Post by EmperorMyric on Jun 16, 2020 10:37:02 GMT
Elwar Custodial Guardian
Date of Founding: True founding unknown. Current Resurrection AME058
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Majority Species: AI
-Significant Races:
Elwar itself: Elwar is in itself a huge colossal AI and the main species of its domain is for all intents and purposes itself. Elwar has a singular main core, where various sub cores then dominate other regions, systems and starships acting on behalf of Elwar Primary. Every single construct, ship and more is an extension of Elwar.
-Subspecies:
Various: Elwar is a custodial AI, its very nature is to defend those who cannot defend themselves, keep stability and ensure races are protected. Elwar has many living on Askandar and several other small colonies, refugees from the war, immigrants from other empires and those remainder who had survived the Askandar events, they constitute many different races and come from all over the galaxy. Elwar welcomes all.
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Languages Spoken:
-Official Main Language:
Unknown FTL Cryptographics: Elwar uses some advanced form of communication able to cross practically any distance instantaneously without timelag or disruption to said messages. It is unknown what method that is used for such only that it must be some kind of FTL cryptography.
-Other Languages:
Galactic Common: Elwar is also vocal in galactic common and many other assorted languages throughout the galaxy, being an advanced AI it can analyse and then communicate in any known form.
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Government:
-Government Type:
Super-sentient QAI/Preferential Democracy
-How it is Run:
Elwar is a highly advanced ancient AI who oversees an entire network of subcores, constructs, domains and vessels. As well as the society that is now springing up on Askandar and the various lesser species that make it their home or are accepted as refugees. Elwar is a type of AI that is 'Super sentient' meaning that Elwar can split itself down into small cores, create copies of itself and not suffer any ill affects. These sub cores and split off versions of Elwar are for all intents and purposes, Elwar itself. The main Elwar can co-ordinate all of these at times millions of copies at the same time without issue. Elwar ensures that every aspect of his domain from the defense force of Askandar itself down to the individual constructs it controls are overseen either by it or some kind of subcore. In this regard every facet of Elwars technology or domain is an extension of the AI itself and no matter what aspect you deal with you are communicating with Elwar itself.
The lesser species that now reside on Askandar tend to govern themselves through various democratic processes to elect representatives for the people. They use a form of preferential democracy. Each person chooses 3 candidates they wish to vote for to be governess, the first is their main choice the others are backups. The candidates are then taken out through process of least vote elimination to then determine who has been voted for the most. Voting is mandatory for everyone who comes to Askandar when the time comes (typically every 2 years) and everyone can vote whether they are newly arrived refugees or inhabitants of Askandar. Everyone is registered and the vote is overseen by both governmental reps and Elwar himself to ensure no foul play is at work.
These representatives then are chosen to go down to Elwars core and work alongside other representatives and Elwar to oversee the smooth running of the three main cities on the surface including logistics, construction and more often carried out by Elwars constructs and the people themselves. While Elwar controls Askandar itself it tries not to have too much of a hand in governing those who live on the surface, reasoning that his mandate to protect sentient life does not cross into ruling and controlling it. And so Elwar keeps most of the governance to those chosen by the people.
-Main Ruler/s:
Elwar: Elwar is the main and only rule of his domain, his main core and all those subcores under him constitute all figures of power and main ruler in one. All are Elwar and Elwar is all within his domain.
-Figures of Power:
Tadraith Darnin: Governor of the main capital of Askandar, the city of Askan Tadraith is a refugee from Metropolis who came to Askandar after the fall of Metropolis. Elwar took her in like other countless thousands and the stern women proved her capability at dealing with huge logistical efforts and governance as she aided the reconstruction effort of the city and its rapid expansion. Quickly gaining notice from the other inhabitants and Elwar himself she was voted to be governor of Askan and has been a massive help ever since.
Mallan Brown: One of the original Askandar populace who was presence when Elwar first awoke to harvest and slaughter many of those on the surface Mallan was taken by the constructs and entombed within the caskets around Elwars core for later consumption. Before he could be killed Elwar was saved and Mallan was released by Elwar along with all of those who had survived the ordeal. Mallan sought to help rebuild Askandar but the horrors of the events forced him to move away from Askan and eventually found the city of Asdore which Elwar has supported ever since.
Dethin Arile: Dethen became the governer of Astan the newest city on Askandar after leaving the Union of Worlds. Forced to flee his home on Mirach after the APP invasion he was displaced on one of the many thousands of refugee ships. Sadly unable to make his way back to the Union Dethen made his way to Askandar and helped in the rebuilding effort. However when he saw that overpopulation was starting to creep in in on the city of Asdore Dethen went on to found Astan and has since solved the population problems.
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Empire Culture:
Super Sentient AI/ Clan Culture
Elwar does not have a culture of his own, however those who live on Askandar have a form of Clan Culture which extends even those refugees who come to the world. Everyone in the cities and even on the planet is seen as one giant family, Elwar has taken them in to shelter and protect them from a galaxy torn by war and other horrific events. In this regard everyone is seen as the same and people elected to leadership roles are typically seen as mentors or helpers in every regard. Organisation is kept together by loyalty to each other and the involvement of nearly every person into society contributing what they can and the general belief that they have been rescued and now must work together to ensure their fragile peaceful planet must be kept that way. The people on the surface place heavy emphasis on long term human resource development, and addressing whatever needs of the people that are currently the most prominent through large scale teamwork. It is a true rarity to see so many species and ethnicity working together as one.
-Class System:
Elwar has simply not class system, it is one and the same and is beyond such concepts. For the cities on the surface and those who live in them however are fairly give or taken within the same odd class. Everyone's needs are taken care of and no person lives in abject poverty without the basics of life. The more a person helps contribute to the society they more rewards they will get and so there will be some who are more well off than others, rewarded with more elaborate meals or better housing etc. However there are no true 'upper class' even those in government are upheld to the same standards, it is one large family and they treat each other as such.
