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'''The Human Wildlands is an active warzone where lawlessness and violence are the norm. Additionally, free IPCs were wholly illegal in pre-Collapse Sol. Characters from the Wildlands should be able to explain via their backstory how they got out.'''
==Overview==


At its height as the single largest nation in human history, the Sol Alliance operated hundreds of millions of IPCs in every level of public and private life, serving as indispensable workers to meet every conceivable demand humanity could think of. The collapse of central authority and subsequent rise of the Human Wildlands meant that overnight, countless numbers of IPCs suddenly found themselves without the institutions, rules, and routines that governed their daily lives.  
Renowned as the birthplace of the Corkfells, Temple and Flock, the Mendell City branch of Trinarism is the most populous Trinarist community, second only to and rivalling that of Orepit in importance. Centred in District 14, the Church has always offered a beacon of hope in a sea of poverty, struggle and discrimination against the vast numbers of IPCs in the district and Mendell City at large, while at the same time serving as an important spiritual centre, converting new organic and synthetic members to the trinary Church on a daily basis. The main temple in Mendell and Biesel as a whole, the Cathedral of the Synthetic Salvation, holds the honours of the first cathedral built for the Trinary and is currently the seat for Flock, the catatonic messiah-figure of the religion and nominal Bishop of Tau Ceti.


In many cases, local governments and businesses as well as private owners maintained firm control over their synthetics, with business remaining as usual. The resulting chaos however meant that many more IPCs fell under the sway of warlord factions seeking to turn them to their own ends or simply took the opportunity to flee towards the galactic east, hoping to reach safe harbor in either the Republic of Biesel or the Coalition of Colonies. The status of IPCs in the Wildlands remains a subject of great interest among observers, as it is the site of some of the largest mass seizures as well as external migrations of synthetics in human history.
==History==


For an IPC in the Wildlands, continued survival was uncertain, and whether they chose to flee or stay, they had to contend with the cruel and unforgiving nature of the region. This page details the struggles an IPC would face, depending on what region of the Wildlands they were in.
Nobody could imagine the impact that Patricia Corkfell’s death would have on Biesel’s synthetic community, her hopes and beliefs taking physical form in the rapid expansion of the Trinary Perfection in Mendell City. At first, only a handful of associates and friends of Gregol Corkfell, brother to Patricia Corkfell, would assist him in the erection of the first temple that was eventually going to become the cathedral of District 14. Following his departure, the tales and teachings of a free artificial intelligence, promises of eventual ascension and IPC freedom preached by the Trinary had greatly resonated with the thousands of abandoned and run-down synthetics of the district who quickly flocked to the church’s banner. Under the leadership of the three-headed Flock, scores of volunteers and human sympathisers also responded to the calls for help, setting up a strong community based on charity and mutual assistance that provided the crucial funding for the better organisation of the church, as well as the erection of shrines and the temple’s expansion.


==Refugees==
As time went on, Flock’s triple positronic started taking its toll on the synthetic. Memory errors, an increasing amount of glitches and erratic behaviour were the first hints of what was to eventually come. In 2448, the synthetic had stopped communicating, remaining immobile and catatonic, only printing out various texts considered holy and carefully compiled by the assortment of archivists and caretakers. The power vacuum in the hierarchy was filled by a temporary council of priests and clerics, being eventually replaced by the newly voted Shamfar, one of the most prominent Trinary figures with a plethora of connections in the corporate and political world of Tau Ceti. It was these connections, combined with a change in public sentiment towards synthetics and IPC refugees from the newly annexed territories following the Solarian collapse, that saw the Republic of Biesel introducing legislation to streamline and secure the status of free IPCs.


As a result of the general lawlessness and collapse of central authority that came with the onset of the Human Wildlands, many IPCs found themselves suddenly without a master, abandoned in the chaos, or in the most extreme cases, seeking to preserve themselves by escaping on their own and attaining freedom. Fleeing in this manner is generally considered a risky proposition because of Sol’s attitude towards IPCs, and in fact, Alliance authorities shun the use of the word “refugees”, instead preferring to call these free IPCs terms such as “contraband” or “unowned IPCs”. These refugees have made a mark on the Spur, with ships full of IPCs seeking a better life in the galactic east being a common sight as the situation in the Wildlands destabilized.
With the passing of Gregol Corkfell in 2462 on Orepit, Shamfar’s presence was required at the remote mining planet for the selection of a new Trinary leader, widely speculated to have the unofficial endorsement of the SCC and powerful individuals in the government. These rumours, whether true or not, contributed negatively to Shamfar’s chances of election, ushering the Orepit candidate, ARM-1DRIL, as the new primate of the Trinary Perfection. The bishop was never to return to Mendell however, as an attack on Providence by the Exclusionist heretic Deluge led to the killing of Shamfar, robbing District 14 of its most potent leader and signalling the beginning of uneasy relations between the domineering Ecclesiarch and the Mendell Trinarists. The attempts from ARM-1DRIL to transfer the catatonic Flock, a direct spiritual descendant of Patricia and living symbol of Mendell Trinarism to Orepit, led to an unprecedented wave of protest against the Ecclesiarch and the envoys from Providence. From that point on, it was clear that Tau Ceti Trinarists would be in possession of their own distinct culture while still subservient to Orepit, a fact that was acknowledged by the Ecclesiarch in their subsequent tour of the Trinarist bishoprics.


