Hegemony of Titan
From FABT
  The Titan Hegemony at its greatest extent by 2204 CE prior to the Post-Apocalyptic War.
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Unitary Apexist theocratic divine monarchy |
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Edict for the Divine Inheritance of the Hegemony and its Auspices |
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Anointed Prophet Ocrolya Khabcass (first) |
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Anointed Prophet Ocrolya Khabcass (first) |
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Apex Resurgence Day |
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- "The true inheritors of Khar'Shan, the ever faithful."
- — Motto of the Titan Hegemony.
The Hegemony of Titan, simply known as the Hegemony, known to its citizens as the Batarian Hegemony and the New Batarian Empire, and to citizens of the New Batarian Republic as the Exiles of Khabcass and Apex Hegemony, was the government in-exile and representative body of the batarians of Titan that existed from 2198 CE to 2253 CE. The Titan Hegemony was the brainchild of Ocrolya Khabcass, a batarian colonel who rose up the ranks following the decimation of the Batarian Hegemony's military brass during the Reaper War. Having lost most of their officer corps during the war, including the war hero Balak Uhtero, the Batarian Hegemony was by far the worst off following the end of the Reaper War, its military utterly exhausted and dangerously depleted. Following the war, Khabcass found himself near the top of batarian politics, ending up with the position of batarian councilor following the establishment of the New Council. Not long after he rose to the position, Hegemony forces discovered the abandoned and unfinished remains of the Cerberus space fortress known as Titan, reporting the find directly to Khabcass who had ordered the expedition. Khabcass later took an expedition to 2181 Despoina in an attempt to use the Leviathans against the Alliance and to usurp the Supreme Regent, but instead fell under the sway of the Leviathans, becoming their puppet and the first to convert to the religion of Apexism, serving as an "anointed prophet".
As time went on, Khabcass established a secret movement to convert his people to Apexism, a practice that the Regent attempted to ban, but with his withering authority and the Hegemony crumbling at the seams, he was unable to stop the oncoming tidal wave of support for Apexist beliefs, with many finding the allure of Khabcass' push to reform the Hegemony into a new, flawless state designed by the batarian people instead of the elite to be particularly tantalizing following centuries of oppression and cultural stagnation. To speed up the Hegemony's destruction, Khabcass orchestrated a false flag attack on the human colony of Fargone, dragging the Hegemony into war with the Systems Coalition. With the Hegemony tied up fighting the Coalition, Khabcass was free to begin a mass exodus of believers and converts to Titan, where he planned to establish the new batarian government, with the eventual plan to return and retake Khar'Shan from the "human blasphemers": by the time the Hegemony finally collapsed and the war ended in 2198 CE, tens of thousands of batarians had escaped to Titan, including an additional several thousand slaves who supported Khabcass' plans to abolish slavery in his new Hegemony. In the same year, Khabcass officially christened the new "Hegemony of Titan", with Apexism as the official state religion and himself as their head of state and government: this new Hegemony did not recognize the sovereignty of the New Batarian Republic that the Coalition had established, believing it to be an illegitimate puppet state and that they were the true batarian state. In just the span of two years, the Hegemony of Titan would spearhead agreements with the nascent Tilthan Connection and Principality of Parnack to give birth to the Titan Covenant, a religious military and political alliance devoted to worship of the Leviathans amd to seeing the creation of a Renewed Leviathan Imperium, which they believed would remove all hardship and misery in the galaxy and give birth to a new era. In the early days of this new Hegemony, much of its military used equipment and ships that were stolen from the original Hegemony when they originally fled, and much of this equipment would continue to be used even as the Covenant grew in size. Due to the Hegemony's smaller size, it largely outsourced the defense of its citizens to the yahg and Tilthan, with the Hegemony instead focusing on economic and political growth. In this role, the Hegemony was very similar to the Papal States of human history, a state that largely served as the epicenter of the Covenant religion and politics, with its capital being the Covenant's capital, and their head of state also being the head of state for the Covenant as a whole. Its small population meant its citizens were largely only found on Titan, with smatterings of population spreading to other Covenant worlds over time, but most still dominated by yahg, tilthan and the minor species.
The government of the Hegemony of Titan was an autocratic theocracy, with its executive split between that of their Anointed Prophet and the Leviathans. A new Prophet was chosen by the Leviathans, and once chosen, that Prophet ruled with divine authority, deferring only to the Leviathans when making decisions, and their decisions charted the course of not just the Hegemony, but the entire Covenant. The military of the Hegemony was small, largely comprised of a few thousand troops guarding Titan itself and their fleet largely made up the Titan Home Fleet, the station's personal defense fleet. This would change as the Hegemony's population began to grow, but as a whole the duties of defense and armed conflict were given almost entirely to the Covenant's other member species, where they had the numbers to make up the difference. Due to the prominence of batarians on Titan, theirs became the dominant culture on the station, and this is reflected with the interior design, customs, laws and language of the station, with most Covenant races having to learn Farhi if they wish to live on/do business with Titan, despite the existence of universal translators. As promised by Khabcass, the practice of slavery was completely abolished on Titan, and even the yahg were forbidden from bringing their slaves onto the station. Many escaped slaves who had survived the exodus had integrated entirely into this new batarian society, becoming skilled, paid laborers or ascending to positions of importance in the Hegemony's court or military apparatus. Quality of life within the Hegemony of Titan was generally higher than that within the original Hegemony of Khar'Shan, despite still holding up a unitary autocracy as its main government. And as the Covenant grew more powerful, even after the Post-Apocalyptic War, so did this new Hegemony. As a fresh new start for the entire batarian species following their near extinction in the Reaper War, the government of Titan had proved itself to be a capable successor, especially in the face of the Coalition's answer in the New Batarian Republic, which was dissolved not long after its creation in favor of direct occupation. This attitude was reflected in its official policy, with the ultimate goal of the Hegemony being to eventually reclaim Khar'Shan, where it could assume its destined role as the official batarian superstate.
The Hegemony of Titan would meet an unceremonious, abrupt end in 2253 CE somewhat late into the Dominion Civil War. Noting the chaos within the Galactic Dominion at the time and having eyed the Galactic Sanctum for decades, the Hegemony believed the time had finally come to fulfill the Covenant's destiny to subsume the entire galaxy and establish the fabled return of the Leviathan Imperium. The DDF sent a peace delegation, spearheaded by Urdnot Wrex, to Titan in an attempt to secure a coalition between themselves and the Covenant in order to stop the loyalists, but the Covenant chose to betray them instead, murdering Wrex and his delegation. Hoping to take advantage of the DDF's weakness and the civil conflict, the Hegemony mobilized all of Titan and the rest of the Covenant for full-scale invasion, but before this could happen, the Dominion loyalists arrived with a large fleet and deployed the Ark simultaneously. This brazen assault came as a shock, and before anyone could act, the Titan Home Fleet was overwhelmed and the station destroyed by the Ark. With Titan destroyed, tens of thousands of batarians were killed, along with their Prophet and government, not to mention a sizable portion of their entire military, effectively obliterating the Hegemony of Titan in one fell swoop. Whilst possessing a small population scattered across other Covenant worlds and some of their ships deployed elsewhere, the majority of the Hegemony was gone, and those who survived were not strong enough to form any sort of government of their own. After the civil war ended, one or two of these smaller batarian bands joined Covenant remnant factions, while the rest flocked back to Khar'Shan, which was now finally an independent batarian state again and beckoned all surviving batarians to return to their homeworld. Most surviving Hegemony members heeded this call, and the few that sided with Covenant loyalists would eventually be killed when the UGR crushed remaining Covenant resistance.