Blood I

Trialys Blood I was involved in a massive conspiracy which began in 6346 and came to a climax in 6353 with his disappearance at the hands of Carthus Underwood. Appearing from seemingly thin air, Blood and his supporters swept the Empire in the dwindling days of Volkov V, swiftly becoming the most popular candidate for Emperor-ship. After winning the election in 6352, a skeptical inquisition that had questioned his spontaneous appearance, led by Carthus Underwood, the secretary of state for Volkov V, uncovered a nefarious plot by the Blood Administration which involved the violation of several imperative AI regulations. Blood I and his puppeteers were revealed to be from a sect of deserters who had left the Empire into deep space in the 4000's to practice with extremely illegal AI technologies. Blood I's winning election was meant to be a fast-track for the sect to take control of the entire Empire with AI in a legal and quasi-peaceful fashion, however at the discovery of their plot and execution of the administration, the remaining members of the sect in deep space retaliated by using their illegal AI in waging a decade-long war against the Empire, referred to as The Droid Wars.

Blood I's illegal cybernetic enhancements allowed him conceptual immortality, as with proper energy and nutrition he would not die of old age. As he was never publicly executed, one of the biggest conspiracy theories since the 6350's was that he was still alive, locked away somewhere in the Empire.

During Turner's Rebellion, it is revealed that a perfectly sane, healthy, intelligent Blood I is one of the many high-order relics belonging to the Hyde Family in the catacombs beneath New Capitis. Blood I had been in isolated captivity for over 5,600 years.