Alech Dominion
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The Alech Dominion is a human empire that controls roughly one galaxy with a few tiny outposts in other galaxies. They are a member state of the CoB.
They are currently a fairly minor power in the galactic scheme of things when compared to the civilizations such as the Borealis Confederacy. The Alech Dominion is an offshoot of the Lactean Confederacy. (See History below.)
Location
The Alech Dominion is on the verge of breaking into Kardashev scale level three in the Saliac galaxy (NGC 1313), at 6.6*10^35 watts of power consumption. The Saliac galaxy is highly populated, due to the Dominion having heavily centralized their power there. They have colonies outside the galaxy, but only totaling about 100 million stars. A considerable number, but trivial to the major players of the galaxy. Their home cluster is labelled the Dominion Stars, (RC 3739-108) and it is home to many of their megastructures and gigantic planet-cities. Their home system is called Borodin, and is a trinary system of 2 Red dwarves and an Orange dwarf, but not a simple, clean trinary of three stars orbiting each other at equidistant points. The red dwarves obit with each other in two quasi-circles, and the orange dwarf orbits with the red dwarves in a highly elliptical shape. Their capital and homeworld is the planet Alech, the fourth planet from the star Borodin A, an Orange dwarf.
Culture/Government
The Alech Dominion is a militaristic democracy. However, its’ democratic ideals rarely stretch beyond holding fair elections. To be sure, the Dominion carries out all of its’ voting fairly, but political/ideological freedom is a gray area in the Dominion. It’s about as common for a peaceful protest to be broken up by force as it is for one to go off without a hitch. The Dominion’s initial reasoning for the restriction of some civil liberties such as freedom of speech and travel came from an outside force.
There was a species indigenous to the Saliac galaxy, a hive mind of creatures resembling larger, upright forms of the Terran beetle. They had a firm hold on roughly a third of the galaxy when the Confederacy’s colony fleet, spread across the galaxy and with their intergalactic comms fried because of a serious wormhole fluctuation, arrived in the galaxy. Several of the colony ships happened to land in the Dominion Stars, and the cluster soon became the strongest bastion of human resistance in the Saliac galaxy. (Cont’d in History.) The following long war and isolation caused them to shed some of their more naïve democratic ideals in favor of the more cold and pragmatic strategies they required to survive against a far larger foe. Their society has begun to shift back towards total democracy since they gained control of their galaxy, but restoration of all civil liberties is likely a long while off, both because of deeply entrenched tradition and the fact that the Dominion’s days of bloodshed are likely far from over.
As for the militaristic aspect, they have a very large and volunteer only army with the possibility for conscription left open in case of emergency. They aren’t strong enough to go toe to toe with most intergalactic contenders, but their defensive strategies are among the most advanced and respected in the universe because of their… unique history.
The Head of State of the Dominion is the Marshal. The Marshal is elected every ten years by popular vote, and once elected has a large amount of power over the nation. The country has a Supreme Judiciary that can block the Marshal's orders, and a legislative branch called the Domain Council that makes laws and passes them. The Marshal cannot veto these laws under normal circumstances, though the Judiciary can void them. The Marshal can however appoint commanders to almost all bureaus and agencies in the government, and during times of conflict they have emergency powers that let them enact temporary laws and give them extensive control of the country- in wartime there is little a Marshal cannot do, save stop elections of Judges and Councilors or override the Judiciary.
Population
The population of the Dominion is mostly made up of a few races, those being Humans along with species that survived throughout the Saliac galaxy in spite of the Screk. Immigration is uncommon, as though the nation is prosperous, there are other CoB nations with more citizen freedoms that draw most immigrants with means to move elsewhere.
Humans are the largest race, due to the sheer number of survivors they had compared to the rest.
The Rylon come second, a race that joined peacefully with the Dominion after the Screk fled the galaxy. They had been in hiding in subterranean cities on their homeworld for milennia.
The Magdetum were native to a gas giant in the system of Alech itself, brought into the space age by alliance and later merger with the human colonists.
