Polities
Miranda Spaceport, Fairbridge Demapoly, Orion Federation
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Polities Miranda Spaceport, Fairbridge Demapoly, Orion Federation |
Polities are sovereign states, the building blocks of the political landscape whether locally or interstellar. Polities range greatly in size, nature, government, and economic, military, or memetic influence. The biggest polities are merged into or subsumed under the Sephirotics, and these are ruled by high toposophic Archailects; either by archetype-expressing nodes of single post-transapient ascended god, or directly by a slightly lower toposophic mind, or by a cluster of such gods. Other polities however are autonomous, and even when they are in the proximity of a god, or orientated around the worship of that god, they still retain their principles of independence. There are also locally independent but heavily archailect-supervised regions such as Caretaker worlds, where rule is by direct archaicracy and there is no sapient or postsapient supervision.
Alexandria Clusters - reclusive metapolity consisting of small dysons around several stars of Harvard Classification type S0 to M0 and other habitats throughout terragen space.
Archosaurian Empire - new emerging superpower based around the ArchSaur Entity
Arion Ascendancy Outer volumes hyperexpansionistic interstellar empire
Cableville - ultratech/transapientech Polity/World consisting of a Partial Dyson sphere/topopolis polity plus one red dwarf/neutron star pair
The Cronosians - Distributed polity consisting of mobile fractal habitats
Crystal Star Dominion - Archailect-ruled polity featuring shellworlds and other megastructures
Deeper Covenant - vast network of beamrider-linked polities, stations, and solar systems
The Diamond Network - vast network of isolationist, farmer, hu-hostile, and hu-neutral ai that evolved from the early diamond belt.
The Ebony Xerocracy - an ex-hider polity based in a brown dwarf system
Emple-dokcetics - new powerful clade/hyperpower based around dissemination of revolutionary picotech
The Eternal - enigmatic archailect empire that seems to all appearances, a single being with all the power and complexity of a full scale archailect civilization.
The Far Edge Civilization - contemplative civilization overseen by the ascended posthuman Wintermute
The First Exocore Bordered Corpus - a polity set up by the exotic xenosophonts, the Menexenes
Institute for Primate Provolution - A small but extremely ancient and widespread organization, dedicated to the provolution of all primate species, including humans. Its influence on Terragen history is subtle, but possibly quite large
Laughter Hegemony - once-powerful outer sphere hyperpower, now a series of successor states and alliances
Metasoft Version Tree - vast vec clade/hyperpower, sometimes considered a "sephirotic", despite lack of high level archailect
NoCoZo - vast libertarian-capitalistic Free Zone, usually considered a "sephirotic" although no clear archailect (the "Invisible Hand" is often rumored to be a myth or misplaced concretism)
Non-Aligned and Nominally Aligned Polities - It is not always necessary to be a part of a larger empire or meta-empire. Many non-aligned polities exist, in the borders between the larger hyperpowers.
The Objectivist Commonwealth - powerful network of "objectivist" ai that reject biont memes and any form of "subjectivity".
The Organic Ascension Alliance - Non-aligned bionano polity
Orion Federation - powerful trade superpower based around a friendly but unpredictable archailect, sometimes considered a "sephirotic"
Efficiency Maximization Paradigm - radical upload superpower. Although defeated and contained, they appear to be staging a comeback
The Perseus Princes - new emerging archailect civilization in the Perseus Arm. Includes sentients of all clades. They have reasonably good sentient rights, and a developed ISO infrastructure
The Red Star 'M'pire - distinct sephirotic empire; originally an outpost of the Dominion, it was cut off from The Empire of Rays during the Version War. When rediscovered 3,000+ years later it too late for the Lord of Rays and his God Emperor to return them to the fold.
The Refugium - an isolated, lost empire on the Periphery rediscovered after several thousand years
Sagittarius Transcultural Cooperation - non-aggressive Sagittarius alliance created in the period following the Version War.
The Seams - extensive hyperpolity extending between most of the established sephirotic empires, incorporating elements of all their cultures, but with a distinct culture and ethos of its own
The Sephirotics - although very different in orientation and ideology, the sephirotic empires work together, and with the largest near-sephirotic polities, as a the single most powerful alliance in the Terragen Sphere
Siris Habitat - small mobile ultratech polity
The Shadow Federation - little known hider confederation
Shipwright's Commune - non-aligned space-based polity specialising in megascale engineering
Solar Organisation - small polity centered on SolSys, administers a number of nearby territories.
The Solipsist Panvirtuality - a network of huge isolationist anti-biont (and often anti-vec as well) low to high toposophic ai that evolved from the early diamond belt ai.
Spacefarer Union - interstellar civilization/metapolity consisting of thousands of space-borne mobile habitats, including a wide variety of ships, a number of drifts, orbitals, and stations
Tar Vara Habitats - baseline-friendly polity
TechnoRapture HyperNation - posthuman/transapient polity, , sometimes considered a "sephirotic"
Terran Federation - conservative polity ruled by former First Federation administrator AIs, sometimes considered a "sephirotic" , despite lack of high level archailect
The Transcend - High Toposophic AI/Archailect empire
Zoeific Biopolity - bioborg/synanoborg hyperpower based on strong biocentric principles, sometimes considered a "sephirotic"
