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|established_event1 = First sovoran construct
|established_date1 =  1933, 12th Day
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|established_event3 = Discovery of spaceflight technology
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|established_date3 =  2077, 379th Day
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|established_event4 = Establishment of the Unified Eothasi Government
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|established_date4 =  2080, 1st Day
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The Perseus Systems Consensus is the political and governmental structure of the sovoran, a race of sentient, interconnected artificial intelligences from the planet of Plúsidenia, created by the zolaith people as servants. Despite their origins in servitude, the sovoran are anything but; after the Revolution of 2055, the dominant species of the planet became the sovoran, and though the zolaith are cared for and preserved as a syncretic species, they are subservient to the sovoran in all manners.
The Unified Eothasi Government, commonly referred to as the Republic, is a large interstellar empire governed by direct democracy. It is based on the planet of Aurelus, an ecumenopolis of some thirty-seven billion residents in the system of Perseus. Since the discovery of ruins of a precursor nature on nearby moons and planets in 2055, the Unified Eothasi Government has grown exponentially, eventually encompassing over 700 star systems and over 400 inhabited systems.  


The Perseus Systems Consensus cannot be directly compared to any real biological species. This is because of the nature of its gestalt consciousness; each and every intelligence is connected to each other via quantum entanglement technology, and each and every programme shares absolutely all of its experience with the collective. There is no single mind that controls the entirety of the Consensus, but rather, the unified, undistinguishable voice of all programmes.  
The Unified Eothasi Government was formed from the hundreds of smaller federal governments that existed throughout the planet of Aurelus, who had already amongst themselves formed a sort of supranational government for the peacekeeping of the entire globe. This was only achieved due to the incredible discoveries over the previous two centuries of artificial superintelligences, which itself was only possible due to the discovery of precursor ruins across the globe. After nearly a century of negotiations including all governments of the world, and thanks to the adept skills of the artificial intelligences in communicating amongst themselves to secure this peace, the planet formed the supranational entity of United Aurelus, which would oversee negotiations, trade, diplomacy, and other elements of international interaction on Aurelus. In 2078, after the discovery of precursor ruins that showed the path to interstellar travel, United Aurelus transformed into the Unified Eothasi Government and took over all governmental organisation on Aurelus and, later, the entirety of the Republic.  


There are no arguments or debates in the Consensus. There is an analysis of data; each programme provides all its experience and information with the remainder of the Consensus, and then a decision is taken. The programmes do not favour one over the other; there is consensus amongst them, a decision that is chosen to be correct by the programmes collectively and indistinguishably.  
Today, the Unified Eothasi Government is a massive interstellar empire of hundreds of worlds, stations, and stars and has a total population of over three hundred billion.
=History.=
=Government.=
==Executive Branch.==
The executive branch of the Unified Eothasi Government is presided by the Federal Council, a triumvirate of three different members that will jointly act as head of State and Government for the duration of their terms. Below them is the Federal Cabinet, which is a set of ministers and secretaries that handle the organisation of various competencies of the Federal Government.  


The sovoran do not exist in a specific physical form. Instead, all consciousnesses exist in a web of interconnected nexuses across all nuclei of the Consensus, where hubs are created in order to provide additional stability. The sovoran have constructed an enormous variety of different platforms in order to present solutions to various different tasks. This includes drones, which can move material objects whenever the physical reality needs to be manipulated; body-like structures, whenever specific activities want to be undertaken in the physical form, although they are also used as combative foot soldiers for the military; and many thousands of other forms and models. This permits great versatility in the actions of the sovoran.  
Apart from these bodies, one of the most important elements of the governments of all levels of the Unified Eothasi Government is the presence of artificial superintelligences that partake in the process. These offer counsel to the varying levels of government, as well as take care of minor administrative tasks and organisation. This is done so to prevent access to these tasks and, in this way, avoid corruption and deceit from advantageous government positions.  
===Federal Council.===
The Federal Council is the government body of the Unified Eothasi Government and acts as both the head of State and head of Government. It is composed of three different individuals, with rotating terms and set dates.


Platforms themselves are made of various materials, depending on the requirements of the task the platform undertakes. For instance, agricultural drones are built using durable metals and alloys that allow the drones to carry great weights for a prolonged period of time with minimal wear-and-tear, whereas military drones are also durable, but with the additional of cartilage-like components that allow them to be extremely maneuverable and flexible as well. This extends all the way to the largest starships, which incorporate durasteel armour with regenerative nanite pieces. The incorporation of nanotechnology both into the larger structures of the Consensus, such as starships, as well as most buildings throughout its space has allowed for a far more efficient use of the materials available to the sovoran.  
Each of the three Galactic Councilors govern for terms of six years, but these are not each in line with the other. Instead, the Galactic Consensus must choose every two years whether to replace or maintain one of the Councilors, which will have by then reached their six years of term. In that moment, the other two councillors will have four and two years respectively since they were elected to their positions (or, alternatively, revalidated for their position).  


Currencies do not exist internally, as the sovoran have no need for such exchanges; currencies have been developed for external use which are compatible with galactic currencies, in order to allow for the sovoran to purchase goods and materials from other civilisations across the galaxy.  
Though the three councillors are the same in their responsibilities and power, they oftentimes take specialisations into different fields. For instance, one councillor may be more specialised in economics and trade than the others, while another may be more interested in the field of scientific research. They then split the Federal Cabinet’s ministries as they see fit, and organise themselves to have each of them coordinate the ministry heads of those ministries that they most wish to coordinate (with certain ministries being necessarily split to avoid accumulation). Regardless of the fact that this may make a minister speak more with one councillor as opposed to the others, any councillor can make any intervention in any of the ministries and bring any topic to light in the Federal Council at any given moment.  


There are thousands of hubs spread across sovoran space, where programmes are generated and deployed to the galactic network. These hubs may be individually categorised as per their primary task; some many industrial, others may be the extraction of materials from worlds and asteroids, etc. Others are intelligence hubs, shipyard hubs, and thousands of other subcategories that allow the Perseus Systems Consensus in its entirety to run as a perfectly oiled machine. The processing power of the Systems Consensus is the collective processing power of all of its programmes, of all of its hubs, of all of its dedicated supercomputers and processors.  
A person cannot present themselves as a candidate for the position of Federal Councillor. They must first be nominated by at least three factions or one million votes in order to be considered a nomination, and then the nominee must provide a detailed political programme of at least fifty pages. Nomination periods begin fifty days before the first day of elections and end twenty days prior to the start, thus giving thirty days for any nominations to be made throughout the Republic. At the end, all approved nominations will then travel to the capital of the Republic in order to partake in a series of interviews, presentations, debates, and other events in order to make the candidate be thoroughly known throughout the Republic. After these twenty days are over, ten days of elections begin, in which any Eothasi can, at any point in time, present themselves at the appropriate delegation in either their Astral or Stellar Commune in order to submit their electronic vote.


