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Orion Asunder (Space Opera NRP)

An application for the Sovereign Stellectorate

_{The Lineage-Fiae Compact}

United Stellectorate of the Rising Phoenix

^{The Sovereign Stellectorate}

^{Clarification:
The Compact is the original name, the USRP the name of the nation as a whole, and the Sov.Stel. the name of the central government.}

Map Location:
(Claim posted and confirmed)

_Governance:

^{Bipartisan Authoritarian}

Two political factions, with a lineage predating The Troubles, cooperatively control the nation. There is occasionally elements of democracy in polls and forums allowed for people to discuss their viewpoints that are often witnessed by policymakers, but is still ultimately a two-party controlled government that does not cede control to the populace. Councils exist as local governments, with representatives elected from the population, but they do not retain any power outside of their jurisdiction and report to the state government all the same.

State Capitalism is the name of the game. The government controls the economy, and employs the people. With the good stewardship of the Kiruli, the system flourishes once again, limited as it is by supply.

Everyone can live in the Compact… but service and duty brings Citizenship, and Citizenship brings rights, purpose, and opportunities.

_{Demographics and Disposition:}

^{70% Human, 23% Kiruli, 7% other}
The Department of Civilian Resources and Analysis reports an 83% approval rating from the public in government action, up .476% from the previous quarter...

A gloom hangs over even the capital city of the Stellectorate, the metropolis flying on the dense clouds of the system's supermassive gas giant known as Cinder's Nest. In the brightest smile in the most glorious opera of the greatest concert hall of the city, you'll find a heavy burden in the eyes of every man, woman, child, machine, synthetic, everyone. The threat of chaos hangs like an axe over the high society of the Phoenix Sovereign. Yet their gazes are filled with molten warsteel, a simmering fury, an inability to give in to the trauma that haunts their souls.

Even as they work, fight, train, study, research, gossip, every Citizen of the USRP is a survivor of a war created by their worst enemy: themselves. And in that, there is no hiding behind another's faults or mistakes. Every Citizen of the USRP would march in lockstep with their neighbors to ensure they will never turn on one another again.

Their greatest dresses and finest eveningwear are made of a hyperweave so fine that it's layered over and over, rewoven with ballistic fabric and then treated for durability and strength, and reworn over and over in new colors and different styling... but always reused, nothing discarded. And always capable, at an instant, to take a knife, or lock with an emergency helmet to defend against the vacuum. Even the most decadent and egotistical of the highest of society... has blood dripping from their fingers, and a SURNA chip that ensures they do their part of their people, so that the most pristine, perfect shard of the Federation, turned Stellectorate, will live on forever.

The common civilian and Citizen work jobs in maintenance, engineering, programming, farm supervisory, machine guidance, AI handlers, bartenders, tailors, musicians, prostitutes, and more. Hard labour as the Rim might know it is long gone, replaced by automation and machinery and even nanites. Either you contribute to the production, recreation, military, or the government.

Those with no use are recycled. Their mental engrams will have their personality wiped-- they'll make for a decent Biological Artificial Intelligence to install in a miner somewhere.

Human

^{76 out of 100 humans are Citizens.}

Enduring

Ware, behold humanity.

Do you need assistance?

Humans are omnivores, endurance-based hunters that pursue their purpose relentlessly until it is complete. They are insane, they will not stop, they recognize the universe will tear away everything they love until nothing is left. Humanity screams in defiance, and builds a starship from ash.

Their capacity for hope, kindness, thought, fury, perseverance has created the perfect race to dominate the universe.

Behold humanity.

Kirul

^{94 out of 100 Kiruli are Citizens.}

Innovating

Attention, your host, the kiruli.

Your feet are dirty, let us clothe you.

Kirul, omnivores in a land that was quite without opposition. They were well suited for their ecosystem and challenged very little, spreading across their world and forming a centralized, racial government. Over the course of a thousand years, they experienced peace as they worked together, uncovering the mysteries of nature and the universe out of sheer curiosity. Where the time between the first electronic instruments and the first moon landing was a mere century for humans, the kiruli took three hundred years. Two hundred years afterwards, humanity found them with burgeoning space-born infrastructure. Hundreds and hundreds of years later… their world had become a core world of the Federation, their inquisitive, agreeable natures making them ideal to mediate conflicts and gather together for trade and diplomacy. Their stewardship over one planet, then two, then three perfectly healthy, carefully managed worlds carpeted in cities and nature alike was unmatched.

Their patience, their care, their understanding knew no bounds.

Their hearts, dust, shattered, weeping even today, at the horrors they had to commit to ensure there would be a future for them to steward once more, their ancient calling pulling them to a brighter future that they will create, one way or another, at any cost.

Their capacity for hope, love, and brilliant innovation even with the most lacking environments has guaranteed a race perfect for forever pursuing a perfect future.

Your host, the kiruli.

_{Technology Overview}

Hidden, for your viewing convenience.

Terraforming and Reclamation Mastery

The Kiruli are natural-born terraformers, using grasses and seaweed and forest fires to keep their world pristine even while they discovered and neglected the use of coal and oil as power sources. That racial talent has extended even to climate specialists and planetary recovery researchers as they seek to repair their homeworlds and restore them to a pristine, livable state.

Due to the Fracture and following Troubles, both Kiruli and Human alike in the burgeoning Stellectorate became exceptional at ensuring no stone was left unturned in their reconstruction of system infrastructure. Blasted cities and even plasma-burned glass were reconstituted into usable materials to build new habitation domes, armor plating, or reactor fuel.

Q-Communication

Quantum communication has been around for some time. In this case, it’s used in devices called ansibles, linking two particles together and exciting them, and the “line” between them, to pass information. An expensive unit, so it’s only found in larger ships and stations. Ansibles have a built-in function that can use one side to critically excite the other, disabling the machine and annihilating the particles.

Hyperspace Proficiency

The hyperspace relay fell early in the Core, including its handlers.

As a result, some technologies were improvised as hyperspace relays and their secrets were researched once again.

The first steps were of particular note to the insular Stellectorate: hyperspace buoys, like a guideline for ships in hyperspace. Somewhat inexpensive, as far as Stellectorate technology goes, and placed liberally, with dynamic coordination between buoys and their sensors to identify fastest available hyperlanes. Proper hyperlanes are nonexistent at this point, but the Stellectorate is confident they are approaching this.

The second notable hyperspace technology is the hyperspace interdiction device, HID. As its name suggests, it has one purpose: short range disruption and excitement of the hyperplane, rendering any FTL transit effectively impossible, dropping ships in hyperspace into realspace and prevent hypergates from forming. This is a complicated technology that requires the use of dark matter and hyperspace particulate to operate.

Antimatter Mastery

The production and forging of antimatter is known; how to contain and utilize. Gone are neutron bombs, thermonuclear charged particle beams, and electrolasers.

This is used for space efficient generators, weapons, and research, primarily.

Creation Engine

What do you get when you combine nanites, hyperadvanced molecular science, and miniaturized fusion reactors?

The Creation Engine, or nanoforge, are large, usually orb-shaped devices capable of producing most materials, items, devices, consumables, or technologies known to the Compact. They come in a variety of specializations and can be as small as 3' diameter mounted in a battlemech to wetprint ammunition, to a 60' diameter core tucked into a battlecruiser to passively refill missile magazines and fuel tanks while possessing the raw material to do so.

The Creation Engine is the Compact's answer to their sudden scarcity; break almost anything down into whatever else they need.

It struggles to turn scrap to shine, but given the appropriate, actual ingredients, nanoforges will burn through their stores (and probably their heatsinks) before what they're mounted in dies.

They are, of course, incredibly costly, much like the nanites they "slush" out from overuse, and the vehicles and structures they're mounted in.

Gravity Manipulation

The first and foremost technology used for post-Trouble starships, refined and distilled to an exact, efficient system, despite its power requirements. Using hulls that often sprout winglets, G-mip vessels wrap themselves in multiple gravatic fields that are used in onioned layers:
To keep internal spaces at .8G
To accelerate and manuever
To deflect and defend
Furthemore, this technology is used to negate certain environments, such as inside gas giants or close orbits around significant gravity wells.

Density Collapsed Materials

The pride and joy of post-Federation material science, replicating that which dwarf stars are made of. By using Solar Forges placed in extremely low Solar orbit, slamming materials together under immense gravity generators powered and aided by solar fury, or utilizing the immense pressures and already present gravity of supermassive gas giants, gravity manipulation is turned up to a whole new degree. Unique alloys that defy previously know material science constructed from normal metals, materials, and even supercritical gases increase the defensive characteristics, structural integrity, and kinetic potential all across the Compact.

Genetic & Cybernetic Mastery:

Exactly as you would guess. Cloning, cybernetics, integration of both, genetic modification, all these are possible. These processes can be fast but they're high-quality processes, not mass productive.

