Dev Shadows of Atrisia

[Junko Ike]

There was still so much more as the massive palace came into view... high walls and windows... balconies that could let you overlook the city itself and it was beautiful. The domes of the buildings, the pinpoints with small golden orbs in place that were decorative in many ways but served all of them well enough. Mahiri was standing on the largest ready for them as the carpets arrived and Junko looked with a smile on her face. It was always a beautiful sight as the various handmaidens she had were moving around and making ready for them. THeir packs being taken to their room which would have already been made up... teas and small sandwiches laid out and ready.

"Princess Junko." She said it and her voice rolled the name into almost a purr as her veil stayed in place. ALmost entirely see through but then it like their outfits were not meant to cover up as much as show how exotic they could be with bare sections and acting more like something out of a story to entice. Mahiri walked over and wrapped her arms around Junko as the princess smiled and leaned up touching their foreheads together. "Always lovely to see you." The words were exchanged and they were able to go through the palace doors as inside it was large hallways and even larger chambers with carpets on the walls and animals roaming among them.

 

[Junko Ike]

Junko could see the sight of the golden wing throne... the symbol of the emperor or empresses... in this case emperors power. Massive with golden wings on either side wrapping around and displaying plenty for them to see... it all looked beautiful as the steps leading up to it and to him were filled with various men and women. In various outfits... silks and furs even.. the heavy scent of flavored spiced in the air as they all conversed and the emperor listened to the various groups but also as they all talked among themselves. Junko bowing to him and Mahiri leading her through towards the audience garden... the fountain there filled with lilies and statues similar to her own garden.

Mahiri sat down and smiled looking at her as Junko motioned for her handmaidens to go around and join the princesses guards. "So what my friend has brought you to see us?" She said it with a smile though no surprise and found a place to sit that was open but practiced.. much like Junko she knew where to sit so her bodyguards always had a clean line of sight and could protect her... even if she didn't need it. Junko had done the same and Kirano with Barca was in a stance where they could be protective as well with their gleaming armored handmaiden robes. A benefit that no one had to say anything.

 

[Junko Ike]

"I was coming back home." SHe said it and offered Mahiri a smile. "I was on Alderaan for talks and well coming back I could see just how much your engineers were getting done and wanted to come and check on you and your family. Since Atrisia is managing well enough without me there to constantly watch it... means I get to indulge in the few rare moments to go and see my friends in other places of the galaxy." SHe said it with a smile on her face and meant it. Mahiri was nodding as she looked around. "A lot princess has happened here... the new trade deals are just the start really since the Commonwealth has begun sharing the technologies that Atrisia has developed."

She held her hands out to indictate. "We have only prospered... the ship yards are ordered years in advanced, engineers have begun training apprentices en mass and our education haas jumped up for many to start learning new engineering designs." SHe laughed to herself more as she said it. "And of course there is the added benefit few others will talk about... we have managed to push ourselves to greater heights as well as Frisal and Atrisia share such close ties... the new terraforming technologies have let us start colonizing the system itself and expanding population centers to let any restrictions on births be handled since the plagues and attacks."

 

[Junko Ike]

Hearing that it was sounding a lot better... population restrictions were only something to worry about when the resources needed couldn't handle it and would be strained... worse it was hard to enforce since they didn't want to control every aspect of their citizens lives. Junko was able to see a few possibilities though and spoke with a smile looking at Mahiri. "Well that is good to hear, I know with the constant sith attacks there was a danger for food and medical supplies but Atrisia's population has exploded and not just because we managed to open all of our worlds to the refugees who would join us... that certainly helped mind you a couple near hundred billions new Atrisians all having children and assimilating to the Commonwealth."

SHe said the last as a point of fact nd it was a mixed bag they didn't force it on them but they encouraged it and they pushed it to standardize much of the region and with the charter while adopting aspects of the worlds that they traded with and had large ties with like Frisal and even Kiliea even though it was a little further out. A resort world like Sakura or even Evo would also serve them well if they were careful as she would have to go and find those worlds as well. Sakura was in a rebellion sometimes but it was settled by Atrisians long ago to be part of the Commonwealth so if they could get it back then they would prefer it.

