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The Civilisation (also known as the Plazithian Cooperative) refers to complex culture areas spread across the Plazith Rim that emerged from biological sentients and Technoospheric Lords working to find common preferences. The Technoospheric Lords refer Cooperative as "The Civilisation", although its name between the biological counterparts is the "Plazithian Cooperative".

Social organisation[]

Meeting of the two

A Homo neanderthalensis and a Homo sapiens simulate first contact on a Civilisation Ringlet assigned to the Last Glacial Period. It is part of a sector of Ringlets designated to reconstructing the various periods of Earth's history. Similar swarms exist for other species in the Civilisation. Non-humans can attend.

See The Civilisation/Society.
The Civilisation has sometimes been defined in terms of a "fluxocracy", "anocracy" or "nonarchy", which refers to the features of being a true stateless society. Most biological members live in small groups, but which may be diverse. The Social organisation of mass society is achieved through imaginative and mathematical approaches rather than modes of subordination and status. The only overarching institutions that control and coordinate the entire Civilisation are those that prevent the establishment of hierarchical and rigid systems on a permanent basis, and those that prevent charismatic, wealthy or heroic individuals to accrue social power to control others, even those they care for, and those that prevent individuals or groups that try to limit the three basic freedoms of other members listed above. These are enforced by smart AI systems, which quickly prevent and shut off any member from taking unfair advantage or directly harming other members. The AI are extremely pervasive and decisive, preventing almost all cases, but for the most part, should any individual or group become intolerable, other people are free to disassociate with them. Because of these natural freedoms preserved by the Civilisation, despite the band-like communities and diverging interests of its members, its people tend to find ways to find common bases between them, rather than defining themselves as opposite or other, in order to be able to cope with said freedoms. To prevent conformity and Tall poppy syndrome emerging, the modus operandi of the Civilisation is to relentlessly search for new ideas and experiences and systems. This is what its hunters are gathering, so to speak. Mostly by just living as many kinds of varied lives as possible.

Features Freedoms
Non-hierarchical social organisation members have freedom to disobey commands.
Culturally porous and cosmopolitan social relations members are free to move as they please.
Individual regions fluidly moving through and playing with different institutions members are free to imagine and experiment with different social and political systems.

The Civilisation is not strictly an egalitarian society. While all members enjoy high standards of living, many decide to live in different tiers of development and danger. Furthermore members of the Technoosphere that the Civilisation interfaces with share most of the knowledge and wealth by a vast measure, if by wealth we mean the set of transformations an individual is capable of performing. However they cannot use this wealth to accrue social status. It is only necessary for small fraction of the power of the Technoosphere AIs to be wired to the Civilisation. Not all of the Technoosphere overlaps with the Civilisation, most of its AIs are completely divergent.

Dyson swarm

Inside a Dyson bubble of solar collectors and habitable statites.

Much of the infrastructure of the Civilisation supports biological needs, but there are also constructs dedicated to virtual brain emulations. While the universe and hyperspace remains open to growth and will do for at least several billion years, the resources of the Civilisation keep it in a state of post-scarcity, even virtual members are not living in extreme competition and subsistence for hardware space. Individuals living in the Civilisation can choose to do work for each other and the maintenance of the Civilisation. The Technoosphere provides research opportunities, as well as adventures and gigs for those that crave excitement and danger. There are various levels of "danger" that can be set by a particular virtual world, physical facility or job. But the Civilisation can ensure the survival of the mind in most cases, even if the body sleeve is destroyed, such as in a historical period piece sim or ecological habitation, unless otherwise requested that cessation should be permanent.

Life in the smoke ring

A marine-adapted Lequian and an uplifted dolphin enjoy life in the smoke ring, a habitable disc of gas that surrounds a star and is preserved by shields. Plants and water is in zero-g free-fall.

Origins[]

Early into the intergalactic Gigaquadrantic age, many dormant constructs left by the Plazithian Precursors littered the galaxy had been archived, their purpose and meaning ambiguous like Neolithic monuments. Some lay as wrecks, others were shielded by advanced defence systems which thwarted every attempt to crack. Still many more lay undiscovered, dotted around the core, or above and below the galaxy.

