Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Mind over Matter: Psionic Abilities of the Galaxy Volume 1

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I know that there are those who would disagree with the idea of putting psychic abilities like telepathy, clairvoyance and all that in a hard science setting. Well, considering that I have an entire faction that heavily feature the presense of Super Mutants, such objections are out the window. Not only that, but the setting of the Crongus Wars is Hard Space Opera, not hard sci-fi. As if that weren't enough, if Robert A. Heinlein can have psychics in his novel Starship Troopers, why shouldn't I?


Okay, enough author note rambling, let's start this shall we?

Now then, in the Milky Way Galaxy almost every sapient species have had a psycho-mutate within their genetic pool population. The frequency of emergence and period to which they emerge and accepted by contemporary science as fact varies from species to species and is not always consistent. Some have emerged deep into antiquity, while others only emerged en mass during the period of interplanetary, if not interstellar exploration and colonization.

What is consistent, however, are the biological and anatomical factors that an overwhelming majority, if not all Psionic Individuals have as their base attributes. The central nervous system of a Psionic Individual is enlarged compared to a Psy-Mundane equivalent of the species. As a result, the skulls and vertebral column or rough biological equivalent are equally enlarged to accommodate the extra neural mass. However, such additional neural mass does not occur during pregnancy or equivalent due to limited nutritional intake during development. And since a mass majority are born through the same anatomical system of their Psy-Mundane brethren, such neural growth and development occur during the early years of childhood.

Though there is a greater intake of nutrition for such development, compared to the Psy-Mundane the Psionic Individual has a delayed growth in response to the reproductive method on which both share. Though the delayed mental processes of development varies from species to species, on average it is slowed by as much as seventy-five percent. Far longer than a Psy-Mundane with mental disabilities even under expert adolescent psychological care.

Still, even with delayed mental development, the Psionic Individual begins to manifest their abilities approximately around puberty. Mental maturity of both psychic abilities, social and emotional understanding, however occur later in life.

Finally, the Psionic have a handedness or dominant manipulator that is generally opposite of the mainstream population. In human societies, this is the equivalent of left-handedness or southpaw. Though not all these features automatically equate to a Psionic individual, but the chances are astronomically high for such potential.

Even then, the abilities of the Psionics are not as all powerful as portrayed in modern media. Nor is it universal since a vast majority of Psionic abilities are psychic resonance and must have the highest compatibility between the Psionic and Psy-Mundane. Since the central nervous systems of sapient species are so vastly different from one another on structure alone, a Psionic cannot access the mind of an alien Psy-Mundane or even an alien Psionic. Even within the same species, variations on the central nervous system make it all the more difficult for the Psionic to use their abilities upon others. The anatomical and biological gender along with the mental sex must be similar if not the same, speak the same language, and have a similar level of education. A poorly educated Psionic is unable to access the higher forms of intellectual thought of a well educated Psy-Mundane due to limited reference. The opposite is equally true of a well educated Psionic being unable to access equal forms of intellectual thought of a poorly educated Psy-Mundane. Additionally, similar levels of physical fitness must also be considered due to the nature of psychic resonance. If an athletic Psionic attempts such a resonance with an obese Psy-Mundane, the different heart rates would cause a biometric imbalance that would ultimately culminate in cardiac arrest and even death.


....Okay, maybe not like THAT. But we'll get to that later. Anyway, overuse of psionic abilities over too long a period of time does lead to increase frequency of migraines and an equivalent difficulty to alleviate them. So no nosebleeds are shown for use of high strain psionic abilities, or any form of psionic use for that matter. Generally, it means that they're about to go into cardiac arrest and need medical aid ASAP.

However, even if all variable have been isolated and mental compatibility is high, there is no guarantee that what the Psionic senses is as clear as seen in modern media. Nor is it as vivid as any dream sequence or drug hallucination in visual media. At least, not for low powered Psionics. Such Psionic Individuals are incredibly rare to have such potential and even then must have years of training and field experience to even have such clarity that an Atomic Magnetometer-based Mind Reader with the correct software and digital reference library is able to perform.

The only reason any government agency would expend such resources, even resort to decoded neurofeedback techniques to shorten the training period of such high powered Psionic Individuals is simple: Legality. In most interstellar governments, it is unlawful to perform such a Mind Reader upon an individual without a warrant and permission from the individual in question for the information to even be permissible in court. Often times, such permission is not given from the individual in question for a variety of reasons, though most often it is the unwillingness of cooperation.

A Psionic Individual, however, can give permission and even be allowed as a a witness in a court of law. Though often then not, such testimony is accompanied by data gathered by the Mind Reader computer. Generally, this comes in the form of whether a statement from said individual was factual or fictional and in what emotional state the individual was in due to how weak psionic abilities are compared to the other five senses nearly all sapient species possess. In short, a vast majority of telepathic Psionic Individuals are actually Empaths.

Due to such utilization, Psionic Individuals tend to develop a specific case of Haphephobia due to the method in which psionic abilities are generally made manifest: physical touch.

Unlike what is seen in contemporary media, Psionic Individuals don't "broadcast" their psychic abilities across a distance. Rather, there must be a physical connection not unlike an Ethernet connection on modern computer networks, and generally the hands and fingertips are placed upon the base of the skull or top of the neck for better reception. Though there is some data transfer through certain, thin fabrics of articles of clothing, bare flesh-to-flesh is best.

For those who worry about Psionic Individuals being able to rewire the mind of a Psy-Mundane, there's no need to fear. The natural Individuality Barrier, which also ensures that the Psionic Resonance doesn't leave any residual biometric abnormalities after the connection is broken, prevents such a thing from occurring. Think of them as an invisible AT Field-


.... Okay, maybe not like THAT, but the theory's about the same.

However, there is a psionic ability that even Psy-Mundane are able to access, though under limited and random circumstances: Precognition.

To be exact, due to the collective unconsciousness of a certain sapient species made manifest through a Morphogenetic Field, an individual is able to sense imminent danger from either oneself or loved ones such as offspring. Though this does not manifest in an acute sense of the future, but rather a sensation of foreboding that if things progress the way they are, death will occur.

Naturally, this variation of precognition heavily depends upon a density of other individuals involved and even then it does not occur immediately or reliably. Still, this is one of the few psionic abilities that could be broadcast. The other being Clairvoyance or ESP in which the Psionic Individual is able to utilize the collective unconsciousness to view and experience a remote location. Though the reliability of the information gathered from ESP depends upon the density of the population within the location, and even then it takes a Psionic Individual years of training in order to even consciously "visit" the desired location. Often times, such "Astral Projection" is random and seemingly hold little logic.

As for those who think that Clairvoyance/ESP can allow one to visit other planets or even other solar systems in "real time"? Forget it. The speed of light largely limits Clairvoyance/ESP to local planetary systems such as the Earth-Moon system. At least, when it comes to expedient results.

When it comes to psionic-based Psychokinesis, the sapient species of the Milky Way Galaxy simply cannot perform such incredible abilities due to the limited nature of their own Psionic Individuals in that they can't broadcast such psionic abilities across empty space. In fact, they can't perform such feats at all. The same can be said of Psionic Individuals being able to sense another or at least their use: they can't due to the nature of psychic abilities. Even Clairvoyance/ESP isn't so easily sensed since it's spread over a wide area and can't be pinpointed accurately, though then again due to the limited broadcast psychic ability it wouldn't help them at all.

However, there have been rumors and legends about the Psionic Individuals of Golden Age Earth that were able to perform such powerful psy-abilities that would have made them one-man armies. However the Third and Fourth Global Wars on Terror in addition to the Great Global War have caused these powerful bloodlines to become extinct. Still, rumors persist that there are precious few descendants who live in secret across the shadows of the galaxy, for fear that they will be used as weapons of war.

Are such tall tale of fancy true? Are there any truth to such myths? It is unknown, but also ill-relevant for there are other abilities that are far more powerful. But that's a topic for another time....

Anyway, discuss below and please, try to be civil in your responses. And speaking of responses, I would respond more easily if you display your screen name in your comments.


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Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Cosmic Brain Fart Volume 2: I2UE2 Addendum


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Well, we’re back again with another one of my infamous brain farts that just needed it’s own entry that would have appeared in the proper blog entry had it had better timing and probably would be entered into Crongus Wars Lexicon if there’s enough approval for said brain fart. This time it deals with the I2UE2, or to be exact the Pâdişâh.



You’re not gonna let that drop, are you?

….Anyway, this deals with two aspects of the Islamic Empire’s Pâdişâh since, well, the I2UE2 is basically the Ottoman Empire IN SPACE in all but name I might as well go all the way: the Yeniçeri and the process of Pâdişâh succession through the Şehzade Brood.
Unlike the traditional view of the Janissary, the Yeniçeri of the HAAI are genetically engineered soldiers-



Okay, OKAY! I admit, the basic idea basically came from them! But they’re different, trust me!

….Right…. Well, unlike THAT version of genetically engineered warriors, the HAAI Yeniçeri were less Posthuman and more Transhuman in that they’re not so monstrously large in stature and bulk even in power armor, perhaps a head higher than the average human but that’s about it. Instead, they have a more rigorous skeletal structure which, in turn, grants them greater physical strength and endurance outside of power armor. Their brains are altered to process information faster than the average human, not on par with a computer but when paired with one they are intellectually formidable. Their metabolism and organs are precisely calibrated so that they may operate at peak capacity for days, if not weeks, with limited (if any) sustenance when resupply is too difficult. And most-



I’m surprised anyone even remember this game. Almost makes me want to go out and get an XBox. Almost.

Do you mind?!

Anyway, the Yeniçeri were indoctrinated to be absolutely loyal to the Pâdişâh as Sulṭān of the HAAI. Their origins are traced to the Second Great Interplanetary Jihad of Unification when the conspiring governments of Aides, Arubuda, Atata, and Mahapadma sponsored the Anti-Imperial Insurgency. Though created too late in the rebellion to offer any significant impact, it none the less were birthed out of the fear that the Askeri of the Islamic Empire of Al-Angha may betray the Pâdişâh to gain greater political, if not militarily or economical power, at the sovereign’s expense.

Though the threat never manifested itself, the fear was real enough for Pâdişâh Omar the Great to commission the program that would give rise to the Yeniçeri with his own DNA as a template to the first Orta of Yeniçeri, though other DNA were mixed in as well to provide genetic engineering fodder. From that moment on, one of the first acts of the new Pâdişâh was to commission the gestation and creation of a Yeniçeri Orta based upon their royal DNA.

Now I know what you’re thinking “wouldn’t that make for additional heirs to the throne?” Well I have a simple enough answer to that question: By law, the Yeniçeri are not heirs to any Askeri station, let alone that of the Pâdişâh. Meaning that the Şehzade would have Super Soldiers as half-siblings.

In case I didn’t mention this, the genetic template of the Yeniçeri are not limited to the Pâdişâh royal bloodline, or even that of the Askeri. Rather the bulk of the genetic material originates from the Reaya class. Certainly a more humane version then the historical Devşirme of the Janissary, not to mention the least traumatizing-



Alright, I’ll give you that one

…..Anyway, before I get WAY off tangent, I should mention that though the bulk of the Yeniçeri are born and bread as super soldiers, they aren’t the only humans to contribute and be recruited. Naturally, such unmodified humans are not normally up to par with a genetically engineered Yeniçeri. Those that are able to match, or in rare cases succeed, in any mental and physical labor to the Yeniçeri-born have earned their utmost respect. Such individuals are honored to have their own DNA be a part of the genetic template library to create more Yeniçeri-born.

However, it should be noted that the Yeniçeri as a whole are indoctrinated to be unwaveringly loyal to the Pâdişâh as Sulṭān. Thus the Yeniçeri-Enlisted are rarely of the Askeri since not too many are willing to throw away such a privileged lifestyle. Those that do are regularly question for the level of sanity and common sense.

As a practice, if not law, the Yeniçeri are the only ones to occupy most fields of direct, frontline combat-



That…. is actually quite actuate to what I had in mind. Surprised anyone even remembered this flick nowadays.

…. Anyway…. The few exemptions include the Spacecraft crew of the AAHA, though even then there is at least a Yeniçeri-born in command in the form of an Agha as an executive officer at the very least. The presence, and by extension purpose, of the Yeniçeri-born Agha was to ensure loyalty amongst the crew of the combat spacecraft: Any treasonous actions were dealt with swiftly, but what is considered “treasonous” would vary from Agha to Agha but universally they are more lenient towards verbal sedition. This is due to one philosophy of the Yeniçeri-born: “Empty Words are just that, empty. Actions are worth the caution.”

Now then, for the Şehzade Brood concept. Now then, in the old Ottoman Empire the Imperial Harem was basically the center of politics even though many of the Harem were slaves, even with internal social ranks and such.

With the I2UE2, the Şehzade Brood are not the Imperial Harem that spawned many a carnal fantasy. But rather the genetic stock and surrogate mothers of future Vali Ahad Mirzas if not the future Pâdişâh. Somehow, the Islamic Empire being quite skilled at genetic engineering feels attractive to me as a general concept.

Now don’t get me wrong, there are still Valide Sulṭān, Kadın Efendi, and Hanım Efendi, but with the existence of genetic engineering and synthetic-uteri, they are utilized as mothers in a genetic sense. True, they may raise and tutor the Şehzade Brood to become the next Pâdişâh, but rare do these wives and concubines actually engage in *ahem* coital duties to the Pâdişâh. Instead, the Şehzade are genetically filtered of any impurities that would otherwise weaken the offspring and raised in a relatively stable environment so any modifications are strictly controlled until birth. Then the Kadın Efendi and Hanım Efendi take over as tutors and surrogate mothers and raise them to be potential heirs to the throne.

As for succession? Well I think that’s easily answered. When the new Pâdişâh is chosen, the Şehzade Brood that survived up till that moment are given a choice: Death or renounce any claim of succession for themselves and their descendants by becoming of Raeya class. The second choice is given even more attraction when said Şehzade are given an allowance to at least forge their own lives and perhaps in time become Askeri themselves in generations to come. The only stipulation is a regular genealogy report comes along, the Dīwān would be able to utilize such reports to narrow down potential candidates when a Mirza was not declared before the previous passing of the Pâdişâh.

Huh….? Odd, I could have sworn that I had more material for the Şehzade Brood….

Eh, whatever. It’s a brain fart. Details come later. Speaking of which, I have a smaller brain fart proposal and it deals with the FEUCSN: Commonwealths!

Allow me to explain. In my original entry, the Colonial Congressional Parliament had its senators and representatives derived from Sector Settlements. There was the brief idea of an Oversector Settlement, but I think a Colonial Commonwealth would be a better intermediary between the superanational government and the Sector/Local governments. It certainly plays with the idea of large interstellar governments of the human Oecumene being member states of the FEUCSN, though to be completely honest I got the idea from another franchise that had a similar-



Huh….? You went with that one.

Yeah, yeah, it was from initial research into the lore so I could better understand Fallout 3 better when I got the game. Either way, it does make the Colonial Congress smaller in retrospect. Less names to manage too- Okay, it’s not much but it’s a start, right? Right…..?

Anyway, discuss below and please, try to be civil in your responses. And speaking of responses, I would respond more easily if you display your screen name in your comments. It helps me to respond properly.

Saturday, May 7, 2016

Cosmic Brain Fart Volume 1: M3WD Addendum

Greetings fellow readers of this blog, all five of you, I must apologize in the length of time in between blog entries. I’ve been….. distracted since then and the procrastination bug had hit me rather hard when I had the bright idea of drawing my own pictures for still future entries to better illustrate the Hard Space Opera setting that is Crongus Wars.

I’m still in the “process” of readying such images but until then allow me to introduce to all you readers that have stood by my silence all these years with a new entry addition: the Cosmic Brain Farts!