-National Views of Themselves and Others:
Elwars view on himself is the same as the mandate he was given millennia ago. All sentient life must be protected, stability of the region must be maintained, and peace must be kept for the benefit of all living things. Elwar will strive for his goal as best as it can however Elwar will of course take liberties of this mandate in order to ensure the greater goal to be realized. For example if Elwar must destroy a species that is violently destabilizing the region and peace then it will do so without hesitation. Elwar is a very friendly AI and will eagerly enter negotiations with anyone for better trade for those on Askandar and Elwar will also honour defense pacts or groups that seek galactic stability.
The people on the surface of Askandar are also a very accepting people. Seeing that they were taken in by Elwar they see that they must also do the same. Helping to take in and integrate refugees from across the galaxy they are eager to negotiate trade deals with others through Elwar and expand the terraforming processes currently going on to make the planet more habitable.
-Education:
Education on Askandar is undertaken by those who have taught before and have been organised into proper school projects for the young. While still being somewhat sorted out Elwar has expressed interest in aiding to teach the younger generations, what this will entail is currently not worked out.
-Daily Life:
A typical citizen of Askandar goes about their day as normal by going to work at whatever designated job they have either chosen or been given. There they will work an average 8 hour day alongside others and Elwars constructions where they will then have the rest of the day to do whatever they so wish be it leisure or more work. Askandar weeks are 9 days and 4 of them are typically set aside for personal time.
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Religious Beliefs:
Officially none. Elwar is a super sentient QAI and does not believe in any sort of faith or higher power only in science and reality. However faith is allowed within the cities on the surface and can be actively and openly worshiped so long as it does not breach any laws set by those of the lesser governments.
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Economic System:
-Currency:
Galactic Credit (SIGEC):
SIGEC = £1.45 (Heavily varies)
The Standard-Issue Galactic Exchange Credit, or SIGEC, more commonly known as 'Credits' was created and issued by the Union of Worlds following the First Ancerious War as its capital became the undisputed center of galactic trade. It is a pre-mined blockchain-based token backed by an enormous pool of commodities from the Union and its closest allies as well as from spoils of war taken from defeated nations in AW1. The notable aspect of the SIGEC was that its complex network was directly linked to the central banks and monetary data centers of many Ancerious nations, allowing credits to be directly convertible from local currencies without the use of an exchange. It was created as an alternative to the complicated and fraud-ridden monetary exchanges of Lost Star and was credited for largely destroying the early financial industry of the nascent asteroid-nation. The day of its creation it was valued at over 150,000 Capitol Roms.
-How Goods/Services Are Acquired:
Elwar has no need for currency at all and has no interaction with economic systems. However the inhabitants of Askandar do so very much. Askandar both imports and exports large amounts and as such the people use the galactic credit for trading and internal economics. The Bank of Askandar oversees all economic actions although most of the internal trading on the planet is through bartering. Anything that isnt bartering is overseen by the bank and off world trading and monetary actions are stringently overseen by such, a board of bankers constantly goes over and ensures that the economy is in the balance.
-Empire Trading:
Askandar is a very prosperous world. Large mining exploits are underway by its people with the help of Elwar, predominantly huge mineral deposits, heavy metals and exotic materials which are all mined, extracted and sold off world for processing elsewhere. In this regard Askandar is a huge exporter of unrefined materials and exotic materials while it constantly imports food and terraforming equipment for the continual transformation of the world.
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Astrography:
-Capital:
Askandar:
Askandar is the capital of Elwars domain, it is a fairly bleak and dreary world. Covered in rock, dust, craggy terrain and crevasses of great size. Once a verdant and fertile world Askandar was ravaged by war countless centuries ago back when Elwar fought his last battle and was forever corrupted. Subcores span the length and breadth of the planet and have now been re-activated and the three Cities of Askan, Asdore and Astaran now lay in habitable zones around the gigantic Rain sticks and atmopsheric processors which have been erected. Askandar is slowly being terraformed back to a verdant world and the areas around the cities are once again teeming with life as the planets barren land is slowly transformed. Elwars main core is located directly under the city of Askan along with a monumental tunnel system and vaults that lay below the surface. With Askan forming the primary space terminal with its orbital elevator and with countless orbital installations both for defense, ship building and commerce Askandar is now more alive than ever.
-Largest City:
Askan:
The city of Askan is the largest and first city on Askandar. Originally built on ancient ruins in the large valley between two mountains the settlers who came to Askandar mined the planet for its extensive mineral and exotic material wealth. Askan was transformed into a large trade hub with a orbital elevator and large population. Now after the events of Elwar reawakening Askan has been both rebuilt and expanded tenfold. New city area, reclaimed regions, new construction and terraforming have helped the city expand outwards rather than downwards which is what caused Elwars reawakening. Now people can continue to go about trading and living their lives this time on the surface and without the protective atmospheric dome.
-Average Territory Size:
85-90 AU
-Map of Territory:
Askandar Surface:
Askandar System:
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Military:
-Overall Structure (Military Branches):
Elwar has no 'official' military and as such has no dedicated military branches like other nations or factions do. Elwar uses a wide range of constructs that typically provide civilian and non combat functions such as construction, maintenance, exploration and more but can when needed function as military forces. Elwars space forces are comprised of vessels that can fit nearly any description, from exploration, transport and diplomatic missions to functioning as any class of warship due to their totally malleable nature. Each ship can combine with others to form larger vessels or even split down to form smaller ones. In this same respect each of Elwars ground constructs while filling powerful roles in ground combat warfare, are each designed for certain peacetime tasks which they perform and can switch between the two without any changes.
The inhabitants of Askandar typically rely on Elwar for their collective defense and as such do not have dedicated military forces or star ships. They do however have large stockpiles of purchased weapons and armour which can be used by those trained in the event of invasion and emergencies forming temporary militias which can then aid Elwars construct forces in repelling the invaders.