Chronic diseases, common ailments, cancer, and other such things are basically nonexistent. Your average Citizen has blood filter implants, radioactivity and toxin resistance, extended lifespan, higher muscle density, etc. They are in every way moderately improved. Non-citizens might have blood filter implants but generally lack the genetic upgrade and modification.

SURNA: Sentience Upload and Recovery Network Administration

A black project predating the Troubles and the Invasion.

Every member of the Compact has a Standard Neural Implant, SNI, that acts as a basic sys-net access device and links to SURNA. Data is regularly updated to vast bio-crystal memory banks under the user's gene-signature, and in the event of an untimely death, can be resurrected into machine, android, synthetic, clone, or reconstructed form, depending on SURNA level, options available and selected, and importance. In the respective order listed, the cost increases for resurrection. Resurrection from a lower level to a higher level has proven negative side effects; the mind is irreversibly… simplified after existing in a lesser form.

SURNA Voluntary Resurrection is only enabled for Citizens.

Gas Giant Mastery

The Compact has shattered their ancient cradles. The majority of their peoples now live in cities floating on the vast gaseous winds of their home system's gas-giants, doubling as cloudscoops, shipyards, refineries, and space elevators down to the gascore foundries deep in the gas giant beneath them.

Terraforming Proficiency

Necessity and available minds guarantees that the glassing, cracking, fracking, firestorming, and nuking of the planets once carpeted in city and water can return. Even with advanced systems in place, however, these processes still take time. Though they've brought the planet back to a somewhat liveable state, the ecology has not yet taken and recovered, though they are works in progress. Genetic recovery, generation, radioactive neutralization, glass-breaking, and more are possible, even if costly and time consuming.

Astronomy:

I'll edit with more detail of the planets later, and the nation's satellite systems. For now, just the capital Stellectorate system.

Stellectorate Capital System,
Currently named Stellar Roost
Federation named Kalus Prime

Stellar Sol, star, G-class yellow star
- Stella-1, 1 shattered moon forming a ring, barren planet, cracked but hasn't broken orbit, or apart. Gravity and heat has thus far been great enough to keep the shattered planet in one piece.
- Stella-2, 4 moons, small gas giant, gas core, significant military activity
- Stella-3, 1 moon, glassed green zone planet
- Stella-4, 2 moons, "Ashen Cradle," glassed green zone planet, homeworld of Kirulinity
- Stella-5, 3 moons, glassed amber zone planet, significant military activity
- Stella-6, 1 moon, 2 rings, red zone planet, barren
- Stella-7, 17 moons, supermassive gas giant, current capital, majority of population on flying cloud cities or in orbit.
- Stella's Belt, mined, reduced in quantity, barren.
- Stella-8, 7 moon, massive gas giant, minority of population on cloud cities or in orbit.
- Stella-9, 3 moons, 1 ring, frozen planet, significant military activity.

- Stella's Halo, the Oort Cloud, still possessing significant resources.

- Stella's Shroud, deep space outside the system, where ships regularly travel to collect dark matter in the solar eddies around the system.

Military:

Full edit will come in the future.
At present, I will provide a synopsis:

The Stellectorate features a fully capable combined arms military. It devotes significant resources to its military since it serves as peacekeepers, warriors, fleets, research, and intelligence.

Fleets are small, with an emphasis on large, heavily armored ships with advanced weaponry and dark matter "battle screens" used to reduce an opponents effective range, and render long range observation, scanning, tracking, and combat to be useless. With hyperdensity armor and gravity propulsion, these ships are largely lacking in obvious weakpoints and possess extreme fortitude and surprisingly capable mobility alongside their significant density. These ships are, by and large, superheavy dreadnoughts compared to another's ship of the same class, and more than capable of easily winning a duel with an opposing ship.

Their weakness and great equalizer is their volume, or lack thereof. Fleet elements, infantry, armor, aerocraft, everything is hyperadvanced and overengineered for one simple reason: They do not have the resources to afford losses, and so all resources are devoted to making one unit impossible to defeat, rather than ten units that'll suffer 30% casualties.

Due to their ostentatious and self-centered nature, and the expense and investment in every soldier, armor unit, courier ship, or fleet carrier, there's often some significant effort to not only decorate and personalize the war machines of the Stellectorate, but also record themselves during action.

This is quietly encouraged and a great source of entertainment for the Stellectorate, for civilian, citizen, and service member.

Even the lightest infantryman is equipped with advanced power armor, sonic baffling fields, a microreactor with personal defense shield, multiple adaptable weapons, and more.

Most Citizens are familiar with resurrecting directly into combat units, and/or have combat equipment in ownership and/or possession.

History:

What happens when a prosperous, rich, post-scarcity society is suddenly cut off from the endless flow of goods and resources that sustains it? Local economies that had long since resorted to outsourcing labor and production rather than taking advantage of the resources still present?

The Hordes had little bearing on the Epsilon Crown, one of three core systems, one of the very pinnacles of the Federation. Some enterprising fellows marched to war and indeed some negative feelings were felt… but it was the core. Nothing touches the core.

The infighting began abruptly and brutally. The war ending brought a sigh of relief but missing freight made major families and corporations tense more than they had during the entire war, contingency plans made for the barbarians stayed from their scrapping at the revelation that perhaps things are not yet over. That prudence led to the nepotistic Old Boys' Network to solidify against all outsiders. New blood was quickly selected and political borders drawn.

The first hyperlane failures was the signal for Hell to break from its fell gates.

Many people were soft and living hedonistic, luxurious lives, burying their heads in bliss and sin.

Over the span of a week, major infrastructure was seized, the government fracturing under the weight of its prominent, weighty movers breaking from the form that had held for hundreds of years.

People were slain by the millions daily. Superscrapers and floating cities crashed to the ground, fleets of ships repositioned to the edges of the solar system to light drives and seize stations. A faction broke from the Old Boys', taking the cloudscoops that fueled the system's starships. Another broke, the alliance that turned on the rest of the system falling apart as different lineages made their plays. Ships in formation turned guns on each other, mining ships cleaved their neighbors apart, ancient thousand year old compounds detonated in furious antimatter annihilation. One of three moons cracked from the war that furiously ripped apart the biodomes that carpeted her surface, only loose gravity keeping the cloven planetoid from drifting out of control.

But eyes watched; of lesser legacies, of new blood only a handful of centuries old.

The Sagurillian Lineage and Finnigan Fiae struck their bargain, and rose with nuclear fire re-lit in their hearts.

It took eighteen years for the fighting to settle. Ancient lines of kingmakers and political kingpins and black guilds of data and digital divining had been razed. The death toll was in the hundreds of billions, a significant portion of the population erased. Multiple planets who had enjoyed stable terraformed environments were blackened, glassed, new volcanoes blasting from cracked continental plates. Once shining beacons of Coreworld pure power reduced to rubble. Ships littered the landscape, debris fields scattered through the system, the souls of the dead haunting those who remained with a strange silence; of a system that once saw trillions of tons of traffic now quiet and empty.

The families of Sagurillian and Finnigan knew that the prosperity once enjoyed was centuries from being regained, but they had taken control and re-established order.

New stations were built. New standards of living. New solar farms, new ships expanding out to the Oort Cloud previously thought too meaninglessly expensive to harvest now the primary source of materials. Cities rebuilt on the swirling gases of the gas giant, new stations wrapping around a tighter solar orbit. The technological capital of the fallen Federation bared her teeth as the Fiae-Lineage dug their hands in and began to rebuild.

Nanoforges flushed their engrams for war and loaded up mining craft and hydroponics. Shattered pilots and shaking infantrymen, once socialites and analysts, set down their helmets and sidearms, and took up yet another shocking change.

Hidden black projects surfaced, their fruits becoming the new normal as the once unspeakable became critical to the efficient reconstruction of the highest society possible.

Orion Asunder (Space Opera NRP)

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Orion Asunder (Space Opera NRP)

An application for the Sovereign Stellectorate

_{The Lineage-Fiae Compact}

United Stellectorate of the Rising Phoenix

^{The Sovereign Stellectorate}

^{Clarification:
The Compact is the original name, the USRP the name of the nation as a whole, and the Sov.Stel. the name of the central government.}

Map Location:
(Claim posted and confirmed)

_Governance:

^{Bipartisan Authoritarian}

Two political factions, with a lineage predating The Troubles, cooperatively control the nation. There is occasionally elements of democracy in polls and forums allowed for people to discuss their viewpoints that are often witnessed by policymakers, but is still ultimately a two-party controlled government that does not cede control to the populace. Councils exist as local governments, with representatives elected from the population, but they do not retain any power outside of their jurisdiction and report to the state government all the same.

State Capitalism is the name of the game. The government controls the economy, and employs the people. With the good stewardship of the Kiruli, the system flourishes once again, limited as it is by supply.

Everyone can live in the Compact… but service and duty brings Citizenship, and Citizenship brings rights, purpose, and opportunities.

