The Origin of the TECHNOMANCERS from the remains of the still polluted city. Teams were sent to investigate the Tashken was known as a junk planet by composition of the meteor. Eventually, traders throughout the galaxy. The mass after much investigation, embedded deep of the planet is so vast it has an within it, the fragments of a ship were abnormally high gravitational pull. This found along with strange objects of phenomenon attracts roaming space arcane description. In almost debris, meteors and even small space indestructible containers were discovered ships. All these items can crash upon the numerous tomes of knowledge. The planet with devastating consequences. majority of this mysterious cargo was However, the people of Tashken learned taken by Halthar Grast, the High Tech to scavenge and repurpose virtually Savant of the capital, who withdrew to his anything they found, partly compensating citadel to pore over his newly acquired for the lack of natural resources on the treasure. He knew ‘knowledge was planet. power’.

A few short years later a fresh meteor shower devastated the neighbouring sub- continent. Planet wide civil unrest followed and war threatened without the guidance of Valkail. Halthar scoured his tomes and achieved a new understanding of the biological and technological aspects of so many things hither too This was how tenuous life on Tashken unknown to the Tashken civilization. He was until Valkail Ashton was born. This broke into Valkail’s tomb and by using great leader organised the technologically this new found knowledge, reanimated minded into an efficient and dominant Valkail’s body. A revived Valkail was then force for good. Under his guidance a revealed to the populace. The world planet wide United Council was formed. rejoiced in this miracle and Valkail and Colossal Gravitic Amplifiers were built in Halthar worked on building a Dampening vast junk chasms with the dual purpose of Emitter to reduce the strain that had been attracting more useful debris and placed on the damaged Gravitic protecting the cities. The people and Amplifiers. Within months this great work planet began to prosper under Valkail’s was achieved and stability restored to the rule. Tech Savants led teams to debris planet. craters to scavenge, repurpose and build. A new age of technological advancement The populace then started to call out for began, cities could finally be developed their loved ones killed in the cataclysm to without the fear of impending destruction. be resurrected. Halthar, convinced by High citadels were constructed for the Valkail, achieved this great work at most prestigious technological guilds. considerable cost to himself; because his physical body was ravaged in the However, decades into Valkail’s rule, process. He then began to experiment powerful astro-electrical storms ravaged with his arcane lore on himself in secret. the planet. The Gravitic Amplifiers failed Decades passed and Valkail Ashton and a large meteor crashed down onto a eventually again succumbed. Once again major city, bringing devastation with it. A his family and the people implored great toxic ash suffocated almost half the Halthar to bring him back. The insular population, including the beloved ruler Halthar, his tomes now chained to his Valkail. Tech Savants developed person, agreed reluctantly and revived breathing apparatus’ to protect the people him. However, this time things did not go

so well. Valkail awakened paranoid and revitalized Valkail out to lead armies of disorientated. His body remained decrepit the living against the hordes of the half- and he died within weeks after great dead that had previously been suffering. Halthar blamed the family, ressurected. The alliance of High Tech saying he was not ready and the portents Savants was broken when Elgradar of the had not been right. The family claimed old continent attempted to usurp Ilgother. Halthar had become corrupted and that Each raising of the dead weakened the he coveted his power over life and his bodies of those reanimated. The living of position as Lord Tech Protector Savant Halthar’s army still thrived until Balkan so didn’t want to bring back Vaikail as a Rhode unleashed the un-maker virus, a rival. Soon after this Halthar was attacked potent neurotoxin that decimated the last by some of Valkail’s family members and living force and almost the entire their followers. He barely escaped but population of the planet. had to leave behind many of his arcane tomes, which were stolen by his The Necromantic Wars continued for attackers. Valkail’s family then gave one centuries, and with them electro-storms of Halthar’s tomes to each head of the on a scale never seen before prevailed. technological guilds, on the condition that Repeated reanimations eventually left the Valkail would be revived, this time dead as nothing but dust and the Wars properly. reduced in their intensity. The ancient Halthar still lived, in a manner of A bitter Halthar sabotaged the speaking, though Valkail’s metal-covered Dampening Emitter and meteors once form had long since decayed into a sad again showered down, devastating the reflection of its past glory. populace. In a feat of desperation, the High Tech Savants then performed the Halthar then created the second piece of greatest single work of necromancy ever true Technomancy. He animated a fallen be achieved. They revived half of the automaton on the junk fields. However, recent dead of the planet. the hyper paranoid Ilgother witnessed this through his cyber enhanced Necro- The cost to the vast feat of necromancy Hounds. was that those brought back were mere ciphers of their former selves, remembering little of their past lives and seemingly obedient only to the High Tech Savants. The living populace were terrified by these events and rallied behind a newly glorified Halthar, They saw him as the only true necromancer.

Halthar focused all his skill onto raising Valkail property and this time, to be safe, entombed him in glyph sealed techno- armour manufactured from the most advanced pieces of metallic debris that could be scavenged. This was the first occurrence of what became known as ‘technomancy’ in the history of Tashken. Ilgother wasted no time in replicating It would be many years before the Halthar’s creation. He reanimated vast practice of technomancy was made hordes of automata and immediately common. Halthar sent the successfully launched a fresh assault on Elgradar. It was a vengeance for the betrayal that

had occurred centuries earlier. Elgradar bestial cunning of the cyberneticaly attempted to raise the dead around him, infused Necro-Beasts. In the meantime, but only pitiful remains screamed into life the electro storms had finally subsided as brief resistance. Elgradar’s High after raging for centuries. Unfortunately, Citadel was destroyed in a single the Gravitic Amplifiers were now in broadside of ballistic fire. Balkan Rhode catastrophic disrepair. Instead of then created the techno beast horde, repairing them the surviving viewing biped constructs as hopelessly Technomancers created smaller versions sentimental. Ilgother focused on building within their domains, to protect their own his overwhelming automata construct citadels and deathly fiefdoms. army, supported by his network of cyber hounds. The Technomancy Wars The Technomancer Wars still continue to regained a whole new momentum. this day and it would be a poor soul that stumbled upon their planet. Though Halthar performed a powerful some Technomancers would be known summoning, days after this. A for selling their services, turning lost wars horrendously damaged and decayed around for the highest bidder, it’s often at Valkail Ashton dragged his broken a macabre cost. It is just as likely that automata form back to Halthar’s citadel. when aspiring warlords arrived to barter Halthar embraced the spirit of the living for power, a Technomancer would surrender, even from behind a virtual veil attempt to simply kill their would be of death. employer and steal their ship, always in Halthar began reanimating automata and the search for more of the arcane lore worked to bind live souls to their that heralded centuries of death and armoured forms. In this form of rebirth. technomancy, sparks of the living were bound to the automata, the process was slow but gave the automata a base level of intelligence not found in the soulless constructs of others; barring perhaps the