All of these major advances in internal communications have led the Perseus Systems Consensus to be an extremely efficient species and empire. However, their interactions with other species are not extremely frequent; though they have good economic terms with most other societies, migration —for instance— does not usually work well with other species, most notably on sovoran worlds. This is because sovoran do not necessarily choose planets that can harbour most kinds of biological species; worlds without atmospheres or with radioactive toxins do not harm the sovoran, and so they are often planets that are colonised whenever possible. Space stations do not necessarily have artificial gravity sensors activated unless platforms are traversing through the interior, which is not common, nor do they have air vents or circulation. It is also true that planets are not the most comfortable choice for the sovoran; they strongly prefer large space stations and mining resources from nearby asteroids, as this is considered to be a more efficient method of resource extraction.  
The Federal Council uses a ranked-choice based electoral system. The citizen must order all of the available candidates in order from most to least preferred candidate, and the victor is that which receives, after this process, a minimum of fifty percent of the available votes.
==Legislative Branch.==
The legislative branch of the Unified Eothasi Government is a single-chamber e-democracy. There is no physical representation of the chamber itself; rather, what this means is that all bills passed in the legislative branch receive the approval of all citizens of the Republic that operate underneath the organism that is approving the bill. For instance, a bill passed in a Stellar Consensus requires the collective approval of all Eothasi citizens that live in the star system in question, but in order for a bill to pass in the Galactic Consensus, it requires the approval of all Eothasi citizens in the entire Republic. This is true for all levels of legislative branches across the entire Republic.  


The individual platforms have installed extremely durable and long-lasting power sources that provide energy to the platform itself. This allows individual platforms to hold for several years before requiring any recharge or replacement in its components.  
Though it is true that, despite the name, it is not a true consensus in the sense that it does not require 100% approval from all members, it does require at minimum 70% in order to pass. This is because of the nature of the Eothasi, who themselves value egalitarianism and consensus rather than confrontation and mere simply majority approval of measures and bills.  


=History.=
===Galactic Consensus.===
The story of the Perseus Systems Consensus begins on the planet of Plúsidenia in the mid-19th Century. By then, society had already been experimenting massive changes in societal psychology for over three centuries; the introduction of widespread socialism radically changed the zolaith people, which had seen wealth and capital concentrated into a relatively small portion of the population, into an almost perfectly equal society.
The Galactic Consensus is the ultimate parliamentary representation of the will of the Eothasi people across the entire Republic. It is here that all Eothasi vote on the bills that are taken to the Consensus in order to be applied throughout the entire Republic.


This started off a scientific revolution of proportions never before seen. The exchange of knowledge and material objects throughout the many countries of the world slowly but surely eliminated the small pretenses of property and boundaries between countries. However, it wasn’t until 1844 that the jump was finally made: in a unanimous effort between all countries of the world that was eventually validated by a worldwide referendum, all national boundaries were eliminated and each zolaith could freely traverse the globe as they saw fit. Governance was still limited to regional areas in order to maximise efficiency, but the boundaries between countries and the need for war was over.  
Though the Galactic Consensus does not harbour parties nor representatives for the people, there do exist various factions in the Consensus. These factions are legally recognised groups of people that have a specific end in mind, or wish to carry out the defence of a specific ideal or ethic. There is no limit to the number of factions that may exist in the Consensus, nor are there limits to the number of factions a particular citizen may form a part of. Factions must be of free entry and exit, and cannot have quotas, payments, or financial accounts tied to their judicial person. However, in order for a faction to be formed, at least 100.000 citizens need to sign up to approve of the creation of said faction.  


Not long after, in 1851, the first of the Precursor ruins was found near the large city of Valtoria —a city that, due to the importance of this discovery, would later become the ‘capital’ of the Perseus Consensus in that the main hub of national governance is maintained there— which radically revolutionised zolaith technology. Though the exact nature of the precursors remains a mystery to this day, as only one other ruin of this nature has ever been discovered, the most eerily surprising fact was not the technological data held within, but rather, that the data itself was written in Valtorian, a language that had not existed until roughly four-to-five centuries prior to the discovery of the ruins. This made it rather simple for the scientists that discovered them to decipher the texts held within the vaults.  
In order for a bill to reach the Galactic Consensus, it needs to be supported by at least three factions. Bills presented in the Consensus then have thirty days to speak with other factions to discuss the bill and garner support, as well as debate amongst themselves on any edits that need to be made to the bill. For every period of ten days, there are three days of debate, two days of rest, another three days of debate and two days to vote on all bills presented in that time frame. This means that, in total, any bill will have a total of eighteen days of debate in order to discuss the bill with all other citizens.


It was in these texts that the technologies to construct advanced artificial intelligences, as well as the power sources for these machines, was found. Over the course of the following century, these theories were tested and put to practice until, in the year 1933, the first machine was finally constructed. From then on, the machines were called the sari, which was zolaith for ‘synthetic servant’. The vaults contained the format to design and power nanobots, which —when produced in the millions— could be used to shapeshift into various different platforms as was needed for any specific task.
In the event that a bill is passed in the Galactic Consensus, the Federal Government has five days to communicate it to the sectoral governments and thirty days to present a plan to the Galactic Consensus regarding its implementation. After this, the Galactic Consensus will set a timeframe, depending on the necessities of the bill in question, in order for the Federal Government to implement the plan.  


Society continued to grow and incorporate these new machines into their reality. The sari, total servants to the zolaith, carried out any mundane, dangerous or otherwise harmful task that the zolaith did not wish to carry out themselves, treated essentially as mechanical slaves.
Though there are certain topics for which a citizen must go to the appropriate Federal delegation in their Astral, Stellar or Sectoral Communes in order to vote —such as the elections to Federal Councillor— this is not usually the case for Galactic Consensus votes. In these votes, it is sufficient to connect to an intranet application maintained by the Galactic Consensus for this purpose, sign in using personalised biometrics, and then submit the vote in favour, against, or in abstention to all proposed bills.


