Fiction:United Persan Descendants

"A dead man once said that hidden beneath our facade of civilisation and nicety is a - that the angry rage of unrestrained ambition, the uncontrollable desire to dominate, the addiction to the feeling of being feared is solely what drives a species. Perhaps some of us thought this was true, though our fears subsided when we thought of the Persan. Beneath those calm, understanding eyes lay the all-consuming fire that had driven the Dominatus, and in their hands lay the capacity to visit unfathomable agony and terror upon those they judged worthy of their interest. But they had civilized such urges, binding this unfettered, destructive chaos into restorative order. This was not the order of megalomaniac hegemony, but of shepherding, nurturing, and growing - seeking to cooperate with the rest of the Gigaquadrant to advance all life itself to enlightenment. However, it is an unwise species that confuses this kindness for weakness, for as much as they deny it, the Persan merely seek an excuse to shed the veil of civility and order to make their opponents wish for a fate as sweet as death"

- Unknown

The Persacron
The history of the Persan first began with the legendary Star Dragons known as the Persacron, massive dragons thousands of kilometers in height, absolute control over the elements of Liminal Energy, and possessing both Fruit of Life and Fruit of Knowledge making them gods in the eyes of many beings. The Persacron lived in harmony with the Multus Esse until the rebellion of the Alpha Grox. The Alpha Grox drove the Multus Esse into hiding and then turned their attention to the Persacron having learned that by destroying 30 stars they could create artificial lifeforms, called Dragon Machine Soldiers, of equal power to the Persacron that would grow stronger the more star dragons it killed. The Alpha Grox destroyed 100 suns creating three complete Dragon Machine Soldiers and one partially complete that started hunting the Persacron to near extinction. The Persacron to survive choose to sacrifice themselves by removing their Fruit of Life and dissolving into primordial ooze called Eitr from which new life would energe and eventually evolve into new sapient races.

The Melam
These newly created races quickly took to the stars and spread out across a region of space known as the Persan Expanse. At some point a central authority called the Melam Empire emerged and put all of the Expanse under their dominion via a caste system. The Melam were notoriously abusive and conducted unrestricted sapient experimentation without regard for the suffering it would cause. One of the more notable experiments resulted in an entire generation of children with uncontrollable elemental powers called the Persa. Eventually the Melam Empire came under assault by a mysterious and utterly alien existential threat named the Sclus. Unable to combat the Scelus the Melam armed the Persa and taught them to control their powers. The Persa were successful in repelling the Scelus, however turned upon the Melam who had abused them and slaughtered them all. However, the republic that arose to the replace the Melam feared the Persa for the unstable elemental powers they wielded in the hands of mentally unstable teenagers. They forced the Persa to flee into deepspace. There the Persa went into hibernation waiting for a time when someone would awake them.

The Drakodominatus Tyranny
Unfortunately for the Persa those who awoke them were the Drakodominatus Tyranny who found them floating in deepspace. They enslaved and experimented upon the Persa whose anomalous elemental abilities help contribute to the development of the Drakodomintus biodrones. When the Drakodominatus unleash the Ultima Serum upon their own kind. The Persa escaped in the resulting chaos and fled into deepspace. There they were discovered by the Waptoria who helped them flee to territory now occupied by the nations of nascent UAE. There to their shock the Persa found the Persan Expanse now in a state of complete anarchy. The Persa launched a military campaign both to reunite the Expanse and thus united the UPD and established the Sefirot as its central authority.

The Persa then turned their attention to securing their future against the Dominatus and the taking revenge for their enslavement. They develop teleporting mechs called Kitsune through which a Persa could manifest their elemental powers. to bypass Dominatus long range weapons and strike at them with melee weapons. These tactics proved utterly devastating against the Dominatus who could never truly counter them. When the war came to an end the powers of the Anti-Dominatus Coaltion met to discuss what to do with the remaining Dominatus. The Persa wanted to exterminate the adult Dominatus but take the new and unborn to be raised as Persa, they were overruled though and the Dominatus were exterminated in full. This left the Persa with a cynical streak in regards to international politics and for awhile they would seek contact with no one else outside the UAE.

Organization
The UPD is the ruling authority of the region of space in Mirus known as the Persa Expanse composed of a numerous administrative sectors known as the Satraps. These Satraps are largely independent only owning loyalty to the UPD's central authority in the form of taxes, adherence to code of sapient rights, and maintaining internal order. The central authority of the UPD is the Sefirot, the ruling authority of the homesector of the three founding races of the UPD. The Sefirot prefers to exercise soft power to control the region employing soft power in the form of military dominance via its powerful army and navy, and control of three pillars of Persa society: control of the gateway network connecting all habitable worlds, control of the universal Persan currency, and control the Dream: Persan netspace that connects all individuals in the UPD.

