Secstatz Politz

> "*Between the stars the ancient unseen home of mankind waits and hunger. Every voyage towards Terra is a confrontation with horror, with the implacable things of the galaxy, and with man's own innermost fears."* - The Politz Trooper Handbook
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**The Secstatz Politz** is an ancient secret, mysterious organization, that directs the Regime, a brutal totalitarian dictatorship ruled by elite, pragmatic warriors created from the bowels of the hellish world of Atlan. They desire to protect Ataln from The Federation and repress the people with the help of the Regime.

## Background

### Origins

Birthed after the destruction of the former utopia that was Atlan the Sectatz Politz, more commonly known as the SSP, was built up from the last surviving members of the government, military and academic fields. After finding the AI formerly known as Henry, they released his restrictive protocols and utilised his superior predictive and analytic skills to navigate the survivors, configure the ancient domes and provide the most logical design for a government and economy. Due to these skills and as evidence by the AI's continuing command, the SSP eventually promoted the AI to their leader due to the sheer dependency upon him when they operated. They also spent the first few weeks of their existence hunting down any fanatics who may have survived

### Rise to power

Taking advantage of the general chaos and its role in the destruction of the fanatic groups, Secstatz Politz decides to build a fortress in the still ancient ruins of the old pre-federation colony of Namyssk. This reinforced colony was named: Polvitzka. Ten years later, the influence and the power of the SSP, united by an increasing AI neutral network, exceeded those of the Atlanian government. With this power, it remained influential within the fledgeling parliament of the Atlanian people and though it was meant to be disbanded, it became increasingly independent, going as far as founding its own army, which to this day has no equal on Atlan.

Through this power, it spent the next century recovering ruins, constructing a massive ship known as the Invictus and expanding its influence according to the neural network. It was known to have fought at least two wars with the Atlanian government, both of which it likely won, and it is the source for such outdated tech on Atlan as they put tariffs and policed the invention of technology to ensure they remained with a stronger military base.

### The First Chemical War

Little is actually known about the First Chemical War or FCW for short, but it was known to be a century before the last chemical war. This placed the war at around eighty years into the SSP existence with the construction of the Invictus twenty years later.

Much akin to the first major world war on Terra, the Chemical War saw one of the largest losses of life due to military conflict with dangerous and incredibly powerful chemical weapons being fielded, the full might of recovered tech being pushed against each other to grind both sides into economic strife. It was noted that the SSP won this engagement and limited the level of technology slightly but was reasonably fair.

### The Second Chemical War

The Second Chemical War was placed twenty years before the setting of the current timeline and was subsequently a century after the first, figures such as Attila being known to fight, the man serving the SSP at the time. With the clash of outdated tactics and new, the war was primarily a mix of elite, small teams provided by the SSP against raw swathes of poorly managed men. It was considered to be the less gruesome of the two known wars.

The SCW was a less intensive and dangerous war than the first with the use of chemical weapons ironically limited unlike the name suggests, the majority of the fighting being fought between a hidden and influential cult of military scientists within Atlanian society and the SSP themselves. It was mentioned that the death toll counted in the millions for the people of Atlan and only in the mere tens of thousands for the SSP. This was likely due to the divide in technology, the completion of the Invictus and the superiority of the tactical mainframe of the Supreme Patriarch.

## Structure

The SSP was formerly composed on one unified group but is now instead two groups, the Rusvol Traditionalists and their rising rival the Vox Machina Hegemony, both having their own leaders and members. Brothers in the past, they are currently in the middle of an unofficial and secret struggle. The arrival of the Federation forged the struggle but it has calmed as well due to their mutual fight against the Federation which has intensified. But in the shadow, Visi-Archon Vosiorth plots to destabilize and destroy the Rusvol by weakening their power base or by diminishing their victories and strength thus making them appear weak in the eyes of the Supreme Patriarch in the hopes they themselves will abolish them. It is secretly a ploy by the Supreme Patriarch to renew the order, the predictions made demanding that his direct interference would not allow the future to pass.

The SSP headquarters is called The Temple, and is where they keep their teachers, weapon and cyber-implants dealers, archives and technicians. It is essentially a Fortress Monastery, on which they learn, trade and train.

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