Fiction:Unified Alliance of Enlightenment/Project Sephirah

"The rise of the Covenant has left the Unified Alliance of Enlightenment defunct. There is no one left to command the forces of the Koatria and Praetorians, we can no longer rely on their help. Even now more recent threats cast doubt on whether or not we will ever be able to truly return to our brothers and sisters as a full member of the UAE. For now we can only rely on ourselves and will need our own forces of super soldiers to defend ourselves. This is the goal of Project Sephirah to harness the power the angels themselves into our own soldiers so they may soar through the sky and rain destruction upon our foes."

- Mission Statement of Project Sephirah

Project Sephirah is a newly created super soldier program began by the UPD after the rise of the Covenant of Mirus was left the UAE defunct. Sephirah are all highly trained, genetic, cybernetic, and mentally augmented soldiers. They are bonded to living crystalline entities that act as their advance armor and wield a number of advance and powerful weapons. The creation of the Sephirah has been met with a degree of controversy, especially among the UAE's Praetorian Congregations, many of whom are beginning to fear being neglected and/or replaced.

Creation Process
The creation process for a Sephirah is a fairly complex one that the UPD keeps a closely guarded secrete. However a few basics of the procedure are known. At first the candidate(after undergoing rigorous training) is injected with serum that increases muscle mass, bone density, and other body parts so as to grant improved physical performance. Then a mind enhancing drug is used to allow the candidate unlock their full mental capacity and grant them full control over their bodily functions. After that various genetic enhancements are given to further increase the power of the physical body, fallowed by various cybernetic upgrades to further increase physical and mental capabilities. Finally the Sephirah are given a pair of bionmechanical wings and is bonded with a Star Shell Armor Crystal completing the process and making them ready to complete their training.

Organization

 * Ishim - Basic Soldier, No command
 * Cherubim - Commands a Detail, 2 to 4 Sephirah
 * Bene Elohim - Commands an Element, 5 to 10 Sephirah
 * Elohim - Commands a Section, 2 Elements
 * Malakim - Commands a Squadron, 3 to 4 Sections
 * Seraphim - Commands a Station, 3 to 4 Squadrons
 * Hashmallim - Commands a Group, 2+ Stations
 * Erelim - Commands a Division, 2+ Groups
 * Ophanim - Commands a Command, All Sephirah of their Host in a region.
 * Hayot Ha Kodesh - Commands the entire Host. Always goes by a code name that remains the same from Hayot to Hayot causing a myth of resurrective immortality.

Reception
The creation of the Sephirah was met with varying levels of positivity and negativity by faction and super soldier alike. The Persan of course had come to regard the Sephirah as one of the greatest accomplishments. Other factions had different reactions. The Waptorisn for instance approved of the decision and looked forward to the project's development.
 * If anyone wishes to add details as to their faction's or Praetorian Congregation's response and reaction feel free.

On the super soldier end things were considerably more rocky. Many Praetorians were considerably angry and feared that they may be replaced by these newcomers. The Solar Siblings especially, after facing the rise of the Waptoria's Emotive Elite, demonstrated extreme weariness towards any new super soldier programs. The Persan Praetorians were surprisingly supportive, largely self reliant and with plenty of places to go they felt considerably less threatened. The Persan Praetorians even argued that instead of fearing being replaced by these newcomers the Praetorian congregations should help guide and teach these newcomers, investing themselves in the growth of these recent projects so the Sephirah or any others would become the Praetorians successors and descendants. This was met with mixed regard varying from chapter to chapter.

Equipment
Sephirah are armed with a large variety of weapons and other equipment. Their primary armor type is referred to as Star Shell Armor, which is a heavily upgraded version of regular Persan Astral armor. Star Shell has a much stronger organic basis that is fused to a much more powerful and smarter living crystal organism. The synthetic parts are made of significantly stronger materials and the A.I. the suit has integrated into it is much more sophisticate. The armors Effectuater has a multilayered shield, better cloaking device, more powerful anti-grav system, and the ECM other troop Effectuaters leave out, they are even armed with miniaturized version of the Point Defense Drones that only ships wield. This armor can be stored in an state similar to that of the transition between two pints during teleportation and can be re-materialized fully ready for combat the moment the user needs it.

Sephirah are armed with Holy Magic Particle weapons that fire the same Magic Particles that blow apart the atomic structure of the target and drains away energy. However these particle have been augmented with Light Matter and Tachyons causing the weaponry to burn away at the enemy and strike at hyperluminal speeds.

All ground and sea vehicles, aerospace craft, and ships are the same as the regular Persan version just with the upgraded armor, weapns, and improved systems. There are two exceptions though...

Angelion
Angelion are massive, eldritch beings that can get up to 100 to 1,000 meters in height. No two Angelion look the same though all are strange, alien beings that can cause paralyzing fear just from their very presence, even the very mention of their names is known to cause unease. These beings are actually thought forms given physical form by the prayers of the Sephirah Host and the inhabitants of the planet they are native to. While normally they exist on their planet in a state of perpetual slumber, but can be summoned elsewhere by the prayers of the Sephirah Host. This is a last resort though as the Angelion will not dispel until it has expended all its energy either by destroying everything around it or taking enough damage. The only way to truly kill the Angelion would be to kill every member of the Sephirah Host and then wipe their home planet of life.

