Taeryn

Through the Gateways: Humanity [Closed] [Soon to be Concluded]

--=Semiosis Research Centre, New Dalat, Aurora

Whilst the wheels of government turned and the machinations that were a-place continued amongst the stars amid the buzz of the gateways, old projects continued even if the colour of the flag had changed. The Semiosis Project was almost as old as the colonies in Auriga - albeit it had been poorly funded in its nascent days, and kept purely to proven matters during the Corporate Era. The Revolution had changed many things in Auriga, and Semiosis was one of them.

Professor Takahira had been a new face - at least several decades ago when the newly formed federal government had assigned her to Semiosis. The intent of Semiosis had always been to understand and, if at all possible, communicate, with the sentient sometimes ambulatory plant life that was found all over the surface of Aurora, that had been colloquially termed "Ents" though as far as it went, only a few could be considered tree-like species. As far as Takahira understood it, Semiosis had learned how to essentially encourage the world's plant life to move and consequently how to manage its migration, something that had been incredibly useful in the early days of settlement and kept some of the more aggressive species from coming into conflict with the colonists. The Corporate era had seen little change here - it wanted to continue to use the Semiosis project because it worked, it was reliable, and it stopped the loss of assets, but it had never given it enough funding or leeway for anything much else to be done, so Semiosis had stayed, in stasis.

Takahira had some of the old custodians of the project on staff - and in continuing that work and training those who would some day replace them, they had been invaluable, but they were limited. She had a few experts on Aurigan native life and other experts from a few other incidental or related fields on staff, but most of the critical work fell on her, not at least because she was the only one with priority access to request processing time from Red Star, which had quickly borne fruit.

And that was why Takahira was a guest in her own office. The Secretary for the Environment, Thomas Groenig, making himself quite at home in the space she had come to see as her own domain. He was a relatively unassuming man, but Takahira knew better. The entire government was full of "Yellows", or red-greens, the socialist enviromentalist core of the revolution had never really lost its sway, and the Environment Secretariat was a prestigious posting, even if an average looking man of western european descent did not seem to give any of that away.

"I see." Groenig said, looking over some data Takahira had flashed across from her device before she had retreated into her own thoughts. "I understand Semiosis's previous lack of ambition explains why such things were left unseen for so long - and we are seeing the same activity on Australis and Borealis?" He asked, already knowing the answer, but humouring the response.

"Yes, Secretary. Aurora's own network is stable, as the data shows, but the networks on Australis and Borealis are both growing. The working theory is once they reach a critical mass as seen on Aurora, they will stabilize and predictable patterns of growth will be the norm, as well as less effort for Custodians as migration paths are settled and our own effors can focus purely upon tweaking those." Takahira responded, flashing a display of the fungal, or "Mycorrhizal" networks of Australis and Borealis into 3D above her desk - displaying predicted patterns alongside a history of their growth, with a smaller display of Aurora with its own network shown alongside.

"Excellent. The presence of Auroran ent's on Australis and Borealis was a past error from before both of our time, but one we can soon adapt to as we have here, my main concern is the assertion in your most recent reports of a breakthrough in Semiosis?" Groenig asked, simply looking at Takahira.

"Ah, yes. The Mycorrhizal network is not something new - it is, of course, named after an Earth fungus - nearly all plant life on Earth was in some way connected to a fungal network to some greater or lesser benefit. Once my understanding of the scale of the Auroran network, and her cousins of course, came into play, the realisation that they were a truly global and truly unique network completely in sync with itself and all plant life, even the terran plants we cultivate here, I thought if I asked Red Star to run a few simulations as if it were.. well, a brain, we might get somewhere." Takahira said, knowing Groenig was humouring her explanation but genuinely interested in the results. He motioned for her to continue.

"We got some great theoretical data from that, so I ran a few simulations of my own. I think if we can get a specially altered drone that can communicate on the same frequencies we use to help us with the ents we could potentially interface.. I dare not say communicate, I am unsure if such a thing would be possible in ways we could understand, but it could be possible. Yes, we could interface, if we got close enough to the main fungal mass with it, we could no doubt receive some kind of.. response." Takahira finished, knowing at this point she was falling into rambling about something she did not yet fully understand, let alone comprehend.

"I see." Secretary Groenig said once more, looking askance out of a window. "Very well. You may lodge your immediate requests with Red Star and the Secretariat." He said, standing, and flashing an authorization over on to her own device. "And there you will find you have my approval for any staff and materials you need. Semiosis is a valuable project for understanding our world, and what may potentially be two new forms of life our species has seeded. Being able to at least partially understand their.. mother, if you will, would be a boon for science, if not for all the workers of the republics." He nodded respectfully at Takahira as she herself stood, returning the gesture, and left, with little other fanfare.

"Time to get to work." Takahira said, musing on just what she needed. With this backing, anything was possible.

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--=AMFg Karuna, Orbit of Aurora

The Karuna was the eponymous vessel of her class. First laid down by a corporate shipbuilder on behalf of their overlords just before the revolution as a top of the line Frigate, she had been the only one in service when sabotage had disabled her in the early days of the Revolution. She had been relatively quickly repaired by militia hands and had served to keep a number of other corporate ships coralled in their imposed inactivity, and had quickly found a place in the growing Aurigan Fleet once the Federal Government had been established. Though the corporate era spin-gravity had been one of the first things to receive a refit, it did give her notable sensor or launch platforms which aided her as a competent combat vessel.

The Karuna was here, though, because she was unassuming and full of loyal red fleet personell who knew better than to talk about Admirals meeting in her admittedly small conference room. Officially, all the Karuna's were receiving a tour from the Admirals, in appreciation of the service they had given to the people, and to commemorate them as they would all soon be scrapped and replaced with the modern fighting vessels of the post-revolution era.

Only the Secretary of Defense, Adele Hillier who was not officially there, of course, and the last Admiral due to leave, Vasily Gradenko, remained on the Karuna as it readied for one of her last system patrols.

"With the support of the Secretariat and, as we have seen, my fellows of the Red Fleet in the Admiralty, there is no doubt our stalwart comrades in the Guard will be on side, of course. Forgive me, Secretary, but why here, why all the secrecy?" Gradenko asked, peering at the Secretary - he was not an unhandsome fellow, far from it, but Adele always found when he did that his features became sharp and almost.. frightening, very unlike him when they were.. alone elsewhere.

"Of course.. Ah my fair Vasily, you do realise that a full meeting of the various arms of the ever noble revolution coming together in Svoboda would raise many eyebrows. We are no longer free to move so openly, not with the gateways open. The Intelligence Directorate assures me we have nothing to fear, of course, but at the same time they cannot tell me how many people who may come through the gateway are of ill intent, let alone active intelligence operatives from the other states we know exist. And that is why my time here is short. Too short." Adele said, standing and walking around the small conference table and subtly stroking her paramour's arm as she passed, stopping just shy of the door.

"Will the people support a.. indelicate conflict at such a time, when we know so little, though?" Gradenko asked, seemingly asking the air.

"The General Secretary is in full agreement, though.. the current conflict already in play does not bode well for the Aurigan nation if we do nothing. They are not like us, but to others, they are too like us for the similarities to be missed. We must be ready to act to preserve our revolution." Adele paused for a moment. "If the Assembly or a full Presidium session chooses not to authorise us to take pro-active action.. well, it is for the best we ensure that they must." Adele said, the perfunctory clunk of the door coming together signifying she had left.

Vasily sighed, then touched his arm where she had.

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--=Meeting Place, Aurigan "Embassy"

Gupta pinched the bridge of her nose and sighed. Things were happening back home and she wasn't sure if she liked some of it, indeed, she almost wished she was back home so she didn't have to actually deal with liking it or not, but she was here, and the messages she was getting from friends, sources, and her superiors all added up to one thing - trouble.

There was also one pressing bit of trouble now at her door. At least it was a visitor, she mused, was one thing - but she wasn't sure if the many chaotic forces of the universe were starting to take a dislike to her. Or maybe too much of a positive interest, you could never know with these things.

Standing and preparing herself, she walked through the small, but nevertheless bright Aurigan "Embassy" - festooned with numerous plants, though of course none of the mobile variety, to welcome the representative in, it was only polite, after all.

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--=Around 6 Months Previously, Auriga Star System, Aktov Station, Gateway Transit Point.

The re-opening of the Gateway had come as something of a shock to the various member Republics of Auriga - particularly those in the shadow of Vastergeant. It didn't take long before history was remembered, with the first probe dispatched being practically torn to shreds upon its entry into the gateway - the response had been the redployment of Aktov Station and a constant transmission of warning through the gateway - someone had to of reactivated them, after all - as a team of scientists began to work on the problem that initially had damaged the Auriga expedition and now made the gateway a death trap.

On Auriga in Svoboda, a full convention of the various parties and influential figures of the republics had ccome to pass. Many argued to leave well enough alone, Auriga was vast and still far from exploited, with the revolution still continuing to lift up the lowest to standards of living that had far been out of reach for most of the citizens of Auriga, but it was not a widespread viewpoint. As evidence that transmissions - garbled and using codes that made even that difficult to discern, yet clearly artificial, the choice became even more clear. The gateway had to be made usable, for the safety of others if not purely for Aurigan use, at the very least, and there would no doubt be much that Auriga could do for those that were out there. Svoboda became consumed by the new opposing sides - those who would extend the friendly hand of the workers - and those who argued that our own history extensively proved that the revolution would have to be a forceful affair if it had not already succeeded elsewhere.

These arguments remained unresolved - though the mainstream dove parties had more than enough support to quieten them as the science teams reported success. The gravitational forces of Vastergeant and the Gateway were so perfectly juxtaposed that the violent gravitational shear it caused upon transit could be ameliorated by a directed energetic pulse from Aktov Station, over time, this state could possibly become permanent, but with skill the shear could be navigated - as long as it was mapped. With its forces quitened, this other course would also be taken.

The Naval Expansion bill of the next Assembly passed with full Presidium support.

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--=ADV Auriga-3, Diplomatic Shuttle, Present Day

The calming of the gateway had come with knowledge of the creation of the so called "Meeting Place" - Auriga had remained aloof, distant and quiet. There was clearly a developing situation amongst the emerging powers of post-Earth mankind, and Auriga had been unsure of how to approach it. No-one had been cleared through the Gateway and only the most limited of scouting and diplomatic missions had gone ahead without much fanfare or interest except for in the supposed place of Unity, at least for now.

