(Tokenized in EIGHT editions for the king and the seven "eyed" ghosts in the picture, here!)
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In his peaceful form, he is the kindest royal you will ever meet, so much so that he has been taken for weak, many times.
Nonetheless, since the advent of the 24-hour galactic news cycle in the early 23rd century, no one has actually tested their comfortable theory.
This is the king in war form, the last time he came forth to defend his star system, and above him, the ghost of his father, with his crown of ethereal fire, yet rides.
Around them, in a cloud of energy, one may look back into the ages ... the faces and crowns of spirits back into the king's lineage for centuries.
The king holds the scepters of both his father and himself at the ends of his mighty arms, and all around the manifestations of himself and his father, the spectral scepters of their ancestors radiate like rays of their star system's sun, and of nearly that same power.
If you would lead your fleet against a small supernova, then you might have the chance to attack his system and live ... yet if you think you have a chance, go now, for in the future, the king will relinquish his place to the only being more powerful than himself -- HIS SON, when the king his father shall ascend to HIS FATHER's place!
This is a pure fractal made in Apophysis 2.09 -- the only thing I enhanced were giving the king's seven nearest ancestors' eyes so that they would stand out just a bit more in their combined aura (because when you spot the pattern in the fractal, you'll realize how many "ancestors" there actually are... have fun counting them) Everything else was in the math and the palette!