Space Ruler Headquarters

“This place has always felt like home for me, for as long as I can remember... but the bittersweet memory of my deceased loved ones lingers here eternally, and I don’t think anything can ever fill the hole in my heart that their absence created.”

-Shadow Man

Space Ruler Headquarters is the home of Sunstar, the Stardroids, Shadow Man, and those who later joined their family. It is a gigantic flying saucer that once housed Ra Moon, Ra Thor, Dark Moon, and the Kuiper Droids.

Appearance
Space Ruler Headquarters is a flying saucer with forty-eight rooms. Its six main rooms are a lobby, arsenal, repair room, sickbay, telepad room, and cafeteria. Each Stardroid has their own bedroom, and there are four offices: one for Ra Moon, one for Sunstar, one for Terra, and one for interrogating kidnapped individuals. The rest of the headquarters consists of two conference rooms, two locker rooms, three kitchens, four training rooms, two other cafeterias, five other telepad rooms, and ten spare bedrooms [reserved for Kuiper Droids].

The headquarters itself is composed of five floors which the rooms are distributed on. Its color scheme is mostly darker and cooler colors, especially blue and purple, and the vast majority of it is comprised of a certain type of metal and glass that cannot be found on Earth. The doors range from automatic to manual - some doorways have curtains instead, and a few have none at all. Engraved in many walls are glowing runes and other symbols, including the symbols for the Milky Way Galaxy’s planets. There are family photos, drawings, and tapestries hung up everywhere [excluding the arsenal], as well as other personal knick knacks and keepsakes belonging to the family members that once thrived there.

The exterior of the flying saucer is coated in mostly white metal with dark gray underneath the disc-like portion. The small entrance is also underneath the disc, and it can be accessed through an automatic door that requires a twenty-five-letter passcode to enter. Just above the disc are one hundred hidden cannons behind white doors, which can be opened using the spaceship’s offensive function controls - these are found in the supercomputer in the lobby. Half of these cannons use massive exploding cannonballs for ammunition, while the other half uses searing hot lasers that can even vaporize diamond in the blink of an eye.

High above the cannons are twenty-five large, circular glass windows that can be looked through from the inside, but not the outside. Between the windows and cannons are autonomous devices that discharge a tremendous amount of destructive electricity when anything unknown comes within a range of sixty-nine miles away from the ship.

History
Space Ruler Headquarters was once home to thousands of robots, which were the creations of the almighty supercomputer Ra Moon. Everybody that wasn’t terminated as punishment got to see every relic that was ever kept inside the house up until the day that every Kuiper Droid except for Shadow Man was killed in their last war. Some Kuiper Droids were as passionate about universal domination as Sunstar was, while others harbored a generally apathetic mindset and worked only to keep from dying. Since the Kuiper Droids were the lowest rank of the family’s dominance hierarchy, they only had authority over each other and occasionally Dark Moon, which was vaguely considered to be the “pet” in the house. If any Kuiper Droid made up to five major mistakes regarding their missions or authorities, they faced the imminent penalty of execution - for every soldier eliminated, a new one was created in their place by Ra Moon. There were a total of two thousand Kuiper Droids in their army - a rule of the house is even explicitly stated as “kill or be killed” on a poster that can be found in Ra Moon’s office.

Over the years, the strong Kuiper Droids who behaved and worked properly were those that their authorities favored. Almost everyone in the house collected objects they liked, and made much artwork using ink and papyrus as well. They had box-like cameras that could take sepia photos, and a lot of these cameras existed thanks to their highly useful purpose. The Kuiper Droids that were considered “best” were the ones that their authorities became emotionally attached to - among them was Shadow Man and the four soldiers that were closest to him. Every soldier had deep respect for their master Ra Moon, no matter what his intentions were, but their views on his mindset varied from bot to bot. Some assumed he thought of them as toys that he could control for them to willingly obey him. Others thought he created them for their usefulness and dexterous proficiency, so he could look good when presenting his skilled army. A surprisingly large number of the Kuiper Droids even thought he considered them as cherished family, and that he granted most of their occasional requests so he could see the smiles on their faces.

Eventually, it was decided that Ra Moon and his children would finally attempt to conquer Planet Earth. To start, he was to be escorted to Earth by the Kuiper Droids. However, some of their enemies (the Star Marshals) found out, so the soldiers had to survive this while the Stardroids engaged the Star Marshals. Every Kuiper Droid was killed except for Shadow Man, who, with Saturn’s aid, managed to fulfill his mission. This caused Ra Moon and the remainder of his creations to fall to the Earth and become deactivated upon landing. Shadow Man and Ra Moon landed in the Lanfront Ruins, while they were separated from the others. It is unknown what exact location they landed in - however, since Space Ruler Headquarters was now completely devoid of any inhabitants, it became dormant and ascended high into space due to the lack of gravity. It was neglected for centuries after that, and the unfortunate time came for Ra Moon, Ra Thor, and Dark Moon to be killed as well.

One day, Shadow Man ventured into space with the company of Sunstar, Gemini Man, Star Man, and Galaxy Man to explore. They chatted for a short time before Sunstar suddenly burst into tears, recalling their old home and familial tragedy. The group granted his request to search for the headquarters, and once they ascended high enough into space, they found it. It showed few signs of damage, but the metal doors were much louder to open, and they all succumbed to space sickness when they entered. Luckily, Sunstar managed to locate the remedy that Ra Moon used for that, and it worked on everyone. They briefly browsed through the ancient relics their deceased family had left behind, then began making arrangements to get the house’s surviving former residents to move back inside it (as well as Gemini Man and the three half-alien children that were eventually created).

Now, Sunstar and his remaining subordinates live in the headquarters at long last. The Star Marshals, who are now extinct, have captured most of the territory they spent centuries gaining, so they now carry out territorial missions to gradually reclaim their turf.

Trivia

 * Space Ruler Headquarters is younger than Sunstar but older than the Stardroids, and therefore older than Planet Earth itself, as the earliest day on Earth is 4000 BC.
 * The material that the headquarters is made of can still be found and excavated from certain planets, so it can still be repaired if it ever gets damaged again.
 * The ruins where Sunstar, the Stardroids, Ra Thor, and Dark Moon crashed is implied to be located somewhere in eastern Wyoming.
 * The Kuiper Droids that once lived here were not allowed to kill each other - otherwise, the killer(s) would be killed.