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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
romance “
with 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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