Fiction:The Divinarium

"We are the light in the darkness - the light of all-destroying fire."

- Iovera

The Divinarium, also known as the Twilight Fan(atic)s, is a zealot empire guided by. Hiding in shades of, they are now slowly gaining power.

History
During the Annihilation, most of The Manifest of Eola'Nar were ravaged, half - Mali'Nar - joining the Legion of the Deathmarch and other half being forced to work with races of Omnipotent Four - they now called themselves Isio'Nar. Isio'Nar decided they need a new empire to follow them in their goals.

They then contacted what remained of Radeon species (those of Temple of Spode), posing as "divine messengers". They promised them a future - with the only cost - Radeon will serve and follow the Isio'Nar. After giving them Manifest's psychic technology and helping them to restore their population, Radeons gained a new hope, and decided to make a new home, away from other eyes, in the uncharted sectors of the Borealis galaxy. Using powers and technology granted by Isio'Nar, they quickly pacified local empires and subdued them to their will. Not only that, but Radeons also gained several new alles - refugees of Republic of Tetra, their former allies like s and s, shattered by the Anniliation and given a new home - the ancient home galaxy of their ancestors, the Rades.

They united in the single force, and named themselves the Divinarium - aspiring to become powerful empire to be reckoned with.

New neighbours
The Divinarium, however, had to share his home in Twilight Sector with other empires - quite powerful ones, indeed. Radeons have encountered two major species fighting for dominance - warlike Artharons and intelligent Fyrvrtha. Soon, they have discovered that Artharons hold the planet Spoddah, the ancient homeworld of Radeons - which was a prime target for Radeons during that time. The Divinarium has started a military campaign against the Artharons, absorbing Fyvrtha into their ranks and overrunning most of the Arnoan planets. The Divinarium has also to attack other empires to gain more territory, but they were repelled by the newly-formed Coalition of the Twilight Sector. Arnoans and other native empires of the sector have united and started a massive counterattack from all fronts, retaking most of their territory. During the time the battlefront of the conflict moved to the Spoddah, Iovera has decided to surrender. The war resulted in a draw - while part of the former Artharon territory close to the Crepusculum as well as Fyrvrtha space were admired by both factions to belong to the Divinarium, Artharons have retained their remaining territory, which was now controlled by the Coalition. Space located near the Spoddah is now called a "neutral zone" and both Divinarium's and Coalition's citizen can settle there now.

Technology
"Mind over matter."

- Radeon psi-engineer

The Divinarium prefers psychic and essence-based technology over traditional ones. However, they also use convenient technology - like the construction of nanometal, a living material that has basic sapience. That allowed the Divinarium to build cities and colonise planets for days or even hours, as well as making the constructs durable and strong.

Weaponry
Military and construction technology of the Divinarium is quite powerful, utilising the essence as well. Many of them utilise the minds of the users as weapons, harnessing the inner elemental potential of the user as powerful weapon; while the other weapons use the same potental of the minds of the victims of the weapons against them.

Social technology
The Divinarium's social technology has form of the psi-cybernetic implants called The Unity, which contact with the brain of the user and form a link, giving users ability to contact with each other telepathically. The Unity also functions like a computer. Goverment of the Divinarium (not Isio'Nar one, mortal one) also uses this implants to maintain complete control over its subjects, many of those are just a bunch of post-apocalyptic survivors who would be hard to control without the implants.

Isio'Nar
"The minds of gods are not for mortals to know or to judge. Accept that the we have a place for all of us in their grand scheme, and be happy in the part you have to play."

- Overmaster Telfar

Isio'Nar, also known as Spodelings or Messengers, are the ascended beings with psychic abilities. Hailing from many species and many ages, all of them have abilities to bend spacetime to their will and control minds of mortals. Isio'Nar are the split faction of the orignal Manifest of, the second split faction being.