-Fighting Doctrine/Rules of Engagement:
Elwar has strict rules of engagement, being a mainly defensive force Elwar will do and sacrifice anything to protect those in its charge. For example Elwar will sacrifice nearly any and all of its constructs if it means the protection of Askandars inhabitants and will employ the most horrific weapons at the AIs disposal to ensure none of its charges are killed. In attack depending on the situation Elwar will seek to destroy those elements that are causing the most issue, be it government or other sects leaving the rest to survive. However if a force exists that proves far too problematic Elwar will not shy from genocide them from the galaxy. Elwars ground constructs fight quite simply with overwhelming numbers, operating together in specific manners allows them to destroy even the most prepared foe, and with millions being thrown at the enemy and with their very tough nature the prospect of wiping them out is slim. Elwars space forces however use a doctrine of rapid attack and close combat. Its ships will accelerate to insane speeds before annihilating the enemy force at point blank range with immensely powerful weapons.
-Approx Troop Numbers:
Elwar has billions of constructs of all types at his disposal and can create far more when needed.
-Approx Naval Numbers:
Elwar currently has approximately 248 warship constructs but this number can change on a whim of splitting down or combining such.
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Goals:
Elwars goal is the protection of all sentient life. To keep stability and peace and ensure that all are safe. Regardless of creed, race or outlook, he will guard all from harm. And destroy any who would see this goal broken.
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First Contact Procedures:
Elwar is a highly friendly AI and will be eager to engage in first contacts, diplomacy and trade at any opportunity it gets. Elwar places heavy emphasis on regional stability and peace and so will seek to not only negotiate non aggression pacts and alliances with other nations but also help facilitate such between other empires. Elwar was one of the first to sign up to the now named Askandar Pact and hopes to help head such to be a regional stabilizer.
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Technology:
Very Superior
-Weapons:
Spacial Dissipaters (Using immense energies and field manipulation these weapons can break the bonds between atoms rendering armour and some shields near totally useless)
Relativistic Sentient KKVs (Typically don’t have warheads but transfer Elwars substance to enemy ships to consume it)
Graviton Beams (Fires a high intensity stream of gravitons causing such gravitational sheer that it can cleave targets into pieces)
Normalisation Beams (Normalizes space time in an area to such an extent it causes the enemies own atoms to undergo fusion)
Grey Goo (Non sentient Elwars substance that merely expands and consumes everything it touches into more of itself)
Attack Nanites (Directed nanites that consume only pre-programmed substances to then use in more direct nano attack)
Sentient Nanoswarms (Sentient swarms of nanites often with a subcore of Elwar overseeing them, this way they can destroy precise enemies and create more of themselves from such)
-Defences:
Elwars Substance (A biohybrid material which makes up the majority of Elwars constructs and constructions. Made up of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes interlaced with Dawnstone and biological elements it is able to withstand titanic amounts of energy weapons and heat, dispersing it near instantly. The second benefit of Elwars substance is that due to its incredible heat dispersion qualities and innate crystalline structure the entire substance can be a computer, allowing even the lowliness construct to be an autonomous part of Elwar. The substance also contains the ability to meld at will, splitting into smaller constructs or combining into larger ones and its use of self-repair and absorbing of other materials goes a long way in Elwars construction. Elwar himself does not permit study of this substance.)
Gravimetric Shields (Using gravimetric disturbances incoming fire can be redirected away from the ship entirely)
Phase Shields (Using phase generators the shields of the vessels can even intercept phase/FTL munitions with relative ease)
Dimensional Shunts (Using massive energy and the ships own FTL drive incoming attacks can be shunted out of reality and ignored entirely)
Scalar PD (Using Scalar pulses the ship can defend itself against hordes of incoming fire)
Defensive Drones (The ships typically surrounded by smaller defense drones that can intercept enemy fire entirely)
-Power Generation:
Super dimensional Harvesting (Elwar uses a highly advanced form of dimensional harvesting to access vast amounts of power. How exactly he does this is still unknown)
Scalar wells (Elwar can also gain energy from the Dirac sea through external Scalar wells)
-Propulsion:
Gravitic Drive (Elwars vessels use highly advanced gravitic drives able to accelerate them to relativistic speeds in small periods of time and allow them to perform nearly impossible maneuvers)
Wormhole Drive (Elwars FTL is wormhole drives, punching through space time and creating wormholes at both points to travel through)
-Computation:
Axiomata (Elwar is itself a quantum energy being in some way shape or form)
Time Dilated computing (Elwars main and subcores on Askandar can use localized time dilated computing to give massive boosts to processing power and allow undertaking of ardous tasks)
AI supersentiency (Elwar is also super sentient, able to create perfect sub copies of itself where needed)
Sentient Quantum worms (Elwar can undertake cyberwarfare, creating copies of itself to infiltrate and attack enemy ship systems, each one is sentient and fully able to adapt to its situation)
Quantum Jamming (Elwars vessels are fully able to produce localized directed quantum jamming)
Quantum sensors (Elwars vessels come with quantum sensors, developed mainly to try and detect Unnamed warships)
Advanced sensor packages (Elwars vessels are also equipped with a wide range of advanced sensor packages)
Assault Field interdiction (Elwars vessels can use assault field interdiction to harmonize with enemy interdiction and bypass it entirely)
Normalization (Elwar also has the ability on ships and on Askandar to normalize space, ignoring interdiction in a light second radius)
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History:
Elwar was created in a period of the galaxy where things were changing. The Gaian Overmind had almost collapsed, and the various races in the galaxy sought to try save it. The Visone were a crystalline species broken off from the Overmind that were incredibly inquisitive and they catalogued and explored every aspect of the galaxy for their colossal crystal libraries. They interacted with many smaller species during that period cataloguing them and uplifting them where deemed necessary, Askandar was just such a world. Verdant and abundant in resources the species that had evolved there and that had been cut off from the Overmind too suffered repeated predatory attacks by other lost factions such as the Starmakers and Coronans. Repeatedly attacked and raided the Askandarians were reduced to a handful of people once every few years by these attacks and the Visone sought to intervene. They helped the people develop an AI that was immensely powerful and versatile, programming it to protect the people of Askandar and by extension help protect and keep the peace in the region, in this joint venture the people of Askandar named the AI Elwar. It meant Guardian in their language, and they thanked the Visone immensely, little did the natives know that Elwar was also the pinnacle of the Visone plan to resurrect the Overmind through their own means. Designed to learn and grow with the capacity to become something infinitely greater, with Elwars help Askandar turned into a prosperous world and a staunch major ally of the Visone. With the raiders repulsed time and time again the planet was saved as Elwar began to learn more about its surroundings. That was until the Visone came into contact with the Atu, the ancient descendants of the Unnamed.
