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The United Republic of the Agonie System
"Not United, Not a Republice and far from in control..."

"I swear, as a citizen of the republic, a human and upon the homeworld far away, that I shall uphold the principles, ideals, and honor of the United Republic. I pledge my life, honor, and soul to the core foundations of order, unity, and prosperity for all mankind! To protect and defend our constitution, senate and eternal rights with all my abilities and will. These I swear!"   Oath of the Republican Armed Forces 

 ◈ Their Goals in their own words 
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The Great Revolution, brought wealth, stability and a future for Agonie! Concessions to the time had be made, but naught that could not be overcome by trusting into the constitution, the senate, and the republic. It was the United Front, that dragged the system into chaos by bullying the economy and abusing the old order with foolish reforms that had to be stopped to maintain order.   

The Central Government seeks to restore the Status Quo of a strong authoritarian Republic, backed by the large plutocratic power blocks. While the lower and a small but prominent part of the upper house have fled to Roskwit to form the united front, the Senate itself is still seen as the central governmental power, even though real power now lies in the hand of the Executive Council and the military clique around Admiral Staufen.

 ◈ The Central Goverment 
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The Great Revolution, or the "Plutocratic coup" depending on who is asked, 80 years ago, lead to many changes in the goverment of the Agonie sector. The crimson monarchy was abolished and the united republic declared. De-jure, every human citizen above the age of 16 has the right to vote, secured by the constiution. De-facto, this right has been fully hollowed out, by cooperate gerrymandering, tax-based voting strengths and "emergency directives" ending the secret vote on almost all worlds beside Hoffnung. 

The legislative and executive power, lies with the two chambers (upper and lower senate for short) of the senate on Hoffnung, while the court, whose judges are appointed by the lower senate, represents the judicative body. While planned with the idea of checks and balances, the united republic quickly became dominated by the power brokers of the cooperations, mining barons and big plantation owners. The old lower nobility, rich in power, wealth and influence, also was able to carve out their own piece of the pie. 

With the civil war in full swing, a number of emergency directives have been passed, which established the "Executive Council for the defense of the republic" made up of representatives of the military and upper chambers of the senate. The de-facto power now lies in the hand of Fleet Admiral Cassandra Staufen and Field Marshal Aleksy Sloinski and their clique of military officers.

 ◈ Economy
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The Great Revolution brought much power to the cooperations of the Agonie sector, who now were freed from the oversight of the nobility and the heavy tax burden. Reforms in the abolishment of xeno-slavery and workplace improvments in secruity and workers' rights soon were also reversed with the growing influence of the plutocrats. While the last 80 years of economic history were mostly dominated by the trade war against the Halcyon Continuance, only the great crash of the Agonie Stock Market in 953 uncovered the desasterous effects the trade war had on the system as a whole. 

The rise of the AHSP and the calls for reforms in the goverment made the civil war inevitable, even as the economy slowly began to stabilize. At the start of the civil war, the wounds of the crash had almost fully healed, only to be ripped open once more, as the system sank into anarchy and chaos.
 ◈ Mining 
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The inner belt is a heavily mined region of countless asteroids, which is home to the mining barons and their economic cartells. Valuable ores are extracted and shipped to solar powered refineries, before being brought to the orbital trade hubs of Hoffnung. The gas giant of Lado and its 40 moons are equally home to countless gas-wells and prospecting posts. 

 ◈ Cooperations of the Core System 
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Hoffnung is a world of heavy industry and commerce. Already, more parts of the world are covered in city or industrial complexes then not, and its alloys-forges and factories work day and night. The abolishment of the monarchy has seen the rise of formally shackled cooperations to take control of this lucrative industrial center, while modernizing the semi-feudal leadership structures of old. The economic war saw a great movement away from production to refinement, leading to a lack of quality consumer goods, which are highly sought after commodities. 

 ◈ Plantations  
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The seven biggest Moons of Lado, are covered with plantations in large greenhouse cities, that dot the surface of these satellites. Agonie spice is a rare aromatic that has seen a huge price peak, due to the civil war, while the food produced in the greenhouse cities still feeds the inner Belt and Hoffnung. Other chemical ingredients and luxury goods are planted by the Xeno and human workers, as well as an ever-increasing amount of P.O.W forced laborers.