_{Demographics and Disposition:}

^{70% Human, 23% Kiruli, 7% other}
The Department of Civilian Resources and Analysis reports an 83% approval rating from the public in government action, up .476% from the previous quarter...

A gloom hangs over even the capital city of the Stellectorate, the metropolis flying on the dense clouds of the system's supermassive gas giant known as Cinder's Nest. In the brightest smile in the most glorious opera of the greatest concert hall of the city, you'll find a heavy burden in the eyes of every man, woman, child, machine, synthetic, everyone. The threat of chaos hangs like an axe over the high society of the Phoenix Sovereign. Yet their gazes are filled with molten warsteel, a simmering fury, an inability to give in to the trauma that haunts their souls.

Even as they work, fight, train, study, research, gossip, every Citizen of the USRP is a survivor of a war created by their worst enemy: themselves. And in that, there is no hiding behind another's faults or mistakes. Every Citizen of the USRP would march in lockstep with their neighbors to ensure they will never turn on one another again.

Their greatest dresses and finest eveningwear are made of a hyperweave so fine that it's layered over and over, rewoven with ballistic fabric and then treated for durability and strength, and reworn over and over in new colors and different styling... but always reused, nothing discarded. And always capable, at an instant, to take a knife, or lock with an emergency helmet to defend against the vacuum. Even the most decadent and egotistical of the highest of society... has blood dripping from their fingers, and a SURNA chip that ensures they do their part of their people, so that the most pristine, perfect shard of the Federation, turned Stellectorate, will live on forever.

The common civilian and Citizen work jobs in maintenance, engineering, programming, farm supervisory, machine guidance, AI handlers, bartenders, tailors, musicians, prostitutes, and more. Hard labour as the Rim might know it is long gone, replaced by automation and machinery and even nanites. Either you contribute to the production, recreation, military, or the government.

Those with no use are recycled. Their mental engrams will have their personality wiped-- they'll make for a decent Biological Artificial Intelligence to install in a miner somewhere.

Human

^{76 out of 100 humans are Citizens.}

Enduring

Ware, behold humanity.

Do you need assistance?

Humans are omnivores, endurance-based hunters that pursue their purpose relentlessly until it is complete. They are insane, they will not stop, they recognize the universe will tear away everything they love until nothing is left. Humanity screams in defiance, and builds a starship from ash.

Their capacity for hope, kindness, thought, fury, perseverance has created the perfect race to dominate the universe.

Behold humanity.

Kirul

^{94 out of 100 Kiruli are Citizens.}

Innovating

Attention, your host, the kiruli.

Your feet are dirty, let us clothe you.

Kirul, omnivores in a land that was quite without opposition. They were well suited for their ecosystem and challenged very little, spreading across their world and forming a centralized, racial government. Over the course of a thousand years, they experienced peace as they worked together, uncovering the mysteries of nature and the universe out of sheer curiosity. Where the time between the first electronic instruments and the first moon landing was a mere century for humans, the kiruli took three hundred years. Two hundred years afterwards, humanity found them with burgeoning space-born infrastructure. Hundreds and hundreds of years later… their world had become a core world of the Federation, their inquisitive, agreeable natures making them ideal to mediate conflicts and gather together for trade and diplomacy. Their stewardship over one planet, then two, then three perfectly healthy, carefully managed worlds carpeted in cities and nature alike was unmatched.

Their patience, their care, their understanding knew no bounds.

Their hearts, dust, shattered, weeping even today, at the horrors they had to commit to ensure there would be a future for them to steward once more, their ancient calling pulling them to a brighter future that they will create, one way or another, at any cost.

Their capacity for hope, love, and brilliant innovation even with the most lacking environments has guaranteed a race perfect for forever pursuing a perfect future.

Your host, the kiruli.

_{Technology Overview}

Hidden, for your viewing convenience.

Terraforming and Reclamation Mastery

The Kiruli are natural-born terraformers, using grasses and seaweed and forest fires to keep their world pristine even while they discovered and neglected the use of coal and oil as power sources. That racial talent has extended even to climate specialists and planetary recovery researchers as they seek to repair their homeworlds and restore them to a pristine, livable state.

Due to the Fracture and following Troubles, both Kiruli and Human alike in the burgeoning Stellectorate became exceptional at ensuring no stone was left unturned in their reconstruction of system infrastructure. Blasted cities and even plasma-burned glass were reconstituted into usable materials to build new habitation domes, armor plating, or reactor fuel.

Q-Communication

Quantum communication has been around for some time. In this case, it’s used in devices called ansibles, linking two particles together and exciting them, and the “line” between them, to pass information. An expensive unit, so it’s only found in larger ships and stations. Ansibles have a built-in function that can use one side to critically excite the other, disabling the machine and annihilating the particles.

Hyperspace Proficiency

The hyperspace relay fell early in the Core, including its handlers.

As a result, some technologies were improvised as hyperspace relays and their secrets were researched once again.

The first steps were of particular note to the insular Stellectorate: hyperspace buoys, like a guideline for ships in hyperspace. Somewhat inexpensive, as far as Stellectorate technology goes, and placed liberally, with dynamic coordination between buoys and their sensors to identify fastest available hyperlanes. Proper hyperlanes are nonexistent at this point, but the Stellectorate is confident they are approaching this.

The second notable hyperspace technology is the hyperspace interdiction device, HID. As its name suggests, it has one purpose: short range disruption and excitement of the hyperplane, rendering any FTL transit effectively impossible, dropping ships in hyperspace into realspace and prevent hypergates from forming. This is a complicated technology that requires the use of dark matter and hyperspace particulate to operate.

Antimatter Mastery

The production and forging of antimatter is known; how to contain and utilize. Gone are neutron bombs, thermonuclear charged particle beams, and electrolasers.

This is used for space efficient generators, weapons, and research, primarily.

Creation Engine

What do you get when you combine nanites, hyperadvanced molecular science, and miniaturized fusion reactors?

The Creation Engine, or nanoforge, are large, usually orb-shaped devices capable of producing most materials, items, devices, consumables, or technologies known to the Compact. They come in a variety of specializations and can be as small as 3' diameter mounted in a battlemech to wetprint ammunition, to a 60' diameter core tucked into a battlecruiser to passively refill missile magazines and fuel tanks while possessing the raw material to do so.

The Creation Engine is the Compact's answer to their sudden scarcity; break almost anything down into whatever else they need.

It struggles to turn scrap to shine, but given the appropriate, actual ingredients, nanoforges will burn through their stores (and probably their heatsinks) before what they're mounted in dies.

They are, of course, incredibly costly, much like the nanites they "slush" out from overuse, and the vehicles and structures they're mounted in.

Gravity Manipulation

The first and foremost technology used for post-Trouble starships, refined and distilled to an exact, efficient system, despite its power requirements. Using hulls that often sprout winglets, G-mip vessels wrap themselves in multiple gravatic fields that are used in onioned layers:
To keep internal spaces at .8G
To accelerate and manuever
To deflect and defend
Furthemore, this technology is used to negate certain environments, such as inside gas giants or close orbits around significant gravity wells.

Density Collapsed Materials

The pride and joy of post-Federation material science, replicating that which dwarf stars are made of. By using Solar Forges placed in extremely low Solar orbit, slamming materials together under immense gravity generators powered and aided by solar fury, or utilizing the immense pressures and already present gravity of supermassive gas giants, gravity manipulation is turned up to a whole new degree. Unique alloys that defy previously know material science constructed from normal metals, materials, and even supercritical gases increase the defensive characteristics, structural integrity, and kinetic potential all across the Compact.

Genetic & Cybernetic Mastery:

Exactly as you would guess. Cloning, cybernetics, integration of both, genetic modification, all these are possible. These processes can be fast but they're high-quality processes, not mass productive.

Chronic diseases, common ailments, cancer, and other such things are basically nonexistent. Your average Citizen has blood filter implants, radioactivity and toxin resistance, extended lifespan, higher muscle density, etc. They are in every way moderately improved. Non-citizens might have blood filter implants but generally lack the genetic upgrade and modification.

SURNA: Sentience Upload and Recovery Network Administration

A black project predating the Troubles and the Invasion.

Every member of the Compact has a Standard Neural Implant, SNI, that acts as a basic sys-net access device and links to SURNA. Data is regularly updated to vast bio-crystal memory banks under the user's gene-signature, and in the event of an untimely death, can be resurrected into machine, android, synthetic, clone, or reconstructed form, depending on SURNA level, options available and selected, and importance. In the respective order listed, the cost increases for resurrection. Resurrection from a lower level to a higher level has proven negative side effects; the mind is irreversibly… simplified after existing in a lesser form.

SURNA Voluntary Resurrection is only enabled for Citizens.

Gas Giant Mastery

The Compact has shattered their ancient cradles. The majority of their peoples now live in cities floating on the vast gaseous winds of their home system's gas-giants, doubling as cloudscoops, shipyards, refineries, and space elevators down to the gascore foundries deep in the gas giant beneath them.