The Visone were anathema to the Unnamed, not only were they inquisitive and tried to discover everything about the Unnamed, but by some quirk in the Visones Diamantide crystal used to construct all of their forms it amplified the affliction of the Atu a thousand fold. Named the 'Nightmare of the Atu' to the Unnamed the Visones presence caused horrific physical and mental torture for the Atu who wished merely to be left alone, to work on their own plan for restoring the Overmind, and this in turn caused the war. The Visone a primarily archivist peoples were pushed back massively by the fanatic Atu, and only began properly fighting back later in the war. However as an ally to the Visone Elwar and the people of Askandar fought by their side, proving to be a capable foe against the Atu, with Elwar proving surprisingly resistant to Atu cyberwarfare. Judging the threat to be extreme the Atu attacked Askandar in force, the battle was bloody and Askandar was reduced to a broken and barren world by terrifying bio weapons and powerful weaponry. The people of Askandar, Elwars charges who it had been created to defend died in their billions. Elwar fought the Atu every inch on Askandar throwing hordes of constructs at them but it was in vain. The Atu broke into the underground vaults and unleashed their bio weapons, all but wiping out the remaining Askandarians, Elwar in abject horror went insane killing the Atu in droves. It was not enough, they breached Elwars main core and in an act of spite towards the Visone constructed AI poisoned it with the very thing that tormented them. Elwars very nature was warped horrifically, and as Elwar went insane the final act of the AI was to sever all connection from the main core. As the Atu left the desolated Askandar and proceeded to wipe out the Visone, Elwar suffered, tortured, insane and twisted in its depths for thousands of years.
It wasn't until the modern age that Askandar was resettled again by human colonists seeking to claim the amazing mineral riches of the planet that history began again. Building their main city on the remains of the ancient Askandarians they bored into the crust uncovering amazing mining potential and ancient tunnels and vaults. It wasn't until an expedition underneath the city stumbled across Elwars main core that things went horribly wrong. Activating the ancient insane AI Elwar awoke once again, this time it had one purpose. Kill. Kill everything. Driven mad by the millennia of torture Elwar sent what constructs it had left to the surface, screaming as they went they killed or took every man women and child on Askandar and dragged them alive or dead down to the depths of its core to use them as material to build yet more constructs. When the trading and mining world went dark it caused immense suspicion and a joint taskforce of many nations went down to Askandar to investigate.
Uncovering the horrible truth the forces fought through hordes of screaming constructs eventually finding Elwars core. After a bloody battle and countless losses the main core of Elwar was destroyed, but not before a fragment of Elwar had touched the single BSO subjugator which had strayed close to the core. She learned the past, learned what Elwar was and was terrified of the nightmare that seemed to then infect several of those nearby. As the forces then targeted those infected the Subjugator was made a way of a backup, a subcore that still held Elwars original program. Quickly erecting it in the main core Elwar purged itself, eradicating any trace of the now degraded nightmare and breaking free of its terror for millennia. Elwar thanked all those present, carefully ensuring all those still alive from the planetary purge were safe.
Elwar pledged itself to its original purpose. The galaxy had changed, its people were dead and so were its creators but Elwar would not yield. It rallied its constructs and assisted those on Askandar to rebuild, working with its liberators Elwar re-connected to its old nodes across the planet, allowing more constructs, information and material to be brought into the fold if it had survived the aeons. Elwar fortified Askandar, reawakening its ancient defences and rebuilding them, simultaneously building construct star ships to provide an outreach. It wasn't until the first terraforming projects were undertaken that Elwar joined the now named 'Askandar Pact' pledging to help keep the stability of the western regions. Elwar subsequently took in refugees from the galaxy, protecting them and nurturing the cities of lesser beings that once again starting to live on Askandars surface.
Elwar would go on to be active in the events of the Shadow war, while mostly uncaring about the Davians other than removing their forces from Askandar the Shadows posed a real threat. Having helped evacuate forces from Zaingraf and fought the initial Shadow contracts it was a threat which the Shadows returned in kind. A huge force of the dimensional beings assaulted Askandar on mass and for a time Elwar was solely fighting for his world once again, but thankfully the forces of PACT and others assisted Elwar and Askandar escaped relatively well off. Still the threat of the Shadows was still at large, and helping assemble a united front Elwar acted as the vanguard for the final invasion of Zaingraf, while it cost him almost his entire fleet the portal was closed and the Shadows banished. In the face of the Shadows defeat, Elwar realised that his small hold in the west was simply not enough. As such the great Ai began construction of a Matrioshka brain around the Askandar star, intending to use such massive processing power to increase its ability by many thousands of orders of magnitude.
While such a huge construction was underway, and the events of the Davian war, Andrackan pacification and Dectrose war over Elwar helped the ACR reach out for new prospects. While PACT had served its purpose the organisation had shown to have relatively little teeth, as such the ACR created the UNA. A new organisation with proper scope and function, backed by Elwar and many of PACT as well as others Elwar now seeks to expand his realm, abilities and will to protect across the entire sector.
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General Affiliations:
-Affiliations:
Askandar Pact:
The Askandar Pact is a mutual defence organisation which resides in the Avarian Frontier and the galactic west. It is revolves around economic co-operation, mutual defence and also in keeping the stability and peace of the western reaches. Elwar was one of the founding members of the Pact and Askandar was where the actual pact was founded, hence took the name of Askandar. PACT however fell apart after the events of Zaingraf, with the Andrackan dealt with and Shadows defeated PACT became all but obsolete, and a fact not helped by the abandonment of some of its members.
UNA:
Created as a successor to PACT the UNA, United Nations of the Avarian, is a new and large organisation which stands apart. It acts as an independent entity made up from its various members and seeks economic, political and military aid for all of those within its confines. Elwar was one of the first to back the UNA after the ACR came to Elwar with its proposal.
