Fiction:Brood of War



"Our path is long and treachurous. Many times, our race has been at war. However, now our race shall unite! Brothers and sisters of the Zazane, we are...the Brood of War!"

- Tyraz Breek upon forming the Brood of War

The Brood of War is an alliance between several Zazane subspecies and other races that have come together after the Fourth Ottzello War, when the Salsetthe Republic exiled the Zazane and UNO from the Milky Way Galaxy. The most notable members of this alliance are the Zazane of the reformed Zazane Empire. They live under the rule of a council, though each member is selected through their species' traditional political system. The council consists of eight members.

The Brood of War was formed as a way to increase the strength of the Zazane race as a whole, the previous Zazane Empire putting their species' survival before their traditions, although they covered this up by saying they would offer acceptance and forgiveness to all heretics and rebels, though those who refused to join would be destroyed. They are still an aggressive and war-loving nation, although now they have diplomats and increased skills in peace talk as well as military power and technological ability.

History
Main Article: Zazane Empire

Before the Brood existed, there was the Zazane Empire, the most famous group of Zazane known within the Universe. The Zazane Empire underwent multiple leaders before they reformed and became the Brood, the last of their mighty leaders being Tyraz Breek. Tyraz proved a fine ruler to them and thus earned his place in the Council, ruling over the Drik Zazane, Drik meaning "Original" in Zazane. During the Reformation, Tyraz sent out a message of peace to all Zazane heretics and rebels, and would kindly welcome them back with open arms. By this time, rebels had grown into their own empires, some more adept at skills than others. The first of these "rebel" empires was the Zazane under the rule of Yun Zorin, a warlord who Tyraz grew to like and was even named after one of Tyraz's ancestors. Yun and the Zazane Imperials would become the first members of the Brood, with Tyraz and Yun kindly telling stories about the Zazane's past to both empires and how now acceptance will be given.

Yun would later convince his old empire's enemies, the Republic of Shanoii, to come and join the Brood. The Republic of Shanoii's leader, Bo Has, would settle his differences with Yun, seeing as he was a rebel leader from Yun's empire (which was ruled by his father at the time), and treated Tyraz with great respect, seeing as he ruled the Zazane from which he descended from.

By luck, these three Zazane empires found a technologically advanced race of peaceful Zazane, known as the Kordalu. Yun and Bo saw them as gods, after having abandoned their belief in Umbrux. However, Tyraz knew these were more heretics, and gave them his offer. The Kordalu leader, the female known as Astral Highland, spoke with Tyraz, and the two spoke for days before finally coming to terms with each other. Astral Highland and her Zazane agreed to give the secrets of their technology to the rest of the Zazane so long as the Kordalu become diplomats for this new alliance.

Thanks to the new technology, finding rebels and heretics was easier. One of these rebels were the Zazane of the, changed by the galaxy's technology into nomadic cold-resistant thieves. While at first skeptical about it, the leader of the Borealis Zazane,, decided that joining the Brood would be better for his people. While most of these Zazane peacefully joined the Brood, several remained rebels as part of the criminal organization of the.

Andromeda War
During the Andromeda War, the Brood of War attacked the The Divinarium's capital of Crepusculum. Attacking from space and using many hordes of Cyrodi on the ground, as well as Zazane, the Brood was close to defeating the Divinarium, however the decided to step in and help try and fight off the Zazane forces.

When went on a personal mission to strike down the leader of the Divinarium, he encountered, the new leader of the Divinarium after the death of Tadjamad during the Holy Shadow War. Tyraz and Iovera engaged in a battle, while watched them.

Behaviour
Every member of the Brood is, from birth until death, part of the "community", and so must help with keeping the Brood running. Within the Brood, those who are not useful are either forced to work or executed, as there is major intolerance for laziness. The Brood are aggressive and war-loving, though they will not attack those willing to make an alliance, or those who they have not had bad history with. They will not tolerate, however, open threats to the Brood's survival, and so will often attack or observe planets near their space and territory.