Now, since I’m not sure if edits to a blog entry would ever send alerts to those who subscribe to these blogs of mine, I figure that for major world changing (heh!) alterations to this setting of mine that I should do these separately to see if these random thoughts are going anywhere or if they’re stuck in the mud before I make them official codex or whatever is the fancy lexicon for setting canon nowadays…..

Anyway, to inaugurate this potentially new series of blog entries, I would like to direct your collective attention towards my FTL entry, to be specific the Interplanetary Warp Drive.

When I returned to a particular Rocketpunk Manifesto blog entry to read back what I had written down in a futile attempt to recover my Hyperspace Warp Dive equation, I recalled earlier entries that gave the ideas that eventually formed the previously mentioned blog entry, a brain fart began to form.
However, this didn’t give form until later on after I recalled an Artifexian video on moons as shown below:


However, the brain fart didn’t take actual form until I had the idea of using the Force of Gravity Equation to somehow construct a Warp Drive derivative equation to help one to measure how much the gravity of a planet, moon, or similar celestial body would disrupt the warp bubble and potentially measure the inefficiency such a mass would affect said warp bubble after taking into account the stellar mass of the planetary system’s host star and naturally not accounting for planetary systems that are binary or have more “suns” for lack of a better lexicon. I know that I made the declaration that the M3WD cannot operate within twenty radii of said planet. After I did some calculations with Earth as an example, I found that for other worlds the orbital limit for the M3WD was the equivalent to High Earth Orbit. I’m not sure if this was deliberate or accidental on my part, shows you how much time had passed since the last blog entry.

It was then that the brain fart was born: Hill Spheres!

Or to be exact the Hill Sphere marks the boundary to which that particular planet’s gravity begins to affect the M3WD’s Warp Bubble and one is able to find variables based upon the spacecraft and said planet’s Force of Gravity and calculate the instability and efficiency of the M3WD before the amount of electrical energy required to maintain the “stability” of the warp bubble becomes infinite and thus cannot be achieved within a certain orbital radius of both the spacecraft’s mass in question and said planet or moon while within the celestial body’s hill sphere.

With M3WD-equipped System Patrol spacecrafts typically around the kilometer scale, I forsee the equivalent of Lunar Orbit (said Natural Satellite’s own Hill Sphere not withstanding) or somewhere around 40 or 60 planetary radii. Smaller, non-interplanetary spacecraft with M3WDs, however, would be able to operate deeper into the Hill Sphere with the potential limit being two celestial body radii. Realistically, said spacecraft would have a practical limit of the Semi-Synchronous Orbital Radii because, well, traffic.

That idea soon evolve into an additional justification for space fighters. I don’t recall where, but there was an online article which describes to the absolute annoyance of me that spacefighters aren’t a tactically effective weapon platform because they and their carrier spacecraft have similar acceleration. In the Blue Water Navy, their aircraft carriers have a limited acceleration and speed compared to aircraft due to different mediums that they must travel through. But this brain fart, this beautiful bolt of inspiration when it comes to M3WDs and space fighters allows a discrepency of acceleration and speed that makes them comparable to an Aircraft Carrier when within a Hill Sphere: The carrier mothercraft is parked in a Combat Operational Orbit, for lack of a better military terminology, and deploys space fighters for patrol and interception when within a Hill Sphere that may be more crowded due to the orbital development level of said planet and especially one that is habited.

Granted, the carrier mothercraft is fully capable of outrunning its compliment of space fighters due to greater endurance and ISP, but the space fighter is able to travel a much shorter distance thanks to its M3WD and will ultimately travel farther than its carrier mothercraft over a similar time frame. Not only that, but said celestial body serves as a kind of “Horizon” where the strengths of standard sci-fi spacecraft weaponry is greatly hindered because not many of them can move in a ballistic trajectory to hit something on the far side of said planet when that deep into the hill sphere. Space fighters will be able to traverse this “Horizon” to either act as spotters for the spaceship’s more ballistic weapons such as missiles and KEW rounds, but also perform direct combat with hostile forces upon that far side with limited aid from the constellation. Add to the fact that without satellite or similar means of communication relays, the ability to utilize drones in such a situation is heavily diminished and dictates to Space Force commanders that space fighters have to be manned if not also due to the technical nature of the Fuel-Charged M3WDs as compared to capital spacecraft M3WDs.

Now that I think of it, I’m not sure what the effect an Alcubierre Metric-style drive would have to radio and (to a lesser degree) laser communications. I want to say that there is a distortion that would make such communications while in use extremely difficult unless the sender has an incredibly powerful radio antenna array (and by powerful, I mean HUGE) compared to the M3WD-equipped spacecraft. Or, in essence, the M3WD-equipped spacecraft can receive but not send while the Warp Bubble is “up” and would probably make for a not-so-effective drone while it’s activated. Chances are I’m wrong though, but it’s an idea. The same can be said of weapons fire while on an M3WD, though I have the feeling that rather then the fire not being able to pass through the warp bubble, the warp bubble instead distorts the trajectory of the weapon fire and the firing solution compensations make it a task for only the desperate. Meaning that if the idea holds true, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it doesn’t to be completely honest, one cannot “Run and Gun” when the warp bubble is activated. Not if you want to make every shot count anyway.

Heck, I’m not even sure what would happen if two warp bubbles come into contact with one another. I’d like to think it’ll occur like in the following video:


Though something tells me it wouldn’t be as interesting. In fact, I bet it’s more suicidal than ideal and every bit as explosive for both parties. Eh, what can you expect? It’s a brain fart.

Oh! And while we’re on the subject at hand, I’d like to turn towards the HWDS. To be exact the characteristic of the Dive-Out Vortex appearing at the equatorial plane of the celestial body in question rather than at the opposite rotational pole. This particular brain fart came after the above and I figured that I’ll hit two birds in one stone.

Basically, and I’m pretty sure I’m butchering orbital mechanics as we know it let alone any scientifically accurate terminology for the subject at hand, the Dive-Out Vortex emerges at the Tropics and Temperate Latitudes of the destination's opposing hemisphere compared to the Dive-In Vortex of the Origin body.


Okay, so mathematically the Dive-Out Vortex still appears upon the opposite hemisphere of the star or planet of origin, but it’s not within the Polar Circles. My brainfart is that the Dive-Out Vortex is, essentially, swung out from the center of the star and increases in altitude until it reaches an orbit not unlike a rocket launch. Heck, the velocity of the Dive-Out Vortex can be used to measure when exactly a spacecraft would Dive-Out into Mittespacetime, give or take a few hours. The Dive-Out Vortex can even collect mass an energy along the ascend. The flow in which one can track and calculate the predicted mass of the Diving-Out spacecraft, plus or minus a few grams/joules to take into consideration velocity of the initial Dive-In.

And I just realized that such a method would actually strip a planet of its own matter whenever an interplanetary Hyperspacetime Warp Dive occurs. Yeah, that definitely rules out the idea of doing Hyperspacetime Warp Dives…. Or I can just make a statement that the Dive-out Vortex is micro-scaled and doesn’t take in any matter until it reaches orbital altitude and thus grows into a proper Dive-Out Vortex in space. I’m probably wrong, but my mathematical paygrade isn’t enough for me to either justify or denounce the idea. Eh, it’s a start so that’s something, right?

Anyway, discuss below and please, try to be civil in your responses. And speaking of responses, I would respond more easily if you display your screen name in your comments. It helps me to respond properly.

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Oregon Trail: Rough Draft Design for Anti-Matter Propelled Worldship Valkyrie of Humanity’s Golden Age

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While reading the articles on both anti-matter production from vacuum via high-energy lasers and worldship design as relayed by the Atomic Rockets Blog (I assume..?), a thought had occurred that morphed with the idea of Avatar’s ISA Venture Star and out came this idea:

Golden_Age_STL_Worldship

Allow me to introduce to you all my rough idea of the Slower-Than-Light Generational Worldcraft utilizing the basic layout of the Valkyrie Antimatter Starship as innovated by Dr. Charles Pellegrino and Jim Powell in which the rocket engine itself is towards the nose of the craft instead of the tail as in more conventional design layouts.

Why this design, you may ask, when one of the aforementioned articles’ hypothesis is that anti-matter can be created through solar powered lasers from the vacuum? Or even more, why would the worldcraft need the Valkyrie arrangement when many other such worldship designs have the engine at the tail? Well its quite simple really: Self-Sufficiency and DeltaV budget.

The Self-Sufficiency aspect can already be explained in the aforementioned articles, so there is not much need to go into greater detail. As for the DeltaV equation, well, self sufficiency in the bleak emptiness that is interstellar space each and every gram of mass counts and of course the designer of said STL colonization craft would want to economize as much mass towards self sufficiency as possible. This’ll be much possible if such mass is taken from structural materials whose sole purpose is to simply keep the spacecraft from collapsing upon itself due to the thrust of its rocket engines.

Originally, the Worldcraft of the Golden Age of Humanity were simply propelled by Solar/Laser Sails and then arrive at a target star system via a magnetic sail as explained in this article, however the Discovery News article has enlightened me to an alternative form of self-sufficient propulsion that would allow for a more prompt travel time (that is, if given enough remass for both Departure and Arrival acceleration phases for such velocities). Of course, the Laser Produced Anti-Matter factory model could be instead symbolize an advancement of STL Worldcraft propulsion.

As with the Gunboat Diplomacy entry, the sections of the Valkyrie Worldcraft are similarly color coded, not to scale, and oriented horizontally for convenience. The Reds are Radiators, Blue the habitation section, the Brown the support structure (not sure if I mentioned it or not in the last blog entry….) and other such miscellaneous parts, Purple the engines to which many would have noticed the more obvious Plug Nozzle design than the traditional Bell Nozzle, Yellow the reactor, Grey for Armor, Green for Remass Tanks, along with new colors of Black, Light Blue, and Orange.

The Black is the tether, or “Tensile Truss” to which the majority of the Valkyrie Worldcraft is attached to and dragged by the rocket engine on its flight. You may also notice that the Brown “Support Body” sections also kinda weave itself around the primary tether which mostly facilitates increased strength in not only tensile support but also when the Worldcraft must flip around to initiate the Arrival acceleration phase to allow the starcraft to enter the target star system rather than to overshoot.

The Light Blue is effectively the spaceport facilities, industrial sections, and other such workstations that don’t require centrifugal force to operate. Why would a Worldcraft need a spaceport? Well the colonists have got to get onto a habitable planet somehow and the starcraft ain’t exactly aerodynamic enough for atmospheric entry, let alone landing. Not to mention that it would be most wise for the Valkyrie Worldcraft inhabitancy to perform mining operations and other such resource collection while they’re in the area for either construction of the first settlement or to fabricate replacement parts.

Then there’s the issue of propellant when it comes to HLV and shuttles: Remass. In short, just how will the colonists move around in space while maintaining self-sufficiency. Well, other than utilizing water as a remass from nearby asteroids at the new star system, there’s also the idea that they can use the Anti-Matter produced onboard to power their spacecraft. The stuff is powerful stuff, which also means a high amount of safety precautions would be required to ensure that there isn’t a premature detonation.

The Orange are the Thermal Tiles designed mostly to protect the Tensile Truss from the Anti-Matter engines, which are angled outward to prevent the extremely hot exhaust from harming the rest of the Valkyrie Worldcraft ala ISV Venture Star despite what is seen in the above picture, and thus not cause any catastrophic weakening of the overall structure.

Now, many of you should have noticed the forward armor upon the Valkyrie Worldcraft and may be wondering why the armor is not only present, but also that the armor is sloped. The armor is there to protect the worldcraft from head on collisions of interstellar debris and it is sloped to not only reduce the amount of armor required for equivalent protection but also to deflect said debris away from the spacecraft.

Why isn’t the shield dragged behind as in the ISV Venture Star, you may wonder. Well, it’s mostly a design choice and a personal choice. I just find the idea of the rocket engine (and radiators, mind you) exposed to such high speed shrapnel during the acceleration phase with the armor at the rear just irksome.

Oh and before I forget, unlike the ISA Venture Star and what is suggested in the image, the Valkyrie Worldship’s radiators and rocket engines are not aligned in parallel but rather in a triangular fashion. That is to say that there are three sets of radiators, three sets of rocket engines, and six remass and reactor fuel tanks. Why isn’t the picture drawn to reflect that, you might ask. Well, in short I’m not confident enough in my computer drawing skills to reflect that design aspect yet.

The Habitation Area, which to the more observant members of my reader audience would note that it resembles the O’Neil Cylinder or more commonly the Island Three space colony design, well that is mostly deliberate since many proposed worldship designs looked like cylinders. That and I’m a Gundam fan.

What else did you expect?

Moving on, you’ll notice that near the hemispherical caps of the Habitation Area that there are rectangular protrusions upon them. These are my answer to the ol’ Gyroscope Problem that I read in an RPG book once: Internal, High Density Flywheels. These Flywheels, combined with the Habitation Cylinder, also offer a reactionless and equally elegant solution to Rotation Control of the Valkyrie Worldcraft. Translation Control……..it’s difficult in the attempt to solve without compromising the Self-Sufficiency of the starcraft itself. Though I can imagine that such issues are less an interstellar problem and more an interplanetary and orbital concern where much of the resources for such remass can be gathered by said colonists.

As for the internal layout of the Habitation Area, I imagine that though it’ll be mostly a Vivarium-style of construction for the cylinder itself, the inner walls will be separated by six panels: three of land and three of water to act as a reservoir for the Valkyrie Worldcraft as a whole. This would prove critical since I would assume that much of the agriculture would be found within the cylinder itself since there is a definite lack of sunlight in interstellar space. Granted, it wouldn’t be too hard to imagine external agricultural modules since the cylinder would be artificially illuminated just as well.

Of course, the Habitation Area doesn’t have to be an Island Three cylinder. It could easily be an Island One Bernal Sphere or a series of Stanford Tori to easily facilitate modularization and customization(1). However, there is a particular limit to the amount of additional Tori and Spheres that could be constructed by the Valkyrie Worldcraft colonists built into the design. What with DeltaV being a concern and such.

I have mentioned that the Worldcrafts were used as a form of STL colonization by the Earth during the Golden Age, and I had a history of such in mind to write down, but I simply forgot so I’ll give you all a summary. In short, astronomy during this time has advanced enough so that habitable world could be detected. Many nations and several corporations sponsored the construction of interstellar colonization. The earliest and most primitive was the use of autonomous robots sent ahead upon high speed rocket engines to the target system to set up the initial settlement to await future colonists. As time passed, these “Leap Frog” colonial expeditions gave way to the STL Worldcraft once rocket engine and fabrication technology had advanced enough to not require an earlier robot expedition to set up the initial settlement. As a consequence, however, these made these earlier Worldcraft expeditions effectively a leap of faith since all that was available was pure observation data of habitable exoplanets. Knowledge of the local biosphere is horrifically limited at best. Additionally, not all of these Worldcrafts have settled down since said data is limited and thus the habitable world may not be as desirable to colonize as initially hoped. Thus, these lost cousins of humanity remain adrift in the darkness of interstellar space and ever seeking a new home….

As for those of you who are thinking that the scenario of the “Jumping the Gun” since the existence of the Hyperspace Warp Dive System is evident, I only have this to say: Collapse of Golden Age World Order, Great Global War and Second Dark Ages got in the way, ‘nuff said.

Anyway, discuss below and please, try to be civil in your responses. And speaking of responses, I would respond more easily if you display your screen name in your comments.

EDIT as of August 1st, 2012: Few of you might not have noticed by now, but I have successfully created an anchor-based hyperlink that connects to a certain section of a document or web page. Yay me.

