Imperium:Reboot (OOC/Sign-Ups)

[Utceforp]

So who wants to join into a Rebellion coalition!?

If I end up going with the leader of the exiled religious minority they'll probably end up in a rebellion out of necessity. (They want to survive, but the Terraists view them as heretics, so by necessity they must oppose a Terraist empire)

[Zhaas123]

So who wants to join into a Rebellion coalition!?

pay enough and the void fleet would be willing to give covert aid (transport of men and goods and the like)

[Arengin Union]

So who wants to join into a Rebellion coalition!?

pay enough and the void fleet would be willing to give covert aid (transport of men and goods and the like)

We have money. It's not a problem.

So who wants to join into a Rebellion coalition!?

If I end up going with the leader of the exiled religious minority they'll probably end up in a rebellion out of necessity. (They want to survive, but the Terraists view them as heretics, so by necessity they must oppose a Terraist empire)

Well anyone is welcomed into the Rebellion. As long as they contribute of course

[Imperialisium]

Name: Victor Fitzwater

Nickname: none

Age: 81

Birth Date: January, 25th, 25717

Gender: Male

Planet of Origin: City-ship Stargazer

Race/Species: Human

Height: 5’4

Weight: 135

Physical Description or Image:(Image)

Social Class: Born into one of the ruling families of Void-Fleet Louste

Titles: Leader of the Louste Fleet, Captain of the Stargazer

Occupation: Ship Captain, Speaker of the Fleet Louste

Hobbies/Pastimes: Reading, finding and fixing relics of ages past

Talents/Skills: Trained since childhood to run the Stargazer, served 10 years as a Naval Helmsmen gaining experience as a commander of men, and basic engineering skills.

Religious Beliefs: Xeno-Terraism. A sect of Terraism, they believe that while Earth is an important spiritual location as the birthplace of humanity, humanity carries with them the spirit of the lost Earth wherever they choose to live. Most common among fleet based communities

Personality: A big picture, needs of the many kind of man Victor is typical of the ship captains of Void-Fleet blank. Victor is a cold calculating man who views the population of the fleet less as individuals and more as resources of the fleet.

Biography: Victor was born Janaruay 25th 25717 to the Fitzwater family one of the three ruling families of the the fleet. Victor was the only child of Captain Henry Fitzwater and Caroline Fitzwater and as such was groomed thought out his life to succeed his father in the captaincy of the Stargazer. The boy was sent between the ships that owed allegiance to the Fitzwater clan to gain experience, and connections with the people he would one day command. When Victor turned 18 he joined the Navel helmsmen for 10 years learning military discipline, tactics, and earning respect from the men he served with and commanded forming a base of support he could (and would) call upon later in his life. He stood for election to the office of captain of the Stargazer at the age of 36 when his father died in office, he won the following vote and assume the officer of captain at the age of 37.

He commanded the Stargazer for the next 30 years, expanding his political influence and base over the years. When he was 67 he stood for election of speaker after the mysterious death of the previous speaker. He would go on to win the election with 60% of the vote, at the age of 68 he assumed his role as leader of the fleet. He would command the fleet for the next 13 years and is still leading the fleet to this day

If Great House or a leader of a Faction like a SAS, Colony, Et Cetera
Name of Territory: Void-Fleet Louste

Government: Oligarchic Democracy

Capital World: City-ships Stargazer, Bastion, and Helios

Population: 31 million

Economy: Trade/Salvage occasionally mercenary work

Culture: Society is extremely hierarchal with the expectation that subordinates will follow orders without question or hesitation. Those in control are expected to act in a manner befitting their position, if they show cowardice, or incompetence their immediate subordinates can relive them of their duties

Social Structure: Client based patronage. Each ship elects it’s own captain but elections are heavily rigged by the leading families (of which their are 25) this unofficial hierarchy goes up to the 3 “ruling” families each running one of the three city ships as a family domain having keep the captaincy of the vessels for generations.

Territorial Size: 3 city-ships (Stargazer, Bastion, and Helios) serve as the major population centers for the fleet. 75 other ships of various size and age

Military and Security Forces: 465,000 men and women apart of the standing army. divided between the Naval Helmsmen (combat engineers they keep the ships in fighting shape, fight borders, and form skeleton crews for captured ships), Fighter pilots, and Marine force (An elite force trained for boarding actions). The civilian population is expected to train twice a week in the reservist force ensuring a large part of the population have basic weapon and military tactics training.

