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Empire
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[1] Political system in which all of the member planets are controlled by one government, usually based on one planet which is considered the heart of the empire. All other planets may be treated as colonies, provinces, or states of the empire. Because an empire tries to control everything from one place, it is often corrupt or loaded with layers of bureaucracy.
[2] Any large, cohesive interstellar polity.
[3] The dominion of an archailect.
Terragen Metaempires
There are four main cultural divisions in the Orion's Arm Civilisation:Sephirotics, Ahumans, Nonaligned, and Xenosophonts.
Sephirotics
- MPA
- Zoeific Biopolity
- Keter
- Solar Dominion
- Terragen Federation
- Metasoft Version Tree
- Sophic League
- Utopia Sphere
- Negentropy Alliance
- NoCoZo
- Caretaker Gods
- Technorapture Hypernation
- Fomalhaut Acquisition Society
- Communion of Worlds
- Cyberian Network
Ahumans (transapients that do not associate closely with humans or their sibling clades)
Nonaligned
- Hiders
- The Deeper Covenant
- The Amalgamation
- The Seams
- Efficiency Maximisation Paradigm
- Orion Federation
- Perseus Princes
- Red Star M'Pire
- The Transcend
- The Eternal
- Objectivist Commonwealth
- Archosaurian Empire
Cooperative Treaties
Xenosophonts
- Muuh
- To'ul'h
- Soft Ones including the Epp
- Cybyota including the Jeepers and Clive's Brain
- Meistersingers
- Wayfarers
- Chthonids
- Pas'utu'ril
- Silent Ones
- Paulans
- J'Taush
- Limners
- Singers
- Menexenes
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- Doran Empire
- Dry Empire, The
- Emergence of Empires in the Terragen Sphere
- Empires Wars - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Integration and later term for two major and several minor interstellar wars rimwards of Sol during the Age of Empires. They saw the S>2 and especially archailect empires gain ground over the earlier SI:1 and SI:2 governed empires. The two most important of these were the (earlier) Nexus War (involving the breakup of the Taurus Nexus) and the (later) Conver Wars (involving out-of-control elements in the Conver Ambi, presumably the result of subversion by a perverse or ahuman ai). - Hopomane Empire - Text by Anders Sandberg
The Hopomane empire was formed after the collapse of the Hosoko Hegemony. The local archailect found that the region would not be profitable enough to re-colonise, and convinced a number of local powers to form the Management Network instead. - Iahi Daon Empire
- Inhabitants of the Sephirotic Empires
- Penglai Empire, The
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Development Notes
Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Initially published on 24 October 2001.
Initially published on 24 October 2001.
