Novayan Stellar Commonwealth

The Novayan Stellar Commonwealth, also known as the NSC, Norsoutha-Tomoshima Dynasty and Norsoutha-Tomoshima Military Dictatorship, is an extradimensional government that replaced the fascistic Greater Novayan Federation.
Ruled by the Norsoutha-Tomoshima dynasty, the hereditary military dictatorship rose as a result of the Great Sundering inflicted upon the GNF by the Worm-in-Waiting, replacing the pro-human, anti-xeno federation with a groundswell of overwhelming support, resulting in sweeping legal reforms that transformed the GNF into the NSC and capitalizing on pro-coexistence sentiments, diplomacy and (if diplomacy fails) military interventions to put an end to any tyrannical regimes and enlightening worlds.
The NSC stood unchallenged as the sole dominant power in the Void until the discovery of other minor extradimensional nations, especially the Saiyanese Federation, a democratic federation under an aristocratic directory which clung to the old ways before the Celestial Sundering and greatly opposes the NSC. Despite the cold war between the two extradimensional states no war erupted between them.
Today the Novayan Stellar Commonwealth is one of two major players in the Void, the other being the Saiyanese Federation. Led by Grand Marshal Borealis Norsoutha III, the NSC is involved in humanitarian operations and military interventions, with rarely a military invasion against a tyrannical planetary government. In spite of being a hyper-militaristic and materialistic society, the NSC solely relies on a highly-trained, highly-equipped military augmented by AI-equipped robots. In spite of its massive reserve force, volunteer-based military force and a well-oiled military-industrial complex, the NSC only involves itself in planetary invasions targeting totalitarian governments and maintains a net of several subordinate states and a planetary mandate of reconstruction and enlightenment. Due to the need of policing much of the Void and the outer regions, however, the voluntary military service the NSC created saw young men and women, most of them military reservists, deployed abroad outside of the NSC performing peacekeeping operations and humanitarian missions, its forces in the Outer Territories and Outer Regions bolstered by allied local militias, criminal groups, pirates, local volunteers, colonial troops and local police and military forces.
Currently, the Novayan Stellar Commonwealth had a presence in Galaxy Foxtrot-Foxtrot-Alpha, with three colonies and a significant military presence. On orders from Lord Admiral Borealis Norsoutha I, the NSC Armed Forces deployed large number of military personnel and military units to prevent another Sith Order and another Sith Empire from rising.
The Novayan Stellar Commonwealth is a member of the International Union of Void States and Indepol.
==History==
===Origins: from the GNF to the Great Sundering and Reformation===
After the the Celestial Sundering that created the Void and the Worm-in-Waiting, the Novayan people found solace in the Worm-in-Waiting, who took pity on them and became their patron god, which brought them to a newly-created world, Novaya IV, located in a star system the Worm created for them. The Novayan Commonwealth soon sent colonial expeditions to the distant regions of Novaya IV, were they establish colonies and establish trade and ties with native tribes. While some of the colonies became states, most declared independence from the Novayan Commonwealth, which forced the Novayan military to invade the independent colonies one by one, leading to a one-hundred year war known in Novayan history as the Novayan Planetary Unification Wars.
After the cataclysmic global conflict, the Novayan Commonwealth, transformed by the events of the war, transformed into the Greater Novayan Federation, which then began to colonize the rest of the Novaya system and its neighboring star systems. After three hundred years of expansion, it soon came into contact with alien races. Fearing they will attack them, the GNF expanded its territories and invaded the alien civilizations, subjugating them. Believing that there were more, the GNF began a rapid territorial expansion and militarization programme which led to the Zeroth Void War, a war lasting six hundred years. The war saw the destruction of civilizations and war crimes committed against alien species by the GNF, which soon led to the Worm-in-Waiting to ruin the GNF's worlds, bringing about the Great Sundering.
After the chaos of the Great Sundering, the GNF was ordered by the Worm-in-Waiting to reform upon seeing how toxic and virulently xenophobic the Novayan people have become, giving them two years to formulate the GNF's reformation and a core tenet it will approve. Two years later, GNF politicians, civilian leaders, religious figures, scientists and military officers came up with and provided proposals for the Worm-in-Waiting to read. The late return of General Daniel Norsoutha led to his passing of the Norsoutha-Tomoshima Manifesto, a proposal which came up with a monarchy-like military dictatorship and a core tenet inspired by Prussianism. The Worm-in-Waiting, seeing the manifesto and the core tenet General Daniel formulated, chose the Norsoutha-Tomoshima Manifesto and its core tenet as supreme and ordered the GNF's reformation based on the core tenet and manifesto, leading to the reformation of the Greater Novayan Federation, a racial supremacist totalitarian stratocracy, to the Novayan Stellar Commonwealth, a federal parliamentary constitutional republic and federal autocratic martial republic under a hereditary military dictatorship, with General Daniel becoming its first Grand Marshal.
===Expansion, war, and the First Void War===
The Novayan Stellar Commonwealth, believing in and seeing itself as the only civilized nation in the dark, vast oceans and seas of the Void and that there are civilizations that were more hostile, began its peaceful expansion and shared cultural assimilation and civilizing mission. It has seen wars within or near its borders, but its enemies were pacified and became part of the NSC, though some worlds require military occupations. The NSC's policy of peaceful expansion and colonization ended when war was declared against it by the Imperial Coalition, barbarian states, the Continental System, Greater East Void Co-Prosperity Sphere, and other civilizations. Allied with the Blue Stars Coalition and the Kingdom of Logres and Transamur Republic, the NSC fought against its enemies for eighty million years. The NSC used heavy-handed methods of winning the war - bellum se ipsum alet, heavy military spending, attrition warfare, usage of eigenweapons/thaumic weapons, conscription of enemy prisoners-of-war, exploitation of conquered territories, slave labor, plunder, the takeover of military and civilian industries, and establishment of reichskommissariats.