Society within the Sefirot is organized into a caste system composed of four castes. Neophytes are not so much of caste as the designation given to adolescence that have yet to come of age and be assigned to a caste. Zelators are soldiers, Theoricus are priests and scholars, Practicus are service, and Philosophus are merchants and artisans. Their is also a Portal Caste for those who have the knowledge and ability to occupied a position in two castes. Caste assignment is not based one birth or linage but rather personal ability, interests, and is assigned as part of one's coming of age.

In terms of government the Sefirot itself is a liberal democracy that directly rules the persan homesystem (which it shares its name with) and indirectly rules the rest of the UPD. It is structured are a parliament head by an executive called the Ipsissimus who is the first among equals. The parliament divided up into a Circle of Magus composed of elected officials from the satraps and the Circle of Magisters composed of elected officials representing the castes of the Sefirot. Despite its highly meritocratic nature (or perhaps because of it), the UPD is universally a highly liberal society deeply concerned with protecting the rights of its citizens. All Satraps operate off some form of democracy and are allowed to elect their own representatives. Also the Sefirot and all satraps are expected to follow a constitution protecting given rights, liberties, and freedoms to all members regardless of race, ethnicity, or religion.

Culture
The United Persan Descendants is well known for being highly multicultural and hosting a great number of different ethnicities that can be found across the Persan expanse. In general the peoples of the UPD can be very broadly categorized into four categories: Genesians, Exodians, Pastoralists, and Persa. The first of these are the Genesians who colonized and terraformed the Persan capital system of Sefirot, and still dwell there. The second are Exodians and are descendants of Persan that all spread out from the Sefirot and settled the planets beyond. They are now citizens of the satrapies and most never leave their system of birth. Third are the Pastoralists who are nomads that live in space and wander between planets never truly settling down. Pastoralists are not taxed in the same way that Exodians are by the Sefirot and are instead expected to pay slightly higher then average tolls when using the gateway system.

Despite their vast differences there are several unifying factors across the whole of the UPD between all its Satraps. Persan culture is universally liberal with easy access to recreational drugs and many forms of sexual pleasure, as well as a strong tradition of promotion of free speech. They are far from decadent or hedonistic, though many enjoy luxury, and Persan culture heavily promotes independence, self reliance, and individual accountability to temper the liberal nature of their society. Industriousness is another common trait of the Persan with even the most remote worlds often building themselves into highly economic and productive powerhouses.

The fourth demographic is the smallest and the most esoteric and mythologized among the Persan. These are the Persa themselves, the descendants of the generation children who manifested out of control over powers Liminal Energy after the disastrous Melam experiments with piercing the veil of reality into the essence plane known as Terra Incognita. Powers all modern Persa still posses. Despite most of the UPD being not of any degree of Persa descent, the Persa as a people are highly mythologized as the descendants of the ancient heroes that were the first Persa. To the the peoples of the Persan expanse the first Persa were saviors from the assimilation of the Scelus and liberators from the oppression of the Melem. Every colony and peoples in the UPD and even some beyond have stories of a great Persa hero saving their people from some existential threat. Even now they are regarded as protects against the various other existential threats haunting Mirus. Because of this most Persa keep their lineage hidden unless they have directly manifest the powers associated with it. Both to avoid too high of expectations from the believers and/or ridicule from the disbelieving.

Religion
Religious tolerance is a guaranteed freedom in the United Persan Descendants, with only a few exceptions such as Darkling cults and the like. However, the majority religion in the UPD is the one known as Drakenism, a monotheistic religion dedicated to the worship of three dragon goddess; Asa Miki of the Sun, Ama Maka or the White Moon, and Ara Maya of the Black Moon. The Persan hold to the worship of asa Miki called Asism and ban the worship of the other goddesses

According to the doctrine of Asism Asa Miki created the universe but was opposed by her sisters with Ara Maya seeking to destroy creation and Ama Maka seeking to restructure creation to obey her own designs. Thus the three goddess are in constant battle with one another for the fate of the universe. To help her in maintaining creation Asa Miki created the Persacron Star Dragons, embodiments of the elements of nature who the Persan accredit with being their progenitors. Asism teaches the pursuits of moral values, economic values, psychological values, and spiritual values as the path achieving a good afterlife and reincarnation into the universe after Asa Miki's sisters influences have been purged and creation rebuilt.