Auriga had secured an Office - and today was the day that they had finally dispatched a diplomatic staff, if a small one. Katrina Gupta had been chosen after a long Presidium debate that had been yet another debate between the now so called "doves" and "hawks". Gupta was firmly in neither camp, and was decidedly a compromise candidate. Not that it mattered, she was now a fully accredited Ambassador given plenipotentiary authority for the Federal People's Republics of Auriga on the station she would soon be boarding, and she was also aware she had a message to relay.

A short time later, firmly docked, boarded and ensconced in what was a spartan but decidedly recognised sovereign Aurigan "embassy" of sorts. A moment later, the Aurigan message was relayed as others had been, Katrina's distinctive Russo-Indian heritage was put to camera and became the first Aurigan many would ever see or hear.

"I am Ambassador Katrina Gupta, Appointed representative of the Federal People's Republics of Auriga to those who have come together in this Meeting Place around our shared place of origin, and to any and all beyond. On behalf of the proud and free workers of Auriga we welcome all who would greet us in peace and friendship to share in the fruits of our labour and the infinite possibilities that lay ahead of us all now we are once again free to traverse the stars as true brothers, sisters and others of humanity. On Behalf of all of Auriga, I wish you all the heights of joy, through all misfortunes."

With a smile, she let it cut out. That was that - now the real work began. It did not take much to know things were beginning, both great and terribly in equal measure. It remained to be seen where her own, and Auriga's path, lay in it all.

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FPR of Auriga

Nation Name:
The Federated People's Republics of Auriga

Government Form:
Federal Neo-Socialist Multi-Party State

Demographics:
Aurigan's are largely baseline humans, though minor technological augmentation is not uncommon.

Population:
2.1 Billion

Planet Name and Description: Aurora - named for its prevalent magnetospheric disturbances known as "Aurorae" - is a "continental" world, though its oceans comprise a larger amount of its surface than that of Earth as well as being slightly smaller, if more dense, and as such it barely scrapes by on this designation. Nonetheless, featuring two large continents and one smaller, tertiary one, it is a human inhabitable world that featured vibrant but non-hostile and in some cases pseudo-sapient plant life, although with minimal risk or threat to initial colonization efforts.

Aurora possesses two moons, Boralis and Australis, who were both pushed into habitable by basic terraforming techniques concerned almost exclusively with inducing a human breathable oxygen content and are themselves resource rich. Boralis is a cold, arid and dry world, whilst Australis, with its much thicker atmosphere and ring system, is a significantly more tropical partner to Aurora, with numerous oceans and and some more enjoyable temperate zones.

History: Initially deposited into the vast local system of the Auriga's resident gas supergiant, the Aurigan colonization effort very nearly ended as it began, with the local system almost entirely devoid of notable "first choice" colonization sites and a difficult entry into the system from the wormhole exit point having damaged a significant portion of the colony flotilla's long range and survey sensors. With minimal information on the rest of the system and unable to countenance exploration of initial astrographical information, the effort's command staff initially detached a small portion of the colonial flotilla with a lion's share of resources. This detachment was to begin developing efforts at long-term habitation of the rocky worlds orbiting the gas super-giant, whilst the rest of the fleet headed to the innersystem on the barest of information that indicated a habitable world had been found before damage had obfuscated the effectiveness of the expeditions survey equipment.

Thankfully, the rest of the fleet found Aurora - and while a spectacular and very much unplanned interaction with her eponymous dazzling seasonal lights caused yet further issues with the founding of the first colonies on her surface, grounding much of the colonial expedition upon their first landing, Aurora was found to be welcoming and without issue for the displaced colonists of a dying planet.

While communication with the initial colonies was possible - the grounding of the larger ships of the fleet made relocating them difficult, and consequently the early colonies in the system diverged. With no sapient life on the planet - the closest being dog-like intelligence "migratory" forests and other related plant life - The founding of the first settlement, Rochette, signified the beginning of 0 A.L - After Landing.

By 30 A.L, several dozen settlements had spread across Aurora, though all operated nominally under the authority of a democratic government headed by Rochette - this democracy would last another generation, before cronyism and the rising corporate power behind the scenes began to cripple the fledgling democracy - by 70 A.L, Rochette's authority was limited to its most loyal settlements and by 100 A.L, Aurora was home to a dozen different city states, all under some varying degree of corporate control or despotic corruption hiding under a veneer of the notion of democratic processes.

This came to a head in 116 AL, when the premier corporate powers of Aurora, chiefly Ashandra Systems and Miskovsky Incorporated merged and began integrating those settlements, companies and nations in no position to resist it, first by financial means, and as their power and abilities grew, outright violent means - this corporate authority eventually came to control most of Aurora, with only a few isolated settlements, themselves usually "company towns" lost from a ledger escaping direct control. By 170 AL - A small but nonetheless effective expedition forced the capitulation of the outer system colonies, whom had not long established effective means of transportation to Aurora themselves. Conditions on these colonies would become almost untolerable with their economical output redirected towards feeding a nascent stellar state on Aurora and their efforts to tame her moons.

These outer colonies would become the nexus of organized resistance - too far to effectively police - and too valuable to outright crush in absolute terms, small pockets of organized political and later, armed, resistance would continue to grow in the place that had once been established as a worst-case scenarion, meant to save humanity or the Aurigan colonists if no home could be found. Though this had never turned out to be necessary, the radical political thought and defiant attitude - even in the face of deteriorating conditions and sometimes brutal crackdowns - that arose in these underground and glass sealed settlements would prove to be the end of a nation and the birth of a new renaissance.

By 220 AL, what had been isolated defiance in the outer colonies was a widespread campaign of civil disobedience all the way back in the now long since urbanised centres of civilization on Aurora. Worker strikes crippled mines and factories, orbital infrastructure was sabotaged and a brutal and violent repression of a shipyard strike culminated in the death of 235 civilians - the response was the obliteration of a corporate defence frigate in orbit whose next mission was to repeat the same kind of violence that had just killed hundreds in the now almost uncontrolled outer colonies.

In 230 AL, corporate power had effectively ceased in the outer system and several "nations" on Aurora were effectively independent as soldiers of fortune were concentrated to control areas of economic importance and to repress civil disobedience. This culminated in the collapse of the Corporate Alliance backing much of the shaky "democratic" states on the planet and the beginning of a civil war, independents, revolutionaries and corporate forces clashed, destroying wide swathes of infrastructure and urban centres on the surface of Aurora, though the conflict largely remained confined to the surface - Boralis and Australis had established their own "neutral" regimes, the outer colonies in support of revolutionaries but crippled by their own needs and proto-revolution, and the orbital corporate assets long since rendered non-functional by saboteurs or defectors.

The Auroran civil war lasted 5 devastating years, resulting in the destruction of the corporate alliance and the establishment of a patchwork of independent states of varying degrees of organisation. Over the next several years, many of these states would come together to establish a constitutional convention looking to reintegrate themselves, in 240 AL - a true planetary assembly was convened with representatives from around the planet and from beyond meeting in the ruins of the former corporate haven of Rochette, which itself was slowly beginning to rebuild.

The result was a rejection of everything that had come before barring the principles of direct representation of the people - but little else. Several political groupings from across the spectrum that existed in what was left of Auroran politics held their appeal, but it was the widespread new wave Green Socialists that held sway in most of the organised states left - while the outer system was certainly more hardline, it was the Australis and Boralis representatives, themselves the swaying vote and arguably the most able to actually act at this juncture, who backed the "Green" Socialist movement on Aurora but pricing it at their own independence. The convention ultimately organised the multiple republics that had come into existence on Aurora into a cohesive federal system to be seated in a new capital on the planet - Svoboda, whilst also recognizing the independence of the Outer Colonies.

The ultimate success of the unification of Aurora was viewed favourably by Australis and Boralis, already politically aligned domestically - and in 265 AL, despite their initial desire for independence, Aurora's moons collecttively petitioned for membership in the Aurigan state, with the outer colonies ultimately petitioning for membership in 275 AL.

The Last 25 years have been spent rebuilding, undoing years of ecological degredation and the consequent decline in the preservation of native life, embracing the need for civil liberties and the redistribution of hoarded resources and wealth across the system whilst simultaneously building up the transport and orbital infrastructure of the Aurigan state, and consequently the system at large. A recent effort to devise an artificial intelligence to manage the necessary matters of state operating under what a socialist system intends to achieve free of human bias has also recently achieved fruition, with the advanced Red Star Intelligence coming online with its authority over the allocation of resources and suggestions for policy already lauded by the political class.

Culture and Society: Aurigan culture and society is currently undergoing a golden age - or so they would say. Freed from the trappings of greed and with information largely uncontrolled with even the original colony ships Earth databanks open to all without cost, old and new are melding together in a uniquely Aurigan way, though often considered a "Neo-Classical Fusion" in as much as Earth before its fall could be considered "classical". Advances in technology no longer confined to the elite and state sponsored programs have opened up formerly commercialised augmentations, allowing every day citizens access to implants and prosthetics to aid in daily life and in particular helping remedy the situation of those who suffered greatly under corporate rule.

Aurigan society has now nearly almost completely embraced enviromentalist and socialist principles wholesale, though there has been a very strident attempt to avoid creeping authoritarianism - the rejection of corporate authority should not be replaced by a socialist or communist tyranny either, and much of the military force built up during the times of conflict has been reduced or re-organised into civil police forces under local authority, even the formerly disabled but potent corporate space forces have been relegated to minimal deployment against the few pirate forces that exist in the system, though the potential for a corporate hold-out to be discovered on some asteroid or in a bunker somewhere has prevented a completely wholehearted embrace of pacifism.

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Governance and Politics: The Government of the FRPA is organised into the following branches;

The Presidium:
The Presidium is the highest office encompassing the majority of exercisable legislative power and oversight vested into the the collected council that makes up the Presidium, selected cross-party and headed by the General Secretary, whom is the leader of the largest party in the elected Assembly of the Republics. The Presidium is not unbound - with the Assembly able to challenge through vote his or her decisions or force an ousting of the General Secretary or of the Council wholesale, however, for all intents and purposes the General Secretary, serving as the Head of the Presidium and the Aurigan State, pursues most elements of Foreign Policy and traditionally serves to approve legislation passed by the Assembly.