Though the NSC won the First Void War, annexing most of its enemies and setting up client states, puppet states, satellite states and vassal states, the experience of the war and its heavy-handed tactics traumatized and horrified the Novayans to the point its militarism have been quenched outright. The war also brought about pacifist movements forming in the NSC. The war, however, is only one of three wars which would bring change to the NSC.
===The Great Crisis===
Fifty years after the First Void War, the NSC's major banks experienced its major fall in stock prices, severely crippling the NSC's economy and, in tern, crippled much of the Void's nations. The cause of the Great Crisis included the lack of or minimal industrialization, an increased rate in unemployment due to the layings-off of jobless NSC military personnel, the closing down of industries in resource-rich areas, and the lowering of taxes. The crisis crippled the NSC economically until the passing of the Great Deal, which saw industries and mines being reopened, jobless NSC military personnel were given civilian jobs, trade deals between its allies and neutral nations, and the transition of a command economy to a free market economy. Most of its colonies were given autonomy, while individuals were hired to colonize worlds. Economic deregulation allowed NSC corporate entities, shunned by the entire NSC, to help stimulate the NSC economy. Some NSC military personnel who don't have jobs were permitted to establish new colonies or companies.
The effects of the Great Deal allowed the NSC to slowly rebuild its economy and allow it to open up new schools, hospitals, infrastructure, and industries.
===The Second Void War===
Although recovering from the trauma of the Great Crisis for seventy years, the NSC was not prepared for the advent of the Second Void War, which started when the Sarakan Empire, also known as the Neverending Glory Empire, began invading neighboring countries to expand and exploit territories all the while oppressing those it deemed not worthy of being a part of the Sarakan Empire. The NSC Navy deployed five fleets to Shock Harbor to deter the Sarakan Empire from ever attacking the NSC, while the Helvatian Federation, International Union of Armanya, and Confederation of Man cut off the Sarakan Empire's import of resources. The Sarakan Empire, in response, declared war on Helvatia and Armanya, in turn leading to the Confederation of Man and the Blue Stars Coalition to declare war on the Sarakan Empire.
The NSC was soon forced into the war after Shock Harbor was attacked by detachments of the Imperial Sarakan Navy, which believed the NSC fleets stationed there to be most of the IU, Confederation, Helvatian and Blue Stars Coalition naval forces itself. The NSC, shocked by the attack on Shock Harbor, mobilized for war. Military industries, mines and resource-producing facilities were reopened and producing military equipment as military bases were reopened due to an influx of new military recruits. Old servicemen were reenlisted and Novayan women between 18 and 20 helped give birth to Novayan children in order to match the birthrates and recruitment rates. Heavy military spending is implemented once again as colonies began to attract civilians in order to provide the resources, equipment, goods and manpower needed to help the NSC win the war.
Initially the war is in Saraka's favor, but it decended into attrition, with worlds taken very slowly before the Sarakan Empire was forced to divert more forces to other parts of the front. Progress stalled for a few billion years due to the Sarakan Empire's use of magic, or thaumaturgy. It was only through debates between NSC circles orbital bombardment and the use of thaumaturgy, eigenweapons and thaumic weapons were the only options left, and so the NSC began using them to great, devastating effect. Bombarding worlds and using eigenweapons and other WMDs to weaken resistance and shattering Sarakan armies allowed for NSC ground forces to weaken the Sarakans despite the Allies' cries to not use those methods. The first worlds taken over by the NSC military forces allowed them to advance and invade Sarakan territory, where the Allies discovered Saraka had wasted everything it has to maintain its military juggernaut. World after world were taken, and in few million years the NSC was at the forefront of the Saraka System.
Resistance in Saraka Prime is excessive, but the use of orbital bombardment, eigenweapons, and thaumaturgy helped soften resistance. The battle of Saraka Prime saw extensive damage to its global ecosystem, cities and infrastructure due to heavy fighting, but Saraka Prime's capital megalopolis have been taken over. Though the Allies controlled Saraka, they have to contend with its remnants, leading to the Subjugation Wars.
===Void-Light War===
: See main article: Void-Light War
====Prelude====
Two hundred years after the Second Void War, the Novayan Stellar Commonwealth transitioned to peacetimes, its wartime economy having already transitioned back to a civilian economy and military downsized with its personnel acquiring civilian jobs. NSC exploratory groups, with permission from the central government, organized the Mercury Project, a mission to explore unknown parts of the Void. Eager volunteers, adventurers, scientists and retired military personnel were bunched into groups and given ships, which then went to the unexplored regions either in groups or alone.
A few months after the conception of the Mercury Project, NSC border stations lost contact with several manned expeditions, who were to send transmissions daily to notify the NSC border stations, sent north, east, northeast and southeast of the NSC's main post-Second Void War borders, acquired from annexing a large chunk of the former Sarakan Empire and colonizing parts of unexplored Void space after the war. Demands from the families of the missing expedition members led to the deployment of heavily-armed combat search and rescue groups, trained and specialized in combat and diplomatic operations in unknown regions and self-sufficient and equipped with some anomalous artifacts as part of their arsenal, into the unexplored regions where they followed the trails of the expeditionary exploratory groups. After two months of searching, one of the combat search and rescue groups discovered a few missing ships, which were completely abandoned with its inhabitants missing. The combat search and rescue group members soon learned from the ships' database that the expedition members were forcefully taken by unknown forces, whose ships and weapons were not of any Void state's manufacture.
A week after its discovery, combat search and rescue teams discovered some of the expedition ships, most of which were heavily-damaged; information from the ships stated that the ships' crew were ordered by the same unknown forces, whose language was confirmed to be that of Latin, to surrender, only attacking once the ships' crews tried to ask for their identities, leading to the expedition ships to escape only to be heavily-damaged, leading to the capture of the expeditions' members by the same unknown forces. Not long after the discovery of the heavily-damaged ships, reports from the other search and rescue groups confirmed that most of the expeditions' ships were completely abandoned, heavily-damaged or outright destroyed. One of the search and rescue groups, however, reported an encounter with a fleet of babarian and pirate ships, which didn't engaged them but instead went past the search and rescue fleet. A flotilla of NSC warships soon intercepted the pirate and barbarian ships, whose crews begged to be let inside the NSC.
