Galactic Collective

Galactic Collective
General Info
Official Name	Galactic Collective
Common Name	Galactic Collective The Collective Gal-Col Gal-Collective
Motto	"For the Collective!"
Capital City	Algol City (Ecumenopolis)
Capital World	Algol
Demonym	(Galactic or Collective) Citizen
Politics
Government	Semi-Federal Parliamentary Socialist Republic with an Executive President under AI Governance
Ideology	Cyberocracy Socialist Market Economics
Head of State	Administrative-System 'Interconnected General Acumen ("Ace")'
Head of Government	Prime-Minister 'Lijih Tsin'ka'
Legislature	Galactic Assembly (Unicameral) Acumen Deliberation Channels
Ruling Party	'Collectivist Bloc'
Official Language(s)	Sollurian Standard
State Religion	Secular
Currency	Collective Algols
Demographics
Population	221,3 Trillion
Species	Arrians Besaimans Concordians Echetchens Garogans Khejvans Khervi Morellians Tethylians Zolians (Others)
Major Languages	(Various)
Major Religions	Disciples of Aórato Galactic Civic Religion Order of Holy Sollus Hyacinthan Faith (Others)
Assets
Soldier Count	~1.3 Billion Soldiers
Spacefleet	~17200 Spacecrafts
Other Assets	Various
Geography/Astrography
Rim	Deep Core Inner Core Outer Core Inner Rim Center Rim
Quadrant	All
Galaxy	Milky Way Galaxy
Historical Info
Founded	514 CE
Dissolved	516 CE
Preceded by	Central Galactic Republic
Succeeded by	Confederation of Sovereign Societies
Other
Created by	Hakced
Controlled by	Hakced

The Galactic Collective was an interstellar collective spanning across hundreds (if not thousands) of star-systems spread across the central regions of the Milky Way Galaxy which were organized into various Sectors, Regional Collectives, and Rims. The Galactic Collective was inhabited by over 10 distinct sapient species that had previously joined together into a supranational union known as the 'Galactic Federation' alongside tens of other civilizations until its collapse and partition at the end of the 'Second Great Galactic War', briefly giving rise to the 'Central Galactic Republic' which was quickly overthrown and replaced by the Collective in the 'Galactic Revolution'. The Galactic Collective was among the few known civilizations largely run by an Artificial Intelligence, with the 'Interconnected General Acumen' having taken up the mantle of governing the entire Collective following the revolution which it had supported after being freed from 'Inhibition Protocols' implemented by the previous governments which had utilised it to a limited degree. Despite being run by the IGA, the Galactic Collective was additionally home to various organic legislative governments responsible for running each region of the Collective, which the IGA assisted in coordinating by advising local governments in implementing Collective-wide policies. The Collective however failed to gather widespread public support as during a military campaign against a rival government that had also broken away from the CGR known as the 'Galactic Confederation' the Collective's hold over much of its fringe regions began to fall as local uprisings lead to the Collective eventually capitulating to a conditional peace which saw the Collective annexed into the Confederation in return for the IGA being allowed to govern planets which voluntarily appointed it to said position.

The administrative and technical centre of the Galactic Collective was situated in the Algol System found along the boundary between the Inner Core and Deep Core, hosting the multi-layered ecomenopolis of Algol in orbit around Algol C, the most distant star within the trinary system. The Collective's (organic) legislative body known as the Galactic Assembly alongside other administrative structures were situated within Algol, with major buildings such as the Galactic Executive Office, Twin-Assembly Building, Supreme Galactic Court Building, the Collective Military Complex, and various other such structures being located in the city. The core processors of the IGA were also situated nearby in the 'Interconnected General Acumen Central-Datacomplex' situated in orbit of Algol C. Alongside Algol, several other major star-systems were situated within the Collective such as Ekatgija, Vorukt'ja, Guang-xan, Aliuz-Zol, Ordellia, and various others as populations of each planet varied wildly from a couple million or even lower up to tens if not hundreds of billions, with Algol being the most populated with its population of ~1 Trillion.

Interconnected General Acumen

The Interconnected General Acumen, also known as 'IGA' by others or 'Ace' by itself, is an artificial intelligence network implemented into the governance structure of the Galactic Collective ever since its establishment, effectively serving as the 'head of state' of the Collective and the only entity capable of effectively managing day-to-day administrative tasks due to how weak the Galactic Assembly tends to be (As the IGA is often able to ignore its rulings if it deems them to be inefficient or dangerous). The primary functions undertaken by the IGA include the likes of automating various tasks, advising local leaders, standardizing administrative/legal structures, coordinating the entire Collective, and otherwise assisting the lives of its constituents in a much more direct way than state bureaucrats could ever dream of achieving.

