Almeracian Empire
The Almeracian Empire is a technologically advanced civilization that spans many settled worlds. Though not as large as the Kree or Skrull territories, the Almeracians are sufficiently advanced to have relatively unquestioned dominion over their region of space.
History
The origins of the Almeracian Empire begin over 10,000 years ago. At that time the planet now called Almerac had a different name and was part of the older Krenon Empire. The Krenons are ancient and exceptionally technologically advanced, so much so that cybernetic enhancement has become a standard practice among their citizens.
Just over 10,000 years ago the Krenons were threatened by a militaristic expansionist empire encroaching on their borders. Soon war broke out. The Krenons while technologically superior were overwhelmed by the shear numbers of the larger empire. They needed a plentiful source of new soldiers and their full conversion warrior cyborgs while powerful, took too long to produce. They instead turned to a still underdeveloped art among their scientists, genetic engineering.
Experimenting on captured enemy soldiers, the Krenons were able to clone legions of shock troops to fight and die for their cyborg commanders. Combined with their sophisticated military technologies the Krenons were able to start driving back their enemies. However the genetically engineered clone soldiers eventually became disenchanted with being disposable battle dolls.
The uprising began on a world at the front lines of the war that the Krenons had only recently taken back. It was lead by a pair of genetically engineered soldiers gifted with rare mutations that made them even stronger than the regular clones, Almaara and Raacal. Together they lead the rebellion to victory, securing the planet from both the Krenons and their enemies.
After taking over the planet's genetic engineering facilities they began creating a new generation of super soldiers based on the combined genetic legacy of Almaara and Raacal forming the first Blood House. The planet was renamed Almerac in honoring of the leaders of the revolution and would become the seat of a mighty empire ever seeking to improve themselves through more and more advanced genetic engineering. In the beginning their expansion was more altruistic, spreading freedom to all of their kind on the Krenon frontier. Slowly, however it shifted to spreading their warrior ideology, peace through superior strength, and bringing down the empire whose people had supplied the DNA they were created from. From there, they did not stop as becomes the way of expansionist empires, creating more Blood Houses and ever expanding the borders of their empire while incorporating the best characteristics of each new people conquered by the empire into each successive generation of soldiers.
The Krenon Empire, while reduced in size, was still able to hold on to a sizable portion of its territory. While warring with Almerac on occasion they were no match for the Almeracians' superior numbers, while the Krenon's advanced military technology made them a greater threat than they would normally be relative to their size. What developed through the millenia has been a cycle of occasional sparks of violence, and technological trade as they seek an upper hand against Almerac however they can. Many of the Almeracians may no longer remember their origins in the Krenon Empire, but the Krenons still desire to reclaim what was once theirs and by extension everything else Almerac has conquered.
