Alkan Intendancy

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Alkan Intendancy

Geographical Info

Area

29 Galaxies

Demographic Info

Population

29 Septillion

Foundational History

Date Created

9901 CE

Development Info

Development Index

0.974

Power

Kardashev Type

3.146

The Alkan Intendancy (usually just called the Intendancy) (Denonym Intendant or less commonly Alkan) is a nation of twenty-nine galaxies 400 Million mega-light-years from the Milky Way. The nation acts as a loose confederacy of species in some cases, and an imperialistic force bent on the conquest of the entire cluster it is in. Depending on which of the largest parties win the election at the time.

Unlike most nations, The provinces of the Intendancy are organized by species rather than by physical location with little exception. This causes the species to usually willingly segregate themselves, causing large swathes of most galaxies to be entirely homogenous. The Intendancy is populated mostly by Ror Units, Werryns, and Øals. Minor species include The Ravis, Esatzans, and Paxans.

The Intendancy as a whole is ruled by a permanent ruler named Unit I, it acts as a president or, more accurately, leader of the parliament. This system has caused the Intendancy to score quite poorly on democracy indexes, as the people can never vote Unit I out of office. Anything short of a violent revolution wouldn't remove Unit I from power.

Historically, this nation has consistently pledged neutrality, and only joined The Intergalactic Council out of necessity during The War of The Ancients in 185,969 CE. This membership proved to be relatively short-lived when the Intendancy declared neutrality regarding The Exhumation, resulting in unusually harsh sanctions and treatment from most other nations (particularly The Commonwealth) It currently has good ties with DELYATU and The Empyrean, two of it's nearest neighbors.

Etymology

"The Alkan Intendancy" is the name of the nation in the standard language. When it was discovered, humans had no way to pronounce any of the languages within the nation. The Ror simply pronounced it as a series of three tones and cords.

The Lead xenogeographer on the team that discovered the civilization was named "Saeri Alko." In human languages, changing the "o" to the "-an" suffix makes it into an adjective, hence, the word "Alkan." The rest fell into place from that. The home galaxy was pronounced similarly so it was called "Alko." The currency was a plural form of a galaxy, so calling them "Alkos" was only natural.

The Word "Intendancy" was made up by the research team. Originally, it was called the "Alkan Republic" but that was misleading. It comes from the English word "Intendancy" which means "A body of Intendants." This word was chosen because the archaic definition of "Intendant" means administrators. Since each species acted like an administrator in their own territory, this fit well.

The "provinces" that the nation is divided up into were originally called "Intendants." However, this caused confusion, so the human word was changed to "states" and then "provinces." They don't function exactly as provinces, but it best approximates how they govern.

Government

The Intendancy is a parliamentary federation. Every race has a degree of self-governance, making it similar to a confederation, but more closely knit as the federal government has to manage the relocation of species discovered within provinces.

Unit I

Unit I is the head of state and government. It is a supercomputer orbiting an unknown star. The star is unknown to protect it's location. This computer was built in the same year as the creation of the Alkan Intendancy. The founders of the Intendancy believed in the concept of Technocracy (rule by the most qualified) and decided to have their nation be ruled by the most qualified individual possible. Hence, a supercomputer.

The Parliament

The Parliament has 5.5 Million members as of this year. Each sapient species gets representation proportional to its population and territory size. Machines are not included unless they strictly operate within a physical form.

The parliament can pass bills to Unit I with half of the vote, and can sign bills into law, while completely ignoring Unit 1, with eighty-five percent of the vote. Right now, it is divided into four major political parties (with about ten minor ones). The Imperial Party, The Rorran Party, The Party of the Veil, The Worker's Party, and the Theocratic Party (these names, of course, are translations.)

Each province gets one representative minimum, and then has a proportional amount of representatives after that. While the exact formula is unknown, it is known that the amount of representatives per person goes down almost exponentially.

Some species, however, are incapable of forming a functional democracy, for those species, they simply have whatever ruling body or entity that governs them also represent them in the Main Parliament and this entity gets voting power based on it's population.

The Imperial Party

This party believes that the Intendancy is the most qualified nation to rule the universe, and therefore should expand at all costs. They also believe that the Intendancy should be forceful in dealing with armed revolutions.

The Party is the result of the intense propaganda that the Intendancy puts into the education system. This party, however, took the patriotic schooling and turned it into radical nationalism. The propaganda has since been toned down. Fortunately, the party does not promote racism.

