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Sons of Andromeda

The **Sons of Andromeda** are a warband founded by Manufa Nicks, the adopted son of the Nomad (Jaymeson Nicks) based out of Io.

They will come in contact with the El'yon on Io, our first glimpse of the El'yon race. Manufa will fall in love with a female El'yon and the two races begin to interbreed. Their progeny will continue to rule Io in a dynastic fashion until the arrival of Joshua from Urantia. They become one of the founding factions of the Second Dominion.

After the establishment of the Second Dominion, they are occulted away to the Andromeda Galaxy by the El'yon. There, they train and learn within the Infinite Empire and are given the ultimate quest of destroying the remnants of Ruin in Outer Darkness, Exades, and all who are loyal to them.
Rubrician

A **Rubrician** is one skilled in the art of creating and using *rubrics*. Rubrics are scrolls, books, codexes, tablets, and other physical non-electronic writing in the ancient El'yon language. The El'yon language, being the first spoken and written language in Solverse, possesses actual creative power. For a rubric to function, it must be constructed entirely in the ancient tongue with no substitute or derivative words. It is exceedingly rare for anyone but an El'yon themselves to know these arts. Notable examples of non-El'yon learning the art are the ascended of the Second Dominion and the unascended human Ecthelion III Elorian.
Gaulactica City

**GAULACTICA CITY**, **GAULACTICA** is a thriving megapolis world in the far end of the Orion Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy. The city orbits parallel to **Sol System**; both are roughly the same distance from the Galactic Core. It is so named because it was settled by persons mostly of verifiable Western European descent who used ancient Gaulish imagery in the construction of their civil culture and made a conscious attempt to resurrect Gaulish culture.
End (World)

**End** is a planet at the edge of the inhabited Milky Way Galaxy at the tip of the Scuttum-Crux Arm. Its colonisation in **SYM 4,000** marks the end of the Great Expansion directly prior to the galaxy's merging with Andromeda. The planet is quiet, aboreal, agrarian, and sparsely populated; it is served by only a single equitorial spaceport and accompanying station.
Kami Do

**Kami Do** is a martial art developed by Akira Ueshiba. He is a direct blood descendant of Morihei Ueshiba. Kami Do means "The Way of Spirit" and was developed to be an effective martial art in zero - gee environments. It draws heavily from the circular motion and flow of aikido to effectively redirect an opponent's momentum.

It was further developed into a holistic discipline by the Army of Eastern Kamijing, which considers it to be a way of life. Some of the basic principles of Kami Do have escaped AEK tradition to be passed along from spacer to spacer.
Free Mars

**Free Mars** is the name of the free association of native Martians; that is, descendants of original colonists. They exist under the Martian Free Trade Zone, recognized by the Consortium and the Confederacy until the Solar War, wherein the peoples fall under the allegiance of the Protectorate when the Consortium withdraws it's recognition of Free Mars and attempts to conquer Mars.

About one million people live as Free Martians as of the First Trilogy Era.

They organize themselves from time to time into the Free Martian Militia for self defense after the manner of the Confederacy.

## Propaganda

During the Solar War, the Protectorate  helped to finance a massive public relations campaign to demonstrate to the general public of Sol System that the war would decide the fate of Mars, and that Mars occupied an important and vital role in the stability of Sol System.

At right is an example of a widely distributed banner commonly seen on Mars itself and elsewhere.
Venusian Industries, Inc

**Venusian Industries, Incorporated** was a private corporation founded in **277 BSC** largely with the investiture of mineral bonds. The corporation aimed to establish a habitable station network in orbit around Venus as well as a number of colonies both on the surface and in the atmosphere, utilizing dirigible technology.

The corporation was ultimately successful in its first two endeavors. However, by **197 BSC** the company had been shut down and it's assets dissolved mainly among other private space companies due to the Venusian Injuns incident.
Antharchos Hypervincijovus Epiphanes

*"He swore an oath that should he die,*

*He'd raise his sword unto the sky,*

*up and swallow death alive,*

*upon his lips was ne'er a lie -*

*ANTHRARCHOS IS HIS NAME!*

*With Mankind's mighty triumph shout*

*He gave the enemy an eternal rout*

*He gave us truth all about*

*and took away all our doubt -*

*ANTHRARCHOS IS HIS NAME!"*

- Scribonius Epiphanes

Born **Pavlos Alexandraxis** (**SY 168** - **SY 375**) in New Athens, Greece, he is the founder of the Anthroperium and the supreme being of it's state cult. He is said to be a perfect embodiment of everything human.

## Meaning of Name

His birth name was one of the most common names in Twilight Era Greece. The Alexandraxis family is an Old Earth family and has been present in Greece at least since the Old Earth period. His first name, Pavlos, was a common family name.

He first started using his new name around the time of his Annunciation.

The name is Latin and means, loosely translated, "The Man Who Conquered Jove, the Divine"

## Behind the Scenes

Anthrarchos Hypervincijovus Epiphanes is primarily inspired by the historical personage Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the Hellenistic Greek King of the Seleucid Empire that invaded and despoiled Jerusalem, leading directly to the Maccabaen War and the establishment of the Hasmonean Dynasty that would rule until the conquest of Rome and the final destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD (**2226 BSC**).
Children of Chthonia

The **Children of Chthonia** was a warband during the Twilight Era. Led by the self-styled King Ptolemy Serapion, they successfully conquered Pluto and essentiallly controlled Rim trade. At the height of their power, it was estimated that they might have had 1100 willing and capable fighting men.

