The Dragon Empire and Terris

These are things that Gavin (Jester's Character) could explain to the other PCs about the empire. This is general knowledge, and not damaging the cause of the good guys.

The Dragon Empire consists of house each corresponding with a different color dragon. These houses each sit at a council on a planet called Drconis Prime and all take turns at the head of the council every 5000 years.

Its been about 1000 years since the red dragons have taken control and surprisingly the Red Emporer has not attempted to disband the council...infact he has pushed to keep it in place. However he has created his own policing force. The Imperial Security Police Directorate (ISPD), which is primarily ran by the Drow.

Each House holds its own Legion to be able to defend against one another and a portion of each army is used in the Imperial Legion to defend against outside threats. Laws are put in place to keep the imperial legion from being used to wipe out the other houses.

Terris is a planet that is near a galactic land mark called the "Black Scar" an strip of dark energy the cuts through the empire far above the galactic plane (the starting point for navigation). The energy from Black Scar often mutate and corrupt nearby stars and planets eventual engulfing the stars as the scar widens. However Terris is an oddity for it is not affected like other nearby planets. This anomaly has drawn the attention of the court who wanted to move to make contact with Terris. But the Red Emporer moved to block this suggestion stating it was too risky.

Not trusting the emporer the Bronze Legion (the best military force in the empire) sent a survey team to make sure the Emporer stayed true to not interferring with Terris. In doing so they discovered that the ISPD had infiltrated the planets governments...which through back-linking analysis...suggests that they were in place months before the decision to deny contact was even made. Later captured evidence also let the Bronze Legion know that the Red Emporer planned on conscripting the legion into his house ranks, an illegal action for a planet without a unified government under imperial law.

The difficult with public exposure is that the bronze legion would expose themselves, and the ISPD are incredibly good at disposing of evidence...even going as far as destroying planets.

So, the Bronze legion sent in SOLAR (Special Out-Lands Army Recon) as a counter team to remove the ISPD and leave. However the Drow unexpected found some strange power that has made them far more lethal than anticipated.

In recent discover around Northgate, it is reasonable to think that the Red Legion is taking a more active role in supporting the ISPD. They have begun recruiting, training and equipping the local populous, and it is rumored that they have even sent in some Hell Hounds to eliminate any opposition.