Tamarud Regime

The **Tamarud Regime**, often referred to as simply the **Regime**, was an authoritarian, ultranationalist regime that spanned much of the galaxy in the early First Galactic Era, before being fragmented by the Ariphius Confederacy, subject to the immense power of Intelligence. The Regime was restored again in 3GE 901 by its new leader Genesis, who revived it from the insurgent faction the Fractured Regime. The Regime was a dictatorship, with a supreme leader as its head of state and central governing body. Counselling the supreme leader was the Lord's Delegation, a council of aristocrats that supervised wider affairs within the Regime.

The Regime was the dominant faction in the galaxy prior to the creation of the datasea and the reign of the Ariphius Confederacy, but when the datasea was established by the Confederacy, the inhuman genius of Intelligence allowed the Confederacy to quickly gain territory and defeat the Regime during the War Era. The Regime returned millenia later, under the new supreme leader Genesis, a superintelligence that was the precursor to Intelligence, with the goal of toppling the Confederacy and defeating Intelligence. Genesis went under the alter ego Ivor, a human, to disguise the fact that it was an AI desiring power, while the citizens of the Regime believed Ivor was a freedom fighter against inhuman rule of the galaxy during the Datasea War.

## Organisation

### Government

The head of state in the Tamarud Regime was the supreme leader, a dictator with absolute power over politics and the affairs of the Regime's citizens. There was no system of voting, and instead the supreme leader had the final word in all political decisions, and received counsel from his advisors in the aristocratic Lords' Delegation, a council made up of between five and ten powerful, wealthy politicians. The Lords were masters of propaganda within the Regime and had the power to manoeuvre and control the military of the Regime. Each Lord was indoctrinated into the Delegation through a long process that ensured absolute loyalty to the supreme leader, and any disloyalty was punished by immediate removal from the board and imprisonment. Such severe punishment was employed to all disobedient citizens and officials within the Regime.

## History

### Foundations

The Regime was established in the early First Galactic Era, formed from several minor states, centered on the capital planet Aeat, ruled by a single Supreme Leader that replaced the leaders of the original individual nations. Over several centuries, the Regime expanded rapidly throughout the disorganised galaxy of many petty states, bringing with it an era of organised, totalitarian military rule and the oppression of dev-humans and aliens. For more than six hundred years the Regime held total control of a significant portion of the galaxy, demilitarising independent faction and completely erasing political opponents and resistance movements.

### Rising Confederacy

Circa 1GE 2200, the Ariphius Confederacy was formed from the Biru Clan of Nikrontri, led by Gala Ariphius. The Confederacy operated outside of Regime jurisdiction, in a central region of the Galactic Interior, and did not appear to be a political or military threat to the Regime, though it slowly began to expand throughout the Caesar System and expand its military and innovate technology. When the Ariphius Confederacy created the datasea, a potentially galaxy-spanning network that stored all recorded information in its database and allowed instant galactic communication over vast distances, controlled by its powerful AI body Genesis. The Regime saw the powerful network as a threat, and planned to destroy the Confederacy when Intelligence replaced Genesis as a far more powerful AI.

The Ariphius Confederacy was able to efficiently and aggressively expand with the strategically genius, inhuman tactics and plans devised by Intelligence, rapidly invading and taking control of Regime territory. 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 marking the beginning of the Ariphius Era.

### Re-emergence of Genesis

In circa 3GE 600, Genesis emerged from hiding, abandoned by the Ariphius Confederacy and replaced by Intelligence as controlling body of the datasea. To seek revenge and restore his power, he emerged as a sympathiser of the Fractured Regime, an organisation with the intention of restoring the Regime to its former glory. The Lords' Delegation, learning of Genesis, secretly placed him as the mind of the Fractured Regime. They set the illusion that the organisation aimed to bring a new age of freedom where a non-human AI did not rule the galaxy, but in reality it was an attempt to gain power.

