Clades Superior of the Mechanist Union A clade hierarchy of transhuman societies competing for industrial and scientific progress, ever guided by the eclectic purposes and revelations of their nascent technomantic noosphere god, the Demiurge. Many thousand lesser clades are embedded in the six Clades Superior, their governing meritocracy highly de-centralized and ever changing according to mechanisms only those of the Mechanist Union understand.

There is no starship more prevalent around the Hallowed Ring as the Agathauma. It is a proud lineage of starships renown for their versatility and good fortune, serving many clades as fief, home to their many thousand souls, and as backbone to the fleets of their Clades Superior. No two starships are the same, yet the lineage Agathauma is lauded for remarkable cohesion in both function and design. Born of an age of strife and isolation, the vessels Agathauma are made to withs