recursal/Fanatic-Fandom huggingface dataset:
Frank Neriabois

**Frank Neriabois** was a human male mercenary and arms dealer of the Neriabois crime family who worked for the Datasea Insurgency during the Datasea War. Frank was responsible for the murder of Ariphius Councillor Henri Rou in his apartment on Nikrontri, as he was contracted by the Insurgency to retrieve the artificial conduit gland from Rou.

## Biography

### Life & Career

Frank was born into the Neriabois family, an influential organised crime family in Nikrobiru city. Frank worked closely with his older brother Emile Neriabois, both working as extortionists, arms dealers, and mercenaries.

### Datasea War

Both Frank and his brother were closely allied with the Datasea Insurgency during the Datasea War, supplying smuggled weapons and classified information to the rebels in exchange for drugs and money. In 3GE 972, Frank murdered Ariphius Councillor Henri Rou in his apartment in the High-Rise District in Nikrobiru City on Nikrontri, to extract the conduit gland from Rou's laryngeal prominence. Ariphius Security & Enforcement Bureau detective Nex Sarionté discovered Frank and hunted him down, first investigating the BE5 organ laboratory where Frank had been, before tracking him to the Aquinito Theatre where the Acheverus Opera was performing. There, they engaged in a fight where Nex successfully knocked Frank unconscious and arrested him.

Frank was interrogated at the Nikrontri Law Enforcement Agency's station by Nex Sarionté, where he shared his opinions on Intelligence and the goals of the Insurgency and Regime. His psychosis began to control his mind during the interrogation, and subsequently he was revealing more information than intended, so using a remote explosive in his system, he killed himself rather than submitting.
Oren Nerisan

**Oren Nerisan** was a human male information broker and former spy for the Datasea Insurgency, as well as for the Ariphius Confederacy under the false identity **Jon Grafton**, active in Nikrobiru City during the Datasea War who gathered information on the Ariphius Confederacy through the Covert spy network within the Furtive Hand. Oren's clandestine work resulted in close association with the Imperious Order, and he even conducted financial business with Apex, a revenant statesmen of the Bazaar Bancorp. Oren first discovered the Imperious Order's information on the *Vizier Prestige*, which was scheduled to arrive on Nikrontri, carrying three Ariphius Councillors and a million refugees, and betrayed the Insurgency, going under fabricated identification as a spy for the Confederacy, in the attempt to save the refugees.
Drontiliene Nunaflon

Drontiliene Nunaflon, nicknamed "Dronty" was a female Dorunian dev-human who lived in Nikrobiru City on Nikrontri. She owned and operates the GE9 Wharf in the Staganaba district and was an informant for her good friend, detective Nex Sarionté and the spy network operated by the revenant Voltaicduring the Datasea War. She provided information to the network regarding the Datasea Insurgency, as a result of the numerous rumours she heard at her bar.
Corporate Trade Alliance

The **Corporate Trade Alliance**, often referred to as simply the **Trade Alliance,** was a transgalactic mega-conglomerate established by the Ariphius Confederacy to ensure strong trade relationships with third-party corporations and securing trade routes across the galaxy. Corporations within the Trade Alliance retained autonomy rather than being subject to centralisation, operating from corporate sectors.

The Taraeus Corporation owned a significant portion of the Alliance's companies, essential for trade route management, fuel refining, ore extraction, and monopolising on the consruction of paraulixes. The Varus-Sub Corporation was also among the major megacorporations within the Alliance, producing thousands of warships for the naval force of the Ariphius Military, a vital asset during the Datasea War.

## Organisation

### Structure

Companies within the Corporate Trade Alliance were organised into tiered groups based on their size and importance. The highest tiered megacorporations included Taraeus and Varus-Sub, and below them organised into groups within their respective parent companies were their many subsidiaries - the Fuel Exporting & Trade Company and TOMERC being some of the major second-tier companies in the Taraeus sub-conglomerate of the alliance.

Separate from the sub-conglomerates of the Corporate Trade Alliance were the logistics and trade megacoporations on Nikrontri that oversaw and secured the economy of Nikrobiru City and its Bazaar, semi-centralised on the Ariphius Confederacy to prevent financial fraud in the Confederacy's capital. The largest of these was the Oshoke megacorporation, which managed economic security in the Oshoke sector of the Bazaar and was responsible for overseeing supply chains and trade routes that provided goods directly to Gunfashi in central Nikrobiru.
House Taraeus

**House Taraeus**, also called the **Grand House Taraeus**, or **House of Taraeus**, was the most powerful of the four representative grand houses of the Inner Territories region of the galaxy, affiliated with the Ariphius Confederacy, led by the wealthy Taraeus family. House Taraeus owned the Taraeus Corporation, a wealthy independent corporation of the Confederacy within the Corporate Trade Alliance.
Dorunia