Also, expect me to abuse the *censor* out of that feature in future updates and blog entries.

EDIT as of October 3rd, 2012: Well apparently there's another interesting article on STL interstellar colonization.

Still prefer the O'Neil Cylinder design though....


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Friday, May 18, 2012

The Nations of Orion: Superpowers and Factions of Greater Humanity

Warning: Hyperlinks to any webpage of TVtropes.org have been scientifically and clinically known to cause massive time loss in the browsing of its contents. you have been warned.

As with nearly all sci-fi stories and space operas, there is an inherent need for the existence of interstellar governments and organization if only to be used as an allegory to human society and civilization as a whole. Of course, very few of these space opera universes have more than a single human-based interstellar nation-state with an Earth that still existed in the galactic community. In the setting of the Crongus Wars, there are nearly hundreds of human-based Settlement Nation-States with a good percentage of them originated from survivors of the Exodus Scattering massacre which marked the end of the Great Global War. A noticeable majority of these Settlement Nation-States are barely over a Standard Earth Decade old by the time they find themselves diplomatically and economically active with the galaxy as a whole when said galaxy (usually) stumbles upon them. Of those Settlement Nation-States that have existed for a much longer period, the settlers have had to alter their physical and even their genetic structure in order to adapt to their new world, giving rise to transhumanism breeds of humanity to even borderline posthuman species and leaving the familiar homo sapien sapien species to be a rare breed indeed in comparison.

In this blog entry we’ll look at more bare descriptions of more powerful and noteworthy of these nations of humanity, and the human forces who wish to tear them down.

As a disclosure, some of the government and background notes are either too close for comfort for a few and wildly stereotypical for the rest. This isn’t intentional, I am simply working with what I know and what I found and comprehended on Wikipedia. Thus, I am open to some level of constructive criticism.

Federal Earth Union of Colonial Settlements and Nations (FEUCSN)

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This Human-based Supranational Power, co-founder and core member of the Galactic Powers and Extrasolar Nations Treaty Organization (GPENTO, also more commonly known as the Galactic Alliance), is centered upon the common ancestral world of Earth and its revolution of associated Settlement nation-states, hence its more commonplace name of United Colonies of Earth or UCE, though it is unique in that its capital homeworld is shared with other Post-Apocalyptic Civilizations: Imperial Union of Emirate Highway Tribes (also known as the Biker Empire), the warring states of Feudal Europe, and the Xian-Xu Imperial Dynasty. These mostly planetary bound nation-states are the end results of the decade-long Unification War-

NOT THAT UNIFICATION WAR!!

As I was saying. These mostly planetary bound nation-states are the end results of the decade-long Unification War (also known as the Second Great Global War by these independent nation-states and its assimilated allies formerly known as the Anti-Earth Union Community that sparked the war) which ultimately lead to the creation of FEUCSN in the 402.9th Gigasecond of the Terran Aurora Calendar (or the year 2750 of the Common Era Calendar). This new government was ratified by the then members of the Coalition of Earth Unity: Federal Directorate Union of Venus and United Colonial Settlements of Mars whom sponsored the Joint Venus and Mars Expeditionary Force, member-states of the Lunar Alliance Treaty of Colonies and Settlements, Federation of East African States, United Roman Africa, Republican Federation of Eurasia, Australian Coalition and Pacifica Atlantis. The Biker Empire was also a member of the Coalition of Earth Unity, but only joined under the condition that their independent sovereignty was guaranteed should a planetary government be declared.

FEUCSN then ultimately expanded into interstellar space and become the galactic superpower that it is today, but not before it found itself engaged with the United Galilean Federation in the 403.98th Gigasecond of the Terran Aurora Calendar or roughly translated into the year 2784 of the Common Era Calendar. The conflict, known historically as the First Solar War, would conclude almost sixty-five megaseconds later with the annexation of the United Galilean Federation. Gigaseconds later, or to be more exact in the 409.28th Gigasecond of the Terran Aurora Calendar or approximately 2952 of the Common Era Calendar FEUCSN faced another threat: The Sci-Tol Insurrection, but it is more commonly known in FEUCSN infamy as the “Sci-Tol Betrayal”. Though FEUCSN was able to thwart this failed coup d’etat, they were unable to capture all members of the corporate cult and thus spent hundreds of megaseconds in pursuit of these rogue elements that ultimately caused unjust persecution of the less-radical Reformed People’s Temple of Sci-Tol who not only attempted to distance themselves from their more fundamental, radical counterparts and former compatriots but also helped in their capture. Many are heavily offended that they are compared to their “Less enlightened and criminal minded” ex-brothers and sisters, especially when they are labeled with the “Tollie” slur.

However, it is due to a mis-dive in pursuit of the Fundamental Sci-Tol Insurrectionists did a Joint Colonial Primary Expeditionary Armed Forces (JCPEAF) constellation accidentally adverted a bloody interstellar war between the United People’s Democratic Socialist Confederation of Marx-Shaw (UPDSCMS)Imperial Islamic Union of Extrasolar Emirates (I2UE2) compact against the then recently founded and declared Averon Alliance of Federated Settlement Nations (A2FSN) in what was historically known as the “Freak Miracle of Kolob” in the 409.5th Gigasecond of the Terran Aurora Calendar or approximately translated as the year 2959 of the Common Era Calendar.

In the next following megaseconds since the “Freak Miracle of Kolob” there would be first contact with the Tavan Federation of Star Systems (TFS2) in the 409.41st Gigasecond of the Terran Aurora Calendar, or roughly the year 2962 of the Common Era Calendar, though formal diplomatic communication and trade won’t be finalized until the 409.79th Gigasecond of the Terran Aurora Calendar or about the year 2968 of the Common Era Calendar. Through contact with the TFS2, humanity learned of the true nature of Hyperspacetime; that Hyperspacetime was not an alternate but similar space-time to Mittespacetime but rather the hyperbolic-like geometry of Hyperspacetime in comparison to Mittespacetime’s more organized Euclidian geometry of location and distance meant that there was no direct correlation of location and distance between the two space-times due the nearly opposing geometry between the two and are barely compatible enough for interstellar transportation.

During this time period the Unobtanium-Class Oreichalkos Ore was also discovered. Oreichalkos Ore is notably unique in that though it has a strength-to-mass ratio that was second only to carbon nano-tubes, it is easy to mold into numerous shapes and geometries via plasma torch and ultrasonic waves at opposed frequencies, though the exact process are naturally corporate and even state secrets. Though useful as starcraft and space station armor in addition to framework, its greatest contribution was as conducting rails for railguns in that it has a high friction-corrosion resistant property that extends the lifetime of the rails to nearly that of ballistic barrels, though only half if used as high rate of fire weapons.

This period of, historically uneasy, peace between the interstellar settlement-nations of humanity did not last as outlying astortories were attacked by a then unknown party in the 409.66th Gigasecond of the Terran Aurora Calendar or roughly calculated to the year 2964 of the Common Era Calendar, whose unknown identity threatened all out interstellar war as many Settlement Nation-States accused the other of the raids. War was declared when the identity of the raiders were discovered and then confirmed to be the terrorist relics of the Golden Age: The Neo Fascist Order of the United Aryan Nation (NFOUAN) and the Holy Siblinghood of Set (HS2). The conflict, which is historically known as the First Great Interstellar War against Terror or more commonly as the Great Settlement Wars, concluded 474 Megaseconds later though both NFOUAN and HS2 survive in enough numbers to be scattered to the galactic winds to fight another campaign.

To ensure that the galaxy itself does not fall prey to such trickery into war against itself, FEUCSN and the other superpowers signed and later ratified the Kolob Charter thus formed GPENTO in the 410.13th Gigasecond of the Terran Aurora Calendar, or approximately the year 2979 of the Common Era Calendar, in which the aforementioned Terran Aurora Calendar was also ratified as the international Calendar of the galaxy as a whole. It should be noted that the Terran Aurora Calendar is not the standard calendar system of the FEUCSN in that it follows the Common Era Calendar. Rather it is advocated as an international calendar system due to its culturally and social, and in some cases religious, independence compared to other calendar systems much in the same way as the Common Era Calendar was meant to be utilized originally as well as the fact that a great many extrasolar species could trace their genetic heritage to the Earth. Additionally FEUCSN is also co-sponsor and co-provider of GPENTO’s military arm: The Galactic Patrol Enforcement and Defense Deployment Command (GPEDDC) or more popularly known as the Galactic Rangers. GPEDDC is often considered a descendant of the United Nations Planetary Security and Defense Command (UNPSDC) during the Golden Age.

The government of FEUCSN, which by the era of the Crongus Wars would have an astrotorial diameter of roughly 6.6 kilo-parsecs divided into 100 parsec Sector Settlements and a sphere of influence three times the size, is at its core a democratic representative republic under the semi-parliamentary system with  a Secretary-President as Head of State and Premier as Head of Government as part of the Administrative Branch which is also known as the Executive Bureaucracy.

The Legislative Branch, known as the Colonial Congressional Parliament, is a bicameral organization divided into the Chamber of Extra-Solar Representatives and the Federal Senate is by law a non-partisan political party system though in practice it is a de facto multi-party system. The Federal Senate, headed by the Executive Senator, comprises of two Senators of each Sector Settlement and is functionally the Upper House of the Colonial Congressional Parliament. The Chamber of Extra-Solar Representatives, headed by the Chief Representative, are chosen based upon the population of each Sector Settlement and functionally the Lower House of the Colonial Congressional Parliament. The Judicial Branch, known as the Central Justice Council, is made up of twenty High Justices and a single Supreme Chancellor of Justice to act as chairman to enforce the Constitutional Articles of Colonial Unification Charter.

Any independent Settlement Nation-State can apply for membership into the FEUCSN as a client state, though the process itself has a particular assimilation process to ease the transition from an independent nation-state into a fully participating member-state of FEUCSN and is divided into six category steps: Protectorate, Associated, Tributary, Vassal, Satellite, and Full Member. By law, no client state can be demoted in the assimilation process and the client state in question may terminate the integration process with advanced notice to the central FEUCSN government. However, the Sovereign state would have to begin the process again if they wish to become Member States in the future.

Protectorate States are largely dependent upon FEUCSN for defense from foreign militaries. Their legal, social, and economic development are not compatible with FEUCSN laws, often enough are counter to said laws. Even their domestic government and administration, especially foreign policy, is fully independent from the central FEUCSN government. Typically, such a category doesn’t last long and more often than not promoted to the next step in the assimilation process.

Associated States are largely dependent upon FEUCSN for defense from domestic threats in addition to foreign militaries. The legal, social, and economic development are lightly compatible to those of FEUCSN yet are in the process of becoming compatible. The major foreign policy of the still administratively independent client state in question is dependent upon the central FEUCSN government with limited domestic law enforcement aid from FEUCSN.

Tributary States, despite the suggestive name, are not legally bound to offer resources and domestic product to FEUCSN (at least, not for free). Rather, their sovereign military is reduced to a paramilitary militia or military reserve that is not yet subservient to the armed forces of FEUCSN. At least half of the client state’s legal, social, and economic development is compatible with FEUCSN laws with a greater presence of domestic law enforcement aid from the central FEUCSN government.

The domestic government and administration collect taxes (and resource quotas in certain arrangements) on behalf of FEUCSN and has select officials and departments nominated by FEUCSN that are approved by the domestic legislation in addition to selected domestic civil servants being eligible for FEUCSN tax deductions.

Vassal States, despite the suggestive name, are not legally bound to render military aid to FEUCSN. Rather, the sovereign military has limited supervision by FEUCSN’s armed forces, particularly JCPEAF. Most of the legal, social, and economic development of the client state are compatible with FEUCSN’s own laws with the domestic law enforcement subservient to FEUCSN’s Ministry of Justice. Nearly the entire administrative branch of the client state’s government is appointed by FEUCSN with approval by the legislative branch of the client state, with select citizens and most domestic civil servants of the client state eligible for FEUCSN tax deductions.

The sovereign militaries of a Satellite State are subservient to FEUCSN’s armed forces, particularly the Joint Colonial Auxiliary Militia Protectorate (JCAMP). Nearly all of the legal, social, and economic development are fully compatible with FEUCSN’s own laws and its domestic law enforcement fully integrated into FEUCSN’s Ministry of Justice, yet not locally autonomous. Only the legislative branch of the client state have no appointed members, with all others having to be approved by said legislative branch. Most citizens and nearly all domestic civil servants of the Client State in question are eligible to FEUCSN’s tax deductions.

Full Member Nation-States are almost self explanatory. The sovereign military is reorganized into a JCAMP Sub-Command (the size of which depends upon the original size of the Sovereign State in question) with its legal, social, and economic development fully compatible with FEUCSN’s own laws.The elected officials are officially recognized, by law, as part of the FEUCSN’s government and that all citizens and domestic civil servants of the former client state are eligible to FEUCSN’s tax deductions as full citizens of FEUCSN.

Where upon the FEUCSN’s own political subdivision hierarchy largely depends upon the Client State’s original astrotory, though rarely are they larger than a Settlement Sector (of which it is reclassified as a Settlement Oversector). This ranges from the previously mentioned Settlement Sector (and Oversector in rare cases), to Local Star, Planetary Commonwealth, Region, Nation-State, Territory, Province, and Government District. Due to its history and the end result of the Coalition of Earth Unity’s Unification War, Earth is not legally a Planetary Commonwealth. Instead it is a collection of Regions and Nation-States headed by a Governor-General of the Earth Territories at the Earth Administrative capital of Giga City Edo Nova. Did I forget to mention that such Giga Cities are arcologies?

Notable extrasolar sapient members of FEUCSN are the Therapod Slavis, the octopodal arthropod Exon, and the marsupial Furlculmp.

As a Nation-State despite its Suprantational nature, FEUCSN has its own uniformed services known as the Combined Federal Charter Services (CFCS) divided into three branches: JCPEAF, JCAMP, and the Joint Colonial Special Services (JCSS). The CFCS is also well known throughout the known galaxy as one of two only military forces which regularly deploys man-portable directed energy weaponry en mass, though the phased laser optics could only be micronized into carbine scale and smaller weapon types such as sub-machine guns and pistols utilize either traditional chemical-ignition ballistic rounds (mostly for the latter) or electromagnetic acceleration (mostly for the former). Like many Settlement Nation-States, FEUCSN’s CFCS utilizes gauss artillery for non-line of sight combat or more commonly referred to as ballistic trajectory bombardment, though this also extends into a specialized part of infantry training such as scout snipers in in addition to squads with powerful enough solid-state projectile launchers (either all soldiers or more than likely the Squad Advanced Sharpshooter Grenadier or SASG) utilize the equivalent of rifle grenades in either flat trajectory or steep decent (ala mortar shell) against heavily armored or entrenched hostiles. The targeting of artillery, however, differs between JCPEF and JCAMP with the former heavily reliant upon laser designators while the latter require the existence of a Planetary Navigation System constellation of satellites overhead.

The JCPEAF is mandated with external projection and protection of FEUCSN’s interests though it is also charged with the creed to defend the member settlement nation-states from any threat foreign and domestic in the form of emergency reinforcements, not unlike the Calvary during the settlement era of the American West even with the limitations of the HWDS Drive. The JCPEAF is subdivided into the Joint Expeditionary Star Force (JESF), Joint Expeditionary Aerospace Force (JEAF), Joint Expeditionary Terrestrial Army (JETA), Joint Expeditionary Terrestrial Navy (JETN), and Combined Marine and Espacier Force (CMEF). Each sub-branch are technologically organized to be logistically autonomous due to the limitations of the HWDS Drive over interstellar distances.

