Fiction:Delpha Coalition of Planets

"Those who look upon Kilnok’s shield, Nyx, are struck by its portrayal of Delphan victories - to the uninitiated observer, it seems to be a mural of triumph after triumph against their foes - the Wub, the Vartekians, the Congregation, and the Dominatus. Indeed we know not whether it is magic or technology that compelled the perpetually shifting surface to display in the most vivid and aesthetically pleasing style the defeat of the Vermulans, and the overthrow of the Undying Council. But those who know what the DCP truly is know what the former Archon’s Shield means. The Archon said that beyond their technology and industry, that their single defining trait was that “They would eat their own children, burn their own guts, raze their own planets, and eradicate generations of their own in order to hold the line.” They are the line between order and chaos, the titan holding up thin veil of stability in a universe beset everywhere by entropy - whether the maddening wars caused by unbounded mortal ambition, or the callous aftershocks of beings beyond our understanding. They are the wall, each brick laid their scientific, martial and industrial strength, glued together by the adhesive of a soulless indomitability. They reinforce this wall constantly - they sacrifice their children, their freedoms, their character, and their very souls to prevent the conflagration of barely illimitable disruption from consuming us all. To those who question their methods, their brutality, their callousness, their seemingly unquenchable thirst for war and blood. To those who question what seems to be the invidious abomination of a culture predicated on the sacrifice of most species’ most enshrined rights on the altar of war and progress. To those who scream from the stands of supposed Delphan insanity, of their cruelty and willingness to forsake the moderation of sapient beings, they make this sacrifice so you do not have to. Their act of gallantry is their offering, their oblation to the callous laws of a world teetering on the edge of inferno, for the insatiable holocaust that is the Gigaquadrant demands satiation, and it is their offering of their past, their present, and their future, that gives you yours."

- Unknown

 Hail the DCP

The Delpha Coalition of Planets (popularly known as the Delphans) are a hyperpower that is resident to the Plazith Rim, a power which had extended its reach across the Gigaquadrant cluster in the first years of modern intergalactic politics. The DCP were cofounders to the Seven Starr Alliance and several other major organisations. Despite their namesake, the races of the coalition are a united empire, ruled by a council of immortalised leaders who have absolute authority and control over the destinies, hearts and minds of the Delphan populace. The "Undying Council" ensured their rule using methods of surveillance and brutality which has drawn the DCP a bad reputation amongst liberal powers. However, Delphan living standards excel in everything but freedom for law-abiding citizens.

The DCP's mission to the universe is to ensure their concept of Order survives and is the dominant political influence; thus the DCP is no stranger to war, in fact it has been in a near-constant state of war since its inception (although at widely different scales). The DCP put their faith in warmasters and scientists to create fierce strategies and weapons, often to bulldoze their enemies and build on top their ruins using excessive force. And yet despite the paradox of warring for Order, some of the DCP's actions have been as seen as heroic by the standards of many powers. The DCP side with peaceful civilisations more often than not, leading to a perception of the DCP as flawed protectors fighting a universe filled with much more hostile agents. During the Annihilation, the DCP even sacrificed its forces to slow the advance of the scourge approaching Plazith, giving time for evacuation. The DCP's struggles to maintain preeminence in the recent climate have caused many powers (including old allies) to see them as imperialists to be treated with suspicion and exclusion. This has increasingly forced the DCP to reflect on their own nature, as they learn that embracing the wind of change rather than crushing it might be the only way to remain relevant on the Gigaquadrantic stage.

