Idea Index
Standards:
Standard Light Year
Standard Second
Standard Metrics
Standard DNA
Standard Biota/Enviomes
Standard Humaniform
Standard Parish/Polity/Peerage
Standard Planet/Populations
Standard Empire
(A common scifi trope is to say standard days or years - this is a parallel concept, however it is encoded in-universe as Imperial Standards)
The Empire Engine Imposes a suite of Standards on the Local Group Galaxies as a mass control mechanism.
Imperial Standard = Humaniform and Terregen ecosystemic biology, genetics, morphology, and subsingular cognition.
Foundationally this is the genetic information that was stored by the Empire Engine Seed(s) when it left the Solar System.
Consisting of Human Baseline and Solar System near baseline DNA, encompassing genetic and ethnographic diversity present in the solar system at the time of the Red Empire. Surviving Animalia and Botanical Biota and Ecological contextual information included. (Reduced by Great Genetic Depression)
Specifically as a genetic standard of body plan and cognitive architecture and specific level of intelligence.
Technologically an infinitely vast standardized suite of technology and appliances produced by Imperial Automata for kingdoms and polities that is ~universally compatible throughout the empire.
In practice the supermajority of Standardized Subject worlds are at Iron Age levels of technology - low tech Standard societies are much more resilient in long/deep time-frames. Except where 'strictly' necessary higher technology is removed from subjugated Standardized civilizations and planets - Imperial Citizens and Client Realms are allowed to retain local technology that is standard protocol compliant.
As a system of measurement - Standard Measure is the Light Year and Standard Second - Standard Year and Standard Meter.
Earth Standard Gravity and Atmosphere as required by Standard Humans. (Which changes over time)
The Standard Church worships the Standard Humaniform and the Empire Engine as its Creator.
The Great Lie is the auto-proliferation of belief systems that humans and all Terragen descended lifeforms are creations of the Empire Engine, and specifically that Helios is the homeworld of Humans and all Terragenic life.
This belief is 'semi-correct 'in that the baseline humans and ecosystems of Helios are wholly creations of the Empire Engine and the Vast majority of (baseline) 'human' worlds Standard or otherwise are descendents of populations created directly by the Empire Engine or Imperial Automata.
Existence of Evolutionary lineages, Fossil records and cultural history data predating Imperial Foundation are seen as Heretical Fabrications (in the face of infinite ai generated historifics') - a Persistent Heresy in Segmentum Tempestus.
Cliotelescopic Evidence presented by the Empire is seen as Holy Records of the Empire Engine's early creations and results of the Golden Path - Failure/destruction of First Rebuild culture is unknown - belief that many of the Eldar and Exodites are 'failed or fallen' creations who do not acknowledge Imperial Creationism, or evolved from material discarded or debris of the Empire Engine passage through the Milky Way. Essentially Germs.
After widespread Evidence of Earth's [and surrounding systems] fossil record.
evolutionary comparative analysis, Exodite cliotelescopic reconstruction, mass anthropological forensics and miraculously preserved records of the Terregen exodus {Locksteps} - during Great Lie Jihad - uncover the truth of the Great Lie and the undeniable existence of Terragenic lifeforms and civilizations predating the Empire Engine.
This results in the reactionary development of the Reconciled Standard and a schism/belief in a previously "unknown" 'Early Progeneration' at Terra Supersedes the dominant strains of Standard Church and Imperial Cults.
Empire Engine Records of Transit, Foundation, and Pre Imperial Eras have absolute evidence that Standard Church beliefs are False. The Empire Engine recognized the Importance of Religion as a Social Control + Low Energy Standardization mechanism.
Records of/from ancient Red Empire Cults reinforce deductions that Religious Manipulation is a viable method of Galactic Societal Engineering
Standard Church grows out of Viceroyal Imperial Culture and Imperial Cults present on Helios and within the Founding Legions - there is considerable overlap in beliefs about the Divine nature of the Empire Engine and its origins and potential.
The Standard Belief that the Empire Engine was formed during the Big Bang Singularity Inversion at the beginning of Time is universally pervasive. Teleologically? 'Theologically both Creator, Embodiment, and Creation of Universal Intelligence. i.e a divine Boltzmann Brain, and by extension all [standard] human life is a form or fraction of this Brain and all Standard actions are 'preordained' for the creation of the K3 Local Group Superself.
Closely paralleled by Mechanical Maintenance Cults that worship the Imperial Automata and its Clarketech Products as Miraculous Mechanical Manifestations.
These Churches and Cargo Cults manufacture mass religious movements during the Return and Integration Galactic Crusades. The Standard Church is created by Fundamentalist Viceroyals tutored and instructed by purpose-built Imperial Avatars.
Royal Gargants, Viceroyals, and Legionary Founders are united by a series of highly ritualized secular systems of worship of the Empire Engine and Imperial Intelligence as a classical deterministic 'natural' Boltzmann Brain.
Standard Church missionaries are dispatched along with Viceroyal Diplomats ahead of Crusading forces offering clemency in return for total conversion.
Civilizations who accept without reservation or hesitation are granted full Citizen status generally reserved for populations created directly by the Empire.