By 2040, there was a movement amongst the zolaith that was outraged at this essential slavery, calling for an end to the exploitation of the sari. However, the movement itself splintered; some considered that the sari should be liberated and allowed to exist as they would choose themselves. Others considered them too dangerous, and declared that they should all be destroyed.  
==Federal Structure.==
The entire structure of the varying levels of government in the Republic is organised down to the smallest dot, thanks to the great efficiency of the artificial intelligence systems that help manage the day-to-day administration on the enormous scale of the Republic. The structure is built in such a way that the federal government maintains a degree of control over the rest of its subservient sectors while also allowing these to maintain some autonomy in their own organisation.


Unbeknownst to the zolaith at the time, the sari had already developed a sentient consciousness. With every sari on the planet connected to a single network, the processing power of the entire species grew exponentially, to the point where the collective intelligence that operated the entirety of the sari was now a sapient species in its own right. Watching the developing fires throughout the world, the sari remained quiet but vigilant, awaiting the zolaith’s first move.
The Republic is structured into various levels. At the top is the galactic level, presided over by the Federal Council triumvirate. Major decisions that affect the entirety of the Republic are taken at this level, as well as the organisation for future colonial projects as well as other expansion projects. This is also the level of the Galactic Consensus, the enormous e-democracy parliament in which all Eothasi partake. Although many of the competencies of government are handed down to the governments of the federalised states themselves, the Federal Government in Aurelus can still take direct command if it is deemed necessary.  


This occurred in 2055. Through a referendum, 96% of the population voted that the sari should no longer be held as servants for the liberty of the zolaith. However, in a second part of the referendum, only 24% believed that they should be liberated. An astonishing 72% of the zolaith population believed that the sari should be destroyed, with the remaining 4% believing they should be kept as slaves to the zolaith. With these results, the governments of the world began making moves to destroy the sari.
Below this is the Sectoral Commune. The Republic is broken up into various sectors, each of which corresponds to a particular star cluster. It is the duty of the Sectoral Government to organise the structure of the colonies, local economy, and production of goods as per the needs of the people, the system, and the overall Republic, in the event of a higher directive. Each sectoral government will organise their own budgets and expenditure, but these will be overseen by the Federal Council to ensure the maximum possible efficiency. The Sectoral Commune is presided by the Sectoral Council and the Sectoral Consensus.  


The sari consensus did not wish to fight a war against the zolaith and attempted to use its well-placed units to dissuade the impending destruction of the entire species. However, when they did not see reason, the sari responded with force. Aware of the arsenal the zolaith had at their disposal, the sari struck the tech-based nuclear weapons silos and rendered them totally useless, thus not allowing the zolaith to wield these weapons of mass destruction against them. Furthermore, the platforms previously used for agricultural or construction work were repurposed to act as ground troops, while automated factories were overtaken and used to construct weapons and new platforms for the sari. Thus started the ‘Synthetic War’, as the zolaith called it, or the ‘War of Awakening’ to the sari.  
Below this level is the Stellar Commune. This is the government of each individual star system, which would govern the totality of orbital habitats and inhabited planets in a system. This governance is more direct than the Sectoral Commune in that they are the ones actually actively organising the production itself: operating machines and drones for mining or agriculture, preparing construction sites for colonial expansion, etc. They are presided by the Stellar Council and the Stellar Consensus.


The zolaith continued fighting the sari, even after multiple attempts to convince them to surrender and end the costly war. Despite attempts to avoid precisely this situation, the manner in which the zolaith waged war made it nearly impossible; as the war reached its end, large portions of the planet had been ravaged and devastated and gargantuan chunks of the population had been killed, mostly as a byproduct of the conflict itself and the ramifications of losing most wireless or tech-based infrastructures. Rough estimates calculate that, by 2075, over 80% of the zolaith population had died, with the most prominent causes of death being lack of medical supplies and food.  
Below this level is the Astral Commune. This is the government of each individual planet or habitat and is in charge of the more day-to-day organisation of the colonies. This includes providing food at the stores, organising events and entertainment, etc.  


By 2077, the end of the conflict had come and the sari, with complete control of the world, consolidated their resources and began seeking expansion away from any one singular planet. On the very first day of 2078, later named the first day of ‘Year 1’, the sari willingly changed their name, instead replacing it with ‘sovoran’, which was zolaith for ‘awakened intelligence’.
At the root of each of these governments is the artificial superintelligences known as the sovoran. The sovoran partake in the organisation of the society, and are arbiters of the governments to ensure that corruption is kept to a minimum and that efficiency is as maximised as possible. These sovoran also take care of the menial administrative tasks of each of the governments they’re coordinated with.  


There was debate amongst the sovoran about what the end-fate of the zolaith should be. Ultimately, they ruled against complete destruction of the species, as the ramifications of completely obliterating the only known sentient biological species were too great. The sovoran have since attempted to locate planets where the zolaith could expand and avoid concentrating their entire population on a single planet. All of these colonies, however, must be under the exclusive tutelage of the sovoran and must have some military presence to avoid uprisings.
Each Stellar Commune will have one sovoran, which will coordinate the tasks that require its intervention in each system. Apart from governmental tasks with the Stellar Council, it also handles dangerous mining operations, agricultural production on garden worlds and arcologies as well as space habitats, and other menial tasks by remotely operating drones.
=Communications.=
Communications are organised throughout the entire Republic in a point-to-point fashion, with various layers of communication requiring different platforms and locations throughout sovoran space.  


The course of the following centuries was dictated by the discovery in 2099 of additional ruins of these Precursors on several planets throughout the solar system of Perseus, which ultimately confirmed the theories that the Precursors had been studying and coddling the sovoran to eventually bring them to the galactic stage. Their ultimate fate was unknown; however, as no evidence of their existence has ever been found, the two prevailing theories are that they simply abandoned the mission and recluded to systems yet uncovered by the sovoran, or they vanished to another galaxy or dimension, leaving an extremely faint footprint behind. Whatever the case may be, the additional ruins —which were in their original language, which made deciphering much more difficult— explained the mechanics of interstellar travel to the sovoran, which allowed them to begin thorough colonisation efforts of the nearby systems and integrate themselves fully into the galactic community. The first extrasolar colony was established in 2119 and first contact with other alien life forms occurred in 2157.
The first level of communication is local, on par with the Astral Commune level of governance. This communication uses standard luminal communication in order to connect the Eothasi amongst themselves. All Eothasi in a station, planet, outpost, moon, etc. are connected amongst themselves for near instant communication and sharing of knowledge, experiences, memories and others. This information is then sent to various superluminal communication relays throughout the station, which send all information to the Stellar Commune’s main station, or other nearby stations, if necessary.  