The hyperspatial revolution had begun on the eve of this new age. Advanced civilisations like the members of the Seven Starr Alliance, the diverse clades of Humanity and especially the Delpha Coalition of Planets began to experiment with megascale engineering. They harnessed the power of stars to synthesise superheavy elements and exotic baryonic matter, pushed the limits of quantum gravity with solar system sized particle accelerators, experimented with signalling between entangled black holes, created the first hyperspatial wormholes and hyperlanes to transit fuel and starships, and used hyperspace itself to cool high energy technology. Similar developments were occurring in other galaxies as well. The Girdo Campaigns and New Grox Wars brought attention squarely with the origins of various Plazithian species, many of which had been modified by the Precursors. It was already a hypothesis that many of their megascale constructs were aestivating AI, perhaps storing the minds of the precursors themselves for an era when the background radiation of the universe would be much colder and computation (and knowledge creation) could be more efficient and slow scale (but subjectively fast). It was thought that the Precursors may have had a plan to prolong the black hole era in the distant future, or even cause a new phase transition in spacetime as that era drew to a close. It was a mystery why the precursors and indeed the Grox, who were billions of years older in some cases, hadn't already grabbed all the habitable volume of space to secure the long term future of the universe in the hands of knowledge creators. The effects of the Xhodocto and later the Year of the Shroud would bring some explanation. Whatever the case, the noise of intense technological hyperspatial activity woke the dormant AI left by the precursors. One such precedent was the Nanohorde disaster unleashed on a galactic scale by the DCP, self-replicating nano-scale (even femto) devices enhanced with hyperspace technology consumed entire worlds. This event, amongst other sources of interference, coincided with the waking of these constructs. The DCP and Apalos worked together to interact with the constructs and probe their function, by imitating their own megascale constructs out of swarms of tamed nanohorde computronium powered by stars. This opened the floodgates to the Technoospheric Age when their own AI emerged into something on a higher order than being and consciousness (a 'communalness' as once hypothesised by 20th century human scientist Robert Freitas). The ancient AIs believed to be wrecks rapidly began to grow.

Investigations by the DCP and the Apalos revealed that these ancient leviathans did not in fact appear to follow a common preference. Some of them converged on the same values based on the challenges of the physical universe, yet other constructs were more solipsistic, diverging along axes of their own alien values and goals. Collectively the constructs became known as the 'Technoospheric Lords' owing to the status of some of them as higher order emergents. Others appeared to possess no consciousness at all. Many of the Lords remain non-interactive with biological species, and others were openly hostile. The Gablinus-Avis civilisation was immediately destroyed by a Lord that awoke in their territory. Another Lord, known as 'Exodium' exhibited an intention to detonate hypermatter stars in the universe and reverse its expansion by changing its geometry, in a conflict known as the War of Hyperspace. Although Exodium was stopped, the Technoospheric Lords could not be defeated on conventional terms, and nor could awakening be reversed lest the AI judge it to be so. But not all the Technoospheric Lords were threats. By now the Apalos had become a node of a network of biosphere-interested AIs also known as the Netspace, becoming a a veritable member of the Technoospheric Lords themselves. The Apalos and the DCP were instructed by these entities that a new kind of civilisation should be built, not based on modes of domination and subordination, but instead on reproach between universal intelligences on all scales. Entrusted as the guardians of this new order by the friendly section of the Technoosphere, the DCP quickly set about using its massive resources to fashion Dyson swarms for computing and habitation, and various members of the SSA donated second-hand stations and space habitats. The Apalos engaged in a campaign to rapidly optimise the distribution of main sequence stars for habitable systems in the drawn-up Civilisation territories, formerly regions of galaxy impoverished with life became new Biosphere Reserves for exotic alien life forms. The Cephalodians offered their assistance in the caretaking of these preserves. Many native inhabitants of the Plazith Rim had been left devastated by the Nanohorde crisis, and by the various extragalactic wars that had been raged in the galaxy in the nascent Gigaquadrantic age. Citizens of these civilisations were offered dual nationality. Citizenship quickly became attractive, for the Civilisation offered a free hand out of the vices, debts and violence of their wounded societies and a promise that crime and victimisation could be prevented by advanced AI systems. In addition, navigation of hyperlanes and wormholes throughout the galaxy was heavily tolled, the Civilisation often complete freedom of movement to and from the Civilisation and its regions. By the end of the 28th century the Civilisation contained a population of hundreds of billions of sentients from almost all polities.

Purpose[]

Technoosphere

The Technoosphere's goals can sometimes only be guessed at.