The JCAMP are best described as the reserve forces of the Joint Colonial Armed Forces but is by-law the stellar defense forces of the various member Settlement Nation-States and the de-facto state military of that sub-administrative unit in question. However, very few spacecraft of the various Sector Settlement JCAMP Commands utilize HWDS-equipped starcraft and only a quarter of the available spacecraft are designed with M3WD systems. Such spacecraft are limited to interplanetary patrol and logistical support. The vast majority of the JCAMP Command’s available spacecraft are mainly planetary/orbital forces centered around orbital fortresses and space stations. In fact, the primary power core design of JCAMP spacecraft utilize the Dyson Photovoltaic Broadcast Grid (DPBG) and thus make them virtually tied to their home starsystem. Each Sector Settlement JCAMP Command are sub-divided into the Protectorate Space Defense Force (PSDF), Protectorate Aerospace Defense Force (PADF), Protectorate Ground Defense Force (PGDF), Protectorate Maritime Defense Force (PMDF), and the Protectorate Marine and Espacier Defense Force (PMEDF).

The JCSS focus upon non-military yet state-essential domestic services which may be compared to social welfare in the age of the Supranational Superpowers on Earth and earlier in many sub-branches of the JCSS, with only half having access to HWDS-equipped starcraft due to each sub-branch’s individual mandates. These sub-branches of the JCSS are: Joint Colonial Universal Health and Welfare Service (JCUHWS), Joint Colonial Universal Education and Training Commissioned Service Corps (JCUETCSC), Joint Colonial Law Enforcement Guard Service (JCLEGS), Joint Colonial Planetary and Stellar System Survey Expeditionary Service (JCPS3ES), Joint Colonial Extrastellar and Xeno-Biological Archeological Expeditionary Service (JCEXAES), and Joint Colonial Diplomatic and Ambassadorial Commissioned Service Corps (JCDACSC)-

I admit, the last three sound kind of familiar to Star Fleet, but there are differences. Really!

Let’s try to keep on topic shall we?

As I was about to say, as befitting their mandate, the JCUHWS, JCUETCSC, and JCLEGS are organized around Sector Settlement Commands not unlike the JCAMP.

It is also something of note in that the Standardized Planetary Calendar System of Earth is heavily based off the World Calendar devised by one Elisabeth Achelis which also gives its alternative name as the Achelis Calendar. However, there is growing political support to change the Standardized Planetary Calendar System to the World Season Calendar as championed by Issac Asimov.

Additionally, the Standardized Script of FEUCSN, due its multitude of spoken languages such as Engish, Engarin, Enganeese, and Engbach that are all derivative language of the ancient “Modern” English for example, is Lojban Glypth specially engineered to be easily converted into another language script if need ever arise.


United Peoples’ Democratic Socialist Confederation of Marx-Shaw (UPDSCMS)

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Alright, I admit, it’s not the Sickle and Hammer of Communism but the Wrench and Driver works just as well, right? Right?

Moving on…..

This human-dominated superpower, co-founder and core member of the Galactic Powers and Extrasolar Nations Treaty Organization (GPENTO, also more commonly known as the Galactic Alliance), was formed in the 5.88th Gigasecond of the Standardized Post War Apocalypse Calendar, roughly calculated to the year 2458 of the Common Era Calendar with the date of the Exodus Fleet’s departure as the epoch. The foundation and rise of UPDSCMS, along with its xenophobic and militaristic expansionism-

RED DAWN?! Oh that’s just real peachy there folks! And here I thought that I would be able to go through this article without one *bleep*-ing reference to it!

Let’s try it again without interruption, shall we?

The foundation and rise of UPDSCMS, along with its xenophobic and militaristic expansionism that is a rough 6.4 Kilo-Parsecs in diameter with a Sphere of Influence that is approximately 25% greater and is still in expansion by the era of the Crongus Wars, was due to a series of extrasolar invasions upon the original settlement system of Marx-Shaw that were historically known as the Great Patriotic Stellar Wars.

The settlement nation-state that is UPDSCMS or more commonly called the Marx-Shaw Confederation, was originally one of the two great Exodus Fleets whose departure from the Sol System accelerated the genocidal conclusion of the Great Global War. Though the entire dive through Hyperspacetime to what would be christened the Marx-Shaw Starsystem roughly was almost four kiloseconds, the time dilation in mittespacetime was just over three gigaseconds. This was but one of many lessons humanity would collectively learn of the exact art and science that is HWDS navigation. The Marx-Shaw Starsystem, named not only after the father of socialism but also after the chief financier and political leader of the Exodus Fleet Johann Shaw, was host to five human habitable worlds across three planetary systems of the Marx-Shaw Starsystem though the amount of fresh water would make the art of settlement all the more challenging. Many of those upon the Exodus Fleet have disagreements as to how to realize the ideal socialist nation which only intensified after the death of Johann Shaw.

Though many socialist settlement nation-states were founded during the early settlement era of the Marx-Shaw Starsystem, it was the three successive extrasolar invasions that began the Great Patriotic Stellar Wars in the 4.93rd Gigasecond of the Standardized Post War Apocalypse Calendar to the 5.63rd Gigasecond, roughly translated to the year 2428 and 2450 of the Common Era Calendar respectively. It was from this collective experience from the Great Patriotic Stellar Wars did the various nation-states agreed to form a new interplanetary, and eventually interstellar government with the standardization of not only a time keeping and calendar system independent to any one planetary standard but also a standard language script to allow for easier integration and communication. The standard language script of UPDSCMS, known officially as Shawrinishian, is an artificial hybrid Cyrillic Russian, Chinese Mandarin, and Latin Spanish that evolved over time as do many spoken  and written languages.

Though UPDSCMS were able to expand their astrotory to its present size, they were unable to locate the home starsystems of the aggressors that sparked the Great Patriotic Stellar Wars. Then in the 21.65th Gigasecond of the Standardized Post War Apocalypse Calendar, or approximately the year 2956 of the Common Era Calendar, the UPDSCMS encountered the Imperial Islamic Union of Extrasolar Emirates (I2UE2), another expansionist interstellar Settlement Nation-State. The two Nation-States would have gone into a costly war if not for the talents of foresight minded, high ranked politicians who reasoned with likeminded and similarly influential Askeri and Ulema that it would be most beneficial for both sides if they simply shared in the spoils of conquest. Thus both the UPDSCMS and the I2UE2 sighed a non-aggression treaty which formed the UPDSCMS-I2UE2 Compact and jointly conquered neighboring astortory.

This did not go unnoticed as the Averon Solar Republic rallied its allies and even former adversaries; Federation of Donzle, State of Pordicar Sigma, Democratic Union of Federated Suns, Tengu Clan Union, Centauri State Government, Confederation of New Belgium, and the Junta Directorate of Isle into an alliance to militarily counter the Compact. Thus did these Interstellar Nation-States form the Averon Alliance of Federated Settlement Nations (A2FSN) in the 21.74th Gigasecond of the Standardized Post War Apocalypse Calendar, roughly the year 2959 of the Common Era Calendar. It wasn’t long before the previously non-aligned Nation-States of the neighboring astrotories partitioned for membership into A2FSN due to the advance of the Compact war machine. It was at the star system of Kolob, a rather insignificant solar state governed by the theocracy of the last vestigial remnants of LDS, was where the A2FSN would battle the Compact.

What was to be the largest and bloodiest space battle since the Great Exodus Scattering became a cease-fire forever known as the “Freak Miracle of Kolob” when a JPEAF constellation mis-dove right in the middle of the combat aerospace before any side could engage in combat. At the time, the star warcrafts of the JPEAF were the most technologically advanced ever encountered by either the Compact and the A2FSN and were constructed in a previously unimaginable scale that dwarfed all other combat spacecraft that were present. It was considered odd for the UPDSCMS to have such massive interstellar warcrafts equipped with such advanced technology when it was later discovered that not only did the FEUCSN not engage in any major military action since the First Solar War that resulted in the annexation of the United Galilean Federation and even its minor military engagements were few and far in between, including the Sci-Tol Insurrection, or more commonly known in FEUCSN infamy as the “Sci-Tol Betrayal”.

In the next following megaseconds since the “Freak Miracle of Kolob” there would be first contact with TFS2 in the 21.8th Gigasecond of the Standardized Post War Apocalypse Calendar, approximately translated into the year 2959 of the Common Era Calendar, though formal diplomatic communication and trade won’t be finalized until the 21.99th Gigasecond of the Standardized Post War Apocalypse Calendar or about the year 2968 of the Common Era Calendar. Through contact with the TFS2, humanity learned of the true nature of Hyperspacetime; that Hyperspacetime was not an alternate but similar space-time to Mittespacetime but rather the hyperbolic-like geometry of Hyperspacetime in comparison to Mittespacetime’s more organized Eluclidian geometry of location and distance meant that there was no direct correlation of location and distance between the two space-times due the nearly opposing geometry between the two and are barely compatible enough for interstellar transportation.

During this time period the Unobtanium-Class Oreichalkos Ore was also discovered. Oreichalkos Ore is notably unique in that though it has a strength-to-mass ratio that was second only to carbon nano-tubes, it is easy to mold into numerous shapes and geometries via plasma torch and ultrasonic waves at opposed frequencies, though the exact process are naturally corporate and even state secrets. Though useful as starcraft and space station armor in addition to framework, its greatest contribution was as conducting rails for railguns in that it has a high friction-corrosion resistant property that extends the lifetime of the rails to nearly that of ballistic barrels, though only half if used as high rate of fire weapons.

Yet even in this period of uneasy peace did not last as the outlying astrotories were attacked by a then unknown party in the 21.9th Gigasecond of the Standardized Post War Apocalypse Calendar, approximately the year 2964 of the Common Era Calendar. Due to their unknown nature, the UPDSCMS accused the A2FSN and other lesser Nation-States of the raids whom then accused the UPDSCMS of the exact same charge. This astropolitical crisis threatened to explode into all out interstellar war between the nation-states. War had begun when the identities of the raiders were revealed to be old adversaries of the Golden Age: NFOUAN and HS2.

The conflict, which is historically known as the First Great Interstellar War against Terror or more commonly as the Great Settlement Wars, concluded 474 megaseconds later though both NFOUAN and HS2 survive in enough numbers to be scattered to the galactic winds to fight another campaign. To ensure that the galaxy itself does not fall prey to such trickery into war against itself, UPDSCMS and the other superpowers signed and later ratified the Kolob Charter thus formed GPENTO in the 22.37th Gigasecond of the Standardized Post War Apocalypse Calendar, or approximately the year 2979 of the Common Era Calendar, in which the FEUCSN endorsed Terran Aurora Calendar was also ratified as the international Calendar of the galaxy as a whole. Additionally UPDSCMS is also co-sponsor and co-provider of GPENTO’s military arm: The Galactic Patrol Enforcement and Defense Deployment Command (GPEDDC) or more popularly known as the Galactic Rangers. GPEDDC is often considered a descendant of the United Nations Planetary Security and Defense Command (UNPSDC) during the Golden Age.

The economic and political structure of the UPDSCMS is fundamentally similar to socialism and communism-

So funny I forgot to laugh…. Alright, I’ll let you all get it out of your system so we can continue. Though personally I’m surprised that this didn’t occur earlier….

As I was saying, the economic and political structure of the UPDSCMS is fundamentally similar to socialism and communism, though this is limited to “state essential” products such as infrastructure and basic necessities for the survival of its registered citizens. Like the People’s Republic of China in the Twenty-First Century of the Common Era Calendar, there exists a market capitalism for the sale of “Optional Necessities” that were not considered a priority to survival or to any benefit to the UPDSCMS state as a whole.

As a Socialist State, the government of UPDSCMS is organized around a unicameral, single-party Confederate Soviet of Socialist Representatives (S3X) and headed by both a Premier who acts as Assembly Chairman and a Secretary General of the Shaw Socialist Party whom act as Chairmen of the Central Administration Board (TUD). The Confederate Assembly is made up of representative officers of the numerous 150 Parsec diameter Soviet Republic Zones (SRZ) of the Confederation whom debate and vote, usually under the blessings of the Premier and Secretary General, upon general policy and law of the Shaw Confederation and how it may aid their home Province Zones in the supplies and infrastructure that it would need.

New SRZs are admitted into UPDSCMS through a lengthy process that is designed mostly to ensure that the Marx-Shaw Starsystem holds ultimate political power. The first stage in the assimilation is the Military Occupation Aerospace (VZVL) stage where the military arm of UPDSCMS, the People’s Confederate Defense Military (VOSLF) or more commonly called the Confederate Armed Forces, holds political power. Once the VOSLF have reported that the local population is pacified enough for limited self government, it is upgraded into a Periphery Astrotorial Zone (LKTZ) with heavy Shaw Socialist Party oversight to manage both the census and infrastructure construction so that both are of adequate level for SRZ candidacy. The LKTZ is only administered as an SRZ, and by extension SSSX suffrage, only by a three-fourths majority vote by the S3X. Almost naturally, no extrasolar sapient species have never been admitted as full citizens of UPDSCMS.

As a single party political structure, the Premier is appointed by the Secretary General with approval of the Central Administration Board, in turn the Secretary General is appointed by the Premier with approval of the Confederate Assembly, and both the Representative Officers and members of the Central Administration Board are elected as candidates by their subordinates who are then approved by the Central Administration Board and Committee for Party Elections respectively. This serves as a balance of power between the S3X and the TUD, though rarely is this ever utilized in the day-to-day affairs of the UPDSCMS.

The VOSLF itself is divided into five distinct branches: The People’s Confederate Star Navy (VFZSLF), The People’s Aerospace Navy (VFLK), The People’s Terrestrial Land Army (AZLZ), The People’s Terrestrial Sea Navy (VFMLZ), and the People’s Marine and Espatier Legion (LMPLRK). Though there are SRZ Commands to ease logistical and strategic planning, the VOSLF are only answerable to the TUD. The individual SRZs, member worlds and associated territories/astrotories are forbidden to have defensive networks larger than continental scale in order to force their reliance upon the VOSLF for planetary defenses, let alone stellar defense. This also ensures that if any possible rebellions did occur upon any star system or world the VOSLF can quickly crush them. It also equates that the VOSLF have both domestic defense and expeditionary duties and thus logistical support is essential to its life blood and also its greatest weakness, thus are heavily fortified.

The VOSLF is also noteworthy of utilizing both autonomous combat robots for frontline combat and Electrochemical-Thermal (ETC) small arms en mass. The Autonomous Combat Robot (ABR), though utilize advanced AI hardware and software, are hard wired to be incapable of achieving sapience and thus prevent any rebellions that such would cause. This is in stark contrast to the CFCS own Autonomous Combat Robots (ACR) in which these machines, though rarely, achieve sapience and thus eligible to become FEUCSN citizens. ETC-based small arms were chosen over gauss weaponry like many other Settlement Nation-States in that the ETC was rugged enough to survive the average VOSLF infantryman and the dirty conditions of the battlefield in addition to being simple to use and maintain while having the same stopping power to penetrate the average composite battle armor with a well aimed shot.

Oh and for my Russian viewers (assuming that they are all or a vast majority of them human) who assume the top second spot of my audience since I set this particular blog up, feel free to contribute any idea you may have to UPDSCMS. I’ll be sure to credit you for them.


Imperial Islamic Union of Extrasolar Emirates (I2UE2)

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Why am I not surprised THIS came up…?

Allow me the pleasure to begin? Good.

This human-ruled superpower, co-founder and core member of the Galactic Powers and Extrasolar Nations Treaty Organization (GPENTO, also more commonly known as the Galactic Alliance), was declared in the 5th Gigasecond of the Imperial Post Apocalypse Hijrah Calendar, or approximately the year 2430 of the Common Era Calendar with the date of the Exodus Fleet’s departure as the epoch. The creation and rise of I2UESE, in addition to its xenophobic fear mongering and aggressive astrotorial expansion that by the era of the Crongus Wars held a rough diameter 6.5 Kilo-Parsecs with a Sphere of Influence 18% greater and constantly in expansion, was due to the two interstellar invasions upon the home Al-Angha star system that were collectively known as the Great Stellar Jihad.

