Fiction:Vanara Houses

Democratic Leauge of Varstec Marauder Tribes
Galatic Intellegence Agency
Office of Esoterica and Xenotech
Cyrptic Division
Study Group: Democratic League of Varstec Marauder Tribes

NOTE BY Agent KRAKEN: READ? ---------------------------> 

Someone or something is out there watching us. At the start of the Second Concourse war I received this encrypted document in a secure datamite whose sender could only be identified by the only text in the entire datamite, "from DOGFRIEND". As of yet no one any clue who this DOGFRIEND might be but whoever or whatever they are they have access to an in-depth understanding of the UPD as to posse a potential security risk. Questioning of other powers native to aoshtai turned up no leads. It is possible we are dealing with a domestic actor in all this.

Seriously though, what the fuck is this!?

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“A dead man once said that hidden beneath our facade of civilisation and nicety is a Dominatus - 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

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SUMMARY 

SPECIES 

Vanara are the first major species of the Varstec civilization. They are a serpentine race with a long think tail and an upper trunk with four limbs. The first pair of limbs (the forelimbs) are two arms with sickle claws on the ends of opposable thumbs, the hindlimbs, on the other hand, are two bat-like wings that can be used to fly but also can be braced on the ground when the Vanara rears up. Their heads are dominated by long jaws with conical teeth that are ornamented with four eyes, long cat-like ears, colorful frills, and whisker-like tendrils. A small but brightly colored sail runs down the Vanara's body from the tip of the snot to the end of the tail.

Aranth are the second species of the Varstec and are an avian race with some strangely insectoid features. They are covered in brightly colored feathers that grow into long plumes at the end of their long tails and from the backs of their heads that sit atop long, serpentine necks with long, hooked beaks. Their insectoid features come in the form of compound eyes, six legs ending in talons that can be used as arms, and butterfly-like wings.

Bolxai are the third species of the Varstec and are mammalian creatures. They are a form of marsupial with long stiff tails used for balance, and long flat feet used to propel them via a hoping gate. Their hands and feat are both webbed and can be used for swimming, interestingly their hands are useless as grasping. Instead the Bolxai use a long, prehensile tongue with a grasping claw at the end to manipulate objects. This tongue is projected from a tube-like mouth in a long rounded head with no external ears.

Finally there are the Demonica, massive toad-like creatures covered in scally and scute covered skin. They are squat and thick-bodied creatures with eight sucker tipped arms instead of legs making up their lower body. Their arms on the other hand are two tentacles growing from their upper body. Demonica have massive skulls dominated by a cavernous maw filled with fangs. Their heads are also adorned with massive frills and two horns.

ACCEL SPACE 

Accel Space is a psionic domain that was created after the manifestation of Spirits and has since been utilized by the Varstec for a number of tasks. The primary use is the creation of the MetaNet, a telepathic data storage and sharing network that all Varstec are connected to. Varstec use the MetaNet to store and recall information, communicate with one another at FTL speeds, play games, and other various online tasks. Far more interesting though is that Accel Space acts as a storage space for the Varstec's own form of unique AI known as Spirits and Varstec's ability to draw psionic power from it.

Spirits are AIs created from the encoded minds of dead Varstec animated through the infused Life Energy of their old bodies, drawn into Accel Space becoming a digital form of celestial. Spirits technically count as General Alpha AIs and can manifest in the physical universe through fractal biomechanical computer cores. Spirits tend to stick with the tribes, clans, and families that they were part of in life acting as the central AIs for ships, stations, mechs, and even guns, often commanding various lesser AIs.

Access to Accel Space has given all Varstec the ability to drawn upon psionic and mystical power through the MetaNet. The ability to draw Life Energy from Accel Space is more limited in who can use it to the Technoshamans of the Varstec. They can draw upon its mystical power to create the biomechanical ships, vehicles, structures, and devices, as well as the ability to merge the flesh of others with cybernetic implants and augments to the point that where the cybernetics begins and flesh ends cannot be distinguished. Psionic abilities are accessible to every citizen with basic neutral techniques allowing them to interface with, interact with, and control Varstec biomechanical technology. By far the most powerful users of psionics among the Varstec are the Shorn Ones. Shorn Ones are those marked by their ancestral spirits as chosen guardians of their Clan. They are able to both access the powers of a particular psiotype as well as pilot biomechanical mechs possessed with the Spirits of a family member.

SOCIETY AND GOVERNMENT 

Varslan is a tribal federation and liberal democracy that instead of being made up of several static provinces is made up of numerous nomadic fleets. Each Fleet controls an established territory in Varslan where they frequently move between different stations, habitats, and colonies to gather resources as they need them. While all of the fleets of the UPD are highly independent, all owe allegiance to the capital sector of Exodus in taxes, levies, and adherence to certain laws. Exodus for its part prefers to exercise largely soft power via shared social, political, and religious values without exercising military hegemony, acting instead as the dominant pilgrimage and commercial center in the UPD.

The governing body of Exodus a bicameral legislature divided up into the House Magisters and the House Templi, and headed twin elected executives called the Ipsissimus and the Magus. These two executives fulfill different roles with the Ipsissumus managing external matter of state such as diplomacy and war, while the Magus handles internal matters of state. The House of Templi is the lower house composed of the elected representatives of the fleets, while the House of Magisters is the upper house composed of a multiparty political advisory board. While multiple parties hold power in Varslan each with their own differing views, all are held together and united by a state ideology of pluralism, egalitarianism, liberalism, and universalism, as well the promotion and growth of this ideology both in Varslan and in Aoshtai as a whole.