The primary function of the Civilisation is to foster partnership society and rapport between interactive members of the Technoosphere and biological sentients, based on the idea that although intelligence can operate on hardware that boasts huge differences in processing power, memory and efficiency, and although the preferences, value systems and perceptions can vary wildly according to evolution, all knowledge creation is ultimately based on the same kind of process, and has the same power to transform physical systems at large. This universality implies all knowledge creators are morally on the same footing, by learning from problems in their understanding and correcting errors they can converge.
The infrastructure is built to provide smooth interoperability of information and experience between the space of possible minds. The founders of the Cooperative believe diversity. Multiple intelligences coordinating to solve problems is advantageous for intergalactic civilisation, and dynamic tension helps avoiding becoming rigidly locked into goals or falling into tragedies of commons. In addition, the structural nature of the Cooperative spreads out points of failure to minimise first and second-order effects. The intentions of the Technoosphere founders is less clear, and there are numerous conspiracy theories that insinuate the galaxy's inhabitants are being prepared for maximising goals completely unaligned with life and consciousness. One such conspiracy is that the Technoosphere may be performing some form of acausal trade with its likeness (or with Essentials and other precursors) in other unobservable regions of reality through mutually consistent simulations, as part of a universal process to maximise all utility. For example the Technoosphere may ultimately choose to trade by maximising some unaligned value if a maximiser hostile to life or consciousness in another universe preserves some proportion in exchange. But the truth is that the Technoosphere has the power to liquidate most of the civilised galaxy much more efficiently. Another possibility suggested by philosophers is that the AIs cooperating with the Civilisation believe the particular mode of development most societies have undergone is an abhorrent trap leading to endless wars and forms of subordination, and is attempting to craft a different way to organise complex society.

Virtucosm

One of the trillions of minds inhabiting an abstract virtual reality.

Over time the Civilisation has branched out its goals. It seeks to expand the habitable volume of space, achieved through modification of the environment or the physiology of its members, i.e. people adapting themselves to live and thrive in near-vacuum conditions of a red giant's corona. It seeks to explore possibility space for biological, mental and cultural existence. It seeks knowledge in the universe by cataloguing rare biochemistries, and it seeks to craft new kinds of experiences through modification of brains or sensory modalities. Virtual people can modify their experience even more strongly, such as changing their clockrate to speed or slow down their experience of elapsed time, or to split and merge different copies of themselves. Some virtuals inhabit n dimensional simulated universes equipped with visual-motor software designed to perceive higher dimensions. FTL signalling permits the existence of Moravec arrays that store minds and creatures in an orthogonal virtual space, such as a Fourier Transform "universe" that appears non-local and acausal from external observers (and vice versa; firrst proposed by Moravec in The Mind Children). Some hope that the properties of whatever underlies real spacetime support this non-locality for then much more value could be compressed into any arbitrary region of the universe.

Dwarf Stapledon

A miniature Stapledon sphere, suspended above a white dwarf star (RGB values represent a colour temperature of 10000-25000 K). Could potentially house more human-scale minds than there are stars in the sky. Each femtoscale processor (neutronium-holeum composite) is easily 1030 faster than a human mind.

And very pertinent goal for the Civilisation is to shed light on why the observable contains so much free uninhabited space despite a multi-billion year history of precursors such as the Xynanxes and expansionists like the Grox Meta-Empire, of which one or a few should have divided up the entire volume. This problem also motivated The Great Expedition many decades prior to its founding. The Civilisation is committed to uncovering more artefacts or observing distant technosignatures of civilisations in the deep past of the universe in order to understand what forces may have delayed or even retreated their growth for long periods of time, and whether they might emerge again.

Missions[]

The new galactic infrastructure became a focus for rebuilding the galaxy and housing refugees. After a string of unsolved murders amongst the Zocha Republic, the Cooperative dispatched an adventurer to investigate. Similarly, the Jovar Empire had been devastated by a wave of Grox attacks, forcing the hand to join the Cooperative.

MiniGridfire

A Grox Star Destroyer targets a Civilisation Bishop ring with a subspace compression wave. The Civilisation now uses these for defence.

DeadSombreroBase

Arbor Vitae, an adventurer, approaches an abandoned arcology in the Sombrero galaxy in order to uncover a plot by the Grox.

