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| |"For Kingdom and Cluster!"\\ -Common warcry.| | |"For Kingdom and Cluster!"\\ -Common warcry.| |
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| The Kingdom of Albion is a society in the [[territories/aleph_cluster|Aleph Cluster]], currently in control of [[planet/albion|Albion]], and responsible for the infrastructure in the Cluster. It is a constitutional monarchy with feudal origins and democratic practices established in [[calendar/pa_0|PA 0]] after the Aleph Cluster broke away from the Greater Cluster and established its independence from 'petty alien tyrants, all interested in their own lots'. | The Kingdom of Albion is a society in the [[territories:aleph_null|Aleph Cluster]], currently in control of [[planet/albion|Albion]], and responsible for the infrastructure in the Cluster. It is a constitutional monarchy with feudal origins and democratic practices established in [[calendar/pa_0|PA 0]] after the Aleph Cluster broke away from the Greater Cluster and established its independence from 'petty alien tyrants, all interested in their own lots'. |
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| ===== Appearance and Symbols ===== | ===== Appearance and Symbols ===== |
| The Kingdom operates as a constitutional monarchy, currently ruled by the monarch Charles Lysander II. The monarch oversees the lot of nine city states and sectors of Albion, the capital sector Regum, and Orbital Object Null through a series of democratically elected governors from each area. Each governor is responsible for their sector's wellbeing through the appointment of ministers and public servants; and allotting commonwealth funding from taxpayers to infrastructure projects throughout the sectors. | The Kingdom operates as a constitutional monarchy, currently ruled by the monarch Charles Lysander II. The monarch oversees the lot of nine city states and sectors of Albion, the capital sector Regum, and Orbital Object Null through a series of democratically elected governors from each area. Each governor is responsible for their sector's wellbeing through the appointment of ministers and public servants; and allotting commonwealth funding from taxpayers to infrastructure projects throughout the sectors. |
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| The average person born or living in Albion lives a life of confidence. Their pride in reclaiming [[territories/aleph_cluster|Aleph]] from the Greater Cluster, and securing theirs and the Cluster's independence instils them with patriotism and respect for freedom. A sense of adventure and irreverent, witty humour is also common amongst people. It isn't uncommon for the average Albionite to break away from their day-to-day life and take up an 'adventurous' career as a freelance pilot or explorer. Local-level councils are willing to ensure citizens have the same starting opportunities and are safe from harm, but the outcomes and what citizens do with their affairs is in their hands. | The average person born or living in Albion lives a life of confidence. Their pride in reclaiming [[territories:aleph_null|Aleph]] from the Greater Cluster, and securing theirs and the Cluster's independence instils them with patriotism and respect for freedom. A sense of adventure and irreverent, witty humour is also common amongst people. It isn't uncommon for the average Albionite to break away from their day-to-day life and take up an 'adventurous' career as a freelance pilot or explorer. Local-level councils are willing to ensure citizens have the same starting opportunities and are safe from harm, but the outcomes and what citizens do with their affairs is in their hands. |
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| Albion's political class and elite who have eyes on marrying into royalty often include businesspeople, entrepreneurs, career politicians, veteran adventurers, and generals. The games of politics these players take upon themselves seem like chaos to the rest of the universe, but within Albion it's defended as a tradition, with severe consequences for doing wrong for the kingdom and its citizens. The Kingdom prides itself on breaking away from a greater tyrant as a part of its independence; It would be for nothing if Albion was to repeat the wrongs of the past. | Albion's political class and elite who have eyes on marrying into royalty often include businesspeople, entrepreneurs, career politicians, veteran adventurers, and generals. The games of politics these players take upon themselves seem like chaos to the rest of the universe, but within Albion it's defended as a tradition, with severe consequences for doing wrong for the kingdom and its citizens. The Kingdom prides itself on breaking away from a greater tyrant as a part of its independence; It would be for nothing if Albion was to repeat the wrongs of the past. |
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| ===== Defence and Judiciary ===== | ===== Defence and Judiciary ===== |
| The Kingdom maintains a planetary force called the **Royal Planetary Defence Force**((Composed of army, navy, air, and royal marines.)), and a space navy called the **Royal Aerospace Flotilla**. In addition, Albion employs exceptional and highly skilled individuals referred to as **Knights and Dames**. With their fealty to Regum and the monarch's interests, soldiers . Knights and Dames are not always combat-oriented: the current head of Albion's R-AIR joined the organisation PA244 as an intelligence officer, and Knighted in PA252 for foiling a plot of treason against King Charles Lysander II by his step-brother, Anacredes. | To guard its towns and cities, individual city-states employ their own police forces to ensure the safety of the civilisation at the most local level. The reputation of the various police forces boil down to being shaped by their surroundings and the threats they most often face, but they generally project a helpful image first towards citizens. These police forces may coordinate with each other internationally to work on particularly heinous or far-reaching cases, such as roving bandits or criminals from outside of Aleph Cluster. |
