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The Lareas Alliance was indisputably the grandest civilization to have ever existed. Its splendor was so great that it took centuries of debate and study to even understand it. With Larean artifacts found in over seventy five percent of star systems, classical archeologists outright rejected the idea they all came from one empire. With the discovery that Eos was, in fact, a product of the Lareas Alliance, the sheer scale of that structure convinced begrudging archeologists of such a scale. With modern societies struggling to maintain control of a single star system, to control nearly two hundred is a baffling feat.

Scientists believe that Psinus Majora, on the edge of Cosmoria, was a major Larean world, and it is usually cited as their home world. However, this is not certain. The first known evidence of their existence is from roughly 200,000 years ago, and they fell ~9,000 years later to The Andvaris Swarm. Perhaps more terrifying than the realization that such a mighty empire could exist was that there was something that could destroy that empire. Such was the discovery of the Andvaris Swarm which, despite existing until ten thousand years ago, was equally controversial amongst early modern scientists.

The vast majority of information on the Lareas Alliance comes from the archives of other ancient civilizations such as Ectabana and the Alshunaman Empire, whose exploration of Lareas incidentally destroyed many artifacts. These paint the picture of a nation of nomadic warlords from a star off the rim of Cosmoria who unified after a series of civil wars, and then rapidly spread across all of Cosmoria.

Lareas' surviving artifacts function as though they were still new. The Loresavt, of which as many as one hundred billion exist, diligently maintain these structures. In a sense, Lareas still exists and is still a major force in history. Administrator Holos, Eos, Limehold, Delyatu, Aubade, Lykare, and Taek represent their most impressive remnants. Doubtless more worlds and artifacts are lying in wait to be discovered.

History

Almost two hundred thousand years ago, the warring Amosae clans scattered across the Talusi System were unified by Jelammu Nann. 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. The Psiran were an intelligent species now rendered extinct. 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 end of Jelammu's impressively long-lived dynasty, it was succeeded by Telkra Nann, who strived to conquer all Cosmoria. Telkra forces went to every system they could. Many star systems, previously uninhabited, became host to civilization to the first time as Telkra's forces moved in. Nearly all Florathel was indeed swiftly conquered, but the nearby 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 end of Telkra Nann, the officials and generals of the Alliance gathered at an unknown plant called Lumnas in the documents. At this point, two candidates led amongst the possible pool for replacements, 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 forming the Gellel Nann dynasty, he solidified control of the rebellious outer Florathel arm 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 Dark Core, which unfortunately came to nothing. This dynasty was short lived by Larean standards, lasting only half a century.

After a coup, 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 the vast majority of the core and Lacrimosa. Shed died before the fleet reached most of Aylathiya from across the core, but the Morsam Nann Dynasty conquered it in her name.

After Morsam Nann’s end, 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 ceded a great deal of power to its "vassals" of Tech Egealta and Hyperion.

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, resources to fuel their factories and reassert its dominance over its vassals and the ever-unconquerable Lowiras. The scientists of Telmarai successfully managed to bore a hole into Andvaris, but contact was abruptly lost with the outpost.

Mere weeks after contact was lost, an Andvaris Swarm appeared in Florathel, unleashing a holocaust across all of Cosmoria. As many as a quarter of a quadrillion died in initial attacks. The collapse of the Lareas core saw its vassal of Hyperion fight against the swarm alone. Although Hyperion held out for centuries, its fall marked the end of all Larean civilization, which at the time was essentially all civilization.

Archaeology

Lykare, a host of many thousands of unique artifacts from this era.

At the beginning of the modern age, nearly all information about Lareas came from records from second-hand sources. Those ancient scientists, with far more lax standards for reporting, made outrageous claims about Lareas that many researchers called mythology. That was, until Administrator Holos, then co-ruler of the Triumvirate Civilization, claimed to be a Larean artifact. They divulged a great deal of information about their technology. It turned out Larean technology was fundamentally based on gears and rotation, having never developed anything resembling circuits.

This revelation made identifying Larean technology far easier, but also shed doubt on its validity. Artifacts featuring gears were wide spread and, the so-called microscopic gears, could only be found in a small number of them. Revelations about the Andvaris Swarm pointed to a universal layer of destruction in every fossil record. A thin layer, only a millimeter thick in most places, was uncharacteristically rich in copper, lead, and rare precious metals. This was the substance Resolute Bronze, the basis of all modern Larean artifacts.