An Edgespace Planet in the Al’arguni System. It is the homeworld of the Dorunians, a species of human-alien hybrids notorious for their criminal ways. The inhabited areas of the planet (Sectors W1 and W2) are near the north pole, and receive snow for most of the year. The capital city is Zijivur, situated in the foothills of the Maskk Mountains. Zijivur is small compared to the bustling metropolises of the Inner Systems, and is almost completely lawless. It is ruled by the Dorunian crime lord Gluttoon, but the control is tenuous. The city, similar to the pirate-towns of Naratel, is a hub for smugglers looking to make some coin. Being directly connected to the Epsilon Run, Dorunia is a hub for the trade of spices and illegal oil, as well as other smuggling of other items.
Tsenic Period

The **Tsenic Period** was an era of the galactic expansion, between -6450 and -5200 P,G, wherein the alien Tsenic Empire held dominion over the galaxy, violently conquering and enslaving scattered human colonies and other, more primitive alien cultures, going so far as invading the Galactic Interior and taking Nikrontri, forcing the millions of humans there into brutal labour.
Fractured Regime

The **Fractured Regime** was an ultranationalist rebel group and unofficial political faction located on Aeat that intended to restore the Tamarud Regime to its former power before the reign of the Ariphius Confederacy and dissolve the Confederacy alongside its head of state Intelligence. The Fractured Regime was formed sometime after the fall of the Regime in the First Galactic Era, operated by anti-government rebels, allied with the Onov Syndicate.

The Fractured Regime achieved their goal in 3GE 901, when the precursor mind of the datasea, before Intelligence, known as Genesis, under the human alter ego Ivor, came out of hiding. It was made the supreme leader of the Fractured Regime, and by making allies with the Datasea Insurgency and other resistance movements, restored the Regime and regained power, though not to its original scale. The Fractured Regime was dissolved with the restoration of the Tamarud Regime and its authoritarian, aristocratic government.
Zeta colonies

The **Zeta colonies**, often referred to as simply **Zeta**, was a polity in the Edgespace region of the galaxy, surrounding the Zeta Cloud nebula. Independent of both the Regime and the Ariphius Confederacy, Zeta was one of the oldest human colonies, established in Antiquity, consisting of hundreds of scattered worlds colonised by humans, totally neutral until the Regime invasion of Zeta during the Datasea War, when it sided with the Confederacy for support from their military.
Ordalarus

Ordalarus is one of the six moons of Nikrontri, and is a barren wasteland of rugged hills and massive craters. It is mined for ores and there are several moon-bases near its poles (which contain traces of water, rare for such a desolate moon), and the Ordalarian City, though Ordalarus lacks any significant, unique properties.
Galactic Era

Galactic eras were periods of time used to identify certain eras in sentient species' - especially humans - development over the course of history, as people began expanding throughout the galaxy and establishing interplanetary superstates such as the Ariphius Confederacy. Galactic Eras were not a set length of time, though the first and second Galactic Eras were both approximately 3000 years in length.
Eam Ernst

**Eam Ernst** was an Ariphius Congress statesman, businessman and former secretary of intelligence who worked as chairman of the Internal Security Commission on Nikrontri. During the Datasea War, he fought in Congress and the courts to de-authorise the Council Protection Force, as its director, Aioren Merclaugh, had initially taken from him the role of director of the Nikrontri Security Force and assumed the title of secretary of intelligence. By 3GE 973, Ernst had become a reluctant informant for the Imperious Order, known as **the Cerberus**, in exchange for the preservation of his positions and reputation as he attempted to assume control of Congress and the Ariphius Security & Enforcement Bureau.
Galactic Security Council

The **Galactic Security Council** was a supranational treaty and executive assembly that attended peace summits and moderated trade interactions and agreements between minor polities and independent colonies across the galaxy and the Ariphius Confederacy, and ensuring the safety of unsuccessful diplomats travelling back and forth between the Confederacy and Regime space during the Datasea War.
Faith of Intelligence

The **Faith of Intelligence**, or the **Holy Faith** was a semi-political monotheisic and, in some cases, panentheistic religion that was the basis of the Ariphius Confederacy's theocracy with Intelligence as the supreme theocrat and monarch of "All Astra". The monotheism was disputed by certain denominations of the Faith, due to the existence of the godchildren of Intelligence and the vague and disputed folk deity, the Provider.

EDITING WILL RESUME

The **Faith of Intelligence** was a political ideology and religion that encouraged the worship of Intelligence and belief that Intelligence was the ruling god of the galaxy. The religion was practiced widely within the Ariphius Confederacy, though was outlawed within the Regime after its reformation from the Fractured Regime. The faith was encouraged in propaganda produced by the Ariphius Security & Enforcement Bureau, most extensively during the Datasea War, to grow the number of loyal supporters of Intelligence.

## History

### Foundations

The religion was founded after the creation of Intelligence and the datasea in 1GE 2432 and Intelligence grew in power as a result of the Augment during the War Era. It first began as a spiritual religion established by datasea monks who believed Intelligence was a god that had ruled the galaxy for millions of years. By order of the Ariphius Council, propaganda agencies within the Ariphius Confederacy's bureaucracy fabricated the religion and reformed it into an official political ideology that encouraged citizens to remain loyal and worship Intelligence as a god.