Though NSC policy dictated that pirate ships and barbarians be engaged, the flotilla commander disregarded orders to engage them and instead conversed with the pirate leaders and barbarian clan leaders, who informed the flotilla commander of forces of light attacking them in the unexplored regions the pirates, barbarians, renegade and resistance groups, refugees, and remnants fled to after the Second Void War, adding that the forces of light were merciless in their cleansing. The barbarian and pirate leaders revealed they took in members of several expedition members and their ships after they were both attacked. Search and rescue groups then reported ships belonging to barbarians, pirates, renegade or resistance groups, refugees, fugitives and remnants moving past them; some search and rescue groups halted several, who demanded that they be let in before the forces of light gets to them.
====Invasion====
When the reports reached NSC High Command, the high-ranking military officers became concerned and worried about the behaviors of the pirates, barbarians, fugitives and remnants, described as terrified and horrified and how they demanded the search and rescue groups to not travel further, lest the forces of light gets them. Then, two weeks later, several search and rescue groups and NSC naval flotillas reported fleeing pirates, barbarians and renegades being attacked by ships of unknown make before the same ships attacked them, with the barbarians confirming them to be the forces of light. Alarmed by this, the NSC government recalled retired and former military personnel to the NSC Armed Forces and ordered all factories to begin production of military equipment. After several weeks of similar reports, the first major offensive by the Forces of Light drove from the northwest into NSC territory, causing border patrol flotillas and squadrons and naval fleets to respond to the offensive, halting it and driving it back. Two more offensives by the Forces of Light, however, forced the NSC to mobilize against them, which moved their forces to the NSC's border sectors and territories captured from the NSC; despite this, the Forces of Light ignored the League of Non-Aligned Powers.
After three months of halting the Forces of the Light's offensives, the NSC launched a counteroffensive which retook several sectors, leading to the capture of soldiers of the Forces of the Light. Interrogation of the captured Light soldiers soon led to the existence of the Armies of the Light, a mighty army created by most or several gods of light, who feared the NSC will soon invade all universes outside of the Void, to crush the NSC and turn it into a subservient state. Led by a chosen human woman known only as the Lightbringer or the Chosen Hero, the Armies of the Light is to turn the NSC into a state in the gods of light's image. Further interrogation of captured Light prisoners soon revealed that there are fantasy races who were fighting for the Light and factions which, despite being part of the Armies of the Light, sought to exploit the situation for their own motives, desires and pleasures and oppress the masses. Using this new information, the NSC launched special operations in Light-controlled territory to crack the enemy from within, using tactics, strategies and artifacts the Armies of the Light used in their conquest of the NSC.
====Counterattack, Liberation of the Void, and Defeat of the Armies of the Light====
Several offensives and counterattacks between the Novayan Stellar Commonwealth and the Armies of the Light led both sides to gain little progress but lose more forces within five years, and morale began sapping. When NSC forces liberated the Keralis star system, which experience a series of revolts caused by its inhabitants and aided by some races from the Armies of the Light, taken from the NSC, they soon discovered that the Keralians have been oppressed by religious figures and persecuted by inquisitors for not following their faiths and for continuing to worship the Worm-in-Waiting, which led to attempts at enlightening the Keralians, which included torture, executions, witch-burning and others. Religious sites and cultural locations in the Keralis system were destroyed in an attempt to turn the Keralians from worshipping the Worm-in-Waiting to follow their faiths. Additional reports from recently-retaken NSC star systems confirmed similar events. Finally, interrogation reports soon confirmed that so-called figures in the Armies of the Light were willing to engage in hypocrisy, turning a blind eye to the persecution and oppression, using their faiths as a way to make the NSC's citizens to be docile, meek and subservient, and prosper and enrich themselves with everything from the occupied NSC territories, with genocides and exterminations commonplace in said occupied NSC territories.
Shocked by the brutality and hypocrisy of the Armies of the Light, the NSC, understanding that its very own flawed existence, once considering its and its own peoples' own existence as a curse now seen as a blessing, and recognizing the people will never be free so long as hypocrisy, shortsightedness, and cruelty remain, made its counterattack. News reports of the cruelty, hypocrisy and shortsightedness of the Armies of the Light reinvigorated the NSC's peoples, whose morale once sapped surged, leading to the military receiving recruits and military equipment of an unprecedented scale and the reopening of factories, mines, and shipyards. Thaumaturgy was then used by thaumic soldiers, while artifacts were utilized to destroy Light forces outright. The use of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, thaumic, and incendiary weapons were heavily used against the Armies of the Light during terrestrial military operations. The Worm-in-Waiting, after being dormant for so long, finally joined the NSC's counterattack, granting the NSC hordes of Voidbeasts. The counterattack shattered the enemies' hold over the NSC's northeast and northern territories, which were lost to the Armies of the Light. By the span of two years, the NSC liberated its territories before finally going on the offensive, aided by disillusioned factions from within the Armies of the Light and joined by pirates, barbarians, fugitives, and remnants who provided information and insight on their experience in the Unexplored Regions; some even decided to join the NSC and pledge their allegiance to it.
Seven years saw the NSC pushing outward against any Light forces still present in the Unexplored Regions, liberating independent states and remnant states and freeing those held unjustly and tortured by the Armies of the Light. The offensive finally ended at the Breach, where the Armies of the Light reinforced their forces and try to hold their ground. Offensive operations were made against Light forces, who began to crack under the strain of the NSC's offensives. On the ring near the Breach, the Lightbringer and the 8,728th Grand Marshal of the NSC, Patrick-Elias Norsoutha, joined by Lord Admiral Borealis Norsoutha I of the Crusader Sector, and Admiral Borealis Norsoutha II, fought each other. Although the Lightbringer has the upper hand, the arrival of Lord Admiral Borealis I and Admiral Borealis II turned the tables, defeating the Lightbringer. Instead of killing her, Patrick-Elias tells the Lightbringer to go back and never return, only throwing her into the Breach, which the Armies of the Light retreated to after the NSC upped its offensive.