This party is the largest in Parliament at 38%.

The Party of The Veil

This party is filled with staunch isolationists. They see all of the intergalactic wars and massive empires, and came to the conclusion that the Intendancy had no reason to take part in the carnage. They were strongly against joining the Intergalactic Council and, now that the Exhumation has occurred, are using the opportunity to leave it permanently.

It is the second largest at 23%.

The Rorran Party

The Rorran Party is made up of the majority of the Ror Units in the Parliament. They believe in the protection of the Rorran culture, as well as maintaining the dominance of the Ror Units in the Intendancy. Apart from that, this party is fairly centrist. Not every Ror Unit is a part of this party, most are actually split up into the minor parties previously mentioned.

This makes the party the third largest at 12%.

The Worker's Party

This party is very similar to the Communist party that exists within the CoB. They believe in a redistribution of power and wealth so that the proletariat control the Intendancy. They believe in the dismantling of the Ror and instead what to fragment the Intendancy into thousands of pieces, with each species having ten or so systems. They are fairly liberal as well, they want to allow refugees into the Intendancy, they scorn tradition, and place a high value on maintaining the cultures of the less numerous species in the Intendancy. They also seek the removal of Unit 1 as the head of government, and would rather have an elected official be the head of government.

They make up 11% of the Parliament.

The Theocratic Party

The Theocratic party is a far-right extremist party that upholds a somewhat nationalist belief based in Fuukanism. They want to ban things such as Narcotics, Virtual Reality, make Self Aware Machines not able to vote (as they view them as imitations of real life and not truly self-aware), and they want to establish Fuukanism as the state religion. They also want to advance technology as much as possible as well. Most of the people in this party are refugees or descendants of refugees from The Empyrean.

They make up 7% of the Parliament.

Minor Parties

Below is a list of minor parties and what they believe in.

• The Libertarian Party
  • Typical small government Libertarians. They value capitalism and want to remove hundreds of bureaucracies they view as a waste of money. 4%
• The Cyberocratic Party
  • They want Unit 1 or some other AI to have total control of the Intendancy. 2%
• The Internationalist Party
  • This party believes that the Intergalactic Council should have more power. While more popular in the past, recent events have made them increasingly unpopular. 2%
• The Borealis Party
  • They want to be join the CUEN. They want each species to become a nation-state within it. 1%
• The Pacifistic Party
  • This party wants the Intendancy to never take part in international conflicts. However, they want to maintain trade and diplomatic relations with other nations unlike the Party of the Veil. 0.5%

Provincial Governments

The Alkan Intendancy is composed of 15043 self-aware species. Each species gets a province. As such, the provinces have thousands of enclaves of other provinces within them. Many provinces are almost entirely surrounded by others. A member of one province can travel anywhere in or out of the Intendancy and still be a member of the province. Meaning, that the provinces are not necessarily physical areas, rather they are the citizens themselves.

Many species flee to unclaimed galaxies or clearly define where territory is. When provinces expand, they often kick out smaller civilizations, type 0, I, and early type II civilizations are most prone to this. The Intendant Government usually relocates these species to uninhabited galaxies or uninhabited sections of galaxies until their population is large enough for them to govern themselves. Consequently, most galaxies are split between many species. Every star in the Intendancy is cataloged and clearly marked by each of the provinces.

Provinces can be ran in any way the species desires. The Intendant government only steps in if these rules are broken:

• Genocide
• Provinces declaring war among themselves or to other nations
• Coups
• Attempting to leave the Intendancy
• Issuing and printing a competing currency to the main one
• Failing to notify the government when they discover a species in need of relocating

Other than this, there are few guidelines managing how provinces should be run. Most of them end up behaving like democracies, as this ends up being the most stable, but there are hundreds that aren't. Many ideologies simply aren't conducive to existing as a province in the long term, and many others aren't stable even in the near term. Regardless, there are no restrictions for how provinces are to be set up. Internal politics, local police forces, and sometimes even horrible corruption are ignored at the national level. As long as the province gives the government representatives for the parliament and doesn't violate those rules, the national government couldn't care less.

Expansion Protocol

The Intendant government does not expand itself, rather, it oversees the expansion of the provinces (including the Rorran Province). The government makes sure there are no territory disputes among any of the provinces, relocates dislocated species, and keeps detailed records of territory claims down to the planetary (and sometimes planetoid) detail as to make sure the provinces don't squabble over territory.

