New Aeon Aggregate

The New Aeon Aggregate is a swarm of space habitats orbiting the sun at about 1.59AU. It is home to several nations, known as clusters, and several different races of post-sapiens. It is the primary non-earth centric civilization and one of the three major solar aggregates.

The New Aeon Aggregate began as a rejection of many traditional Earth values such as democracy, the prioritizing of planetary based civilization, and in response to the criminalization of controversial technologies such as genetic engineering. Several movements in Earth-based clusters were renouncing ties to earth governments and attempting to form their own governments.

New Aeoners believe that living aboard low-gravity space stations is a superior alternative to living on Earth. They recognize that the planet was helpful to bring forth humanity but the large gravity well and uncontrollable ecosystem became a crutch which limited human potential. They feel that the space colonies are their “promised land” and that the ideal quality of life can be attained through ever larger and more innovative space stations which can be optimized for safer, more versatile, comfortable, and energy efficient civilizations than anywhere on Earth.

## Clusters

Clusters are the largest organizational bodies of habitats in the aggregate, somewhat equivalent to a nation. Some clusters are made up of a number of subclusters, equivalent to a state or province. Clusters and subclusters both are divided into clouds, which are cultural regions with less defined boundaries. Though not all habitats in a cluster's boundaries necessarily belong to that cluster's government, the cluster does define which government controls the flight-space between habitats. New Aeon is made up of 9 clusters:

Ostrova Cluster (Islands of Gods)

Yako Sei, The Astral Isles (Nocturnal Cluster)

Chilliad Cluster

* Ganis Quarnatine

Vandora's Embrace, Dais Consortium

Hullgrave Cluster

Elitra Cluster

Everdawn Empire

* Synedra Cluster

Thoyanil

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## History

### Time periods

 1700 NA - 1800 NA (Present)

### 2420 AD - Toban Cataclysm

Supervolcano erupts killing devastating earth’s population, covering half the planet in cloud for decades. Over that period billions die and half of the planet is inhospitibal for natural life. After a few decades the planet starts to recover but there is a mass migration to the few space colonies that exist as people start to think of them as more reliable and safer than earth with its unpredictable nature and huge scale effects.

### 2620 AD / 0 NA: The New Aeon Conflict

With over 200 hundred city scale space habitats, earth governments are finding it harder to maintain control of these space based colonies.  Transhumanist movements begin to stir discontent.  These groups boast space based life as superior than earth in many ways and aim to abandon outdated traditions of earth and embrace dramatically new ways of life. They condemn the typical capitalistic and democratic governments and condemn the criminalization of genetic engineering and cybernetics. They want to embrace human potential through artificially enhance humans any way they can.

Various disparate transhumanist movements eventually began to unify for political strength and crystalized into 4 primary groups: The Stal'naya Krov, the Chiliad, the Nocturnals, the Solars. Four of these were large activist movements in different regions. All of them were inspired by a reclusive scientific research group known as the Luminaries that had already been effectively independent for a few decades now. It's advances in science and previous teachings were used as an inspiration and example by New Aeoners to catalyze their movements. The 4 different New Aeoners groups had different visions of the future but aligned with many common goals.

All together, these groups were composed of around 100 cylinders that sought to sever their ties to their earth governments and declare their independence and claim clusters of space stations as their new homeland. Earth governments had more resources and military power and sought to enforce Earth law. As cylinders moved to new orbits, Earth declared war on the New Aeoners. The Aeoner Conflict did not last long however.

As the struggle for independence went on, it looked like the earth militaries were going to wipe out the other cylinders fighting for independence. The mysterious Luminaries stepped in at a key moment and with a dramatic show of superiority, used some advanced technology totally neutralized the earth weapons and left them powerless. A spokesperson for the Luminaries basically told earth governments they supported the New Aeon movement and the next time wouldn’t be a bloodless victory.

The cylinders were able to move to a different orbit and created 4 new clusters.  The Stalnaya Krov founded the Ostrova Bogev cluster. Their pursued technological enhancements to the body and mind to transcend the limits of human intelligence.  The Chiliad created the Chiliad Cluster. They focused on new technologies and AI to enhance quality of life for space station habitants. The Nocturnals founded the Mothris Cluster. They became the most prolific genetic engineers and explored new adaptations to the human body. The Solars founded the Solari Empire. While they were also interested in enhancing their race through genetic alteration, their key vision for the future involved a new form of meritocratic government that, through genetic testing eliminate corruption and allow the civilization to be lead the most intelligent and most altruistic. The four clusters had very different ideas and priorities for their new civilizations so for a while they kept to themselves but they formed a union for strength. They named this union, the New Aeon Aggregate.

### 600 NA: Hull Forges

The Luminaries create and distribute the Hull Forges

### 700 NA- Placement of the Bouys

The Luminaries create 24 large structures at place them at regular increments surrounding the aggregate. No one knows what these structures are for and some become suspicious about their purpose. Many try to study the structures but with no success.

