Urgulate Empire

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## The Urgulate Empire

### Location

Plutonian Wing, Terran Wing, Uranian Wing, The Core

### Important Characters

Urgus, President Ergon, The Holy Chieftain of Urleg, Zamo, Zolos

### Sporecast

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The **Urgulates** are a shaman empire who believe in the Source, which, according to them, encompasses everyone in the galaxy. The Urgulates come from the subtropical planet of Plutonia, which is located on the Melorsia star system. Their capital is the holy city of Urleg, which bears a significant cultural legacy to them.

The Urgulates believe in a harmonical society, where people cooperate with each other for the benefit of all. They want to expand their influence over the rest of the galaxy and even beyond it to neighboring galaxies, and so far have been the only state to have diplomatic connections to states from other galaxies such as the Confederation of Planets from the Argentum galaxy and the Draconian Empire.

The Urgulates are a herbivorous vegetarian species, meaning their diet consist mainly of fruits, vegetables and other plant matter, including seaweed, which is a common delicacy among Melorsian species. They can ingest small amounts of fish, milk and poultry products like eggs, though eating red meat is considered taboo among urgulates as their metabolism cannot digest animal meat directly, and will instead be vomited out.

The Urgulates are most known for being the founding species of the Melorsia Alliance, a federation of numerous independent states originating from at least three arms of the galaxy. The alliance parliamentary system consists of two chambers: The Congress, where representatives of each member state and the Commonwealth of Melorsia convene to discuss internal matters of the Alliance, and the Galactic Conference which convenes every five years to elect the Alliance's president and to discuss matters with the other major and minor powers of the Liskus galaxy.

## History

### **Origins**

The Urgulate evolutionary history dates all the way back to 3 billion years ago, when a meteor carrying Urgah cells fell into the oceans of Plutonia in the Melorsia system. From there, the cells evolved until they rose to the land for the first time.

For the next 750 million years, the Urgulate species evolved, first from a horned amoeba to a bipedal pig, then into quadruped hog, and finally into a bipedal warthog/bovine. Their hands used to be their first two feet they had as early creatures, and the horns on their elbows are a remnant of it. The horns were originally used for defence from predators, as they could be used to penetrate the rather soft skins of the beasts. The Urgulates rarely hunted species to extinction though, as that was reserved as only the most desperate measure to protect their species.

The Urgulates ultimately learned how to make fire about 100,000 years before the present day and eventually conquered the globe by willfully manipulating the other tribes to fight and destroy each other by bribing them with food and musical numbers composed by the chieftain. The tactic was so successful that the Urgulate tribe never lost any tribe members due to violence with the other tribes.

### **Urleg, the First City**

When the Urgulates were the only tribe remaining on their planet, their chieftain, Liinen, decided to settle in and built a palace for himself by using the materials found nearby their village. This palace began to be known as the Holy Hall, and it was the basis for the capital of the Urgulate nation, Urleg. Urleg began to expand its borders, spiraling around the Hall, until it reached about 30 kilometers in diameter.

The twelve most influential members of the Urgulate tribe at that time began to be known as **the Twelve Founders**, as they led the city together until disputes about ideology and direction for the future drove them apart. Some of the Founders had begun to form more scientific and secular views compared to the Chieftain, while some of the more religious and conservative Founders found their faith not in the Way of the Source promoted by chieftain Liinen, but other beliefs such as in the "great shepherd of the stars" Saapakka, whom the moon of the planet Plutonia represented during its rotation around the mother planet, and whom the moon would be named after later on in the future.

This eventually led to the Great Schism, where the Twelve Founders split up and separated on their own ways, founding their own cities across Plutonia's continents. This event began the First Era of the Urlegian calendar, which is based on the solar rotation of Plutonia around its star Melorsia.

