Gobi Remembers
“I regret only that I did not find more of them. If the court wishes to condemn me for executing twelve pretenders who would see humanity in chains, then so be it. Let history show I chose honor when others chose indulgence.”
Legacy of the Plague Kings
Gobi Remembers clings to the rotting legacy of the First Terran Empire, a regime founded not by noble deeds or virtuous rule but by engineered biological terror. Their forebears—the infamous Gobi Kings—rose to power from a covert lab beneath the Gobi Desert by orchestrating a series of pandemics that fractured the world's political order. They followed their laboratory warfare with a monopoly on the cure, exchanging salvation for servitude. At their height, they unleashed the Quebecois Filoviridus and Gobivirus Mutagenicus—two of the most infamous plagues in human history. The first toppled Earth’s leadership; the second damaged the genes of generations of off-worlders into what would later be called “mutants.” The Gobi Empire, birthed in terror and ruled by paranoia, collapsed not through revolt by the masses but through the precision violence of the Men of Merit. Yet the bloodline was never fully extinguished.
Modern Treachery in Aristocratic Clothing
The modern Gobi Remembers movement reveres the surviving heirs of that wretched dynasty, viewing them as humanity’s rightful monarchs. Dressed in nostalgia for monarchy but drenched in corruption, the group functions more like a syndicate of aristocratic parasites than an ideological movement. Their tactics are classic to the point of cliché—bribery, blackmail, assassination, and the quiet whisper of succession. They infiltrate bureaucracies, whisper in ears at court functions, and fund revisionist histories that paint the Gobi Kings as misunderstood saviors. Yet their greatest weakness lies in their lack of mass appeal; few humans, even among the disenfranchised, would submit to a dynasty infamous for corruption, incompetence, and using weaponized disease as a political cudgel. With no clear public mandate, Gobi Remembers slinks through the dark corridors of power, looking for cracks to worm into.
Feud by Flame and Steel
If the Gobi Remembers are despised by the people, they are hunted with religious fervor by Haus des Drachen and mistrusted even by fellow aristocratic revivalists like the Nouveau Palatine. To the des Drachen line, the Gobi Kings represent not merely tyranny, but fraudulence—a claim to divine right earned through terror rather than valor. Members of des Drachen found guilty of extrajudicial killings tied to Gobi Remembers often stand trial with full chivalric dignity and no regret, seeing the trials as performative and the slayings as sacred duty. This vendetta has bred a reciprocal bitterness; Gobi Remembers has attempted multiple targeted assassinations of des Drachen family members, escalating what many see as a cold war between the trueborn warriors of the Great House and the lab-born inheritors of a dead empire. For now, the violence remains in the shadows—but the echoes of ancient monarchies still carry blood.
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