Divine Technocracy

Recognizing the disadvantages a lack of a strong centralized governing body or decision making apparatus imposed upon humanity, the human entrepreneur Modebla Moloka, founder of the megacorps KlearKom, led an initiative a little over 20 years ago to form an independent consortium comprised of other leading space-faring human interests. This consortium came to be called The Divine Technocracy, representing the ideal of the Divine Provenance of Science and Technology, a system of beliefs that developed late in the third millennia AD which denies superstition and religion, glorifying technology and science as the only true basis for human belief.

DivTech, aka DT, has numerous members, drawn from among over two dozen megacorps, five houses, and the Outer Rimmers, the Raj Unity, and the Greater Afrikaa Co-prosperity phyles. As part of their membership, each member group has sworn to uphold a common charter of trade and conduct practices. Further each member group gets a vote based upon a complex "buy in" scheme in the DivTech Grand Quorum, whose decisions are unappealable. The level of unification DivTech provides allows its member entities considerable clout and leverage in dealings both with other groups of humans and alien races and represents a real market advantage. However, while all of the groups operate under the shared umbrella of DivTech, each seperate group maintains a good deal of autonomy and distinctness from one another.

It should be noted that DivTech's primary focus is on finance and profit. DivTech has proven to be reasonably adept at recognizing needs and deficiencies in alien economies and adjusting their policies to form targetted relationships and / or arrangements to capitalize upon opportunities. DT has also amassed more human scientific talent than any other single group (though it is spread across it's member groups rather than concentrated), and have strict bylaws about sharing economically damaging technological secrets. This leads to some distrust by alien races, as all of them are very familiar with the technological capabilities of the others.

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0 POINTS TO SEED RESOURCE POOLS: 6 5 Tech Access Level 3 2 Lang: Galactic Trade 2 Combat Piloting: Frigates 2 Navigation (Astro) 2 SS: Chose Any One 2 KS: HiTech Equipment 0 TF: Frigates (comes with Combat Piloting)   Human Everyman Skills 0 Lang: Native Language (Fluent) 0 Acting 8- 0 AK: Home 8- 0 Climbing 8- 0 Computer Programming 8- 0 Concealment 8- 0 Conversation 8- 0 Deduction 8- 0 Paramedics 8- 0 Persuasion 8- 0 PS: Any 11- 0 Shadowing 8- 0 Stealth 8- 15 SUBTOTAL -10 Social Lim: Galactic Distrust Frequent, Minor 5 TOTAL

NeoVics

The NeoVics are a powerful and influential phyle with several hundred years of history behind them. Like most phyles, membership in it is elective (and selective), however also like most phyles that have survived long enough, it is multi-generational and most children born into the phyle are effectively part of it from birth unless they later actively depart the phyles membership as adults. The NeoVics have patterned their society around formal rules of propriety, ethics, morals, and behavior that are strongly influenced by the old Victorian era of the late 1800's and early 1900's of ancient England. Despite the Anglo ties of the Victorian ideal, this is an elite phyle with members from many backgrounds. Though the cultured speech pattern of the phyle is Anglocized, it is not exactly "Queens English" as many terms and ideas relevant to the times have been integrated, and new terms and modalities have arisen as a matter of course.

Known for their stiff, formal behavior, distinctive retro styled attire, and sophistication, NeoVics are nonetheless also quite technologically savvy and have some of the most well educated and capable technologists known to mankind. They particularly excel at clever gadgets and innovations that are significantly advanced beyond the mainstream. In particular NeoVics rose to power and continue to profit greatly from highly adept market trading, aided by their proprietary (and highly secret) market analysis software known as D.A.R.W.I.N. (Data Analysis & Recommendation Wealth Influencing Network). It is also commonly alleged but never proven that the NeoVics practice espionage on a grand scale.

Most of their interests are terrestial and they have been slow to move to space prefering to allow more dynamic and younger concerns to bear the expense and hardship of being "first to market". Nonetheless NeoVics do have some space presense as a means of keeping their finger on the pulse of the market and letting it be known that they are not ceding interests in space holdings, more than anything else. While they are not currently a major player in space compared to DivTech, they have deep pockets, formidable terran resources, and enough of a space presense to make their competition nervous, particularly due to their well known ability to take advantage of opportunities that most groups don't even catch until its too late, exploiting these opportunities with a surgical and subtle deftness when the time is right. Thus far their space-faring interests have functioned under the auspices of a loose trade agreement with DivTech that basically stresses the idea that while they are rivals, they are both still human groups with some common interests, such as the desire to keep advanced tech private from the aliens.