Keter Host
"We carry the will of the divine and the extinction of your existence!"

Keter Host was the first Sephirah Host ever created, some time the Great Mirusian Conflicts ended, after Norn AIs, certain Espers, and psychohistorians predicted the UAE falling into its current defunct state during the Berserker Onslaught. The Host saw it's first deployment against the mutated super-Olympians of the Blood Brotherhood. As the blood-mad Olympian mutants drew closer, frothing to get a grip on their new foes, the Kester Host shot them down with deadly efficiency. They then set fire to the gene-matrix reserves the Blood Brotherhood had pillaged from the Alliance at the eve of the Berserker Onslaught, preventing the Blood Brothers to create any new Olympians for a few crucial years. However, this action also deeply angered many an Olympian Chapter when they found out, as the stolen but still perfectly usable gene-matrixes were now impossible to recover and used by those they rightfully belonged to, starting off the relationship between both groups on a sour note. As for the Keter Host, they simply shrugged it off as the most logical option. The Alliance Olympians could continue to produce new gene-matrixes and thus recover, the Blood Brotherhood could not.
 * Associated Colors - White, Gold, Blue
 * Hayot Ha Kodesh - Deus
 * Values - Spirituality, Dedication, Righteousness
 * Flagship - First Authority
 * Angelion - Metatron
 * Symbol - Angel Wings forming a Crown
 * Homeworld - Ehyeh
 * Notable For - First Sephirah Host Created, Long Range Specialization

Keter Host specializes in long ranged combat. They prefer to stay at range and blast their enemies well out of reach. To this end they tend to equip themselves with long ranged Ray Burst Guns and Cannons more then any other Host. Keter Host is known for being highly professional and treats every waking moment as one in which they must be training and preparing for combat. They tend to come across as cold and emotionless only talking to those they have to when they have to. Keter Host is well known for its cold efficacy, ruthlessly dispatching their foes as quickly as possible and with little to no ceremony. Despite all outward appearances Keter Host is highly religious and extremely devout. This has given them an intense hatred for the Eldarisian Empire and will go out of their way to hunt down Eldarisian infiltrators in Persan space.

Their homeworld of Ehyeh is actually the remains of a Multus Esse Habitat Ship that fell into orbit around a white dwarf star and the Persan chose to preserve as a thank you to the Multus for helping preserve their precursor's legacy. Keter Host does their best to keep up on the preservation of the Habitat ship feeling it a personal duty. Something the view just as important as hunting down the enemies of the Descendant's.

Their Angelion is the great Metatron. The smallest Angelion of about 100 meters in height Metatron is still as terrifying as any of its brothers. It is a constantly rotating series of layered translucent dodecahedrons with great eyes that burn in balls of fire ceaselessly spinning in a fluid mass within. Metatron is surrounded in rings upon rings of fiery halos and great wings of light emanating from the Angelion's center

Keter Host as a rivalry with the melee specializing, more lax Malkuth Host. Though both will happily unite to take on threats to the UPD.

Chokhmah Host
"Nothing can be hidden from the revelations of the wise."


 * Associated Colors - Grey, Gold, Blue
 * Hayot Ha Kodesh - Father
 * Values - Wisdom, Intuition, Creativity
 * Fladship - Second Authority
 * Angelion - Rasiel
 * Symbol - An Open Book
 * Homeworld - Yod
 * Notable For - All Male Host, Intelligence Specialization

Binah Host
"Our understanding inherits the gifts of Time."


 * Associated Color - Black, Red, Gold
 * Hayot Ha Kodesh - Lilith
 * Values - Understanding, Contemplation, Reasoning
 * Flagship - Third Authority
 * Angelion - Zafkiel
 * Symbol - A Clock
 * Homeworld - Elohim
 * Notable For - All Female Host, Using Spacetime Manipulating Precursor Tech

Chesed Host
"We use our friendship with the wild to freeze the enemy advance."

8Values - Kindness, Mercy, Charity
 * Associated Color - Blue, Green, White
 * Hayot Ha Kodesh - Ranger
 * Flagship - Fourth Authority
 * Angelion - Zadkiel
 * Symbol - A Stuffed Animal
 * Homeworld - El
 * Notable For - Wilderness Combat, Especially Underwater

Gevurah Host
"Face the burning annihilation of our judgement and strength!"


 * Associated Color - Red, White, Black
 * Hayot Ha Kodesh - Ruhk
 * Values - Severity, Justice, Strength
 * Flagship - Fifth Authority
 * Angelion - Camael
 * Symbol - Burning Halberd
 * Homworld - Elohim Gibor
 * Notable For - Sabotage, Heavy Use of Thermal Weaponry

Tiferet Host
"The enemy shall be removed from the battlefield"


 * Associated Color - Gold, Purple, Silver
 * Hayot Ha Kodesh - Stardust
 * Values - Beauty, Balance, Compassion
 * Flagship - Sixth Authority
 * Angelion - Michael
 * Symbol - A Key Ring
 * Homeworld - Eloah
 * Notable For - Guerrilla Warfare

Netzach Host
"Victory through Witchcraft."


