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Welcome to the Ancerious Galaxy.

A place of mystery, war, and intrigue on a large scale.

The galaxy is home to so many that generalization is impossible - many have arrived here on accident, but so many more have come in search of riches and research alike. Reaching through the cold dark to make contact with myriad other realms, Ancerious may seem to be deliberately mitigating its isolated nature, but it is a great lesson to not take all you see at face value.

Many empires reside here, and many have come and gone over the billions of years. Some have fallen in the wake of their own actions, others retreated in the face of one horror or another, while others still fight over the galaxies' riches. Wars rage and Alliances rise and fall. Just the way things are in Ancerious.

Will you enter the struggle?





Group Description
Ancerious is a sci-fi fantasy cooperative writing group centered around a unique, original canon that has the capacity to change in reaction to any member's actions - all while remaining uniquely separate from each player's own preexisting stories. With more than fifty certified members, we have a wide array of individuals from countries all over the world and all with their own specialties, from art to music to writing.

As a parallel function of the group, we serve as an outlet for people's daily lives, either independently or co-dependently through our art and writing. If you enjoy a social worldbuilding scene, admire our art, follow our writing, or just like good people to play games with, we invite you to join the discord server, even if only to be a guest.

We've been around since 2012 and continue to grow. There are friends to be made, fun to be had, and stories to be written. No matter if you just want to stop in and have a look around or make an attempt at sticking around for good, your key is direct contact with us - The best way to do that is to keep scrolling and nab the discord link!
Group
Founded 12 Years ago
Jan 3, 2012

Location
Global

Group Focus
Art Creation

Media Type
Literature

53 Members
252 Watchers
208,668 Pageviews

How to Join

How to Join



Join the Discord Server! Here's the link.


You'll have to wait two weeks for the admins to gauge how you'll fit in and then be awarded the hopeful role, but it's alright. In that time, you'll be able to meet the rest of the community and see if you'll really want to contribute to our setting.

