Octarian Army
The underground military of the Octarians, led by DJ Octavio, that lost the Great Turf War and has spent a century trying to reverse it.
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The Octarian army is the losing side of the Great Turf War, and it has never accepted that. Led by DJ Octavio from the cockpit of the Octobot King, it withdrew after the war into domes beneath Octo Valley and Octo Canyon, where it has trained generations of soldiers, rebuilt the Great Octoweapons that failed it, and plotted to reclaim the surface.
Its ranks span the whole Octarian species. Octotroopers, Octocopters, Octosnipers, and Octostamps form the rank and file; Octolings, the humanoid elite, guard the deepest kettles; and the rebuilt Octoweapons, the Octostomp, Octonozzle, Octowhirl, Octomaw, Octo Oven, Octo Samurai, and Octo Shower, serve as bosses, each with a tentacle exposed at its power source. The army's obsession with energy is a direct legacy of the loose plug that lost the war: it steals Zapfish because it cannot afford to run out of power again.
The army stole the Great Zapfish in Splatoon 1 and Splatoon 2 and hypnotized Callie in the second. By Splatoon 3 it is collapsing. The Calamari Inkantation reached the domes, Octolings deserted in droves, and Mr. Grizz's Fuzzy Ooze turned the remaining soldiers into fuzzy thralls. Octavio himself ends the third game fighting beside Cuttlefish. The Octarian army's war is over, and its former soldiers are playing Turf War in Splatsville.