarchy



"Born in Blood, Raised in battle,and glory in death!"

- A grox Follower Warrior to his Battle-Brothers.

"We are at the steps of a Golden-age, my friends! Soon, we will not hdie from the DCP, but they from us! Our God shall be freed, and we will make the Grox Empire advanced, fearsome, and Respectable. The old age is gone! The universe, and the Grox are changing, and so shall we!"

- Supremius upon his "birth".

The Grox Follower Hierarchy is a massive empire of beings lead by the famed  and turned into wicked servants of the Grox and a mad scientist,. Once a proud, young race, raised by the s to take up a similar mantle, the Tarmeal where experimented on and twisted by Dormuncka, and became the soulless, twisted abominations they are now. Horrified by what they experienced, driven to insanity by their genetic memories, and fearless, the Grox Followers rule a decadent society, yet it is one they never want to lose. Everyday, thousands of their warriors die, and millions more are produced to fight for their Supreme Prophet, a God-emperor to them. It is this fanatism to him, and their own indoctrinated minds, that make them immune to any mind control or indoctrination.

While their society has fallen on tough times, they refuse to give out, and will fight for their supposed "Gods" and their "God-Emperor" until the last of their worlds are dust.

Evolution
The Tarmealox where born on a watery world of Odinoax. Found by the Crusaders, they intended to take the then Tarmeal under their wing and raise them as their "Descendants" and uplift them into warriors to help protect the galaxy. However, the Ugandalorian tasked with overseeing the uplifting, was killed by the fugitive, who took over and used mass experimentation to turn the Tarmeal into his servants, with the help of an Alpha Grox Overseer, the 2 agreeing to make the Tarmealox the Grox's new servants.

Edition
With the experimentation, the Tarmealox where developed to survive in any environment, to have greatly enhanced strength, increased intelligence, and the ability to pass down genetic memories as well as regenerate at incredible rates. They where cloned in mass, and Dormuncka soon had a personal army to fight his war against his own people.

With their new technology and numbers, and decreased insanity due to what their race had been through, the Followers spread out without thinking, conquering worlds and expanding without thought to what was right.

Grox Follower War
However, the Ugandalorians where made aware of their former protectorate's new presence in galactic affairs, and made attempts to stop them. However, the envoy they sent was executed, and the Ugandalorians readied themselves for war. The 2 sides clashed in a long, drawn out conflict that consumed many worlds. The Grox Followers, while numerous and dedicated, lacked marshal experience or organization, and where slaughtered.

Finally, dethroned Dormuncka, killed his supporters and entered seclusion, ending the war.

For the next years, the Grox Followers would avoid contact, only accepting alliance with their masters, before remaining in isolation for years to come.

The Grox Followers would enter the Gigaquadrantic Conflicts, this time lead by War Generals and not Prophets. The Prophets had been regulated to serving as the Supreme Prophet's personal guards and warriors, while he now had opened military academies that allowed those no born in a Prophet's blood-line to achieve some military importance. This meant that Prophet kinsmen who did not deserve the position where caste out in favor of more competent members. As such, the military was more prepared for war.

However, many where pessimistic about whether the army could maintain a war like what the Prophet had planed. Still, he held no regard for this. A glorious crusade across the Milky Way, Mirus, and beyond awaited, one the Grox Followers would answer. Then, all of the Gigaquadrant would fear the Grox's chosen knights...

Society
Thanks to Dormuncka's tainting of their religious believes, Grox Followers are now convinced that the Grox are God in Mortal form, and must serve them. They believe the Grox Meta-Emperor is the Supreme God, and the Kings are treated as minor gods. beings, such as the Borg Queen, and Lork Korizakh of the Nexus Grox, are treated as Allied Gods. Prey is offered to certain ones during times of famnine and war.

Outside of religion, Grox Followers are a very Porud and Militant people. Most males are found serving in the military, which they see as an Honor to the famiely. All Males are trained in war by and Uncle or Grandfather, but not a father. As such, the Sons of other Prophets, can be seen training among other Houses, Keeping them all from fighting eachother.

The Grox Followers' main territory is divided among the Royal Houses, and each citizen ansewers to the Prophets and Inquistors that rule that place. All Ansewer to Supremius, their new Supreme leader.