Terraforming Proficiency

Necessity and available minds guarantees that the glassing, cracking, fracking, firestorming, and nuking of the planets once carpeted in city and water can return. Even with advanced systems in place, however, these processes still take time. Though they've brought the planet back to a somewhat liveable state, the ecology has not yet taken and recovered, though they are works in progress. Genetic recovery, generation, radioactive neutralization, glass-breaking, and more are possible, even if costly and time consuming.

Astronomy:

I'll edit with more detail of the planets later, and the nation's satellite systems. For now, just the capital Stellectorate system.

Stellectorate Capital System,
Currently named Stellar Roost
Federation named Kalus Prime

Stellar Sol, star, G-class yellow star
- Stella-1, 1 shattered moon forming a ring, barren planet, cracked but hasn't broken orbit, or apart. Gravity and heat has thus far been great enough to keep the shattered planet in one piece.
- Stella-2, 4 moons, small gas giant, gas core, significant military activity
- Stella-3, 1 moon, glassed green zone planet
- Stella-4, 2 moons, "Ashen Cradle," glassed green zone planet, homeworld of Kirulinity
- Stella-5, 3 moons, glassed amber zone planet, significant military activity
- Stella-6, 1 moon, 2 rings, red zone planet, barren
- Stella-7, 17 moons, supermassive gas giant, current capital, majority of population on flying cloud cities or in orbit.
- Stella's Belt, mined, reduced in quantity, barren.
- Stella-8, 7 moon, massive gas giant, minority of population on cloud cities or in orbit.
- Stella-9, 3 moons, 1 ring, frozen planet, significant military activity.

- Stella's Halo, the Oort Cloud, still possessing significant resources.

- Stella's Shroud, deep space outside the system, where ships regularly travel to collect dark matter in the solar eddies around the system.

Military:

Full edit will come in the future.
At present, I will provide a synopsis:

The Stellectorate features a fully capable combined arms military. It devotes significant resources to its military since it serves as peacekeepers, warriors, fleets, research, and intelligence.

Fleets are small, with an emphasis on large, heavily armored ships with advanced weaponry and dark matter "battle screens" used to reduce an opponents effective range, and render long range observation, scanning, tracking, and combat to be useless. With hyperdensity armor and gravity propulsion, these ships are largely lacking in obvious weakpoints and possess extreme fortitude and surprisingly capable mobility alongside their significant density. These ships are, by and large, superheavy dreadnoughts compared to another's ship of the same class, and more than capable of easily winning a duel with an opposing ship.

Their weakness and great equalizer is their volume, or lack thereof. Fleet elements, infantry, armor, aerocraft, everything is hyperadvanced and overengineered for one simple reason: They do not have the resources to afford losses, and so all resources are devoted to making one unit impossible to defeat, rather than ten units that'll suffer 30% casualties.

Due to their ostentatious and self-centered nature, and the expense and investment in every soldier, armor unit, courier ship, or fleet carrier, there's often some significant effort to not only decorate and personalize the war machines of the Stellectorate, but also record themselves during action.

This is quietly encouraged and a great source of entertainment for the Stellectorate, for civilian, citizen, and service member.

Even the lightest infantryman is equipped with advanced power armor, sonic baffling fields, a microreactor with personal defense shield, multiple adaptable weapons, and more.

Most Citizens are familiar with resurrecting directly into combat units, and/or have combat equipment in ownership and/or possession.

History:

What happens when a prosperous, rich, post-scarcity society is suddenly cut off from the endless flow of goods and resources that sustains it? Local economies that had long since resorted to outsourcing labor and production rather than taking advantage of the resources still present?

The Hordes had little bearing on the Epsilon Crown, one of three core systems, one of the very pinnacles of the Federation. Some enterprising fellows marched to war and indeed some negative feelings were felt… but it was the core. Nothing touches the core.

The infighting began abruptly and brutally. The war ending brought a sigh of relief but missing freight made major families and corporations tense more than they had during the entire war, contingency plans made for the barbarians stayed from their scrapping at the revelation that perhaps things are not yet over. That prudence led to the nepotistic Old Boys' Network to solidify against all outsiders. New blood was quickly selected and political borders drawn.

The first hyperlane failures was the signal for Hell to break from its fell gates.

Many people were soft and living hedonistic, luxurious lives, burying their heads in bliss and sin.

Over the span of a week, major infrastructure was seized, the government fracturing under the weight of its prominent, weighty movers breaking from the form that had held for hundreds of years.

People were slain by the millions daily. Superscrapers and floating cities crashed to the ground, fleets of ships repositioned to the edges of the solar system to light drives and seize stations. A faction broke from the Old Boys', taking the cloudscoops that fueled the system's starships. Another broke, the alliance that turned on the rest of the system falling apart as different lineages made their plays. Ships in formation turned guns on each other, mining ships cleaved their neighbors apart, ancient thousand year old compounds detonated in furious antimatter annihilation. One of three moons cracked from the war that furiously ripped apart the biodomes that carpeted her surface, only loose gravity keeping the cloven planetoid from drifting out of control.

But eyes watched; of lesser legacies, of new blood only a handful of centuries old.

The Sagurillian Lineage and Finnigan Fiae struck their bargain, and rose with nuclear fire re-lit in their hearts.

It took eighteen years for the fighting to settle. Ancient lines of kingmakers and political kingpins and black guilds of data and digital divining had been razed. The death toll was in the hundreds of billions, a significant portion of the population erased. Multiple planets who had enjoyed stable terraformed environments were blackened, glassed, new volcanoes blasting from cracked continental plates. Once shining beacons of Coreworld pure power reduced to rubble. Ships littered the landscape, debris fields scattered through the system, the souls of the dead haunting those who remained with a strange silence; of a system that once saw trillions of tons of traffic now quiet and empty.

The families of Sagurillian and Finnigan knew that the prosperity once enjoyed was centuries from being regained, but they had taken control and re-established order.

New stations were built. New standards of living. New solar farms, new ships expanding out to the Oort Cloud previously thought too meaninglessly expensive to harvest now the primary source of materials. Cities rebuilt on the swirling gases of the gas giant, new stations wrapping around a tighter solar orbit. The technological capital of the fallen Federation bared her teeth as the Fiae-Lineage dug their hands in and began to rebuild.

Nanoforges flushed their engrams for war and loaded up mining craft and hydroponics. Shattered pilots and shaking infantrymen, once socialites and analysts, set down their helmets and sidearms, and took up yet another shocking change.

Hidden black projects surfaced, their fruits becoming the new normal as the once unspeakable became critical to the efficient reconstruction of the highest society possible.

Orion Asunder (Space Opera NRP)

@Sigma
Any chance of getting a good discord link?

Orion Asunder (Space Opera NRP)

@Sigma
Would this be an acceptable

claim?

Located in the center.

Also the discord link does not work.

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"What happened?"

"Grav sensor arrays picked up an anomaly outside the belt. Around the K4-Sol L4 Lagrange point."

"The Origin Point?"

"The exact same. Literally, initial readings and analysis suggest the same fluctuations from the Origin."

"The Gateway is reopening, then?"

"Correct. If everyone would direct their attention to the viewscreens now… thank you, you will see a comparison of new and old starmaps from the Stargazers. As you can see… it's distorted towards the indicated Origin as the Gateway opens… oh! Well, right now. Fortunately the Beholder-7 station was closest and oriented on it as soon as the anomaly appeared, so we were able to gather a decent recording of the Gateway Event.

"But now… We need to figure out how to break this to the public. They'll figure it out within the hour so we need to get ahead of this fast if we want to control the narrative."

"Understood."

"Confirmed.

"Our people's work, potentially destroyed by happenstance. This is going to be a mess."

"After we finally hit equilibrium too. Exposed to the diaspora."

"You are all too concerned with the equilibrium. Opportunities await, brothers and sisters."

"So does catastrophe, Maerker."

- - -

The Confederate League of Kallan

Across the Kallan Sol System, decades old infrastructure rumbled to life.

Satellites and stations in orbit flickered as their lights slowly blinked on as their nuclear hearts woke from hibernation. Artificial brains slowly woke, digital intelligences who agreed to rest with their home until needed finally waking up and scanning millions of lines, hundreds of reports, thousands of detectors.

It had been thirty years since the last warship was produced, her shipyard waking from hibernation.

The active signals from the gas giants Kallan V and Kallan VI began to increase, redundant infrastructure coming online but in standby mode.

The Q-Com Hub Station flickered on the rest of its floors, five rings of light turning to seven, eight, ten, eleven, as it was brought up to full capacity, invisibly chattering with every station in the system. Maintenance requests were entered, orders were placed, queries answered, latest ballgame updates dispersed, memes posted, and conversation began.