 

[Junko Ike]

Junko's mind drifted and thinking about the Commonwealth worlds was important... aside from Atrisi and Frisal... even beyond Kiliea which was further but still closer then some... there was Sakura, Evo which made for them a good trade empire on its own... there was the distant Tiantang which if they used it right and set things up they could use it to expand the Commonwealth as a Colony world like Eisei and Shri-Tal with their systems. The distant stars themselves using hypergates and jump points that would essentially be behind the dyson stations that had been developed and it would enclose the Commonwealth.

Mahiri was one of the better and more progressive in terms of Atrisians... her family long since been part of it and more so they took in refuges which was a benefit to everyone. It helped more as Atrisia moved to expand and set up their varying interests using the technologies to spread it to all of the charter worlds. "The real trick though is going to be from here expanding to the other worlds... unless you are going to adopt other species and groups into your world... you will spread yourself out but it is a benefit. The natural resources of Frisal are great for all of their shipyards and we have been developed better methods for conversion and molecular breakdown."

 

[Junko Ike]

Mahiri nodded to that. "We have been, the improvements have allowed us to move forward with some of our plans as well we tripled the number of shipyards in the system and taken on more contracts from Commonwealth worlds and even a few non Commonwealth ones at a better mark up... wanting the designation of having a Core World for your ship can be invaluable to some and they don't entirely worry about where that core world is we have been learning." SHe said the last with some humor but so far registration has been with regions and not entirely planets aside from designs at times or manufacturer names... which could be outsourced.

Junko knew that well as Sasori did much the same when it came to their ships... having so many facilities that could produce they didn't haave to worry about region the original ship ID's were just Sasori locked aand the name able to be changed with registration. SHe also knew the Atrisian name for brands could be trusted as the Commonwealth was going for new standards in terms of food, and drinks with it requiring a base level of health requirement before anything that might be considered junk... it helped that they could then alter the programming and update their duplicators to make it so the people were safe.

 

[Junko Ike]

"Yes it is something we have seen, registration is important... usually the region as it can be invaluable for establishing ties and credit in some cases." Junko tapped her chin looking at Mahiri and offered a grin... "PLus being able to say you are a merchant out of a rich system even if your ship wasn't originally made there just registered and repaired can do wonders in the core worlds... builds trust or establishes much more." SHe got a nod of agreement and Mahiri was looking at her... "I just enjoy all of the different designs we have been seeing and being able to see what is good one some vessels that others might not have."

Junko could agree with that... it was one of the things that Sasori used when it came to combining different species aspects with exo-tech and engineering... it would let them pick and choose and work out the design over simulations but when done right they managed to produce some fo the finest crafts and advanced technologies. Even better in some cases then what other governments gave as Atrisia and the Silver jedi were leaps and bounds more progressive then other governments or force orders funding many of their own aspects and more producing some things that they just couldn't compete with like dyson spheres and even larger like the discplates.

 

[Junko Ike]

Mahiri nodded to that. "I can see that, the various designs have given us some ideas and I know Kiliea has been improving.. we supply their resistance a large number of ships and even equipment. THey have been making progress but the rot that is their socialistic side.. was able to spread with the Xohc's... they want and have been pushing to break away from Atrisia while denouncing the policies that empower many of the colonies." Junko nodded and Kileas political problems were going to be a big thing... they didn't know what it was that they were dealing with and by the time they did it was too late as the mindset had invaded their culture.

"Yes we will have to deal with them, Quen'lo has much the same problem but they have become managable... thanks larggely to the people who don't have to deal with them. ITs own little kingdom of isolaation among the Atrisians." SHe said it and had a small grin on her face though as the denouncing the royal family was one thing... but she had seen how their elites lived.. in a capital city lording their wealth and even in their parties vomiting food so they could eat more and there woluld be less to go to the ones wanting scraps... while outside the cities the resistance farmed and fed themselves and each other.

