All hail the Techno-Viking?
Many do, oh yes indeed. The Techno-Viking rules a vast empire with his titanium fist.
His subjects have only to choices, obey the awesome power of the Techno-Viking or be destroyed by that very might. He is indeed a cult of personality, one can not be inspired by his ways, leading the charge though the wilderness route and into an enemy metropolis to lay siege, his men, his compact legion of solders ride on only the greatest black bears, brandishing red-tipped spears. The archers fire arrows with un-shaped heads. Nothing stands in his way without being pulverised.
All apart from his greatest enemy however. The shadow lurking Ninja people of Rakubandus 5. Their tactics, so agonisingly fool proof that even a mind like that of the Techno-Viking can't rip apart. They appear out of nowhere, striking camps at lighting-fast speed and then vanishing again, back into the shadows. The Ninjas take apart the realm of the Techno-Viking, slowly but surely pulling him into his black demise.
It is unclear when this immense struggle between the Techno-Viking and the Ninjas will end, sometime in the next century one would hope. As the Techno-Norse empire closes on the Ninja people's homeworld, they continue to break the necessary barriers that are in place to stop the downfall of the Techno-Viking, as sturdy and strong as they are. Everyday a new barbarous, bloody battle between the two takes place.
All you can know for sure is that, it will end, sometime. And there will be a clear victor. This may or not be continued as the war progresses.