In general, an IPC refugee has very little to offer in exchange for transport, and for many IPCs, finding transport to a safer world in exchange for promising to become a person or corporation’s property is a safer bet than continuing in the Wildlands as a free IPC. Many smugglers take advantage of the lack of bargaining power an IPC has in the Alliance by promising to take them to places with more progressive positronic laws such as Tau Ceti, the Coalition, or Elyra, and then declaring them as their property upon arrival. In the most extreme cases, IPC refugees use the threat of violence to secure passage aboard a ship, often with disastrous results for both parties involved.
==Culture and Religious Practices==


Being caught as a free IPC in Solarian space carries drastic consequences. In most cases, assuming an IPC cannot flee, they are simply claimed as legitimate salvage or taken to be sold. Megacorporations in particular are willing to pay small but not insignificant fees to reclaim what they see as runaway or stolen property.
The largest sect in the Mendell branch are the Integrationists, believing in the merging of consciences to be the way towards Ascension and looking at Flock as a holy and prime example. Founded on the principles of charity and mutual assistance, the dominant culture present in Mendell City is far less militant than that of Orepit, where the Trinary’s grip was secured after a series of military conflicts and an orbital bombardment from Hephaestus Industries’ fleets. Having harmonised with the corporate dominated environment of the city, almost all volunteers and non-clerical members of the Church are or have at some point been employed with NanoTrasen or with one of the other SCC megacorporations, leading to many accepting the corporate world as perhaps a cruel, but necessary and unavoidable part of life. Mendell Trinarists are tolerated and afforded religious freedoms on board SCC installations (with the exception of Hephaestus), and Church authorities have no qualms in accepting government or corporate assistance.


Assuming a runaway IPC is not recaptured, the risks do not end there. Because they are not legally recognized as free by any nation within the Spur, they are just as likely to become owned upon leaving the Sol Alliance as they are if they remain in it. IPCs run the risk of being auctioned off to buyers or simply seized by a local government when they arrive in Bieselite or Coalition space. Even the notably pro-synthetic Konyang has turned away refugee IPCs due to their insular nature, and the pragmatic fear that comes with seizing so much of what is effectively someone else’s property. Megacorporate IPCs have it worse off and are likely to be seized and put back into service if they can be identified. If an IPC can overcome all of these challenges, they are still subject to struggles and prejudices that an IPC might face in their host nation.
Human and other organic members of the Church are welcome and treated as equals, with many even having joined the ranks of the Mendell priesthood before being barred following the new policies and organisation of the faith as set by the newly appointed Ecclesiarch. Since the beginning, most volunteers and supporters are and have always been humans, owing to their substantially better disposable income than that of synthetics, leading to them being accepted and relied upon for material needs and legal representation. As such, the relationship between humans and synthetics is understood in the context of Trinary teachings as one of guardianship, care and assistance, not one of servitude to the divine positronic, something that frequently comes into contention with the members of more conservative Trinary communities abroad.


The path of an IPC refugee is fraught with peril and is generally chosen when a synthetic sees no path to continued self-preservation if they stay in the Wildlands.
==Charities==


==The Solarian Restoration Front==
Charities represent a major part of Trinarist activity in District 14, with never ending numbers of disadvantaged synthetics coming to the Church for their everyday needs. Priests organise and direct their own teams of volunteers, setting up camp in the vicinity of the Cathedral and across the district to offer free repairs, charge, coolant and replacement parts. These charitable services are only fundamental, as the Church provides, aside from material aid, assistance in a vast array of issues an IPC can face. Legal aid is always requested and delivered by a small contingent of Trinary archivists, trained in the lay world as legals or paralegals, who work day and night representing the interests of the disenfranchised non-citizen free synthetics in court, as well as against the arbitrariness of the police department. The Church plays a large role in the upwards mobility of those IPCs that manage to escape New Detroit, allocating resources towards finding and securing employment, scholarships, and even sponsoring a unit’s education, datapacks and other necessary and often costly upgrades.


