The Aeternum

The Aeternum"A single person designed this atrocity. He made it to be the ultimate weapon of subjugation...the ultimate end to all resistance. A design that some would call crazy and unworthy, it even makes vast projects such as the Death Stars and the Imperium Ultra-Star Destroyer seem like star fighters compared to this. In a single sentence to describe the Aeternum? It was made to consume and rule any galaxy it traveled to." -Unknown Imperial Officer

The Aeternum, or also known as the Galaxy Conqueror unofficially, was an ambitious and absurd creation that was created for the simple role of being able to completely dominate an entire galaxy underneath a single ship. Despite no one knowing how it was created, let alone as to who may have built it, there are rumors that suggest that it was created by an ancient race of aliens or ancient civilizations. In a few more unofficial and unpopular theories, mainly by religious and cultist zealots, they state that it came from a higher entity or God, however; many have challenged that this is unproven and completely false.

Usage of the Aeternum was limited, due to its size and impracticality, aside from being more or less a foundry ship. The size of the ship was a burden as it could not go near the galaxy or any systems as fear of it to create an orbit around the ship itself, pulling the planets or suns around it and disrupting the 'galactic climate.' Therefore, it was mainly stationed around the galaxy it was bordering, in hopes that it could remain there without unforeseen consequences.

Emperor Palpatine, after his return from the cold clutches of death in 5 ABY, had discovered the massive ship had somehow drifted towards the edge of the galaxy near the Unknown Regions, where it was orbiting a massive red-giant star that was moderately larger than the ship itself. He sent multiple scouts, technicians and ships to secure the unknown monstrosity in a hope to uncover any uses that he could have for it. Eventually, after multiple failed attempts during the course of 3 years, a single technician was able to open up one of the pressure bulkheads that lead to a hanger with multiple unknown star fighters. An entire Star Destroyer crew along with specialists entered the ship in an effort to navigate, document and investigate the ship, while at the same time power it up to see its potential.

It took thousands of men, sensor probes and automatons to create a very rudimentary blueprint of the entire ship. Multiple men went to the bridge to find a way to restart the seemingly abandoned superstructure, while others went to investigate the odd junctions in the center of the massive object. It was soon found out that those rooms had massive internal power generators, that seemingly powered the massive beast. Upon restarting the unknown generators after trial and error, most computers and processes of the ship came back online, with the crew on the bridge being able to gain control of the ship and its functions. It soon became apparent that the ship was a massive foundry, as automated factories and dispensers pushed out star fighters, bombers, droids, frigate, capitol ships, armor and armaments for infantry, ground superiority vehicles and many other unknown designs that left the crew in awe. After hearing the success of the ship coming back online, Emperor Palpatine went to personally visit the ship after becoming fully operational near the beginning of 10 ABY. Palpatine was equally surprised at the capabilities of the ship that he accelerated his plans to reconquer the galaxy with this "weapon of mass destruction" as his ace in the hole.

He would later order millions of men to operate the ship until he commanded them to send in the units from the monstrosity. However, due to an untimely death of the Emperor and mutinous efforts from warring factions on the ship, it soon became a place of all out war, with each faction attempting to take over the ship, in order to proclaim themselves as the next Emperor of the galaxy. In a twist of fate, a single Imperial Lieutenant realizing the horrible potential that the weapon bared, went on a journey for redemption as he took the few men that had the same epiphany, and took the bridge. The Lieutenant after giving his men a few words of comfort, directed the massive ship towards the sun it orbited and plunged it into the center of the star so the entire ship was consumed by it.

Despite the ship being flown into a star, it wasn't destroyed let alone even harmed by the heroic and selfless act of the Lieutenant. So, the Lieutenant locked down the bridge and destroyed all the consoles on the bridge, while also overloading the engines from the bridge to make sure that they could not escape the star. It would take 6 years for the warring groups in the hull of the ship to finally end their fighting, with the last faction remaining. By the time the last faction had realized what had occurred, the sun had gotten past its indestructible hull and shielding, beginning to eat away at the massive ship, resulting in the destruction of the unknown technological terror that was the Aeternum. Poetically, as the entire ship was disintegrated completely, the massive red giant with the addition of all the mass, supernova'd, leading to the creation of a proton star in its wake.