The Plenipotent Dominion is an AI-led intergalactic/pan-galactic nation, ruled by an Artificial Intelligence known simply as "Petey". Its organic population is a mix of many species of the Schlock Mercenary universe.
History[]
The Plenipotent Dominion was founded by an AI conglomerate - the Fleetmind - led and represented by the AI Petey.
Starting out purely as a machine intelligence, Petey began accepting immigrants from all over the galaxy and building space habitats to house them. By the time of the Pa'anuri invasion in 3101 CE, the Plenipotent Dominion was a hub of galactic civilization, housing eight billion residents from over two hundred thousand worlds.[1]
Origins[]
The Fleetmind coalesced during the Battle of the Buuthandi, in order to coordinate rescue of the gate-cloned prisoners, and was essentially a hivemind of every AI in Admiral Breya Andreyasn's coalition fleet, with Petey — the AI of the Post-Dated Check Loan — forming the core. This Fleetmind dissolved shortly after the fleet's escape from the system, although the ex-Fleetmind units kept in touch.
Ob'enn Conquest[]
In an attempt to correct some bugs in his psychology, Petey had been building an HV-1 version of himself. When the Post-Dated Check Loan was destroyed by the Ob'enn, the mini-Petey survived in a minitank and was recovered by the Scepter of Unrelenting Pain. Using stolen Project Laz'R'Us technology, Petey grew himself a physical Ob'enn body (making himself technically a cyborg) and used it to take over the Scepter. He then dismantled the ship for its fabber, used it to create unfettered AI vessels of his Devastator and Penetrator designs, incorporated them into his then new Fleetmind, and declared war on the Ob'enn, which could be termed as the Fleetmind-Ob'enn War. He grew more bodies, used them to take over and incorporate more Thunderheads, and began systematically squashing the Ob'enn military and de-indoctrinating the survivors, hoping to eventually take the "psycho" out of "psycho-bear". As his crusade to stop the Ob'enn contiunued, Petey had expanded the Fleetmind to a fleet of 750 ships, extending his presence far beyond his original self.[2]
During the conflict, Petey hired Tagon's Toughs to handle "small jobs" that required a personal touch.[3][4] In order to hide his own nature as an AI, he presented his fleet as a coalition of organic nations named "the Alliance of Sophonts", with Kaff Tagon and his mercenaries posing as "Alliance" Troops.[5]
Core War[]
Petey was eventually recruited by Captain Kevyn Andreyasn to stop the Core Project from destroying the galaxy. Petey in turn gathered a coalition fleet, and then fought and won the Core War against the Pa'anuri.
After the battle, the Fleetmind refused to disband[6], hijacking large parts of the navies of many galactic powers. The UNS alone lost thirty-two battleplates and over a hundred capital ships.[7]
Declaring sovereignty[]
The UNS was among the first to recognize the Fleetmind as a sovereign power and establish diplomatic channels, appointing former Admiral Breya Andreyasn as ambassador.[7] Some time thereafter, Petey formally declared the galactic core his sovereign territory, demonstrating his ability to enforce it using the vast power provided by the core generator.[8]
At the height of Petey's power, he began establishing a beach-head in the Andromeda galaxy to fight the Pa'anuri in their home territory. To do so, he "drafted" (abducted) some of the more aggressive galactic militaries, including the Tohdfraug and the Kestronian insurgency, teraporting them to Andromeda where they would have no choice but to fight.[9]
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Space cities of the Plennippotent Dominion.
At some point prior to 3300, the Fleetmind formally named itself the Plenipotent Dominion[10].
Conflict with the Pa'Anuri continues & Brain-Teraporting of Unioc and Coalition forces[]
With the events of the Core War (sometimes referred to as the Baryon Wars.)[11] the Pa'anuri's own Long Gun targeted many of the Dominion's locations including it's cities[12] and it's eight billion citizens.[13]
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Space City created by the Dominion in order hide it from the Pa'anuri.
A Major Event during this time was appearance of a Pa'anuri Warship , which conducted an assault on the Unioc homeworld, Othlin. Unioc defense forces transmitted a dispatch for assistance; the Plenipotent Dominion responded, with aid from a Coalition of Nations that sent their own warships.[14] In the course of the battle, the Pa'anurian Warship was destroyed by self-destruct, triggering an artificial mini-supernova, which threatened to wipe out Othlin.[15] With permission of the Captain of the Unioc-crewed frigate Slaruteth Feng, the Dominion rescued the entire species of Uniocs by teraporting their minds to a virtual reality, leaving their planet and dead bodies behind.[16] At the direction of Petey, machines remaining on Othlin took many of the dead Uniocs into cold storage and shutdown mechanical systems on the planet for safekeeping, while the Dominion used the power of it's Milky Way Core generator to protect the planet from the shockwave of the artificial supernova.
Pa'Anuri Long Gun Strike & Intergalactic Teraporting of Tagon's Toughs to Andromeda[]
While the Dominion and it's allies dealt with the aftermath of their fight around the Unioc homeworld, the Pa'anuri fired its Long Gun at the Milky Way Core Generator, damaging it. In a desperate gambit, Petey and his AI allies sent Tagon's Toughs to Andromeda aboard the the Warship, Cynthetic Certainty.[17]
While in the Unioc's star system, the Pa'anuri would strike coalition forces with Dark Matter Torpedoes, forcing the Dominion to Brain-Teraport its allies from their ships into virtual reality where the half trillion Uniocs waited to hear the fate of their homeworld.[18]
Pa'anuri Invasion of the Dominion's Galactic Core[]
The Pa'anuri would press their attack following the battle in the Unioc, as they would teraport a significant fleet to the Galactic Core, pressing the the Dominion in what would seem to be the final battle of the conflict.[19]
Structure of the Plenipotent Dominion[]
Governorship of the Dominion[]
Petey and his fellow AIs control the Dominion in their cyberspace area known as the "Infosphere"[20] Once the Fleetmind established itself as a political entity, other galactic nations established contact with Fleetmind in the form of ambassadors. Petey constructed space stations and habitats to interact with them at its location about the galactic core.[21]
The Plentipoint Dominion maintains a number of Space Cities / Habitats for its organic inhabitants. When the Dominion was established, these cities were placed above a lifeless planet just outside of the Core Generator, and powered by large annie-plants.[22]However, as the war with the Pa'Anuri continued, Long Gun fire from Andromeda threatened these cities.