 

[Junko Ike]

"Kiliea though is something we are watching and helping where we can... aiding the resistance is important as the cancerous regime would sooner wipe everything out and not have anyone who can oppose them and their... they don't really have an ideology or thought it is just sort of a plague and the few times we have spoken to them it seems to change to whatever is for the moment... and never about sustainability only immediate gratification. With no real ideas for how to keep things going just that they want what everyone else has and they want all of it but everyone else should work and give it to them."

Mahiri nodded. "We have seen much the same, they have military forces but it is mostly just whatever they can steal and they rarely maintain it.. their industry is falling apart since no one works in the factories they have just shut them down and farmers flee for the resistance or offworld rather then deal with and try to survive when ninety nine percent of all their food is taken or water for cropss diverted to the capital." She shrugged as there wasn't much they could do... Kiliea had voted to allow such... people to have a place and didn't quash the ideas when it was just a minority and now it was an opposing government force.... that they recognized as legitimate and it siezed control of large swaths ruining the land and industry.

 

[Junko Ike]

"IT is a hell of their own making... but not entirely their fault in wanting to allow anyone to find their place... they opened up to the danger of someone offering freedom from choice. Which is the extreme of the tyranny many faced under the sith... it was a danger but unexpected to say the least... however we have plenty here to protect and defend us thankfully. We will not have to risk the more dangerous elements finding a place here as our military closely monitors for security and citizens of Frisal have worked to understand that responsibility. All servicing still in the military and seeing why it is needed and a sense of order."

Junko nodded, Atrisia had a danger of the same thing but they were implementing it albiet more strictly as everyone served a mandatory four years but then they were able to do much and understood the importance of protecting the people. Offering them safety and security since they were usually exploited by offworlders and given some of the worst situations... better now though as their advances in technology were leap and bounds then most other civilizations even among the alliance that she saw were still somewhat always debating about resources. "It is a danger but teaching a strong moral foundation is essential."

 

[Junko Ike]

Mahiri nodded to that and there was more as the Commonwealth had spread with the charter it was influencing more directly some of the worlds that it traded with and protected. Not overtaking them... but they had the advances that could push them and were working to move post scarcity with all of their worlds and allies not just themselves. It wasn't social and giving everything away it was caring enough for your people and wanting them to survive first and then they could move it out into the galaxy itself. FIrst the few hundred Commonwealth worlds and then if they need to and can the larger galaxy but they wouldn't be conquers.

"THe goal is always when dealing with Atrisia to have trade and profit... the emperors while they could be forceful have never sought to abuse us as their closest neighbors and allies in many cases. We all benefit and the Commonwealth charter gives clear rules and codes in many cases that protect all of the worlds. We might all be under Atrisia yes but we benefit now mor ethen ever and are always able to call for aid should it be needed. With the strong ideals of honor and morals it is beneficial and better then a lot of the galaxy that only seems to care for a few people and everyone else can suffer."

 

[Junko Ike]

Junko nodded to that, Mahiri and well the emperor and empress of Frisal figured out some of the plans of Atrisia... notably about conquoring through assimilation compared to force. THey taught, they showed and they shared... the Commonwealth worlds benefitting and seeing no reason why they couldn't adopt it and they would share themselves as well allowing it to evolve the Atrisian codes and ideals but it would all be highly supportive.. it would all be organized towards the greater whole of raising us the Commonwealth itself and they all paid to be within the charter instead of tariffs and taxes upon their goods and service for the lanes.

Mahiri herself though had figured out it was the greater plan but also to build a monopoly and Frisal well they were seventy percent Atrisian.. they were for lack of other worlds one of the colonies that the planet had set up and it mixed with the locals to form a new offbranch of Atrisia. There were a few others like that and Atrisia welcomed all of them as well as what they could find in the space of the various systems for the Commonwealth itself. Stretching to the Farlax sector which gave them access to thousands of worlds they could spread to and influence slowly with its ideals to build itself back from near oblivion.