A well-known relic of their existence was likely the "Solar Swarm" surrounding the star Lykare. Too heavy to be suspended by the star's radiation and moving too slowly to be of use, the Solar Swarm was thought to be worthless. It turns out that, by taking advantage of radiation pressure, the components of the swarm could spin incredibly quickly. How they transfer power remains mystery, but these spinning structures create large magnetic fields that keep them aloft in the star's own field.

They would also create the planet Deraland, located in intergalactic space near Iriat, and its strange appearance, like a black hole with land. Very little is known about this structure, and it seems to erase any craft approaching it from existence.

The Swarm

Much of the surviving written material from the Alliance's time refers to an event or species or nation or something known as the Swarm. This swarm seems to have been controlled by an incredibly powerful consciousness and composed of countless self-replicating probes. There are still many dead specimens of these probes floating in deep space.

The Lareas Alliance was prospering, having conquered the vast majority of Cosmoria and experimenting with crossing the border between universes. One such experiment, taking place at the hidden moon of Telmarai, actually succeeded, though they didn't live long enough to realize. After punching the hole into the previously unknown plane of Andvaris, life support came offline and the airlocks were opened on the station, killing everyone in minutes. The consciousness which ruled that plane then took control of the manufacturing facilities, creating vast numbers of highly maneuverable self-replicating ships. These ships were then sent out among the stars of the cluster, wiping out the entire population before a signal could reach across the void to Florathel.

This consciousness, which took the name of its plane, sent its Swarm across Cosmoria, destroying everything in its path. The Swarm had conquered Florathel and destroyed the center of power of the Lareas Alliance by the time a last-ditch effort sent three ships to Telmarai. They almost lost to the Swarm before sealing the fracture to Andvaris, blocking Andvaris' control over the Swarm. The swarm fell silent across Cosmoria in an instant, ending the struggle.

