Taehayasdan

Samhan Taehayasdan
Three Nations of Great Hayasdan
Spiral Banner	Great Seal
Motto
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Anthem
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System Map
Capital	Soreabal
Recognized languages	New Ayraratian, Gyerimal,
Religion	Spiral Salvation
Demonym	Taehayasdani
Government	Federal
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- Taehetman
Legislatures
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- Sich Rada
Systems	One
Currency	Jeohwa

"If Heaven wills it! and I'll chase the White Whale ‘round Good Hope, and round Iakka’s Horn, and round the Kizil-Tepe, and gyre with the spiral of infinity before I give Them up. And this is what ye have lived for, hwachae! to chase the celestial whale through the dreamlands, and over every contour of the Great Green, ‘till Their iridescent blood spout and roll wings out. What say thou, will thee splice hands on it, now? I think ye do look brave."

The Greater Celestial Tranquility Sphere
Habaek and the Hundred Comet Nations

The wide Ocean of Stars is full of wonders and the many lightyears wide supermassive nebula called the Giger Deeps is host to some of its most breathtaking. Dominating its local neighborhood, the nebula serves as an important stellar nursery – for both stars themselves and the manifold creatures that cherish their life-giving warmth. Of particular interest are the Celestial species as they cleave the night skies like Comets, outrunning light itself on the slipstreams, who find the nebulae freckling the galaxy to be valuable oasis for raising their young. They come in every variety of shape and size, from sprites you could cup in the palms of your hands to great dumb jellies trailing tentacles across the void, but chief amongst them for majesty and intelligence are the Celestial Cetaceans. Like enormous flowers they unfurl many brilliant gossamer-sail wings like petals to bask in sunlight, skim the surfaces of gas giants, gracefully dive and twist amongst asteroids. Only in the great nebulae can one see such creatures all gathered in one place instead of glimpsed at in the vastness of the void.

The Aral Cloud is one of the Deeps’ largest if narrowest extensions, stretching far to the North like an outstretched finger. Once astonishingly vast itself, the Aral Cloud has shrunk and thinned out significantly over the course of the past hundred million years from the toll of birthing cohorts of local stars. Amongst its most recent progeny, still shrouded in its gold and turquoise swaddling cloths of aether, is the energetic white-blue star commonly called Habaek. It is a rich system with by nine jeweled planets, girdled by two dense asteroid belts, and seated at the locus of three different major Stellar Winds. Of the stars contained in the Deeps none are more alluring a destination for those species that travel the slipstreams, not the least of which is mankind.

It might be surprising then that man’s touch on the system is relatively light. One can find little evidence of resource exploitation before the Cataclysm, or what its inhabitants call the Joyous Occultation, and even at their most profligate the peculiar, erratic development of the societies that emerged in the aftermath leave the question somewhat moot. The human population can largely be divided into two types: the sedentary Sidereal Habaekids and the more transient stays in-system by the nomadic Celestial Comet Nations. The former are most densely settled in the Inner System, behind the First Girdle, particularly on the worlds of Ayrarat and Yuhwa which have always been the centers of Habaekid civilization. Sidereal Habaekid population amounts to no more than a few billions scattered across four planets, dozens of moons, and a number of artificial habitats. The latter favored the Interstitial region and Outer System. Even tallying the Celestials who follow their wild namesakes across the heavens and shepherd domesticated pods to Habaek in cycles of interstellar transhumance would not add more than a hundred million to that figure.

Such an arrangement was of course not by choice but the result of considerable history of conflict between the two styles of life as the Sidereals ferociously punished irruptions past the First Girdle and more opportunistic Comet Nations raided settlement beyond the safety of the Inner System.

The dominant power of Habaek in the modern era is Samhan Taehayasdan, a federalized “tripartite” theocratic monarchy joining large swathes of continental territory on Yuhwa and Ayrarat, the Zaporozhzhia’s moons, and the fealty of several Comet Nations. Samhan and its allies are also the the main enforcers of the Greater Celestial Tranquility Sphere, an ever expanding security zone expanding several light-minutes beyond the system.

