Transeisdzarian Commonwealth

Provident Royal Commonwealth of the United Transeisdzarian Nations
Rauka Transeisdzaria
Commonwealth Starburst Royal Seal
Motto:
"ýezî drujem vêñnghaitî" "The Righteous will smite the Liar."
Anthem
Beyond the Bounds
Royal Anthem
Saka March
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System Map
Official Capital	New Possibilities SMS Mikado (Auxiliary)
Royal Capital	Concordia's March
National languages	Phoenician, Rift Dialects
Religion	Phoenix Church
Demonym	Rifter, Saka, Transeisdzarian
Government	Constitutional Monarchy
- Saka Rauka	Ardeshir I & Saki I
- Marshal of the Sejm	Ibnas Du'Mont
- Grand Domestic	Trinary Sharp Celerity
Legislature	Celestial Sejm
-Upper Channel	Geodesic Network
-Lower Channel	Constellar Communion
Unification and Independence from the Phoenix Empire
- Rift Crusade	May 5322
- Uncrowned King	October 5322
- Ratification	28 February 5323 AE
Systems	Many
Currency	Drachma Thaler
Patron Saint	The Uncrowned King
Patron Yazata	Yazd Tavus
Preceded by
← Kingdom of the Rift ← Rift Constellations

The Provident Royal Commonwealth of the United Transeisdzarian Nations, informally the Transeisdzarian Commonwealth (also referred to as the Rauka Transeisdzaria or simply the Commonwealth), is a sovereign state of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Its territorial space encompasses the known settled space of the Great Rift and the Rift Expanse. The Commonwealth shares borders with the Phoenix Empire along the coreward limits of the nebula and operates customs with the CoDominium at the terminus of the Negev-Ruhazani lines. The Commonwealth is the fourth-largest state of the Western Large Magellanic Cloud.

Its government is described as a federal union with a common monarch. The Official Capital is the system of New Possibilities with the SMS Mikado serving as an auxiliary administrative seat, while Concordia's March is the Ceremonial Capital. The current monarchs since 28 February 5323 - coinciding with the ratification of the Compact of New Possibilities - are the twin Shahzadas Ardeshir and Saki, though their powers have been assumed by a Regency Council headed by their mother Ravshana Marika al-Lasalle until the end of their minority. The Commonwealth consists of over two hundred autocephalous constellations and thousands of sovereign households, as well as the populations of the Public and Royal Prefectures - direct administrative dependencies - from the Metropolitan Transdzarian Expanse to the Negev-Ruhazani lines.

The Commonwealth is the only major multi-system polity in the Large Magellanic Cloud with universal, compulsory national service. Known as the Levée en masse, Commonwealth Citizens are enlisted in either an array of public services or the Transeisdzarian Cosmoforces after reaching the age of Majority.

Etymology & Terminology

The regions making up modern Transeisdzaria were known by a confusion of terms with specific meanings that were nevertheless used in reference to much of the space beyond the Great Rift, opposite the Phoenix Empire, rather than solely those contained within it directly. For example, in full correctness the Great Rift refers specifically to the nebula itself while the Rift Expanse defines the region beyond; in practice, many speakers use either . Likewise, the people themselves have often called by the blanket term "Rifter" even though the vast majority did not themselves actually live in the Rift.

• The Great Rift is one of the most common names.
• The Rift Expanse
• Dzaria, meaning "Lake Country" in Turanic, was a common translation of the Great Rift in the Phoenix Empire. As contact developed with the Rift Expanse, Cisdzaria, referring to the Great Rift in particular, and . Originally, the Anti-Dzaria was the most common, however, by the turn of the fifth millenium it had been eclipsed by Transdzaria. Transdzaria was first referred to in several Phoenician documents as a term equivalent to the Rift Expanse, Trans meaning "across, over, beyond, to go beyond" and "Dzaria" meaning Lake Country.

The Compact of New Possibilities declared the Constellations and the Saka were "united into one Commonwealth by the name of Transeisdzaria", formally adopting it as the official identity of the state. Sei is another rendition of Saka. All previous denominations were accepted as synonymous with the Transeisdzarian Commonwealth.

