Fiction:Vogrik Directorate


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The Vogrik Directorate is an advanced nation of amphibian scavengers and tinkerers originating from the watery planet 76 Acaphre c in the Mirus Galaxy. The Directorate is characterized by the overarching desire for more knowledge - with the Directorate’s fast technology growth being attributed to the constant search and reverse engineering of advanced technology. The Directorate is also willing to part with knowledge that they have gathered - although those that wish to share just typically pay rather hefty fees as well. Directorate’s culture is centered around the development of creating the perfect melding of flesh and machine, with those in the Directorate believing that once a perfect meld between the two is achieved, the door is opened to an enormous universe of possibilities that would otherwise not be possible. The Directorate is led by a Director, who oversees the entire Directorate. The Directorate is assisted by 4 Executives, who all also hold a position of power second only to the Director themselves. The current director is Shlan’ak Phur’an,having inherited the position from his father - who was killed during an incident involving the Grox in 2768.

The Directorate’s main territories are held within the Mirus Galaxy, with their capital 76 Acaphre b (often shortened to Acaphre) at the center of it. Their holdings stretch out across multiple star systems, with the Vogrik reproduction and desires constantly demanding that new planets be colonized for the future generations. Despite this, the Vogrik are known for having various highly developed planets - the highly concentrated populace forced to build new homes and buildings quickly to support themselves. Notably, however, the Directorate’s rate of expansion has been slowly slowing down as time goes on. While it is unknown as to why, it is possible that the Director and the Executives have introduced a way to control the populace more efficiently. The Directorate owes its existence to the Fiction:Multus Esse. While the Vogrik would not have been spacefaring otherwise, fallen pieces of working Multus Esse technology began to appear across the surface of Acaphre, of which the naturally curious Vogrik race began to take and experiment with. Eventually, the Vogrik entered a golden age with this technology - learning how to produce it themselves, which quickly ended with an exponentially increasing rate of advancement with technology and quickly civilizing the Vogrik.

The Directorate is, notably, a rather aggressive nation. Although by no means as aggressive as other races associated with aggression, the aggression that the Directorate shows is still notable. The Directorate themselves attribute and excuse their aggressiveness for the reason that otherwise, they would’ve been attacked various times and the easiest way to avoid it is to show that “we’re not afraid to press the button before you”. Despite this, those that show the Directorate respect find that the Vogrik will find that they are extremely friendly to those that earn their trust, and should they find an alliance with the Directorate, will find a nation of tech-enhanced warriors willing to defend and help their allies, even against a force of far greater proportions than they could hope to defend against.

History
The early history of the Directorate isn’t well recorded, and thus the beginning is short. The beginnings of the Vogik Directorate lie in the vast underwater and surface dwelling communities of the amphibian Vogik race. The Vogik were all naturally curious, so when the first Multus Esse derelicts came crashing down into the vast oceans of their swamp planet in 1967, the sea dwelling Vogik would all swarm around it. While other wildlife of Acaphre simply swam away in fright, the Vogik actively interacted with it, and it was from this interaction that the Vogik would start to ascend to space. After several years, the Vogik finally cracked the technology, and began to learn how to build their own, more organized communities. As the Vogik began to create civilization, more Multus Esse remnants would crash onto the planet, and cause a higher growth rate.

However, the Vogik would eventually begin to start competing with each other. As the technological development of the Vogik began to become near-spacefaring levels, the various Vogik communities began to compete and turn hostile to each other. Jealousy and superiority began to dominate the Vogik community, and on the verge of the discovery of FTL drives, it reached a breaking point and sparked a large war across Acaphre, with each side vying against each other to reach spacefaring first. The war began in 2533, and despite the large scale of the war, lasted only 7 years - when one Vogik community developing nuclear weaponry while the rest tried to develop FTL drives. This community used said weapons only 4 times, but the effects were notable - with the deaths of several million Vogik, both adults and juveniles. Afterwards, this community managed to successfully band the Vogik into oneby foce, and the first FTL drive was quickly developed.

Around this time, the new leader of the Vogik decreed that from this point on, every single event that would happen would be archived, making post-Acaphre history much more understood. Terraforming technology was already in production by the time the FTL drive was developed, taken from a derelict Multus Esse ship that was in orbit. Because of this, the Vogik immediately began to spread across other systems, and form the Vogik civilization. Around this point, the idea for the new government becoming a form of directorate was passed around. Once the government change became widely supported across the Vogik, the civilization became known as the Vogik Directorate. The Vogik Directorate quickly reached a rather considerable size for their age. Their first contact of alien life came in 2619, when the Directorate picked up alien signals emanating from an unknown point several hundred lightyears away from the Directorate. Almost immediately, the Directorate took an isolationist stance - making sure to keep away from Gigaquadrantic affairs out of fear of other alien empires. The Directorate would continue unabated for several centuries, but in the 2700s, the Directorate would find itself ripped out from its comfortable safe-zone, and hurled screeching into Gigaquadrantic affairs.

While attempting to stay away from the Gigaquadrant for as long as it possibly could, it became too taxing to hide, and in 2820, Director Shlan’ak Phur’an announced the existence of the Directorate to the Gigaquadrant through the Universal Discussion Board.

Culture
First of all, and most notably, the Vogrik have a rather strange sense of family. Their reproductive behavior demands that while couples do not stay together, a mother stays with her eggs until they hatch, and actively helps them reach adolescent. After adolescence, the oldest sibling in a clutch becomes their “leader”, with the mother leaving her young to fend for themselves. The clutch stays together, even until death. Because of this sense of family, there is a lack of romance and lust within the Directorate - and because of this, outsiders can tell that Directorate cities seem supernaturally colder or more bleak. However, Director Phur’an does know the feeling of “love” (as it can be experienced by a Vogrik) and companionship - but in an even more alien sense due to sharing his body with another consciousness.

Vogrik culture, from the outside, is rather enigmatic. What is known is that the Vogrik are rather pushy, particularly to acquire something they want. At the same time, they are certainly not the shy and retiring types when it comes to war - typically violently retaliating against attempts to extort them and threats against them. While this has proven to be equally disastrous and beneficial to the Vogrik, they have little intention of changing their foreign policy. From someone that lives in the Directorate, Vogrik society is rather peaceful - although when violence does occur, it tends to be very violent than what it would be. It is unknown as to why this happens, although some believe that the numerous cybernetics that individual Vogrik have allows for a future criminal to be extra capable of committing larceny, murder, or any other crime. Not to mention that more military-grade augmentations for a policeman allow a criminal and an officer to cause more violence around them during a confrontation.

Politics within the Directorate, unlike many other nations, are rather calm. The majority of the Directorate belong to the left, and thus the nation is rather egalitarian. Despite this, the Vogrik commonly practice speciesism, and while many species do not find themselves victim to speciesist Vogrik, they are capable of spewing hate like a weapon. Xenophobia is also rife within the Directorate, resulting from 300 years of avoiding contact with other races.

Military
will be done later

Relationships

 * Allied


 * Pacts


 * On Good Terms


 * Neutral


 * On Poor Terms


 * At War

Quotes

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