### Datasea War

By the time of the Datasea War, the new reformation of the Regime, led by supreme leader Genesis began to grow its influence in Edgespace and later the Inner Territories. To combat the growing popularity of Genesis and the Regime, the Ariphius Confederacy reinforced propaganda to encourage citizens to remain loyal to Intelligence and continue worship.
Varus-Sub Corporation

The **Varus-Sub Corporation**, short for the **Vanrius Rezvar Construction & Undertakings Sub-Divisions**, was a large shipbuilding, military vehicle production and trade route management corporation within the Corporate Trade Alliance of the Ariphius Confederacy. Varus-Sub produced warships and other vehicles for the Ariphius Military and operated within the Alradian corporate sector, controlling business conducted on the Alradian Way.

Varus-Sub was based on Alradia, where its many shipyards were located. Managing the corporation was Corporate Command, though many shipyards outside of the corporate centre were overseen by majordomos who governed the production of ships within their designated yards, until the majordomo system was dissolved and the shipyards were nationalised by Corporate Command in 3GE 967.

## Organisation

### Structure and administration

The head of the Varus-Sub Corporation was Corporate Command, a council of chief executive officers based in the corporate centre on Alradia. Corporate Command controlled the central production zone and trade within the Alradian corporate sector.

Managing exterior shipyards across Alradia were semi-independent majordomos, who were designated shipyards to oversee and manage the production of ships within. The majordomos had no command structure, and each made independent choices, which resulted in varying levels of efficiency in shipyards. Many majordomos imported refugees from crisis-stricken planets to work in the shipyards, as they were much far than constructor drones, and only required small wages of one pick daily. Majordomos became exceptionally wealthy, profiting greatly from the corporate system they had developed. In 3GE 967, Corporate Command nationalised the majordomos' shipyards and dissolved the system, fully integrating the yards into Corporate Command and transferring majordomos into corporate intelligence and other agencies.
Sector 567

Sector 567 'Haan-Town', was one of the 600 Upper Sectors of Nikrobiru's underworld on Nikrontri, located at the upper rim of the shaft portal to the underworld. Haan-Town was one of the last fringes of what was considered the 'safer' part of Nikrobiru, before the descent into the underworld. One of Haan-Town's notable landmarks was the Haan auditorium, built from stone during the time of the Three Great Clans. Voltaic, a pre-generation revenant, lived in the Uknu apartment block, in the central square of Haan-Town. In 3GE 972, Nex Sarionté visited Haan-Town to speak with Voltaic.
Red-Merc Brokers

The **Red-Merc Brokers**, often referred to as simply the **Brokery,** were a network of informants and intelligence officers affiliated with the Red Mercs mercenary group in Nikrobiru City on Nikrontri, which provided intelligence, especially about individuals, to anonymous buyers for high prices. During the Datasea War, the Brokers provided information to the Datasea Insurgency, and insurgent Iasalu Nerisan worked closely with the network.
Aioren Merclaugh

**Aioren Merclaugh** was director of the Nikrontri Law Enforcement Agency of the Ariphius Security & Enforcement Bureau. During the Datasea War, Merclaugh directed the investigation of the murder of Henri Rou, member of the Ariphius Council, who was killed by Frank Neriabois. Merclaugh worked closely with detective Nex Sarionté and officer Fra Ouios during the investigation.
Voltaic

**Voltaic**, known by the nickname **Vol**, was a human male revenant of the Ariphius Confederacy, working for the Ariphius Council and later as a detective for the Ariphius Security & Enforcement Bureau and supervisor for the Bureau of Census & Compliance. Vol operated an unofficial spy network in Nikrobiru City on Nikrontri during the Datasea War, tasked with gathering intelligence that dealt with the Datasea Insurgency.

Vol was an older model of revenant, retired from working for the Council prior to the Datasea War. His age allowed him to develop more complex emotions than most revenants, and he was a dedicated opponent of the Regime during the War. Nex Sarionté was a good friend of Vol's, and they worked closely during the final years of the Datasea War, in an attempt to reveal the Insurgency's plans, and later the identity of Genesis.

## Biography

### Early life & career

Voltaic was incepted in 3GE 805, constructed from the restored corpse of a human male, his emotions and sensitivity organically obsolete through the restoration process of the corpse. After his brief training and education, Vol worked as a spy and human computer for the Ariphius Council, as a Gen EE5 model. Like all revenants, he was imperative to advising the Council on political matters that affected the galaxy, and held greater political influence than the Ariphius Congress.
Ariphius Confederacy Bureaucracy

The Ariphius Confederacy's political infrastructure and law enforcement was based in a powerful semi-aristocratic **bureaucracy** that controlled the institution through several large, interconnected bureaus with small sub-division agencies. The most powerful integrated organisation within the bureaucracy was the Ariphius Security & Enforcement Bureau, which managed intelligence, security, law enforcement, and legislation across the galaxy, serving below the Ariphius Council and the Congress.

