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Skull Empire

The Skull Empire

The vast orc empire thrown into succession chaos by the deaths of Rust and Stalwart and the yacht strike.

Story so far

The Skull Empire is the orc power whose nobility spreads across the galaxy — Baroness Victory would have to kill about a thousand other nobles before she could ever end up in charge of it. Its throne has become unstable: Rosetta decapitated King Rust, and Prince Stalwart is dead, leaving one of the orc children aboard a yacht as the new king.

Once Homecoming Queen destroys that yacht as agreed, the empire passes to Princess Formidable if she still lives on Earth's surface, and failing her, to the disowned Maestro. Rosetta's hatred of the orcs is absolute, rooted in the Scolopendra Club and the murder of Brooks, yet she still feels ill about killing orc children.

Role

The orc empire whose collapsing succession is collateral damage of Rosetta's bargain.

Relationships

King Rust — Its king until Rosetta beheaded him.
Prince Stalwart — Dead royal whose loss destabilized the succession.
Princess Formidable — Heir after the yacht is destroyed.
Maestro — Disowned prince, last in the surviving line.
Baroness Victory — A minor noble of the empire, a thousand deaths from the throne.

Earlier in this series

Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:

Sources — 10 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 19
  • The orc power sharing the first territory with the Bone Clan, holder of the plains' only pre-built castle.
Chapter 39
  • Enemy empire whose prince Florin believes is leading the main force marching on Carl's castle.
Chapter 40
  • Orc empire whose Bone Clan and royal family field the northern assault on the crawler castle.
Chapter 42
  • Rust's orc corporate government, whose satellite backdoors and stolen cruiser now threaten the whole galaxy.
Chapter 46
  • Orc empire thrown into abrupt succession chaos when its king is killed and looted mid-crawl.
Chapter 52
  • Hardware manufacturer whose infected products rivals are now purging from their fleets and armies.
Chapter 66
  • The orc faction holding the battlefield's only mountainous region, Team Retribution's biggest immediate threat.
Chapter 71
  • Orc faction whose king, Stalwart, is executed by his own war mages during the volcano battle.
Chapter 72
  • The empire whose conscripted war mages broke allegiance to assassinate Stalwart, spawning the War Mage Rebellion.
Chapter 80
  • The vast orc empire thrown into succession chaos by the deaths of Rust and Stalwart and the yacht strike.
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