valoras
After being exiled from their home world of Ainash for crimes of smuggling and theft, an Ainashian named Valoras decided not to return to their old way of life. One evening, drowning in self-pity in a small tox lodge in a dusty settlement just outside a major space dock on the junction moon of Niiva’at, they happened to witness a group of racing enthusiasts hurtle around a makeshift track far out in the dark fields behind the lodge. As the racers stormed around the track they gave little heed to the safety of themselves nor that of their competitors - this is where I first met Valoras.
Many years went by during which Valoras established themself as a regular at the race events and offered up ideas on how to make the event more ‘interesting’, as they put it at the time; doing away with the racing aspect and turning it into a contest of vehicle-based arena combat.
Using what was left of their frayed interplanetary contact network in the Tarapor system, Valoras poured their old wealth into establishing regular events in which drivers would come from all over the moon, and eventually the entire Tarapor system, to compete for fame and fortune. Valoras ensured a tantalising prize fund was on offer to draw in the competitors and it soon became one of the most lucrative ways to earn a living.
Though, the Ainashian Elders quickly became opposed to this bloody event and as soon as Valoras’ name was mentioned, they sent the Harah D'thil — Enforcers of the Union — to shut the events down. In exchange for allowing the events to continue unheeded and to show that they were no longer an enemy to the Union, Valoras declared that Hukk Industries, a technology development company they had established to create weapons and tech for the event competitors, would use revenue from the events to help supply weapons and equipment to the Tarapor Defence Organisation to aid them in their fight against the parasitic Sprites that plagued our system. After some hesitation, but unable to deny Tarapor of the help offered by Valoras in its fight against the Sprites, the Elders agreed.
And so, the event known as Charred Axle became apart of life across the Tarapor system; and having a distraction, just something to take our minds off the unrelenting horror that had invaded our system was desperately needed.
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Fragment 3 from the diaries of
Lilapol — Arena Overseer.
Translated & abridged by — The Administration of Interspecies Relations