Empire

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Empire (帝国)
Alias(es)	Interstellar Human Military Junta; Human Empire; Sea of Stars Most Holy Human Empire—the name adopted after psionic ascension 2 423
Organization Type	Interstellar state; later the ruling Empire Core of the Sea of Stars Empire 568
Primary Species	Humans, subsequently transformed through synthetic, psionic, and nanotech ascension 421 423 456
Leader	Xi Yan, initially Marshal and later Most Holy Emperor 2 423
Government	Military dictatorship, subsequently an imperial regime with supreme authority concentrated in Xi Yan 5 24 423
Core Territory	Cybrex Alpha Ring World and its Core Sector 269 362
Affiliation	Three-Nation Alliance; Sea of Stars Community, later reorganized into the Sea of Stars Empire 198 230 283 568
Territorial Extent	One-seventh of the Milky Way by the preparations for psionic ascension 421
Status	Active; directing galaxy-wide preparations for dimensional ascension 568
First Appearance	Identified as the Interstellar Human Military Junta in the supplied passage 2

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Planetary Unification and Ring World foundation	24	Completed Planetary Unification in Cosmic Era 2200; possessed Beta, a complete Ring World, and technologies beyond the normal starting set.
Destroyer and Starhold technology	175	Intelligence from the Community Security Fleet and substantial research expenditure enabled destroyers. Purple Lasers, Starholds, Cold Fusion Reactors, and improved genetic technologies also became available.
Cybrex Prototype Warform production	189	Beta removed the Cybrex War Forge’s restrictions; the activated facility could produce powerful ground units using large quantities of ore.
Mass-producible Gene Warriors	250 257	Stabilized genetic modification and power armor produced Space Marines; the First Air Transport Army demonstrated their effectiveness against M'tok unrest.
Three standard cruiser fleets	269	By Cosmic Era 2260, cruisers replaced corvettes and destroyers in the main navy. Its strength matched the Human Federation.
Engineered Evolution	310	Acquired sufficiently advanced genetic technology to modify bodies and minds deliberately rather than relying on natural evolution.
Cybernetic applications	370	Teriaz’s Organic-Mechanical Interface Technology enabled cybernetic treatment and specialized work; researchers adopted brain-computer interfaces.
Carrier Battleships	389	Completed battleship research and combined it with Holy World Guardian weapons technology, including Focused Arc Emitters, Whirlwind Missiles, and advanced strike craft.
Completed synthetic ascension	421	All citizens had abandoned biological bodies for mechanical ones by the preparations for the Great Awakening.
Completed psionic ascension	421 423	The ritual began on New Year’s Day, Cosmic Era 2281. Every human awakened psionic power, and the state became the Sea of Stars Most Holy Human Empire.
Completed nanotech ascension	456	Synaptic Lathe research into L-Cluster technology replaced mechanical bodies with nanite swarms capable of simulating human appearance.
Integrated virtual–psionic–nanite civilization	457	Consciousness existed in psionics and virtual servers while remotely controlling living-metal nanite bodies. Population upkeep approached zero; Cosmogenesis warship research was also completed.
Miracle Sphere navigation	473	Completed a megastructure whose secret subspace-navigation system could bypass hyperlanes and defensive lines.
Body Battleship deployment	525 528	A single vessel manufactured nanite fleets, assimilated colonies, and destroyed the Starfish Republic’s Colossus.
Sea of Stars Custodian	530	Representatives approved the Human Empire’s elevation amid its overwhelming military supremacy.
Empire Core	568	The Human Empire became the ruling core of the newly proclaimed Sea of Stars Empire, with Xi Yan receiving supreme authority.

Background / History

Xi Yan’s consolidation of power

The Interstellar Human Military Junta was nominally a military dictatorship, but the young Marshal initially lacked effective control. Five regent generals held actual authority, and military orders had to pass through them before reaching their recipients 2 5.

Xi Yan broke this arrangement by crushing the Shoigu-Gerasimov military clique. He ordered Prigozhin to investigate the remaining rebels and confiscate their property, then instructed Beta to design a Cabinet and governing institutions that would remain functional even without him. Supreme decision-making authority and the right to intervene in any matter remained his 24.

