Temporal Empire

The Temporal Empire is a self-proclaimed governmental organisation, currently governing over the planets that formerly comprised the Galactic Council.

Created in the process of the Universal Paralysis, the Temporal Empire made usage of the Darkness flowing into the universe to expand and establish its rule. After its creation, it first conquered Estron and destabilised Arcturus Magna, until the Invasion of Arcturus Magna, by which it established firmly its rule over the galaxy, overthrowing the Galactic Council in the process.

Foundation
After the Collapse of the Nui Tower of Time and the Universal Paralysis that followed, the newly-awakened Primal Beast pledged to establish his rule over the universe, so as to "avert possible disaster". It utilised the Universal Paralysis to awaken Darkness and call for Darkness to flow into the universe, putting itself at the command of an army of Undead creatures, which became the primary armed forces of the Temporal Empire.

Shortly after, the corrupted Toa of Fire, Krataxus, who had betrayed his own team and prevented the team from repairing the Nui Tower of Time, also joined the Empire. The Primal Beast elected for Krataxus to become his most important commander, and mutated him using Darkness powers, enabling Krataxus to control the powers of Darkness and, by extension, the Undead creatures as well.

Defeating the Galactic Council
Shortly after laying the foundations of the Empire, the Primal Beast ordered for Krataxus to expand their rule across more planets. Using the newly-built Titan-II Battleship, Krataxus established the Temporal Empire's rule over Estron first, taking advantage of its weaker political structure and its large population of bounty hunters, which Krataxus hired to assist him.

Once the Galactic Council discovered this, they sent an expeditionary force to attack the Temporal Empire's bases at Estron, and take back control. Though welcomed by the Estronian population, the Galactic Council was soon driven out when Krataxus summoned Undead soldiers in far greater numbers, and took advantage of the death toll of the Galactic Council to build up an ever-greater army of Undead soldiers.

Once the Galactic Council was driven out, the Temporal Empire's next offensive began at Arcturus Magna. First sending an ultimatum, warning that the Arcturans would undergo the same fate as the Galactic Council soldiers on Estron, the Arcturans refused to listen to the Temporal Empire. Krataxus, as a result, attacked Arcturus Magna with a battle fleet, eventually establishing himself and his Undead soldiers in Arcturus city. Once reaching the Spire, Krataxus forced Filius, president of Arcturus Magna, to formally resign, and declare Arcturus Magna a governorate of the Temporal Empire. Filius did so, and declared Krataxus governor.

Krataxus also forced Filius to resign Arcturus Magna's seat from the Galactic Council, declaring in a Council meeting that the Galactic Council was to be replaced by the Temporal Council of the Temporal Empire. The Temporal Council convened only once, at the Nui Tower of Time, during which Krataxus and the Primal Beast declared that the Undead were to become the new law enforcement soldiers of the empire. The Galactic Council members, faced with death threats, accepted the demands of the Temporal Empire, officialising its rule over the former Galactic Council planets.

The resistance is founded
Although the Empire's rule was officialised in the last Temporal Council meeting, the spark of rebellion became especially prominent on the already rebellious planet of Estron, where many Bounty Hunters looking for freedom lived. During this same time, Fairon and his team resurfaced, and dispatched the Toa of Air Lev towards Estron.

While on Estron, Lev recruited a number of fighters, bounty hunters, Matoran and other beings disillusioned with the newly established rule of the Temporal Empire, seeking freedom from Krataxus and the Undead, and wanting to disestablish Imperial rule to reestablish the freedom of Estron. While Lev managed to recruit many members for his new resistance, rumours of a resistance building were soon spread across the bazaars on Estron.

When these rumours of rebellion reached the Primal Beast, he dispatched Krataxus on a mission to find out who the resistance are, and put an end to them. Arriving on Estron, Krataxus soon discovered what was wrong and, through threatening a network of coffeehouses, Krataxus soon found Lev, and followed him to the hideout of his resistance. There, he confronted Lev, and ordered him inside of his resistance headquarter.

Inside, a battle broke out between the resistance members and Krataxus, who summoned Undead soldiers to his aid to rid of the resistance members easier. Lev escaped, though, but the resistance was slaughtered.

In the aftermath of the Estronian slaughterhouse, the spark of rebellion grew across Estronian markets and coffeehouses, and talks of a new rebellion soon surfaced. Though Krataxus made sure there were no official rebellions, talks of a rebellion on Estron remained, and Krataxus was sure that Fairon and his team were planning something.

Battle on Ashatan
Coming soon...

Organisation
The political organisation of the Temporal Empire is a complex spiral of councils, coffeehouse back rooms and managers, ruling councils, and military generals, all of whom answer directly to the Imperial President, Krataxus, and his superior, the Primal Beast, who is also the Emperor. Although most of it had some degree of formality, the political structure of the Temporal Empire is primarily done through informality, with many bounty hunters also making up its rank-and-file members and representatives, as well as willing Matoran and Toa.

The law enforcement in the Empire is primarily done by Undead soldiers, who essentially act on their instincts to make more Matoran and Toa into Undead creatures, by consuming them with Darkness. This terrorising tactic has not made the Temporal Empire a very popular organisation, but is used by Krataxus as a threat tactic to ensure that it is not possible for any kind of resistance organisation to rise up on the political landscape.

Its economic policy is characterised by a policy known as "imperialisation", where licensed companies known as Imperial Companies operate as the only legal corporate entities. These Imperial Companies are mostly the remnants of formerly existing corporations assimilated into a single, gigantic Imperial Company. Imperial Companies are diverse, and a large part of the political and economic structure, and are key in keeping the establishment of the Temporal Empire stable.

Armed Forces
The armed forces of the Temporal Empire are countless Undead soldiers, led by general Krataxus. Due to the numerousness of the Undead creatures, and the fact that they could be forged out of pure Darkness, too, the Temporal Empire's armed forces dwarved the armed forces of Arcturus Magna, and even the combined armed forces of all the planets of the Galactic Council. Because the Undead did not know emotion, and only knew instinct and control, they lacked any form of high or low morale, effectively establishing an extremely strong military force.

Despite this, the Undead, once left without a leader to charge them into battle, would essentially devolve into an army of plunderers, plunging a world into Darkness and threatening to wipe everything on that world out of existence. It is, therefore, essential for the Temporal Empire's armed forces to have a commander with a strong mind in control of the Undead soldiers, to prevent the Undead from turning into mindless beasts acting simply on instincts.

Trivia

 * The Temporal Empire was partially inspired by the Dark Empire. Its foundation and officialisation through the Temporal Council, however, was partially inspired by the Galactic Empire's foundation in the film Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.
 * The Temporal Empire is inspired by Primal Dialga's rule in the dark future in the video game Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness.

Appearances

 * Dark Future (first appearance)