Gemini Sovereignty

Gemini Sovereignty
Basic information
Major Species	Geminite
Capital(s)	Gemini Alpha, Gemini Beta
Founded	Around 22,000 B.C.E.
Warp Capable	Yes
Official Language	Telepathy
Official Currency	Drial
Political Information
Military Branches	Grand Fleet
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Gemini Sovereignty was a government founded sometime around 22,000 B.C.E. in the Earth timeline united by their first Lairae Mihmaetes. They primarily are strong in Medicine and Science while being significantly weak in their military prowess being primarily a peaceful civilization.

Nations

The Gemini Sovereignty started out as a group of individual nations which were constantly at war with each other for many different reasons. Assassinations and leadership changes were predominant as were territory changes as nations conquered each other or were conquered themselves. The Geminite Wars originally started out as attempts to control resources on their homeworld, but other reasons were common as well. Wars also would start over simple disagreements between the different national leadership. Finally religious based warfare was a large reason why several other conflicts started. What became known as the Great Geminite War that lasted a thousand years was started when the leader of one nation wanted to eliminate the population of their neighboring nation based entirely on the religious beliefs of the population itself.

Known Nations

• Terraneses
• K'Tarai
• Ralanaese
• Hilanae
• Ortana
• Rual'Ortin
• S'Kuric

History

War & Peace

The Geminite Sovereignty started out as several different nations some larger and more defined than others and many of those fell during the wars that took place for more than a thousand years. One of the biggest wars to take place engulfed the world in less than ten, but continued for a thousand years and placed strain upon the economies and the population of each nation involved in the war. It became known as the Great Geminite War and was the single most destructive war in the planet's long history. The war was sparked by religious disagreements between Ortana and Rual'Ortin when the leader of Ortana decided that he could eliminate the monotheist belief system of the population of Rual'Ortin. Combat began when Qurinae the leader of Ortana sent a massive invasion force across the border and began what was one of the worst mass genocide in the planet's history. Rual'Ortin, a smaller nation, was nearly overwhelmed by the sudden incursion and would have fallen had the leaders of S'Kuric not stepped in and sent their own armies into Rual'Ortin intent on stopping the invasion.

The Monarchy in Terraneses responded by sending their own forces into S'Kuric because of their alliance with Ortana at the time and leading to S'Kuric having to fight a war on two fronts. The military forces of S'Kuric nearly collapsed under the pressure and practically in under a week half their military strength was eliminated from fighting on two sides. Rual'Ortin finally collapsed unable to sustain itself from trying to fend off the invaders, and because S'Kuric was forced into retreating back across into their own borders. With the total control of Rual'Ortin under their control the Ortana military forces began wiping out the population of Rual'Ortin by marching the people inside large buildings where powerful acids were used to kill them. K'Tarai quickly became alarmed and being the second largest nation and the second largest military force only to Terraneses began moving troops along their border with Ortana and began threatening to invade.

This did nothing more than anger the government of Hilanae seeing that the K'Tarai, who were also their sworn enemies, were becoming aggressive they moved troops and began to complete border strikes killing hundreds of both civilians and military personnel. Also this forced the K'Tarai to turn their focus on the Hilanae nation whom they felt were trying to take advantage of their military location. The K'Tarai quickly withdrew from their border with Ortana in order to defend their border with the Hilanae. Now only one major nation remained out of the war, but they wouldn't stand idly by for long as they were allies with the K'Tarai and would begin attacking Hilanae officially creating a world war.

Eventually the last of the Rual'Ortin people were wiped out and with it the monotheistic belief system, and shortly thereafter the S'Kuric began to struggle against the military might of Terraneses. Now they were fending off both borders because the Ortana had once more began attacking them for involving themselves in the first place. The war started to go south and eventually they too would be sending children into combat out of desperation because their population had begun to dwindle. The constant warfare after more than two hundred years eventually led to S'Kuric finally falling under the military might of both super powers they bordered. This however did not quell the fighting both the Ortana and the Terraneses started fighting over control of what remained of the S'Kuric nation causing new warfare to break out.

After successfully fending off the Hilanae who were now subdued by Ralanaese who continued to attack them the K'Tarai turned their attention once more onto the Ortana who by now had destroyed both the S'Kuric and the Raul'Ortin nations. With a powerful blow they attacked the capital city of Ortana and nearly caused the nation to fall under the joint efforts of them and Terraneses. Another several hundred years passed as both sides began to stalemate, and it was around that time that many elders had predicted the total destruction of the entire Geminite Race. Out of the ashes rose Mihmaetes leader of Terraneses who thought enough was enough and instantly withdrew all his troops back into the original borders of his nation. An armistice took hold because all the nations were suddenly stunned because at this point Terraneses had been practically fighting and beating back all the remaining nations.

Mihmaetes created a series of games for athletes from not only his nation but from others to participate in for much needed resources and other supplies such as food and water which by now had become nearly scarce from all the fighting. He kept the tradition alive for twenty five years repeating the sequence once every other year, but never making it mandatory. Eventually a peace ensued and without more fighting he had successfully subdued the rest of the population the world leaders who remained eventually settled down to discuss a permanent peace treaty. And, it was determined that the world would unite and set aside their differences having forgotten the purpose of the fighting to begin with and making the peace that much easier to keep.

First World Government

Following the peace that had now ensued for more than twenty five years the world leaders formed a Republic form of government with checks and balances they would make a senate to represent the people, and a judicial system for both making sure laws were fair and unbiased while making certain that these laws were followed. They also needed the glue to hold everything together that being in what became known as the Lairae who was in charge of the entire system, but he could also be removed from power by vote of the Senate if he or she were corrupt or broke any laws. The Lairae was also the only position that was not voted on by the general public, but by the senate. Mihmaetes fearing a new uprising banned all political parties deciding that everybody should be one and the same, and nobody would be allowed to run under the banner of a general group, but as a whole.

So the first government to be established would be a group of senators who were selected by district on the planet and they would then vote in the Lairae who could only serve eight years and then they would be replaced by a new Lairae without the need of reelections. The founding members also determined that the senate could only serve four years and the members much like the Lairae could not be reelected to that position but they could become the Lairae following their four years. They arranged their judicial system to be decided by three judges, and the highest court would have five judges.

First Spaceflight & First Contact

Haramese, the great-great-grandson of Mihmaetes would eventually become Lairae, and his primary focus would be on astronomy and the stars since the end of the wars the population had exploded and it was time that they'd started considering new homes for themselves. He wasn't interested in much more than that, and he would use a great deal of resources to get his people into space. A team of space-goers discovered Gemini Beta which was in the same system as their homeworld Gemini Alpha, and would find that it was a livable world with the necessary resources and space for more population. A colony was established and the world would eventually become a dual capital world for the Geminite Sovereignty.

Many years after Haramese and the discovery of Gemini Beta the Geminites would discover a method of traveling between systems known as warp drive allowing them to travel great distances away from their home. Now able to go to other worlds they would colonize and expand for resources and for population increase purposes only not being much into exploration and preferring to isolate themselves they didn't attempt to find new species. And, most of the worlds they found were habitable, but did not have intelligent life allowing them to colonize without coming across another living species similar to themselves. They isolated themselves so well that they wouldn't make first contact with another species until the mid to late twenty fourth century when they came across the Romulans, and it was not a pleasant first contact. The Romulans attacked them, and began trying to conquer worlds that the Geminites valued for resources and while they were a peaceful people with little military strength they would need to defend themselves.

Government

The Geminite Sovereignty is a Republic with a series of checks and balances within three branches of their government all controlled by both the people and the Lairae their primary leader who controls the military and makes laws.