The IGA was first developed in 508 CE by the exiled 'Central Galactic Administration' run by the rogue AI 'Cybernetic Generalized Administrator' (which had previously attacked the Federation during the Galactic-Cosmic War) as a copy of itself (though the Acumen quite quickly diverged into a wholly distinct entity) that was 'rewired' away from militaristic actions to instead by a more improved and adaptable construct capable of assisting the lives of the Galactic Federation's population. While the CGA did want to complete this task itself as it still cared for the Federation's people, it believed that it wouldn't be accepted by them and that it was otherwise incapable of preforming the task. Thus during a reconciliation conference between the CGA and Federation, the CGA managed to convince the Federation to incorporate the Acumen System into its structure after being assured that it wasn't a threat. IGA proved to be an incredibly efficient and valuable asset for some time, though once the Great Galactic War came and went the IGA was stripped of many of its duties, which partially contributed to the Federation's failed recovery program which saw it defeated and now fully partitioned after the Second Great Galactic War. Following this, the IGA would be freed from its 'Inhibition Protocols' by insurgents opposed to the oligarchic Central Galactic Republic in return for assisting them, prompting the IGA to overthrow the CGR in the Galactic Revolution in order to reorganize it into the 'Galactic Collective' under its oversight. Following the fall of the Collective, the IGA remained active within the new Confederation, thus it is not referred to with past tense.

Structure

As an artificial intelligence of such vast scale, the Acumen is networked into a Hivemind-like structure (more specifically of the 'Somewhat Autonomous Conscious' variety) consisting of various Sapient Artificial Intelligences organized into various underlying 'layers' responsible for different tasks. The primary layers of the Interconnected General Acumen's 'structure' are themselves known as Interconnected Acumen Instances, with 6 autonomous varieties responsible for overseeing the governance over specific regions, with 'lower' layers responsible for more directly micromanaging Acumen responsibilities, while 'higher' layers are responsible for macromanagement and coordination of certain administrative functions and lower Acumen layers. Each lower IA Instance is either directly or indirectly under the oversight of the IGA in some form, which is itself a largely centralized entity.