They were successfully defeated by the semi-mythical spacer Heracles, who kidnapped and slaughtered Serapion. The warband collapsed in the ensuing power vaccuum, and Heracles retuns to Manus victiorious.
Synthehol

Synthehol is **synthetic alcohol**, so called because it is produced in microgravity or zero gee environments using an innovative, scientific process rather than traditional brewing as on Earth.

Scientifically, the term refers exclusively to ethanol produced and purified from the photosynthesis of cyanobacteria. Colloquially, it has become a catch-all term for beverages produced by mixing the base product with other ingredients.

Ethanol is produced by exposing cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) to artificially produced light that mimics the wavelength of Sol System's star Helios. Through the photosynthesis process, ethanol in a water solution is collected by closed loop photo-bio-reactors.

The ethanol is then distilled to a near-pure form approaching 95% purity and the water recycled to the cyanobacteria for further production.

This raw ethanol product is used for a variety of purposes including fuel, medicine, for production of anti-septics and mineral spirits, and recreational use.

When used recreationally, synthehol is combined with the carbonated water from a fuel cell and optional artificial flavorings and sweetness are added. Most commercially brewed synthehol is prepared at 15% (30 proof concentration). Spacer bars offer drinks of varying strength where raw synthehol is combined with carbonated water and additives on demand. Many spacers keep a personal "garden" of cyanobacteria for synthehol production for it's various purposes, including recreational use, and many home brews are much stronger than commercially available ones.

Due to the composition of Martian soil and the hardiness of cyanobacteria, Mars is a leading producer and exporter of raw synthehol.

During the Twilight Era, synthehol is blended with nutritional additives to become a staple foodstuff for the spacer survivors of the Solar War. The best cooks of the Rim find the perfect blend between caloric intake, nutritional value, and intoxication. The leading producer of this foodstuff during the early Twilight Era is Bil Jax who terms it Spacer Fuel; it his station's primary export and his most affordable product.
Advent

**Advent**, in **SY 862**, is the foundation of the Second Dominion in the wake of the events of *Icarus*, where Earth is destroyed by the misuse of the Infinity Gate technology.

Svennesohn Gwaltney is the primary figure of Advent. He issued Joshua's call throughout Sol System to gather humanity to Mars.
Aenaeus

**Aenaeus** is a planet 95% covered in water lying in the habitable zone of it's main sequence star in the Milky Way Galaxy. Only it's several small island chains and two continents are habitable. It is a great source of ocean-sourced foodstuffs such as seabed grown kelp, fish, shellfish, and marine mammals for many other worlds. It's goods are distributed by the Hyperion League.

## History

Aenaeus was settled first during the Age of Exploration.

## Culture

Most of the world's population live quiet, agrarian lives tending to the great fields of foodstuffs or fishing.

It is considered a rite of passage for Aenaens to slay the megafauna inhabiting the vast, single ocean and to circumnavigate the globe from one end of the continents to the next.
Punisher

The **Punisher** is a vigilante who appears in *Marvel Comics*. He was featured on the second episode of Battle Royale, where he was pit up against Batman from *DC Comics*.

## History

Born in Queens, New York, Frank Castle left behind his wife Maria and unborn daughter to enlist in the Marines, quickly rising through the ranks and serving four years in the Vietnam War. While on leave, Frank, Maria and their two children went to Central Park - where they accidentally witnessed a mob killing. The mobsters, fearing that the Castles would testify against them, killed Maria and the children in cold blood, but they didn't manage to kill Frank. Frank attempted to testify, but the Police denied him, as they were deeply connected with the mafia. Taking the law to his own hands, Frank abandoned the Marines and used his training to avenge his family and kill as many criminals as he can, becoming the dangerous vigilante, the Punisher.

## Battle Royale Info

***Background***

* Debut: Amazing Spider-Man #129 (1974)
* Identity: Frank Castle
* Height: 6'1''
* Weight: 200 lbs.
* Vietnam War Veteran
* Most Notable Team-Ups: Archie Andrews, Eminem

***Arsenal***

* Combat Knives
* Grenades
* Wrist-Mounted Web-Shooters
	+ Invented by Peter Parker, AKA Spider-Man.
* Satan Claw
* Pym Particles
* Firearms... Way too many to list in one slidecard alongside everything else.
	+ Dude REALLY likes guns.

Punisher Gun Checklist:

* Berettal 92FS Inox
* Smith & Wesson Model 66 revolver
* MAC-11 submachine gun
* M16A3 assault rifle
* Mossberg 590
* Barret M95
* M72 Law

***Abilities***

* Skilled Martial Artist
	+ Exceptional skills in hand-to-hand combat.
* Genius Tactician and Master Marksman
* Peak human strength, speed and durability
* Skilled with using a majority of known firearms.
	+ Which is good considering he owns most of them.