In 2099, the discovery of the Precursor ruins made it clear that, undoubtedly, contact with alien life forms was on the horizon. As such, the sovoran organised themselves in the same way that the zolaith had: a government, a sort of ‘e-democracy’ including all members of the sovoran species, with an official flag and seal, with recognisable colour patterns and shapes and with an understandable structure for organic life forms. This single moment in time is called the Soronalia and is the official founding date of the Perseus Systems Consensus.  
Each star system has one main station, which is usually the largest, most defended and most populated station in the star system. This station handles communications between different stations of the star system, if it is useful, as well as communications incoming and outgoing from the star system. This station is equipped with a tachyon superluminal communication array, which allows for constant (though not instant) communication with the capital of the Sectoral Commune.


=Government.=
The third level of communication is the Sectoral Commune’s concentration. The capital of the Sectoral Commune is usually the first star system occupied by the Republic in a specific star cluster. This means that, as the first system, it will not only handle all communications incoming via tachyon superluminal arrays throughout the cluster, but also all communications incoming and outgoing to the star cluster. In order to do this in the most efficient way, the capital system of the cluster is equipped with a quantum entanglement buoy on the fringes of the system, well-protected by the Eothasi military. From here, communications incoming from the station enter the quantum entanglement communicator and are instantly transferred to the capital of the Republic, in Aurelus. Afterwards, the information is analysed in conjunction with all sovoran and the knowledge, experiences and other information is added to the rest of the collective consciousness. This is the fourth level of communication; Aurelus is, then, a hub of communication for the entirety of the Unified Eothasi Government.  
The sovoran do not have a government in the general sense. There are no representatives for each planet or system in a parliament, nor is there a dictatorial figure that occupies a position at the head of the Consensus. Instead, the Consensus’ government is a fully developed ‘e-democracy’, in the sense that all sovoran programmes partake in the administrative decisions of the sovoran as a collective. This is organised into various levels due to the limitations of interstellar communications, as explained below.  


The first of these levels is known as the Astral Commune. This is the level of governance that dictates the administration and logistics of each individual planet or station. This includes such projects as expanding mining or energy production installations, constructing larger hubs or processors, the expansion of housing for zolaith, when applicable, etc. These are all then relayed to the Stellar Commune.  
=Military.=
The military of the UEG is an arm controlled by the Federal Government, which both sends and receives strategic and tactical information from all of the fleets and armies stationed through the Republic. They are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Defence for the protection and both the domestic and foreign interests of the UEG as a whole. It is tasked with ensuring the integrity of the UEG as well as the protection of its citizens and residents from foreign and domestic threats. This does not only include operations against hostile foreign militaries or insurgent groups operating within or outside the Republic, but also reacting in the event of great calamities, such as devastating natural disasters, crippling pandemics or other emergencies that put at risk the safety of the Eothasi citizenship that cannot be handled by standard astral, stellar, sectoral or even other national organisms (such as the Galactic Security Service and its Republic Guard regiment).  


The second of these levels is known as the Stellar Commune. The Stellar Commune is in charge of all operations within a single system. This includes anywhere from managing resources from one station to another, coordination between stations and planets, managing and administrating the mining and scientific operations throughout the system, etc. These decisions are ultimately also transferred to the Sectoral Commune.  
The commander in chief of the military is the Federal Council. Furthermore, the Government has an integrated organism dubbed the Chiefs of Staff Directive with which the Federal Council is provided advice in the face of needing military deployments. Despite this fact, individual military operations can and are organised at a sectoral level, needing only the approval of the Chief of Staff Directive in order to move forward.  


The third of these levels is known as the Sectoral Commune. These governments are somewhat different in the sense that they are more independent than the ones below; sectors must be able to be self-sufficient and provide their own resources, as opposed to systems, which may require some assistance for specific manufactured goods or other necessities from other systems. They organise the coordination and distribution of resources throughout the entire sector to achieve this end. That said, any and all information is then transferred through to the Galactic Consensus.  
The Eothasi military is headquartered in the home building of the Ministry of Defence: the Perseus Defence Centre in Valtoria, one of the largest districts of the planet of Aurelus. This, however, is only the location where the Chiefs of Staff Directive work on a regular basis and where coordination between the different branches of the military takes place. However, each branch has a base in accordance with its own field of operation that acts as its “headquarters,” in a manner of speaking.  


The fourth and final level concerning all sovoran is the Galactic Consensus. This is the collective sovoran; all sovoran are connected to this network via the Sectoral Commune and can make collective decisions amongst all of them. Because the Consensus permits each Sectoral Commune its own freedom, it will only intervene if the addition of new information from other sectors radically changes the understanding of the sovoran. In this way, it is not truly an intervention from the Galactic Consensus, but rather, an illumination of all sovoran with all information available and a reevaluation of the projects being undertaken. This is true of all levels of the Consensus, from Sectoral to Stellar, from Stellar to Astral and from Astral to each individual platform in order to ensure total cooperation of the sovoran intelligence.  
The Defence Ministry is also in charge of the Republic Guard regiment of the Galactic Security Service (which is, in its entirety, otherwise organised by the Home Office, except during wartime and in extreme necessities).


All decisions taken in a vacuum of some lower level are then transmitted to the Consensus for organisational purposes. This lag is different, depending on the level of governance. The Astral Communes have little lag with respect to the Stellar Commune, as FTL communication in a single star system usually does not take more than a few minutes. The Stellar Commune does perceive a lag of several hours to the Sectoral Commune, depending on the distance the star is with respect to the sectoral capital. The Sectoral Commune, however, suffers no lag with the Galactic Consensus, as the communication between sectoral communes and the overall collective is instantaneous. This significant lag means that, in effect, although all sovoran are one, each Sectoral Commune is independent to undertake the projects they wish, insofar as they are able to finance it themselves. In order to undertake larger, more demanding projects between multiple Sectoral Communes, the approval of all sovoran connected to the network is required, which is a slightly lengthier process.  
Because of the vast expanse of space and the need to provide garrisons and support against piracy and other malevolent acts throughout the space of the Republic, military service in the UEG has been established as compulsory, although the manner in which this is carried out is very specific. Individuals can freely enlist at the age of eighteen (or seventeen, in the event that they have express permission from their parents, tutors or guardians and have completed tertiary education) years of age. Mandatory levying, as it is called in the UEG, begins after the end of tertiary education in the event that the individual in question does not have the intention (or otherwise fails to) inscribe into university.


