The first Alsantan Empire

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The 1st Alsantan Empire


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Government Structure
The empire is governed by a council of 5 men. This usually consists of the highest ranking naval official, the highest ranking member of the administrative board. The highest ranking member of the policing/arbitration service, a member the governments scientific wing has selected specially to represent them, and a fifth member elected by a vote of planetary governors. (It is worth noting that the police and navy official are the only members of the council that can be absent from a meeting and can choose replacements for themselves.) The elected fifth member often suffers from a lot of prejudice at the hands of his compatriots, and is generally viewed by other members of the council to be the least important, it is often the opinion that he/she is only there to make the council an odd number, and to add a feeling of democracy to the council.

Each planet is ruled by a planetary governor. There is no particular rule as to how the planetary governor is assigned, though the standard is a democratic election, 4 notable planets currently have a ‘ruling family’ similar to monarchies of the past. It is these governors that are ultimately responsible for all the functions of their planet. Be it agricultural, industrial or military.
The governor is responsible for setting up his own government and hiring his own officials, as well as passing any major laws. The planetary governor can only have his decision veto-ed by an elected parliament of 80-90 representatives of the people, and even then the margin must be near unanimous for a veto to be carried. It is worth noting that most planets in the Alsantan empire consider themselves unified, as opposed to splitting up the landmass into countries. The landmass is instead divided into sectors, and these sectors are where the parliamentary representatives are elected from. Multiple governments on a single planet are banned by the empire. Elected representatives are often also responsible for governing the sector they represent on behalf of the planetary governor, but the governor ultimately decides who controls each sector of a planet, not the people.
Although sector governors are often also parliamentary representatives, technically the systems are separate.

The government and you: General Citizen’s attitudes towards the system:
The Alsantans generally think that the system works brilliantly. They are an intensely patriotic people blind to a lot of the flaws and false democracy in their system. They are proud to be part of a growing empire and look upon their military with the utmost admiration and respect. Schooling borders on indoctrination, which could explain this.

Solar Systems controlled: 11
Number of planets controlled: 12 planets, not including 3 colonized moons and at least 20 industrial colonies in orbit around gas giants/mining worlds..
Rough Population Estimate: Approximately 80 billion humans.


Military Doctrine
The Alsantans are not overly concerned with mass-conquest, there are no huge crusades into enemy held space, for example. The empire instead creeps across the galaxy slowly, taking inhabitable planets under its wing as it goes, rarely, but if necessarily by force. Only once has any planet ever resisted the empire, unfortunately for them their technology was barely even space-age, and their resistance was crushed within hours, yielding another planet for colonization.
That does not mean that the Alsantans haven’t had their fair share of battles though. They are constantly defending their small empire from raiders, pirates and other marauding factions, although they are yet to come into contact with any form of sentient alien life, having started in human space.

Allowing for this, the Empire designs its ships to perform best in defensive situations vs. fast, small close quarters ships. To combat this, they are heavily armoured, sporting shield technology and ablative armour, and well armed, bristling with accelerator cannons.

A notable feature of the navy is their hesitance to employ anything larger than a heavy cruiser to a defensive battle. They prefer to leave that work to the lighter ships, while the larger ships take on exploration missions.

More to come!