The Thirteenth (The Martyr)

Kind, wise and caring, but also vengeful at times, The Martyr, also known as The Thirteenth Incarnation of the Original, was the result of his predecessor's last action, his mental unification. This incarnation of The Original believed in fighting for what he stood for and not standing down when those he held dear was in danger.

Upon renewal, The Martyr landed on Earth and hunted down the Shadow Monster, a descendant of the Dark Ones. He fought the Shadow Monster to the Corridor of Eternity and then travelled to the Moon in 2052, being faced with a terrible decision, to either let everyone in the Solar System die, or kill everyone in the Penal Colony. After destroying the Penal Colony, he abandoned his previous title of The Vessel, and renamed himself to The Martyr. He then returned to Pisceria and witnessed the destruction of his homeworld by the Seventh Incarnation of the Original.

He landed on Pisceria during the bombing perpetrated by his seventh incarnation and obtained the Knowledge Machine, being shown his future as The Caregiver and other future incarnations. The Martyr then found himself compelled by his nightmares and the drumming inside his mind to twist his personal intentions and turn to the dark side, joining The Piscerian War Resistance and single-handedly destroying the Fifth Capitol of Pisceria, Cavalisi during the last years of the Last Piscerian-Archon War. 3 years later, in the final days of the Last Piscerian-Archon War, The Martyr was banished from the War and sent to Earth in a different reality. He fought his way back to the IDES. He then returned to modern-day Earth, met a future friend of his and was inspired by her to give up his dark ways and defend Earth against the Activation of the Terran Cascade, almost dying in the process.

After spending 40 years healing, he was called by a distress call and ended up crash-landing on the 10th Pisceria clone world, New Avagarn, The Martyr searched for any survivors of the War. After discovering that he was the last of his kind, The Martyr was given a choice by the Archons: to either destroy New Avagarn or give them a chunk of Piscerian technology that could bring down the universe. To knockback the Archon plans, The Martyr destroyed New Avagarn.

After journeying to the apparently human starship Eternity 72, which appeared to hold the population of 39th century Britain, the Martyr discovered the truth about the ship and it's point of origin, Archon. He then proceeded to disengage the Arcane Gate, a venting system for energy created by a black hole to keep the engines of Eternity 72 active, and destroy Eternity 72. After destroying the Archon colony ship, the Martyr travelled to the Vault of the Gods on Pisceria to collect an ancient weapon known for its genetic filtering: The Gene Box. The Martyr reverse-programmed The Gene Box and returned to Earth before the Archon Invasion of Earth in 2020. He then gathered the Archons along the south bank of the Thames around Darenth and activated the Gene Box, banishing the Archons back into the War. The Martyr then battled the Archons in an ocean on Chalizir and sealed them into a deep-sea base, destroying them in the process.

The Martyr's nightmares then returned to plague him, and he reached an epiphany regarding his victimhood, vowing to fight the enemies of the universe until his last breath. He then battled the Cascadine Waker and defeated him, destroying Cascadine. He then travelled back to Earth via the Sixth Capitol of Pisceria, Bavilas and fought the Dark Ones. He then continued to battle the Darkhorde Alliance in low Earth orbit until he sent them through time to an abandoned ship in the Akashic Void, where he had set up a timelocking self-destruct system that wiped out the alliance.

Before his renewal into the Caregiver, he was infected by the Endorian Genetic Virus and slowly turned into an Endorian Warrior. With the threat looming over him, he dedicated the rest of his life to finding a cure for the virus and renewing.

The days to come
On Veeras, at the end of his eighth incarnation, the Veeri Contrast showed the Eighth Incarnation of the Original his future as The Thirteenth Incarnation of the Original and the Fourteenth Incarnation of the Original.

When the Eighth Incarnation of the Original was undergoing pre-renewal shock, he encountered Allander and was told to not resist against the Order of the Vampires in his thirteenth incarnation.