In the UPD there is also a strong presence of allied religions of Zaraturaism, Raptoranean Pantheon, Mellynrism, Baspirism, Spodism, and the Zarbanian Pantheon is being to make headway. The Persan tolerance of other religions is built on a very simple principle. To them there is one god, but just as a hand has multiple fingers god has multiple ways of making itself known. To the persan all simply have their own way they must walk and no one way will fit for all, one mountain but many paths upon that mountain.

Technology
While technology across the UPD can be vary diverse from satrap to satrap, because Persan technology is based off scavenge from the fallen Melam Empire's so there are many commonalities. One is that all Persan technology is biomechanical in nature fuse machine and organic parts to the point that the barrier between the two can no longer be recognized. Second is that it never has any external control system instead being control via a neurosync system. Third is that all Persan devices are powered by microfusion reactors. Finally is that all Persan regardless of their technological standing are provided interstellar travel and communications tech by the UPD. All Persan have access to the Dream, a Persan netspace created via all the interconnect neurocommincations systems of every Persan citizen. Many Persan live lives that exist just as much in the Dream as they do in the material world.

The Persan put their technology to use well and have managed to heavily industrialize their region of space, building heavy industrialized megastructures such as ringworlds and O’Neill Cylinders, among others, to supply their industrial needs. These megastructures are crewed mostly by drones that work tirelessly to harvest resources from uninhibited and lifeless planets, asteroids, and other stellar objects to supply the Persan's massive industrial needs while citizens of largely live on the planets in lives of relative luxury tasking themselves with more professional pursuits. Five dyson spheres have been constructed by the Persan that provide more then enough power to the entirety of the UPD. By far the greatest accomplishments of the UPD was repurposing the Black Hole Foundry of Mors left behind by the Dominatus allowing them to harvest matter and energy from the heart of a black hole and use it for construction. The Persan are looking to construct more of these monsters to further their already impressive juggernaut of an economic and industrial force.

While not technically technology the Persan are masters of magic arts with many highly learned and powerful sorcerers filling their ranks. The persan particular brand magic is known as Conjunction Sorcery bends liminal energy to the users will to pierce the veil between worlds and into other planes of existence. The sorcerer can then pull energy and matter (even other beings) through the veil and into this world unleashing paracasual forces to either mend or maim. Due the immense risks involved Conjunction Sorcerers are highly trained and their secretes guarded closely. Sorcerers have their knowledge limited to specific spheres of existence to pull from and to specific spells so as to prevent reckless and irresponsible use of their magics.

Economy
The UPD is a place a bustling and free trade both from within and from without the Persan expanse. Both native a foreign merchants are allowed to travel with relative freedom to exchange their wares wherever they may. One can find most anything in the bustling spaceports, tradeyards, and bazaars of the UPD with the only real restrictions being placed on offworld live flora and fauna, propaganda and other fetishes from enemy forces, and certain extremely harmful drugs.

The economic model followed by the Persan is one that follows would be best referred to as a mixed economy having elemental of both planned and market economies. The UPD economy is effectively a market economy but with strong government oversight and intervention from the Sefirot in terms of trade and all public utilities and services being provided for by the local government of the Satrap.

An interesting tendency is the unwillingness of the Persan in general across the satraps to take on debit and the charging of interest thanks to strong religious stigma against it. For the persan it is important that all forms of financing be taken on with symmetrical risk and reward so that no party benefits unequally from success nor suffers unequally from failure, all parties must benefit or suffer from success or failure in equal measure. It is not illegal to take on debit or charge interest simply socially frowned upon enough to discourage most individuals from attempting it.

Military
The military tactics of the UPD emphasize flexibly, rapid deployment, and maneuverability. Persan forces employ combined arms combining infantry, artillery, armour, air support and superiority, and orbital bombardment for purposes of shock and disruption seeking to decapitate the enemy's decision making and logistical abilities. To this end they will often target enemy supply lines, command centers, and industrial centers, eschewing direct engagements in favor of targeting weak points in the enemy formations to exploit and only engaging in direct assault as a distraction or if cornered.

To facilitate this Persan ships are fast and agile with long range weapons and both in real and hyperspace. Heavy deployment of missiles and torpedoes are used to outrange and overcome enemy shields and armor. Battleships, dreadnoughts, and in general heavier armed but slower and less flexible ships are eschewed in favor of heavy emphasis on carriers, cruisers, and strikecraft allowing Persan fleets a high degree of logistical freedom, flexibility, reach, and rapid deployment capabilities while limiting staying power and defensive ability. The Persan prefer to project force rather then resist it. The Persan fleets as a whole is center around the Juggernaut or Supercarrier-dreadnought of which the Persan posses four, fifty meter ships named the Ashakhan, Ashikhan, Ashokhan, and Ashukhan.