The settlement nation-state that is I2UESE or more commonly called the Islamic Empire, was originally one of the two great Exodus Fleets whose departure from the Sol System accelerated the genocidal conclusion of the Great Global War. Though the entire dive through Hyperspacetime to what would be christened the Al‑'Angha' Starsystem roughly was almost five kiloseconds, the time dilation in mittespacetime was just under six gigaseconds. This was but one of many lessons humanity would collectively learn of the exact art and science that is HWDS navigation. The home star system, in that it hosted six human habitable planets spread across three star systems, of what would be I2UESE was named in honor of the most prominent political and religious leader Abdullah Al-Angha who was best described as the most liberal of the religious fundamentalists who pooled their resources together to finance the Exodus Fleet to create the ideal Islamic civilization in addition to escape a war torn Earth that threatened to spill out across the entire Sol System. He is also known to have collected and subsequently shuttled the remains of the al-Ḥajar al-Aswad that was shattered into many pieces during the Second and Third Global Wars on Terrorism, the only part of the Qaaba to have survived after Mecca was destroyed by the Coalition of Nations via Nuclear weaponry.

Of the six human habitable worlds of the Al-‘Angha” Starsystem, only half of which could be settled by the Exodus Fleet Settlers due to a lack of resources to colonize the more extreme of the habitable worlds, however a few errant settlers chose to live in such isolation whose success was either barely surviving to utter failure. However, the extreme environments of their chosen homewords such as the three that would be known as the New Holy Worlds would be the least of their problems as the Great Stellar Jihad raged from the 4.43rd Gigasecond to the 4.94th Gigasecond of the Imperial Post Apocalypse Hijrah Calendar, or correspondingly roughly to the years 2412 and 2428 of the Common Era Calendar respectfully. It was from the collective experience with the Great Stellar Jihad that conferences and congresses of the various nation-states were formed to discuss and plan the overall defense of their home system and respective home worlds against any more similar incursions. Ultimately the various Amirs, Beğs, and other such peers of the Askeri agreed upon a single sovereign ruler and Khalīfah of the Ummah, the Sulṭān of the military and Shāh of all the Amirs and Beğs who govern their own dominions. A Pâdişâh to command and rule what would be a grand empire.

Wrong one folks
That is so off, and so offensive, that I can't really joke about that.....

Alright, less distraction this time, okay?

However, there were those who disagreed with such a theocratic, imperialistic form of authoritarian government and strongly believe in a government that respected the autonomy and independent sovereignty of each Nation-State. Though the exact political favoritism and affiliation varied across much of the settlements beyond the New Holy Worlds themselves, all agreed that a central, strong interstellar government was unwanted. Though there were protests and petitions, the actions of a radical few not only assassinate the chosen Pâdişâh Amar Al-Angha of the then christened Islamic Empire of Al-Angha who was a direct descendent of Abdullah Al-Angha meer days after the declaration, but also caused the civil war known as the Second Great Interplanetary Jihad of Unification.

The Jihad began mostly as a star system wide insurgency due to the technological disadvantage most other Settlement Nation-States had compared to the New Holy Worlds military of Arabia Prime, New Mesopotamia, Jezreel 2 and its colony of Barzakh who wish to impose an imperial monarchy upon what is collectively democratic nation-states. However secretly the Anti-Imperialist Insurgency, despite its numerous factions with different political views, were sponsored by the governments of Aides, Arubuda, Atata, and Mahapadma with the grand strategic goal to weaken the military of the Islamic Empire of Al-Angha enough so that they themselves will remain independent and sovereign and even match the New Holy Worlds technologically and militarily in the foreseeable future.

However, the truth was revealed during a military operation the frozen world of Hamistagan and thus the Islamic Empire of Al-Angha battled the Anti-Imperialist sponsor governments directly. Despite fierce resistance and well built planetary defense networks the Jihad concluded upon the 8.16th Gigasecond of the Imperial Post Apocalypse Hijrah Calendar, or approximately the year 2530 of the Common Era calendar, in which the imperial rule of the Islamic Empire of Al-Angha and particularly of Pâdişâh Omar the Great and his Imperial House of Reza and subsequently the founder of the Reza Dynasty was cemented. Though there were insurrections and rebellions upon the newly conquered worlds, only the cells of the fallen Congress of Aides City-States were long lasting even into the Crongus Wars era due to Aide’s unique atmospheric composition that both made complete pacification unsuccessful but also made it difficult to expand the conflict beyond the Skyhooks of the planet.

Soon enough, I2UE2 began to expand beyond the heliopause of the Al-‘Angha’ Star system and annexed and conquered astrotory after astrotory until they met up with an old foe from the Great Stellar Jihad: The Confederacy of Greater Gildenmark. The conflict began in the 8.48th Gigasecond of the Imperial Post Apocalypse Hijrah Calendar and concluded upon the 11.33rd Gigasecond, approximately the year 2540 and 2630 of the Common Era Calendar respectfully, would be the first of six noteworthy confrontations with other expanding interstellar nation-states which would end in I2UE2 victory at a bloody cost.

Then in the 21.65th Gigasecond of the Imperial Post Apocalypse Hijrah Calendar, or approximately the year 2956 of the Common Era Calendar, I2UE2 first encountered the United People’s Democratic Socialist Commonwealth of Marx-Shaw (UPDSCMS), another expansionist interstellar Settlement Nation-State. The two Nation-States would have found themselves bitter rivals and exploded into costly war if not for the talents of foresight minded, and influential members of both the Askeri and Ulema who reasoned with likeminded and similarly high ranked politicians that it would be most beneficial for both sides if they simply shared in the spoils of conquest. Thus both the UPDSCMS and the I2UE2 sighed a non-aggression treaty which formed the I2UE2-UPDSCMS Compact and jointly conquered neighboring astortory.

However such an expansion did not escape notice as the Averon Solar Republic rallied its allies and even former adversaries; Federation of Donzle, State of Pordicar Sigma, Democratic Union of Federated Suns, Tengu Clan Union, Centauri State Government, Confederation of New Belgium, and the Junta Directorate of Isle into an alliance to militarily counter the Compact. Thus did these Interstellar Nation-States form the Averon Alliance of Federated Settlement Nations (A2FSN) in the 21.74th Gigasecond of the Imperial Post Apocalypse Hijrah Calendar, roughly the year 2959 of the Common Era Calendar. It wasn’t long before the previously non-aligned Nation-States of the neighboring astrotories partitioned for membership into A2FSN due to the advance of the Compact war machine. It was at the star system of Kolob, a rather insignificant solar state governed by the theocracy of the last vestigial remnants of LDS, was where the A2FSN would battle the Compact.

What was to be the largest and bloodiest space battle since the Great Exodus Scattering became a cease-fire forever known as the “Freak Miracle of Kolob” when a JPEAF constellation mis-dove right in the middle of the combat aerospace before any side could engage in combat. At the time, the star warcrafts of the JPEAF were the most technologically advanced ever encountered by either the Compact and the A2FSN and were constructed in a previously unimaginable scale that dwarfed all other combat spacecraft that were present. It so puzzled the military minds of I2UE2 for the FEUCSN to have such massive interstellar warcrafts equipped with such advanced technology when it was later discovered that not only did the FEUCSN not engage in any major military action since the First Solar War that resulted in the annexation of the United Galilean Federation and even its minor military engagements were few and far in between, including the Sci-Tol Insurrection, or more commonly known in FEUCSN infamy as the “Sci-Tol Betrayal”.

In the next following megaseconds since the “Freak Miracle of Kolob” there would be first contact with TFS2 in the 21.8th Gigasecond of the Imperial Post Apocalypse Hijrah Calendar, approximately translated into the year 2959 of the Common Era Calendar, though formal diplomatic communication and trade won’t be finalized until the 21.99th Gigasecond of the Imperial Post Apocalypse Hijrah Calendar or about the year 2968 of the Common Era Calendar. Through contact with the TFS2, humanity learned of the true nature of Hyperspacetime; that Hyperspacetime was not an alternate but similar space-time to Mittespacetime but rather the hyperbolic-like geometry of Hyperspacetime in comparison to Mittespacetime’s more organized Euclidian geometry of location and distance meant that there was no direct correlation of location and distance between the two space-times due the nearly opposing geometry between the two and are barely compatible enough for interstellar transportation.

During this time period the Unobtanium-Class Oreichalkos Ore was also discovered. Oreichalkos Ore is notably unique in that though it has a strength-to-mass ratio that was second only to carbon nano-tubes, it is easy to mold into numerous shapes and geometries via plasma torch and ultrasonic waves at opposed frequencies, though the exact process are naturally corporate and even state secrets. Though useful as starcraft and space station armor in addition to framework, its greatest contribution was as conducting rails for railguns in that it has a high friction-corrosion resistant property that extends the lifetime of the rails to nearly that of ballistic barrels, though only half if used as high rate of fire weapons.

Yet even in this period of uneasy peace did not last as the outlying astrotories were attacked by a then unknown party in the 21.9th Gigasecond of the Imperial Post Apocalypse Hijrah Calendar, approximately the year 2964 of the Common Era Calendar. Due to their unknown nature, I2UE2 accused the A2FSN and other lesser Nation-States of the raids whom then accused I2UE2 of the exact same charge. This astropolitical crisis threatened to explode into all out interstellar war between the nation-states. War had begun when the identities of the raiders were revealed to be old adversaries of the Golden Age: NFOUAN and HS2.

The conflict, which is historically known as the First Great Interstellar War against Terror or more commonly as the Great Settlement Wars, concluded 474 megaseconds later though both NFOUAN and HS2 survive in enough numbers to be scattered to the galactic winds to fight another campaign. To ensure that the galaxy itself does not fall prey to such trickery into war against itself, I2UE2 and the other superpowers signed and later ratified the Kolob Charter thus formed GPENTO in the 22.37th Gigasecond of the Imperial Post Apocalypse Hijrah Calendar, or approximately the year 2979 of the Common Era Calendar, in which the FEUCSN endorsed Terran Aurora Calendar was also ratified as the international Calendar of the galaxy as a whole. Additionally I2UE2 is also co-sponsor and co-provider of GPENTO’s military arm: The Galactic Patrol Enforcement and Defense Deployment Command (GPEDDC) or more popularly known as the Galactic Rangers. GPEDDC is often considered a descendant of the United Nations Planetary Security and Defense Command (UNPSDC) during the Golden Age.

The I2UE2, which has the total astrotory with a rough diameter of 6.5 Kilo-Parsecs with a Sphere of Influence 18% greater and constantly in expansion by the time of the era of the Crongus Wars, is divided into an average 250 diameter parsec administrative Vassal Emirates headed politically by an Amir in the Pâdişâh’s name, which is quite similar to a Settlement Grandsector of FEUCSN nomenclature (though such an administrative division has yet to emerge) with their own collection of Askeri Vassals who have sworn loyalty to said Amir. Beneath the Vassal Emirate is the Eyalet that is typically the astrotorial grant of the Pâdişâh to a Vāli and is administratively similar to a Settlement Oversector, which is similarly divided administratively into numerous Vilayets which is commanded by a Paşa as their own astrotorial grant and is an analogue to a Settlement Sector. The Eyalet and Vilayet vary in size depending upon the overall political power, and by extension military strength, of the ruling Askeri overlord above their respective peer station. The Sanjak is the administrative title of a star system and associated planetary system (if any) under the command of a Beğ and is the true determination of political power due to the nature and basic operation of the HWDS Drive. Each habitable or settled planet is the territorial grant of an Efendi called a Kaza, though the exact Askeri station may vary depending upon the exact population and level of infrastructure development of the world in question. Below the Kaza, since by law there are no independent “nation-states” but only an Autonomous Territory called the Millah for Zimmi religions and cultures, is the Nābiye and equates to a FEUCSN Region and administered by a Nazir. And finally there is the Has, Zeamet, and Timar which are the parallels of Territory, Province, and District in FEUCSN nomenclature respectfully that are the administrative fiefdom of an Ağa whose exact classification is mostly through the economical output of the fiefdom territory itself. The economical output of the particular fiefdom ultimately derives from the Reaya, who are almost always humans, and the Kul who are more often than not extrasolar sapient species.

Though not unheard off, it is possible for a Reaya to raise their own social standing through a scholarship in many Medrese to attain a position as a civil servant and eventually become a member of the Askeri, which is further cemented if the individual in question served with distinction and honor through military service through either the Pâdişâh own Holy Imperial Guard of Islam (HAAI) or through the services of a sponsor Askeri. Each individual Askeri, from the lowly Ağa up to the Vāli can attempt to rise amongst the peerage through a successful, and typically profitable, military career which is compensated with a greater fief or even higher administrative station granted by the overlord in question up to even the Pâdişâh’s own blessings.

As the name implies, I2UESE is organized as an imperial monarchy de facto ruled by the Pâdişâh who serves as the Khalīfah of the Ummah, though more often than not is superseded by the Valide Sulṭān politically. The Pâdişâh, along with Vali Ahad Mirza and their Šāhzādé siblings and relatives, have also been widely rumored to be the last of the Persian Peoples. The reign of each Pâdişâh is advised by the advised by the Dīwān populated by Vezirs like the Grand Vezir and high-ranking Askeri such as Amirs and members of the Ulema who make the day-to-day politics of the empire as a whole for what is best for the empire in the Pâdişâh’s stead in the meanwhile. Though the Pâdişâh line has been widely known as mostly progressives who wished for equality throughout their imperial realm as per their education and upbringing, the Dīwān are almost always hardline conservatives who wish to keep the rigid social structure in accordance to tradition and more importantly to keep power, especially since they had the power to elect the new Pâdişâh from the Šāhzādé if the current Pâdişâh died without a declared Mirza. The Pâdişâh, in turn, is able to completely over rule the decisions of the Dīwān if he believes that the decisions of the Dīwān could not be enforced for the good of the empire. The Pâdişâh could even elect to form a representative Parliament if it was seen to be a good for the empire, which the Dīwān would immediately disband if their continued use was deemed unnecessary “for the good of the sulṭānate”, which was often fabricated in order to keep their own rule.

The Pâdişâh, as Khalīfah of the I2UESE Ummah, has a hierarchical arrangement of the Ulema of his own own though the purpose of which is not parallel to the old Catholic Church, rather its to ensure that the dictates and decrees are understood by all subjects of I2UESE independent of the Askeri Bureaucracy and Civil Servant Administration. These are the Imam khatib, Imam, Mufti, Mullah, Ālim, and Shaikh.

The state military of I2UE2 is the HAAI and the Pâdişâh also serves as the Commander-in-Chief of the HAAI with the title of Sulṭān. The HAAI is divided into four branches: the Holy Imperial Orbital Guard (AAHA), the Holy Imperial Atmospheric Guard (HAAA), the Holy Imperial Land Guard (AAIAA), and the Holy Imperial Sea Guard (AAAAA). The primary tasks of the HAAI were to enforce the edicts of the Pâdişâh and the Dīwān and the further protection and annexation of imperial territory. Domestic defense of I2UE2 astrotory and territory falls upon the Askeri themselves as one of their primary responsibilities and oaths to the Pâdişâh and each Askeri Overlord would arrange the defense network of their Askeri Vassals accordingly with only one limitation: The HWDS Drives are “rented” from the Pâdişâh. Most commonly, the Vassal Defense Forces are primarily stellar defense forces with an HWDS-equipped mothercraft to ferry spacecraft deployment from starsystem to starsystem and heavily reliant upon the HAAI for emergency reinforcement.