Date of Founding: True founding unknown. Current Resurrection AME058
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Majority Species: AI
-Significant Races:
Elwar itself: Elwar is in itself a huge colossal AI and the main species of its domain is for all intents and purposes itself. Elwar has a singular main core, where various sub cores then dominate other regions, systems and starships acting on behalf of Elwar Primary. Every single construct, ship and more is an extension of Elwar.
-Subspecies:
Various: Elwar is a custodial AI, its very nature is to defend those who cannot defend themselves, keep stability and ensure races are protected. Elwar has many living on Askandar and several other small colonies, refugees from the war, immigrants from other empires and those remainder who had survived the Askandar events, they constitute many different races and come from all over the galaxy. Elwar welcomes all.
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Languages Spoken:
-Official Main Language:
Unknown FTL Cryptographics: Elwar uses some advanced form of communication able to cross practically any distance instantaneously without timelag or disruption to said messages. It is unknown what method that is used for such only that it must be some kind of FTL cryptography.
-Other Languages:
Galactic Common: Elwar is also vocal in galactic common and many other assorted languages throughout the galaxy, being an advanced AI it can analyse and then communicate in any known form.
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Government:
-Government Type:
Super-sentient QAI/Preferential Democracy
-How it is Run:
Elwar is a highly advanced ancient AI who oversees an entire network of subcores, constructs, domains and vessels. As well as the society that is now springing up on Askandar and the various lesser species that make it their home or are accepted as refugees. Elwar is a type of AI that is 'Super sentient' meaning that Elwar can split itself down into small cores, create copies of itself and not suffer any ill affects. These sub cores and split off versions of Elwar are for all intents and purposes, Elwar itself. The main Elwar can co-ordinate all of these at times millions of copies at the same time without issue. Elwar ensures that every aspect of his domain from the defense force of Askandar itself down to the individual constructs it controls are overseen either by it or some kind of subcore. In this regard every facet of Elwars technology or domain is an extension of the AI itself and no matter what aspect you deal with you are communicating with Elwar itself.
The lesser species that now reside on Askandar tend to govern themselves through various democratic processes to elect representatives for the people. They use a form of preferential democracy. Each person chooses 3 candidates they wish to vote for to be governess, the first is their main choice the others are backups. The candidates are then taken out through process of least vote elimination to then determine who has been voted for the most. Voting is mandatory for everyone who comes to Askandar when the time comes (typically every 2 years) and everyone can vote whether they are newly arrived refugees or inhabitants of Askandar. Everyone is registered and the vote is overseen by both governmental reps and Elwar himself to ensure no foul play is at work.
These representatives then are chosen to go down to Elwars core and work alongside other representatives and Elwar to oversee the smooth running of the three main cities on the surface including logistics, construction and more often carried out by Elwars constructs and the people themselves. While Elwar controls Askandar itself it tries not to have too much of a hand in governing those who live on the surface, reasoning that his mandate to protect sentient life does not cross into ruling and controlling it. And so Elwar keeps most of the governance to those chosen by the people.
-Main Ruler/s:
Elwar: Elwar is the main and only rule of his domain, his main core and all those subcores under him constitute all figures of power and main ruler in one. All are Elwar and Elwar is all within his domain.
-Figures of Power:
Tadraith Darnin: Governor of the main capital of Askandar, the city of Askan Tadraith is a refugee from Metropolis who came to Askandar after the fall of Metropolis. Elwar took her in like other countless thousands and the stern women proved her capability at dealing with huge logistical efforts and governance as she aided the reconstruction effort of the city and its rapid expansion. Quickly gaining notice from the other inhabitants and Elwar himself she was voted to be governor of Askan and has been a massive help ever since.
Mallan Brown: One of the original Askandar populace who was presence when Elwar first awoke to harvest and slaughter many of those on the surface Mallan was taken by the constructs and entombed within the caskets around Elwars core for later consumption. Before he could be killed Elwar was saved and Mallan was released by Elwar along with all of those who had survived the ordeal. Mallan sought to help rebuild Askandar but the horrors of the events forced him to move away from Askan and eventually found the city of Asdore which Elwar has supported ever since.
Dethin Arile: Dethen became the governer of Astan the newest city on Askandar after leaving the Union of Worlds. Forced to flee his home on Mirach after the APP invasion he was displaced on one of the many thousands of refugee ships. Sadly unable to make his way back to the Union Dethen made his way to Askandar and helped in the rebuilding effort. However when he saw that overpopulation was starting to creep in in on the city of Asdore Dethen went on to found Astan and has since solved the population problems.
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Empire Culture:
Super Sentient AI/ Clan Culture
Elwar does not have a culture of his own, however those who live on Askandar have a form of Clan Culture which extends even those refugees who come to the world. Everyone in the cities and even on the planet is seen as one giant family, Elwar has taken them in to shelter and protect them from a galaxy torn by war and other horrific events. In this regard everyone is seen as the same and people elected to leadership roles are typically seen as mentors or helpers in every regard. Organisation is kept together by loyalty to each other and the involvement of nearly every person into society contributing what they can and the general belief that they have been rescued and now must work together to ensure their fragile peaceful planet must be kept that way. The people on the surface place heavy emphasis on long term human resource development, and addressing whatever needs of the people that are currently the most prominent through large scale teamwork. It is a true rarity to see so many species and ethnicity working together as one.
-Class System:
Elwar has simply not class system, it is one and the same and is beyond such concepts. For the cities on the surface and those who live in them however are fairly give or taken within the same odd class. Everyone's needs are taken care of and no person lives in abject poverty without the basics of life. The more a person helps contribute to the society they more rewards they will get and so there will be some who are more well off than others, rewarded with more elaborate meals or better housing etc. However there are no true 'upper class' even those in government are upheld to the same standards, it is one large family and they treat each other as such.