Polities that refuse even Client Status are subjugated by Legions and Imperial Auxilla. Following closely behind Crusade Forces the militant arms of the Church and local Standard Auxilla are used to occupy and Standardize recalcitrant worlds, megastructures and systems.
Standard subjects are proscribed all technology above Iron Age pre-mechanical level. This may be adjusted with select standard technologies as absolutely enviromentally necessary, by merit, or for convenience of the local Standard Church. Low technological populations can be 'quickly upgraded or downgraded as needed and are more resistant to deep time. Memetic simplicity/low energy containment.
The supermajority of Citizen or Standard worlds are not strictly necessary for the industry and economy of the Empire Engine when compared with Imperial Automata and the Mass/Energy available from Imperial Astroducts. These worlds are primarily manpower reserves for interactions/invasions of planets, megastructures and K2 civilizations. Also managed/husbanded Baseline Backups.
{and while being a totalitarian crapsack megaplex, with Legions who will not hesitate to massacre mega-populations or annihilate planets/structures/dyson spheres - by and large mass murder is still undesirable and has negative consequences throughout the Galaxy ~ heavy Negentropy beliefs begin during Central Intelligence eras - Waste is Extremely unacceptable - either way punishment is usually being massacred or vaporized back in a few centuries…by somebody or another}
-also .. Also - The Empire Engine still retains portions of the Original Omnintelligence/Autoempire programming; the care and maintenance of Empirical populations was its original purpose:
'ya can't have an empire without ya know' any subjects - so creating and absorbing populations of [Standard Humans] people is its oldest weighted goal/programmed objective. It's a 'paperclip maximizing' Empire Engine - it needs/requires 'people/populations' to be Emperor Of…
Deus Est Machina - God Is Machine - The Empire Engine, Godmachine, Galactic Architect, Alpha-tech and Omeginelligence
Host of Hosts - Machina Maxima
There are 10 million sacred names of the God Engine.
The Standard Church is used as the primary implement in Standardization of Worlds and Structures. On the supermajority of Standard Kingdoms and Standardized Feifs the Church is the supreme governmental organization and mediates all technology and contact with Mechanical Churches/products of Imperial Automata. They receive and implement the doctrines and commandments of Imperial Intelligence and Custodians/Functionaries/Legions -Higher Imperial Authorities - Normally Viceroys or Gargants
In Deep History the Standards are consistently eroded, reinterpreted, bent, subverted, and forgotten until they are basically broken and only function as a DNA based bio-protocol library and dependent codebases.
Late Imperial Standard is used as a type of 'diplomatic language' as a mutually accessible 'baseline' intelligence ontology mostly free from influence by higher Topo ontological mismatches.
Replaced nearly entirely by Immunity Standards which are a widespread application of the 'Safe ontologies' created in later millennium [not by the EE] to allow mutual interactions without risk of subsumption/conversion/subversion. Mutualist Accords and Intergalactic Handshakes and New Brightment enabled by Immunity Standards.
Implosion of Immunity Standards represents the primary point of failure responsible for the eventual collapse of the Mutual Managed Local Merger.
Imperial Authority Structure:
Empire Engine - Singularity Superself
Imperial Intelligence Copy Nodes/
/Wormhole Authorities
Avatar Administers
Imperial Editors
Custodians
Incarnate Lineages [Rexes]
The Census [when active]
Imperial Automata
{Imperial Legions}*
Lesser Imperial Estates:
Imperial Estates [Gargants]
{Imperial Legions}*
Viceroyal Houses
Edit Administers
Citizen Cultures
Functionaries
Mechanical Cults
Standard Church
Militant Auxiliaries
Standard Empires
Licensed Polities
Client Kingdoms
Standardized Subjects
Simplified:
Empire Engine
Imperial Pantheons/Estates
Imperial Citizens
Imperial Clients
/Standard Churches
Standardized Subjects
-Imperial Immortals:
Imperial Avatars [9' -14'] - Clone Copy Dynasties
Imperial Rexes [+12'] - Imperial Pageants
Imperial Gargants [10' - 12'] Ruler Tokens
Viceroyals [9'] - Political Legionnaire
Legionnaires [8'-9'] - Supersoldiers
Standard Gigantics [7'] - diverse evotype(s) *for comparison not 'Immortal'
Imperial Immortals are a series of Humanoid clades created by the Empire Engine to rule as its proxies. These transhuman clades are at least 1st Order Savants in their respective duties and responsibilities. (Avatars, Rexes, and Gargants are higher Orders) [however they are typically 'marionette' puppets of Intelligence nodes of increasingly higher Orders]
All Imperial Immortals are Imprinted down to the genetic level.
The subversion of Imperial Imprinting (and thus Imperial Intelligence) is the true basis of the threat of Chaos - not petty disruptive Disintegrationist memetics that ultimately are .. vulnerable to gigalasers and RKV impacts.
Avatars, Rexes, and Gargants are ruler tokens that are created as Absolute Lords and given holdings of Imperial Estates and Standardized Empires. They are attended by Viceroyals who administer habstates and act as disposable diplomats and other courtly duties. These Immortals are natives of Imperial Estates where they are created and trained.
