Nolnek Imperium - Revision history

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 The Imperium was a relentlessly obnoxious presence for the thousand years of its interplanetary prominence. It was officially regarded with disgust by nearly all of its peers, facing fiercest opposition from the [[Iridium Throne]], which objected to the Imperium on spiritual grounds, only ever referring to it as “The Cancer”. Among private groups, there were sentiments which found the Imperium and its ideology fascinating and even appealing in its naked insincerity. This perspective can be summarized in the common phrase “at least they’re honest about it."
-==History<ref>The Imperium practiced a ritual purging of all major historical documents, not only from their own records, but also on all major records in the system they could reach with raiding parties, making the early history of the polity onerous to track. As part of this ritual purging, the “history” would be wholly re-invented by the current leaders and their lackeys with deliberate inconsistencies to the purged texts. This practice was for the benefit of the current leader’s propaganda, and would often be extremely derogatory to whatever their predecessors’ history was. It was also understood as a proud tradition and an expression of Nolnekese cultural values, such as they were. This attempt to summarize the Imperium’s early history therefore owes a debt to the efforts of Kalindao Lapore and their intrepid team of archeologists, who pieced together a picture of early Imperium history from oral tradition and libraries too obscure to be targeted.</ref>==
+==History<ref>The Imperium practiced a ritual purging of all major historical documents, not only from their own records, but also on all major records in the system they could reach with raiding parties, making the early history of the polity onerous to track. As part of this ritual purging, the “history” would be wholly re-invented by the current leaders and their lackeys with deliberate inconsistencies to the purged texts. This practice was for the benefit of the current leader’s propaganda, and would often be extremely derogatory to whatever their predecessors’ history was. It was also understood as a proud tradition and an expression of Nolneki cultural values, such as they were. This attempt to summarize the Imperium’s early history therefore owes a debt to the efforts of Kalindao Lapore and their intrepid team of archeologists, who pieced together a picture of early Imperium history from oral tradition and libraries too obscure to be targeted.</ref>==
 ===Origins===
-Before ZY 1900, the pre-imperial Nolnek was one of several prominent states on Jojerykh, an inner system planet unusually rich in Lanthanides. While its peers rose the level of interplanetary politics, Nolnek declined in importance. Reasons for the decline are unclear, even to the exact nature or severity<ref>There are many directions this kind of malaise can manifest, and the annals of the Arliok compendium are littered with failed states that were big players on their own little globe, but couldn’t last on a solar stage. Nolnek might be considered impressive for avoiding their fate, in the same way that vampiric intestinal cucumbers are impressive</ref>. The Nolnek Imperium was founded by Colthor the Free, also known as “Col-Daddy” to his followers, and a kabal of oligarchs as a mercantile autocracy. The likely alleged reason for this brutal system was that an uncompromising selfish trade policy guided by unrestrained executive willpower would reclaim Nolnekese national pride<ref>It is “likely” alleged because while this was almost definitely an excuse for Colthor’s personal wealth and power, it is impossible to tell if the nationalism was ever a real pretense or an open mockery of one. It cannot be over-emphasized how obnoxious High Nolnekese culture was</ref>.
+Before ZY 1900, the pre-imperial Nolnek was one of several prominent states on Jojerykh, an inner system planet unusually rich in Lanthanides. While its peers rose the level of interplanetary politics, Nolnek declined in importance. Reasons for the decline are unclear, even to the exact nature or severity<ref>There are many directions this kind of malaise can manifest, and the annals of the Arliok compendium are littered with failed states that were big players on their own little globe, but couldn’t last on a solar stage. Nolnek might be considered impressive for avoiding their fate, in the same way that vampiric intestinal cucumbers are impressive</ref>. The Nolnek Imperium was founded by Colthor the Free, also known as “Col-Daddy” to his followers, and a kabal of oligarchs as a mercantile autocracy. The likely alleged reason for this brutal system was that an uncompromising selfish trade policy guided by unrestrained executive willpower would reclaim Nolneki national pride<ref>It is “likely” alleged because while this was almost definitely an excuse for Colthor’s personal wealth and power, it is impossible to tell if the nationalism was ever a real pretense or an open mockery of one. It cannot be over-emphasized how obnoxious High Nolneki culture was</ref>.
 ===Global Dominion===
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 ===Decline and Fall===
 The beginning of the end of the Imperium is marked by two events - the [[Inokh]] miner revolt when the Imperium lost the first colony it would never reclaim, and the establishment of the Arliok Pentarchate as a force for welfare and stability.
-By the mid-2900s, ensnared by an embargo on trade, its colonies and stations peeled off by the Throne and its allies, and bankrupt of the euphoric spite which had fueled its soul, the Imperium was a zombie state. The final blow came with Jojerykh's complete implosion as a habitable planet, forcing the Nolnekese to at last vacate their homeworld and beg for asylum - a process which is ongoing as of this writing.
+By the mid-2900s, ensnared by an embargo on trade, its colonies and stations peeled off by the Throne and its allies, and bankrupt of the euphoric spite which had fueled its soul, the Imperium was a zombie state. The final blow came with Jojerykh's complete implosion as a habitable planet, forcing the Nolneki to at last vacate their homeworld and beg for asylum - a process which is ongoing as of this writing.