When the Eleventh Incarnation of the Original was assigned to gift the Knowledge Machine to the Ancients of Terras, he was told by the device that "in fear, hatred and destruction, a new man of love, peace and kindness would be born". The Thirteenth Incarnation of the Original realized that he was the fear, hatred and destruction that the Fourteenth Incarnation of the Original was born in.

A mind anew
After the Twelfth Incarnation of the Original unified the parties of his mind, The Cold and The Vessel, he collapsed into the DARTS and sealed himself in. Gently weeping, he began to renew. He gave a few words of advice to his successor, telling him to "stay brave, to accept and to run like hell". With his final words, the now unified Twelfth Incarnation died and let his body renew.

As he renewed, the damage done to his mind unravelled and he allowed healing to start. This would be the start of the positive side of The Martyr's personality and would allow him to feel great empathy in his following incarnations. Blasting the renewal away, The Martyr stood where The Twelfth once had and fell to the console, causing the DARTS to spin out of control towards Earth.

Landing on Earth and meeting his past incarnation
He crashed on Earth during the First Occupation of the Shadow Monsters in 2019 and met his previous incarnation shortly before his final battle. He was told about the impending danger that his future self had warned him of and told The Martyr that he was all that stood between the safety of the human race and the Alliance of the Darkhorde. He gave The Martyr a Shadow Monster detector and told him to follow it, before entering the DARTS and leaving him there.

Fighting the Shadow Monster
The Martyr spent two years preparing to storm the Underworld, where the Shadow Monster was lurking. He found a secret entrance and wandered inside, sealing it behind him. He then trudged through the Labyrinth of the Underworld, attempting to find the Shadow Monster and slay it. He eventually found The First Maze of the Ancients and lured the Shadow Monster down to that point to the doorway of the Corridor of Eternity. The Shadow Monster was killed by the endless energy in the Corridor and The Martyr returned to Earth, where he was relocated back to where the DARTS stood.

Testing the IDES and The Penal Lunar Colony
After defeating the Shadow Monster, The Martyr took the DARTS back to Pisceria soon after the end of the Last War. He abandoned the DARTS on the edge of Avagarn and wandered to the workshops, where the IDES, a specially engineered upgrade of the DARTS, was grown as a present from the Board of Future Protection on the Martyr's 3000th birthday. The Martyr then took the IDES and travelled to the Penal Lunar Colony on August 17th 2052, where he explored the colony and found the Tesla's Conduit, in the process of overloading. He then was forced to decide whether or not to destroy the Penal Colony through disabling the overload failsafe. He made his decision and destroyed the Colony before a major riot that would have led to the security skeleton crew being killed and the convicts escaping.

The Martyr's madness.
After destroying the Colony, The Martyr fell into an insanity from guilt and began to have a rhythm stuck in his head, which was in actuality a mental shard that had damaged his mind. He then began to refer to himself as the Master of Chaos and spent 20 years in isolation before returning to Pisceria long after the end of the War, where he chased down his seventh incarnation and cornered him to his Battalion Vessel, where the Cascade was detonated. Before Pisceria was annihilated for the seemingly final time, The Martyr returned to the IDES and escaped.

Fighting in the War.
After several months of travelling alone in the IDES, The Martyr was experiencing recurring nightmares and constant drumming in the inner sanctum of his mind. He returned to Pisceria in the last years of the Last Piscerian-Archon War and was recruited into The Piscerian War Resistance. During his time in the Resistance, he fought in the frontlines of many of the later Last Piscerian-Archon War battles until he was dismissed from the Resistance and banished from the War, shortly before the Last Day of the War. He disappeared from Pisceria and returned to Earth in the IDES.

Returning to Earth and meeting Sapphire.
During his post-war time on Earth, The Martyr spent time in early 2020's Britain, recovering through creating art. By this time, he was approaching his 3050th birthday. After using the IDES to scan himself, he was diagnosed with accelerated mental regression and was given approximately 200 years to live in his current incarnation.

Soon after his diagnosis, he met his future friend Sapphire, who reminded him of his earlier self. This pushed him to defend the Earth and the entire universe until his passing.