The system-wide alert even reached so far as the structures buried deep in the ice and mountains of Kallan VII, where researchers glanced at each other in shock over the gravitonic anomaly they were looking at, supercomputers beneath their feet keeping them warm while it tried to boil supercritical watercooler. Old DASS and VI that had fallen asleep a century ago stretched their code and rejoined the wake to pour over the data with their peers.

The system's military fleets, research, logistics, and infrastructure finally awoke, the paranoia of the last century perhaps, finally, paying off despite the system's peace.

Ships gathered in high planetary orbit, meeting with orbital stations sporting miles of warehousing, among their thousand other purposes. Warships clad in sweeping sheets of pitted, rough, yellow-red-stained lusterless silver hyperdense armor were rearmed with the latest missiles, mechanical men the size of a shuttle marching over their surfaces as they replaced sensor blisters and gunmounts with the latest versions.

Diagnostics were run as cargo was secured. Crew ran to their duty stations, hearts pounding in their chests, unknowing of the cheering and fervor from the planet below as countless millions cheer at their screens, watching the League prepare to rediscover Earth, hearts in their throats and butterflies in their bellies.

The fleet finally assembled.

A missile cruiser, with a bandolier of disposable missile pods wrapped around its widest section. It bristled with point defense, laser and rail, even more missile ports dotting its armor seams.

Two light cruisers, their leading point a shell to protect the shaft of a particle beam cannon. Bulbs on its flat armor sprouted laser turrets.

Two destroyers, sporting heavier point defense of both rail and laser. Both, wrapped around a high velocity, small calibre railgun.

Each cruiser embarked by three DASS-only Corvettes, larger than any fighter or bomber but more nimble than any destroyer or larger.

Within their pack, a fleet supply ship, a large research cruiser- an unarmored, noncombat ship- with her two flanking expeditionary support cruisers, packed full of scanners and special equipment. Even a miner, one per expeditionary ship.

Among the fleet of a dozen civilian marked ships, one was a mobile station just waiting to be installed at a lagrange point or in planetary orbit, and another carrying a full load of seeds, genes, printers, fabricators, and equipment, perfect for any colony… just in case the Gateway closes again.

One among their number, carrying supplies both marketable and usable for colonizing like every other hauler in the fleet, ran diagnostics on her hidden sensor arrays, her DASS crew doublechecking lines and cables, the most modern ship of the League's roster ensuring she blended in and brought no suspicion to herself as she stealthily scanned her neighboring ships and doublechecking their readings from available info.

The most active, experienced warship in the fleet, just another sheep in the flock.

Eighty three hours after the Gateway was first detected, the fleet was underway to Sol System. Another, stronger military fleet followed, to send them off to…

The Cradle.

Its Gateway guarded by a second fleet, just… in… case.

- - -

"We're being lit! Activating active sensors on your word, Captain."

"Go for active scans."

"Go for active, confirmed.

"Scanners coming back, getting returns… from… by the Mother."

"Button it up, we all see it. Prep a message torpedo for the blockade to receive on the other side."

"Contacts! There's a significant cluster in H-E-O. Lightsource identified. Picking up a high volume of debris as well."

"Tactical confirms, logging as UnCon 1."

"Analyst?"

"Aye sir. At a glance, there's more debris than should be in orbit. Contact cluster is using different sensors generations, I'd guess that the Gate's monitored by other returning humans. Planet is dead, radiation is still untenable."

"...Outstanding. Tactical, load data and snap analysis to the torpedo and send it back."

"Aye sir. Transcript loaded. DASS 23?"

"Data loaded, Tactical."

"Confirmed. Torpedo prepped, green diagnostics. Torpedo launch… its made translation."

"Fantastic work. 23?"

"Standing by, Captain."

"Plot new lagrange points, relative Earth to contact cluster."

"Task complete, logging now."

"Many thanks. Navigation, plot a course to Earth to CC Lagrange 5. Helm, bring us around and trait the CC. Tactical and 23-"

"New contacts, midsystem. Logging as UnFor 1."

"Confirmed, Tactical. Tactical and 23, standby drones. Load sensor package."

"Drones standby, diagnostics green. Package loaded."

"Launch drones."

"Aye, drones launched. Shadowing fleet. Enabling multifaceted sensor reading."

"Alright, Communications, light the IFFs and activate Broadcast 3."

"IFFs, aye. Broadcast 3, aye."

"New contacts, we're seeing significant activity further in the system. Fleet, but they're showing up brighter than UnFor 1. Designating UnFor 2."

"Confirmed. See anything else, 23?"

"Not as of yet, Captain."

"Okay. Filing report, forwarding to CIC. Drop another torpedo, update the League."

- - -

IFF reads:
LSFS Cruiser Hardheaded
^{"The Confederate League of Kallan Star System greets all Terran diaspora. We come to support the Mother, and reconnect with our lost brothers and sisters. Felicitatum hominum."}
LSFS Cruiser Palladium Punch
^{"Felicitatum hominum."}
LSFS Cruiser Homegrown
^{"Felicitatum hominum."}
LSFS Destroyer Backwards
^{"Felicitatum hominum."}
LSFS Destroyer Pinhole
^{"Felicitatum hominum."}
LSFS Res-Vessel Event Horizon [NONCOM]
^{"The Mother truly is destroyed. The League weeps! We will not let this disgrace stand."}
LSFS Expeditionary Schrodinger's Bastard [NONCOM]
^{"The universe is at our fingertips like never before. Felicitatum hominum."}
LSFS Expeditionary Rescue Ignorance [NONCOM]
^{"Perseverance, humanity's enlightenment is our purpose. Felicitatum hominum."}
LSFS Fleet Support Überdonke [NONCOM]
^{"Felicitatum hominum."}
LCS Mobile Station Ship Kallan Gateway Standardbearer [NONCOM]
^{"The League declares itself; we are here to stay and support the Cradle. Felicitatum hominum."}
LCS Hauler Nuclear-Powered [NONCOM]
^{"Inventory for sale. Fissiles, fuels, coolant, and more."}
LCS Hauler Roger Weekend [NONCOM]
^{"Survival and residential supplier available."}
LCS Hauler Rock and Stone [NONCOM]
^{"Cosplay a dwarf. Mine anything with our stock."}
LCS Hauler Stoned and Rocking [NONCOM]
^{"Ignore the other guy. We've got the fun stuff."}
LCS Hauler Pioneer Original [NONCOM]
^{"Manufacturing and Engineering inventory available. Starship components and engrams available."}
LCS Hauler Prime Rib [NONCOM]
^{"Cold storage! Quality meals served! Highest quality on Kallan II! General goods and supplies available."}
LCS Hauler Ottaurus Rex [NONCOM]
^{"The fruits of our extraterrestrial culture, exchange available."}
LCS Hauler Love, Mom [NONCOM]
^{"top it this is a priority IFF bro-"}
LCS Hauler Belethor [NONCOM]
^{"Goods, consumables, everything's for sale."}
LCS Hauler Sinthetic Cruiser [NONCOM]
^{"Pleasure cruiser, experience supplier. Your dreams are our trade."}
LCS Hauler Brick [NONCOM]
^{"Supplies and stuff. It's stuff."}

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Confederate League of Kallan

Confederate League of Kallan

:

Government Form:
_{Combined Gestalt Republic}

Demographics:
_{78% Human
17% Kanatkallan
5% Digital Artificial Sentience Systems (DASS)}

Population:
_{2.3 Billion total population
1.9 Billion humans (from an original 15 colony ships) or "HuKallan"
39.4 Million Kanatkallan (native, integrated species, uplifted, visibly "otter taurs")
110.2 thousand DASS}
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Planet Name and Description:
_{Seven planets exist in this system, and one asteroid belt.}

Kallan Sol:
^{K-class orange dwarf star.}

Kallan I:
^{Small, rocky, no atmo, rich in sulfur, iron, and titanium.}

Kallan II:
^{1.2x Earth diameter with 67% surface water and 1.1x Earth Gravity. 4 continents roughly equidistant to one another.}

Kallan Belt:
^{remains of a goldilocks planet in the greenzone that was significantly larger then Earth. currently, scattered rocks whose most outstanding feature is an abnormally high quantity of atomic minerals.}

Kallan III:
^{medium sized planet with high gravity and an exceptionally dense core and crust.}

Kallan IV:
^{large planet, no atmosphere, with ice on the surface and traces of dead biology. Once contained life millenia before when the universe was warmer. Moderate resource availability.}

Kallan V:
^{Gas giant. Green-brown-yellow coloration.}

Kallan VI:
^{Supermassive gas giant, blue-red-yellow coloration. Home to a handful of Precursor alien wrecks that enabled the League to unlock Density Collapsing and Density Collapsed Hyperalloys.}

Kallan VII:
^{Icy planet with a thin gaseous atmosphere and liquid methane and high gravity despite a small-medium size. Significant mountains exist under the ice; some places have rock only meters under the ice, most locations can't find rock beneath the ice. Oceans of water are presumed to exist deep under the ice crust, with rivers and oceans of methane on the surface. Ice is dirty and requires infrastructure to filter.}

History:
<sub>Initial planning and mapping found an ideal goldilocks planets in the greenzone and multiple planets and gas giants in the red zone with a significant Oort Cloud. That information, thirty thousand years out of date due to the distance, did not catch the existinction event that turned one goldilocks planet into an asteroid belt.