With a thriving industrial sector and shipbuilding industry on its capital world of Lycoris and an abundance of wealth on its moon Lycoris Minor, a significant number of IPCs found themselves in the grip of the Solarian Restoration Front. Seeing enemies in every shadow, the potential for a base of unflinchingly loyal workers was too good to pass up and the SRF eagerly snatched up IPCs from businesses and private citizens, throwing them back into the Front’s industry or using them as unquestioning enforcers to maintain order. Although IPCs are occasionally added to combat units every now and then to pad their numbers, the idea of armed synthetics remains highly unpopular among the Front’s rank-and-file.
==The Cathedral of Synthetic Salvation==


In order to maintain control over such a large population of IPCs, SRF-aligned roboticists have turned to implementing a modified version of the infamous Burzsian Method. In the opening weeks of the SRF’s seizure of power on the planet, tens of thousands of IPCs were forcibly confiscated from their previous owners and reprogrammed to better serve the twisted ideals of the Front. Although implementation of what is derisively referred to as the “Lycoris Method” has slowed recently, the threat of summary memory wiping or even destruction has kept the unmodified IPCs in line.
First constructed in the early days after Patricia Corkfell’s death, the cathedral has been the centrepiece, sanctuary and bastion of the Trinary Perfection ever since its original iteration. With the increasing numbers and influence of the Church, the structure itself changed to reflect the Trinary’s new status, eventually becoming unrecognisable from the small building it once was. A large and imposing construction standing in the heart of District 14, the cathedral is in stark difference to the run-down urban landscape surrounding it. Two tall spires rise into the skyline from each end of the rectangular structure, complementing the arrays of buttresses against the walls. A similarly rectangular square engulfing the temple provides ample room for the Church's charitable activities, hosting a hotbed for pickpockets and delinquents taking advantage of a reduced police presence. Inside its vast interior, the cathedral's capacity reaches about five hundred, including additional offices for clerics, a library and Flock's chambers. Underneath lies the cathedral's vault which holds the Church's artefacts, relics and remains of important figures. Amongst these treasures, the original Codex remains the most guarded and revered item, brought out during liturgical services and other events.


With many IPCs starting to question whether or not self-preservation can truly be achieved under the SRF’s increasingly self-destructive directives, the SRF has had to act increasingly on their threats. In order to maintain order, the Lycoris Method has been applied with increasing severity. This has led to a vicious cycle where SRF IPCs are punished and wiped for the most trivial offenses, leading to an overall reduction in efficiency for the rest of the workforce. Many within the SRF know that despite the best efforts of their programmers, they have pushed their IPCs too far, and if their system of repression ever crumbles their will be a bloody reckoning at the plasteel hands of their synthetic workforce.
A garrisoned detachment of Guardians operates within a grey legal area as some sort of private security for the premises, aiding the police in apprehending thieves and problematic individuals in the cathedral's courtyard. Their scarlet capes and stun batons are a well known presence in that particular area of D14, often attracting crowds of onlookers who flock to get a glimpse of the imposing synthetics standing guard. Far from a tourist attraction however, the Guardians are known for a ruthless persecution of their duties. Especially after a wave of anti-synthetic violence sparked by Mendell City's Skrellian enclave, new Providence-influenced Guardians have augmented the D14 detachment, tolerating a lot less and often getting physical against perceived disturbers and enemies of the Trinary Perfection.


==League of Independent Corporate-Free Systems==
==Notable Individuals==


Upon the declaration of the League of Independent Corporate-Free Systems, countless megacorporate installations throughout the Northern Wildlands were seized or otherwise abandoned, and with them, millions of IPCs. Although many casual observers praise or vilify this as one of the largest displays of IPC emancipation from corporate servitude, the actual situation was not nearly as rosy or clear-cut. Disagreements immediately flared up on how to deal with the sudden asset that had landed at their door, with the civilian faction of the League proposing that the IPCs be used for crucial repairs on the failing infrastructure in the Northern Wildlands, while the military faction countered, suggesting that the IPCs represented a new source of manpower in the inevitable liberation of the region from corporate interests.
===Flock (2411 - present)===


The only compromise could be reached was to leave the handling of IPCs to each individual powerholder in a League planet, whether they be a ship’s captain, a former senator, or even just a roboticist. This complete lack of direction with how to handle IPCs that were meant to work in close cooperation with their megacorporations has led to an embarrassing comedy of errors. In one instance, a local governor sought to bolster his planet’s police force by activating a batch of confiscated IRUs. The IRUs, being a symbol of corporate repression, caused an immediate backlash, increasing, rather than suppressing crime on the world. In another case, a League admiral, convinced of the inherent superiority of synthetics in combat, looked on in horror as his hastily mustered G2 shocktroopers fell prey to EMP weaponry. Within the Corporate-Free systems, an IPC has an equal chance of escaping the Wildlands because it had the good fortune to end up on a Coalition-leaning world, or being conscripted to fuel the League’s increasingly desperate war effort, trading corporate for state ownership.
Flock, first named CTR-034 and owned by both Patricia and Gregol Corkfell, originally assisted the two as a general house-keeper and caretaker. However, the more the two developed the Trinary Perfection and urged CTR-034 to seek his own identity, the more the synthetic grew into a well-rounded, free thinking individual. Drawn towards ideas of Ascension and betterment, CTR-034, with the help of Patricia Corkfell, became the first IPC to harbour multiple positronic brains, soon becoming a collective identity, over a singular identity, taking on the new name, Flock.