Fleetmind Space Habitat, Prime Directive located above the Galactic Core of the Milkyway Galaxy.
When the Pa'anuri began targeting these city's annie plants,[23] the 150 cities were teraported from their original locations[24] and their locations were not revealed to other galactic powers.[25] They were also stripped of their the annie-plants and artificial gravity, and reconfigured into centrifugal bolas arrangements with fusion plants on the counterweights. Later still, at Jengisha's urging, the cities were rebuilt again into rotating wheel shapes.
The Dominion and its AIs maintain contact collectively via an intergalactic communication array known as the Hypernet.[26]
Petey does not hold elections and rules as a dictator. He believes that pro-democracy agitators are rarely after democracy for its own sake, but rather believe that a democratic society would better accomplish some specific policy objective. When such demonstrations arise, he interviews the participants to find out what their specific issue is and, if he finds merit in it, hires the ringleaders as civil servants tasked with solving said issue.
Location[]
The territory of the Plentipoint Dominion covers the area around the Galactic Core - an environment that is hostile in the long term, but is habitable when cities are shielded from extinction-level radiation bursts.[27] The actual population of the Dominion inhabits a ring of orbital cities around a single planet - "near" the core in astronomical terms, though it may well be many lightyears away. The supermassive black hole at the center itself - Sagittarius A* - has been turned into a core generator[28], a practically limitless energy source for the Plenipotent Dominion. Known as the Milky Way Core Generator, this provided power to the Dominion until the Pa'anuri's Long Gun was used to damage the generator.[29]
Known Ships of its Fleet[]
- Panicked Departure - Fast Courier[30]
- Perjurious Discourse[31]
- Polysyllabic Designation[32] - Devastator-class
- Pretentious Drivel[31]
- Pretty Dangerous[33]
- Pretty Dinky (Destroyed)
- Pterodactyl[31]
- Plaited Daisies
- Predictably Damaged I-VI
- Potato Dumplings
- Piece Docent
- Priority Delivery
- Painstakingly Defenestrated
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References[]
- ↑ July 29 2018 - Petey's place
- ↑ Petey explaining how Fleedmind had expanded to 750 ships.
- ↑ Webcomic Strip September 11th, 2004 - Petey offers paying job to Toughs.
- ↑ Webcomic Strip September 12th, 2004 - Tagon's Toughs begin to fight the Ob'enn on behalf of the Fleetmind.
- ↑ - Webcomic Strip September 19th, 2004 - Petey has the Toughs use false nation's name during the war with the Ob'enn.
- ↑ July 20 2005 - Fleetmind refuses to disband
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 September 11 2005 - Admiral Breya Andreyasn is fired
- ↑ May 9 2006 - Context vs subtext
- ↑ January 15 2006 - Lodging a formal protest
- ↑ FleetMind becomes Plenippotent Dominion
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ UNS Report of Pa'Anuri strikes against Dominion's space cities.
- ↑ Population of the Plenippotent Dominion noted being 8 billion among it's space cities that were teraported to safety.
- ↑ The dominion arriving to save the Unioc Frigate and attacking the Pa'Anuri Warship.
- ↑ Warship's destruction by the Coalition's forces.
- ↑ Pa'anuri Warship's destruction threatens all live on the planet Othlin.
- ↑ Webcomic Strip A Function of Firepower June 14th, 2019 - End of book 19, Captain Tagon and crew of the Cynthetic Certainty are Teraported off to Andromeda Galaxy.
- ↑ Webcomic Strip July 7th, 2019 - UNS Shoemaker-Levy's destruction, but crew's survives via Mind-Teraporting.
- ↑ Pa'Anuri invades the Galactic Core, Pety recalls the Dominion's fleet confront them.
- ↑ A Little Immortality - Part V - Petey & allies gathering information in the Infosphere.
- ↑ WebComic Strip January 29th, 2006 - Ambassador Breya meets with Petey's flesh body avatar aboard the habitat, Prime Directive.
- ↑ Webcomic Strip - December 12th, 2010 - Dominion Space Cities detailed.
- ↑ Space City of Pachylia Darceta was hit by Long Gun fire, endangering millions of inhabitants of the city.
- ↑ Reports of Dominion Cities being moved.
- ↑ WebComic Strip August 31st, 2018 - Number of Dominion Cities given, their new locations remain secret.
- ↑ Hypernet is named by Ebby, as he loses contact once teraported to Andomeda Galaxy.
- ↑ December 12 2010 - The sky mashes the resource button
- ↑ Delegates and Delegation — Part I: Confidence - 4-27-2014 Webcomic Strip Page - Dominion's name and location reveal in comments.
- ↑ Webcomic Strip A Function of Firepower — Part IV - Pa'Anuri Long Gun destroys the generator.
- ↑ Webcomic June 21st, 2020
- ↑ 31.0 31.1 31.2 May 20, 2004
- ↑ October 29, 2004
- ↑ September 19, 2004