History

Rifter In Suit

Earliest Settlement

A complete understanding of Transdzaria's early settlement is obscured. Most narrative frameworks are reconstructed almost entirely from archaeological evidence and oral history, which date the establishment of human colonies in the region to the last few centuries of the first millennia AE. Fully legible data and concrete records did not begin survive until partway through the second millennium.

Relatively isolated from the rest of the Magellanic Cloud, Transdzarians soon diverged culturally from the rest of the Ark-descended populations. Perhaps the most striking is the weakness of taboos forbidding the development of complex Artificial Intelligence and extensive self-modification which became entrenched elsewhere in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Unusual automation and . Groups that would parallel the Black Brethren became a particularly radicalized group agitating for

Contact with the Phoenix Empire

It is considered indisputable that the people of the Phoenix Empire and the Expanse were peripherally aware of each other throughout most of the first and second millennia. However the oriental zones of the Empire were some of its most sparsely colonized territories, while Royal attention was drawn entirely towards the Jardini-Phoenician war. Exploration and development of the regions abutting the Cisdzaria was slow, particularly as the lines of communication grew increasingly distant from the nearest wormholes. Popular references and the existence of Rifter and Phoenician artifacts on either side of the Cisdzaria indicate some level of ongoing sporadic private interaction well before the first publicly recorded first contact. However it would not be until midway into the Third Millennia when the

Transdzaria was in large part idealized as a wild region of romantic adventure by Phoenician culture, giving birth to the artistic movement known as New Spinwardism. Military historians trace the enthusiastic introduction of Lances to the Starforce to Transdzaria, which played a major role in defining Phoenician martial culture. For their part, the Constellations of the Rift struggled to deal with the growing inflow of emigrees fleeing growing repression and social inequality in the Empire proper.

The Rise of the Black Brethren

The Great Pirate Hrang's Beautiful Rides

The Great Wall

In the late 4th Millennium, the clamor in the Phoenix Empire over "Brain Drain" out of noble demesnes to regions beyond Imperial control and social friction over adventurers who had elevated their status through escapades beyond the frontiers had reached a fever pitch. While border controls were instituted with the Free Star League, the diffuse nature of the Constellations made crafting a coherent policy difficult and debate in the Imperial Court over how to deal with the issue began cleaving down factional lines. In 4128 Miyamoto-Seleukia II issued the Control of Movement Edict, commonly cited as the first step in the of the Great Wall by laying the legal framework for later attempts to tamp the flow of migrants and adventurers leaving the official boundaries of the Empire. Other emperors would also begin to lay down more and more Royal.

Emperor Martianis I would be the first to begin truly intensive Royally controlled fortification of the known starways leading to Transeisdzaria.

Baal War

The Celestial Sejm's first Thing concluded, narrowly, that the . The general amnesty. Early appeals to the Black Brethren were made calling for a ceasefire. The initiative fizzled and failed. In fact, the Black Brethren had been planning a fresh offensive as much of the military and political leadership of the nascent Commonwealth, who drew out the

Black Brethren forces consistently outmaneuvered and infiltrated past Cosmoforce blocking positions meant to stop them. While the elusive character

The disastrous performance of the Provisional Cosmoforce in the Baal War exposed the manifold defects of the ad hoc compromises that characterized defense arrangements. Post-war studies highlighted deep structural faults desperately lacking unity of command, inconsistent span of control, insufficient interoperability,

Government & Politics

Saki Phoenicia with her mother, Ravshana al-Lasalle

The Compact of New Possibilities, ratified 18 February 5323, is the legal foundation of the Commonwealth.

The responsibilities of the Commonwealth are strictly defined in the spheres of security, infrastructure, foreign policy, common economy, and intersystem justice with respect to the internal sovereignty of its constituent Autocephalies and Standards.

Local authorities retain self-rule and are by and large free to function as they see fit.

As a monarchy, the Saka Raukas have final control over the conduct of the Commonwealth.

Administration

Commonwealth level institutions are identified by their National and Royal prefix, often abbreviated as M.i.S. (Mellattee i Shahee). The executive organs of the Commonwealth are known as the Two Ministries and Four Offices.