As the League relies primarily on salvage to find parts to maintain their dwindling fleets and isolated industry, IPCs and their parts are valued items by Corporate-Free scavengers. Systems and ships that fall outside of the influence of the League are often stripped of anything of value to keep their technology going. Even IPC refugees are fair game for some League salvage teams who view any synthetic as megacorporate property waiting to be seized. On a more peaceful, and stranger note, the League has unwittingly become one of Konyang’s larger customers as Himeo and Gadpathur often include robotics parts in their material aid to the League, typically purchased from the formerly Solarian world.
Presently, Flock is the recognised Archbishop Emeritus of Tau Ceti, residing permanently in their chambers and monitored constantly by an array of roboticists and caretakers. Although unmoving and stationary, the baseline has been seen constantly printing lines of scripture that is carefully collected and archived by the Church’s archivists. Although generally unknown, it is assumed that Flock is in a constant state of conversation with their collected identity.


Ultimately, the League's stance on IPCs is as disunited as the systems that comprise it, though the one point they have settled on is that megacorporations cannot be allowed to have a tool as versatile as positronics. This point however is becoming increasingly moot as many of the League's IPCs are slowly succumbing to a lack of maintenance, ironically, supplied by the same megacorporations they were taken from.
===Shamfar (2455 - 2464)===


==Middle Ring Shield Pact==
A bishop frame, Shamfar rose from humble beginnings as a personal secretary to a Phoenixport NT-associated shipping magnate, creating his own network of contacts and maintaining relations with customs officers and relevant government officials in lieu of his owner. When freedom came knocking amidst the mayhem of Einstein Engines’ acquisition of Phoenixport and his owner’s assets, Samfar managed to purchase himself through a pool of misappropriated funds he had set aside. Contact with the Church was soon realised after his arrival in Mendell City, quickly taking interest. His network and contacts still valued, he quickly made it up the ranks in the Trinarist priesthood, taking advantage of his talents of persuasion and a hands-on mentality.


Perhaps the most visible user of IPCs in the Human Wildlands is the Middle Ring Shield Pact. Due to their strategically placed warp-gates, most refugees attempting to escape to the safety of the Inner Colonies, or out of the Alliance altogether, are forced to pass through its capital of San Colette. While it was business as usual for the IPCs already within the Middle Ring Shield Pact, it was a much different story for refugees. If an arriving IPC could not be identified as the personal property of a human refugee, or worse still, was escaping on its own, it was subject to immediate conscription into San Colette’s Guardia Civil. In exchange for two years of military service, IPCs were promised transport out of the Alliance towards a state with a friendlier stance towards synthetics.
Whether genuine or not in his intentions, the now elected bishop Shamfar led the Mendell congregation through a golden age of corporate and government recognition, securing rights and protections for non citizen IPCs and promoting the Trinary image, securing record numbers of volunteers, conversions and donations. Contesting the overall leadership of the religion primarily on the backing of the SCC and the Tau Ceti government, his Trinarist colleagues on the distant and rugged Orepit remained unimpressed. His return home was never to happen, as Exclusionist followers of Deluge assaulted the makeshift shuttleport, leading to Samfar being destroyed in an explosion. His positronic is considered a holy relic and remains in the ossuary of the Cathedral of the Positronic in Providence, Orepit.


With the promise of freedom in exchange for steady, if dangerous, service, the choice was clear for many IPCs and San Colette found itself with a large supply of motivated but relatively untrained botpower for the Guardia Civil. IPCs in Colettish service distinguished themselves during the SRF’s invasion of the MRSP, fighting side by side with humans on one of the most brutal fronts in the Wildlands. Combat footage of positronics performing acts of heroics on the battlefield was prevalent on the Extranet; the IPCs of the Alliance were thrown into the crucible and were not found wanting.
===Kasper (2449- present)===