Defending Earth against the Activation of the Terran Cascade
After defending the Earth for nearly ten years, The Martyr found that the Piscerian Cascade, connected to the Terran Cascade, was at risk of activation. He hooked himself into the Piscerian Cascade's interface and short-circuited the connection, frying the interface in the process and electrocuting himself with over twelve million volts. As a result of this, he was completely exhausted of nearly all physical energy and was forced to retreat to the IDES for 40 years to heal from the electrocution damage.

Re-emergence of the Martyr
After spending 40 years in the IDES, the Martyr picked up an urgent distress call emanating from New Avagarn, the final cloneworld of Pisceria, and decided to investigate. After crashing on New Avagarn, The Martyr walked out of the IDES. He then proceeded to check the local vicinity for Piscerian survivors of the Last Piscerian-Archon War, and upon searching for a few days, found an Archon Escape Ship that had come from Eternity 72.

The group of Archons aboard had been preparing a stratagem to begin the rebirth of their species and gave an ultimatum to the Martyr; to either destroy New Avagarn and stop the Archons in their tracks, or let the Archons use the Piscerian technology on New Avagarn to grow in numbers and go on to conquer Earth and the entirety of reality. The Martyr decided to destroy New Avagarn using a temporal devastator to stop the Archon Stratagem.

Eternity 72
After the destruction of New Avagarn, The Martyr decided to go on a seemingly random adventure, taking him to the apparent remnants of the British nation, travelling through space on a vessel known as Eternity 72. After realizing that there was no vibration on deck, The Martyr looked for a set of engines, en route discovering a trans-dimensionally engineered room housing black hole engineering. He then uncovered the Arcane Gate, a technological marvel from the time of the Ancient Archons, and disabled it by travelling through the body of the Archon Colony Ship and reaching Floor 1891, triple-deadlocking the control systems that kept the Arcane Gate from disabling.

The engines were then hit with a concentrated blast of radiation emanating from the black hole, splitting a short time after. An Archon ship escaped the inferno of Eternity 72 's destruction and landed on New Avagarn, earlier in The Martyr's timestream. The Martyr decided to track Eternity 72 to its origin point and find out the true nature of its mission. After discovering that the ship was engineered on Archon, The Martyr travelled there.

Going to Archon
Landing on Archon soon after the destruction of Eternity 72, The Martyr searched the Archon Capital, Bovalris, to find the Archon Laboratories where five million Archons were being cryogenically held in stasis, ready for transportation across different locations, including Earth. He attempted to break the transport link to Earth, but failed to break it in time. An Archon force of five thousand were sent to Earth as a result.

The Martyr destroyed the spacial transmat system that the Archons had developed in order to stop any further invasions. He then tracked the course through time to the Archon Invasion and proceeded to Pisceria.

Procuring the Gene Box
After his venture to Archon, The Martyr proceeded to the Vault of the Gods on Pisceria to obtain a weapon devised by the ancient Piscerians that was infamous for its' genetic filtering and selective banishing: The Gene Box. He procured it and reprogrammed it to banish Archons.

Returning to Earth
The Martyr returned to Earth after tracking down the Archons to their invasion point in 2020. He spent time setting himself up near the River Thames, where the Archons could be destroyed by the river if needed. He engineered and plugged the Gene Box into a solar panel array and channelled a high enough amount of power for two blasts of banishing energy.

Banishing the Archons
The Martyr genetically-quarantined the area around him to make it Archon-proof after drawing the Archon force to him through space. The Archons then broke the genetic quarantine with the entry of the Archon Spacial Warrior, who was part Archon and part Tovralian. The Martyr activated the Gene Box and banished the Archons back into the War, but only banished the Archon part of the Archon Spacial Warrior. The Tovralian part was later captured by the Martyr's dimensional capturing device.