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Featured
Tevril, Scarlet, and Eraserhead by 1HappyHydralisk
Precision Through Volume  by Krag7
Hallway Investigation by Krag7
Engaged by EmperorMyric
Ancerious Reference Materials
Resource Sheet 3 by EmperorMyric
Ancerious Psionics Guide by EmperorMyric
Resource Sheet 2 by EmperorMyric
Power Generation And Storage In Ancerious by EmperorMyric
Unaligned
Triarch Inc. TRISEC Infantry by EmperorMyric
Celebranskt by EmperorMyric
Xelion Class Moniter by EmperorMyric
Ace Dolittle by Krag7
Ancerious Sicarri Order
Sicarii Flag by Mijity
Sicarii Ghost Lineart by Mijity
The Sicarii Ghost Reference WIP by Mijity
Fight back the Darkness by Mijity
Union Of Worlds
Union Infantry Forces by EmperorMyric
Unioner on Exercise  by Krag7
Union Titan Heavy Power Armour by EmperorMyric
Broken Arrow by fuckcocker
Grand Empire of Capitol
Leaders of Capitol by EmperorMyric
New Faces of Capitol by EmperorMyric
New Capitol Map by EmperorMyric
Encanda Strixx by EmperorMyric
COE and the LO
CSRG Winter Column by Krag7
HATR-50X by Krag7
Lady Skrim by Krag7
City Girls by Krag7
Minevan Sovereignty
Millie and Kalinof by Blazbaros
Support Under Fire by MendedDragon
Diplomatic Work(?) by MendedDragon
Her Kindling by MendedDragon
RANGSI
Happy Chinese New Year from the Year 2062 by Target21
GENEVA 'VAMAS Series' GV-40 'Striker II' Autoframe by Target21
SAF Reservist Pt 2 by Target21
We Serve the State From the Shadows - INSECOM by Target21
Drake Empire
Jormundgand by Sorteagan
Noviy
The Axioms
Manjushage by VoughtVindicator
Ancerious Corporations
Triarch Palion Class by EmperorMyric
Eramon Empire
The Eramon Technocrasy by JB1992
RSC
Blood of Socratia by VoughtVindicator
RSC
Nuclean Ecumene
Edict Main Battle Tank by gmw180
Annoliddan Inquisition
Annoliddan Inquisition Flag by Ultraism
Second Union
Separatist Union Insurgent by Target21
The Serstine
Serstine Flesh-smith by Flavoredpickle
ZYPHER
[Ancerious] XAL Destroyer Varont class by ShaozChampion
Associated States Of Natar
Character Sheet: Nizam Shuja JafarName: Shuja Jafar.Age: 47.Date of Birth: 30 AME.Gender: Male.Species: Human.Relationship: Married to Mina Begahn.Relations:Saleia Carela Begum.Titles/Nicknames:Nizam of Bangar EstateEmperor of the TextilesMir of RamanunjagarChairman of SJRH ConglomerateAffiliations:Republic of Ramanunjagar Barcean Federation (ASN), The Associated States of Natar, Saleia Carela.Appearance:,Personality: Shuja Jafar is a stern man known for his harshness as an employer. He has gone on the line saying that he expects, ‘only the best’ from his employees ‘at the top rungs no less than the bottom’. After experiencing the many traumas and struggles that he has weathered in his life, Nizam Shuja Jafar has become somewhat distanced in his own display of emotion, but still as sympathetic to the struggles of those less fortunate than himself.Skills:Shrewd BusinessmanNaval ExperienceBackstory:Born in 30 AME in the Hisarani Municipality of Peltas, one of the core worlds of the Republic of Ramanunjagar, Shuja Jafar belonged to a wealthy family with a powerful naval background. His father, Sadul Raghunath Singh, himself had consolidated his waning family wealth by transitioning the family fortunate away from its traditional source: Local agriculture, and towards Qanis Expeditioning and Ancerium Harvesting.From a young age, Shuja Jafar, as the second son of the family, was inducted by tradition into the Ramanunjagar Central Naval College in the year 45 AME at the age of 15. During his time of training at the Naval College, Shuja Jafar’s supervisors observed the young cadet to be ‘more obsessed with the spectacle and uniformity of ceremonial work than practical activities’, from which he was pushed strongly into drill contests and challenges. From this schooling, Shuja Jafar went into service within the Ramanunjagar Maritime Security Forces (RMSF). First deployed to coastguard operations at Naragaon System, then to Oceanic Anti-Orbital Operations at his homeworld of Peltas. Finally at the age of 22, Jafar, now a Sub-Lieutenant, was deployed to the contested zone. To the planet of Tanakol. For the next few years, Lieutenant Shuja Jafar operated in anti-privacy actions, maritime naval exercises, and border patrols. Participating in the capture of two Sarabh vessels during his time, Shuja Jafar wrote in his diary of the Sarabh crewmen as ‘some of the hardest people to empathise with’ and ‘insensitive to both reason and situational awareness’.In the year 54 AME, tensions spiked in Tanakol when 3 Ramanunjagar Destroyers strayed over the Sarabh border during stormy weather. After being confronted by a flotilla of Sarabhai’s own local naval forces, a battle broke out. The Battle of Plassey Depths resulted in the sinking of the RMV Lutuf, a Ramanunjagar destroyer and the damaging of 2 Sarabh vessels.The Battle of Plassey Depths became a major international incident between the two governing powers over the region and risked total war between both powers. The