Society
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The Delpha Coalition of Planets is classed as a totalitarian state that takes obsessive measures to survey and control all citizens. Brain-computer interfaces analyse thoughts and regulate the collective unconscious. Measures of control are so extreme that the mere prediction of disorder will require an individual to be questioned and possibly sent to an education facility (although this may be prevented by seeking council with a quarterback), while people who complete tasks are rewarded. With a constant presence of holographic defence systems and police, blue collar crime is extremely rare. When disorder or rebellion has occurred, the perpetrators may be executed then and there, or may be confined to sensory deprivation. All property is catalogued and can be re-purposed at any time, indeed only a small percentage of the population have a permanent residence or career; the working class are continuously given new tasks to optimise the performance of colony operations. Discrimination of a citizen based on biochemistry, class, disability, gender, race, sexual orientation, species or any other attribute is outlawed and punishable by death. This is because the DCP values kinship above difference. Citizens are allowed to pursue their own love interests, and change aspects of their own identity however. They can even change species and operate a maximum of 3 bodies at once. The DCP is not fussy about the architecture family units, as children spend most of their raised and educated by the state.



Coalition
"Coalitions are only temporary if your goals are impermanent."

- Common Delphan saying.

The Delpha Coalition of Planets has 36 member races who are mostly clustered around the Delpha Sector, and some along the expansion wedge driving to the outer core of Plazith and a few in distant reaches. The most populous races of the Coalition include the Grimbolsaurians and their offshoots; the Kuugavesus, the Chirom, the Oroadian Chorus, Jarzo, Yoburt and Corgel. Once a civilisation has become culturally integrated with Delphan institutions and law (a project which may take up to several generations), the races is given equal standing in Delphan society. Members permitted to join the higher bureaucratic ranks (and a permanent seat in the council), are capable of leading the charge into battle or settlement of a sector.

The DCP faces the same difficult problem of all galactic cultures, namely how to unite alien sentience and culture under the same cause. The DCP could have dismissed incompatible cultures or engineered them. But the DCP do not, because they value the abilities of their members, after all what would be the point of integration? To take on this problem, the DCP analyses the alien sentience to extract any universal values and quale (such as safety and suffering) to direct suitable memetic influence. In the past two centuries, the DCP has even engineered an artificial and addictive quale of their own using networked brain interfaces to make all citizens empathise with the beat of Order, so that they feel a common patriotism and kinship.

The DCP is monocultural in its values and goals, although the different member races are allowed to keep some cultural identity, architecture and customs that are not in conflict with Order and where their national style contributes to the DCP. The Corgel have been allowed to keep a heavily modified interpretation of Spodism that suits the DCP, although most religious leaders are just spiritual advisers than men of faith. Followers of the Spodic faith will inevitably encounter contradiction, thus it is the role of advisers guide the religious to unask any contradiction of their faith the DCP's secularism. The Grimbolsaurians have a warrior caste that aligns perfectly with the DCP's internal police force and militarism. The Yoburt were able to retain their scientific institutions so long as they performed research into new technology. It is the task of quarterbacks to manage any cultural activities and council those who are finding personal contradictions.

Institutions
DCP society is governed by a rigid bureaucracy of control that is mandated by the Coalition Ministry of Intelligence Operations (CMIO), the Coalition Ministry of Military Intervention (CMMI) and the government. The ranks of the government are stratified by the scale of the colonial space. The highest military rank of Warlord is the only military rank almost equal in status with the governing council, allowing for judication over entire galactic zones and extragalactic territory. The judiciary and the government are not independent. The only way to ascend rank in Delphan society is by merit and duty. Some roles are determined by heredity, but the council ensures they are tested.

For seven centuries, the DCP was ruled by the Undying Council and the Emperor (now simply the Delphan council). The Undying Council represented each of the integrated races of the coalition, and along with warlords and knights were granted the gift of immortality. Emperor Wormulus II represented the the Grimbolsaurians but was also the icon for the Delphan people as a whole. The Emperor takes on public and diplomatic roles for the council and is capable of vetoing them. To outsiders, the Undying were known for being the bastions of callousness and cruelty while Wormulus was seen as heroic and fair-minded figure. The Undying Council tolerated Wormulus for so long because he possessed the knowledge of sustaining their lives with essence, for while they used anti-senescence therapy, mistakes were made in the early days of the technology, leading to disease and senility. It is now thought that some of the DCP's paradoxical nature can be explained by the power balance between the Wormulus II and thn paranoid and senile Council members who increasingly acted against him. The Undying Council died during the Great Xonexian Schism (with the exception of Wormulus) and were replaced by the Delphan Council, where leaders can now be elected. The title of Emperor remains in the form of a constitutional monarch, and is currently held by Wormulus' son Lunarai.



