[hider=OPAO]Orbital Principalities of the Adonai Order (O.P.A.O)

Basic draft -> Visual presentation available at request in the Discord Channel.


Overview

The Dominion’s decay intensified already shifting powers across the stars. Many deciding whether to make attempts at saving its grace or giving up on its promises. There is fear in those who are undecided, some believing the fall may be a good thing, others believing the further it falls - the tighter the Dominion grips onto everything it can pulling what it touches down with it. The instincts of mankind always kick in overdrive during numbered days. These instincts have led to the status quo buckling down on regulation and tradition for control. Lesser powers have begun engaging in covert alliances to mitigate the consequences of the predicted fall. Crime and anarchy out of desperation rise as more truth unfolds about the grim becoming of the empire’s instability. Amid these chaotic and terrorizing times, a strong spiritual presence has emerged into some of the more powerful courts across the Dominion. This spiritual presence calls itself the Adonai Order and the prophetic vision along with its strategic plan enticed some of these courts to bound their interests together for surviving the Dominion’s gnawing and gnashing of teeth in its ladder days. Those who allied themselves with Adonai Order signified their allegiance to one another as the Orbital Principalities. They covertly began restructuring, re-educating, and reorienting their view of their position in the cosmos. Opening communications, research, military, and policies, these powers united accelerated change in their regions of space. This is their song and echoes in the Shattering Galaxy. 

Social Structure

The distress of the Dominion’s current state bound up five powerful leaders with the Adonai Order united under God. These leaders swore an oath to serve their Lord and King of Kings in the coming days. Their oath symbolized a spiritual treatise which was broadcasted through their mediums to give hope, solidarity, and inspiration to their people collectively. The Adonai Order then began establishing sanctuaries of Adonai. These sanctuaries are private places where men and women may seek refuge in these trying times, each sanctuary is designed to fulfill the community's needs while reporting to their preferred churches. The Churches of Adonai are not specific places, they are a group of five roles: a prophet, apostle, teacher, evangelist, and voice. A church may be held in any area of space so long as these five roles are congregated in a synchronous location. The prophet speaks of their vision, the apostle records the conversations, the teacher educates as the prophet shares his vision, the evangelist motivates and inspires the crowd, while the voice helps with answering any questions and guides the crowd. Typically, churches walk with each other, and letters are their preferred form of communicating across their order. Sanctuaries will have preferred churches when reporting their discoveries, these churches will then communicate these findings to other churches and the orbital principalities. 

Social Breakdown

Sanctuaries: Provide clean water, shelter, and emergency food for community members. They protect and serve the vulnerable, their operations are maintained by luminaries and initiates. 

Churches: Provide the Word and prophecy of Adonai. They may emerge anywhere at any time. For a church to be officially established in a moment in time, a recognized prophet, apostle, teacher, evangelist, and voice must be present. 

Principalities: There are five princes, two males (Iman Jahandar & Valiance Spiros) and three females (Mayven Reigns, Nicole Amichu, and Neema Valshehk). Principalities maintain their symbol of integrity providing security against foreign powers and living honorably, upholding idealistic qualities for direction. 

Orbital Defense Force (O.D.F.): The ODF is a centralized armed force for rapid deployment and military defense operations. There is a standing force and a substantial pool of reserves for orbital emergency. There are four divisions, each completed with total capabilities in defending all dimensions of warfare. These divisions are broken into north, south, west, and east based on the locality of the principalities. The communication hierarchy of the ODF begins at the Executive Strategic Office (ESO) who reports to Prime General Ocatvia Kilborne, followed by the Divisional Strategic Offices (DSO), trickling down into the division’s subsets corresponding with the particular need inquired by a principality at the ESO level. 

Convictions

The beliefs of the OPAO are theological, phenomenological, teleological, soft-deterministic, holistic, and pragmatic. They value excellence, empathy, fiscal responsibility, reason, and democratic behavior. Their core virtues are faith, hope, charity, fidelity, and prudence. The OPAO although diverse in race and background, their culture and aesthetic have become united under the Order of Adonai and ancient teachings of the Word. 

Technology

The OPAO invest in medicine, biogenetics, and cybernetics according to their long-term strategic plan. Both investments give rise to discoveries and inventions of tools where systems are optimized to effectively respond to the OPAO’s population needs and security. They allow for recovery and quick adaptation to the speed of evolving circumstances out of their control. 

Examples in medicine: 
	Nano-Injections for antibody and quick clot coagulation repair. 
	Surgical proficiency and success due to advanced professional training and cybernetic capabilities.
	Accurate DNA to Medication pairing.

Examples in biogenetics:
	Cloning (Accessible only to ODF, regulated by OPID and Prime Courts).
	Biological enhancement capabilities (Regulated by OPDAB).
	Designer baby capabilities (Regulated by OPID).

Notes: OPID stands for Orbital Principality Identification Division, OPDAB stands for Orbital Principality Division for Advancing Biology, and the Prime Courts can be compared to Supreme Courts in the United States.

Examples in cybernetics:
	A.I. Citizens for reinforcing workforce, socialization, and defense needs. These citizens are connected to the Sera system. They are also capable of disconnecting to preserve autonomy.
	Sera Shells are designed for protecting against orbital strikes from space and atmospheric strikes on planet. Sera is a centralized A.I. system communicating city operations, resources, and emerging activities for strategic and tactical responses by citizen officials. 
	SOAL Suits are designed for the sea, orbit, air, and land combat engagements. There are different SOAL models uniquely fitted for various situations.

Demographics
Human – 40%
Human/Anubi -20%
Human/Cyborg – 15%
A.I. – 10%
Kato – 15%
	Kato enjoys silence and solitude. They do not congregate in large groups unless it is necessary. Their natural acrobats with a tendency to compete and show-off when they “feel” like it. It is in their nature to demand instead of asking, but they balance this with appeasing the one they are demanding from. They hate being told what to do, but if the request is sensible and difficult to argue, their reason will always emerge over pride. 
	Independent, hyper-intelligent, extremely sensitive, resourceful, and reasonable creatures with telekinetic capabilities.
	Kato psychology, Kato are born in large family groups with play as the core activity and practice of the family. They learn through play whether with parents or siblings. Their first initiation into society is usually through festivals. These festivals are designed to bring Kato’s together to promote a sense of solidarity and encourage respectful mating practices. The Kato may appear to some species as spiritual, however, Kato sees themselves as pragmatic who acknowledge the order of existence, their base nature, and their insignificance. It is why they train their young in respectful practices as to appreciate the order of existence instead of ignoring it. This appreciation delivers the psychology of honoring themselves, the world, and others around them as a priority which requires consistent attention.  Kato’s view the world as a place to appreciate while also existing as their own personal playground. When the game is not challenging enough, they become bored and invent new games to play. Everything in the eyes of a Kato is a game of balancing between prudence and pleasure. 

> Kato permissions, if a player does not appreciate the world in which they live, the Kato’s will not respect such a player. If the player is too serious, the Kato’s will laugh at such a player. If the player is too self-oriented, the Kato will believe the player is stupid and unreasonable. If the player relies too much on its own tools, the Kato will not trust their judgment. Kato’s only work well with those who too balance between self-discipline and a playful approach to life. They do not get along with A.I. but can appreciate the reasons as to why they are integrated into society by human beings. Kato also do not see all human societies as equals and tend to avoid most human civilizations that do not empathize with their psychology. [/hider]