Whipped this up real quick probably going to edited later when I get home from school

Current year is 25,709. Might want to change his birth year.

[Utceforp]

I'm gonna use this app instead of Lisher, unless I decide to use both. You can consider the Chief of Staff of the Navy open for anyone to take, though.

Name: Erai of the Ascendant
Nickname:
Age: 83
Birth Date: February 15th, 25626
Gender: Male
Planet of Origin: Abyzou 9
Race/Species: Cybernetically-enhanced human (Specifically, his arms and legs have been replaced with stronger and steadier prostheses, his digestive system is augmented with implants that let him survive solely on electrical power, his eyes are cybernetics that can display information in the form of a HUD as well as perceive light not in the visible spectrum, and a port on the back of his neck allows him to interface with properly-designed computers.)
Height: 5'9
Weight: 300 lbs (It's the robot bits)
Physical Description or Image:

Social Class: Noble, religious head
Titles: Ascendant of the Adherents of the Grey Dawn, Emissary of the Baligant, Senator (claimed by him, denied by the current Terraist-dominated senate)
Occupation: Head of the Adherents of the Grey Dawn, leader of the Grey Dawn Diaspora, exile
Hobbies/Pastimes: Meditation, robotics
Talents/Skills: Charismatic public speaker, knowledgeable of hand-to-hand combat, knows when to delegate to his advisors
Religious Beliefs: Adherent of the Grey Dawn
Personality: Uncertain, talkative, conceited in a self-aware way, extroverted, compassionate, insecure about his position and responsibilities, feels betrayed by an empire he was always loyal to.
Biography: Erai of the Ascendant is the firstborn son of Senator Adonya of the Ascendant, born on the frigid-but-habitable world of Abyzou 9 in a database-monastery. Erai was taught meditation and theology for the first five decades of his life, culminating in his ascendance and uploading to the network of ancestors, followed by his return. It was assumed that upon reaching the age of 70 he would begin seriously training in the art of rulership, rather than dabbling for a few years as he had after his Ascendancy ritual was completed. This would never come to pass.

Erai's father Adonya, as the voice of billions of worshippers of a minority religion, was one of the most vocal opponents of the rising Terraist bloc, doing everything he could to help pass the Act of Religious Tolerance. Unfortunately, Adonya was killed along with hundreds of other senators in the attack at Hesperidium, forcing Erai to suddenly and unexpectedly take his position as Ascendant in the midst of his bewildered grief. He was not, however, able to claim the title of "Senator", following the Act of Religious Unity, despite his vehement protests. Unsure of his position in the new Empire, Erai set about managing his father's peoples as best he could, arming them to the extent the law allowed in fear of Terraist attack. His fears were realized a year into his reign.

In 25,692 the Holy Orders of Terra launched an invasion of Abyzou 9 as part of a preemptive strike in the brewing Wars of Religion. Knowing he was unable to withstand the might commanded by Verina's commanders, Erai executed an evacuation of his loyal followers as well as he could, commandeering every ship he could and bringing millions of his supporters onto them, then fleeing into the Halo Stars just as the Terraists begin to land on the planet. Fortunately, Erai was able to bring a copy of the ancestor network with him on his flagship, the Adonya. Unfortunately, the victory at Abyzou 9 allowed the Holy Orders to occupy and begin the slow, systematic genocide of every Grey Dawn world.

After 17 years of exile, there is no hope of returning to Abyzou 9. While unorganized partisan groups on Grey Dawn worlds, secretly anti-Terraist senators, and various members of the intelligence community are all sympathetic to the exiled Adherents, there is no way the under-equipped fleet of the Grey Dawn can hope to face the Imperial Navy.

