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Florathel
Florathel, the largest cohesive region in the stars of Cosmoria, has eons of history from the ancient empires of the Elder Days through to the countless civilizations and bloody wars of modern times burned into its stars. Home to almost fifty modern civilizations and potentially twice that number lying in ruins among its stars, Florathel remains prosperous and tamed among the wilderness of Cosmoria. Resources have always been very plentiful in the reaches of Florathel, and the many nations here take full advantage of this, raising vast megastructures and fleets of ships to explore and colonize the yet-untamed sectors beyond. The United Nations of Florathel, one of the most powerful entities in the modern universe, resides within the pale blue clouds of Florathel, representing an island of comparative calm in the ever-changing political state of Cosmoria.
Nomenclature
The word Florathel comes from the ancient Nalach word for bloom or flower. The earliest form of the Nalach language likely called it something along the lines of Fyoratel, but most data on languages that far back is lost. In other languages, the region is called other things. For example, in the language currently used in the northern portion of the Trezhath, the region is called Kafalgir, meaning "starry road", referencing the appearance of a galactic arm in the sky. In the language of the early industrial Salakela, it was called Marathei, meaning "plume of smoke". This unexpected meaning references the hydrothermal vents plentiful across the seafloor of Saleas.
History
Formation & Life
Florathel came into being alongside the rest of Cosmoria amidst the fires of the first stars less than a billion years after creation itself. The Heart of Providence, forged in the supernova of a star larger than any that exist today, formed the center of the region, gravitationally affecting it greatly and helping influence the disk shape of Cosmoria itself.
Only after this initial burst of creation had exhausted itself could life come into being on various worlds across the stars of Florathel. Over the eons, this life progressed from pond scum and bacteria to fully fledged intelligent life, finally looking up to the stars 10 million years ago.
The Elder Days
Those who gaze to the stars inevitably develop a yearning to reach them. The first to do so was the Norlin species of the desolate world of Dalkor. Perhaps this desire was intensified by a belief that anything was better than their desolate rock, but nonetheless they rose to power at a blinding speed. Their civilization, the Moridian High Command, ruled their entire region region within a thousand years after they left the atmosphere for the first time. They entered a period of peace and prosperity for almost four thousand years, with the population living in comfort and their desolate homeworld transformed into a vast ecumenopolis.
The Moridian High Command was living in prosperity when something went wrong. The impact of an enormous cloud of a bizarre thaumic material known as Marceum released enough radiation to erase any living thing off the face of the region. Thus, the High Command was cruelly reduced to ashes, its tomb now glowing a sickly green almost as a warning to stay away.
Almost two hundred thousand years ago, the warring Amosae clans scattered through the Lareas region of Florathel were united by Jelammu Nann of Lumnas, the location of which is lost to time. With a new sense of unity and purpose, the newly formed Lareas Alliance swiftly expanded outwards from its core, conquering the Psiran at the battle of Psinus Majora not months later. After a couple thousand years, the Lareas Alliance had full control of Florathel, either outright conquering and annexation or simply making some states into puppets.
After the death of Jelammu, he was succeeded by Telkra Nann, who truly believed he could conquer all of Cosmoria. Telkra first sent forces to the nearby sectors of Nyrin and Lowiras. Nyrin was awash with star formation at this time, and so was virtually uninhabited, making it an easy target. It was indeed swiftly conquered, but neighboring Lowiras was a different story. The various states there used bizarre powers known as Dark Psionics, with entire fleets rent to scrap metal by a single man. The Lowiras Campaign proved to be much more expensive than expected, and Telkra died just a month after the capitulation of the last state there to the Alliance.
After the death of Telkra Nann, the officials and generals of the Alliance gathered at Lumnas for a gathering, to elect the next ruler of the Alliance. At this point, two candidates led amongst the possible pool, The first, Gellel Yaknas Velektor, advocated for a time of peace and rebuilding of the Alliance. The other, Morsam Kel Umra, supported a continued expansion and a fulfillment of the “destiny” of the alliance to rule the universe. This dispute prevented a stable leadership in the alliance and granted the nations closest to the alliance some respite.
Gellel Yaknas Velektor ended up being chosen. Now Gellel Nann, he solidified control of the rebellious outer Florathel and Lowiras, and was widely considered to be a progressive leader. He passed several edicts and decrees for a more progressive tax system, preventing the formation of a rich aristocracy that could challenge the elite of Lareas. He also poured huge amounts of resources in expeditions into the Lowiras#Dark Core, which unfortunately came to nothing.