 ◈ Culture
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With the war waging on, the Central Government has begun to crack down on all subversive types of expression, while heavily promote "Core Agonie values". The Abrahamic Homeworld faith has seen great support by the government, while other faiths have been heavily repressed. While still officially secular, 65% of all government officials are Abrahamic Homeworlders. 
While Hoffnung was a long time a hub for the production of media and art, it has seen a vast brain-drain with many heavily influential artists and creative workers defecting to the USFASB. With great oversight by the state, most media now produced contains mostly propaganda, that promote the ideas of Unity and the Republic as a vanguard against unchecked tyranny of a mob. While quite xenophobic in nature, the idea of the "Noble Savage" alien that is serving humanity, is still a major staple of the CG propaganda, trying to counteract the growing influence of the AHSP. Slowly but steadily, a cult of personality around Fleet Admiral Cassandra Staufen has begun to grow, with pictures of the "Durasteel Admiral" being projected on thousands of holo screens all over the world.

 ◈ Armed Forces 
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RA-Private, wearing the standard-issue light armor and a light UV-Laser RCW for use as a garrison in urban environments 

The Ground Forces of the central government are the numerical largest fighting force in the conflict, as well as the best-equipped one, yet also the one that is currently engaged in the most ongoing battles. Taking the lions share of the army, fleet and officer corps (around 65% of the total armed forces declared for the central government when hostilities began), it, however, saw a vast part of its junior officers defect to the united front, leaving a great weakness in its tactical abilities while possessing a vast advantage on the strategical level, as most generals remained loyal to the republic, with a few key exceptions of royalists who defected to the restoration movement.

The All-Human Supremacy Party
"No Xenos, No Kings, just Men..."

"I swear, as a human, to claim what is my brithright. To uphold, defend and further the goals of mankind. I pledge my life in service of the eternal struggle against the xeno, the traitor and a hostile galaxy! My life for a future for humanity!"   Oath of the armed wing of the All-Human Supremacy Party 

 ◈ The All-Human Supremacy Party 
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Officially, the All-Human Supremacy Party is just a legal party in the senate of the central government. But in reality, it long has become a monstrous powerhouse and mass movement. Rallies of the AHSP are a daily occurrence on Hoffnung and holo-screens transmitting AHSP propaganda can be found in almost every mining station of the inner belt. 

The party is strictly hierarchically organized. Every region has a local party-foreman, each sub-continent a party-chief, each continent a party-leader and each planet a supreme leader. On the head of the Party stands Supreme Leader of the All-Human Party Mubassa Taskan. 
While de-jure it is merely a party, the facto it already has taken control of multiple regions on Hoffnung, which are now patrolled by the armed wing of the AHSP, while party officials have taken to govern these sectors in a dictatorial fashion. Friction with the Central Government remains high and many see an outbreak of violence coming, should there no longer be a uniting enemy to fight...

 ◈ Economy
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A young political movement, the AHSP has long been struggling to maintain its finances. Dependent on donations from rich benefactors as well as memberships fees, the Civil war has seen it grow an economical spine. Being placed in charge of multiple districts of Hoffnung, it has begun to implement a system of war taxation as well as confiscating buildings, savings, and factories of "traitors to humanity". With each now traitor found by the black-coats, a new asset is incorporated into the growing economic power on Hoffnung, which is the AHSP-Economic Syndicate. And while massive in scale by now, it does lack skilled manpower and able administrators, who mostly are chosen for loyalty, rather than merit.
 ◈ Work Camps  
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Hundreds of thousands of Xenos on Hoffnung, already have been arrested as "Traitors" and "Spies", by the black coats. In the ravaged wasteland outside of the Mega-Cities of Hoffnung, the AHSP has created a massive network of labor camps that make for nightmarish places to be. Xenos and human "traitors", alike work in massive recycling plants, scrapping mines and workshops under horrible conditions. The Central Government has stated its dissatisfaction with these inhumane conditions, but so far has been unable to reach any betterment. 

 ◈ District Factories
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Taking control of many factories of "Disloyal Cooperations" and staffing them with AHSP-Administrators, the flow of production continues and with it, its profit. The AHSP mostly produces supplies, ammunition, and weaponry directly for their own armed forces as well as the Central Government. Labor conditions are better than in the work camps but still have taken its toll on the massive demand. Inexperienced administration and management have lead to great declines in productivity, compared to the former levels of production. At the same time, only humans are allowed to work in the factories, which are also now a hub for party propaganda, which is displayed on loudspeakers, holo-screens, and rallies outside the building. 

