Caiss-Sol

Born on Crux Terra, 34 -AI, Caiss-Sol was the son of an influential senator in the Republic Senate.  At an early age Caiss dreamed of one day being elected to the position of Chancellor of the Republic.  Caiss grew up at a very exciting age; Crux Terran colony ships were leaving the world every day to found new colonies or populate existing ones, the rapid expansion was destabilizing the Republic and bringing up issues of government and independence, and science and technology were advancing at a never before seen rate.  Caiss lived in a skytower with his family and a host of servants, his father was gone most of his youth; either at the Senate or traveling to the colonies and his mother was very active in unification programs was gone most days.  Caiss was raised by his older sister, Marca, and an old servant and tutor, Benedikte, a colonial and veteran of the Londor Rebellion.  Benedikte always told the young boy that there was greatness about him, unlike his father, and that one day Caiss would save the crumbling Republic.  Marca tried to counterbalance Benedikte's rebellious ideas with a calmer, more peaceful upbringing.  Benedikte's words won over Marca's peace-loving ones; Caiss grew up, left his homeworld and attended the Academy at Eridani, quit much to the displeasure of his aging parents, and instead enlisted in the military academy on Axex, the Republic navy base in the Colonial Territories.  Caiss excelled, easily becoming the top in his class, and was promised a leadership position once he graduated.  It was on Axex that Caiss met Septima Gaia, the daughter of a senator from the Londor colony.  Septima was on Axex at the time to visit her brothers, Tertius and Ludeovic, and she was there to review some data at the observatory on the planet.  They fell in love and quickly began having an affair in secret, since her father and his were rivals in the Senate.  Caiss graduated, was given command of a battleship and sent to suppress yet another uprising in the Laurion System.  Caiss was so successful in the battle and shrewd in his diplomacy that the Senate awarded him various honors and medals and promoted him to commodore, and stationed him on Atlas, an important, populous, Inner World.  With a growing reputation backing him, Caiss approached Septima's father, Gaius, and asked for his blessing; Gaius, seeing young Caiss's growing reputation and prowess, agreed, and Caiss and Septima Gaia were married in a grand wedding on Crux Terra.  Caiss returned to Atlas with his bride and continued to suppress rebellion after rebellion, soon most Territories worlds lived in fear of Caiss and his fleet entering their skies.  Septima gave birth to twins, Primus and Secunda, and not long after, another daughter, Kreka; Caiss was always happy to see his family waiting for him when he would return from the Fringe.  Then tensions escalated on Crux Terra in the Senate, the split between the Londorian senators wanting sovereignty and the Terran senators wanting unity.  Caiss, now admiral, was sent with Admiral Hallo to bombard Londor after Senator Gaius issued an ultimatum and formed the Londor League.  Things seemed to settle down after the bombings and Caiss began his alliance with fellow admiral Hallo, and Circini, an orator from Talisis.  This triumvirate began plotting how they would save the Republic and restore order and peace.  Hatred and resentment still simmered in the Senate and three months after the forming of the triumvirate, in 02 -AI, dozens of colonial systems declared independence from the Republic and established their own governments and formed a new federation, the Nara League.  The Republic fleet was mobilized and the Chancellor ordered them to reclaim the worlds from the "rebels".  Caiss led his fleet to many victories against the League, reclaiming almost all of the Colonial Territories; but while he was gone, the son of the Chancellor, Crucius, was staying at Caiss's family skytower where the young man fell madly in love with Marca and raped her that night.  The news of this reached Caiss unexpectedly quickly, he immediately left the colonies, flying straight to Crux Terra and demanded the Chancellor give up his son to be tried and brought to justice.  Eugenus Crassus, the chancellor, refused and ordered Caiss to return to the warfront.  Caiss, fueled with his rage at Crucius's shameful act, found the wretch and brought him back to his battleship on the warfront.  There he held a military trial and had Crucius executed, all before Chancellor Crassus found out.  Then, not long after Crucius's execution, the news of Hallo's death reached Caiss and Circini; Hallo had been the mediator between the two ambitious men, so upon his death Caiss and Circini became rivals for power.  Caiss turned his fleet around and jumped to the rim of the Crux System: to cross the Crux Rim with his fleet in tow would mean he was declaring war on the Republic.  Caiss sat for hours, thinking, while the Senate sent desperate orders to lay down his command.  Caiss finally rose, declared "The pieces are set.", and jumped his fleet to the exosphere of Crux Terra.  By this act Caiss declared a civil war against the Republic.  Circini arrived behind Caiss with a relief force to defeat Caiss in the name of the Senate.  The two rivals fought to a stalemate above the capital, the stalemate lasted for several days until Circini backed down and Caiss drove him from the system.  Caiss landed, marched into the Senatorial Palace and deposed Chancellor Eugenus.  He then summoned the Senate and put them under house arrest inside the Senate Hall untill they would declare him Chancellor.  They did so in 01 -AI, and all the Inner Worlds were under his control; the Outer Worlds were split in half, with some either fearful or awed by Caiss and pledged themselves to him and the rest continued to rebel against Crux Terra.  Caiss, now called Caiss-Sol, retrieved his wife and children from Atlas to live in the Senatorial Palace.  Caiss-Sol then gathered together the entire Republic armed forces and began the Wars of Formation, which had officially began with him attacking Crux Terra, to unite all inhabited worlds under his rule.  The wars, though gruesome and savage, lasted only a cycle and a half, ending with Caiss-Sol's self coronation on 01 Anno Imperium after the last independent world had fallen in the Siege of Londor.  The Senate, while still in existence and allowed to meet, were purely ceremonial and constantly watched by the new Emperor's agents.  Emperor Caiss-Sol and his wife, Empress Septima Gaia,  continued to expand the new Empire's borders; science and technology continued to advance after stagnating during the rebellions and Wars of Formation; an efficient, streamlined imperial bureaucracy was put in place, with an ordered hierarchy governing the increasing number of worlds in the Empire; interplanetary trade flourished; and the Imperial Navy and Army grew more powerful and feared.  Caiss-Sol ruled until AI 37, when he died a portion of the planet-wide city of Crux Terra was set aside as the Imperial Necropolis where Caiss-Sol, first Emperor of the Galaxy, and veterans of the Wars were entombed.  Empress Septima ruled as regent for her son Primus until he ascended the throne in AI 46.  When the Empress Mother died two and a half cycles later, she was placed next to her husband.  So began the Empire.