The Drama of Civilization(Lore,History,Culture,and Tech)

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The Passage into the space age:
The Home planet which most humans originate from is Vauri-ten-kauri-Vak(Water,rock,wind,and fire). this term originating from one of the first religions, roughly translated Genesis. The religion of Genesis is a rattling one at that, its scripture telling of the origin of man, not from the planet itself but from space. It talked of the Sentries(robots?) whom gave birth to humans in iron wombs, and were then taught the way of Knowledge and wisdom; they were also fed with white balls of energy. But to the disdain of the sentries, the humans grew wicked and evil, pushing away the knowledge and wisdom presented. They were lured by the red glowing demon to destroy all that the ancestors had given them, and afterwards scattered across the world in a pilgrimage of reconciliation. With a strong religious background to push for space in multiple human societies on Vauri-ten-kauri-vak; most nations of the planet  pushed to see who could reach the furthest from earth; hoping to gain the most prestige. However most humans died trying, becoming martyrs and heroes. This push for technological advancement held scientists and great thinkers alike to become priests to the public, ironically this presented some hold-backs in the long run, however humans filled with strife and war were able to create space born objects by 35,000 years; much faster than their ancestors race to space. As time went on humans conducted tests and found that 75% of  the planets species were unnatural including themselves by 23,489 A.P.(After Pilgrimage). On 36,789 A.P. the first space elevator, constructed of hyper-silica formations was built and attached to 5 space yards, a great achievement for humanity and furthering the speed of mining and colonization of the solar system. However in 36,795 A.P. a group of cultist, the "Red Demons" destroyed the the space elevator with a nuclear war-head, no one is sure how they sneaked in the device but it caused the superstructure to fall on the planet bellow killing millions. However after a Religious Rally the planets nation's once again sanctioned the rebuilding of the space elevator, taking another hundred years to build it. During the reconstruction of the space elevator a probe was sent to Zerodica, a once out of range planet hiding amidst the asteroid belt, but by now they had the resources and experience to navigate such a obstacle. Once the probes reached the planet they started to navigate it in lanes of visual and radio contact, mapping each inch of the planet, by 3,865 A.P. one of the probes fell out of contact, the trail of satellites leading from the planet into the asteroid belt detecting nothing. However a day later a packet of information was sent back showing the probe falling into a vast hole in the planet completely smooth and hollow.

The information was released to the public and the Genesis Scientist community cried out for a manned exploration by the church. Due to a large mob upheaval on the nations hands if they didn't, they let the Genesis religion win giving permission for a team of Genesis scientists to survey the unnatural depression. This expedition came to the bottom of the pit, finding a strange vault door, at the middle of it there was a human hand depression, so one of scientists pressed their hand against it. The vault door opened and they found a data-base, at the first chamber they were required to speak aloud their language to be scanned by a human universal translator, the scan was successful; it explained the occurrence of human life on Vauri-ten-Kauri-Vak, long ago a large space-Embryo-Colonization-Ship or S.E.C.S. was sent to the fertile planet, terra-forming was oversaw by a group of robots introducing new species in the environment to fill the niches required for human life to be maintained. Afterwards the main ship computer gave verification for the robots to begin human production. Afterwards the main ship deposited the very vault itself named"Dead Drop" was shot into the planet bellow. Then the ship rammed itself into the bright sun. The technological database was infact mostly originated from the DNA of humans a clear message was shown at the first sentence before the endless stream of technological data was presented, it plainly said "Beware, the Children of Chaos". The AI went on to saying that the technological data was completely uncoded and ready for examination, but there was a hitch. Due to the dangerous and enigmatic properties of some of the technologies, the ancestors had put multiple blocks on the more high tier technologies, the new humans would have to solve the algorithms to unlock even one piece of data.

