Editing Komra (section)

====The Cult of Krenz====
{{Main|Cult of Krenz}}

On ancient Rakizor, a miner named Edsten encountered a mysterious ''entity'' while prospecting the depths for mineral deposits.  The being presented through impression, not being, flooding Edsten's mind with his memories of powerful machines.  Though his vision and hearing were unaffected, the Komra was internally assailed by remembered sensation; the vibration of heavy engines, roaring motors, and the stench of burned fuel, and within this cacophony was a glimpse of the impossible brightness of the fusion reaction.  Edsten's stout heart quailed and he fell down trembling, begging the entity to release him.  Whether Edsten was released or he simply became more accustomed to the presence of the entity is unknown, but he began to become aware of its wishes.  The miner returned to his Gelkzaft, claiming to have found rich deposits and urging his brethren to help verify the find.  Those who followed Edsten into the depths were similarly brought into the thrall of the entity, which they dubbed "Krenz".

Edsten's Cult were able to assume control of Rakizor relatively swiftly.  None of the citizens expected a threat like Krenz and the cellular structure of Komra society made it easy to win over one Gelkzaft at a time.  Only Rakizor's most powerful psykers noticed anything amiss, and they were either slain or brought before Krenz.  As the Cult gained power, the pit in which Krenz had been discovered was refurbished into a dark temple and terrible rites were held to venerate the entity.  Gelkzaft working in biotechnology began to carry out experiments without any heed for ethics, while industrial Komra developed specialized weapons.  In 17843LF (067.M24), Edsten was appointed to Rakizor's planetary Sojt and began to meet with the Brysojt of the Core Worlds Confederation.

Unlike on Rakizor, the psykers on Valaya Station could not be picked off.  Roxum, a native of Karazak, was the first to sense something amiss and quickly confided her suspicions to her compatriot, the warrior-psyker Karnech.  The two began a careful investigation across the stars, undertaking long journeys to Rakizor's colonies and searching for others under the same shadow as Edsten and his partisans.  Although they found no widespread corruption beyond Rakizor, new migrant Gelkzaft from the dark world were all thralls of Krenz.  Horrified by the implications, Roxum and Karnech met with the oldest and most powerful psyker among the Komra, Kakau of Chelob Hold, in 17885LF (109.M24).  To their relief, Kakau supported Roxum and Karnech.  The old psyker used his prestige to speak before the Brysojt, calling for an investigation of Rakizor.  Edsten responded vigorously, denouncing the psykers for demanding that their senses be considered as absolute evidence.  He argued that no world, be it Rakizor or another member of the Confederation, should have to submit to such a humiliation without the presentation of physical evidence.  Unwilling to alienate one of the Stem Worlds, the Brysojt representatives - even those of Karazak and Chelob Hold - moved to defer Kakau's request until physical evidence could be submitted.  This "compromise" avoided the embarrassment of dismissing the old psyker entirely while completely defending Edsten's agenda.

Although rebuffed, Kakau, Roxum and Karnech did not abandon their cause.  As with all space-faring Komra, the trio ended up falling centuries forward in time relative to their planet-dwelling brethren.  Roxum and Kakau travelled through the other Stem Worlds - Ork-blighted Shifbar, gleaming Karazak, and unsmiling Chelob Hold - and the rising Circle Worlds searching for allies among their fellow psykers.  Fearless Karnech infiltrated the colonies of Rakizor and slowly made his way to the dark world in the hopes of finding the physical evidence the Brysojt demanded.  The warrior-psyker's harrowing journey would eventually become the stuff of legend, but it was a saga with a tragic end.  Karnech endured the gaze of Krenz by absorbing the entity's influence into a shell personality which he later subsumed into his iron-willed whole.  This act allowed him to gather a sampling of Rakizor's innumerable horrors and send that precious evidence to his allies before Krenz's awesome mental strength overwhelmed him.