"Freedom is the end. But Order is the means."

- Cant, a Delphan philosopher

Of Order,
The DCP's philosophy was born of rage, when the Grimbolsaurians and a few others shrugged off decades of cultural vandalism and looting by the Wub Triumvirate who had ruled the Delpha sector with an iron fist.

Order is the primary philosophy and political dimension of Delphan society. It does not quite take on the same meaning as order; the DCP's Order refers to a belief in a teleological attractor that harmonises all civilised life in the universe towards a common set of universals; giving knowledge and experience meaning, and ultimate freedom from evil. 'Evil' here refers to other attractors that differentiate sentient life or prevent them from harmonising, condemning them to an infinite void meaninglessness. Paranoid of a universe of life that mercilessly sought their own goals, the DCP sought to spread their mission to defeat evil and protect those who are followers (unknowingly or not) of Order.

In the name of Order, the DCP fought many aggressive expansionists who used less ethics to colonise or dominate other sovereign states, including the Grox Meta-Empire, the Cognatus and Drakodominatus Tyranny. The DCP viewed them as corrupters of Order due to their methods of subjugation and division. The DCP put their own existence on the line for others in the War of Ages. In more peaceful approaches, the DCP also supported Station Halcyon and the Milky Way Cooperative in bridging the gaps of communication between alien species and converting the universe to structures of value. The DCP has tolerated and protected democratic states, although they view democracy as easily corruptible and encourage them to change. The DCP will also tolerate the expansion of authoritarian powers over democracies so long as the fight is a fair one.

Of reciprocal action,
The DCP's method of seeking order does belie a contradiction; they are fully aware that in fighting to harmonise the universe, they must in some way enforce their values upon others. This is where the the Delphan's sense of reciprocal ethics come in; a friend or foe's actions are mediated by a balanced response. The DCP believes that Order can only be protected consistently this way. Peaceful civilisations that help the DCP and do not interfere with them are granted alliances and aide. States that wage a civilised war with the DCP are given a fair fight, as seen in the Andromeda Campaign when the DCP refused to use superweapons on the Draconid Imperium. States that fight immorally are given increasingly vengeful responses by the Coalition, and until the end of Great Xonexian Schism, no hands raised against mass destruction, genocide, enslavement and punishment (tactics which are now reserved for truly existential threats).

Living Standards
"If you're going to live in any oppressive autocracy, the DCP is probably the best one to choose."

- Atirieil in her unofficial assessment of major superpowers

Delphan citizens enjoy very good living standards. They are a post-scarcity society which has transcended the limits of light speed, thermodynamics (only in realspace, using hyperspace as a means of travel and refridgeration) and planetary resources. All Delphan colonies are well defended by fleets of battleships, long-range hyperspatial defences, shields and fortifications. Delphan spacehab and megastructures are all equipped with shift drives so that they may evacuate a region.

Medical needs are met instantaneously, because citizens are supplied batches of non-replicating nanotechnology that monitors their health and fixes emerging diseases before they can cause damage. Very serious injuries or cases of disease are treated freely by the health service. Virtually no children are born with development disorders and diseases thanks to gene editing technology inserted in the reproductive biology of citizens. The nanotechnology is capable of animating citizens that die in their occupation to complete job tasks, and in some cases resurrecting them. All citizens are granted life extension, but only via new bodies, a process much less efficient at preserving identity (unlike the Undying Council). In terms of public transport, only high ranking officials may be permitted to use transfer beams (hyperspatial wormholes capable of transporting shielded individuals), because the technology is deemed to be too powerful for public hands (the public may be evacuated via wormhole transit). Instead the public must use traditional methods like shuttles an space elevators to move about. Good citizens are rewarded with entertainment and legal highs, such as alcoholic beverages. However the drugs are not chemical, and are stimulated by brain implants, which shut down once work is resumed. The DCP constructs their own qualia using the implants which can provide entirely new kinds of feelings and shared experiences. There also exist virtual reality games and movies, and there are often patriotic events held in real life that provide sport and music.

