Literary Work

A Terexta-based publication that became the voice of the KBM cult following the Council of Credix in TE 164. JET was a rather eclectic publication: it featured not only scholarly philosophical articles but also theological fiction, ongoing discussions, and a vast number of articles having absolutely nothing to do with the topic at hand.

It was under the aegis of JET that the KBM cult, which became the official religion of the First Terran Empire, was first codified.

JET ceased publication in 282, and although annual conventions continued to be held in its name, the coterie of readers faded until by 350 there was no more trace of them.

Prolific contributors to JET included

• Takako Alegre
  
• Horghe Almaghribi
  
• Fet Demarchi
  
• Grigry Hoister
  
• Ishi Lalah
  
• Vilmya Matox
  
• Banton Mitsaya
  
• Rina Perez
  
• Mendrika Rakkaia
  
• Aren Sanghvi
  
• Ylinn Shouxue
  
• Segan Zevery
  

The State of the Empire Report, produced under the aegis of the Grand Library, was the daily newspaper of the First Terran Empire. Ostensibly for the members of the Imperial Council (and later, the Emperor), The State of the Empire Report was available to all citizens; it was distributed widely and read by nearly everyone.

The Report was released every 24 hours at 06:00 Imperial Standard Time; incremental updates were released at six-hour intervals throughout the day.

The entire Report was daily imprinted on the Emperor's brain.

The Report, usually read on terminal or datapad, was massively hyperlinked to the Grand Library's database.

The standard Second Empire reference on the physics and characteristics of all manner of psi phenomenon.

Published by the Natekla Institute Press, HE 22,604.

published c. TE 160

By Mal Arin, published 23,953 H.E. by Terra-Prime Publishing Company.

The premier work of Second Empire scholarship, this book was over 200 years in the making. Author Mal Arin consulted primary sources on thousands of worlds while doing research for his magnum opus.\

The complete work is over 3 terabytes. It is estimated that, if printed, The Fall of the First Terran Empire would run to over 100 volumes equivalent to the volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica 9th Edition. No comparable work would appear until Maarten Travesh's The Rise of Culture in the First Human Galactic Interregnum about 26,500 H.E.

Mal Arin's premise in his great work was that the First Empire was in a constant state of fall from its very beginning. Arin considered the Councilate phase inferior to the various Leagues of Worlds (i.e. the Nexus Worlds) that preceded it, and the Imperial phase was even less efficient than the Councilate. Arin maintains that a vast variety of forces worked to slow the First Empire's Fall, but never in Imperial history was the process of decline reversed.