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(This post contains the some of most definite lore on the Aartrisan Civilization. Previous posts
that may contradict what is posted here are to be disregarded in favor of this post.)

Burgjano wrote:

Occupation
Over the next few weeks, the occupation force moves into the CAS, mainly in the form of Gora
class corvettes and Mardau class gunships, along with carriers and their accompanying
drones.
CAS warships, often with their weapons disabled or disarmed, are distributed among the war
participants for scrapping or whatever purpose they may be put to. A fleet of some 200 CAS
corvettes (200m or smaller) was allowed to be maintained as patrol ships, at least for the time
being, so that the Conchordate wouldn’t overstretch its forces.

Burgjano wrote:

The significant politicians and leaders in the CAS federal
government and the member state governments were taken from the CAS and brought to the
subterranean capital city Uram of the Gurvan moon Mamorea, passing by the Conchordate’s
largest shipyards and starcraft fabrication facilities in orbit. Through the windows of the civilian
transport ships taking them, they could see the twinkling blue-white-red of Antillea in the deep
red starlight of Ornea. Not long after they would disappear under the thick icy crust through
one of the moon’s harbor tunnels, descending to the deep Aqmore city of Uram.
They would find themselves housed in a large complex. Outside the windows they could see
the city dangling, seemingly precariously, from the icy ceiling of the moon’s subterranean
ocean. Aqmore swam to and fro, traveling between the buildings, with frequent submarinecraft
transporting Aqmore and goods in a similar manner to trucks or cars. However, one was
reminded of the alienness of the city by merely looking down into an endless abyss of
perpetual night. Below Uram Mamorea’s internal ocean was many tens of kilometers deep, far
dwarfing even the greatest depths an abyssal creature like an Aqmore could descent to, or any
life for that matter.
However, even at Uram’s depth the pressures outside the walls were great, being at a depth of
about 3 kilometers below the surface of the moon’s icy crust. The weight of the ice providing
the pressure. It was equivalent to the upper levels of the abyssopelagic zone of a terrestrial
world, and the temperature of the water was barely above freezing.
The CAS leaders’ accommodations were, nonetheless, relatively comfortable. The building’s
environment was regulated to be agreeable to the Aartians. However, the location of their stay
was chosen deliberately, to reduce the chance of escape. No humanoids were allowed in the
vicinity of the Aartians’ prison. And it was clear that they would be under intense investigation.

Although some had managed to escape during the space battle, the thousand plus Aartrisans
that resented the leadership of the Aartrisan civilization were taken into custody.
They would initially separate themselves by nation but as conversation erupted larger groups
would form. Listening in to the conversations, the Aartrisans were divided by awareness of the
former CAS’s activities. The largest group by far were nations ignorant to the supposed events
that justified the invasion. The second largest group was made up of nations who’s
governments had some suspicion to secret CAS activities but were unaware of the sheer scale
of it. This included the Assemblymen that had pointed out CAS’s exorbitant venirul spending
from the broadcast that sparked the invasion.

The fourth and quietest group were nations “in the loop”; nations that directly contributed
material and manpower to fight CAS’s shadow wars in the Coreward Territories. It included the
great powers of the Aartris System in aspects of military strength, industrial might, and
population. The Ticityko Union, HVM, and Boreas were such examples along with a few others.

There was a fifth group composed of nations independent to CAS. These netural parties were
only of note due to isolation, possessing some special industry, or leaders of space habitats.
All the leaders possessed something in common, old age. The average age for leaders at the
time of the occupation was 75 with many older. Medical technology notwithstanding, culturally
the eldest of Aartrisans were given much respect. This respect came with political power as
Aartrisans valued seniority over more practical aspects.

Burgjano wrote:

The Conchordate began a search for fresh people to replace the
entire leadership class of the former-CAS. These people would need to possess the pacifistic
and internationally-cooperative ethos that the Conchordate wished to imprint on the entire
Aartian society. The Conchordate intended to groom a fresh, new generation for Aartian
leadership, completely separate from the old leadership.

With the upper echelons of their governments gone, junior civil servants would be the first to
attempt for the vacated positions. Moon and space-based nations would quickly fill this void
while the Aqmore would encounter difficulties with the more politically apathetic peoples that
lived on Aatris. (those that live on Aatris are called Aatrisans) Most of the governments on
Aatris could barley be called nations. They were oversized, corrupt bureaucracies that existed
solely to provide basic public services and the interests of corporations.