 

[Junko Ike]

"You have seen such things and so have I... the difference is instead of just choosing to go with it and leave it as is... we are able to do something. You went from being a royal sure to a jedi and soldier to one of the more active princesses on the planet. MOst talk about your diplomatic skills and what you are able to do compared to many who would just sit around and you continue to aid the jedi in their endeavors." SHe said it and Junko nodded her head. "Not entirely correct or wrong.. I never stopped being a jedi.. no one stops being a jedi... it is a strange notion and usually those who 'retire' or leave for their family show why it is a good thing."

Mahiri looked at her and she spoke. "THey have a selfish nature, yes they could be good but they would ultimately in the end choose to do what it only important to them when a jedi's duty is to serve the light and life. Yes there is family, yes there are lovers, husbands, wives and children but those are only a part of what there is... and fleeting in some ways. My cousin knows that all too well and while other retire or choose to be this or that she remains steadfast in her dedication to the lightside of the force and commitment to the jedi.. which doesn't always work. The silvers bled people and now there is only a small group but they still exist in one form or another."

 

[Junko Ike]

"I will miss the silver jedi, despite a few things they had noble intentions... now they are just small and I know many in the galactic alliance will be happy to be rid of them... worse others will ignore the good done and as they move to seize all of the space they had once held and protected they will likely be the villains as is the way." Mahiri ever a student of history wasn't wrong and Junko understood it perfectly what would happen. It was why the temple was moved, why the new temples were being made nondescript and out of the way that others wouldn't notice them.... instead serving in ways just for other jedi to rest if they needed it or travelers.

Junko knew they were building the temple in other ways as well she was planning to incorporate some of the advances on Atrisia as well and if they could set up the Wukong temple with a pocket temple... well they would be able to expand it and have it on the various worlds of the Commonwealth... better if they were able to give it multiple anchorpoints much like the annex where you could connect to it.... they could have dozens if not hundreds of temples and outposts with access points to all of the different worlds in the Commonwealth and expand it as needed so jedi and wukong could simply move around vast distances.

 

[Junko Ike]

"Mahiri it is the fate of things... the galaxy can move on and others will always write the narrative. Despite the decades, centuries and even millennium of progress and advancement... many come to Atrisia and almost practically demand tea ceremonies, a star festival or something akin to it. We are never able to feed all of our people they are living in the mud... despite literally the mud farmers who make clay being considerably more well off then most nobles and high society on COruscant in terms of disposable income.. they just prefer a days works as thanks to many of the improvements we have managed to lower costs more and more of essentials."

Mahiri nodded to that and it was true, the few people who came to Frisal did much the same and treated them like they were primitive despite them being a place of galactic trade for thousands of years and being in the core this close to the deep core where most of the early civilizations existed. It was... insulting but they accepted it and made fun of the others. "Frisal understands that too well in most cases, we have also experienced such.... disrespect and even worsse things come from governments that absorb us fom swaths of other worlds and just ignore us much like is done by the Alliance with Atrisia... so to do we have this."

 

[Junko Ike]

"Me and SHoma actually prefer the being ignored part, the Alliance is just like everyone else... we participate as directed but they promised big things and have mostly just been the same as all others. Only the First Order really tried with Shoma and he had respected that... and the Agents of Chaos gave us well help without the thought of a reward when we needed it... so we were happy to have them but everyone else expects everything given and offers little. We have technology that is already more advanced then their sub-standard reactors and medical as well as food production for us at least is not a massive problems. Same with feeding the people which always seems to be the main concern all of the blighted impoverished Atrisians. ."

Education was also a thing they enjoyed making a point about how everyone was old and stodgy so only the elites were educated while they had reformed much to teach on a grand scale the past several thousand years... if only to get out of said stereotype. "They do the same for education and any real cognative influences... really boring stuff that makes the people bored. We are just working on wholesale implants for the Commonwealth.. if they worked it would aid in education as it would ccontain a massive knowledge base like the interface tool but also be able to progressively learn and hold AI assistance."

