General information (Pre-Great war):
Demonym: Tavrionte
Capital: Selqira
Key cities: Trelvion and Seruvei
Official language: Vior
Total population: 99,354,651
Total land area: 624,736 km²
Currency: Arqen
Government: Anemistic Asterarchy of Aspirants
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Ontological status: To date, no reliable information has been available regarding the status of the entity. Nevertheless, numerous sources have suggested that the entity may have moved to space to reside there.
About Tavrikon:
⟡ Tavrikon is considered one of the earliest pioneers of space exploration, constantly pushing technological boundaries and venturing into the unknown. In the great "Universe Race," it stands among the strongest competitors, having already established numerous orbital stations, research platforms, and experimental settlements across the cosmos.
⟡ The nation has endured one of the longest territorial disputes ever recorded in Eldervale history - the conflict over the Ardovena region (also known as Senkego), last over 130,000 years.
⟡ Across Tavrikon, countless surfaces - cliffs, plazas, temples, and ruins - are engraved with constellation carvings. Scholars estimate there are over 5,000 recorded carvings, many still waiting to be decoded.
⟡ Every year, Tavrikon records over 200 meteor impacts or close meteor incidents. While scientifically valuable, these celestial visitors frequently cause disruptions, property damage, and the occasional national headache.
⟡ At the heart of Selqira stands the magnificent Specola de la Stella Alta - part scientific observatory, part sacred temple of the cosmos. Rising like a towering stone pointer aimed at the heavens, it is one of Tavrikon's most iconic landmarks.
⟡ Space travel is one of Tavrikon's biggest attractions, drawing millions of travelers every year eager to experience orbital journeys, cosmic sightseeing, and research colony visits.
⟡ Many Tavrikonian cities, regions, and even personal names are inspired by constellations and celestial bodies.
⟡ Tavriontes are famously obsessed with the night sky - sometimes to an unhealthy degree. Many stay awake for hours watching the stars, leading to chronic sleep deprivation, a long-standing public health issue the nation has struggled to address for generations.
Brief modern history:
I. THE VENASIENAR REGIME (1087–1122)
The Venasienar regime existed in perpetual instability. Constant civil unrest characterized the era - populations denounced nonsensical and extreme authoritarian policies. Pervasive poverty, stagnant economic conditions, and systematic governmental disregard for popular demands defined citizens' lives.
Established in 1087, the regime initially achieved success through economic modernization and infrastructural development. But endemic corruption metastasized throughout the apparatus, transforming promising beginnings into systematic elite exploitation.
II. THE REVOLUTION OF 1122
Dissatisfied activist movements emerged. Among the most prominent was Tenastar Velsinas, who would lead the revolutionary coalition.
The revolution commenced on 18 February and persisted for four months of sustained violent confrontation. The catalyst: security forces opened fire on peaceful protesters, massacring dozens - the February Martyrdom.
The revolution captured Altasinas Venasienar alive on 3 June. The regime collapsed, ending thirty-five years of authoritarian rule. Venasienar was tried and executed.
III. THE BROTHER WAR (1123)
The new Velsinas regime immediately encountered internal opposition from former revolutionary comrade Leterater Satulinas - the intellectual architect of Velsinas's strategy. Velsinas advocated gradual democratic transition; Satulinas demanded immediate radical restructuring.
Unable to reconcile, the conflict escalated into the Brother War (17 June – 14 September) - a civil conflict between former allies. Urban warfare devastated multiple cities. The capital clash concluded with Velsinas's triumph. Satulinas disappeared; his ultimate fate unknown.
IV. THE ASSASSINATION OF TENASTAR VELSINAS AND THE POWER VACUUM (1123–1124)
Merely one month after the Brother War's conclusion, Velsinas was discovered deceased at noon on 21 October - shot twice, chest and head. Perpetrators never conclusively identified.
His death created a catastrophic power vacuum. No succession mechanism existed. Factional clashes, gun battles, and small-arms confrontations became routine. Certain regions self-declared autonomous authority. Numerous attempts to claim head of state throughout 1124 all failed due to foul play - assassination, blackmail, fabricated scandals, armed coups.