When a new species is discovered that wasn't conquered by the Intendant government, it is usually moved to an entirely different galaxy. Among some species this sparks outrage, but among the majority, the idea of getting free technology as well as protection from larger threats is worth it. These species are usually given a dwarf galaxy, or a section of a larger galaxy all to themselves and are given the status of a separate province, responsible for their own expansion from there.

Planets that have native multi-cellular life on them are typically left alone. Bacteria covered worlds, however, are not because they are very common and unique bacteria can just be sent to research facilities instead of needing an entire planet to live on themselves.

A province that commits genocide will be invaded by the Intendant military and all of its government officials will be executed or otherwise opposed. As clean and easy as dropping an asteroid on a planet is, it does not look good to the nations bordering the Intendancy, and is therefore illegal.

Society

The Traditional Flag of the Alkan Intendnacy. Most provinces use this flag in their flags rather than the newer design.

The Alkan Intendancy, while being almost fully democratic, does not value freedom nearly as much as some nations do. While no laws exist restricting travel, associating with other species, or even do business outside of provinces, all of these things ended up becoming highly stigmatized.

This is a product of dividing provinces by species rather than by area. Species ended up never actually interacting with others, therefore causing an underlying xenophobia in the average Intendant citizen. Those that run businesses, politicians, or individuals that don't care about societal pressure often find other species to be just as pleasant to be around as their own kind. This has caused the upper class of the Intendancy to be far less xenophobic than the average citizen, interestingly enough. A consequence of this is the average citizen will usually be hesitant in rising to a higher class, as that would mean having to interact with other species. This means that class mobility is very low, not because of opportunity, but because of social stigma.

Most politicians that run on segregationist or xenophobic policies soon abandon those beliefs by simply constantly interacting with individuals of another species. While is is true that some species are less suited to living in the type of society that exists within the Intendancy, they are often intelligent in other ways.

Most of the few politicians that remain Xenophobic are those within the Rorran Party. The Ror have a comfortable enough majority and widespread presence in the Intendancy to essentially isolate themselves from most interactions with other species.

Territory

The Intendancy controls 4041 galaxies. Below is a list of the notable territories and provinces it controls.

Werryn Union

Province 484

The League Immortal

Seekya

The Vios

The Intendancy is made up of 15043 provinces. Each province represents a unique species. Some of these provinces are as large as 650 Galaxies, others are as small as a star cluster. Either way, they get proportional representation in Parliament, with the minimum number being 1 per division.

Demographics

The Alkan Intendancy is an extremely diverse nation, with over fifty thousand species under its belt. The largest or most notable races are listed here, with many having populations far too small to be significant.

Normally, a nation this size could not have such a massive population (at almost 50% of the CoB) , however, unlike most nations, the Intendancy did not place any restrictions on population growth; even incentivizing it in many cases. Each conquered species was given nicer treatment the more they reproduced. Many provinces reward those that reproduce more with tax exemptions and the like. Provinces get more representation for a larger population, so most provinces are incentivized to incentivize the people.

Ror Units

The Ror Units are the most common race in the Intendancy, making up over 23% of the entire population. In every galaxy the Intendancy controls, there is at least one Rorran settlement. On average, the Ror are far wealthier and more prosperous than the average species in the Intendancy. They are typically described as the "dominant race" and sometimes even the "Master Race" by Rorran Party propaganda.

Werryns

The Werryn make up 22% of the population, making them comparable to even the Ror. They exist in the former galaxies of the Werryn Union, as well as the surrounding galaxies of that area. In ten galaxies, the population is almost 100% Werryn, and they are a significant presence in many galaxies of the Intendancy.

Øal

Øals are one of the most common races in the Intendancy. Making about 15% of the population. They are mostly concentrated in Province 484.

The Vios

The Vios are an exception to most of the rules in the Intendancy. The seven Artificial Intelligences were fighting over the same ten galaxies. The Intendancy annexed all of them and established each of them as Provinces. Bizarrely, there were no biological life forms present in any of the Vios. This means that each one is its own representative in Parliament.

History

Origin

The Ror Units originated on the planet D'Naevium in 150,000 BCE. The planet is located in the Alko Galaxy. They were all originally identical, but as time passed five distinct races formed, each with a slightly different color and size. The races were virtually identical and were named after their colors. Grey, White, Black, Blue, and red where the names of the races (this is a translation, the colors closest to the actual name in the Ror language were filled in.)