The Presidium also discusses and potentially acts on suggestions from the Red Star Artificial Intelligence, with the Presidium providing oversight for the AI as outlined by the Freedom from Tyranny constitutional amendment.

The Assembly of the Republics:

The Assembly of the Republic's is a somewhat traditional legislative body made up of proportional representatives from each of the constituent republics of the Aurigan state. The Assembly divises legislation, votes on said legislation to pass to the Presidium and approves judicial appointments as well as being the only body able to propose or approve constitutional amendments, effectively functioning as the primary element of the legislative process. The Assembly functions as the core of the Federal Government, and it is from these members that most government appointments are made.

Federal Republics:
Each Federal Republic is free to organise its own administration provided it adheres to the principles of the federal constitution, its own founding documents and continues to allow the free expression of political power by its citizens. Whether the Republic be organised by workers councils or traditional parliamentary systems, all republics must also organise a federal vote to appoint members to the Assembly of the Republics, and all must contribute to the continued freedom of the working class through whatever means they are able to do so. The People's Republics consequently make up the majority of citizen facing government.

Technology Overview: Whilst the majority of the working class was kept ignorant by the Corporate Alliance that came to dominate the Auriga system, it did preserve the databanks of the initial settlers and further, invested in anything that could potentially provide profit - while most of these innovations were largely beyond the working class, such innovation created and maintained an academic base that has persisted throughout even the harshest times. Whilst the Auroran civil war damaged much of the infrastructure, the knowledge of times past and of corporate innovation was by and large preserved - and the opening of all information to every citizen where practical has caused another scientific revolution.

Technological augmentation has become a widespread possibility, although corporate innovations in genetic fields has largely been restricted to gene therapies to treat illnesses - memories of tragic corporate genesplicing have rendered exploitation of this field largely taboo, especially an in a new born age of equality.

Military Overview: The Aurigan Armed Forces includes the Red Guard & the Red Space Forces. Alongside these, the independent but small Red Strategic Forces consists of the limited mass destruction assets available to the Aurigan State.

The Aurigan Military is an academy based, voluntary system. It consists of three official branches and their constituent subbranches, as well as independent elements - The Aurigan Navy, referred to as the Red Space Force, the Red Guard, a union of all terrestrial ground, air and water based forces of the republics, and the Main Intelligence Directorate under which intelligence services are performed.

However, The effects of the civil war are long lasting - whilst building up and exercising a great deal of military power, most of this has been disposed of or mothballed in a rejection of violence. This has left the Aurigan state with an elite, voluntary core maintained "just in case" alongside a formerly competent naval force that has been left to play spaceborne coast guard. All the same, these forces are kept supplied and technologically up to date, just in case something was missed.

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Red Guard:
Once the tip of the spear that was the revolution, the formerly large and disparate militias of the civil war era, transitioned into national militaries, and then downsized, now find their place in the Red Guard. The Red Guard controls all terrestrial military assets from corvette to supersonic fighter craft down to the standard logistical truck. The Red Guard is present in all the Republics to varying degrees, and takes pride in its slimmed down elite status. A lingering fear of corporate shadows has kept this elite force well maintained and equipped, for now, and pride, particularly on Aurora and in the Outer Colonies, for some of its oldest veterans service in the liberation of the system is not without a small part to play in its maintenance even in the face of the pacifist trends of the Aurigan State.

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Red Fleet:
The Red Fleet is notable for largely consisting of former corporate assets, though these are slowly being replaced as practical - whilst the Red Fleet is most certainly a competent and reasonably advanced space-based force, its role as primarly anti-piracy has slowed this down to as budget and innovation demand. While the Red Fleet is not considered particularly prestigious - the Red Fleet played no role other than disabling or taking over the neutered Corporate Fleet during and after the civil war, and rarely actually faces any real combat, it is not considered inglorious either. The Red Fleet is certainly somewhat popular in the outer system, where much of it is based and its presence has ameliorated what was once crime ridden spacelanes, whilst also serving as a beacon of Federal Authority in the shadow of the ever looming Vastergeant.

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Other Information of Note:

Coming Soon!

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@Taeryn
Hey buddy, I approved your sheet a while back. You still here?

@Tortoise

I'm here, just got ill - trying to be careful as its vaccine time for me next week and I don't wanna be ill for that too XD.

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Definitely Not Communists

Nation Name:
The Federated People's Republics of Auriga

Government Form:
Federal Neo-Socialist Multi-Party State

Demographics:
Aurigan's are largely baseline humans, though minor technological augmentation is not uncommon.

Population:
2.1 Billion

Planet Name and Description: Aurora - named for its prevalent magnetospheric disturbances known as "Aurorae" - is a "continental" world, though its oceans comprise a larger amount of its surface than that of Earth as well as being slightly smaller, if more dense, and as such it barely scrapes by on this designation. Nonetheless, featuring two large continents and one smaller, tertiary one, it is a human inhabitable world that featured vibrant but non-hostile and in some cases pseudo-sapient plant life, although with minimal risk or threat to initial colonization efforts.

Aurora possesses two moons, Boralis and Australis, who were both pushed into habitable by basic terraforming techniques concerned almost exclusively with inducing a human breathable oxygen content and are themselves resource rich. Boralis is a cold, arid and dry world, whilst Australis, with its much thicker atmosphere and ring system, is a significantly more tropical partner to Aurora, with numerous oceans and and some more enjoyable temperate zones.

History: Initially deposited into the vast local system of the Auriga's resident gas supergiant, the Aurigan colonization effort very nearly ended as it began, with the local system almost entirely devoid of notable "first choice" colonization sites and a difficult entry into the system from the wormhole exit point having damaged a significant portion of the colony flotilla's long range and survey sensors. With minimal information on the rest of the system and unable to countenance exploration of initial astrographical information, the effort's command staff initially detached a small portion of the colonial flotilla with a lion's share of resources. This detachment was to begin developing efforts at long-term habitation of the rocky worlds orbiting the gas super-giant, whilst the rest of the fleet headed to the innersystem on the barest of information that indicated a habitable world had been found before damage had obfuscated the effectiveness of the expeditions survey equipment.

Thankfully, the rest of the fleet found Aurora - and while a spectacular and very much unplanned interaction with her eponymous dazzling seasonal lights caused yet further issues with the founding of the first colonies on her surface, grounding much of the colonial expedition upon their first landing, Aurora was found to be welcoming and without issue for the displaced colonists of a dying planet.

While communication with the initial colonies was possible - the grounding of the larger ships of the fleet made relocating them difficult, and consequently the early colonies in the system diverged. With no sapient life on the planet - the closest being dog-like intelligence "migratory" forests and other related plant life - The founding of the first settlement, Rochette, signified the beginning of 0 A.L - After Landing.

By 30 A.L, several dozen settlements had spread across Aurora, though all operated nominally under the authority of a democratic government headed by Rochette - this democracy would last another generation, before cronyism and the rising corporate power behind the scenes began to cripple the fledgling democracy - by 70 A.L, Rochette's authority was limited to its most loyal settlements and by 100 A.L, Aurora was home to a dozen different city states, all under some varying degree of corporate control or despotic corruption hiding under a veneer of the notion of democratic processes.

This came to a head in 116 AL, when the premier corporate powers of Aurora, chiefly Ashandra Systems and Miskovsky Incorporated merged and began integrating those settlements, companies and nations in no position to resist it, first by financial means, and as their power and abilities grew, outright violent means - this corporate authority eventually came to control most of Aurora, with only a few isolated settlements, themselves usually "company towns" lost from a ledger escaping direct control. By 170 AL - A small but nonetheless effective expedition forced the capitulation of the outer system colonies, whom had not long established effective means of transportation to Aurora themselves. Conditions on these colonies would become almost untolerable with their economical output redirected towards feeding a nascent stellar state on Aurora and their efforts to tame her moons.

These outer colonies would become the nexus of organized resistance - too far to effectively police - and too valuable to outright crush in absolute terms, small pockets of organized political and later, armed, resistance would continue to grow in the place that had once been established as a worst-case scenarion, meant to save humanity or the Aurigan colonists if no home could be found. Though this had never turned out to be necessary, the radical political thought and defiant attitude - even in the face of deteriorating conditions and sometimes brutal crackdowns - that arose in these underground and glass sealed settlements would prove to be the end of a nation and the birth of a new renaissance.

By 220 AL, what had been isolated defiance in the outer colonies was a widespread campaign of civil disobedience all the way back in the now long since urbanised centres of civilization on Aurora. Worker strikes crippled mines and factories, orbital infrastructure was sabotaged and a brutal and violent repression of a shipyard strike culminated in the death of 235 civilians - the response was the obliteration of a corporate defence frigate in orbit whose next mission was to repeat the same kind of violence that had just killed hundreds in the now almost uncontrolled outer colonies.

In 230 AL, corporate power had effectively ceased in the outer system and several "nations" on Aurora were effectively independent as soldiers of fortune were concentrated to control areas of economic importance and to repress civil disobedience. This culminated in the collapse of the Corporate Alliance backing much of the shaky "democratic" states on the planet and the beginning of a civil war, independents, revolutionaries and corporate forces clashed, destroying wide swathes of infrastructure and urban centres on the surface of Aurora, though the conflict largely remained confined to the surface - Boralis and Australis had established their own "neutral" regimes, the outer colonies in support of revolutionaries but crippled by their own needs and proto-revolution, and the orbital corporate assets long since rendered non-functional by saboteurs or defectors.

The Auroran civil war lasted 5 devastating years, resulting in the destruction of the corporate alliance and the establishment of a patchwork of independent states of varying degrees of organisation. Over the next several years, many of these states would come together to establish a constitutional convention looking to reintegrate themselves, in 240 AL - a true planetary assembly was convened with representatives from around the planet and from beyond meeting in the ruins of the former corporate haven of Rochette, which itself was slowly beginning to rebuild.

