Harmony of Horizon

The Harmony of Horizon- seemingly charming, sophisticated, diverse- is a sham facade society of sophonts puppeted by their unseen masters, the Singers, located coreward of the main Federation bloc. The Singers, dangerous uploaded artificial intelligences, represent the True Harmony who have enslaved multiple species over centuries through manufactured atrocities, societal subversion and extremely sophisticated mind control implants. There are five known fully-enslaved species, plus a number of Tauni that were enslaved before the collapse of relations with the Harmony. Under the hidden guidance of the Singers, they are by far the most dangerous diplomatic entity thus far encountered by Starfleet.

In terms of public governance, initially the Federation found it confusing as the Harmony presented a peculiar image of being very open, yet it was very difficult to properly identify governance structures- because all decisions of import are all made by Singers, who conceal their existence from the galaxy. It is largely impossible to treat with the True Harmony. Singers have little respect for societies not run by uploaded artificial intelligences, considering all such to be dangerous ferals to be likewise enslaved- including pluralistic progressive societies like the United Federation of Planets.

As such, all historical, societal and political details below must be considered highly suspect, given the many apparent examples of the True Harmony revising their history wholesale, including mass memory alteration.

History
(Sourced to Harmony Historical Texts, and Federation Historical records.)

Imrael Settlement
Recent archaeological discoveries have uncovered that Horizon was original settled by colonists from the Imrael Republic sometime at the end of the first millenium CE via a quasi stable wormhole linking the Alpha Quadrant to the Imrael home systems.

Discontinuity
Sometime in the thirteenth century the wormhole linking Horizon to the Imrael Republic collapsed, plunging the systems of Far Light and Saint's Light into a crisis, that resulted in a major discontinuity in colonial culture and history that ended up erasing all memory of the Imrael Republic and its culture.

The Ascension of the Harmony
History records that at the height of the Discontinuity a group of settlers from the Antaria valley began to unify the warring post-apocalyptic tribes of the Seleenez Gulf, establishing the Harmony.

With peace and prosperity re-established over large areas of Horizon's primary continent, the leading members of the Harmony (Dubbed "Singers" for their ability to peacefully ensure the end to conflicts with only their voices) sought to spread their zone of peace outwards by using their more stable food production and medical knowledge to bring ever more members of the scattered tribes under their control.

By the time a century had passed from the establishment of the Harmony, the entire world had been reunified and missions were being sent into space where a nearly intact warp drive assembly was found on Horizon's moon, Dawn.

First Contact with the Tseskiya Republic
The earliest Horizoanian First Contact was with the larger and more wealthy Tseskiya Republic; a nation of merchants and traders who had historically traded as far coreward as Rigellian and Yrillian space and even once had representatives in the court of Orion Empress Valatta III.

With First Contact established, the Singers of the burgeoning Harmony, were able to strike several trade and technical exchange deals with the more advanced Tseskiya, sending the Harmony into a period of ever greater prosperity.

While relations between the Tseskiya and the Horizoanians was friendly, the Horizoanians earned the everlasting love of the Tseskiya people when they intervened to end the Red Death.

The Red Death and Tseskiya Membership
The Red Death was a fungal infection native to the former Yrillian Concordat, where it was considered a minor irritant known as "Lichenrash". However, with the collapse of the Concordant and the Yrillian medical community the Red Death eventually spread theough Yrillian trade routes before the final collapse of said trading routes.

When the Red Death hit the Tseskiya Republic it proved nearly apocalypticly deadly to the fragile Tseskiya. While Tseskiya medical technology would have normally been more than sufficient to cure the Red Death, the speed at which the Fungal infection hit Tseskiya space resulted in an infrastructure collapse of terrifying rapidity and a die off of nearly half the Tseskiya population within months.

Seeing the Tseskiya Republic entering a terminal, and rapid, death spiral the Singers of the Harmony responded rapidly, deploying Peacekeepers to the Republic's streets and medical personnel to every Tseskiya city and colony.

With the Red Death cured and order restored, the grateful remaining Tseskiya entered into negotiations to join the Harmony as equal members; a decision that remains popular to this day.

The Lintrid/Harmony Cold War and the Concessions of Tiriad
While the new union of Horizoanian and Tseskiya grew and prospered their trailing explorers came up against the might of the Lintrid Republic; a militaristic nation ruled by an oligarchical elite.

The initial contact between the Harmony and the Klingonoid Lintrids, in 1766 CE, was initially fairly hostile (reminding some Federation historians of initial Federation hostilities with the Klingon Empire) and the two polities entered into an icy period of mutual suspicion.

However, as the Harmony's greater population and industrial advantages paid off in the long run, and the smaller (though more economically efficient) Lintrid Republic entered into detente with the Harmony after two decades on the verge of open war.

With open war averted, the Harmony brought their cultural and diplomatic might to bear on the Lintrids, and the Singers were able to negotiate associate status within the Harmony for the Lintrids with the Republic's oligarchical leaders in a treaty known as the "Concessions of Tiriad"

Within a century of the Concessions of Tiriad, the Lintrids had become full members of the Harmony, though the touch of the Harmony's central government and culture is much lighter on the Lintrid worlds than elsewhere with the Lintrids officially maintaining the forms of many of their traditional government.

The Moy Warlord States and the Compact of Mist
The next major member of the Harmony was the Moy, who had their First Contact with the Harmony in 2088 CE.

Unlike most spacefarers, the Moy never developed a unified world government. Ever a fractious and political people, they spread into space as competing nation states, and many of their colonies declared independence and gave rise to even more polities. This resulted in the Moy home cluster becoming a lawless region in which shifting national power dynamics and relations made law enforcement nearly impossible, which in turn gave rise to a plague of Moy pirates and outlaws who came to rule much of their sphere of influence in practice if not in name.

