Editing Disney Villains Victorious: Space K/L/Rs (section)

=== Hans Reinhardt: The Ghost Fleets of the Black Hole (The Black Hole)===

King: Doctor Hans Reinhardt    

Dr. Reinhardt was once a brilliant astrophysicist stationed on the Research Ship Cygnus on the outskirts of a Black Hole in order to study the phenomena. Reinhardt became increasingly obsessed with his studies, and eventually, when his crew mutinied due to his insistence that they remain near the Black Hole despite the inherent dangers and dwindling supplies, he systematically lobotomised and transformed them into his cybernetic slaves. Eventually, following heavy damage to the ship due to hostile encounters with an exploration vessel and a direct hit during a meteor storm, the Cygnus was destabilized and sucked into the Black Hole, taking Reinhardt with it.

When Reinhardt emerged, ship remarkably intact, his mind had been warped and twisted from whatever horrors he saw within the Black Hole. He now behaves more like a machine than a man, despite his (mostly) organic body, and his obsession with the Black Hole has grown into an almost fanatical devotion to it as a deity. He considers the Black Hole an almighty arbiter of justice which decides the fates of all creatures, dooming the unworthy such as himself to an eternity of suffering. He believes that it has chosen him personally to spread its influence through devotion and sacrifice so that it may wash away the evils of the universe like the floods of the old testament, and will allow nothing and noone to stop him in his crazed mission.
Whether a product of his deluded brain or not, the Doctor claims that the Black Hole whispers dark secrets day and night to him. He has an uncanny knowledge about almost all major goings on in the galaxy and those who meet the man in person find him unnervingly knowledgeable about their innermost workings, allowing him to easily crack even the toughest resolves. In fact, despite the imposing and heavily armed iron lung constructed from his former robot assistant, Reinhardt prefers to eliminate threats through conversation, putting to use a cold and emotionless logic to break the wills of his foes before disposing of them; ensuring both body and mind are broken.

Land: The Ghost Fleets of the Black Hole

Reinhardt’s territory encompasses the region of space at the edge of the galaxy’s largest Black Hole, and is constantly shifting to match the slow expansion of the tear in space and time.

Reinhardt’s armada of captured ghost ships ignores planetary bodies for the most part, only occasionally dispatching an excavation craft to gather needed minerals from asteroids and moons. The void between worlds, however, is a no-man’s land for any unaligned spacecraft, which are attacked with the utmost efficiency, leaving inhabited worlds to stagnate and suffer as all interstellar trade is brought to a sudden halt. The only foreign vessels that are spared this fate are those carrying members of one of the numerous “Black Hole Cults” that have sprung up across this dead region of space. Reinhardt finds them amusing at best and insulting for their false appreciation for the Hole’s beauty at worst, but seeing as these sects have a tendency to willingly sacrifice themselves and their unfortunate captives to the swirling maw at the heart of the galaxy, the Ghost Fleets have little need to act against them.

As the Black Hole’s reach advances, strange phenomena and otherworldly events have been recorded those nearest its borders. Ghostly apparitions, great plagues and floods, the sudden and inexplicable alteration of the natural laws of physics, and extreme psychological distress and behavioural abnormality. One by one, planets in its sphere cease outgoing communication after disturbing reports of societies torn apart and peaceful civilizations consuming themselves in an orgy of unrestrained bloodlust. 

Rule: Into The Black Hole

Because Reinhardt’s current focus is on expanding his fleet, his forces take great care not to needlessly waste enemy vessels, preferring to board and eliminate the crew so that the ship can be salvaged as another addition to the armada. Any prisoners are transformed into mindless soldier-drones to be deployed in future boarding actions in a perpetuating cycle. However, especially populated or combat unworthy craft will instead suffer a different fate. Swarms of ghost-ships will harass and herd the unfortunate vessel deeper and deeper into the Empire’s midst until it is sucked into the swirling depths of the Black Hole as though it were a crude sacrifice to some ancient god. 

Very rarely, Reinhardt himself will take an interest in an interloper and will instead draw them into the reach of his looming flagship, The Cygnus, to greet them as his guests before their inevitable demise. Reinhardt justifies this in his mind by labeling these guests as threats needing personal supervision, but in truth, the company of unthinking drones has left the man desperate to listen to a voice besides his own and the ever present murmurs of the swirling depths.