Once the caretaker of the Dead Drop had explained the situation it opened its facilities to the Genesis scientists, they found whole manufactoties able to create entire ships, and almost anything from the planets ore deposits that the Dead Drop was embedded into. The Genesis scientists for almost a year were locked in the laboratory, unlocking several algorithms, infact by luck the first technology they had been working on for that whole year was  a rearrangement of neural path ways to fully utilize the human brains true potential, increasing reflexes, mathematical understanding and performance, and memory, this was the first technology they were able to unlock and implement. For the next half of a year they were able to make amazing breakthroughs in technologies, as the first Decanters they started to realize the further they went into the data-base the more dangerous it became for the now alien society of Vauri-ten-kauri-vak, the worse the consequences if their old kin got a hold of such new technologies. For all this time now they were able to hold off the rest of human civilization with threats of booby traps and kill-switch thrusters aimed at the moon, but the early Decanters knew that they had to act soon or it would be to late. So they created a ark meant to travel in space and keep them alive for approximately a thousand years. With the present manufactories they were able to make servotoid robots meant for space construction. And within in a year they completed the ark. The nations of the worlds however attempted to reach Zerodica with the first military rocket ships to date, carrying aboard soldiers not ready for the horrors of vacuum combat. The early Decanters were able to easily shrug off the assailants, and threatened planetary bombardment if the nations joint-opted again to attack them in space. And so the world sat and watched as the spectacular first interstellar ship built by the Decanters drifted through space, the kilometer long ship gleaming in the sun-rays like a spire of divinity piercing the stars.