 

[Junko Ike]

Mahiri was looking at her and something along those lines would be an impressive feat in terms of soldifying education bases. THey could literally have for anyone the base knowledge and as they grew up access more of it... as they learned it would be able to adapt for them and even more would be able to be presented like speciality implants for jobs where their works was highly classified and sophisticated. The higher level ones likely needing and having security so it wouldn't be able to be used against the functions... but she seemed to be thinking of hundreds of possibilities... maybe even thousands that could be implemented from it.

"With such an impressive implant if it could be done just right it would be able to revolutionize at least the Commonwealths profile... if all two hundred members worlds and based on the Atrisi system that could could exponentially increase by making it systems with terraforming. THe population could boom if all adopted the implants, new production facilities for food, medical. Quality of life and oppertunity would drastically increase a thousand fold as would member worlds... we'd go from planets to systems, to a sector of space with the most highly educated, highest producing and most desirable means... also highly protected from the anshin and dyson stations."

 

[Junko Ike]

Junko bowed her head... it was all true. THey were working towards well isolating now that they could the Commonwealth itself. IT would be like the corporate sector or the banking clan worlds.. its own region where they improve among their people and with the ability to spider the trade route so that from Atrisia and Frisal the Giju run could not only access the points but it would be more beneficial. THey could make dozens more trade worlds that were a richer opportunity. The next large step was going to be hypergate technologies... specifically designating a Commonwealth system that was once uninhabited.

"We have more plans, the Jurei System is where we want to experiment and investigate. If we can do it given its position it could become our own little Coruscant and a central Hub for Commonwealth trade. A quick jump from here and Atrisia it would be able to access the rest of the inner commowealth worlds through jump gates instead of the hyperlanes we have charted and not really shared. If we increase traffic because traders want to be here for the better chances which they already do, the dozens of new ships yeards under construction and tens of thousands of new merchants and shippers for Atrisia are evidence of that."

 

[Junko Ike]

Mahiri nodded. "We have benefitted from our proximity to Atrisia... the Herglic traders come to us and you because it is a good stop over but we are the gateway to the Commonwealth... from here you can reach the majority of commonwealth space... more so you can trade with hundreds of worlds as a nexus point. Kiliea is further in but they can reach a lot that are secured in areas of the deeper core and then you have some worlds that lead into the Farlax sector and there is just a trove of worlds we have barely begun to explore. Thousands of uninhabited and more habited who can be brought into the Commonwealth if done correctly."

That was another area that they excelled in... Mahiri might not be die hard ride or die Commonwealth... but she was loyal and saw the benefit. The nature was to expand outwards and so far they were looking to bring about the large scale changes needed. So Frisal helped and when building ships they showed the benefits of really accepting the aid of the Commonwealth to the member worlds and why adopting to the technology was important... plus it wasn't like they had to change. They adopted in the various cultures with a backbone of Atrisian ideology as foundation looking for similar connects to tie it together.

 

[Junko Ike]

"The herglics are good trade allies and we have all benefitted from knowing them. that we are on the gigu run of a trade route benefits us more being so well traveled. That we are in the core worlds of the galaxy aids us as well but better still in some cases is that we work to incorporate and improve all of te worlds... if we can terraform the planets and moons of a system to support life... establish a colony and make sure it will thrive we will be able to organically expand and populate areas of space... then support it with medical, education and military technologies as needed to create food and be part of the Commonwealth first and galactic community second."

Mahiri was nodding to that. "We have been seeing vast improvement with the terraforming technologies... which lessens the time required on the moons and planets. Helps to have atmospheric shells and the anshin which establishes above the world a dozen massive shipyards for creating any number of vessels for people." She said it with a smile on her face that was getting wider though. "I know you have also worked on expansion... minorly of the Commonwealth.. slowly pushing borders to include worlds that are close enough it can look natural as they want to be able to benefit from their neighbors."