The result was a rejection of everything that had come before barring the principles of direct representation of the people - but little else. Several political groupings from across the spectrum that existed in what was left of Auroran politics held their appeal, but it was the widespread new wave Green Socialists that held sway in most of the organised states left - while the outer system was certainly more hardline, it was the Australis and Boralis representatives, themselves the swaying vote and arguably the most able to actually act at this juncture, who backed the "Green" Socialist movement on Aurora but pricing it at their own independence. The convention ultimately organised the multiple republics that had come into existence on Aurora into a cohesive federal system to be seated in a new capital on the planet - Svoboda, whilst also recognizing the independence of the Outer Colonies.

The ultimate success of the unification of Aurora was viewed favourably by Australis and Boralis, already politically aligned domestically - and in 265 AL, despite their initial desire for independence, Aurora's moons collecttively petitioned for membership in the Aurigan state, with the outer colonies ultimately petitioning for membership in 275 AL.

The Last 25 years have been spent rebuilding, undoing years of ecological degredation and the consequent decline in the preservation of native life, embracing the need for civil liberties and the redistribution of hoarded resources and wealth across the system whilst simultaneously building up the transport and orbital infrastructure of the Aurigan state, and consequently the system at large. A recent effort to devise an artificial intelligence to manage the necessary matters of state operating under what a socialist system intends to achieve free of human bias has also recently achieved fruition, with the advanced Red Star Intelligence coming online with its authority over the allocation of resources and suggestions for policy already lauded by the political class.

Culture and Society: Aurigan culture and society is currently undergoing a golden age - or so they would say. Freed from the trappings of greed and with information largely uncontrolled with even the original colony ships Earth databanks open to all without cost, old and new are melding together in a uniquely Aurigan way, though often considered a "Neo-Classical Fusion" in as much as Earth before its fall could be considered "classical". Advances in technology no longer confined to the elite and state sponsored programs have opened up formerly commercialised augmentations, allowing every day citizens access to implants and prosthetics to aid in daily life and in particular helping remedy the situation of those who suffered greatly under corporate rule.

Aurigan society has now nearly almost completely embraced enviromentalist and socialist principles wholesale, though there has been a very strident attempt to avoid creeping authoritarianism - the rejection of corporate authority should not be replaced by a socialist or communist tyranny either, and much of the military force built up during the times of conflict has been reduced or re-organised into civil police forces under local authority, even the formerly disabled but potent corporate space forces have been relegated to minimal deployment against the few pirate forces that exist in the system, though the potential for a corporate hold-out to be discovered on some asteroid or in a bunker somewhere has prevented a completely wholehearted embrace of pacifism.

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Governance and Politics: The Government of the FRPA is organised into the following branches;

The Presidium:
The Presidium is the highest office encompassing the majority of exercisable legislative power and oversight vested into the the collected council that makes up the Presidium, selected cross-party and headed by the General Secretary, whom is the leader of the largest party in the elected Assembly of the Republics. The Presidium is not unbound - with the Assembly able to challenge through vote his or her decisions or force an ousting of the General Secretary or of the Council wholesale, however, for all intents and purposes the General Secretary, serving as the Head of the Presidium and the Aurigan State, pursues most elements of Foreign Policy and traditionally serves to approve legislation passed by the Assembly.

The Presidium also discusses and potentially acts on suggestions from the Red Star Artificial Intelligence, with the Presidium providing oversight for the AI as outlined by the Freedom from Tyranny constitutional amendment.

The Assembly of the Republics:

The Assembly of the Republic's is a somewhat traditional legislative body made up of proportional representatives from each of the constituent republics of the Aurigan state. The Assembly divises legislation, votes on said legislation to pass to the Presidium and approves judicial appointments as well as being the only body able to propose or approve constitutional amendments, effectively functioning as the primary element of the legislative process. The Assembly functions as the core of the Federal Government, and it is from these members that most government appointments are made.

Federal Republics:
Each Federal Republic is free to organise its own administration provided it adheres to the principles of the federal constitution, its own founding documents and continues to allow the free expression of political power by its citizens. Whether the Republic be organised by workers councils or traditional parliamentary systems, all republics must also organise a federal vote to appoint members to the Assembly of the Republics, and all must contribute to the continued freedom of the working class through whatever means they are able to do so. The People's Republics consequently make up the majority of citizen facing government.

Technology Overview: Whilst the majority of the working class was kept ignorant by the Corporate Alliance that came to dominate the Auriga system, it did preserve the databanks of the initial settlers and further, invested in anything that could potentially provide profit - while most of these innovations were largely beyond the working class, such innovation created and maintained an academic base that has persisted throughout even the harshest times. Whilst the Auroran civil war damaged much of the infrastructure, the knowledge of times past and of corporate innovation was by and large preserved - and the opening of all information to every citizen where practical has caused another scientific revolution.

Technological augmentation has become a widespread possibility, although corporate innovations in genetic fields has largely been restricted to gene therapies to treat illnesses - memories of tragic corporate genesplicing have rendered exploitation of this field largely taboo, especially an in a new born age of equality.

Military Overview: The Aurigan Armed Forces includes the Red Guard & the Red Space Forces. Alongside these, the independent but small Red Strategic Forces consists of the limited mass destruction assets available to the Aurigan State.

The Aurigan Military is an academy based, voluntary system. It consists of three official branches and their constituent subbranches, as well as independent elements - The Aurigan Navy, referred to as the Red Space Force, the Red Guard, a union of all terrestrial ground, air and water based forces of the republics, and the Main Intelligence Directorate under which intelligence services are performed.

However, The effects of the civil war are long lasting - whilst building up and exercising a great deal of military power, most of this has been disposed of or mothballed in a rejection of violence. This has left the Aurigan state with an elite, voluntary core maintained "just in case" alongside a formerly competent naval force that has been left to play spaceborne coast guard. All the same, these forces are kept supplied and technologically up to date, just in case something was missed.

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Red Guard:
Once the tip of the spear that was the revolution, the formerly large and disparate militias of the civil war era, transitioned into national militaries, and then downsized, now find their place in the Red Guard. The Red Guard controls all terrestrial military assets from corvette to supersonic fighter craft down to the standard logistical truck. The Red Guard is present in all the Republics to varying degrees, and takes pride in its slimmed down elite status. A lingering fear of corporate shadows has kept this elite force well maintained and equipped, for now, and pride, particularly on Aurora and in the Outer Colonies, for some of its oldest veterans service in the liberation of the system is not without a small part to play in its maintenance even in the face of the pacifist trends of the Aurigan State.

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Red Fleet:
The Red Fleet is notable for largely consisting of former corporate assets, though these are slowly being replaced as practical - whilst the Red Fleet is most certainly a competent and reasonably advanced space-based force, its role as primarly anti-piracy has slowed this down to as budget and innovation demand. While the Red Fleet is not considered particularly prestigious - the Red Fleet played no role other than disabling or taking over the neutered Corporate Fleet during and after the civil war, and rarely actually faces any real combat, it is not considered inglorious either. The Red Fleet is certainly somewhat popular in the outer system, where much of it is based and its presence has ameliorated what was once crime ridden spacelanes, whilst also serving as a beacon of Federal Authority in the shadow of the ever looming Vastergeant.

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Crisis of the Confederacy [Sci-Fi Warlords in a crumbling state]

CSA

Capellan Sector Authority

Location

Paint Massacre

Summary:
The Capellan Sector Authority, consisting of the Capella, Ikeya and Sofiya's Star systems, is a colonial area founded as a collective unit as part of a co-ordinated Confederate push to provide further resources and alleviate minor population pressures in the inner systems. With the decline of Confederate authority, particularly on its outskirts, the CSA has largely been nominally led by an impromptu Triumvirate of Confederate military and civil service personel with some concessions to Corporate needs. Events towards home have pushed things over the edge, however, and the CSA is largely a functional republic under military authority, although it claims no form of de jure independence from the Confederacy. There is simply no longer any meaningful Confederate authority on Earth to answer to. As such, the Capellan Sector Authority currently operates under the Confederate Constitution and local bylaws until such a time as order is re-established.

Resources:

The Capellan Sector was not the richest area of space ever explored, but far from desolate. Featuring a number of notable and most profitable ventures to be had in nearly every avenue that would serve a modern raw-materials driven economy. As a unified area of settlement, industrial capacity and service industries are largely broadly equivalent across the 3 systems with only agricultural endeavours being uneven due to soil fertility varying on its inhabitable planets.

Major Industries

Agricultural Produce: While any planet is capable of producing food of varying quality and questionable sources, there has always been a demand for organic, soil grown produce that has never dimished - the production of food and various organic compounds used in advanced sciences and production has nearly always been a profitable venture to some extent, and a new grouping of humanity must always be fed. The Sector consequently produces more than enough for domestic needs and is a net exporter to Confederate worlds.

Extraction & Light Industries:
Capella has a reasonable but concentrated heavy industry, and consequently it is the extraction of raw materials both in orbit and on the ground, as well as the fashioning of largely consumer targeted products that drives the main industrial economy of the Sector. Capellan extraction techniques are some of the more efficient in the Confederacy, whilst the industries they fuel benefit from ample input. Much of this industry, however, is retoolable, and could potentially serve to make up for a lack of heavy industry.

Finance & Research:
Where humanity goes, money follows, and the Capellan Sector Authority had a comprehensive financial planning board that created a whole series of stock exchanges, a central bank and financial instruments for use by the money making side of the service industry before a building that could house a stock exchange was ever created. While manipulated to some extent by the ever-present corporate presence, who offer up a sacrficial lamb to the local courts on occassion, the Capellan Stock Exchange, though largely trading in benign things like crop futures, is respected and a relatively well run institution.

It follows that where the confederacy and corporations go, the possibility of new places to keep things under the radar comes with them. Both the Confederacy and a number of corporate actors run above board and below board research facilities in the Capellan Sector, both in orbit and on the ground, with the Capellan Sector not quite busy enough for them to move on, but more than serviced enough to allow activity to not raise too many alarms - though by this point most of the off-book facilities are at least known of. Research here is varied, from civil applications to new agricultural yield sciences, it has bred a small but notable academic streak in the sector as well, whose burgeoning universities are not entirely written off by the core worlds.

Notable Worlds

Aurora & Dawn:
Located in the Capella System, Aurora, orbited by its also inhabitable moon, Dawn, is the seat of power of the Capella Sector Authority and the most densely inhabited world in the sector. Featuring a plethora of industries and numerous cities of import, Aurora is a beacon of Confederate Authority in the outer systems and a centre of finance. Most corporate interests are registered here, much of the Confederate civil service is centered here and Aurora is home to much of the ground based Confederate administration. Dawn compliments Aurora, with some of its heavier industries not able to be placed in orbit located here, as well as a number of more dangerous elements of the research and refining industries that require planetside operation being located there.

