![[Equites Oridins Deorum Lore Article]] ![[eod.PNG]] ![[versNobility.png]] ![[versEmpireRelations.png]] ![[Versian Gender]] ![[Versian Gods]] ![[Versian Timeline]] ![[Versian Based Gods]] # Vers Empire The Vers Empire is one of the oldest nations in the known universe, beaten only by the <a href="uar">United Augmented Republic</a>, and tied with <a href="ufe">United Federation of Earth</a> given that both were founded at the same time. Since its foundational days, the Empire has been the opposition to the United Federation of Earth. From the cultural perspective, the Vers Empire is divided into 5 broad classes, which are -Aristocractic - Emperor, Lords, Knight-Commanders, Knights -Militorius - Military personnel, but to knights -Civis - Vers Citizen -Versarian - Someone who's empire is of Versian decent, with the exceptions of <a href="xiaoming">Xiao-Ming</a> and the <a href="axiosAlliance">Axios Alliance</a> -Videntium - viewer(literal), foreigner, outsider Technically, Versarian and Videntium are on the same level, as are Civis and Militorius, but in practice the honour of defending your lords land, and serving under your knight come before anything else. Versians of the Civis and Militorius class tend to be very honour bound, while those who are of the Aristocractic class, but not necessarily the ruling heir, tend to act with little regard to their families honour, preferring instead to flaunt it in place of their opulent wealth. # Short Description As ancient as the feudal system that inspires it, the Vers Empire is a nation founded on honour, service to the greater good, and ultimately the idea that a person is only as worthy as the work they preform, and their word. Now in practice there is a high degree of nepotism in the decaying once great empire. Fallen from the great hights of over 4000 lords in the Colossius, down to controlling not even half of one galaxy, nearly broke and once again on the edge of a civil war. The leader, Empress Camilla Vers Allussya only holding the throne by sheer political skill, her opposition, John Hellsbeck controlling the Citadel until he has the power to overthrow the empress and take control of the empire. ![[Versian History]] # Government The modern Versian government is split between two houses, the Citadel and the Colossius. The Citadel is the peoples representation currently led by President John Hellsbeck. While the Colossius is headed by Empress Catherine Allussya, daughter of the now dead Emperor who renounced her claim to the throne decades before his death. Only to properly earn it through careful political maneuvering. Officially, within Versian society the Colossius has existed act as the Emperors court. Its parties are based on Oaths of Fealty, which can be called for at any time by the Empress. Should the current ruling family is whoever has the largest total number of votes, even if they didn't technically secure a majority. As well, when a lord swears fealty, those who swore fealty to that lord also have their oaths transferred to the person the Lord took an oath to. The Colossius itself sits in the capital planet of Allussya, in the capital city of Reverse. It currently seats 40 lords, including the empress and now-president John Hellsbeck. The Colossius itself is a massive coliseum designed to seat up to 500,000 people, which would have been enough to seat all the lords, and their knight commanders along with each knight commanders most loyal knights. It is divided into three seating rings, and the central floor. The highest ring is for viewers, officially any Civis may sit and listen, though by convention only the Aristocractic class attends. The mid level is for the knight commands, those who lead massive swaths of the Lords realms, and their impossibly large militaries. Finally, the lowest level of the seating ring contains the lords themselves. The ground floor is itself split into 4 sections. The "head" section is where the empress and her advsiors sit, so as to allow all the lords the chance to hear here, and see her, and to give her no place to hide from their questions. To the empress' left is the opposition table. opposite the empress is the inquisitors table, and to her right is the supporters table. Each table has room as 10 people to sit. Whenever a subject is called for a discussion, three parts are needed. The first part called forth is the inquisitor, the empress chooses someone (on the advice of her supporters) to conduct an investigation into a subject as assigned by the empress. The chosen inquisitor then comes down and takes