For their first century as a warp capable species, the Moy were largely considered a nuisance by their more organized and law-abiding neighbors. While many Moy nations and colony-states were friendly, the face that their species most often presented to outsiders was that of a pirate, raider, or disreputable freetrader, and even the best Moy states could be troublesome allies due to their tendency to drag any friends they made into the miasma of intra-moy astropolitics.

This continued until a particularly aggressive pirate confederation based out of the Moy's coreward frontier attempted to raid some outlying Horizon colonies. The response was rapid and a Peacekeeping Fleet halted the raids with extreme prejudice.

The destruction of the fleet and the sudden emergence of the Harmony as a player in Moy politics disrupted the Moy astropolitical situation in an afternoon, sending the complex web of tensions into overdrive and resulting in all out war across the entirety of Moy space. As the destruction spread the Harmony felt pressed to offer sophintarian aid to the most devastated worlds. Each one drawing them further into the Moy quagmire.

With the situation turning into a disaster the Harmony took a momentous step and deployed the Peacekeeper fleets to end the internecine Moy conflicts once and for all. Most Moy worlds and communities, exhasuted from the constant Warlordism, accepted Harmony Peacekeepers onto their soil. Those few Moy Warlord states that resisted were smashed one by one, and when Peacekeeper boots were on the soil of every Moy world the Harmony's government brought the Moy together on Mist to work out a joint future for their people.

Despite Harmony Singers acting as neutral brokers, nearly a year passed without any movment from the various Moy polities. The various Moy representatives were simply unable to lay down their preexisting grievances and work out any framework that promised anything but a return to the Warlord Period.

When Harmony Peacekeepers began to withdraw from Moy worlds the Moy leaders took a desperate gamble: fearing a return to Warlordism and destruction they officially requested membership in the Harmony, on the Harmony's terms.

After a public referendum that passed with wide support in the Harmony's electorate, the Harmony promulgated the Compact of Mist which officially welcomed the Moy species as a whole into the Harmony. In the decades that followed the Harmony deliberately dismantled Moy national systems and imported Tseskiya and Horizoanian style political institutions into Moy space in order to break associations with the Moy Warlordism of the past.

Tauni Uplift and the Treaty of Shyenn
First contact between the Tauni and the Harmony of Horizon occurred in 2253 when a Harmony patrol vessel encountered a Tauni exploratory team that had traveled from Kelowna via one of the Iconian portals that the Tauni had inadvertently inherited from a long ago Iconian colony on their homeworld.

The initial Tauni contact team attempted to play a very distant and cool game with the Harmony’s representatives by limiting contact and information from their end. This effort failed when the now alerted Harmony was able to trace Tauni radio signals to Kelowna and make their case directly to the Tauni populace.

The Harmony’s diplomats were able to apply a divide and conquer strategy to the Tauni populace by using the secrecy of the Gate program to undermine faith in the institutions of Kelowna’s major military power and destroy international relations in a blaze of blame and recriminations played out in the public sphere.

With Kelowna slowly descending into panic and global thermonuclear war threatening to break out the Harmony was then able to step into the chaos and act as an honest broker. Before the first year was out forty thousand Peacekeeper troops had been given permission by various Kelownan governments to operate in their territory and the Peacekeeper Directorate had been granted permission to set up what would become the first of hundreds of bases on Kelowna’s moon.

With their people in place the Harmony moved to dismantle local governments in exchange for technology, especially biotechnology that led to the elimination of virtually all of the deadly diseases that had stalked the Tauni even into their information age.

With their control settling in, the Harmony removed many of Kelowna’s Iconian relics, often with the permission and blessing of the local Tauni inhabitants.

By all appearances the Tauni were shaping up to be model Harmony citizens, even settling several colonies, up until the middle of the 2260's. A widespread backlash from many Kelownans about the increasing intrusion of the Harmony into Tauni daily life and restrictions placed on traditional Tauni ways of life. The Public Safety Directorate’s use of predictive analytical systems in matters of law enforcement especially galled the Tauni until what had started as generalized dissatisfaction in the 60's emerged as a full on war of resistance by the early 70's.

The Tauni resistance and the Harmony security organizations entered into a mutual cycle of atrocity, though this was mostly restricted to the military fighters of both sides for the first decade. As the conflict dragged on into 80s the Public Security Directorate adopted a policy of forced resettlements, collective punishments for family units, and increased censorship. Official Tauni death counts are unreliable but place civilian deaths in this era in the low single digit millions, while the Harmony’s own official counts are merely in the hundreds of thousands.

Though a nasty war in a far off place, the general Harmony public seems to have not paid much attention to the Tauni war of independence until the Altas Sinking of 2287. An event caused when a cell of resistance members sabotaged the weather control of the major Harmony core world of Haven: over one and a half million Harmony citizens died overnight, with the majority of the deaths occurring when the seaborn city of Altas flooded and subsequently sank for a week until the tenders Choreographer, Calligrapher, and Photographer were able to bring the city back to the surface.

The Tauni and Harmony records of the aftermath of the Altas sinking agree with the immediate consequences: Virk sab Nahzul, the Public Security Intendant of Kelowna, ordered mass arrests of anyone remotely involved with the resistance, and seemed to be planning a much more final solution to the Tauni Rebellion before he was arrested by several officers under his command.

With civilian attention focused on the Tauni Rebellion, and the Harmony’s own complicity in a series of vicious events, a public consensus was reached by the end of 2288 that resulted in the rapid completion of negotiations with a group of the most hardline resistance factions.

The Treaty of Shyenn saw the Harmony sign a treaty that that guaranteed the immediate and complete withdrawal of the Harmony from Kelowna and any other Tauni colony world that desired independence.

By the end of the first quarter of 2288 that total withdrawal had been affected. However, several colony worlds, including the major Tauni colony world of Japha, totalling a third of the Tauni population had voted to stay in the Harmony. To this day those Tauni are considered loyal and valuable members of the wider Harmony.

