First Empire

Robot doctor. Primitive autodoctors were in use from c. 2050 CE, but sophisticated autonomous models did not become common until the 2130s.

Imperial Navy base and city on Geled.

Imperial Navy base and city on Credix.

Imperial Navy base and city on Borshall.

Largest city on Nerodan

Spectral Class: K

Mass: 0.64

Luminosity: 0.14

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The cult of Meletia began as a Catholic offshoot. By AD 2100 there were references to Saint Meletia, and by the time the Empire began she had quite a following. By 2150, the Sisters of Mercy had redidicated themselves to work with the poor, and had begun to give up their Catholic orientation in favor of Saint Meletia. The order continued to work out of their Mother House in Paris. In TE 27 the Sisters of Mercy officially aligned themselves with Meletia. Along about TE 100 Meletia began to be referred to as an independent goddess. In TE 164 the Council of Credix declared Meletia a goddess in her own right; when the dust of the Council had cleared, devotees of Meletia found that their goddess had entered into an uneasy trinity with Brandix and Kaal.

In the eternal trinity, Meletia was seen as the Mother Goddess, the Lover, the female principle, the divine embodiment of the generative and nurturing -- but she could also be the stern emobodiment of death.

The Kaal/Brandix/Meletia Cult.

Brandix was originally a Tr#skan deity, a capricious one at that. His/her worship became popular among university students in the final pre-Imperial decade, and was institutionalized over the next half-century as they grew.

It was not until TE 164, with the Council of Credix, that Brandixian theology became linked with the cults of Kaal and Meletia.

In the eternal trinity, Brandix is the Trickster, the Other, the spirit of youth and rebellion, the divine embodiment of androgyny, change, unconventionality, disaster; the Eternal Outsider. Brandix was a particular favorite of minorities and those on the outskirts of society. S/he was also a traditional advocate for gays.

The Brandixian sacred litany starts: "This hour, call it one. All that has gone before, forget it; wipe it out; it can hurt you no longer. All that will come, prepare to meet it."

The Kaal/Brandix/Meletia Cult.

The Kaal cult first sprang up in the late TE 30's as a philosophical exercise carried on by an ecumenical group meeting on Lathyros. It struck a responsive chord, and Kaal-worship spread over the next hundred years to the rest of the Empire. For a time there was a hierarchy of Kaal-worship leading to a Council of Elders on Lathyros. By TE 130, though, Kaal-worship was becoming decentralized and stressed the concept of the family leader as the representative of Kaal.

The Council of Credix in TE 164 confirmed the idea of Kaal as an independent god, and it was at that time that the cult of Kaal became linked with those of Brandix and Meletia, while still maintaining an independent structure.

In the eternal trinity, Kaal was seen as the Father God, the masculine principle, the divine embodiment of authority and hierarchy.

The Kaal/Brandix/Meletia Cult.

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.