[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 ostensibly 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.  Among these important Councils there exists a constant tension, with each one trying to manipulate the greater goals of the Resurrection according to its own agenda.  

The Military council remains singularly focused on the war which has consume the nation for fifty years, and thus looks to hold total political power so that the war may be furthered without interference.  The Ideological council, more concerned with civilian affairs, looks to counteract the increasing importance of the Military council by implementing representative democracy and decentralized federalism wherever it can, both preparing for the dissolution of the Resurrectionist State and keeping the Military from dominating the Movements politics.  The Economic council tentatively supports the Ideological council in curbing the influence of the military, but has a much grander vision of the future; representative democracy, but no dissolution.  The Economic council seeks to preserve the Resurrections status as a somewhat centralized superstate, and while it supports the Ideological councils attempts to prevent a dictatorship it also sees the utility in a single powerful figure.  It has been said the Economic Council has its eye on Astrana as a potential model for a future Resurrectionist Government.  


[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] 
[hider=Planetborne Arm of The Great Resurrection]
[hider=Resurrectionist Infantry]
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The average Resurrectionist soldier is equipped with a Self Supporting Combat Suit (SSCS).  While not capable of enhancing a soldiers strength, the SSCS has been described as weightless due to its clever design.  The suit itself provides full body armour, NBC protection, and a sophisticated sensor suite feeding into a heads up display.[/hider]

[hider=Resurrectionist Heavy Combat Unit]
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A product of the Scorpine war, these six meter tall powered exo suits were developed to provide infantry armoured support in areas inaccessible to traditional tanks and IFV's.  A single Heavy Combat Unit (HCU) is no match for the powerful mechs employed by the Scorpine, but due to their low cost HCU's almost always outnumber their enemy counterparts. [/hider]

[hider=Resurrectionist Armoured Fighting Vehicle]
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Often mistaken for actual tanks, the Werewolf AFV is an enormous fighting vehicle.  Capable of carrying over a dozen soldiers, and armed with two rotary fifty millimetre cannons the Werewolf is a dangerous opponent for any enemy.[/hider]

[hider=Resurrectionist Heavy Tank]
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The Leviathan Tank, ironically, is about as large as the Werewolf AFV.  That said, the Levithan doesn't carry troops, it carries death.  Armed with a ninety five milimeter Hyper-velocity Railgun, short range guided rockets, an automatic grenade launcher, and more besides, the Levithan is a nightmarish amalgamation of the Great Resurrections latest weaponry. [/hider]

[hider=Resurrectionist Surface To Orbit Cannon]
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With two hundred millimetre Hyper-velocity Railguns capable of striking targets in orbit, or on other continents, the Revenant STOC is an important asset wherever it is deployed. [/hider][/hider]

[hider=Spaceborne Arm of The Great Resurrection]

[hider=Resurrectionist Dropship]
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The Iolaus class transport is above all else, stealthy and quick. Attrition rates among troops participating in initial landing were high early in the war with the Scorpine, and the solution proved not to be armour, but speed.  The Iolaus is designed to get in before it can be intercepted, and to get out only when the enemy air defences have been neutralized.[/hider]

[hider=Resurrectionist Fighter Bomber]
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The Odysseus fighter bomber is a multi-role craft, however in all roles it is intended to support other units.  Its internal bays can be fitted with Space to Space, Air to Air, and Air to Ground guided missiles that serve admirably at range and see use in both ground attack and fleet actions.  Its dual rotary cannons are used largely against other fighters or in support of ground operations.[/hider]

[hider=Resurrectionist Superiority Fighter]
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The Great Resurrection has historically used a number of air superiority craft, but the Bellerophon superiority fighter is likley the most successful.  This is, in part, because it was designed to simplify production and fill the role of all other superiority fighters in the Spaceborne Arm.  Agile in atmosphere and lightning quick in space, these fighters are designed to kill other strike craft and completely lack the ability to engage larger targets unless they equip powerful long range guided missiles, something rarely done due to its deleterious effect on fighter performance and thus survivability.[/hider]

[hider=Resurrectionist Corvette]
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The Foch class corvette is largely a scout and ECM vessel.  Often they are used for long range surveillance or special operations missions.  The Foch is largely incapable of proper ship to ship combat, lacking weapons beyond a CIWS suite and a forward mounted railgun. [/hider]

