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. The Resolute Regent Aram Nideo would soon develop the "Many Stars" argument, which alongside Asterism, would come to define the philosophy of the Divine Principality, and justify a number of small skirmishes between minor houses which followed.
Expansion of the Principality
While many smaller cultures such as the Hypha were quickly subjugated by the Divine Principality, some would fight back with galaxy-redefining consequences. Notably, HORIZON, a resistance group within Stel Kesh which descended from the Rapid Evening, fought to keep the galactic core free from the Principality. Their team delivered the capricious Divine Perennial to the core, where she took over a system of nanomachines. She soon massively disrupted technology across the galaxy with the power of the Perennial Wave—impairing the Principality's FTL capabilities and causing significant destruction of life, both organic and synthetic.
With the Principality off balance, they faced a significant barrier in what became known as the Divine Clash. An alliance forms between the Orion Combine, who reunited against the threat of the Principality, and the Beneficial Coalition, who formed from what was once the Autonomous Diaspora. The alliance came to an end when the Orion Combine develops the EDICT System giving them the ability to shut down and control Divines, and betray their allies in the Coalition 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, which they used in the following millennium to recruit the Columnar, a synthetic people who were hit hard by the Perennial Wave. After being integrated as Stel Columnar, a subgroup of organic cyborgs known as the Equiaxed were stripped of their semi-autonomous status and became subjects of study by Stel Orion.
The Perfect Millennium
The Principality declares the start of the Perfect Millennium (the fifth millennium of its existence), and shortly after becomes aware of miracles being performed on Partizan by an Equiaxed prophet, Logos Kantel. After Kantel refuses to cooperate with the Principality, Stel Nideo rebrands Kantel's following as Progressive Asterism to assimilate it with their existing state religion. This also prompts the Principality to colonize past Partizan into the Scutum-Centaurus Arm, but their ships are immediately stuck down and delivered an ultimatum by the True Divine: the Principality would never expand to Scutum-Centaurus, and they would progress past the avaricious empire they had become; otherwise, the True Divine would annihilate them. The Principality responded by creating a secretive shadow government known as the Curtain of Divinity that would encourage growth and equity over generations, while hiding the truth of what lies beyond the Scutum-Centaurus Arm.
With the Scutum-Centaurus Arm out of reach, the Principality turns to their next target: the Apostolosian Empire. Knowing a drawn-out war could only lead to their defeat, the Apostolosian Apokine travels to the Princept to negotiate peace, though secretly planning to assassinate the Princept. Failing in their assassination attempt, the Princept takes advantage of the situation to secretly replace the masked Apokine with an agent from the Principality, who quickly forms the Apostolosian Empire into Stel Apostolos, the newest major house of the Principality. Stel Apostolos becomes the front line of the Principality's ongoing war against the Branched, who defend the Golden Branch star sector, with Stel Kesh desperate for the planet Kesh to return to their control.
The Fracture of the Divine Principality
See PARTIZAN for more details.
The Perfect Millennium
Many generations later, rebels in Stel Nideo kidnap the child Princept, Dahlia, from Stel Kesh. Dahlia is then rescued and raised by Stel Apostolos, much to the displeasure of the first two major houses. Upon adulthood, Dahlia reveals the early ploy of the Principality to replace their Apokine, and with the support of the Apostolosian people Dahlia declares they will be both the next Apokine and Princept. It is around this time that the Pact of Necessary Venture is founded by Elects from every Stel to work towards the replacement of the government of the Principality with a council structure. In Stel Kesh, Cynosure Whitestar-Kesh declares that Dahlia's claim to the title of Princept is a ploy by the Aposolosians to gain power, and that he is the rightful Princept, taking up the title of the Peaceful Princept with great support from Stel Kesh and backed in secret by the Curtain. Tensions are high between the Stels, and things soon escalate into armed conflict between Stel Kesh and Stel Apostolos.
Millennium Break
See Millennium Break for details.
As the fighting between Stel Apostolos and Stel Kesh escalated, revolutionaries seized the opportunity to begin their own radical project: Millennium Break. Its founding members were factions across Partizan who all agreed that the Perfect Millennium had to end, but had different ideas about what their future should look like. One of Millennium Break's key developments is the expansion and proliferation of the Strand Semaphore system that allows many smaller cells to start up across Partizan, though the Principality was quick to stamp many of them out. After many initial growing pains Millennium Break provides assistance to refugees, takes territory from Stel Kesh, and makes an appearance at the Summer Passage of Arms to look sick as shit and to kidnap the Peaceful Princept. However, after losing several leaders, and on the defense from imperial backlash, Millennium Break members were forced to ally with the mysterious Witch in Glass to evacuate one of their main bases. At the same time, the Curtain and Pact reveal themselves to the public, and propagandizing against Millennium Break is intensified.
Operation Shackled Sun
As Millennium Break prepares to expand beyond Partizan they discover a plan by the Divine Motion of the Pact to capture the power of the True Divine using a device called the Lattice on the local Portcullis Gate, which would destroy the moon of Partizan in the process. Millennium Break rushes into action, and on the day of Operation Shackled Sun the forces of Millennium Break, the Pact of Necessary Venture, and the Curtain of Divinity meet in the skies above Partizan. Fighting breaks out between mechs, Divines, and pilots, while a small group of Millennium Break agents break into the Portcullis Gate to stop the operation directly. They are partially successful, with the True Divine appearing for only moments before vanishing, but Motion is able to siphon energy from it, and grows in power exponentially. Motion then goes rogue, attacking not only Curtain and Millennium Break ships, but also members of the Pact. She is defeated when a Millennium Break agent uses repurposed pieces of the divine Asepsis, which deconstruct Motion, with the power of the True Divine flowing through her, and create the Kalmeria Particle, which begins to spread through the galaxy.
In the wake of the battle, Millennium Break are pushed out of Partizan, but they remain present fighting against the Divine Principality while their Strand Semaphore expands across the galaxy. They know that in the end, they will be seen as revolutionaries.