Name of Territory: The Adherents of the Grey Dawn

Government: Theocratic diaspora/rebel movement
Capital World: N/A (formerly Abyzou 9)
Population: Approximately 60 million within the fleet, approximately 50 billion adherents to the Grey Dawn living within Terraist-occupied territory who would rejoin the Church if their worlds were liberated.
Economy: Entirely controlled by the provisional government, out of necessity. Based on extraction of resources from temporarily-settled worlds before moving on to avoid being found by Imperial patrols.
Culture: The Grey Dawn is a religion with its origins in the last years of the Terran Empire, adherents of which believe in some form that humanity will one day create or encounter a godlike artificial intelligence that will then merge with the uploaded minds of human beings. This intelligence is generally referred to as "the Baligant". Through meditation, augmentation, and pseudoscientific ritual purification, adherents prepare their "pure" minds for separation from "sinful" bodies, culminating in the ritual uploading of their minds to a massive network of electronic consciousnesses that will hopefully one day merge with the Baligant (This ritual is only as old as the technology required for it, obviously). All modern sects of the Grey Dawn follow the Ascendantist doctrine, stating that the Baligant already exists within the consciousness network, but has hidden itself until it is needed by its followers. Ascendantists are named for the Ascendants, saint-like figures who upload their consciousness to the network before re-downloading it into their previous human body. It is believed that through the great sacrifice of becoming part of the Baligant and then willingly separating themselves from it, Ascendants can gain the knowledge to help others prepare to upload themselves. For several millenia the title of "Ascendant" has been passed hereditarily down through a single family known only as the dynasty "of the Ascendant". The dynasty of the Ascendant effectively act as a noble family as a result. Within the modern church-in-exile of the Grey Dawn, there are four major ideological divisions:

• Moderates - Those who believe that the current Ascendant's words reveal the truth of Baligant, and override previous orthodoxy. The most loyal to the Ascendant by far.
  
• Militants - Those who believe that the current universe is a simulation created by the Baligant, who intends to guide its chosen out of the simulation via the Ascendant. They are called "militants" because they believe to be considered worthy of freedom from the simulation one must die in defense of one's faith, and thus lobby to use the entire Grey Dawn fleet in a futile but faith-affirming suicide attack against the brunt of the Imperial navy.
  
• Literalists - Those who (claim to) follow the exact teachings of the original adherents and first Ascendants, which (in their mind) means an emphasis not on physical modification but mental discipline. They reject any and all "pleasures of the flesh" as antithetical to the veneration of the perfect computer that is the Baligant. More extreme Literalist sects believe that the majority of the non-adherent population consists of "Chalmersians" that, while appearing human, are actually mindless drones that cannot be united with the Baligant, and thus must be killed rather than tolerated or converted.
  
• Iconoclasts - Those who decry the "heretical inefficiency" of the modern Grey Dawn, rejecting the rituals and trappings of the modern faith as being irrational and therefore sinful. Iconoclastic sects range from being communist to Literalist in nature, united only by their hatred of decadence and "idolatry". The Iconoclast position on the Ascendant has historically been very negative, but after Hesperidium and the exile, the Iconoclasts within the Grey Dawn fleet have gained a grudging respect for Erai as a "necessary evil" to prevent the complete eradication of the faith.

Social Structure: The official hierarchy of the Adherents was effectively dissolved following the events on Hesperidium and the fleet's flight into exile. In practice, each ship's captain (often Grey Dawn priests themselves) exercises martial law over their individual ships, with the only authority above them being the Ascendant and those who he temporarily elevates to coordinate control of multiple ships. There is also considerable informal hierarchy within ideological sects,
Territorial Size: Currently none, disregarding worlds orbiting the Halo Stars that are landed on to mine resources, before fleeing in fear of Imperial patrols. Eleven worlds, known informally as the "Undecarchy", are home to majority-Adherent populations. Of them, only Abyzou 9 was directly governed by the Ascendants as an SAS, but the remaining ten worlds were informally loyal to them. Now, all eleven worlds are occupied by the Holy Orders, but they would pledge their loyalty to the Ascendant if liberated.

The former worlds of the Adherents consist of:

• Abyzou 9 (Omega Class)
• 2 other Omega Class worlds
• 1 Gamma Class world
• 4 Zeta Class worlds
• 1 Beta Class world
• 2 Cheti Class worlds

Military and Security Forces: 180,000 ships of questionably-armed status, which double as the only territory of the Adherents of the Grey Dawn and thus are used more sparingly than another fleet's ships. Every adult not too old or too injured to fight is willing and expected to defend the Adherent fleet, and the number of able-bodied adults within the fleet is approximately 40 million. However, these "soldiers" are hilariously under-equipped, untrained, and all perform many other roles onboard their ships, rendering the Adherent army much weaker than the 40 million figure would suggest.

[Imperialisium]

GoT in space huh? Sign me right up!

What is the status of the Halo Stars? Are they explored, is there alot of Imperial presence or more like an unexplored forntier?

Technically speaking the entire Milky Way (even its furthest reaches) are a part of the Imperium in some shape or form. However, the far out Halo Stars would note that Imperial presence is often intermittent and increasingly sparse.