Morsam Kel Umra finally got her chance to try and conquer the universe, and she was very good at it. Under her rule, the Alliance vassalized or conquered most of the universe. Morsam Nann died before the fleet reached Aylathiya from across the core, and the foreboding green claws of Morid were considered pointless to colonize as it had been mostly drained of resources.
After Morsam Nann’s death, general Ncalywan seized power immediately, leading the Lareas fleet to great victories in Aylathiya. That region was never fully integrated into the Alliance, and after Ncalywan the alliance entered a recession, which continued for over a hundred thousand years. By the end, the alliance had true control over little save Herschel Space and Florathel itself.
The Lareas Alliance came to a brutal end soon after this. A secret research project learning about the many planes of Cosmoria discovered Andvaris. Andvaris from afar appeared to be paradise, filled with resources, habitable planets, and the like, tastefully arranged in cool shapes. The scientists of the Telmarai System successfully managed to bore a hole into Andvaris, but contact was abruptly lost with the outpost.
Mere weeks after contact was lost, a vast swarm of remotely piloted self-replicating ships appeared at the edge of the void, unleashing a holocaust across all of Cosmoria. The Swarm's attack rapidly tore through Cosmoria, killing much of the population of the realm, destroying almost all interstellar travelers and leading to the complete collapse of all cohesive government.
The Dark Times & Ectabana
After the fall of large-scale Cosmorian civilization to the swarm of Andvaris, silence reigned between the stars. Many of the ancient species were wiped from existence, and all the great nations were gone. Millennia passed as the remains of technology beyond rare oases of life crumbled to dust under the silent sky. Andvaris continued to patrol interstellar space, pouncing on all who dared to leave their fearful homes. Tiny civilizations rise and fall, but any who rose to the power of the stars were crushed with fearful vengeance. After fifty thousand years, the Twenty-Four Companions, a small crew setting off from the remote interstellar asteroid of Meros, arrived at Telmarai and sacrificed their lives in an attempt to seal the Bore to Andvaris. They were successful, and the robotic swarm deactivated. Several rising civilizations across Cosmoria begun a race for the stars, freed from the shackles of the swarm. The first to reach interstellar space would rule the galaxy.
Unfortunately for everyone else, this first civilization, Ectabana, was formed in the aftermath of a series of civil wars and coups, which produced a totalitarian government set at Veladris (modern day Tarbla). From the Frealee System they expanded, subjugating the surrounding peoples that were a bit too slow to climb out of the atmosphere. Ectabana reigned supreme across Florathel and possibly beyond, taking fairly little effort to tamp down technological development in the outer regions and allowing the Varla colonies very high levels of autonomy.
Ectabana was highly unstable, coming close to collapsing many times over its history from violent internal conflicts among the ruling Varla species, but none of these would prove to be its direct undoing. The last and largest of these conflicts, known to modern historians as Tamandra's War, began when Relis Tamandra's Tholians gathered supporters from the many great houses of Ectabana against the generally unpopular and corrupt ruling House of Sellin. The twin fleets first met in the Varona System, and the war began.
The Tholians and their allies in the outer reaches of Ectabana's territory flew inward to the core with all their forces, leaving subordinate species unsupervised. As the so-called "Veladrans" supporting the House of Sellin fought with the Tholians, another, seemingly small, rebellion began in the reaches of the empire in the modern Andekai System, but with the ruling forces in the core, it went unchecked. The rebellion blossomed across space, overthrowing the meagre forces left behind by the Tholians easily and forming the Alshunaman Empire. Ruling from Alshaza (modern Akradax), the ancestors of the modern Erkamar species, known to historians as the Sakamar, marched across space towards Veladris.
Realizing their predicament, the Tholians and Veladrans stopped fighting and marshaled the last of their forces against the many very angry species of the outer reaches, but they were pushed back toward Veladris time and again in the climactic battles of Varilazk and Karlaia. As the opposing fleets approached the edge of the Frealee System, fighting reached a fever pitch, and the Ectabana united fleet was completely wiped out. Unopposed, the orbital bombardment of Veladris begun, and the existence of Ectabana ended.
Alshunaman Empire
Veladris' destruction ushered in a new age of history, with the rise of the first truly enduring empire since the Lareas Alliance. The Alshunaman Empire forged strong trading links with Aylathiyan nations like the Cosmic Commonwealth of Mages and its successor state, the Oberherr League. Emperor Kymeria I Oyun, first emperor at Alshaza, revolutionized quality of life across the Empire's territory as it expanded across much of Florathel. Unlike most empires, little changed for inhabitants of newly claimed regions, and the connection to the empire's centralized trading network often improved quality of life for new citizens.
