Ariphius Era

The **Ariphius Era**, also known as the **Era of the Confederacy**, or regarded as the **Age of Tyranny** by some, was a period of more than five hundred years that spanned the total reign of the Ariphius Confederacy over the galaxy, lasting from the official dissolution of the Regime until the New Regime's wartime takeover of Edgespace and a significant portion of the Inner Territories. The Ariphius Era followed the six-hundred year dominion of the Regime and preceded the Great Instability during the Datasea War.

## History

### Origins

The Ariphius Confederacy first established itself as a nation when it reformed from the Biru Clan of Nikrontri, led by its monarch Gala Ariphius. The Confederacy expanded throughout the Caesar System as an imperialist federal monarchy, exploiting planets for resources which were put towards technological innovation and military expansion. Scientific agencies within the Confederacy innovated artificial intelligence significantly and successfully created the datasea, a network which had the ability to span the galaxy, storing all recorded information in its database and allowing instant communication over vast distances. The prototype controlling body of the datasea was Genesis, a powerful AI mind which allowed the datasea's instant communication, but it was later replaced by Intelligence, a superior artificial intelligence.

The strategically genius, inhuman tactics and plans devised by Intelligence allowed the Ariphius Confederacy to efficiently expand across the Galactic Interior, and rapidly grew to be able to combat the dominion of the Regime. The Regime lacked the technology of the datasea, and suffered because of it, as the Confederacy invaded Regime territory in a territorial war that marked the beginning of the War Era. Colonies formed political alliances with the Confederacy to take advantage of the power of Intelligence, and the Confederacy's territory grew to twenty times its size within in decades.

When the Tamarud Regime retaliated in 1GE 2900, the Ariphius Confederacy began its everlasting focus on imperialisation and military funding. The Corporate Trade Alliance was founded by the Confederacy in 1GE 2920, and the Taraeus Corporation was the first to become a part of it, mass-producing military vehicles and weaponry for the Ariphius Military on its capital world Senevari. The Regime was ready after the thirty years of peace, and commanded a significant military force, but the Confederacy was ready soon after the first wave of attacks. The most violent front of war was the Brorrt Frontier, a thin strait of territory between Regime Edgespace and the Confederacy’s Galactic Interior.

The Tamarud Regime had established alliances with minor states in the outer galaxy, and pushed aggressively into Confederacy space with state-of-the art warships capable of travelling at near light-speed. Still, the Confederacy’s military funding and errorless god, Intelligence, could hold off the Regime, but could not push them back and eradicate them. The War Era was long and violent, territory only slightly fluctuating over time as the two powerful militaries destroyed one another, just for their lost infantry and machines to be replaced by a new wave imported from their factory worlds. The war lasted for more than eighty years until the Ariphius Council decided to initiate the Augment of Intelligence, a dangerous modification in the datasea that temporarily increased Intelligence’s capabilities tenfold, transforming a superintelligence into a god. With that, Intelligence’s strategies allowed for a swift and violent victory for the Ariphius Confederacy, pushing back the Tamarud Regime until the government collapsed and the Regime was lost in Edgespace. The Regime's official dissolution marked the beginning of the Ariphius Era.