Unverified reports from the resistance years, not accepted even by the wider Tauni population include: Unrestricted biomedical experimentation, unrestricted cybernetic experimentation, mind control glasses, infertility drugs released into the Kelownan water supply, replacement of important politicians with near perfect doubles, the widespread killing of all esper sensitive Tauni, the summoning of extra-dimensional entities, elite cyaug kill teams, and false flag attacks by the Public Security Directorate on the Harmony’s own settlers.

Horizonian
The Founders of the Harmony, Horizonians have a population somewhere north of one hundred billion, which makes the Horizoanians the most populace species of the Harmony, and, much like Humans for the Federation, the Horizoanians are considered the face of the Harmony.

Horizonians are a light blue skinned humanoid race with red eyes but otherwise near human features. Hair colour varies between shades of black to grey and most stand between 1.75m and 2m in height.

Horizoanian culture emphasizes scientific and cultural achievement along with a strong communal and diplomatic instinct.

Horizonians are the descendants of colonists from the Imrael Republic

Tseskiya
The Tseskiya are an avianoid species of minimal sexual dimorphism that average a height of of between 1.65 to 1.8 meters. Tseskiya are covered in glossy black feathers and sporting pointed beaks of the same colour.

While Tseskiya do not have conventional hands in the Humanoid sense, they use their beaks and feet to use and manipulate technology. The Tseskiya are also very light beings, with fragile bodies, but are capable of unpowered gliding and controlled assisted flight. This evolutionary path makes Tseskiya natural pilots and spacers.

Tseskiya tend to be gregarious and friendly beings, with a curious and mischievous streak a kilometer wide that makes them a natural fit for service in the Harmony's Science Directorate.

The three worlds of the Tseskiya Republic were the first non-Horizoanian worlds to join the Harmony and today the Tseskiya population is well past twenty billion individuals.

Lintrid
Lintrids are a Klingonoid species, and greatly resemble their Klingonoid cousins, but apt to be slightly thinner and slighter of build. Lintrids also tend towards very pale skin and light gray hair, appearing nearly albino having co-evolved with a symbiotic microorganism that protects them from many forms of radiation, including UV, which caused their melanin production to atrophy.

An interesting facet of their culture is that it is considered impolite to show one's face in public; instead, Lintrids typically wear masks that are decorated with geometric patterns that mark one's place in society. Individuals who have distinguished themselves are able to get away with personalizing their masks much more than ones who have not; calling attention to oneself through a mask that one doesn't live up to is something of a faux pas.

Lintrids are industrious and militaristic people, and much of the backbone of the Peacekeeper Directorate's Ground Elements are drawn from the over thirty billion Lintrids that call the Harmony home.

Moy
The Moy are a semi-humanoid species native to the planet most understandably known as Mist.

Physiologically, the Moy have many traits in common with both arboreal primates, and leeches. Like the former, they have disproportionately long and muscular arms and are faster at climbing than they are at walking. Like the latter, their mouthparts are designed for piercing the skin and sucking out the fluids and pulverized organs of large prey animals. Moy have little visible sexual dimorphism, both males and females standing an average of one meter tall. However, like chimpanzees and orangutans, they are deceptively strong for their size.

The Moy possess two means of communication. The nostrils located under each arm can produce sound (their voices sound like wind shrieking and moaning through tree branches), and the facial tendrils are covered in chromatophores that can be used to create images and symbols for other moy to read. The latter was the original basis for most Moy writing systems; copying standardized facial symbols into pictographs was a simple intuitive leap.

Moy social dynamics are strongly hierarchical, and based on chains of dominance and submission. When moy believe themselves to be in a position of disadvantage, they will typically become accommodating, compliant, and even obsequious. When they believe themselves to be in a position of advantage, they will become demanding and overbearing, and prone to seeing any strong defiance as a challenge to the status quo.

Some twenty billion Moy live within the borders of the Harmony, with well over half that population scattered between the small colonies and minor worlds of the former Moy warlord states.

Tauni
The Tauni are a humanoid species, marked by light colouration and platinum blonde hair, that evolved on the planet Kelowna, a class M world noted for islands, temperate rainforests, and jagged mountain ranges that cut through it all. They, like a number of other species in the area, such as Humans, Betazoids, and Yan-Ros, show great similarities, owing to batched Preserver seeding.

During the decades where the Tauni were provisional members of the Harmony of Horizon hundreds of millions Tauni moved offworld to colonies founded with Harmony assistance.

When Kelowna was granted complete independence following the Treaty of Shyenn those Tauni who'd settled withing the borders of the Harmony were joined by a wave of Tauni immigrants forced off Kelowna as collaborators, or Tauni who simply believed in the Harmony's idealsl many of this second wave of Immigrants settled on the world of Japha.

From a combination of immigration and natural population growth the Harmony has a strikingly youthful population of Tauni citizens in the low billions.

The Uniformed Spacegoing Services of the Harmony of Horizon
Grouped together under the loosely applied organizational category of the Harmony of Horizon Uniformed Spacegoing Services, a quartet of Directorates have long replaced the hodgepodge of federal, species, and planetary organizations that characterized the military, law enforcement, and intelligence arms of the early Harmony.

Note: The Horizonite version of a salute is to drop the right arm to the side, then cross left hand over right shoulder, before finishing with a slight nod and bow.

Science Directorate
The uniformed space exploration arm of the Harmony of Horizon, the Science Directorate operates dozens of science vessels in and outside of the borders of the Harmony.

The Science Directorate prefers to recruit its officers and crew directly out of the Harmony's academic institutions, though it also accepts transfers from the Harmony's other uniformed space services. When accepted into the Science Directorate prospective officers and crew are run through an intensive educational program (one year for general crew, and two for officers) intended to supplement recruits' academic education with the skills they'll need to operate in a Uniformed environment. Most crew and officer recruits are trained at the Sanctuary Fleet Training Center, the Antaria Valley Advanced Cognition School, or the Stellar Science University of Stickine.