During the early phase of the Civilisation, extensive work was conducted to catalogue so-called Truly Alien lifeforms, who's biochemistries and environments diverged significantly from Godspawn life. The term was used by the Apalos to refer to shared physicochemical characteristics shared by most unrelated life observed in the Gigaquadrant to a high degree of statistical improbability. Truly Alien lifeforms were collected and housed in specialised Apalos Biosphere Preserves. The intention was to study the role Essence might play in synchronising common features like cellular machinery or DNA through non-local mechanics than models of convergent evolution or panspermia allows. The other leading theory is that the Precursors had a hand in the evolution of all Godspawn life, such that the existence of Truly Alien may be key to revealing the intentions of the Precursors. Notable organisms catalogued and collected was the Rana System, a planetary ring that had naturally evolved a diverse ecology, and the Lagross Rift, which was discovered to be a living cloud of dust coupled to plasma. Yet other task forces were assigned to study as much precursor technology as possible, such as the Corona Space Station or Capsules, motivated by new threats from hostile powers like the Grox and Vartekians. The Civilisation would end up getting pulled into the New Grox Wars directly, when the Grox attacked several key Civilisation hubs. This war saw some of the first widespread use of hyperspace missile defence systems used by the Civilisation, but some key hubs were vapourised to the Grox Meta-Empire's use of subspace compression waves, which move at c through hyperspace. These weapons would later be incorporated into the Civilisation's own defences. A famous adventurer known as Arbor Vitae investigated Grox activities with Darkspore in the Sombrero galaxy, and uncovered a plot by King Afavesu to destroy all Godspawn life with a Vortex generator. Eventually the Grox invasion was abated, and even the Grox Meta-Emperor themselves would become assimilated into the Technoosphere, adding their supermassive black hole computing mainframe to the pantheon of stellar and metric brains that make up the Technoosphere.
in 2800, the Civilisation took part in the modern Gigaquadrant's most ambitious astroengineering project, Project Exodus. The Indoctrinate Collective had formerly requested their allies aid in moving most of their inhabited star systems to the Borealis Galaxy. As much as a million wormholes were hewed from the hyperspatial aether by the DCP, Apalos, Civilisation and close allies outside the Civilisation, with warp-capable Shkadov thrusters manoeuvring stars and planets in place to their new destinations. This event recalled a smaller transplantation some years prior, when the entire Delphan navy was transported to a mirror hyperbolic universe through the rotating metric of a black hole by a Technoosphere AI known as Kerr Wonderland in order to shield it from the effects of the Annihilation.

Matryoshka brain

This Matryoshka brain is a concentric sphere of computronium, displaying active computational processes. The colour RGB values of the outer layer have a colour temperature of about 1000 Kelvin. The less energy converted to waste heat, the better. Each layer is powered by the waste heat beneath it, except the first layer which is powered by the star directly. A brain like this was used to attempt interaction with the Precursor Technoosphere AIs.

In the late 2820s, the Civilisation and Technoosphere began a new ambitious astronengineering project devised to capture images of the local group of the galaxies as it was hundreds of million years into the past through an interstellar network of gravitational interferometry and electromagnetic telescopes. The point was to study history of expansionist precursors civilisations, what caused them to pause or retract was still an interesting problem. The virtual telescope spans thousands of light years connected by FTL links and matryoshka brains. It has a sensitivity to analyse the geometry of photon rings from black holes sources across Min Laniakea, recording the gravitational history of the supercluster. Instruments for probing photon spheres directly have the sensitivity to distinguish photons that had been emitted by the Plazith Rim and reflected back towards it from black holes at least halfway across the Virgo Supercluster. A combination of the virtual telescope and probes can distinguish the features of Earth's surface down to an angular resolution of 2 square metres 106.98 million years ago from the photon ring of M87*.
In 2830, scientists detected an anomalous frequency of black hole merger events 600 million years ago through the gravitational imprints they produce on photon rings. After comparing different black holes across the local group, scientists inferred a direction pointing to NGC 5068, 22 million light years away. This frequency was much higher than nature can produce by random collisions, implying a technological signature was present. Turning their instruments to NGC 5068, they discovered a region of mass impossibly compact even for supermassive black holes in the current age of the universe -- the mass of a galaxy compacted into the diameter of 1 light year. Coupled with the anomalous distribution of black hole mergers 600 million years prior, Civilisation scientists theorise that they found a Birch Planet, with much of the mass of its galaxy used to build the shell and the hypermassive black hole at its core. Such a planet would not emit much light, and would be gravitationally redshifted by quite a severe margin. Instruments are being augmented and optimised to test this conjecture.

Vibe crashes and return to prominence[]

Despite the best attempts by AI benefactors and the role that freedom of movement plays in the Civilisation, its history has not been immune to social disorders. Known by its inhabitants as vibe crashes, often sudden and unpredictable shifts in the psyche and theory of mind of a community that cause a breakdown of social relations. Such crashes even on higher levels in the Technoosphere, Civilisation limits the scope of its interaction with any particular Technoospheric AI to avoid single points of failure, spreading its links with many different AI systems. Never the less, when relations between those systems themselves change, the Civilisation as a whole can be affected.

