Culture of the Novayan East Indies

The culture of the Novayan East Indies - regardless of which canon - is characterized by cultural and ethnic diversity combined with a Novayan-dominant culture that, upon intermingling with Aegialean culture, would give birth to the nascent Novayan East Indian culture that would appear within the span of a century; and is shaped by the history of the colonial military governorate, its celestial cartogeography, and various internal and external forces, the latter of which included the Novayan intervention in Alpha Asteropaios and the dissemination of Novayan cultural influence. The multiple ethnic groups and species of the now-dismembered Aegialean Empire had begun taking on a shared Novayan East Indian colonial identity-turned-national identity, and their cultures had been shaped by the celestial cartogeography and history of Alpha Asteropaios and the Aegialean Empire, and by millennia of interactions with local and regional powers.
==History==
==Cartogeography, ethnic groups and species==
==Novayan East Indian psychology==
A formal field interpreting Psychology as rooted on the experience, ideas, and cultural orientation of the Novayan East Indians, called Novayan East Indian psychology, was established in Eon-U 4SB9841.
===Values and virtues===
The distinct value and virtue systems of Novayan East Indians were, as a general description, deeply rooted within the former in personal alliance systems, especially those based in kinship, obligation, friendship, religion (particularly the Cult of the Loop and indigenous folk religions), and commercial relationships; and within the latter in Novayan militarism and the ethical code of the Novayan Armed Forces during the era of the Novayan Reform Movement, as well as bourgeois values such as honesty and frugality that were influenced by Pietism and the Enlightenment.
==Arts==
===Architecture===
Before the arrival of the Novayans, Aegialean architecture consisted of marble and stone structures reminiscent of ancient Greek, Roman, Egyptian, medieval European, Renaissance, Enlightenment, Chinese and Japanese architectures and more modern and urban structures. Traditional, classical, neo-traditional and neoclassical architectures also exist.
After the arrival of the Novayans and the subsequent dismemberment of the Aegialean Empire, Novayan architecture left an imprint in Aegialean and later Novayan East Indian society where many towns were designed around a central square. The dissemination of Novayan architecture have brought with it a more militarized form of civilian, cultural and traditional architectures: architectures imported from Novaya IV and Novaya III had seen Aegialeus IV and Aegialeus III transformed into a militarized urban world and a fortress world respectively. Because of the fact the Novayan East Indies is a militaristic state in addition to a vast colonial holding, such would make it very hard for pro-imperial groups to effectively besiege and take control of such worlds; their and the imperial remnants' plans to restore the Aegialean Empire had also been hindered by their use of hyperdrives which limited movement to hyperlanes, whereas the Novayan and later Novayan East Indian militaries utilize advanced Alcubierre Drives which provided freedom of movement, therefore bypassing the need to use hyperdrives. Despite this, Novayan East Indian cultural architecture preservation and conservation policies were enacted to ensure that the cultural and historical architectures were preserved and conserved while several mandates forced corporate entities to make do with what they have and adapt, having been prohibited from making known their business proposals to construct buildings that never fell in line with said conservation and preservation policies.
The dissemination of Novayan architecture had also resulted in the spread of the Novayan wehrbauer architecture that was present in the eastern quadrants of the Breach Commissariat and later megastructures, kilostructures and gigastructures that were commonly found throughout the Void minus the Peripheries. Due to the need to defend the southern, southeastern and eastern frontier regions and territories, a number of ringworlds, planetary defense nexi, planetary habitats, orbital habitats, orbital dockyards, drive yards, military academies, orbital arcologies, orbital elysiums, equatorial shipyards, and maginot worlds were built throughout multiple sectors had only one or few hyperlanes to and from the Novayan East Indian frontier systems; this was intentional, as the Aegialean remnants were adamant in refusal to change to any other FTL drives from their hyperdrives (which they consider superior to the more para/technologically-advanced and -superior Alcubierre Drives), which culminated in the destruction of many imperial remnant fleets at the hands of the now-powerful Novayan East Indian Navy. In other star systems, kilostructures, megastructures and gigastructures used to house peoples, produce resources and construct warships can also be found.
The wehrbauer architecture imported from the Breach Commissariat was also found in many frontier worlds, wherein each settlement of a frontier world was planned in advance and would comprise 30 to 40 farms, each of 121.5 hectares (300 acres); a party headquarters; a manor house for the colonial or party leader; an agricultural instruction centre; a house for a community nurse; a temple or equivalent, such as a church or a shrine; three community schools, with one being for young thaumaturges, one for witches/wizards/magicians, and one for all; a house or few for community magicians and thaumaturges; and a cinema. The houses of the settlement were to be built "as in the old days" - two or three stone courses thick. Baths and showers were to be available in every house. Contrary to popular beliefs, the wehrbauer communities does include provisions for churches, temples and shrines.