### **The** **First Urlegian Era**

According to the intergalactic Muton calendar, the First Urlegian Era began at around 101,000 AI, and lasted around 1715 years. During that time, Urleg grew up in power as it went on wars of conquest to annex the port city-states of Pelankola, Timaarila and Saitturus to its dominion, ultimately controlling all of its home continent as centuries passed.

In the year 1000 1.UE. the Urlegians discovered how to fly using airships, and used them to reach the other continent of Plutonia, Urgal. At that point tensions between different Plutonian religions grew to a tearing point, and war broke out between Urleg and Urgal's many distinct nations. One of the nations of the Urgal continent, Urmala, abandoned their religion in favour of the Source during this time, joined with the Urlegian side as a military nation, and helped Urleg score a decisive victory in the war circa 1500 1.UE

The 210-year period of peace following it was known as the Frail Peace, as the colonial governance of Urleg on its Urgalian vassal states did not help with either continent's inner stability.

#### **The Union War**

In 1710 1.UE the disparate states of Urgal joined together in a last-ditch effort to banish Urleg's armies and navy from their continent. Urmala having betrayed Urleg as well as a sign of remorse for its oppressed neighbours helped to even the technological and scientific level between the Union-States of Urgal and the Holy Urlegian Empire, the two major powers of Plutonia at the time. The Union or Unifying War as the conflict of that time has later been called, ended up in a stalemate where both nation-states were dissolved and the Plutonian Republic was formed in its stead.

### **The** **Second Urlegian Era**

The Second Urlegian Era began in 102,715 AI, when the newly formed Plutonian Republic launched their first Urgulateship into space. The Urgulateship could reach FTL speeds by warping into a dimension known as subspace with a specially crafted "warp drive". Using the Urgulateship's capabilities, the Urgulates could then reach other star systems in their vicinity within a year. Thus, in 102,716 AI, the Urgulates colonized their first exoplanets and met the Birdy Empire, hospitable traders who quickly formed a trade route and an alliance with the Urgulates.

For the next 127 years, the Urgulates would explore the immediate space around them and make many allies such as the DivaBette, the Murglbrg, the Ashonas, the Kirgle, and the Rammo, the last two of which went to war with the Urgulates for a while due to theological disagreements about Spode and the Source. Despite that, in 128 2.UE/102,843 AI the Urgulates formed the Melorsia Alliance with their closest allies, and decided to host the first Galactic Conference in a planet known as New Domino. New Domino was a so-called "independent planet", which meant that it doesn't belong to any empire in the alliance. In this neutral space the Urgulates hoped that they could solve disputes "without any bias between sides", so for that reason they chose New Domino. It still hosts the Galactic Conference to this day every five years.

#### **Meeting the Argulates and the Grand Galactic Council**

For the next 500 years after the forming of Melorsia Alliance, the Urgulates continued to expand their sphere of influence throughout the base of the Plutonian wing until they met the first empires belonging to the Grand Galactic Council. Hearing for the first time about this new galactic government, the Urgulates led the Melorsia Alliance to join it and making New Domino one of its side councils. Under the governance of President Orgalen, the Alliance opened many new trade routes with the empires of that time, including some Lockmorgan planets. Some envoys were even sent to the garden world of Sixam, the capital of the Grand Galactic Council, but vast distances between it and Plutonia meant that nothing was heard of them since.

In 103,343 AI the Urgulates made first contact with a rapidly-expanding empire called the Argulates. The Argulates were at first hospitable to the Urgulates, whom they considered formidable opponents, but diplomacy was soon cut off after major disagreements with political ideologies, which were the polar opposites for Argulates and Urgulates respectively.

#### **Urgulate-Argulate War**

Few years later, in 103,346 AI, contact was suddenly lost with Sixam as the Ea Empire attacked it from the Argentum Galaxy. The Urgulates blamed this loss of contact to the Argulates, provoking the latter to declare war towards the Urgulates for "this unacceptable slander". This began the Urgulate-Argulate War.