Kymeria I lived for almost four thousand years, far beyond the average citizen of the empire, due to her extensive research into thaumic life extension. During this time, she allowed displaced members of second-class species under Ectabana to return to their homeworlds, as well as WIP
Karith the Accursed and the Dyad of Nations
Years of Fire
Yanaris & the Return of Order
Gradual Collapse & The Peony Wars
Rise of the Providence Union
Sororbi Conflicts
Gradual Decline
Second Great Recession
War of the Last Alliance
The Modern Day
Astrography
Currently, Florathel is composed of seven main regions as set by a committee of the United Nations of Florathel, each with its own interesting set of cultures and species.
Florathel Core
The Florathel Core is the innermost region of Florathel, centered on the The Heart of Providence. Countless peoples and civilizations have arisen in the Florathel Core, most notably the Providence Union, which formed at the end of the Peony Wars and would go on to rule the entirety of the region for a time.
Its borders are centered upon the heart of providence and include the following systems:
Frealee Sector
The Frealee Sector is the second officially recognized region of Florathel. Various civilizations have been founded within the borders of the Frealee Sector, with the most notable being the Economic Federation of Saleas, one of the founding members of the United Nations of Florathel. The sector's interstellar space contains a large amount of gas and dust.
The Frealee Sector is home to the following systems:
Elerad Sector
The Elerad Sector is the third region of Florathel and second densest. It is home to many nations, including Marakat, Trezhath, Khela, and more. It is notably home to The Grey Star, an anomalous region of space roughly the size of a K-type star under heavy study by the UNF, located in the territory of Trezhath.
The Elerad Sector is home to the following systems:
Yaztas Sector
The Yaztas Region of Elerad is a large region containing the territory most influenced by the Selagan and Tareza species, weaving a rich history spanning the ages.
Systems within the Yaztas Sector include:
Paleas Sector
The Paleas Sector is controlled by a great many nations, including Corelnas, Rezacrad, Kaurim, Mandras, as well as the systems of the Varkas Tribes. Systems within the Paleas Sector include:
Akradax Sector
The Akradax Sector consists of the territory once claimed by the Akradax Collective, and now contains several nations. Systems within the Akradax Sector include:
Treana Sector
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Myrmidan Sector
The Myrmidan Sector is by far the most dangerous region in Florathel, with its seven systems embroiled in an endless war against the Somnar Hive to prevent it from consuming all of Cosmoria. Once provinces of Jamulsa, these ancient nations have made it their purpose to protect Cosmoria from the insatiable Hive, forever holding it back.
Systems in the Myrmidan Sector include:
Galactic Halo
The Galactic Halo is the sparsest region of Florathel. Its stars are few and far between, often controlled by none. It is the largest region of all of Cosmoria in terms of volume, but its stars are very spread apart with average distances between stars being upwards of tens of thousands of astronomical units. Because of this sparseness, this region is difficult to govern, and the nations here have developed their own strategies for governing this region.
The currently charted systems found in Florathel's section of the Cosmoria halo are:
Konata
Konata is a significant overdensity of stars within the Halo of Cosmoria, filled with aberrant cosmic beasts standing against the forces of nature, devouring reality and leaving behind a void. As such, Konata remains free from the touch of civilization.
Systems in Konata include:
- Rokota (destroyed)
- Neloro
- Oblivion-Guardian
- Ethergate
- Embergate
Velar Sector
THe Velar Sector is almost completely uninhabited, holding the ruins of several ancient civilizations including Pecay-Po and the Sororbi Confederation. The Valme, Solvanus, Teiga, and Sorel systems are sometimes thought to be part of the core of Cosmoria, rather than Florathel proper.
Systems in the Velar Sector include:
Ecology
Natural Flora and Fauna
Florathel as a whole does not really have that much in the way of natural spaceborne ecology. However, some of its regions are absolutely chock-full of it. For example, in the extragalactic gas clouds of Treita II and III the spaceborne ecosystem is in fact the only example of life in those areas, and they've even set up a small civilization. This hasn't reached advanced technology yet, and as such remains uncontacted.
There are some regions of Florathel which have large-scale interstellar ecosystems, but these regions are invariably remote and not well-studied. On the smaller scale, there are plenty of planets which have, for example, void ecologies in their ring systems.
Abiotic Ecosystem
Many of the civilizations in the history of Florathel have sent out various self-replicating probes in an attempt to colonize. Many of these have evolved over the years into inorganic lifeforms. Some of them have evolved from probes so far back in time that their origins are untraceable, and the oldest lines are believed to be as old as the Moridian High Command itself.