The after-shock and return of the Decanters:
With the interstellar ship leaving by 2 A.D.D. (After Dead Drop) the nations of the world mustered a expeditionary force to hopefully find the dead drop. However when they found the site it was a completely empty as if the Dead Drop had not existed, with only the groves and outlines of the facility engraved into the deep bedrock. After the report the world was shocked at the action of the Genesis scientists and panic ensued, afraid of an apocalypse approaching, or the Genesis Scientists returning to wipe them out. The mad riots drove most nations into civil wars, the peoples believing they had no protection from their current governments. Then like the dominos of a civilization falling, the solar system was driven into war key points of resources fought over, crude ships stuck together for the purpose of suicidal bombings on facilities. It was a brutal affair by 500 A.D.D. billions had died in the fighting setting a new high record in the text books. However on 532 A.D.D. the once forgotten Decanter ship had returned to the solar system, the last surviving satellite telescopes detected the a interstellar mass approaching, and found out that it was actually slowing down. Most feared an alien invasion, the last of the nations drew together a arsenal of interplanetary fusion warheads(Btw we have those today, aka Thermo-Nuclear warheads) and drew together a fleet of substandard ships to distract the approaching mass. However the scopes lost sight of the Vessel and no contact was made visually, until the large ship hovered directly over the planet of Vauri-ten-kauri-vak the planet was shocked news nets showing the glowing spire in the sky, and then the Decanters announced themselves to the Solar system addressing their demands to take over the system, resistance futile, however the public supported this seeing that their nations had degraded into mindless chaos only momentarily pulled together by the advancement of Decanters. And so supposedly a golden age started, the whole solar system rebuilding itself from the ashes of the great dissrest that had ensued for over five centuries. The new government was known as the Decanterate, indeed this government was contained in the ship now known to be named "Pinnacle's Touch", it meerely oversaw the reconstruction of over local governments providing advice and technology to help them cope with the problems of nuclear wastes, and lifeless zones. At 655 A.D.D. great progress had been made technologically and otherwise, culture had started to swell and with a total of now 8 trillion humans in the system, things were stable and well. However a great scandal had occurred, known to most has the Shadow Fiend incursion, a violent group in the past the "Red Devils" had concocted with high technological data on human modification had created assassination agents that could change their DNA and other features of their bodies to get close to their targets, at this threat the Decanters were unable to do anything about it at first, these genius machinations completely invisible, until their target had been eliminated. Countless leaders started to be slaughtered; but in 666 A.D.D. a decade later, the Agency of Blood Works(ABW)  was established, it took the blood of the subjects and examined their blood system for any chemical agents related to getting your DNA completely redone. Another sign was found by peculiar scar marks on any of the blood cells indicating a rapid change in cell structure, these marks last up to 3 years. The ABW struck many Shadow Fiends before they even got 1000 feet of their intended targets becoming a great success. On 698 A.D.D. the Decanterate had built the only Decanter station throughout Human civilization, named the Enigmatic Light. It is a fortress that still stands today, completely self sufficient and guarded with incredible technology perhaps millions of years beyond the current norm of human technology.
In 699 A.D.D. the Decanterate announced it would hold solar system wide election for a new government, due to the fact that most of the remaining Decanters would be leaving. This election was perhaps the most bloody and vile election held in Human history, almost 120,000 humans died alone due to assasinations, bombings etc. however in the end by 700 A.D.D. there was a victor in the popular vote, and the Andoron Republic(named after the founding father who as unfortunately assinated) was established containing 100,000 senators representing the multiple settlements of human life in the Solar system. The ship "Pinnacle's Touch" was off never to be heard of to today. Then in 711 A.D.D. the Decanter Shipyard finished construction of the first Engine template, and was presented to the Republic it was meant for the construction of a colony ship that would head towards the cordinates supplied by the Decanters. However the first engine template was destoryed when the Andoron Republic tried to reverse engineer it, it subsequently exploded and a singularity formed that devoured itself instantly leaving no trace of the engine. The Decanters presented another engine template mockingly to the embarrased government, and this time they followed instructions. Then in 723 A.D.D. the ship went off carrying 5 million passengers off into the heart of deep space, they arrived 50 years later in 773 A.D.D most of the colonists coming out of stasis and heading to the new planet bellow via shuttle. Up to 1300 A.D.D. another 4 colonies were established, the first colony named Celthrist(meaning Frozen waste land, it was named this due to the fact by the time they reached there volcanic ash filled the atmosphere dropping the temprature, after 5 years it dissappated. Celthrist is reknown for its great caverns bellow the ground, there are many complexs named "Shadow Depositories" which are off the book storage complexs that are highly gaurded. To this day most authorities and their attempts to infiltrate such vaults have been futile.), the second Salandora(named after the female doctor who saved the planet from a plague, Sarah Salandra. Became the breadbasket world of the colonies, due to the suns powerful ionic radition, it was harmful to humans, but greatly benificail to plants.), the third Cailora( a planet famous for being a barren wasteland with the only life and water being undergorund; it turned into a penal colony after the first intestellar civil war), the fourth Vouthiest ( a planet rich in silicates and titanuim, it is a major trade center and construction planet), and the fifth Andocari ( the planet itself is covered by a xeno-metropolis, it is a major population and research center, the largest planet out of all human settlments).