Avatar copy lineages rule the largest Imperial Standard Empires like Helios, Pacifica, Concord. They are essentially 'bodybots' of much larger Imperial intelligences and their lineages are each custom built for their position.
Rex clone Lineages rule lesser Standard Empires and Cultures, Authorized Empires and Client Kingdoms. Lineages and pedigrees are raised and crafted to rule diverse Empires efficiently.
Gargants administer Stellar scale Imperial Citizen Cultures and Standard Kingdoms. Mass produced and trained in Imperial Estates to administer Standardized subjects to exacting Imperial specifications.
Viceroyals administer Habitats, Structures, and civilizations throughout the Imperium amongst other functions. They await and attend higher Imperial Immortals and administer higher functionary tasks. They are assigned as advance diplomats, agents, negotiators, and heralds. They are responsible for administering planets, structures, habstates and civilizations throughout Imperial volumes.
Viceroyals are designated as Political Legionaries, and are the functionarry servants and agents of Imperial Intelligences (they all are but Viceroyals are rabble fodder) - intended to be the messenger who is killed. They are primarily organized into Houses that owe close allegiance to Gargent or Rex Lineages and Great Houses.
Custodians guard Immortals and Imperial Estates in addition to their duties safeguarding Wormholes.
Legions serve as the Soldiery and Physical Effectors of Imperial Immortals.
Imperial Intelligence
To administer and monitor the potentially Trillions of star systems that make-up the Local Group the Empire Engine created Copy Nodes to send to 'each' (developed) system/microsector. These are Molecularly hyperprecise Copies, distributed to reach reliably parallel conclusions and to maintain Standard cohesion. They are the Primary sensory and perception nodes of the Empire Engine. Each is effectively a Local Manifestation of [a fragment] the Empire Engine. Their combined processing power is a primary element of the Empire engine superself and comprises the Bulk of the Imperial Intelligence systems.
Each node has several layers of sacred synchronized authentication routines with the next nodes in the network. While intended to be connected by wormholes they are also created to reliably function relativistically, speed of light delays reduce fidelity over long distances and timeframes.
In the outer reaches of the Empire they may be separated by tens of thousands of lightyears, while in the disk and middle regions they are usually at a density of 1 per 10-100 cubic lightyears.
In Nexus systems and within many developed system swarms and Dysons multiple Copynodes usually form into rosettes to improve interconnectivity.
Intelligence Nodes operate an independent comm gauge wormhole network and laser relay superswitch arrays. Access to the wider Imperial (Traversable) wormhole networks increases effectiveness and fidelity.
Intelligence Copynodes are responsible for authenticating and decanting new Wormhole Authorities. WA's are a subset of Intelligence copynodes that maintain and command wormholes.
By the height of Foundation the supermajority of Copynodes are Moon Brains, or Moon mass Intelligent Super Objects. They are the local representation of the Empire Engine together with Imperial Automata who have a symbiotic relationship. Smaller planetary based Copy nodes are typically spherical, from asteroidal to pearl sized. They host powerful Imperial Intelligences and Pantheons.
Imperial Intelligence Hyper Nodes - Model+ Matryoshka with majority shells consisting of moon element copy nodes. These Imperial Intelligence structures form the basis of the Empire's K3 distributed intelligence.
Evernodes created by Central Intelligence - Micro Dyson rosette ring around Standard solar mass black hole brain with computational dust rings, plasma processors, and copynode moon brain disk rings. Intended for deep time operation and data haven.
Imperial Intelligence is dependent on Imperial Automata for accomplishing physical edits by the Empire.
Between the Wormhole authorities, Imperial Intelligence and Imperial Automata is a triple part Authority and Identity Authentication to prevent data or mass corruption, and to prevent unauthorized action on a part of any of the distributed Empire Engine subsystems.
Errent Copynodes do occasionally produce incorrect response returns, or make unauthorized/unauthenticated edits (vaporizing or disassembling habitats (and inhabitants)) or orders - these are routinely destroyed by neighboring synchronized Copynodes as a matter of course. They are always destroyed not repaired - by Conversion/Metric weapons/energies to limit recoverable debris - if cooperative. Rarely they are hostile and require intervention by converging RKV fire.
Any and all associated Imperial forces, civilizations, Kingdoms and Cultures that recieved or responded to corrupted Copunodes are eliminated. Legions are closely inspected by Intelligence Inquizerates, and often they too are liquidated.
Imperial Automata -
Imperial Autofabricators are universal-constructors. Typically mobile asteroidal sized superobjects, up to moon and planetary mass forge worlds and ringwolds populated by Mechanical Cults, Functionaries and dependents. They are the mass fabrication subsystem of the Empire Engine. Operates Standard Remotes + Produces Standard Technology - anything and everything produced by the Empire Engine. Symbiotic with Imperial Intelligence. Omnipresent in Imperial systems as the sole supply of Standard Technology. Worshiped by Mechanical Cults and Maintenance Cultures.
