A latter-day incarnation of the Undying Lord of Vorgossos, the body that would become the last Queen of Vorgossos was born a modified clone of Kharn Sagara, derived from the body and blood of her immediate predecessor. It is impossible to know precisely when it was that this particular incarnation was given life. Hadrian Marlowe, whose Azmansolas is our only first-hand source attesting to the childhood of this incarnation of the Vorgossene monarch, estimates the child—called Suzuha by her clone-father—to have been approximately fifteen standard years of age at the time of her accession to the throne and adoption of the Kharn Sagara persona by means of remote synaptic kinesis.

Her transformation from the girl, Suzuha, to the monarch, Kharn, was marked by a change in policy on the part of the Undying. Prior to her accession in ISD 16227, shortly after the Battle Upon Demiurge (sometimes erroneously referred to as the First Battle of Vorgossos by historians of the Cielcin Wars), the Lord of Vorgossos had maintained a careful policy of transmitting his copied memories and personality to just one of his clone attendants, but due to damage sustained by the predecessor at the hands of one Bassander Lin, Sagara’s digital thoughtform was broadcast to both the girl, Suzuha, and her clone-brother, Ren. For the first time in its approximately fifteen thousand-year history, the Kingdom of Vorgossos found itself in the hands of twin monarchs: both genetic copies of Kharn Sagara, both sharing duplicate copies of their predecessor’s consciousness.

Precisely what followed is little known in the Imperium, as contact between the Sollan Empire and the hidden kingdom was necessarily limited. Once more, Marlowe’s Azmansolas remains our most significant documentary source. According to the writings of the Sun Eater, the twin monarchs quickly descended into infighting. As early as ISD 16500—not quite three hundred years after the Battle Upon Demiurge, Marlowe reports that twin incarnations turned on one another in a brief but incendiary civil war that resulted in the murder of the younger, male clone—formerly the boy called Ren. The Suzuha-incarnation’s goal had doubtless been the reunification of her kingdom and its various holdings.

But somehow, the other Sagara survived. Marlowe speculates that the incarnation was able to broadcast a copy of its unique thoughtform to a distant base somewhere in the Norman Expanse, and that it was from there that incarnation of the Lord of Vorgossos rebuilt himself as the Monarch, Calen Harendotes, forming the basis of a New Order on the planet Latarra, summoning many of those among the Extrasolarians loyal to Vorgossos, luring them with promises of wealth and plunder should Vorgossos be reconquered for his faction.

But the Suzuha incarnation retained her grip on Vorgossos itself, surrounding herself with mercenary captains and other factions among the Extrasolarians—most notably members of the Exalted caste, among them Here Soonchanged of the starship Azoth, who later defected to the cause of the Sun Eater.

Under her rule, the Kingdom of Vorgossos was moved yet again, coming to rest near the heart of old Imperial space, very near the stars of the Pleiades. It was from there that the hidden kingdom pursued a policy of deep isolationism. Aware of the survival of her brother-incarnation and his desire to recapture Vorgossos, secrecy became the hermit kingdom’s best defense. It is said that in this period secret embassies were dispatched to many rival powers among the Extrasolarians, and that the hermit kingdom secured many alliances among the barbarian tribes.

It was hoped, perhaps, that the newly-minted Monarchy on Latarra would attract the ire and attention of the Sollan Empire, and so face destruction without the need for the sibling-clones to enter direct conflict. No one could have anticipated that the Empire—then radically in the grip of the Terran Chantry—would have made common cause with the Latarrans.

Their motivations for doing so remain but hazily understood. On the surface of it, the Latarran presentation of the Areatha Mechanism, a device purportedly capable of detecting and tracing messages made by quantum telegraph, proved a powerful incentive, particularly given its ability to predict the movement and appearance of the Cielcin war machine. However, the immediate prioritization of a joint Sollan-Latarran expedition to conquer Vorgossos (its location discovered by Latarran intelligence) suggests another motivation, one echoed by Lord Marlowe himself: the capture of the Vorgossene warship Demiurge by the Chantry and Imperial powers.

Referred to by Imperial Intelligence as Operation Iconoclast, the Vorgossos expedition was ultimately successful, albeit complicated by the actions not only of Hadrian Marlowe, but by those of the Imperial high commander, Strategos Ohannes Douro, the Chantry Sentinel-Commander Kedron, and by the aggrieved Latarran Commandant-General, Lorian Aristedes. While Iconoclast was successful in toppling the Kingdom of Vorgossos forever, it failed to secure Demiurge for the Imperium…instead placed the most powerful weapons ever created into the hands of a madman—no less than Hadrian Marlowe himself.