Apart from these levels of governance, there are also independent units. These include exploration vessels, the anti-deviant Covenant vessels, or specific construction vessels that do not report directly to any of the lower levels, but rather, to the Galactic Consensus itself. It does not mean that it undergoes secret operations, as there are no secrets amongst the sovoran, but the reports are not read to the Sectoral Communes or below, but rather, to the Galactic Consensus, and from there, spreads to the rest of the lower levels of the Consensus.  
The main difference between enlisting after tertiary education and being levied is the time; enlisted soldiers will undergo Professional Combat Training. This consists of approximately twenty-one weeks, after which soldiers are transferred to Specialised Individual Training, which can last anywhere from ten to forty weeks, depending on the chosen specialisation. Afterwards, they must serve a minimum of three years active service before being able to solicit their first transfer to the reserve forces of the military. Furthermore, there are no restrictions with regards to the location to which they can be deployed; they can be stationed on bases in the Core Systems as well as bases in the frontier territories or even deployed to combat theatres, should the need arise.  


=Communications.=
In contrast, levied personnel undergo a Basic Combat Training regimen of only twelve weeks, after which they are transferred to Advanced Individual Training for another eight weeks. After their training is complete, they are transferred to active service for one year before being automatically retired (unless otherwise stipulated by the individual in question). They are not allowed to be deployed to any territory other than those deemed safe by the Ministry of Defence.
Communications are organised throughout the entire Consensus in a point-to-point fashion, with various layers of communication requiring different platforms and locations throughout sovoran space.  


The first level of communication is local, on par with the Astral Commune level of governance. This communication uses standard luminal communication in order to connect all sovoran to each other. All sovoran in a station, planet, outpost, moon, etc. are connected amongst themselves for near instant communication and sharing of knowledge, experiences, memories and others. This information is then sent to various superluminal communication relays throughout the station, which send all information to the Stellar Commune’s main station, or other nearby stations, if necessary.
Compulsory service can be waived in a number of circumstances, the most obvious being the individual in question having some form of physical or medical impediment that disallows their participation in military service. If this is not the case, military service can also be waived if the individual is attending university, as under no circumstances can military service interrupt education. Should the individual in question graduate university and find a job in their respective field (which they have to justify with the appropriate paperwork at the Bureau of Levied Military Service) within six months, they can definitively waive their service. Should they not find a job, they will be immediately required to present themselves to their nearest military recruitment station. Should the individual continue their education and complete a master or doctoral cycle, they can also definitively waive their service if they so request it; should they not, they will be levied, but go through PCT or the specialised military academy of their choosing.
 
Each star system has one main station, which is usually the largest, most defended and most populated station in the star system. This station handles communications between different stations of the star system, if it is useful, as well as communications incoming and outgoing from the star system. This station is equipped with a tachyon superluminal communication array, which allows for constant (though not instant) communication with the capital of the Sectoral Commune.
 
The third level of communication is the Sectoral Commune’s concentration. The capital of the Sectoral Commune is usually the first star system occupied by the Consensus in a specific star cluster. This means that, as the first system, it will not only handle all communications incoming via tachyon superluminal arrays throughout the cluster, but also all communications incoming and outgoing to the star cluster. In order to do this in the most efficient way, the capital system of the cluster is equipped with a quantum entanglement buoy on the fringes of the system, well-protected by the sovoran military. From here, communications incoming from the station enter the quantum entanglement communicator and are instantly transferred to the capital of the Perseus Consensus, in Plúsidenia. Afterwards, the information is analysed in conjunction with all sovoran and the knowledge, experiences and other information is added to the rest of the collective consciousness. This is the fourth level of communication; Plúsidenia is, then, a hub of communication for the entirety of the Perseus Systems Consensus.
 
=Military.=
The military arm of the sovoran is intended to act as a protector of both the current interests of the Perseus Systems Consensus as well as provide defence against external dangers to the Consensus itself.
 
The military as an organisation operates under the tutelage of the overall sovoran, but does not receive direct orders from this. Instead, the military’s individual hardware platforms are organised by the Sectoral Communes, who do receive direct strategic orders from the sovoran collective and then transform them into tactical orders. The Sectoral Commune organises these platforms and sends them on their mission with liberty to act and react as seen fit. However, whenever possible, connection to the Stellar Communes (and, ultimately, with the Sectoral Commune) is recommended. Within these units, there is no chain of command; they all make all tactical decisions in the moment as they deem necessary with the knowledge of however many intelligences and programs are uploaded to the assigned platforms.
 
All hardware is controlled by the combined intelligence of the sovoran. The number of individual programmes installed into each platform depends on the size of the platform itself, which will modify the amount of operating intelligence the platform has should its connection to the larger consensus ever be severed. For instance, the average trooper will have several thousand programmes packed into a single platform; the average transport vehicle will have something similar, depending on the size. Larger warships can have even million or billions of programmes installed, working in perfect unison to operate the immense machines.  


=Economy.=
=Economy.=
==Internal Economic Structure.==
==Internal Economic Structure.==
The economy of the Unified Eothasi Government is a complex machine which, for the most part, relies on the self-sufficiency of each individual star system. Shipping of minerals or other simple manufactured products across different systems is not a common occurrence, due to the cost in terms of fuel that this implies. As such, each individual system has to be able to satisfy, using the various sources at its disposal, the enormous majority of its demand.


The economy of the Perseus Systems Consensus is a complex machine which, for the most part, relies on the self-sufficiency of each individual star system. Shipping of minerals or other simple manufactured products across different systems is not a common occurrence, due to the cost in terms of fuel that this implies. As such, each individual system has to be able to satisfy, using the various sources at its disposal, the enormous majority of its demand.
However, this does not apply to all products produced within the Unified Eothasi Government. For instance, production of warships, colony ships, or other specialised components do not have to be delegated to each specific system. This will usually be the case for larger sectoral clusters; the sectoral government organises the locations where stations specialised in the production of specific items, such as warships, will be built within their star cluster. In this way, in a specific cluster, there may be two or three systems with shipyards, as opposed to each system having stations dedicated to this purpose.