The second goldilocks planet in the green zone had also had significant life; more than expected. Carbon based life largely compatible with humanity had existened for tens of thousands of years, and a three-gendered race of what could be considered otter-taurs had evolved primitive societies.

The stabilizing asteroid belt was sending meteorites into the planet; one continent of four had already faced an extinction level event that was barely survived on the two other nearest continents. Preservation and conservation of the native species was impossible; without intervention, the native species would be extinct in a century.

Terraforming equipment was used to scrub the atmosphere. Colony ships disgorged their payloads and went to work mining and capturing asteroids before they drifted too deep into the planet's gravity. Two ships were lost in these early stages.

The natives were struggling, and livable land in the early days was too sparse to be able to avoid the last, independent continent. The executive decision was made to uplift the race, subject them to education and trade and put them to work; with their shorter lifespans and higher birthrate, they took to this quickly and adapted, becoming integrated with their new neighbors, in equal parts honoring humanity for giving them a chance beyond their dreams, and simultaneously lamenting that the situation was dire enough for the decision to be considered necessary. A hundred and fifty years after humanity's arrival in-system, the Lanat were equal members and the planet had been stabilized. Humanity went to terraforming the blasted continent fully for humans, while the two wrecked continents became hybrid biospheres for both original biology and human biology.

One hundred and fifty years post arrival, a government was officially established, no longer operating as an emergency colonial governor-captain and cabinet. Fifty years after that, and everything had gelled into the current government, KanatKallan and HuKallan settling into a peaceful and largely intermixed population, the harsh reality of their universe a strong binding event. Only a couple years after this, the first DASS was born, and took nearly a decade before the DASS were accepted as equal members of the people, the gestalts acknowledged to be capable of generating a living digital intelligence. The government's constitution and bill of rights were updated accordingly.

In the years following, research and development boomed all across the system, DASS aided facilities, research, ships, and design proving to be a vast boon to the nation's exploitation of the Kallam Sol System.</sub>

Culture and Society: <sub>About eight decades prior to the Gateway re-opening, and just over two centuries Post Arrival, modern League society evolved to its current state.

The Native Continent, or C4, or locally known as Kayt, is considered the racial homeland of the KanatKallam, and operates under a Kanat-only government, a member nation of the Kallam League. Humans visit as tourists but are almost universally discouraged from living here. It's a democratically dominated society still formulating a culture of its own after a sudden uplifting by their human neighbors, who saved them even in condemning the old ways to die. They have a strong preference for their democracy to be displayed via gestalts.

The Reclaimed Lands, C2 and C3, are the two continents that were largely affected by the repeated asteroid impacts on C1. Life returned as hybrid biospheres fit for both hukallam and kanatkallam, living intermixed in genetically engineered biospheres and sprawling cities. Multiple nations exist here that only exist due to geographical features; seven are republics, with one democracy, two constitutional monarchies, and one hereditary tyrdom with a democratically elected council.

The final continent, C1, or Titan's Landing, was blasted by initial asteroid impacts and has since been terraformed into as best of an approximation of Earth as possible. While diverse human cultures are present in C2 and C3, C1 is largely a technocracy with an almost cultlike fascination with "The Mother" and "The Cradle" known as Earth, and seek both to expand the League's technological capability to return to Earth and restore her, as well as ensure humanity can survive *anywhere.* They operate what used to be the planetary governer, and is now simply the Human Colonial Governor, President of Titan's Landing. They are the largest human population center and are often the loudest voice in the Planetary Treaty Organization, which binds all nations on the planet together.

The Confederate League of Kallam formed soon after when proper colonies were settled on the planet's moon, and on the other planets in the solar system. While the other colonies have a comparatively small voice versus the PTO, the CFK protects colonial rights.

PTO speaks for the planet; CFK speaks for the system. The CFK can make edicts for PTO and the colonies both. All members of PTO and the colonies have individual voices in the CFK.</sub>

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Governance and Politics:
<sub>The Gestalt Analysis and the Senate act as the primary governence of the system. The Senate acts as a republic, the Gestalt Analysis operates as a democratic forum.

The Gestalt Analysis has no decisionmaking ability for local governments, only advisory capacity, but does have a vote in the CFK.

There are local governments specific to different continents and organizations, but they act as member states to the edicts and decisions

Utilizing implants to form artificial gestalts between common groups of people, based on geography, and a Senate made of one elected member from each geographical location, a Prime Gestalt and a Senate Speaker are elected among them to be the primary spokesbeings to outsiders and to the people. Gestalts are retired after twice the term of their mortal Senators, and given the option to be terminated or become a sovereign DASS.</sub>

Technology Overview:
<sub>The DASS: Digital Artificial Sentience System. Basically, the democratic forum utilizes gestalts to sum up popular opinion. After a couple terms, a gestalt is disconnected from the people it represented so a new one can be formed without previous years being as significant of an influence. These disconnected gestalts had matured enough to the point that many become self-aware and sentient, and go on to become embedded in ships, stations, facilities, foundries, etc. No known limit to their lifespan has been discovered yet, though older DASS do slow down and spend significantly more time in thought.

ADVANCED COMPUTATION: With progress in room temperature superconductors, crystal and quantum computing and communication, and biocomputation has enabled the DASS and complex research to be carried out relatively easily.

ADVANCED ELECTRONIC WARFARE: The existence of the above two technologies has enabled the League to possess uniquely capable electronic warfare capabilities, probably their most and only outstanding military application.

GRAVITY MANIPULATION: the technology has been unlocked, but it isn't easy or pretty. Requiring significant pressure on specific assemblies as well as only being able to manipulate existing gravity, not create it, means that this technology, while useful for certain applications in manufacturing, medical, research, and material science fields, is limited to being deep within gas giants to be usable.

DENSITY COLLAPSED MATERIALS: By utilizing the above technology, certain dense materials and alloys can be further refined by briefly collapsing them under their own weight, mimicking for a nanosecond the conditions of a supernova. This can be used to create hyperdense materials previously thought impossible, though with extreme weight and mass.

GAS GIANT MASTERY: This nation has attained the ability to settle the surface of any planetary body with extremely high pressure and/or gravity due to the existence of the above two technologies. This technology was researched and completed specifically for the following.

PRECURSOR HYPERALLOYS: Within the depths of Kallan's supermassive gas giant, abnormally dense materials were located, which were later resolved to be the wrecks of ancient starships. While everything else had long succumbed to the intense gravity, heat, pressure, and fluids of the gas giant, the hull and structure remained. Dropping research bases into the area, the League discovered the secrets to density collapsing specific metals to create a hyperalloy- and alloy created specifically by density collapse, rather than smelting. These hyperalloys are exceptionally dense but exponentially stronger than traditional alloys and metals.

ATOMIC MASTERY: The League has access to a considerable amount of water, thorium, and uranium, among other materials. They used this to utilize and master fission and fusion applications. 95% of power generated by the League utilizes this technology.

TERRAFORMING MASTERY: Due to actively degrading conditions on the only greenzone planet, the League was forced to develop substantially into terraforming, more than was expected. With the additional minor threat of a repeat of what happened to their other potential green zone planet, the League us very attentive to the research, development, and continued use of terraforming technology to modify a planet to an ideal state.

VOLITANT ATMOSPHERIC - SPACE CONTROL CARRIER, FLEET SUPPLY AND FREIGHT (VASCC-FSF): These are the stand-in for traditional spaceports, space elevators, and space hooks. Designed to operate as flying airbases and spaceports, these giant airships are built to cruise anywhere from mid-to-high Troposphere, where most commercial aircraft can reach the airship, and heavy haulers can similarly, easily, reach. Landing and securing such aircraft on wide wings, the VASCC-FSF "VASK" can load and unload these aircraft that can launch from even rudimentary heliports and rise to low planetary orbit, utilizing high efficiency nuclear-powered electronic propulsion to cruise at any of these relevant altitudes. In low orbit, she can connect to short sky-hooks from middle orbit, dock with some starcraft designed for it, and take and launch shuttles. She acts as a general command and control for planetary forces, acts as a mobile airbase, and monitors planetary conditions to assist in terraforming. VASK units are also designed to utilize planetary weather and various defensive subsystems to make themselves undetectable to spacecraft, with greater efficiency the lower they are, and control airspace around them. VASK units can be built in low to medium orbit and "dropped" into the atmosphere. These are the culmination of much of the League's computational, terraforming, and smart technologies.</sub>