eventual de-escalation and forgetting of the naval battle and the minor border skirmishes that ensued that month saw major resentment by local Raman and Sarabh populations at Tanakol that would become a rallying cry to stir the ethnic paramilitary groups of the contested zone over half a decade later.During this time, Shuja Jafar was placed on high alert, which the young officer said to find ‘most disturbing’ and ‘troubling’. As cooler, albeit more bitter, heads prevailed following the incident, Jafar was redeployed to Madan. After a year there, the now 26 year old Lieutenant Commander Shuja Jafar was granted the relatively comfortable posting as commanding officer for a minor naval installation in Kelcotai, a mostly ethnically Raman system on the border with Ramanunjagar Proper.Serving at Kelcotai for two more years, Shuja eventually opted to leave the naval forces and departed from service at the age of 27 in pursuit of a life that Jafar found more fulfilling. After spending half a year back with his family, Jafar departed from the Emerald Republics in search of his own, independent fortune as second son to the family’s wealth and name.Jafar eventually found himself, after a brief and failed stint in Lost Star attempting to set up his own fashion brand, on Hrast Tvrdava. There, with what remaining funds Jafar had acquired from appealing to family and monied interests alike, the aspiring magnate established his new clothing brand. Jafar’s fashion approach attempted to break with the flow of the mindset of the galactic fashion elite of the time. Headed by the likes of #IMAGO and its patrons, the fashion elite of the galaxy had adopted the almost universally agreed and uncontested view that clothing could only be stylish, impressive and powerful now by accelerating its social eccentricity, its bombastic use of colour and shapes. In the view of this elite, traditional clothing shapes, with simpler designs, colours and humbler fabrics, conveyed both a lack of personality, confidence, or social significance in a crowd.Shuja Jafar disagreed with this mainstream view from the galactic fashion world and envisaged a ‘fashion counterrevolution’; a realisation that simple colour schemes, use of fabrics over metals, traditional hairstyles or the display or normality, can be often used to far better convey dignity, power, authority, style and social awareness without being devoid of character most famously stating, ‘Dressing as obnoxiously as possible will make you just as wanted in a crowd room as a lit firework’. Jafar thus imagined a resurgence of traditional dressing at the forefront of style over what he claimed to be ‘delusional pomposity’.Despite having no education personally in fashion, Shuja Jafar guided his fledgling brand in selected localities with great acclaim. His new lines became synonymous with his name, and as his own fashion name soared, so did his own reputation. Within half a decade, Shuja Jafar had become one of the most significant fashion brand names within urban regions of Hrast Tvrdava, within a decade he was the biggest.Shuja during this time did not remain in the fashion design market. At every chance he reinvested, explored and expanded his assets. He first outbranched before he had even consolidated in Hrast Tvrdava by capturing the newly opening market of Natar in its importation of galactic fashion. It was during his early inroads into Natar, that Shuja, at the age of 31, formed a partnership with the Barcean Saleia Carela, aged 30. Saleia was daughter of a powerful national Senator for Barcea and the Invigilator for the Associated States. With the relationship established, she helped to solidify Shuja’s name as an insider for the Teliran political scene. With dozens of other systems being expanded each year, and accelerating in rate, Jafar came to compete with the galactic establishment in fashion and accessories.The pair began raising their first and only child, Shamil Carelo Jafar, in 62 AME. Shamil was not a biological son, but an adopted infant baby. The couple chose to adopt in the face of their inability to biologically create a child of their, their refusal to turn to genetic engineering, and their lack of sexual interest in their relationship.By 68 AME, Shuja Jafar’s wealth had risen like a rocket taking flight and was still rapidly rising. He became one of the most successful financial figures from the Emerald Republics despite living beyond its borders. Moving his headquarters to Natar, Jafar purchased the Estate of Bangar in Barcea as his personal residence, introducing to his new life as a landed money and Lord of the Estate, which he nativized to the more traditional Ramanunjagar ‘Nizam’.From here Shuja adapted only further by first withdrawing from direct running of his fashion empire and setting about to the rejuvenation of his bankrupt and rundown estate. Jafar displaced unproductive farmers and integrated their lands into larger farming units; producing farming goods in demand based on