Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20170821232003

Maelstrom worlds, also known as law less worlds, are worlds near or in the Empire that have seen a fall of government and usually society in some shape of form (generally become feral worlds within a few centuries). Maelstrom worlds are created by various means from rebel uprising, robot uprising, slave uprising, and all sorts of parasites and diseases.

To become a Maelstrom world the world itself must have had, at one point, a functioning space travel capable government that then fell apart due to some sort of event or series of events. Usually leading to the rise of warlords and tyrants, techno barbarians, or the death of the world in question. They generally fall into three types:

- War Worlds are worlds once functioning worlds that have been driven back in time by a age of warlords and never ending conflict between said warlords. Normally such worlds are kept in this age by foreign powers wishing to exploit the natives and use them as soldiers or battle slaves. Sometimes these worlds keep basic space travel and become the home/place of origin of many mercenaries, pirates, and war bands.

- Plague Worlds are worlds that feel apart due to a virus of some sort even robotic or biological in origin. Generally the natives of said world are either killed off or become horribly mutated. In the robotic sense the machines of said world can be effected with some sort of malware that leads to killer robots. Generally these worlds are destroyed or quarantined for research purposes. It's not unknown for the Rin to test their robotic war machines upon Plague Worlds.

- Anarchy Worlds are worlds that have lost any semblance of world order and have diverted into a uncountable number of nations, war bands, pirate dens, and so on. They are different by war worlds only because war worlds have some sort of large government while Anarchy worlds don't tend too. Anarchy worlds tend to become havens for pirates and favorite destinations of slavers looking for easy prey. 