====Aftermath====
The defeat of the Lightbringer and Armies of the Light and the sealing of the breach allowed the NSC and those that fought in the war - the pirates, renegades, refugees, barbarians, criminals, fugitives, remnants and terrorists, including those allied with the NSC - to rebuild, but what they never expected from the war and its aftermath is the full ramificaitons and extent of the NSC.
Because this conflict, alongside the previous events and wars, were the culmination of Novaya's countless legacies—from the early founding fathers of the Novayan Commonwealth, to the conquest of the Commonwealth's independent colonies and its reformation into the Greater Novayan Federation, to the Zeroth Void War and the Great Sundering that led to the Norsoutha-Tomoshima Manifesto and the reformation of the GNF to the Novayan Stellar Commonwealth, to the traumatic First Void War and the Great Crisis, to the Second Void War and the new territories it acquired, the consolidation of the NSC itself, and the defeat of the Armies of the Light and the Lightbringer—Grand Marshal Patrick-Elias and the ruling Norsoutha-Tomoshima politico-military dynasty and Novayan Principalia brought the Novayan Stellar Commonwealth to its greatest extent, from the Milky Way Commissariat in the southwest to the Breach Commissariat farther up northeast.The Known Regions were united under the Novayan eagle and the Worm-in-Waiting, its armies and fleets powerful, its Grand Marshal mighty. The might and power of the NSC and its ruler is unmatched, attained only by national and imperial might. The first Grand Marshal to ever lived up to the 13th Grand Marshal Keiko Norsoutha-Tomoshima. No nation in the Void would ever match the glory Novaya IV brought, and furthermore the NSC is declared the Void's only dominant hegemonic hyperpower.
===Crisis of the 13th Eon===
: See main article: Crisis of the 13th Eon
===Chaos of the 21st Eon===
The Novayan Stellar Commonwealth did not saw action in the Chaos of the 21st Eon but had remained neutral alongside those who are part of its Unity Pact. It and Indepol provided aid to war-torn worlds and performed reconstruction efforts. After the Fourth Void War stalemated in the Galactic Imperium's favor, however, a Galactic Imperium attack on the NSC's network of major and minor naval bases, located in a nebula and which is housing a large majority of the NSC Navy's vessels as part of the reserves, forced the NSC to declare war against it. To end the stalemate the NSC dug out Forbidden Technologies, technologies and paratechnologies developed by the Armies of the Light in an attempt to defeat the NSC, and paraweapons and eigenweapons and use them, alongside research based on the most dangerous spell that is Self-Replicating Blood Magic, in a massive thaumic attack accepted to be called the Frodbrokna.
The Frodbrokna broke the stalemate by annihilating a grand majority of the Galactic Imperium's military but also caused catastrophic natural calamities happening on worlds and interstellar storms of various sizes, strengths and frequencies. At the same time the NSC reopened many military installations and training camps to enlist and reenlist Novayan civilians and veterans, weapons factories to churn out military equipment, R&D groups to refine and improve NSC military technology as well as developing new techs and paratechs, mines and rigs to produce resources necessary for production of military equipment, and brought out military equipment already in storage. The Federal Intelligence Service is deployed first to clear out traps or bombs Galactic Imperial spies had set up to prevent the NSC military from ever using its vast arsenal of weapons and equipment in storage.
Because of the Frodbrokna the NSC Armed Forces is able to crush the Galactic Imperium and drove deep into its territories, utilizing sector-hopping strategies to cut the enemy off and leave them stranded where they are, while the Imperial military is unable to make a coordinated response due to the horrific thaumic attack that shattered and annihilated it. Token resistance is given, but few Galactic Imperial military units offer heavy resistance, necessitating the use of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, incendiary and thaumic weapons to clear them out. The Fourth Void War continued for a few years before the NSC captured the Galactic Imperium's capital world. While many Galactic Imperial officials, military leaders and other figures evacuated before the NSC arrived, they are all hunted down by the time the capital world is completely pacified. As part of the Galactic Imperial instrument of surrender, the NSC dissolved the Galactic Imperium and denounced as well as defamed, condemned and dehumanized the Custodians.
Under the directions of the NSC, the Void Coalition is restored and reconstruction projects commenced. Reality anchors and Voidbeasts were utilized to stabilize the interstellar storms and catastrophic natural calamities to allow for safe shipping. NSC military units were sent to maintain order as well as eliminate Galactic Imperial holdouts that managed to avoid demobilization. Power is restored to the Void Coalition, which also experience significant reforms such as the establishment of a Military Staff Committee and a standing Peacekeeping Force, which serve as its military force. Member-states, allies and supporters of the Galactic Imperium were placed under NSC military occupation for fifty years, during which their NSC-installed governments imposed restrictions as well as passing reforms, before they receive their independence and join the Void Coalition. Finally, the Void Coalition begrudgingly gave the NSC more power in the Security Council and General Assembly; despite this the NSC did not use its power and status as the Void's dominant hegemonic hyperpower to dictate the Void states' everyday lives, instead wanting to do its own thing and focusing on humanitarian missions, peacekeeping operations and development projects, only using that power for serious matters.
===The War against the Sith and Novayan–Saiyanese War===
====Before the storm====
=====The Novayan Stellar Commonwealth=====
The rule of the Novayan Stellar Commonwealth, a federal state under a hereditary military dictatorship, led to a golden age of peace and prosperity for the inhabitants of the Void. The NSC, being the dominant hegemonic hyperpower, found itself policing much or most of the Void, especially the Outer Regions and No Man's Regions where required military service saw men and women being employed outside of the NSC performing civil-military operations such as peacekeeping, humanitarian missions, pirate wars, crime wars, and suppression of extremist revolts and groups, and the Known and Explored Regions where NSC military and police forces help maintain the peace and order. The NSC Armed Forces, once seen as a defense force and now a volunteer-based military force capable of force projection, became the primary force in keeping the peace in the Void.
