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The story of [[Martias]] and [[Kimera Santuren|the Angel]] may only be around 100 years old but it is an important and defining one for the [[Celestine Ascendancy]]. An epic and true story of love, conflict and revolution it explains the history of the Ascendancy and how [[The Glisal Guardians]] came into being. | The story of [[Martias Arrarax|Martias]] and [[Kimera Santuren|the Angel]] may only be around 100 years old but it is an important and defining one for the [[Celestine Ascendancy]]. An epic and true story of love, conflict and revolution it explains the history of the Ascendancy and how [[The Glisal Guardians]] came into being. | ||
===The Celestine Ascendancy=== | ===The Celestine Ascendancy=== | ||
At the end of the [[40 Year Empire War]], the Celestines, like [[Song]], were devastated. They were exhausted physically and economically and lacked the will to prevent what quickly became a corporate takeover of their civilization. Within three decades of the end of the war, the Celestines were effectively ruled by a cabal of competing [[keiretsu]] - allied groups of large companies with interlocking relationships and shareholdings. The century that followed saw these keiretsu, some of whom were rumored to have ties to [[Syndicate]] Space (in particular the massive [[Wayland Astrotech]]), embarked on a development binge on [[Glisal II]], the capital of the Celestines, and ruthlessly plundered its environment of resources, destroying it. | At the end of the [[40 Year Empire War]], the Celestines, like [[Song]], were devastated. They were exhausted physically and economically and lacked the will to prevent what quickly became a corporate takeover of their civilization. Within three decades of the end of the war, the Celestines were effectively ruled by a cabal of competing [[keiretsu]] - allied groups of large companies with interlocking relationships and shareholdings. The century that followed saw these keiretsu, some of whom were rumored to have ties to [[Syndicate]] Space (in particular the massive [[Wayland Astrotech]]), embarked on a development binge on [[Glisal II]], the capital of the Celestines, and ruthlessly plundered its environment of resources, destroying it. | ||
Though always a wealthy area, much of [[the Singing Citadel]]'s more outsized testaments to personal glory and wealth were constructed during this period to house the executives of the companies that make up these keiretsu. An increasingly large portion of the Ascendancy's wealth was filtering upwards to these already fantastically-wealthy individuals, while the populations of [[Litharge#Scrapston|Scrapston]] and the near-anarchic [[:Litharge#The_Subnet|Subnet]] swelled. | Though always a wealthy area, much of [[Litharge#The_Singing_Citadel|the Singing Citadel]]'s more outsized testaments to personal glory and wealth were constructed during this period to house the executives of the companies that make up these keiretsu. An increasingly large portion of the Ascendancy's wealth was filtering upwards to these already fantastically-wealthy individuals, while the populations of [[Litharge#Scrapston|Scrapston]] and the near-anarchic [[:Litharge#The_Subnet|Subnet]] swelled. | ||
By ~880 A.E., when [[Kimera Santuren|the Angel of Scrapston]] made her first known appearance, the disparity in wealth in the Celestine Ascendancy had become truly acute. The middle class had all but disappeared, and life for most people was scratching out an existence in whatever short-term low-paying jobs they could find while the sky palaces of the masters of finance and production loomed over them. | By ~880 A.E., when [[Kimera Santuren|the Angel of Scrapston]] made her first known appearance, the disparity in wealth in the Celestine Ascendancy had become truly acute. The middle class had all but disappeared, and life for most people was scratching out an existence in whatever short-term low-paying jobs they could find while the sky palaces of the masters of finance and production loomed over them. | ||
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There, she disembarked and entered the spaceport. While the [[Y'saari]] rarely permit outsiders to enter the vast majority of their territory, Alpha Station is a major trading hub and as it's largely unregulated by the Y'saari, provided the visitors and denizens don't disrupt Y'saari business, there's a significant underworld, which Kimera made contact with. She was able to pay smugglers to get her into the Celestine Ascendancy unnoticed, as she feared either being detained as a suspicious Song citizen trying to enter the Ascendancy or being identified and that information getting back to Martias. | There, she disembarked and entered the spaceport. While the [[Y'saari]] rarely permit outsiders to enter the vast majority of their territory, Alpha Station is a major trading hub and as it's largely unregulated by the Y'saari, provided the visitors and denizens don't disrupt Y'saari business, there's a significant underworld, which Kimera made contact with. She was able to pay smugglers to get her into the Celestine Ascendancy unnoticed, as she feared either being detained as a suspicious Song citizen trying to enter the Ascendancy or being identified and that information getting back to Martias. | ||