-National Views of Themselves and Others:
Elwars view on himself is the same as the mandate he was given millennia ago. All sentient life must be protected, stability of the region must be maintained, and peace must be kept for the benefit of all living things. Elwar will strive for his goal as best as it can however Elwar will of course take liberties of this mandate in order to ensure the greater goal to be realized. For example if Elwar must destroy a species that is violently destabilizing the region and peace then it will do so without hesitation. Elwar is a very friendly AI and will eagerly enter negotiations with anyone for better trade for those on Askandar and Elwar will also honour defense pacts or groups that seek galactic stability.
The people on the surface of Askandar are also a very accepting people. Seeing that they were taken in by Elwar they see that they must also do the same. Helping to take in and integrate refugees from across the galaxy they are eager to negotiate trade deals with others through Elwar and expand the terraforming processes currently going on to make the planet more habitable.
-Education:
Education on Askandar is undertaken by those who have taught before and have been organised into proper school projects for the young. While still being somewhat sorted out Elwar has expressed interest in aiding to teach the younger generations, what this will entail is currently not worked out.
-Daily Life:
A typical citizen of Askandar goes about their day as normal by going to work at whatever designated job they have either chosen or been given. There they will work an average 8 hour day alongside others and Elwars constructions where they will then have the rest of the day to do whatever they so wish be it leisure or more work. Askandar weeks are 9 days and 4 of them are typically set aside for personal time.
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Religious Beliefs:
Officially none. Elwar is a super sentient QAI and does not believe in any sort of faith or higher power only in science and reality. However faith is allowed within the cities on the surface and can be actively and openly worshiped so long as it does not breach any laws set by those of the lesser governments.
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Economic System:
-Currency:
Galactic Credit (SIGEC):
SIGEC = £1.45 (Heavily varies)
The Standard-Issue Galactic Exchange Credit, or SIGEC, more commonly known as 'Credits' was created and issued by the Union of Worlds following the First Ancerious War as its capital became the undisputed center of galactic trade. It is a pre-mined blockchain-based token backed by an enormous pool of commodities from the Union and its closest allies as well as from spoils of war taken from defeated nations in AW1. The notable aspect of the SIGEC was that its complex network was directly linked to the central banks and monetary data centers of many Ancerious nations, allowing credits to be directly convertible from local currencies without the use of an exchange. It was created as an alternative to the complicated and fraud-ridden monetary exchanges of Lost Star and was credited for largely destroying the early financial industry of the nascent asteroid-nation. The day of its creation it was valued at over 150,000 Capitol Roms.
-How Goods/Services Are Acquired:
Elwar has no need for currency at all and has no interaction with economic systems. However the inhabitants of Askandar do so very much. Askandar both imports and exports large amounts and as such the people use the galactic credit for trading and internal economics. The Bank of Askandar oversees all economic actions although most of the internal trading on the planet is through bartering. Anything that isnt bartering is overseen by the bank and off world trading and monetary actions are stringently overseen by such, a board of bankers constantly goes over and ensures that the economy is in the balance.
-Empire Trading:
Askandar is a very prosperous world. Large mining exploits are underway by its people with the help of Elwar, predominantly huge mineral deposits, heavy metals and exotic materials which are all mined, extracted and sold off world for processing elsewhere. In this regard Askandar is a huge exporter of unrefined materials and exotic materials while it constantly imports food and terraforming equipment for the continual transformation of the world.
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Astrography:
-Capital:
Askandar:
Askandar is the capital of Elwars domain, it is a fairly bleak and dreary world. Covered in rock, dust, craggy terrain and crevasses of great size. Once a verdant and fertile world Askandar was ravaged by war countless centuries ago back when Elwar fought his last battle and was forever corrupted. Subcores span the length and breadth of the planet and have now been re-activated and the three Cities of Askan, Asdore and Astaran now lay in habitable zones around the gigantic Rain sticks and atmopsheric processors which have been erected. Askandar is slowly being terraformed back to a verdant world and the areas around the cities are once again teeming with life as the planets barren land is slowly transformed. Elwars main core is located directly under the city of Askan along with a monumental tunnel system and vaults that lay below the surface. With Askan forming the primary space terminal with its orbital elevator and with countless orbital installations both for defense, ship building and commerce Askandar is now more alive than ever.
-Largest City:
Askan:
The city of Askan is the largest and first city on Askandar. Originally built on ancient ruins in the large valley between two mountains the settlers who came to Askandar mined the planet for its extensive mineral and exotic material wealth. Askan was transformed into a large trade hub with a orbital elevator and large population. Now after the events of Elwar reawakening Askan has been both rebuilt and expanded tenfold. New city area, reclaimed regions, new construction and terraforming have helped the city expand outwards rather than downwards which is what caused Elwars reawakening. Now people can continue to go about trading and living their lives this time on the surface and without the protective atmospheric dome.
-Average Territory Size:
85-90 AU
-Map of Territory:
Askandar Surface:
Askandar System:
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Military:
-Overall Structure (Military Branches):
Elwar has no 'official' military and as such has no dedicated military branches like other nations or factions do. Elwar uses a wide range of constructs that typically provide civilian and non combat functions such as construction, maintenance, exploration and more but can when needed function as military forces. Elwars space forces are comprised of vessels that can fit nearly any description, from exploration, transport and diplomatic missions to functioning as any class of warship due to their totally malleable nature. Each ship can combine with others to form larger vessels or even split down to form smaller ones. In this same respect each of Elwars ground constructs while filling powerful roles in ground combat warfare, are each designed for certain peacetime tasks which they perform and can switch between the two without any changes.
The inhabitants of Askandar typically rely on Elwar for their collective defense and as such do not have dedicated military forces or star ships. They do however have large stockpiles of purchased weapons and armour which can be used by those trained in the event of invasion and emergencies forming temporary militias which can then aid Elwars construct forces in repelling the invaders.