 ◈ Outworld Auctions
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With the spreading control on Hoffnung, the AHSP came into the possession of vast amounts of Art, luxury goods and historical artifacts. Collecting them all in their party headquarters, they at first destroyed all that was alien in nature, before realizing that there was a vast profit to be made, by selling outside of the system. By now, the Auctions on other worlds are held with undercover companies, while the revenue flows back to the party...

 ◈ Culture
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The AHSP began as a low-class worker movement during the crash of 53´ and has a very turbulent history. While its origins lay in a format that could be called a "mob-rally" at best and "armed violent gangs and terrorist cells" at worst, the AHSP has changed into a true party, under the skilled and charismatic leadership of Mombassa Taskan. Using his former career as an Abrahamic-Homeworlder Preacher, he has lead the reformation of the movement into a larger than life cause.

All cultures that decent from the earth, are glorified and militarized to the extreme. Iconography displaying human features and the earth itself can be found everywhere, with heavily modified versions of old earth history, being taught in schools. Abrahamic-Homeworldism is the state religion, with many others seen as "weakening humanity" lacking the drive to return to earth and liberate if from the darkness.

 ◈ Armed Forces 
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"White-Shirts" Liberator-Soldiers, volunteers from the Party, badly equipped, trained and armed, they have some of the highest casualty rates in the system.  

The AHSP has began in the streets of Hoffnung and the mining colonies of the inner belt. It never was a stranger to violence to further its agenda, yet the civil war has seen it gain a full armed wing. Multiple terrorist cells have received full pardons and been drafted into the new army of the AHSP. Able to call upon massive manpower reserves and highly motivated recruits, the Central Government has been forced to call upon their divisions to fill in losses. While being highly motivated, the main forces of the AHSP lack training, competent leadership and equipment, and as remain an unreliable fighting force at best, and an armed rabble at worse. The situation only grew worse, with the introduction of child soldiers, on the moons of Lado.

The United Salvation Front of All Sentient Beings
"To end the tyranny, be it royal, supremacist or plutocratic"

"I solemnly swear, to devote my life and ability, in defense of the Sentients of Agonie,to defend the new Constitution,
and to further the universal rights of all sentient life, for as long as I, shall, live"   Oath of the army of the united front 

 ◈ Their Goals in their own words 
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The Great Revolution, began as a noble idea, that was hijacked by plutocrats, populists and minor nobility. Great ideals were sold to the mining barons, corporations and plantation owners, and the main goal of the Alliance of Redemption, the abolishment of the vile instiution of slavery, was hollowed out, with intentured servitute among many worlds. Too long, the republics lower house, was just a minor concession, a wet handshake for they who had bled the most in the Revolution, to appease and calm the ones with true idealism. 
The Crash of 53´ showed how hollow this republic was and how corrupt its foundation was. It has to be torn down, and build up anew, with stones of freedom, liberty, and rights for all! 

The USFASB seeks to utterly rebuild the republic into a full democracy, with voting rights for all sentient beings in the Agonie system and a new constitution that protects the citizens from plutocratic exploitation. Furthermore, the power of mining barons, corporations and plantation owners is to be curtailed and a "better-deal" economy shall efficently fight poverty all acrosses the system. In a final step, the new democratic agonie shall seek closer ties to the federation and aim to establish itself as a beacon of democracy and universal liberty all across Eden.

 ◈ The United Front 
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The Great Revolution had begun promising but soon was hollowed out by the new powers inside the inexperienced government. Mining Barons, Plantations Kings, and Corporations soon had their own seats and major lobbying caucuses, who pushed their own agendas onto the people. It was in these times, that coalitions of true reformers formed the "Activist Alliance", a cross-political union of anti-plutocratic political parties and individuals all across the sector. Seeking support and inspiration from the Federation, it saw wide support from intellectuals, students and the newly impoverished low nobility of the old monarchy. A daring step was the "Declaration of Universal Sentient Equality", held in the Federation, that cemented the struggle for full Xeno equality as a core demand of the Alliance. 

With the Civil now in full swing, the Alliance of old, is now the united front, a wide coalition of anti-republican and anti-monarchy political parties.

