An alien species resembling Old Earth Avians that has adapated to life as a terrestrial grazer.
A system of databases that contained vast quantities of knowledge, most notably, blueprints, often packaged with fabrication units that enabled colonists on newly settled worlds to construct virtually anything they needed.
A group of scientists and engineers, credited with the development of the earliest generation of the Standard Build Templates and deified by Opus Dei.
Civilized Space is a major astrographic region located within relatively close proximity to the Sol System. Known to be home to many of the most advanced and prosperous societies in the galaxy.
The Stellar League was a galactic state that unified humanity in the latter days of the Age of Unity, from the end of the Third Great Human Civil War to the end of the Jred Scourge. . Its downfall marked the end of the Age of Unity, and the start of the
A person who has dedicated their life to an insurgent fight against a greater power.
A previous state that ruled humanity during the age of Unity from the signing of the New Solar Charter to the Third Great Human Civil War.
The Chang-Er is a small, relatively minor, but astrographically important system in the Pariah Sector.
Chang-Er is the primary world of the Chang-Er System; a relatively prosperous, though somewhat backwards agricultural world that has come to importance due to its strategic location.
The Sol Sector Forces were a conglomeration of Stellar League military units based in, or close to the Sol Sector during the final six centuries of the Age of Unity.
The Chang People's Liberation front is a Stelsoc insurgent group, and rebellious political entity fighting against the government of Chang-Er
A resident of the planet Chang-Er, Zhou Biao is a formidable commander in the CPLF
According to some, a fleet of ancient Sol Sector Warships, bereft of a human crew, drift silently in the void, pursuing some unknown objectives.
The HC-111 is a nuclear powered tractor designed by Hengsha Corn and built by its subsidiary HHC Heavy Industry.
The Staniza Massacre was a battle fought between the Stellar League and the Jred, and is widely regarded as one of the darker chapters for humanity during the Jred Scourge.
A class of ultralight warship that was produced in limited numbers by Dictys Luxury Shipyards. Initially utilized as an extremely advanced, and unusually ostentatious class of fast attack boats, it became known as a low profile VIP transport for admirals.
An advanced alloy developed as a superior form of Crystaliron, that is used in particularly advanced armors, and other materials that need a level of extreme resilience.
A barely understood field of Life Sciences that pertains to the ability of organisms to engage in direct mind to matter contact with the outside world.
An academic institution dedicated to teaching military history and military science both to civilians and to up and coming military cadets, particularly for the Bastion System itself.
An ideology originating from the Union of Sol that seeks to restore Earth to its ‘rightful’ place as the center of the galactic civilization.
Zang Dandong was a captain in Chang-Er's militia who was assassinated by mercenaries with high tech equipment.
The largest military alliance in the galaxy aligned against the growing power of the Stelsoc movement spreading throughout it.
An energy weapon conceived by Captain Dora of the Cincastrella Confederacy. Essentially a miniaturized plasma gun.
an economic system and ideology tracing its origins back to the late capitalist structures that dominated Old Earth in the last days of the Ancient Era.
Dora, or Captain Dora, is a Pardian artificial intelligence and experimental android created by CECIR, currently serving as a captain in the Cincastrella Navy.
A movement that rejects the institution of another galactic scale civilization, believing It is necessary, within Techno-Barbarian schools of thought for individual systems, or at most loose confederations of a few systems develop on their own.
A form of socialist theory, centered around adapting older socialist principles to the realities of interstellar civilization.
The Urean Kingdom is a Techno-Feudal state located at the frontier between the Urea Nebula, and wider Civilized Space.
A up and comer within the Parian military academy who had a promising career in the Navy before it came to a screeching halt, serving as aide de camp for Commodore Galvao.
The Song of the Jred is a Psionic resonance that can be heard in the presence of a Jred Collective.
The Alhaju Aleazim is a branch of Islam that arose as a result of the Great Cataclysm, that belives that Scourging of Earth was a Test of Faith and that humanity must come together in a Great Hajj to reforge the Kaaba on Earth to restore Allah's favor.
The Mesopotamia System is a settled, a major, relatively well developed system that serves as the nominal capital system of the Mensa League.
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