4th January, Space Era Years 103.
A deep and dreadful silence fell upon the Centory Kingdom Reich. Reports spread across the empire that Lord Aelyzabeth von Thors — Supreme Leader of the Centory Dominion, Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Space Forces, and living symbol of the Nation — had suddenly collapsed from a mysterious illness.
Her symptoms began innocuously: coughing blood, chest pain. But within hours, her condition deteriorated rapidly. The Imperial Medical Corps released a grim statement:
"The Lord's lungs have ruptured from an unknown cause. There is no sign of recovery."
Yet after exhaustive examinations, the Imperial Medical Center uncovered something no one had foreseen —the illness afflicting Lord Aelyzabeth Thors was not any known pulmonary disease, but an entirely new phenomenon, never before recorded in human history.They named it:
"Aelyzabeth Thors Syndrome."
A name both of honor — and curse — for the first and only being ever to bear it.
The Disease Beyond Understanding.
The syndrome's origin remained unfathomable.It was non-contagious, yet genetically inheritable.Victims endured unending agony — pain spreading from lungs and bronchi, to the heart, and finally the brain.The nervous system collapsed gradually, but death never came.Instead, the patient was condemned to live eternally with pain.
Even the greatest scientists from every corner of the empire, summoned under imperial decree, reached the same despairing conclusion:
"There exists no cure… not even with the highest technology of humankind."
Then came the darker revelation —The same genetic anomaly was detected in Maximilius von Thors, eldest son of the Thors lineage, brother to Aerys Vilozyver, and it showed early signs among the descendants of both Houses Thors and Vilozyver.
The Forbidden Gene.
A genealogical investigation unearthed a truth buried for twenty-five years. One year before Lord Aelyzabeth's birth, Aeria von Thors, her mother, conceived a fifth child. That infant died at birth, nameless. Crushed by grief, Aeria turned to science, creating a new life through in-vitro genetic recombination, blending her DNA with that of her husband's. Yet, within that process, a microscopic error emerged — one so subtle that no machine of the age could detect it. That single mutation became the origin of the Aelyzabeth Thors Syndrome.
The Central Government had buried the secret for decades. But when classified data leaked from the Imperial Genetics Committee, the truth could no longer be contained. Minister Walter von Yigzorch, of the Propaganda Bureau, held an emergency address — proclaiming that:
"Lord Aelyzabeth von Thors is a martyr — one who sacrifices her life for the progress of civilization."
It was an attempt to deflect the growing public outrage.
The Collapse of Faith
But on 7th January, the empire's foundations began to crumble. Margaret von Thors, the eldest of the Thors bloodline and leader of the Democrat of New Hope Party, held a shocking press conference that shattered the illusion of divinity surrounding the Lord.
She declared that Lord Aelyzabeth suffered not only from physical affliction — but from severe mental disorders. According to her, the Lord had been diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) since age twelve, and had later developed forms of Paranoid Schizophrenia, confirmed by her private psychiatrists.
The evidence was irrefutable —over two hundred academic journals and personal notebooks authored by Aelyzabeth herself, each page drenched in venomous words of hatred:
Hatred of herself. Hatred of society. Hatred of the scholars before her. Hatred of the wealthy. Hatred of religion. Hatred of nature — and even of the cosmos itself.
She rejected divinity not out of faith in science, but out of defiance against the world itself.She saw religion as weakness, nature as flawed, and war as the only truth.
For decades, no one in the scientific community noticed the danger in her writings.Her mastery of human psychology concealed her despair beneath layers of brilliance.
"She blamed nature for creating her imperfect.She blamed nature for making her suffer.And she blamed humanity for living freely — without pain as she did…"
The Empire Trembles.
The revelation struck like a supernova across the human colonies. The Centorian Stock Exchange plummeted 60% within hours. The Imperial Bonds of Centory, once deemed the most stable in the galaxy, faced mass withdrawal. The Senate, the military, and the throne itself quaked in disarray.
For in the Centory Kingdom Reich, Aelyzabeth Thors was not merely a ruler — she was the nation, the government, and the army.
Now that the Supreme Leader herself lay stricken with an incurable curse, it was as though the entire Empire had fallen ill with her.
Thus ends Chapter C-XVIII.