Empire!:
Episode 1: “Hump Day”
Featured Characters:
Andy
The Heno
The Dossey
Synopsis: Andy leaves a good job in the city working for The Man every night and day, but he never loses a moment of sleeping worrying about the way things might have been. He doesn’t have to worry if he has no money. The people on the Creek are happy to give. Andy arrives in Buies Creek, where he meets many strange people. Little does Andy know that these people will exert their influence on him, warping him, changing him into the long-awaited Emperor of the Creek. In the meantime, Andy must take Intro to Theatre.
Episode 2: “The Reich of Music” [The Sound of Music]
Featured Characters:
Fuhrer Wilhelm Schleicher
The Heno
Andy
Synopsis: The Veranda Society overruns the town of Buies Creek. Its Nazi-like government seizes control and begins abusing the population. Not accomplishing much as far as actual work, reforms are obviously needed. Andy plots to change the world. He sees the need for leadership, for a new Empire of order.
Episode 3: “Chambermania” [Chamber Music]
Featured Characters:
Andy
Nicotine Advisor Crainshaw
Kolberg
Self-proclaimed Goddess K. Wulff
Synopsis: The Veranda Society sentences the various radicals to rehabilitation in the local mental asylum. Andy frees the patients, even the actually insane, and organizes them into a freedom fighting faction (FFF).
Episode 4: “The Diary of Andronicus” [The Diary of Anne Frank]
Featured Characters:
Andy
Carriera / Security Chief and Reptilian Forces Supervisor Caraptor
Operations Chief Doyle
Tier-of-Ties LeTrent
Synopsis: Construction of a secret base for the new freedom faction is begun. Brian Carreira volunteers for a dangerous experimental genetic reconstruction project. His genetic makeup is spliced with that of a velociraptor, making him Caraptor. The success of this venture leads to the creation of an army of raptors as the Reptilian Forces of which Caraptor is leader. Doyle is appointed as Operations Chief, maintaining the supply lines into the secret imperial base. However, they are discovered by the Veranda Society. A battle ensues. The powerful Smokescreen weapon is employed by the Veranda and forces a retreat of the freedom fighters.
Episode 5: “The Raptolier”
Featured Characters:
Andy
The Dossey / Chief Armorer Dossey
Synopsis: The Dossey reveals that he has discovered the mystic Raptolier, a sword of immense power, long thought lost by the Buies Creek local law enforcement. Functioning much like the Sword of Omens from the Thundercats, the Raptolier at first transforms Andy into a red-headed cat-person who yells, “Ho!” This is soon corrected by The Dossey, but not before Andronicus becomes inflicted with whiskers that must be shaved constantly.
Episode 6: “Harvey”
Featured Characters:
Andy
Security Chief and Reptilian Forces Supervisor Caraptor
Agent Harvey
Fuhrer Wilhelm Schleicher
The war continues. The Veranda Society creates an invisible stalker to track down and destroy the members of the freedom faction, who now call themselves the Pirates. The Pirates begin referring to Andy as “Emperor.” Harvey is successful in capturing many of the pirates, who are once again incarcerated in the mental asylum. LeTrent manages to disable the mind-control device employed by the Veranda Society which keeps its members in check. The brainwashing wears off and with little support, the Veranda retreats into another dimension. Harvey is hunted down and destroyed by Caraptor and Andy.
Episode 7: “The Matrix”
Featured Characters:
Emperor Andronicus
Security Chief and Reptilian Forces Supervisor Caraptor
Operations Chief Doyle
Synopsis: Andy takes the name Andronicus and is declared Emperor. The Empire is formed from the remaining Veranda Society members and the victorious Pirates. Andronicus seizes the opportunity to fulfill a lifelong dream and creates a Harem for his personal use. Unfortunately, the local Campbell University internet computer system gains self-awareness and attempts to takeover Buies Creek. It deploys agents to hunt down members of the Empire. Fortunately, the Raptor Pack is quite effective in disrupting the power supply of the artificial life form, which is summarily wiped and reinstalled, freeing the citizens of Buies Creek.
Episode 8: “The Concubine Rebellion, Part One”
Featured Characters:
Emperor Andronicus
Operations Chief Doyle
Security Chief and Reptilian Forces Supervisor Caraptor
Assassin Rockel
General Kolberg
Head Concubine Bethany
Tier of Ties LeTrent
Mr. Anderson
Synopsis: The year end cliffhanger. Head Concubine Bethany, filled with ambition, talks much of the harem into rebelling against the Emperor. A huge war ensues and there is much loss of life on both sides. Continued in "The Concubine Rebellion, Part 2."
Summer: Reruns.