DETAILS ABOUT THE SETTING

THE ECLIPSE UNION:
The Eclipse Union was an interstellar federation consisting of 6 adjoined member species, the Lyxaris, the Yktaz, the Feozait, the Iyalu, the Humans, and the Zavetii. It was a federated parliamentary democracy with a social democratic economic structure. Each of the member species of the Union maintained a degree of internal autonomy. The Union was initiated by the Zavetii, who were the first space-faring race in the galaxy that most would come to call the Scatter, so named for its loose cloud structure.

The Union kept a baseline of peace throughout its reign, though in its later years it was frequently marred by accusations of disquieting authoritarianism and corporate corruption beginning with the discovery of Morph. Morph, though a miraculous substance, enabled the Union to subtly manipulate the faster-than-light psionic networks that became very common after its discovery, allowing them to spy on citizens. Rumors about the Union using these psionic networks to mind-control individuals into compliance during law enforcement operations became common near to its final days.

Likewise, though the Union for centuries attempted to maintain a relatively corruption-free government, the Arghast-Vuln Conglomerate, in their attempts to begin marketing and selling Morph early, set a precedent for underhanded corporate lobbying that would go on to further degrade the Union's reputation. One result of such lobbying is the Colonies, Armaments and Intelligence Regulatory Network, developed under government contract by the Shield and Oracle Corporation. Abbreviated as CAIRN, the system was designed to centrally plan and manage colonies, economic resources, government intelligence and Union military resources. Though the system was highly impressive, and in theory it was greatly reinforced against both tampering and internal failure and many failsafes existed such that the Union could easily adjust if it should go offline, many considered its deployment irresponsible because it was still technically experimental technology and could result in unforeseen consequences in extreme circumstances.

The Union's decaying reputation and increasing corruption inflamed already extant historical tensions between the species, priming it for the catastrophe to come. When it was revealed that Morph, a product that had been pushed to market too soon through corporate lobbying before its long term effects could be tested, was causing compounding genetic defects that had put the entire Union on the path to extinction, the Union fractured heavily and multiple civil wars kicked off. Facing extreme unrest and revolution on many of its worlds, and quickly losing power, the Union's leadership attempted an extreme measure: Seizing control of entire populations through the use of Morph's ingrained psionic networks.

This resulted in the Great Disappearance.


THE VIGIL:
An extempore government that has been operating for about 3 years time by the current year. [wip]