Port Elizabeth:
Port Elizabeth is a small world in the Capella System and is the main logistical hub for civil and military cargo traffic in the sector, forming a nexus for the Sector's convoy system and allowing a centralization of much of the import and export legalese and bureaucracy in one place overlooked by the Confederate Militaries orbital facilities. Port Elizabeth is also a training location for Confederate ground foces, and much of the Sectors non-deployed forces are marshalled here. Port Elizabeth is consequently also the main anchoring point for the Confederate Navy in the sector, and although lacking in orbital infrastruture for large scale repairs or retrofit, is the centre of ongoing maintenance for the fleet deployed there.

Grünhafen:
Grünhafen is the seat of human settlement in the Ikeya system, though arguably not as populated as even Vastegéant. Grünhafen's appeal lies in its compatible biosphere and extremely fertile soil. Grünhafen produces a huge amount of edible produce and other organic compounds used throughout the confederacy, as well as utilizing a ranching and herding system that produces large amounts of real meat and dairy as part of its crop rotation cycle. Grünhafen is consequently also a source of a number of luxury artisan items of culinary origin.

Vastegéant:
Vastegéant is an enormous gas giant in the Ikeya system that has an almost as vast orbital system of rocky worlds of varying usefulness, though its primary draw are its consequently enormous reserves of usable gases and radicals. Vastegéant has a large extraction industry that serves nearly all the sectors systems with fuel and other specialized materials drawn from Vastegéant's atmosphere. Consequently, a reasonable amount of confederate activity is always to be found here, either warding off a daring raid or protecting logistics ships serving confederate installations.

Imperski:
Imperski is the main hub of activity in the Sofiya's star system and the only world in the system inhabitable without protection. A largely icebound world, the majority of its equatorial belt is temperate and home to most of the population. Imperski is known for its crystalline mines and a wealth of mineral resources hidden under its ice, as well as a respectable tourism industry driven by the vast Ice vistas and geyser oases. Imperski is also home to a number of industries that utilize the natural cold and near 1G gravity for specialized industrial processes.

Administration:
The Capellan Sector Authority.

• The Capellan Federal Senate: The on-paper ruling body of the Capellan Sector, the senate operates as a unified governmental organ for all the systems under the Capellan Sector Authority, elected by all of the worlds of sector and beholden only to the electorate. The Senateis headed by an elected President and complimented by a selected Speaker. The only true power the Senate holds is in its nominations for the Capellan high court system, which has not been interfered with by the Triumvirate, and in day to day affairs left to them.
• The State Congress: The State Congress are individual local parliaments that provide local representation to each individual planetary body or in some cases, orbital installation. These congresses vary in make-up or overall function but on average all serve as a point of representation for their respective worlds, and, in ideal situations passing concerns to the senate and making the needs of their electorate known. These organisations would also nominate their members for Confederate Parliament on Earth, with the nominations approved by the Senate. Most of these Congresses operate without Triumvirate involvement.
• The Triumvirate: The Triumvirate is an alliance between the Confederate Military, Confederate Civil Service and a small number of Corporate Concerns that function as the true ruling body of the sector. Representated by Admiral Vorontsov, Cabinet Secretary Adler and Executive Officer Wain. The Triumvirate has largely concerned itself with stability and development and has left most lower organs of government - which are arguably easily controlled by the Confederate Civil Service all the same - unmolested. Whilst the Sector has a President and stable cabinet, much of their agenda is set by the Triumvirate, though it has been a largely successful "partnership". Recent events leave much in the air, however.

Government Figures

Notable People:

• Admiral Vorontsov

  
  Admiral Ekaterina Vorontsov - born on Earth, yet raised in halls of power across the Confederacy. Vorontosov's parents ran a small corporation of their own, and consequently she was given insights into many aspects of the Confederacy and its workings from the inside - at the age of 18, she promptly joined the Confederate military, against her parents wishes, and never looked back. Widely regarded as competent and loyal to the ideals upon the Confederacy, and not without some talent, though not favoured or disfavoured by corporate backers, Vorontsov rose through the ranks slowly, eventually proving of sufficient worth to be placed in local command of Confederate Naval Forces in the Capella Sector. Seeing the decline of the Confederacy showing no signs of abating, Vorontsov took charge of the sector - though largely from behind the scenes, and has kept it largely stable and secure as the Confederacy crumbles. An eye for talent and ability to charm has gone hand in hand with this mission, Vorontsov all the same has had a somewhat on-off again relationship with the corporate powers, but needs must - and the institution of a convoy system for merchant traffic has been more than enough to win favour from corporations suffering from pirates as Earth-based authority has withered.
• Cabinet Secretary Adler

  
  A Lifelong Bureaucrat, Gustav Adler, if at times, uninspired, knows his way around both the civil service and the government structure of the Capellan Sector, proving invaluable in keeping it in line whilst also not overstepping his bounds. Able to exploit loopholes and close them at the same time, Adler has kept the sector's governing authority largely intact as darker times have descended. Picked out of obscurity by Vorontsov as the Triumvirate began to take its shape, Adler is fiercely loyal to the Admiral.
• Executive Officer Wain

  
  A concession Admrial Vorontosov would rather of not made, the Triumvirate required at least a notion of Coroporate complicity to function, and the Capellan Sector had, at least, a number of if not clean, at least tolerable corporate influences to choose from. Vorontsov didn't choose, and instead asked them to come together to pick a joint representative to "advise" during the times of unrest and difficulty throughout the confederacy. Stephen Wain, a corporate fixer, was their pick. Appointed as an Executive Officer in the largest corporate backer, Wain has been a largely amiable member of the Triumvirate, whilst protecting the Corporations he works for, for a healthy payment, of course, having no innate loyalty to any party and able to smooth over most issues has allowed the Triumvirate to function without the Corporations and the Confederacy coming to loggerheads.

Strengths:
A Competent Cadre: Much of the core personell making up the Confederate presence in the sector has been carefully rejuggled and placed in positions to ensure the greatest effectiveness of the forces available to Admiral Vorontsov. While some lacking still retain their positions, adjustments in authority and a large amount of deployment and non-deployment mandatory training has sharpened up the core of Vorontsov's forces, with even those lacking not being entirely hopeless. Frequent live broadcasts and personal visits by the Admiral has also ensured a sense of collective and loyalty to the Admiral, which cannot be understated.

Autarkic Unit: The Capellan Sector produces much of what it consumes - in line with its colonial plans, with only a few goods not produced in large enough quantities or some luxury, niche or exotic goods not available in the sector, consequently, its economy has been largely isolated from the woes of the Confederacy, though it has also taken much gruelling redrawing of prior plans to ensure this has remained the case. As such, the sector is capable of experiencing near term growth, even if mininmal, rather than contraction, though as other systems suffer this may change - however, for now, this backed up by a strong central bank leads to much needed stability.

Convoy Ahoy: The implementation of old and simple tactics like a convoy system has seen a large reduction in merchant shipping lost to hostile or otherwise illegal forces operating in confederate space. This has kept the economy of the sector ticking, and even ensures the continued flow of vital goods to confederate worlds that are less secure. This has given a boost of credibility with the corporations and the people. It is of no small boost of legitimacy for Admiral Vorontsov's command either.

Weaknesses:
Infrastructure Woes: While the Capella Sector has ample civil infrastructure for the majority of its needs, its military infrastructure is lacking. With Black New Year emaciating the last expansionary phases budget, there are no orbital yards capable of constructing military vessels and there are no sizeable yards capable of undertaking effective retrofit or large-scale repair work, and all maintenance must be done by crews operating from limited installations or on the ground. Capella does possess the ability to remedy this situation, though it requires time.

Two Governments: The Capella Sector is a place of two governments, Whilst the Triumvirate nominally controls all functions of the government, it truly only legally has authority over confederate installations and military matters. While the senate remains on side, this is not an issue. However, Vorontsov's refusal to "cross that line" and outright control the sector judiciary and thus the government in the main leaves avenues for political forces to act against them.

Purged?: With the Confederate weakness has come the appointment of those not suited to the task to positions of importance. Whilst the highest echelons of confederate authority in Capella have managed to avoid this fate, numerous middling positions have not. The Triumvirate has carefully maneuvered its own people into ideal locations to counteract the worst of this, or take action if necesasry, and it is likely that any further fracturing of confederate authority will lead to the arrest or re-assignment of individuals on a wholesale scale, which will take the Sector's limited academies time to fill - the other consequences of such a looming purge are unknown.

History

History:

The Sector that would come to be known as Capella was surveyed relatively early by the Confederacy as it began to spread outwords beyond the initial inner worlds and core colonies. While not a candidate for colonisation or exploitation it was like most areas, quietly filed away for its time to come. As the Confederacy continued to expand, it was reviewed, much like many others had and would be, with Confederate officials drawing up plans and securing the support necessary.

Capella was assigned as a complete sector unit - devised as colonial sector that would be built up by its own worlds with waves of colonists and initial infrastructure from the Confederacy, before in later phases integrating into the Confederate economy as a whole with all that entailed. Initial support for the colony was drawn from Europe and globally influential corporations, with the second and third avenues of support coming from corporations and civil sectors throughout North America and Eurasia.

The initial phase of colonization proceeded without much incident, largely building up Aurora and Dawn in Capella itself as well as the exploitation of Vastergeant in Ikeya, drawing on financial and logistical support - as well as colonists and support during the formal second phase of colonization, drawing a pool of qualified individuals from across the Confederacy - with a third and final phase of sponsored settlement occuring some time after, drawing from Earth's southern hemisphere and other colonies with some measure of population pressure. With the sponsored settlement era ended and Confederate or Corporate subsidies now dependent on political and economic factors, the Capellan Federation was officially formed and itself would offer a number of incentives to draw people to the sector. The size of the Confederacy of the that time and the wealth of the corporations and invididual nations invested in Capella ensured a relatively rapid buildup both of civil infrastructure and population. With a moderate level of importance, The Confederate military in the area was built up and a Confederate command structure finalised and put in place. With a largely peaceful sector the initial command rotations were relatively uninspired. Capella became regarded as a deployment for anyone loyal enough to the Confederacy but of no particular patronage.