She went to [[Litharge]], the capital of [[Glisal II]], the capital planet of the Celestine Ascendancy, and disappeared into the rowdy chaos of [[Scrapston]], safe from Martias and free to move on with her life, unencumbered. | She went to [[Litharge]], the capital of [[Glisal II]], the capital planet of the Celestine Ascendancy, and disappeared into the rowdy chaos of [[Litharge#Scrapston|Scrapston]], safe from Martias and free to move on with her life, unencumbered. | ||
===Survival=== | ===Survival=== | ||
Since Kimera was legally dead, she had no [[Mark]] account, and if she had used it, Martias may have discovered she was still alive, and come looking for what he would still consider his. However, like many places with a population that included a significant number of individuals who didn't want to be tracked, an informal black-market economy had arisen, using physical chits that could be converted into Marks deposited to their account for 80% value by those specializing in money laundering. | Since Kimera was legally dead, she had no [[Covenant Mark|Mark]] account, and if she had used it, Martias may have discovered she was still alive, and come looking for what he would still consider his. However, like many places with a population that included a significant number of individuals who didn't want to be tracked, an informal black-market economy had arisen, using physical chits that could be converted into Marks deposited to their account for 80% value by those specializing in money laundering. | ||
Kimera had no plan now, other than survival, and she quickly found that was harder than anticipated. Scrapston was a hard place. Perhaps not as difficult to survive in as the [[:Litharge#The_Subnet|Subnet]], but not a pleasant place for Nusrizan woman with no resources and no on-planet friends. | Kimera had no plan now, other than survival, and she quickly found that was harder than anticipated. Scrapston was a hard place. Perhaps not as difficult to survive in as the [[:Litharge#The_Subnet|Subnet]], but not a pleasant place for Nusrizan woman with no resources and no on-planet friends. | ||
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She was able to hide her activities from her roommates for over a year, but soon enough the five others she lived with in their single-room apartment got suspicious and pressed her one evening about why where she went when she wasn't at work or at home. She confessed and as she was already a bit of a hero in their eyes for helping them force their landlord to make necessary repairs to the building they lived in, they felt as if they'd known all along, so much sense did it make. | She was able to hide her activities from her roommates for over a year, but soon enough the five others she lived with in their single-room apartment got suspicious and pressed her one evening about why where she went when she wasn't at work or at home. She confessed and as she was already a bit of a hero in their eyes for helping them force their landlord to make necessary repairs to the building they lived in, they felt as if they'd known all along, so much sense did it make. | ||
=== | ===Scrapston Guardians=== | ||
They said they wanted to help Kimera, and so the six of them formed what they jokingly, at first, called the | They said they wanted to help Kimera, and so the six of them formed what they jokingly, at first, called the Scrapston Guardians. Along with Kimera Santuren, there was: | ||
<blockquote>[[Acoh Phi]] - a male [[W'hoorn]]. | <blockquote>[[Acoh Phi]] - a male [[W'hoorn]]. | ||
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===The Angel's Revolution=== | ===The Angel's Revolution=== | ||
And then it came. In a single night, the Guardians assassinated Directors of 23 different corporations, sparing no keiretsu. They also blew up the [[Corporate Justice Building]] in the [[Raphite Towers]] after sending a credible warning that anyone still there at the wee hours of the night should vacate, in order to minimize casualties, and destroyed specific power substations, depriving many of the security forces of the largest corporations of power. | And then it came. In a single night, the Guardians assassinated Directors of 23 different corporations, sparing no keiretsu. They also blew up the [[Corporate Justice Building]] in the [[Litharge#Raphite_Towers|Raphite Towers]] after sending a credible warning that anyone still there at the wee hours of the night should vacate, in order to minimize casualties, and destroyed specific power substations, depriving many of the security forces of the largest corporations of power. | ||