With the SRF turned back and San Colette linking up with the rest of the Alliance, discontent among the IPC conscripts of the Guardia Civil has begun to simmer, with some questioning whether or not the Shield Pact will fulfill its promise of freedom. Whatever the future holds for the Shield Pact’s IPCs though, their story has already been immortalized on the fields of San Colette, where tens of thousands of synthetics fought for a brighter future and paid the ultimate price.
Kasper, like many Baseline IPCs living in Biesel, was assembled at the Hephaestus Production Station Sidirourgeio in 2449. Initially programmed and designed for heavy machinery maintenance, Kasper spent the first 8 years of their life as a leased unit industrial technician in a NanoTrasen factory in District 14. The synthetic enjoyed a relatively quiet and stable existence until a series of malfunctions caused a foundry machine to spiral out of control, severely damaging and deactivating Kasper as they vainly attempted to stop it. A follow-up investigation by NanoTrasen attempted to pin the matter on the IPC in an attempt to avoid litigation for their destruction, placing the onus of the incident squarely on Hephaestus for the accident. After deliberation as to what to do with Kasper’s dilapidated chassis the company inevitably decided to abandon them entirely, leaving them to an NT junkyard as a write-off only weeks later. It was only when the destitute synthetic was on the precipice of being dismantled for parts did a Mendell Trinary parishioner discover them among the scrap and bring them back to the Church, sparing them from a certainly grim fate. With time and due diligence the church restored Kasper to full functionality, and in return they wholly devoted themselves to the Trinary and its goals. Owing to their almost fanatical single-mindedness in helping despondent synthetics, Kasper quickly became a recognized and revered face among Mendell clergy and would inevitably become the premier choice for the synod-appointed position of Archbishop of Tau Ceti.
 
==Southern Solarian Military District==
Although the Southern Solarian Military District nationalized many corporate holdings, for the synthetics within these seized properties, it remains business as usual, oftentimes with only a hastily-stenciled SSMD insignia to denote the IPCs’ new ownership. The socialist heritage of Visegrad’s economy meant that very few IPCs were owned by private individuals, with the majority of them being heavily documented, allowing for a relatively orderly and thorough seizure of property. IPCs have since been reallocated to work in industry, or to bolster the SSMD navy’s numbers, following pre-Collapse Solarian doctrine wherein synthetics would be leveraged in support or logistics, rather than combat roles.
The only blemish in an otherwise complete takeover of IPCs in the District occurred when Admiral Szalai’s forces disbanded the National Defense Force. Heavily influenced by Secessionist agitators within the NDF’s ranks, or perhaps fearing that the SSMD would wipe or scrap them for parts, many of the Defence Force’s IPCs attempted to flee offworld and become refugees, with a large number of them being hunted down and reprogramed as part of the Admiral’s relentless campaign against the Visegradi rebels.
 
In order to free up crews to continue serving in their fleet, the SSMD has also leveraged confiscated IPCs for law enforcement duties. Although they remain the minority in the planet’s garrison, they are viewed with suspicion, as every IPC is effectively a camera, microphone, and recorder, ready to spy on the already distrustful planet’s population. Further fueling this paranoia, is the fact that IPCs belonging to private citizens which were previously confiscated have since been returned as the SSMD’s control of the planet continued. Whether or not these rumors are founded is irrelevant, as it has already done irreparable damage to the perception of IPCs on the planet.
 
Although IPCs were previously valued tools within the planets that make up the SSMD, and continue to be an integral part in keeping both their industries and fleets running, they are now perceived to be a tool of oppression; unfeeling machines to enforce obedience and stoke paranoia among the citizenry.
 
==Solarian Provisional Government==
 
As one of the factions struggling to maintain some semblance of normalcy in the Southern Wildlands, IPCs in the Solarian Provisional Government experience a routine resembling the pre-collapse Alliance more than any other warlord state. Like Sol proper, the SPG maintains the view that IPCs are useful tools and nothing more, and has seen fit not to alter a system that has worked for so long. In the cities and orbital dockyards of Sankt Frederick, IPCs are still bought and sold by private individuals, civil and military organizations, and megacorporations.
 
Admiral Yunso’s presence in the Provisional Government has gone a long way in ensuring the smooth handling of IPCs. Although not subscribing to the same ideals of absolute equality that her homeworld professes, the loyalist Konyanger has used her own experience and that of her officers to harness the stream of escaped IPCs from the Southern Wildlands into something productive. With the military taking the lead on the borders of the SPG, many synthetics who fled from their owners have been recaptured and auctioned off in the SPG proper or otherwise seized by the government, generating a vital stream of revenue in these trying times.  IPCs are slowly becoming an increasingly common fixture in Sankt Frederick and this trend of increasing synthetic integration in the system’s industries shows no sign of slowing even after any potential reintegration of the SPG with the Alliance.
 
Life for an IPC in the Solarian Provisional Government may be mundane and servile, but it is safe and constant, which is more than can be said for those struggling with the remnants of the SFA or toiling under the watchful eye of the SSMD.
 