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| | The Kingdom maintains a planetary force called the **Royal Planetary Defence Force**((Composed of army, navy, air, and royal marines.)), and a space navy called the **Royal Aerospace Flotilla**. In addition, Albion employs exceptional and highly skilled individuals referred to as **Knights and Dames**. With their fealty to Regum and the monarch's interests, these soldiers fight with a fervour. The roles of Knights and Dames are not always combat-oriented: the current head of Albion's R-AIR joined the organisation PA244 as an intelligence officer, and Knighted in PA252 for foiling a plot of treason against King Charles Lysander II by his step-brother, Anacredes. |
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| For coordinating against political and internal threats like coups, treason, and direct threats to the Crown, the intelligence and spy network **R-AIR**((Royal Albion Intelligence & Reconnaissance)) and their Special Operations Branch step in to watch the watchmen. The venerable spy network has had a reputation for bastardry and 'ungentlemanly conduct' towards Albion's traitors large and small, as well as subversive threats from the tyrants of the Greater Cluster. | For coordinating against political and internal threats like coups, treason, and direct threats to the Crown, the intelligence and spy network **R-AIR**((Royal Albion Intelligence & Reconnaissance)) and their Special Operations Branch step in to watch the watchmen. The venerable spy network has had a reputation for bastardry and 'ungentlemanly conduct' towards Albion's traitors large and small, as well as subversive threats from the tyrants of the Greater Cluster. |
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| In addition to this force, Albion is also in control of a strange superweapon, orbiting [[planet/albion]], known as [[planet/albion/null]]. The possession of this supermassive object enables the Kingdom of Albion to maintain oversight, launching from the mass-driver to the reaches of the Aleph Cluster. The object possesses a strike range of 300 AU, enabling it to snipe hostile targets. Closer threats are monitored by a network of sub-defence satellites, and the ability to fire close ranged lasers itself. In general, its non-military capabilities, coupled with its immense civilian and Navy throughput make it a poor target, as it is always occupied. | In addition to this force, Albion is also in control of a strange superweapon, orbiting [[planet/albion]], known as [[planet/albion/null]]. The possession of this massive object enables the Kingdom of Albion to maintain oversight and combat prowess within Albion's orbit, and throughout by launching ships through mass-driver to the reaches of the Aleph Cluster. The object possesses a strike range of 300 AU, enabling it to snipe hostile targets. Closer threats are monitored by a network of sub-defence satellites, and the ability to fire close ranged lasers itself. In general, its non-military capabilities, coupled with its immense civilian and Navy throughput make it a poor target, as it is always occupied. |
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| ===== Quotes ===== | ===== Quotes ===== |
| |"We have finally reclaimed this corner of the galaxy from the cruel whims of the Greater Cluster and are able to stand on our own two feet for the first time in centuries. Our defiance and ingenuity has seen us through, and for our efforts and sacrifices together, we no longer suffer alien tyrants and their power-hungry servitors.\\ \\ "We now live in a future where people are free to live their life as they see fit. They can pursue business without an unknowable bureaucracy holding them back. People can rest assured their children, legacies, and lives aren't cheapened by mass cloning, slavery, and serial intrusion on the individual. The Greater Cluster kept telling us to give up, trying to starve, plague, subvert, and otherwise destroy us. Their sycophants in the state media kept lying about their management of the 'slave colony uprising' - as though they couldn't conceive a loss.\\ \\ "They kept calling us insolent worms, unable to fathom the consequences of what we were trying to do. The Greater Cluster's arrogance is what sent that rotten and decadent empire into a crushing and humiliating defeat. Alas, that is the way of all tyrants, when their lots become too big and their heads too full of themselves. This is the Aleph Cluster, we are the Kingdom of Albion, and we defy!\\ \\ "Come and break your arm punching us!"\\ Gavin the Younger, First Monarch of Albion, Coronation Speech| | |"We have finally reclaimed this corner of the galaxy from the cruel whims of the Greater Cluster and are able to stand on our own two feet for the first time in centuries. Our defiance and ingenuity has seen us through, and for our efforts and sacrifices together, we no longer suffer alien tyrants and their power-hungry servitors.\\ \\ "We now live in a future where people are free to live their life as they see fit. They can pursue business without an unknowable bureaucracy holding them back. People can rest assured their children, legacies, and lives aren't cheapened by mass cloning, slavery, and serial intrusion on the individual. The Greater Cluster kept telling us to give up, trying to starve, plague, subvert, and otherwise destroy us. Their sycophants in the state media kept lying about their management of the 'slave colony uprising' - as though they couldn't conceive a loss.\\ \\ "They kept calling us insolent worms, unable to fathom the consequences of what we were trying to do. The Greater Cluster's arrogance is what sent that rotten and decadent empire into a crushing and humiliating defeat. Alas, that is the way of all tyrants, when their lots become too big and their heads too full of themselves. This is the Aleph Cluster, we are the Kingdom of Albion, and we defy!\\ \\ "Come and break your arm punching us!"\\ Gavin the Younger, First Monarch of Albion, Coronation Speech| |