Thread:Ecoraptor3339/@comment-5496489-20171102142934/@comment-4960835-20171210195953

Loyal to what was, not what is.

@All - ever since reading about the Exiled Realm, I've been thinking about giving them a FU-equivalent in the form of the Olympian holdouts, who have been stuck in limbo for a while.

It would start with those Mendel Chapters who performed Be'shuul Shecva, fleeing to a nebula orbitting the Mirus galaxy. There they would wait as more of their number arrived.

The Olympians would seek to return to the UAE eventally, though only when they feel they would once more be accepted. Until then, they would descide to re-create a sort of mini-EC where they were. This would involve doing away with the Archons having the final say over everything, and instead installing a Council of Supervisors to rule democratically over each Chapter, more in line with how the EC was actually governed.

It was often levelled against the Olypians they were getting outdated, and in a sense they were. However, the advancements in tachnology that led to this also allowed Olypians to be easier to produce. At the time of the Be'shuul Shecva, Olympians could pretty much be mass-produced, though the EC never tried to do this since the Betrayal had happened. The Be'shuul Shecvans had no such reservations, for the were Olypians themselves are far away from any source of corruption, be it Darkling or Lightling. Trough a mixture of cloning and the lastest matrix-installing procedures available to them (some gleaned/stolen from the Sephirahs), the dwinding numbers of the Be'shuul Shecvans could be stabilised, and finally, reversed.

The next step would be more controversial, as it would be the rebuilding of those Chapters that either turned or disbanded from what little untainted/non-recycled gene-matrixes those Chapters left behind. These reborn Chapters would be moulded from birth to be utterly loyal to the ideals of the EC, as all the Olympians were really expected to at their project's creation was to kill Overseers efficiently (their loyalty to the Ec against such horrors was expected rather than enforced, which led to the corruptions taking place).

Combining these two developments, the Be'shuul Shecvans would eventually number as much Olympians as the Project originally started out with - without the massive attrition grinder that was Attero Dominatus. Now they would finally be able to face the Sephirah on equal footing.

Of course, doing so would ruin the Olympian's chances of re-integrating into the UAe forever, so the Be'shuul Shecvans did not go that route. Instead, they appear as out of nowhere to aid the UAE in battles that would otherwise have been lost, and especially if these battles owuld have been lost despite Sephirah involvement. The Be'shuul Shecvans make certain to include the reborn ex-traitor Chapters in as many of these intercessions as possible, knowing that their image would be the hardest to redeem. After each battle, the strike force vanishes back to whence they came, the modified hyperspace drives of their ships scrambling the coördinates of their jumps so they cannot be tracked.

Both the reborn Olympians and the Be'shuul Shecvans observe UAE command structure during the battles they take part in, carrying out orders from UAE commanders like they would've done under the EC. The exception are the Sephirah, whom they ignore them altogether, treating them as if they did not exist and refusing to accknowledge them. This does not indicate any hostility, however - indeed, it appears that the reborn are simply waiting for the day when the Sephirah will accknowledge as equals and they can come back into the fold. Until thay day, they will continue to fight, trying to prove their wot with the same dogged determination that allowed them to crush the Tyranny underfoot.