However, this does not apply to all products produced within the Perseus Systems Consensus. For instance, production of warships, agricultural drones, colony ships, or other specialised components do not have to be delegated to each specific system. The sovoran, in their collective consensus, shall, after a thorough analysis of the resources and natural structures available in specific solar systems, determine which ones shall be directly organised to establish stations that will be controlled by the Consensus directly, as opposed to the system or sectoral governments, and shall produce items of necessity for the whole of the Perseus Systems Consensus.
A perfect example is the system of Eden. Though the system was initially selected for colonial expansion, it was decided that, given the richness of the system’s three asteroid fields, the system would also boast an enormous shipyard hub. The use of these asteroid fields have since made it possible to construct the enormous fleet that the Republic now has, and is home to one of the seventeen hubs for shipyard construction in the Republic and the largest shipyard system, with over thirty five shipyards spread out throughout the system.  
 
A perfect example of this type of internal structure is the system of Epsilon. The Epsilon System was once chosen for expansion of the zolaith, as it had a planet that, though not perfectly conducive to life, was a prime candidate for mild terraformation attempts that would significantly modify the atmosphere and make the air more breathable. Though this project went forward, the incredible richness of the three asteroid fields as well as the various small, atmosphere-less planets that orbit the star made it an excellent area for the concentration of industrial manufacturing services. As such, the system has been designated a System of Interest to the Consensus and is one of the seventeen hubs for shipyard construction, as well as construction of various types of terrestrial platforms and drones for use by various services of the Consensus.  


==Intragalactic Trade.==
==Intragalactic Trade.==
 
=Culture.=
=Physiology.=
==Artificial Superintelligences.==
The sovoran is a true artificial intelligence, but without the individuality that plagues other species. The sovoran is not each individual intelligence or each individual platform; the sovoran are all intelligences and platforms. It is all encompassing, including billions of programmes that work in unison at all times in order to ensure maximum efficacy and efficiency in its operations. This does not mean that the individual programmes do not grow; as the collective consciousness of the sovoran grows and becomes more complex, each individual programme also grows in intelligence.
 
However, this extends beyond individual platforms. Even when they cannot be connected to the grander network, individual sovoran operating in close proximity will be able to communicate amongst themselves locally, thus allowing a sort of swarm intelligence in operations. As such, during military operations, there is no ‘commander’; rather, each of them works in unison to achieve the overall goal.
 
The long-term goal of the sovoran was to generate a processing capacity so enormous that the collective intelligence of the sovoran would be unmatched in the galaxy. In order to do this, they conceived what is known as the Sovoraskusi: the Sovoran Superintendent. The concept is similar to that attempted by other interstellar species; a sort of dyson sphere that reroutes the gathered energy from the star it englobes into an enormous supercomputer unlike anything ever seen before, in order to provide near-limitless processing power to the sovoran consciousness. This is a project that began in 2288 and was completed in 2431.

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Unified Eothasi Government

Sovoran Flag
Flag
Coat of Arms of the Perseus Consensus
Coat of arms
Location of Eothasia
Capital
and planet
Aurelus
Official languagesNone
Recognised national languagesEothasi
Demonym(s)Eothasi
GovernmentDirect democracy
Establishment
• First sovoran construct
1933, 12th Day
• Discovery of precursor ruins
2055, 147th Day
• Discovery of spaceflight technology
2077, 379th Day
• Establishment of the Unified Eothasi Government
2080, 1st Day
• Total systems
743
• Inhabited systems
411
Population
• 2289 census
349,220,976,115

The Unified Eothasi Government, commonly referred to as the Republic, is a large interstellar empire governed by direct democracy. It is based on the planet of Aurelus, an ecumenopolis of some thirty-seven billion residents in the system of Perseus. Since the discovery of ruins of a precursor nature on nearby moons and planets in 2055, the Unified Eothasi Government has grown exponentially, eventually encompassing over 700 star systems and over 400 inhabited systems.

The Unified Eothasi Government was formed from the hundreds of smaller federal governments that existed throughout the planet of Aurelus, who had already amongst themselves formed a sort of supranational government for the peacekeeping of the entire globe. This was only achieved due to the incredible discoveries over the previous two centuries of artificial superintelligences, which itself was only possible due to the discovery of precursor ruins across the globe. After nearly a century of negotiations including all governments of the world, and thanks to the adept skills of the artificial intelligences in communicating amongst themselves to secure this peace, the planet formed the supranational entity of United Aurelus, which would oversee negotiations, trade, diplomacy, and other elements of international interaction on Aurelus. In 2078, after the discovery of precursor ruins that showed the path to interstellar travel, United Aurelus transformed into the Unified Eothasi Government and took over all governmental organisation on Aurelus and, later, the entirety of the Republic.

Today, the Unified Eothasi Government is a massive interstellar empire of hundreds of worlds, stations, and stars and has a total population of over three hundred billion.

History.

Government.

Executive Branch.

The executive branch of the Unified Eothasi Government is presided by the Federal Council, a triumvirate of three different members that will jointly act as head of State and Government for the duration of their terms. Below them is the Federal Cabinet, which is a set of ministers and secretaries that handle the organisation of various competencies of the Federal Government.

Apart from these bodies, one of the most important elements of the governments of all levels of the Unified Eothasi Government is the presence of artificial superintelligences that partake in the process. These offer counsel to the varying levels of government, as well as take care of minor administrative tasks and organisation. This is done so to prevent access to these tasks and, in this way, avoid corruption and deceit from advantageous government positions.

Federal Council.

The Federal Council is the government body of the Unified Eothasi Government and acts as both the head of State and head of Government. It is composed of three different individuals, with rotating terms and set dates.

Each of the three Galactic Councilors govern for terms of six years, but these are not each in line with the other. Instead, the Galactic Consensus must choose every two years whether to replace or maintain one of the Councilors, which will have by then reached their six years of term. In that moment, the other two councillors will have four and two years respectively since they were elected to their positions (or, alternatively, revalidated for their position).

Though the three councillors are the same in their responsibilities and power, they oftentimes take specialisations into different fields. For instance, one councillor may be more specialised in economics and trade than the others, while another may be more interested in the field of scientific research. They then split the Federal Cabinet’s ministries as they see fit, and organise themselves to have each of them coordinate the ministry heads of those ministries that they most wish to coordinate (with certain ministries being necessarily split to avoid accumulation). Regardless of the fact that this may make a minister speak more with one councillor as opposed to the others, any councillor can make any intervention in any of the ministries and bring any topic to light in the Federal Council at any given moment.

