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illume [2011/09/13 14:38] 195.195.244.197illume [2024/10/03 19:17] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
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 ====== Illúme ====== ====== Illúme ======
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 +socio-symbiote with the [[Jeém]]
  
 In [[Illúme language| the Illúme language]] Illúme means //white people//. It has to be noted there is no reference to skin colour but to the empty state they found themsleves in when they regained consciousness after the fall. The Illúme litteraly remember being in a whitened room as their first memory, it's a shared event hence the name. In [[Illúme language| the Illúme language]] Illúme means //white people//. It has to be noted there is no reference to skin colour but to the empty state they found themsleves in when they regained consciousness after the fall. The Illúme litteraly remember being in a whitened room as their first memory, it's a shared event hence the name.
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 The Illúme believe in God The Illúme believe in God
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 +====== Possible alternate Storyline ======
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 +what if the illumee monasteries were into 7 types. 
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 +  - Brutalus: Massive land army and orbital ships but tiny  Navy
 +  - Chancellory small naval corps 
 +  - pilotry huge navy small military corps
 +  - custodiates small naval and military corps
 +  - government huge spy network on feral small navy small coprs and crisis teams
 +  - theoretics small navy and small corps
 +  - simmual small navy
  
 ====== The 12 factions of Illúme ====== ====== The 12 factions of Illúme ======
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   -  [[brutalus]] (6,000 strong independant military of the high congress)   -  [[brutalus]] (6,000 strong independant military of the high congress)
   -  [[low minstry]] (800 hitorians purposed to record events)   -  [[low minstry]] (800 hitorians purposed to record events)
-  -  [[government]] (12,000 strong off-monastery field agency) +  -  [[government]] (15,000 strong off-monastery field agency) 
-  -  [[crisis]] (1,200 strong covert military arm of the government) +  -  [[crisis]] (800 strong covert military arm of the government) 
   -  [[chancellory]] (1,000 maintenance crew)   -  [[chancellory]] (1,000 maintenance crew)
   -  [[pilotry]] (5,000 who manage the inter stellar vessels)   -  [[pilotry]] (5,000 who manage the inter stellar vessels)
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   -  [[militare]] (1,000 personnel to service equipment)    -  [[militare]] (1,000 personnel to service equipment) 
   -  [[cultaire]] (500 protectors of the arts, responsible for culinary excellence too)   -  [[cultaire]] (500 protectors of the arts, responsible for culinary excellence too)
-  -  [[simmual]] (700 strong simulator techs who train the governemnt agents pre mission)+  -  [[simmual]] (700 strong simulator techs who train the government agents pre mission)
  
  
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 Illúme society is beautiful, tragic, painfully logical and emotional without removal of diligence. They have all lived incredibly long lives, and know each other intimately. They are incredily vulnerable to a melancholy, because of their role in the human race and they hate with absolute passion the fact they they help make decisions that effect the lives of [[feral humans]] and may indeed cause them to have to be exterminated.  Illúme society is beautiful, tragic, painfully logical and emotional without removal of diligence. They have all lived incredibly long lives, and know each other intimately. They are incredily vulnerable to a melancholy, because of their role in the human race and they hate with absolute passion the fact they they help make decisions that effect the lives of [[feral humans]] and may indeed cause them to have to be exterminated. 
  
-They live in a saddneded state and, although possible, suicide is exceeingly rare, since most people recognise they have no choice but the server the humans race int he way they do. It is  alonley and cold existance that is impossible to understand, they live out selfless lives across huge expanses of time and they are able to get up every day and keep on going because of an incredible sense of comitment to their goals.+They live in a saddneded state and, although possible, suicide is exceeingly rare, since most people recognise they have no choice but the serve the humans race in the way they do. It is  a lonley and cold existance that is impossible to understand, they live out selfless lives across huge expanses of time and they are able to get up every day and keep on going because of an incredible sense of commitment to their goals.
  
 There is no end to their work, they can and must do the same work day in and day out and it is soul destroying. They talk with a genuine passionate envy of feral man and live with an ache. There is no end to their work, they can and must do the same work day in and day out and it is soul destroying. They talk with a genuine passionate envy of feral man and live with an ache.
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 But the term [[monastery]] is a slight misnomer - they are not monks but they do live lifestyles steeped in tradition, and and very self repressed. But the term [[monastery]] is a slight misnomer - they are not monks but they do live lifestyles steeped in tradition, and and very self repressed.
  
 +====== Illume characters ======
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 +  * Julien Param
 +  * Siolo Trevista
 +  * Marai Shelon
 +  * Demca Slotole