***Feats***

* Fought against the likes of Captain America, Spider-Man, Daredevil, and Wolverine.
* Killed a bull using only a wooden board.
* Shrugged off bullet wounds as a nuisance at most.
* Had the balls to stand up to the likes of Hulk and Rhino.
* Shot off Wolverine's face... and then his wiener... and then flattened him with a steamroller.

***Weaknesses***

* Is still only human.
* Tends to go in guns-blazing.
* Mistook Archie Andrews for a wanted criminal.
	+ Yes, THAT Archie Andrews.
Exarch

**Exarchs** are planetary despots within the Hiterian Empire. They gain their role through pure meritocracy, through some combination of cunning, guile, manipulation, force, conquest, outright lies, and charisma.

Each Exarch is personally empowered by Exades in a profane ritual; for many Exarchs, this is their only visit to Throneworld, for to return for most Exarchs means being escorted to a painful death by the Aiwa. All Exarchs were once normal humans of various castes of Hiterian society who, having gained their role, are chosen to become possessed by A'yon spirits. The spirits rule their physical bodies, but each Exarch -- depending on the strength of their will -- exert their own personality and desires upon the world they have gained governorship of. Within confines of the caste system and the will of Exades, they may do as they please upon their worlds.

Any Exarch may be deposed at any time by the power hungry; they hold power only by the force of their own will, brute strength, and their ability to command the loyalty of those around them. No Exarch is directly appointed by Exades, who desires pure merit and the seizure of power. But once a person becomes an Exarch, they are powerful with Hiterian civlization.

An alternative to planetary conquest for an aspirant is the challenge of the Pit upon Throneworld. On a calendrical cycle, champion Shai will come from every system under the rule of Hiteria to compete in a fight to the death. The winner becomes Exarch of a newly conquered system. To win this contest is considered the highest possible honor for a Shai. No Shai who has become Exarch this way has ever been deposed from their world.

When an Exarch dies a natural death, a successor may be appointed and it is up to that successor to maintain his claim through the inevitable civil war that will ensue. In this way, Exades and all Hiterians believe, their civilization culls the weak and remains strong.
Explorator

An **Explorator** is an elite type of spacer during either the Foundation Period, Age of Exploration, or Great Expansion. They are the sole executive authority at the head of scientific and survey expeditions, as well as colonisation efforts.

Only a few thousand individuals have ever been Explorators, as they are required to have some of the most rigorous training known to Sol System and the Galaxies at large. Explorators were responsible for the direction, general welfare, and efficiency of their fleet and all its resources, both human and material. Their charges could be anywhere from a few dozen to several thousand individuals.

Each Explorator brought something different to their colonization projects and were allowed a great degree of freedom in determining the philosophies and working ethic of their projects; they left Earth with the full understanding that they would never return, and committed to a life in space. As such, the Explorators were nearly universally hailed as heroes of the whole human race.

Receiving a commission of Explorator during the FTE was no easy feat, and the few positions were hotly contested by test pilots, engineers, scientists, and technicians.

## Notable Explorators

* **Nikolai McAdden**: The founder of the Kamijing project. He was it's governor until his untimely death and is mentioned in *Breath*.
* **Odysseus Norm**: The first human being to land on Ceres and Vesta in the Main Asteroid Belt.
* **Alpheus Khazard**: discoverer of the region of space now known as Khazard’s Folly.
* **Steinric Deir**: founder of a minor Confederate platform, instigator of the Freitaika Rebellion.
* **Rudolph Carlson**: founder of Freitaika.
Titan

**Titan** is the largest natural satellite of Saturn in Sol System.

It is the only moon known to have a dense atmosphere, and the only object in space other than Earth where clear evidence of stable bodies of surface liquid has been found.

Titan is the sixth ellipsoidal moon from Saturn. Frequently described as a planet-like moon, Titan is 50% larger than Earth's Moon, and it is 80% more massive. It is the second-largest moon in the Solar System, after Jupiter's moon Ganymede, and is larger than the smallest planet, Mercury, but only 40% as massive. Discovered in 1655 by the Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens, Titan was the first known moon of Saturn, and the sixth known planetary satellite (after Earth's Moon and the four Galilean moons of Jupiter). Titan orbits Saturn at 20 Saturn radii. From Titan's surface, Saturn subtends an arc of 5.09 degrees and would appear 11.4 times larger in the sky than the Moon from Earth.

## Composition

Titan is primarily composed of water ice and rocky material. Much as with Venus before the Space Age, the dense opaque atmosphere prevented understanding of Titan's surface until new information from the *Cassini–Huygens* mission in **SY 292**, including the discovery of liquid hydrocarbon lakes in Titan's polar regions. The geologically young surface is generally smooth, with few impact craters, although mountains and several possible cryovolcanoes have been found.

## Climate and atmosphere

The atmosphere of Titan is largely nitrogen; minor components lead to the formation of methane and ethane clouds and nitrogen-rich organic smog. The climate—including wind and rain—creates surface features similar to those of Earth, such as dunes, rivers, lakes, seas (probably of liquid methane and ethane), and deltas, and is dominated by seasonal weather patterns as on Earth. With its liquids (both surface and subsurface) and robust nitrogen atmosphere, Titan's methane cycle is analogous to Earth's water cycle, at the much lower temperature of about 94 K (−179.2 °C).