V. THE LETHARI VASKON REGIME (1125–1135)
By 1125, the situation marginally stabilized as factions were militarily defeated or had leadership assassinated. One faction established itself as legitimate authority: Lethari Vaskon, led by Vireth Talaros. The state acquired recognized leadership on 12 January 1125.
After ten years in power, Lethari Vaskon had achieved virtually nothing. Economic growth minimal, infrastructure reconstruction glacial, quality of life negligible. The regime became embroiled in corruption scandals.
On 29 March 1135, leaked documents revealed Talaros had systematically embezzled state funds for personal expenditure and transferred money to his wife's accounts. Talaros resigned and faced legal consequences.
VI. THE ARVASTA REVOLUTION AND THE BRASKEL ADMINISTRATION (1135–1141)
The population, exhausted by multiple failed regimes, initiated the Arvasta Revolution (1 April 1135). The regime collapsed within days - another power vacuum.
Talaros Braskel, elderly and contemplating retirement, was selected by the Emergency Bureau as interim head of state. No alternative candidates existed.
Under Braskel, the state finally achieved genuine stability (1135–1138): governmental restructuring, salary increases for public employees, tax reductions, cultural reinforcement programs, strategic security force deployment to prevent new factional movements.
In 1138, Braskel directed resources toward resuming the space exploration program - positioning Tavrikon to compete technologically. On 9 April 1141, he appointed Braskinas Satasinas as his designated successor.
VII. THE SATASINAS REGIME AND THE TERVAK REVOLUTION (1141–1144)
Satasinas proved catastrophically unsuited for leadership - young, impulsive, possessing no comprehension of statecraft. His appointment had been facilitated entirely through his father's connections. Within three years, every Braskel achievement collapsed.
The regime fell on 28 June 1144 following the Tervak Revolution - lasting merely five days. Satasinas commanded so little support that organized resistance proved impossible.
VIII. THE CIVIL WAR: ABOVE VS. BELOW (1144–1145)
Two officials from the previous regime simultaneously declared themselves successors: Danesin Valdieri (Above faction, Northern territories) and Marcellan Rovigo (Below faction, Southern territories). Civil war commenced 5 July 1144.
Battle of Ardovellis (8–24 October 1144): Below captured the logistics hub. Battle of Valquorin (27 November): Below victory - symbolically significant.
Below committed a catastrophic strategic miscalculation: concentrating overwhelming resources on the Eastern front while neglecting Western defenses.
Operation Orthelyth (3 February 1145): Above initiated a rapid offensive targeting the undermanned Western sector, capturing extensive territory. Below stronghold Selqira fell on 16 June 1145. The Civil war ended with Above victory.
IX. THE MIRACLE OF TAVRIKON (c. 1147–1155)
Under Valdieri, Tavrikon entered a transformative era - emphasizing acceleration rather than cautious incremental development. Within two years, measurable improvement across economic output, technological innovation, infrastructure, education, and scientific research.
The Miracle of Tavrikon was driven by revolutionary advances in space technology and cosmological theory.
1153: Captured a fragment of a black hole's event horizon material.
1148–1155: Revived extraplanetary resource extraction - mining operations on distant planets, asteroids, and stellar atmospheres.
1171 (2 May): Completion of the third Solon - a Dyson sphere variant harvesting an entire star's energy output.
X. CONFLICT WITH LEPONDUNON (1187–1263)
1187 (7 October): Renewed conflict with Lepondunon over the Ardovena region. Both states conducted proxy warfare in peripheral regions rather than direct combat.
1201: Deployment of the Eknoballos (Far-Thrower) - an orbital directed-energy weapon system.
1205: Improvement of the Tarsna surveillance system - orbital reconnaissance platforms.
1216: Lepondunon penetrated approximately 200 square kilometers of Eastern Kugentia domain. Tavrikon deployed forces; Lepondunon executed tactical withdrawal.
1222: Kugentor Tarsno elected head of state.