NSC military units stationed in the Outer Regions and No Man's Regions were bolstered by local militias, pirates, local volunteers, colonial troops, and local police and military forces. NSC outreach offices were established to help engage with different parts of the regions' worlds and local communities with services, education, infrastructure, development and healthcare, while development banks were set up to provide financial resources to help businesses and get started. NSC-trained local inspectors helped maintain standard safety laws while investigators trail what, when, how, where and why a crime or incident happened. NSC military forces were usually deployed to install a democratic government, especially if the previous government was found to be corrupt, despotic, totalitarian and oppressive; the only exceptions were extremist parties which were elected to do what they promised to the people.
=====The Saiyanese Stellar Federation=====
The Saiyanese Stellar Federation, a federal state under a hereditary plutocratic oligarchy, have been expanding slowly. Unlike the Novayan Stellar Commonwealth, the SSF is aggressive towards those it sees as having socialism or communism, leading to preemptive military intervention, covert or not. This results in the installment of governments and regimes friendly to Saiyane and composed of right-wing democratic, plutocratic and autocratic governments. Most of the pro-Saiyanese states were military occupational transitional governments, some have governments installed legitimately and with consent, while others were governments installed by the Saiyanese illegitimately and without the consent of the native inhabitants. The SSF Armed Forces, also known as the Federal Saiyanese Armed Forces, a conscript-based military force capable of force projection, is the primary force in keeping control over the "more rowdy" worlds.
SSF military units stationed in the Outer Regions and No Man's Regions bolstered local allied militias and military and police forces, which were known for committing sentient rights abuses and violations, including massacres and genocides. SSF outreach offices were also established to help with different parts of the regions' worlds and local communities, but some conditions - such as one where those with leftist sympathies have to abandon their leftist sympathies or ties - must be followed, or else the local natives will not receive any benefits. SSF military forces were deployed to install a government that would be aligned with Saiyane.
====Start of the war====
==Demographics==
===Population===
The Novayan Stellar Commonwealth Statistics Office officially estimate the country's population to be around nine googol. The primary dominant species are humans (or humanoids) who number around 115 septillion, while the secondary species were composed of robots, androids, mammalians, avians, fungoids, and others with a total number of 935 sextillion people.
===Languages===
English, German and Filipino are the de facto languages of the Novayan Stellar Commonwealth.
===Religion===
The Novayan Stellar Commonwealth is a secular state which protects freedom of religion. The most dominant faith is the Cult of the Worm-in-Waiting, also known as the Cult of the Loop and Void King Worship, shared by over 70-90% of the NSC's populace. About or around 76.4% of the population professed Void King Worship. Gnosticism (8.3%, Berbanianism (7.9%), and Selenism (6.6%) made up the second through fourth faiths. The remaining faiths were composed of existing prior to the Celestial Sundering.
===Family structure===
Around 58% of Novayans at age 16 and over were married, 8% were widowed, and 39% have never been married; divorce is considered a taboo subject, with the only ones to divorce were Lord Admiral Borealis Norsoutha I and Eleanor Vistula Norsoutha.
Around 73.5% of Novayan households were made up of extended families members, which include grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins, nephews, nieces, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, and sons and daughters. Most Novayan households were linked with another by blood and familial ties. Around 4-10% of Novayan households were of aristocratic heritage, with familial ties extended to common families and sometimes poor families. In cities, districts, municipalities, villages or barangays, members of these communities were informally called "families".
===Health===
Due to being Voidwalkers (inhabitants of the Void), Novayans were known to live longer. Universal healthcare is provided by the Federal Health Service, which is ran, overseen and answers to the Assistant Secretary of Health, an Admiral or Fleet Admiral who is the highest-ranking commissioned officer; private health providers were also present in the NSC. NSC hospitals sent medical teams as part of humanitarian missions and civil-military operations. Field hospitals, each composed of 150 doctors and nurses, 39 dentists, 21 psychiatrists, and 328 medical volunteers, were usually more common in the Outer Territories and Outer Regions, where NSC military units perform security operations, peacekeeping operations, humanitarian missions and sweeping missions alongside local militias, colonial troops, police and military units, criminal groups, and pirates.
===Education===
The NSC has been known for its preference for learning and education, with a simple literacy rate of 83.6% and a functional literacy rate of 91.4%. There are about 1,481-3,194 schools per world, moon, orbital habitat, and ring world, with 20-50 per civilian residential fleet; about 30% of the schools per world, moon, orbital habitat, ringworld and residential fleet are public and 70% of the schools private. Education in the NSC is overseen by the Assistant Secretary of Education, an Admiral who is the highest-ranking commissioned officer and heads the Federal Education Service, and access to education is free and universal. Technology - such as the internet, smartphones, tablets, computers, laptops, radios and televisions - also have a role in education.
Because the Novayan Stellar Commonwealth is a hyper-militaristic society, the NSC Armed Forces helped pay for the students' education. Each branch of the NSC Armed Forces pay directly to the school where service members are enrolled at, whether active duty personnel or military reservists. Higher education is paid by the NSC Armed Forces and can be participated through the Military Tuition Enrollment Program and the National Joint Civil-Military Education Programme.
Subjects were Mathematics, English/German/Filipino, Social Education, Science, Chemistry, Theaters (Music, Stage Plays, et cetera), Literature, Religions, Thaumaturgy Studies and History. Military Education, Political Studies, International Security, Geopolitics, Alternate History, Indepol Studies and Interplanetary Colonization were common subjects in schools; video games involving military, politics, interplanetary colonization, and alternate history were frequently common.
==Government and politics==
The Novayan Stellar Commonwealth is a federal autocratic martial supranational union of 13 constituent states, a capital region, and several territories. It is the Void's oldest federation. It's a federal state, a hereditary military dictatorship, and an unusually stable anocracy, "in which autocratic rule and majority rule permitted for development of mechanisms to redress grievances."