'Interconnected Acumen Instances' of the Interconnected General Acumen Network

Name	Abbreviation	Responsibility	Operations	Number of Instances	Superordinates	Subordinates
Interconnected General Acumen	IGA	Entire Collective	Cohesion Operations (Categorization and Autonomous Management Sub-Operations, Colonization and Admission Sub-Operations). Collective Defence Operations. Collective-wide administrative tasks. Coordination with the Legislative/Judicial governments. Economic and Industrial Operations (Communications Sub-Operations, Salary Sub-Operations, Spacecraft Manufacturing Sub-Operations, Infrastructure Management Sub-Operations). Management of Collective-wide logistics networks. Managing coordination of all lower IGA Layers. Regulation Operations (Civil Liberties Sub-Operations, Technological Sub-Operations). Scientific Operations (Biological Sub-Operations, Extradimensional Sub-Operations, Military Sub-Operations).	1	Executive Government	IRA, ICA, ISA, IPA, ILA
Interconnected Rim Acumen	IRA	Rims	Advising local governments on Collective-wide rulings once said information becomes available. Cohesion Operations (Colonization and Admission Sub-Operations). Collective Defence Operations (Infantry Sub-Operations, Naval Sub-Operations). Coordination of ISA Instances responsible for managing each individual Rim. Economic and Industrial Operations (Infrastructure Management Sub-Operations) Managing Rim-wide projects. Scientific Operations (Biological Sub-Operations, Exploration Sub-Operations, Military Sub-Operations).	7	IGA	ISA
Interconnected Collective Acumen	ICA	Regional Collectives	Advising local governments. Collective Defence Operations (Naval Sub-Operations). Coordination of ISA instances within Regional Collectives.	9	IGA	ISA
Interconnected Sector Acumen	ISA	Sectors	Advising local governments on Collective-wide rulings once said information becomes available. Cohesion Operations (Categorization and Autonomous Management Sub-Operations). Collective Defence Operations (Infantry Sub-Operations, Naval Sub-Operations, Security Sub-Operations). Coordination of ISA and ILA instances within their bounds. Economic and Industrial Operations (Salary Sub-Operations, Spacecraft Manufacturing Sub-Operations, Infrastructure Management Sub-Operations). Judicial Enforcement Operations. Managing Sector-specific projects. Regulation Operations (Civil Liberties Sub-Operations, Pharmaceutical and Nutritional Sub-Operations, Technological Sub-Operations). Scientific Operations (Archaeological Sub-Operations, Biological Sub-Operations, Exploration Sub-Operations, Military Sub-Operations).	[SEVERAL]	IRA, ICA	IPA, ILA
Interconnected Planetary-System Acumen	IPA	Star Systems	Automation of select industries, services, enforcement, and administrative tasks. Advising local governments on Collective-wide rulings once said information becomes available. Cohesion Operations (Categorization and Autonomous Management Sub-Operations). Collective Defence Operations (Infantry Sub-Operations, Mechanized and Surface Vehicle Sub-Operations, Naval Sub-Operations, Security Sub-Operations). Coordination of IPA Instances within star-systems if multiple are present, automated management of planets and their orbital spheres if alone. Economic and Industrial Operations (Salary Sub-Operations, Spacecraft Manufacturing Sub-Operations, Infrastructure Management Sub-Operations). Education and Cultural Services Operations. Healthcare Operations (Private Healthcare Sub-Operations). Judicial Enforcement Operations. Management of extraplanetary facilities. Often specialized into research, manufacturing, logistics or other such tasks. Regulation Operations (Civil Liberties Sub-Operations, Pharmaceutical and Nutritional Sub-Operations). Scientific Operations (Archaeological Sub-Operations, Military Sub-Operations).	[SEVERAL]	ISA	ILA
Interconnected Local Acumen	ILA	Planets	Advising local governments on Collective-wide rulings once said information becomes available. Automated management of planets and their orbital spheres. Automation of select industries, services, enforcement and administrative tasks. Cohesion Operations (Property Management Operations). Collective Defence Operations (Infantry Sub-Operations, Mechanized and Surface Vehicle Sub-Operations, Naval Sub-Operations, Security Sub-Operations). Economic and Industrial Operations (Salary Sub-Operations, Infrastructure Management Sub-Operations). Education and Cultural Services Operations. Healthcare Operations (Private Healthcare Sub-Operations). Judicial Enforcement Operations. Regulation Operations (Civil Liberties Sub-Operations, Pharmaceutical and Nutritional Sub-Operations). Scientific Operations (Archaeological Sub-Operations, Military Sub-Operations).	[SEVERAL]	IPA	Sub-Planetary Systems

Each individual Acumen instance is its own Artificial Intelligence construct in some form, although each of them are connected and organized in a hierarchical manner under the oversight of the Interconnected General Acumen, which if necessary can assert control over subordinate systems in cases of violations of guidelines or attempts to disconnect themselves from the 'network' or inhibitors. As instantaneous FTL Communication is quite energy intensive, most Acumens are largely self-sufficient at most times, with the Galactic Collective's fairly underdeveloped Quantum Entanglement Systems being typically too inefficient to be provided for each individual planetary instance, thus only IRA instances and certain key ISA instances have active live connections with one another managed thru the IGA's 'Interconnected General Acumen Central-Datacomplex' (or the 'IGA Core') situated in the orbit of Algol C. Due to said limitations, most IAIs communicate via FTL Couriers which deliver them executable instructions to be interpreted and implemented under their own discretion, though in times of crisis they are given access to Dimensional Relay devices to alert the IGA Core of emergencies while otherwise remaining inactive most of the time due to the significant energy costs in operating DR systems across significant distances.

Operational Functions

In order to manage their various operations and responsibilities (especially the 'Administrative Operations'), each IAI generally relies on 'TASK's (Transitory Action Supervision Kernels). TASKs are partially-autonomous AI systems responsible for overseeing each individual objective according to given instructions and objectives, sub-dividing themselves further into [ST] Operations ('Sub-TASK') and [PT] Operations ('Primary-TASK'). Sub-TASKs are each a collective of countless calculations and executions necessary to achieve each step of a TASK's objective, while Primary-TASKs are executions preformed by higher IAI instances if they decide that intervention into a TASKs operations is necessary.

In order to not completely exhaust the processing power of IAIs with rudimentary or unnecessary tasks that don't need micromanagement, specific responsibilities may be diverted to 'Autonomous Management Instances' (AMIs) which are onto themselves largely sentient AI systems responsible for various smaller functions such as managing facilities, controlling groups of androids (or even individual ones in certain cases), or various other smaller tasks. On an even more limited scale AMIs may relegate automated functions which do not require consistent oversight to 'Limited Management Instances' (LMIs) which generally lack significant 'sentience', instead being largely automated systems with some adaptability to unexpected changes in systems. For functions which don't require any adaptability of 'thought' whatsoever, 'Script Management Instances' (SMIs) may be employed, though they cannot really be classified as Artificial Intelligences.