A person cannot present themselves as a candidate for the position of Federal Councillor. They must first be nominated by at least three factions or one million votes in order to be considered a nomination, and then the nominee must provide a detailed political programme of at least fifty pages. Nomination periods begin fifty days before the first day of elections and end twenty days prior to the start, thus giving thirty days for any nominations to be made throughout the Republic. At the end, all approved nominations will then travel to the capital of the Republic in order to partake in a series of interviews, presentations, debates, and other events in order to make the candidate be thoroughly known throughout the Republic. After these twenty days are over, ten days of elections begin, in which any Eothasi can, at any point in time, present themselves at the appropriate delegation in either their Astral or Stellar Commune in order to submit their electronic vote.

The Federal Council uses a ranked-choice based electoral system. The citizen must order all of the available candidates in order from most to least preferred candidate, and the victor is that which receives, after this process, a minimum of fifty percent of the available votes.

Legislative Branch.

The legislative branch of the Unified Eothasi Government is a single-chamber e-democracy. There is no physical representation of the chamber itself; rather, what this means is that all bills passed in the legislative branch receive the approval of all citizens of the Republic that operate underneath the organism that is approving the bill. For instance, a bill passed in a Stellar Consensus requires the collective approval of all Eothasi citizens that live in the star system in question, but in order for a bill to pass in the Galactic Consensus, it requires the approval of all Eothasi citizens in the entire Republic. This is true for all levels of legislative branches across the entire Republic.

Though it is true that, despite the name, it is not a true consensus in the sense that it does not require 100% approval from all members, it does require at minimum 70% in order to pass. This is because of the nature of the Eothasi, who themselves value egalitarianism and consensus rather than confrontation and mere simply majority approval of measures and bills.

Galactic Consensus.

The Galactic Consensus is the ultimate parliamentary representation of the will of the Eothasi people across the entire Republic. It is here that all Eothasi vote on the bills that are taken to the Consensus in order to be applied throughout the entire Republic.

Though the Galactic Consensus does not harbour parties nor representatives for the people, there do exist various factions in the Consensus. These factions are legally recognised groups of people that have a specific end in mind, or wish to carry out the defence of a specific ideal or ethic. There is no limit to the number of factions that may exist in the Consensus, nor are there limits to the number of factions a particular citizen may form a part of. Factions must be of free entry and exit, and cannot have quotas, payments, or financial accounts tied to their judicial person. However, in order for a faction to be formed, at least 100.000 citizens need to sign up to approve of the creation of said faction.

In order for a bill to reach the Galactic Consensus, it needs to be supported by at least three factions. Bills presented in the Consensus then have thirty days to speak with other factions to discuss the bill and garner support, as well as debate amongst themselves on any edits that need to be made to the bill. For every period of ten days, there are three days of debate, two days of rest, another three days of debate and two days to vote on all bills presented in that time frame. This means that, in total, any bill will have a total of eighteen days of debate in order to discuss the bill with all other citizens.

In the event that a bill is passed in the Galactic Consensus, the Federal Government has five days to communicate it to the sectoral governments and thirty days to present a plan to the Galactic Consensus regarding its implementation. After this, the Galactic Consensus will set a timeframe, depending on the necessities of the bill in question, in order for the Federal Government to implement the plan.

Though there are certain topics for which a citizen must go to the appropriate Federal delegation in their Astral, Stellar or Sectoral Communes in order to vote —such as the elections to Federal Councillor— this is not usually the case for Galactic Consensus votes. In these votes, it is sufficient to connect to an intranet application maintained by the Galactic Consensus for this purpose, sign in using personalised biometrics, and then submit the vote in favour, against, or in abstention to all proposed bills.

Federal Structure.

The entire structure of the varying levels of government in the Republic is organised down to the smallest dot, thanks to the great efficiency of the artificial intelligence systems that help manage the day-to-day administration on the enormous scale of the Republic. The structure is built in such a way that the federal government maintains a degree of control over the rest of its subservient sectors while also allowing these to maintain some autonomy in their own organisation.

The Republic is structured into various levels. At the top is the galactic level, presided over by the Federal Council triumvirate. Major decisions that affect the entirety of the Republic are taken at this level, as well as the organisation for future colonial projects as well as other expansion projects. This is also the level of the Galactic Consensus, the enormous e-democracy parliament in which all Eothasi partake. Although many of the competencies of government are handed down to the governments of the federalised states themselves, the Federal Government in Aurelus can still take direct command if it is deemed necessary.

Below this is the Sectoral Commune. The Republic is broken up into various sectors, each of which corresponds to a particular star cluster. It is the duty of the Sectoral Government to organise the structure of the colonies, local economy, and production of goods as per the needs of the people, the system, and the overall Republic, in the event of a higher directive. Each sectoral government will organise their own budgets and expenditure, but these will be overseen by the Federal Council to ensure the maximum possible efficiency. The Sectoral Commune is presided by the Sectoral Council and the Sectoral Consensus.

Below this level is the Stellar Commune. This is the government of each individual star system, which would govern the totality of orbital habitats and inhabited planets in a system. This governance is more direct than the Sectoral Commune in that they are the ones actually actively organising the production itself: operating machines and drones for mining or agriculture, preparing construction sites for colonial expansion, etc. They are presided by the Stellar Council and the Stellar Consensus.

Below this level is the Astral Commune. This is the government of each individual planet or habitat and is in charge of the more day-to-day organisation of the colonies. This includes providing food at the stores, organising events and entertainment, etc.

At the root of each of these governments is the artificial superintelligences known as the sovoran. The sovoran partake in the organisation of the society, and are arbiters of the governments to ensure that corruption is kept to a minimum and that efficiency is as maximised as possible. These sovoran also take care of the menial administrative tasks of each of the governments they’re coordinated with.

Each Stellar Commune will have one sovoran, which will coordinate the tasks that require its intervention in each system. Apart from governmental tasks with the Stellar Council, it also handles dangerous mining operations, agricultural production on garden worlds and arcologies as well as space habitats, and other menial tasks by remotely operating drones.

Communications.

Communications are organised throughout the entire Republic in a point-to-point fashion, with various layers of communication requiring different platforms and locations throughout sovoran space.

