Eiel Britonica

Eiel Britonica is a terracity in the Nostrom Cardinal Galaxy that was once the capital of The Commonwealth.

## Description

### Overview

Eiel Britonica is the fourth planet in the Eiel System of the Eielwatch Sector, located in the Nostrom Cardinal Galaxy. The world is currently a terracity, although it was constructed without use of conventional cyberformers. Eiel Britonica has a natural moon known as Jewel, and several artificial satellites. Historically, Eiel Britonica appeared blue from space, with many visible islands.

### Geography

Eiel Britonica historically had large oceans covering most of its surface, with islands of varying sizes dotting the surface. The largest of these islands, comparable in size to the Terran continent of Australia, was the site of the start of modern Britonican civilization. The islands had once formed large landmasses, where several native species, including Britonicans, had already evolved on.

### Urban Layout

As a terracity, Eiel Britonica is completely covered in megacity structures, reaching down deep towards its core. Due to the fact that the terracity was constructed over the course of several thousand years, starting with considerably analog methods that first enveloped Lomtronica into the planet's first megacity, lower levels and older districts still hold ancient and analog technology. Lower levels were often industrial, dark, and filled with machines, even holding creatures of unknown origins, which appear to have been alien fauna abandoned in those levels and left to evolve and turn feral over the course of millenniums. Megacity streets continue to appear cramped and dim, although upper levels are lavish and have plenty of sunlight, housing penthouses and the mansions of noblemen.

### Environment

Historically, Eiel Britonica had a temperate maritime environment over many islands. On the largest island, known as Lomtronica, it was known to rain very often. When not raining, the weather could get scorching hot or cold and dreary, often accompanied by heavy fog. As a terracity, the weather was more temperate and better controlled. However, the lower levels were known for keeping some of the planet's old foggy environment, prompting residents and law enforcement officers to don respirators and other forms of protection against the pollutants.

## Inhabitants

### Citizens

The residents of Eiel Britonica are known as Eielish, in order to differentiate them from the native race and the system-wide denonym. The majority of Eiel Britonica's citizens are Britonicans, with the rest of the population being made up of various species from across the old Commonwealth empire. Large numbers of Britonicans and other Eielish were cyborgs under the Commonwealth, although their numbers persisted into the later eras. During the era of Commonwealth rule, cyborgs in the lower levels were known to implement blades, flamethrowers, chainsaws, unconventional weapons, ballistics, and even hidden energy weapons into their cybernetics. After Commonwealth rule ended, weaponized cybernetics became illegal, although some got through the radar under the pretense of being used for work, such as built-in welders and saws.

### Native Species

The native sapient species on Eiel Britonica is the native human-like Britonicans. The Britonicans are discernible from humans through blunt, bone-like growths from their knuckles and far longer lifespans. They currently make up most of Eiel Britonica's population, and many are cyborgs.

### Flora

The Manthenser Lily, first found and widely traded in the region that became the megacity of Manthenser, is a large white flower that is often given as a symbol of affection. Its roots are very strong, and in the eras prior to and during the mass industrialization and terracity construction, Britonican males would often demonstrate their strength and affection for a lover by ripping a lily out of the ground with one movement.

### Fauna

The most famous animal native to the surface of Eiel Britonica, with its likeness present on almost every government imagery, is the feline Pridemane, which bears great resemblance to a Terran lion, although larger in stature. Pridemanes have two tails with gold fur at their ends, and males sport gold streaks in their manes, while both male and female Pridemanes sport other gold streaks and spots across their bodies. Pridemanes are currently kept in either nature reserves or as pets by noblemen. Another common animal once inhabiting the surface of Eiel Britonica was the shark-like Rexoling, now only present in aquariums. The Rilearchs, a species of wyvern-like creatures, once menaced Britonican civilizations, able to fly and rain down acid. Rilearchs would also seek out shiny materials, such as gold and silver, filling their cave lairs with whatever they can collect. Equoids, a species of horse-like creatures, were used as mounts by early Britonican knights, and remain in the possession of Britonican elites for use on off-world leisure areas.

## Government and politics

Eiel Britonica has been historically ruled by the Eiel Kingdom, which makes up its current government, although The Commonwealth megacorporation held control of the planet during their years of operation, functioning as an authoritarian corporate state. The Eiel Kingdom was originally an absolute monarchy, until a series of reforms beginning around the construction of megacities created the Parliament of the Eiel Kingdom, making the government into a constitutional monarchy. Under both terracity-era governments, firearms are strictly prohibited among civilians on every level of Eiel Britonica, although high class citizens and non-military officials in the government are sometimes granted permits to carry energy pistols for self-defense.

