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.

How the society works
There are two ways to become a member of The Civilisation. Firstly, empires can join The Civilisation while maintaining their sovereignty. They work in cooperation, however, if any member is suspected of taking unfair advantage, the Technoospheric Lords will instantaneously shut them off until they explain their actions.

The second method of joining The Civilisation is directly interface with it's benign AI's, megastructures and colonies. The people don't need to give anything to the Super-ordinates, as the AI's and EI's are nurturing in general and become part of their projects anyway. Joining the new society can be a culture shock, and some individuals go through "levels of introduction" or visit simpler worlds.

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 (one example was the merging of alien mind to solve so called undecidable problems).

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.

There are also Galactic Adventurers.

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 aftermath 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.

Recent activity includes helping refugees who escaped through an antimatter universe survive, by giving them non-phasic shields and quantum replicators, as well as sending an Adventurer to investigate a series of murders in the fleet. They also sent a xenolinguist to contact the Draconid Imperium after discovering similarities between Low Dracid and languages in the Milky Way.


 * 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 in no directed sense. With alien biology barriers long broken down, various alien species had spliced. However, after entering utopia found no reason 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 or never 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
 * Volver Empire
 * Gjigantrox Interstellar Empire
 * New Federal Vilerg Council
 * United Nations of Evera
 * Tadpole Empire
 * Uplifted Cetacea
 * Farubaida o Caroha
 * Primian Federation
 * Pepis Empire
 * - Destroyed by Grox; survivors live in the Civilisation's megastructures
 * Descendants of Grak
 * The Grand Orzakin Empire
 * Loyal races of the Grox Meta-Empire - After the New Grox Wars and capture of the Meta-Emperor, the loyalists became Civilisation members.
 * Maxis races
 * Uplifted Cetacea
 * Farubaida o Caroha
 * Primian Federation
 * Pepis Empire
 * - Destroyed by Grox; survivors live in the Civilisation's megastructures
 * Descendants of Grak
 * The Grand Orzakin Empire
 * Loyal races of the Grox Meta-Empire - After the New Grox Wars and capture of the Meta-Emperor, the loyalists became Civilisation members.
 * Maxis races
 * - Destroyed by Grox; survivors live in the Civilisation's megastructures
 * Descendants of Grak
 * The Grand Orzakin Empire
 * Loyal races of the Grox Meta-Empire - After the New Grox Wars and capture of the Meta-Emperor, the loyalists became Civilisation members.
 * 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


 * - Destroyed by Exodium
 * Nyarqaeshu - Disbanded when the precursors left. Returned later to conquer but was destroyed by the UAE
 * - Has become enemies with most of the Civilisation's members
 * Terdiatlan Empire - Unknown
 * - Removed from the Milky Way
 * - Left prior the split before the Orion War
 * - Left when the Great Xonexian Schism began.
 * - Left when the Great Xonexian Schism began.

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
 * "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.
 * "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.
 * "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.