The federal government of the Novayan Stellar Commonwealth is divided into three branches of government:
*Executive: The Grand Marshal is the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the NSC Armed Forces, can veto bills before they can become laws, and appoints members and officers of the Admiralty, who administer and enforce federal laws and policies.
*Legislative: The bicameral Parliamentary Assembly, composed of the State Council and the House of Representatives, and the NSC Naval Admiralty make federal law, declare war, approve treaties, has the power of the purse, and has the power of impeachment, with which they can remove sitting government members.
*Judicial: The Supreme Court and lower federal courts, whose judges were appointed by the Grand Marshal or the Admiralty, interpret laws and override those considered unconstitutional.
===Government===
The Novayan Stellar Commonwealth is a militaristic anocracy in the form of a hereditary military dictatorship. It is governed as a unitary state with the exception of the Meridian Commonwealth and several inhabited worlds undergoing enlightenment and reconstruction.
The Grand Marshal functions as both the head of state and head of government and is the supreme commander of the armed forces. The Grand Marshal is succeeded by the Marshal Apparent who would become the next Grand Marshal and appoints admirals into the admiralty based on their specialties. The bicameral Assembly is composed of the State Council, serving as the upper house, with members serving an eight-year term, and the House of Representatives, serving as the lower house, with members serving a four-year term.
The Grand Marshal also selects and appoints military or civilian officials to the positions of governors and/or governor-generals. The only exception is the Meridian Commonwealth, which selects its own executive military governor (also known as the Governor-Militant in Meridian terminology), and the Crusader Sector, which is led by Borealis Norsoutha I, who holds the rank and title of Lord Admiral and who is known for orchestrating the War against the Sith.
The NSC Naval Admiralty is a naval authority in the Novayan Stellar Commonwealth Navy before it became involved in the government, afterwhich it functions as the executive cabinet of the Grand Marshal as well as a third, and foremost the upper, part of the legislative branch of government. As a major component of the NSC government, the NSC Naval Admiralty is in charge of the day-to-day operations of the executive agencies as well as the day-to-day operations of the government, and its role in the legislation is to pass or veto laws based on the aspects, importance, and elements the law have. In addition to being as the major component of the NSC Armed Forces, the NSC Naval Admiralty is responsible for the administrative, logistical and operational needs of the military itself and also functions as a general staff.
As part of Grand Marshal Borealis III's plan to decentralize the NSC, he introduced the tetrarchy system, which is very similar to but very different from the Roman tetrarchy.
===Law enforcement and crime===
Law enforcement in the Novayan Stellar Commonwealth is the primary responsibility of the Federal Police Service, the federal police force of the NSC.The responsibility of maintaining law and order were in the hands of the local police departments and planetary police services. Federal agencies such as the Federal Security Bureau, the Planetary Gendarmerie, and the Federal Intelligence Service have specialized duties such as enforcing NSC federal courts' rulings, protecting civil rights, national security.
===Foreign relations===
The Novayan Stellar Commonwealth's international relations are based on trade with other nations and political and social understandings. While the NSC maintains neutral relations with most Void nations, the NSC and the Saiyanese Federation both maintain hostile relations toward each other. Its relations with the International Union of Armanya, Confederation of Man, Kurdish Stellar State, Interstellar Duchy of Piacenza, Founders-Savior Conglomerate, and Ellesian Theocratic Republic were otherwise friendly. Other nations such as the United Earth Directorate and the Terran Dominion also maintain friendly, if not cautious, relations with the NSC.
The NSC maintains a net of subordinate states that were composed of minor nations which were buffer states, satellite states, vassal states, puppet states, associated states, protectorates, and client states. The Terran Confederacy, a human government located in Southern Koprulu, is a puppet state; the UED Expeditionary Force, located in Southwestern Koprulu, is technically a satellite state.
===Military===
The NSC Armed Forces is responsible for national security and consists of two branches: the NSC Army and the NSC Navy (includes the NSC Marine Corps). The NSC Armed Forces is a volunteer force with sentient machines augmenting its numbers. Civilian security is handled both by the NSC Planetary Defense Force, also known as the NSC Planetary Guard, and the NSC Federal Police Service, known as the NSC Planetary Police. The NSC Armed Forces, however, is tasked with intervening militarily in planetary wars where war crimes were reported, invading individual worlds where a global totalitarian government commits genocide against minorities, rebuilding planetary worlds and providing humanitarian supplies, and enlightening primitive-level societies.
The Grand Marshal of the NSC serves as the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the NSC Armed Forces and appoints its leaders, the Chairman of the NSC Naval Admiralty, the Chief of the NSC General Staff, the Commander of the NSC Planetary Gendarmerie, and the Director-General of the NSC Federal Police Service. The NSC General Staff and the NSC Naval Admiralty administer the armed forces, including the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps. The System Defense Force was administered by the NSC Planetary Gendarmerie during peacetime and the Naval Admiralty during times of war. The NSC Military Reserve Force contain the largest number of military reservists, who not only will be called in once war was declared but also having been offered numerous job opportunities.
After the Void-Light War, the Novayan Stellar Commonwealth began the hegemonic hyperpower in the Void in terms of economic, political and military might. Due to the needs to police much of the Void and maintain law and order, the NSC Armed Forces sent young men and women and war veterans to the Outer Regions and Outer Territories to perform peacekeeping operations, security operations, and humanitarian missions. NSC military units were permanently stationed to maintain law and order, provide necessities to the people, rebuild homes, and assist local police, militias and military units. NSC military units were aided by local militias, police officers, military units, criminal groups, and pirate groups in preventing or ending conflicts or disputes and rescuing hostages and people trapped within rubble or collapsed places.
For worlds were slavery, corruption, hypocrisy and graft became commonplace and are ruled by despots, short-sighted rulers and rulers with ideals that contradict with modern society's ideals, NSC military units, aided by pirates, criminals, rebels and militias, invade such worlds to liberate the oppressed folks, overthrow the dysfunctional governments, and replace said dysfunctional governments with more functional and efficient governments, most of which were democratic; some maintain monarchies, which were only given ceremonial roles.