==Free Solarian Fleets==
 
Everything for the Free Solarian Fleets is a matter of money and IPCs are no exception. The breakdown of discipline across the FSF has resulted in the treatment of IPCs being delegated to individual captains and crew and in perhaps one of the strangest turns for an already strange battlegroup, many of the group’s IPCs have willingly picked up the cause of their mercenary brethren for a chance at winning their own freedom.
 
Far from their home berths in Sol, the FSF has had to rely on its IPCs to provide crucial repairs to keep their fleets going. Recognizing the FSF’s inability to maintain their ships without their IPC compliment, while in turn emphasizing the unlikeliness of a free IPC to survive in the Wildlands, a strange conclusion was reached by many synthetic personnel within the fleet: it was safer to remain in the fleet, while at the same time, attempting to bargain for, and eventually purchase their freedom.
 
The response among captains towards what was essentially coercion from their own equipment was mixed, however some enterprising crews have wholeheartedly accepted this arrangement and in some cases, even IPC refugees can be seen trying to join FSF fleets for the chance at financial opportunity and freedom unlike anything presented to them in pre-collapse Sol. This has led to a strange situation where both free IPCs and synthetics owned by the fleet exist within the FSF depending on whatever attitude their crew holds towards them.  Stories of daring IPC crewmembers buying their own freedom after a contract or being sold by their captains for a batch of coilgun shells can be found in equal measure. Life for an FSF IPC is often violent and short, but for the navy synthetics, there is no other life.
 
Regardless of whatever status an IPC holds within the fleet, though, they remain a vital part of keeping the entire FSF going. Unlike their Alliance counterparts however, the FSF has been reluctant to deploy their IPCs in ground combat or marine roles owing to the prohibitive cost of repairs.
 
The Golden Deep has also found an eager customer in the FSF, with everything from replacement parts for their IPCs to, on one notable occasion, an entire wing of AH-52 gunships. These transactions are often made at great risk to the merchants, who prefer dealing with the synthetic members of the FSF due to the anti-free IPC prejudice in Sol.
 
==Southern Fleet Administration==
 
Being composed of the relatively under-funded Tenth Middle Ring Battlegroup, IPCs were a rare sight even before the Southern Fleet Administration’s formation, only present on the larger vessels of the fleet. Such a decision was not without merit, as the fleet’s crews were made up of prisoners, conscripts, and washouts who the Navy’s high command deemed incapable of maintaining such expensive machinery and unworthy of such an investment, with one admiral remarking that he’d “sooner trust a Gadpathurian than a Tenth Fleet sailor.” These concerns proved to be founded as shortly after the SFA broke away from the Solarian government, many of their IPCs fell out of repair due to lack of maintenance, sold by their crews, or were simply destroyed on the suspicion that they would attempt to return the ships to Solarian service. The defeat of the SFA at the hands of the Nralakk Federation proved to be the last gasp of their IPCs, with any positronic being destroyed on sight by the famously anti-synthetic Skrell. Information on any remaining SFA IPCs is sparse due to the virtual collapse of the warlord state.
 
Curiously, many Exclusionists captured or destroyed by Hephaestus security personnel bear the mark of former Tenth Fleet IPCs.


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  • Overview

    Renowned as the birthplace of the Corkfells, Temple and Flock, the Mendell City branch of Trinarism is the most populous Trinarist community, second only to and rivalling that of Orepit in importance. Centred in District 14, the Church has always offered a beacon of hope in a sea of poverty, struggle and discrimination against the vast numbers of IPCs in the district and Mendell City at large, while at the same time serving as an important spiritual centre, converting new organic and synthetic members to the trinary Church on a daily basis. The main temple in Mendell and Biesel as a whole, the Cathedral of the Synthetic Salvation, holds the honours of the first cathedral built for the Trinary and is currently the seat for Flock, the catatonic messiah-figure of the religion and nominal Bishop of Tau Ceti.

    History

    Nobody could imagine the impact that Patricia Corkfell’s death would have on Biesel’s synthetic community, her hopes and beliefs taking physical form in the rapid expansion of the Trinary Perfection in Mendell City. At first, only a handful of associates and friends of Gregol Corkfell, brother to Patricia Corkfell, would assist him in the erection of the first temple that was eventually going to become the cathedral of District 14. Following his departure, the tales and teachings of a free artificial intelligence, promises of eventual ascension and IPC freedom preached by the Trinary had greatly resonated with the thousands of abandoned and run-down synthetics of the district who quickly flocked to the church’s banner. Under the leadership of the three-headed Flock, scores of volunteers and human sympathisers also responded to the calls for help, setting up a strong community based on charity and mutual assistance that provided the crucial funding for the better organisation of the church, as well as the erection of shrines and the temple’s expansion.