Burgjano wrote:

To reduce some of the administrative burden, and due the rapidity
of Borean capitulation, Diktor assigned the occupation of Boreas to Governor Saru of Kubu
and Prime Minister Trojan of Jamrak. She was aware that the Kuban leaders would seek to
grow a free democracy on the planet and would tolerate this. However, she decided that
Boreas’ shipyards were too valuable as a military asset. Approximately 75% of the planet’s
shipyard capacity would be disassembled and distributed among the intervention members, to
be relocated. The Conchordate’s share would be relocated primarily to the planet of Yaru, to
help the new colony develop a diverse range of industries, with most of the rest relocated to
the Conchordate’s Mamorean shipyards and a small amount to the Conchordate’s small,
specialized Larvon shipyards. This 75% capacity would include all shipyards built to construct
ships larger than 200 meters. The remaining sub-200m shipyards were extensively retooled,
with all of their specialized military-grade equipment removed and distributed among the
victors, converting them to civilian shipyards incapable of military-grade construction.
To replace these lost industries, the Kuban occupation would encourage a far more diverse
range of industries on and orbiting Boreas, mainly encouraging the service industry. This was
to balance removing most of the planet’s military industrial capacity without completely
collapsing the local economy.
The Kuban-Jamraki occupation intended to develop Boreas as a completely independent
republic, separated from Aartis.

Boreas was an industrial powerhouse to the core for centuries, it’s people knew it, the rest of
the civilization recognized it. For it’s century long tenure as the sole masters of Boreas, Atomic
made them embrace it. Underneath that pride, however, the occupiers discovered the abysmal
state of Aartrisan shipbuilding, much to their dismay. Although the Boreans had taken great
lengths to preserve their shipbuilding capacity.

Aartrisans had achieved interplanetary space flight for centuries. But in those centuries the
civilization had suffered a societal and technological decline. As the civilization dwindled in the
Aartris System, processes and methodologies were lost to time. Shipyards were soon
incapable of building vessels any larger than 400 meters. Many of the ships larger than this
were centuries old, painstakingly maintained by their crews. Mysticism would surround the
largest ships and stations, particularly the Command Ships, which were held up as symbols for
cooperation and fair trade.

Analysis of the Coreward Fleet would reveal heavy dependence on foreign technology. Their
actual construction relied on a contract with the Ventillains who provided most the shipbuilding
technology. (The Ventillains petitioned the return of their assets that were unable to be
removed before the occupation.)

A major aspect of the shipyards, the superstructure of a space station Morrills Station No. 1
would be an immense undertaking to tear down. That is if the Aqmore wanted to keep the
willing compliance of the Boreans. The Station was an icon, a testament to a time of a more
successful Aartrisan culture long past and still serving as an influence to achieve the
impossible.

In all, Boreans were grateful for the more democratic minded rulers ordered to govern Boreas.
Many though, were skeptical on the economic decisions made by the Aqmore, wanting to keep
their industrial heritage.

Burgjano wrote:

Aartis itself fell directly under Antillea, with the Conchordate central
government placing most of their attention there. The occupation was eased by the high
proportion of space-based to planet-based population.

How the Aqmore planned to manage the numerous space habitats alluded the Aartrisans that
lived on them.

For Aatris itself, the population largely complied with Aqmore demands and resistance was
minimal. The first real resistance to Aqmore’s pacifistic desires was the Ticityko Union. The
Union maintained a strong military tradition spanning centuries. The Union were not
warmongers however and only used military force when it was determined that it was the only
option.

Even after the removal of senior government officials, the younger generations refused the
possibility of a disarmament. In so they took every measure to preserve their military tradition.
They aggressively pushed to crew as many of the 145 Corvettes the civilization had mustered.
Every time the Aqmore occupational forces entered the Union, they were greeted by parade
formations of grey and black armored soldiers. They all carried their arms proudly and were
desperate to see that the 300,000 strong Union Armed Forces be left intact as the Aqmore
imposed stiff military reductions to the rest of the Aartrisans.

Burgjano wrote:

The Aartian occupation was similar to Boreas, as the Aqmore
sought to disarm the CAS at the industrial level. Aartis was more harshly treated than Boreas.
The Twilight Assembly quickly moved to tightly control CAS exploration efforts. All CAS
exploration efforts would require the presence of a Conchordate overseer. A large number of
leadership for CAS exploration would be brought to the Conchordate for the investigation.[/
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The Aqmore investigators would be in for quite story...
[quote=burgjano;36554901] The Aartian occupation reached out to Aartian corporations. They
used their power to force through hostile corporate buyouts by Aqmore companies at belowmarket prices of a handful of select mid-sized Aartian corporations with the most financial
difficulties. This was an expression of power towards the largest Aartian corporations, to
cooperate enthusiastically with the occupation lest their business be in jeopardy.
Throughout the entire former-CAS, the production of FTL drives was banned by the
occupation, forcing these drives to be imported. Existing production facilities had to be sold
off, bought up by foreign companies, disassembled, and moved to produce drives in a foreign
nation.

