Fiction:The Civilisation

The Civilisation (also known as the Civilised Galaxy, Milky Way Cooperative or simply Civilisation) is the term for a powerful overarching meta-civilisation in the which emerges from many empires working together for a common goal. Neither an alliance or organization, each empire is still independant from each other. There is no central government, no central economy or military. The AI Netspace, which the Civilisation has merged partly with (the nurturing AI's, at least), calls the Milky Way Cooperative "The Civilisation", although its name between the biological counterparts is the Milky Way Cooperative.

Purpose
After the last of the Milky Way's precursors left the galaxy after the Imperial Civil War, the Delpha Coalition of Planets represented the strongest and was tasked with its protection. The galaxy was in a scarred state from several previous conflicts and the DCP decided, despite it's fierce reputation of isolating it's knowledge decided to build mutual architecture for cooperation. Technology is shared for The Civilisation has a whole, and is not given but borrowed. This means members individually cannot use the technology for their own advantage.

The dream
The ultimate goals of the Cooperative are in a sense, transcendent - to add new degrees of freedom to being. This is emergent as the goals of subsentients are simplified to its basic needs; metabolise, reproduce and so on; then with more complex self-aware entities, that form cultural goals, pushing the boundaries of a sense of purpose a sentient has. What is more complex than self-awareness? Something the Milky Way Cooperative strives for. How will progress be achieved? The scientific method.

Strangely enough,this has already been realised. Quite by themselves, emergent superintelligences evolved in the Milky Way Cooperative's computing infrastructure, including the generation mind inside entire Matrioshka brains, this also awoke older AI's which were dormant. It is a mystery why, and some point to it being part of the Milky Way Precursor's plan for a legacy of themselves. Or perhaps it was natural. But biological intelligence still needs to catch up, thus the Technoosphere was created so that anyone in the society could upload themselves to live with the "friendly" AI's and EI's of the Netspace. Another philosophy is a "more down to Earth" style; civilisations which approach the Cooperative as a biosphere with its own "galactic ecology" and natural selection, and metaphorical plants, decomposers, grazers, hiders and predators.

Project history
Of course, this transcendent goal is just a dream, and while it may occur one day it is a drive for progress. The Milky Way Cooperative was created to solve practical issues such as political stability and improved development for each member. In some cases, The Civilisation has housed protection for endagered races such as the Jovar, who might have been extincted if not for aid. Humanity too, was split across the galaxy until The Civilisation brought unity. The Civilisation does offer military support to the Seven Starr Alliance, in the aftermth of the New Grox Wars, the Grox Meta Emperor surrended to the AI Netspace and was watched by them, with true Grox loyalists living in the Society.

The Civilisation is a member of the Seven Starr Alliance and has aided the distribution of mass-energy conversion (and quantum replication), hypermatter powersources and wormhole networks.


 * Goal 1 - Healing the Galaxy


 * Goal 2 - First contact


 * Goal 3 - Galactic Infrastructure

Ongoing.
 * Goal 4 - Study of the AI Netspace

Distant futures
Past, present and future have little meaning, there are only events and at a quantum scale the outcome of any event is probabalistic. The future is potential, either infinite or very large and is realised by branching multiple timelines.

In some future timelines such as Destinies in time, the Civilisation begins to surpass all those before it, even reaching Ultraterrestrial status, but long before that major powers in the Gigaquadrant dissolve borders and a mathematical, objective connection connects all minds within, into a higher state of being, sentience higher than consciousness, a sort of "communality". The individual no longer exists, yet nor is it a hivemind, the communality becomes a formless information sea. Individual minds dissolve, fragment and are remixed with the knowledge of everything else. Even these timelines where the BCC will eventually exist, only have a small probability of existing, all they are is potential, among many more, but within the quantum multiverse, they "exist" somewhere in the unobserved state, though not quite real, or relevant to the universe as it is now.

In another timeline, the Milky Way Cooperative again achieves unity, but im no directed sense. With alien biology barriers long broken down, various alien species had spliced. However, after entering utopia found no eason to continue progress. Millions of years, and eventually billions of years past by into Deep time, and the ceaseless motion of evolution mixed the various forms of autocatalysis of different species into endosymbiosis. Mind had long since been lost as these worlds became wild again with odd mixes of biology and rogue technology with alien cells in symbiosis with each other. Finally there was peace.

Of course is so many more, The Civilisation barely survives a century or less in political turmoil.

Members
If you want to be a part of this, please add yourself (only if your empire is native to the Milky Way, or has heavily colonized it). Any empire, whatever the agenda, can join the Civilisation.
 * Member nations

For individual species, see the list.
 * - founders
 * Gjigantrox Interstellar Empire
 * Descendants of Grak
 * New Federal Vilerg Council
 * United Nations of Evera
 * Maxis races
 * Gjigantrox Interstellar Empire
 * Descendants of Grak
 * New Federal Vilerg Council
 * United Nations of Evera
 * Maxis races
 * Descendants of Grak
 * New Federal Vilerg Council
 * United Nations of Evera
 * Maxis races
 * Maxis races

These are extinct, left, or it is simply unknown whether they still exist. Unless otherwise mentioned, they are assumed to have been destroyed in the, although many survivors of each live in the AI Netspace's megastructures.
 * Inactive members


 * Pepis Empire
 * Terdiatlan Empire
 * - removed from the Milky Way
 * Pepis Empire
 * Terdiatlan Empire
 * - removed from the Milky Way
 * Pepis Empire
 * Terdiatlan Empire
 * - removed from the Milky Way
 * Terdiatlan Empire
 * - removed from the Milky Way

Untamed wilderness
If you don't want to join, add your empire here.

Many regions of the galaxy are still unexplored, or are regions of space who are simply not aligned with the Civilisation, often because (most noticably in cases such as the Salsetthe and Halloway) their absolute sovereignty is especially significant to them, and they consider joining the Civilisation to be something that would take that sovereignty away.


 * (colonies of, , and )
 * Astral Acronis
 * Brotherhood of Dantirboreale
 * , including and
 * - Once had a political discussion on whether to join the Civilisation, but the majority voted 'no' as independence is highly valued amongst them. Nonetheless, the DSB government has close political relations to the Civilisation.
 * "Truly Alien" and Tier U xenocivilisations - Vastly too different to notice or care, or even incompatabible with Civilisation. Also, the seperation of "Godspawn" and "Truly Alien" life has now occured, with more space for "Truly Alien" species to exist, although they fall under the Civilisation's protection.
 * "Truly Alien" and Tier U xenocivilisations - Vastly too different to notice or care, or even incompatabible with Civilisation. Also, the seperation of "Godspawn" and "Truly Alien" life has now occured, with more space for "Truly Alien" species to exist, although they fall under the Civilisation's protection.
 * "Truly Alien" and Tier U xenocivilisations - Vastly too different to notice or care, or even incompatabible with Civilisation. Also, the seperation of "Godspawn" and "Truly Alien" life has now occured, with more space for "Truly Alien" species to exist, although they fall under the Civilisation's protection.
 * "Truly Alien" and Tier U xenocivilisations - Vastly too different to notice or care, or even incompatabible with Civilisation. Also, the seperation of "Godspawn" and "Truly Alien" life has now occured, with more space for "Truly Alien" species to exist, although they fall under the Civilisation's protection.