"Others debate. We decide. Others plead. We command."

— Motto of High Tribunal of Doctrine

The Imperial Directorate Inquisition (IDI) is the central governing authority within the United Colonial Group (UCG), structured upon a sacred trinity of power: Legislative, Judicial, and Executive. It is neither a democracy nor a republic; it is an engineered machine of rule, perfected through war, psychological discipline, and doctrinal clarity. The IDI is governed by the Bifurcated Mandate Doctrine, wherein each system and sector falls under Dual Authority: a military figure of supreme command and a civilian enforcer of doctrinal governance. However, per doctrine, the military arm always holds superior rank. Each of the IDI's branches reflects a facet of this absolute structure, and together, they form the indomitable triarchy of Regime control.

The Legislative Body – The High Directorate Council

Motto: “We do not argue policy. We enforce inevitability.”

Purpose & Function:

The High Directorate Council is the legislative forge of the Regime. It is composed of elite caste representatives, vetted military strategists, Ministry architects, and algorithmically selected technocrats. The Council exists not to debate, but to enact and refine pre-approved ideological models. It is predictive, not reactive, designing laws that ensure sociopolitical survivability generations in advance.

Structure:

• Sovereign Director: Supreme chair of the Council. Holds veto authority second only to the President Supreme.
• Councilors: Appointed, not elected. Drawn from Ministry elites, Military Commanders, and Doctrinal Engineers.
• Observer Influence Seats: Temporary, influence-limited seats held by key Military Academies and high-performing units.
• Doctrinal Clearance Committees: Pre-filter legislative proposals for ideological purity and systemic compatibility.
• Decisional Conclaves: Emergency ratification sessions used during planetary collapse, warzone escalations, or insurgency.

Key Philosophies:

• Policy is algorithmic, not rhetorical.
• The future must be dictated, not discovered.
• The voice of dissent is the echo of collapse.

The Judicial Body – The Imperial Senate

Motto: “Law is not a shield. It is a blade that only cuts in one direction.”

Purpose & Function:

The Imperial Senate is not a deliberative body; it is an ideological tribunal tasked with maintaining doctrinal purity. Its judgments are final, absolute, and often theatrical. Here, law is wielded as a psychological weapon to enforce loyalty and eliminate deviation. It serves as the regime’s conscience, if such a thing could exist beneath iron.

Structure:

• Regional Justicars: Preside over large judicial zones. Enforce and interpret systemic laws across systems.
• Judicial Prefects: Local enforcers and case reviewers for lower-tier verdicts.
• Sentinel Arbiters: Highest echelon of regime judges. Often deliver ideology-shaping verdicts for broadcast.
• High Marshal Primaris: Overseer of Senate conduct. Controls chamber order and may silence dissent with Directive Lash Authority.

Oversight & Training:

• Magisterium of Doctrinal Law: All judges trained in this brutal fusion of ethics removal, psychological loyalty, and Regime legal structure.
• Ministry of Justice and GBA Surveillance: Provide layered scrutiny over all decisions to ensure systemic fidelity.

Cultural Role:

• Trials may be public spectacles, crafted for the purpose of morale, obedience, and propaganda.
• Legal appeals are rare and often fatal.
• All rulings emphasize submission to the Doctrine, not fairness.

The Executive Body – The High Tribunal of Doctrine

Motto: “To command is not to lead. It is to remove the illusion of choice.”

Purpose & Function:

The High Tribunal of Doctrine is the sovereign executor of all Regime will. It is not merely a governing body, it is the blade that carves order from entropy. Tasked with military mobilization, industrial compliance, and ideological projection, the Tribunal is the direct embodiment of the UCG’s long war against collapse.

Structure:

• President Supreme: The living will of the Regime. Supreme leader and final arbiter.
• Grand General: Military Executor. Oversees all DMDF strategic operations.
• High Marshal Primaris: Supreme enforcer of internal discipline across all branches.
• Grand Ministers: Strategic heads of Ministries elevated to Tribunal authority.
• Command Liaisons: Temporary advisors deployed during times of critical internal fracture or planetary loss.

Functions:

• Executes all mandates from the High Directorate Council.
• Oversees DMDF deployments, planetary occupation laws, and interstellar lockdowns.
• Holds emergency powers to activate Enactment Protocol: Bastion Command, suspending all civil functions and imposing full martial control.
• Adjudicates Ministry disputes and authorizes budgetary restructuring without oversight.

Propagation of Will:

• Messages and decrees are broadcast only through the Imperial Authority News Network (IANN).
• No member of the Tribunal speaks publicly.
• Its voice is the voice of the Regime. Absolute, final, and faceless.

The Imperial Directorate Inquisition is not a passive governing body; it is a theological machine of governance, forged through fire, sharpened by rebellion, and fueled by ideological certainty. It does not change, it corrects. It does not debate, it decrees. It exists to preserve continuity, to secure the Doctrine, and to enforce the survival of civilization by all means necessary.

In the eyes of the citizen, the IDI is unapproachable, unchallengeable, and divine in function. Its members are not officials; they are Instruments of Continuity.