Planetary life


There are very few planetary colonies that have not been heavily utilised in the DCP. These worlds are typically 'Oxi-planets' (meaning a world with free oxidants), rich in oxide minerals, sulphides, carbonates, nitrates, water and complex hydrocarbons. Oxi-planets are usually habitable and have their own biospheres. This is no coincidence, often the mineral diversity of Oxi-planets are owed by their biosphere interactions. However, carbon planets are also colonised as their substrata are rich in graphene and diamond.

Planetary colonies are heavily urbanised and climate-controlled. While homeworlds preserve their original architecture, most Delphan cities are modular, composed of thousands of units capable of assembling buildings, vehicles and other infrastructure, and disassembling when no longer required. Therefore cities are forever changing shape to optimise their internal operations and utilisation of resources. Delphan citizens are used to their homes and careers changing by the day.

Space
Most of the populace live in space, where it is possible to design more efficient architecture, such as space cylinders and shell-worlds. It is also easier to the control both the environment and the citizens within megastructures. Most of the industry is space-based; super-heavy elements and antimatter are mined from stars using superconducting scoops and lasers. Over the centuries, the Delpha Coalition of Planets have built an interstellar power grid of wormholes and stars linked together to meet the needs of their energy hungry technologies, powering ships and engineering projects linked to the network.

The Coalition also mines asteroids for metals rare in planetary lithospheres. The DCP is one of the biggest refiners of andasium, which is one of the few products that they will trade with foreign states. Data=

Coalition: most populous members
Other famous members include the Ayug, Brawgle, Chibby, Children of Kerobe, Dubel, Flixxel, Minor, Omnitermine converts, Ottorix, Rammo and Selznik.

Institutions: Territorial tiers
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Delpha sector: era of bitterness
The recorded history of the Delpha sector dates back nearly 13,000 years when the Yoburt emerged as spacefaring species. The Yoburt set about creating their own short-lived galactic empire that was driven by a thirst for hyperspatial knowledge. They sought the galactic centre as the ultimate powerhouse for particle acceleration, assuming they were alone that side of the galaxy due to a quiet period of history. Instead they met the Grox Meta-Empire and the Yoburt empire was promptly destroyed, isolating a vast diaspora of Yoburt colonists across the galaxy and beyond. In the Delpha Sector, the Yoburt took on a new ideology of quiet contemplation, viewing the technological aspirations of the past as a form of desire that had brought only ruin. While they remained spacefaring, they underwent stagnation lasting thousands of years, resigned to observing and meditating rather than actively probing the universe. Though they built little in this period, it was long enough for them to mentally stumble upon mathematical truths that would inform the technologists of the future Delpha Coalition of Planets.

Some 8000 years later, the Church of Spode swept through the Delpha Sector and converted the Corgel to Spode, it is unknown why they would then leave for another four millennia shortly after the DCP emerged.

Around 12,000 years later on Mirenton, the Grimbolsaurian civilisation was teetering on the edge of disaster after a nuclear summer and resultant water crisis. A local warlord by the name of Wormulus I managed to unite the planet's desperate civilians who were fleeing more irradiated and lawless lands, and within a century the Grimbolsaurians were sending out their first fusion-ramjet colony ships. During this time, the Delpha Sector had many interstellar states, notably the Jarzo Grand Republic, Yoburt Confederacy, the Corgel Empire, Dubel Trading Federation and Chibby Communes. However, they were dominated by the Wub Triumvirate, an alliance of Wub, Quinnal and Warzoleski empires that raided and enslaved the Delphan states. The Grimbolsaurians were forced by the Triumvirate to pay tribute for extortionate prices, and were unable to pay due to their world still being in recovery. As a result, Grimbolsaurian colonies were destroyed and Mirenton's skies plagued by pirates.