The beginings of the great instellar civil war:
It was 1567 A.D.D. and the 5 colony systems were growing, the amount of ships had steadily increased to 50 intestellar ships, with 40 of them being commercail ships, such as mining, trading, or passenger ships. Another 4 being repurposed colony ships, and 6 warships meant for protection, one ship in each system of the Andoron Republic. It was well known that two colonial alliances had formed between the colony bureaucracies. The first was the Salandra Triumivate, it included Salandora, Celthrist, and Cailora; the alliance was named as such since the Salandra family, reknown for saving Salandora from a terrible plague had become politicaly influentail, they founded the alliance basing their ideas and policies on that went against Genecism believing that some technologies had to be banned that invaded the privacy or rights of a human being. The second alliance was H.I.S.A(Human Insurance for Survival Association), it included Vouthiest and Andocari; they supported the idea of human survival at all costs, these two planets were alot more aristocratic then the other alliance, it supported policies that leaned towards population control through chips etc., however Andoron Republican regulations stoped such acts from happening allowing only tracking chips to be installed. In 1568 A.D.D. a crisis occured, for the first time a citizen from Celthrist was being forced to have an tracking chip installed before entering Andocari to go on with his buisiness. This caused a crisis with the two allainces, it started with the Salandra triumivate sumply asking for the return of the citizen, when H.I.S.A. refused saying that their citizen had objected to their law and would face charges in their courts, then the Salandra Truimivate threatened with martial action taking their re-outfitted colonizer ships  and preparing them for war. The Andoron Republic could do nothing but watch, the H.I.S.A. reacted first sending one of their ships to Cailora, when Cailoran observitories detected the incoming ship 30 years later in 1598 A.D.D. the Salandra ships moved in to prevent the capturing or damaging of Cailora. However the HISA ship arrived before any Salandra ships could arrive in 1624 A.D.D. When the Salandra ships arrived in 1658 A.D.D. the HISA ship stood in orbit, it tight beamed a warning message that if the Salandra ships ever engaged the HISA ship that it would bombard the planet with Fusion warheads. The Salandra ships closed in for the kill, however the HISA ships did as they promised bombarding half of Cailora into a radioactive wasteland. The Salandra ships won with heavy losses, being that the ships themselves were armed with technology that was inadequate when compared to HISA armaments. When the rest of civilization heard of this the Andoron warships closed on the HISA planets, the leaders were captured ending the seemingly short lived civil war. Cailora was practicaly destroyed with 1.2 billion dead and 300 million evacuated. Cailora was then deemed a penal colony with all the criminals and the HISA hiearchy being jailed to the planet.

Rise of the Ultras:
After the great civil war 1629 A.D.D., the hierarchy of HISA was all in shambles, but there was one family still standing, the Ultras of Andocari; they had power but nothing to do with it, their former days of glory destroyed by government overwatch. They grew weary, they were subjugated to domestic attacks at their home, and with the government preventing them from receiving any security in the fear that they would use for military purposes. The Ultras grew sick of it they had lost family to this outrage,  so they drew up a plan, one that would go down in history. They bought fake I.D.s and installed new ident chips and removed the old ones; it was meant for the year 1838 A.D.D. when the great civil war would start to fade from the minds of authorities and citizens alike. They barricaded themselves in the bottom of the great spire they called home, going into sleeper caskets. They had scheduled a rescue by black market agents in 1838 A.D.D. the perfect deal no records no sweat. In 1838 A.D.D. they woke up to a new world, new technology, but one thing remained, their vast amount of resources. Their true names all but erase except for in the text books, they set out on their mission. To seek retribution against the Andoron republic, they drew up multiple para-military forces, and on 1839 A.D.D. known as the Ultra massacre, they boarded multiple passenger ships killing half the crew and load, then they set out for deep space 7 commercial liners never to be seen again. Since then pirates have popped out claiming to be "Ultras" stealing ships and setting out into deep space. There have been few expeditions, but of those few there have been reports of human civilization popping out on the verges of space.

Decanters:
Seemingly human but extremely intelligent, Decanters are now extremely rare and few in numnber among human civilization. Their long kept secrets on the verge of extinction to human kind.

Dream Reapers: a old rumor of a expert soldier/soldeirs that were long ago created by the Decanters as body gaurds, their minds were uploaded with expeirences of past soldier's lives whole liftimes absorbed in a few hours, also geneticaly modified to be absolutely strong and armed with cybernetic implants, its hard to believe they exist because they were never seen beside Decatners.

Tarantula:
a male human that uses extreme body modifications to make himself different, from the color of skin, to body paintings, elongation or modification of bone structure, etc.

Black widows:
same as tarantula except female.

Genescism, Genecists, Genestic:
belivers in the church of Genesis, most ussually scientists and scholars.

Hybrids:
are humans that are modified genetically, or cyberneticaly for enhanced performance in particular fields.

Zydenistic, Zydenism, Zydenist:
a secto of Genesis beliefs wherein it is believed that the road to purification lies in major modification of the body, geneticaly, cyberneticaly, roboticaly, or otherwise.