## Settlement History

The Rimmers who live on Titan produce energy from these lakes of liquid methane and ethane. They stay liquid at about 300 degrees centigrade. The methane is boiled off the surface using solar powered lasers and collect it in orbit with ramjets. The Rimmers of Titan use methane as a primary source of power, fuel, and ship much of the excess towards the Main Belt in accordance with the IPS.
Alswhyr

**Alswhyr** is a sparsely populated free world unassociated with any major civilization. At it's population peak, less than one hundred thousand people lived on the world's single outpost. It was first colonized by a spacer exiled from the Icari'yon during the Great Expansion, who, per legend, was told to 'go elsewhere'.
First Empire

The **First Empire**, also known as the Aion'ari'yon, was the pan-universal entity of human beings under the benevolent rule of Kolob as world seeds left from Kolob to create inhabitable planets in Solverse. It's capital world was Rabah, the first inhabited world of Solverse.

The First Empire spread life from the Celestial dominion through the rest of Solverse for many millenia until it was dissolved during the Lightning War and Second Genesis.

## History

Life began in the universe on Rabah as the Ya'ri civilization.

### Discovery

The First Empire's existence is not known until the Third Trilogy, when Tara'yon scientists begin to uncover the first traces of it on worlds throughout the galaxy. It was first described by the scientists as "the over-race from which all known sapient species are descended.

## Government

The First Empire was ruled directly by Aion, who's consorts were El and Aetearn, and together they formed the Shaeloah. Under them taking care of day to day business throughout the First Empire was the twelve-member First Council. Their members were selected and sealed for time and eternity.

1. Mesa the Ram, the Agrarian Worker
2. Tauros the Steer of Heaven
3. The Great Twins
4. Karkata the Crab
5. The Lion
6. Kanya the Maiden
7. Libra, or, Lady Justice of the Scales
8. Skorpyos the Stinger
9. Centaurus Toxotes the Soldier
10. Aigokeros the Starlord
11. Khumba the Great One
12. Mina the Tail of the Swallow

Ecthelion III Elorian is the physical incarnation of The Lion.

## Language

A very few words have made their way from the creative language of the First Empire to modern tongue.

* Shaeloah: the supreme divinity in Solverse.
* Kolob: the world of Shaeloah.
* Lei'ari: the Infinite Empire.
* Rabah: the first inhabited world.

## Legacy

The First Empire was responsible for the propagation of life throughout the universe.

Five of the seven gates of the Infinite Empire were constructed by the First Empire: the Seed Gate, Unity Gate, Infinity Gate, Jump Gate, and Ascension Gate. These remain in active service taken care of by the El'yon.
Consulate

The **Consulate** is a primarily space-faring entity during the Great Expansion and Age of Exploration that claimed both a peacekeeping and protector role over the Sol-born human species. They were formed from five of the twelve original Scion tribes: the **Aryans**, **Geminids**, **Lions**, **Aquarians**, and **Pisceans**. They universally followed a descendant form of Terran Humanism that blended aspects of the religion as taught prior to the Anthroperium Era with elements of Hyperion religion and to a lesser extent some of the beliefs held directly by the El'yon as well as influence from the high expression of Architecture.

In contrast to the Second Dominion, the Consulate was composed entirely of unascended humans. At their greatest extent, only a few hundred thousand of them existed in contrast to the teeming quintillions throughout the galaxy. Their small numbers afforded them the status of legend whether they intended to acquire such a status or not. While they consider themselves a race of men separate from and above "normal humans" the Second Dominion granted them enclave status within their space.

The Consulate abolished the original Anthroperium-era tribal caste system distinguishing them from one another and exist in two groups: the Lords of Men and the Lord Protectors of Men. The former principally stay within space local to their enclaves, while the latter will establish local **consuls** outside of civilized space that will train the populace in the means of defence, but also antagonize the world's government in the belief that such measured conflicts will ultimately strengthen the people.
Humanity

**Humanity** is the most common stage of evolution of life present in the First Trilogy Era. The El'yon use the collective pronoun **Lu'desh** when referring to humanity amongst themselves, related to the ancient Sumerian meaning "one person", or more loosely, "they". The El'yon, as a functional unitive race of life, also view Humanity as a singular whole being.

Humans are not yet ascended but have the potential for both ascension and divinization.
Freitaika Free Forces

The **Fretaika Free Forces**, also known as the **3F**, was an armed group of irregulars formed on the space platform Freitaika during the Freitaika Rebellion. It gave way to several successor organizations, including the Confederate militia and the Free Martian Militia.

After the rebellion, the official armed forces of Fretaika continue to be known by the 3F name.
Anglatin

During the First Trilogy Era, there are four great languages present in Sol System that have evolved through a process of *dedialectization* and further formalized and codified by the New School.

**ANGLATIN (**aɪndʒleətin) is the primary language spoken by the American IPS and is it's official language of business. The language is built around a core vocabulary of approximately 1,000 words that allows for any speaker of the language to be both understood internationally and have a local dialect. Anglatin is the unified synthesis of English, Romance, and revivalist Latin with elements from Dutch, German, Gaelic, Scandinavian, and Dravidian.