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0 POINTS TO SEED RESOURCE POOLS: 4 0 POINTS TO SEED CONTACTS / FOLLOWERS POOL: 2 5 Tech Access Level 3 3 High Society 3 Conversation 2 SS: Chose Any One 2 KS: HiTech Equipment   Human Everyman Skills 0 Lang: NeoVic English (Native, Fluent) 0 Acting 8- 0 AK: Terra 8- 0 Climbing 8- 0 Computer Programming 8- 0 Concealment 8- 0 Combat Piloting 8- 0 Deduction 8- 0 Paramedics 8- 0 Persuasion 8- 0 PS: Any 11- 0 Shadowing 8- 0 Stealth 8- 0 TF: Frigates (comes with Combat Piloting) 15 SUBTOTAL -10 Social Lim: Galactic Distrust Frequent, Minor 5 TOTAL

Celestial Conglomerated

A strange blend of phyle and megacorps, CelCon is comprised of corporations and members of particular Asian descent. Complex rules of provenance apply to would-be members to determine how much ancestry they have from allowed origins. This is also complicated by the fact that not all employees of the member corporations are of sufficient (or any) Asian descent and are thus technically part of the megacorps but not the phyle. The complexities of degree of membership are sufficient that even most members don't fully comprehend them, or care. The important thing to realize is that unlike most phyles which tend to be elective, only very young children of particular ancestry are accepted into this phyle.

That aside, CelCon is a powerful mid-tech force to be reckoned with, and excels in areas related to labor intensive processes. It has thus far only a limited space presense, but is investing heavily in colony technology and is pursuing an aggressive plan to establish at least two colonies on agrarian-friendly planets. They have become one of the front runners in nascent terraforming technology in conjunction with these pursuits.

Unlike most higher technology phyles, CelCon tends to favor vocational training over theoretical training; in other words, their training and educational programs focus on how to use things, not how they work. Theoretical and advanced knowledge of science and technology is reserved for only those that score highest in mandatory aptitude tests. Because of this they are not as innovative as the other top groups, but the average CelCon member has a good deal more practical knowledge of systems operation and hands on use of technology than average.

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0 POINTS TO SEED RESOURCE POOLS: 3 0 POINTS TO SEED CONTACTS / FOLLOWERS POOL: 2 0 CELESTIAL CONGLOMERATED MEMBERSHIP: 1 3 Tech Access Level 2 8 +1 All Skill Level 1 Lang: Galactic Trade (basic) 3 Systems Operation   Human Everyman Skills 0 Lang: Pan-Asian (Fluent) 0 Acting 8- 0 AK: Home 8- 0 Climbing 8- 0 Combat Piloting: Frigates 8- 0 Computer Programming 8- 0 Concealment 8- 0 Conversation 8- 0 Deduction 8- 0 KS: HiTech Equipment 8- 0 Navigation (Astro) 8- 0 Paramedics 8- 0 Persuasion 8- 0 PS: Any 11- 0 Shadowing 8- 0 SS: Chose Any One 8- 0 Stealth 8- 0 TF: Frigates (comes with Combat Piloting) 15 SUBTOTAL -10 Social Lim: Galactic Distrust Frequent, Minor 5 TOTAL

Fringers / Spacers

While humanity has only been a presense on the galactic stage for a couple of decades, they have been in space for several hundred years prior to gaining C-Travel capability, scattered here and there on asteroid belts, space stations, and "camp" colonies. The descendents of these space-faring humans tend to be without phyle or megacorps membership and are thus marginalized. However, their backgrounds make them individually very capable in space and able to pursue courses of action that humans less experienced in space would never even contemplate. Though they have absolutely no unified presense (other than the Outer Rimmers phyle, which is organized and part of DivTech), Fringers are encountered frequently while in space and can be individually formidable.

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0 POINTS TO SEED RESOURCE POOLS: 6 5 Tech Access Level 3 2 Lang: Galactic Trade 2 Combat Piloting: Frigates 2 Navigation (Astro) 2 Environmental Movement (no penalties on Zero G) 5 Choose 1: +1 Range Level +1 HtH Level +1 DCV Level +1 with all Skills for Characteristic of choice 2 Weapon Familiarity (2 points worth) 0 TF: Frigates (comes with Combat Piloting)   Human Everyman Skills 0 Lang: Native Language (Fluent) 0 Acting 8- 0 AK: Home 8- 0 Climbing 8- 0 Computer Programming 8- 0 Concealment 8- 0 Conversation 8- 0 Deduction 8- 0 KS: HiTech Equipment 8- 0 Paramedics 8- 0 Persuasion 8- 0 PS: Any 11- 0 Shadowing 8- 0 Stealth 8- 20 SUBTOTAL -10 Social Lim: Galactic Distrust Frequent, Minor -5 Social Lim: Marginalized (no phyle/corps/house affiliation, Humans) 5 TOTAL