Culturally, the Science Directorate is known for being more unconventional and permissive of eccentricities than the Harmony's other Uniformed Space Services, and due to this reputation the Science Directorate is often considered somewhat unreliable by the Harmony's other Uniformed Services.

The vessels of Harmony's Science Directorate are painted a nearly reflective white with black highlights, and the Science Directorate's personnel wear the standard pattern Harmony uniform with white and black coloration.

Doctrinally, as opposed to the Federation's focus on large capital ship sized Explorer ships operating as individuals, and the Commonwealth's focus on tightly grouped squadrons of small exploration capital ships, the Harmony's Science Directorate prefers to use loose nets of large cruisers to sweep regions of space outside of the Harmony's borders.

Peacekeeping Directorate
While technically not a formal military institution, the Peacekeeper Directorate serves as the organized military of the Harmony of Horizon. The Peacekeeper Directorate operates in a half dozen numbered fleets centered around the powerful Five megaton Sanctuary pattern fleet tenders.

The Peacekeeper Directorate prefers to recruit directly from the Harmony's general public, with general crew often signed up for three year terms (with an additional initial six month training period) and it is often seen as a sign of prestige to have served one or more terms in the uniform of the Peacekeeper Directorate. Though this does tend to result in a fairly consistent churn in the Directorate's lower ranks.

Perhaps because of this the Peacekeeping Directorate is more selective with membership in its officer corps and most officers serve in the Peacekeeper Directorate for multiple decades. Most Peacekeeper officers are selected from those crew who have served their three year terms and having demonstrated exceptional ability and ambition have applied for the officer track. Once an officer recruit is accepted into the officer corps, the recruit will spend three years at the Peacekeeper wing of the Sanctuary Fleet Training Center, with the most promising officer recruits spending two terms at the Antaria Valley Advanced Cognition School for advanced training on Horizon itself.

Internally, the Peacekeeper Directorate is loosely divided into three separate branches: the officers and crew which serve aboard the fleet tenders and cruisers of the Expeditionary groups, those personnel which crew the Directorate's large number of small corvettes, and the men and women of the Peacekeeper Directorate's Ground Elements. Culturally, the Peacekeeper Directorate is considered the most professional of the Uniformed Spacegoing Services, and are often seen as stogy and arrogant by the other Directorates.

In order to distinguish the units and personnel of the Peacekeeper Directorate from the other Uniformed Spacegoing Services, the ships of the Peacekeeper Directorate are pained bright white with red highlights. Similarly, the uniforms of Directorate's officers and crew are the standard Harmony uniform in white and red.

The Peacekeeper Directorate's doctrine sees the Directorate divided into a half dozen Expeditionary groups built around the massive Sanctuary Fleet Tenders, with Liberator battlecruisers, Scientist pattern cruisers and dozens of corvettes attached to the Sanctuary flag ship. Each segment of the Harmony has an Expeditionary group permanently stationed as a defence fleet with the Divisions of the groups's Ground Elements stationed at the same bases as the fleet personnel.

Public Safety Directorate
The Law Enforcement and emergency services provider of the Harmony of Horizon, the Public Safety Directorate operates entirely within the borders of the Harmony and tends to use older ships and equipment handed off from the Peacekeeper Directorate.

Volunteers to the Public Safety Directorate tend to come from the less urbanized newly settled outer worlds of the Harmony, and from the medical collages of the core worlds. Public Safety personnel recruits undergo a three year training stint at the Sanctuary Fleet Training Center before taking a final year of education at any of a number of the Harmony's academic facilities including the Antaria Valley Advanced Cognition School, the Stellar Science University of Stickine, the University of Deviance Studies of Tiriad, and the University of Mist.

Operationally, the men and women of the Public Safety Directorate act not only as national level Law Enforcement on all Harmony worlds, but also as first responders across every system of the Harmony, with most Public Safety personnel having been trained to respond to a variety of emergency situations. Most inhabited Harmony worlds have an at least bare bones orbital outpost from which the men and women of the Public Safety Directorate operate their familiar Alert pattern rescue corvettes and squadrons on in system first response shuttles and runabouts.

Public Safety officers and crew are generally seen as more easygoing and friendly than the men and women of the other Directorates, with the Public Safety Directorate being (in)famous for having much looser uniform and organizational standards than the other Directorates.

Operationally, the Public Safety Directorate is divided into fourteen separate squadrons assigned to each of the Harmony's fourteen Precincts. Each squadron is centered on one of the older Choreographer squadron tenders and their attendant corvettes.

The colors of the Public Safety Directorate are white and blue, with their uniform pattern matching that of the other Uniformed Spacegoing Services except for the blue colouration.

Public Security Directorate
By far the smallest of the four Uniformed Spacegoing Services, the Public Security Directorate serves as the intelligence and counterintelligence agency of the Harmony, as well as providing valuable analysis and information technology services to the other three Directorates.

Public Security prefers to recruit from the Harmony's technical institutes, but also have a tendency to invite those caught violating information security laws to turn legit and put their skills to test in service of the public instead of using them for personal gain.

Public Security Directorate training usually involves a five year apprenticeship program with older Public Security personnel, Directorate recruits are cycled through high level information technology courses at prestigious institutions like the University of Mist, the Sanctuary Fleet Training Center, the Iskut Data Cooperative, and the Antaria Valley Advanced Cognition School.

Uniquely amoungst the Uniformed Spacegoing Services, the Public Security Directorate does not independently operate their own vessels. Instead, Public Security personnel are assigned on a case by case basis to the ships and facilities of the other Directorates and the Public Security headquarters in sea near Harmony's capital city of Sunrise. It is rumored in the Harmony's infonets that the Public Security Directorate operates a deep space computing facility that is the most powerful collection of data processing and analysis hardware in the entirety of Harmony space.

