Vision: Science Fiction meets High Fantasy and Magic in a gold-rush style mad dash to control and colonize the magical resources of the worlds in this universe.
The Alliance and The Seven Systems
The Seven Systems are a set of seven stars and their planets, all containing different forms of life. The Alliance controls the Seven Systems, slowly gaining more and more territory and controlling the major portions of commerce between worlds, as well as the use of the Source. The most recent rebellion from the Independents (independent worlds or politics) was quashed only a bit over a year ago, and the Independent Network Agency (INA) spy organization was forcefully and "officially" disbanded about a year ago.
Government -- The Alliance Ministry -- The Alliance is governed by a Parliament built of representation from each of the member planets, and each may serve on a "ministry" (or committee designated to a portion of the society's development). There is a High Chancellor -- an elected position -- wherein one serves as the moderator and a checks-and-balances system for the other governmental partitions.
Major Alliance Organizations --
The Aether Sciences Universities
The Alliance Aethermagus Collective
The Alliance Armed Forces
The Aethertech Institutes
The Consortium Guild
Thieves/Assassin Organizations
Corporate Aethermining Companies
Magic
The Source is a subspace network of magical energy that also is present within all organic things in the Seven Systems. The Source requires a reagent for use, or otherwise it will pull from the individual user's body, eventually leading to their death. The reagent used is dependent upon the resources of the world in question. About 25% of all peoples on all worlds have some latent Source talent.
The Alliance seeks to control all Source use, fearing the Source could be used to elevate the power of any one world, nation, or peoples, thus upsetting the balance in the Systems. An Alliance organization called The Alliance Aethermagus Collective -- "The Collective" colloquially -- actively hunts down those with Source talents who have yet to register and be subject to the organization's education and regulation.
The Source is pulled from reagent matter through a refinement process, then made into "haze." Rift Drives -- the FtL propulsion system of all ships within the Seven -- operate with a mage navigator who interacts with the haze (usually via a magi-tech device) to open a Rift in the Source Network, both at departure point and at the arrival point. No one has ever been able to Rift travel beyond The Vast -- the region of space outside the Seven.
Time
For the ease of everyone, time is based on the 24-hour Earth clock. Years are based on the Earth's cycle. We will assume that this is the planet Erudia's cycle, which then became the Alliance standard.
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