Grox Followers are an order driven society, with their entire view being that they must doing everything perfectly and on the dot. Often times, Followers who form communities on other worlds, which are more lax, often suffer mental break-downs when they fail to do something according to their own schedule. Because of this, Followers colonies are structured to be as perfectly built and as symmetric as possible. Despite their worship of the Grox, Followers hate asymmetry and view it with distaste.

Other Religions are treated with distaste, though they respect foes who have fought hard and without fear. Radeons, Draconis, and Zazane, have earned their respect, for fighting so hard in the Andromeda war. This is double sided, however. The leaders of these peoples, are still treated with scourn, and Hated constantly. Once they are dead, and their peoples surrender to the Grox, they would be indoctrinated into the Followers, and not treated as slaves, but as equals.

Grox Followers care deeply for their Female Counter-parts, and never let them into war for fear of losing them. The Women of their race, however, still train, so as to defend their famiely and homes. Grox Followers tend to spend 5-6 years together, before getting married. Inter-speicies Marriage is deeply un-acceptable and considered un-natural.

Language

 * Language

Justice Sytem
Grox Followers have a strict code of Law. While Crime is low, they take care of crime very strickly.

They deal with crimes in various ways. One common way minor crimes are dealt with is by having the victim, or the victim famiely, take the Convicted crimanel's horn. Soom famielies have vast trophies they've aquired over the years from past crimes.

Public execution is also extremely common, and keeps the lower caste citizens in line.

Blasphemy To speak out against the Grox Gods the Followers so qorship results in some of the msot Grotesque, humilating public executions imaginable. Very few do it, and Inquistors are cosntantly on the hunt for those who would.

Drug Dealing Drug Dealing is one of the biggest proplems among the Grox Followers. As such, Illegal Drug dealing is dealt with swiftly and ruthelessly. Anyone found with Drugs, or as taken any illegal drugs is thrown in prison for life, or even Publicly executed.

Murder Murder is taken serisouly as well. While nost as bad a proplem as their Drug dealing, Murder is taken care of fairly swiftly. Basically, if you kill someone, you can be killed the same way. However, most of the Courts use Executions of poison inject, or electricution to deal with law breakers.

Stealing Stealing is a moderate proplem. Stealing usually results in the loss of an Eye. Since many grox Followers live imspilier lives then most, 80% of Grox Followers You find can be seen with cybernetic Eyes, or Stem-cell grown eyes in place of a lost one.

Slander Slander is usually handled with paying reprimanes to the person slandered. Often, the person slandered can take a personal item from the person who slandered them, and if it's bad enough, take 2 or 3.

BlackMail Blackmail is handled simalerly to Slander, with the victim allowed to take a personal item from the Crimanel. However, With blackmail, the Victim can take The other Follower's horn as a Trophy.

Goverment

 * Main Article

Grox Follower Goverment is Councel based. 1 Supreme Prophet rules the entire Empire, while Prophet rule commonwealths in his name. Each one controls a certain galaxy in his name. Honor is the only one allowed to colonize galaxies for free. Other Prophets must ask permission and pay money for their Houses to gain territory with the House In-habitating the Galaxy. Prophets, Prophetesses, and their Inquistors, both High and lower, will gather to discuss Plans for War, diplomacy, and settle disagreements between the Houses.

While the Prophets have lost all military-command, they still yield control over their vast provinces.

Cast system
Grox Followers have a rigid cast system. If a family member is/was a Pophet or Inquistor, your chances of becoming a Prophet are high. If you are a soldier, it is near impossible, and if your a worker or merchant, it is unthinkable.

Here are the castes, from Highest to lowest, as well as examples of who hold these titles.