 ◈ Economy
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 ◈ The Trading Hub of Roskwit 
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The sister worlds of Roskwit and Hoffnung both formed the forge of Agonies wealth and power. Hoffnung produced, while Roskwit sold. But the two sisters have been separated, greatly limiting each other's ability of commerce and trade. Yet Roskwit still holds onto its vast orbital trade hubs, a strong merchant fleet, and stock exchanges. Compared to Hoffnung, it lacks the industrial capacity, but in return, it has not been mutilated by it. 

 ◈ Corporations of the Core System 
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It is an open secret that most Corporations would prefer a victory of the central government, but only a chosen few mega-corporations can truly pick aside. A select few even openly sided with the new government, may it for moral reasons or hopes to win favor with what they see as a likely winner. Taxation of these corporations has been increased and is in part paid in wartime produce, giving the united front a much-needed windfall. 

 ◈ Freedom Bonds
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The most creative way of creating revenue for the new government has been the creation of the freedom bond, a state-share that is sold outside the system in sympathetic nations. Promised a payout post war, it has been a desperate measure that has been a surprising amount of success.

 ◈ Culture
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With the civil war in full swing, that has been branded as the "Second Great Revolution", Roskwit has become a center of a new spirit. Volunteers and interested sentients from all across Eden stream to this new center of liberty where all beings are equal. New values and culture is promoted and a crazy feeling of insperation has taken hold of the artist hotbed, that finally no longer have to concern themselves with the censorship of the republic. The grim and sadness of Hoffnung has been replaced with the beauty of the forests and green valleys of Roskwit.

 ◈ Armed Forces 
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 Private of the 34th Salvation Rifle Army, a volunteer force recruited all across Eden   

While the majority of the armed forces stayed loyal to the central government, a still quite sizable part defected very early in the civil war. Lead mostly by young junior officers of the Roskwit military and fleet academy, the majority of them were well trained, if inexperienced. Roskwit itself would become a recruitment hub, as a wave of patriotic fury over the brutal crackdowns on Hoffnung after the failed Motion 343-78, encouraged hundreds of thousands to sign up in the new military. Reports of AHSP and GC brutality kept this flow going, yet the United Front also can call upon a totally untapped pool of manpower, which is the vast xeno-population of the sector. More so, all over the democratic nations in the Eden sector, agents have been sent, to recruit idealists, students, and revolutionaries to fight for the new system and the rights of all sentient beings.

The Crimson Royalist Resturation Army
"To restore the true Queen to her rightful place"

"I, a subject of our rightful queen, pleadge my life and honor, to see her highness restored to her rightful throne. To bring back order into the chaos and end the madness of the revolution. These i swear!"   Oath of the crimson royalist army 

 ◈ Their Goals in their own words 
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The Great Revolution, as they call it, has been nothing but a coup of plutocratic upstarts and treacherous lower nobility. They misguided the masses and blinded them with promises they never planned nor were able to keep. Now the system is in chaos. Countless died in the "Years of Lead and Laser" and their number pales with the death and destruction brought upon us by the civil war. The people cry out, for a savior! The rightful queen shall return so that order can be restored.  

The CRRA seeks to restore the monarchy to its old power, as well as punish all who had their hand in the creation of the republic. Backed by the old high nobility, the lost colonies and the outer belt, the also seek to redistribute power and dismantle the republican elite in favor of the old one.

 ◈ Government
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The Crimson Dynasty has ruled over the Agonie system and its colonies in a delicate neo-feudalistic way, that highly varied from planet to planet. Its restoration will require adaption to the new reality, yet the royal court itself has equally adapted. With the young Queen Jysabell as the sovereign, a collection of Duke's as her executive power and advisors (as well as powerful players with armed forces of their own), the lower court is made up of nobility, crown-loyalist generals, colonial elites and finally, the clan lords of the outer belt. A minefield of intrigue, blackmail and personal ambition, the government of the queen is a war in itself, only held together by the strong will of the crimson monarch herself.

 ◈ Economy
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 ◈ The Investments of the Nobility and Crown
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The long history of Agonie and its nobility has brought forth a ripe dividend. Many corporations all over the sector have found their first investors in the forming nobility of the system. A steady flood of revenue is making its way to the coffers of almost all major noble families, as well as the crown itself. Queen Jysabell herself is among the richest people in the sector, able to bankroll the lionsshare of the war effort with private funds. 

