Cloud Theocracy

### **History**

One of the most millennial societies to ever exist in the Multiverse, the Cloud Theocracy is the only extra-dimensional society to interact with the Known Galaxy.

The Cloud Theocracy is located in a “dwarf dimension”, and is home to the “Clouds”. A notable member of this species is the cloud Nimbus Cumulus.

There have been only five meetings between Federation representatives and Cloud representatives to be recorded. The first one was during a Federation expansion during the Federationist Civil War in 4836 A.E, where the troops encountered the planet Naruta, and where they found a small society of banished Clouds near to the portal, living in huts and making small buildings. As soon as the Federation set camping in the village, Cloud representatives left the portal, and demanded a meeting with the highest ranking Federationist official. The meeting was made between the current first citizen of the Federation and a Cloud Representative called Stratus. In it, they discussed the little boundaries the Federation could and couldn’t break during their stay in the planet. That being only of “Not harming the portal”.

### **Cloud Society**

The Cloud Theocracy has the shape of its society based on the principles of the Cloud Council of Prophets, who have a connection to the “Larger Being” or “Greater Cloud”. The Greater Cloud, is believed to be the creator of the Universe by the Cloud Religion and exists only in their dwarf dimension. It is described as a large amorphous cloud of indescribable beauty. Those who refuse to accept the rules of the council and break them, are banished from the Cloud Theocracy, sent through the Great Immigration Portal. Making most Clouds in the Known Galaxy be refugees or revolted people who do not believe in the rules put up by the council and leave by themselves. The Greater Cloud appears once in a decade over the Cloud Theocracy’s main capital, creating new sentient cloud babies, who in years will grow up to become adult Clouds with the help an adoptive family. It is estimated that around two hundred new clouds emerge from the Greater Cloud, as studied the Clouds allied with the Northern Star Federation.

The Immigration Portal is an arc of around 30 meters of height and 10 meters of diameter, apparently made of black stone of volcanic origin, with the portal itself existing inside the arc, being a type of purple mirror, of which when Clouds cross they are taken to the planet Naruta, in the coordinates of latitude 51.510357 and longitude -0.116773. It is unknown how it is powered or how it works, but it is claimed to be there since the beginning of time, a tear in the reality of both universes. The Federation requires documentation for Cloud citizens of the Federation to leave Federation Territory towards the Theocracy, but the Theocracy has never claimed the need for any documentation, so no citizens are barred from entering or leaving it. The territory covered by the Theocracy in the dwarf dimension is said to be “immesurable”.

The Cloud Theocracy Council makes use of Air-Masters to maintain order in the streets. Air-Mastering is a millennial technique of Clouds controlling the air around them and shooting it in incredible speed to pierce Cloud bodies and kill or injure them. The Cloud Theocracy claims never needing to use such technique, but citizens say the opposite. Although it is isolated, the Theocracy has been proven to have spies everywhere in the Known Galaxy, who keep the Council informed of the things happening outside of the portal without having to leave it. The Theocracy never waged war against any societies outside its portal, but there are reasons to believe that as a level three civilization, they waged war against the previous owners of potentially explored and conquered planets in their dwarf dimension.

The Cloud Theocracy has based its engineering and architeture on Earth during its observing of humanity, and much of its entertainment such as plays and books were made on the planet and its people. Thus, making the society have various elements of Earthling culture. Much was discovered in the extensive research made about Earth, and the Cloud Theocracy is still believed to be the only one that has any details on what Earth was like, millennia after the Great Silence, where humanity drifted so far into the stars that Earth became a distant memory, and later, just a myth. The Theocracy, though, shares none of that information.

### **Mentions**

* The Cloud Theocracy was not yet mentioned in any Everdream work.