"Dark Age has come a long way in the year and a half since I last covered the game. Today I'll be showing off some minis from the game's newest faction.
If you're not familiar with the Dark Age setting, you can read my quick primer from early last year. No time? All right, here's the elevator pitch: the humans of the planet of Samaria, abandoned by the collapsed superpower formerly known as the United Worlds, eke out a harsh existence on a planet hostile to human life. Every day is a struggle for survival against the alien forces of the Dragyri, the savage cybernetically-augmented cannibals known as the Skarrd, the nightmarish biological creations of the Brood, and the reawakened robotic killing machines known as the Core. Also some of the humans are trying to kill each other too.
So where do the Kukulkani come in? Turns out this isn't the first time humanity has come in contact with this ancient starfaring civilization. That whole Pre-Columbian aesthetic they've got going on isn't a coincidence. The Kukulkani that are ravaging Samaria now were doing just that to their neighboring tribes in Central America millennia ago. They were so good at it that the Coatl, a highly advanced reptilian race chose to enslave them and fold them into their society. Using them as warriors just made sense. The Coatl got to stay out of harm's way, and the humans got a chance to impress their new "gods." This arrangement worked out so well that the Coatl took their new friends along for the ride when they left earth in the ninth century. They've spent the last few thousand years slaughtering other alien civilizations.
So what brings them to Samaria? Well it probably has a lot to do with the fact that to the Kukulkani, Samaria basically looks like one big gas station. Their entire technology is based on using the life force of sentient creatures as an energy source (don't ask me to explain it I'm not a scientist). This is the reason the race scours the galaxy in search of… sacrifices. With no central authority to mount a defense, Samaria's humans must seem like easy pickings.
The planet also offers a diversified energy portfolio. While the numerous gibbering abominations of the Brood must make for a fascinating prospective fuel source, there are also the robust Trueborn warriors of the Dragyri to consider. It turns out the latter already have a history with the Kukulkani. The two races clashed on Samaria centuries ago, when the Dragyri were still calling themselves the Althegrans. And if that weren't enough, long range sensors have detected a familiar energy signature in use on Samaria. The robots of the Core have integrated a debased form of the Coatl's bio-energy technology into their Entropic drives. Such power is for the gods alone, and the Kukulkani will not rest until the Core have been wiped from existence…"
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photographs the same figure, with different cameras and equipment.