Military Overview:
^{small military with a high tech level.}

Synopsis
^{The League's Intra-Solar Defense Corps, or ISDC, functions primarily as security and peacekeeping, and primarily focuses on intelligence gathering within the League and its member nations and colonies and launching small, targeted strikes where applicable to prevent major conflicts from occurring. Internal security and unrest management is the top priority of the League's military.}

Departments
Intra-Solar Space Command and Logistics Corps:
^{At the heart, this is the administrative branch of the military that directs and guides all other branches. They operate as administration, logistics, special military research, operate training facilities, and employ diplomats and other special and unique work that the other branches do not fully encompass.}
Intra-Solar Security Office:
^{Acts as the intelligence gathering organization for the League, operating all across the solar system to ensure unrest remains low and to ensure all member nations keep their unrest in check and prevent from spilling over into other League nations.}
Intra-Solar Security Corps:
^{Acts as the special weapons and tactics force, operating with as elite members as possible and the best offensive and defensive gear the League possesses.}
Intra-Solar Marine Corps:
^{Acts as the general military for combined arms. Considered, arguably, the least important of the branches, the Marines are mostly geared towards customs inspection, damage control, first responders, and reserve crew for the League's military ships, and don't often see any action.}
Intra-Solar Space Fleet Corps:
^{Acts as the defense fleet, customs inspection, security, orbital overwatch, extra-terrestrial first responders, first contact, and other space-born mission handlers. They operate the League's warships and provide the visible strong-arm of the spaceforce. A special note is that while Space Fleet is often lightly armed [in comparison to nations not yet encountered], all Space Fleet ships possess significant electronic warfare packages, significantly enhanced power generation, propulsion, and ultra-heavy armor. A warship can generally be considered to easily take hits designed for a ship two classes above their own, even if their offensive capability is almost a full class below, presuming that ship class sizes range from: Corvette, Frigate, Destroyer, Cruiser, Battlecruiser, Dreadnought, Battleship, Superdreadnought. The maximum size the League currently has constructed is a Cruiser.}
Intra-Solar Terrestrial Fleet Corps:
^{Performs all the same duties as Space Fleet, but geared towards planetary bodies. The ships the TFC operates from are either wet navy ships, or air navy ships. Wet navy ships are largely known already, but the special purpose of this branch lies specifically with the air navy: instead of space-ports, the League employs massive airships that travel constantly around their planet's surface. These airships, VASK units, act as airbases, atmospheric monitoring and research, spaceports (with all the amenities and even some shops and R&R facilities), limited terraforming, and more.}
Intra-Solar Special Research Division:
^{This division is the most recently formed and the smallest, dedicated to a single purpose. With the advent and discovery of gravity manipulation, it was unanimously decided by the League to keep the technology's security a cut above the rest. All researchers and engineers that work with the technology are either enlisted or contracted with the ISSRD and work directly under the ISSRD and Space Command's hand. Manufacturing, research, and engineering facilities with gravitonic research, development, and machinery on, in, or around gas giants are strictly under the command and control of the ISSRD.}

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Additional Info:
Synopsis: post-scarcity society, very stabilized and very unified. Society allows all vices but provides enough social support that criminal activity, substance abuse, etc., is at an all time low. Heavy focus on research and development, terraforming, and advanced manufacturing. Is very much a peaceful nation not dissimilar to pre-WW1/2 US.

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Confederate League of Kallan

Confederate League of Kallan

:

Government Form:
_{Combined Gestalt Republic}

Demographics:
_{78% Human
17% Kanatkallan
5% Digital Artificial Sentience Systems (DASS)}

Population:
_{2.3 Billion total population
1.9 Billion humans (from an original 15 colony ships) or "HuKallan"
39.4 Million Kanatkallan (native, integrated species, uplifted, visibly "otter taurs")
110.2 thousand DASS}
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Planet Name and Description: _{Seven planets exist in this system, and one asteroid belt.}

Kallan Sol:
^{K-class orange dwarf star.}

Kallan I:
^{Small, rocky, no atmo, rich in sulfur, iron, and titanium.}

Kallan II:
^{1.2x Earth diameter with 67% surface water and 1.1x Earth Gravity. 4 continents roughly equidistant to one another.}

Kallan Belt:
^{remains of a goldilocks planet in the greenzone that was significantly larger then Earth. currently, scattered rocks whose most outstanding feature is an abnormally high quantity of atomic minerals.}

Kallan III:
^{medium sized planet with high gravity and an exceptionally dense core and crust.}

Kallan IV:
^{large planet, no atmosphere, with ice on the surface and traces of dead biology. Once contained life millenia before when the universe was warmer. Moderate resource availability.}

Kallan V:
^{Gas giant. Green-brown-yellow coloration.}

Kallan VI:
^{Supermassive gas giant, blue-red-yellow coloration. Home to a handful of Precursor alien wrecks that enabled the League to unlock Density Collapsing and Density Collapsed Hyperalloys.}

Kallan VII:
^{Icy planet with a thin gaseous atmosphere and liquid methane and high gravity despite a small-medium size. Significant mountains exist under the ice; some places have rock only meters under the ice, most locations can't find rock beneath the ice. Oceans of water are presumed to exist deep under the ice crust, with rivers and oceans of methane on the surface. Ice is dirty and requires infrastructure to filter.}

History: <sub>Initial planning and mapping found an ideal goldilocks planets in the greenzone and multiple planets and gas giants in the red zone with a significant Oort Cloud. That information, thirty thousand years out of date due to the distance, did not catch the existinction event that turned one goldilocks planet into an asteroid belt.

The second goldilocks planet in the green zone had also had significant life; more than expected. Carbon based life largely compatible with humanity had existened for tens of thousands of years, and a three-gendered race of what could be considered otter-taurs had evolved primitive societies.

The stabilizing asteroid belt was sending meteorites into the planet; one continent of four had already faced an extinction level event that was barely survived on the two other nearest continents. Preservation and conservation of the native species was impossible; without intervention, the native species would be extinct in a century.

Terraforming equipment was used to scrub the atmosphere. Colony ships disgorged their payloads and went to work mining and capturing asteroids before they drifted too deep into the planet's gravity. Two ships were lost in these early stages.

The natives were struggling, and livable land in the early days was too sparse to be able to avoid the last, independent continent. The executive decision was made to uplift the race, subject them to education and trade and put them to work; with their shorter lifespans and higher birthrate, they took to this quickly and adapted, becoming integrated with their new neighbors, in equal parts honoring humanity for giving them a chance beyond their dreams, and simultaneously lamenting that the situation was dire enough for the decision to be considered necessary. A hundred and fifty years after humanity's arrival in-system, the Lanat were equal members and the planet had been stabilized. Humanity went to terraforming the blasted continent fully for humans, while the two wrecked continents became hybrid biospheres for both original biology and human biology.

One hundred and fifty years post arrival, a government was officially established, no longer operating as an emergency colonial governor-captain and cabinet. Fifty years after that, and everything had gelled into the current government, KanatKallan and HuKallan settling into a peaceful and largely intermixed population, the harsh reality of their universe a strong binding event. Only a couple years after this, the first DASS was born, and took nearly a decade before the DASS were accepted as equal members of the people, the gestalts acknowledged to be capable of generating a living digital intelligence. The government's constitution and bill of rights were updated accordingly.

In the years following, research and development boomed all across the system, DASS aided facilities, research, ships, and design proving to be a vast boon to the nation's exploitation of the Kallam Sol System.</sub>

Culture and Society: <sub>About eight decades prior to the Gateway re-opening, and just over two centuries Post Arrival, modern League society evolved to its current state.

The Native Continent, or C4, or locally known as Kayt, is considered the racial homeland of the KanatKallam, and operates under a Kanat-only government, a member nation of the Kallam League. Humans visit as tourists but are almost universally discouraged from living here. It's a democratically dominated society still formulating a culture of its own after a sudden uplifting by their human neighbors, who saved them even in condemning the old ways to die. They have a strong preference for their democracy to be displayed via gestalts.

The Reclaimed Lands, C2 and C3, are the two continents that were largely affected by the repeated asteroid impacts on C1. Life returned as hybrid biospheres fit for both hukallam and kanatkallam, living intermixed in genetically engineered biospheres and sprawling cities. Multiple nations exist here that only exist due to geographical features; seven are republics, with one democracy, two constitutional monarchies, and one hereditary tyrdom with a democratically elected council.

The final continent, C1, or Titan's Landing, was blasted by initial asteroid impacts and has since been terraformed into as best of an approximation of Earth as possible. While diverse human cultures are present in C2 and C3, C1 is largely a technocracy with an almost cultlike fascination with "The Mother" and "The Cradle" known as Earth, and seek both to expand the League's technological capability to return to Earth and restore her, as well as ensure humanity can survive *anywhere.* They operate what used to be the planetary governer, and is now simply the Human Colonial Governor, President of Titan's Landing. They are the largest human population center and are often the loudest voice in the Planetary Treaty Organization, which binds all nations on the planet together.

