Alkataha Asterresi

Alkataha Așterreși'ä (The Federation of Alkataha) is nation located in the Eltsara Sorority inside the greater Cerlus Cluster. The nation is a part of the greater Confederacy.

## General Information

### Capital(s)

Planet Olhotalä, Eltsara System, Cerlus Cluster, Silky Way

### Area

Four Systems, Five Stars, 10 Lightyear diameter

## Societal Information

### Founding Species

Alkete Race* **Alkerre**
* **Olqele**
* **Esruta**

## Scope

The **Așterreși** has limited control over the four systems of the **Eltsara Sorority**. The state has a rather complex and hellish bureaucracy to regulate commerce so that day to day operations are effectively controlled by corporations which brandish considerable control over the goings on within their own sphere, with the only real role of the government to referee between businesses and ensure policies set by **The Confederacy**.

Since their admission into the Confederacy, The **Alkerre** species have proven to be very capable businessmen, with the competition brought by the larger mark brining a much needed incentive to break up the elitism that had settled into Alkerre society and allowing talent to be more successfully utilized. The overall effect in recent years has brought the **Asterresi** industry to the forefront of many **Cerlus** trade. With the very name "**Alkete**" being regarded as high grade, state of the art manufacturing in the more competitive and generally more open minded markets.

Interstellar transportation and trade is powered by enormous laser pushers given energy by a Dyson Skeleton comprised of a few trillion orbiting solar farms along with some billion larger structures and artificial habitats to house the ever growing **Așterreși** population. The orbits of these early habitats are heavily contested by corporations as prime real-estate.

After the events of the Imperial-Alkete War, the military has been almost completely overseen by the central government, though this has not entirely kept some larger corporations from accumulating rather impressive fleets of their own. This inevitably leads to the occasional bullying of smaller business opponents in more remote areas of the **Așterreși** where legal actions are more difficult to enforce and courts are less capable of reaching unbiased and uninfluenced judicial rulings.

Currently the Federation comprises 1.2% of the Confederacy's independently controlled systems and 0.02% of their overall system count.

## History

The first precursor of the modern **Federation of Alkataha** was the **Council of Olhotalä**, which formed from a coalition of the major powers of the world against a rapidly industrializing group of colonies on the neighboring continent. After a series of global wars, the Olhotalä Council was rivaled only by a lone prevailing state across the sea named **Tsatsaparita**, which eventually joined the **Old Guard** to unite the globe for the first time and reforming the coalition into the **Second Olhotalä Council**.

### The Second Council Era

#### Birth of the Olqele

The **Second Council** soon seeded itself across the numerous worlds of the **Eltsara System**, with the major players in the Second Council vying with one another for prominence. One of the **Old Guard** states created a slightly altered **Race of Alkerre**, named the **Olqele**. The new sub group was stronger, healthier, sturdier, savvier, tactically smarter and more adaptable than its mother race, but had lifespans generally only four-fifths that of the mother species the Alkerre. Gradually the Olqele all but replaced the Alkerre in it's parent nation, as well newer communities and the colonies on worlds of higher gravity, but struggled to compete inside the populations of the other Old Guard and the less massive moons and planets. Several other less notable offshoot races were born, but oddly few of the genetic modification attempts were able to produce viable blood lines and none of these new species improved on the Olqele or even the Alkerre.

Olqele factions often tended to be more warlike and harder to reason with on the whole, despite the fact that individuals were often quite reasonable if not a little hard headed and outgoing. But they also excelled in many competitive areas such as business, athletics, militaries, and stage performance.

#### Interstellar Expansion

After a few short centuries of starfaring, the Alkete civilization had colonized five other nearby star systems when they first encountered the Imperium of Cerlus.

The Imperium of Cerlus was in the middle of it's era known as the Campaign for Supremacy and therefore waited a full five seconds before a declaration arrived stating that the Bontarardi would be liberating Alkete from their own cruel methods and incompetence through the means of spectacular force. This signaled the first real shift in the Alkete civilization as the Olqele would prove significantly more proficient at warfare than the Alkerre as a whole. A second major turning for the status quo emerged as the second council of Olhotalä proved ineffective and was replaced by the Alkataha Așterreși'ä

### The Alkataha Asterresi'a Era

#### The Imperial-Alkete War

The war began with the arrival of the Bontarardi Imperial fleet within **Eltsara Space** and the succumbing of **Alkataha's** two border systems to the Imperium forces at the battles of the **Oksoti'a Itelpa** (Oksoti Void) and **Ul'esera**. Despite the **Imperium's** recent setbacks against The Confederacy and small outbreaks of revolution among fringes, as well as having less impressive and more dated forces nearer its frontiers than its core, it was still vastly superior both technologically and especially numerically than the defending **Alkerre** military. And Alkete strategic politics and unpreparedness only added to the general disadvantage of the Alkete Federation, resulting in devastating and recurring defeats as they were outmaneuvered and overwhelmed by the Imperial forces.