When word reached Mirenton that the neighbouring Brawgle were suffering genocide, the Grimbolsaurians decided if they would be next, they wouldn't go down passively. Unable to defeat the Wub on conventional terms, they resorted to deliberately colliding a pair of ramjets with a Warzoleski craft, knocking it out of the skies. The on-board warp drive was salvaged, and the Grimbolsaurians got to work on the Star Sailor. A young spacer by the name of Kilnok came forward to pilot the spacecraft, in order to make a desperate plea with the Yoburt, Jarzo, Chibby and Corgel to funnel together an armada. His resolve and good deeds finally convinced them to support his cause. As word of early defensive successes got around, the more Delphan empires joined the armada. The Wub Triumvirate were soon forced to flee as the expanding Delpha Coalition brought vengeance upon their worlds.

Quotes
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"While laws and regulations are put in place to maintain order, they always have flaws. When these flaws come from entropy itself, perhaps the only option is to stop any source of chaos. For the Delpha Coalition of planets, entropy stems from the nature of all living things, and the only way to stop entropy is to stop unpredictability and stem all free will. Fearful, powerful, and ruthless, they declare war on all who might cause chaos. All that can be said is that order will one day come, for they are always victorious."

- Unknown (Monet)

"eles são grandes e fortes. infelizmente eles não usam armas que não prejudicam o ecossistema, porem eles vão ser grandes aliados para nós. pelo fato do nosso povo não ser bom em batalha, e ser dependente de aliados para se proteger, eles são uma boa escolha. nós ainda estamos tentando se aliar, e quando serem nossos aliados, vamos recompensar emterraformar todas as colonias deles até T3 de grassa. eu admiro eles, e tenho medo deles ao mesmo tempo... o sábio davind]] e o império mandragora |undefined"

"The all powerful DCP and self proclaimed guardians and watchers over the Universe. They are one of the greatest civilizations I ever met, with such incredible powers and knowledge about the Universe. It is a surprise they didn't wipe out the Imperial Alliance during the Second Galactic War. Even I respect and fear the DCP her wrath!"

- Morgandaûr

"One of our greatest and strongest allies. If it wasn't for them the Rambo would have been wiped out from the Universe during the Tigris War. We are forever in their debt and hope one day to aid them as they did us."

- Empress Ramashe of Rambo Nation

"A truly great civilization, one that has helped shape the current political climate of the First Gigaquadrant. The Universe was much safer with them, then without."

- President Apollo

"I HATE DA DCP DEY IS SO GEEKY AN STOOPID I BET NO ONE RELLY LIKES DEM I SWER I WANNA CRUSH DEM ALL DEYZ PROPA WEEK"

"The Delpha Coalition. Far as mortals go, they are among, if not the, greatest."

"The Delpha Coalition is certainly one of the greatest civilizations in this universe. We respect them greatly, and we have several similarities to them as well. We admire their military and technology, and besides the Loron, our members have all been on good terms with them prior to the current Unified Nation."

- of the

"Perhaps the one civilization my people can always claim to be in awe of. The Delpha Coalition is the closest ally and friend of the Indoctrinate Collective at Plazith Rim, and we trust them to take care of the mother galaxy as they have always done."

"The Milky way shall be under Grox Control again,This is WAR!"

- Grox Followers

"A truly amazing ally of the CIF,one that has a large amount of system,and advanced technology,this is one coalition that will be aided until this coalition initiates betrayal"

- Emperor Donald of the CIF

"You crave order. You crave war. Join us and be satisfied by both."