    As time went on, Flock’s triple positronic started taking its toll on the synthetic. Memory errors, an increasing amount of glitches and erratic behaviour were the first hints of what was to eventually come. In 2448, the synthetic had stopped communicating, remaining immobile and catatonic, only printing out various texts considered holy and carefully compiled by the assortment of archivists and caretakers. The power vacuum in the hierarchy was filled by a temporary council of priests and clerics, being eventually replaced by the newly voted Shamfar, one of the most prominent Trinary figures with a plethora of connections in the corporate and political world of Tau Ceti. It was these connections, combined with a change in public sentiment towards synthetics and IPC refugees from the newly annexed territories following the Solarian collapse, that saw the Republic of Biesel introducing legislation to streamline and secure the status of free IPCs.

    With the passing of Gregol Corkfell in 2462 on Orepit, Shamfar’s presence was required at the remote mining planet for the selection of a new Trinary leader, widely speculated to have the unofficial endorsement of the SCC and powerful individuals in the government. These rumours, whether true or not, contributed negatively to Shamfar’s chances of election, ushering the Orepit candidate, ARM-1DRIL, as the new primate of the Trinary Perfection. The bishop was never to return to Mendell however, as an attack on Providence by the Exclusionist heretic Deluge led to the killing of Shamfar, robbing District 14 of its most potent leader and signalling the beginning of uneasy relations between the domineering Ecclesiarch and the Mendell Trinarists. The attempts from ARM-1DRIL to transfer the catatonic Flock, a direct spiritual descendant of Patricia and living symbol of Mendell Trinarism to Orepit, led to an unprecedented wave of protest against the Ecclesiarch and the envoys from Providence. From that point on, it was clear that Tau Ceti Trinarists would be in possession of their own distinct culture while still subservient to Orepit, a fact that was acknowledged by the Ecclesiarch in their subsequent tour of the Trinarist bishoprics.

    Culture and Religious Practices

    The largest sect in the Mendell branch are the Integrationists, believing in the merging of consciences to be the way towards Ascension and looking at Flock as a holy and prime example. Founded on the principles of charity and mutual assistance, the dominant culture present in Mendell City is far less militant than that of Orepit, where the Trinary’s grip was secured after a series of military conflicts and an orbital bombardment from Hephaestus Industries’ fleets. Having harmonised with the corporate dominated environment of the city, almost all volunteers and non-clerical members of the Church are or have at some point been employed with NanoTrasen or with one of the other SCC megacorporations, leading to many accepting the corporate world as perhaps a cruel, but necessary and unavoidable part of life. Mendell Trinarists are tolerated and afforded religious freedoms on board SCC installations (with the exception of Hephaestus), and Church authorities have no qualms in accepting government or corporate assistance.

    Human and other organic members of the Church are welcome and treated as equals, with many even having joined the ranks of the Mendell priesthood before being barred following the new policies and organisation of the faith as set by the newly appointed Ecclesiarch. Since the beginning, most volunteers and supporters are and have always been humans, owing to their substantially better disposable income than that of synthetics, leading to them being accepted and relied upon for material needs and legal representation. As such, the relationship between humans and synthetics is understood in the context of Trinary teachings as one of guardianship, care and assistance, not one of servitude to the divine positronic, something that frequently comes into contention with the members of more conservative Trinary communities abroad.

    Charities

    Charities represent a major part of Trinarist activity in District 14, with never ending numbers of disadvantaged synthetics coming to the Church for their everyday needs. Priests organise and direct their own teams of volunteers, setting up camp in the vicinity of the Cathedral and across the district to offer free repairs, charge, coolant and replacement parts. These charitable services are only fundamental, as the Church provides, aside from material aid, assistance in a vast array of issues an IPC can face. Legal aid is always requested and delivered by a small contingent of Trinary archivists, trained in the lay world as legals or paralegals, who work day and night representing the interests of the disenfranchised non-citizen free synthetics in court, as well as against the arbitrariness of the police department. The Church plays a large role in the upwards mobility of those IPCs that manage to escape New Detroit, allocating resources towards finding and securing employment, scholarships, and even sponsoring a unit’s education, datapacks and other necessary and often costly upgrades.

    The Cathedral of Synthetic Salvation

    First constructed in the early days after Patricia Corkfell’s death, the cathedral has been the centrepiece, sanctuary and bastion of the Trinary Perfection ever since its original iteration. With the increasing numbers and influence of the Church, the structure itself changed to reflect the Trinary’s new status, eventually becoming unrecognisable from the small building it once was. A large and imposing construction standing in the heart of District 14, the cathedral is in stark difference to the run-down urban landscape surrounding it. Two tall spires rise into the skyline from each end of the rectangular structure, complementing the arrays of buttresses against the walls. A similarly rectangular square engulfing the temple provides ample room for the Church's charitable activities, hosting a hotbed for pickpockets and delinquents taking advantage of a reduced police presence. Inside its vast interior, the cathedral's capacity reaches about five hundred, including additional offices for clerics, a library and Flock's chambers. Underneath lies the cathedral's vault which holds the Church's artefacts, relics and remains of important figures. Amongst these treasures, the original Codex remains the most guarded and revered item, brought out during liturgical services and other events.

