Twinnow Chor

The Twinnow Chor, colloquially known as Twinnow or the Chor, is a sovereign country located in the centre of the Claimed Galaxy. It is the largest member of the Greater Twinnow Alliance encompassing 284 inhabited worlds from 221 systems. The majority of its volume is coreward although the Halse pan is further rimward from the core than any pan is coreward.

Twinnow began as a planetary nation-state during the pre-industrial period of Alterni. With the treaty of Misport in 798 Twinnow gained independence as a nation for the first time. The territory of Twinnow slowly grew over the next 50 years until the establishment of the duality between the revolutionary movements of Twinnow and Arkiin. They were successful in overthrowing the monarchies and installed a single democratic nation led by two chordanals. When the Tul Dare introduced themselves to the Alternan international community they found Twinnow to be the most receptive to alien concepts. Twinnow then led the rapid industrialisation and unification of Twinalter while simultaneously expanding onto the moons of Uadescii.

(pre 7th century NC)
An ancient myth from Twinalter states that a woman named Nanar once awoke from a dream in which she saw two avia that she called owls and those owls in her dream told her to sail east. In the east she found a continent untouched and where she landed became the city of Twinnow. The owls told of a prophecy that a traveller of another land would discover their location hidden in plain sight and this traveller would be given treasures beyond conception. The earliest evidence of Politan or Tauran habitation on Desanar is a grave below the city dating to the 6th century.

Djun arrival
19/7/906. The second Djun Foundry had never been a fully unified and centralised state until the Tul Dare empire fully unified the Ring. The Tul Dare was much less isolationist than the foundry and they had decided to intervene in the history of Alterni.

First Contact with the Riek
8/4/914. The Riek and it's predecessors had never been able to enter or contact the people of the Nitras system due to the interference of the Djun for as long as it has been inhabited. Though the Djun still prevented all entry into the system, they allowed the Alternans to leave to explore and establish diplomatic relations. The first contact they made was with the station observing the Nitras System.

Twinnow-Riek War
It is generally agreed that the Riek's practice of slavery and Replia's recent secession from the Riek and entry into the Greater Twinnow Alliance heavily negatively affected relations between the nations to the point of war. On the 26th of sonomos(5), 943 a messenger probe arrived at New Alterni with a declaration of war. Five days later, the Lithium corvette was launched from the Cyri celestiary, becoming the first Twinnow warship. This class of ship was capable of a speed near 365.25 c which was at this time 6x faster than any non Djun vessel and enabled a small squadron of five Lithium class to arrive in the Silus system on the edge of the inner Riek in twenty four days, two and a half months before the nearest Riek fleet could arrive, giving them ample time to siege the planet and reinforce the system.

Siege of Polita The siege began on the 11th of finomos(9), 945 with a reorganized seventh fleet using Beryllium Frigates built at the captured Celia Celestiary. The battle of Sol lasted 5 weeks with the majority of the 7800 ships of the consolidated Riek home fleet being destroyed on the approach to Polita, the rest were captured around the inner planets and asteroid belt. Polita proved to be incredibly self sufficient and defensible with most of it's cities enclosed within large walls topped with arrays of turrets and having large forces of soldiers and strike craft to provide land and air superiority. It was the heart of the Riek and it's inhabitants were fanatically opposed to the removal of the imperial way of life.

Post treaty of Polita
The treaty of Polita declared that the Chor would gain ownership of all systems within 20 LY of all wormholes minus the Archaeon wormhole in addition to the systems 20 LY from Nitras. This was in order to manage all traffic through them and divide the territory into sub governments that could quickly notify each other of news and threats. The Twinnow constitution was also adopted in the same ceremony to further signify the change in galactic affairs. The constitution as adopted during the treaty states "The Twinnow Chor ensures the economic prosperity and national security of the states comprising the Greater Twinnow Alliance", this solidified the Greater Twinnow Alliance as no longer a defensive pact but a legally binding promise of defence and economic cooperation. The treaty made the capital of the Riek to be the new capital of Twinnow and the planet would be renamed to New Alterni but this increased tensions between the new government and the Civilians of Polita so a promise was made by Chordanad Enisi to not abolish the monarchy but to relegate it to a ceremonial role and represent only the worlds who wished it to.

Government and Politics
The Twinnow Chor is a Federation of five federal republics and 23 alliance worlds. The Twinnow federal system is a multilayered representative democracy in which residents are represented by a stardate who is represented by a condate who is repesented by a pandate.

The governance of the Chor is regulated by the articles of the Twinnow constitution. The Constitution outlines the responsibilties of all representatives within the Twinnow Chor and it also includes all laws which are applicable within all Twinnow Territory. The Constitution and Government are further regulated by the Djun Seer Council.

There is no effective separation of the heads of state and government but diplomatic interactions do not usually involve the Chordate but instead the Kazar, the left over monarchy of the Riek.

Administrative divisions
Twinnow is made up of 5 pans whose capitals are located in each of the five star systems with wormhole egresses. The first divisions that would eventually become what are now the pans were the rieks which succeeded the first Solenriek, these major divisions changed shape over the centuries with the activation of each of the wormhole egresses. Under the observation and direction of the Chor Government are the sub governments of the pans, the pan governments function almost identically to the chor's government but with more members within their debate chambers, those being condanals. Pans are headed by a pandanal who much like the chordanal has slightly more power than their subordinate danals though very little power to contradict orders that the condates have already signed off on.

Enner Pan The Enner pan is the capital pan of twinnow and is situated trail-coreward of Sin. Its capital is New Alterni of the Sol system.

Card Pan The Card pan is the nearest to the Tul dare and cooperates with them on many projects such as terraforming and megastructures. This has resulted in the fastest developing region in the CG

Nubo Pan The Nubo Pan is the centermost pan. Its capital is Celia of the Turi system. It is the region with the highest percentage of Taurans in the claimed galaxy and as such they have much more sway politically there than anywhere else.

Mabit Pan The Mabit Pan is the most resource rich pan.

Halse Pan The Halse Pan is the rimward most pan. It's capital is Alterni of the Nitras system.

The Records
The Records is a comprehensive information database created and maintained by the Scout Chor of Twinnow to learn and record every known thing and concept in the Claimed Galaxy