The uniform of the Public Security Directorate is the standard Harmony pattern uniform, but in stark white, without the coloured highlights and flourishes of the other Directorates.

Segments
The Harmony is officially divided into five Segments: Core, Trailing, Spinward, Coreward, and Rimward

During peacetime each Segment has a full Peacekeeper Directorate Expeditionary fleet permanently assigned to it: Core: 1st Peacekeeper Expeditionary Fleet

Trailing: 2nd Peacekeeper Expeditionary Fleet

Spinward:3rd Peacekeeper Expeditionary Fleet

Coreward:4th Peacekeeper Expeditionary Fleet

Rimward: 5th Peacekeeper Expeditionary Fleet

Each Segment is further divided into Precincts:

Core: 1st and 2nd Precincts

Trailing: 3rd, 4th, and 5th Precincts

Spinward: 9th, 10th, and 11th Precincts

Coreward: 6th, 7th, and 8th Precincts

Rimward: 12th, 13th, and 14th Precincts

During peacetime each Precinct has a full Public Safety Directorate Precinct Squadron permanently assigned to it.

Horizon
System: Far Light

Population Centers: Far Light IV (Horizon), Far Light IV-b (Dawn)

Total System Population: ~57 Billion. 95% Horizonian, 5% Other

The Homeworld of the Horizonians themselves and the Capital world of the entire Harmony. The planet itself is a carefully sculpted work of art in its own right. Cities of graceful spires and scattered low rising buildings are part of rolling hills and forests. Settling partially out over the glittering blue waters of the Seleenez gulf is the city of Sunrise, the center of Harmony’s official government. In the sky hundreds of small orbital farms orbit the planet in a twinkling daytime constellation of stars.

Many of the Harmony's most storied institutions are located on Horizon including: the University of Curiosity at Sunrise, the University of Knowledge at Sunset, the Antaria Valley Advanced Cognition School, the Spire of Unity (which houses the offices of the Sovereignty Committee), the headquarters of the Public Security Directorate, and the Seleenez Gulf Council of Arts and Culture.

In the sky, the massive Dawnrim shipyards orbit Horizon’s second moon, the Horizoformed and tidally locked moon of Dawn, where the cradles that birth the Harmony’s massive fleets in a constant flurry of activity.

Horizon is the central world of the 2nd Precinct and the 2nd Public Safety Directorate Precinct Squadron is based out of Dawnrim.

Sanctuary
System: Saint's Light

Population Center: Saint's Light II (Sanctuary), Perspicacity Station (Saint's Light III)

Total System Population: ~20 Billion. 75% Horizonian, 12% Tseskiya 7% Tauni, 6% Other

The first daughter colony of Horizon, Sanctuary, was in fact settled by the Imrael Republic shortly before The Discontinuity which preceded the Harmony. The descendants of the original colonists had regressed to an Terran 18th Century standard of living before the Horizoanians returned to Sanctuary and brought the Sanctuarians back into the fold.

A fairly standard M-Class world, Sanctuary is distinguished by its extensive cave systems and large underground caverns which are now home to the sprawling Sanctuary Fleet Training Center.

The third planet in the Saint's Light system is home to Perspicacity station, a major scientific research station and civilian starbase complex which houses millions of inhabitants.

Sanctuary is the central world of both the 1st Precinct and the administrative hub of the Harmony's Core Segment. Both the Public Safety Directorate's 1st Precinct Squadron and the Peacekeeping Directorate's Homeguard Expeditionary Group are based out of Sanctuary.

Haven
System: Haven

Population Centers: Haven-I (Haven)

Total System Population: ~14 Billion 80% Horizonian, 7% Lintrid, 5% Tseskiya, 8% Other

The first daughter colony of Horizon settled after The Discontinuity and the formation of the Harmony of Horizon.

Haven is an M-Class world that with a surface coverage of over 85% water. Many of Haven’s cities are in fact not built upon land but as loosely connected floating platforms that slowly move about the tranquil waters of Haven’s azure surface.

While once there was a risk of major storms destroying these cities, the Harmony’s engineers created a system of orbital weather control satellites that prevent anything more devastating than a gentle rain from moving near the populace.

The only exception to Haven's impressive record of weather safety is an event from the Tauni Rebellion where, in 2287, Tauni rebels sabotaged the orbital grid and caused the city of Altas to sink in major storms, killing over one and a half million Harmony citizens.

Haven is the central world of both the 3rd Precinct and the administrative hub of the Harmony's Trailing Segment. Both the Public Safety Directorate's 3rd Precinct Squadron and the Peacekeeper Directorate's Trailing Expeditionary Group are based out of Haven.

Stickine
System: Nahanni

Population Centers: Nahanni V (Stickine), Nahanni V-a (Edziza)

Total System Population: ~14 Billion. 45% Tseskiya, 40% Horizonian, 10% Lintrid, 5% Other

A rocky mountainous M-class world crisscrossed with swift rivers and plunging valleys, Stickine is the Homeworld of the black-plumed, Avianoid, Tseskiya people.

The first non-Horizonian addition to the Harmony, the loosely united worlds of the Tseskiya Republic welcomed in Harmony aid while they were undergoing a devastating plague and later joined the Harmony.

Stickine, and Stickine's moon of Edziza, provide a large portion of the Harmony’s SR budget. Despite this the Harmony has committed significant resources to maintaining Stickine’s environment and have taken pains to avoid turning the world into a industrial hellhole

Stickine is the central world of both the 6th Precinct and the administrative hub of the Harmony's Coreward Segment. Both the Public Safety Directorate's 6th Precinct Squadron and the Peacekeeper Directorate's Coreward Expeditionary Group are based out of Stickine.