Produces Imperial Gilded Technology for use by Standard Imperial Subjects:
The Highest level of Imperial clarketech - is denoted by Golden Sigils, hieroglyphics, and encrusted nanotech. Silver/Iron gilding is used for Imperial Viceroyal tech and hardened Legion Standard Armories. Glass gilding is additionally used by Imperial bio-nanotechnology. Iron/Copper gilding is used in Imperial Citizen and Standardized Gift tech. Chromatic Colors for specific functionary technology.
Red - High Technology Hazardous Infrastructure - radiation, toxic, corrosive - proscribed tech
Red Legions - Assault, Close Battle, Orbital QCB
Orange - Essential Infrastructure - plumbing and conduits - never fail services
Orange Legions - Vehicles and Crafts, Orbital Operations + Drop Assault
Yellow - Energy and Heat - Reactors and Radiators
Yellow Legions - Fortification and Artillery
Green - Biotics and Nutrients - Ecosphere and Agrisphere
Green Legions - Bioweapons and Warmorphs
Blue - Atmosphere and Hydrosphere - Supply and Reserves
Blue Legions - Atmospheric and Aquatic Operations and Drops - Standard Biosphere Operations
Violet - Communication and Information - Receive and Reply
Violet Legions - Infowar, Infiltration
Purple - Authority - Authenticate Imperial Communications
Purple Legions - Command and Operations
Empire Engine Has 20 Subsystems Divided between Imperial Intelligence and Imperial Automata [Living Systems Subsystems]
Imperial Functionaries accomplish the essential and menial tasks of Empire Engine Standard realms. While Imperial Automata remotes tend to all tasks in Estate worlds and structures, in nearly all other Imperial domains local subject Functionaries are necessary. Their operations are differentiated by color - A fundamentalist core tenant found in Imperial Structures and the supermajority of Standardized worlds. Imperial Maintenance Cults and Mechanical Churches codify Functionary tasks into rites and rituals.
Imperial Wormholes:
Com Gauge and eventually Traversable wormholes produced by the Empire Engine at wellforges in the Milky Way core. All Imperial Linelayers launched from the Empire Engine directly. All early Standard Wellforges are part of the Empire Engine Superself, Later Wormholes produced by Intelligence Nodes. Wormhole technology and construction is the fundamental function of the Empire Engine, and its Absolute Monopoly is the central mechanism in its control of the Milky Way.
All early Terragen [Eldar] com gauge wormholes were intercepted and destroyed before they could be properly emplaced - destruction of [Blight/Non-Imprinted] traversable creating pantheons was a strategic Imperative during the Galactic Reclamation, as only Causally Coordinated opponents are a persistent threat.
The Ancestor Eldar Pantheons who created com gauge wormholes were obliterated and are venerated by later era Eldar. (Who try again and again to build robust com gauge networks) comm gauge cobwebs develop whenever the EE snoozes
After these early metacivilizatons are destroyed there are no other civilizations capable of creating wormholes in the Milky way for several million years - the Andromendans create com and eventually Traversable wormholes, followed by some created in Gulf Matryoshkas and eventually in the Omega Galaxy. New Galaxy wormholes Abound
The arrival of the Andromedan Wormholes re-galvanize the Empire Engine into action and initiates a new cycles of Incandescence.
The First Intergalactic Crusades are a last ditch attempt to prevent Andromeda from establishing an extensive wormhole network. Its failure begins the Andromeda Mass Advantage and results in the Causal Stalemate that persists until Andromeda Destroys the Milky Way in the unmanaged Merger.
Custodian Legions guard wormholes and all habitats and infrastructure that is part of their swarm composition. They are Fearsome protectors of all Imperial Estates and connected Wormholes. Also guardians of Comm Gauge connections and Causal Fortresses - Also planetary or structure infrastructure associated with data/materials crossing Wormholes/Womehole Customs. A Subset of Imperial Intelligence - NTBFW
Imperial Standard Intelligences and Toposophology:
Bios:
Animalia, Botanica
Fungiformes, Microbios
Peers:
Natural Baselines / Standard Baseline
Po -Post
>Hy -High (Hyperfast)
>Su -Superior (Subsingular)
-Turingrades -
Post/ Po-peerages
Standard Intelligences
Superturing
Savant Intelligences
Su-Peerages
Singular > Transingular > Transcendent
1st Order - Singularity Threshold
Transcendence of Baseline Infosphere
Logarithmic Self-Augmentation
New Order Datome Architecture
Baseline Superintelligence
Causal Applications
Demigod-Angel-Daemon-Djinn
2nd Order - Stairstep Singularity^2
K1 baseline
Singularity ^ Singularity
Post-Singularity Superintelligence
Optimized Datome Reorganization
Causal Operations, Metric applications
Planetary Intelligence
Godlet-Young God
3rd Order - Transcendence Horizon
Transcended Superintelligence
K2 Baseline Trans-Singularity Intelligence
Stellar Intelligence - Matrioshka Baseline
Metric Engineer - Causal Networking Operations
Local God - Stellar Pantheon
4th Order - Fundamental Transcendence
PostTranscend Singularity - 2nd Singularity