## Vocabulary

* die - The
* de - of
* liber - book
* ja - yes
* no - no
* a- - negation prefix
* esa - is
* Terra - Earth
* avec - with
* para - for
White Ranger

**Tommy Oliver**, also known as the **White Ranger**, is a character who appears in the *Mighty Morphin Power Rangers* television series. He was featured on the official first episode of Battle Royale, where he was pit up against Leonardo from *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles*.

## History

Tommy Oliver was a new student in Angel Grove High School, and a martial artist on par with Angel Grove's finest, Jason Lee Scott. However, Tommy caught the eye of the evil witch Rita Repulsa, who turned him into a mindless servant in an attempt to destroy her enemies - the Power Rangers, lead by Jason. Turning him into her own Green Ranger, Tommy battled the other Rangers in multiple grueling battles, until Jason managed to remove the spell and recruit Tommy to the side of good. Even when Rita took away his powers, Tommy stayed loyal to the Rangers, eventually getting another chance to fight with them as the White Ranger.

## Battle Royale Info

***Background***

* Debut: Green With Evil, Part 1
(October 5, 1993)
* Real Name: Tommy Oliver
* Age: 18
* Height: 5'11" / 1.8 m
* Weight: 214 lbs. / 97 kg
* Occupation: Green Power Ranger (formerly), White Power Ranger, Zeo Red Ranger, Black Dino Ranger

***Arsenal***

* Saba
	+ An enchanted talking saber sword.
	+ Acts as a remote control for the Tigerzord.
* Standard Power Ranger Armor
* White Shark Cycle
	+ A motorcycle created from the fossil of a prehistoric shark... because why not.
* Tigerzord
	+ Tommy's Zord.
	+ A giant mechanical tiger standing around 160' tall
* Warrior Form
	+ Stands 177' tall and weighs 150 lbs.
* Mega Tigerzord
	+ Combines with the other Zords to achieve this form.
	+ Most powerful version of the Tigerzord.

***Abilities***

* Superhuman strength, agility, and durability
* Skilled in Karate, Kenpo, and Taekwondo
* White Ranger Thunder Power
	+ Used to summon the Tigerzord
* Connection to the Morphing Grid
	+ Allows him to transform into the White Ranger
	+ Likely scales to the other Rangers, as they all draw their powers from the Morphing Grid as well.

***Feats***

* Can hold his own against human sized monsters, even multiple at once
* Punched Goldar hard enough to knock him down
	+ Didn't have access to the Morphing Grid at the time.
* Tigerzord can destroy building sized creatures
* Tigerzord managed to survive it's Pheonix Strike being reflected back at it

***Weaknesses***

* Can revert back to normal after suffering too much damage.
* Tigerzord, while powerful, can also be an easy target due to it's size.
* Tigerzord can be overloaded and pushed past it's limits just like any other machine.
PET Call

A PET Call is an emergency broadcast code in the Solari language that can be transmitted through any viable means of communication. It is a Greek acronym meaning *panta egegnento tartarus*, meaning "all things are going to hell."

The transmission is used as an emergency measure only. It is generally understood that any spacer receiving a PET call will respond to the best of their ability.

The letters PET were chosen because it only takes six individual characters in Morse code to transmit the signal, versus the nine of a traditional SOS.
Turbo Mode

Turbo Mode is a new show being developed by DJTiki, co-producer of Battle Royale. The show is similar to ScrewAttack's DBX and Hyper Gauge's One Minute Melee, in that they're both VS Shows without analysis portions, but unlike those two shows, Turbo Mode's verdicts are based on research. However, the research part has been dropped after the pilot.
Black Stones

**Black Stones** are aberrations of nature deliberately engineered by first Ruin and later expanded upon by Exades. Based on a purposeful misapplication of the Nexon technology and it's associated gate, the Black Stones are best understood as extensions of the Black Gate itself in the same way that Nexons are local objects accessing a much greater and more powerful system.

The size, shape, and physical characteristics of the stone do not have any particular bearing on the intensity of its power.

The one good black stone of Earth was sent by the one the A'yon and Hiterians call "the Deceiver", an El'yon of unknown name who was able to reverse a stone's connection to the Black Gate and sent it to Earth in antiquity as a sign of victory during the Solarian War. The stone would later be found by Abraham who interpreted it as a sign from God and built a shrine to commemorate the event.
Transhuman

A **Transhuman** (*homo sapiens tekne*) is the first recognized variant species of humanity, defined by Consortium scientists as a person born human with one or more of their biological systems replaced by technological counterparts or at least 51% of their total physical makeup replaced by artificial constructs.

While greater than two-thirds of humanity by the time of Joshua's arrival in Sol System (**Advent****, SY 862**) were considered scientifically but not legally distinct from *homo sapiens sapiens,* transhumans were comparatively rare for many millenia, comprising altogether from **7300 BSC** to roughly **SY 128** only a third of humanity's total population. From the Twilight Era onward, the population of transhumans began increasing exponentially.
Icari'yon

The Icari'yon were birthed out of the remaining Earth-born humans after the destruction of Earth in **SY 1030**. The Icari'yon believed that having been born on Earth and now forced to flee was a particular and special identity unto itself, much in the same way that spacers defined themselves by being "spacers and not grounders".
Apollo Minor

**Apollo Minor** is a space platform in Sol System during the First Trilogy Era and a member of the Confederacy. It orbits with the Apollo asteroids around the sun.