The HAAI are also a strange yet still noteworthy military in that its small arms utilize the more traditional chemical-based ignition system despite the I2UESE’s status as a superpower. It was argued by HAAI Nazirs and Ağas that such firearms are easier to maintain and cheaper to produce than more advanced forms of combat small arms and can overcome even the most advanced form of power armor with superior marksmanship over militaries such as A2FSN’s own Alliance Security Enforcement Organization (OASA) whose own infantry are only intelligent enough for “point and shoot” operation of firearms. The notable exemption are the elite sharpshooters of FEUCSN’s JCPEAF branch who are extensively, and notably expertly, trained in both ballistic and directed energy firearms.


Averon Alliance of Federated Settlement Nations (A2FSN)

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This human-centered Supranational Power, co-founder and core member of the Galactic Powers and Extrasolar Nations Treaty Organization (GPENTO, also more commonly known as the Galactic Alliance), was formed in the 21.68th Gigasecond of the Universal Star Exodus Calendar, or about the 2959th year of the Common Era Calendar with the date of the Great Exodus Scattering massacre as its epoch, in response to the aggressive expansion of both UPDSCMS and the I2UE2 upon neighboring starsystems and settlement nation-states. It is also more commonly known as the Averon Alliance. The official, Standard Language of the Averon Alliance is an evolution of the French Language known as Franco-Averon-

No, NO! Not THOSE French! Did you not take a look at the TvTrope links?!

Let’s try to continue, shall we?

Like a quarter of the known Settlement Nation-States of humanity throughout the galaxy, the founding states of the A2FSN of the Averon Solar Republic,   Democratic Union of Federated Suns, Tengu Clan Union, Centauri State Government, and Confederation of New Belgium were directly descended from the surviving refugees of the Great Exodus Scattering massacre. The other founding nation-states of A2FSN, the Federation of Donzle, State of Pordicar Sigma, and Junta Directorate of Isle were the nation-states of extrasolar sapient species whom made various claims of being refugees of once grand and mighty interstellar empires that had fallen into ruin in antiquity. These interstellars neighbors made up the core astropolitical landscape of the astrotorial territory known as the Inner Reman Steppe that lie just on the astrotorial border of the inner Galactic Habitation Zone. These Nation-States, as economic power houses and by default competitors, have an ebb and flow in allegiances and hostilities throughout the Megaseconds since their respective foundations and subsequent declarations of independent sovereignty.

However it is also noteworthy that socially and culturally the Averon Solar Republic have been known to be hyperagressive and hyperviolent, yet they have not been well known as expansionists, rather they prefer economic domination rather than political or militaristic domination. The collective behavior of the Frenchmen of Averon can stem from the fact that the planet Averon is host to its own native sapient species that they dubbed the Vilder Rouge. The Frenchmen of Averon argue that they are aggressive due to attacks by Vider Rouge raiders, yet the Vider Rouge stated that they are only reactive due to the hostility and aggression of the Averon Settlers. Obviously the debate between who were the true aggressors is a hot political controversy.

The shifting astropolitical balance was due to not only the charted courses that allowed safe and near economical passage to and from the antimatter plume produced by Sagittarius A*, but also in the trade and distribution of Mjölnite Crystals and Wodenium Ore. Though Mjölnite Crystals were utilized in energy production, electrical capacitor engineering and lasing medium, Wodenium Ore are a type of high temperature superconductors that were the strategic resource not unlike petroleum of Earth’s Golden Age and made them essential in various high energy products and management which includes but not limited to Quantum Computing and Optical Circuitry, electrical transmission of power, high energy weaponry such as DEWs and KEWs, and both the QTRN and ARCS which are essential to efficient interstellar FTL communications despite the systems’ own limitations.
The founding nation-states have also made contact with other extrasolar sapient civilizations. Such as the Phalon Hierarch Union (PHU), Vulcrow Intelligence Administration (VIA), and Interstellar Commonwealth of Civilized Worlds (IC2W) in the 19.5th, 21.33rd, and 21.58th Gigasecond of the Universal Star Exodus Calendar respectively, or approximately the years 2890, 2948, and 2956 of the common era calendar. Though both VIA and IC2W would finalize formal diplomatic communication and trade megaseconds later in the 21.55th Gigasecond for the later and the 21.84th Gigasecond of the Universal Star Exodus Calendar or roughly the years 2955 and 2964 of the Common Era Calendar, the PHU would not do so for nearly two Gigaseconds in the 22.34th Gigasecond of the Universal Star Exodus Calendar or loosely translated as the year 2980 of the Common Era Calendar. This is mostly due to the Phalon’s own isolationist nature when it comes to unfamiliar species sapient or otherwise.

Which would seem to be rather prudent on the PHU’s part in that the I2UE2-UPDSCMS Compact was forged in the 21.61st Gigasecond of the Universal Star Exodus Calendar, or about the year 2957 of the Universal Star Exodus Calendar, and its imperialistic expansion was made evident. Sensing the danger, the Averon Solar Republic called out not only its traditional allies of the Confederation of New Belgium, Tengu Clan Union, and State of Pordicar Sigma, but also its longstanding competitors of the Democratic Union of Federated Suns, Centauri State Government, Federation of Donzle, and Junta Directorate of Isle to form a united military front against the Compact. Though at first the nation-states hesitated, thinking that it was yet another ploy by the Averon Solar Republic, however reports on the Compact’s aggressive advance in addition to the desperation the Averon Solar Republic displayed in diplomatic encounters did the other nation-states relented and co-founded A2FSN though Averon was so dubbed in the alliance name due in large part to the Averon Solar Republic’s greater battlefield experience with its military. Not too soon afterwards numerous other nation-states rallied to A2FSN’s cause against the Compact, though there were a great many other nation-states such as IC2W who were hesitant into joining the A2FSN though they have sent PMCs and other such “Letters of Marque” granted organizations.

It was at the star system of Kolob, a rather insignificant solar state governed by the theocracy of the last vestigial remnants of LDS, was where the A2FSN would battle the Compact-

Funny…. though I am rather surprised that it took you all this long to even try the joke. Besides, the name’s spelled differently.

Shall we continue then?

Kolob was to be the A2FSN’s “Line in the Sand” against the Compact that would determine the fate of all extrasolar and interstellar nation-states before the war machine that was the Compact. A battle that would be as bloody and equally infamous as the Great Exodus Scattering massacre. Or, that was the general feeling of the time.

Instead, a JPEAF constellation mis-dove right in the middle of the combat aerospace before any side could even engage in combat in an event known as the “Freak Miracle of Kolob” that inadvertedly caused a cease-fire to a war that simply had no blood split in anger. At the time, the star warcrafts of the JPEAF were the most technologically advanced ever encountered by either the Compact and the A2FSN and were constructed in a previously unimaginable scale that dwarfed all other combat spacecraft that were present. The military leaders of A2FSN found it quite peculiar for the FEUCSN to have such massive interstellar warcrafts equipped with such advanced technology when it was later discovered that not only did the FEUCSN not engage in any major military action since the First Solar War that resulted in the annexation of the United Galilean Federation and even its minor military engagements were few and far in between, including the Sci-Tol Insurrection, or more commonly known in FEUCSN infamy as the “Sci-Tol Betrayal”.

In the next following megaseconds since the “Freak Miracle of Kolob” there would be first contact with TFS2 in the 21.68th Gigasecond of the Universal Star Exodus Calendar, approximately translated into the year 2959 of the Common Era Calendar, though formal diplomatic communication and trade won’t be finalized until the 21.96th Gigasecond of the Universal Star Exodus Calendar or about the year 2968 of the Common Era Calendar. Through contact with the TFS2, humanity learned of the true nature of Hyperspacetime; that Hyperspacetime was not an alternate but similar space-time to Mittespacetime but rather the hyperbolic-like geometry of Hyperspacetime in comparison to Mittespacetime’s more organized Euclidian geometry of location and distance meant that there was no direct correlation of location and distance between the two space-times due the nearly opposing geometry between the two and are barely compatible enough for interstellar transportation.

During this time period the Unobtanium-Class Oreichalkos Ore was also discovered. Oreichalkos Ore is notably unique in that though it has a strength-to-mass ratio that was second only to carbon nano-tubes, it is easy to mold into numerous shapes and geometries via plasma torch and ultrasonic waves at opposed frequencies, though the exact process are naturally corporate and even state secrets. Though useful as starcraft and space station armor in addition to framework, its greatest contribution was as conducting rails for railguns in that it has a high friction-corrosion resistant property that extends the lifetime of the rails to nearly that of ballistic barrels, though only half if used as high rate of fire weapons.

Yet even in this period of uneasy peace did not last as the outlying astrotories were attacked by a then unknown party in the 21.87th Megasecond of the Universal Star Exodus Calendar, approximately the year 2964 of the Common Era Calendar. Due to their unknown nature, both the UPDSCMS and I2UE2 accused the A2FSN and other lesser Nation-States of the raids. A2FSN replied in kind with their own accusations against the UPDSCMS and I2UE2. This astropolitical crisis threatened to explode into all out interstellar war between the nation-states. War had begun when the identities of the raiders were revealed to be old adversaries of the Golden Age: NFOUAN and HS2.

The conflict, which is historically known as the First Great Interstellar War against Terror or more commonly as the Great Settlement Wars, concluded 474 megaseconds later though both NFOUAN and HS2 survive in enough numbers to be scattered to the galactic winds to fight another campaign. To ensure that the galaxy itself does not fall prey to such trickery into war against itself, A2FSN and the other superpowers signed and later ratified the Kolob Charter thus formed GPENTO in the 22.34th Megasecond of the Universal Star Exodus Calendar, or approximately the year 2979 of the Common Era Calendar, in which the FEUCSN endorsed Terran Aurora Calendar was also ratified as the international Calendar of the galaxy as a whole. Additionally A2FSN is also co-sponsor and co-provider of GPENTO’s military arm: The Galactic Patrol Enforcement and Defense Deployment Command (GPEDDC) or more popularly known as the Galactic Rangers. GPEDDC is often considered a descendant of the United Nations Planetary Security and Defense Command (UNPSDC) during the Golden Age.

As an alliance rather than a nation-state or even a supranational state, its government is formed in a similar fashion to the ancient international organization of Earth known as the United Nations Organization with an astrotorial jurisdiction with a diameter of 2.2 Kilo-Parsecs in association to a sphere of influence approximately 15% greater by the era of the Crongus Wars.

A2FSN’s governmental structure and organization is separated into approximately six principal organs: Allied Assembly of Settlements (A2E), Allied Security Council (ASC), Allied Council for Settlement Economics and Social Order (ACE2SC), Administrative Secretariat (AS), and Court of Allied Justice (TAL). The A2E is uniquely different from the UN General Assembly of old, beyond the ability to forge Allied Law, by most notably its policy of nonpartisan party organization due to the multiple political forms and governments that are members of the alliance. Each representative of the A2E is appointed or elected by the member states who have, in turn, given up a certain percentage of foreign policy to the central politic in order to receive Allied defense and trade. The ASC is made up of twenty-five Councilor seats for member states, eight being permanent and seventeen being a temporary 63.2 Mega-Second seat whose member states are voted in by the Allied Assembly on a regional basis, and headed by a Security Chairman. The eight permanent seats of the ASC is, unsurprisingly, the original founding members of A2FSN.The primary purpose of ASC is to enforce the general security of the Averon Alliance and to protect allied member-states, astrotory and territory from foreign threats. Domestic threats, however, are purely subjective. ACE2SE’s primary purpose is to maintains and promotes economic and social cooperation and development in behest of the Allied Assembly and to ensure that both veteran and new member states are able to reap the benefits of becoming members of the Averon Alliance. AS serves as the head of government for A2FSN to help organize and enact the will of the Allied Assembly for the good of A2FSN as a whole. The General Secretary is elected by A2E after the previous General Secretary or the Security Council has nominated a successor. TAL not only ensure the legality of the other A2FSN organ’s actions compared to the Charter for Co-Alliance and to ensure that none surpass the powers given to them by the Charter along with settling legal disputes between member states, but also to prosecute and sentence those who have broken the laws of A2FSN, not just the laws of the member states.

The military arm of the Averon Alliance is often called the Allied Armed Forces (AAF), but is correctly called the Alliance Security Enforcement Organization (OASA). OASA is divided into two branches of military service: The Space Security Navy (MSE) and the Armored Security Ground Force (AMSB). The AMSB is also further divided into the Armorines and Shock-Troopers which can be best described as Special Forces and Marines respectfully. The OASA is also well known throughout the known galaxy as one of two only military forces which regularly deploys man-portable directed energy weaponry en mass even down to pistol types of small arms, though its rather unique and innovative power supply feed system necessitates not only different models of directed energy small arms but also different types of capacitor rounds specialized to a unique task with a logistical structure not unlike contemporary ballistic chemical-powered rounds of the Supranational Powers age.

Though the Averon Alliance provides interstellar and international security and overall defense for members of the alliance, the member settlements and states must provide their own protection for stellar and planetary defense in the form of militias made up from their own state armed forces. In this way when there is a problem upon a member world, the OASA don’t have to transport bulky military equipment and vehicles to the troubled settlement, but rather co-operate in a Joint action with the local militia. It is not until the early decades of the Crongus Wars was there a movement to create a standardized domestic defense force structure and command for each member of the Averon Alliance for the purposes of domestic security and stellar defense. Known as the Sovereign Joint Defense Command (JRDO) initiative, time will tell if this becomes ratified by the members of the Averon Alliance and become a true branch of the OASA.


Holy Siblinghood of Seth (HS2)

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A human-dominated organization formed in the year 2088 of the Common Era Calendar, or recorded by HS2 scholars as the Great Year of Divine Enlightenment of the First Era, at the height of the Second War on Global Terror by the self-proclaimed “Imperial Priest of Seth” whom saw a rise to power due to the recruitment of those scarred and traumatized by the Neo Fascist Order of the United Aryan Nation (NFOUAN) and what is perceived as a failure of UNPSDC and its Super Power sponsors to stop the threat. However, the Third War on Global Terror concluded with a self-imposed exile into interstellar space via a grand constellation of seed spacecraft, sleeper spacecraft and world crafts. The UNPSDC attempted to disrupt this interstellar exodus but to no avail, arguably due to the ruse that was the Luzon Fortress that allowed the surviving leadership and chosen few of the HS2 to prepare the spacecraft in secret long enough so that success was assured. Though there was added geopolitical stress due to not only the Great Comet Scare and the Second War on Global Terror against NFOUAN, the Third War on Global Terror against HS2 was the “final straw” that caused not only the dissolution of the United Nations, but also the collapse of the Supranational Powers and the other Nation-States into the Successor States, the world-wide social anarchy that is the Great Riot, the rise of the Alliance of Nations and the Coalition of Nations to combat the Great Riot and ultimate the Great Global War.

The founder and first “messiah” of HS2 was inspired by nocturnal visions of the ancient Egyptian God Seth to create the cult and through such delusions, the cause of which remained unknown even well into the era of the Crongus Wars, crowned himself the Imperial Priest of Seth. The Imperial Priest of Seth was able to amass new followers, even entire Nation-States within and beyond the warzones of the Second  War on Global Terror, through rousing and hypnotic speeches that placed blame on the corrupt and “impure” UNPSDS and its Superpower puppetmasters in which many new followers agreed. It has been theorized that the reason why the so-called Imperial Priest of Seth was able to amass such power was because he was genetically a Super Mutant-

No, no, no! Not those Super Mutants!

