Officials:Severis Velian - Supreme Archon of the Concordance
Alvasis Andraste - Adjutor of the Archon, Emissary to the Galactic Council
Natanial Nilius - Supreme Commandant of the Armada
Malvos Servial - Exarch of the Versila System
Xaviar Syagris - Exarch of the Kaldasa System
Corvis Melimach - Supreme Justicar of the Concordance, Exarch of the Ciperia System
Core Worlds:Versila Prime: A lush and verdant garden planet and former Golgotha fortress world. This planet was the seat of Archon Velian before his defection and now serves as the capital world of the Concordance.
Kaldasa: An orange-red gas giant whose two large moons were terraformed into Golgotha colony worlds. An Outer Alliance fleet sacked the Kaldasa System during the War of Retribution, scorching the two colonies to ashen wastelands. The survivors of the Kaldasa System joined the Velian Concordance, and have since welcomed massive reconstruction efforts.
Ciperia: Just after Velian's defection, a fleet of commandeered Golgotha warships under the command of then-Commodore Nilius launched a daring and now-controversial attack on the Golgotha fortress world of Ciperia Prime, the seat of Archon Mandragis. After the destruction of Golgotha loyalist forces and the disappearance of Archon Mandragis, the surviving Golgotha leadership elected to join the Velian Concordance.
Brief History:Among the Golgotha, few were as esteemed as Severis Velian. Universally-recognized for being pragmatic and capable, the Council of Seven nominated Velian as a candidate to replace Archon Vistulian, who had been killed in a campaign in Vorqhul space. Velian was elected nigh-unanimously; the lone dissenting vote came from Archon Mandragis. As such, Severis Velian became a member the Septumvirate that governed all Golgotha.
During his tenure as Archon, Velian witnessed the rise of the Mandate. The discovery of supposedly-divine artifacts on a dead world led to a wellspring of support for a religious movement that would utterly consume the normally-impious Golgotha. Adherents of the Mandate concluded that it was not sufficient for the Golgotha to purify their own kind of imperfections - all other sentient life was irreparably aberrant and corrupted. The Mandate commanded that these bastard species be culled before their cancerous spread could be halted. The Mandate immediately targeted the most prolific of the aberrant races - the heart of the tumor that threatened to consume all the galaxy. Once they had marshaled their forces, the Golgotha began their crusade against the Llyr Empire.
Archon Velian, ever the skeptic, was dubious of the prophecies exhorted by Mandate adherents. But when his fellow Archons seemed to take up the mantle of the Mandate, he feigned his own belief in the Golgothan cult so as to not alienate himself from the Septumvirate. He joined the other Archons in leading Golgotha armadas against the Core Worlds, obliterating Imperial fleets with the military technology crafted by superior Golgotha intellect. And when the enemy defenders had been reduced to nebulae of vaporized warships, Velian joined his fellow Archons in watching the Core Worlds burn in cleansing flame.
But the Golgotha miscalculated the bravery of the outer worlds. The Archon's believed that upon witnessing the awesome and unstoppable might of the Golgotha, the outer worlds would simply submit to their impending doom. But the outer worlds were not so easily shaken. The terror that the Golgotha meant to instill among the denizens of the outer worlds manifested instead as fury. The Outer Alliance was mobilized, and they immediately set out against the Golgothan war machine.
The Golgothan armadas were thinly spread among the core systems, scouring the uninhabitable worlds and moons for survivors in hiding after the initial onslaught. The Outer Alliance arrived en masse - destroying the scattered Golgotha battlegroups. Archon Velian witnessed the counterattack of the Outer Alliance. He cursed the hubris of his fellow Archons and, rather than committing his forces to fight against the Outer Alliance, he rallied his vessels and retreated to Versila Prime to fortify his holdings against the impending retaliatory assault.
With his fleet guarding the approaches to his seat of power, Velian planned his next moves. He recognized that his fellow Archons would not be able to withstand the Outer Alliance forces. The foolish ones would fight to the last man, and the wiser Archons would retreat to defend their worlds as Velian had. It would therefore not be long before the Outer Alliance came to exact revenge on the Golgotha fortress worlds, and their fleets would be too numerous to resist. With these observations, Velian took the only option that could possibly allow his continued survival.
Archon Velian went before the Outer Alliance and announced his intention to defect from the Septumvirate and join forces against them.
The Alliance was initially dubious of Velian's offer. But the Archon was prepared to make an enticing offer. Velian made it clear that that he would share valuable Golgotha technology with the Alliance and serve as a point of gravitation that all wavering Golgotha forces could rally around - preventing the remaining Golgotha fleets from fighting to the last man.
After much deliberation and negotiation, the Outer Alliance begrudgingly accepted Velian's offer with several harsh conditions. With that, Velian immediately setting about making good on his part of the offer, sending his fleets to 'regroup' with remnant Golgotha fleets before decimating their fleets from within. Velian convinced numerous Golgotha commanders to cease fighting, defect from the Septumvirate, and pledge allegiance to him. Bloodied from both the Alliance and infighting among remnant forces, numerous leaders formally left the Golgothan Septumvirate and joined the Velian Concordance under the self-proclaimed Supreme Archon.
Upon the war's conclusion, Velian made good on the more onerous stipulations of his defection. Unity Accord observers watched adjutors destroy every last FTL drive in Concordance possession. The Unity Accord observers were also given permission to access and edit key databases on Versila Prime, allowing them to personally delete all records of Golgotha gene manipulation technologies to their satisfaction.
Among the Golgotha remnant, Velian is despised as a traitor to his people and the Mandate. Many parties within the Galactic Council see Velian as a calculating despot and see the Concordance as a means for Velian to unify the entire Golgothan race under his banner before waging war on the Galactic Council. Indeed, the Concordance is busily building a new armada at the shipyards of Kaldasa. However, these warships are being built to hunt down the last of the Golgotha remnant forces and assist the Unity Accords Security Council in maintaining peace throughout the Galaxy.
If Velian and Adjutor Andraste can be trusted, that is.
Primary Species:Almost entirely Golgotha. In accordance with the Unity Accords, other races are permitted to visit Concordance worlds for brief. A handful of observers live on Concordance worlds as permanent residents to ensure adherence to the Unity Accords.
Policy:Supreme Archon Velian has emphatically declared that the Concordance follows all portions of the Unity Accord to the letter. Adjutor Andraste, the Concordance envoy to the Galactic Council, has given Unity Accord observers a blank check to inspect any facility in Concordance space at any time within three days of an inspection request.
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