The Corporations were of uttermost compliance, knowing it wouldn’t take much for their
subsidy propped up businesses to collapse. The employees of the bought out companies were
concerned for their future job security and the executives were worried about what the Aqmore
planned for them.

The loss of local FTL production was troubling, but not overtly severe. Those that could afford
to purchase FTL drives had done so. The supply Venriul was unusually small in the resource
rich Aartris System. In fact it was commonly believed that the venriul deposits had been mined
out thousands of years ago when the system was apart of an interstellar empire.
CAS depended heavily imports for it’s venriul supply. The Coreward Fleet had consumed
massive quantities of the FTL fuel during its operations; purchasing from any available supplier.
Never less, domestic consumption was still quite high compared to other nations and debt was
setting in. How the Aqmore would handle this was not yet known.

Burgjano wrote:

The Conchordate propaganda machine began to be setup in the
Aartian Occupation. Censureship and occupation control of the media was implemented,
claiming that lasting peace in the North can only be found through complete transparency,
accountability, and international dialogue, and not through military might.
Unofficially, the Gurvan moons Mamorea and Zamur became a large influence over the
occupation of Aartis’ gas giant moons.
Aartis would likely be turned into a unified, though still decentralized, federation polity, rather
than a confederacy of nations. The polities of Gaol would be unified, though it was unknown if
the Aqmore would influence them to be independent, an autonomous region of the Aartian
federation, or a normal Aartian federation state.

Most of the population were unaware of CAS’s actions in the Coreward territories. Anti-alien
sentiment was prevalent among some masses but mostly for political reasons. The TCCCP
being the most despised with many secretly or outright cheering the terrorist actions taken
against them.

As for the moons of Gaol, there were 27 inhabited by Aartrisans. Many had been extensively
terraformed to suit Aartrisans but there were two exceptions. The largest moon, Duam, had a
significant non-Aartrisan population of tall sentients known as Gunduam. The origins of the
species were unknown but had lived uneasily with Aartrisan colonists. Often there would be
open warfare against the HVM government. The last large resistance was squashed under a
joint Finislandian-HVM operation.

The second moon was Jerdac. The moon was unusual due to lush plant growth, (think Ego’s
Planet from Guardians of the Galaxy 2)had an atmosphere breathable to to most of the galaxy’s
species, and was solely inhabited by an order of monks. A former unit of stealth operatives,
Special Unit J, they had developed the ability to psychically manipulate their surroundings.
Though by now, the unit had adopted a philosophy of peace and balance. They practiced their
martial arts and acted as caretakers for the flora and fauna of the moon.

Burgjano wrote:

Aqmuller began his investigation by interrogating Aartian explorers
and military leaders for a full timeline involving the alien race and the genocidal acts committed
against them, along with the precise locations of all relevant worlds so that the Conchordate
could secure them.
In addition, Conchordate intelligence aggressively pursued all information on the Triumvirate,
its supply network, and the economic and industrial base it used. In addition to this, Director
Yundil, director of intelligence, hoped to cooperate with Soviet intelligence forces of the
Soviet Socialist Republic to stamp out terrorism originating from the formerCAS. Yundil had enjoyed piloting the Lygun, but now work needed to be done to drag out
terrorists and the Triumvirate from hiding.

The location of Satomi was given to Aqmuller, at the time there was a minimal military presence
garrisoned on the planet. The quarantine had smashed the hopes of companies wanting
colonization but had attracted a sizable scholarly attention to the planet. Civilian scientist were
currently on the planet documenting the Virus and the culture it had destroyed.
Military operations against the Virus were carried out in 1247 and ended the next year.
Quarantine was then instituted and remained in place despite lobbying efforts.

Of note to Aqmuller and his investigation, nearly 20,000 survivors of the Satomi’s native
sentients were living in orbit of Boreas on the alien derelict turned space habitat, Omhaven
Station. The 4km warships had been wrestled from the ground of Satomi was was initially
planned to be used for it’s military capacity. The Aartrisans encountered major difficulties in
returning it to it’s full capabilities and so began converting it to a space station. As survivors
were discovered by CAS forces, they were transferred to live on the station as CAS conducted
a massive bombardment campaign against the infected. Should Aqmuller desire to interview
them, they would be available.

As Aqmuller interviewed Aartrisan explorers and military leaders, he would learn the sheer
scale of CAS operations in the Coreward territories.

In the war against the Triumvirate, the Corward Fleet charted hundreds of thousands of
systems, discovered 486 possible colony targets, faced and defeated the piracy-ingrained
Squa’izzi, started peaceful relations with a species of reptilians, and fought in hundreds of
engagements against the Triumvirate but yet unable to find a single one of their planets.