 * Associated Color - Green, Black, Orange
 * Hayot Ha Kodesh - Hecate
 * Values - Victory, Endurance, Emotion
 * Flagship - Seventh Authority
 * Angelion - Haniel
 * Symbol - Witch's Hat atop a Broom
 * Homeworld - Adonai Tzabaoth
 * Notable For - Infiltration, Use of Shapeshifting Tech

Hod Host
"Surrender to the hurricanes of our wrath!"


 * Associated Color - Orange, Purple, Silver
 * Hayot Ha Kodesh - Gemeni
 * Values - Splendor, Subservience, Logic
 * Flagship - Eighth Authority
 * Angelion - Raphael
 * Symbol - A Bow made of Angel Wings with a Lance like Arrow
 * Homeworld - Elohim Tzabaoth
 * Notable For - Aerial Combat

Yesod Host
"We break the will of armies."


 * Associated Color - Magenta, Gold, Blue
 * Hayot Ha Kodesh - Composer
 * Values - Foundation, Connection, Communication
 * Flagship - Ninth Authority
 * Angelion - Gabriel
 * Symbol - A Pipe Organ
 * Homeworld - Shaddai El Chai
 * Notable For - Physiological Warfare, Heavy Use of Sonic Weapons

Malkuth Host
"Our blades are the blades that herald your annhiliation!"

The last Sephirah Host ever created, Malkuth Host was never originally intended to be created at all. That was until a massive number of Espers(even those without powers of precognition) received a vision of an angel, wielding a sword, standing against a "wave of oblivion" surrounded by nine other angels with broken wings. Fearful of what this could mean and having learned from the past to put, at the very least, a modicum of faith in such visions the UPD dumped more time and resources into creating a new Sephirah Host. It was not received especially well, this time not by Praetorians or other supersoldier forces, but rather by the foreign powers of the Xonexi who by now had become more than aware of the Sephirah and the destruction such beings were capable of. They saw the creation of another Sephirah Host as act of blatant, and unnecessary militarization during a time of peace(which indeed it was) and were far less inclined to see mass visions as a reasonable excuse for such things. However the French merely chose to update and revise their mobilization plans in case of Persan aggression, but nothing to severe and on a diplomatic end(or what was left of it after the Persan isolated themselves) let the Persan know their concerns, but also that as long as the boarder remained free of forces no action would be taken.
 * Associated Color - Purple, Gold, Black
 * Hayot Ha Kodesh - Regent
 * Values - Regality, Humility, Responsibility
 * Flagship - Tenth Authority
 * Angelion - Sandalphon
 * Symbol - A Sword Impaling a Throne
 * Homeworld - Adonai Melek
 * Notable For - Close Ranged and Melee Combat

Since then Malkuth Host has proven to be a powerful and well respected Sephirah Hosts ever to have graced the battlefield. Malkuth Host specializes in close range and melee combat every member wielding a sacred blade and preferring to get right up in the enemies face and dispatch them. This is not so they can be more honorable, but so they will see every life they take and understand what that means and what that feels like. Malkuth is by far one of the most lax and egalitarian hosts. Friendly duels are common place among them for exercise and bonding, however honor duels are forbidden since Malkuth Host believes one should grit their teeth and ignore insults and its is beneath them to let their pride get the better of them. However Malkuth Host has been known to clash with more than a few Olympian Chapters as Malkuth is known to regard the Chapters who continue to let their pride dictate their actions as failures as protectors. Said Olympians often see Malkuth Host as cowards for refusing an honor duel after Malkuth's snarking at them. The Sephirah of Malkuth are well known for their devotion to the Persan law of Pracht Nera which states that virtually any law can be broken(even international ones) to save a life, this has made them very popular with the common folk.

Malkuth Host's homeworld is the vibrant T3 planet of Adonai Melek. Adonai Melek is as close to paradise as a world can get. It lacks the dangerous environmental factors, weather, or lifeforms that most Persan planets posses, and is rich and resources with incredibly plesent weather all year around other then occasional rain storms. It comes as a surprise to many that Adonai Melek was never colonized and exploited by the Drakodominatus Tyranny. This has created a legend that Adonai Melek was a paradise denied to the likes of the Dominatus. Interestingly Adonai Melek was never colonized by any power during the Scramble for Mirus.

Their Angelion is a massive beast known as Sandalphon. A great 1,000 meters in height Sandalphon resembles a serpentine embryo covered in eyes with pair upon pairs of massive crystallize wings and clawed arms running down the entire length of its body. Its head is a fanged maw that can slit open absurdly wide and about its skull is a great fiery halo.

One of their trainees,, recently become the first Koatria ever to command the element of Power.

Quotes From Others

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Trivia

 * The Sephirah's command structure was based of the angelic hierarchy from Kabbalism.