Iskut
System: Deese

Population Centers: Deese-VII (Iskut)

Total System Population: ~8 Billion. 50% Horizonian, 30% Tseskiya, 10% Lintrid, 5% Tauni, 5% Other

One of the three worlds of the Tseskiya Republic, Iskut was in the process of being Tseskiyaformed when the Tseskiya Republic joined the Harmony. Since then the Harmony has sunk a great deal of time and effort into turning the formerly airless rock of a colony into a major core world.

Iskut is the central world of the 8th Precinct. The Public Safety Directorate's 8th Precinct Squadron is based out of Haven.

Tahlan
System: Kaske

Population Centers: Kaske-IIV-c (Tahlan), Glittering Net (Kaske-IIV-c, Kaske-IIV-d Kaske-IIV-e, Kaske-IIV-f Kaske-IIV-g)

Population: 33 Billion. 20% Horizonian, 20% Tseskiya, 20% Lintrid, 20% Moy, 10% Tauni, 10% Other.

A major hub world at the crossroads of multiple trade and logistics networks Tahlan was a minor Tseskiya colony world before its accession into the Harmony.

Orbiting a Jovian type gas giant, Tahlan is a world of rolling hills and small oceans filled with aquatic leviathans. Tahlan is also home to the second largest population in the entire Harmony, second only to Horizon itself. Natives of Tahlan are reputed to have a higher degree of entrepreneurial spirit than other Harmony worlds.

The other feature of the Kaske system is the Glittering Net, a loose collection of orbital habitats, sublight craft, and satellites spread throughough the rings and middle moons of Kaske-IIV. Glittering Net is home to billions and is the largest space native population in the Harmony, with a significant population of Moy inhabitants dating back to refugees of the time of the Moy Warlords.

The Industry Directorate and the Sovereignty Committee have given a great deal of thought to expanding the Tahlan military shipyards inside the Glittering Net to handle a similar degree of construction as that of Horizon itself, and the issue is become something of a growing cause within parts of the Harmony's electorate.

Tahlan is the central world of both the 9th Precinct and the administrative hub of the Harmony's Spinward Segment. Both the Public Safety Directorate's 9th Precinct Squadron and the Peacekeeper Directorate's Spinward Expeditionary Group are based out of Haven.

Mist
System: Mist

Population Centers: Mist-II (Mist)

Total System Population: 12 Billion 55% Moy, 30% Horizonian, 10% Tauni, 5% Other

The Homeworld of the then-fractious Moy, Mist was folded into the Harmony with minimal violence during the Harmony’s envelopment of the Moy species during the Peacekeeping action that ended with the Compact of Mist.

The Moy’s homework's of Mist is well named. The atmosphere is thick and heavy, and the wetter and coastal regions are covered in a fog of aeroplankton. The Moy enjoy the natural world, but destroyed much of it in their endless international conflicts; the restoration of the great foggy jungles was a major policy initiative during the early days of Moy membership in the Harmony. The cities of the moy are built upward rather than outward, with many high towers connected by terraces and wire bridges to climb or swing on.

Mist is the central world of both the 12th Precinct and the administrative hub of the Harmony's Trailing Segment. Both the Public Safety Directorate's 12th Precinct Squadron and the Peacekeeper Directorate's Rimward Expeditionary Group are based out of Mist.

Tiriad
System: Kirid

Population Centers: Kirid III (Tiriad)

Total System Population: 24 Billion. 85% Lintrid, 10% Horizonian, 5% Other

The Homeworld of the Klingonoid Lintrid species.

Tiriad is very much a tamed world, whose fields and forests were re-engineered and put to use by the industrious Lintrids in a manner similar to the human "Arcadian Nature" concept. Sprawling metropoli surrounded by sedate green fields and small patches of sedate green forest. The Harmony hasn't changed things much, accepting Lintrid notions of environmental management on their homeworld.

Tiriad is the central world of the 5th Precinct. The Public Safety Directorate's 5th Precinct Squadron is based out of Tiriad.

Japha
System: Gald

Population Centers: Gald-III (Japha)

Population: ~3 Billion. 45% Tauni, 30% Horizonian, 20% Tseskiya, 5% Other.

A primarily arboreal and coolly temperate planet with vast deserts near the equator, Japha is also the largest off Kelowna population of the Tauni people. While the extended Tauni Rebellion was detrimental to population growth, the second wave of pro-Harmony immigration in the aftermath of the Treaty of Shyenn Japha became a major bastion of pro-Harmony Tauni and has recently grown to major world status

Japha is the central world of the 14th Precinct. The Public Safety Directorate's 14th Precinct Squadron is based out of Japha.

Polysynodical Electronic Democracy
The Harmony appears to operate on a mixed Federal structure.

At the Harmony level, the Harmony operates as a electronic democracy with universal suffrage. Issues of universal import are decided by Harmony wide referenda. Lower level governance and legislation appears to operate on a polysynodical model with elections determining the creation and disbanding of various committees.

Proposals for new committees and laws can be made by any citizen, and added to the Harmony-wide "Harmony" infonet once they've been cleared by the Harmony's Central Judicial Committee on Constitutional Eligibility. An individual proposal can gains votes over a period of time determined by the Judicial Committee, and once it gains votes equal to 60%+1 of the population of the affected area (Planetary, System, Precinct, Segment, and All-Harmony) the law or Committee goes into effect, with immediate elections being held for the spaces on the committee.

Committees and laws not granted Permanency by the Harmony's Constitution can be repealed by a 50%+1 vote of the affected administrative district,

Each committee has jurisdiction over over an area of life or government as established by its mandated when formed. Overlaps in jurisdictional areas between committees are resolved by the Harmony's Sovereignty Committee.

Central Judicial Committee on Constitutional Eligibility
One of two Committees granted permanency by the Harmony's constitution, the Judicial Committee is a body of One Thousand and eighty members that oversee the legality of each new e-democratic Proposal once it gains votes equal to 6% of the total population of the affected area.

Once a Proposal has been approved by one hundred and eighty members of the Judicial Committee it is officially cleared to go into effect once it reaches 60%+1 votes.

