"Unity"
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[size=85]The Flag of the Collective
OVERVIEW
Demonym: Swarm Client (preferred), Bot (often seen)
Capital World: II, Root System, Halo (alpha)
Population: 12.76 trillion*
Currency: Credit Unit
Motto: Unity
Anthem: Operant Conditioning
Language: Tetrahex Cant (official), Dialectic (Common and Fractuous)
Religion: Church of the Forefathers
*Clients and Administrators without frames.
The Collective of the Source Swarm is a sprawling, decentralized community of star-systems under the command of an impressive and all-consuming bureaucracy known as the Administration. Their peculiar mode of superluminal transportation has lead to their territory being astrologically incongruous, and settlements are scattered across the galaxy both in terms of quadrant (as viewed from "above" the plane of the galaxy's density) and from the halo all the way in toward the core.
The vast majority of citizens of the Collective are the Clients, a race of sapient Artificial Intelligences taken from the same basic stock as the Administrators, though a small minority of foreign workers, immigrants, and diplomats from various organic races lives within the Collective as well. Notoriously xenophobic, the Administration prefers to keep interaction with outside races to a few key systems.
Much of interstellar economy in the Collective is driven by a few factors - expansion and information. While some basic information transfer can be done remotely, the non-linear nature of the Field Effect Drive means that it is often faster and more economical to transport information on physical storage media, especially Clients themselves. The collective traffics heavily in information as they continue to search the galaxy for any remaining sign of their progenitors, the so-called First Race.
CONTENTS
- History
- Timeline
- Root, Home, and the Awakening
- Human First Contact
- The Present Era
- Politics
- The Administration
- Internal Conflict and the Emergent Rogues
- Stars and their Planets
- Stellar Map
- Economy
- Functional Group System
- Mixed Economic Model
- Law & Order
- Military
- Exoatmospheric Forces
- Intratmospheric Forces
- Culture
- Philosophy
- Recreation
- Language
- Sport
- Transport
- Welfare
- International Relations
- Character Roster
- Government Officials
- Military Personnel
- Others
- Question & Answer