the galactic market prices over local national and planetary markets. He purchased new, galactic agricultural equipment to improve the efficiency of the pre-ftl farming equipment and began new housing projects in the surrounding villages.The Estate project was a success and not only turned the destitute, backwater estate into a productive and self-sufficient territory, but it also built up Shuja Jafar’s name in Barcea as an effective land manager. From Barcea, Jafar became integrated into Teliran upper society, wrangling with both the corporate and landed money alike. It was in these circles that Saleia Carela, now Saleia Carela Begum, became a vital aide to her spouse. Not only did she operate as Shuja’s vital eyes and ears on the capital planet of his retail empire, but she also understood Teliran spheres better than him.Despite their powerful dynamic, Jafar and Carela, both extremely adept, determined and ambitious figures, maintained a warm and loving relationship despite it never being carnal. Carela, who since 64 AME had been deposed as Invigilator of the ASN by Mose Tetlisun’s fusion of the office with his own office of Stadtholder, now depended on Shuja’s own power to fuel her own ambitions just as Shuja had previously depended on her power. Throughout their relationship, neither prevented or hindered the other.While this led to the two becoming an almost unstoppable duo, it also left them often abnormally distant with the occasional coincidental shared time at the estate. The result of this was that their fostered child, Shamil, was without a reliably present parenthood and dependent on nannying.As the new decade came to be in 70 AME, The Shuja/Carela Empire had become majestic in scale. From a political standpoint, while neither the first or second largest international faction, Carela’s factionalism stood as a major third figure in the assembly which neutrals, fence sitters and independents magnetised to. Acting as the effective deputy for Shuja’s empire and as his representative in his business capital of Natar. Shuja meanwhile had become a renowned figure in the Galactic community for his meteoric rise, his power within his market sector and for his lack of neither outrageous controversy nor lack of empathy. One of the top 1,000 Galactic Philanthropists, the founder of 16 different charitable organisations, and the President of over 238 different NGO’s, Shuja once joked that his charitable activities were more time-consuming and ruthless than his business life.In 75 AME, with his empire now decelerating from the height of its growth and expansion, and reaching a comfortable new ceiling, Shuja looked to a new spectacle, one beginning in more familiar lands.In the Emerald Republics, the contested zone that Nizam Jafar had patrolled the waters of decades ago was now descending into the anarchy and chaos of proxy warfare between the BPW and RFSM ethnic paramilitaries. Genocides were breaking out in multiple planets, the AGA found itself collapsing by the weight of responsibility for the conflict, and neither of the two Republics were strong or sure enough to directly participate. The conflict was dirty.In the midst of this, Nizam Shuja Jafar was determined to play his part. He had wealth, power and support, it would not be right for him to watch his home country from afar. Shuja and Saleia, together, effectively lobbied the Barcean Federation into monetary and material aid to Ramanunjagar causes throughout the war. Within a year of its outbreak, Jafar went a step further and traveled to Ramanunjagar both to aid in the designing and production of new paramilitary uniforms, but also to participate in the very limited Ramanunjagar Republican military actions throughout the war.Defense Minister Aramathra once stated that the logistics underlying the Ramanunjagar’s side of the struggles were made ‘unfathomably easier’ as a result of Nizam Shuja Jafar’s personal involvement. Jafar himself even saw brief combat when, for six months, the magnate discreetly took up a temporary service role as a Commodore within Kolbaijep in which he participated in providing coastal support for several of the local battles and even came close to death when his vessel came under attack by partisan forces while coming into port. Being struck in the head by a bullet from small arms fire, Nizam Jafar was thought initially to be dead, but quickly proved himself to be otherwise when he rose to his feet upon the deck once more and calmly, albeit in a fatigued and confused form, delegated his duties to an officer close to him. It was from this otherwise insignificant battle that Shuja Jafar gained his infamous scar, which, in his own words, ‘deforms the corner of his eye like a dropping sack’.Shuja Jafar thereafter withdrew from direct participation in the conflict, stating that he felt that the Ramanunjagar government was doing enough and that the Raman Partisan militaries never took him seriously for any military role. Despite this, the Nizam of Natar