With their increased freedom, the Sheredyn began taking over corporations, developing independent colonies, and creating their own interstellar logistics networks, transforming from an elite bodyguard force into a powerful subfaction with the empire and taking on such duties as performing policing actions, anti-piracy missions, assassinations, and covert operations against other factions in addition to protecting the emperor. Still, this shift in Sheredyn loyalties was unthinkable to many. It helped, of course, that the reigning Emperor Willema Szinda had gone from honest and energetic to senile and unbalanced. Zelevas was the CEO of a wide-ranging conglomerate, XenoMine Corp., and widely acknowledged as a genius as well as an inspirational leader. Arguments can be made in favor of the Sheredyn's actions, however. This was in complete opposition to the traditional stance of the organization it had always pledged loyalty to the emperor regardless of questions of "right" or "wrong".
Zelevas' Ascension Ī radical change in the power structure occurred with the accession of Maximilian Zelevas to the throne, as Zelevas's bloodless coup was executed with the unspoken approval of the Sheredyn. The emperor began to travel on Sheredyn ships with Sheredyn crews, as the family and corporate elements that controlled fleets of the UE Navy often had conflicting loyalties. When the Empire developed space flight, the Sheredyn necessarily followed along. Economic power followed political power the Sheredyn had to develop supply, logistics, maintenance, and manufacturing facilities in order to maintain their installations, technology, and troops. Īs the only reliably loyal element in an increasingly widespread empire, the Sheredyn's political power grew over time. But the record remains at 43-0-1 for the Sheredyn, whose ability to survive and succeed has given them an almost mystical aura of power. These units have, over the history of the empire, come into direct conflict with the Sheredyn. Barons, dukes, and corporations made numerous attempts to create copycat elite units with varying degrees of success. With their members recruited from all services of the Imperial military, the Sheredyn evolved from personal security work into air and sea operations as well. Founded at the request of Nykolay III "Steel Eyes" Hyvel a few decades after the creation of the Empire, the Sheredyn were originally an elite group of guards charged with the personal security of the emperor and his family. The Sheredyn were the first and are arguably the most famous military order within the United Empire, tied to it in the same way the Praetorians were tied to the emperors of Rome.
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