Starlit Court History: Difference between revisions

In 581 a Bright light is seen off in the distance of space, many on Sihi believe that it could be a sign from the High King that there was the location of Grail. After much debate, Sihi's heading is changed to persueperuse the origonorigin of The Light.

After the decision to change heading toward The Light, there was a major split among Court poloticspolitics on the subject of the spirtualspiritual and secular. Ever since the departure of the High King, there was a lingering argument among the Court as to the nature of the High King and the Starlit path. Some belivedbeloved that the High King was a divine figure and that the Starlit path was a set of religousreligious commandments. These people eventually grew into the Spritualist movement, and argued most feirclyfiercely for the change in course after encountering the Light. On the other end of things, there were those who belivedbelieved that the High King was just a person and both the path and the court were at most philosophical and political constructs. These people became known as the seculatistssecularists.

Tensions between the Secularists and Spirutalists had built up over hundreds of years of small squabbles, and rivalries, growing and growing into full blown factiaonismfactionalism. The split ran through all levels of society and species across the Court, from the highest halls of govornmentgovernment, to the smallest bars and tarvernstaverns on Sihi. Everyone on Sihi had some stake in the split, perferingperfecting one side to the other in small ways if not outright picking a side.

In an attempt to move the Secularist and Spirtualist split from the political scene, the Ruling Body of the court turned to the source of the strife; the Light. The Court's Leadership fed all data the Court had on the Light into La Fae, charging the Gestalt spirit with deciphering the information and putting an end to this Schism. However, when the data was transferedtransferred; La Fae went silent, and was presumed damaged or destroyed. Spiritualists saw this as an apocolypticapocalyptic omen, and the Secularists an incalculable waste of an irreplacableirreplaceable treasure.

As political trumoil broke out following the Silence; a hithertoohitherto unseen kind of Fae emurgedemerged from Castle Sihi and the Mounds inhabiting crude machines. These Fae called themselves the Sidhe, and urged the people of Sihi to remain calm, and not to come to blows. The emergence of the Sidhe had a notable calming effect, as most interpreted their arrival as a sign that La Fae and the Unseelie court had not been destored by the Silence, but ultimately their inteventionintervention only delayed the inevitable.

Despite the best efforts of many, the chaos brought on by the Schism boiled over into full blown armed conflict and civil war. In the months leading up to the conflict, dozens of fights, duels, and small skirmishes between Knights, commoners, and even monks all across the court. The exact inciting incident is unknown, but most claim the war began when two Grandmasters who were in the midst of bidding for a contract struck each other in The West Wing. Despite being broken up quickly, word of the skirmish spread quickly around the court, causing a cascade of ever escalating brawls. Luckily, at the time many Grandmasters had bid their Orders services at lower than normal rates leading up to the civil war to claim greater honor for their chosen faction, often underbidding their rivals. This left the bulk of Knightly orders had been deployed on mercenary contracscontracts, leaving few military assets on or near Sihi, limiting the intialinitial intencityintensity of the conflcitconflict.

Just over a year into the conflict spiritualist and secularist massed in The Golden Valley and The Nimuen, converging in the first battle to see full deployments of Court mechs on both sides in Sihi since the beginning of the conflict. The battle came to a sudden end when just outside of Realms Keep, Syr Dalion’s mech the ‘Gravewalker’ suffered a cataclysmic chain reaction when an autocannonauto-cannon round caused it’s ammunition racks to ignite, overheating it’s reactor. The Gravewalker exploded with enough force to tear a hole in Sihi’s bulkhead, tearigntearing through enough armor and interriorinterior decks to expose the interior of the station to the void of space.

Numerous combatants from both sides of the conflict drop arms and rush to plug the hole in the station, eventually piling mechs into the breach. Several combatants that fire on those attempting to seal the hole have their mechs suddenly shut down, the Fae revolting against the shameful practice of their knights. Numerous Sidhe emurgedemerged, risking the battlefeildbattlefield to broadcast a message from Lae Fae demanding a ceacecease fire. After having witnessed the near destruction of their home, and urged on by the apparent demands of La Fae, the Grandmasters issued a general ceacecease fire order across the entirety of the Court. Several small battles were fought by forces outside of Sihi for two months after the Ceacefire was called due to lag in communications. Castle Sihi remained shut for another 4 months until all remaining orders had reported all clear signals.

Peace was officially established in a council mediated by La Fae and those who had been locked in Castle Sihi for the duration of the conflict. Numerous knights are sent off on pennitancepenitence quests: dangerous but high value missions meant to redeem the knights through victory despite extreme odds or honorable death. The Grand Tourney system was established as an official place for tensions to be resolved between knightly orders to help prevent another escalation of arms like this one.