ASEB had several major sub-divisions, the largest of which being Sectoral Intelligence, which dealt with intelligence within the Confederacy, especially intel supplied by the Ariphius Military, most active during wartime. The Ariphius Security Agency was another major ASEB division, responsible for security across the Confederacy as well as protecting the Ariphius Council. The highest-ranking officers within the ASA oversaw individual sectors within the Confederacy, ensuring the loyalty and compliance of sectoral governors and militias.
Caesar System

The **Caesar System** was a star system in the Capital Sector, within the Galactic Interior of the galaxy, in the Ariphius Confederacy. At its centre was the G-type main-sequence star, Caesar. Within the system were the economically and politically important planets Galachai and Nikrontri, the latter of which was the bustling capital of the Confederacy, boasting the supercontinent, Y'nati, Nikrobiru City covering its entirety. The gas giant of Kurafar was also located within the system, a planet often exploited for its resources.

The Caesar System's central location and the planets within it made it a hub of politics, technological innovation, and trade. The major trade routes of the galaxy, including the Nikrontreen Run and Alradian Way, met at a cross-roads on Nikrontri, bringing billions of refugees and dev-human and alien immigrants, searching for new opportunities in the bustling system.
United Systems Company

The **United Systems Company** **(USC)**, also known simply as the **Systems Company**, was a transgalactic joint-stock company founded by the Imperious Order. It was formed to conduct trade across the galaxy, and during the Datasea War and its preceding years of geopolitical tension, as a neutral trade-bridge between private companies in the Ariphius Confederacy and the Regime. The Company also upheld a private joint-stock black market with investors within the Grand Criminal Empire and formerly the Gorrf Empire.

The United Systems Company was not totally regulated by the Ariphius Confederacy, nor the Regime, and remained neutral, operating from the neutral planet of Athoris in Edgespace. The lack of regulation restricted the Company from open trade with the Corporate Trade Alliance and other major government-aligned companies, but subsidiaries of the company conducted frequent trade with aligned corporations. The United Systems Company was owned by the Imperious Order, a secretly Regime-aligned collective, but retained neutrality throughout the Datasea War without being subject to military aggression, and had a secret hand in the politics of both sides of the war.
Vurani sector

The Vurani sector is a sector in Edgespace, containing the Nukrinna System and the planet Brorrt. During the War Age, it was a highly contested sector as it was in the Brorrt Frontier that separated the Western Spiral Arm of Edgespace from the Inner Systems, and the Confederacy blockaded the region to protect it from Tamarud-Kurarfar Union invasions.
Half-humans

Half-humans are a group of several hundred races of people who have genetic mutations that resemble those of extinct aliens. The exact origins of these human-alien hybrids is unknown, but many assume it is connected to alien diseases, rather than something like interbreeding. The (theoretical) explanation is: humans and aliens were from different planets, they had never shared an ecosystem. They couldn't. They had evolved in dramatically different ways, so that when they finally met, they were not accustomed to their different diseases, genetics, and so on. It's similar to the colonisation of other lands, where you bring animals and people to a distant, unfamiliar place and the diseases you carry have a great effect on the ecosystems, and the familiar diseases of that place have an effect on you. The aliens spread completely foreign diseases to humans, and humans did likewise (which lead to the extinction of several alien races). The alien diseases, after much study, seemed to have a great effect on humans, but rather than making them ill, it actually changed their genetics. So the posterity of the people who contracted the diseases would have semi-alien genetic mutations, meaning they would have the features of humans and aliens together. Many planets have populations made up entirely of half-humans; including Dorunia and Julabi, two Edgespace worlds.
Shipbuilder's guild

An organisation of human and AI that operate the Senevari Shipyards on Senevari and build the best spacecraft in the galaxy. The Guild, as of the Datasea War, is owned by war profiteer Czuni Taraeus, a member of the Ariphius council and eleventh son in the Taraeus line. His rule is ended when he is assassinated during the Battle of Nikrobiru.

### Overview

The Shipbuilder's Guild is the largest shipbuilding organisation in the galaxy, and are responsible for the construction of paraulixi, as well as most other powerful spacecraft. Without the Guild, interstellar travel would be largely restricted. The Guild is notorious for war profiteering, illegally selling warships and equipment to both sides during several major wars, including the Datasea War, and the organisation is one of the galaxy's wealthiest.
Ariphius Military

The **Ariphius Military**, also called the **Ariphius Armed Forces**, or **Ariphius Military Force**, was the vast military force of the Ariphius Confederacy, composed of several branch militaries such as the Army led by the State Command, as well as being closely connected with the Ariphius Security & Enforcement Bureau and its umbrella-organisations such as Sectoral Intelligence. The Ariphius Military was charged with enforcement and rebel suppression across the Confederacy, as well as defending the Confedercy during the War Era and Datasea War. The Ariphius Military was every-expanding due to the Confederacy's extensive military funding, with nearly a billion soldiers in the Army and more than four thousand warships by the time of the Datasea War.

The Military operated with both ground and space enforcement, with the Ariphius Naval Force, which operated using state-of-the-art warships constructed by the Senevari Corporation. The military operated by following the strategies devised by State Command the council which led the military alongside the commander-in-chief. Most strategies were formed from the result of intelligence provided by Sectoral Intelligence' Military Intelligence sub-division and the counsel of Intelligence.

