Fiction:Ethereal Enlightenment

The Ethereal Enlightenment is a splinter faction of the Enlightenment Collaborative, located in the Angel Nebula of the. It is ruled by the Committee of Public Enlightenment, a council of seemingly angelic beings that have been corrupted by light, detaching them from the beings they once were. While in theory a democracy, the Ethereal Enlightenment is a totalitarian regime in truth. The people are brainwashed into believing what the Council tells them through propaganda, strict education, control of the press and media, and the powers light-based corruption has given them to enthrall the populace to their will. Those who resist or are expected of resisting are referred to as Unenlightened and either sent away to penal colonies on death worlds if they are lucky, though, in most cases they are simply publicly executed. Indeed, it is said that the streets of the Indominant -a massive planet sized station similar to Matrukoris- run with gallons of blood each day.

The Ethereal Enlightenment is completely and utterly dedicated to eradicating Sarkness and bringing about the absolute reign of Light. They believe that only when all have been united under their banner will the Light be able to banish the Darkness once and for all. The Ethereal Enlightenment is believes that their morality is absolute and see things in complete black and white, never in shades of grey. To the Ethereal Enlightenment you are either an enemy, an ally, or they have yet to decided where you stand.

Formation
The Ethereal Enlightenment can tace it's roots to the reunification of the Enlightenment Collaborative, largely thanks to the combined efforts of the United Persan Descendants and Waptoria Alliance of Species. The Persan would quickly implement sweeping reforms to keep the new organisation up-to-date with modern times, and formally changed it's name to the Unified Enlightenment Alliance. However, the newly reformed Enlightenment Alliance's emphasis on keeping the balance between light and dark rather then the victory of light over dark led to a shism within. To the Koatria of the Order of Zaraturai, who made up about half of the, such a doctrine was unimaginable. Their old hideout behind the Reil Veil now occupied by Fenric Vermillion, they fled to the Collaborative's colonies in the Phradox galaxy. These colonies had been collectively launched by the Collabortaive shortly after the Enlightenment War, and had not known war for nearly a century. In the meantime, they had had little reason to change, giving praise to Zaraturai as they always had, and keeping wary of Zarbania. Notably, they stayed loyal to the Enlightenment Collaborative even after it had dissolved, swearing loyalty to the New Enlightenment. Thus, when the Koatria appeared, they were immediately welcomed and granted high positions in the government and military alike, allowing them to informally take over.

They would be joined by a number of Olympian Chapters, most notably the Grey Hunters, Dawn Heralds, Angels Martyr, Solar Siblings, Peacebringers, and their descendants, who refused the Parsan order to disband. These Olympians rallied around Pollux of the Black Crusaders. For their disobediance, the gathered Chapters were nearly exterminated aboard the Black Crusader flagship, the Ceaseless Crusader, by the Persan's Seriphah Hosts, only to be miraculously saved by the returned Solar Sibling Ahrat Elegant'e, who transported the entire fleet to Phradox, where the Hosts had no precense and the Olympians were thus free from further prosecution.

At the time, the colonies still were part of the UEA, and any truly Light-corrupted beings had yet to appear. This would change with the appearance of a being known as the Indomitable Martyr. This ravaged Cogneilli was, in fact, Uri'Shahidat, equerry to the Angels Maryr Ahrat Izar'Istishad. 'Istishad and her entire honor guard, including 'Shahidat, had sacrificed themselves to keep a unified horde of Rakar at bay which has ought to extinshuish the entire Chpater. Somehow, 'Shahidat alone had survived, to his shock, by the intervention of from the League of Patrons. He was told that Zaraturai was safely with them, and that, in order to counter the growing powers of the Brotherhood of Darklings, he must travel to the Phradox Galaxy, and, as the ultimate sacrifice, have the Enlightened population there embrace the light fully and without restraints, just as the champions of the Brotherhood did with the darkness. Shaken by the death of his Ahrat, and direly in need of purpose, 'Shahidat, now known simply as the Indomitable Maryr, accepted and was send on his way to meet with the fully assembled Order of Lightlings behind closed doors. Although it is unknown what actually transpired, after a full day of conversation,, the entire Order behind him, declared that the revelation of the Indomitable Martyr, as it became known, was true. The Great Purification had begun.

Society
The Ethereal Enlightenment is a strict, lawful society that holds absolute reason and logic, moral absolutism, and the needs of the many to be the corner stones of their society. Children are trained to accept these doctrines from a young age with their education being filled with propaganda. Even after they leave the education system individuals are still bombarded with propaganda via superliminal messaging far more effective then any subliminal ones could ever be. The Enlightenment constantly preaches that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one. They believe the individual to be obsolete thing in comparison to the group and condemn any form of selfishness. Interestingly, suicide rates are rather high.

That being said the Ethereal Enlightenment is a place of great learning, science, and philosophy. Indeed the Enlightenment holds itself to the ideas of freedom, equality, and unity. Granted that these all fall within the Enlightenment's standards of being enlightened. As a result how well the Ethereal Enlightenment lives up to its ideals in questionable at best. Indeed "backward" romanticist thinking, making decisions based on emotion, and questioning the absolute moral authority of the Enlightenment are swiftly branded Unenlightened. While their is no institutional racism, species and ethnic groups that are considered "darker" (Dragowar, Vanara, Deutzlainian, etc) are often times discriminated against and receive harsh mistreatment with no repercussions.

To be labeled Unenlightened by the Ethereal Enlightenment is a terrible fate indeed. For those labeled as such their are two fates, being sent to penal colony on a death world or, and more often, being publicly executed. Penal colonies are generally reserved for those who are simply too unimportant to bother with execution or simply viewed as unable obtain enlightenment (criminals, homeless, etc.). In fact many dissenters will actually flee to these penal colonies before their dissent can be known. Whiling to risk a hard, and often times short, life for a taste of more freedom. For everyone else there's public execution. Executions happen on nearly daily basis and are often times carried out via Laser Plasma bladed Guillotines called Zaraturai's Razors.

Good

 * League of Patrons - The saviors of Zaraturai!
 * Aeoneonatrix Empire - A flawless exemple to us all!
 * Raydoni Imperium - They shall become great yet.
 * Uzileum Empire - Fellow followers of the Light! Remeber, citizens, the slander you hear about them are all lies!
 * Eldarisian Empire - Their faith is pure, their deeds a necessity.

Undecided

 * Mercuris Federation - ...

Evil

 * The Brotherhood of Darkings - Begone, foul Darkness!
 * Warrior's Alignment - Begone, foul warmongers!
 * Tannovek - Begone, foul fearmongers!
 * The Brotherhood of Darkings - Begone, foul cyborgs!

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Trivia

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 * War Theme - Justice of the Knight
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