continued to funnel support to his ethnic brethren regardless of the scrutiny he received for such participation. Media outlets characterised support and consumption of his brand as ‘blood fabrics’, but Jafar weathered through. For his participation, the Nizam received the honorary title of Mir.After the war had settled, Jafar found himself more prominent and still wealthier than before. Feeling like he was no longer important in the functioning of his own business, and thus not worth the money he was receiving, Nizam Jafar once more took a more involved stance in the Fabric Empire as some dubbed it. This time, Jafar determined that now it was not enough for the ceiling to remain by staying constrained to the private sectors of other countries. Through the freelancing contacts that Shuja Jafar had networked during the Twin Republics War, the Nizam began a series of military interventions which might be best described as corporate filibustering. Through the overturning or preservation of certain unstable governments, Nizam Jafar began to not only secure his economic authority over his major producer planets in less economically strong locations, but began to outright dominate them.It was at this point that Shuja Jafar’s empire became viewed as an almost literal one, with physical boundaries from which the new ‘Emperor’ controlled the retail sector which any incursions of would instigate his wrath. The media soon dubbed the infamous ruler of fashion as a literal Fashion Moghul: A title which Shuja Jafar soon adopted as a badge of pride.The Emperor of Fashion, however, at the height of his power and pride, was met by tragedy. In 77AME, Nizam Shuja Jafar was informed while attending a discussion on the need for intensified Humanitarian Aid to the Zakar Frontier, that his son, Shamil, now aged 15, had been killed in a car explosion at the Barcean capital. It became clear soon after that the explosion was not a blameless tragedy, but an assassination with the evidence at the scene at the use of a bomb.Both Nizam Jafar and his wife, Saleia Carela, were both hit by the news badly. Retiring to their residence and entering a 1 month state of seclusion, 3 months for Saleia. Despite their usual absence from their son’s life, both felt dearly for their child. Jafar later described him as his ‘most precious gift’ and ‘loyal pupil’. The loss of Shuja Jafar left the father is both a state of anger and bitterness, particularly for the lack of a captured culprit.Three different claims have been made behind the killer of the Jafar-Carela Fostered Heir. Saleia Carela claims that the act was on the orders of the Stadtholder of Natar, Mose Tetlisun, amidst Natar’s leadership contest to paralyse Carela and thus remove one of his largest political rivals. The Barcean Police Report claims the attack to have been orchestrated by ‘remnant elements of the #IMAGO movement’ which ‘views Mir Nizam Shuja Jafar as a major and authoritative opponent to their doctrines’, finally, Jafar himself blames the Sarabh Paramilitary cells for the attack as retaliation for his assistance of Raman forces in the latest war. All theories have grounds for belief, but none have confirmation.Nizam Shuja Jafar now stands both struck by tragedy and more determined to do battle with every possible force responsible for this attack on his family. Regardless of who was responsible, it has made the Nizam more conscious than ever of his enemies, and more willing than ever to cut the heads of the snakes. The former Naval Officer, now Fashion Magnate, is determined to see his empire preserved, and those who strike at his house and his honour will rue the day they did.
The Unanimity
Artificia Unanimity Navy Atahla-class Cruiser by Snowy-Aegis
The Singers
Singers Faction Sheet by Midnightnova
Grand Araxium Empire
Kampfpanzer Panther II Ausf. H by IgnatiusAxonn
Union Of Democratic States
Shadow War: Anderson Falls by EmperorMyric
Free Worlds
Free Worlds Seeker Class Frigate by Toravich12
Zentheran Star Republic
Ariebel Commission by EmperorMyric
Royal Federation Of Empires
Curtain Call by EmperorMyric
Imperial Nalydya
Pordish Faction Sheet by Schwieger
Isoterran Empire
SAV-13 by gmw180
Unaligned Nations of Ancerious
The Wasting by EmperorMyric
Lumnaed Commune
Lumnaed Commune Azhone-class Battlecruiser by Snowy-Aegis
Furrelian Union
Terror Class Battlecruiser. by Ofton
Coalition of Kepler
Space Combat Vessels of the Aespa Ohkryan by atriangle93
Zetyan Clanholds
Ha'nal-class Escort by fuckcocker
Quosx Alliance
QuosxtrooperArbiter by 1HappyHydralisk

Galactic Map

Ancerious Galaxy Map by EmperorMyric
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Ancerious has a lot of homes on the internet. Below is a list of places you can find us!
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Discord: discord.gg/PBrwKpV (This is where we're most active.)
Forum: https://ancerious-galactic.proboards.com/ (This is where we post all writing.)
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