The Urgulate-Argulate war was the first major interstellar war for the Urgulate Empire and its allies. At first the Argulatian forces from Polappea system blasted their way through Urgulate space, threatening Plutonia until the Urgulates successfully plead for help in the Galactic Conference of 635 2.UE (103,350 AI). The combined forces of the Melorsia Alliance overpowered the Argulatian fleets and forced them to flee back to Charonia, the Argulate homeplanet.

In the Treaty of Charonia 636 2.UE, the Argulates surrendered their conquered territories back to the Urgulates and were forced to form a buffer zone of 5 parsecs from any Melorsian star system. This helped to keep relations calm, but they were soured a lot from the inferred harshness of the treaty. No wars between Melorsia and Argulates would rise again for a few centuries.

#### **The Long Calm**

Ironically, after the Urgulate-Argulate war things calmed down for the Melorsia Alliance, even while most of the galaxy was in chaos after Sixam's disappearance. For some time Melorsians would receive refugees from collapsing empires around their regions, but their flow eventually also fell, as the presence of a victorious and strong alliance helped to calm things down. This period would later be known as **the Long Calm**, and it lasted for 888 years, from 103,352 AI to 104,240 AI.

#### **The Religious Wars of the 1630's**

##### **The Urgulate-Kirgle War**

The Long Calm ended when the Kirgle Empire suddenly attacked Plutonia after suffering a coup d'état under the hands of a zealous dictator, later known as Emperor Kreg. Kreg believed the Urgulates to be the ultimate enemy of Spode, and dangerous servants of "the False God".

Urgulate forces quickly swept to Plutonia's aid, and annexed the Kirgle Empire to the Urgulate Empire. The Kirgle themselves scattered, some becoming residents of the Urgulate Empire and converting to Urlegianism, some fleeing from Melorsian space, and some being killed and executed.

##### **The Urgulate-Rammo War**

Some of the Alliance members were shocked by Urleg's swift actions for the Kirgle's betrayal and believed there had to been a peaceful solution out of it. Some even symphatized with the fallen Kirgle and their ideals, especially the Rammo.

In 104,248 AI, two years after the Urgulate-Kirgle War ended, the Rammo declared war to the Melorsia Alliance after blaming the Urgulates for violating the rights of the Kirgle people. The Rammo were a bit further from Urgulate home territories than the Kirgle, so it took longer for the combatants to reach each other. Nevertheless, the Urgulate Empire overpowered the Rammo in ship strength and numbers alone, and destroyed the Rammo Empire. This time the Melorsia Alliance was much more acceptant of the Urgulates' actions, since the Rammo were the aggressor this time, and they had accepted that what had happened with the Kirgle could not be undone.

#### **Expanding to New Regions**

In 104,455 AI, about 100 years after the Religious Wars ended, the Urgulate empire was bursting out of its seams due to overpopulation and lack of expansion for centuries. Something had to be done, so the leading scientists and researchers of the Melorsia Alliance decided to research new types of warp-jump-technology. Their discoveries included new warp drives that could jump 10 parsecs at once from one system to another, meaning the Urgulates could expand faster to new regions of the galaxy.

Using newly discovered routes that went around the Argulate Empire, the Urgulates could finally see what lied behind the Polappean Cluster in 104,499 AI. To their surprise, the area directly behind was empty, so it was left to be colonized by independent colony ships of the Urgulate Empire, all the while the leading explorer fleets pushed forward.

In 104,535 AI, a breaking discovery was made when the Urgulates found an empire with similar-looking physiology as themselves: The Dwarflates. The Urgulates and Dwarflate quickly befriended each other due to their similar ideologies, and formed an alliance. A little bit later, the Urgulates discovered the Briminen Triumvirate, the alliance that the Dwarflates were part of before. With a couple of negotiations and the charisma of the Urgulate diplomats, the members of the Briminen Triumvirate decided to join the Melorsia Alliance together, disbanding the Triumvirate at the same time.