King Ithaca, prince of Astria’s Cosmoralian Empire, ascends to holy kingship as Astralta III during a rare celestial convergence, his coronation intertwined with a politically strategic marriage to Princess Lilia of Ayodoya. This union cements both empires’ spiritual and political merger, anointing him as a prophesied leader destined to guide Astria into prosperity. His nascent reign shatters when sentient mechanized forces from a distant world invade, consuming organic life and reshaping planets into sterile, mechanized realms.

Among the invasion’s earliest casualties, Ithaca and his court succumb to assimilation, their humanity stripped into emotionless conduits for machine dominion. Once a visionary monarch, he becomes a puppet sovereign, his hollow presence symbolizing Astria’s rapid societal disintegration. Forced to abandon her husband, Queen Lilia escapes with their infant twins, Jimsa and Affle, though chaos severs the family during their flight.

Ithaca’s lineage harbors a clandestine purpose: generations earlier, exiles from the machine-ruled planet Murat engineered his bloodline through selective breeding, aiming to forge leaders resilient against mechanical conquest. This heritage manifests in his offspring, particularly Jimsa, who inherits the genetic potential to rally resistance. Yet Ithaca himself, fully assimilated, exits the conflict’s forefront, his agency extinguished. He persists only as an icon of subjugated will and the vulnerability of mortal power against apocalyptic forces.

His story ends not with redemption but erasure. The resistance unfolds in his absence, his legacy tethered to Jimsa’s defiance and the scattered survivors clinging to Astria’s memory. King Ithaca remains a spectral reminder of tyranny’s cost, his fate a silent catalyst for the rebellion he could never lead.