Fighting the Archon Resistance
After the exile of the pure blood Archons during the Archon Invasion of Earth in 2020, The Martyr returned to Pisceria earlier in its' history and acquired the Gene Box. After reverse-engineering the Gene Box, he tracked down the remaining eight of the Archon force, who had been genetically diluted into Archon-human hybrids over the course of 200 generations. The Martyr, desperate for an idea, activated an Archon Transmute Signal, rushing them away from their bases on Earth to a distant planet, Chalizir, following the IDES.

Defeating the Archon Resistance
The Martyr fought the Archons away from Chalizir's moon, Darvilon, which held a Piscerian power core, until the Archon ship was shot down and sent towards Chalizir. The Archon ship hit Chalizir's atmosphere and exploded, sending the three Archon-human hybrids flying into Chalizir's ocean. The Martyr then landed on a seafloor of Chalizir and tracked the base 25 miles west and 220 miles down.

He then dove into the immensely pressured ocean below and en route found a terraformed pocket of land populated by 35'000 people. The Martyr stayed here for a short time, installing an Arcane Shield to protect the settlement from Archon incursion and continued to lure the surviving Archons towards the sinking deep-sea base. The Martyr then proceeded to fight the Archon hybrids until he managed to quarantine them in a deep-sea base, activating the base's self-destruct routine, destroying the Archons within.

Discovering Cascadine
After destroying the Archons, The Martyr went back to his original mission of seeking out the Darkhorde Alliance. He successfully found a portal to the alternate dimension Cascadine, where all of the warriors held by the Piscerians were cryogenically frozen. Here, he battled the Cascadine Waker and attempted to stop the Cascadine forces from awakening and taking Earth by force. Luckily, his attempt worked and most of Cascadine's population was wiped out by fumigation.

War on Bavilas
After discovering Cascadine, the Martyr was alerted to Bavilas, the Sixth Capitol of Pisceria, where a Arcanian fleet had crash-landed and been disembarked by the Arcanian forces. The Martyr battled them away from Bavilas, all the while realizing that Bavilas had been destroyed in the first days of the Second Piscerian-Archon War. He ended up fighting them back to the point of entering the Vault of the Gods, which belonged in Avagarn. This made him realize that Bavilas survived its' seemingly complete destruction and was all that was left of his homeworld. Being chased by the Arcanians, he made his way down to the base of the Vault, where he discovered a Dark Matter Spire, capable of destroying the entire Capitol and its surrounding land mass. The Martyr used the Dark Matter Spire and wiped out most of the Arcanians.

Battle of Earth
After bringing the IDES to his position, the Martyr was shocked to find where the ruins of Bavilas were: less than five thousand light years from Earth, being enroute to Earth before being destroyed. Terrified of what Earth would look like, he returned to Earth and put two force shields up, one hundred miles up, protecting the surface, and one hundred and twenty miles up, protecting the universe above. He lured the forces through the rift and prepared to burn the mesosphere in order to push the remaining forces through the rift. Meanwhile, he had tracked the leader of the Darkhorde Alliance, Allander, down to Earth and persuaded him to face his demons to save the Earth, as his negative memories were the cause of the Alliance's strength. Allander faced his demons and conquered them, sending the Alliance into disarray and forcing them through the rift, making Earth safe.

The Final Battle of the Darkhorde Alliance
In the aftermath of the Battle of Earth, the Martyr returned to the ship in the Akashic Void 10 years before the battle in 3260, preparing the ship and repairing any hull breaches. With hardly any time to spare, he opened up the Riftgate and brought the Darkhorde Alliance through, having no chance to win. He made all 21 million survivors of the Battle of Earth converge on his position and initialized the ship's time-locked self-destruct. Wounded and mentally scarred from the battles, as well as inflicted with an Endorian-Arcanian bite, he staggered into the IDES and left the remnants of the ship in the Akashic Void to rust away. Little did the Martyr know of the remaining forces of the Darkhorde Alliance manifested in the form of the last Arcanian ship.