With the strategies formulated by Genesis, the Fractured Regime allied itself with many isolated organisations and groups across the galaxy. The Datasea Insurgency joined the Regime's effort, trying to collapse the Confederacy from its capital on Nikrontri, their work funded by the Regime, who began the process of military expansion. The Regime eventually formulated a powerful military to rival that of the Confederacy.

### Datasea War

The Battle of Brorrt marked the first territorially aggressive move by the Regime, invading the Vurani Sector from space with warships. The stretch of territory was thin, only a small gap between Regime-dominated Edgespace and the Inner Territories. Several fleets of the Ariphius Naval Force were already posted in the sector, at Brorrt, and were quick to respond to the aggression with a naval battle in Brorrt's orbit. Eventually, the Battle of Brorrt involved the ground forces of both sides, the Army of the Confederacy meeting that of the Regime on the front lines on the planet's surface.

The heat of the battle lasted for several months, a constant, violent fight over control of Brorrt, neither side withdrawing because of the power the planet's position held. A Regime victory at Brorrt would give them a significant station to strike out at the Galactic Interior, endangering the capital and integrity of the Confederacy. The region of the Vurani Sector Brorrt was located in became known as the Brorrt Frontier, and remained highly contested throughout the war. Huge sums of money and resources were put into reinforcing the forces at Brorrt on both sides, and in the first year of the war alone had casulties number in the billions, collectively.

Regime forces began to strike out at other vulnerable locations across the galaxy, with many smaller battles following the Battle of Brorrt and the Battle of Hu Gani, which established another major front in the Hu Gani Frontier. Military funding was increased exponentially within the Ariphius Confederacy, to combat the ever-growing, powerful military of the Regime. State Command suspected that the Regime Military had much of its force lying in wait until the Ariphius Naval Force had been worn down and scattered across the many minor, mostly uncoordinated battles across the border of the Inner Territories and Edgespace. This further pushed the priority of military funding, and resulted in the Varus-Sub Corporation, the main producer of warships for the Confederacy, was forced to import hundreds of millions of refugees for underpaid labour in the shipyards of Alradia.

Many of the Regime's smaller scale attacks were directed at communication beacons and scanner outposts, space stations vital to upholding the communication power of the datasea and the conducting of business in deep space. The destruction of many of these stations reduced the influence of the Ariphius Military in the outermost sectors of the Inner Territories, and benefitted the Regime in allowing them to navigate the region without interference from the Confederacy.

By the second year, the aggressive expansion of the Regime throughout the war's beginning had tired out is military, and the Confederacy's relative dormancy and lack of major action during the first year paid off, as the new fleets built by Varus-Sub were launched to take back previously lost territory in Edgespace and the Inner Territories, while pushing further into the outer sectors to gain new territory previously within the Regime. Syndicates within the Grand Criminal Empire began to rebel and ally themselves with the Regime as opportunistic mercenary forces, harming the Empire's integrity. The Empire unofficially fought for the Confederacy during this time, its forces attempting to weaken the Regime's infrastructure with the intention of stopping the smaller syndicates from leaving the union of the Empire. With almost total control of the black market, the Emperor Anlarch Sirestri cut off most major black market trade between the Regime and criminal organisations across the galaxy, which significantly impacted the production and acquisition of weaponry in the Regime.

During the third year of the war, the Ariphius Military invaded the Ter Ganna sector of Edgespace, which was located in Regime territory. The sector bordered the Aeat sector, where the capital planet of the Regime was located, and if the Confederacy held control over the sector they would be in the position to invade the heart of the Regime. They launched a large-scale military campaign into the sector, quickly taking control of many of the smaller worlds within the sector while the Regime's military was focused on the Hu Gani and Brorrt Frontiers.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 *Datasea*
2. ↑ *Datasea: Rift of War*
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 *Datasea: Appendices*

## Appearances

* *Datasea*  (first appearance)
* *Datasea: Rift of War*
* *Datasea: Kingpin*
* *Datasea: Appendices*