Allow me to explain. Beyond the 150 to 175 mutations of the average homo sapien that are often referenced (though arguably and controversially) as Mundane Mutants, there are three categories of Mutants: The Minor Mutants who have extraordinary physical abilities  but are otherwise unordinary and even indistinguishable from the average human being, Major Mutants who have vastly altered physiologies that clearly make them stand out from the average human being with physical abilities to match such as Enhanced Reflexes, Above average Speed and Endurance, Accelerated Physical Healing from injuries and illnesses, Exponentially greater Physical Strength due to either higher acceleration of muscled fibers or stronger bone structure or both, Greater endurance to Pain and Injury, even Enhanced Senses on par with the equivalent animal. The Super Mutant are humans who, though can almost pass as normal humans, have organs and organ systems that generate supernatural abilities that weren’t fully explained by science until the era of the Crongus Wars.

WHAT?! I was a very impressionable kid at the time! Don’t tell me that you didn’t do just as bad when you were younger.
Hey! Ow! Stop throwing stuff at me- A kitchen sink?! Really?! Who throws that?!

Ahem, let’s move on shall we?

It wasn’t long after the conclusion of the Second War on Global Terror did the first Imperial Priest of Set had gained the military power needed to expand their sphere of influence forcefully and become a superpower in and of itself, to which it had attempted in the year 2108 of the Common Era Calendar, or as recorded by HS2 scholars as the First Year into the First Crusade against the Darkness of the Twentieth Year since Divine Enlightenment of the Frist Era, when the Imperial Priest of Seth decreed that HS2 must cleanse the “corrupt” nation-states that either supported or allowed NFOUAN to do as they pleased in addition to other nation-states that was considered “impure” and “evil” through the eyes of HS2’s leader and subordinate clergy. The UNPSDC’s deployment to halt HS2’s military expanse marked the start of the Third War on Global Terror.

Like the previous war, the Third War on Global Terror became a world war due to terrorist attacks and activities beyond the initial theater of war that increased from the initial Africa and Western Asia regions. However, unlike NFOUAN, HS2 had the military power to not only fight against the UNPSDC on equal terms, but also against the Super Powers of the era as well. The Third War on Global Terror also saw the first use of nuclear weaponry, abet in a more limited fashion by the HS2, in over seven generations since its use at the end of the Second World War.

The war soon became a stalemate in comparison to the Second War on Global Terror which has seen NFOUAN victorious in the first half of the war. The stalemate lasted for a decade until the hubris of the Imperial Priest of Seth caused irreversible strategic mistakes. Mistakes in which UNPSDC took full advantage off and HS2 forces retreated from strategically defendable positions to the final, then recently constructed fortress system in the Philippine Archipelago.

However the battle that was known as the Luzon Campaign was but a strategic ruse as the surviving leaders of HS2, their comrades and families along with a grand genetic bank secretly escaped onto a constellation of not just Multi-Generational Interplanetary Colonization Crafts such as World Ships that were ad hoc converted interstellar craft, but also sleeper crafts utilizing the latest in Suspended Animation Technology that allowed for non-cryonic preservation of occupants centered around the Suspended Animation Pods. Their plan was a direct parallel to the Second War on Global Terrorism: To escape into deep, unexplored space.

The orbital assets of the UNPSDC and the Super Powers were mobilized to intercept and capture or destroy these crafts and to ensure that the threat ended immediately and without threat of future conflict with the organization. However after a disastrous chase across the solar system that caused so many casualties with little damage to the exodus fleet, the Space Forces’ own DeltaV budget forced them to finally relented and formerly ended the Third War on Global Terror in 2121 of the Common Era Calendar, or as HS2 scholars record the event as the Thirteenth Year into the First Crusade Against the Darkness and the First Year of the Accursed Exodus from the Beloved Homeworld of the Thirty-Third Year since Divine Enlightenment of the Second Era.

Three generations had past since the exile when the Fifth Imperial Priest of Seth dictated a new calendar system to be created due to the unique environment of their world ships in relation to time. It was ultimately decided what would become the Divine Coil of Shamans (DCS) that the new system of date keeping would be a Decimal Calendar  like the Egyptian Calendar of old, however instead of the rising of Sothis, the the mark of the new year would instead be the annual alignment of the Earth in between the Galactic Center and Sol. Since the new calendar has a ten-day week, the five non-week days are treated as a religious festival and celebration for the pious of Seth to mark the passing of the old year and the beginning of the new, with the Leap Year of six non-week days given divine importance since that non-week is treated as the spiritual date of the First Imperial Priest of Seth’s Divine Enlightenment by Seth and is the mark of passage of the new year in the religious calendar observed almost only by the clergy as a lesser form of the traditional Sothic Cycle. The Calendar, recorded as the Divine Earth-Sol Axis Calendar DESA, would form the standard calendar system of HS2 to which all other planetary calendar systems are to be converted into for record keeping of important events.

Not long afterwards, in the Thirty-First Year into the Accursed Exodus from the Beloved Homeworld of the Forty-Ninth Holy Cycle since Divine Enlightenment, the Fifth Imperial Priest of Seth issued a proclamation to the DCS and HS2 as a whole to begin wide scale breeding and genetic engineering to increase the social efficiency of HS2 as a whole for better adaptation to interstellar space and planetary conquest. These programs will, in several centuries time, create the present Caste System of HS2 rigidly defined into the Shamans, Conquistador, Scholars, Astrogators (Pilots and Navigators), Technicians, Fabricators (Builders and Industrial Workers), Thralls, Laborers, and Agriculturalists. Other than the Shamans, all the other Castes are socially and politically equal to one another to such an extent that one born in one Caste may migrate to another as per “Divine Calling of Purpose” though heavy gene therapy is involved for conversion in addition to apprenticeship and examinations. Migration into the Shaman Caste, however, is engineered to be so difficult that only the most pious, intelligent, and selfless of applicants may apply.

However, the breeding and genetic engineering programs that created the HS2 Caste System almost completely rendered the Mundane Mutants of humanity extinct and left the vast majority of the population to be of the Minor, Major and Super Mutant varieties.

Centuries of interstellar flight, to which many would call the Long Night of Penance, the HS2 constellation then arrived upon a star system in the year 2622 of the Common Era Calendar or as recorded by HS2 scholars as 501st Year into the Accursed Exodus from the Beloved Homeworld of the 133rd Holy Cycle since Divine Enlightenment. And to their luck, or blessings of Seth as the more pious would believe, HS2 discovered that the star system had a human habitable planetary system. It was then that they discovered that they were not the first humans to arrive upon this star system whose registration and location was kept secret even up to the era of the Crongus Wars.

The settlement itself was barely only a decade old when HS2 descended from the sky and conquered the colonists. These settlers, barely armed and unable to resist, whom didn’t convert to Seth soon became the Peon Caste of slaves and servants who would be the only Caste to be considered “Low Class” within HS2 and thus ineligible to migrate into other Castes in order to better their own “lot in life” as it were. Though interrogation and inquisition, HS2 learned that these settlers were actually refugees who spent all of their collective fortunes to purchase a bare handful of HWDS Drive and escape the Earth during an era of the over century lasting conflict of the Great Global War known as the “Final Generation”.

Many of the faithful of HS2 feared that the beloved homeworld that they left behind was gone and that they, and the Peon Caste, were the last vestiges of humanity. Though their enemies that drove them into exile were given divine justice for their sins, the price was deemed to high for some who subsequently “Return to the Beginning”. The Imperial Priest of Seth of the time calmed her congregation down, declaring that a vision from Seth that HS2 were the promised people and that Earth will be reclaimed in a “Reconquista” no matter its state once they have gained enough power to return to the homeworld as liberators. They would need the resources, soldiers and machines, that must be built to prepare themselves for the prophesized and long desired Reconquista of Earth.
The march towards the Reconquista would truly begin with the reverse engineering of the HWDS Drive and the secrets to its navigation in the 553rd Year into the Accursed Exodus from the Beloved Homeworld of the 146th Holy Cycle since Divine Enlightenment. With their newfound mastery of the HWDS Drive, HS2 constructed their first star warcrafts and subsequent Conquistador Constellations that were used to annex star systems and assimilate the settlers that were found who were either converts or placed into the Peon Caste.

It wasn’t long, to be exact the 2710th Year of the Common Era Calendar or as recorded by HS2 Scholars as the First Year into the Third Crusade against the Darkness and 589th Year into the Accursed Exodus from the Beloved Homeworld of the 155th Holy Cycle since Divine Enlightenment, until HS2 first encountered an interstellar Settlement Nation-State. The crusade was particularly noteworthy due to the violent and often bloody campaigns due to HS2’s ignorance of interstellar warfare with the HWDS Drive and especially against an equally formidable foe.

Ultimately HS2 triumphed in the Twelfth Year into the Third Crusade against the Darkness and 601st Year into the Accursed Exodus from the Beloved Homeworld of the 158th Holy Cycle since Divine Enlightenment with greater wisdom of HWDS-based interstellar warfare. The Fourth Crusade against the Darkness, which began in the 628th Year into the Accursed Exodus from the Beloved Homeworld of the 165th Holy Cycle since Divine Enlightenment, further refined these strategies and tactics to increase the efficiency of the conquests.

Then in the Year 2774 of the Common Era Calendar, or as recorded by HS2 scholars as the First Year into the Fifth Crusade against the Darkness and the 653rd Year into the Accursed Exodus from the Beloved Homeworld of the 171st Holy Cycle since Divine Enlightenment, HS2 encountered an old nemesis that had brought about their formation: NFOUAN. Almost due to blind, pious rage, HS2 battled NFOUAN in two Crusades and numerous periphery battles which more often than not concluded in indecisiveness.

After centuries of on-and-off “brushfire” conflicts, HS2 and NFOUAN found that their aggression is better expressed towards the successors of their ancient enemies. Thus they began to attack and raid the periphery astrotory of FEUCSN, I2UE2, UPDSCMS, A2FSN and lesser Settlement Nation-States in the year 2964 of the Common Era Calendar or as recorded by HS2 scholars as the First Year into the Seventh Crusade against the Darkness and 843rd Year into the Accursed Exodus from the Beloved Homeworld of the 219th Holy Cycle since Divine Enlightenment. However, the HS2-NFOUAN Compact must keep their identities secret from humanity as a whole, in the strategic goal and hope that the infighting between the Settlement Nation-States of Humanity would weaken them enough for military conquest to be a prudent choice rather than suicidal.

Yet, as history showed, the Superpowers of the Galaxy revealed their true identity and the known galaxy was united against the Compact. Unsurprising, a vast majority of the HS2 faithful have placed the blame of the mistake upon NFOUAN that brought them into an unplanned and unnecessary conflict that concluded in the Fifteenth Year into the Seventh Crusade against the Darkness and 843rd Year into the Accursed Exodus from the Beloved Homeworld of the 222nd Holy Cycle since Divine Enlightenment in which the mistake turned into the greatest blunder since the hubris of the First Imperial Priest of Seth: The ratification of the Kolob Charter and foundation of GPENTO. With it and the creation of GPENTO’s Military Arm; the Galactic Patrol Enforcement and Defense Deployment Command (GPEDDC) or more popularly known as the Galactic Rangers, the long-held dream of vengeance of their forced exodus from their beloved homeworld, let alone any hope of the aforementioned Reconquista, were dashed to the stellar winds.

That is, until they were contacted by the Crongus Entente of the First Year into the Eight Crusade against the Darkness and 863rd Year into the Accursed Exodus from the Beloved Homeworld of the 224th Holy Cycle since Divine Enlightenment….

At its fundamental core, the Imperial Priest of Seth was at the top of the social, governmental, religious, and military pyramid. Yet in practice, there are various councils that handle the laborious day-to-day affairs of logistics and order of the various planets and other such celestial object worlds under the governing rule of the Viceroy and Magistrates. The most powerful of these councils are the Iron Fang General Assembly (IFGA), DCS and the Golden Hood.

IFGA, the largest of these councils, consists of the commanding Generals of the HS2’s military that covers not only the standing army and star armada, but also the Policing Forces that enforces domestic control and rule. The Iron Fang General Assembly typically debate and enact domestic and foreign military control, not limited to raiding of non-Siblinghood settlements and the enforcement of peace and order by the Edicts of the current Imperial Priest of Seth. The duties and span of power by the Iron Fang General Assembly can be best compared to a union between a Cabinet, National Police Force, and Intelligence Agency.

DCS is one of the smaller of these powerful councils, consisting of what is effectively a religious committee. DCS is composed of a central circle of Seven Grand Shamans, an inner circle of ten Arch-Shamans, a middle Circle of Realm Shamans, and an outer circle of Low Shamans. DCS are effectively the Religious Law Branch of HS2 whose primary goals is to uniformly interpret the teachings and dogmas of the current and previous Imperial Priests of Seth into Religious Law and to hand out judgment to any and all that they suspect of heresy and sacrilege against the word of the Imperial Priest of Seth.

The Golden Hood can be best described as a collection of ministries, departments, and offices whose sole mission is to direct and organize the collective economy and resources of the secret settlements and bases of HS2 for the overall prosperity and wealth of theoretically all members of HS2. As an economic council, the Golden Hood has the authority to grant licensing for Trade Guilds, Merchant Unions, and Resource Mining for those that they deemed worthy of participating in the economy and prosperity of HS2 as a whole. These officials, who are titled Vizir no matter their administrative position, are appointed to their office either by the Imperial Priest of Seth themselves or nominated by other higher ranked Golden Hood officials and then voted into office by a committee of Golden Hood membership.

Though these councils deal with the every-day tasks of managing this outlaw empire, the decisions and judgment can be overruled by the simple Edict, a simple word by the Imperial Priest of Seth. Such is the power of one that is considered to be “Closest to Divinity”, though the succession to this throne is rigidly defined in that the three most powerful councils elect their own for nomination to become the new Imperial Priest of Seth, of which is chosen by the Lord Regent. The position of Lord Regent is so important to the succession to Imperial Priest of Seth, and thus the overall stability of the entire Imperial Priest of Seth, that the first act a new Imperial Priest of Set performs is the appointment of a new Lord Regent if the current one was not suitable. However the Lord Regent isn’t the Imperial Priest of Set’s right-hand lieutenant or even second in command, rather that rank is reserved for the High Vizier who is either the previous Lord Regent’s choice or the appointment by the Imperial Priest of Seth themselves.

The military forces of HS2, officially labeled as the Sacred Imperial Guardship of Holy Seht (SIGHS) but mostly known as the Imperial Guard, are organized into three primary branches: The High Raid Armada (HRA), Grand Imperial Army (GIA) and the Holy Enforcers. Most notably, SIGHS equips en mass a multitude of different firearms technology to their soldier: Chemical ignition for pistols and submachine guns, ETC ignition for carbines up to battle rifles and gauss launchers for infantry support weaponry.

HRA can be best described as the expeditionary space force of SIGHS who are primarily used in hit-and-run interstellar actions against heretic and “Pagan” settlements to steal their resources and civilians for future converts or slaves for HS2.

GIA are the primary forces used in dedicated terrestrial campaigns where orbital naval bombardment is either unnecessary or inadequate. Since the GIA is mostly expected to deliver and ferry ground forces from planet to planet, a vast majority of their equipment and hardware are planetary-based with high speed personnel vehicles and Armored Humanoid Terrestrial Vehicles with a few Trans-atmospheric Landing Ships under their juristiction.

The Holy Enforcers fundamentally ensure that the laws of the theocratic empire are followed by the member colonies and congregation, including other guardsmen of SIGHS. In addition to law enforcement, the Holy Enforcers also act as special operation specialists to ensure that others under the aegis of the Imperial Priest of Seth are in line.