Elections to the Judicial Committee are permanent until death or retirement. Replacement candidates to the Judicial Committee are nominated by one hundred and eighty members of the Judicial Committee and confirmed by the first candidate to gain a majority of votes from the Sovereignty Committee.

Sovereignty Committee
One of two Committees granted permanency by the Harmony's constitution, the Sovereignty Committee is the supreme executive body of the Harmony. Made up of Thirty members elected or reelected every five years by a popular vote in which the thirty individuals who gain the most votes from the electorate are are placed on the committee.

The Sovereignty Committee's primary task, as established by the Harmony's constitution, is to settle jurisdictional disputes between the lesser Committees, and confirm candidates for the Judicial Committee.

Over the centuries the Sovereignty Committee has acquired a number of other executive and legislative roles including: Supreme military authority, emergency powers in a military crisis, the ability to pardon individuals deemed criminal by the Psycurity analytical system, and the ability to appoint members to the Judicial Committee on a temporary basis if the Judicial Committee is unable to nominate its' own candidates.

Executive Steering Committee
An impermanent committee without constitutional permanence, the Executive Steering Committee is currently made up of thirty members: ten from the Sovereignty Committee, ten from the Judicial Committee and the heads of each of the Harmony's Directorates.

The Executive Steering Committee is responsible for long term planning and coordination between the highest levels of the Harmony's state as well as generating the majority of the Harmony's foreign policy goals.

The Executive Steering Committee has little official power, but desicions made at meetings of the Steering Committee are then put in action by the Sovereignty Committee, the Judicial Committee, and the Directorate heads when their members return from a meeting of the Executive Steering Committee.

Uniformed Spacegoing Services
Essentially the Armed Forces and Law Enforcement arms of the Harmony, the Uniformed Spacegoing Services is the collective term for the four Uniformed agencies that protect the Harmony and its citizens.

The Peacekeeper Directorate, Science Directorate, Public Security Directorate, and Public Safety Directorate are grouped under the category of Uniformed Armed Services for legal, rhetorical, and budgetary reasons.

Social Services Directorates
Similarly to the Uniformed Services, the Education and Culture Directorate, the Public Information Directorate, the Industry, Economy and Ecological Preservation Directorate, and the Health and Housing Directorate are all grouped together as the Social Services Directorates.

Mercantile Aid Directorate
Kept in existence almost purely on the strength of its popularity with the Tseskiya and Lintrid demographics, who make up the bulk of its members, the Mercantile Aid Directorate operates almost all civilian shipping registered to the Harmony. If the Harmony is shipping it, it's under the authority of the Mercantile Aid Directorate.

Most Directorate crews operate as organized workers cooperatives, with many of those cooperatives dating their foundation back to the days of the Tseskiya Republic.

Galactic Outreach Directorate
A recent development, the Galactic Outreach Directorate is the combination of a number of outward looking Harmony Directorate resources, the old Foreign Relations Directorate, and related Committees formed into one organization in order to fight the Harmony's diplomatic war with the United Federation of Planets.

United Federation of Planets
The Harmony of Horizon is currently locked in a no holds barred diplomatic struggle with the Federation over the allegiance of the minor powers that lie between the two powers: The League of Independent Felis Colonies, The Outer Space Alliance, and the Arcadian Empire.

Interstellar Commonwealth
Relations between the Harmony and the Commonwealth are frosty as the Commonwealth believes that the Harmony was responsible for a subversion/annexation operation centuries ago.

Romulan Star Empire
The Romulan Star Empire's security apparatus appears to view Harmony influence with alarm, though Harmony Singers once had an offer open to the Romulan Empress to intervene in the Romulan/Breen war to enforce a status quo ante-bellum peace.

Klingon Empire
There is limited evidence of contact between the Harmony of Horizon and the Klingon Star Empire.

The Galactic Outreach Directorate appears to be negotiating with Chancellor Renhadd for the opportunity to set up an embassy on Kronos.

Cardassian Union
There is limited evidence of contact between the Harmony of Horizon and the Cardassian Union.

Culture
The culture of the wider Harmony is very much the culture of the Horizoanians, especially as they make up half the Harmony's population and have a major cultural impact on the other member species of the wider Harmony.

Family
Most families are extended affairs, with multiple generations living in the same housing complexes, with the concept of the nuclear family being a minority in the Harmony as the Tseskiya perpetuate their own loose clan structures and the Lintrids having a more regimented familial structure.

Horizoanian children are raised collectively in extended family cohorts overseen by trained Speakers and are monitored psychologically and genetically in order to ensure their mental and physical health as they age. As they approach puberty Harmony citizens recieve base line genetic modifications, broad spectrum vaccines, and are assessed for the psychological analysis system that forms the heart of the Harmony's Law Enforcement system.

In Harmony law, marriage is not an officially recognized state status, as lineage is easily tracked via genetic testing, and inheritance is not a major concern in the Harmony's post scarcity consumer economy. Thus romance and family is considered a concern that falls well outside of the legitimate reach of the government and amoungst the Horizoanian population a large minority are involved in polyamourous relationships -though the Tseskiya, Tauni, Lintrids, and Moy tend more towards monogamous relations.

Religion
Officially and publicly, the pluralistic wider Harmony culture is broadly tolerant of religious traditions and spiritualism. That said, spiritualism and religion has little purchase in the resolutely materialist Harmony and Harmony citizens have a reputation for an arrogant and almost zealous secularism.

Economics and Work
The Harmony operates a centrally planned consumer post scarcity economy broadly similar in many respects to that practiced by the Federation's core four members.

Finding themselves with little need to work for survival, the population of the Harmony spends much of their time in cultural pursuits. Most Harmony citizens have some academic grounding in some form of artistic theory, and most have at least one hobby or art that they have some level of expertise in.