### Military

Eiel Britonica has held a standing planetary army since the planet was unified into the Eiel Kingdom, known as the Royal Eiel Army. Specially-capable soldiers don grey uniforms and large black helmets, acting as guards to the Brisincem Palace. In addition, the Royal Eiel Navy holds orbital defense platforms left over from the days of Commonwealth operation. Under the Commonwealth, the Royal Eiel Army was replaced with the Grand Army of the Commonwealth.

### Law Enforcement

The Eiel Ministry of Civil Protection provides police duties to the planet's megacity levels. Under the Commonwealth, the Civil Protection was militarized, equipped with assault rifles, exosuits, and given the authority to use whatever methods were deemed necessary to suppress crimes, leading to countless unjust killings and a state of fear in the population. After Commonwealth rule, the Ministry was restored to its original state. Currently, Civil Protection officers only wear light blastproof vests under their uniforms, retiring the full-body exosuits of Commonwealth policemen, and are easily recognizable with their notable tall helmets, somewhat modeled after those of the Royal Guard. In addition, the mandate on firearm control often affects Civil Protection officers as well, mostly on the ground and upper levels, where they are only permitted to carry stun batons and other forms of non-lethal weaponry, although many are allowed to carry pistols or even shotguns in the lower levels.

### Public Works

Eiel Britonica, under the current Eiel Kingdom, focuses its major spending on public health and safety, like most terracities. Recyclable products are common, although scrap and non-recyclable products sometimes clogged up lower level streets and power plants, especially so under the Commonwealth. Under the Commonwealth, the gap between the rich and the poor was increased to its maximum extent, with standards of living being very high, and basic public services were considerably costly. Back under the Eiel Kingdom, healthcare and public transportation services became free to people of all levels, although of highest quality in the upper levels, where the most government funding is received, and taxes are the among the highest in the Nostrom Cardinal Galaxy as a whole.

### Economics

Other than the income received through high tax rates, Eiel Britonica is an industrialized planet that produces advanced technology, currently holding trades and other transactions with other worlds in the Eiel Kingdom and the United Republic of Amer Prime. Under the Commonwealth, Eiel Britonica was the center of a galactic monopoly, and the destination of untold riches looted from less advanced worlds. Eiel Britonica's credit is managed by the Neuron Institute of Reeferon, which has offices in the planet's upper levels.

## History

### Pre-terracity and terracity construction

Eiel Britonica formed with a supercontinent as its sole landmass. This supercontinent broke into several smaller continents, where land-based species evolved on, such as the Britonicans, Equoids, and Pridemanes. Massive geoquakes and other movements tore the continents apart into smaller islands. On the largest of these islands, known as Lomtronica, its resident Britonicans founded the Eiel Kingdom. The Eiel Kingdom began to expand, growing in developments and encompassing the island of Lomtronica. As the kingdom spread to other islands, conquering rival civilizations, battling Rilearchs, and establishing new settlements, industrial developments began to gain traction. Population growths and technological advancements led to the formation of the planet's first megacity, which began in the district around the Brisinchem Palace and spread to the rest of Lomtronica. Britonicans built both upwards and downwards, creating lower levels, skyscrapers, artificial islands, and massive mining operations to recover the resources needed to convert more landmass into megacities. Around this time, the Parliament of the Eiel Kingdom was founded, and the monarchy changed from absolute to constitutional. Upon achieving space-faring capabilities, Eiel Britonica's moon of Jewel had large chunks of its metal-rich surface extensively mined for more resources. Modern cyberformers were not used for most of the terracity construction, with large replicators being adopted into construction, along with masses of cyborg workers and robots, provided and managed by The Commonwealth, a growing corporation contracted by the monarchy. The terracity was completed after the Eiel Kingdom began expanding to other worlds in the Eiel System through Light Drive technology, also extracting resources from them and incorporating unwilling species by force, often by pressing them into military service or slavery. Around this time, the University of Osfird, located on Eiel Britonica's surface, grew into one of the most trusted and well-known universities of the Eielwatch Sector.

