Eternia: The Dark Years
History
The day that He-man took the decision to follow Skeletor on to the city sized starship The Eternia to continue their battle on the planet Primus changed the face of Eternia forever. With both the Heroic Warriors and the Evil Warriors without their leaders both factions began a search for replacements. It was relatively easy for the Heroic Warriors to find a new leader, he was King Randor who in honouring his son's sacrifice in exiling himself in order to stop the spread of Skeletor's evil, stepped forward to once again become Eternia's Warrior King and the leader of the Heroic Warriors.
However it was a different story for the Evil Warriors, not realizing that Skeletor was the one thing that united the Evil Warriors, not with anything magical or mystical, it was the hatred that nearly every warrior under his command felt for him that united the Evil Warriors in to one fighting force. Without Skeletor the Evil Warriors soon fell in to their backstabbing ways in their search for a new leader, even going to such lengths as to murder the competition. Eventually Evil-Lyn stepped forward to lay claim to the leadership of the Evil Warriors, something she had plotted for years. Even though Evil-Lyn now commanded the Evil Warriors, they were not an organised force.
It was at this time when the Snakemen led by King Hiss made an attempt to wrestle control of Eternia away from both the Heroic Warriors and the Evil Warriors. Believing that his army of Snakemen couldn't be stopped King Hiss led his forces from Snake Mountain in an attempt to conquer Eternia. King Hiss was almost triumphant in his conquest of Eternia when King Randor and Evil-Lyn formed a truce and joined forces in repelling the army of Snakemen. It was during this time that one time Evil Warrior Kobra Khan learned that King Hiss had killed an ancestor of his, King Khan, in order to become the ruler of the Snakemen and deprive Khan's bloodline of their true heritage as the royal rulers of the Snakemen. Kobra Khan attacked and killed King Hiss and reclaimed his rightful role as king. However because of this the Snakemen were driven in to the underground kingdom of Reptilla, the home of the Reptons, the modern day peaceful descendants of the Snakemen. Vowing to keep the Snakemen still loyal to Hiss from causing any more trouble, King Kobra Khan ordered Reptilla to be sealed off from the outside world, but he also left a warning that the Snakemen will one day rule Eternia as they had centuries ago.
With the threat of the Snakemen no more the truce between the Heroic Warriors and their evil counterparts soon dissolved and a new war threatened to break out. It was at this time that Eternia was being monitored by Horde Prime himself. Seeing that with no He-man, Skeletor or the Snakemen to stand in the way, Eternia was right for conquest by the Horde.
Seeing that the campaign on Etheria was going disastrously and that after fifty years of rule by the Horde was quickly being destroyed by the emergence of the Great Rebellion and more importantly the emergence of the warrior woman She-Ra, Horde Prime ordered Hordak to evacuate the planet and prepare for conquest of Eternia and the total destruction of Etheria.
Hordak was reluctant to leave at first until Horde Prime threatened him with the destruction of his homeworld using a device secretly implanted in to the core of every world conquered by the Horde Empire. Upon hearing about the fate of Etheria several Hordesmen, Catra, Octavia, Scorpia and others attempted to mutiny, even going as far as leaking the plans to the Great Rebellion. As the remaining members of the Horde were evacuated off the planet, She-Ra alongside with remaining Hordesmen attempted to destroy the Horde Planet Destroyer.
As the Horde fleet made their way to Eternia, Etheria seemingly exploded. However this was a smokescreen created when Lighthope used almost all of his lifeforce in creating the illusion as Modulock disabled the Planet Destroyer.
She-Ra then made a desperate attempt to get to Eternia in order to warn of the oncoming Horde fleet. She-Ra took several of her fellow members of the Great Rebellion to Eternia, but in doing so Lighthope used up the last of his lifeforce and died leaving them no way back to Etheria.
On Eternia She-Ra immediately went to her parents in the royal palace and was about to warn them of the attack when the Horde Fleet swarmed over Eternia. During the attack She-Ra had Gwildor use his cosmic key to send the king and queen to safety seconds before the palace was struck by a crashing Batmex fighter and burying She-Ra under debris. The attack was swift and merciless, Castle Grayskull was destroyed along with the Three Eternian Towers, Snake Mountain fell and the remaining Heroic Warriors were forced to retreat to Point Dread, the stronghold of the Evil Warriors.
The Horde soon conquered Eternia.
2 Years Later……..