Also, they wish not to start wars themselves, preferring to join wars already taking place. This compliments their war-loving nature, as they will literally go looking for a fight. If they see a force is getting to powerful and none of their allies are doing anything about it, they are known to provoke war with the mentioned force in order to try and stop them from becoming too powerful.

Abilities
The Brood makes usage out of most of its member races, often using Cyrod or Hetii as units on the battleground.


 * Military

The Dragon Battleguard are the main fighting force of the Brood, and is built up of several races, such as the Zazane, Cyrod and Hetii mostly. The warriors of the Battleguard are dedicated to war and the protection of the Brood, and will happily fight almost any foe in battle, for if they don't, the Brood may fall and billions of lives would be lost.


 * Fleet

The ships of the Brood is called the Fleet of Ruin. A powerful fighting force that consists of many powerful ships, the Fleet of Ruin is known for their planet-destroying ships, the Kaann, which are said to represent the rage of the Brood.

Society
Society differs for each member of the Brood. The Brood respect each other's societies and some are very close to each others. For the war-like members, society is based around bloodshed and worship to each others gods and deities, although all are just different views of Umbrux. For the diplomatic races, society is based around peace and technological advancement for the war-like members and themselves.

Zazane have a strict "inter-breeding" rule, in which two Zazane of different subspecies shall not mate, in order to prevent potential threats to the current Zazane, Kol Daren being an example.

Names are still important to all Zazane, including the Kordalu who have no actual Zazane names, but use the same method for naming their children. Honour is still witheld in the name, and thus the Zazane who refuse to join the Brood are often called Havrenar Tejar, or Nameless Ones.

The caste system has been abolished, although the Brood still use barely-sentient races as slaves and soldiers. However, they cannot be used as personal slaves, instead only being used for purposes that help society as a whole, except as a food source.

Buildings
The Brood can build structures at an incredibly fast pace thanks to the Kordalu Zazane, who have devoted their lives to constructing. Brood buildings are often known for inducing a sense of fear within foreigners and aliens, mainly because they are usually filled with skulls of killed enemies and blood stains. Most buildings are for military usage, and most Zazane families reside here. However, there are some buildings that are purely for Zazane civilians with no military usage.

Also, other races of the Brood have their own buildings and structures. However, most reside within the Zazane buildings.

Vehicles
The Dragon Battleguard makes use of various types of vehicles while in battle. Mostly all of their vehicles are constructed from and run off Shidium.

Weapons
Brood weapons are designed for either swift and quick killing, or brutal devastation. Zazane are said to develope personal links to their weapons, which increases their performance in combat. Most of these weapons run off energized Shidium, though some will use bullets.

Enemies

 * Kraw Federation
 * Kraw Federation
 * Kraw Federation
 * Kraw Federation

Quotes from Other Empires
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"Frak off Brood!"

- Zazanaarg and Kraw Protesters

"Tyraz, I miss you..."

- Lezia Ipevreia

"I can tell just by their name this lot have only banded together to glorify the acts of war and violence, such a waste."

- of the

"The Zazane are valuable allies who were surprisingly friendly toward our people. We deeply respect them and hope we remain friends for a long time."

"STOOPID ZAZZIE PEEPZ YOR ALL DUM I SWER YOR A BUNCHA WANNABES IF DERES ONE FING I AGREE WIV DA UNO LORONZ IS DAT YOR DA DUMMEST PEEPZ EVA"

"ENNIT?? DA COPYCATS RITE MAN. ZAZZIES IS A BUCNHA WNNBE DUMASS MUTHAFUKAS."

"Your time will run out, sooner or later."

- Zr'An'Kar

"We are unsure what to think of them, but we are verging towards a distaste of their kind."

- of the

"The Divinarium will never trust you. The sins of Moxix and his minions shall never be forgiven."

"While Moxix was indeed a demon, these Zazane are far more... benevolent. We could cooperate."

- Exarch Selytorah

"The vision... I cannot... forget it..."

Trivia

 * The Brood of War takes inspiration from the Covenant Empire of Halo and the Chaos Space Marines and Tau Empire of Warhammer 40K.
 * The main idea of being a multi-species empire was the Covenant and Tau.
 * The Fleet of Ruin ships are based on Chaos Space Fleet ships.