For a hundred thousand years mankind has held the stars, claimed and shaped their worlds, and imbued them with technomancy. Vast and ancient, the galactic sphere of von-Neumann machinery, arcane origin of the Noosphere Unity, the universal principle of civilization, making manifest the Light, key to an orderly universe. In the unity's light there stands the Mechanist Union, arbiters of technology, artificers of nanomachines, conjurers of electric spirits. Technomantic basti

The second hypercivilization , emergent form the arcane Noosphere Unity, made manifest by the Celestial Sibyl. The Union recognizes the Celestial as the Manifest Avatar of its machine god, whose will becomes apparent in every aspect of technology. Its mandate is to oversee High Technology by ways of Noosphere Technomancy. It is a galaxy-spanning, decentralized Hyper-Meritocracy organized in Emergent Strata of competing clades and orders of pre-determined scope and hierarchies

The first hypercivilization , founded by the Celestial Queen and galactic patron of all humankind. The Terran Empire is ruled by the Celestial Queen, ultimate human ascendant and embodiment of Cosmos, the orderly universe. She oversees the three aspects of the Empire, into which its vast feudal tapestry is structured: The Imperial State, The Celestial Illumina, and the Palatinates. At its foundations, the Terran Empire is maintained by ways of Psionic Providence. The Celestia

The highest order of organized society in the Known Galaxy, comprised of millions of constituent cultures and polities. No known hyper-civilization can persist without a guiding force of Cosmos, a force of order preventing it from fracturing and devolving. Two human hypercivilizations rule over much of the Known Galaxy: The Terran Empire and the Mechanist Union. Hypercivilizations of other sapients do exist, though their status as such is highly disputed and contact often mi