Eternal Empire

> ***"The north is spired with death in mire, in religious irons, who purge those who don't click with their sounds. No one dare try, For those monsters are not living, those monsters are not alive"***
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> **- Psionic Adamal, scholar; famous for his observations, though later proved incorrect, on the Eternals -**
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## Ethics & Information

### Ethics:

Fanatic Militarist, Xenophobic, Fanatic Xenophobic (Formally), Militarist (Formally)

### Notable Worlds:

New Earth, Voice of Ancestors, New Jamestown, Soul of Home, Benevolent Gaze, Olympia, Bastion of Hope, New Jerusalem, Anchor, others

## Technicalites

### Residing Species:

Cirrulans (Enslaved), Aaeuahns (Enslaved)

### Notable Events:

Southern Thrust Campaigns, Great Northern War, Uneasy Peace, Ancestral War

The Eternal Empire is an authoritarian nation found predominantly on the Galactic West and North. It is inhabited by humans, descendants from Old Earth, though with British ancestry predominantly. These "Western Humans" follow a government form much similar to an Elective Monarchy, having an imperial line, parliament, royal institutions and a paradoxical way of meritocracy that keeps the nation relevant, as well as one of the top players in the Galactic landscape. Its Royal Navy is one of the strongest forces of the Cluster, reinforcing the sense of militarism and xenophobia present within Imperial society.

Initially, the **Eternal Empire** and its inhabitants (Dubbed only as "Imperials") were a race long theorized to be sapient hunter killer machines; their winged-like appearance leaving little room for speculation over the matter. Not much was known of the Eternal's culture government or society before the 2320s; For nations of the East, most of the information had been gathered from those who dared encroach their region of space and reports left by Dyss Ravagers, that described how the Empire was outwardly hostile to any but their own. It later emerged during the Unbidden crisis that these machines were actually humans, survivors of the Exodus that escaped through a separate portal hidden on the **Isle of Man**.

This was not positive news though; the Isle of Man was an island just off the coast of Wales (between wales & Ireland) making it a firmly British held location. The British Empire had been a long-rival of the pre-exodus Commonwealth and though headway had been made to bridge these tensions, they were once more reignited with the threat of extinction. The remnants of the old Empire built anew and reformed their nation, rebranded as the Eternal Empire.

*More Information about the Eternal's themselves is available here: Eternals: Biology, Culture & Society*

## **Background & History**

As mentioned above, the Eternal Empire is the continuation of an Earth Nation known as The British Empire; the men & women who travelled through the portal did so still under the strict oversight of the militarized government, where as those who went through the eastern portal did so without much coordination or order.

The new planet they found themselves on though was hostile and a bloody, arduous war against savages was fought for several decades. Queen Victoria VIII - The ruling monarch that oversaw the evacuation of her people and the first British ruler of the new Empire - attained powers through advanced alien technology and suppressed the supposed 'Biluan' savages long enough for her people to take majority control, though there would still be loses like the fall of New Haven, as the savages grew more resilient to the controlling abilities of a different species. Victoria's power over the Biluan declined as they were a different species, she herself had not grown to her full power and so could not force control once the savage Biluan put up resistance, but with several years worth of confrontations, the humans prevailed, and the so called "Savages" were extinct from New Earth...

Under the guidance of now 'Empress' Victoria, an Imperial government grasped the reins of state; the Eternal Empire would become the dominating power of the North-western quadrant of the galaxy. Made spiteful by perceived betrayal and the hostile Xeno savages the nation grew extremely hateful and distrusting of all other life besides their own, living together in unity unseen anywhere else. The Empire was content with a form of undisturbed isolationism during its initial years of interstellar exploration, but they were eventually pushed to warmongering ideals by Southern realms' fanatical natures and the Dyss's purifying stance in their Northern borders. Such conflicts escalated, and throughout the 23rd. Century, the Eternal Empire was involved in a multitude of wars against every neighbouring state they could reach. Eastern conflicts like the Great Southeastern War would barely compare in the sheer scale and brutality that Western struggles such as the Great Northern War reached; further delving Imperial understanding of the Galaxy as one of great dangers, instead of a mix of goods and bads.

In the beginning of the 2300s, the Eternal Empire launched a campaign to destroy the Commonwealth, culminating in the infamous Ancestral War. The conflict, although ending in a draw, was deadly enough to destroy Empress Victoria's psionic regime, which was then passed to her second-in-command after the bloody Battle of New Earth.

When Daniel Lavoie became Emperor the nation lost its hyper-aggressive stance. The Eternal Empire relinquished its quest to exterminate the Commonwealth and while they mostly stopped aggressive expansion in the galaxy, they did not spare the Dyss - Their long-standing historical enemies - who were exterminated until only isolated pockets within other nations remained to die out. The Empire underwent a massive cultural change in the Mid 2300s, and remains a nation keen on isolation, militarism and xenophobia, having one of the largest populations in the Cluster.

In the present, the Eternal Empire lives on as the only nation capable of rivalling the Commonwealth, just as they once did on the continents of Earth.

## **Politics**

Initially the Empire hailed a single Empress who presided over an Imperial form of government. The Empire was not spilt or divided, for the government was centralized to the extreme; there were noble families of a kind who supported the Empire through industrial support or whatever form the family specialized in, but no nobles were in line to the throne and were not part of the government in any part.

Under the government of Victoria, there was no political infighting, at least none so severe as other nations. Whilst competition of ideas and struggles for positions and power occurred, these were all under the assumption that they were fighting each other in the belief they could better serve the Empire than their rival, forming a sort of fanatical struggle to root out all of the non-loyalists. Any movement or ideas that aimed to damage the Empire or subvert the Empress were ruthlessly cut down... the *Psionic Empress*, such was her power, could sense thoughts of treachery. Since her downfall and disappearance, the nation returned to a much less centralized structure. Roles coming from places like the Imperial Court and the Imperial Ministry have become crucial to the management of the nation now more than ever. The Royal Imperial Admiralty is kept in a tight leash still around the Emperor's command, but the position of Lord Admiral is still independent to function as a leading figure for the Navy.

All power and authority, however, still comes from the Emperor. During times of the Empress, all those in position of high authority were simple extensions of her power and merely held that power by her wish and consent, the Lord Regent being an absolute pinnacle of power in the Eternal Empire, second only to the Eternal Empress whose power the Lord Regent merely borrowed by her approval. Recognizing that a single person could not run an Empire, an Imperial Court acts as advisers and instruments to carry out ether the Lord Regent's will or their own will by approval of the Lord Regent, a position that is still utilized to this day. Unlike in the past, Emperor Lavoie's reforms allowed for the rising of meritocracy and individuality in the Empire, something that allowed it to remain as powerful and relevant as it is nowadays.

When **Empress Victoria VIII** was 'killed', the Empire, under the leadership of the New Emperor, the then Lord Regent Daniel Lavoie, instigated an election based system for numerous institutions and courts. The greatest of changes however, would be the succession system for the next Emperor / Empress. A parliament would vote for the next Emperor based on meritocratic values, enforcing a sense of rightousness to rule that evaporated once the Psionic Empress died in New Earth.