Over time, the technology of the Ror advanced. They first made it into space in 5021, and they first landed on another planet in 5099. In 6541, they invented the warp drive, and shortly later discovered wormholes.

Founding

The five races of Ror were still independent nations all the way up until 9901, when they united into the Alkan Intendancy. They joined together in response to detecting faint radio waves from other civilizations in nearby galaxies.

The Alliance only controlled half of the galaxy, with the other half controlled by two other civilizations, all of which were too small to be a threat. The Ror forced the other two into submission very shortly after. In 35201, The Intendancy controlled the entire galaxy and colonization was well underway into nearby galaxies. These galaxies had their fair share of life as well. That meant that The Intendancy would absorb more and more species.

Extra-Galactic Conquest

Shortly after controlling the entire galaxy, The Ror spread to others. They colonized the nearby Alka II galaxy and then the Drio Galaxy. During their conquests, the Intendancy never came across another strong nation until 18001.

The Alko-Werryn War

The Intendancy came across the terraforming Von Neumann Probes that the Werryn Union had unwittingly destroyed many planets with. This forced the Intendancy to fight back against the legions of probes until they could get to the home galaxy of the Werryn Union, the Alstol Galaxy.

This was not so much a war as a warning to the Werryn Union to make the probes less genocidal. After the war, peace was maintained for another 500 years before the Intendancy annexed the Werryn Union in 13509. The people of the Werryn Union were actually very fond of the idea of joining a much larger empire for safety.

The Golden Age

From 18000-100000 the Intendancy encountered no other powerful civilizations and expanded hundreds of times their previous size. By 100000, the Intendancy controlled 2100 galaxies and internal strife was at a minimum. This peace and prosperity slowly came to an end as the conquered species began rebelling.

The Age of Rebellion

For over 5000 years after the golden age, thousand of races rebelled, causing all expansion to halt. The Ror had to put down rebellion after rebellion, killing and imprisoning quadrillions of individuals. This went on until the Parliament was founded in 149991. This calmed most of the rebels, as their main goal was to have a say in how things were ran, rather than being entirely controlled by the Ror.

The WOTA

All of the battles were failures because the main invasion force demanded almost ninety percent of resources, making the smaller fronts compete for the remaining budget. This particular front got more money than some of the other fronts, however, it still wasn't enough to counter the large Intendant fleets.

The Intendancy just wasn't large enough to be worth whole number percentages of the Alliance's budget. The Alliance had to deal with much larger enemies only a few mega-light years away, making any effort to attack the Intendancy meaningless.

The Treaty of Jewel

For the Intendancy, the war ended a century early, when a treaty was signed to dump all of the deserters into the Jewel Galaxy. the War of the Ancients, lasted many millennia, and in that time, billions ended up deserting from the Alliance (likewise with all sides, really). The Alliance didn't want to execute them all, and the Intendancy was looking for a way to replace some of the Species it lost. Fighting had died down in the latter years of the war, and the Alliance was desperate for a way to humanely dispose of the deserters and POW's they've accumulated (because executing deserters would cause more instability in the Alliance).

The two sides signed the Treaty of Jewel in 186394. The Alliance would use the Jewel Galaxy as a place to deport all of the deserters and prisoners of war they had, and in return, they would leave the Intendancy alone. Many intelligent species were entirely destroyed except for the prisoners of war in the Jewel Galaxy, so they just remained there as they had nothing to go back to.

Losses

Even though the Intendancy managed to defend the Alko Galaxy, the rest of the empire was still badly hit. In all, over two hundred species were completely wiped out, 500 critically endangered, and 100 had their populations halved. This added up to over 500 Quadrillion civilian casualties.

Post War Reconstruction

The Intendancy was allowed to keep every galaxy they liberated, greatly expanding the size. They incorporated over one thousand new species into the Intedancy. While this could be considered a good thing, this actually put a huge strain onto the economy of the Intendancy. A huge economic depression occurred, the economy was worse than it was even during the Age of Rebellion.

At this point, The Intendancy also had to help rebuild the The Empyrean.

Reconstruction

The Intendancy took almost a millennia to rebuild everything lost. The population wouldn't recover until 188461, almost two millennia after the war ended.