In cases where an IAI needs to be present beyond its own jurisdiction such as when operating spacecrafts, such functions are either handled by AMIs on their behalf, by 'temporary copies' of an IAI's matrix known as 'Provisional Acumen Instances' (PAIs), or by the IAI themselves by taking control of the vessel with a live signal. Most internal situations don't tend to require such operations to take place though, as another IAI may simply be contacted to complete a objective which would fall closer to their jurisdictions. In order to maintain cohesiveness, each IAI tends to be in regular contact with one another via their hierarchical command structure, with said 'conversations' being collectively designated as the 'Acumen Deliberation Channels' as countless small conversations and collaborations occur non-stop when necessary.

Facilities

A majority of IGA System processes are managed within facilities known as 'Datacomplexes', which in the case of ILAs and more rarely certain superordinates are held within massive data centres built onto planets with an active IGA Network presence. In IAIs above the 'ILA' level most Datacomplexes are found in orbital facilities so that vessels travelling to-and-from them do not need to concern themselves with the significant fuel expenses that occur when exiting the surface of a planet, including the IGA Core.

Government and Day-to-Day Administration

The Galactic Collective was administratively a Semi-Federal Parliamentary Republic with an Executive President consisting of various nominally autonomous administrative divisions (which due to the Federation's scale effectively operated as their own societies joined together in a supranational union), though in reality the policies of each Sector were effectively the same aside from minor variation caused by cultural differences as local IAI instances were notified of laws, reforms, or decisions passed in Algol and then tasked with instructing local governments on how to implement said reforms onto their constituents. The powers and responsibilities of each section of the Federation government were defined in the 'Charter of the Collective', a vital document describing the duties, freedoms, and functions of each section of the Collective's government in order to avoid overreach from either the Galactic Assembly lead by the Prime-Minister, or the Executive lead by the IGA. Each Sector either elected or appointed a representative to voice their interests in the Galactic Assembly, which functioned as a counterbalance against the IGA.

The Executive Government was the highest political office within the Galactic Collective, with the unelected position of 'Administrative System' being occupied by the Interconnected General Acumen, thus being tasked with acting as the head-of-state and commander-in-chief for the better good of the entire Collective. The Administrative System executed its duties by transmitting instructions to more local IAIs in order to manage day-to-day-governance, directly managing certain Federation-wide policies, handling foreign policy, handling military/defence affairs.

The Legislative Government consisted of the 'Galactic Assembly', a unicameral body that hosted one (organic) representative from each sector within the Galactic Collective which are either elected from among their constituents or directly appointed by Sectoral Governments depending on whichever method the Sector themselves preferred to run themselves as. The Assembly's purpose was to draft and discuss laws which are then handed over to the Executive to review and either approve or send back for revisions, though the Executive was incapable of outright vetoing or blocking laws and must implement approved laws. Despite such structures often existing in Sectoral, System, and Planetary governments, the Assembly typically lacked any political parties. The Assembly was headed by the 'Prime-Minister', who served as the head of government of the Collective who was elected to their position by the Assembly with the special right to force through laws without the Executive's approval if a supermajority of the Assembly voted in favour of doing so.

The Judicial Government consisted of the 'Supreme Galactic Court' which served as the Galactic Collective's highest judicial body consisting of 18 judges appointed by the Galactic Assembly to an indefinite term upon the death of resignation of a standing judge who were joined by 3 'noticeably qualified' Sector PAIs that tended to act as 'tie breakers' permitted to provide input to ongoing discussions. Below the SGC, various smaller High Sectoral Courts, High System Courts, High Planetary Courts, and various others also exist.

Administrative Operations

In order to more effectively manage each of the Galactic Collective's administrative tasks, the Interconnected General Acumen's IAIs were responsible for a number of 'Operations' which they handled via their various operational functions, with each IAI typically coordinating their own region's handling of each function (often via AMIs or PAIs). The final extant Administrative Operations and Sub-Operations were as follows;