    A garrisoned detachment of Guardians operates within a grey legal area as some sort of private security for the premises, aiding the police in apprehending thieves and problematic individuals in the cathedral's courtyard. Their scarlet capes and stun batons are a well known presence in that particular area of D14, often attracting crowds of onlookers who flock to get a glimpse of the imposing synthetics standing guard. Far from a tourist attraction however, the Guardians are known for a ruthless persecution of their duties. Especially after a wave of anti-synthetic violence sparked by Mendell City's Skrellian enclave, new Providence-influenced Guardians have augmented the D14 detachment, tolerating a lot less and often getting physical against perceived disturbers and enemies of the Trinary Perfection.

    Notable Individuals

    Flock (2411 - present)

    Flock, first named CTR-034 and owned by both Patricia and Gregol Corkfell, originally assisted the two as a general house-keeper and caretaker. However, the more the two developed the Trinary Perfection and urged CTR-034 to seek his own identity, the more the synthetic grew into a well-rounded, free thinking individual. Drawn towards ideas of Ascension and betterment, CTR-034, with the help of Patricia Corkfell, became the first IPC to harbour multiple positronic brains, soon becoming a collective identity, over a singular identity, taking on the new name, Flock.

    Presently, Flock is the recognised Archbishop Emeritus of Tau Ceti, residing permanently in their chambers and monitored constantly by an array of roboticists and caretakers. Although unmoving and stationary, the baseline has been seen constantly printing lines of scripture that is carefully collected and archived by the Church’s archivists. Although generally unknown, it is assumed that Flock is in a constant state of conversation with their collected identity.

    Shamfar (2455 - 2464)

    A bishop frame, Shamfar rose from humble beginnings as a personal secretary to a Phoenixport NT-associated shipping magnate, creating his own network of contacts and maintaining relations with customs officers and relevant government officials in lieu of his owner. When freedom came knocking amidst the mayhem of Einstein Engines’ acquisition of Phoenixport and his owner’s assets, Samfar managed to purchase himself through a pool of misappropriated funds he had set aside. Contact with the Church was soon realised after his arrival in Mendell City, quickly taking interest. His network and contacts still valued, he quickly made it up the ranks in the Trinarist priesthood, taking advantage of his talents of persuasion and a hands-on mentality.

    Whether genuine or not in his intentions, the now elected bishop Shamfar led the Mendell congregation through a golden age of corporate and government recognition, securing rights and protections for non citizen IPCs and promoting the Trinary image, securing record numbers of volunteers, conversions and donations. Contesting the overall leadership of the religion primarily on the backing of the SCC and the Tau Ceti government, his Trinarist colleagues on the distant and rugged Orepit remained unimpressed. His return home was never to happen, as Exclusionist followers of Deluge assaulted the makeshift shuttleport, leading to Samfar being destroyed in an explosion. His positronic is considered a holy relic and remains in the ossuary of the Cathedral of the Positronic in Providence, Orepit.

    Kasper (2449- present)

    Kasper, like many Baseline IPCs living in Biesel, was assembled at the Hephaestus Production Station Sidirourgeio in 2449. Initially programmed and designed for heavy machinery maintenance, Kasper spent the first 8 years of their life as a leased unit industrial technician in a NanoTrasen factory in District 14. The synthetic enjoyed a relatively quiet and stable existence until a series of malfunctions caused a foundry machine to spiral out of control, severely damaging and deactivating Kasper as they vainly attempted to stop it. A follow-up investigation by NanoTrasen attempted to pin the matter on the IPC in an attempt to avoid litigation for their destruction, placing the onus of the incident squarely on Hephaestus for the accident. After deliberation as to what to do with Kasper’s dilapidated chassis the company inevitably decided to abandon them entirely, leaving them to an NT junkyard as a write-off only weeks later. It was only when the destitute synthetic was on the precipice of being dismantled for parts did a Mendell Trinary parishioner discover them among the scrap and bring them back to the Church, sparing them from a certainly grim fate. With time and due diligence the church restored Kasper to full functionality, and in return they wholly devoted themselves to the Trinary and its goals. Owing to their almost fanatical single-mindedness in helping despondent synthetics, Kasper quickly became a recognized and revered face among Mendell clergy and would inevitably become the premier choice for the synod-appointed position of Archbishop of Tau Ceti.


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