XI. THE RENEWAL (1225–1268)
Phase One (1225–1240): Comprehensive automation of production. Manufacturing efficiency doubled, tripled, quadrupled. All production processes fully autonomous - machines designing, constructing, and maintaining other machines without human intervention. The entire human workforce was displaced.
By 1229, most societal functions had been automated. Only creative judgment, ethical decision-making, and symbolic human presence remained exclusively human domains.
Phase One was declared complete 1240. Citizens experienced unprecedented material abundance and freedom from compulsory labor.
Phase Two (1240–1268): The SPACE initiative prioritized discovery of habitable worlds and novel energy extraction methodologies.
1243: First comprehensive extraplanetary base - a fully self-sustaining installation.
1246: Plan Threva (Vault) - strategic energy storage infrastructure.
1247–1260: Development of orbital weapons platforms: Solar Beam Arrays (thirty-kilometer radius devastation, minutes recharge) and Orbital Kinetic Bombardment Systems.
1261 (8 November): Total war declared against Lepondunon.
XII. THE LEPONDUNONIAN WAR (1261–1263)
Tavrikon immediately deployed orbital weapons, striking Lepondunonian territory and capital. Ground forces attempted to advance but encountered insurmountable obstacles: Lepondunon's extensive tunnel networks and acoustic weapons generating frequencies from "another dimension" - inducing severe mental distress and complete psychological breakdown.
Both forces confronted one another along border regions. After nearly one year of zero territorial gains and continuous attrition, representatives agreed to terminate hostilities (17 May 1263).
XIII. THE SECOND GREAT WAR OF ELDERVALE - TAVRIKON THEATRE (1291–1294)
1291 (5 February): Alcludion declared war on Tavrikon from the Northern frontier.
1291 (31 March): Lepondunon declared war, launching operations to reclaim the disputed Senkego region. Tavrikon was strategically unprepared. Overwhelming Lepondunonian forces combined with intensified acoustic weapons achieved rapid territorial gains. Tavrikon lost extensive Western territories.
Defensive lines were eventually stabilized through massive troop reinforcements and comprehensive orbital support.
The Black Hole Bomb (first deployment): Devices generating localized gravitational singularities absorbing all matter within a one-hundred-meter radius. After approximately ten seconds, the singularity collapsed - victims simply ceased to exist.
Defense of Seruvei (5 July): Tavrikon deployed multiple black hole devices throughout the city. Entire Lepondunonian units instantaneously disappeared. Half the urban infrastructure was consumed.
Battle of Salvika (24 July): Lepondunon deployed their most devastating acoustic weapons. Sonic bombardment was so overwhelming that Tavrionte forces were required to wear sound-isolating earmuffs - completely eliminating auditory perception. Rapid development of tactical hand signals became essential.
Tavrikon gradually reclaimed territories through systematic offensives at Carisento, Rivalloro, and Mirettano. By October, frontlines ossified into stalemate.
The Cadestela (Falling Star) weapons system: Orbital platforms launching "artificial stars" - meteoric material infused with stellar energy. Tens to hundreds descending simultaneously created meteor showers.
Recapture of Umbressia (17 November – 25 December 1292): Concluded in Tavrionte victory. Umbressia existed afterward only as a smoking crater field.
The Crushline Offensive (6 March – c. May 1293): Four Western domains: Brastona, Volter, Selven, Suldor. Both nations deployed absolute maximum technological capabilities.
Tavrikon committed the entire orbital arsenal: Cadestela bombardment, black hole weapons, guided missile platforms, solar beam arrays, experimental holographic constellations. Lepondunon deployed most advanced acoustic warfare systems across the entire theater - continuous, reality-breaking emissions without cessation.
The battlefield became hell. Artificial meteors collapsed trenches. Black hole bombs created zones of absolute nothingness. Sonic weapons forced soldiers' bones to vibrate at resonant levels, causing stress fractures and internal hemorrhaging. Holographic constellations warped visual perception.
Multiple cities were entirely obliterated - not merely damaged, but erased from existence. Certain sectors became mass graveyards where ground consisted of compressed human remains. Casualties were catastrophic on both sides. Entire divisions annihilated.