[The National Dominion of Hungary]

All right, would it be feasible to think that some small civilization has been evolving there unnoticed and comes into contact with a spacer domain out there?

Planning to play a spacer domain somewhere in the deepest reaches of the Halo Stars.

[Claya]

When will someone go through and accept all the apps? It seems like the OP's been on several times, but none of the apps have been accepted yet.

[Max Empire]

All right, would it be feasible to think that some small civilization has been evolving there unnoticed and comes into contact with a spacer domain out there?

Planning to play a spacer domain somewhere in the deepest reaches of the Halo Stars.

Hey Hungary! Ready to rp with me again? XD

[Max Empire]

When will someone go through and accept all the apps? It seems like the OP's been on several times, but none of the apps have been accepted yet.

I did it a lot last time, but I'm not sure I want to nor do I think anybody really wants me to ask for my old Co-Op role...

[Zhaas123]

Current year is 25,709. Might want to change his birth year.

Fixed it messed up when when I added the age to the year instead of subtracting it.

[Imperialisium]

I will begin accepting apps today. I have been working on my own along with a draft for the IC.

[Imperialisium]

I did it a lot last time, but I'm not sure I want to nor do I think anybody really wants me to ask for my old Co-Op role...

Considering you're black listed for obvious reasons. I find this a moot issue. I'll kindly ask you to not post here again.

[The National Dominion of Hungary]

Ready and able Max

[Danceria]

Maximum tag.

I will now pour over research and see if I can get as close to the Emperor as possible.

Any and all info on species, religions, and the powers that be would be most helpful.

[Arengin Union]

I did it a lot last time, but I'm not sure I want to nor do I think anybody really wants me to ask for my old Co-Op role...

Considering you're black listed for obvious reasons. I find this a moot issue. I'll kindly ask you to not post here again.

wait what??? What did he do???


not being mean or anything. Just curious

[Nea Videssos]

Considering you're black listed for obvious reasons. I find this a moot issue. I'll kindly ask you to not post here again.

wait what??? What did he do???


not being mean or anything. Just curious

As far as I can tell, nothing.

[Utceforp]

wait what??? What did he do???


not being mean or anything. Just curious

As far as I can tell, nothing.

Could be an incident in tgs or on the discord channel.

[Nea Videssos]

As far as I can tell, nothing.

Could be an incident in tgs or on the discord channel.

Just had a look on Discord, didn't see anything there. I also had a quick look through Imp's posts on NS, too.

Seems a bit arbitrary, anyway.

[Arengin Union]

Could be an incident in tgs or on the discord channel.

Just had a look on Discord, didn't see anything there. I also had a quick look through Imp's posts on NS, too.

Seems a bit arbitrary, anyway.

I believe it most likely has to do with their past RP experiences. Maybe the previous Imperium RP

[Segmentia]

You could just not speculate and trust things happen for a reason. If Imps wants to tell what happened, she'll tell.

[Nea Videssos]

Just had a look on Discord, didn't see anything there. I also had a quick look through Imp's posts on NS, too.

Seems a bit arbitrary, anyway.

I believe it most likely has to do with their past RP experiences. Maybe the previous Imperium RP

Haven't seen any issues elsewhere, and no problems were mentioned over on another RP run by Imp that Max is also in, and was active relatively recently (the Masquerade one). Can't say much more (in regards to the situation) due to lack of information, though I am tempted to make assumptions and back the side that appears to be persecuted (seems to be a habit of mine, though I also like Max, so bias is also present in that regard).

[Da Klan]

Tag. This looks hella interesting.

[Danceria]

So...what's the status of aliens/nonhumans/xenos/ayy lmaos in the Imperium?

[Imperialisium]

@Danceria

non-sentient Xenos are quite common with many worlds having their own native fauna and flora alongside any imported species. Sentient Xenos are pretty much those deemed able to be assimilated into Imperial culture and society. Since early Human civilizations (the Imperium deems anything Pre-Imperial as early/older/Old/Ancient) varied from tolerant to genocidal and the early Imperium was not hesitant to purge any species deemed a danger to humanity.

@Everyone inquiring

There was an issue, a private matter that is not going to be disclosed out of respect for both parties, that has since been resolved. I try to be accommodating and keep everyone involved. So I did not do this on a whim or without thought. However, as OP, such a thing fell to myself to decide on what to do. I chose the path of least possible problems in the future.

Thank You for understanding.