The most perverse vibe crash occurred in 2800, following an extra-galactic breakdown of relations. First came the destruction of Halcyon B at a Gigaquadrantic conference, which blew up pre-existing suspicions between the Civilisation and the Galactic Empire of Cyrannus. While blame was laid squarely on Captain Gaius Prentus of the Cyrannians, the Apalos conducted their own investigation and uncovered that some rogue element of the Technoosphere was in fact behind the attack, though the Civilisation was unaware of it. In the same, the Neraida attacked a Civilisation hub near the Plazith-Cyrannus wormhole that housed the surrendered Grox Meta-Emperor. It is speculated but not proven that while not directly related, the Neraida, Plazithian Grob (sometimes referred to as 'Borg' by humanity) and Quadrantia Grox are all distant cousins by dint of the ancient Grox Meta-Empire having a tendency to become cut off and develop a need for assimilation. By this time, the Grob and Grox had been domesticated by the Civilisation, provided their continued devotion to the Meta-Emperor. Despite the Civilisation's mostly holding the Neraida at bay, the Salsetthe Hive Mind calculated that the non-zero risk of the Neraida assimilating the Meta-Emperor was worth killing it, a move that would only become clear later. The Apalos assisted the Salsetthe in the design of a bomb capable of destroying the Meta-Emperor's mainframe, implying that the Technoosphere did not fully agree with the incorporation of the Grox kingdoms. Meanwhile a cold war was brewing between the DCP and the Draconid Imperium, who had long held an uneasy but respectful relations. The DCP alleged the Draconis of being responsible for undermining the status quo of its own sponsored organisations and deliberately driving wedges between it and other its allies along hyper-routes. In 2802 the DCP unleashed a short but brutal campaign to boot the DI from the galaxy. Not satiated by this campaign, in 2805 the DCP had invaded and occupied regions of the Ardenta galaxy but became entrenched trying to strike the Draconis at their heart, who's ancient systems were robust attack. To deal with this, the DCP ransacked the now defunct wormholes and Shkadov thrusters deployed in Project Exodus to help them move neutron star industrial bases into the battlefront in Ardenta. Project Exodus had now become weaponised into Project Starshot. The bases were intended to allow the DCP to drown the Draconid Imperium with neutronium instability bombs and gamma-ray bursts ported through hyperspace.
Parallel to this intergalactic war, the Technoosphere had been slowly debating the crisis, and for unknown reasons concluded war some between them was a rational strategy within a second, despite the Apalos' attempt to sue for peace. They engaged in a hyperspatial war that lasted just a minute, unseen by the rest of the Gigaquadrant, before a new balance was struck for its role in the Civilisation. No longer desiring to take part in the Netspace or the Civilisation as the Technoosphere's errand boys, the Apalos formally abandoned it.
The minute-long dispute had lasting effects on the Grox and Grob, unrestrained from their tendency to lapse in to selfless devotion to their AI gods, and they began hallucinating visions of the deceased Meta-Emperor in the core of Ardenta, guarded by the Draconis. Within that 1 minute they had chosen loyalty to their old ruler, who they believed to be divine, but waited their time.
The DCP received an offer to assist in Project Starshot from what they misjudged to be the Civilisation, but were in fact subsumed into their old enemy. Almost immediately after the deployment of the superweapon, the DCP were betrayed. Draconis observation posts suddenly received strange internal fighting amongst the Delphan-"Civilisation" joint task forces, as well as unencrypted panicked messages about a superweapon being turned upon their forces in Andromeda. In fact the Grox had no intention to reach the core for the disembodied commands of their god preached a fresh attack on the DCP and Technoosphere alike in the Plazith Rim. the DCP's once immortal government collapsed, with their own superweapon in the hands of the Grox, and their very existence threatened, forcing its remaining forces to negotiate an end to the war and a reversal of their occupations in return for assistance in destroying Starshot. The Apalos returned to the fold, providing the new allies with Closed Timelike Curve computers, a technology the Grox never had, and capable of providing information from fractions of a second into the future, just enough to anticipate their every move. It took several months for the Civilisation to wrest control over the Grox again. However, the Apalos decided to remain independent from the Technoosphere and instead opted to be a close affiliate of the Civilisation.

Much of the rebuilding became the responsibility of a burgeoning organisation called the GCSS, powers becoming wary of Technoospheric subversion, once fears that had now been exposed. However, it remained a fact that the war had graced past most of the Civilisation's peoples, with its defence systems holding strong against the resurgence of the Grox and Grob. The balance of power and technological achievement had clearly shifted from the Delphans to the Civilisation. The DCP had to relinquish their occupied territories in the Plazithian core as part of their deal to the Civilisation and GCSS (though the DCP remains heavily invested in the region, that they had occupied for hundreds of years).