The battle concluded when Tavrikon finally expelled Lepondunonian forces. The victory was Pyrrhic - military capacity crippled, "liberated" territories lifeless wastelands.
Pax of Seraphic (5 July 1294): Tavrikon signed. The Ardovena region was formally ceded to Tavrikon - a hollow victory given the devastation.
XIV. POST-WAR RECOVERY AND PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA
Comprehensive automation enabled rapid physical reconstruction - destroyed cities rebuilt within months. The psychological trauma proved far more enduring. Hundreds of thousands suffered persistent auditory hallucinations, dissociative disorders, survivor's guilt, and existential terror from weapons that seemed to violate reality. Mass therapeutic intervention became necessary; recovery would require decades.
XV. THE MULTI-PLANETARY ERA (1312–1359)
1312: Automated production efficiency achieved thirty times baseline human capacity.
1320s–1330s: Expeditionary deep-space operations expanded Tavrikon's territorial footprint across star systems.
1334: Discovery of a planet with naturally sustainable conditions for human habitation without extensive terraforming - the first confirmed location beyond their homeworld capable of supporting permanent civilian settlement.
1345: Near-complete verification of the Hypothesis of Everything (HotE) - a comprehensive theoretical framework unifying all fundamental forces. However, the HotE simultaneously revealed new categories of fundamental questions: why anything exists at all, the mystery of consciousness, the multiverse paradox, and whether conscious observation influences reality beyond the quantum level.
XVI. THE ADMINISTRATION OF TARNIKOS VHOTARIS AND THE PRELUDE TO THE THIRD GREAT WAR (1359 onward)
On 17 September 1359, Tarnikos Vhotaris was elected head of state. His administration prioritized aggressive acceleration of space expansion initiatives - viewing cosmic colonization as manifest destiny and insurance against existential catastrophe.
Under Vhotaris, Tavrikon intensified territorial expansion across accessible star systems, establishing permanent installations on planets, moons, asteroids, and artificial orbital habitats. Each settlement served multiple roles: scientific research outpost, resource extraction facility, strategic military position, and civilian colony.
The pace of expansion accelerated exponentially until it was abruptly halted by the outbreak of the Third Great War of Eldervale.
Idealology: Astralism
Astralism is a political ideology that declares humanity's moral imperative is to reach, explore, and ultimately unify the universe, with expansion into the cosmos framed as a duty rather than an option. Stagnation is considered a slow form of extinction, and failing to explore is not merely a missed opportunity but a betrayal of evolution, reason, and wonder. The ideology rejects the notion that the universe is indifferent; instead, it holds that the dream of reaching the stars belongs to everyone, not just billionaires or engineers, and that the emotional and psychological fuel of that dream - art, stories, and myths of space - must be publicly funded alongside rockets. A civilization confined to Earth is seen as one under perpetual existential threat, so establishing self-sustaining off-world colonies is not optional but the only long-term survival strategy. Policy decisions must consider centuries rather than election cycles, implying a low-time-preference society built on patience, intergenerational trust, and resistance to short-term consumerism. Living off-world forces innovation in closed-loop life support, radiation management, psychology, and cooperation; therefore, Astralism celebrates frontier risk while protecting against reckless sacrifice, with danger managed rather than avoided. Any settlement charter must include a scientific ombudsman empowered to halt any action that would irreversibly destroy unique extraterrestrial environments or evidence of past or present life. Astralism also asserts a psychological human right to access the sublime - the experience of vastness, mystery, and awe - which space provides at scale, requiring public policy to protect dark skies and fund observatories. The ideology forbids human exceptionalism: if extraterrestrial life is found, even microbial, it holds inherent moral standing, and no unilateral claim of ownership over any celestial body is permitted; settlements are trustees, not owners. Astralism explicitly rejects any genetic, racial, or national hierarchy in space selection, insisting the dream is universal or it is corrupt. Finally, Astralism tolerates honorable failure - missions that try boldly and fail while advancing knowledge - and punishes only cowardice (refusing to try) and negligence (avoidable risk), holding that perfectionism kills dreams, but so does recklessness.