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===The Ride of the Horsemen===
after several hundred years of mostly peaceful rule, when Eli was aged approximately thirteen thousand years a small industrial system named Balmorra started a surprisingly strong rebellion against the crown. This spread like a cancer to other mortal systems, the traitor systems quickly outnumbering loyal ones. eventually all that was left in Eli's hands were the imperial homeworld and each of the clan stronghold systems. it was at this point that Eli himself decided to leave the granite circle and go to war; the effect was instantaneous. Even if the traitor races could not remember why they swore allegiance to Eli the Dragon, they soon remembered; and so it was, in the fields of choris on balmorra IV that a tank round hit the empress, Eli's wife in the head. If it had been any normal bullet, Maria Crane's helmet would have saved her. This however, was no ordinary bullet. It was a Gungnir shell; an unstable singularity trapped in a box launched at five thousand miles per hour. Maria was instantly torn into shreds by the fluctuating gravity fields created by the device. As Eli watched this grisly scene, he felt something he hadn't felt in thirteen thousand years, then fainted. Apophis woke up. he had been forced asleep by that idiot Eli for thirteen millennia and was pissed off. over the next week, Balmorra and other nearby systems systematically had the life sucked out of them. Eli's Inverse Soul, Apophis, who has the impossible power to simply devour energy, can reduce entire populations to dust in days. eventually, Apophis' anger was pacified by gorging itself on the souls of those whom it had killed. Eli's son and two daughters had similar reactions, releasing their own Inverse Souls; Set, Erra and Serkhet respectively. Although they were powerful, their impact was far less. The Inverse Souls of Eli and his children would eventually become known as the four horsemen.