[hider= The City State of Sanctii]

Faction Name:
Guardians of Sanctii and Her Illustrious Holdings

Faction Overview/Concept: 
Located in the frozen wastes outside of the borders of Northern Ursh, the City State of Sanctii is a massive hive city poised on the edge of a great rift in the earth. It has stood defiant against Ursh invasions for as long as the city has kept records of itself, and stands as a shining beacon of progress and science in the Northern lands drawing many a wayward and weary traveler to its curtain wall.

Sanctii operates on a parliamentary council system, with matters of state being proposed and debated at length high atop the central spire and the effects of these decisions being felt as far down as the foundations of the hive. Its people enjoy a standard of living seen only rarely amongst the warlord nations and lone hives of Terra. Food, water, and animal meat is in abundance, due in part to ancient automated mechanisms deep within the hive that provide all manner of genetically modified and strengthened crops and animals for consumption above. Medicine is plentiful, as the hive has a thriving pharmaceutical industry that trades regularly with the Terrawatt Clans to the west, and less frequently with the Selenite Gene-cults of Luna.

This same pharmaceutical industry is also responsible for the purity of the hive, gene therapy, widely learned from and improved upon in many ways from the Selenite methods is widespread, and in many lower areas of the hive it is mandated to stave off aberration and mutation. Among the middle and upper class within Sanctii, gene modification is taken to extremes of beauty and tastefulness. This occurrence extends even to the defenders of Sanctii, the Council providing gene therapy and enhancement to even the lowliest of its defenders. The renown of these defenders is well known to Sanctii’s neighbors, who fear their hulking and deadly defenders.

While the gene therapy of Sanctii lends much of the bite to the cities defenses, it is the massive technological gap that exists between Sanctii and all of its neighbors that has seen it survive so far. Like the ancient mechanisms that keep the city fed and supplied for, Sanctii possesses a considerable  cache of Standard Template Constructs practically unheard of in size among all of Terra. Although the exact number of STCs and their specific patterns is a closely guarded secret, it is no surprise to any that visit the city, and especially not to any that have attempted to take it, that the weapons of war Sanctii maintains are both lethal and enduring. Disintegration guns and advanced enclosed carapace armor is standard issue amongst even the lowest of defenders, while weapons and armor only increase in protection and lethality as the ladders of the cities defense force is climbed.

Faction Assets: (Brief Overview of their Strengths/Capability)
- Thriving Pharmaceutical and Gene Tailoring Industry
- A sizeable cache of STCs (Presumed by outsiders to be in full working order)
- Standing professional and genehanced army of 650,000 with an additional reserve of 100,000 and militia numbering close to 1.1 million.
- Capable of stellar travel in limited scale (No further than Luna)


Key Characters:
Yurij Arturovych Yarov - Prime Minister of the City State of Sanctii
Deep Winter - Central Administrator
Nina Kuzmenko - Keeper of the Keys
Stefan Popov - High Negotiator of Sanctii and Her Illustrious Holdings
Vadym Yaroslav - Commander of the 51st Genehanced Guards Assault Brigade

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