The symbolism was too obvious - the [[Corporate Justice Building]] was a massive building that housed a special legal system that any individual suing a corporation would go through. It was paid for by the corporations and was blatantly biased towards them. It was an object of derision at best and disgust at worst by the general populace. Its destruction was clearly the symbol they had been promised. | The symbolism was too obvious - the [[Corporate Justice Building]] was a massive building that housed a special legal system that any individual suing a corporation would go through. It was paid for by the corporations and was blatantly biased towards them. It was an object of derision at best and disgust at worst by the general populace. Its destruction was clearly the symbol they had been promised. | ||
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===For the People=== | ===For the People=== | ||
The surviving three co-founders of the Guardians - Acoh Phi, Udu Yaagah, and Bemmorr Stass - quickly established a new form of government for the Ascendancy. The Glisal Guardians would be dissolved or subsumed into this new, popularly-elected government. The people would elect representatives called, appropriately, [[Guardians]], and these Guardians would then select, among themselves, one of their number to function as the [[Guardian Prime]]. While the Guardians have a range of powers within the Celestine Ascendancy, and the Guardian Prime has all of them, the GP is also able to assign various functions to whomever, whether they be Guardians or others, in order to assist them. | The surviving three co-founders of the Guardians - Acoh Phi, Udu Yaagah, and Bemmorr Stass - quickly established a new form of government for the Ascendancy. The Glisal Guardians would be dissolved or subsumed into this new, popularly-elected government. The people would elect representatives called, appropriately, [[Guardian Council|Guardians]], and these Guardians would then select, among themselves, one of their number to function as the [[Guardian Council|Guardian Prime]]. While the Guardians have a range of powers within the Celestine Ascendancy, and the Guardian Prime has all of them, the GP is also able to assign various functions to whomever, whether they be Guardians or others, in order to assist them. | ||
Elections were immediately held, and unsurprisingly, Acoh Phi, Udu Yaagah, and Bemmorr Stass were elected, along with two others, as the initial Guardians of the Celestine Ascendancy, and Udu Yaagah was chosen by them as the first Guardian Prime. | Elections were immediately held, and unsurprisingly, Acoh Phi, Udu Yaagah, and Bemmorr Stass were elected, along with two others, as the initial Guardians of the Celestine Ascendancy, and Udu Yaagah was chosen by them as the first Guardian Prime. | ||
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Udu, the first Guardian Prime of the Celestine Ascendancy, declared war on the Song Dominion, and thus began the third of the Empire Wars, known as [[The Litharge War]] (though of course most of the fighting took place in space, not in Litharge, which only saw action in the first incursion by Song troops to help the Corporate Council). | Udu, the first Guardian Prime of the Celestine Ascendancy, declared war on the Song Dominion, and thus began the third of the Empire Wars, known as [[The Litharge War]] (though of course most of the fighting took place in space, not in Litharge, which only saw action in the first incursion by Song troops to help the Corporate Council). | ||
The | The [[Guardian Council]] of the Celestine Ascendancy today includes: | ||
<blockquote> | <blockquote> | ||
Guardian Envoy / Guardian Prime - <b>Clover Moonchild</b></br> | |||
Guardian Exarch - <b>Holgorath V'lani</b></br> | |||
Guardian Imperator - <b>Lupisentia V'lani</b></br> | |||
</blockquote> | |||
Previous Guardians include:<br/> | Previous Guardians include:<br/> | ||
<b>Zoe Qaln</b> (Guardian Executive) - A [[Jin]] woman. <br/> | |||
<b>Grek</b> (Guardian Executive and Guardian Prime) - A [[Nath-el]] woman.<br/> | <b>Grek</b> (Guardian Executive and Guardian Prime) - A [[Nath-el]] woman.<br/> | ||
<b>Shardclaw Dragonlord</b> (Guardian General and then Guardian Executive) - A [[Ry'nari]] man.<br/> | <b>Shardclaw Dragonlord</b> (Guardian General and then Guardian Executive) - A [[Ry'nari]] man.<br/> | ||