History of the Drule Empire (Voltron CAU) ~ Part 1

65,000,000 Years Ago - The Zaar Empire of the Akronians reigns supreme as the ultimate power in the Milky Way (once called the Olympus Galaxy, now the Near Universe), Hyperion (once called the Whirlpool Galaxy and NGC 5194, now the Middle Universe) and Denubian (once called the Diamond Galaxy and NGC 7610, now the Far Universe) Galaxies. The Akronian Zaars are a lavender skinned, red eyed humanoid race with a civilization versed in magic/sorcery as well as advanced science/technology that is a horrifying love child of the Roman Empire and Nazi Germany. King Drolmacht Dolmen I and his young general Kropper Kloppen rule over these galaxies and worlds with the fist of tyranny.

    A) Fed up with the persecution of the innocent worlds and their inhabitants; the goddesses Arcadia, Rhea and Denubia rally together to lead the charge in building up a massive underground resistance. Scrounging up whatever technology they could, they build a primitive sort of shield and laser defense turret network to push back the Zaar Blood Knights and take back their worlds. Hoping to stifle the rebellion, King Drolmacht fires a giant asteroid twenty kilometers in diameter at light speed towards one of the rebelling worlds. Testing their new wormhole generator, the rebellion flings the asteroid towards our galaxy toward the third planet in the Terran Solar System - Earth; killing the dinosaurs.

    B) The gods and goddesses of our Universe rally in support of the Rebellion spearheaded by Arcadia, Rhea and Denubia. With Earth being a small, out-of-the-way, backwater planet; it is mostly spared from the ravages of the war between the Rebellion and the Empire. A few stray asteroids, meteors and debris fragments flung through wormholes towards the Solar System manage to hit Earth, but most do not bring about extinction events like the one Drolmacht threw at the Rebellion. Advancing their science and technology levels while recovering magic and sorcery texts and paraphernalia, the Rebellion grows in power as they start jacking Imperial fleets and reverse engineering them for study.

    C) In the bloody Battle of Apophis - the first major battle of the Intergalactic Civil War; Arcadia, Rhea and Denubia charge with thousands of rebels against the largest base of the Zaars in the space between the Olympus, Whirlpool and Diamond galaxies. General Kropper and his Blood Knights fight back with all their might, leaving over hundreds of rebels slaughtered on the salt flats that day. In the end, however, the Rebellion pushes the Zaar Empire back and out of the Apophis system. Gaining control of the planet with access to the vast orbital shipyards and space stations, the Rebellion begins production of fleets of warships to push back against the mighty Imperial war machine of skull ships and tanks.


32,500,000 Years Ago - The Intergalactic Civil War between the Rebellion and the Zaar Empire has slowly started to become a war of attrition that sees neither side making significant long term gains against the other. King Drolmacht VII has ordered Project Daltanious to be put into action in hopes of crushing the Rebellion and bringing the galaxies under the Zaars' dominion once again. The Daltanious Project would see the creation of three giant mechanical fighting machines which would combine to form a giant humanoid fighting robot - Atlas a sentient humanoid robot, Beralios the intelligent robot lion, and the giant fighter starship vehicle Gunper would combine together as one giant machine of power.

    A) These first three robeasts would form a mighty weapon of unthinkable power and mass destruction called Voltron. But the Zaars would need to hurry in order to bring Voltron online and lay waste to the Rebellion's fleets and armies forever - for the once proud Zaar Empire of the Akronians (recalling the Galactic Empire of Star Wars) had also been developing and using weapons and powers related to nuclear, biological and chemical energy. The fallout of these would someday begin to mutate the Zaars from humanoid form into a rather vulnerable and primitive parasite de-evolution (recalling the devolution of the Kaled race into the Daleks of Doctor Who) which hastened their completion of Voltron.

    B) Hearing of the creation of Voltron, the gods and goddesses of the Universe send their best legion of espionage operatives to steal, if not outright destroy the mighty robot before it can be used for evil. When a few are captured and brought before the new King Drolmacht VII and General Kropper V, they try to warn the Empire that even they might not be able to control the monstrosity the Zaars will create if it and its components turns against their creators. Voltron comes online, and as soon as it sees the Rebellion operatives willing to die so that others may live in peace and freedom, a fatal error occurs - one that will ultimately spell disaster for the Zaar Empire of the Akronians' plans of domination.