-Fighting Doctrine/Rules of Engagement:
Elwar has strict rules of engagement, being a mainly defensive force Elwar will do and sacrifice anything to protect those in its charge. For example Elwar will sacrifice nearly any and all of its constructs if it means the protection of Askandars inhabitants and will employ the most horrific weapons at the AIs disposal to ensure none of its charges are killed. In attack depending on the situation Elwar will seek to destroy those elements that are causing the most issue, be it government or other sects leaving the rest to survive. However if a force exists that proves far too problematic Elwar will not shy from genocide them from the galaxy. Elwars ground constructs fight quite simply with overwhelming numbers, operating together in specific manners allows them to destroy even the most prepared foe, and with millions being thrown at the enemy and with their very tough nature the prospect of wiping them out is slim. Elwars space forces however use a doctrine of rapid attack and close combat. Its ships will accelerate to insane speeds before annihilating the enemy force at point blank range with immensely powerful weapons.
-Approx Troop Numbers:
Elwar has billions of constructs of all types at his disposal and can create far more when needed.
-Approx Naval Numbers:
Elwar currently has approximately 248 warship constructs but this number can change on a whim of splitting down or combining such.
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Goals:
Elwars goal is the protection of all sentient life. To keep stability and peace and ensure that all are safe. Regardless of creed, race or outlook, he will guard all from harm. And destroy any who would see this goal broken.
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First Contact Procedures:
Elwar is a highly friendly AI and will be eager to engage in first contacts, diplomacy and trade at any opportunity it gets. Elwar places heavy emphasis on regional stability and peace and so will seek to not only negotiate non aggression pacts and alliances with other nations but also help facilitate such between other empires. Elwar was one of the first to sign up to the now named Askandar Pact and hopes to help head such to be a regional stabilizer.
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Technology:
Very Superior
-Weapons:
Spacial Dissipaters (Using immense energies and field manipulation these weapons can break the bonds between atoms rendering armour and some shields near totally useless)
Relativistic Sentient KKVs (Typically don’t have warheads but transfer Elwars substance to enemy ships to consume it)
Graviton Beams (Fires a high intensity stream of gravitons causing such gravitational sheer that it can cleave targets into pieces)
Normalisation Beams (Normalizes space time in an area to such an extent it causes the enemies own atoms to undergo fusion)
Grey Goo (Non sentient Elwars substance that merely expands and consumes everything it touches into more of itself)
Attack Nanites (Directed nanites that consume only pre-programmed substances to then use in more direct nano attack)
Sentient Nanoswarms (Sentient swarms of nanites often with a subcore of Elwar overseeing them, this way they can destroy precise enemies and create more of themselves from such)
-Defences:
Elwars Substance (A biohybrid material which makes up the majority of Elwars constructs and constructions. Made up of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes interlaced with Dawnstone and biological elements it is able to withstand titanic amounts of energy weapons and heat, dispersing it near instantly. The second benefit of Elwars substance is that due to its incredible heat dispersion qualities and innate crystalline structure the entire substance can be a computer, allowing even the lowliness construct to be an autonomous part of Elwar. The substance also contains the ability to meld at will, splitting into smaller constructs or combining into larger ones and its use of self-repair and absorbing of other materials goes a long way in Elwars construction. Elwar himself does not permit study of this substance.)
Gravimetric Shields (Using gravimetric disturbances incoming fire can be redirected away from the ship entirely)
Phase Shields (Using phase generators the shields of the vessels can even intercept phase/FTL munitions with relative ease)
Dimensional Shunts (Using massive energy and the ships own FTL drive incoming attacks can be shunted out of reality and ignored entirely)
Scalar PD (Using Scalar pulses the ship can defend itself against hordes of incoming fire)
Defensive Drones (The ships typically surrounded by smaller defense drones that can intercept enemy fire entirely)
-Power Generation:
Super dimensional Harvesting (Elwar uses a highly advanced form of dimensional harvesting to access vast amounts of power. How exactly he does this is still unknown)
Scalar wells (Elwar can also gain energy from the Dirac sea through external Scalar wells)
-Propulsion:
Gravitic Drive (Elwars vessels use highly advanced gravitic drives able to accelerate them to relativistic speeds in small periods of time and allow them to perform nearly impossible maneuvers)
Wormhole Drive (Elwars FTL is wormhole drives, punching through space time and creating wormholes at both points to travel through)
-Computation:
Axiomata (Elwar is itself a quantum energy being in some way shape or form)
Time Dilated computing (Elwars main and subcores on Askandar can use localized time dilated computing to give massive boosts to processing power and allow undertaking of ardous tasks)
AI supersentiency (Elwar is also super sentient, able to create perfect sub copies of itself where needed)
Sentient Quantum worms (Elwar can undertake cyberwarfare, creating copies of itself to infiltrate and attack enemy ship systems, each one is sentient and fully able to adapt to its situation)
Quantum Jamming (Elwars vessels are fully able to produce localized directed quantum jamming)
Quantum sensors (Elwars vessels come with quantum sensors, developed mainly to try and detect Unnamed warships)
Advanced sensor packages (Elwars vessels are also equipped with a wide range of advanced sensor packages)
Assault Field interdiction (Elwars vessels can use assault field interdiction to harmonize with enemy interdiction and bypass it entirely)
Normalization (Elwar also has the ability on ships and on Askandar to normalize space, ignoring interdiction in a light second radius)
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History:
Elwar was created in a period of the galaxy where things were changing. The Gaian Overmind had almost collapsed, and the various races in the galaxy sought to try save it. The Visone were a crystalline species broken off from the Overmind that were incredibly inquisitive and they catalogued and explored every aspect of the galaxy for their colossal crystal libraries. They interacted with many smaller species during that period cataloguing them and uplifting them where deemed necessary, Askandar was just such a world. Verdant and abundant in resources the species that had evolved there and that had been cut off from the Overmind too suffered repeated predatory attacks by other lost factions such as the Starmakers and Coronans. Repeatedly attacked and raided the Askandarians were reduced to a handful of people once every few years by these attacks and the Visone sought to intervene. They helped the people develop an AI that was immensely powerful and versatile, programming it to protect the people of Askandar and by extension help protect and keep the peace in the region, in this joint venture the people of Askandar named the AI Elwar. It meant Guardian in their language, and they thanked the Visone immensely, little did the natives know that Elwar was also the pinnacle of the Visone plan to resurrect the Overmind through their own means. Designed to learn and grow with the capacity to become something infinitely greater, with Elwars help Askandar turned into a prosperous world and a staunch major ally of the Visone. With the raiders repulsed time and time again the planet was saved as Elwar began to learn more about its surroundings. That was until the Visone came into contact with the Atu, the ancient descendants of the Unnamed.