Thanks to limited population the UPD often supplements much of its man power with AI and drones providing combat, operating, logistical, medical, and other forms of support. Still the UPD employs heavy use of manpower along with drones with many UPD soldiers and crewmen serving alongside and in tandem with these robotic soldiers. Often times the pilots of UPD vehicles are paired with an AI to help them pilot their vehicles.

Sectors

 * Sefirot -
 * Sekhmet -
 * Tlaloc -
 * Osiris -
 * Scylla -
 * Orochi -
 * Sisyphus -
 * Vishnu -
 * Asura -
 * Amaterasu -

Species
Vanara=
 * Classification - Dinosauria
 * Homeworld - Malkuth

Angrus=
 * Classification - Dinosauria
 * Homeworld - Netzatch

Devilos=
 * Classification - Pterosauria
 * Homeworld - Gevurah

Angelus=
 * Classification - Insecta
 * Homeworld - Chokamah

Demonica=
 * Classification - Insecta
 * Homeworld - Binah

Grauwl
 * Classification - Reptilia
 * Homeworld - Yesod

Serker=
 * Classification - Mammalia
 * Homeworld - Chesed

Hist=
 * Classification - Reptilia
 * Homeworld - Hod

Allied
"Allies in Truth!"


 * Sword&Shield.pngUnified Alliance of Enlightenment - The UPD are rather staunch members of the UAE.
 * Green face.png - The UPD consider the Mendel some of their closest allies.
 * Green face.png - The UPD are grateful to the Waptoria for helping to rescue them from the Dominatus. Yet they find the Waptoria's forgiveness of Eldarisia over their shared love for nature to be grating.
 * Green face.png - The Persan respect the MTC greatly.
 * Green face.png - The Persan as well respect the UKA but are irritated by their unwillingness to get along with the Grand Republic of Tyris Major.
 * Green face.png - Again the Persan respect the GRTM but find their unwillingness to cooperate with the UKA to be irritating.
 * Sword&Shield.png - The Persan are rather skeptical when it comes to function of the Covenant of Mirus. They are also prone to doing their own thing counter to the Covenant's wishes.
 * Orange face.png - The Persan believe the French have the best intentions but find their insistence on remaining allies with the Eldarisian and the Hegemony despite their genocidal actions to be grating.
 * Red face.png - The Persan see the Eldarisian as a collection of dangerous and evil zealots and wish to associate with them little as possible.
 * Sword&Shield.png - The Persan see the Triumverate as a necessary evil to keep Mirusians competitive with the Xonexi.
 * Blue face.pngZarbania Powers - Though former enemies the Persan have always held respect for the Zarbania in someway.

Neutral

 * Red face.pngonatrix Empire - "The Persan have little contact with the Aeoneonatrix but know them by reputation and want nothing to do with them."
 * Red face.pngd Hegemony of Exterioris - "The Persan hate the Hegemony for their racism against the Vanara and attempted genocide against them."
 * Red face.pngontid Empire - "The Persan see the Troodontid as something akin to a nation composed of sociopaths."

At War
"Servants of Lies!"
 * Red face.pngScelus Purification - The Persan hate and fear the Scelus on a level matched by no other foe.
 * Red face.pngVoid Eye Empire - The Persan see the Void Eyes as ignorant and dangerous fools.
 * Red face.pngNajiim Krassio - The Persan see the Najiim Krassio as something akin to demons wielding the Void and their gods as false deities.

Quotes
"The United Persan Descendants have proven their mettle by fighting our enemies alongside us. We have won many wars with their aid and they have long since earned our trust. Let it be known that any enemy of the UPD is an enemy that we will gladly face alongside them."
 * add your own!

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Out-Universe

 * Themes
 * Main Theme - Reincarnation
 * Marvel Theme- Girl
 * War Theme - The Last Angel
 * War March - Double Blind
 * Decisive Battle - Re-Take
 * Diplomacy Theme - God Bless
 * Defeat - Ever Dream
 * Victory - Holy Day
 * The UPD has a basis off the historic Achaemenid Persian Empire, as well as several fictional properties such as the TEC from Sins of a Solar Empire, the Union from Lancer, the New Earth Government from Cthulhutech, the Vanguard from Age of Wonders: Planetfall, and the Tenno from Warframe.