Probes launched millions of years ago still persist to this day and even the most robust protections against "mutation" in von Neumann probes usually breaks down over millions of years. As such, the region is filled with tens of billions of species each originating from one model of probe.
Most modern von Neumann probes, unspecialized for competition, end up choked out by the these species. Over billions of years, their endless competition with each other had them evolve to be perfectly suited to space-based combat. Most modern Florathelian military spacecraft are based off of the body plans of these species because of this.
Notable Anomalies
Florathel, at least in part due to its separation from the other regions by zones like the Starless Expanse, is home to many phenomena not found elsewhere.
The Faresae
The Faresae are a group of aberrant navigational anomalies restricted to Florathel. This is their only commonality, and their properties range wildly.
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| Keligan Objects are very rare, scattered through interstellar space. They have a very distinctive green glow, but this is not all. Keligan Objects emit high emounts of a bizarre form of radiation which destabilizes the strong nuclear force when in high enough concentrations, meaning that it is near-impossible to approach. Anything with mass which gets too close will rapidly melt down into quark-gluon soup, which means that very little is known about these stars.
The largest such object known is roughly the size of a major moon, and most are the size of asteroids or smaller. They can cast zones of avoidance ranging from 1000 km for the smallest to a hundred million for the largest, making it very important to catalog these objects. |
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| Veroa Zones are bizarre regions of space found within Florathel, with a total of eleven catalogued in the entire region. Veroa Zones appear to be trapped within a time loop, and are invariably centered upon some sort of catastrophe. The largest such zone is centered upon the star Veroa, from which they take their name. Veroa itself appears to be going supernova, clouds of gas spreading outwards at a decent fraction of the speed of light, until they suddenly reverse course and coalesce back into the star.
Because of their dangerous nature, it is extremely inadvisable to enter the space of a Veroa Zone, and if a craft stays inside too long, it is liable to be trapped in the loop. As such, it is very difficult to glean information about these zones. Some believe that the time loop was placed around the objects at the centers of Veroa Zones by an incredibly powerful civilization trying to prevent some catastrophe, explaining why all Veroa Zones contain such a catastrophe. Proponents of this theory can't find any candidates who would be capable of doing this, however. |
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| Telarro Stars are utterly bizarre. They take the appearance of a concentrated cloud of gas approximately the size of a star, but they have no defined surface. Rather, it seems to rapidly fade to the vacuum of space. Aside from this fact, from afar they appear to be perfectly normal stars.
However, once you get within a certain limit (usually around 500 stellar radii) of a Telarro Star, its gravity appears to massively spike to thousands of times its effect beyond this limit. As such, the region of space within this zone is very diffcult to reach without being sucked into the star itself. Despite this, there are documented planets orbiting within this zone, though they are not inhabited. Telarro Stars are highly variable in luminosity, mass, and most other stellar properties, and are also variable in where the gravitational-increase limit is. In some cases, the ultragravity zone isn't even spherical! Telarro Stars are not really stars, and are scattered through interstellar space. Thus, they must be regularly charted to ensure safe travel between systems. |
Unique Anomalies
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| The Grey Star has an irregular amorphous shape that changes at a comparatively fast rate, causing its brightness to fluctuate with time, hence the name. The Grey Star is not a star or any stellar remnant, despite emitting an amount of light, if only a little, detectable to nearby civilizations. The irregularly fluctuating lightness attracted the attention of various civilizations, which sent missions to the Grey Star to investigate. |
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| Aeternum is by far the oldest and most temporally anomalous object in the universe. Surrounded by a bubble of severely sped up time, it is approximately 101,500 years old, far older than the universe. Because of the time differential between Aeternum's sphere of influence and the rest of the universe, it is almost completely impossible for a spacecraft to enter it, because the first atom could orbit the object billions of times before the next even entered, resulting in any probes sent towards it to be shredded into fundamental particles. |
Other Information
Civilizations
Florathel contains hundreds of different civilizations, filling every star with life. As of the modern day, the political landscape within the region itself is relatively peaceful, though this is certainly not the case for most of the satellites. The United Nations of Florathel is presently the dominant power in Florathel, as many of its member nations are superpowers in their own right.
Species
The population of Florathel is very large and rapidly growing. As such, there are a large number of species located within the borders of Florathel. It is said that thousands of sapient species have come to live in the stars of Florathel, creating many nations (see the Civilizations section) and bringing them forth in intergalactic affairs. A list of the most prominent groups of people of Florathel below:
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Major Worlds
Florathel contains many different major worlds, including industrial hotspots, population centers, and capitals. Others are historically important and are preserved for historical study.
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| Devoro |
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Ektara |
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Myrmidan
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Lowiras
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