## Organisation

### Structure

The military was organised into several major branches, with further divisions and regiments within them. The two largest branches were the Army and the Navy, collectively containing over a billion personnel and over twenty-thousand vehicles, which included tanks, artillery craft and warships. Most of the military were voluntary recruits, though during wartime conscription was used. Many soldiers in the army were conscripted prisoners and recruited refugees, as the army was not focused on loyal, highly-trained infantry but instead on sheer numbers. Training for the Army was relatively brief, and recruitment just required identification, and new recruits were shipped off to training posts on remote worlds before being sent to war with less-than-adequate equipment.
Nikrontri Security Force

The **Nikrontri Security Force (NSF)**, often referred to as the **Nikrontri Police**, was the law enforcement force on Nikrontri, predominantly in Nikrobiru City. The NSF was a sub-division of the Ariphius Security & Enforcement Bureau of the Ariphius Confederacy, specifically within the Planetary Law Enforcement Division, and was responsible for enforcing the law and preventing crime on Nikrontri. NSF also possessed specialised responsibilities, including counter-terrorism and anti-corruption by force.

High-profile ASEB agencies, primarily the Ariphius Security Agency, were more responsible for the protection of the government, namely the Ariphius Council, while the Nikrontri Security Force provided protection for delegates in the Ariphius Congress alongside its general responsibilities. During the Datasea War, in 3GE 972, police detective Nex Sarionté investigated the murder of Ariphius Councillor Henri Rou, working with other NSF officers, including Fra Ouios, and answered to the chief police director Aioren Merclaugh.

## History

### Datasea War

In 3GE 972, the penultimate year of the Datasea War, the Datasea Insurgency began its plan to assassinate members of the Ariphius Council, with the aim of acquiring the conduits, specialised enhancements that allowed the user to manipulate the datasea, holding considerable power over it.
High Rise District

The **High Rise District**, often referred to as simply **High Rise**, was the vast, uppermost district of the Gunfashi central area of Nikrobiru City on Nikrontri, consisting of the kilometres-tall skyscrapers that towered over the Bazaar and the the lower levels of the city. Many of the galaxy's wealthiest aristocrats, powerful families, and delegates of the Ariphius Congress lived in the High Rise District, alongside numerous megacorporations within the Corporate Trade Alliance that operated from the skyscrapers.
COPEN Force

## P.R.O.J.E.C.T Force

The **Protection Operations, Judiciary, and Espionage Constitution and Transmissions Force (P.R.O.J.E.C.T)** was a secret government intelligence agency and counter-terrorism network of the Ariphius Confederacy, organised by ASEB, tasked with protecting the Ariphius Council and cracking down on the Datasea Insurgency to prevent the Regime from acquiring the conduits and taking power over the datasea during the Datasea War.

Project Elimination established covert spy operations across the galaxy and worked closely with the revenant Voltaic's spy network in Nikrobiru City on Nikrontri, receiving intel from anonymous neutral brokers within the Red-Merc Brokers. The Project orchestrated mass arrests of allies and contacts of the Datasea Insurgency, including the Neriabois family - a member of which was Frank Neriabois, the murderer of Ariphius Councillor Henri Rou - whose weapon smuggling via the Imperious Order was revealed following the raid on the Yarkaz Sons by early Project Elimination members Voltaic and NLEA detective Nex Sarionté.

## History

### Origins

In 3GE 972, the penultimate year of the Datasea War, director of the Nikrontri Law Enforcement Agency, Aioren Merclaugh, alongside officer Fra Ouios and Nex Sarionté, investigated the murder of Ariphius Councillor Henri Rou in Nikrobiru City on Nikrontri. They discovered that he had been killed by Frank Neriabois, a member of the Neriabois family, extortionist, and mercenary closely affiliated with the Datasea Insurgency, who took Rou's conduit. After raiding the Yarkaz Sons headquarters in the Nikrontri Bazaar, Nex learned that the Insurgency's next target was Sarvain Taraeus, Ariphius Councillor and baron director of the Taraeus Corporation and the Serpent of the Imperious Order was to be the one to kill him. Nex failed to prevent the murder, and the Serpent was revealed to be Taraeus' wife, Hinya Serren Taraeus, as she killed him at the Fabled Gold casino.

After the loss of two Councillors, Merclaugh realised the Ariphius Confederacy was getting desperate and had the potential to lose the war if every Councillor was murdered and the Regime could control the datasea with the conduits. He proposed the creation of Project Elimination, setting up a galaxy-wide spy network to protect the Ariphius Council and retaliate by targeting the Lords of the Regime. Merclaugh founded the Project under the guidance of Intelligence and the Ariphius Council, alongside the unofficial co-founders, Nex and Fra Ouios.
GE9 Wharf

The GE9 Wharf is a wharf located in the Staganaba harbour district of Nikrobiru city on Nikrontri. It is owned by Drontiliene Nunaflon, a Dorunian. At the centre of the wharf is a bar where Drontiliene serves guests. The wharf was, for many a years, a smuggling outpost, and the boats that docked there often carried smuggled goods from the Nikrobiru spaceport due south of the wharf.

## History

### First Galactic Epoch

The wharf was passed down through generations of the Nunaflon family, since at least GE 1000, making it older than most of Nikrobiru itself. Due to this, the GE9 Wharf was likely a harbour used by Biru Clan in the late first Galactic Epoch.

