Well, the story is intricate. At the time of inception, I was toying with making Kaine the emperor but I couldn't really figure out what to do with the Hyfe character since he was the Regent and (at the time) around OOC.
So I decided to bring a conflict to Kaine and Hyfe.
In
Apparitions: Spectres of the Truth and
Apparitions: Faces of the Dead this is done. It is supposed to be Kaine's attempt to assassinate Daemon Hyfe because of the "Dark Side" influence (in the form of Palpatine's Spirit; or a spirit thinking itself Palpatine). There are flashbacks illustrating Hyfe's descent into paranoia and madness as he tries to assassinate his own top officers so they won't take his position. He tries to have Zell assasinated and he tries to kill Kaine himself, all the while Kaine is trying to kill Hyfe. But Kaine has to plan because he's not a force user and so fakes the destruction of the Galactus. One of his plans to control force users is through the creation of the Empire's Jedi Corps (A take on Babylon 5's Psi Corps but with a Jedi twist).
In one reality, Kaine does succeed in killing Hyfe and so elevates himself as the Empire's Second Emperor. This future is told in the story
Of Endings: Heavy Sits the Crown of Victory and Hard the Cold Hand of Time.
But one may ask, Kaine is not Emperor in the TRF timeline so what happens?
Enter BDE, the Taj and the Dracconis 400 years into the future. To defeat an Emperor Kaine and stop Imperial domination, they send a soldier back in time to stop Kaine's assassination of Hyfe.
That is why in Apparitions: Faces of the Dead the confrontation is interrupted by a Dracconis and the incident referred too in Of Endings.
Side Note: In the Of Endings: Heavy Sits the Crown of Victory... I wanted to tie up a loose end from Endgame. A Senator of Coruscant tries to sway Ciscero (who has infiltrated and become Governor of Coruscant) to do the right thing. While Ciscero is an Imperial Agent, he is moved to save the Senator's grandchildren. At the end, Kaine thinks he destroys the grandkids shuttle to prevent future problems. Ciscero tricks him and the kids live.
Basically, in Emperor Kaine, he becomes just as bad as Hyfe in his bid for power and Ciscero turns against him and assassinates Kaine.
But with Of Endings, I wanted to do a story of Kaine triumphant and of Kaine defeated. I liked the enemy of the Themien War so I did a "what if" and while the Taj, BDE and the Dracconis changed Kaine's history and prevented him from becoming Emperor, this also has an effect on subsequent events such as the Themien War.
If Kaine was Emperor, TNO wins.
With Kaine not Emperor, TNO loses.
But with far reaching effects on the galaxy at large as told in
Of Endings: Empty the Cries of the Vanquished and Bitter the Taste of Defeat.
So once more, the Taj, BDE and Dracconis, faced with a very different 400 year future that is also bleak need to go back in time and intervene to ensure the defeat of the Blood.
Or so they think.
This intervention will be in Book II of the Themien War (unwritten as yet). I started
The Themien War: Book I which will tell the rise of the Blood and their connection to the Themein people and how they come to know of the Coursca galaxy.
It is incomplete but I do have plans on finishing.
Anyway, yes, the Themien War does have pictures and is colored. I was trying something different and messing with a picture program for the first time. It's cheesy but I can live with it.
I also have trouble remembering if it's Themein or Themien. It's supposed to be Themien. :P
