The @Eternal Alliance is a war coalition forged by necessity in the crucible of the Great Schism, representing the embattled remnants of the Endless Unity's @Tauron Metachor. Under High Protector @Vindor Atharius, the @Eternal Alliance stands as the former Unity's bulwark against the @Kthon while navigating a galaxy shattered by civil war.
Historical Genesis
The @Eternal Alliance formed during the early Great Schism. The @Tauron frontier, carved from the former Taurisian Star Union and other former Unity territories, faced annihilation from both internal fragmentation and the returning @Kthon threat, who saw opportunity in the Schism to feast upon the remnants of a once-invincible foe. @Vindor Atharius, a reknowned Unity fleet commander who had risen to great prominence in the later decades of the War of the Chosen, emerged amid this fractured political landscape and brokered a tenuous pact between disparate factions: Unity traditionalists, Mandate loyalists, semi-independent star-sector governors, Taurisian nationalists, and OTI sympathizers. This marriage of desperation became the @Eternal Alliance, formalized in the Sallusin system where competing factions now shared a single war effort.
Conflict with the @Mandate of Light
The @Eternal Alliance's relationship with the @Mandate of Light is defined by mutual distrust and strategic necessity. The @Mandate of Light claims all former Unity territories as its inheritance, including the @Tauron Metachor, yet lacks the physical means to control this distant region. With the @Kthon encroaching from the Delta quadrant, @Mandate of Light strategists view the @Eternal Alliance as a heretical, but necessary buffer state that temporarily shields them from a greater threat. The @Eternal Alliance's High Council understands this dynamic and has, in times of exceptional crisis, even petitioned the @Mandate of Light or military assistance.
This uneasy arrangement contrasts sharply with the early Schism years, which saw brief but brutal wars over strategic systems. These conflicts were characterized by limited objectives, as neither side could realistically seize and hold the other's territory. The @Mandate of Light views the @Eternal Alliance's secular, multi-factional structure as ideological heresy, while @Eternal Alliance traditionalists see the @Mandate of Light's theocracy as betrayal of Unity's core principles. Yet both recognize open war as mutually suicidal, producing a cold war of covert operations, intelligence infiltration, and resource competition masked by diplomatic protocols.
The @Kthon War
The @Kthon are both the @Eternal Alliance's existential threat, and the sole reason for its founding. These aliens, wielding technology that fuses advanced science with primal savagery, descended upon the fractured @Tauron frontier with unprecedented fury. Two years ago, the siege of @Sallusin demonstrated their capabilities—the battle for the star-system saw several of its major void habitats destroyed, while sabotage took the planetary shield of @Taurisia offline, allowing @Kthon forces to land devastating strikes that created continental ruin sectors. The aliens' continental-scale weaponry punches craters to planetary mantles and flash-fuses surfaces into glassy plains, before reinforcements arrived to push the @Kthon forces back.
Military and Infrastructure
The @Eternal Alliance operates as a unified military-political command over factional autonomy. Vast construction projects supply the war machine, while continent-scaled Requisitions Offices distribute goods based on Unity-era meritocratic systems. Research divisions analyze captured alien artifacts to understand @Kthon engineering. Internal security maintains constant vigilance against both @Mandate of Light infiltration and alien subversion.
The coalition's strength lies in the vast industrial and manpower resources of the former Unity's @Tauron metachor, the strategic experience of its military-political leadership, and the collective understanding that all of its constituent sectors and star-systems rely on this alliance for their very survival.
Current State
The @Eternal Alliance exists in perpetual siege, balancing multiple existential threats. @Vindor Atharius navigates internal tensions between competing ideologies while maintaining the fragile truce with the @Mandate of Light and holding the line against increasingly massive @Kthon incursions.
@Mandate of Light - Strongly disliked, but strategically necessary partner.
@Outer Territories Initiative - Mixed relations; currently viewed as an overly-passive ally that does not provide sufficient assistance in the war against the @Kthon. The OTI was previously seen as a viable alternative to the Mandate of Light's theocratic tyranny, and the two factions nearly merged into a single political entity during the early years of the Great Schism; but a combination of pragmatic reasons (such as the vast distances and lack of communications infrastructure) and political motives (the OTI's strategic goals to consume @Tauron as a resource base) prevented this marriage.
@Sagetton Contingency and @Ioth Contingency - Sympathetic to the Contingency's cause, but the powers are far too distant from one-another to have any meaningful political, economic, or military relations.