### Third Galactic Epoch

In 3GE 972 Nex Sarionté visited the wharf and spoke with Drontiliene, discussing the ongoing Datasea War.
Alradia

**Alradia**, also called the **Corporate Centre**, was a planet in the Proxov system of the Alradian corporate sector in the Galactic Interior. It was the capital planet of the Varus-Sub Corporation and was the location of the corporation's shipbuilding industry, which constructed state-of-the-art spacecraft and warships for the Ariphius Military's naval force. Alradia was central within Corporate Space, at the centre point of the Alradian Way, and was subsequently a location of extensive and busy trade.
Lasgun

Lasguns, also called EPs (Energy Projectiles) are standard-issue ranged weapons that emit infrared laser pulses, forming rapidly growing plasma bursts. The shock and electromagnetic waves can seriously injure victims, and temporary paralysis can occur if the victim is still alive. To the human eye, the laser pulses appear as a fluctuating beam of thin red light. Lasguns need frequent recharging, though the continuous laser recycles energy to continue firing. As a laser drains its energy quickly, in combat lasguns are often fired at a slower rate. This creates more visible, larger lasers that appear as flickering projectile beams to humans.
Alradia refueling stations

A chain of small-spacecraft refueling stations on the moon of Alradia in Edgespace. The stations have landing ports and diners, and are situated within the pipe grid that gathers crysgas fuel beneath the moon's surface. Small atmospheric condition generators and gravitational attractors make the air breathable and make the gravity stronger on the stations.
Advenari

*'Advenari. I'm glad our ancestors wiped them out so quickly, wouldn't want* smart *aliens crawling around the streets, would we?'*

*-The peculiar thoughts of Ebb Monitor*

A major player in humanity’s history, the Advenari, or IFDAL (Intelligent Fully Developed Alien Life) were the first sentient extraterrestrials humanity came across. They inhabited Proxima Centauri B, a planet in the Alpha Centauri system. They were extremely hardy aliens, surviving in the harsh, thought-to-be uninhabitable atmosphere of their home world. They lived underground in caverns, and were blind, but all of their other senses were exceptional. They were almost like massive worms, but had large beak-like mouths and nearly one hundred legs. They grew to around 6 metres in length. They were wiped out completely during the Centauri Genocide, the closing event of the Extra Terrestrial War.

#### Culture

The lore surrounding the culture of the Advenari is shallow and shrouded in mystery, though it is known that they were still primitive compared to humans (think Iron Age) and did not fully understand science. Scientists believed they may have followed a primitive religion - they came to this conclusion from carvings in tunnels depicting a moon-god that lives in a 'heaven' above the Advenari caves. Advenari did not speak languages like that of humans, but advellinguists are still astonished by their 'crude' form of communication, and there is much debate over whether it would be possible to learn any actual words through intense study of evidence left behind in the mountainside settlements on Proxima B.

1. ↑ ¹This may vary, evidence suggests Advenari higher in the biological hierarchy grew to twice that size
Anqra

Anqra are large creatures native to the swampy planet Naratel. They possess four long, ivory horns and grey fur. Anqra are hunted for their Anqra leather and ivory by the people of Naratel, and their populations are dwindling. The wealthy folk of the galaxy are unrelenting in their desire for the leather, and pay the Naratese people large sums of money in exchange for as much Anqra leather as possible.
Military Intelligence

Military Intelligence was the largest and most important sub-division of Sectoral Intelligence, itself a branch of the Ariphius Security & Enforcement Bureau of the Ariphius Confederacy. Military Intelligence boasted the largest number of personnel of the Sectoral Intelligence divisions, gathering important intel transmitted from the front lines by the Operations division and feeding it directly to the commander-in-chief and Ariphius Council.

Military Intelligence was given priority as an agency during wartime and was vital to developing strategies in short time. Leading Military Intelligence was the divisional chief executive, who oversaw all MI operations from the Sectoral Intelligence headquarters on Nikrontri.
Galite doctrine

The **Galite doctrine**, **Galite order** or the **Gala decree**, its disciples referred to as simply the **Galites**, was a creed and the founding set of principles of the Ariphius Confederacy established by Gala Biru Ariphius near the end of his reign in 1GE 1448. The main purpose of the creed was to firmly establish the composition of the government, with the Autocrat of All Astra as the absolute monarch and the Ariphius Council as an imperial assembly that executed the Autocrat's rule through ballot and discussion. The creed was later altered by Intelligence to address the decreed monarch as the Eternal Theocrat of All Astra.
Teltannun bazaar

*For other uses, see Bazaar (Disambiguation)*

The Teltannun bazaar is a small market located in Noraviin on Naratel. Within the bazaar, androids and drones are frequently sold by merchants, but baareni spice is also popular, due to the bazaar's owner being the son of a Gorrf crime lord. Voltaic Bilmihand walks through the bazaar while on Naratel and is offered spice by a dealer.
The Booming Salvo

