Marriage

Marriage is a rite of passage observed among virtually all the races, factions, and civilizations of life within Solverse, including but not limited to Humanity, the Tontheonic Civilization, the Hyperion League, Tara'yon, Icari'yon, Ya'ri, El'yon, Infinite Empire and Celestials.
The sole exception is Hiteria, for which marriage in any form is forbidden by Exades.
Marriage takes many forms throughout the history of Solverse virtually all life agreed upon it's necessity for evolution.
== History ==
By the time of Jaymeson and Cera Nick's marriage, monogamous marriage within the Consortium was dying out and only practiced by a selective minority of Old Earth families. They tended to be socially ostracized, and while not legally persecuted under Consortium law, the practical effect for both grounders and spacers that chose monogamous marriage was a complete shunning by large parts of Consortium society. The New School philosophy of Consortium life virtually mandated uninhibited sexual relations solely for pleasure between consenting individuals, but never for the purposes of procreation or civil union. Both procreation and civil union were tightly controlled and monitored by the Consortium.
As a general rule during the First Trilogy Era, the further Rimward a person went in local space through Sol System, the more acceptable marriage was. It was common to find married couples and polyamorous unions in both the Main Belt and Rim. Monogamy was considered sacred for the Faithful of the Rim, while marriage without adjectives was wholly embraced by Architecture. 
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