Universal Choir

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The **Universal Choir** is an alliance of planetary governments, independent organizations, and scientific, religious, military, and corporate bodies who belong to Chorism. The UC also considers all those who belong to the Chorist Diaspora to be members of its populace, and actively attempts to aid and support all those under that umbrella.

The UC is governed as a socialist democracy, although UC planets maintain capitalist systems to fund UC efforts and support UC members and planetary denizens.

The UC also maintains an active military and borders, although they are open to all who recognize UC law and faith. Critical to this are Psalms, the pinnacle of UC technology, tehomology, theology, and Chord husbandry. Psalms combine a Voice, a pilot for a biomechanical chassis' known as a Bell, which are in turn powered by the Voice's bonded Chord.

## Locations

The Universal Choir holds a relatively small sector of space which forms a sphere with a diameter of approximately 100LY to 120LY around a neutral zone containing a superposition of Fugue and holds the five UC systems containing their only fully developed garden worlds. There are hundreds of stations maintained within UC space, and many more outside of UC space, although much harder to keep reliable track of.

### Planets

UC planets are worlds that were terraformed rapidly soon after unification and formation of the UC during The Choral Era, using now lost tech that involved superpositioning one world over another, and transferring entire planets worth of water, soil, and even atmosphere, stripping the non ideal worlds to drastically change the makeup of ideal worlds in the habitable zone of safe stars. These planets were then seeded with life and captured in relativity bubbles to rapidly develop advanced biological life, and climate. Production of these planets stopped when the technology was stolen via Peacock Conglomerate action, and knowledge of it was wiped out by the incursion of an apparent artificial intelligence of unknown origin during the Ice-pick Incognito Incident.

UC Developed Garden Worlds

**Anthem** - The economic hub of the UC and by extension an important place of trade and commerce within the Pearlescent Expanse. Most major economic powers, nations or corporations, have holdings on Anthem.

**Hymn** - A world of pastoral farmland and small communities, home to some major cities, beyond which only Chorists are allowed, a refuge for any who need one.

**Madrigal** - The research capital of the UC garden worlds, covered in a deep briny ocean capped with massive glacial plains, and dotted with floating cities. There are countless facilities beneath it's churning surface.

**Serenade** - The breadbasket of the Pearlescent Expanse, environmentally similar to Hymn, but devoted to a single task: mass industrial farming. A great deal of care is taken to maintain this planet for continued use, and produce from it can be seen across frontier space.

**Requiem** - A world that was ejected from its temporal bubble early, it is a place of mega fauna and flora. Towering jungle covers the majority of the planet, and beneath it are massive animals, it is the least developed of UC worlds, most major settlements being in floating aerostat cities,

### Space Habitats

The UC (And its founding organizations and groups) have been maintaining numerous orbital and deep space stations, and habitats for generations, some of which are built off of ancient Jovian Flotilla ships. These filled the role of homes when only barren worlds could be found, along with research stations, spaceports, permanent markers of sites of religious significance. Many of these ancient space habitats have also been growing since this time, becoming masses of old and new hulls combined into super-stations, gaining and losing roles as they became the homes for hundreds and thousands. These are now the traditional homes of many populations within the UC. Modern stations are more purpose built, the UC maintains a massive network of listening and sensor stations along its internal and external borders, staging areas with melody gates for fast response military action, and weapons platforms. More numerous than this however, are the singing deep science stations, many of which are for direct study, but some are remote because of the danger inherent to the research and development therein.

Notable Habitats

**Novo Euanthe** - The largest space habitat in the Pearlescent Expanse, a classic example of a UC "beehive" habbitat, hundreds of smaller ships and stations, collected and attached in concentric rings around the massive ancient Colony Ship, *Euanthe.* Home to some 10 million inhabitants, it is a floating metropolis.

**Tsovina Shipyards** - Tsovina is one of the primary defense habitats in UC space, stationed in dark space, in an area where the deep is particularly calm, it maintains a large melody gate, and a shipyard for maintaining the fleet that is stationed there.

**Threshold Cathedral** - One of the UC's most well kept secrets, the 7th Mantra Foundations pinnacle research station, two thirds of which permenantly reside within the Singing Deep.