It was here that the **Olqele** factions truly first began to shine, as Alkete forces swelled with Olqele youth, eager to prove themselves through combat often outperforming their Alkerre counterparts.

Political restlessness back on **Olhotalä** and other major worlds led to the complete overhaul of the second council and it's restructuring as the federation. Its military underwent a similar restructuring reform and more competent and better prepared armada disembarked from Eltsara to meet the Imperium head on.

The Imperium continued to expand into Alkete space encountering Aksoto'a, the closest star to the Eltsara system. Alkete forces managed to isolated and destroy the Imperial Vanguard but still struggled to outmatch even and the Aksoto'a began to give as the Imperium Main arrived in the Oort cloud. A war of attrition ensued as Alkete defenders fell back deeper and deeper into the system until finally the siege of **Aksoto'a** ended in **Bontarardi** Victory. The battle of the Itke gap gave a small glimmer of hope the Alkerre routed an Imperial fleet, isolated due to miscommunications among the Bontarardi military leadership. The Imperium war-machine marched on but began to slow as the army became increasingly hampered by an internal power struggle amongst its most senior officers stemming from fissures within the Imperium central government. The Imperium pressed on however despite several more hiccups and other warning signs beating back the ever increasing resilience of Alkerre and Olqele forces. until finally it blundered into the assault on **Etekrata**. The Alkete fringe world of the Eltsara system. Attempts from the Imperium toward the planet failed and worsened before culminating in an Alkete pincer movement against imperial forces, and a botched Bontarardi retreat lead a complete route in the outer system which pushed the war all the way back to the Aksoto'a system.

Here the Imperium, confronted by another brewing conflict with the Confederacy accepted the Alkete terms for peace which ceded the two outer systems captured by the Bontarardi and left the Alkete federation with similar borders to what they have today.

#### Confederacy Membership

The Alkete soon entered into negotiations with the Confederacy and was gradually admitted over the course of the following decades. To circumnavigate the membership anti-expansion policy set against the Confederacies member states which forces exclusive control of all future colonies to the joint administration of the Confederacy favoring the larger members. Alkataha therefore oversees through close military "cooperation" a corporation named the **Tserlus Commercial Cosmic & Trust**. Which is "donates revenue to the Federation of Alkataha and conveniently reflects Alkete law through its "workplace policies". The reality is an extension of the Federation of Alkataha into territory that is technically under direct supervision of the Confederacy.

So far only a small number of interstellar bodies serve as direct assets of the **Cosmic & Trust**.

## Civilization

Dedication: This following section is dedicated to Frew001, following a discussion we had on discord.

The Alkerre are an ammonia based species that prefer temperatures more akin to Mars than Earth. Their civilization houses somewhere between 200 - 300 trillion, of which, about one in a thousand live on the surface of an actual world. More often than not the majority live in orbital habitats, with planets and moons acting as hubs with significantly higher concentrations of these habitats orbiting the planet rather than the star directly. Back in the early interstellar era an ode was written lamenting the loss of the starry night-sky as seen in many older pictures, star catalogues, and films. Though the prospect of seeing the virgin sky inspires many who read the ode, they could never know that the wonders viewing images of deep space and distant stars in spectacular detail, which they took for granted, could only be dreamed of by long past generations.

The vast majority of the larger bodies are surrounded by planetary rings and/or various other orbital infrastructure such as sky hooks, space elevators, and mass drivers for smaller bodies

Away from the planets, sailing around the star in ever continuous circular motions are seated orbital habitats and solar satellites ranging from small communications and relay satellites to tremendously sized Cylinders housing communities often exceeding a million. Several stations focused on agriculture subsidize older models with insufficient resource production. Interstellar commerce is powered by enormous laser pushers focus beams of Eltsara'a light to shuffle massive carrier ships so designed to reflect these beams for acceleration between stars. The pushers themselves receive power from countless orbiting mirrors redirecting light to increasingly larger power stations. The current stage of development has leant the equivalent to the term Dyson Skeleton, an impressive feat of infrastructure though not yet eclipsing it's full potential.