The Vesu are a species originally native to a rogue planet, living in deep subsurface oceans under miles of ice harder than steel. They joined the galaxy when an exploratory fleet accidentally discovered them when drilling to observe the ocean below the ice.
The Callidee are another exotic species that were discovered on a molten world. The species are extremophiles, able to survive in almost any conditions, and joined the Dominion in exchange for a way off the planet. It is unknown whether they evolved there or were remnants of a forgotten nation.
The Constructs are AI discovered in the remnants of the Astral Diamond cluster. They are subservient to the Dominion. They are highly durable, first designed as warbots, and have since moved into the fields of construction and colonization en masse. The Constructs were left alone on their homeworld for over five thousand years until the Dominion felt they could trust the robots and deal with a possible uprising.
| Human | 24% |
| Rylon | 18% |
| Magdetum | 14% |
| Vesu | 13% |
| Callidee | 12% |
| Constructs | 12% |
| Other | 7% |
History
The original human colony fleet sent to NGC 1313 in 9973 was a decently armed colony fleet sent out by the Lactean Confederacy through a natural wormhole large enough to support fleet travel. Unfortunately, the wormhole turned out to be less stable than Lactean scientists predicted, and it collapsed soon after the fleet entered, frying much of their advanced comms tech and cutting the fleet off from the rest of the nation. In addition, the fleet was scattered across the galaxy, and some of the ships were destroyed in the collapse, or never made it through at all. Worsening matters, the colonists encountered a hostile alien race called the Screk in the Saliac galaxy, and the resulting Screk War persisted for over 3000 years.
Once the war had ended, the Dominion quickly colonized the rest of their galaxy and set to fortifying and industrializing everything. It was only a few years after the war's end that the power requirements for the recreation of intergalactic communications were met, and the Dominion formally reintroduced itself to the Lactean Confederacy.
The Dominion's pseudo democracy and military focus meshed well with the government of the wider confederacy, but they did not rejoin as a member state. One issue was distance- wormhole travel was the only feasible method to travel between the Saliac galaxy and the Milky Way proper at the time, so direct government could not be reestablished. Beyond that, though both societies were militaristic, the Lacteans were much more aggressive, and the Dominion had developed a unique culture and strong sense of independence and national identity in their long exile. The nations became fast friends and allies, but never formally reunited, even when the Dominion reestablished wormhole travel in the late 13000's.
The Dominion was a player in the Split of the Lactean Confederacy, Initially acting only to secure it's own borders against attacks by rogue Lactean armies and Local Axis expeditions. As the war progressed the Dominion sent some forces to aid in the reconstruction of the Milky Way, aiding precursors of the Confederacy of Borealis. They held a galaxy of 6.5 billion stars trying to stabilize an area of over 75 billion stars, so they naturally could not reinstate order alone. They mostly provided military support to their allies. They sent forces to help pacify the rogue Confederate AI Beatrix, liberated frontier worlds from tyrannical monarchs and rogue corporations, and, when the time came, allied with the Diunity of Fornax, UFSS , and more to help solidify the Tenth Lactean Congress and bring the warring in the Milky Way to an end. Nowadays they are a member state of the CoB, and have remained as such since the end of the split, as even under their most aggressive leaders, the Dominion retained the idea that having the CoB to back them would likely save the nation from devastation in the next war.
The Dominion has picked it's battles carefully since surviving the Screk, always wary to fight an enemy they aren't sure they can defeat. Most of their wars have been defensive, and those that were not have mostly been unequivocal steamrolls of weaker powers. Their main diplomatic strategy is flying under the radar, so as not to aggravate the stronger powers around them. Recently however, they have begun to establish colonies and outposts on the fringes of nearby galaxies. Whether or not they realize it, they are opening themselves up to attack with these actions. The real question is why. The politicians and commanders of the Dominion have proven highly competent in the past, so it’s unlikely they don't realize that expanding into nearby galaxies could spike tensions. So what, then, would motivate them to take this risk? Are the leaders of the Dominion not their progenitors' equals in diplomacy, or are they hiding something they believe too powerful for their enemies to resist?