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+The '''Lareas Alliance''' was indisputably the grandest civilization to have ever existed. Its splendor was so great that it took centuries of debate and study to even understand it. With Larean artifacts found in over seventy five percent of star systems, classical archeologists outright rejected the idea they all came from one empire. With the discovery that [[Eos (Cosmoria)|Eos]] was, in fact, a product of the Lareas Alliance, the sheer scale of that structure convinced begrudging archeologists of such a scale. With modern societies struggling to maintain control of a single star system, to control nearly two hundred is a baffling feat.
-The Lareas Alliance is the name given by modern nations for the oldest known civilization in the entire local universe, which was first created in the [[Lareas Galaxy]]. It is unknown which planet they were founded on. The first known evidence of their existence is from roughly 7,128,320,000 years ago, which means that almost no artifacts remain from the civilization. Because of their antiquity, they stand as the most mysterious species in the Florathel Galaxy region.
+Scientists believe that [[Psinus Majora]], on the edge of Cosmoria, was a major Larean world, and it is usually cited as their home world. However, this is not certain. The first known evidence of their existence is from roughly 200,000 years ago, and they fell ~9,000 years later to [[Andvaris Swarm|The Andvaris Swarm]]. Perhaps more terrifying than the realization that such a mighty empire could exist was that there was something that could destroy that empire. Such was the discovery of the Andvaris Swarm which, despite existing until ten thousand years ago, was equally controversial amongst early modern scientists.
-== Overview ==
-Most scholarly discussions of the Lareas Alliance often rapidly tend towards vagueness and a frustrating lack of solid evidence. There isn't much evidence that they were ever even there, but what little evidence there is points to some sort of civilization spanning almost the entirety of the ancient Telusian Cluster, with towering cities and heavily colonized planets dating to over seven billion years ago.
+The vast majority of information on the Lareas Alliance comes from the archives of other ancient civilizations such as [[Ectabana]] and the [[Alshunaman Empire]], whose exploration of Lareas incidentally destroyed many artifacts. These paint the picture of a nation of nomadic warlords from a star off the rim of Cosmoria who unified after a series of civil wars, and then rapidly spread across all of Cosmoria.
-Absolutely nothing is known about the multitude of species which inhabited it. The different species are often portrayed as different colored clouds of smoke as a placeholder until we find ''literally any information about what they look like''. They have become the figures of folkore in countless advanced civilizations due to their seemingly impossible megastructures (among other things) and, and would continue to be treated as such even into the present day thanks to their extremely sudden disappearance.
+Lareas' surviving artifacts function as though they were still new. The [[Loresavt]], of which as many as one hundred billion exist, diligently maintain these structures. In a sense, Lareas still exists and is still a major force in history. [[Administrator Holos]], [[Eos (Cosmoria)|Eos]], [[Limehold]], [[Delyatu]], [[Aubade]], [[Lykare]], and [[Taek]] represent their most impressive remnants. Doubtless more worlds and artifacts are lying in wait to be discovered.
-The first nation to discover evidence of the Lareas Alliance that we know of is the [[Providence Union]], a nation which colonized the entirety of the Florathel Galaxy and its nearby satellites, a little over two billion years ago. Once evidence was found, many of the citizens were likely fascinated by them, and how exceedingly powerful a civilization they were, and how they seemingly completely vanished into the wind.
+== History ==
-The most well-known relic of their existence was likely the "Impossible Dyson Swarm" surrounding the star Lykare, as the dyson swarm should collapse in minutes, but it has been standing since at least the fall of the Lareas Alliance itself.
+Almost two hundred thousand years ago, the warring '''Amosae clans''' scattered across the [[Talusi]] System were unified by '''Jelammu Nann'''. 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. The Psiran were an intelligent species now rendered extinct. 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 end of Jelammu's impressively long-lived dynasty, it was succeeded by '''Telkra Nann''', who strived to conquer all Cosmoria. Telkra forces went to every system they could. Many star systems, previously uninhabited, became host to civilization to the first time as Telkra's forces moved in. Nearly all Florathel was indeed swiftly conquered, but the nearby [[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.
-They would also create the planet [[Deralend]], located in intergalactic space near the [[Avana Galaxy]], and its strange appearance, like a black hole with land. Very little is known about this structure, and it seems to erase any craft approaching it from existence.
+After the end of Telkra Nann, the officials and generals of the Alliance gathered at an unknown plant called '''Lumnas''' in the documents. At this point, two candidates led amongst the possible pool for replacements, 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.
-Much later, the existence of the Lareas Alliance was discovered by the [[United Nations of the Florathel Galaxy]]. Though many of their relics would be lost in the calamitous events of the Fall of the Providence Union, some remained, such as Deralend and the "Stellar Rosette", a system in which eleven almost identical red dwarf stars orbit each other in a ring, and have several habitation megastructures surrounding it.
+'''Gellel Yaknas Velektor''' ended up being chosen. Now forming the '''Gellel Nann''' dynasty, he solidified control of the rebellious outer Florathel arm 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|Dark Core]], which unfortunately came to nothing. This dynasty was short lived by Larean standards, lasting only half a century.
