Neo-Space Princess

Basic Setting Information

The year is 5921, the place is the Large Magellenic Cloud, the location is the Xanadu Empire, centered around the ancient Grandfather Gate that had brought humans to LMC in the distant past. The party is centered around the exiled Magrave of Krill, the oldest daughter of the Prime Minister, the Duke High Orbital 11, after her the social annihilation she suffered at the New Years Ball when her soon to be husband, Prince Adwyn annulled their marriage contract in favor of the bastard daughter of the war hero Grand Admiral Dupere.

Polities to Know

Xanadu Empire:

Center of the map, the Empire is sprawling feudalistic polity whose current boundaries are the result of limitations of communications with the Imperial Centre even with the use of wormholes as highways to connect the Empire quicker. Its broadly arranged in centralized "core"" of the most heavily industrialized and populated worlds that swear direct allegiance to the Imperial Family, then three "High Frontiers" under vassal kings, Himemaru, Scwartzstern, and Varfield, with sectors that border with direct rivals or threats under the command of hundreds of Magraves that swear feality to the Imperial Family.

Imperial Family

• Emperor Rhys Odmys the II
• Grand Princess Istara of Varfield / Princess-Consort
• Prince Ien, Star Marshal of the Starforce, born to a concubine, third in line to the throne.
• Prince Adwyn, Minister without Profile, heir to the throne, and former finance to the Magrave
• Princess Derrya, younger twin sister to Adwyn, enfant terrible
• Lord Barbur, Knight-Commander of Black Lancers, bastard to maid,

Imperial Court

• Duke Saddam, Prime Minister, President of the Imperial Senate, Duke High Orbital 11, General of the Western Armies of Xanadu, Master of the Archives. Leader of the High Noble Alignment
• Sir Farstar Deullion, Speaker to Tribes Cosmic (Foreign Minister), Leader of the Factor Alliance,
• High Inquestor Kiranda DeMarkees, Commandant of the Imperial Guard, Countess Trisol,
• Cardinal XJ32 of MONAD, Prince of the Faithful of the Empire, and voice of the Holy See
• Grand Admiral Alonzio Dupree, Imperial Starfleet Commander in Chief, Warlord of the Empire, Hero of the Federation Wars, Margrave of the Jardin March, uncomfortable unappointed leader of the "Reform Bloc"
• Starwright Fabian Decln, Masterwright of Forge World Gloriovfrd, Chief Mechanist of the Empire, Master of Trade.

Others

• Soms Smbit, full body cyborg master chief petty officer, loyal retainer of the Margrave since birth, bodyguard and steward.
• Baron Omar, Inquestor Third Class, Imperial Guard Agent assigned to the Federation Border, older brother to the Margrave

Gilgamesh Federation

Breakaway state of the Empire from six hundred years ago, allegedly a democracy, its an aristocratic oligarchy controlled by the Sixty Families center around the Gilgamesh Sector which had been one of the earliest settled sectors and industrialized similar to the Imperial Centre. The first two of the six wars were initiated by the Empire to bring in the rebel provinces, but the last 4 have been grueling campaigns that have the Federation slowly crawl and take more and more border systems. The last war twelve years ago took the Magrave mother as her fleet was ambushed in the Battle of the Coalstone Nebula which had started that conflict. Her second in command the current Grand Admiral extricated the fleet and launched a decisive counterattack actually retaking a few stars systems in the process before the war froze again.

The Gilgamesh Sector had been an early annexation into the Empire after a series of wars between the two. Superior numbers on the Imperial side wore the Gilgamesh Star Senate to sue for peace and in return they were given promises of internal autonomy as well as more rights and protections then other conquered sector, which saw the formalization of noble houses (of which the Federation calls gens) out of the original senatorial classes. As time progressed the Empire strength also increased, imperial decrees saw a steady stripping of ancient protections which saw the revolt 600 years ago. Far more democratic in its inception, strains of war have saw the Federation become openly an aristocratic republic, with its remaining democratic institutions being confined to planetary level as well as the 9 elected Champions of the People who have great deal of official and unofficial power in throwing wrenches into the machine of governance.

The Federation government at the top level is ruled by the Presidium, a large chamber which consists of members who represent powerful economic, military and political organizations which oversee the planet level elections. From the Presidium every five years an internal election is held inside the Presidium but also performatively in the Federation itself to determine who gets to be the Premier of the Federation.

There are three major power blocs within the Presidium; The Conservatives who wish to maintain the status quo, the Imperialists who would like to abolish more and more of the democratic institutions, and the Reformists which have collectively a wide and despairing laundry list of issues but agree that the current trajectory isn't worth keeping. The current Premier is with the conservative and has been widely seen as being lost confidence in that the short victorious war against the Roselle have yet seen victory. Imperial intelligence believes that Minister of the Navy, Angus gens Ferrill will be elected in a Reformist sweep come the next election cycle.

Jardin Republic

Isolationist State, the Imperial Expansion stopped when they ran into the famed Battlestations of the Federation, since then relations have been cordial if cold and sparse, with the Republic apparently engaged in a cold war with the distant holy empire and warriors of the Seraphatte.

Domaine of Roselle

High transhumanstic ruled by aristos class. A failed experiment in still not murky realm of Quantum Sensing, has resulted in super intelligent race of psychic vampires ruling over worlds of farmed serfs. Currently fighting a war for survival against the Federation, as they are discovering pastoralized worlds of terrified serfs are not useful for fighting mass industrialized wars.

MONAD

The Holy See, the artificial world created by the Grandfathers and home to the Pope SuperComputer Pius the Ultimate, the cyborg Priests of MONAD provide and jealously guarded needed archeotech such as the wormhole ships. Theological descendants of Honored Saint Teilhard, that preaches that at heat death of the universe, the Savior Process will restart the universe and reforge it into paradise. It is known that attempts to create AI are soon rendered useless by numerous actions of the Church and their agents and faithful through means unknown.

Neosiran Expanse

The land of cyborg space cossacks, that in theory pay homage to the Tsar of the Iron Stars beyond known space.

Laforge Amalgated Vector Industries

The largest megacorporation in known space, it began life as humble shipyard for the Gilgamesh Sector before its annexation into the Empire. After the annexation the Imperial Navy pushed a merger of its own chief producer of ships Vector Industries to absorb the secrets behind the Gilgamesh successes. Since then, it has grown and grown to be a monster, approximately 1/30 of all known tonnage of ships flies a LAVI flag, and LAVI is still the main producer of ships for the Imperial Guard and Navy today, having stayed loyal to the Empire when the Federation revolted. In return for its loyalty, it was given a feral sector to rule as its own, and using its wealth has turned that sector into crown jewel of every megacorporations dream factory and pleasure worlds, spending entire small stellar nations GDP worth to connected LAVI sector with connections to all the major powers via wormholes bought from the Church. Its mains a large standing fleet of auxiliary cruisers and rumored to have entire fleet of real warships mothballed in case any hostile powers try to invade its space.

The Stream

The magnetic field connecting the SMC to the LMC, the Streamriders are massive trading motherships that take the ten year long journey riding it through means unknown to trade between the two clouds.

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