The Confederate League of Kallam formed soon after when proper colonies were settled on the planet's moon, and on the other planets in the solar system. While the other colonies have a comparatively small voice versus the PTO, the CFK protects colonial rights.

PTO speaks for the planet; CFK speaks for the system. The CFK can make edicts for PTO and the colonies both. All members of PTO and the colonies have individual voices in the CFK.</sub>

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Governance and Politics: <sub>The Gestalt Analysis and the Senate act as the primary governence of the system. The Senate acts as a republic, the Gestalt Analysis operates as a democratic forum.

The Gestalt Analysis has no decisionmaking ability for local governments, only advisory capacity, but does have a vote in the CFK.

There are local governments specific to different continents and organizations, but they act as member states to the edicts and decisions

Utilizing implants to form artificial gestalts between common groups of people, based on geography, and a Senate made of one elected member from each geographical location, a Prime Gestalt and a Senate Speaker are elected among them to be the primary spokesbeings to outsiders and to the people. Gestalts are retired after twice the term of their mortal Senators, and given the option to be terminated or become a sovereign DASS.</sub>

Technology Overview:
<sub>The DASS: Digital Artificial Sentience System. Basically, the democratic forum utilizes gestalts to sum up popular opinion. After a couple terms, a gestalt is disconnected from the people it represented so a new one can be formed without previous years being as significant of an influence. These disconnected gestalts had matured enough to the point that many become self-aware and sentient, and go on to become embedded in ships, stations, facilities, foundries, etc. No known limit to their lifespan has been discovered yet, though older DASS do slow down and spend significantly more time in thought.

ADVANCED COMPUTATION: With progress in room temperature superconductors, crystal and quantum computing and communication, and biocomputation has enabled the DASS and complex research to be carried out relatively easily.

ADVANCED ELECTRONIC WARFARE: The existence of the above two technologies has enabled the League to possess uniquely capable electronic warfare capabilities, probably their most and only outstanding military application.

GRAVITY MANIPULATION: the technology has been unlocked, but it isn't easy or pretty. Requiring significant pressure on specific assemblies as well as only being able to manipulate existing gravity, not create it, means that this technology, while useful for certain applications in manufacturing, medical, research, and material science fields, is limited to being deep within gas giants to be usable.

DENSITY COLLAPSED MATERIALS: By utilizing the above technology, certain dense materials and alloys can be further refined by briefly collapsing them under their own weight, mimicking for a nanosecond the conditions of a supernova. This can be used to create hyperdense materials previously thought impossible, though with extreme weight and mass.

GAS GIANT MASTERY: This nation has attained the ability to settle the surface of any planetary body with extremely high pressure and/or gravity due to the existence of the above two technologies. This technology was researched and completed specifically for the following.

PRECURSOR HYPERALLOYS: Within the depths of Kallan's supermassive gas giant, abnormally dense materials were located, which were later resolved to be the wrecks of ancient starships. While everything else had long succumbed to the intense gravity, heat, pressure, and fluids of the gas giant, the hull and structure remained. Dropping research bases into the area, the League discovered the secrets to density collapsing specific metals to create a hyperalloy- and alloy created specifically by density collapse, rather than smelting. These hyperalloys are exceptionally dense but exponentially stronger than traditional alloys and metals.

ATOMIC MASTERY: The League has access to a considerable amount of water, thorium, and uranium, among other materials. They used this to utilize and master fission and fusion applications. 95% of power generated by the League utilizes this technology.

TERRAFORMING MASTERY: Due to actively degrading conditions on the only greenzone planet, the League was forced to develop substantially into terraforming, more than was expected. With the additional minor threat of a repeat of what happened to their other potential green zone planet, the League us very attentive to the research, development, and continued use of terraforming technology to modify a planet to an ideal state.

VOLITANT ATMOSPHERIC - SPACE CONTROL CARRIER, FLEET SUPPLY AND FREIGHT (VASCC-FSF): These are the stand-in for traditional spaceports, space elevators, and space hooks. Designed to operate as flying airbases and spaceports, these giant airships are built to cruise anywhere from mid-to-high Troposphere, where most commercial aircraft can reach the airship, and heavy haulers can similarly, easily, reach. Landing and securing such aircraft on wide wings, the VASCC-FSF "VASK" can load and unload these aircraft that can launch from even rudimentary heliports and rise to low planetary orbit, utilizing high efficiency nuclear-powered electronic propulsion to cruise at any of these relevant altitudes. In low orbit, she can connect to short sky-hooks from middle orbit, dock with some starcraft designed for it, and take and launch shuttles. She acts as a general command and control for planetary forces, acts as a mobile airbase, and monitors planetary conditions to assist in terraforming. VASK units are also designed to utilize planetary weather and various defensive subsystems to make themselves undetectable to spacecraft, with greater efficiency the lower they are, and control airspace around them. VASK units can be built in low to medium orbit and "dropped" into the atmosphere. These are the culmination of much of the League's computational, terraforming, and smart technologies.</sub>

Military Overview:
^{small military with a high tech level.}

Synopsis
^{The League's Intra-Solar Defense Corps, or ISDC, functions primarily as security and peacekeeping, and primarily focuses on intelligence gathering within the League and its member nations and colonies and launching small, targeted strikes where applicable to prevent major conflicts from occurring. Internal security and unrest management is the top priority of the League's military.}

Departments
Intra-Solar Space Command and Logistics Corps:
^{At the heart, this is the administrative branch of the military that directs and guides all other branches. They operate as administration, logistics, special military research, operate training facilities, and employ diplomats and other special and unique work that the other branches do not fully encompass.}
Intra-Solar Security Office:
^{Acts as the intelligence gathering organization for the League, operating all across the solar system to ensure unrest remains low and to ensure all member nations keep their unrest in check and prevent from spilling over into other League nations.}
Intra-Solar Security Corps:
^{Acts as the special weapons and tactics force, operating with as elite members as possible and the best offensive and defensive gear the League possesses.}
Intra-Solar Marine Corps:
^{Acts as the general military for combined arms. Considered, arguably, the least important of the branches, the Marines are mostly geared towards customs inspection, damage control, first responders, and reserve crew for the League's military ships, and don't often see any action.}
Intra-Solar Space Fleet Corps:
^{Acts as the defense fleet, customs inspection, security, orbital overwatch, extra-terrestrial first responders, first contact, and other space-born mission handlers. They operate the League's warships and provide the visible strong-arm of the spaceforce. A special note is that while Space Fleet is often lightly armed [in comparison to nations not yet encountered], all Space Fleet ships possess significant electronic warfare packages, significantly enhanced power generation, propulsion, and ultra-heavy armor. A warship can generally be considered to easily take hits designed for a ship two classes above their own, even if their offensive capability is almost a full class below, presuming that ship class sizes range from: Corvette, Frigate, Destroyer, Cruiser, Battlecruiser, Dreadnought, Battleship, Superdreadnought. The maximum size the League currently has constructed is a Cruiser.}
Intra-Solar Terrestrial Fleet Corps:
^{Performs all the same duties as Space Fleet, but geared towards planetary bodies. The ships the TFC operates from are either wet navy ships, or air navy ships. Wet navy ships are largely known already, but the special purpose of this branch lies specifically with the air navy: instead of space-ports, the League employs massive airships that travel constantly around their planet's surface. These airships, VASK units, act as airbases, atmospheric monitoring and research, spaceports (with all the amenities and even some shops and R&R facilities), limited terraforming, and more.}
Intra-Solar Special Research Division:
^{This division is the most recently formed and the smallest, dedicated to a single purpose. With the advent and discovery of gravity manipulation, it was unanimously decided by the League to keep the technology's security a cut above the rest. All researchers and engineers that work with the technology are either enlisted or contracted with the ISSRD and work directly under the ISSRD and Space Command's hand. Manufacturing, research, and engineering facilities with gravitonic research, development, and machinery on, in, or around gas giants are strictly under the command and control of the ISSRD.}

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Additional Info:
- Edited 12:12 CST, added PRECURSOR to Tech overview and planets.

Orion Asunder (Space Opera NRP)

Just curious if this is still accepting applications, and if so, if it'd be allowed to have a small nation pop up utilizing a completely different branch of technology- both the reason for their isolated independence, and a mark of pride of their sovereignty.

Idea being, they're relatively small but can punch up to be "equals" against significantly larger civilizations.

Small ships, elite powered infantry, but hellishly expensive one and all compared to significantly larger ships due to density collapsed armor, gravity propulsion and FTL (capable for short trips between near systems but nowhere near as effective for long trips that hyperlanes once filled), extensive cybernetics. Can't really "project" power due to small size and quantity, but the quality has skyrocketed.

It would, of course, be a major incentive for them to never ever share or allow their technology to be reverse engineered, and perhaps a strong incentive for other nations to investigate the new advancements.

GATEWAYS: THE NEXT GENERATION [CLOSED AND CONCLUDED]

Just curious if this is still active for new players?