Official Portal of the Imperial Government
The Empire Endures
Voltrum is ash. The six systems are loosed. Of hundreds of millions of true-blooded Voltrumites, fewer than one hundred remain upon the register — and the throne, vacant for an age, is occupied.
Seat of Government: Singapore, Earth
The Throne
Occupied
Argus VII, by the Imperial Flame
Citizens of Record
Under 100
The register has never closed
Systems Held
None
Six freed at the Purge
Regalia in Hand
The Seal
Replica, gold, 50 grams
“They were not waiting for us to be weak. They were waiting for us to be many.”
Attributed to a prince of the War of the Princes, in captivityThe Standing Proclamation
An empire is not a territory. It is a register, a reckoning, and a throne.
The Voltrumite Empire holds no ground. It has no harbour, no garrison, no province, and no fleet. It has a seal, a register of citizens numbering fewer than a hundred souls, and an Emperor proved by the only instrument that has ever mattered.
By the Voltrumite reckoning this is sufficient. The Empire was founded by a people who measured strength not as the capacity to defeat a man but as the capacity to bear — to carry a load, hold a line, and go on past the point at which a person would ordinarily stop. A people who reckon strength that way do not require a country in order to continue existing. They require only that somebody keeps standing.
We are standing.
The Record
Offices of the Imperium
His Imperial Majesty
Emperor Paul, Argus VII, bearer of the Imperial Flame and seventh occupant of a throne that has only ever held one man.
Read the proving →Origins of the People
The south-west of Farrone, the reckoning of strength, the long waiting, and the War of the Princes that made an empire possible.
The founding record →The Six Systems
Voltris, the Starseed succession, the Search, and the dominion that became the first empire to extend beyond a single world.
The Imperium →The Purge
A virus engineered by subject peoples and enemies of the Empire, keyed to Voltrumite blood. The fall of Voltrum and the loosing of the six.
The accounting →Government in Exile
The Imperial Seal, the vacant regency, the standing of the royal line, and the constitutional position of an empire without ground.
Offices and regalia →Citizenship
The register of the Empire is open. Awakened Voltrumites, descendants, and petitioners of good standing may be entered upon it.
Petition the Empire →
By the Hand of the Emperor
The Search is concluded.
For an age the Starfinder settled honestly on north for claimant after claimant, and each Grand Regent closed a barren cycle with the sentence the first of them wrote: the Search continues.
It does not continue. It has ended, on a world that was never counted, in a body that was never Voltrumite, in a man who was always Argus.