### Commonwealth

As the Commonwealth grew in wealth and power, it began to purchase or eliminate competitors, and as the Eiel Kingdom expanded out of its system over some centuries, the Commonwealth began to claim moons, large asteroids, and entire planets for itself. This increase in size and influence came alongside government attempts of suppressing Commonwealth power, which led to a takeover of the government through means of planting agents within the Parliament, Royal Army, and other key positions, using networks of assassinations and bribery to sway the majority of the elite to the Commonwealth. When the royal family attempted to fight back with what forces they still had, Commonwealth security forces had them executed, and after spreading a report that the monarchy turned against the people, the Commonwealth took full command of Eiel Britonica and the Eiel Kingdom, ending the millenniums-long reign of monarchs. They militarized the Ministry of Civil Protection and began a military buildup, privatizing every industry they could, turning most of Eiel Britonica's lower levels into factories and industrial districts. Shipyards and orbital defense platforms were constructed in orbit, which facilitated the construction of hyperdrills, allowing The Commonwealth to carve out new paths through the Nostrom Cardinal Galaxy. The cost of living increased drastically, with the lower and ground levels being plunged into deeper and deeper poverty, driving the wealth gap to its greatest extent. The only jobs available on the planet's surface were Commonwealth-affiliated, and any dissidents were swiftly eliminated. As the Commonwealth led campaigns against worlds it saw as threats to its expansion over the course of many centuries, incorporating other worlds as allies, Eiel Britonica became the destination of vast scores of riches from across many worlds, and the population gradually became more and more diverse.

### Revolutions

Before the start of the revolutions against the Commonwealth, Eiel Britonica was plagued by its greatest civil unrest over several decades, as the Commonwealth government was becoming more and more restrictive concerning civil liberties, placing the planet under a perpetual state of lockdown as Commonwealth forces waged more expensive and destructive wars against other races, culminating with the war against the Saitronites in the Hieron System. However, daily activities in every level of Eiel Britonica stood still when the Halian known as Reorg Pashincon relayed a message tapped into every Commonwealth channel, speaking of the Amerian Revolution and urging the other peoples oppressed under the Commonwealth to fight back. This sparked a revolution on Eiel Britonica, prompting the Commonwealth to utilize their Emergency Management Division, creating a military dictatorship on Eiel Britonica as their forces fought a civil war against rebelling Eielish. However, the Eielish rebellions reached all tiers of their social structure, sparking across all levels, prompting Commonwealth executives to evacuate the planet as the Commonwealth collapsed. Although they attempted to bombard the planet from orbit, rebels managed to take control of defense grids and use them to prevent planetary cataclysms as the world fell out of corporate rule.

### Rebuilding and later status

After the Commonwealth fell, Eiel Britonica was plunged into a massive economic crisis, although dozens upon dozens of smaller corporations, a lot of them under the supervision of newly-instated government officials, were formed to start resupplying the planet. All citizens came together to rebuild the damaged levels of Eiel Britonica, even receiving aid from the newly-formed United Republic of Amer Prime. A few surviving relatives of the previous royal family came out of exile, reclaiming the throne, reestablishing the Eiel Kingdom and the Parliament of the Eiel Kingdom. After the reconstruction had been completed, Eiel Britonica now held trade routes and connections to other states, and the Eiel Kingdom's jurisdiction was reduced to only 5 worlds in the Eiel System. In addition, the Parliament of the Eiel Kingdom now held more power than the monarchy, ultimately becoming the true power on the planet. Over 400 years later, as the United Republic of Amer Prime worked to ally themselves with the Trans-Galactic Government, Eiel Britonica also built what relations were needed to remain neutral, but with commerce agreements and the potential for greater relations.

### Commonwealth resurgence

A factory complex in the lower levels of Eiel Britonica were bought out by an anonymous buyer, who was actually the still-living Lord Director Bartiman Rik, the colonial governor of Amer under the Commonwealth. Rik had assembled former Commonwealth executives, organizing them into a force that could strike Eiel Britonica from within. Seeking help from the Titan Regime, Rik was granted a cybernetic power cell of demonic and Titanian technology, which linked him to a demonic being known as the Watching One, which was based on the isolated world of Reaper. Using the Watching One, Rik retrofitted the factory's replication chambers dozens of times, allowing it to summon a portal to Reaper, utilizing a temporal bridge to bypass a Time Dilation anomaly that encompassed Reaper's system. Upon activating the bridge, it created a series of unholy incursions across the Nostrom Cardinal Galaxy, all leading to Eiel Britonica. Thomas Fru, a Holy Faction operative, traced the energy signatures to Eiel Britonica, where he teamed up with a Parfinoid named Nara, now serving the United Republic of Amer Prime, to find and stop the source of energy. They had to work alone, as the Britonican government refused to lock down the planet or allow foreign troops in, unable to properly detect the energy or judge the looming threat. Evading corrupted and possessed Civil Protection officers, the two made it to the factory, which was being overrun by demonic biomass. As they chased the Commonwealth executives to Reaper and battled the Watching One, demons invaded the surrounding megacity, causing heavy casualties and prompting an intervention from the Royal Eiel Army and Trans-Galactic Government. When the Watching One was destroyed, trapping the executives on Reaper, the invasion was fought off, ending it only an hour after it began. Eiel Britonica was rebuilt following the attack, now free of the Commonwealth for good.