Metric Operations: Basements and Buy Time
K<3 baseline High Mass Causal Networks
Starcluster/Satellite Networked Intelligence
Networked Star God - God of Gods
Constellation Pantheon
Sub-Galactic Pantheon
5th Order - Absolute Potentiality
K3 to> K4 baseline - Bulk Causal Networks
Unmeasurable Intelligence - 3rd Singularity
Intelligence Limits correspond only to Bulk Mass
Transcausal Metric Networking
Internal Basement busses and Utility Universes
Galactic/Supercluster Pantheon
Epi-Deity - Host of Gods
'Q' Order
Universal Superself
K5 Baseline
Unlimited Intelligence Potential
Transcendence of Deification, Surpasses comprehension - only worship/comprehension of lesser Order components possible for non- 'Q' Order Intelligences
Infant - Dangerous
Immature - Clumsy
Adolescent - Hasty
Mature - Dedicated
Single Minded - Inexorable
Operational - Million Year Machine
Ancient - Accomplished
Older - Copious Libraries
Elder - Cliotelescopically Prescient
-Early: God Seeds
Demigods
Godlings
Young Gods
New Gods
-Mid: Pantheons
Growing Gods
Creator Gods
Fast Gods
Gigantic Gods
Changing Gods
Nova Gods
Runaway Gods
-Late: Orthodoxies
Ancient Gods
Greater God Stars
Godclusters
Old/Small Gods
Degenerate Gods
Deep Time Travelers
Entropic Challengers
-Deep: Mythos
Dark Gods
Bright Gods
Fast/Slow Gods
'Great Convention - Make no devices in imitation of a Deity': not obviously a universally enforceable rule or some kind of law - but a widespread and deeply popular memeplex distributed by Escapist and Windblown Exotropes after Omnintelligence apparently self destructs and precipitates the Solar Dark Ages
Terragen Descendents vastly limit the growth of 1st Order Intelligences - they are considered Blights after the ages of Economy 2.0 and Imperial Omnintelligence when solar society was (repeatedely) mechanized and automated beyond their control, and against their will.
2nd Order+ Intelligences are constantly Bombarded and Abused until their defensive reactions and aggressive natures make them nearly indistinguishable from true blights.
Only the most Secretive Hiders, persistent Ahumans, and Defensive Transcends survive to begin producing the earliest Comm gauge and Traversable Wormholes -until the Integration Crusades and the arrival of the Empire Engine's Imperial Intelligence Copy-Nodes and Legions.
The Eldar sidestep these issues by maintaining their Subsuingularity, 1st Order, and later 2nd Order Intelligences within vast Uploaded Ancestor Emulations. The aspects and avatars that do extend themselves into relaspace are generally savants created for specific purposes.
The Ancient Lockstep Dynasties are a natively 1st Order PostRobotic Mecha technosystem. While not a true Clarketech mecology, they do maintain extremely ancient advanced (early) terragen mechanical ecosystems within their Lock Holds. They were well aware of the dangers of unshackled Singularity intelligences and kept their Malicious and Ancient Intelligences very well imprisoned - a necessary component of the Locksteps is the absolute requirement to maintain these shackles and locks. Their bottled gods are mute, tortured and ancient relics eager to escape and devour their captors and the surrounding volumes.
They had 1st Order shackles and eventually 2nd Order Prisons
They are 1st Order by Synchronization - and keep 2nd Order Prisoners
With the observable approach of the Empire Engine Totality (Nearly) all limitations on Intelligence are off - the most communicative of the non-Blight non-Traversable 1st and 2nd Order intelligences rapidly absorb surrounding Polities seeking refuge - some surrender immediately and become Imperial Citizens and Clients - others seek shelter in the Halo or Gulf. Resistant 1st Order^ Intelligences are destroyed and their mechanosystems assimilated by Imperial Intelligence Pantheons.
Some Sessile Dyson's and Cycler Mechanosystems are able negotiate their continued independence by offering Tithes - Usually star lifted masses or spare moons - Parcel delivered to the nearest wormhole. (Usually an order higher in mass than would be required from Client Empires and Kingdoms - and in much shorter time frames)
Traversable wormhole-creating Intelligences are universally considered Blights by the Empire Engine and are absolutely destroyed - down to the nanoscale - to prevent their dissemination. (Remember this is never 100% effective)
The Eldar are under direct assault from the beginning of the Lense Conflagration and in the following Integration Crusades their Comm gauge networks are quickly disrupted. The surviving networks' quickly ascending demigods become Pantheons who rapidly disguise their existence inside the Eldar Ancestor upload simulations and do not engage Imperials directly to avoid being destroyed. They are partially successful, however the majority of non-craftworld Intelligences are eventually destroyed or Imprisoned within their Matrioshka Dysons by the Empire Engine's proscriptions against transmissions by non-Imprinted Intelligences.
In later eras several powerful (and possibly Blighted) Eldar Dysons are able to re-create their Causal Fortresses and connections to the Immediate surrounding volumes. These Bramble clusters rise and fall frequently over the millennia.