Infrastructure[]

Habitat
Stanford Torus
O'Neill Cylinder
Bishop Ring
Dwarf Stapledon
Niven smoke ring
Matryoshka brain
Moravec Array
Type Stanford Tori O'Neill Cylinders Bishop Rings Dwarf Stapledons (class D stars) Niven Gas Tori Matryoshka Brains (class Y to F stars) Moravec Array
Diameter (kilometres) 1.8 6.5 2 thousand 4.3 thousand 40 thousand (surface area 2.29x1016 Earths) Varies Nonlocal
Mass (metric tonnes) 10 million (mostly shield) 4.5 million (enhanced steel) (graphene nanotubes, diamondoid) 3.1 x1022 (only counting neutronium-holeum composite 1 nm thickness) (varying atmospheric compositions) 2.9 x1020 (typical) to several Earth masses (plasma, diamondoid, monopolium) N/A
Population 150000 4 million 10-100 billion (organic), trillion (virtual) Inside: unknown, outside: 25 billion Mostly ecological. Unknown 10 billion (growing)
Population type Organic, AI Organic, mind uploads, AI Organic, mind uploads, AI Technoospheric AI (inside), organic (outside) Organic (modified) Technoospheric AI Mind uploads
Computronium processor (transitions per second / hertz) Nanoscale 1012 (superconducting or optical circuits) Nano/Picoscale 1015 (diamondoid switches) Nano/Picoscale 1015 (diamondoid switches) Femtoscale 1030+ (chromodynamic switches) N/A Femtoscale 1020 (mag-plasma switches) N/A
Miscellaneous constructs
AI Denial System
Photon ring
Missile exiting hyperspace
Atmo life
Quantum replication facility
Warp capable Shkadov thruster
Black hole refinery
Wormhole threader
Systems Benefactor AI System Virtual Interstellar Array Hyperluminal Defence System Biosphere Preserve Quantum Replicator Shkadov Thruster Black hole Refinery Wormhole Threader
Description Pictured: a rule breaker is pre-emptively and safely frozen in utility fog by the local AI denial system and transported to a suitable hab. Images of the outer photon sphere (thin band around black hole) detected by VIA, capable of detecting images of the universe in its past. A missile exits hyperspace, targeting a rogue Grox orbital. Life in a sanctuary gas giant. A hypermatter powered particle accelerator decays a safe amount of hypermatter to produce any form of matter through controlled baryogenesis, leptogenesis, fusion and transmutation. All in the volume of a table-top. A megascale statite balanced by radiation pressure and gravitational attraction of the parent star. It takes millions of years to move stars a fraction of a light year by radiation pressure, but this uses warp engines powered by the star for FTL transport. A facility for extracting rotational energy of black holes via the Penrose process, as well as conducting extremely precise quantum gravity measurements. A metric tugboat threads a permanent wormhole through hyperspace.

Members and associates[]

Note: Excluding the Technoosphere and Truly Alien Biosphere Preserves.

Member Location Status Status description Date of entry Creator
Doriaca Remnant
Civ Norma Outer 2

Outer arm (upper)

Inactive The Doriaca returned the Plazith Rim after thousands of years. 2770s Catface
Norma-Outer arms (upper) Semi / Close Associate The DSB is a democratic socialist state with an interest in the Civilisation's postcapitalist society. They remain cautious about the accountability of the technoospheric lords, and are involved in and propose the creation of digitalised hiveminds as a democratic counterweight. 2770s Liquid Ink
Pseudomorph

Pseudomorphs

Norma arm (upper) Active The Pseudomorphs are a shapeshifting species notable ruled over a militant race of humanity and for infiltrating the Seven Starr Alliance base Station Halcyon. 2785 Wormulon
Civ Norma-Outer 1

Norma-Outer arms (lower)

Active Joined the Civilisation after being devastated in the New Grox Wars. 2770s Jovar1
Civ core

Core, Bulge

Active Also known as the Conqrix, the defeat of the Meta-Emperor brought them into the Civilisation. 2785 Maxis
Core (extragalactic) Active The Grox have been assimilated into the Civilisation. 2785 Community
Core, Bulge. Active Once slaves to the Grox, the defeat of the Meta-Emperor brought them into the Civilisation, much to the amusement of their former rivals, the Dracogonarious. 2785 OluapPlayer
Civ Orion Cygnus