## History

Founded by Asteroidal Industries, Inc in **SY 120**, the platform steadily grew, though it never reached the status of a major platform such as Dosijing or Kamijing. It's population has remained small enough to function successfully with direct democracy. In **SY 38**, a public referendum voted in favor to join the newly formed Confederacy. Over the next century, Apollo Minor developed a high level of automation and very high standard of living.

When the Solar War broke out in **SY 129**, the platform formed a small militia. Cells of the Technocracy movement staged an uprising on the platform and overwhelmed the small militia. Confederate forces responded to Apollo Minor's PET call and the ensuing battle resulted in a landslide Confederate victory.
Aural Implant

An **aural implant**is a piece of integrated cybernetic technology common in the First Trilogy Era that expands the human range of hearing many orders of magnitude above and below what is biologically available. Standard Consortium produced units can be installed by any licensed physician on an elective patient at no cost and convert the entire electromagnetic spectrum to audibly available information.
Wu Kenshu

Wu Kenshu is the last Warlord of the Army of Eastern Kamijing. He was the effective commander of all AEK forces and later received strategic command of the united Protectorate military effort during the Solar War.

## Life

### Childhood

Kenshu was born in Kyoto Province, Japan on Earth in **SY 73**. He was raised in a Traditionalist family and had a classical Buddhist education, particularly excelling in martial arts and Zen.

### Earth Career

He joined the Japanese military at age fourteen in **SY 87**, was educated and commissioned as an officer at age sixteen and by seventeen had become an accomplished HALO jumper. He received aerospace wings after extensive test piloting and at nineteen, in **SY 92**, became a Consortium courier. He chose to expatriate to the Confederacy after his first cycle at twenty three years old in **SY 96.**

### AEK Early Years

The Freitaika Rebellion was occurring during Kenshu's emigration from Earth to the Main Belt. He joined the AEK upon arriving on Kamijing and quickly became Kashi-Gahira in the Infantry subdivision. He participated in peacekeeping affairs and some minor skirmishing. He was particularly noted for his kindness to civilians and fair treatment of prisoners of war.

At age forty four, Kenshu mastered the art of Kami Do and was commissioned as Logistics Daimyo. He briefly governed Kamijing.

### As Warlord

In **SY 121** became the Warlord of the Army of Eastern Kamijing. While he was not the most senior Daimyo, he was credited with having years of experience because of his upbringing as a martial artist on Earth. He brought deep Zen influence to the Army's spiritual life.

He led the AEK through the Solar War and was present at all of it's major battles. During the Battle of Earth, he helped to instigate the Japanese Uprising.

### Death

In **SY 138**, Kenshu committed harakiri in response to the Siege of Mars.
Marcus Cato Scaevola

**Marcus Cato Scaevola**, also known by his political title throughout the Solar War and into the Twilight Age **The Left Hand of the Consortium,** is an American Senator and member of the Consortium's World Congress. He is an influential speaker who presents the case for the Consortium's entry into the Solar War circa **SY 132** during the emergency session of World Congress called during the Second Battle of Mars.

He is moved to make the speech after being approached by several of the major corporations of the Consortium. They reveal that they have been building an arsenal of weapons for use in space under the guise of research and development. This information is unknown to either of the three political superpowers of the Consortium.

The open application of this arsenal leads directly to the formation of the Protectorate.

Scaevola continues to live on Earth well into the Twilight Era. Together with Septimus Severus Gaiaus Quintus, he is one of the bulwarks of Earth leadership.

He dies in **SY 182** at the age of eighty nine. Following his death, the Consortium is reorganized into Nova Roma, a Roman revivalist republic that would exist for the next fourteen years until it's dissolution at the hands of Antharchos Hypervincijovus Rex.

## Legacy

Scaevola kept a diary his entire life. Posthumously published under the title *Reflections*, it became the most widely read text in Nova Roma. Within the pages Scaevola unfolds his profound optimism and New School thinking. Towards the end of his life, he outlined his thoughts about the abrupt dissolution of the Consortium: it was always meant to be, and is part of a now-recognized historical cycle with precedents in the fall of Rome, the razing of Byzantium, and the restructuring of the United States. For Scaevola, conflict is essential to ensure a strong humanity.
Electrostaff

An **Electrostaff** is a simple melee weapon that contains a limited battery-supplied store of electricity up to several million volts. Ranging from non-lethal to total lethality and coming in various sizes, the weapons are common throughout Sol System in the First Trilogy Era and remain a staple throughout inhabited space well into the Third Trilogy.
Urantia System

Urantia System, also known as **Alpha Centauri** during the Space age and Foundation period is a star system located 4.3 light years from Earth locked into a trinary system. The primary star is named Rigil Kentaurus; the two others are **Toliman** and **Proxima**.

The system has been continually inhabited since the Progress fleet made landfall on the primary planetfall.
Cracker

A **cracker** is a person who exploits information systems like access terminals, computer systems, telecom and vidcom lines, and radio. The majority are found in the Main Belt and pursue their own ends. Professional crackers thrive in the Main Belt and are a crucial component of the information trade. Individual crackers may make their entire living from obtaining and selling information to interested parties, including but not limited to individuals, Confederate governments, and even the Consortium.