They are the behind-of-the-scenes rulers of the Divinarium, and give tasks to the other species to do. Radeons, and the most of Divinarium as well, treat Isio'Nar as messengers of Spode. Their presence, however, is hidden, and they rarely show themselves to mortals. If they do, however, the fate of these mortals is already sealed. Isio'Nar also provide technology for Divinarium and helped Radeons to achieve them their true elemental potential.

Isio'Nar are puzzling and intelligent. As they no longer have any mortal bodies, their minds have grown out of any restraints, gaining near-omniscience. Due to this, Isio'Nar are generally incomprehensible by mortal species, scheming for years, decades and centuries, planning the future for their obscure, strange goals. Isio'Nar exist in many universes, and this one is just one of many. The whole Divinarium is merely a cog in their plans, and there are believed to be similar civilisations in other universes, too controlled by Isio'Nar.

Radeons
"Remember - in order to make a perfect world, you must cleanse, purge, burn, kill and destroy everything imperfect."

- Archpriestess Iovera

Radeons are rodent-like species whose origins date to Ardenta Galaxy. They are religious zealots without hesitation and pity, and consider showing and even experiencing emotions a sin. They have great affinity with Elemental energy and with help of Isio'Nar they mastered them to the point they are able to crush thousands with their psychic abilities, as well as predict future. Their numbers are small due to their near extinction during the Holy Shadow War, but Isio'Nar helped them to regain their power via cloning. Their population is still not large.

Radeons are "secondary leaders" of the Divinarium, and when Isio'Nar give commands to the empire, Radeons are those who execute them. They also maintain law and religious structure of the Divinarium, inspiring other species to follow the words of "messengers" and punishing those who disagree. In military, they are usually present as commanders and elite squads of psychics. Radeon's lifespan is extremely long, and as such many of them have massive battlefield experience.

Omnitermines
"GAAAAAAH!"

- Unknown Omnitermine

Omnitermines are avians native to. Short-tempered and prone to rage, their nation was split during the Annihilation. Some Omnitermines settled in Twilight Sector and sided with the Divinarium (though only by necessity, while others rather chose to settle near their allies of the . The latter currently participate in ., while the first are now rebuilding their power in Twilight Sector. Within Divinarium, they are quite often seen in military, due to their hotbloodedness and temper. They also can fly, and so they are often seen as members of fast-attack squads participating at hit-and-run attacks. Omnitermines also contributed some automaton technology to the Divinarium which are used quite often. These robots are not intelligent but are quite strong, and proved themselves useful when pacifying native empires.

Omnitermines are standing a bit out of the most of the empire, due to their fierce individuality and the fact their allegiance with Divinarium is only out of necessity. However, like every species of the empire, they are still subject to all Divinarium's laws and generally lack independence.

Stalkies
"You, people, care so much about conflict . We, Stalkies, care not. We do not wish war eternal. We wish peace. Peace and money."

- Commerce Senator Tinzak

Stalkies are arachnid creatures native to. They were allies of Radeons during Ascension War and Cold War, but then, during the March of Apocalypse, the contact between them vanished. They allied again during the Annihilation, when Stalkies were left homeless as Universe 66501 was destroyed. The Divinarium accepted Stalkies as new members, and now they live in Twilight Sector along with other species.

Stalkies are imposing and a bit creepy, as well as quite strong. Despite their appearance though, they are not aggressive, instead favoring diplomacy and trade. As a result, they are mainly seen outside of battle as merchants, administrators and diplomats. However, they are sometimes used in military due to their strength.

Imperions
"Do not disturb."

- Emperor Imperon

Imperions are amphibians native to Quadrant 82. They are agile and quick to move, and also able to swim using their webbed feet. They were allied with Radeons during the War of Ages, but since Radeons vanished after the March of Apocalypse to form Dei'Ar Theocracy, Imperions were left at their own devices, much like Stalkies. They built a small empire on the edge of the Quadrant, which was attacked during the Annihilation and destroyed, probably the only casualty that Cyrandia cluster suffered.

