The End of the Divine Fleet
See Twilight Mirage for more details.
The Decline of the Fleet
The Divine Fleet is a utopia in decline, facing possible extinction. At its peak, it contained three hundred Divines, but that number started to decline as Divines fell under attack from the New Earth Hegemony as well as the followers of the lost Divine Independence, the Iconoclasts. Also contributing to that decline is the Pleroma Hypothesis, which plagues the minds of Divines until they simply leave the fleet, or choose to stop existing altogether.
The fleet is housed within the Twilight Mirage, a twilight colored cloud that protects the Divine Fleet and distorts time within it, which was originally created by the Divine Empyrean, now the last remaining Divine of the Fleet.
The people of the Divine Fleet send a scouting party to the nearby planet of Quire to ascertain if it is suitable for refugees and to spread the Mirage across the planet. They encounter its existing residents, many of whom are former members of the Divine Fleet who departed generations ago. A dominant city on the planet commissions a new body for the fabled Divine Independence from a member of the scouting party, though shortly after, the planet of Quire sends out a warning recounting how Independence devastated its original inhabitants, the Qui Err. However, with plans already decades in motion, Independence is revived.
The Miracle of the Mirage
See the Miracle of the Mirage for details.
The Divine Fleet is brought to a breaking point by combined attacks from the Divine Independence, the Iconoclasts, and a New Earth Hegemony-funded coup attempt. While the fleet is able to thwart the coup and bring down Independence, in the aftermath the Divine Fleet is forced to break apart and make emergency landings to the planet of Quire below, calling into question the leadership of the current Cadent and the future of the Divine Fleet as a society. These events trigger the Miracle of the Mirage, where in an attempt to avoid further conflict, the living planet Quire splits itself into eight separate planets, where the last remaining of the Divine Fleet are able to crash-land. In its final act, the planet of Quire revives its lost people, the Qui Err, based on its memories from before their encounter with Independence.
In the aftermath of the Miracle, the people of the Twilight Mirage are increasingly split into factions with competing ideologies and goals for Quire. These include the remains of the Divine Fleet; a coalition of the Qui Err in opposition to their increasing conservatism; the upstart “Waking Cadent”, who seeks to create a new Divine Fleet with Divines under her control, and waves of arriving colonists from Earth. Some are even being swept into fascism by the Advent Group.
The Argosy, Spliced, a fleet from Earth, eventually arrives, blocking the system from the view of the Rapid Evening's Crystal Palace with the Profit's Star. The Rapid Evening responds to increasing disruption of their control by sending Crystal Palace to Quire.
Threatening them all is Volition, a factory created by the followers of independence which produces Axioms, post-Divines that do not require a pilot and embody a single idea rather than an ideal.
Futura Free
As the factional conflict comes to a head, Volition is calmed by taking one of its own former Axioms as an Excerpt and the Rapid Evening is pushed into retreat after Crystal Palace is effectively nullified by the creation of the Divine Arbit. Meanwhile the splintered Divine Free States, led by Aram Nideo, choose to leave the system, the consequences of which weigh heavily on later generations of the Mirage.
Inside the Mirage, the Waking Cadent’s fleet remains intact; at the same time, the former New Earth Hegemony fleet the Argosy, Spliced offers access to the utopic digital network of the Splice, overseen by the Divine Anticipation and their Excerpt. The Qui Err Assembly retain their home system and right to self-govern and rebuild their society, with many former members of both the Divine Fleet and former Earth colonists choosing to stay within the Qui Err System under their leadership.
The Formation of the Divine Principality
See the Road to PARTIZAN for more details.
The First Major Houses
After their departure from the Twilight Mirage, the Divine Free States, under their leader Aram Nideo, and the Principality of Kesh, under the Rapid Evening, joined together to form the Divine Principality. The Divine Free States and Principality of Kesh formed the first two major houses, calling themselves Stel Nideo and Stel Kesh. This was hand in hand with the rise of Asterism, an understanding of Divines as representative of the best aspects of the state they belonged to. The Principality expanded across the galaxy, assimilating many smaller cultures such as the Hypha using their Divines. The Principality refers to these periods as the Dawn and Ascended Millenniums.
Resistance to the Principality
While many smaller cultures were quickly subjugated by the Divine Principality, some would fight back with galaxy redefining consequences. Notably HORIZON, formed from resistance within the Rapid Evening who sought to unseat Aram Nideo, fought to keep the Galactic Core free from the Principality. Their team delivered the capricious Divine Perennial to Earth, where she took over a system of nanomachines becoming incredibly powerful and causing massive disruptions to technology across the galaxy with the Perennial Wave that both impaired the Principality's FTL capabilities, but also caused significant destruction of life both organic and synthetic.
With the Principality off balance, the era of the Divine Clash began, with the Orion Combine (decedents of the OriCon) and the Beneficial Coalition, (a coalition of Divines) working together to push back the Principality. This alliance came to an end when the Orion Combine deployed the EDICT System giving them the ability to shut down and control Divines. Betraying their allies in the Coalition, Orion used their system to bargain their way into the Principality as the third major house, Stel Orion. Shortly after the Principality regains the ability to use FTL travel though the creation of the Portcullis System.
Stel Colomnar and Stel Apostalos
Colomnar and Apostalos join
The Fracture of the Divine Principality
See Partizan for more details.
The Perfect Millennium
Partizan up to the Kingdom Game
Millennium Break
Kingdom game - Finale
Operation Shackled Sun
Finale game