Divine Universe

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The Divine Universe is the informal name for the setting first created for COUNTER/Weight, and expanded with Twilight Mirage, PARTIZAN, and the upcoming PALISADE. The stories which take place in the Divine Universe are referred to as the Divine Cycle.

The Divine Universe takes place in the Milky Way, unknown thousands of years after humanity's expansion to the stars.

Places

Planets

COUNTER/Weight

• Apostolos
• Archonic

• Coral
• Counterweight

• Garden
• Gemm
• Glimmer

• Ionias

• Joypark

• Kaffe
• Kalliope
• Kesh

• Minerva XII

• Sage
• September
• Sigilia
• Slate
• Slighter

• Tetrakal
• Torru

• Vox
• Vyshe

• Weight
• Wreathe

• Zaalhaut
• Ziishe

Twilight Mirage

• Altar

• Brighton
• Crown

• Earth

• Gift-3

• Moonlock

• Quire

• Seneschal
• Skein (Planet)

• Thyrsus

• Volition

PARTIZAN

• The 10th Coronet
• Artemisios

• Collier
• Counterweight
• Crown
• Girandole
  • Partizan (moon)
• Leraphon IV
• Leraphon V

History

Rigour

See: Rigour.

Rigour, created as a tool to aid in planetary colonization efforts by the Orion Conservation Conglomerate, takes hold of humanity. The people who would become the Autonomous Diaspora flee, using a stellar combustor to destroy star systems between them and Rigour. In the wake of Rigour, a great deal of technology, history and knowledge are lost, leading to a gap in the historical record of unknown length.

At least sixty thousand years later (but possibly much more), Rigour and its OriCon forces encounter the Diaspora once again. The first Diasporan Divines are created, and stellar combustors are used, this time to try and destroy Rigour. Rigour is propelled through space, eventually landing on Ionias in the Golden Branch and going dormant. Survivors of Rigour would go on to form the Rapid Evening and the Apostolosian Empire.

"Golden" period

For twenty thousand years, OriCon and the Diaspora continue their expansion through the Milky Way. OriCon experiences a succession of popular revolutions and capitalist overthrows.

In the Golden Branch, the Golden War occurs between OriCon, the Diaspora and the Apostolosian Empire. Soon after, there's a devastating final conflict between the people of the Golden Branch and Rigour. Rigour is destroyed at great cost.

Interstitial period

Not much is known about the time between the end of Rigour and the creation of the Divine Fleet. It may have been a time of strife, with continuing wars between Divines and humans. The Rapid Evening's prognostication machine Crystal Palace was created during this period, as was the Divine Fealty.

Divine Fleet

Kamala Cadence founds the Resonant Orbit alongside Independence. The Divine Fleet is formed, a nomadic society of Divines and humans. The Fleet remains prosperous for thirty thousand years. However, at the end of that time, Divines of the Fleet have begun to decline and die, in part due to the efforts of the New Earth Hegemony. Empyrean creates the Twilight Mirage, an artificial nebula, to protect and hide the Fleet, around Quire.

A lot of things happen.

Divine Principality

See: History of the Divine Principality.

The Divine Principality rises from the union of the Divine Free States and the Rapid Evening. Over the course of thousands of years, this empire becomes a galactic superpower, as it violently subsumes almost all other civilizations in the Milky Way within itself.