[attr="class","intcheck_title"]heroic record[break]KNIGHTS ERRANT

[attr="class","intcheck_title2"]KNIGHTS ERRANT

[attr="class","subtitle"]Based upon Aldnoah.Zero, Gundam AGE, and Five Star Stories.

[attr="class","intcheck_body"] Art by Isegawa Yasutaka.
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The Shattered Star; the symbol representing the thirteen polities that make up the Outer Colonies. These feudal states have combined together into one entity under Pendragon, however, each state retains relative autonomy under its individual governor, one of the Knights of the Void.
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For reference, life on GCE-controlled Earth is much like it is now with the amenities of future technology that have been advanced to over the course of a few hundred years; while Outer Colonies life has become extremely warlike and focused on pragmatic technologies with the purpose of sustaining their populace through a mantra of efficiency and maximum output.
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While the Earth maintains a global administrative force that rarely sees changes in personnel or structure over the years, the inheritance of rulers to their territories in the Outer Colonies is based largely on medieval feudalism, meaning the title of Knight of the Void comes and goes to the candidate most suitable via the region's endemic selection law.
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Pendragon, Kay, Bedivere, Percival, Lancelot, Tristan, Gawain, Agravain, Mordred, Gaheris, Gareth, Palamedes, Galahad. Each is largely responsible for their territory, sometimes sharing a moon and neighboring objects and maintain military "levies", which are beholden to the call of Pendragon when they are required. Though people will respect a powerful leader, the range of age, gender and experience can vary widely between the Knights.
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While all the Knights have an obligation to obey Pendragon, they may not necessarily share his or her views. Internal conflict after the Shattered Star was formed is still commonplace, leading some to believe that the symbolism is quite apt for the circumstances.

[attr="class","intcheck_title"]heroic record[break]KNIGHTS ERRANT

[attr="class","intcheck_title2"]KNIGHTS ERRANT

[attr="class","subtitle"]Based upon Aldnoah.Zero, Gundam AGE, and Five Star Stories.

[attr="class","intcheck_body"] Art by Archlich.
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The Kinetic General Hardsuit & Tactical System has been the workhorse of the Solar System for nearly a hundred years after humans finally left the pull of Earth's orbit; KNIGHTS as they are known formed the backbone of starbase and colonial development on the habitable moons of Jupiter and Saturn. The populations of these space colonies burgeoned after war had left most of the Earth's surface uninhabitable, leading some to believe that space was the new and final frontier, after all.
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However, when a mysterious phenomenon isolated the Outer Solar System from its inner counterpart, contact was lost with the colonies in one fell swoop, leaving only Earth and its near neighbors to negotiate peace in order to ensure the survival of the human species.
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More than six centuries passed after that before the phenomenon fell away; by then, those on Earth had reconciled their differences with one another and contributed towards the Global Contingency Union, seeking now to return to space and discover what had happened to their missing fellows.
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To their surprise, what they found was war, once again.
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Centuries of conflict and an attempt to survive by controlling the dwindling resources of the Outer colonies had resulted in a war-like, feudal society ruled by twelve governors known as the Knights of the Void, serving under one mysterious figure known as Pendragon. When the Earth and its verdurous restoration finally showed itself, they were quick to leap upon claiming it as their rightful territory, deeming it "New Avalon". Poised to sweep into Earth space with their machines honed for battle over half a millennia, tensions are at an all time high.
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So begins a fight for supremacy; spurred on by the grudges of past mistakes and an era of isolation and paranoia. Pendragon cannot be trusted, but can the GCE right the wrongs of years past - or be doomed to serve as the stepping stone to the Knights' New Avalon?