[hider=Resurrectionist Destroyer]
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The Hannibal class was designed to screen larger vessels from strike craft and light ships, and it does this admirably.  While most of the ship is dedicated to an immense CIWS suite Hannibal class vessels also have four dual gun turrets for engaging corvettes and destroyers.[/hider]

[hider=Resurrectionist Cruiser]
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The bread and butter of the Resurrectionist Spaceborne Arm is the Alexander class.  This venerable vessel was designed with one goal, fighting other capital ships and remaining in the fight as long as possible.  The Alexander is massively redundant, heavily armed, and used in masses to form the bulk of the Spaceborne Arm.[/hider]

[hider=Resurrectionist Carrier]
[img]https://img00.deviantart.net/61e3/i/2018/148/6/f/tau_ri_fleet__ellis_class_or_bc_304b_class_2055_by_scifidan96-dccugso.jpg[/img]
All navies need a carrier, and the Nelson class is The Great Resurrections response to this need.  Largely a back line vessel the Nelson isn’t designed for direct combat, thought it is far from unarmed.  Ideally the Nelson would use its large engine array to flee a battle on the verge of being lost, but if that is impossible these carriers are often able to punch above their wight class, even if not for long.[/hider]

[hider=Resurrectionist Battlecruiser]
[img]https://i.imgur.com/rsDjPZJ.jpg[/img]
The Napoleon class, once called the artillery of space.  Unlike most nations Battlecruisers and Battleships the Napoleon would be quite useless in close combat, but from range it is one of the most frightening ships in the galaxy.  If it can be protected by its fleet the battlecruiser is able to being a number of astonishingly large railguns to bear alongside a plethora of vast long range missiles..[/hider][/hider]

[b]Religion/Culture:[/b]

The Resurrection looks to revive all the pre-Imperial religions and cultures of Humanity, but in a way it has come to have its own distinct culture.  Elias Daley started the Resurrection by assembling and penning his interpretation of the many beliefs of the early anti-alien movements, and in doing so he founded an ideology that has come to be as important as religion to some.

Daley posited that the Human mind, even if modified through the use of technology, remains fundamentally Human.  As such, it could only ever be compatible with original Human thought.  Alien culture and religion were corrosive influences because, while the Human mind may be able to interpret them, on a basic level it could never accept them.

As a result, adopting alien beliefs and ideas would lead to a sort of subconscious cognitive dissonance taking hold of the Human mind.  Such dissonance would cause mental stress that if left unaddressed would result in complacency, laziness, mediocrity of all sorts.  No creature can function well under constant stress, and as a result what makes that creature great, its very spirit, would begin to wither.

In the end Daley sought to revive what he saw as the Human spirit.  The Empire was the first to attack it, and as a result it was doomed to fail when its populace became unable to properly defend it.  To the population of the Great Resurrection Daley’s theories are gospel, a sort of religion beyond religion.  The quixotic goal of the Resurrection and its people is the construction of a Human paradise where all can accomplish what they dream.

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

[b]Characters:[/b] 
[hider=Olivia Lahti][img]https://i.imgur.com/cut4aB4.jpg[/img][/hider]
[hider=Kaisa Lahti][img]https://i.imgur.com/0vWBFeR.jpg[/img][/hider]
[hider=Anton Lahti][img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/462290978347155457/464998309468045322/by_aimeeyon-d77yhvf.png[/img][/hider]
[hider=Abraham White][img]https://i.imgur.com/jMhyPC6.jpg[/img][/hider]
[hider=Lucien Gulliot][img]https://i.imgur.com/PBT38th.jpg[/img][/hider]
[hider=Mustafa Bahar][img]https://i.imgur.com/k31SFmJ.jpg[/img][/hider]
[hider=Jeremiah Thompson][img]https://i.imgur.com/Os2hvAJ.jpg[/img][/hider]
[hider=Anya Pushkina][img]https://i.imgur.com/7Aomkcf.jpg[/img][/hider]
[hider=Adilyn Tremblay][img]https://i.imgur.com/7T4cMaj.jpg[/img][/hider]
[hider=Evi Mayer][img]https://i.imgur.com/09VyM8u.jpg[/img][/hider]
[hider=Heidi Baier][img]https://i.imgur.com/SU7HTlE.jpg[/img][/hider]

[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]