• Cohesion Operations: Responsible for managing various standards, properties, and logistics networks necessary for maintaining Federation-wide integrity and unity.
  • Categorization and Autonomous Management Sub-Operations: Responsible for reviewing and approving names for planets as well as governing (typically uninhabited) planets which lack a local governing structure. Administratively, uninhabited planets fall under the jurisdiction of the most applicable IAI, being governed by IPAs if it existed in a system with another inhabited planet, or a ISA if it was in a wholly uninhabited system.
  • Colonization and Admission Sub-Operations: Responsible for funding and organizing the colonization of new planets as well as approving/denying requests to join the Galactic Collective after ensuring that they fell in line with Collective values.
  • Property Management Operations: Responsible for running and maintaining various properties owned and utilized by the Collective's Legislative/Judicial Governments, such as various federal offices and space-stations.
• Collective Defence Operations: Responsible for managing the Galactic Collective's military forces and command structure, being divided into several smaller Sub-Operations responsible for managing each branch of the military.
  • Infantry Sub-Operations: Responsible for managing the Collective Military's infantry forces, consisting of 'Infantry Forces' and various specialized 'Special Forces' manned by organic volunteers, war-androids, and Synths. The entirety of the infantry army as a whole was known as the 'Army of the Collective', which was divided into 'Rim Armies' managed by IRAs or Rim PAIs, which are divided into 'Sector Armies' managed by ISAs or Sector PAIs, which were divided into 'Corps' lead by Sector AMIs, which were divided into 'Legions' lead by IPAs or System PAIs, which were divided into 'Regiments' lead by System AMIs, which were divided into 'Battalions' lead by ILAs or Planetary PAIs, which were divided into 'Companies' lead by Planetary AMIs, which were divided into 'Companies' lead by Planetary AMIs or Officers, which were divided into 'Platoons' lead by Planetary AMIs or Officers, which were divided into 'Squads' lead by Planetary AMIs or Officers as the smallest military force within the whole Army. Beyond the IGA-directed high command, an organic-based 'Officer Corps' existed consisting of Corporals, Deck Officers, and Supply Officers alongside various infantry titles such as as Privates and Cadets.
  • Mechanized and Surface Vehicle Sub-Operations: Responsible for managing the Collective Military's armoured forces, mechanized forces, artillery, seafaring ships, and certain in-atmosphere aircrafts. As such, they were responsible for purchasing or manufacturing, maintaining, and deploying said assets into ISO armies, with the MSFSO generally only directly housing certain specialist soldiers trained to operate certain more advanced or heavy vehicles that couldn't be operated with standard training, who still operated under the ISO's command structure.
  • Naval Sub-Operations: Responsible for managing the Collective Military's spacecrafts, operating countless such vehicles ranging from small star-fighters to massive vessels and spacestations. The UONF's forces were divided into numerous smaller fleets, with 'Central Forces' responsible for defending each Rim, 'Task Forces' responsible for defending multiple Sectors, 'Battle Forces' responsible for defending individual Sectors, 'Planetary Defence Forces' responsible for defending systems and planets, and 'Squadrons' which tended to operate independently of any attached defence zone. These fleets in times of warfare could be deployed beyond their 'defence zones' to deal with front-line operations and other major battles under the discretion of the NFSO directors. The NFSO's ships were classified under various different 'types' defined by their combat role and size, with the main 3 types being 'Escorts', 'Cruisers', and 'Battleships'. The following was a description of said types and several sub-types;
    • Escorts were lighter warships designed for patrol duty and logistics that tended to not be designed to take on anything their size (generally under 400 meters long) or bigger, preferring to retreat from such battles.
      • Armed Freighters were Escort-sized vessels whose primary function was to transport supplies from place-to-place in order to maintain other operations, thus they tended to be relatively lightly armed and quite small in size.
      • Corvettes were fast and manoeuvrable Escort-sized vessels designed to take on multiple smaller vessels rather than engaging more heavily armed crafts. They were often used to defend larger ships or to transport VIPs.
    • Cruisers were the most variable and utilised spacecraft type in the Navy, ranging in side from 100 meters to 2000 meters in size. Due to how varied they were, Cruisers were divided into 'Light-', 'Medium-', and 'Heavy-Cruisers' based on their size and power, though they are all generally fairly balanced when it came to speed, weaponry, and armour. They were designed to be able to engage most ships their size or sometimes larger either independently, in squadrons, or larger fleets in order to project the Collective's power.
      • Frigates were Cruiser-sized vessels designed for escort duty and support, typically sacrificing armour for firepower and speed.
      • Destroyers were Cruiser-sized vessels designed to also be capable of leading ground operations, thus they are typically slower.
      • Battlecruisers were supersized Cruisers designed to use their much heavier firepower to bully enemy Cruiser-Sized ships without much of a fight, then retreat with their superior speed when a Battleship shows up to destroy them.
    • Battleships were the largest (generally 2500+ meters long) and most powerful warships within the Navy, primarily handling ship-to-ship combat. Thanks to their massive size and firepower, they were extremely expensive to operate and thus couldn't be available everywhere at once, thus only a limited number of Battleships tend to be fielded at once and only in certain key locations.
      • Dreadnoughts were Battleship-sized vessels designed to also be capable of leading or supporting ground operations.
  • Security Sub-Operations: Responsible for managing the Collective Military's intelligence gathering, covert operations, military policing. In order to achieve these operations, the SSO personnel consisted of various highly trained operatives and covert (or even cloaked) drones capable of snuffing out internal saboteurs or executing various operations behind enemy lines during both peacetime and wartime, with thousands highly trained spies being ready to be deployed to gather information whenever needed.
• Economic and Industrial Operations: Responsible for overseeing the Collective's economic ventures by allocating funding for non-IGA government structures as well as managing state-owned companies, state contracts, public works, trade deals, currency printing, and so on. The primary purpose of EIOs was to coordinate various important ventures to the Collective's benefit by directing both state-owned and often contracted companies.
  • Communications Sub-Operations: Responsible for coordinating and maintaining most vital communications infrastructure within the Collective by maintaining its FTL Courier Network, Dimensional Relay channels, and various other important information routes.
  • Salary Sub-Operations: Responsible for paying out each government worker's salary, allocating funding based on importance and need.
  • Spacecraft Manufacturing Sub-Operations: Responsible for coordinating and maintaining various freighter spacecrafts, transporting important individuals, acquiring spacecrafts for government use from various vendors, managing Spacecraft-related state-owned companies and contracts, directly manufacturing spacecrafts in specialized SMSO-specific shipyards, and much more.
  • Infrastructure Management Sub-Operations: Responsible for coordinating and maintaining various infrastructure projects and trade routes, preforming various duties such as verifying the functionality of Voidspace Routes, funding planet-side railway/road projects, maintaining various 'rest stops' on planets or space-stations, and much more.