The Booming Salvo is a freighter-class paraulix that mainly operates in the inner systems, carrying supplies between trade lines to many planets. It is one of the few paraulixi that does not frequently carry passengers back and forth between planets. Nex Sarionté watches The *Booming Salvo* leaving the planet of Nikrontri, while wishing he was aboard it, leaving for the stars, away from Nikrontri where he is a wanted thief.
Pranthatoni asteroid belt

An asteroid belt orbiting the gas giant of Dimbretune. The Pranthatoni Orbital Market makes a lot of money from selling a unique type of gold mined in the asteroid belt. Xalfar Tomisebrak, his crew, and his ship *The Juggler's Drink* are stranded in the asteroid belt during the time of lawlessness before the Datasea War.
Sons of Intelligence

The **Sons of Intelligence** or the **Godchildren** were three advanced artificial intelligence minds regarded in the kinvit as the children of Intelligence, for he created them as tools to control the datasea, and in whom he confided, seeking counsel from them as his subordinates. The official Temple of the Faith deemed them as minor deities and not gods, similar to the disputed Provider, with Intelligence being the monotheistic theocrat of the religion and the Ariphius Confederacy. They were not revered so vehemently as Intelligence, and their existence was not denied, but instead ignored and regarded as being without purpose by extreme pseudo-holy denominations of the Faith such as progenitocentrists. The most notable son was also the oldest, Dahamar, who was created circa. 2GE 530, being a prominent representative of Intelligence in holographic form within Congress, and carrying out Intelligence's wishes with his authority over the Ariphius Military.
Hologram

*For other uses, see Holo (Disambiguation)*

Holograms are generated three dimensional images/videos (can be live). Holograms allow wavefronts to be recorded. Holograms are created by superimposing a wavefront on another one. When the second one illuminates the pattern of interference, it gets diffracted to create the first wavefront. Holograms are typically computer generated by modelling the two wavefronts in an AI database.
Falstone Castle

## Description

Ancestral home of the Boyce family, the dukes of Kielder.

It sits in a forest and is large and impressive. It has battlements but no moat. And also a gibbet. It's in the extreme North of England, very close to Scotland.

## Inhabitants

People who have lived at Falstone Castle throughout the books include:

* Joseph Boyce
* Harriet Boyce
* Adam Boyce
* Persephone Lancaster
* Athena Lancaster
* Linus Lancaster
* Daphne Lancaster
* Artemis Lancaster
* Oliver Boyce
* Hestia Boyce

## Staff

### Housekeepers

* Mrs. Macintyre
* Mrs. Smithson

## Books

* Forget Me Not: first chronological use is a ball where Lucas and Julia meet the young Adam Boyce.
* Seeking Persephone: principal setting
USC scandal

The **USC scandal** was a high-profile scandal that took place in 3GE 971 where a number of the investors of the United Systems Company who were members of the Corporate League of the Imperious Order illegally diverted more than a trillion picks of the Ariphius Confederacy's public and miltiary funds from the Galactic Bank to military funding pools of the Regime during the Datasea War.

The illegal transfer was eventually shut down by the Ariphius Security Agency, but the large sum of stolen funds resulted in a rapid increase in military growth in the Regime, allowing for aggressive invasions of the Inner Territories. The aggression that was a consequence of the scandal's flow-on effect eventually led to the Great Instability that marked the end of the Ariphius Era.

## History

### Origins

Several of the top investors of the United Systems Company were members of the Imperious Order's Corporate League, and while the USC claimed neutrality, the Imperious members were secretly loyal to the Regime. The USC's shareholding of a percentage of the Galactic Bank and influence over the economy of the Ariphius Confederacy allowed the Imperious investors to gain access to large sums of public and military funds.

### Transfer of funds

In 3GE 971, the investors took advantage of their power and successfully transferred over a trillion picks of public and military funds from the Galactic Bank through private networks of the datasea on the black market, diverted directly to the fund pools of the Regime. The stolen funds cut down significantly on military vehicle production funds of the Varus-Sub Corporation, and resulted in immediate power gain for the Regime's military, providing wealth to pour directly into the military. The investors attempted to divert even larger sums from the Bank, but the Ariphius Security Agency managed to shut the operation down, and the Imperious investors faced the economic judiciary of the Ariphius Confederacy.

### Aftermath

There was a significant loss of trust in the United Systems Company, and the Corporate Trade Alliance proposed removing the USC's holding of Bank shares entirely, but the neutral investors managed to hold on to a minor share, though the company's financial influence was greatly affected by the scandal. The Regime profited greatly during the scandal's aftermath, the significant boost in military funding allowing the Regime's military to produce more warships and weaponry, resulting in their rapid expansion into the Inner Territories, leading to the Great Instability in 3GE 973.
Dexter belt

A ‘rogue’ asteroid belt in Sector 34E of Edgespace. It’s star, E1423, went supernova only a few thousand years prior to humanity’s Galactic Expansion. The belt’s gravitational ties to the star have been put out of balance due to the supernova, and its size has diminished. While the asteroid belt is mined, more often than not criminals are the ones lurking among the asteroids. Several large asteroids have been used as illegal dealing outposts in the past.
Fabled Gold casino

