[hider=The Great Resurrection (WIP)]

[center][h2]The Great Resurrection[/h2][/center]
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[b]Brief Description: [/b]
Rising from the Imperial northwest, an area relatively untouched by the Zuukid invasion, the Resurrectionists represent one of the largest departures from the Imperial ‘norm’ in recent history.  The movement at large posits that the downfall of Humanity was a result of an ideological degradation brought about by the popular adoption of alien cultural and religious beliefs which were fundamentally incompatible with the Human psyche.  In an effort to remedy this the movement looks to revive the ancient cultural and religious practices of the Human race.  To this end Resurrectionists seek out, often fanatically so, any and all records of ancient humanity whether they be digital, text, or artifacts carefully preserved for millennia.  The political entity of the Resurrectionist movement, or the Resurrectionist State, has pursued their goal of ‘reviving of the Human spirit’ ardently, and often at the expense of whatever ‘dissolute’ species has gotten in their way.

[b]Claim:[/b]
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[b]Government:[/b]
The Resurrectionist movement began as a loose alliance of like minded states, and even now that is the movements desired political end.  For now though, sacrifices must be made to rebuild the Human spirit.  The Resurrectionist government is best described as oligarchic, with key ‘councils’ being tasked with the administration of everything from the Military to the reconstruction of ancient religions.  While there may be hundreds of these councils, there are a few that stand above all the rest in the rather impromptu hierarchy that has developed within the movement.

At the very top is the State Council, a small group of five tasked with resolving disputes between lower councils, dissolving and forming councils, and providing the final say in all decisions that may affect the entire movement.  Its members serve lifetime terms, and their replacements are ostensibly elected by the lower councils.

Of course, those elections are largely decided by the councils immediately below the State Council.  These are, in order of importance, the Military, Ideological, and Economic councils.


[b]History:[/b] 
When the Zuukid invaded the Orion empire they never so much as touched the Imperial northwest, and this was something every refugee knew.  The billions that tried to settle in that untouched region nearly broke it.  By the time the empire proper had collapsed in totality the newly independent western provincial governments were struggling to even feed their people, let alone protect them from the depredations of pirates and barbarians.  In the midst of that chaos the seeds of the Great Resurrection were sowed.  Human communities in the Northern Cygnus Republic were the first to act, seizing the government and turning its remaining guns on their new neighbours.  Those early butcheries paved the way towards the creation of a proper ideology, and by the time the non-humans of the Republic’s capital worlds were fleeing in their masses the philosophy of Resurrectionism was being spread by Elias Daley.

What was a disorganized military government became the State Council, lead by the founder of the states new ideology.  The Great Resurrection had begun, and once Elias had stabilized the former Republic’s core worlds he looked elsewhere.  Advocates were dispatched to lead popular Resurrectionist movements across the Cygnus arm, and ships were built to support them.

War followed, and in victory countless alien innocents murdered.  Before long the Resurrectionists were simply parking ships in the orbit of already collapsing planets and demanding the departure of those planets alien populations.  Many fled, those who didn’t suffered, but for the Humans who remained there came a time of plenty.  Ancient culture was brought back and all manner of customs and religions flourished, the adherents of each one finding each other brothers aligned against a common enemy.

Elias would die in his office as an old man, but by then the wave he started had become a tsunami.  The Great Resurrection was no simple reactionary rebellion, but an ideology espoused by billions who owed their full stomachs and peaceful lives to it.  For more than two centuries nearby states suffered Resurrectionist rebellions, both peaceful and violent, as the movement exported its ideology alongside its firearms and warships.  Those who joined the fold willingly were welcomed, and those who did not were educated.

The largest victory in centuries came sixty years ago when the powerful Nevin Regime suffered a Resurrectionist coup.  In a day the movement nearly doubled its territory.  What followed was predictable, the attention it gained was not.  For the first time the galaxy, now finally recovering from the shock of the empires collapse, took notice of the Resurrectionists.  The Neo-Scorpine Empire, who had bordered the Nevin Regime, was appalled by what it saw.  The slaughter of Scorpine civilians on former Regime worlds by Resurrectionist soldiers saw the Neo-Scorpine Empire launch a preemptive strike against the Resurrectionists fifty years ago, and for two decades it looked like the vile Resurrectionists were being pushed back.

Thirty years ago that changed.  Markus Lahti, an admiral in the Resurrectionist Navy, invaded a nearby independent state to bypass the Neo-Scorpine front, and to the galaxies surprise manged to reach the Empires industrial worlds before a response could be mounted.  The Neo-Scorpine front collapsed as the pincer closed on it, and soon nearly the entire Scorpine Navy was burning.  For twenty eight years the Resurrectionists have pushed into Scorpine territory, capturing planet after planet, their advance heralded by enormous waves of refugees fleeing a massacre.  

Two years ago the Scorpine managed to halt the Resurrectionist advance, but at a great cost.  It is clear to the galaxy at large that the Neo-Scorpine cannot reclaim their territory, but with nearly a quarter of the Resurrectionist forces encircled a limited peace may well be within the Scorpine’s grasp.  For the Resurrectionists everything depends on opening the pockets and cutting the Scorpine core worlds off from the rest of their empire, never have the stakes for both sides been so high.

[b]Military:[/b] 
(This being a Nation RP, go at least somewhat in depth. Don't just say you have a really good military, explain the various vacets of it, and the military's place in society.)

[b]Religion/Culture:[/b]

WIP

[b]Demographics (Species):[/b] 
92% Human (Citizen)
8% Assorted Species (Non-Citizen)

[b]Characters:[/b] 
(You don't need to go that in depth in the NS, but once we get to IC, definitely have them fleshed out, at least mentally.)

[b]Relations:[/b] 
(Talk to people! This section in NRPs often goes neglected, but it's important for other characters making their own NSs.)

[b]Habitation:[/b] 
(How and where people live; preferred modes of transportation, stuff like that) [/hider]