    C) In the words of King Drolmacht Dolmen VII, their Voltron develops a "twisted and uncouth sense of justice" that was anathema and a dire threat to the Zaars. Having come online, a just born Voltron states that the ideal universe should be one of "freedom, independence, to feel, to question and to resist oppression in all forms". Desperate to bring their creation back under control, Drolmacht tries to re-corrupt Voltron with visions of absolute power to do whatever it wants and that its ideal universe is the one of "weaklings and spineless cowards" not fit to evolve and later inherit any power for themselves. Refusing to fight for evil and cruelty, Voltron escapes with the Rebellion spies to fight for justice.


1,000,000 Years Ago - Over the final millennia of the Intergalactic Civil War, Voltron and the Rebellion soon begins to overcome the stalemate that the struggle had been as a war of attrition on both sides. With the perfection of hyperskip (Faster-Than-Light space jump travel), Voltron and Rebel forces can enter a planetary system in need of protection from the Empire. Staying over the course of half a century, they will build up a system's planetary defense networks, armies, air and space fleets until they will be able to hold off a major attack by the entire Imperial war machine. Soon, only a few dozen worlds in any of the galaxies will remain steadfastly loyal to the Zaar Empire and King Drolmacht XIII.

    A) Doing research on a captured Zaar soldier and an eventual mutated Zaar parasite, the Rebellion desperately tries to find a process that will reverse the de-evolution process and save the Zaars before it is too late for any peace in the Universe. Some of the research is then able to decipher another source of this deadly mutation process - the addiction to the vast inter-dimensional energy known to them as Quintessence which is used in laser weaponry and antimatter bombs when mixed with vast quantities of the mineral hexamite. It is the level of Quintessence radiation that is mutating the Akronian Zaars. The Rebellion scientists scurry to develop an antidote in order to bring peace to the galaxies.

    B) Harnessing the abilities Voltron is equipped with; Arcadia, Rhea and Denubia pilot the mighty robot with quantities of the antidote to use on an encroaching army of Zaar Blood Knights in the Battle of Typhon. Stunning the Zaar army, the antidote is delivered into one of the Blood Knights - General Teles I. The antidote removes the tumors from the body that would begin to devolve the humanoid Zaars into the mutated Zaar parasites. With his mind cleared and his eyes opening up to the cruelty and tyranny that the Akronian Zaars rule with for millions of years, Teles rallies the Blood Knights that have been saved by Voltron and the Rebellion to begin a march on the Typhon castle of King Drolmacht.

    C) General Teles and his Blood Knight army arrives at the Grand Zaar Castle of Typhon where Drolmacht and General Kropper XI have taken up positions with Voltron seemingly as their prisoner. Once the High Command finishes congratulating Teles on his success, Teles soon turns on his masters and tells them he and his army outnumber them all and that Voltron has been delivered to Drolmacht and Kropper as a reluctant executioner. Enraged but not surprised by this betrayal, Drolmacht unleashes his latest magitechnological creations - the robotic dragons of Dracotron which slaughter dozens of Blood Knights to protect Drolmacht. Voltron and Teles' army barely escape with their lives off Typhon.


7,000 BC - Voltron, the Rebellion, and some splinter factions of the Zaar Empire who are freed from Drolmacht and Kropper, continue their long struggle as the ultimate battle of the Intergalactic Civil War draws nearer. Over the course of the Battle of Akron, many fleets of starfighers and space battleships are lost and armies of tanks and soldiers are decimated by Robeasts. One of those Robeasts is King Drolmacht piloting a self-modeled Robeast against his earlier creation turned archenemy Voltron. Escaping to his private star fortress in space, one mighty final battle between Robeast and Voltron ensues with Voltron's pilots Arcadia, Rhea and Denubia fighting alongside the Rebellion forces on the front lines.