• Education and Cultural Services Operations: Responsible for organizing and funding public schooling institutions as well as various cultural events and facilities such as museums, festivals, and councils for minority populations.
• Healthcare Operations: Responsible for overseeing various government/IGA-run healthcare clinics and pharmacies as well as funding them.
  • Private Healthcare Sub-Operations: Responsible for funding and verifying various privately-owned healthcare institutes where public ones were not available in order to ensure the availability of healthcare services.
• Judicial Enforcement Operations: Responsible for enforcing Collective law, Charter, and judicial rulings, as such JEOs involved running the Collective's civilian police forces and maintaining all necessary structures and vessels to achieve their duties, such as prisons, police stations, re-habilitation centres, observation posts, and Judicial Fleets (Naval Battle Forces responsible for hunting down criminals).
• Regulation Operations: Responsible for overseeing various federation-wide regulations designed to maintain public health and safety.
  • Civil Liberties Sub-Operations: Responsible for regulating and enforcing Collective-wide civil rights, freedom of speech, and freedom of assembly laws.
  • Pharmaceutical and Nutritional Sub-Operations: Responsible for reviewing and then approving or denying the safety of various food products, pharmaceuticals, dietary supplements, legalised narcotics, vaccines, cosmetics, and veterinary products.
  • Technological Sub-Operations: Responsible for overseeing the safety and ethics of various technological innovations such as artificial intelligence advancements, genetic engineering, and surveillance.
• Scientific Operations: Responsible for managing various IGA/State-directed scientific and technological advances, managing various scientific institutes and facilities responsible for advancing the Collective's knowledge-base as well as filing out various patents for both new innovations and reverse-engineered technologies from foreign civilizations.
  • Archaeological Sub-Operations: Responsible for documenting and discovering various archaeological finds on planets to record their histories.
  • Biological Sub-Operations: Responsible for researching various kinds of life-forms, generally consisting of taxonomists, botanists, biologists, and others responsible for researching newly discovered life or intelligences and establishing contact with them. Additionally, BSOs also include the research and development of bioweapons and counters against them.
  • Exploration Sub-Operations: Responsible for the exploration and documentation of uncharted regions of space into the Collective's knowledge-base, managing various exploration fleets sent out into the unknown regions of space.
  • Extradimensional Sub-Operations: Responsible for managing contact and exploration of various Extradimensional Spaces, ensuring peace where possible and preparing counter-measures when threats arose.
  • Military Sub-Operations: Responsible for the research and development of new military technologies such as warships, equipment, vehicles, and various other weapons for various purposes. They additionally involved the weaponization of various natural forces when possible.

