Realpolitik: Though based on the snippet on their market, they tend to safeguard tech-savvy merchants from firebrand preachers for the sake of civility within the market district.

They also say that it was God himself who sealed the gates and caused the Collapse, as punishment for the Domain's sins.

Technophobia: Ludd's teachings say that the Gates were the worst sin the Human race ever committed, for it allowed the mass exploitation and devastation of God's work.

Not in the original Ned Ludd, but of a man of the same name who lived just before the Collapse.

Ludd Was Right: They're firm believers of it.

Crystal Dragon Jesus: Ludd is worshipped as one of God's prophets.

The Church offers a vision of a life lived more simply, of agrarian virtue and humanistic values and prayer against the violence and technological alienation that's torn the Sector apart in the years since the Fall. The Luddic Church of Galactic RedemptionInspired by the martyrdom of a figure known as 'Ludd' during the fall of the Domain, the Church of Galactic Redemption is a hierarchical church with highly syncretic dogma formed from a core of Abrahamic texts and apocrypha along with Domain-era reaction against perceived corruption, depravity, hedonism, and transhuman abomination.

Proud Merchant Race: Their major advantage against the Hegemony being their large control over the market than them.

The Hegemony mostly considers them a small group of petty dictatorships run by the oligarchs of Kazeron, one of their founding members. The League usually forbids interference with the way each of their constituent polities run themselves, they've made some exceptions, like with Mazalot's Luddic rebellion.

Good Republic, Evil Empire: Played with: The League is mostly a group of polities, some of them very authoritarian, that gathered together to fight back against the Hegemony's jingoism out of fear of what happened to Mairaath and the Mayasurans.

The Alliance: A coalition of several worlds, formed to defend themselves against the Hegemony's expansionism.

The League, by its laws, unites against other external threats such as particularly meddlesome megacorporations, warlords, and the Luddic Path. But the League is united when it comes to the Hegemony who they consider to be illegitimately enforcing martial law in the name of the Domain, a dead political entity. Members of the League don't necessarily agree on all issues, domestic or otherwise, and may even come into armed conflict with one another. The Persean LeagueAn alliance formed to counter Hegemony domination of the Sector.

Standard Sci-Fi Fleet: Regardless of actual designation, all ships fall into one of five designated ship classes: Fighter, Frigate, Destroyer, Cruiser or Capital Ship.

Their most advanced ships, like the Paragon battleship and the Aurora cruiser fall into Shiny-Looking Spaceships with Energy Weapons.

Standard Human Spaceship: Before the Hegemony took hold of the standard ship design, the Domain has the classical ship design in its glory days.

Portal Network: The Gate System extended throughout the Domain's territory, and its shutdown catalyzed the Collapse.

All of this was lost due to the Collapse, when their Portal Network shut down under mysterious circumstances.

How the Mighty Have Fallen: They had the largest expansion in human history, expanding across to most of the galaxy and their technological level had reached Type II in the Kardashev scale and were on the way to reach Type III with the Hypershunts.Earth That Was: Old Earth was devastated under unknown circumstances long before the Collapse.Explorarium Derelict drones: dark grey.Tri-Tachyon, the Remnants and Omega: Teal blue.Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Each faction bears their flag color in the form of a circle surrounding their fleets:.Civil War: Most of the factions are at war with each other due to their conflicting goals culminated after the fall of the Domain.It didn't stop them from using Attack Drones in their frontier systems. Ban on A.I.: The Domain forbade the use of Artificial Intelligences as weapons.

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