Empyrium
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| Governmental Information | |
| Common Name | Empyrium |
| Official Name | The Empyrium |
| Organization Type | Despotic Empire |
| Head of State | Emperor of the Empyrium |
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| Official Language | Empyrian |
| Demographics | |
| Demonym | Empyrean |
| Dominant Species | Empyrians |
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| Galaxy | Milky Way |
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| Created by | Peter |
| Controlled by | Peter |
The Empyrium is a collective of star systems located northwest of the galactic centre, extending over portions of the Mid Rim and Center Rim. Empyrium is formed by 5 units - Greater Empyrium, Lesser Empyrium, Universal Space including semi-autonomous regions: the Western Reaches and the New Colonies. There are a total of 63 systems, and the capital is San, however regional capital worlds exist.
Functionally, the Empyrium is an authoritarian empire dominated by the hegemonic Lesser Empyrium, whereas Greater Empyrium constitutes the bulk of Empyrean colony worlds. Originally a separatist movement, the Western Reaches are semi-autonomous under the authority of Lesser Empyrium, and is home to the purpose-built capital city of the empire on San. Politically authoritarian in nature, the Empyrium can (and does) exercise absolute power over some of its worlds. The actual degree of freedom varies from world to world, with San and most other capital worlds having an incredible degree of personal freedom and autonomy from the despots, whereas resourcefully important planets and new colony worlds see the most subjugation.
The Empyrium contains some of the biggest and most luminous stars in the galaxy, for example Iota Ophiuchi and Eta Occidens, so named due to their visibility in constellations from Yata. The Earendel system contains one of the most luminous stars known, calculated to be at least 1 million times more luminous than Sol.
History
The Empyrium first emerged on Empyrium Ac, better known as Alkid. After successfully establishing hegemony over nearby star systems, the Empyrium begun deeper expansion into the Center Rim, colonising what now constitutes the home worlds of Lesser Empyrium. Initially, faster-than-light technology barred them from reaching the expanse of Greater Empyrium or the home worlds of Lithid and Alsujin, however the discovery of rare resources in the lithosphere of Pertel-4 paved the way for technological advancement.
The discovery of the type W star San in the Western Reaches led to the establishment of a flourishing colony world, enriched by abundant heavy metals in the system. Further colonisation formed the bulk of Greater Empyrium before a separatist crisis engulfed the Western Reaches. By this point, the Empyrium had firmly established their administration from San, leading to the establishment of regional capital worlds as the crisis ensued. Peace came after an agreement that granted the majority of star systems in the Western Reaches a degree of autonomy.
The final star system to join Empyrium was Earendel - a population III star with zero major natural satellites. A small colonial outpost was established in its orbit to stage expeditions to the Outer Rim, but these never occurred thanks to Earendel unexpectedly undergoing a Supernova, destroying all settlements in its orbit.
Astrography
There are 63 systems within the Empyrium contained within 39 sectors. 33 of these systems are in Greater Empyrium, 10 are in Lesser Empyrium, 9 are in the Western Reaches, 11 are in the New Colonies, and 1 is in Universal Space. The most populous system is Beta Venera in the Western Reaches, with over 432 billion inhabitants across 6 planets. The least populous systems are Earendel (with only a transient scientific population) and Estoxxhe, whose space station houses around 200,000 inhabitants. Primio is the least populous star system, with only 32 million inhabitants. For the most part, Empyrium systems are either in the Mid Rim or Center Rim, however there are a few notable exceptions: Alkid and Primio are within the Inner Rim, whereas Laconia is the empires only Outer Rim system.bjo
The Empyrium straddles the Delta and Gamma quadrants of the Milky Way Galaxy. Its territories occupy 16 of its grid quadrants (of which 11 contain member systems.) It is 17,600 light years at its widest, and 12,570 light years on its perpendicular axis. It bulges roughly 950 light years either way of the galactic plane, i.e the galaxy's zero point for "height" that forms the galactic disc. At its closest point, it is 16,200 light years from the Galactic Center.
Viewed from the Alpha Sol system, the Empyrium is 42,900 light years away and subtends 20 degrees of arc (which, in traditional astrography, covers a right ascension of 5°-25°), which is roughly twenty-times the angular diameter of Luna when viewed from Yata. It is situated between the (Inchyrosian) constellations of Ophiuchus, Sagittarius, and Scutum.
The Empyrium is largely connected by a faster-than-light travel network that it is reliant upon due to the presence of hundreds, if not thousands, of spacetime anomalies. These anomalies largely hinder FTL travel for a variety of reasons. Some estimate that up to 9% of the Empyrium is covered by said anomalies - the largest of which, the aptly-named Alkidian Superanomaly, covers roughly 3.8% of the entire empire's territory. The three other "major" anomalies are the Lyrisian Anomaly, the Grotto of Ilus and the Earendel Dark Nebula. Their origins are still a mystery, spare for those who know that the Earendel Dark Nebula was indirectly created by the Flavros Project.
| Name of system | Grid coordinates | Planet HQ | System type | |
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San | I9 | San-2 | G-type main sequence + W-type Wolf-Rayet star binary |
| Sarihun | I9 | Sarihun | G-type main sequence star | |
| Earendel Dark Nebula | J7 | No planets / Earendel Outpost | Stellar remnant, formerly a O-type Population III star | |
| Iota Ophiuchi | J8 | ??? | B-type blue giant star | |
| Suwnata and Sanasiu | I8 | Sanasiu | F-type main sequence star + G-type main sequence star binary | |
| Sacarpe | H9 | Sacarpe-3 | G-type main sequence star | |
| Aureola | H9 | |||
| Jovis | H9 | |||
| Eta Occidens | I9 | |||
| Beta Venera | I9 | Beta Venera II | ||
| Mansio | I9 | |||
| Sentor | I9 | |||
| Corvid | I9 | |||
| Althani | I9 | |||
| Thamania | I9 | |||
| Alqadim | I9 | |||
| Methuselah | J9 | |||
| Arbaea | J9 | |||
| Rysolith | J9 | |||
| Alsadu | J9 | |||
| Pertel | J9 | Pertel 4 | ||
| Alwarada | J9 | |||
| Elkhalod | J9 | |||
| Lithid | J9 | |||
| Almas | J9 | Almas 7 | ||
| Samak | K9 | |||
| Tsadenia | K9 | |||
| Primio | K9 | |||
| Alsujin | K9 | |||
| Velian | K9 | |||
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Empyrium | K10 | Alkid | |
| Eisan | K10 | |||
| Centuria | I8 | |||
| Nemelia | I8 | |||
| Elsekelan | I8 | |||
| Ilus | I8 | |||
| Shafra | I8 | |||
| Deira | I8 | |||
| Elsidiya | I8 | |||
| Chi Ignota | I8 | |||
| Aclede | J8 | |||
| Qophia | J8 | |||
| Ei | J8 | |||
| Lazuryi | J8 | |||
| Melchizedek | J8 | |||
| Yonasan | J8 | |||
| Yazharim | J8 | |||
| Alkeban | J8 | |||
| Estoxxhe | J8 | Estoxxhe Station | None | |
| Veriyan | J7 | |||
| Corvidium | J7 | |||
| Mukhatara | K8 | |||
| Eleazar | K8 | |||
| Sadiym | K8 | |||
| Liresente | K8 | |||
| Ix | K8 | |||
| Beta Colonia | K8 | |||
| Saia | K8 | |||
| Laconia | K7 | |||
| New Earendel | K7 | |||
| Ivrim | K7 | |||
| Iamat | K7 | |||
| Orkus | L8 |