 * Supreme Prophet - Meta Prophet, Alpha Prophet, Supremius
 * The Deputy of Meta - Prophet of Honor
 * High Prophets - Varies, Currently, and most active ones are Honor, Disdain, Fury, Mercy, Perfection, and Purity.
 * High Priest-Mothers - Honor, Disdain, Mercy and Purity.
 * Inquistors - Honor, Disdain, Fury, Mercy, Perfection, and Purity.
 * Stewards - Honor, Disdain and Perfection.
 * Lords - Gosan Mistern, Meldix Sartan, and Mita Zartan
 * High Priests (Ilebix in their language) - Ilebix Distrin, Ilebix Halish
 * Priests (Mebix) - Mebix Gotame, Mebix Foash, Mebix Qarin
 * Zealots - Zealot Dashin Vitrix (Served in Andromeda war; was blown up by Jahricc by a Plasma Gernade)
 * Necromancers - Necromancer Klaho Dgarva
 * Blood-Spillers - Spiller Jinhal Sidin
 * Death Commandos - Commando Gafrin Wohivincar
 * Troopers - Trooper Nisite Hetrix
 * Auxilias - Twilir'Mistopo (A Twilish, and art of the Cult of Attzerry forces, all CoA go in this category)
 * Enginners - Texar Keldar (A retired Trooper who settled down in the Kraw galaxy.)
 * Farmers - Dodris Applos
 * "Slaves" (Slaves are treated with some respect, simaler to the Dracnoid Imperium, as Followers feels they learn soemthing from these survivors. However, You have less freedom, and can be beaten by your master.) - Radrar Glett (A ugandalorian slave to the High Prophet of Honor's Priest-Mother/Wife. Radrar toke care of her intill his death, and he even developed stockholm sydrome. Honor treated him as a son, and gave him an honored funreal, after sending him back to his home town.)
 * Merchants (Merchants produce nothing for society, and instead sell things others make. This is seen as lazy) - Homsir Balacas.

Royal Houses

 * Main Article

The Grox Followers live in an Imperium-style way of life. basically, each famiely, or House, is lead by a Prophet, and his second in Command, an Inquistor. While each Famiely is meant to conqueror a galaxy, all of them lay claim to several sections of the Galaxy.

For example, while the House of Death is meant to conqeuror the Milky Way galaxy, it must allow other Houses to colonize it to provide military aid. These Houses are free to run their territories as they see fit. However, they must ansewer to the house that runs that galaxy.

The only one that defy all houses, is the House of Honor, as it is treated as the Meta Prophet's favored House for providing the most military aid over the years.

Religion

 * Main Article

Grox Followers are devotely dedicated to their grox Gods, having been engineered to worshipe them as Gods. The Meta-Emperor is seen as the Supreme god, and all the Kings are seen as Major gods. The Diffrent Houses act as their servants. For example, Disdain is meant to serve King Grochius in Andromeda.

They worship the Grox Dailey, and see their military service as religious service to their lords. They also treat other Grox Allies, like the Borg and Marinox with respect. However, they have a strong rivalry Marinox, as both serve the Grox.

Kraw and Phradox Followers have gotten passed this rivalry.

Music
"Dubstep is the Future!"

- Random Follower

Grox Followers enjoy a wide range of music, from Mostly Classical to Rock and roll. music is a large portion of their Religion, and is extremely important during their religious ceremonies.

However, most music they lissen to is free from Religious influence, which even they need a break from.

The musicall style of Dubstep, thanks to Black market Trading of Human Music (Grox Followers actuallly enjoy trading Human music recordings and other things on their black market), has become a huge part of their musical culture, with some calling it their second religion.

Astrology
THis is the break down of the Grox Follower's Interest in other Galaxies, and their expanding influence there.

Technology
"Technology must always be ahead of your proplems."

- Grox Follower Saying.

The Tech the Followers have is shared with their masters, and thier rivals in the Waptoria Alliance of Species, and the Federation of Glory.

Because of this, they extremely advanced. They use speiclasied nano-metals for construction, and Atom Distrubution tech.

This Tech as an energy source, takes a highly energy-filed substance of gas, liquid, or solid, and uses a fine-tunned atom spliter to break apart it's atoms, while also creating some radiation. The Radiation is used to send the atom to diffrent devices, which power diffrent things.

They also carry advanced versions of the Planet Buster. Since many Empires now have Planet-wide shielding to counter such out-dated weapons, the Tarmealox have developed a weapon that goes straight through shields, and reduces the planet to a ball of slag. It is terraformed, after a substaicial amount of Slag is taken away to power starships and the like, and make some money.

Biology-wise, the Tarmealox where ahead of the Stem-cell game before most other empires. Stem-cells have been so intergrated into them, that they can regenerate limbs, damaged organs, or even a new body with extreme concentration. This is now part of their DNA, and they can pass it on from father-to-son and the like.

Tarmealox also have stolen DCP, Andromedan Commonwealth, and many other empires' tech.