the center seat at the inquisitors table. The empress then asks the inquisitor to advise her on who to call for the support of the concept, and then the empress asks for advice on who to call for opposition to the concept. The empress then cedes the floor to the inquisitor, and allows him to call his own witnesses to fact check anything brought up by the lords speaking their sides. The lords themselves may ask the empress to please summon any lord to their table to bring up facts. Once a lord has been brought to the table, they may not return if they are dismissed. This is designed to force the lords to carefully pick and conduct their arguments against one another. At the end of the debate, the question is raised by the empress to the Colossius' voting level (the first level) and the vote is held. If the supporting side wins the vote, they are then called upon to draft a bill in support of their premise, or present one if they have one ready. At which point the bill is then the subject of discussion, and changes are made until it passes a vote. At which point it is sent over to the Citadel for a final vote. The Citadel is then sent the bill. The president presents the bill to the floor, and a vote is held on whether the bill passes as is, or needs some revisions. If it needs some revisions it is sent back to the Colossius to be reworked. On the other hand, the Citadel may also draft legislation. Any member of the Citadel may present a peace of legislation to the floor, and if it passes it is sent to the Colossius for review. If it passes there it becomes law, otherwise it can be sent back to be reworked. But importantly neither house has the ability to flat out veto a bill. It is important to note the <i>area</i> in which the Versian government can legislate. Within the Versian empire, each lord is the master of their land. This puts strict restrictions on what the Government can pass. Taxation is forbidden, as is anything directly limiting what a lord themselves can do. Though restrictions can be placed on Lords and enforced in the Colossius, and benefits can be given as well to encourage or discourage behavior. This allows those lords who truly wish to, to ignore basic things like human rights, at the expense of heavy restrictions and tariffs. The Colossius also, unlike the federation, adjudicated the legality of war. Wars simply happen. The Colossius <i>only</i> intervenes when there are new lords, or the ending of a noble lineage. In the latter case, the banner is hung in the hall of mourning in the royal palace. New lords are created whenever a lord wishes to give up their control on a number of systems. Initially it was any number of systems but today the threshold for it to be a new lord requires at least 1000 planets, and some degree of economic viability. As well, it is then put up to a vote within the Colossius if this lord should be created. It is vitally important to note that Lords within Vers are <b>vastly</b> different then their Federation counterparts. In the Federation, lords are subservient to parliament. Ultimately the lords are restricted as citizens of the Federation. In the Vers empire, for the most part the lords were the top level of government with absolute immunity outside of the Colossius. Even today the Citadel is still subservient to the Colossius. Lords within their realm in Vers are absolutely above the law because they are the law, and not even the Colossius can tell them what to do. In the Federation lords are importantly still able to be tried in Federation courts. They are still held to Federation laws. It is best to think of the Vers empire as tight alliance of independent fiefdoms, bound only by agreements of what not to do to each other. ### Noble Ranks/Social Heirarchy The hierarchy itself is divided into 6 broad social classes, and further subdivded into several ranks ### Peerage The relations of each career to another: <img style="width: 50%;height: 50%" src="/Images/EOD_Images/versEmpireRelations.png"> The relations of each level of the noblility to another: <img style="width: 50%;height: 50%" src="/Images/EOD_Images/versNobility.png"> The peerage is the highest group of the nobility, and the highest class in Versian Society. The peerage represents the Emper(or| ess) and their heirs, the prince(ss), who command the Versian Empire. The Lords and their heirs, the princeps, who command a soviergnty composed of knights and their keep-worlds. And the various ranks of Knights: Knight Commander, Master Knight, Knight Lieutenant, and Knight, each of whom represents