The ***Fabled Gold*** was a casino in the Anor'vandi district of Nikrobiru City on Nikrontri, located at an air junction suspended over the underworld, reserved only for government and corporate officials of the Ariphius Confederacy. In 3GE 972, the Serpent of the Imperious Order murdered Sarvain Taraeus, baron director of the Taraeus Corporation and Ariphius Councillor, in the *Fabled Gold*, to acquire his conduit, assisting the Datasea Insurgency's efforts to murder all members of the Council during the Datasea War.
Edgespace

## Edgespace Systems

**Edgespace**, also known as the **Edgespace Territories**, **Outer Galaxy**, or the **Edgespace Colonies**, was a vast region of outer the galaxy surrounding the Inner Territories and Gorrf Space, and bordering the Zeta colonies at the edge of the Lower Galactic Arm. Within Edgespace were thousands of backwater worlds and sparsely populated, scattered colonies of primarily dev-humans. Edgespace was a haven for criminal syndicates, which fought over resources and territory and smuggled contraband into the Inner Territories and Galactic Interior via the Epsilon Run and other smuggler’s routes.

The Gorrf Empire, and for some time the Grand Criminal Empire, held great influence and power over Edgespace, taking advantage of its lawlessness and lack of a central government to gain wealth from criminal activity. Third-party companies and corporate polities, including the Trade Block Authority, controlled sectors and colonies across Edgespace, where illegal business was conducted. Political and economic issues in Edgespace resulted in constant syndicate warfare, a consequence of the damage caused by the War Era, and later the Datasea War, which came alongside the New Regime taking control of much of Edgespace.

## History

*“Why fight over Edgespace? There’s nothing there.”* - Drontiliene Nunaflon

### Galactic expansion

Humans first began expanding throughout the galaxy from the Lower Galactic Arm within Edgespace, spreading from numerous remote worlds and many colonising the Inner Territories and the Galactic Interior. A significant portion of the human population remained in Edgespace and explored outwards rather than inwards, exploiting the many mineral-rich, however lifeless planets scattered across Edgespace. Human colonists that chose to settle on the habitable Edgespace worlds, including Nor Uni and Naratel, began to develop unique features, evolving to adapt to the different atmospheric and gravitational conditions of the planets they settled on, becoming dev-humans. No central government was established in Edgespace, instead consisting of scattered colonies and independent polities.

### First Galactic Era

When the Regime came to power in the mid-First Galactic Era, humans from the Inner Territories began to colonise Edgespace, wrongly believing it to be empty. They eventually discovered many dev-human colonies and the Regime’s superior power allowed them to take control and nationalise the independent polities. Many planets remained undiscovered, and those dev-humans established criminal syndicates, a significant number of which later formed the Gorrf Empire.
Galactic trade network

The **galactic trade network** was a vast network of trade routes that spanned the galaxy, expanding outwards from the Galactic Interior in the heart of the Ariphius Confederacy. The most extensive trade routes connected countless planets, the Nikrontreen Run and Alradian Way spanning thousands of light years with hundreds of sub-routes. The trade network formed the basic infrastructure of the Ariphius Confederacy, and contributed greatly to its economy, allowing trade between thousands of planets.
Uknu apartment block

The Uknu apartment block was a series of apartments in the central square of sector 567, one of the Upper Sectors of the Nikrobiru Underworld on Nikrontri. The revenant Voltaic lived in the apartment block in 3GE 972 after retiring from being an official revenant of the Ariphius Confederacy and becoming a detective. During the time Voltaic lived there, the apartment had an Oralian receptionist who offered assistance to visitors.
Proelyun

**Proelyun**, historically **Proelium**, was an Edgespace planet in the Sunnrum System, Sector U76. The planet was a smuggler's haven due to its isolation and location within Gorrf Space, and was located along the Epsilon Run. It was originally colonised by the Proelic Nukjakta, a self-exiled sub-group of the Nujakta colonists, who settled there during the galactic expansion and established a large mining plant. Posterity developed advanced but aggressive AI during the First Galactic Era, built from components gained through illegal trade with spacers from Naratel and Julabi. The AI was later used in Proleyun's infamous robot gladiatorial arena.
Tybba-Town

Also known as Sector P3, Tybba-Town is a region of Staganaba, the Harbour District on Nikrontri. It is a relatively small region, containing notable locations such as the GE9 Wharf and the paraulix station. Nex Sarionté evades a hunter-drone and visits the GE9 Wharf in Tybba-Town, while carrying a bag of trinkets that he stole from a goldsmith's shop.
Sector

A **Sector**, or **Galactic Sector** was an area of the galaxy established by artificial borders usually dictated by the population and number of planets within the sector. The Ariphius Security Agency of the Ariphius Security & Enforcement Bureau oversaw sectors within the Ariphius Confederacy, and individual ASA officers managed security and law enforcement in their respective sectors, ensuring the loyalty of the governor and local executive branch within the sector. Autonomous sectors within the Confederacy were known as corporate sectors; regions usually governed by independent third-party corporations such as the Varus-Sub Corporation the Alradian corporate sector, not integrated into the Confederacy's economy of nationalisation.