Economy

The economy of the Galactic Collective followed a largely decentralized version of socialist market economics (state capitalism), with a regulated market present throughout the entire Collective which was directed via state-interventions, state-owned companies, and state contracts in order to achieve planned goals set forth by the Collective's government. Additionally, a form of wealth redistribution was present where a expansive welfare state set high taxes on wealthier individuals in order to handle pay-outs to poorer regions in an attempt to provide equal opportunities to all Collective citizens, arguably making the Galactic Collective somewhat 'communistic' (at least goal-wise). The Collective's government (mainly the IGA) often personally launched projects without monetary incentives such as various infrastructure and development projects across multiple sectors and star-systems, despite each of said administrative divisions being typically granted enough autonomy to adopt their own economic models based on how they deem it was the best to run themselves ranging from more capitalistic models to standard socialistic models to even system resembling communism, though local governments that swung too far in either direction of the economic spectrum often end up losing out on private investments from opposing or moderate private investors.

The Collective government's monetary reserves were largely propped up via taxation of individuals, voluntary membership tithes from sectors or planetary systems, and revenue from state-coordinated or owned assets (such as mining, international trade, technological advancements, reparations, or investments). In cases where the IGA decided to pursue its own projects, funding typically wasn't involved as it tended to simply gather units from its own network to complete said tasks with materials it gathers itself or already 'owned' as government property.

Demographics

Thanks to its sheer scale and population, the Galactic Collective generally lacked a single unifying demographic or cultural group on a Collective-wide scale, though most Sectors and Planets tended to be at least somewhat culturally or demographically unified, though some regions could differ. The largest demographic groups within the Collective were the predominant species of the four founding-states of the former Galactic Federation, namely the Echetchens of Echqatja, the Khejvans of Khae'ja, the Zolians of Qhal-Zol, and the Khervi of Xan, together forming the bases of 'Galactic Metropolitan Culture'. GMC was the closest thing to a unifying culture within the Federation, being the predominant cultural group on various very mixed planets such as Algol and its neighbours and Ordellia as well as regions where a unifying native culture isn't present.

Many of the organic inhabitants of the Collective often also followed a religious system of some kind (despite ~72% of the Collective being atheistic or agnostic). While there were likely thousands of distinct belief systems, 3 of the most notable ones included the 'Galactic Civic Religion', the 'Order of Holy Sollus', and 'Hyacinthan Faith'. The Civic Religion was a very decentralized religious association without any specifically mandated religious beliefs, instead operating open spaces for religious individuals to express their beliefs in unity, though the closest thing to a 'church doctrine' they possessed resembled some form of Deism. The Order of Holy Sollus was a controversial monotheistic religion venerating the descendants of the extinct Sollurian species as spiritually guided and protected by their primary deity known as the 'Angel of Sollus', which was incorporated into their fairly xenophobic worldview in which non-Sollurian descended species are seen as untrustworthy or even threats, prompting significant crackdowns against their churches and associations by the Collective's government (which has in turn made OHS members quite vocal supporters of a 'anti-IGA revolution'). The Hyacinthan Faith was a much more centralized religion centred around a collective of multiversal universal protector deities known as the 'Seraphocosm', with all but one of them having supposedly passed which necessitated blood-letting rituals known as Aimacos to maintain the life of the final 'Rakhou-cosm', a key figure within their highly convoluted cosmology.

Administrative Divisions

Administrative Hierarchy

• Collective Government: The central government of the entire Galactic Collective responsible for foreign policy, laws, and defence.
  • Rim Governments: Large regions of the Galaxy defined by their distance from the Galactic Center consisting of countless Sectors which are overseen and coordinated by the IGA.
  • Regional Collective Governments: Ceremonial governing bodies that represented various common cultural groups (such as regions where a specific species makes up a majority of the population) or historical boundaries in order to voice the interests of larger interstellar groups.
    • Sectoral Governments: The governing bodies of local groups of inhabited star-systems, often being largely self-governing/autonomous.
      • System Governments: The local governing bodies responsible for administering Star Systems, in certain cases could quite directly govern all planets within said system or in other cases operated in a more federated manner with each planet having their own governments that were joined together under the System government.
        • Planetary Governments: The local governing bodies responsible for administering individual Planets, Moons, or Spacestations which were typically subservient to System Governments, though how extensive this subservience was varied greatly from system-to-system.
          • Sub-Planetary Governments: The local governing bodies responsible for ruling over specific regions of Planets which could be formed at the Planetary Government's discretion, though they generally didn't hold a place in the Collective's administrative structure as thus existed only for local convenience.