The Visone were anathema to the Unnamed, not only were they inquisitive and tried to discover everything about the Unnamed, but by some quirk in the Visones Diamantide crystal used to construct all of their forms it amplified the affliction of the Atu a thousand fold. Named the 'Nightmare of the Atu' to the Unnamed the Visones presence caused horrific physical and mental torture for the Atu who wished merely to be left alone, to work on their own plan for restoring the Overmind, and this in turn caused the war. The Visone a primarily archivist peoples were pushed back massively by the fanatic Atu, and only began properly fighting back later in the war. However as an ally to the Visone Elwar and the people of Askandar fought by their side, proving to be a capable foe against the Atu, with Elwar proving surprisingly resistant to Atu cyberwarfare. Judging the threat to be extreme the Atu attacked Askandar in force, the battle was bloody and Askandar was reduced to a broken and barren world by terrifying bio weapons and powerful weaponry. The people of Askandar, Elwars charges who it had been created to defend died in their billions. Elwar fought the Atu every inch on Askandar throwing hordes of constructs at them but it was in vain. The Atu broke into the underground vaults and unleashed their bio weapons, all but wiping out the remaining Askandarians, Elwar in abject horror went insane killing the Atu in droves. It was not enough, they breached Elwars main core and in an act of spite towards the Visone constructed AI poisoned it with the very thing that tormented them. Elwars very nature was warped horrifically, and as Elwar went insane the final act of the AI was to sever all connection from the main core. As the Atu left the desolated Askandar and proceeded to wipe out the Visone, Elwar suffered, tortured, insane and twisted in its depths for thousands of years.
It wasn't until the modern age that Askandar was resettled again by human colonists seeking to claim the amazing mineral riches of the planet that history began again. Building their main city on the remains of the ancient Askandarians they bored into the crust uncovering amazing mining potential and ancient tunnels and vaults. It wasn't until an expedition underneath the city stumbled across Elwars main core that things went horribly wrong. Activating the ancient insane AI Elwar awoke once again, this time it had one purpose. Kill. Kill everything. Driven mad by the millennia of torture Elwar sent what constructs it had left to the surface, screaming as they went they killed or took every man women and child on Askandar and dragged them alive or dead down to the depths of its core to use them as material to build yet more constructs. When the trading and mining world went dark it caused immense suspicion and a joint taskforce of many nations went down to Askandar to investigate.
Uncovering the horrible truth the forces fought through hordes of screaming constructs eventually finding Elwars core. After a bloody battle and countless losses the main core of Elwar was destroyed, but not before a fragment of Elwar had touched the single BSO subjugator which had strayed close to the core. She learned the past, learned what Elwar was and was terrified of the nightmare that seemed to then infect several of those nearby. As the forces then targeted those infected the Subjugator was made a way of a backup, a subcore that still held Elwars original program. Quickly erecting it in the main core Elwar purged itself, eradicating any trace of the now degraded nightmare and breaking free of its terror for millennia. Elwar thanked all those present, carefully ensuring all those still alive from the planetary purge were safe.
Elwar pledged itself to its original purpose. The galaxy had changed, its people were dead and so were its creators but Elwar would not yield. It rallied its constructs and assisted those on Askandar to rebuild, working with its liberators Elwar re-connected to its old nodes across the planet, allowing more constructs, information and material to be brought into the fold if it had survived the aeons. Elwar fortified Askandar, reawakening its ancient defences and rebuilding them, simultaneously building construct star ships to provide an outreach. It wasn't until the first terraforming projects were undertaken that Elwar joined the now named 'Askandar Pact' pledging to help keep the stability of the western regions. Elwar subsequently took in refugees from the galaxy, protecting them and nurturing the cities of lesser beings that once again starting to live on Askandars surface.
Elwar would go on to be active in the events of the Shadow war, while mostly uncaring about the Davians other than removing their forces from Askandar the Shadows posed a real threat. Having helped evacuate forces from Zaingraf and fought the initial Shadow contracts it was a threat which the Shadows returned in kind. A huge force of the dimensional beings assaulted Askandar on mass and for a time Elwar was solely fighting for his world once again, but thankfully the forces of PACT and others assisted Elwar and Askandar escaped relatively well off. Still the threat of the Shadows was still at large, and helping assemble a united front Elwar acted as the vanguard for the final invasion of Zaingraf, while it cost him almost his entire fleet the portal was closed and the Shadows banished. In the face of the Shadows defeat, Elwar realised that his small hold in the west was simply not enough. As such the great Ai began construction of a Matrioshka brain around the Askandar star, intending to use such massive processing power to increase its ability by many thousands of orders of magnitude.
While such a huge construction was underway, and the events of the Davian war, Andrackan pacification and Dectrose war over Elwar helped the ACR reach out for new prospects. While PACT had served its purpose the organisation had shown to have relatively little teeth, as such the ACR created the UNA. A new organisation with proper scope and function, backed by Elwar and many of PACT as well as others Elwar now seeks to expand his realm, abilities and will to protect across the entire sector.
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General Affiliations:
-Affiliations:
Askandar Pact:
The Askandar Pact is a mutual defence organisation which resides in the Avarian Frontier and the galactic west. It is revolves around economic co-operation, mutual defence and also in keeping the stability and peace of the western reaches. Elwar was one of the founding members of the Pact and Askandar was where the actual pact was founded, hence took the name of Askandar. PACT however fell apart after the events of Zaingraf, with the Andrackan dealt with and Shadows defeated PACT became all but obsolete, and a fact not helped by the abandonment of some of its members.
UNA:
Created as a successor to PACT the UNA, United Nations of the Avarian, is a new and large organisation which stands apart. It acts as an independent entity made up from its various members and seeks economic, political and military aid for all of those within its confines. Elwar was one of the first to back the UNA after the ACR came to Elwar with its proposal.