    A) Voltron was designed to be invincible and with powers that exceeded those of the Universe's gods and goddesses combined, but even the mighty robot is barely enough against the power of a fully Quintessence-infused Drolmacht Robeast. Just as Voltron strikes the definite blow against the wicked king, Drolmacht chants and then screams out his mightiest curse in order to destroy his own creation. Swept off its feet and overcome by the deafening power, Voltron splits up into its component beings - Atlas, Beralios and Gunper - as they are flung out of the star fortress to fall towards the planet below. What happens to them next will shock the remaining Zaars and the Rebellion for centuries to come.

    B) Gunper is split into fifteen starfighter vehicles - five based on future Earth aircraft which combine to form Kurugger the Strato Fighter, five based on future Earth land vehicles which combine to form Rikurugger the Turbo Terrain Fighter, and five based on future Earth watercraft which combine to form Kairugger the Aqua Fighter. Together they form the mighty robot Dairugger XV (XV pronounced fifteen) - later known as Vehicle Voltron. The mortified Zaars and the confused then thankful Rebellion see that even though the first Voltron was defeated, it is able to regenerate and split itself up. But they know each of the Voltrons that follow will only be a fraction as powerful as the original Ancestral Voltron.

    C) Arcadia sees to Dairugger XV as it rises to prepare for another attack on Drolmacht when they see Beralios falling and then splitting into five pilotable robot lions - the Black Lion of Sky, the Red Lion of Fire, the Yellow Lion of Earth, the Blue Lion of Water, and the Green Lion of Forest. With Red as Right Arm and Hand; Blue as Right Leg and Foot; Yellow as Left Leg and Foot; Green as Left Arm and Hand; and Black as Body, Wings and Head, the five formed GoLion - later known as Lion Voltron. They rush over to Atlas who is regenerating and splitting up into three pilotable humanoid robot gladiators - the Black Alpha of Wisdom, the Blue Beta of Courage, and the Red Gamma of Compassion.


6,999 BC - The final year of the Intergalactic Civil War draws to a close as a badly crippled King Drolmacht Dolmen XIII creates an entire army of Quintessence-infused clones of himself fused with self-modeled Robeasts to try and finish off the Rebellion. He discovers that his own design, Voltron, survived his attempt to destroy it but was likewise crippled. The Black, Blue and Red Gladiators that were once part of Atlas come together to form Albegas - later known as Gladiator Voltron. Dairugger XV, Albegas and GoLion prove to be formidable foes of the Zaars and their Robeasts, but they are each only a third as powerful as their progenitor the Ancestral Voltron in fighting off the forces of their creators.

    A) Before the three Voltrons (Dairugger XV, Albegas and GoLion) storm his last underground stronghold on Apophis, Drolmacht XIII orders half of his Quintessence-infused clone army with General Kropper Kloppen XIII launched into space aboard sperm-shaped space arks which serve as sleeper ships to travel to compatible worlds where their mutated forms will be able to infiltrate, survive and later reestablish contact across the stars with each other. Activating their Blazing Swords and summoning Quintessence Void projectors, the three Voltrons tear a rift in Apophis small enough to banish the surviving loyal Akronian Zaars and King Drolmacht into another dimension which they cannot escape.

    B) In a last ditch effort to secure a potential future victory and escape, Drolmacht summons Dracotron to battle the three Voltrons and then destroy them forever. Trusting in the guidance and wisdom of Arcadia, Rhea and Denubia; Dairugger XV, Albegas and GoLion charge up their weapons with their Quintessence Void projectors to cast the five dragons of Dracotron into the Mirror Dimension from which few, if any, can ever escape. With the fall of the Zaar Empire of the Akronians assured for now, the Rebellion and the Voltrons go off to help the worlds of the galaxies heal themselves from the ravages of war and tyranny. In this time, the Voltrons become known as the "Defenders of the Universe."

    C) Over the course of their journeys across the stars away from the prying and vigilant eyes of the Rebellion-allied worlds, the Zaar space arks make their way to a few backwater planets in the Olympus, Whirlpool and Diamond galaxies. They each land in Quintessence-strong areas of the planets Galveston, Deram and Galra where the mutated Zaar parasites scout out for Quintessence pools to incubate and find eventual hosts to parasite off of to reestablish their rule. Traveling across the uncharted badlands in their armored humanoid shells (again recalling the Daleks) to these pools, they lay their nanoscopic ova in the pools to await hosts swimming and drinking to make their move against Voltron.