Despite possessing a Ring World and an Ancient Intelligent AI, the state suffered from neglected research and shortages of food, minerals, and other resources. Xi Yan redirected development toward scientific research, public ownership, and expansion 24 30.

Expansion and regional ascendancy

The Empire’s early expansion treated less-developed civilizations as resources for humanity’s rise. Its first-colony log explicitly described crushing the Plant People’s civilization and making it a foundation for human prosperity 53.

After defeating the M'tok Union, the Empire accepted the surrender of its remaining fleet and the allegiance of its colonies. A ceremony six months later formally ended M'tok sovereignty. Xi Yan abolished its governing institutions, dispersed senior officials among the colonies, and divided agreed portions of its territory with the Zirick Cooperative and Nier Guardians 228.

The M'tok Sector was declared fully incorporated after unrest in the Faus System was suppressed. Subsequent development expanded the Empire’s colonies and turned Cybrex Alpha into a major scientific center 257 269.

Imperial transformation

By the Great Awakening, the Empire had annexed the Human Federation and Minamar Specialized Industries and controlled one-seventh of the Milky Way. Psionic ascension transformed its entire human population and elevated Xi Yan from Grand Marshal to Most Holy Emperor 421 423.

The Heavenly People Holy Guardian Empire later accepted Xi Yan’s leadership. Its preserved technologies accelerated imperial construction, while nanotech ascension and the Synaptic Lathe pushed development beyond the technological knowledge inherited from the previous era 455 456 457.

Government & Society

Central authority

• Supreme ruler: Xi Yan decides major affairs and delegates implementation to trusted leaders; no independent institution outranks him 24 243.
• Administrative planning: Colony districts, buildings, jobs, and development programs are arranged to serve the state’s overall strategy 421.
• Early discipline: Officials were threatened with collective punishment extending to relatives and colleagues, encouraging mutual supervision 38.
• Secret police: Ashes Agents infiltrated every aspect of imperial society. Their presence helped prevent alien bribery from creating independent networks of influence 150 154.
• Post-ascension surveillance: Citizens’ words and actions remained subject to strict monitoring by the coercive apparatus 421.
• Agent recruitment: Ashes candidates underwent code and psionic screening, loyalty education, and Thought Imprinting 469.

Citizenship and ideology

• State provision: Ordinary citizens receive education, protection, and employment under centralized administration 29 243.
• Human-centered nationalism: Public faith in Xi Yan and intense pride in military victory provide exceptional internal cohesion 228.
• Xenophobia: The Bloodline Sanctuary advocated violently expelling aliens considered threats to public safety; its manifesto received a favorable public response 150.
• Unequal treatment of outsiders: Xi Yan’s allies admired his care for imperial citizens but feared his fixation on racial purity and his treatment of alien colonies 243.
• Synthetic citizens: Manufactured robots received personality matrices and loyalty to the Empire and Marshal in their cognitive cores 315.
• Family abolition: After ascension was completed, the concept of family was abolished, leaving individuals without familial vulnerabilities 469.
• Psionic faith: Following the Great Awakening, citizens placed their faith in themselves rather than the Shroud 423.

Economy & Production

Public ownership

Xi Yan replaced the private economy with centralized public ownership, using comprehensive resource statistics to organize production and distribution 24 29 38.

• Money and wages: The reform abolished the existing monetary system and assigned citizens jobs without ordinary pay 29.
• Basic necessities: Food, housing, consumer goods, and employment were allocated free of charge 29.
• Labor Points: Additional output earned points that could be exchanged for better goods 29.
• Automated logistics: Data centers calculated factories’ raw-material needs and contacted the Logistics System to arrange delivery 121.
• Research priority: The Academy of Sciences received priority access to imperial resources 102.