### 810 NA: Last sign of the Luminaries

The last message sent by the Luminaries. There has been no trace of them since.

### 1100 NA: Solar Burst

With little warning, a never before seen Carrington level Coronal Mass Ejection occurs. The sun releases a massive solar burst ejecting catastrophic levels of cosmic radiation and coronal material in all directions of the orbital plane. The Luminary Buoys create a massive magnetic field protecting the aggregate, but are destroyed in the process. Or all but one.

### 1200 NA: Age of the Omniscials

A faction from the Yi Guin cloud of Elitra name themselves All-Seers and declare dominion of the aggregate. Lead by Gonalrast, they proceed to effectively take over the majority of the aggregate with ease in under a decade. 1250, Moragalist takes over.

They die out and are defeated around 1300

### 1300 NA: Age of Upheaval

Period of conflicts and political reconstruction, that lasts 150 years before the clusters are settled and stable again.

### 1700: 2nd SunBurst

2nd Carrington event. The Aggregate is less shielded this time because most the buoys were destroyed in the last burst. This upsets the equilibrium of the aggregate and causes loss of a lot of stations, technology, means of communication and other economic strengths. Thoyanil contract runs out around this time too around 1720.

Or this is the first. Some buoys were removed before which is why the negative effects

### 1750 NA: Cyanosclera Pandemic

The Cyanosclera pandemic started as a biological attack on Chiliad. The Cyanosclera virus created the Scurs who now live in the Scurous Quarantine.

## Races

The residents of New Aeon are all descendants of humanity but the many do not consider them human. Through a combination of technological enhancements and genetic alteration several "post-sapiens" races have evolved.

Predominant races:

* Shtal / Steelbloods
* Mosseni / Astral Ona
* Kesslers
* Aranaya / Chitin Ona
* Hollows
* Bone Ringers
* Velona
* Thenaki / Stoneskins

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## Religion

Many of the older, earth religions have little presence in New Aeon. But many new religions have been born in response to significant transhumanist groups, powerful posthumans, AI, or space-based philosophies. The 3 largest religions include:

**Luminism**: The most common religion is Luminism which worships the Luminaries, a transhumanist group that was instrumental in the founding of New Aeon. They believe that this group gradually became so advanced that they transcended to gods.

**Cognism**: The cognists venerate the set of super intelligent AI called Cognitions that controlled the Chiliad Cluster back in their golden age.

**Omniism**: The Omnisicals were a group that made a technological breakthrough and leaped ahead the rest of the aggregate in technological advancement. They then claimed to be gods and quickly took control of the whole aggregate. Most think of them as oppressive conquerors, but some accepted their claims of godhood and venerate specific individual Omniscials.

Other religions include, Spinguard, the Enduring, and the Confluxes. (See Religions page)

## Factions

**Ostrova**

* Razumi Science group
* Dreamwalkers: (Arrayed Shtal org)
* Black Salvo: Alamazi Special ops

**Yakosei**

* Nanasa: Descendants of the previously royal family that once controlled the cluster
* Iso Elisha College: (New Eye) Elite institution of Genecrafters /Splicers / organic prosthetics / Best medical scientists
* LifeSculpt: Big Neofauna designers corporation (legal)
* The Tooth and Claw / Flesh and Blood / Bloodbath: Underground Deathbeast fights
* Unnatural Selectors / Beastcraft: Deathbeast designers (criminal)
* Ascended Remnant: (Omniist Fringekin),

**Chiliad**

* Abolite Reclamation: Radical, primitivist, anti AI Abolites who want to take back cylinders lost in the Age of Upheaval
* The Arbitration: Hostile Scurs
* The Unfettered: Peaceful Scurs
* Axial Forgers: Space station construction guild
* Shezathists: Stoneskin cult awaiting the return of the incarnation of one of the Emissaries (Euclid, Thoyanis/ Oshath, Xesolea),
* The Chosen Cinders, *Remembered, Onlookers:* Luminist Monks that have several Suith artefacts and some Suthik (Suthik Luminous Jedi)

**Vandora's Embrace**

* Dais Consortium: Governing body made of 3 corporation
	+ Osmotic
	+ Feyanu
	+ Symetrin

* Smaller governing factions / Pirate/merc groups: Black Prism, The Disavowed, Void's Call

**Hullgrave**

* Hollow Clans

**Elitra**

* Vaskez Families: Aranaya mafia
* Chrysalis Nobles / devotees: Influential semi-immortals
* Children of Revelde: Militaristic, anti government group in Chokoraan

**Everdawn**

**Synedra**

**Thoyanosil**

**Aggregatewide**

* Imminent Cascade: Criminal organization

mfg companies,

Glass myriad, imminent cascade, brazen multitude, echelon

special ops, artist guilds,...

## Priority list

Factions

Religious practices/teachings

Shtal details

* Shtal droners/arrayed, Dreamwalkers

*Omniscial pantheon*

Dreamwalkers of Idyllicia Cluster