As Black New Year began the Capellan Federation wobbled. While internally its economic markets were contracting, they were on track to stabilise - the withdrawl of outside investment, less demand from other markets that Capella had been integrating with and the general decline of safety along the trade routes that was beginning to occur was troublesome. The Capellan Government had a number of scandals as senators no longer protected by outside interests were torn down by internal ones, and its own authority diminished the farther from the inhabited worlds you ventured while the Confederate military in the sector looked to become as mired in the issues affecting it elsewhere.

Several years into this general decline, the Confederate Admiral in overall authority of military assets in the sector upped and resigned, with the Confederate High Command putting out fires everywhere, it was Admiral Vorontsov, promoted for the post, who was shipped out to the Capellans. Vorontsov took aggressive action - rearranging mercantile trade routes and deploying any mobile asset that could be spared to protect them - eventually starting up and ensure a protective convoy system which provided a much needed respite from the looming spectre of piracy. Vorontsov also performed a number of feats both in outright arguing her way or achieving some concessions from Confederate Command and the corporations working in the sector, shoring up ailing infrastructure, having new ships deployed to the sector to eliminate the threat of full-blown piracy before it began and doing what could be done to protect the interests of all involved while the Confederacy slowly crumbled.

Vorontsov's mandate had been to protect the Confederacy and Capella in particular and in that there had been given much leeway, however. Behind closed doors, the Triumvirate formed and set to work. Utilizing corporate influence, the power of the Confederate military and bureaucracy much was done to turn Capella back into the prosperous sector it could be. After yet another scandal threatened the highest levels of Capellan governmment, however, there was a fateful meeting betwenen the Admiral and the Capellan President, as well as numerous high ranking senators and officials. After the so called "Vorontsov diktat" of the time, the government tone changed from largely separate but mostly equal to following a line that was very closely aligned with the goals of the Confederate bureaucracy and its protector in the military. Despite this shift, to the common individual and even much of the government there has been little change that hasn't been for the better, and even critics of the perceived conspiracy have noted that the Admiral has been forced to back down a number of times by the Capellan High Court when matters have been questioned on Constitutional grounds.

All the same, the Capella Sector is largely stabilized and has become somewhat prosperous, well equipped to feed worlds suffering from decline and with a power projection capable of sustaining trade inwards and outwards, even if the Confederate Military of Capella is still reliant on replacement ships sent by High Command. If the Conferacy can slow or reverse its decline, Capella could be one of the engines that drives the Confederacy forward.

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What sort of shape is the rest of the Solar System in? Ie colonies/habitats on Mars, the Jovian moons etc.

@Zombiedude101

Under the control of the military in the system I expect, if the respective locations didnt also go insane.

Crisis of the Confederacy [Sci-Fi Warlords in a crumbling state]

I've not been told to change anything or gotten any other feedback in that vein so this is still the same as the interest check, bar a few edits here and there to tidy up or expand upon a few things.

CSA

Capellan Sector Authority

Location

Paint Massacre

Summary:
The Capellan Sector Authority, consisting of the Capella, Ikeya and Sofiya's Star systems, is a colonial area founded as a collective unit as part of a co-ordinated Confederate push to provide further resources and alleviate minor population pressures in the inner systems. With the decline of Confederate authority, particularly on its outskirts, the CSA has largely been nominally led by an impromptu Triumvirate of Confederate military and civil service personel with some concessions to Corporate needs. Events towards home have pushed things over the edge, however, and the CSA is largely a functional republic under military authority, although it claims no form of de jure independence from the Confederacy. There is simply no longer any meaningful Confederate authority on Earth to answer to. As such, the Capellan Sector Authority currently operates under the Confederate Constitution and local bylaws until such a time as order is re-established.

Resources:

The Capellan Sector was not the richest area of space ever explored, but far from desolate. Featuring a number of notable and most profitable ventures to be had in nearly every avenue that would serve a modern raw-materials driven economy. As a unified area of settlement, industrial capacity and service industries are largely broadly equivalent across the 3 systems with only agricultural endeavours being uneven due to soil fertility varying on its inhabitable planets.

Major Industries

Agricultural Produce: While any planet is capable of producing food of varying quality and questionable sources, there has always been a demand for organic, soil grown produce that has never dimished - the production of food and various organic compounds used in advanced sciences and production has nearly always been a profitable venture to some extent, and a new grouping of humanity must always be fed. The Sector consequently produces more than enough for domestic needs and is a net exporter to Confederate worlds.

Extraction & Light Industries:
Capella has a reasonable but concentrated heavy industry, and consequently it is the extraction of raw materials both in orbit and on the ground, as well as the fashioning of largely consumer targeted products that drives the main industrial economy of the Sector. Capellan extraction techniques are some of the more efficient in the Confederacy, whilst the industries they fuel benefit from ample input. Much of this industry, however, is retoolable, and could potentially serve to make up for a lack of heavy industry.

Finance & Research:
Where humanity goes, money follows, and the Capellan Sector Authority had a comprehensive financial planning board that created a whole series of stock exchanges, a central bank and financial instruments for use by the money making side of the service industry before a building that could house a stock exchange was ever created. While manipulated to some extent by the ever-present corporate presence, who offer up a sacrficial lamb to the local courts on occassion, the Capellan Stock Exchange, though largely trading in benign things like crop futures, is respected and a relatively well run institution.

It follows that where the confederacy and corporations go, the possibility of new places to keep things under the radar comes with them. Both the Confederacy and a number of corporate actors run above board and below board research facilities in the Capellan Sector, both in orbit and on the ground, with the Capellan Sector not quite busy enough for them to move on, but more than serviced enough to allow activity to not raise too many alarms - though by this point most of the off-book facilities are at least known of. Research here is varied, from civil applications to new agricultural yield sciences, it has bred a small but notable academic streak in the sector as well, whose burgeoning universities are not entirely written off by the core worlds.

Notable Worlds

Aurora & Dawn:
Located in the Capella System, Aurora, orbited by its also inhabitable moon, Dawn, is the seat of power of the Capella Sector Authority and the most densely inhabited world in the sector. Featuring a plethora of industries and numerous cities of import, Aurora is a beacon of Confederate Authority in the outer systems and a centre of finance. Most corporate interests are registered here, much of the Confederate civil service is centered here and Aurora is home to much of the ground based Confederate administration. Dawn compliments Aurora, with some of its heavier industries not able to be placed in orbit located here, as well as a number of more dangerous elements of the research and refining industries that require planetside operation being located there.

Port Elizabeth:
Port Elizabeth is a small world in the Capella System and is the main logistical hub for civil and military cargo traffic in the sector, forming a nexus for the Sector's convoy system and allowing a centralization of much of the import and export legalese and bureaucracy in one place overlooked by the Confederate Militaries orbital facilities. Port Elizabeth is also a training location for Confederate ground foces, and much of the Sectors non-deployed forces are marshalled here. Port Elizabeth is consequently also the main anchoring point for the Confederate Navy in the sector, and although lacking in orbital infrastruture for large scale repairs or retrofit, is the centre of ongoing maintenance for the fleet deployed there.

Grünhafen:
Grünhafen is the seat of human settlement in the Ikeya system, though arguably not as populated as even Vastegéant. Grünhafen's appeal lies in its compatible biosphere and extremely fertile soil. Grünhafen produces a huge amount of edible produce and other organic compounds used throughout the confederacy, as well as utilizing a ranching and herding system that produces large amounts of real meat and dairy as part of its crop rotation cycle. Grünhafen is consequently also a source of a number of luxury artisan items of culinary origin.

Vastegéant:
Vastegéant is an enormous gas giant in the Ikeya system that has an almost as vast orbital system of rocky worlds of varying usefulness, though its primary draw are its consequently enormous reserves of usable gases and radicals. Vastegéant has a large extraction industry that serves nearly all the sectors systems with fuel and other specialized materials drawn from Vastegéant's atmosphere. Consequently, a reasonable amount of confederate activity is always to be found here, either warding off a daring raid or protecting logistics ships serving confederate installations.

Imperski:
Imperski is the main hub of activity in the Sofiya's star system and the only world in the system inhabitable without protection. A largely icebound world, the majority of its equatorial belt is temperate and home to most of the population. Imperski is known for its crystalline mines and a wealth of mineral resources hidden under its ice, as well as a respectable tourism industry driven by the vast Ice vistas and geyser oases. Imperski is also home to a number of industries that utilize the natural cold and near 1G gravity for specialized industrial processes.

Administration:
The Capellan Sector Authority.

• The Capellan Federal Senate: The on-paper ruling body of the Capellan Sector, the senate operates as a unified governmental organ for all the systems under the Capellan Sector Authority, elected by all of the worlds of sector and beholden only to the electorate. The Senateis headed by an elected President and complimented by a selected Speaker. The only true power the Senate holds is in its nominations for the Capellan high court system, which has not been interfered with by the Triumvirate, and in day to day affairs left to them.
• The State Congress: The State Congress are individual local parliaments that provide local representation to each individual planetary body or in some cases, orbital installation. These congresses vary in make-up or overall function but on average all serve as a point of representation for their respective worlds, and, in ideal situations passing concerns to the senate and making the needs of their electorate known. These organisations would also nominate their members for Confederate Parliament on Earth, with the nominations approved by the Senate. Most of these Congresses operate without Triumvirate involvement.
• The Triumvirate: The Triumvirate is an alliance between the Confederate Military, Confederate Civil Service and a small number of Corporate Concerns that function as the true ruling body of the sector. Representated by Admiral Vorontsov, Cabinet Secretary Adler and Executive Officer Wain. The Triumvirate has largely concerned itself with stability and development and has left most lower organs of government - which are arguably easily controlled by the Confederate Civil Service all the same - unmolested. Whilst the Sector has a President and stable cabinet, much of their agenda is set by the Triumvirate, though it has been a largely successful "partnership". Recent events leave much in the air, however.