Imperions are peaceful kind favouring art and music. Imperions have lot of artists and musicians in their species, enriching culture of the Divinarium. They are rarely seen in the Divinarium military due to this fact, though Imperion soldiers on the battlefield are not unheard of. Imperions have good relations with Omnitermines and Stalkies due to similar cultures, but they generally do not trust other species of the Divinarium.

Fyrvrtha
"Frvrrtrtrtrtrrrrrr!."

- Unknown Fyrvrtha

Fyrvrtha are the weird creatures with octopus-like features, who were original rulers of the Twilight Sector. While populous, they did not possess strong technology and were barely Tier 4. So, once Radeons came to the sector, they were rapidly absorbed to the newly formed Divinarium, and became second members of it. They compose a bulk of military, working body and Divinarium's population as whole.

Fyrvrtha are sometimes seen as slave race to Radeons. This is not true - Fyrvrtha have rights and freedoms, and a large part of the Divinarium's goverment are Fyrvrtha. They are quite intelligent species, calm and logical. The main reason why they surrendered to Radeons without any resistance was the fascination on Radeon knowledge and technology, as well as realising of Radeons' power.

Religion
The Divinarium worships as "Messengers of Spode". While its ruling body is a theocracy, the species of the empire are generally not fanatics, in fact. Only Radeons serve the Messengers with zeal, while others just follow the state religion and do what they have to do. Neverthless, all members of the Divinarium are religious - just not zealous.

The state religion is called Viatorism, roughly following classical Spodist teachings of the Radeons, but with few modifications in order to fit the new needs of Isio'Nar. It is enforced and preached by Radeons primarily, though there are other species in the priesthood. Priesthood are de jure rulers of the Divinarium, but the real masters of it are. The Divinarium is truly a theocracy - the rule of gods.

Military
The Divinarium maintains trained and powerful military, called the Twilight Guard. Unlike the Dei'Ar and Masaari armies who relied on conscription, the Twilight Guard is formed of recruits who join as they wish. The Guardsmen maintain extreme discipline within their ranks, but have a good quality of life, even better than that of most Divinarium's civilians.

Quotes from other empires
"Intelligence found:Rades-spawn. VENGEANCE FOR CREATORS!"

- The Master Infobot

"These creatures shall be converted to out ways, or shall suffer the wrath of the final solution"

- Zarni Priest

"Hmm these "Divinarium" seem to be an interesting race we shall observe them first before making actual contact"

- Emperor Dragonar VII

"The Divinarium seem to be a powerful band of joined species. However as Spode followers, heretics they are and if they would ever take arms against me or my legions, they will have to be taken care of in due time"

- Morgandaûr

"I like it when they say GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

- ??? mentioning the Omnitermines

"Do the Radeon never learn?"

"Huh. Maybe they are not as bad as I though..."

"We are pleased to know that the Radeon have survived, they are our races great and long-time allies afterall. And now we share something in common - coming back from the brink of extinction."

- Magellanic Sovereignty of Planets

"If there's one thing we should know, they sure are persistent. The Radeon are an excellent species, and the Divinarium is their greatest alliance thus far. we hope to work well with them."

- of the

"yoo keep us givin free stoof we mite as well help yas BUT DATS ONLY A MEHBEH ENNIT? WE IS LORON AN LORON HAV NO FRIENDZ"

"The Divinarium, sounds like a good empire to have an alliance with."

- of the

"A testament to the sheer resilience of the Radeon species. The Divinarium is among the new superpowers of the Gigaquadrant."

"It is foolish to fight for the faith in non existing entities. We Klthun where born from the mud of Kisagirs we are the true spawn of the universe and we wont let illiterate fanaticism like this exist!"

- Kthlathu, Tribal Warlord of Sha-Anith, the Fieldwalker clan of Klthun