Assimilators, Crusaders, Invaders, and Violators - I

I mean just look at this stuff

The concept artwork for Destiny is the main inspirational source for this campaign. It's only fitting
that the alien species that I have in mind take a lot of inspiration from the early enemy concept art and design work for both the games. They have a lot of neat themes and ideas buried in there that I really want to take advantage of.

I love it!

In the year 2896, Earth and the Sol System are continuously threatened by various alien species who seek to claim it for their own ends. But this isn't a joint effort, to the point that the aliens are just as willing to fight each other over the scraps of humanity as they are to fight humanity itself. Suffice to say, the entire system is an absolute mess. Let' take a look at who's stirring it up.

The Dishonored 

Ghouls from the Void

Lens: Greed and Treachery

Disgraced. Wandering. Wanting. These raiders are here from the beyond the galaxy to plunder and pillage, forever seeking what was denied to them. The term "Dishonored" refers collectively to the splintered Great Sects of this species, though each Great Sect has their own agenda, regalia, and nature. They don't appear to have a unified leadership as their inner politics are plagued with treachery and scheming; their High Seat has long been empty as a sign of their unworthiness and fall from grace. Any alliance between Sects is temporary at best. The Great Sects themselves each venerate an aspect of the their esoteric and many-eyed deity, who is said to have laid their species low in its great displeasure long, long ago. As a result of this slight, they lost the divine energy they were imbued with and have been searching the stars for a long-term replacement for many millennia*. They are essentially husks of their former selves craving for divine sustenance they may never find.

The Dishonored are known to use human thralls.

They were the second species from outside the galaxy to arrive in the Sol System. For the survivors of humanity who were struggling after the End, the Dishonored armada arrived and declared a great crusade to gut the remains of the system. The crusade quickly dissolved into infighting as the 9 Great Sects turned on each other. Today, these vile scavengers are picking at the carcass of humanity's civilization and have rooted deep, erecting great towers to dock their massive stronghold ships. Extremely potent warriors and pilots, they issue forth from their towers piloting deadly ships filled with terrible machines of war and destruction.

The Dishonored are taking advantage of the rich energy conditions of the Sol System to fuel their energy requirements. The roiling tides of pure power are not unlike what their deity granted them long ago. They harvest theses great fonts of power, the innate energy of lives, and especially the meta-dimensional rich sources such as MES-afflicted and Souls to sustain their parasitic existence. 

*Some Sects (Minor and even some Great) have found a suitable replacement in the Shadows that occur naturally in the wake of the End in the Sol System. These Sects are predictably very bad news.

Great Monuments of Ruin