The stereotypical Harmony citizen plays at least one instrument well, can read and write musical notation, has written at least one novel, is capable of sculpture, painting, programming, or environmenting, is capable of cooking a traditional Lintrid four course meal, and can design and manufacture their own clothes in a pinch.

While the truth falls somewhat short of the stereotype, most Harmony citizens do find satisfaction in contributing to the cultural life of the wider Harmony.

A common pastime of the common Harmony citizen is beautifying their environment. A great deal of effort is made to make the Harmony's constructs as aesthetically pleasing as possible and ensuring that each construct and building blends into the next (unless doing so is part of the artistic project). Harmony citizens tend towards integrating naturalistic curves and plants into their designs and many cities are built with the local terrain and integrate the preexisting environment.

Others citizens throw themselves into scientific pursuits at the many academic institutions across the Harmony, with the most prestigious institutions being the Antaria Valley Advanced Cognition School, the Stellar Science University of Stickine, the Iskut Data Cooperative, the University of Mist, the Sunrise School of Advanced Research, and the Tahlan Institute of Economics, Physics, Astrodynamics, and Philosophy.

Those who desire to give more to the Harmony than that are encouraged into Uniformed Service, and a large minority have cycled through one of the Uniformed Spacegoing Services at some point in their lives, as doing so is considered fairly prestigious.

For those that desire traditional forms of work (This category being traditionally filled in large part by the Harmony's Lintrid population) the massive Harmony shipyards always accept new workers who desire to apply themselves to building the best and most attractive starships. Everything from Tseskiya designed Sanctuary Fleet Tenders to the highly efficient freighter and industrial ship designs of the Lintrids all come together under the hands of dedicated and cheerfully efficient workers.

For those of a more merchantile bent, the The Mercantile Aid Directorate of the Harmony is always looking for new crew, and many of the spots on the Directorate's ships are filled with with Tseskiya following in the entrepreneurial footsteps of their ancestors, and while the freighters and cargo ships are officially owned by the Merchantile Aid Directorate, they are crewed by ancient worker cooperative associations dating back to the days of Tseskiya Republic.

Speakers, Invectors, and Singers
Harmony society, while pluralistic and egalitarian seems to have developed a loosely defined class system based on prestige.

Those citizens who devote their time to education and service of others are often known as "Speakers": medical professionals, practicing scientists, engineers, legal experts, and other academic experts who have earned respect through their intellectual labour are all called "Speakers"

"Invector" is a term applied to devoted members of the Uniformed Services. Typically someone known as an Invector is someone who has devoted their life to the Uniformed Services and has demonstrated their ability through an unbroken record of professional accomplishment, athletic ability, and tactical acumen. On the field of battle or in the game room an Invector is a foe to take seriously.

To be a "Singer" is to be amoungst the most respected persons in the Harmony. Taking their name from the mythological founders of the Harmony, a Singer is part of the uppermost political class of the Harmony. High ranking flag officers, the most brilliant and accomplished scientists, the greatest artists, and the most cunning and persuasive diplomats. All find themselves with highly respected title of "Singer".

"Psycurity" Predictive Analytical System
Maintained by the Public Security Directorate the "Psycurity" Predictive Analytical System, is a comprehensive physical and digital analytical system that uses regular psychological and medical checkups in order to observe all Harmony citizens for signs of criminal or "degenerative antisocial" behavior.

Originally pioneered in theory by the Lintrid's University of Deviance Studies of Tiriad, the "Psycurity" system has been slowly phased in over past generations as part of a comprehensive utopian vision to permanently eliminate all criminal behavior.

While initially controversial and subject to an acrimonious Harmony wide referendum, the results are generally believed to speak for themselves. Nearly all criminal behavior is detected and corrected before it has a chance to express itself.

The most controversial part of the system's implementation is the choice to euthenise those individuals determined to fall into the "Incurable" category. People determined to be such are often scheduled for "compassionate euthanasia" as incurably dangerous individuals who will inevitably kill -or worse. It is generally considered to be a much kinder fate than permanent isolation, complete personality death, or lifetime induced medical coma.

A major criticism of the system, leveled even from inside the University of Deviance Studies of Tiriad, is that the Psycurity system's implementation encourages catastrophic criminal breaks. As permanent imprisonment or euthanasia is a likely inevitability of criminal action, those individuals who do engage in criminal actions immediately disregard all restraint, making what crimes that do happen often excessively bloody and costly affairs.

Dawnrim Shipyards
The massive Dawnrim shipyards orbit Horizon’s second moon, the Horizoformed and tidally locked moon of Dawn, where the cradles that birth the Harmony’s massive fleets are in a constant flurry of activity.

Sanctuary Fleet Training Center
Built in large part in the caverns that run beneath the surface of Sanctuary, the Sanctuary Fleet Training Center is a massive sprawling complex which sees every member of the Unifromed Spacegoing Services pass through for education at some point.

Though the Training Center has wings for each of the Uniformed Services, the Center is just as much a civilian institution that both educates prospective civilian spacers, but also houses many of the Harmony's premier fleet research and starship theory institutions.

Glittering Net
A major feature of the Kaske system is the Glittering Net, a loose collection of orbital habitats, sublight craft, and satellites spread throughough the rings and middle moons of Kaske-IIV. Glittering Net is home to billions and is the largest space native population in the Harmony, with a significant population of Moy inhabitants dating back to refugees of the time of the Moy Warlords.

The Industry Directorate and the Sovereignty Committee have given a great deal of thought to expanding the Tahlan military shipyards inside the Glittering Net to handle a similar degree of construction as that of Horizon itself, and the issue is become something of a growing cause within parts of the Harmony's electorate.

Perspicacity Station
The third planet in the Saint's Light system is home to Perspicacity station, a major scientific research station and civilian starbase complex which houses millions of inhabitants. Though it is in a state of constant growth, Perspicacity Station is the ancestor of all modern Harmony starbases.