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The assassination of Overlord Primus Verros prelude to the fall
Overlord Primus Verros was more than just a ruler. He
was the iron fist of the Overlord Dominion, a tyrant
whose vision for the galaxy was one of absolute control.
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Under his reign, entire star systems had been brought to
their knees, their people forced into servitude, their cultures erased
in the name of dominion supremacy. For decades, Verros had
stood unchallenged. His war machine spread like an infection, crushing
resistance movements, dismantling rogue governments, and enforcing brutal order through
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sheer military dominance. But power breeds enemies, and whispers of
his downfall had long echoed through the shadows. The resistance
had grown bold, and the Galactic Justice, along with remnants
of the casualties of Mars, the Knights of Karok and
the Zone Warriors, had decided that Vayros's reign would end
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not in war, but in silence. The decision was made,
the Overlord had to die. The target a fortress in
the void, Vairos ruled from the Eegis Spire, an impenetrable
dominion station orbiting Tarconis four, one of the most heavily
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fortified worlds in the Dominion's core systems. The Aegis Spire
was a mobile command citadel, a floating fortress of black
alloy and planetary class defense grids outfitted with shield generators
that could withstand bombardment from an entire fleet. The station
was surrounded by Dominion warships, automated defense drones, and a
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network of scanning satellites capable of detecting any unauthorized movement
in Tarconis space. A direct attack was impossible. The station's
shields could only be brought down from within. The assassin's
entry had to be silent, precise, and undetectable, infiltration a
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ghost in the Dominion. The plan was built on deception,
requiring several moving parts across multiple systems to succeed. Weeks
before the assassination, resistance hackers embedded a false security override
code into Dominion logistics systems, creating a temporary blind spot
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in the Spire's automated tracking system. A Dominion cargo vessel
delivering high priority war supplies was compromised and repurposed. The
assassins embedded themselves within the ship's hull hidden among energy
cells and munitions, their life signatures masked by decoy transmitters.
As the cargo ship was cleared for entry, the blind
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spot in the station's scanner grid activated, granting a narrow
window for the assassins to move undetected. Within minutes, they
had breached the spire's interior. The silent hunt. The corridors
of the Aegis Spire were built for intimidation, monolithic steel
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hallways bathed in cold red lighting, lined with Dominion Elite guards,
each a veteran of countless planetary conquests. The assassins moved
like shadows bypassing security checkpoints, using stolen access codes, planting
disruptors along key surveillance routes, and systematically eliminating isolated personnel
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with no trace left behind. Each step was calculated, every
action was rehearsed. They reached the Overlord's chamber level, an
inner sanctum fortified with energy barriers, biometric scanners, and a
personal guard battalion, Direct combat was not an option. The
Overlord's personal force would overwhelm them before they reached their target. Instead,
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they turned to deception, the Dominion's own security system became
their greatest weapon. The kill sequence, the final phase of
the assassination, was a meticulously timed cascade of events designed
to cripple the station's response time and leave the overlord isolated.
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At the moment of the strike, A controlled power disruption
overloaded the station's internal security scanners, rendering the overlord's private
quarters temporarily unmonitored. A holographic transmission forged to mimic a
distress call from a neighboring Dominion fleet was routed through
the station's command relay, drawing security forces away from the
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overlord's location. With the guards repositioned, the assassins used an
over ridden maintenance shaft to bypass the final security perimeter
and gain access to the overlord's chamber. Inside, the overlord
remained unaware of his faire eight deep in tactical briefings
and Dominion war strategy, the strike was instantaneous and merciless.
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A compressed molecular disruption charge placed beneath the Overlord's primary
command chair detonated precisely at the moment he engaged. A
Dominion fleet wide transmission broadcasting his final moments across the
Dominion's entire High command network. His body was instantly torn
apart on a quantum level, vaporized into nothingness, leaving behind
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only the scorched remnants of his armor and a distorted
echo of his voice across the calm channels. The overlord
of the Dominion had been erased escape the vanishing act.
With the Overlord's death, alarms shrieked through the station, triggering
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a full scale lockdown. Emergency response teams flooded the corridors,
security protocols were overridden, and escape routes began to but
the Assassins had already accounted for this. The station's primary
docking bay was rigged with a cascading EMP detonation, forcing
the Dominion to manually reboot critical systems before pursuing escape vessels.
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The hacked cargo ship, which had delivered the Assassins to
the station, remained cloaked under an internal defense protocol, allowing
them to extract unnoticed amidst the chaos. By the time
the Dominion recovered control of the station, the Assassins were
already gone, disappearing into the void of Tarconi's space. The
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Dominion's most powerful ruler had been killed within the heart
of his own fortress, and the perpetrators had vanished without
a trace. The aftermath the collapse of the overlord Dominion,
the assassination of Primus Vero sent shockwaves through the Dominion.
Without its tyrannical leader, the Dominion's chain of commandctured as
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war lords, governors, and admirals turned on one another in
a desperate bid for power. Entire fleets splintered into rival factions,
some remaining loyal to the Dominion's ideals, while others saw
an opportunity to carve out their own rule. The resistance
seized its moment, launching coordinated strikes across dominion occupied worlds,
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liberating entire star systems in a matter of weeks. For
the first time in centuries, the Dominion was no longer
an unstoppable force. Instead, it was a crumbling empire, its
once mighty fleets divided, its influence weakened, and its enemies emboldened.
The assassination had not merely ended the life of a tyrant.
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It had set the course for the Dominion's eventual downfall,
the unseen hand of the assassins. No official claim for
the assassination was ever made, Rumors spread through the cosmos.
The Galactic Justice had orchestrated it, seeing Vyros as a
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threat to the balance of power. The casualties of Mars
had avenged their fallen home world, striking at the leader
who once sought their extinction. The Knights of karok Long
in exile, had used their hidden network to remove the
Overlord before he could discover their growing resurgence. But the truth,
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the true identity of the assassins, remains unknown, buried beneath
layers of deception, false leads, and erased records. The Overlord
had died, the dominion had fallen into chaos, and somewhere
in the vastness of space, the ones who had executed
him watched, waiting for what came next. Because the war
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for the galaxy was far from over. It had only
just begun.