Star Knights

The Order of the Star Knights began centuries ago on a distant world now known as Citadel. The entity Mentor is a vast neural-mapped cybernetic computer network programmed with the knowledge and experiences of hundreds of thousands of beings, in essence, the sum total of an entire city’s worth of minds linked together to achieve a collective intelligence. Many suspect Mentor is a creation of the Preservers, like many fantastic artifacts throughout the galaxy, but it remains silent on the matter of its origins. Mentor possesses vast intelligence and experience, along with direct control over incredibly advanced technological facilities and a nearly limitless power source. Fortunately, it also has a deep sense of fairness and justice.

History

When the Lor first achieved interstellar spaceflight centuries ago, the Grue often blasted them out of the stars rather than have any rivals for the space lanes. Mentor detected these conflicts, assessed the actions of both starfaring races, and saw there would be a need for agents to maintain order and protect innocents from harm out among the stars.
Mentor began recruiting brave and intelligent beings, using robotic messengers to ferry potential recruits to Citadel, where it began training the first Star Knights. Coming from a variety of worlds across the galaxy and representing a diverse range of species, Mentor first taught its recruits to respect the diversity among them and conquer any prejudices they previously held. Once their training was complete, Mentor equipped each with an advanced suit of armor with offensive and defensive capabilities and the ability to fly through interstellar space. The Star Knights were charged with preserving peace, order, and justice in the galaxy.
The Lor Republic acknowledged the authority of the Star Knights after witnessing them in action, and most other civilized worlds in the galaxy dis so as well. The Star Knights made it a point not to interfere in the internal affairs of other worlds, they rarely go where they are not wanted, and concentrate on dealing with natural disasters, interstellar crime, and similar menaces. They also protect developing worlds from outside exploitation and conquest. The Grue Unity consider the Star Knights adversaries, although they respect the Knights’ abilities and only challenge them when they feel numbers are in their favor.
As of the modern era, there are thousands of Star Knights throughout the galaxy, but they’re still spread quite thin, and multiple Star Knights are only seen together in times of great crisis. Each Star Knight is independent and expected to handle matters largely on his or her or its own.
Each Knight wears an advanced suit of technological armor drawing power from the Star Stone, the glowing, multifaceted crystal floating in the heart of Mentor’s complex on Citadel. The Star Stone contains or draws upon a seemingly inexhaustible energy source. The Grue have sought to kill Star Knights for centuries to claim their armor and study it, but whenever a Knight is killed, the armor automatically returns to Citadel (often bringing the corpse with it) or else self-destructs.
A Lor Star Knight, A’Lan Koor, was stationed on Earth for a time. A member of the Freedom League in the late 1960s and most of the 1970s, he was known to Earth simply as Star Knight. He eventually returned to space and has risen to membership of the Inner Circle that administers the Order of Star Knights. He is considered a candidate to have his memories incorporated into Mentor upon his biological death, although that is not expected for many cycles.

Sword and shield, Star Stone’s light, shining beacon in our fight, for justice, honor, truth, and right, evil beware—the true Star Knight! -Star Knight Oath

Location

Milky Way