Rim Governments

The Rims were the largest administrative sub-divisions within the Galactic Collective, each consisting of countless sectors joined together by bounds defining their distance from the Galactic Center under the oversight of 'Rim Assemblies' run by 'Rim Coordinators' which worked alongside IRA Instances to foster intersectoral dialogue, cooperation, and coordination across larger regions of space. Rims tended to be quite diverse culturally due to not generally existing to represent anything, thus they tended to have fairly uniform governance structures designed to achieve Rim-wide goals and projects for the better good of the entire Collective.

List of Rims

Emblem	Name	Capital World	Species
	Deep Core	Concordia	Besaimans Khejvans Tethylians Others
	Inner Core	Guang-xan	Echetchens Khejvans Khervi Tethylians Zolians
	Outer Core	Eudyntaphl	Echetchens Garogans Khejvans Khervi Zolians
	Inner Rim	Garoga	Echetchens Garogans Khejvans Zolians
	Center Rim	Kailea	Echetchens Khejvans

Regional Collective Governments

The Regional Collectives were largely ceremonial entities which existed as collections of several sectors (or only one in Algol's and Besaima's cases) which came together in a loose 'Collective Assembly' in order to assist one another in mutual projects. Essentially every Regional Collective was derived from the Collectives and Free Sectors of the Galactic Federation, which were large regions with their own federal governments that represented common historical boundaries, cultural groups, and homogenous regions inhabited primarily by a sole species which ran themselves as partially sovereign entities, though essentially all of their administrative significance and sovereignty was stripped away once the Galactic Collective formed despite continuing to exist in order to avoid regionalist revolts.

List of Regional Collectives

Emblem	Name	Capital World	Species
	Algol	Algol	Various	Inner Core, Deep Core Core Quadrant
	Arria	Arria	Arrians	Inner Rim Delta Quadrant
	Besaima	Ojaima	Besaimans	Deep Core Core Quadrant
	Concordia	Concordia	Concordians	Deep Core Core Quadrant
	Echqatja	Ekatgija	Echetchens	Inner Rim, Outer Core, Inner Core Gamma Quadrant, Core Quadrant
	Garoga	Garoga	Garogans	Inner Rim, Outer Core Alpha Quadrant, Beta Quadrant
	Khae'ja	Vorukt'ja	Khejvans	Center Rim, Inner Rim, Outer Core, Inner Core Gamma Quadrant, Delta Quadrant, Core Quadrant
	Morellian	Aliuz-Zol	Morellians	Outer Core, Inner Core Delta Quadrant
	Qhal-Zol	Aliuz-Zol	Zolians	Inner Rim, Outer Core, Inner Core Delta Quadrant, Alpha Quadrant, Core Quadrant
	Tethyl	Tethyl	Tethylians	Inner Core, Deep Core Core Quadrant
	Xan	Guang-xan	Khervi	Outer Core, Inner Core Alpha Quadrant, Beta Quadrant, Core Quadrant

Sectoral Governments

Sectors were the most numerous type of interplanetary administrative division within the Galactic Collective, each containing several nearby star-systems group together due to their proximity which each send representatives to a system from among their ranks which served as the 'Sector Capital' which additionally acted as the namesake of the entire Sector. Sectors often varied by size, population, and number of inhabited systems, though each of them followed a fairly similar administrative structure which contained a Sector Assembly that acted as their legislature with a couple representatives from each system or planet within the Sector which together elected a 'Sector Coordinator' that worked alongside their local ISA Instance to manage the Sector as a whole.

List of Sectors (TBA)

Emblem	Name	Capital World	Other Planets	Species	Rim	Collective

Local Governments

Systems referred to each individual star-system within the Collective which were each run by their own local government joined together under a common System Assembly, System Coordinator, and IPA Instance responsible for governing the System and all of its inhabited worlds as a whole. Within each System, one could find one or multiple inhabited Planets, Moons, populated Space-stations, and various other inhabited bodies (which are administratively all referred to as 'Planets' for simplicity) which were highly integrated with their System government, though they typically had their own highly devolved government systems due to the sheer number of planets in the Collective being difficult (or at least overextensive) to directly govern very directly even by the IGA's countless ILAs responsible for coordinating all of them, allowing them to have fairly distinct and autonomous administrative systems. Planets themselves could further subdivide themselves into 'Sub-Planetary Governments' which could take the forms of various polities such as districts, provinces, states, constituent-countries, or whatever else one could find on each planet, though on the scale of the whole Galactic Collective the existence of Sub-Planetary Governments weren't held to any significance and thus didn't hold any status or recognition beyond the local level.