-Recent studies on the extremely enigmatic intergalactic globular cluster [[Telmarai]] shows that it was involved with interactions with the Lareas Alliance, which ended with the enigmatic civilisation propelling Telmarai to a significant speed of light out of the [[Florathel Galaxy]] because of large-scale conflicts. There is evidence for this in the form of large dust clouds containing explosive, hypergolic and radioactive material near the site where Telmarai originally left the galaxy.
+After a coup, '''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 the vast majority of the core and [[Lacrimosa]]. Shed died before the fleet reached most of [[Aylathiya]] from across the core, but the '''Morsam Nann''' Dynasty conquered it in her name.
+After Morsam Nann’s end, 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 ceded a great deal of power to its "vassals" of [[Tech Egealta]] and [[Hyperion]].
+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, resources to fuel their factories and reassert its dominance over its vassals and the ever-unconquerable Lowiras. The scientists of [[Telmarai]] successfully managed to bore a hole into Andvaris, but contact was abruptly lost with the outpost.
+Mere weeks after contact was lost, an Andvaris Swarm appeared in Florathel, unleashing a holocaust across all of [[Cosmoria]]. As many as a quarter of a quadrillion died in initial attacks. The collapse of the Lareas core saw its vassal of Hyperion fight against the swarm alone. Although Hyperion held out for centuries, its fall marked the end of all Larean civilization, which at the time was essentially all civilization.
 == Archaeology ==
+[[File:Lykare.png|150px|thumb|Lykare, a host of many thousands of unique artifacts from this era.]]
-[[File:Likoro Spheres.png|150px|thumb|The Kiloro Spheres, one of the oddest structures known.]]One of the most archaeologically interesting sites related to the Lareas Alliance is the planet of [[Psinus Majora]]. Psinus Majora is located in territory affected by the [[Forever War]], and as such is not studied anywhere near as much as it deserves to be. Aside from this, there is a bizarre megastructure located just outside of the territory of the [[Cnara-Frealee Federation]] known as the Kiloro Spheres. The Kiloro spheres appear to be completely solid with no active support structures, and seemingly no purpose either. It is a mystery why the things haven't collapsed billions of years ago.
+At the beginning of the modern age, nearly all information about Lareas came from records from second-hand sources. Those ancient scientists, with far more lax standards for reporting, made outrageous claims about Lareas that many researchers called mythology. That was, until Administrator Holos, then co-ruler of the [[Triumvirate Civilization]], claimed to be a Larean artifact. They divulged a great deal of information about their technology. It turned out Larean technology was fundamentally based on gears and rotation, having never developed anything resembling circuits.
+This revelation made identifying Larean technology far easier, but also shed doubt on its validity. Artifacts featuring gears were wide spread and, the so-called microscopic gears, could only be found in a small number of them. Revelations about the Andvaris Swarm pointed to a universal layer of destruction in every fossil record. A thin layer, only a millimeter thick in most places, was uncharacteristically rich in copper, lead, and rare precious metals. This was the substance [[Resolute Bronze]], the basis of all modern Larean artifacts.
+A well-known relic of their existence was likely the "Solar Swarm" surrounding the star [[Lykare]]. Too heavy to be suspended by the star's radiation and moving too slowly to be of use, the Solar Swarm was thought to be worthless. It turns out that, by taking advantage of radiation pressure, the components of the swarm could spin incredibly quickly. How they transfer power remains mystery, but these spinning structures create large magnetic fields that keep them aloft in the star's own field.
+They would also create the planet [[Deraland]], located in intergalactic space near [[Iriat]], and its strange appearance, like a black hole with land. Very little is known about this structure, and it seems to erase any craft approaching it from existence.
+== The Swarm ==
+Much of the surviving written material from the Alliance's time refers to an event or species or nation or something known as the Swarm. This swarm seems to have been controlled by an incredibly powerful consciousness and composed of countless self-replicating probes. There are still many dead specimens of these probes floating in deep space.
+The Lareas Alliance was prospering, having conquered the vast majority of Cosmoria and experimenting with crossing the border between universes. One such experiment, taking place at the hidden moon of [[Telmarai]], actually succeeded, though they didn't live long enough to realize. After punching the hole into the previously unknown plane of [[Andvaris]], life support came offline and the airlocks were opened on the station, killing everyone in minutes. The consciousness which ruled that plane then took control of the manufacturing facilities, creating vast numbers of highly maneuverable self-replicating ships. These ships were then sent out among the stars of the cluster, wiping out the entire population before a signal could reach across the void to Florathel.
-===The Monolynths===
-Monolynths are strange megastructures that populate the planets of the universe. Created by the Lareas Alliance, they come in all shapes and sizes, with terrain of all types, fitting for species across the galaxy. Interestingly, they appear in orbit around only gas Giants, such as [[PInoV]], [[Jolies]], [[Belumak]], [[Patriot Prime]], [[Sarelle]], and [[Kuzar Secondus]].
+This consciousness, which took the name of its plane, sent its Swarm across Cosmoria, destroying everything in its path. The Swarm had conquered Florathel and destroyed the center of power of the Lareas Alliance by the time a last-ditch effort sent three ships to Telmarai. They almost lost to the Swarm before sealing the fracture to Andvaris, blocking Andvaris' control over the Swarm. The swarm fell silent across Cosmoria in an instant, ending the struggle.
-Monolynths are seen across all galaxies that had native species at the time of the Alliance. Scientists believe that they are waypoints of some kind for certain species, since certain Monolynths are only able to be inhabited by certain species.
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