Government Figures

Notable People:

• Admiral Vorontsov

  
  Admiral Ekaterina Vorontsov - born on Earth, yet raised in halls of power across the Confederacy. Vorontosov's parents ran a small corporation of their own, and consequently she was given insights into many aspects of the Confederacy and its workings from the inside - at the age of 18, she promptly joined the Confederate military, against her parents wishes, and never looked back. Widely regarded as competent and loyal to the ideals upon the Confederacy, and not without some talent, though not favoured or disfavoured by corporate backers, Vorontsov rose through the ranks slowly, eventually proving of sufficient worth to be placed in local command of Confederate Naval Forces in the Capella Sector. Seeing the decline of the Confederacy showing no signs of abating, Vorontsov took charge of the sector - though largely from behind the scenes, and has kept it largely stable and secure as the Confederacy crumbles. An eye for talent and ability to charm has gone hand in hand with this mission, Vorontsov all the same has had a somewhat on-off again relationship with the corporate powers, but needs must - and the institution of a convoy system for merchant traffic has been more than enough to win favour from corporations suffering from pirates as Earth-based authority has withered.
• Cabinet Secretary Adler

  
  A Lifelong Bureaucrat, Gustav Adler, if at times, uninspired, knows his way around both the civil service and the government structure of the Capellan Sector, proving invaluable in keeping it in line whilst also not overstepping his bounds. Able to exploit loopholes and close them at the same time, Adler has kept the sector's governing authority largely intact as darker times have descended. Picked out of obscurity by Vorontsov as the Triumvirate began to take its shape, Adler is fiercely loyal to the Admiral.
• Executive Officer Wain

  
  A concession Admrial Vorontosov would rather of not made, the Triumvirate required at least a notion of Coroporate complicity to function, and the Capellan Sector had, at least, a number of if not clean, at least tolerable corporate influences to choose from. Vorontsov didn't choose, and instead asked them to come together to pick a joint representative to "advise" during the times of unrest and difficulty throughout the confederacy. Stephen Wain, a corporate fixer, was their pick. Appointed as an Executive Officer in the largest corporate backer, Wain has been a largely amiable member of the Triumvirate, whilst protecting the Corporations he works for, for a healthy payment, of course, having no innate loyalty to any party and able to smooth over most issues has allowed the Triumvirate to function without the Corporations and the Confederacy coming to loggerheads.

Strengths:
A Competent Cadre: Much of the core personell making up the Confederate presence in the sector has been carefully rejuggled and placed in positions to ensure the greatest effectiveness of the forces available to Admiral Vorontsov. While some lacking still retain their positions, adjustments in authority and a large amount of deployment and non-deployment mandatory training has sharpened up the core of Vorontsov's forces, with even those lacking not being entirely hopeless. Frequent live broadcasts and personal visits by the Admiral has also ensured a sense of collective and loyalty to the Admiral, which cannot be understated.

Autarkic Unit: The Capellan Sector produces much of what it consumes - in line with its colonial plans, with only a few goods not produced in large enough quantities or some luxury, niche or exotic goods not available in the sector, consequently, its economy has been largely isolated from the woes of the Confederacy, though it has also taken much gruelling redrawing of prior plans to ensure this has remained the case. As such, the sector is capable of experiencing near term growth, even if mininmal, rather than contraction, though as other systems suffer this may change - however, for now, this backed up by a strong central bank leads to much needed stability.

Convoy Ahoy: The implementation of old and simple tactics like a convoy system has seen a large reduction in merchant shipping lost to hostile or otherwise illegal forces operating in confederate space. This has kept the economy of the sector ticking, and even ensures the continued flow of vital goods to confederate worlds that are less secure. This has given a boost of credibility with the corporations and the people. It is of no small boost of legitimacy for Admiral Vorontsov's command either.

Weaknesses:
Infrastructure Woes: While the Capella Sector has ample civil infrastructure for the majority of its needs, its military infrastructure is lacking. With Black New Year emaciating the last expansionary phases budget, there are no orbital yards capable of constructing military vessels and there are no sizeable yards capable of undertaking effective retrofit or large-scale repair work, and all maintenance must be done by crews operating from limited installations or on the ground. Capella does possess the ability to remedy this situation, though it requires time.

Two Governments: The Capella Sector is a place of two governments, Whilst the Triumvirate nominally controls all functions of the government, it truly only legally has authority over confederate installations and military matters. While the senate remains on side, this is not an issue. However, Vorontsov's refusal to "cross that line" and outright control the sector judiciary and thus the government in the main leaves avenues for political forces to act against them.

Purged?: With the Confederate weakness has come the appointment of those not suited to the task to positions of importance. Whilst the highest echelons of confederate authority in Capella have managed to avoid this fate, numerous middling positions have not. The Triumvirate has carefully maneuvered its own people into ideal locations to counteract the worst of this, or take action if necesasry, and it is likely that any further fracturing of confederate authority will lead to the arrest or re-assignment of individuals on a wholesale scale, which will take the Sector's limited academies time to fill - the other consequences of such a looming purge are unknown.

History

History:

The Sector that would come to be known as Capella was surveyed relatively early by the Confederacy as it began to spread outwords beyond the initial inner worlds and core colonies. While not a candidate for colonisation or exploitation it was like most areas, quietly filed away for its time to come. As the Confederacy continued to expand, it was reviewed, much like many others had and would be, with Confederate officials drawing up plans and securing the support necessary.

Capella was assigned as a complete sector unit - devised as colonial sector that would be built up by its own worlds with waves of colonists and initial infrastructure from the Confederacy, before in later phases integrating into the Confederate economy as a whole with all that entailed. Initial support for the colony was drawn from Europe and globally influential corporations, with the second and third avenues of support coming from corporations and civil sectors throughout North America and Eurasia.

The initial phase of colonization proceeded without much incident, largely building up Aurora and Dawn in Capella itself as well as the exploitation of Vastergeant in Ikeya, drawing on financial and logistical support - as well as colonists and support during the formal second phase of colonization, drawing a pool of qualified individuals from across the Confederacy - with a third and final phase of sponsored settlement occuring some time after, drawing from Earth's southern hemisphere and other colonies with some measure of population pressure. With the sponsored settlement era ended and Confederate or Corporate subsidies now dependent on political and economic factors, the Capellan Federation was officially formed and itself would offer a number of incentives to draw people to the sector. The size of the Confederacy of the that time and the wealth of the corporations and invididual nations invested in Capella ensured a relatively rapid buildup both of civil infrastructure and population. With a moderate level of importance, The Confederate military in the area was built up and a Confederate command structure finalised and put in place. With a largely peaceful sector the initial command rotations were relatively uninspired. Capella became regarded as a deployment for anyone loyal enough to the Confederacy but of no particular patronage.

As Black New Year began the Capellan Federation wobbled. While internally its economic markets were contracting, they were on track to stabilise - the withdrawl of outside investment, less demand from other markets that Capella had been integrating with and the general decline of safety along the trade routes that was beginning to occur was troublesome. The Capellan Government had a number of scandals as senators no longer protected by outside interests were torn down by internal ones, and its own authority diminished the farther from the inhabited worlds you ventured while the Confederate military in the sector looked to become as mired in the issues affecting it elsewhere.

Several years into this general decline, the Confederate Admiral in overall authority of military assets in the sector upped and resigned, with the Confederate High Command putting out fires everywhere, it was Admiral Vorontsov, promoted for the post, who was shipped out to the Capellans. Vorontsov took aggressive action - rearranging mercantile trade routes and deploying any mobile asset that could be spared to protect them - eventually starting up and ensure a protective convoy system which provided a much needed respite from the looming spectre of piracy. Vorontsov also performed a number of feats both in outright arguing her way or achieving some concessions from Confederate Command and the corporations working in the sector, shoring up ailing infrastructure, having new ships deployed to the sector to eliminate the threat of full-blown piracy before it began and doing what could be done to protect the interests of all involved while the Confederacy slowly crumbled.

Vorontsov's mandate had been to protect the Confederacy and Capella in particular and in that there had been given much leeway, however. Behind closed doors, the Triumvirate formed and set to work. Utilizing corporate influence, the power of the Confederate military and bureaucracy much was done to turn Capella back into the prosperous sector it could be. After yet another scandal threatened the highest levels of Capellan governmment, however, there was a fateful meeting betwenen the Admiral and the Capellan President, as well as numerous high ranking senators and officials. After the so called "Vorontsov diktat" of the time, the government tone changed from largely separate but mostly equal to following a line that was very closely aligned with the goals of the Confederate bureaucracy and its protector in the military. Despite this shift, to the common individual and even much of the government there has been little change that hasn't been for the better, and even critics of the perceived conspiracy have noted that the Admiral has been forced to back down a number of times by the Capellan High Court when matters have been questioned on Constitutional grounds.

All the same, the Capella Sector is largely stabilized and has become somewhat prosperous, well equipped to feed worlds suffering from decline and with a power projection capable of sustaining trade inwards and outwards, even if the Confederate Military of Capella is still reliant on replacement ships sent by High Command. If the Conferacy can slow or reverse its decline, Capella could be one of the engines that drives the Confederacy forward.

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Capellan Sector Authority

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Summary:
The Capellan Sector Authority, consisting of the Capella, Ikeya and Sofiya's Star systems, is a colonial area founded as a collective unit as part of a co-ordinated Confederate push to provide further resources and alleviate minor population pressures in the inner systems. With the decline of Confederate authority, particularly on its outskirts, the CSA has largely been nominally led by an impromptu Triumvirate of Confederate military and civil service personel with some concessions to Corporate needs. Events towards home have pushed things over the edge, however, and the CSA is largely a functional republic under military authority, although it claims no form of de jure independence from the Confederacy. There is simply no longer any meaningful Confederate authority on Earth to answer to. As such, the Capellan Sector Authority currently operates under the Confederate Constitution and local bylaws until such a time as order is re-established.

Resources:

The Capellan Sector was not the richest area of space ever explored, but far from desolate. Featuring a number of notable and most profitable ventures to be had in nearly every avenue that would serve a modern raw-materials driven economy. As a unified area of settlement, industrial capacity and service industries are largely broadly equivalent across the 3 systems with only agricultural endeavours being uneven due to soil fertility varying on its inhabitable planets.

Major Industries

Agricultural Produce: While any planet is capable of producing food of varying quality and questionable sources, there has always been a demand for organic, soil grown produce that has never dimished - the production of food and various organic compounds used in advanced sciences and production has nearly always been a profitable venture to some extent, and a new grouping of humanity must always be fed. The Sector consequently produces more than enough for domestic needs and is a net exporter to Confederate worlds.

