hey uhhhhh remember when i said that the world building in shera sucked really bad i needed to not think too much into it? 🤡
anyway i was trying to board an expanded lore comic for the horde but it wasnt coming along.... so i wrote out a basic backstory for horde prime...... posted under the cut because the comic is still happening but its not coming out before i have t go back to work again lmao
Horde prime was born on a planet that is now long dead. His species originally had wings and tails even as adults. The culture that he was born into was similar to the culture on etheria in that there was diverse ethnic groups, song, dance, entertainment, no transphobia or homophobia, war, and strife. He was trained as a soldier and in war tactics but became disillusioned with war as a concept and wanted only peace.
He left the army and started preaching pacifism. He gained enough followers of his teachings to begin a small commune that would eventually become a cult. He preached to his followers like they were apart from the larger problems of the world but his commune was eventually attacked by the enemy that he had scorned fighting before. They take horde prime and some members captive, horde prime attempts to preach to them about peace but they do not listen. Though it pains him to do so, horde prime goes from thinking that he could live in his own little peaceful world to thinking that it is his duty to rid the entire world of evil so that suffering can no longer exist and to do that, war is necessary.
Horde prime rallies his followers to revolt against their captors and escape imprisonment. Horde primes once peaceful commune becomes a paramilitary organization that aids in the war he once fled.
His side wins. Horde prime attempts to go back to living peacefully but the militaristic organization of his cult stays. Being a cult leader feeds his ego. He sees that there is still strife in the world. His cult is no longer isolated from the world, but actively trying to build itself into a major religion ala scientology. Horde prime becomes jaded with other people, especially when scandals happen in his church. He feels that people who follow them of their own choosing should simply not need to be guided any more and is mystified as to why people seem to cause problems on purpose, in his mind. Horde prime begins to think that he is the only person that knows how to live a righteous and moral life, even people who have followed him from the beginning are doomed to sin if they even so much as think thoughts that are not his. Horde prime dislikes people and sees them as only a means to an end or something he can get something out of. He dislikes actually having to lead people and mediate conflicts. He thinks that the world would be a much better place if only he could do the thinking for everyone.
Horde prime invents (or steals) the technology needed to make horde chips. He invents or steals the tech needed to create the hive mind. He has his followers chip themselves ala jamestown. At this point he can use the hive mind to read people's thoughts and possess them and has his new army go about chipping everyone on the planet.
At last, he has achieved world peace, but he knows that there are more planets and more people and more strife in the universe, so he uses his world wide army to build a space fleet and begin his universal conquest in earnest. He takes all the resources remaining on his home planet and leaves it desolate, the first of many planets he would do this to.
As the years drag on and horde prime begins to age, so does his army. It is steadily growing via new conquests but there are no new children in the horde because everyone is chipped and not having them. Horde prime knows that if his goal of total annihilation of the known universe so it can be rebuilt can work, then he can have no suitable heir, because his entire philosophy revolves around him knowing best and doing the thinking for everyone. He also knows that if he succeeds in chipping everyone in existence eventually that would mean that all sapient life would die out. This is not necessarily his goal, he just wants all people to reflect his image and think what he wants them to think, not be completely gone. In addition to that, though horde prime dislikes actually having to lead people, he does not desire to be completely alone and enjoys manipulating and using his followers now that they are completely obedient.
This would entice him to invent his method of cloning that we see in the show. Horde prime uses the greater part of his remaining natural life perfecting his cloning process and devising ways to keep himself living for longer and longer than his original lifespan would have lent him. He develops a way of replacing eating with injecting himself with the green amniotic fluid that we see in the show. It both nourishes him and keeps his body working in top physical condition. How does it do this? Idk!!!!!!! But he bases his clones around it, fitting them with ports all over their bodies that make maintenance easier. He also replaces their organic brains with computers that are pre-connected to the hive mind and preloaded with all the knowledge the clone would need to live when popping out of a tube as an adult. They are also pre-programmed to adore and worship horde prime. He fits them with a port on the back of their necks that connects directly to their computer brains like a usb or html. He also at some point decides that he doesn't want his clones to have wings or a tail and has them be stopped from growing in the cloning process.
When he decides that he can no longer keep his original body alive, he has his most favored clone fitted with even more ports and cables that can connect to the brains of other clones. When his original body dies, he has this clone's mind completely wiped and possesses him, having him become his new primary vessel. The original clone that once laid claim to that body is essentially dead and can never be revived, though horde prime can access his memories. This would be the permanent process of horde prime gaining new bodies to keep himself immortal. The species that horde prime belongs to eventually dies out until the only members of it left are his clones.
And that is how we find him in the show.......