- Legion of the Deathmarch

"Proves what My Grand father said all-along. Great people do evil things, and get away with it because their great. We will respect them, but I'd keep my gaurd up around them."

- Barda Clett of the Ugandalorian Knights.

"Law. Order. Unity. The cornerstones of both our culture, and theirs."

"Our people have a special relationship with the Delpha Coalition of Planets. I was honoured to serve alongside them and I hope to do so again!"

"Shakespeare always had a particular gift with words. In one of his tragedies, Macbeth looks upon one of his adversaries and thinks to himself, 'That is a step on which I must fall down or else overleap, for in my way it lies.' That is exactly what I think whenever the letters, "D-C-P," cross my desk. They often come in the form of an act of disrespect here, blatant defiance there, and a general atmosphere of snot-nosed superiority: they have no regard for beings they consider lesser than them. But this--this insanity in the Quadrants is the last straw. Give me time, and I will make them regret their hubris."

"Say what you will about the Coalition's history of conquest, as our veterans who fought tooth and nail against the Xhodocto during the War of Ages will tell you, the DCP saved the galaxy. Perhaps even the entire Gigaquadrant. All would be lost if they had selfishly served themselves, rather, they took it upon themselves to protect the galaxy as a collective whole, to make it a better place, and indeed with the invention of the Cooperative they succeeded. They have the friendship, the support and most importantly, the gratitude of the Intergalactic Human Republic."

"Their military prowess and keen stance on order is something to be respected, of course. The Cyrannian Empire aims to pursue the peaceful relations our civilisation has enjoyed with the DCP since the Trucinex War."

"Their power? Stronger than most primitive fools in this galaxy? I couldn't care less! They are an enemy nonetheless, and what they did for Ottzello in the past matters little now, it is the future that matters. They've made plenty of enemies in their time...all enemies who will be in my audience, and witness the destruction of this pathetic coalition. Oh, how I can't wait! The time will come, the script has been written...it will soon be time to DESTROY THEM ALL! HAHAHAHAHA!!!"

"Yes, they govern some of the universe's most primordial forces with their technology. Yes, they have a massive industry that gorges itself on the Milky Way and produces massive armadas. However, they are most notable for the lengths they are willing to go to for victory. They would eat their own children, burn their own guts, raze their own planets, and eradicate generations of their own in order to hold the line. There is no cost that they are not willing to pay save for the cost of failure."

- Archon of the

"Persons reading this report must recall that the KSRO's evaluations are not wholesale examinations and moral evaluations of an empire, but rather, documentation purely of the gravity and severity of their flaws. Regardless of the enormous benefit they have been to the universe, regardless of the fact that there might not even be a universe but for their intervention, we must assign them a 0/5. Their positive qualities are irrelevant in the context of this report, and, indeed, to our organization. No Empire which hunts sapient beings for sport, tortures the descendants of its enemies for their own amusement, which suppresses thought, dissent and freedom on a massive scale, and which dedicates itself to the preservation of its ideology over and above its inhabitants can ever be in the KSRO's good graces."

- KSRO sapient rights and welfare evaluation.

"Delpha Coalition strong, yes? Raiding Delphans is a foolish idea, too strong for Saviki fleets. Too many members to trick; we will keep a respectful distance. For now."

-, Ship Captain, Storm Combine.

"Khavus sur bhainsus ahkva nor, ikhesan bhainsus, - yur Delpha Coalition of Planets yur...herus sharanavae ajinum kharbrur. Yur DCP, qurbrum jalikum rus sistanum, ahinjasum ahkva khavus namaesta oiron. Akhen DCP alurunum gerahnae jalaikae - iskasus uhna norus bahrain elria...usis nar."

- Vhamlas Naralhi, Dynast of the Dynastic Systems of Sal’ir

"I would compare them to our enemies. Cruel, militaristic... But somehow, people like these fiends? Security and order means nothing, if you have no will to enjoy it."