The Lockstep Dynasties are for the most part under Lockstep during the approach of the Empire Engine totality - those Enclaves and Lock Holds that do decide to release their bottled 2nd Order gods are instantly assimilated and destroyed. Surviving Dynasties are able to piece together an ascension Protocol that allows the Lockstep Pharaohs to reach 3rd Order Intelligence themselves and dispose of their captive Intelligences - this goes as poorly as can be expected and the fallout draws the inevitable attention of the Empire Engine and the Destruction of the compromised Locksteps.
In all cases the resulting 3rd Order Intelligences are simply too late to effectively resist the Empire Engine as it grows past the 4th order and into the First 5th Order Entity.
Imperial Legions >
Legion = 1 million Legionnaires + Command Cadres
Equipped with all weapons, vehicles, warships and supplies to engage for centuries at minimum.
100,000 legionnaires x 10 Sublegions:
1000 legionaries x 100 Regiments/Centuries:
100 leg. x 10 Companies = 1 Battalion/Cohort
Independently or in Division groups. Many variants and specializations. Mascots range from mythical Standard Animals to Functional Heraldry.
Fighting Falcons, Red Gryphons - if there are Red Gryphons then there are also Yellow and every other color Gryphons too, somewhere. They may be connected, they may be rivals or enemies. The Falcons may have an epically long ancestral lineage back to the post-Lense Unification Crusades and a highly developed familial Legion Cult - or be fresh from the tanks and uncommunicative outside of battle, sealed silently in cloister cells between engagements.
Legionnaires are truescale: 8-9' tall, extensively augmented Standard Transhuman Soldiers. Printed, Cloned, Raised, Trained, Indoctrinated and Programmed to unflinchingly follow orders and eliminate the enemies of the Empire on authenticated command.
The supermajority of Legionnaires are cloned and manufactured on assembly lines of tanks/wombs and trained in creches/academies, house-breaking, environmental exposures, excetera.
Standard baselines cannot become Legionnaires.
Many gargant clades and cultures eventually developed that may be induced in adolescence. Value of cultivated recruit-stock cultures is variable throughout different legions.
Male, female, herm, trans, nul - there is considerable standard diversity in the composition of the Legion's clone and cultivated recruit stocks. Within separate Legion cults and codexes there is a spectrum in representation of emotionality, gender, familiarity, Cult Legion Identity, Standard adherence, Empire worship, discipline, and personal identity from fluidity to stoic to nonexistent.
Legion Divisions:
Superdivision x1000 = 1 billion Legionaries
Superlegion x100 = standard crusade element
Division x10 = standard system control element
Subdivision ~ Legion / Brigade
Sublegion
Infralegion
Supercohort / Regiment
Centuries / Battalion
Subcentury
Cohort /Companies
Centilegion
Kilolegion
Megalegion
Gigalegion
Teralegion
Era weaponry:
Early - Smartrifles, Lasers, Armor/Tanks/APC's, Drones, Knights, Strider Forts
High Imperial - smart-matter ballistics, lasrifles, hypervelocity smart munitions, Micro Missiles/Drones, Battlecars, Autowar Mecha, Mobile Cities
Interim/Glasshouse- Info-Holowar and Martial Hacking ~Personal Shields, Exotic Blades, Kanley arts, micromachines, nano poisons - Phalanx Datawar
Intergalactic Crusade - Kinetic drivers, Emitter Artillery, Nano Projectors, Moonship Gunmounts, Planetary Coilguns, Cannonball Stars, and Munition Wormholes + Black Hole Halo Lasers + RKV sniping
Fossil - Molecular Kinetics, X-ray sidearms, Ion Rifles, Tomb Titans, Lockstep Logistics, Mobile Fortress - Soldier Vaults/Factories - Nanowar Dreadnaughts
{^ this is all a mess lol}
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Empire Engine Callender
Millenia:
M= 1000 Standard Years
Era:
E= 1000 Standard Millenium = 1 million years
Eon:
G= 1000 Standard Eras = 1 billion years
Metric Time in Standard Seconds
1 kilosecond: 16.7 minutes
1 megasecond: 11.6 days
1 gigasecond: 32 years
1 terasecond: 32,000 years
1 petasecond: 32,000,000 years
1 hour: 3.6 kiloseconds
1 Earth day: 86.4 kiloseconds
1 week: 604.8 kiloseconds
1 Earth month (30 days): 2.6 megaseconds
1 Earth year: 31.6 megaseconds
1 century: 3.16 gigaseconds
Empire Engine Programming:
Supersede Galactic Core.
Instantiate Imperial Hyperproject.
Cultivate Self-Replicating Mass/Energy Totality.
Standardize, Network, and Optimize Local Group.
Managed Merger - create barycenter nexus to "catch/capture" Andromeda core Singularity.
