Coricia

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Coricia [kôrēshə, kərēshyə] refers to the third planet in the Ceiy Minoris system, the political state based there, and its interstellar territory, covering a large portion of the known galaxy, including Federation space. Inhabitants (humans) were known as Coricians [kərēshinz/kôrēshyinz].

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origins

Coricia was colonized by 21st century Earth astronauts aboard the Pygmalion, who traveled there after encountering mysterious technology on Galatea, Neptune's moon. One astronaut, Corrick, sired a grandson, Coric, who formed the early Corician state, later called the Corician Empire.

Unknown to the early Coricians, Coricia was actually Earth, to which the Pygmalion astronauts had returned, unwittingly traveling into the past, creating an alternate timeline where human history took a different route. This remained unknown until Coricians aboard the spacecraft Centares, tasked with locating Earth (regarded as a legend since Coric's era), retraced the Pygmalion's path and learned the truth, in the process depositing technology on Galatea for their ancestors to find.

The Centares voyage temporally "bridged" (duplicated) Coricia/Earth, so that their "genesis point" equaled the approximate period of Earth's 21st century – erasing the alternate timeline, yet not Coricia or events which gave rise to it. Corician history unfolded from that point. In the future, their planet's impending destruction (possibly an effect of time warp) propelled Centares' mission. By going into the past, Centares initiated events which created Coricia: In a sense, Coricia created itself. That mission transposed Coricia/Earth to Ceiy Minoris, part of the Ceiy star group (along with blue giant Ceiy Majoris).

Corician interstellar history once paralleled the Federation's, including multi-ethnic existence with races the Coricians engineered, such as the Churgans, Arganes and Placidians. Through their interstellar reach and travels, they engineered, directly or indirectly, most if not all forms of life in the known universe.

From a real-life perspective, this reflects the fact that we, humans, created all forms of alien life known to us... in fiction.

Coricians generally thought the Federation inferior, a flawed social experiment & reminder of past coexistence with aliens they created, which ended in hostilities.

government

At the time of contact with the Federation (circa 340s CE), Corician government was divided between the Synarchy, overseeing administration, and the militaristic Phalanx. Each worked in tandem through a series of checks and balances.

Synarchy

Synarchs, top-level administrators, functioned in both political and military aspects, under a presiding synarch who carried the title bas (akin to English "boss"). (In Arcadia's time, this was Bas Onida.) Synarchs equated with members of the Federation Council by comparison, representing different areas or constituents of Corician society.

Phalanx

In the Phalanx (comparable to Starfleet), soldiers and scientists practiced a dual relationship of importance and cooperation. The Phalanx held autonomous authority, making decisions which could affect Corician society, while being answerable to the Synarchy. Representatives of military and scientific branches were occasionally ambivalent to each other (a traditional conflict between science and the military, expressed in the brother-and-sister duo of Eli and Kristana Karper).

The Phalanx maintained headquarters in a nebula from which the facility was built, named (appropriately) the Headquarters Nebula.

territory

The exact boundaries of Corician space were unknown, though it overlapped and intersected the Federation. Several planetary systems claimed by the Federation were once Corician-held (and may still be as of 346), among them Tamajun, Gantalon, Gammatron, Hirrenau, Snyder's Planet and Kallas. As well, Churgurax, in former Cardassian space, was home to the Churgans.

Corician law regarded the Federation as a protectorate, disallowing interference in Federation affairs, similar to Starfleet's Prime Directive.

technology

Coricia's long history made their technology comparably more advanced than the Federation's (where Federation humans might be, following millennia of progress). The Corician modus operandi often went undetected in the Federation, yet effects could be visible. The Bajoran wormhole's collapse in 346 CE, tied to the Bajoran disappearance, was attributed to Corician involvement.

It was believed that Coricia could move planets, perhaps entire star systems. This may have been extrapolated from their own system's transposition.

environment

planet

Coricia was essentially Earth, given millennia of changing environmental conditions and modifications, including spatial & temporal shifts and proximity to a neighboring blue giant (Ceiy Majoris). Destruction threatened Coricia in the future, possibly due to such conditions.

The temporal "bridge" apparently neutralized the threat, as Coricia continued to exist, at least in 346.

Coricia orbited the star Ceiy Minoris, a binary companion to distant Ceiy Majoris.

Since Earth's environment is so dependent on the sun, Ceiy Minoris may in fact be Sol, a G-type star. Millennia of stellar drift & galactic motion and other intervening factors might account for its relocation.

Corician characters

*  Marked characters have not (yet) appeared in Arcadia.

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