The first level of communication is local, on par with the Astral Commune level of governance. This communication uses standard luminal communication in order to connect the Eothasi amongst themselves. All Eothasi in a station, planet, outpost, moon, etc. are connected amongst themselves for near instant communication and sharing of knowledge, experiences, memories and others. This information is then sent to various superluminal communication relays throughout the station, which send all information to the Stellar Commune’s main station, or other nearby stations, if necessary.

Each star system has one main station, which is usually the largest, most defended and most populated station in the star system. This station handles communications between different stations of the star system, if it is useful, as well as communications incoming and outgoing from the star system. This station is equipped with a tachyon superluminal communication array, which allows for constant (though not instant) communication with the capital of the Sectoral Commune.

The third level of communication is the Sectoral Commune’s concentration. The capital of the Sectoral Commune is usually the first star system occupied by the Republic in a specific star cluster. This means that, as the first system, it will not only handle all communications incoming via tachyon superluminal arrays throughout the cluster, but also all communications incoming and outgoing to the star cluster. In order to do this in the most efficient way, the capital system of the cluster is equipped with a quantum entanglement buoy on the fringes of the system, well-protected by the Eothasi military. From here, communications incoming from the station enter the quantum entanglement communicator and are instantly transferred to the capital of the Republic, in Aurelus. Afterwards, the information is analysed in conjunction with all sovoran and the knowledge, experiences and other information is added to the rest of the collective consciousness. This is the fourth level of communication; Aurelus is, then, a hub of communication for the entirety of the Unified Eothasi Government.

Military.

The military of the UEG is an arm controlled by the Federal Government, which both sends and receives strategic and tactical information from all of the fleets and armies stationed through the Republic. They are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Defence for the protection and both the domestic and foreign interests of the UEG as a whole. It is tasked with ensuring the integrity of the UEG as well as the protection of its citizens and residents from foreign and domestic threats. This does not only include operations against hostile foreign militaries or insurgent groups operating within or outside the Republic, but also reacting in the event of great calamities, such as devastating natural disasters, crippling pandemics or other emergencies that put at risk the safety of the Eothasi citizenship that cannot be handled by standard astral, stellar, sectoral or even other national organisms (such as the Galactic Security Service and its Republic Guard regiment).

The commander in chief of the military is the Federal Council. Furthermore, the Government has an integrated organism dubbed the Chiefs of Staff Directive with which the Federal Council is provided advice in the face of needing military deployments. Despite this fact, individual military operations can and are organised at a sectoral level, needing only the approval of the Chief of Staff Directive in order to move forward.

The Eothasi military is headquartered in the home building of the Ministry of Defence: the Perseus Defence Centre in Valtoria, one of the largest districts of the planet of Aurelus. This, however, is only the location where the Chiefs of Staff Directive work on a regular basis and where coordination between the different branches of the military takes place. However, each branch has a base in accordance with its own field of operation that acts as its “headquarters,” in a manner of speaking.

The Defence Ministry is also in charge of the Republic Guard regiment of the Galactic Security Service (which is, in its entirety, otherwise organised by the Home Office, except during wartime and in extreme necessities).

Because of the vast expanse of space and the need to provide garrisons and support against piracy and other malevolent acts throughout the space of the Republic, military service in the UEG has been established as compulsory, although the manner in which this is carried out is very specific. Individuals can freely enlist at the age of eighteen (or seventeen, in the event that they have express permission from their parents, tutors or guardians and have completed tertiary education) years of age. Mandatory levying, as it is called in the UEG, begins after the end of tertiary education in the event that the individual in question does not have the intention (or otherwise fails to) inscribe into university.

The main difference between enlisting after tertiary education and being levied is the time; enlisted soldiers will undergo Professional Combat Training. This consists of approximately twenty-one weeks, after which soldiers are transferred to Specialised Individual Training, which can last anywhere from ten to forty weeks, depending on the chosen specialisation. Afterwards, they must serve a minimum of three years active service before being able to solicit their first transfer to the reserve forces of the military. Furthermore, there are no restrictions with regards to the location to which they can be deployed; they can be stationed on bases in the Core Systems as well as bases in the frontier territories or even deployed to combat theatres, should the need arise.

In contrast, levied personnel undergo a Basic Combat Training regimen of only twelve weeks, after which they are transferred to Advanced Individual Training for another eight weeks. After their training is complete, they are transferred to active service for one year before being automatically retired (unless otherwise stipulated by the individual in question). They are not allowed to be deployed to any territory other than those deemed safe by the Ministry of Defence.

Compulsory service can be waived in a number of circumstances, the most obvious being the individual in question having some form of physical or medical impediment that disallows their participation in military service. If this is not the case, military service can also be waived if the individual is attending university, as under no circumstances can military service interrupt education. Should the individual in question graduate university and find a job in their respective field (which they have to justify with the appropriate paperwork at the Bureau of Levied Military Service) within six months, they can definitively waive their service. Should they not find a job, they will be immediately required to present themselves to their nearest military recruitment station. Should the individual continue their education and complete a master or doctoral cycle, they can also definitively waive their service if they so request it; should they not, they will be levied, but go through PCT or the specialised military academy of their choosing.

Economy.

Internal Economic Structure.

The economy of the Unified Eothasi Government is a complex machine which, for the most part, relies on the self-sufficiency of each individual star system. Shipping of minerals or other simple manufactured products across different systems is not a common occurrence, due to the cost in terms of fuel that this implies. As such, each individual system has to be able to satisfy, using the various sources at its disposal, the enormous majority of its demand.

However, this does not apply to all products produced within the Unified Eothasi Government. For instance, production of warships, colony ships, or other specialised components do not have to be delegated to each specific system. This will usually be the case for larger sectoral clusters; the sectoral government organises the locations where stations specialised in the production of specific items, such as warships, will be built within their star cluster. In this way, in a specific cluster, there may be two or three systems with shipyards, as opposed to each system having stations dedicated to this purpose.

A perfect example is the system of Eden. Though the system was initially selected for colonial expansion, it was decided that, given the richness of the system’s three asteroid fields, the system would also boast an enormous shipyard hub. The use of these asteroid fields have since made it possible to construct the enormous fleet that the Republic now has, and is home to one of the seventeen hubs for shipyard construction in the Republic and the largest shipyard system, with over thirty five shipyards spread out throughout the system.

Intragalactic Trade.

Culture.

Artificial Superintelligences.

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