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 ===Origins===
-Before ZY 1900, the pre-imperial Nolnek was one of several prominent states on Jojerykh, an inner system planet unusually rich in Lanthanides. While its peers rose the level of interplanetary politics, Nolnek declined in importance. Reasons for the decline are unclear, even to the exact nature or severity<ref>There are many directions this kind of malaise can manifest, and the annals of the Arliok compendium are littered with failed states that were big players on their own little globe, but couldn’t last on a solar stage. Nolnek might be considered impressive for avoiding their fate, in the same way that vampiric intestinal cucumbers are impressive</ref>. The Nolnek Imperium was founded by Colthor the Free, also known as “Col-Daddy” to his followers, and a kabal of oligarchs as a mercantile autocracy. The likely alleged reason for this brutal system was that an uncompromising selfish trade policy guided by unrestrained executive willpower would reclaim Nolnekese national pride<ref>It is “likely” alleged because while this was almost definitely an excuse for Colthor’s personal wealth and power, it is impossible to tell if the nationalism was ever a real pretense or an open mockery of one. It cannot be over-emphasized how obnoxious high nolnekese culture was</ref>.
+Before ZY 1900, the pre-imperial Nolnek was one of several prominent states on Jojerykh, an inner system planet unusually rich in Lanthanides. While its peers rose the level of interplanetary politics, Nolnek declined in importance. Reasons for the decline are unclear, even to the exact nature or severity<ref>There are many directions this kind of malaise can manifest, and the annals of the Arliok compendium are littered with failed states that were big players on their own little globe, but couldn’t last on a solar stage. Nolnek might be considered impressive for avoiding their fate, in the same way that vampiric intestinal cucumbers are impressive</ref>. The Nolnek Imperium was founded by Colthor the Free, also known as “Col-Daddy” to his followers, and a kabal of oligarchs as a mercantile autocracy. The likely alleged reason for this brutal system was that an uncompromising selfish trade policy guided by unrestrained executive willpower would reclaim Nolnekese national pride<ref>It is “likely” alleged because while this was almost definitely an excuse for Colthor’s personal wealth and power, it is impossible to tell if the nationalism was ever a real pretense or an open mockery of one. It cannot be over-emphasized how obnoxious High Nolnekese culture was</ref>.
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 ===Decline and Fall===
-The beginning of the end of the Imperium is marked by two events - the Inokh miner revolt when the Imperium lost the first colony it would never reclaim, and the establishment of the Arliok Pentarchate as a force for welfare and stability.
+The beginning of the end of the Imperium is marked by two events - the [[Inokh]] miner revolt when the Imperium lost the first colony it would never reclaim, and the establishment of the Arliok Pentarchate as a force for welfare and stability.
 By the mid-2900s, ensnared by an embargo on trade, its colonies and stations peeled off by the Throne and its allies, and bankrupt of the euphoric spite which had fueled its soul, the Imperium was a zombie state. The final blow came with Jojerykh's complete implosion as a habitable planet, forcing the Nolnekese to at last vacate their homeworld and beg for asylum - a process which is ongoing as of this writing.
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 The Nolnek Imperium was an authoritarian corpocratic state that existed from its founding in ZY 1955 to its collapse and liquidation in ZY 2977. At its zenith, the Imperium territory included 1/10 of all bodies and satellites in the inner system, and around a hundred colonies in the outer system. The Imperium pioneered the mercantile economic model, was the premiere superpower in robotics - even after the [[Selfmade Revolution]] - and weaponized memetic propaganda so effectively that the legal term “memehazard” was invented to account for it.
-The dominant ideology of the Imperium was a radical strain of nihilist egoism, which took on different forms over time, but boiled down to a belief that selfishness is the only natural pursuit of living beings and a rejection of any improvement or progress towards altruism as contemptibly foolish. The character of Imperium propaganda was remarkable for its complete transparency about how the state served greedy interests of its leaders, with paradoxical concepts such as the [[Imperial Mandate]] serving as a parodic veneer of pretense that the citizenry had any rights whatever <ref>Nihilist egoism was ruled to be a gateway for organized civicide by the Judgement at Seaulippe and is an outlawed thought pattern in the Pentarchate</ref>.
+The dominant ideology of the Imperium was a radical strain of nihilist egoism, which took on different forms over time, but boiled down to a belief that selfishness is the only natural pursuit of living beings and a rejection of any improvement or progress towards altruism as contemptibly foolish. The character of Imperium propaganda was remarkable for its complete transparency about how the state served the greedy interests of its leaders, with paradoxical concepts such as the [[Imperial Mandate]] serving as a parodic veneer of pretense that the citizenry had any rights whatever <ref>Nihilist egoism was ruled to be a gateway for organized civicide by the Judgement at Seaulippe and is an outlawed thought pattern in the Pentarchate</ref>.
 The Imperium was a relentlessly obnoxious presence for the thousand years of its interplanetary prominence. It was officially regarded with disgust by nearly all of its peers, facing fiercest opposition from the [[Iridium Throne]], which objected to the Imperium on spiritual grounds, only ever referring to it as “The Cancer”. Among private groups, there were sentiments which found the Imperium and its ideology fascinating and even appealing in its naked insincerity. This perspective can be summarized in the common phrase “at least they’re honest about it."