A **phreaker** is cracker who specializes in communications systems.

## Notable Crackers

### First Trilogy Era

Cera Nicks was known for her ability to obtain almost any piece of information, specializing in social engineering and simple theft in addition to her aptitude with machines themselves.

### Third Trilogy Era

Cel Dembrio in the Galactica-era short story *The Signal* is a cracker working within the Second Dominion.
Kira VS Adachi

**Kira VS Adachi** is the ninth episode of Battle Royale, the seventh episode of the first season, and the final episode of the series' run on the Crossover X channel, pitting Yoshikage Kira of the *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure* series against Tohru Adachi of the *Persona* series. In a fight against two spirit-aided serial killers.

## Trivia

* The connection between Kira and Adachi is that they are serial killers from the fourth installments of their respective franchises who use their connections to spiritual and/or otherworldly phenomena (Stands and Personas) to commit their crimes. They also both lived under an unassuming everyman facade during their killing sprees, were primarily motivated by lustful desires before doing it just for the fun of it, and were eventually brought down by teams of heroes who could also use Stands or Personas respectively.
* This episode's reveal music is The Winner - Persona 4 Arena.
Integrated Production Sphere

The **Integrated Production Sphere** system was the economic policy of the Consortium for the duration of it's existence. Established by the Zero Day Accords, it created several different zones of economic activity: The United States, the Soviet Union, the People's Republic, Mercury, Venus, and Luna. A seventh sphere for the Main Belt existed briefly until the Confederacy achieved independence.

Each sphere was expected to maintain a minimum of economic output to support the Interplanetary Transport Network and maintain self-sufficiency with surplus within the Consortium. On Earth, each of the three superpowers had slightly different ways of going about fulfilling their obligations: the US was a capital-leaning mixed economy welfare state focused on materials processing and agriculture, the Soviet Union was a centrally planned communist society focused on high technology, and the People's Republic was a socialist-leaning mixed economy focused on heavy industry. The other spheres produced power, raw resources, and high technology.
Tara'yon

The **Tara'yon** (children of Earth)are the variation of *homo sapiens sapiens* that is native to Sol System from between the Second Genesis to the death of Earth. Humans that do not self-identify as Icari'yon continue to be identified as Tara'yon by the El'yon well into the Age of Exploration, Great Expansion, and Third Trilogy Era.
Siege of Al-Amaryn

Al-Amaryn is an oasis on a desert world. Life is generally supported only here; the rest of the planet is sand and salt water. It bears a single space port and very little satellite infrastructure. As such, when a Hiterian scouter fleet arrived in orbit during the Last War, the Hiterians were forced to commit to a ground assault in an attempt to seize the oasis.

Operation Light

Operation Bert

Operation Brag
Mušen de Lagge

*"You never treat with a woman scorned; hell hath no fury as such. I may have treated with the devil so as to become Pharoah to this world, but it is not our destiny to be absolved of such sins by so simple a death."*

*-- attributed to Septimus Severus Gaiaus Quintus, commenting on her breaking the Siege of Mars*

**Mušen de Lagge** was a spacer and freebooter during the First Trilogy Era and on into the Twilight Age. She would become one of the most cunning and ruthless of the warlords in the Rim after the Solar War, only to be brought down by Manu and the Sons of Andromeda. After her defeat and capture, she would fall in love with Heracles and become immortalized in the *Heracliad*.

## Biography

She is the widow of Šukara de Lagge, an idealistic Rimmer who just barely started to make his own living when the Solar War broke out in **SY 129**. Šukara was commissioned as a privateer by the Protectorate during the Belt War in **SY 137** and died following the rupture of his vessel during the Siege of Mars.

The loss of her lover broke her. She left the Rim on a stolen freighter towards Mars to recover Šukara's body.

She sails black flags in an open mockery of the Army of Eastern Kamijing. Her elite warriors are former AEK who fought in the war.

She will become known as the "Queen of Diamonds" for her eventual control of carbon mining and shipping in the Rim.

After the recovery of her husband's body, she rampages her way through orbit, killing at least several dozen spacers in the process. During the Siege of Mars, she is let past the blockade due to the merciful actions of Lord-Marshal Septimus:

When the long-broken Main Belt received the news of Septimus' death at the hands of Free Martian hard liners (RED OR DEAD), all grieved, enemy and friend alike. Marcus Cato Scaevola and Nikanor take his death as a major blowback, who have largely consolidated power on Earth to themselves. This creates a massive power-and-structure-vaccuum in the Main Belt. Within this environment, **Mušen** won the respect and admiration of her first crew by boarding a badly damaged Army of Eastern Kamijing warship and impressing the spacers she found still alive into service: "It's either me or the Void."

"Only some are aware of the call of the Void. On Earth, it was a chosen few who came to realize we lived on a cosmic planet orbiting a star in a vast universe and not simply some desolate scrap of land on an ocean that we had managed to work into a half-way house. No, the Void calls all but few are chosen ... endlessly falling we are ... that, in space, is the only thing you can do ... is fall. There are then three things you can do. You can accept your fate, fight it by leaping upwards and stilling yourself for a moment only, or you can leap into the Void and accelerate with the fall, gain power. So our Black Queen is the choicest among those who are chosen."

