Invirian Ascendancy
| Invirian | |
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| Governmental Information | |
| Common Name | Invirian |
| Official Name | Invirian Ascendancy |
| Organization Type | System collective under a military junta |
| Head of Government | Grand Commodore of the Ascendancy |
| Legislature | None |
| Societal Information | |
| Capital World | Inviria |
| Official Language | Empyrean |
| Demographics | |
| Demonym | Invirian |
| Population | Around 1.2 trillion |
| Dominant Species | Empyreans (Invirian) |
| Astrography | |
| Rim | Centre Rim / Inner Rim |
| Quadrant | Delta |
| Galaxy | Milky Way Galaxy |
| Historical Information | |
| Other | |
| Controlled by | ?? |
The Invirian Ascendancy (known simply as Invirian) is a collective of star systems located northwest of the galactic centre in the Center Rim, and is an enclave of the Empyrium. To the wider galaxy, it is an unchartered region located in what is known as the Alkidian Superanomaly, believed to be inaccessible due to the presence of voidspace anomalies that prevent FTL travel. It contains 26 member systems, and the capital world is Inviria.
Invirian is formed from the remnants of Empyrean colonists that ventured into the superanomaly and survived, however their exposure to the memoria left them dependent on it. Invirian is responsible for instigating the Laconia-Empyrium war, having been the mastermind behind the Sentor Banquet Incident while also providing Laconia immense logistical and materiel support through unknown means. The authoritarian military junta that rules Invirian exercises its power to alleviate the effects of an impending "orgone catastrophe".
A highly unstable voidspace lane exists between the planets Thrallix and Primio, traversal of which is near-impossible. Piloting the Starlight Serenity, Clotho attempted to traverse this route but nearly destroyed the ship doing so, having been saved from death by the memoria beings.
Invirian Space
It is advised to read Memoria to better understand the nature of memoria spaces.
Invirian Space is a memoria space, in that it is governed by the flow of memoria, rather than the otherwise omnipresent orgone energy. Essentially, the entire collective is located within a near-impenetrable "bubble" of memoria from which it cannot leave, as the laws of the universe do not function as they do on the outside. Furthermore, the memoria space is threatened by an impending "orgone catastrophe" - an anomaly that transmutes the memoria space's contents to the orgone realm. The outcome of this catastrophe, if it were to happen, are entirely uncertain. Some claim that the environments within Invirian would not be able to exist within realspace and may disappear entirely. Others suggest that even if the "physical" element of the memoria emerges in realspace, Invirian's inhabitants may not be able to survive. Biological functions do not exist within memoria space, and although Invirian as a whole may be able to avert imminent crises to do with food, water and hygiene, it is thought that people highly attuned to memoria may fail to sustain themselves at all, a hypothesis known as "orgone shock". This has been putting pressure on the collective to either find a preventative measure or find a way to attune to orgone and enter realspace.
Control
Studies by scientists from Primio show that even with two people, a memoria space can tend to chaos. That is to say, both people can perceive a space in a unique way that "hybridises" the environment, or even corrupt it. Given that around 1.2 trillion people inhabit Invirian Space, ensuring that the memoria space is "preserved" is a high priority. This preservation is delegated to two different roles, the Xahnamohan and the Haniamonai.
Xahnamohan
The Xahnamohan, commonly called the Curators, are responsible for preserving the environments within Invirian Space. They are incredibly psychically attuned to the memoria, insofar as their consciousness outrivals the entire population of Invirian. Through thought, curators preserve the "perception" of an environment, rendering it significantly less sensitive to the influence of others thoughts. For example, if someone attempted to materialise a place/thing that was undesirable, this would be prevented. In other words, the worlds within Invirian are ultimately experienced from the perspective of the curators. Curators additionally delegate large numbers of people as their "staff" who people can consult regarding significant changes to the memoria space. In a sense, they restrict the extent to which ordinary people can manipulate the memoria space, rather than acting in a "thought police" capacity.
Because the curators perception of Invirian Space is how its inhabitants will ultimately perceive it, this also delegates many legal and judicial responsibilities to them. Those deemed undesirable or dangerous can be exiled from the memoria space, in that the curators can stop perceiving them. In doing so, one who has been "exiled" is unable to be perceived at all, and largely cannot interact with their environment for the duration of their sentence.
In Invirian, all worlds are assigned at least five curators, many of whom are thousands of years old. Realistically, one curator is significantly more than is needed to maintain the integrity of the memoria space in a given location, so this is primarily a failsafe in case any curator were to be compromised, while also holding a symbolic role within that world.
Haniamonai
The Haniamonai, known commonly as the Timekeepers (or sometimes the Fates, not to be confused with the Loom of Fate), are responsible for preserving causality within Invirian Space. It is comprised of a non-descript amount of powerful beings who, unlike the Loom of Fate, only dictates the past. Due to the nature of memoria spaces, if someone strongly believed something to be true, it might actually become so in a way that it had happened prior. Therefore, the role of the timekeepers is to infiltrate the memoria and essentially record events as they happen creating a definitive "past", and preventing people from altering it.
The curators and timekeepers are also jointly responsible for dealing with paradoxes, i.e. inconsistencies within time and the environment that result from conflicting memories. This can arise when certain memories are repressed, forgotten, or otherwise influenced by external means.