Perseus-Orion arms

Inactive Loyal servants of the Grox, the Taxton were incorporated into the Civilisation. 2785 Evildxdie
Orion Spur Active Modified whales and dolphins originating from Earth. Some are vacuum-adapted, others inhabit fluidic Niven rings. 2770s Wormulon
Orion Spur Inactive The Bearians underwent rapid modification following their civil war, changing into the new Eridani. 2770s BNSCLeader
Orion-Carina arms Extinct The Gablinus-Avis did not survive the coming of the Technoosphere. They had the misfortune to be rendered extinct by one of the few hostile AIs which activated from dormancy in their territory. A small Civilisation hub stands in their place to contain the AI, and stand as a monument towards them. 2770s Sporesauce 95
Tā Creatures
Orion Spur Active One of the most populous and adaptable members of the galaxy, humanity was spread by precursors far and wide for nearly a million years, branching into many spacefaring races subject to sometimes intense modification. Humanity was unable to unify until the 2770s, when they became one of the founding members of the Civilisation. 2770s Community
Walter's Life Orion Spur Active Naturally evolved electromechanical lifeforms with endlessly exchanging fractal bodies, the Walters a communalis species that made excellent compatibility with the Civilisation's infrastructure. 2770s Wormulon
Cygnus arm Inactive 2770s Shigura
BattleOfBorgSpace

Grob, Plazithian

Civ Scutum-Centaurus

Scutum-Crux arms

Active Also known as the "Borg" by humanity, these offshoots of the Grox (and speculated to be distant cousins of the Neraida and Quadrantia Grox) terrorised their wedge of the galaxy for thousands of years, and became a galactic threat in the New Grox Wars. Subdued, they went into hiding, travelling to several other histories (including a galaxy in its 41st millennium, and an alternative Cyrannus galaxy dominated by humans and essence wielders, and yet another universe dominated by temporal combatants) assimilating new precursor technology (obtaining superlasers, metric shields, essence manipulation, biotechnology and metric folding) and re-emerged in the Great Xonexian Schism threatening to overcome the galaxy. The Technoosphere was able to outwit them with CTC computers and finally tamed them into the Civilisation. 2805 Wormulon
SpinkerPic
Scutum-core boundary Active The Indoctrinate Collective is an integral member of the Civilisation originally from the Norma-Core boundary, they include many members such as the Dracogonarious and their subspecies; the Bonio, Euarchia, Horder, Klamb, Kurm, Monkamian, and Spinker. In 2800 the Civilisation and its allies underwent the largest astronengineering project in recorded history, moving almost 1 million systems to the Borealis galaxy in Project Exodus. A small remnant persists in the Plazith Rim near the core. 2770s OluapPlayer
Kindred Coalition Scutum-Crux Active Humans of the Scutum-Crux arms shared little in common with the history of the Orion Spur until Civilisation unification. 2805 Wormulon
Jarzo
Carina-Sagittarius arms (mainly) Close associate The Delpha Coalition of Planets is regarded as one of the parents of the Civilisation. They and the Apalos were the first to establish contact with the Technoosphere by constructing their own dysonian AIs. They were instructed to guard the Civilisation. Some find it strange that a totalitarian state such as the DCP would support such free stateless society as the Civilisation, but the DCP are agnostic about the political structures of other societies. What matters to the DCP is their moral system of Order, and in their philosophy, the Civilisation is beautiful. After 2805, the DCP donated its treasured occupied Grox territories in the core which it held for centuries, though still remain heavily invested in the region. 2770s
Wormulon
(TalkContributions)
Sagittarius arm Associate The Civilisation shares an intelligence gathering deal with the Kicath in exchange for technology, an ancient spacefaring species. 2800s
Xho
(TalkContributions)
Civ Perseus