When being released from her service which is at will and under free employ, entitles one to a parting gift: a diamond from the Queen of Diamonds. It's a diamond's worth of raw free carbon AKA graphene.
Phaeron

A **Phaeron** is a citizen of the Second Dominion who has heightened sensitivity to the Empyrean Verse to the point of being able to interact with it while still in mortality. Phaerons have the ability to communicate with the Celestials, an ability that is little understood, respected, and feared even by the practitioner themselves.

In reality, Phaerons are aware of their own eternal, timeless existence within the Empyrean and their mortality is merely an expression-and-becoming of that existence. It could be said that Phaerons exist in both Verses simultaneously and walk the very fine threads that unites them as if they were a tightrope walker and existence were a trapeze act. This "other" existence is the divine soul of the person within the Empyrean and is called the True Self.

Popular culture within the Second Dominion deems Phaerons to be "half-way ascended", or 'with one foot in each verse'

The term originated on the very first voyage of the Second Dominion fleet to Tau Ceti after a quiet peace had descended upon Earth following the overthrow of the iron-fisted Anthroperium. Tau Ceti was the first system to be officially colonized and experimented with under the Second Dominion.

Phaerons were discovered by Joshua and The Watcher, as Phaeronica welcomed them by name into Sol System when they passed Pluto. They discovered that over the past several centuries, spacers had been evolving a culture completely separate from that of Earth: while the Anthroperium was dogmatic and overtly religious, space was to be anarchic and scientific to a fault.

## Technology

During the Twilight Age, many adherents of Architecture formed insular communities gathering around individuals displaying apparently miraculous abilities. These communities became the strongholds of spacer civilization and came to define them culturally. At the Temple of Architecture on Kamijing, a series of experiments and trials were undertaken that resulted in the creation of the technology now known as the synaptic halo. It was engineered from Wilhelm F. Keigel's so-called psychic radio technology.

The **synaptic halo** allows Phaerons to communicate with one another in a **closed loop network**, forming a collective group mind while retaining their individuality. By the time of Advent, the Phaerons have engineered the network so that a Phaeron can simply think another Phaeron's name and hold conversation.

It appears as a hard ring of iron around a person's head, worn like a cap, with various stable wires and electrodes leading into the temporal lobes, cerebellum, and the pineal gland. These are attached to a small backpack or are fully integratable with a vacsuit's computer system.
Standard Calendar

The Standard Calendar is the Calendar utilized by the Consortium as of Zero Day. It breaks off from the Gregorian Calendar at 2296 AD, the year the foundation of the Consortium and the official "Zero Year" of the Standard Calendar. During this time, the Zero Day accords were drawn up and implemented.

The first Standard Year begins in **2297 AD**. It is based on the Persian Solar Hijiri calendar for it's scientific accuracy.

A Standard Year begins on the Vernal Equinox, around March 19 - March 21 of the GC.

The first six months of Unumense, Duomense, Tresumense, Quattormense, Quinquemense, and Sexemense have thirty one days.

Septemense, Octomense, Novemense, Decemense, and Undecimense have thirty days.

Dudecimense has twenty nine days.

## First Trilogy

In the first trilogy, years are denominated with **SY;** dates after Zero Year. For dates before the Standard Calendar existed, Before Standard Calendar (BSC) is used.

## Second Trilogy

The Anthroperium retains the Standard Calendar and incorporates Zero Year into their mythopoeic religion as the date of the conquest of Anthrarchos Hypervincijovus Epiphanes. They denominate years simply as "years".

## Third Trilogy Era

Remarkably, the Second Dominion keeps the Earth based measure of time rather than have the Urantian cycle.
Free Legion

The Free Legions are massive volunteer military organisations campaigning during the Last War. Self organised and self supported, the Free Legions do not depend on any one faction for support. Rather, they owe allegiance to humanity at large; their mortal enemy is the Hiterian Empire. For the Free Legions, Hiterians have abandoned their humanity and are something else entirely, a nascent and hostile alien organism that must be exterminated with extreme prejudice at all costs, lest humanity fall.

## Free Legions

* Orin's First and Only (Tontheonic national warriors)
* Earth's Finest (exclusively Icari'yon)
* Sons of Andromeda
* Wrath of Victoria
* Orion's Corsairs
Bil Jax

**Bil Jax** is a spacer and businessman residing in the Rim during the Twilight Era. He is well liked by most spacers and is known for his shrewd business dealings.

While not a warlord per se, he exerts a level of influence similar to warlords. His primary residence is a space station of his own construction orbiting Jupiter, called *Bazaar* or more colloquially *Bil's Bazaar*. The station is a trade hub during the Twilight Era for its position relative to other systems, the relative stability of economic relations, ease of finding work, and the sometimes lack ethic that allows for a variety of unsavory businesses to flourish.
Zero Day Accords

The **Zero Day Accords** is the name given to a set of agreements reached on Zero Day of the Standard Calendar. The Accords founded the Consortium and delineated the rights and responsibilities of each constituent member of the Consortium. It began the **Standard Era**, and the Standard Calendar was adopted to be used throughout the duration of the Standard Era.

It was signed in Geneva, Switzerland on **19 March, 2296** of the old calendar, intentionally coinciding with the solar equinox.