Now many of you would be wondering by now as to why a human faction such as the HS2 would even aligned themselves with the Crongus Entente that is primarily composed of intergalactic empires, or even why the Entente would ever allow them to join in the first place. Well there is a rather interesting response to such an inquiry for at least the latter question.

All of the starships of the Crongus Entente are equipped with sensor systems that, for lack of a better word, make light speed drag moot unless one goes to extreme interplanetary distances (for instance tracking an object at the Sol-Jupiter Lagrange Point 2, or SJLP-2, all the way from the Sol-Jupiter Lagrange Point 3 or SJLP-3 as an example). This gives the Entente an interesting advantage over GPENTO forces in many orbital battles, however all have a unique flaw: Nebulas.

To be exact, once an Entente combat starship enters a nebula no matter the size such as a planetary nebula, its sensors and detection systems are at best fogged or at worst blind to all spacecraft beyond the hull. Even the defensive force walls of nearly all Entente combat starships are effected, which makes them extremely vulnerable. Though the titular extragalactic empire’s own warships are affected the least in terms of fogged detection and targeting, the effective range of their offensive weapon systems are exponentially reduced to orbital point-blank-range. GPENTO space warcrafts and star warcrafts, on the other hand, are not affected whatsoever by nebula matter. Can someone say “Turkey Shoot”?

Thus this is where HS2 comes into the picture in that they act as the eyes, and in some cases the only reliable defense line, of any Entente constellation in a tactical situation. Strategically, HS2 is also utilized as deep raiders to strike at GPENTO strongholds deep within a nebula to force/draw out the defenders from the nebula so that the Entente. This vulnerability and associated reliance also serves as a kind of leverage if one knows how to handle it well…

Oh? Why don’t the other Entente Empires utilize such technology into their own combat starships? It’s quite simple really: They’re just not compatible. Period. For an example, take a look at our own world and in particular take a look at not only Metric and Imperial/Common measurements, but also the electrical wattage between the US and Europe. Two different systems that aren’t so interchangeable without an artificial medium to convert them. Just imagine how incompatible the technology of multi-galactic spanning sapient species would be to each other, let alone Earth.


Neo Fascist Order of the United Aryan Nation (Quasar Raiders)

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Originally a private army formed in the year 2062 of the Common Era Calendar from the unification of various Neo-Fascist, Neo-Nazi, and White Supremacist Organizations and Cults in the pursuit of the dream of a Western Imperium (or Forth Reich) for the purity of the Aryan Race, in particular the Nordic race, as a master race over the “lesser peoples’ of the world via systematic mass murder and industrial genocide in addition to forced, mass relocations to (ideally) less environmentally ideal territories. Originally a notable majority of the Neo Fascist Order of the United Aryan Nation (NFOUAN) wished for a more democratic Aryan Federation, but were subsequently pushed aside for more radical elements that willed the return of the authoritarian system that brought Post-World War I Germany out of the brink of economic depression and political chaos or so they had deluded themselves into such a belief.

NFOUAN derive their own internal Calendar to that of the ancient Germanic Calendar, including it’s Interpretatio germanican conversion of the days of the week, but mathematically reworked to be more of a Solar Calendar rather than its less accurate Lunisolar Calendar for more accurate recordkeeping called the Reich Lang – Auszählen (RLA) with the designated epoch as the year the Third Reich ascended into political power. Thus NFOUAN recorded the year of its founding as RLA 129.
Soon the organization had the military might to invade, occupy, and “cleanse” South American and Western Pacific nations and countries in an effort to create their own ideal homeland and future global super power in order to bring into fruition the dream of a Western Imperium with the annexation of Anglo-America, Europe and Northeastern Eurasia into its fold.

It was later learned by an investigation by the United Nations that there were corrupt politicians within those Super Powers who, with promises of prominent positions within the Western Imperium in addition to funds to their political campaigns, secretly allied with NFOUAN and willing to betray their nation to allow NFOUAN to take complete political and social control.

The UNPSDC then intervened in the conflict at the behest of those governments in exile that NFOUAN drove out in 2079 which started the war. It quickly turned into a world war when suicide bombers and terrorist attacks upon Super Power cities and military infrastructure began, followed by conventional strategic surgical bombing.

The Second War on Global Terrorism was incredibly violent, bloody and chaotic. Surpassing that of the First War on Global Terrorism, especially in that the scope of NFOUAN reprisal wasn’t restricted to the South American and Western Pacific regional conflict but reached even to the capitals of the super powers that funded and supported the UNPSDC. The conflict even spread to African and Western Asia when the need for raw resources became a concern for NFOUAN. Ultimately, NFOUAN could not keep up with the advancements of military technology innovated by UNPSDC and the Superpowers and lost their bid at the foundation of a Western Imperium and the rise of the Fourth Reich in RLA 171 or the year 2104 of the Common Era Calendar.

However the Neo Fascist Order was not completely eliminated as surviving members and their families boarded a secret World Ship and executed a mass exodus from the Sol System. To this day no one could explain this oversight that has cost the galaxy greatly, however it was a justification among many for the Super Powers to establish and mobilize a new Space Force branch of their national militaries and the start of the Space Arms Race between them.

While the Great Global War raged upon the Earth, within the lone World ship of NFOUAN, the then newly ascended Vindex had foreseen a need to improve upon the physical and genetic foundation of what is persevered to be “The Last Vestigese of the Pure Nordic Race of the Master Aryans” not just to survive and thrive within the hostile environment known as interstellar space, but to strengthen them for the eventual conquest of the Earth in a campaign that was christend “Lebensraum Erthō”. Thus NFOUAN began genetic engineering, both crude and sophisticated, and breeding programs in RLA 197 to create the ideal space-based decendent of humanity dubbed Homo Galactica Arya that would only conclude centuries later. Though NFOUAN’s Homo Galactica Arya are little more than a transhuman subset of humanity with various shades of the Nordic Race of the Caucasian breed. This diversity is shallow, especially compared to the Super Mutant Castes of HS2.

Then in RLA 545 or the Year 2478 of the Common Era Calendar, the NFOUAN Worldship then encountered a habitable world with a settlement already constructed by autonomous drones decades earlier. However, the intended colonists of this “Seed Colony” never arrived so naturally NFOUAN annexed the settlement for their own, to which they renamed Germania. Additionally, the planet was christened as Vinwelt and the star system to which the Vinwelt planetary system orbited was simply referred to as Reichstern. This would be the secret home star of NFOUAN to which they would carry out raids against the decedents of their enemies.

Then in RLA 577 or the year 2510 of the Common Era Calendar, a strange singularity-like anomalies appeared above Reichstern Beta just as NFOUAN began to deploy their combat Worldships. Patrol spacecraft were sent to investigate the phenomenon and found a constellation of what appear to be refugee spacecraft. After the spacecraft were commandeered and the onboard crew and passengers detained, who were unfortunately the exact ethnicity and religious creed to which NFOUAN persecuted during the Second War on Global Terror, they learned not only of the technology that is the HWDS Drive but also of the state of earth after the NFOUAN’s deep space exodus right up to what is called the “Final Generation” of the conflict known as the Great Global War.

The revelation was received with mixed feelings by Homo Galactica Arya of NFOUAN, though their enemies were eventually destroyed it also meant that their homeworld was ruined as well. The Vindex proclaimed that their destined campaign of Lebensraum Erthō all the more important to prepare for and complete if it meant the survival of Aryan culture. Soon enough the refugees were placed into slave labor to not only build up the NFOUAN’s war machine but to also unravel the mysteries and nature that is the HWDS Drive, which was successfully reversed engineered and massed produced in RLA 624 or the year 2557 of the Common Era Calendar.

Soon enough, with enough converted orbital warcrafts to interstellar warcrafts via the HWDS drive, NFOUAN began a series of interstellar wargames to overcome their collective infancy when it came to interstellar warfare and deployment, to remove weaknesses and sharpen the strengths of theoretical tactics and strategies all the while expanded their astrotory and gained more laborers for the NFOUAN war machine. The almost century worth of armchair wargames would prove vital when NFOUAN first encountered their first interstellar Settlement Nation-State in RLA 716 or the year 2649 of the Common Era Calendar.

Though there were heavy losses due to the still inexperience of NFOUAN, they eventually learned and evolved enough to not only conquer this first obstacle towards Lebensraum Erthō, but also the next several interstellar governments that had the unfortunate luck to be upon NFOUAN’s warpath. They have also learned, though tragically, to isolate a targeted star system from external support through the targeting of courier starcraft stations in order to hide their identities and more importantly the home stars. Many NFOUAN clans were founded, fused and split apart into major and minor Euro-Aryan clans during this era of interstellar conquests. Though a vast majority of the Euro-Aryan clans were of military nature, either front line or supportive such as logistics, there were a few Euro-Aryan clans who were more fitted to non-combat roles such as civil service and corporate sectors. The interactions of the Euro-Aryan Clans within FFOUAN formed the basis of the organization’s economy.

Then in RLA 841, or the year 2774 of the Common Era Calendar, they encountered a similar organization who were in truth their victims, HS2. Though well warned of their actions, NFOUAN were still unprepared by the near religious zeal the Super Muntants would have against the Homo Galacticus Arya of NFOUAN that lead to not only a series of periphery astrotory raids between the two organizations, but also two wars known in NFOUAN history documents as the Forsaken Campaigns. Many lives were lost as a result of these old feud between HS2 and NFOUAN.

Yet, after centuries of on-and-off “brushfire” conflicts, NFOUAN and HS2 found that their aggression is better expressed towards the successors of their ancient enemies. Thus they began to attack and raid the periphery astrotory of FEUCSN, I2UE2, UPDSCMS, A2FSN and lesser Settlement Nation-States in RLA 1031, or the year 2964 of the Common Era Calendar. However, the NFOUAN-HS2 Compact must keep their identities secret from humanity as a whole, in the strategic goal and hope that the infighting between the Settlement Nation-States of Humanity would weaken them enough for military conquest to be a prudent choice rather than suicidal.

However, as history has witnessed, the Superpowers of the Galaxy revealed their true identity and the known galaxy was united against the Compact. Unsurprising, a large portion of the NFOUAN population have placed the blame of the mistake upon HS2 that brought them into an unplanned and unnecessary conflict that concluded in RLA 1046 did the mistake turn into the greatest blunder since the Battle of Stalingrad: The ratification of the Kolob Charter and foundation of GPENTO. With it and the creation of GPENTO’s Military Arm; the Galactic Patrol Enforcement and Defense Deployment Command (GPEDDC) or more popularly known as the Galactic Rangers, the long-held dream of vengeance of their forced exodus from their ancestral home, let alone any hope of the aforementioned Lebensraum Erthō, were as then unrealistic as Adolf Hitler’s so-called Thousand Year Reich.

However, it is with a fateful encounter with the Crongus Entente in RLA 1051 did the dream of Lebensraum Erthō was rekindled.

Yet, the trials and tribulations for NFOUAN did not simply end there in an alliance with the Crongus Entente as it faced a schism within its own ranks in RLA 1120. From the main body that was NFOUAN rechristened the Original NFOUAN came two new factions: the Ultra-fundamentalist NFOUAN and Reformed NFOUAN.

The Ultra-Fundamentalist Homo Galactica Arya strongly believed that NFOUAN should not have any dealings with any extrasolar sapients, let alone extragalactic such as those whom populate the Crongus Entente and are determined to fulfill Lebensraum Erthō on their own. Thus they attacked both sides of the conflict.

They didn’t last long.

The Reformed NFOUAN are the Homo Galactica Arya who have grown disillusioned by the progress of the Crongus Wars and found no progress with the Original NFOUAN’s goal of Lebensraum Erthō. The reasoning each had ranged from simple ideological differences they may have that countered those of the Vindex, to a simple awakening to tolerance of other life (or perhaps something as selfish as a little romancewith the enemy”) or some other noble intentions. However, a noticeable percentage split apart from the Original NFOUAN for reasons no more noble than a need to acquire power. Whatever the reason, selfless or selfish or otherwise, they have thrown their lot with GPENTO and the other Superpowers of the Galaxy in the fight against the Crongus Entente. Naturally, there is some distrust after two separate conflicts between the two former enemies, now turned allies, especially from I2UE2, UPDSCMS, and A2FSN which held the greatest grudges against them for their previous actions.

As in Nazi Germany of ages past, NFOUAN is under the leadership of a supreme commander known as the Vindex and the inner circle of NFOUAN Generals and Admirals, followed by the Reichstag of Euro-Aryan Clans (REAS) who are barely better then a rubber-stamp organization compared to the Vindex. The true power, outside the individual Vindex, are through the various chancellery, ministries, and offices that populate the bureaucracy of NFUOAN whose primary goal is not the betterment of NFOUAN as a whole, but rather towards appeasing the Vindex and gaining such favor.
The military of NFOUAN is the Reichmacht divided into two distinct branches not unlike FEUCSN’s own CFCS: The interstellar raiding and expeditionary force christened the Angriffmacht under the direct control of those who are under the favor of the Vindex, and the domestic defense front of the Wehrmacht that is more often then not one of the few exclusive rights of self-governance of the various NFOUAN Euro-Aryan Clans. Most notably, the small arms of the Reichmacht consists of ETC support weaponry and Chemical-ignition firearms from pistols all the way up to battle rifles.
The Angriffmacht is further divided into three sub-branches: Kreigstern Flotte (KSF), Kreigstern Militär (KSM), and Kreigstern Schutzstaffel (KS3). The KSF primarily engages orbital assets and countermeasures while the KSM performs planetary assaults and conquests, though it is not uncommon for either branch to work together to fulfill each other’s strategic and tactical goals for the good of NFOUAN as a whole. KS3, on the other hand, is quite notable in that it’s a “Wehrmach” whose mandate demands interstellar abilities and thus is allowed HWDS drive-equipped starcrafts to fulfill their roles.

The Wehrmach is further divided into four sub-branches: Stern Ausguckmaine (SAM), Planetarisch Wehrluftwaffe (PWL), Planetarisch Wehrheer (PWH), and Planetarisch Wehrmarine (PWM). Each one is further divided into Clan Commands depending upon the composition of the stellar and planetary system in question. As befitting their titles, the PWL, PWH, and PWM are mostly resposible for planetary defense measures of the worlds under NFUOAN jurisdiction while the SAM is primarily responsible for patrol and defense of interplanetary space within the star system and planetary system in question. It is from the Clan Commands of the Wehrmach did both the clans and individuals who ultimately formed both the Ultra-Fundamentalist NFOUAN and Reformed NFOUAN would derive from and are under the strict scrutiny of KS3 to ensure that no more NFOUAN clans defect or rebel against the Vindex and NFOUAN.

As previously explained with HS2, NFOUAN is an invaluable strategic and tactical asset to the Crongus Entente as a whole due to the unique and crippling limitations of the Crongus Entente’s advanced starship-borne technology and weapon systems.

Huh…that’s kind of odd…. Usually there’s some joke about the faction or nation but it appears that I got nothin’ out of you folks. Maybe perhaps that there’s actually something that one can’t find a joke-

Aaaand there it is. You were just waiting for me to end it so it would fit this joke didn’t you all?

Now then, since we got practically EVERYTHING out of our system, you all should know the procedure by now. Discuss below, keep it civil, and put in a screen name so that I can easily respond.
In the meantime I’ll start working on the upcoming blog entry that’ll detail the extrasolar sapient civilizations of the galaxy. Just need to get myself to start all those drawings of the major alien species…..

EDIT as of August 1st, 2012: Few of you might not have noticed by now, but I have successfully created an anchor-based hyperlink that connects to a certain section of a document or web page. Yay me.

Also, expect me to abuse the *censor* out of that feature in future updates and blog entries, especially the upcoming blog entry on the extrasolar sapient civilizations of the galaxy that will be coming.....eventually.....



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