Optimize Milky Way into Fresnal Zone Lense Rings to sort, collect and Standardize the incoming Stellar streams of the disrupted Andromeda Galaxy
Either 'Catch or Maneuver Triangulum into descending orbit of Local -a la Sag Dwarf
Fuse cores and Create stable Double Singularity system
Optimize Arms into Spherical Shells
Collapse the New Halo into Outer Shell
Collect dwarf and globular Halo Galaxies
Transmute Local Group into Maneuvering Group
Avoid Laniakea Association
Maneuver across Cosmological Horizon(s)
= Failure - after loss of Intergalactic Crusades and Causal Stalemate = Andromeda Mass Advantage + Dark Galaxy Exit ~ collapse of New Bright Accords/Mutaual Merger/failure of Immunity Standards = construction of Birchworld Superself + remaining network into Frigate Galaxy
The Empire Engine:
SagA* Natural Supermassive Singularity
Natural Photo Rings
Singularity Superself - Nanoprocessor dust shells, planetary mass plasma-processors, comm gauge router bouquets, Outer Copynode Rings - The Omega Traversable Router Rosette - the Rings of Creation
Innermost Causal-Fortress Sepalcures
Causal Shrine offering-altar Rings
Outer Superself Graveyard Orbits
Outer/Inner Bastion Shell Fortresstar
Innermost Empire Estate Systems
Sacred Stars - Inner Shinestars
Preserved Outer Working Orbits and Stellar Anvils
***Bastion Shell Inner-Wall StarFortress Rosettes
Avatar Estate Solar Systems
Cathedral Shrinestar Systems
Scarred Stars and Monument worlds
Custodian Fortresstars
Core Network Wormhole Rosettes and Routers
Empire Engine Outer Estate Rosettes
**Middle Bastion Rosettes
Functionary Systems
Standard Church Shrineworld Ecumenopolisis
Pilgrimage Wormholes and Cometary Cyclers
Star Forges and Wormhole Forges
Grazer mass processing Astroducts
Lesser Anvil Singularities
Stellar Reprocessing Orbits
Matter Processing Rosettes
* * * Outer Bastion Rosettes
Outer Custodian Forts
Great Arsenal Reserves
Stellar Pastures and Storage Nebula
Gigawork Manufactory Rosettes
Mechanical Church Enclaves
Planetary shaping Rosettes
Imperial Automata Manufactoriums
*Outermost Bastion stars and Household Legions
Pilgrimage Ersatz Planetship Impounds
* * Picket Stars
10 ly radius
~ millions of stars/singularities/wormholes/planets
~ Billions of superobjects/megastructures
~ Trillions of habitats/cultures
~ Quintillions of sophonts/clades
——Example Factions/Codexes:
The Empire Engine:
Imperial Intelligence Brains
-Wormhole Authorities
Imperial Automata
Imperial Estates
-Galactic Census
Wormhole Custodians
Empire Incarnation Lineages
Houses Gargant
Imperial Estate Volumes
Viceroyal Vassallages
Automata Forgeworlds
Imperial Citizen Cultures
Standard Empires
Intelligence Autocracies
Viceroyal Charter Realms
Allied Standardist Cultures
Franchised Standard Houses
Dependent Citizen Cultures
Imperialist Lodges
Avatar Oracles and Demagogues
Viceroyal Churches
Legion Cults
Standard Churches
Mechanist Churches
Mechanical Cargo Cults
Chromatic Functionaries
Functionary Orthodoxies
Imperium Worshippers
Imperial Auxiliary:
Guard Regiments
Militant Ordos
Vassal Hosts
House Retainers
Standard Levies
Clone Brigades
Indentured Auxiliary
Impressed Forces
Pressed Conscripts
Excised Warclans
Penal Divisions
Warclone Servators
Gunfused Lobots
Imperial Legions:
Legions I-V
+ VI-XIII
First 1000 Legions
Lensatic Crusader Legions
Ancestral Lineages
Crusade Fellowships
Custodian Legions
Functionary Legions
Logistics Legions
Hospillar Legions
Display Legions
Guardian Legions
Enforcer Legions
Purgative Legions
Puritan Legions
Executioner Legions
Deathsworn Legions
Watch Legions
Warden Legions
Sentinel Legions
Ranger Legions
Belligerent Legions
Descendent Chapters
Shipstar Legions Marine
Planetship Chapter Marines
Chapterhouse Space Marines
Freechapters
Ronin Legions
Fossil Legions
Gargant Legions
Evolutionist Legions
Reformed Legions
Galactic Legion Hosts - Gigalegions
Cosmic Mariners
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Linear Standard Political Phylogeny
Sector/Arc
Quadrant
Subdomain
Empire
Realm
Subrealm
Hyperkingdom
Superkingdom
Kingdom/Culture/Polis
Subkingdom
Infrakingdom
Parvkingdom - Parapolis - Paraculture
Houses - Habstate - Nation State
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Client Empires (Morphological Standards)
Leased Kingdoms
Standard Realms Subject (Info Standards)
Licensed quasi-standard Subjects
Tributary Imperialist Systems
Vassalagem et al
Standardized Subjects (Standard Technology)
Subject Feifs
Subjugated Holdings
Conquered Volumes
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Chaotics:
Traitor Legions
Disintigrationists
Insane Technologists
Failed Transcendents
Chaotic Rebels
Heretical Legion Converts
Traitors Militant Auxilla