Red Demons:
a cult, now brenched into many sects wherein their objective is to destroy any or all types of technology, their most dangerous agents are, ironicaly hybrids.

Shadow Fiends:
Cooked up by Red Demon cults these modified humans can let all their hair fallout and grow a new color of hair in one day. Their whole bodyhas beend modified to conceal weapons of assasination. There has been reports of shadow fiends that can change their facial apperance by the use of interchanging face plates into different angles.

Blood Work Agent:
a person who works for the Agency of Blood Works, he anaylizes blood for any signs of genetic reconstruction.

Drop Stations:
places where black market enhancements can be applied to a person for the right price.

Chop shops:
places where black market organs are proccessed form sellers, or most commonly victims.


MRD (Mass Reaction Drive, aka Decanter Drive):
Nobody but the Decanters know how these these propulsion systems work, their have been attempts to scan the tanks feeding the thrust, but it seems empty.(btw I understand how it works but for rp purposes it it will not be apparent how the MRD works)

Fusion Accelerators:
A long gun tube armed with nodes of any fissile materials leading ot the end of the tube, a Boron Nitride projectile is loaded, and when fired, a chain reaction of fusion occurs. Propelling the projectile foward. In the proccess the gun tube stays together long enough for it to propell/direct the projectile but afterwards the gun is destroyed sometimes melting or even exploding(a rather recent weapon it has only been armed on one Andoron war vessel, the impact of this weapon is so strong it would be the equavilent of 5 fusion warheads exploding at the same time, making it a one shot one kill weapon).

Lasers:
these beams of light originaly meant to destroy incoming missiles are now only useful for paintings targets, or tightbeaming signals.

Mines: mines have their uses in space but need to be layed en-mass to even have a slither of oppurtunity to maim or disarm a ship.

Topredos:
these weapons are as deadly as fusion accelators, if used correctly, instead of countinually thrust, the torpedos uses enough thrust to reach a high velocity, afterwards wings are deployed, not for gliding but for hydraulic thrust adjustment. Use to readjust course midflight.

Dumfire Missiles:
used for point defense, these short range projectiles are meant to colldie with incoming enemy ordanace, to lessen or totalyy prevent collatoral damge. May also be used to fend off drones/fighters.

Flak Point Defense Systems(FPDS):
the most common source of point defense agianst torpedors and fighters alike, sprinkling a wall of explosions and shrapnel around your ship is your best bet for dense other than armor. However the amount of ammo required to create and effective wall is vast taking sometimes up to a quarter of ship's stores.

Armor:
the most used materail for armored space war fare is Boron Nitride, however it is much cheaper and effiecent to snadwich frozen liquids between metal plates, no need to heat the armor and less maintenece when the armor is damged by a projectile.


Andocari:
Andocari is renown for its traditions, the most prominent tradition, of being fruitful, infact most high class families have 300 children or more, using artificial wombs as a catalyst for their children, allowing them to have a larger birth capacity than previously thought possible. These families live in large alien skyscrappers now out fitted for human habitation, 20 children are given a floor, they will have 6 care takers, 3 maids, one cook, one teacher, and one garden caretaker. On each floor there is a bunk room, staff room, class room, dinning room, play room, movie room, and garden. Living in such large families, being contained to such small spaces for most of your life can have ill effects, infact most children would resent their parents, since they most usually never see them until they are older.
The solar system contains 4 major planets and 2 asteroid belts(one near the sun, the other on the edge of the solar system); Planets Zerodica(rock,Barren, in front of Vauri), Alterrat(gas Giant on edge of system), and Curilicia(small ice/rock planet; behind Vauri) populate the solar system.

A system well populated by 6 rock planets and 1 asteroid belt on the edge of the system. The sun is an average white star 2 times the size of the home system star. Talos is the outer planet on the edge of the asteroid belt, Haldoron is in front of the asteroid belt, Cardon is in front of haldoron, Celtrhrist is in front of Cardon, Ganon is in front of Celthrist, and Vernon is in front of Ganon.