In the Meridian Commonwealth, there is a small amount of NSC military forces on Meridian Commonwealt-controlled worlds. The NSC Armed Forces, however, saw a major adversary in the form of the Saiyanese Federation Defense Forces, a half-draft-based, half-volunteer-based military force augmented by the use of thaumaturgy and paratechnology, which the NSC also uses. The Aeon 12.874 armistice signed between the NSC and the Saiyanese Federation help cool relations between the two nations but their respective militaries were still kept under high alert and the cold war still have not ended.
In the Crusader Sector, several detachments of NSC fighters and ground units were stationed to assist in equipping and training Crusader Sector Defense Force recruits and act as combat auxiliary and support units, with NSC special forces involved in special operations and covert missions. The NSC Armed Forces represent the military of Ober Ost, which have the largest number of military units stationed there; Ober Ost also served as a colonial territory for the settlement of NSC units after the signing of the Treaty of Megalas as well as a haven for refugees resulting from planetary or interstellar wars.
After the end of Operation Sovereign Justice, the NSC Armed Forces have large number of military bases in Universe Sierra-Whiskey-Hotel, especially three self-sufficient and autonomous colonial territories and several worlds and moons located in Galaxy Foxtrot-Foxtrot-Alpha, and a small number of military bases in Earth, located in Universe Alpha-November-India-Mike-Echo.
===Administrative divisions===
The NSC is divided into galaxies, arms, regions, sectors, star systems, worlds, and stations. Currently, the NSC controls 27 galaxies divided into 2-4 arms. The NSC has three autonomous administrative divisions, the Meridian Commonwealth, Ober Ost, and the Crusader Sector.
The 13 constituent states were the primary administrative divisions in the nation. These are divided into groups and further divided into sub-groups, regions, sectors, and systems. The Homeworlds Group is a federal district which contains the capital sector of the Novayan Stellar Commonwealth.
The following constituent states were:
*Novayan Commonwealth: The name for a region of territory and the largest of the thirteen constituent states. The Novayan Commonwealth was formed from regions, sectors, and star systems that were once under the Greater Novayan Federation prior to its reformation into the Novayan Stellar Commonwealth. The Homeworlds Group is located in the Novayan Commonwealth.
*Germanian Empire: The Germanian Empire was previously an independent nation prior to its conquest in the Zeroth Void War by the Greater Novayan Federation, which, after its reformation, designated the Germanian Empire as the Germanian Commonwealth. It is the second largest constituent state, just short of the Novayan Commonwealth.
*West Roman Republic: Also known as the West Roman Commonwealth, the West Roman Republic was formerly a part of the Roman Empire which fought in the First Void War as part of the Imperial Coalition. The West Roman Republic is located between the Novayan Commonwealth's eastern borders and the Eprissian Commissariat's southwestern borders. The Central and Eastern halves of the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire and the Roman Republic, were NSC-installed puppet governments while the New Roman Empire, which also splits off from the Roman Republic, was annexed into the Novayan Commonwealth.
*Northern Commissariat: The Northern Commissariat is a commissariat controlling large regions of space formed from the remnants of the Pictian Confederacy, Confederation of the North, and Orprikaman Clans; some territory belonging to the Blashtrani Clans, Confederation of the North, and Orprikaman Clans were annexed into the larger Novayan Commonwealth.
*Eprissian Commissariat: The Eprissian Commissariat is a region of space located to the east of the Novayan Commonwealth. The Eprissian Commissariat was formed from the Kingdom of Eprissia, Iberian Corporation, the Free States, and the Barkan Conclaves.
*Milky Way Commonwealth: The Milky Way Commonwealth is a region of space located to the southwest of the Novayan Commonwealth. The universe where the Milky Way Galaxy is located, and is also the source of the Norsoutha-Tomoshima Manifesto, was annexed into the Novayan Stellar Commonwealth.
====Crusader Sector====
The Crusader Sector is the largest sector within the NSC and it serves as one of the NSC's two lynchpin defenses, the other being the Meridian Commonwealth, should war broke out between it and the Saiyanese Federation. The Crusader Sector is the most heavily-defended sector, second only to the Hakidonmuya Sector and Hakidonmuya IIIc and third only to the Novaya Sector and Novaya IV. This position is shared with Meridian IV, capital world of the Meridian Commonwealth.
====Meridian Commonwealth====
The Meridian Commonwealth is a large region of space boarding no man's land. It serves as one of the NSC's two lynchpin defenses, the other being the Meridian Commonwealth, should war broke out between the NSC and the Saiyanese Federation. The Meridian Commonwealth is the most heavily-defended region, second only to the Hakidonmuya Sector and third only to the Novayan Sector. This position is shared with Deimos IV, capital world of the Crusader Sector.
====Ober Ost====
The Ober Ost is a large region of space located to the east of the Novayan Stellar Commonwealth's territories. Unlike the Crusader Sector and the Meridian Commonwealth, Ober Ost is a military occupational authority as well as a military colonial authority and a military administrative authority.
==Economy==
The economies of the various worlds within the NSC produced an estimated gross domestic product (nominal) of between $83 trillion and $104 trillion.