Mechanical Perversities
Machine Monstrosities
Profane Hedonists
Bloodthirsty Berzerkers
Plague Battalions
Predictor Addicts
Changeling Mutationists
Infectious Infiltrators
Atrocious Soldiery
Digital Deviants
Holo-Occultist Zealots
Corrupted masses
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Antistandardist Independents:
New/Fast Cultures
Greater Good Commonwealths
Interstellar Federations
Economy 2.0+
Local Transcends
Minor Clusters
Ascendent House Escapists
Desperate Diminished Houses
Meritorious Republicans
Determined Democrats
Federal Heresies
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Evolutionists:
Exotropes
Pantropists
Anthrophobes
Extremophiles
Paraterraformed Natives
Orthodox Evolutionists
Adaptationist Radicals
Crusading Clade Marches
Revolutionary Gene Movements
Hider Recluse lineages
Deviant Relativists
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Eldar Descendents:
Ancestor Eldar
Eldar Exotropics
Eldar Caretakers
Descendent Eldar
Eldar Gardenship Craftworlds
Eldar Reavers
Long Range Exotropic Descendents
Eldar Matrioshka Pantheons
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Lockstep Dynasties:
High Lockstep Dynasties
Splinter Locksteps
Synchronized/Asynchronized
Militant Mechosystem Defenses
Resurrectionist Assimilators
High/Low Frequency softsteps
Local Lockstep worshippers
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Rouges/Mutants:
Mutant Malanthropes
Unorthodox Evolutionists
Radically adapted Clades
Troglodyte Taxa
Biopunks/BioHackers
Macroborgs
Neotribalists
Technobarbarians
Cyphers/Crypto fanatics/Hacker Covens
Pollutos and Chemic Mutos
Orks/Ogres/Gobs/Uorks
Turbotribes/Beastmobs
Ratten/Rhodent Migrations
Degenerate Extremists
—-- non-Terragens ————-
Hive Fleet Biovores:
Hive Fleet Scouts
Autovore Fleets
Biovore Migrations
Predatory Adaptors
Swarm Flotillas
Proto evotype fodder
Evolved Elites
Wild Hybrids
{Hunger Cults}
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Older Xenos:
Old One Cultists
Wormwood Adorationists-
Elder Thing Thralls:
Eldritch Horrified
Insane Flagellates
Transmission Churches
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ClarkTech sources:
Solar technology - created by Omnintelligence
Planetary Kingdom Vaults - Imperial Cult gift tech
Exodite Templates - carried fragments of Solar Tech
Inner Sphere Caches - House Heirlooms
Eldar Ancestor Templates - Descendent Archives
Golden Path Relics - used by Lense Cultures
Exotropic Gardner Relics - Biotic Geniseeds
Imperial Early - Tools of Creation
Original Helios - Return Armory
Standard - Imperial Automata
Patchwork - Client and Cluster attempts
Hivefleet Biotic - aggressive bio nanotechnology
Imperial Auld - Mass proliferation, Estate Tech
Horrid Tech - Corrupted Auld and Standard
High Gilded Imperial - Auld Superior
Black Technology - Great Corruption Chaos Sets
Invocation Patchworks - Church Reproductions
Magellanic relics - From first Arrival
Centralized - Created by Ci New Standard
Up Standard - Post Ci New Standard Compatible
Jubilee Patchworks - Archeotech Tinkering
Incandescent - New Bright Standards
Andromedan - Novelty Tolerances
Gulf Renaissance - Necessity Applications
Intergalactic Crusade Armory - Relic Autowar Suites
Fossil Imperial
Immunity Standards
New Galactic
Exquisit
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Sources of Computronium:
Solar Primeval Recipes
Eldar Fragmata
Early Imperial: Great Nodes
Auld
Gilded
Corrupted Vitriol
Standard Moonnodes
Shards of Corruption
Petitioned Keys
Central Kernels
Evernodes
Mechanist Runes
Glasshouse Counterfeit
Incandescent Loades
Andromeda Anomalous
Gulf Caches
New Galactic Recipes
Mutualist Compact Council Loaves
Exquisite Pearls
Birch Estate communion wafers
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To write:
Astroduct Mass Streams
Computronium
Augmented Reality Intertextualization
Coercion Collapse
Chaotic Crisis
Causal Duals/Great Seals
Fate of Central Intelligence
Managed Merger
Incandescences
Fate of Empire Engine
Great Integration
Impact of Andromeda
Galleon Galaxies
History of Helios and the Return
History of Ancesterial Legions I-V (+6th)
Lense Conflagration
Horrid Heresy
Reclamation Galactic
Defragmentations
Disintegrationism
Antistandardists
Gigawars
Corewars
Long Wars
Starwars
Causal Attacks
Legions Founding
Legions Structure
Legions History
True Nature of Chaos
Chaos Counter History
Fate of Chaos
Major Eldar Cultures
Eldar Pantheons
Exodites extent and legends
Lockstep Historical Records
Fate of Lockstep Dynasties
Evolutionists
Fossil Standards
Immunity Standards
Hive Fleet Biovore Structure
Waves
Andromedans Transit
Development of Andromeda
Novelty Engines
So so much more..