Saka Raukas			Grand Sejm
M.i.S. Central Secretariat			M.i.S. Chancellery
Office of Exchequer & Revenues	War Office	Office of Public Works	Office of Interservice Intelligence	Ministry of Rites	Ministry of Interior

Saka Registry

Upon registry, a household is associated with one of the Twelve Banners and its corresponding totem. Households in the Saka Registry are extended certain privileges: self-sovereignty, the inviolate right to bear arms, a jury of their peers in the Standards over an Autocephaly's courts, personal exemptions from public passage tolls and customs duties, and direct appeals to the Saka Rauka.

The nucleus of the Standards were large numbers of native Rifters, not a few who had been knighted in the last days of the Kingdom of the Rift, and Phoenicians who had fought on either side of the Rift Crusade.

Entry in the Rolls may be stripped for any reason, at any time by the Saka Raukas or on the judgement of a Thing.

Voivodes are automatically raised to a palatine or princely dignity.

The Twelve Standards

Banner	Totem	Voivode	Standard Bearers	# of Households
Auroch	[file:]	Goodwill	Gregorz, blah blah, Sapieha, Caramarz	279
Azdaha	[file:]	[]	[]	244
Capricorn	[file:]	[]	[]	380
Cancer	[file:]	[]	[]	183
Garuda		[]	[]	271
Gavan		[]	Ravshana Marika al-Lasalle,	481
Heron-ibis		[]	[]	328
Magpie		[]	[]	145
Pard		[]	[]	309
Rukh	[file:]	[]	[]	354
Tortoise	[file:]	[]	[]	230
Unicorn	[file:]	[]	[]	336

In addition to the Twelve Banners there are a number of Bordered Banners, smaller groups usually centered around a free-standing Standard Bearer and their allied households.

Administrative Divisions

Themata, from the root word thesis (translated: placement), are the principle military-judicial districts of the Transeisdzarian Commonwealth with overall responsibility for the enforcement of Commonwealth law, the maintenance of public facilities, and coordinating civil defense. Each Themata is divided into a number of Prefectures, headed by Cosmoforce Prefects.

In wartime the M.i.S. War Office may request the activation of certain Themata as zones of Cosmoforce control from the Raukas and the Grand Sejm. Autocephalies and Magistrates may likewise request the imposition of Martial Law from the Raukas.

Military

Main article: Transeisdzarian Cosmoforces

The Transeisdzarian Cosmoforces, officially the Setarehspah Mellattee i Shahee, are the armed forces of the Commonwealth. The Compact of New Possibilities authorized the activation of two services overseen by the M.i.S. War Office and controlled by the Kosmoglavnyshtab that make up the Collective Cosmoforces: a first line Common Army (R.a.R. Kosmoforce) and a second line internal security gendarmerie (Thematic Kosmoforce). The Saka Raukas are the commanders-in-chief, to whom individual recruits swear loyalty on enlistment.

The M.i.S. War Office is authorized to take in citizens fulfilling their Levée en masse service commitments. However, due to the burdens of mass emigration and reconstruction the Grand Sejm temporarily suspended conscription into the Cosmoforces until 5324 and placed the ceiling for annual intake of recruits into armed service at .25% of the population until 5328. As such the effective proportional representation of the population under arms is actually well below or approximately equivalent to most powers of the Large Magellanic Cloud. However the rate is projected to rise to .65% over the course of the next decade as the demographic situation stabilizes, which would make the Commonwealth military establishment among the largest in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

The Cosmoforces operate around 1200 rated combat craft, some 180 of which are Capital Ships, as well as a large number of unrated vessels such as cutters, sloops, frigates, and dragoons. A large number of currently active ships were originally commissioned in foreign yards, such as those of the Phoenix Empire or the CoDominium. Most analysts confidently believe that much of the Collective Cosmoforce's materiel is considerably obsolescent compared to the four modern navies.

The Commonwealth had inherited the surviving Self-Defense Forces of the Constellations and the feudal levy of the Kingdom of the Rift. It also assumed continuity of active hostilities with the Black Brethren and the Phoenix Empire. As an interim measure until the nascent R.a.R. and Thematic Cosmoforces were operationally ready the Grand Sejm issued the 5323 Transitional Forces Law permitting the M.i.S. War Office to amalgamate all native Rifter and Starforce units into a Provisional Cosmoforce until the year 5328, when a number of defense policies such as the draft ceiling would be reviewed. From authorization in March 5323 to official deactivation in August 5326 this was effectively a third service arm of the Collective Cosmoforces.

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