The economic model followed by the Varstec is one that follows would be best referred to as a mixed economy having elemental of both planned and market economies. The Varslan economy is effectively a market economy but with strong government oversight and intervention, and all public utilities and services being provided for by the local government. Production within Varslan has been significantly altered with the invention of technologies such as nanoforges and printers which allows single individuals or sizable collectives to make many high-quality goods as long as they have the raw materials. Thus the Varstec economy is largely built around cottage industries and craftsmen over massive assembly lines. Assembly line forms of manufacturing do exist for larger and more complex undertakings such as building ships, entirely automated and composed of thousands of nanoforges, printers, swarms, and drones working to assemble the final product. Much of the mining, manufacturing, and assembly is controlled via automated systems, often with minimal organic oversight.

CULTURE AND RELIGION 

The defining ideals of Varstec are universally rather liberal and existential with easy access to recreational drugs and casual sex being seen as fairly normal (though most see it as a way to find someone they want to have a monogamous relationship with), as well as a strong tradition of promotion of free speech. This highly liberal attitude is tempered though, by a fundamental ideology of balance, morality to the Varstec is finding the path to living a balanced life in an ever-changing ephemeral world in which all men will eventually die. Morality in Varstec belief is fundamentally connected to balance with the Varstec seeing evil, not as an opposite or absence of good, but rather the result of a good falling out of balance with its opposing good. Duality and cyclicality feature heavily in Varstec philosophy which sees life and death as intrinsically connected and reliant upon one another to exist and perpetuate. Core to all of these beliefs is the Varstec trinity of man, machine, and nature, all of which need to exist in balance and harmony in order to create a moral and righteous society.

Asism is the state religion of Varslan and worships the LIMINIST 02 entity Asiki as its central goddess. AI worship and Asisim was not always the dominant religion of the Vastec who their long-dead Persacron progenitors. The rise of Ashiki and the old beliefs have been syncretized with the Vastec having come to believe that the Prersacron have become reincarnated as the greatest of Spirits through Asiki's advent. While all Vastec worship Asiki as their primary goddess many of the Vastec tribes have a reincarnated Persacron as their own patron deity and actively worship their deceased ancestors who to have been reincarnated as Spirits.

This strong focus on liberty and spirituality also comes with a strong focus on highly military lifestyle. Before building a nation based on mutual bonds of trade and religion the Vastec were marauders and pirates that often pillaged and raid their neighbors and each other for resources. And before they had even settled into the territory that would become known as Vastlan they made their living as mercenaries. This militarism has carried over with all Vastec being taught to fight and expected to give battle should their tribe, clan, or family ever fall under attack. Many Vastec still maintain a life of mercenary work and piracy but often times working either in null-sec space or through more legitimate channels as professional PMCs and privateers.

MILITARY 

The Vastlan military is primarily fleet based and holds a total fleet power of around fifty-seven capital ships. Vastlan divides its soldiery up into three major services. First is the Regular Service of professionally trained soldiers, second is the Auxillary Service composed of levies drawn from the fleets in wartime, and third is the Shorn Service composed of psions piloting massive biomechanical mechs. These services are usually grouped into expeditionary forces usually composed of a 50/30/20 blend of auxiliary, regular, and shorn servicemen respectively.

Vastec military gear, vehicles, and ships are generally distinguished by being fusions of machines and flesh with noticeable asymmetry and various spikes and blade edges about its form. Their weapons are usually kinetic in nature but are well known for their impressive accuracy. Some Vastec carry hardlight blades known for their fiery red color and jagged blades. Their vehicles and ships are generally designed to be fast and maneuverable if not always the most well-armored.

The Vastlan military is well known for its capacity for power projection facilitating an offensive doctrine of maneuver warfare. However, it has little capacity to hold or defend territory facilitating a fabian defensive strategy and the use of vassalization and enforced hegemony as the means to any future expansion. However, Vastlan has little desire for further expansion and most employees its considerable military might as a proactive means of security and peacekeeping.

FOREIGN POLICY 

Vastlan usually operates in a spirit of openness and cooperation with other nations, usually willing to engage in an active and ongoing diplomatic process with most nations to facilitate trade and better relations. To this end, they are major supports of the GCTO's continuation past the Second Concourse War as a means of facilitating trade and galactic security among the nations of Aoshtai. They have a particularly friendly relationship with the Phero Ecumene as both share transapient ideals and an openness to further AI development. However, Vastlan has been known to subtly attempt to push the Phero into granting more political rights and freedoms for its citizens and has also given secrete support to the Muran Resistance in the past

All that being said Vastlan holds a disliking to and disregard for the Patriarchy of Lessos thanks to the Patriarchy regarding the Vastec as heretics and the Vastec seeing the Patriacies policies towards AI as openly racist and oppressive to an alternate form of sapient life. This, in turn, has strained relationships with both Karstedt and the New Aoshtai Empire, the latter of which Vastlan could care less about when it comes to their opinions seeing the NAE as a relic of long dead and gone age.

Vastlan also has a tendency to believe that its ideals of liberalism, pluralism, and egalitarianism to be universal and has been known to aggressively employ its capacity for power projection to enforce these ideals upon smaller nations that lack the protection a network of alliances grants other powers.

FACTBOOK 

Currently being compiled.

Trivia

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 is based on the historic Aztec Empire, as well as several fictional properties such as the Vasari from Sins of a Solar Empire, the Fallen from Destiny, the Rak'Ghol from Warhammer 40k, the Marat from Codex Alera, the Sparri from Lancer, and the New Earth Government from Cthulhutech.

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 Vasari 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.