One example is a version of the Divinarium's own Fanatical Frenzy. It was this weapon that helped form the Cult of Attzerry.

Due to their constant genetic upgrades, it is near impossible, for synthetic groups, to assimilate a Follower. Their biology is literally changing every second, in some minor way. The Alpha Cyber Collective only got a group of Followers after they willingly joined.

Military
The Grox Follower military has gone through several "edifications" since it's birth, becoming more organized and more advanced, as well as better managed and having better leadership.

Despite this, they still have several logistics and tactical issues.

Relations
Despite their xenophobic ways, and alliance with Grox, the Followers still enjoy a wide sphere of influence with other races, weather it be postive or negative. They also have the odd habite of adding enemies of other Grox factions onto their enemy rooster, even if they have yet to contact them.

[[File:Green face.png]] Masters
The Gods themselves!


 * Grox - Our masters!
 * The Emperor - Hail our supreme God!
 * Grox Revival Front - For Goxis! We will restore our master's glory!
 * Andromedan Grox Empire - For Lord Grochius II!
 * Meeno Grox Empire - Move against us, and you will pay.
 * Borealis Grox Empire - Where does Regnatus fit into on our religion?
 * Nexus Grox - Wuh??

[[File:Blue face.png]] Allies
We work together, for the Grox!


 * The Followers of the Andromeda Grox - Part of our empire.
 * Cashriinox Collective - Mysterious allies.
 * Kraw Aligned Fortress - Most Impressive.
 * Kraw Groxic Empire - Do not confuse our alliance for servitude.
 * Kraw Grox Followers - part of our Empire.
 * Zarbania Powers - We will make war together, we will make peace together.

[[File:Blue face.png]] Protectorate
You lay under our protection.


 * Cult of Attzerry - We shall protect you from the threat of the o'so nice and order-bringing DCP.
 * Tathriine army - They work just fine.
 * List of Protectorates - We have been united, in peace and Order.

[[File:Yellow face.png]] Neutral
State your business.


 * Alpha Cyber Collective - We have common goals, so we will ignore you, for now.
 * Alpha Grox Followers - Disobediant brothers.
 * Alpha Marinox - Are you our cousins?
 * Marinox Empire - You do not care for us, we do not care for you. Just stay out of our way as we free our emperor.
 * Unitech Citadel of Sentients - An empire with is allied with the Grox without serving them...
 * The Ones - You have some very interesting tech.
 * Kormacvar Legacy - We are honestly curious about your kind. If we can work together, fine, if not, fine.

[[File:Yellow face.png]] Vassal Empires
You where wise to stop fighting.
 * List of races that are vassals to them

[[File:Orange face.png]] Hated
Weapons online for Stand-By.


 * Phradox Grox Empire - Foul traitours!
 * Phradox Grox followers - Rebels, to be destroyed!

[[File:Red face.png]] At War
You will not receive a Holiday card this year!!

Almost Everyone - You will be "Taken Care of", for our Grox Masters.


 * Ayrai'skikua - ...Demons...will...will suffer.
 * Corruptus - Entropthy cannot beat machinry and science.
 * Delpha Coalition of Planets - You claim to bring order, but look at how you treat those you beat. We do not wipe out 50% of a random population, we do not hunt living, thinking beings for sport. You are the real savages of the universe.
 * Federation of Glory - Many of our enemies have united, time to bring them down.
 * Waptoria Alliance of Species - Their organic technology is an insult to our gods!
 * Andromedan Galactic Commonwealth - We will not forget our fallen brothers, who you tyrants murdered!

Quotes
"You shall serve intill your use runs out, and then you will be exterminated."

- Grox

"Serve us, and we will return the Grox to glory."

- Goxis

"Who are those Guys?!"

- Barda Clett, field Marshall, being ambushed by follower attack ships

"Our arch-enemis since we arrived in Mirus, one day, we will redeem you for the good of the multiverse!"

- W'tze of the Waptoria Alliance of Species

"A great threat to Uff'Wuj. Nothing is secondary to the emptying of the Grox and their mad servants. They are no longer just outsiders, they are obstacles! Obstacles deserve greater attention than outsiders!"

- The Crystalline Hive

"Those who follow the Grox are nothing but fools! We shall destroy you alongside your pirate allies!"

- King Glynn