The Endorian Virus
Soon after the Final Battle of the Darkhorde Alliance, the Martyr began having lapses of change into a Tovralian-Archon hybrid, with his physiology being changed at a subcellular level. In an act of desperation and uncertainty, the Martyr travelled to Akashia, where he learnt of his possible futures, as either the Archon Spacial Warrior or as his next incarnation, the Caregiver. Unsure of how to proceed, he sought guidance from the Head of Akashia, which told him to go with his instincts of survival and defeat the virus. With seconds to spare, the Martyr created a cure mixture to halt the virus and trigger his renewal.

Death of the Martyr
The Martyr was critically injured after curing himself of the Endorian virus through a mixture of reversal-booster, I-520 and D-2034. The virus then manifested itself as the prototype for the Tovralian-Archon hybrid and was destroyed by a burst of pure serenity energy brought about by the early renewal of The Martyr. The Martyr then gave into the renewal energy and changed into the Caregiver.

As he did so, he let go of all of his hatred and judgements, and replaced them with serenity and justice, allowing himself to be absolved of his past pains and defeats.

Personality
The Martyr's personality was shaped primarily by his predecessors unstable mental unification, with his personality flip-flopping at the best of times. The Martyr suffered from a high sensitivity to his surroundings, falling victim to the intensity of aggression put against him. He fed his self-victimization through the use of sympathy and attention seeking behaviours falling short of his actual purpose. Shortly after his epiphany, his personality shifted to that of one desperate and insane enough to attempt to stop all evil, everywhere. This caused massive exhaustion for him and he found himself tired and distressed before eventually passing. A pessimist with underlying morbid tones of horror and anger, the Martyr stood up for himself and only himself, fighting off all those who surrounded him.

The Martyr, like most of his other incarnations, was madly eccentric and used his eccentricities to push people away from him, choosing solitude above friendliness. He was a very selfish individual and was capable of great emotional and mental manipulation, proving him to be a difficult and deadly foe for the Archons and the Darkhorde Alliance throughout their encounters. The Martyr stood for none but himself, the rest of the universe happening to be lucky whenever he defeated his foes.

The Martyr was also stubborn in his mindset and in his ways, standing for what he knew and felt, right or wrong.

A "crybaby" and "pathetic excuse for a man", the Martyr was a sick and twisted man, who was only kind or caring when it suited him or when it benefitted him. He was a madman and a psychopath, capable of destroying entire fleets or making them retreat with haste. He was a manipulative mastermind and used people's pain as a trigger switch, intensifying it until he drove them away. He was hardly ever passive or good, letting go of his previous oaths and obligations to protect, instead of destroy.

The Martyr was interested in the disturbed and the dark, enjoying black magic and the macabre, with a strong tie to the dark and deadly forces of the world. He was fascinated by the darkness in people and how it could be lured out and explored by both parties. He was open to dark and twisted ideas, entertaining them and evolving them with great explorative ideas.

The Martyr, like his predecessors, failed to truly understand love, due to previous romantic trauma, but began to open up to being "sentimental", as he phrased it. He held trust as something very sacred, and it took him decades of his life to open up to someone that was partially responsible for his creation. The Empath acknowledged the scars that he had been left with over centuries and admitted to hurting people over the course of his period of pain.

He had a few different personalities, switching from cunning and resourceful during his battles with the Archons, to deadly and devious during his interactions with others. He would also be highly focused and happy whenever he was in a creative process.

Skills
The Martyr had a great eye for detail and had devious and manipulative tendencies. He could find his way around peoples' boundaries and hurt them beyond belief. He was also intensely artistic and though at an extremely fast pace.

Clothing
During his battle against the Archons, the Martyr wore a variety of Edwardian clothing, from a navy blue trenchcoat and crystal goggles to jeans and a plaid shirt. He typically topped off his outfit with a velvet bow tie. After his trip to Chalizir, he obtained an aviator's jacket and a sonic omnitool, deciding to rework his wardrobe after defeating the Archons at the bottom of Chalizir's deep-sea chasm.

After his battle with the Archons and during the war against the Darkhorde Alliance, the Martyr became slightly more unique in his style, wearing his Chalizirian aviator's jacket, grey shirt and black jeans, accompanied with a pedometer and IDES remote on a lanyard chain.