Nations and Organizations

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Nations and Organizations

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This thread will compile articles of the polities and various interstellar groups that reside in the TEverse. While this intro is one well-needed placeholder, I'll move on next to articles on the Union, the Andromeda powers, and the various militaries, then eventually full-on nation articles.

Introduction

The galaxy at large seems to be a relatively simple place at first glance; after all, there existed at most four polities before the creation of the Galactic Union in 2592 CE. However, while this quartet of nations covered vast swathes of space under their names, the underlying diversity lends an immense complexity to the Milky Way and its inhabitants.

The Ark and the Frok’tar Alliance- the ‘twins of the galactic north’, as Union Chairman Alton Nureno referred to them in his famed 2604 inauguration speech- stand as the eldest countries in the home galaxy. While the current iterations of the former has been in existence for only two thousand years, and of the latter some sixteen hundred, historians can easily trace various empires, kingdoms, democracies, theocracies, and corpocracies in the timeline back to twenty millennia previous. The rivalry between the pair is well-known and ingrained, cold wars that suddenly became hot account for a decent number of the changes in government accounted above.

Compared to the Frok’tar alliance, the Ark is not as racially diverse, the core of the Ark member species is the hulking Nahktar, who formed what initially was a theocracy around their ancient mobile homeworld, the titular Ark planetoid. Political evolution ran its course and culminated in the 812 CE Charter of Stars, establishing the Conclave as the ruling body of the Ark. Consisting of a delegation from each Ark sector (in post-war Union universal definition, 50 inhabited systems), the Conlave had hundreds of represented groups standing for the trillions, if not quadrillions of souls that were members of the Ark. Religious tones and government tones whitewashed across the Ark -as is common for any expanding spacefaring nation; though the most hardline sectors Ark centers typically were found along the edge of the territory, towards the core the Ark was as democractic as the ISA.

The Frok’tar Alliance transcended into its current form some four hundred years after the collapse of its ancestor with the Six-House Pact in 1043 CE. Inconceivably diverse in terms of represented species, Frok’tar space found itself governed by a thick mud of thousands of governments following the collapse of the Frok’tar Tetrarchy in 607 CE. Massive super-conglomerates rose above the lines of the fractured nation-states and soon dwarfed even the most powerful of the assorted governments. When the realization came of their unopposed power, the six ‘Houses’ signed together as the Frok’tar alliance. As a result, the corpocracy, to this day, maintains a jumbled line between the teeming masses and the employees of the corporations themselves. It had been argued that in one way or another, every job can be traced to one of the six houses-Kaldra, Thrun, Angem, Nalveri, Heth, or Zundari (Respectively representing media, mining, banking, agriculture, terraforming, and shipcrafting)

Covering a respectable area in the western point of the Milky Way stands the Scorpian Kingdom, obviously comprised entirely over the Scorpia overspecies. The political structure of the Kingdom is rather decentralized, with an ever heightening amount of Kings and Princes- thousands upon thousands- governing Hives and Broods and all sorts of settlements. It would be rather difficult for an outsider to tell the different between a Ruling King and simply a King who is the ambassador to another country (though this statement would reveal itself to be rather false upon visual observation of the two). In the 24th century, humanity found itself embroiled in a border war with several Scorpia Hives separate from main Scorpia space, and all but wiped them out. However, wounds- sorta- healed over the next three hundred years and the Imperium found itself, after the terrible subjugations of the Tyrax- siding with humanity in the Galactic Civil War.

The Interplanetary Space Alliance, at its height covering almost the entire galactic south, stands in some way or another for the entire human species. The actual governing pact of the ISA wasn’t signed until 2308, at the end of the Scorpia War. By that time, humanity had diffused itself amongst the stars and had formed over a dozen separate polities, chief amongst them the Olympian Concord. The ISA governing body oversaw almost all of the nations- with a few notable exceptions. As the centuries passed, the inner core of the ISA nations blurred together, while other, outlying member states of the western flank of ISA territory chose to remain autonomous with minimal ISA oversight. Though humanity all but dominates the nation, several near-human alien species encountered during expansion allied themselves with the ISA and are equal in member status.
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I'm really interested in these Scorpia overspecies, can you give me a general rundown on what they are?
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If I may, because I've done quite a bit of work with them, the Scorpia are a highly lethal species that are best described as cross between a shark, a scorpian* and a series of flying buzzsaws. Though initially conceived as some sort of horrifying Xenomorph/Tyranid equivalent, with a variety of various sized castes and so on, they faded out of view and re-emerged with significantly more 'character' to them. Because Mobius mentioned one of them being a 'Hive Prince', and because I had just recently seen The Kingdom, I began to conceive of them being as something of a space Saudi Arabia, with an insular culture populated by innumerable Princes and Kings. You can get impressions of what the Scorp are like as people in what has been written so far of Justice.

*This is where the human name clearly came from: the Scorpia have a large, prehensile tail topped with a razor sharp, acid secreting blade. Strictly speaking Scorpia is not what they're actually called; the proper term for them in Union times is 'the People', which is a direct translation of the Scorpian phrase with which they refer to themselves as a whole. Additionally, the phrase which the Scorpia use to refer to their amalgamation of hives is just 'The Kingdom'.
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