"The strong survive, and the weak die on the path to victory. This is how it must be, and we are the crusaders of this philosophy." ~Raven A universe spanning order of tough-as-nails men and women enlisted for their brutal lethality and their initiative to join forces with the strong and leave the weak to die. The Imperial Forces are power hungry and will do anything to expand. Their ground troops make up the Imperial Armada, synthetic soldiers manufactured to kill and obey orders. They rule in ground, air and naval superiority in any circumstance. They will have nothing impede their quest for total control and to weed out the most elite human beings in Serpent Hyperius. The Imperial Forces were founded by Raven, a notorious "survival-of-the-fittest" serial killer raised in the harsh Prime system. Raven found others that believed the willing should be the only ones allowed to rule the worlds and they formed the secretive elite military society of Wheaton. Things went well in Wheaton under Raven's control, but when he abandoned Wheaton in pursuit of his long-lost brother, Wheaton's social structure fell apart. Everyone wanted power, but soon the most grizzled and strong member of Wheaton after Raven's departure rose to power with the name Ken Rourke, a dreamer who had big aspirations for Wheaton. Wheaton spread like a virus on the seasonally extreme planet of Horus until all of it was under Ken's control. The nation that formed under Ken's influence, the Imperial Forces, started developing massive warships and naval carriers as well as sturdy yet expendable and easy-to-make ground troops, which were the synthetic soldiers. Ken continues his harsh totalitarian rule on Serpent Hyperius to this day, and won't stop for a very long time.