the smallest unit within the Peerage, a the master of a single system. Order of Peerage -Emperess -Prince -Lord -Princep -Knight Commander -Master Knight -Knight Lieutenant -Knight ### Aristocractic The Aristotcratic represents the nobles who are in the courts of the various members of the peerages. The rank between each member depends less on the title, which does itself have a general meaning, and more on whos court their in. So while a Seigneur may formally outrank a Pomeshchiki, if the Pomeshchiki is a part of the Lords court while the Seigneur of a lesser knights court, then in reality the Pomeshchiki outranks the Seigneur. The titles of the Aristocractic. -Seigneur - The highest rank of the Aristocractic -Patrician - -Esquire - -Pomeshchiki - -Dvoryanin - -Gentle(man|woman) - ### Militorius The Militorius represents the Versian Military, bound to a knight, they are above the common Civis for their service to the Empire and their lord, but below the Arisocractic who have power and money The Ranks of the Military -Regent -Commander -Captain -Lieutenant -Sargent -Corporal -Footman ### Free men The free men are those who are bound to no Lord, nor any other. Yet they lack any proper title of their own. Some many go off to become great thinkers, others leave the empire for riches, some still stay within the empire to conduct trade. Generally we would consider this group the 'middle class' ### Civis The Civis are the rest of Versian society, those who do most of the labour and work, and make up 70-90% of the population of any parituclar lords terretory. ### Versarian ### Videntium # Army The Versian military is unique to each lord in grand size, but up to the point of where the Knight commands, the armies are uniform. The numbers displayed here represent standard troop units, and the average across all 40 current lords is used for Knights and Knight-Commanders. -Troop - Single soldier. [1] -Patrol - 6 Soldiers, led by a corporal. [6] -Squad - 2 patrols, led by a Sargent [12] -Platoon - 6 Squads, led by a Lieutenant [72] -Company - 4 Platoons, led by a Captain [288] -Battalion - 6 companies, led by a Commander [1,728] -Regiment - 12 Battalion, led by a Regent [20,736] -Planet ~ 8-24 Regiments, led by a Knight [165,888-497,664] -Segtorum ~ 200-600 planets, led by a High-Knight [33,177,600-287,798,400] -Sectorum ~ 4-24 Segtorums, led by a Knight-Commander [132,710,400-6,907,161,600] -Realm - 1-14 Sectorums, led by a Lord [132,710,400-96,700,262,400] ### Weapons of the Army. The Versian army users a variety of weapons produced by IRok Armories, specifically the Longshot lineup of firearms. Specifically the Versian Army uses the following IRok Longshot weapons: -Longshot M1R1 - No scope, 60 round magazine, 120 round internal magazine. 5 Round burst before recoil can hit, as well as semi-automatic. Special ammunition for using bolt option. (Civilian, Military Contractor, Original) -Longshot M1R3 - Scoped, 60 round magazine, 120 round internal magazine, 3 round burst before recoil. Full auto, semi auto, and burst. Special ammo bolt for single round. (Vers Standard Infantry Rifle) -Longshot M3R1 - Scope, 180 round magazine 140 internal round mag fired from the back. Full auto and 3 round burst. 12 round special ammo loaded with bolt from central magazine well. (Versian light machine gun) -Longshot M3R2 - Scope, 14 round special ammo front bolt, 60 round rear loaded rifle rounds with options for semi and 3 round burst. Bolt for loading special ammo. (Versian sniper/anti-material rifle) the naming convention is: LONGSHOT Mark(1/2/3) Revision(1/2/3/4/5). The Longshot is currently on its third Mark(Version) and fourth Revision(variant) of that Mark. The first mark had 3 revisions, the first revision is the base model, the second revision added a scope, and the back magazine was a magazine well for the bolt feed, and adding full auto. The third revision switched to a three round burst to conserve ammo, and reverted the special ammo well back to a normal magazine well. but maintaining the loading bolt for special ammo when needed. The second mark switched the primary magazine feed to the rear magazine well, but maintained the original internal 120 round magazine. The forward magazine well became the hold for special ammo and is loaded by the bolt. The first revision changed the scope and forward magazine The weapon itself uses a proprietary caseless cartridge, that allows the weapon to rapidly fire rounds and fead the massive internal magazine and unique firing bolt system allowing for quick cartridge acquisition.