Production changes

Period	Economic Conditions
Early public-ownership reforms	Monthly energy production approached triple digits, but consumer goods and minerals remained in single digits; alloys barely exceeded ten units, and food ran a net deficit 38.
War against the XT-489 Extermination Unit	Almost all alloys went into fleet construction and energy credits into upkeep; consumer goods supported continued labor, while food could be sold or exchanged 198.
Cruiser-era mobilization	Xi Yan could direct 90% of resource income toward military development; droid labor increasingly replaced humans in basic production 309.
Nanotech economy	Nanites replaced minerals, alloys, food, and consumer goods. Energy credits and nanites became the only required physical resources 457.

• Nanomachines Ideal Cities: Colonies were reconstructed as nanite machine worlds that also functioned as ecumenopolises 457.
• Population manufacture: Three specialized worlds assembled conscious populations for placement in the Synaptic Lathe 457.
• Reduced territorial dependence: The ability to transform barren worlds into Nanomachines Ideal Cities removed much of the Empire’s need for further territory 465.

Technology & Capabilities

Scientific Research

• Parallel development: Unlike the game’s research limits, sufficient scientists could investigate many technologies simultaneously 24.
• Foreign acquisition: A Human Federation agreement supplied practical technologies for 300 energy credits per month 100.
• Synaptic Lathe: Extracted knowledge from brains, generated Omega Theory, and eventually researched technologies absent from the Time Worm’s memories 443 457.
• Human innovation: Xi Yan retained conventional researchers because imagination remained valuable beyond the Lathe’s computational output 473.

Composite Ascension

• Psionics: Every human gained Medium traits and could wield psionic power; telepathy largely replaced speech 423.
• Distributed consciousness: Citizens’ consciousnesses existed simultaneously in psionics and virtual servers 457.
• Remote embodiment: Those consciousnesses controlled living-metal bodies composed of nanites 457.
• Self-maintenance: Nanites repaired bodies and maintained servers, while psionic power stabilized consciousness in a self-sufficient cycle 457.

Nanite Warfare

• Rapid fleet assembly: Nanites could directly form warships, including Whisper Escorts, without conventional shipbuilding materials or ammunition replenishment 457.
• Assimilation: Nanite storms converted planets, organic inhabitants, aliens, and robots 525.
• Improved Energy Arc: Derived from Dessanu mothership technology; it was no longer restricted to Titan-sized weapon slots and could partially bypass shield and armor hardening 475.
• Body Battleship attacks: Any part of its nanite matter could release Energy Arc strikes; nanite storms could corrode and assimilate enemy hulls 475.

Subspace Navigation

• Miracle Sphere: Its beams safely guided ships through subspace, bypassing hyperlanes and defensive lines 473.
• Secrecy: Xi Yan announced the megastructure publicly but withheld its navigation capability from the Sea of Stars Community 473.

Military & Strategic Assets

Asset	Role / Features
Main Navy	Three publicly known cruiser fleets contained 300 cruisers; two additional full-strength stealth torpedo cruiser fleets guarded the Faranis L-Gate 309.
Space Marines / Gene Warriors	Genetically modified, power-armored troops. Warriors deployed in the Faus System stood five meters tall and used chainswords and bolters 250 257.
Cybrex Prototype Warforms	Heavy ground units produced by the War Forge; supported operations across occupied and rebellious colonies 189 248.
Cosmogenesis Warships	Researched the Whisper Escort, Mystery Battle Cruiser, and Paradox Titan; large Whisper Escort fleets followed 457.
Body Battleship	Mobile fortress combining nanite fleet manufacture, Energy Arc attacks, and a planetary assimilation weapon 475 525.
Guardian Dragon	Settled in the Ring World’s Delta Segment and immediately raised imperial military strength by several dozen K 232.

Other Notable Assets

• Museum Celestial Pivot — Starbase used to display and study rare specimens; opened to neighboring civilizations 257.
• Omega Resonance Device project — Approved to potentially open a passage for the Time Worm, despite uncertain consequences for humanity 443.
• Holy Guardian technology — Preserved Lost Buildings and technical documentation improved production, services, and population assembly 455 456.
• Vacuum Flower — Relic recovered from the Kaleidoscope’s remains; increased energy-credit output by 10% 468.

