Free Igarin Alliance

The **Free Igarin Alliance** (Dapiwelan: **Dúrmeri Aska-polta Igárindes**, **Dapiwela**) is a powerful country located to the southeastern part of the Galaxy.

## Flag

The flag of the Free Igarin Alliance is a dark blue banner with a white stripe on the bottom and a white symbol in the middle. The white symbol is a monogram of its acronym, "D-A-P-I": **Dúrmeri Aska-polta Igárindes** [ˈduːrmeri askəˈpoltə iˈgaːrindes] ("Independent United-realm Igarin-ish"). The dark blue symbolises preservation of its members' cultures and freedom, and the white band symbolises perseverance against enemies.

## History

Some time within the later Eighteenth Galactic Empire, several star systems formed the Free Igarin Alliance, joined by other lesser states that mourned the fall of Imdegab to the Konjor Supercorporation. Its peoples also included thousands of impoverished refugees who fled from the Igarin Empire's exterminations of their kind. As it weathered Imperial incursions they grew stronger with every passing century, that the Alliance's fleets were almost impossible to defeat when the Haragarid emperors established their rule over the Empire. As it retained its independence over the centuries, its dialect of the Igarin language became much different from the standard used by the Empire and its enemies, to the point that they are no longer mutually intelligible (e.g. "**Dúrmeri Aska-polta Igárindes**" vs. standard "**Flaban Lambi-wela Igarines**").

It also defended its territory against the restored Konjor Supercorporation and its imitating rival empires, and since the Nandegakkovians fled there with their literature, the Alliance preserved troves of historical documents that were otherwise lost during the Imperial anti-heresy purges. Together with the Vozonids and other allies they had defeated the Nineteenth Empire at its capital at Gausari, and then they weakened the Malendors in a series of campaigns. Gausari became the capital of a new faction, the Galactic Community, which absorbed much of the Alliance's worlds (and the Malendors too) into its control as it is promised a more stable government that also preserves its members' freedoms.

The Free Igarin Alliance continued to exist, though as a weakened ally of the Galactic Community, until it was devastated by the Kyrvotin Invasion and swept away and divided in the ensuing wars for galactic dominance.

## Demographics

The Dapiwelans are of Poreseai descent, as most of them were descendants of those who fled the exterminations of poorer Imperials during the Igarin Empire. The westerners have mixed Resparin ancestry, while the northerners have Novantirna ancestry and the chance to be born with magical powers.

## Terminology

The Free Igarin Alliance can also be known by another name based on its acronym, "D-A-P-I": "Dapiwela", or DAPI-land.

Anything from the FIA should be known as "Dapiwelan", after its Igarin acronym.

Because many Dapiwelans were descended from poorer Imperials who were hatched, rather than the clones who replaced them, they referred themselves as the "Trueborn". Some look down on Imperial subjects as usurpers, but aside from a few fanatical terrorists, most of them seek to incorporate the cloned subjects as fellow allies against the Emperors.