Fiction:Project Luminance

Project Lumaninance, also referred to as the Shinging Glory Initiative. is an ongoing technological development program within the chatacterised by the salvaging of captured, bought and destroyed equipment owned by advanced civilisations and incorporated into Draconid technology.

Project Luminance came to characterise the technological developments of the Draconid Imperium after the, with key developments including the riftfire cannon, the New Line warships (such as the ) and became a crucial component of the Imperium's efforts to compete against the during the.

Origins
Project Luminance originated as compopnent of the Pan-Andromedan Research Pact which formed in the days after the the Haar-Tol outbreak, characterised as the first military victory against the during the. After containing the outbreak and reducing Haar-Tol to ash, it was suggested by an officer of the to the highlords of the newly-created  that there would be immense value in studying and even incorporating reverse-engineered forms of Grox technology into the ships of the Commonwealth's fleets.

Initially the research side of this Commonwealth project was primarily the domain of the Alcanti Royal Academy and 's scholar castes, who over the course of five years developed effective means to counter the sophistication of the Andromedan Grox warships. At the time the focus of researc hefforts were towards a cure for the mechovirus,

Reorganisation
The Imperium continued its salvage operations after the end of the. Prominent memebrs of the Science Council gathered with the knowledge they had gained and approached several branches of the Alcanti Royal Academy. DUring one discussion in 2789, illuminate Alius Sapovar expressed his proposal for change with the following statement: "The recent Great War for Andromeda was a wake-up call. For years out imperium has sat within the shadows, and our reemergence has enlightened us to the fact we are no longer leaders in innovation. Our setbacks put risk to our civilisation's security ad its place in the universe, and I call upon this council to establih a new initiative to bring us out of the darkness and once again establish us as a great power."

For his dedication in pushing for reform, Alius was made director for an umbrella of researc hand developement projects that came under the umbrella codename of "Project Luminance" in reference to Alius' expression the project itself would be a form of enlightenment. As an alumnus and representative of the ALcanti Royal Academy, the science council declared it to be the executor organisation for Project Luminance.

The project was allocated resources and slavaged technologies that over time were collected from the Imperium's involvements in the Great Tyranny War and the. Resources were further aquired though the that allowed the Imperium to make considerable headway in understanding the technologicl acapabilities of ancient powers such as the. With these developments came the means to modernise the Imperium's military in the way that Alius had hoped. The release of "New-Line Vessels" - a string of starship models built on the technological innovations of the project - was met with immense popularity, while tried-and-tested models were either fitted with the new technology, such as more efficient shielding, frictionless sublight railguns and metric barrier projectors, or were phased out.

Expanding Horizons
In the 2790s, the decision was made that in order to further develop connections, the Imperium could not keep all advancements to itself. Working jointly with Divinarium scholar institutes, the developments of Project Luninance were shared with the Divinarium and the Brood of War in order to develop what became mainstay vessels for the Unified Andromedan Navy, while in the the Alcanti Triad Agreements had allowed for few restrictions on information exchange between the Imperium, the  and the  brought all three to a moderately comparable level.

The outbreak of the was given mixed respections by the project's researchers as tensions between the Imperium, the  and their numerous allies caused rifts to form, cutting the project's access to some of its partners. This was offset by news of a victory in the Tholfame-22 sector where the DCP had been beaten back, which generated a wave of enthusiasm to study materials and equipment collected from defeated DCP forces. When the lost their hold on the Milky Way it created an aftershock of uncertainty as the elevated DCP threat put pressure on the Imperial military. The early successes of the first, the Xonexi's Resolve motivated the reamining researchers (a few had to be reassigned for the war effort) to further develop better technologies.

Connected Projects
Subsidiaries
 * Project Shining Glory: Development of the technologies installed into the and later all New Line warships.
 * Project Clarity: Development of the and its associated technologies.
 * Project Cognatus: Development of ship-to-ship telepathic communication, result was command chairs connected to an occupant's thoughts by wi-fi with cortical bionic implants. Chairs became standard implementation by 2802

Companion Projects
 * Project Angelfire: - French and TIAF developmetn of hyperspace-capable missiles.
 * Project Shell: Study of Kormacvar relic "Project Void" acuired by the . Project ongoing but early results provided considerable contribution to spacetiem manipulation for use in expanding interior spaces.