Extraction & Light Industries:
Capella has a reasonable but concentrated heavy industry, and consequently it is the extraction of raw materials both in orbit and on the ground, as well as the fashioning of largely consumer targeted products that drives the main industrial economy of the Sector. Capellan extraction techniques are some of the more efficient in the Confederacy, whilst the industries they fuel benefit from ample input. Much of this industry, however, is retoolable, and could potentially serve to make up for a lack of heavy industry.

Finance & Research:
Where humanity goes, money follows, and the Capellan Sector Authority had a comprehensive financial planning board that created a whole series of stock exchanges, a central bank and financial instruments for use by the money making side of the service industry before a building that could house a stock exchange was ever created. While manipulated to some extent by the ever-present corporate presence, who offer up a sacrficial lamb to the local courts on occassion, the Capellan Stock Exchange, though largely trading in benign things like crop futures, is respected and a relatively well run institution.

It follows that where the confederacy and corporations go, the possibility of new places to keep things under the radar comes with them. Both the Confederacy and a number of corporate actors run above board and below board research facilities in the Capellan Sector, both in orbit and on the ground, with the Capellan Sector not quite busy enough for them to move on, but more than serviced enough to allow activity to not raise too many alarms - though by this point most of the off-book facilities are at least known of. Research here is varied, from civil applications to new agricultural yield sciences, it has bred a small but notable academic streak in the sector as well, whose burgeoning universities are not entirely written off by the core worlds.

Notable Worlds

Aurora & Dawn:
Located in the Capella System, Aurora, orbited by its also inhabitable moon, Dawn, is the seat of power of the Capella Sector Authority and the most densely inhabited world in the sector. Featuring a plethora of industries and numerous cities of import, Aurora is a beacon of Confederate Authority in the outer systems and a centre of finance. Most corporate interests are registered here, much of the Confederate civil service is centered here and Aurora is home to much of the ground based Confederate administration. Dawn compliments Aurora, with some of its heavier industries not able to be placed in orbit located here, as well as a number of more dangerous elements of the research and refining industries that require planetside operation being located there.

Port Elizabeth:
Port Elizabeth is a small world in the Capella System and is the main logistical hub for civil and military cargo traffic in the sector, forming a nexus for the Sector's convoy system and allowing a centralization of much of the import and export legalese and bureaucracy in one place overlooked by the Confederate Militaries orbital facilities. Port Elizabeth is also a training location for Confederate ground foces, and much of the Sectors non-deployed forces are marshalled here. Port Elizabeth is consequently also the main anchoring point for the Confederate Navy in the sector, and although lacking in orbital infrastruture for large scale repairs or retrofit, is the centre of ongoing maintenance for the fleet deployed there.

Grünhafen:
Grünhafen is the seat of human settlement in the Ikeya system, though arguably not as populated as even Vastegéant. Grünhafen's appeal lies in its compatible biosphere and extremely fertile soil. Grünhafen produces a huge amount of edible produce and other organic compounds used throughout the confederacy, as well as utilizing a ranching and herding system that produces large amounts of real meat and dairy as part of its crop rotation cycle. Grünhafen is consequently also a source of a number of luxury artisan items of culinary origin.

Vastegéant:
Vastegéant is an enormous gas giant in the Ikeya system that has an almost as vast orbital system of rocky worlds of varying usefulness, though its primary draw are its consequently enormous reserves of usable gases and radicals. Vastegéant has a large extraction industry that serves nearly all the sectors systems with fuel and other specialized materials drawn from Vastegéant's atmosphere. Consequently, a reasonable amount of confederate activity is always to be found here, either warding off a daring raid or protecting logistics ships serving confederate installations.

Imperski:
Imperski is the main hub of activity in the Sofiya's star system and the only world in the system inhabitable without protection. A largely icebound world, the majority of its equatorial belt is temperate and home to most of the population. Imperski is known for its crystalline mines and a wealth of mineral resources hidden under its ice, as well as a respectable tourism industry driven by the vast Ice vistas and geyser oases. Imperski is also home to a number of industries that utilize the natural cold and near 1G gravity for specialized industrial processes.

Administration:
The Capellan Sector Authority.

• The Capellan Federal Senate: The on-paper ruling body of the Capellan Sector, the senate operates as a unified governmental organ for all the systems under the Capellan Sector Authority, elected by all of the worlds of sector and beholden only to the electorate. The Senateis headed by an elected President and complimented by a selected Speaker. The only true power the Senate holds is in its nominations for the Capellan high court system, which has not been interfered with by the Triumvirate, and in day to day affairs left to them.
• The State Congress: The State Congress are individual local parliaments that provide local representation to each individual planetary body or in some cases, orbital installation. These congresses vary in make-up or overall function but on average all serve as a point of representation for their respective worlds, and, in ideal situations passing concerns to the senate and making the needs of their electorate known. These organisations would also nominate their members for Confederate Parliament on Earth, with the nominations approved by the Senate. Most of these Congresses operate without Triumvirate involvement.
• The Triumvirate: The Triumvirate is an alliance between the Confederate Military, Confederate Civil Service and a small number of Corporate Concerns that function as the true ruling body of the sector. Representated by Admiral Vorontsov, Cabinet Secretary Adler and Executive Officer Wain. The Triumvirate has largely concerned itself with stability and development and has left most lower organs of government - which are arguably easily controlled by the Confederate Civil Service all the same - unmolested. Whilst the Sector has a President and stable cabinet, much of their agenda is set by the Triumvirate, though it has been a largely successful "partnership". Recent events leave much in the air, however.

Government Figures

Notable People:

• Admiral Vorontsov

  
  Admiral Ekaterina Vorontsov - born on Earth, yet raised in halls of power across the Confederacy. Vorontosov's parents ran a small corporation of their own, and consequently she was given insights into many aspects of the Confederacy and its workings from the inside - at the age of 18, she promptly joined the Confederate military, against her parents wishes, and never looked back. Widely regarded as competent and loyal to the ideals upon the Confederacy, and not without some talent, though not favoured or disfavoured by corporate backers, Vorontsov rose through the ranks slowly, eventually proving of sufficient worth to be placed in local command of Confederate Naval Forces in the Capella Sector. Seeing the decline of the Confederacy showing no signs of abating, Vorontsov took charge of the sector - though largely from behind the scenes, and has kept it largely stable and secure as the Confederacy crumbles. An eye for talent and ability to charm has gone hand in hand with this mission, Vorontsov all the same has had a somewhat on-off again relationship with the corporate powers, but needs must - and the institution of a convoy system for merchant traffic has been more than enough to win favour from corporations suffering from pirates as Earth-based authority has withered.
• Cabinet Secretary Adler

  
  A Lifelong Bureaucrat, Gustav Adler, if at times, uninspired, knows his way around both the civil service and the government structure of the Capellan Sector, proving invaluable in keeping it in line whilst also not overstepping his bounds. Able to exploit loopholes and close them at the same time, Adler has kept the sector's governing authority largely intact as darker times have descended. Picked out of obscurity by Vorontsov as the Triumvirate began to take its shape, Adler is fiercely loyal to the Admiral.
• Executive Officer Wain

  
  A concession Admrial Vorontosov would rather of not made, the Triumvirate required at least a notion of Coroporate complicity to function, and the Capellan Sector had, at least, a number of if not clean, at least tolerable corporate influences to choose from. Vorontsov didn't choose, and instead asked them to come together to pick a joint representative to "advise" during the times of unrest and difficulty throughout the confederacy. Stephen Wain, a corporate fixer, was their pick. Appointed as an Executive Officer in the largest corporate backer, Wain has been a largely amiable member of the Triumvirate, whilst protecting the Corporations he works for, for a healthy payment, of course, having no innate loyalty to any party and able to smooth over most issues has allowed the Triumvirate to function without the Corporations and the Confederacy coming to loggerheads.

Strengths:
A Competent Cadre: Much of the core personell making up the Confederate presence in the sector has been carefully rejuggled and placed in positions to ensure the greatest effectiveness of the forces available to Admiral Vorontsov. While some lacking still retain their positions, adjustments in authority and a large amount of deployment and non-deployment mandatory training has sharpened up the core of Vorontsov's forces, with even those lacking not being entirely hopeless. Frequent live broadcasts and personal visits by the Admiral has also ensured a sense of collective and loyalty to the Admiral, which cannot be understated.

Autarkic Unit: The Capellan Sector produces much of what it consumes, with only a few goods not produced in large enough quantities or some luxury goods not available in the sector, consequently, its economy has been largely isolated from the woes of the Confederacy, though it has also taken much gruelling redrawing of prior plans to ensure this has remained the case. As such, the sector is capable of experiencing near term growth rather than contraction, though as other systems suffer this may change - however, for now, this leads to much needed stability.

Convoy Ahoy: The implementation of old and simple tactics like a convoy system has seen a large reduction in merchant shipping lost to hostile illegal forces operating in confederate space. This has kept the economy of the sector ticking, and even ensures the continued flow of vital goods to confederate worlds that are less secure. This has given a boost of credibility with the corporations, and legitimacy for Admiral Vorontsov's command.

Weaknesses:
Infrastructure Woes: While the Capella Sector has ample civil infrastructure for the majority of its needs, its military infrastructure is lacking. There are no yards capable of constructing military vessels and there are no yards capable of undertaking effective retrofit or large-scale repair work, and all maintenance must be done by crews operating from limited installations. Capella does possess the ability to remedy this situation, though it requires time.

Two Governments: The Capella Sector is a place of two governments, Whilst the Triumvirate nominally controls all functions of the government, it truly only legally has authority over confederate installations and military matters. While the senate remains on side, this is not an issue, yet Vorontsov's refusal to "cross that line" and outright control the sector judiciary and government wholesale leaves avenues for forces to act against them.

Purged?: With the Confederate weakness has come the appointment of those not suited to the task to positions of importance, and whilst the highest echelons of confederate authority have managed to avoid this fate, numerous positions have not. The Triumvirate has carefully maneuvered its own people into ideal locations, and it is likely that any further fracturing of confederate authority will lead to the arrest or re-assignment of individuals on a wholesale scale, which will take the Sector's limited academies time to fill.

History: WIP?

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