Relationships

• Xi Yan — Supreme ruler and architect of the Empire’s reforms, expansion, and ascensions; explicitly places imperial development above himself and his family ties 24 46 423.
• Beta — Ancient Intelligent AI and imperial adviser; coordinates institutions, evaluates economic reforms, assists research, and upgrades the Cybrex War Forge 24 29 189.
• Prigozhin — Minister of the Army and Military Education; trains fleet crews and develops ground forces 198 248.
• Ailiveer Yan and Veronica Yan — Secretary of State and Military Headquarters Minister of Logistics, respectively; honored nationally when entering hibernation 341.
• Zirick Cooperative and Nier Guardians — Three-Nation Alliance partners; coordinated wartime fronts and shared the defeated M'tok Union’s territory 198 228.
• Community Security Fleet — Intelligence and military partner supported with imperial resources; received retired warships after the navy adopted cruisers 148 175 269.
• Dessanu Concordat / Empire Will — L-Cluster diplomatic partner whose relationship with humanity deepened after the Gray Tempest’s defeat 301 362.
• Miss Gray Tempest / Big Gray — Became Cybrex Alpha’s Core Sector Governor and supplied nanite technology supporting imperial ascension and L-Cluster development 362 369.
• Luopeng Resistance — Granted territory, supplies, and technology as a Scholarium subject; required to follow human diplomacy and oppose Minamar Specialized Industries 360.
• Heavenly People Holy Guardian Empire — Accepted Xi Yan’s leadership and supplied advanced technologies; its ministers later displaced the Empress’s authority in his favor 455 485.
• Rixi Reconquest Empire — Secretly submitted after a human invasion of its homeworld, then surrendered to human control and nanite assimilation following Cetana’s attack 498 547.

Major Conflicts & Galactic Role

Event	Imperial Involvement
Criminal Enterprise confrontation	Lost more than thirty corvettes in battle, then used public resistance and pervasive state control to expel the branch without violating its treaty. Expulsion was complete by Cosmic Era 2207 148 154.
XT-489 war	Declared war on January 14, Cosmic Era 2220, entered emergency wartime rule, and prepared a rear attack while its allies held their fronts 183 198.
Sea of Stars Community’s establishment	Xi Yan’s efforts helped create the interstellar organization and gave the Empire a platform for wider leadership 283.
Gray Tempest crisis	Accused Minamar Specialized Industries of responsibility, then destroyed the Nanites Factory sustaining the hostile swarms 328 358.
Great Khan emergency	Halted unrelated work, canceled holidays and overtime pay, imposed rationing, expanded conscription, and mass-produced battleships 390.
War in Heaven	Remained neutral while offering territorial access, weapons, training, and supplies to both rival awakened empires for profit 507.
Starfish campaign	Used covert influence to reshape galactic public opinion, then deployed one Body Battleship to conquer and assimilate Starfish territory 525 528.
Cetana confrontation	Protected surrendered Rixi colonies; Big Gray jammed Cetana’s nanites, and a human Nanite Fleet blocked her passage through imperial territory 547.
Sea of Stars Empire’s foundation	Replaced the Community with an Empire Council and made the Human Empire its ruling core to pursue dimensional ascension 568.

Dimensional Ascension Plan

• Centralized authority: Alien states removed the custodianship term limit and handed supreme authority to Xi Yan 568.
• Emergency rights policy: Citizens were ordered to surrender every right except the right to life for the ascension plan 568.
• Life preservation and conversion: Xi Yan planned to record all life in the Relic Organic Codex and assimilate organic beings into nanites and psionic consciousnesses 568.
• Defense of Azilash: The Empire Core prepared to resist the Extradimensional Invaders when the Aether Phase Engine activated 568.
• Delaying the Realm Breakers: Colonies were ordered onto every habitable planet, including tomb worlds, to force the enemy to spend time bombarding them 568.

Notable Quotes

“For this Empire, nothing is beyond sacrifice!”
— Xi Yan 46

“Technology is paramount. No arguments accepted.”
— Xi Yan’s directive on the Human Federation technology agreement 100

“I’m not a villain. I’m just a ruler who loves the Empire! … Who cares about laws or morality? If it benefits the Empire, do it!”
— Xi Yan 360