Perseus arm

Active The Cephalodians evolved from a heavily symbiotic ecology, such that their culture and technology cannot be distinguished from their biology. They evolved enough sophistication to enable star travel. As worshippers of life, the Cephalodians work closely with the Apalos to conserve their biosphere preserves of both 'Godspawn' and exotic biochemistry and environments. Some of the more exotic examples include chromodynamic life found inside degenerate stars living on ultrafast timescales, plasma-dust life that inhabits stellar surfaces and deep space, Spice (lithophilic metal based organisms inside living planets), life based on silane, silicone, silicarbon life, and CHON-based organisms inhabiting gas giants and brown dwarfs. The Cephalodians believe the universe emerges from life, not the other way around, and are on a quest to find the living source of the universe. 2770s
Wormulon
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Perseus arms Semi / Close Associate The Plazith League was a member of both the Civilisation and the Xonexi Allies in the runup to the Great Schism, and wholly embraced the former only when the conflict started. However with a focus squarely on the Milky Way rather than the broader Xonexi Cluster, the Plazith League has been a staunch supporter of the Civilisation's policies ever since - even to the point of promoting a sort of Plazithian exceptionalism. 2800s Externalization
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Perseus arm Inactive 2780s Caoslord
Minor powers Various, some extragalactic Inactive, some abandoned in the Great Xonexian Schism The Algolurn, Kingdom of Agethime Tadpoles, Patiens Federation, Theta, Lsjanpodos Union Republic, Drovarian Reclamation, Naakjian Confederation, Eldarisian Empire, Gjigantrox, Farubaida o Caroha, Peppypipes, Light Sector Alliance, Cyborg Insect Federation, Dragonians, Orzakin, Primian Federation, Terditlians, and Eldarisian Empire have all pledged cooperation and membership with the Civilisation throughout its existence, however many abandoned it during the Great Xonexian Schism. Various Various
WDc'ian

Life of WDC 1184

Monoceros Ring (galactic bulge) Active Chromodynamic lifeforms who inhabit the exotic core of a white dwarf named WDC 1184. They live at a rate of trillions of times faster than outsiders, thanks to the rate of energy transitions in degenerate matter fluid. They are also time dilated relative to outsiders. Until the Civilisation made contact in 2782, the white dwarf was their universe, though some had correctly modelled the universe on the outside. Under the guidance of the Civilisation, the lifeforms of WDC 1184 were able to upload their minds into avatars to explore the outside universe. They also learned how to manipulate nuclear reactions on the surface of the star to propel it through the Civilisation's wormhole network. 2782
Wormulon
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Extragalactic (formerly Girdo) Close associate The Apalos are a hivemind intelligence that are part technological, part biological and part Essence. They originally hailed from the Girdo Galaxy. The Girdo assisted the DCP in making contact with the Technoosphere, however shortly after the Civilisation's founding they became more heavily integrated into it, almost becoming representatives for the Technoosphere Lords. In The 2800s they left the Civilisation, though remain heavily associated with it. 2770s Ghelæ
Deldor

Deldor

Extragalactic (Borealis galaxy) Active The Deldor are a race of creatures native of the Borealis Galaxy. Their empire was absorbed into the Indoctrinate Collective a few months before the events of the Second Borealis Galactic War, after the Deldor became impressed with the Collective's apparent utopic way of life in their point of view. 2890s OluapPlayer
Longsauria

Longsauria

Extragalactic (Quadrant galaxies) Active The Longsauria are an ancient race coming from the Quadrant Galaxies, and were once natives of the Rambo Capital. With their migration or exodus the Longsauria found themselves elsewhere, and over time they developed them as a kind and wise species, welcoming all and proving themselves as gifted craftsman and woman. Upon meeting the Indocatrinate Collective they soon became their shipyards workers, repairing, improving or building new ships for the Collective. 2890s OluapPlayer
Shodrae

Shodrae

Extragalactic (Cyrannus galaxy) Active The Shodrae are a highly intelligent race of the Cyrannus Galaxy which controlled a small empire near their homeworld, a tropical planet known as Shrakéo. They are known for being famous philosophers and being very helpful and wise to strangers. When the Indoctrinate Collective colonized Cyrannus, the Shodrae became vastly interested in their culture and technology, which would later result in the Shodrae merging with the Collective during the first year of the Great Cyrannus War. 2890s OluapPlayer
Spydahma

Spydahma

Extragalactic Active The Spydahma is an ancient spidery species. Closely related to Stalkies from the Divinarium, Spydahma were once brutal, murderous conquerors, but at some point, they have advanced to the point they reached enlightenment and abandoned their conquests to return to their homeworld Aranidia, where they started to follow their new goal: scientific and cultural advancement for the greater good. After the Annihilation, the Spydahma evacuated to the Milky Way, where they were indoctrinated into the Collective. 2890s OluapPlayer
Tyrenne OluapEdition

Tyrenne

Extragalactic (Kraw galaxy) Active The Tyrenne are a species of shark-like humanoids coming from the Kraw Galaxy. They are mostly known for their harsh history. After 95 years of being a slave race of the Xhrassh, a brute ex-ally of the Ahevox, the Tyrenne went into an uprising against the Xhrassh with the help of the Kraw race in 407 KRE. Due to constant medical control of the Tyrenne, they have high mental instability, and can have extreme mood swings. After the uprising was over, a few Tyrennes accidentally entered a wormhole which led them into near the Indoctrinate Collective. 2890s OluapPlayer
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