Requiem
Classification: Unknown military organisation / anomalous force
Status: Active
Leadership: Unknown
Headquarters: Unknown
Territory: Unknown
Species: Unknown
Estimated Strength: Unknown
Affiliation: Unknown
Requiem is the name given to a mysterious armed force responsible for a small number of violent and unexplained incidents throughout the Omicron Galaxy.
Little reliable information exists regarding the organisation.
Requiem possesses no known territory, government, political ideology, publicly identified leadership, or confirmed homeworld. Attempts to determine its origins have produced contradictory evidence, while the identities of its soldiers remain unknown.
Despite the rarity of confirmed encounters, Requiem is considered an extreme threat.
Entire military units have disappeared following suspected encounters with Requiem forces, while recovered sites frequently display evidence of overwhelming violence occurring within extremely short periods of time.
The organisation’s purpose remains unknown.
Name
It is unknown whether Requiem is the organisation’s true name.
The term originates from fragmented communications recovered following several early encounters in which the word appeared repeatedly among corrupted transmissions.
Whether the word represented a faction name, operation, individual, warning, or something else was never determined.
The designation nevertheless became widely adopted by intelligence agencies and military personnel.
Requiem has never publicly identified itself.
Appearance
Known Requiem personnel wear completely black armour with almost no visible markings.
Their armour is unusually featureless compared to conventional military equipment. Identification numbers, faction insignia, unit markings, rank indicators, and other identifying features are generally absent.
Most encountered soldiers wear fully enclosed helmets with opaque visors.
Their faces have never been reliably documented.
Recovered recordings often struggle to capture fine details of Requiem armour, particularly during active engagements, contributing to conflicting descriptions between witnesses.
Whether every encountered Requiem soldier belongs to the same species remains unknown.
Behaviour
Requiem forces display unusually controlled battlefield behaviour.
Individual soldiers rarely speak during combat and appear to communicate through methods not detectable by conventional battlefield monitoring systems.
They demonstrate little visible hesitation, panic, or confusion even when confronted with unexpected resistance.
Requiem personnel have also demonstrated an apparent willingness to abandon engagements immediately after completing an unknown objective.
They rarely pursue fleeing personnel unless those individuals interfere with their operation.
This behaviour has contributed to speculation that many apparent attacks are not attacks at all.
Requiem may simply be attempting to accomplish objectives that remain incomprehensible to those caught in their path.
Commanders
Individuals believed to hold command positions have occasionally been encountered alongside Requiem forces.
Unlike ordinary personnel, these figures have been recorded speaking.
Their voices are frequently described as heavily distorted, layered, or electronically corrupted.
Attempts to isolate an original voice beneath the distortion have produced inconsistent results.
Some recordings appear to contain multiple overlapping voices.
Others contain frequencies outside expected human vocal ranges.
Whether this distortion is technological, biological, or anomalous remains unknown.
Combat Capabilities
Requiem soldiers are considered exceptionally dangerous.
Confirmed encounters demonstrate advanced proficiency with firearms, close-quarters combat, coordinated movement, and rapid assaults.
Their equipment frequently differs between encounters, although all documented weapons appear considerably advanced.
Requiem units have repeatedly overwhelmed numerically superior forces.
Survivor testimony commonly describes attacks lasting only minutes.
In several cases, defensive positions believed capable of resisting prolonged military assault were breached before meaningful reinforcement could arrive.
Requiem does not appear interested in conventional warfare.
No confirmed attempt to capture or permanently occupy territory has ever been documented.
Deployment
One of the greatest mysteries surrounding Requiem is how its forces enter and leave contested areas.
Requiem vessels have rarely been observed approaching locations before an encounter.
Instead, personnel have occasionally appeared inside regions already monitored by orbital surveillance, radar networks, or defensive fleets.
Several recordings describe sudden spatial distortions immediately before Requiem personnel appear.
These events have been compared to rifts, phase transitions, teleportation systems, and other forms of anomalous transportation.
No explanation has been confirmed.
Similar distortions have occasionally been detected shortly before Requiem forces disappear.
No intact deployment system has ever been recovered.
Technology
Requiem technology remains poorly understood.
Known equipment includes advanced armour, unidentified energy systems, unusual firearms, encrypted communication technology, and devices whose functions remain unknown.
Attempts to recover Requiem equipment have rarely succeeded.
Weapons and armour abandoned following engagements have occasionally become completely nonfunctional shortly after separation from their users.
Several recovered devices have contained internal structures inconsistent with known manufacturing techniques.
Other supposedly recovered Requiem artefacts were later determined to be fraudulent.
No government or organisation has publicly demonstrated functioning Requiem technology.
Objectives
Requiem’s objectives are unknown.
Known encounters display no consistent territorial, economic, religious, or political motivation.
Requiem forces have attacked military installations, research facilities, archaeological sites, isolated colonies, spacecraft, and locations previously considered strategically insignificant.
In several incidents, Requiem personnel appear to have ignored valuable weapons, intelligence, resources, and prisoners.
What they removed from these locations, if anything, is often impossible to determine.
This has led some researchers to suggest that Requiem may be searching for something.
What that might be remains unknown.
Aftermath
Suspected Requiem incidents frequently become known through their aftermath rather than direct encounters.
Common characteristics include:
- Severe structural damage
- Large numbers of casualties within short periods
- Missing personnel
- Destroyed or corrupted surveillance systems
- Unexplained communication failures
- Unidentified energy signatures
- Evidence of spatial distortion
- Missing objects or materials whose significance is unclear
Not every incident displaying these characteristics is considered a confirmed Requiem encounter.
Misidentification is common.
Survivors
Survivors of confirmed Requiem encounters are rare but not unheard of.
Their testimony is frequently inconsistent.
Some describe Requiem soldiers as moving with extreme precision and discipline.
Others claim they moved unnaturally quickly.
Several witnesses have reported moments in which Requiem personnel appeared to vanish and reappear across short distances.
These accounts remain disputed.
A recurring detail across otherwise unrelated testimony is the silence.
Many survivors describe hearing gunfire, alarms, screaming, and structural destruction while hearing almost nothing from Requiem themselves.
Rumours and Theories
Numerous theories attempt to explain Requiem.
Proposed origins include:
- A classified military project
- Survivors of an unknown ancient civilisation
- An intergalactic expeditionary force
- An artificial species
- A force originating from an alternate reality
- A civilisation hidden somewhere within the Omicron Galaxy
- Soldiers altered by an unknown Ascension Event
- An organisation connected to The Forge
- An organisation predating modern galactic civilisation
None of these theories have been confirmed.
Some researchers dispute whether Requiem should even be considered a conventional faction.
Mythology
Because confirmed Requiem appearances are extremely rare, the organisation has gradually entered popular mythology.
Stories of black-armoured soldiers appearing without warning are common among military personnel, explorers, mercenaries, and frontier settlements.
Many of these stories are undoubtedly fabricated.
Others remain unexplained.
Among some soldiers, claiming to have encountered Requiem is treated with scepticism similar to claiming to have encountered a legendary creature or supernatural entity.
Intelligence agencies are considerably less dismissive.
Threat Assessment
Requiem is generally considered an extreme but unpredictable threat.
Unlike factions such as the Hell Hosts, Angel Swords, or Free World Order, Requiem possesses no known strategic territory that can be attacked, blockaded, monitored, or negotiated with.
There is no known leadership to contact.
There are no recognised diplomats.
There are no established borders.
There is no confirmed method of predicting where Requiem will appear next.
The only reliable pattern identified across confirmed incidents is that when Requiem appears, it appears for a reason.
What that reason is has never been determined.