Government

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

History

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The Salvation Spiral

The Joyous Baek-Huit Minus One Occultations

What is Baek-Huit?
From the Spiral we know that the Baek-Huit is a Sacred Number for humans. There are 108 feelings. The number of senses is Six: smell, touch, taste, hearing, sight, and consciousness. Painful, Pleasant, Neutral are Three. Within and Without are Two. What is Behind, Now, and Ahead, is also Three. Six multiplies by Three, is multiplied by Two, and multiplied once more by Three. There are 108 feelings. Therefore, there are 108 Negations.

What is the relation of the Negations to the Joyous Occultation?
It is these Negations with which the saints of the Ten-Tailed Sun would self-annihilate, opening the way to the Spiral of Origin.

What is the Joyous Occultation?
The Saints of the Ten-Tailed Sun attempted a universal sublimation. Some schools say they fell short and achieved Baek-Sept, others that they overshot and achieved Baek-Neuf. A few suggest that they achieved no Negations but stumbled upon some other process entirely. Instead of taking all man with them they had instead caused bitter partings. Whatever the nature of the error in the Unseen there is an equal and opposite reaction in all things, so these flaws were reflected and realized in the world of the Seen by Nemesis. And since the object was no less than the Spiral of Origin these imperfections, no matter how minor, became grievous and terrible to behold. Spirits came alive with fury. The confusion of man became fratricidal conflict. Knowledge of how to traverse the stars failed. In sum, the moment of felicity was indistinguishable from catastrophe.

Nevertheless, even if they were confounded in bringing about the fullness of their aspiration by pondering means of the Saints and heeding the Bodhisattvas the way lies clearer for a more perfect attempt to come.

Who are the Bodhisattvas?
When the wise successfully comprehends the whole of the Spiral of Origin, it is not impossible to turn back from subliming to Akasha at the last for the sake of those behind. While not divine like spirits or immortals, they stand Between like them, and whisper to the unenlightened by the same means through dream-semiotics and digital communion. The Joyous Occultation brought about many more Bodhissatvas than ever before.

Is this why the Occultation is also said to be Baek-Huit Minus One?
Yes. For as grievous as the parting was between the halves that went ahead and those who were left behind it was nevertheless Joyous that so many had sublimed to an Akashic existence.

How long ago did the Joyous Baek-Huit Minus One Occultation occur?
Depending on the one you ask, it may be anywhere between ~3000-800 Years of the Ten-Tailed Sun before the present.

Wherefore the wide divergence?
The plurality of the Habaekid arms of the Salvation Spiral and academia agree that the Occultation occurred at least one thousand years of the Ten-Tailed Sun ago, with many placing the most realistic date somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 Ten-tailed Sun years ago. However not a few scholars, Magi, Shamans, and the Counter-cyclical schools championed in the modern day by the Kwanumsa sect, Rakhmankhulites, and Evdokimovii dissent. By calculating from the astrogation records of the Comet-riders, consulting traditions, divining from the heavens, and communing with spirits they argue that the difference could not have been more than 800 years of the Ten-Tailed Sun. For the foreseeable future, no amount of debate can reconcile the two different visions of the past.

What is the promise of the Mahdi?
"If there were to remain in the life of the world but one day, that day would prolong until We send in the Mahdi. Their name will be the same as Our name. They will align the heavens with the earths and make the world tranquility, as it was once filled with oppression and tyranny."

But no one knows the hour, nor the place. And how can a person have the unknowable hundred thousand names of the Spiral?

Habaek System

Inner System

Habeak (Sun)	Type
Ayrarat	(Inner Habitable)
-Vahan	Minor Moon
Yuhwa	(Inner Habitable)
-Hweonwha	Major Moon
-Wuihwa	Major Moon
Ahobiryong	(Inner Habitable)

The Interstitals

The First Girdle, also known as the Heavenly Mountains or the Aksai	Asteroid Belt
Zaporozhzhia	(Interstitial Gas Giant)
Semirechye	(Interstitial Gas Giant)
-Zerevshan	Minor Moon
-Haiykh	Minor Moon
-Baikal	Major Moon
-Almatay	Minor Moon

Outer System

The Second Girdle, also known as the Altai or the Amu Darya	Asteroid Belt
Paytakaran	(Outer Gas Giant)
Kokand	(Outer Gas Giant)
Izilkhoum	(Highly Elliptical)
Kyzlkoum	(Highly Elliptical)