===Arms industry===
===Science and technology===
===Tourism===
==Culture==
==Statistics==
===Hearts of Iron===
Ideology 	Proponents	Factions
Authoritarian Democracy	
*Daniel Norsoutha
*Bernard Norsoutha
*Borealis Norsoutha III
*Cornelius Ylagan
*William Oliver Lee
*Maria Elizabeth Fernanda Marcos	
*Novayan National People's Party
*Norsoutha-Tomoshima Dynasty - Moderates
*Military Staff Committee of the Grand Marshal - Command Staff
*Novayan National People's Party
*Enlightened Socialist Novayan Workers' Party - Reformist Faction
*National Will Priority League
Authoritarian Socialism	
*Borealis Norsoutha II	
*Novaya First Party
Despotism 	
*Borealis Norsoutha I
*Borealis Norsoutha III	
*Norsoutha-Tomoshima Dynasty - Nationalists
*Military Staff Committee of the Grand Marshal - Supreme Commander
Enlightened Socialism 	
*Billy Catindig
*Borealis Norsoutha III	
*Enlightened Socialist Novayan Workers' Party
*Norsoutha-Tomoshima Dynasty - Borealisites
Fascism 	
*Military First Party	
*General Georg Dietrich von Blucher zu Immernachtfall
*Admiral Konstantina Zenobia Norsoutha
===Stellaris===
<tabber>Novayan Stellar Commonwealth=
Novayan Stellar Commonwealth 	Novayan Stellar Commonwealth
Star Empire/Hereditary Military Dictatorship	Federation Builders/Hegemonic Imperialists
*Prosperous Unification
*Loop Adherents
*Dictatorial/Imperial
*Distinguished Admiralty
*Aristocratic Elite
*Materialist
*Fanatic Militarist
*Novaya IV, Novaya	
*Continental (Novaya IV)
*Conservationist
*Repugnant
*Quick Learners
*Talented
*Resilient
|-|Crusader Sector=
Crusader Sector 	Crusader Sector
Military Dictatorship	Hegemonic Imperialists
*Scion/Autonomous State
*Dictatorial
*Distinguished Admiralty
*Police State
*Materialist
*Fanatic Militarist
*Deimos IV, Deimos	
*Arctic (Deimos IV)
*Resilient
*Quick Learners
*Talented
*Repugnant
|-|Meridian Commonwealth=
Meridian Commonwealth 	Meridian Commonwealth
Military Dictatorship/Citizen Stratocracy	Federation Builders/Hegemonic Imperialists
*Dictatorial/Oligarchic
*Lost Colony/Scion
*Nationalistic Zeal
*Citizen Service
*Militarist
*Authoritarian
*Materialist
*Meridian IV, Meridian	
*Continental (Meridian IV)
*Resilient
*Repugnant
*Talented
*Quick Learners
|-|Ober Ost=
Ober Ost 	Ober Ost
Military Junta	Federation Builders
*Military Occupation/Scion
*Oligarchic
*Distinguished Admiralty
*Free Haven
*Fanatic Militarist
*Authoritarian
*Zuluna-Kirishima, Zuluna	
*Continental (Zuluna-Kirishima)
*Nomadic
*Resilient
*Wasteful
*Adaptive
|-|Order-State of Merdina=
Order-State of Merdina	Order-State of Merdina
Military Dictatorship 	Hegemonic Imperialists/Federation Builders
*Mechanist/Syncretic Evolution/Scion
*Dictatorial
*Police State
*Nationalistic Zeal
*Authoritarian
*Materialist
*Militarist
*Merdina III, Merdina	Both
*Continental (Merdina)
Merdinans
*Resilient
*Nomadic
*Repugnant
Organic Automatons
*Serviles
*Rapid Breeders
*Fleeting
</tabber>
==Author's Notes==
*The borders of the Novayan Stellar Commonwealth resemble and were based on the borders of the German Empire and its territorial gains during World War I and in Kaiserreich: Victors of the Weltkrieg, a mod for Hearts of Iron, and the borders of Nazi Germany and its territorial gains during World War II. Unlike Nazi Germany's borders, the NSC's border was shaped to include those of Sweden, Finland, France, Slovenia, the 2nd Polish Republic, Luxembourgh, European Russia (Sverdlovsk Oblast included), Iberia, the Transamur Republic (from Kaiserreich), Yugoslavia, the British Isles, and Albania. In fact, the NSC's total border size were shaped after TNO's Greater Germanic Reich's territories and holdings.
*The Novayan Stellar Commonwealth was influenced by the German Empire, United States of America, Portugal, and the Philippines. Its service dress uniforms were based on WWI-era and WWII-era German military uniforms, all of which lack the Nazi emblems, symbols and breeches. The NSC Armed Forces' combat uniforms were based on United States and Philippine combat uniforms, with NOVMILPAT's environment- and terrain-based camouflage patterns based on HyperStealth's CAMOPAT, the United States Marine Corps' MARPAT, the United States Army's Universal Camouflage Pattern, MultiCam and Operational Camouflage Pattern, and the Philippines' PHILARPAT.
**The personal military equipment of the average NSC soldier were based on and inspired by the Land Warrior and Future Force Warrior. The soldiers from differing NSC sectors use military equipment and combat uniforms based on and inspired by real-life military equipment and combat uniforms.
===Border parallels with The New Order: Last Days of Europe===
The borders of the NSC and its territories and holdings in the Void run parallels with the borders of the European nations from The New Order: Last Days of Europe.
*The Sovereign Commissariat, also known as the Novayan Commissariat, is shaped after the Greater Germanic Reich's.
*The Fairy Commissariat is shaped after Denmark.
*The Crusader Sector is shaped after pre-Franco-Burgundian War Ordensstaat-Burgund; unlike Ordensstaat-Burgund, the Crusader Sector is Despotic, Authoritarian Democratic and Ultranationalistic (the result of Lord Admiral Borealis I's extreme hatred for the Sith) by TNO standards.
*The Northern Commissariat is shaped after Reichskommissariat Norwegien and Sweden.
*The Eprissian Commissariat is shaped after Reichskommissariat Ukrainien.
*The Breach Commissariat is shaped after Reichskommissariat Moskowien.
*The Milky Way Commissariat is shaped after Portugal.
*The West Roman Commissariat is shaped after the French State post-Franco-Burgundian War and Spain.
*The Meridian Commonwealth is shaped after territories conquered by the Ordensstaat-Burgund from the French State; unlike Ordensstaat-Burgund, the Meridian Commonwealth is Authoritarian Socialist and Despotic by TNO standards..
*Ober Ost is shaped after Reichskommissariat Kaukasien; unlike Reichskommissariat Kaukasien, Ober Ost is Libertarian Socialist and Despotic (due to it being a military dictatorship) by TNO standards.