 ◈ The Outer Belt
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Forty times the size of the inner belt, the outer belt has long been the frontier of the agonie system. Penal Colonies, exile station and last hope for the destitute, it long has devolved into the feudal realm it is today, with mining clans inhabiting asteroid mines, cities and refineries. Ruled by a cutthroat elite, simply known as "Clan-Lords", it long has been seen as a relique of a distant past, the system long wanted to leave behind. Yet with no investors to modernize the mining industry of the region, nor a desire of both the crown and the republic after the revolution, to face the astronomical struggle of dismanteling the power of the clan lords, the realm of the belters endured. 

Calling upon them as their de-jure liege, the Clan-Lords declared for the CRRA, levying their vast manpower as soldiers and workers for the Restauration Movement. And while both the means of mining and production are primitive by the current standards, so is the outer Belt still able to provide both manpower and supplies for the royal army.   

 ◈ The Pleasure World of Einsamkeit
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Einsamkeit is a world of incredible beauty. Ever since gate-travel has become stable and possible, it has lured tourists from other core worlds to its frozen wastes, thermal baths, and twilight forests. And while the crown and the high nobility maintain pleasure palaces and hunting estates all over the world, there also is a vast amount of luxurious hotels, decadent entertainment plazas, and floating casinos to be found. With the civil war, this economic sector has suffered, but still, some thrill-seekers prefer this world as their base of operation....if they can afford it. Others just do not care for the war at all, and just wish to enjoy the pleasure world.

 ◈ Culture
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The way of the nobility has changed little, even with the plutocratic coup, most of them already shunned the grime and smog of Hoffnung and the loaded liberal ideals of Roskwit, for the delight of Einsamkeit. Rich beyond the wildest dreams of most humanity, exile was hardly punishing for them. Rejuvinated with the best treatments money can buy, its still partly the same high elite that has been couped 80 years ago. 

But live could hardly be more different for the common belter, who lives in overpopulated, heated and cramped asteroid mining cities. Their lot is hard, poor and miserable. Low gravity has lead to them growing larger, to which steroids and bone thickener have been introduced into their food and water, to counteract. Their live expectancy is low, with organ failures, cancer and work-related accidents killing the most, but honor duels and small scale clan wars also claiming its toll.

 ◈ Armed Forces 
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 Belter-Levy Trooper of the 3rd Royal Shock Army   

The royal army can call upon many allies, in and outside the system for its reconquest. The first to answer the queen's call, were the Clan-Lords of the outer belt, who in turn called upon their levy to rise, just like they had done during the plutocratic coup. Hardy and grim soldiers, it was belter blood that bought the royalists their footholds corewards. 
But with the war in full swing, old allegiances have been once more demanded. The old colonies of Agonie, run as semi-independent protectorates by the Halcyon Continuance have been tasked with raising armies for their queen and not been found wanting. While only a fraction of the colonial troops has yet reached the frontline, this increase in manpower, material, and military might fully tip the balance in favor of the royalists.

The Sautraken Liberation Army
"To take what is ours.."

"There can be no peace with men! There can be no peace without Sautraken ruling this system. There can be no pace with men! There can be no peace without all others beings in this system in chains. They all shall submit, the great creators demand it!"   Warchant of the Sautraken (translated from Sautraken) 

 ◈ Their Goals in their own words 
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We, the truest children of the creator, have been trapped in a dream. When we awoke, we found our homeworld infested, the sacred lands of the living gods defiled by vermin. Our mission is a holy one, to cleanse and purify this world, this system and this sector. For only, once the last vermin has been exterminated, the creators will once more return!  

The SLA is a religious-Xeno Army of Sautraken, following an fanatical version of their creed, that humanity are demons from the stars, that have angered the creator gods, and have to be exterminated for their return. While this creed, known as the "Cleansers of sacred ground" or just "Ground Cleansers" has been long established, it has grown in radicalism during the civil war. Now, however, it has turned the Sautraken on this world, from divided and mostly subjegated slaves, into a furious mighty host, that has cleansed Uspih from all humans in a terrible genocide.

 ◈ Government
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The ability to organize, unite and spread informations has been a shock to all witnessing the Uspih uprising. And while a group of Warlords, under the leadership of Trasha-Tall Ckhan, a mighty Sautraken Warchief have claimed dominion, CG operatives are confinced that their role is at best a military one. All intel that could be gathered, speaks of a WILL that has taken hold, and that manifests in the mind of the Sautraken leaders or sometimes in the mind of all Sautraken. This WILL and its ability to lead and organize a planet wide uprising, has lead to many theories and terrifying possibilities...
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