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.

Origins
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 Spoddah, Iovera has decided to surrender. The war resulted in a draw - while the part of the former Artharon territory close to 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 Spoddah is now called a "neutral zone" and both Divinarium's and Coalition's citizen can settle there now.

Andromeda War
Once the Tier 1 artifacts have been found by the Draconis and information about them was leaked by Apalos, the Divinarium's leaders have decided to claim the relics from themselves. Their first attack was on the fleet of the Draconid Imperium, where they have easily overwhelmed the Draconis in a swift attack. The Imperium has responded quickly as the two empires have clashed again on the frozen planet Raritas. The battle was interrupted, however, by an orbital attack from Masuri's Wental loyalists and the attack of the Legion of Badmanz, who together forced the Divinarium to retreat from the planet and ally the Draconis to destroy the new threat.

The things were becoming messy for the new alliance, though. Even though the Legion of Badmanz has not been seen after the battle, its leader, Br'klakkon, managed to manipulate the Brood of War to join the conflict. Led by Tyraz Breek, the Brood's Fleet of Ruin has attacked at the very heart of the Divinarium - the planet Crepusculum. Luckily, the peace agreement has been settled by the factions which ended the conflict for some time.

The peace was short, however. Khaxvis Resurgence, a rebel movement against the Draconid Imperium, has struck a pact with the Brood of Way, and together they have launched a treacherous attack against the alliance. The rebels would have conquered the Imperium if not for Tyraz deciding to turn against the Khaxvis as he found them dishonorable. The battle was won, but the war is far from over, with TIAF appearing in the galaxy and Legion of Badmanz attacking again...

Species
Species of the Divinarium have varied physiology. For example, s are extremely intelligent and have psychic powers but are frail, while Stalkies are large and humungous creatures with massive strength but slow and clumsy.

Behaviour
The Divinarium is the civilisation of warriors and fanatics. Every single citizen is heavily indoctrinated from the childhood to be fully obedient to the state and the faith and ready to die for it if necessary. It varies from a species to species, however; for example, Radeons and Omnitermines may be fierce zealots while Stalkies and Fyrvrtha may be quite more tolerant and peacful due to their mentality and culture.

Abilities
The Divinarium has a lot of powerful elementalists in its ranks, usually Radeons.


 * 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.

Society
The Divinarium is the totalitarian society, where the state controls everything. Elementalists of the Divinarium are regularily reading the minds of the citizen to be sure that no one would doubt the will of the Clericarch. Those who rebel against the regime are not even killed; rather, they have their minds warped and brainwashed to destroy any rebellious thoughts; they return to their life loyal to the Divinarium. Economy is mixed in the Divinarium, allowing the elements of the capitalism but always controlled by the goverment in order to make the products good.


 * 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.

Equipment
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.

Fleet and vehicles
The Divinarium uses many vehicles in its military as well as for civil purposes. The vehicles are usually antigravitational and utilise plasma weaponry and spacetime engineering.

Devices
The Divinarium's devices and social technology have 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.

Weapons
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.

Allies
"Our path is broad, and we shall walk it side by side."



In good terms
"You are fine."


 * Kraw Federation

Neutral
"We shall see if you are worthy of respect or not."



In bad terms
"Unbelievers..."



Enemies
"NO MERCY. UNBELIEVERS. MUST. DIE!"



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

"whais we still allied wiv dem? i fink we shuld just eet dese losas"

"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

"It is fitting their leaders remind me of of slikkids; They are an empire of devious, backstabbing and oppertunistic zealots. The galaxy will be a better place once their veonmous lies are done away with!"

- Executive Admiral Onarsus of the Imperial Talon navy

"The Divinarium remind us of ourselves. Although we are not so focussed on religion, we are focussed on survival.I wish that we did not meet on the battlefield, for they are a formidable foe indeed..."

- of the

"The Divinarium reminds me so much of my own domain, but they also serve as a reminder that blind faith and paranoia can be immensely damaging... I pray that the Clericarch learns this before it is too late."

- Paragon Uriel Ultanos XVI

"Well now... Im not entirely sure what to think of you. Since you are powerful, and resilient, I respect you. I don't really have any reason to like or dislike you though, not yet."

- Dylan of the Wentals

"You will join the Devourer's way, or die rotting with your primitive beliefs."

"Sorry but I'll just stay here in the Collective. I'm not seeing my species die yet again due to your blindness."