"Conviction is not born, it is conditioned."

— Codex Inquisitorum

The culture of the Imperial Directorate Inquisition (IDI) is a manifestation of ruthless efficiency, sacred obedience, and doctrinal absolutism. It does not tolerate moral ambiguity or ideological plurality; such concepts are seen as threats to order. As the central governing organ of the United Colonial Group, the IDI maintains a pervasive and meticulously curated cultural identity that prizes function over sentiment, obedience over opinion, and unity over individuality. Through its three branches, Legislative, Judicial, and Executive, the IDI weaves culture not as art or expression, but as an instrument of survival and indoctrination.

Culture, in the eyes of the IDI, is not merely a passive byproduct of civilization; it is a tool of containment. It is weaponized to protect the collective psyche from deviation, dissent, and decay. Within the Regime, the IDI is not merely obeyed; it is revered.

Core Beliefs

Doctrinal Absolutism

At the heart of the IDI lies the belief in a predetermined moral and operational order, derived not from theological revelation but from civic and militarized logic. All law, behavior, governance, and interpretation of reality are filtered through the Doctrinal Spine, an unchangeable philosophical framework encoded within the Inquisition’s founding archives.

• Truth is Constructed, Not Discovered: Citizens are conditioned to understand that “truth” is not a natural state, but a curated narrative necessary for survival.
• Freedom is a Distraction: Individual liberty is viewed as a dangerous abstraction. Stability is the ultimate virtue.
• Emotion Without Function is Treason: Excessive sentiment, art without purpose, or unfiltered expression are seen as subversive acts unless co-opted by state objectives.

Survival Through Structure

The IDI teaches that civilization is always on the brink of collapse, and only through meticulous, unrelenting control can the species endure. Thus, survival becomes not just a goal, but a ritual.

• Hierarchy is Sacred: Rank is not just administrative; it is spiritual. A Senator is a priest of order. A Preceptor is a prophet of structure.
• Dual Authority is Divine: The Bifurcated Mandate Doctrine is venerated as the most perfected form of control, military and civilian arms in unified tension, with the martial branch superior in times of uncertainty.

Social Conditioning & Internal Customs

Life under the IDI is heavily curated by ritualized conformity and civic ceremony, many of which blur the line between governance and cult-like veneration.

• The Oath of Breath: A compulsory daily recitation by Regime members affirming loyalty to the IDI, often broadcast via public vox-hymns before the first work cycle begins.
• The Silence Hour: Enforced once per week across all Regime-controlled systems. A full hour where all civilian activity ceases. The silence is symbolic, a collective display of compliance and reverence for order.
• Doctrinal Days: Calendar intervals dedicated to the veneration of key policy milestones. Coordinated parades often mark these, synchronized speeches by Regime Preceptors, and mass screenings of loyalty operas.

Within Regime academies and workforces, individuals are taught not to ask “why” but to ask “how.” Why implies doubt. How implies alignment.

Perception of the Outside World

To members of the IDI, the galaxy beyond Regime influence is not “foreign”, it is incomplete, impure and lesser then. The cultures of free worlds, federations, or independent colonies are viewed as dangerously inefficient, spiritually hollow, and fatally self-indulgent. The IDI frames non-Regime entities as “civilizational anomalies” in need of correction, not eradication, but assimilation by structure.

• The Disordered are to be Observed, Not Feared: Citizens are taught to study the fractured ways of the Outer Worlds as cautionary tales, not threats.
• Mercy is Misapplied Logic: While extermination is rare, integration is always on Regime terms. Those who resist are not seen as evil, but broken and missguided.

This outlook reinforces the IDI’s cultural superiority complex. Even among citizens, there is an unspoken belief that to be governed by the Inquisition is to be touched by clarity, to live outside it is to dwell in philosophical noise.

Interbranch Identity

Despite their distinct responsibilities, the High Directorate Council, the Imperial Senate, and the High Tribunal of Doctrine maintain a shared cultural language that transcends their functions.

• All three branches utilize ritualized language; phrases like “Enactment,” “Convergence,” and “Systemic Continuity” are used in casual speech as affirmations of their worldview.
• Members wear ornate, status-reflective attire, but their clothing bears no personalization, reinforcing the collective over the individual.
• Standard greetings within the IDI include “For Continuance”, “By Designation”, and “Order Prevails.”

Even their internal architecture reflects cultural dogma, octagonal symmetry, shadowlit auditoriums, script-lined corridors, and absence of mirrors in public structures, a symbolic rejection of ego.

Final Cultural Maxim

“There is no culture without obedience, no survival without clarity, no future without design. The Inquisition is not merely an organ of governance, it is the soul of the Regime, shaped not by time, but by necessity.”

— Engraved at the Spire of Rule

“We do not promise the future. We enforce its arrival.”

— High Tribunal Mandate Proclamation

The Imperial Directorate Inquisition (IDI) serves as the supreme civil governance engine of the United Colonial Group (UCG), managing every sanctioned aspect of lawmaking, policy execution, and judicial enforcement under the Bifurcated Mandate Doctrine. While its inner workings operate in clinical secrecy and algorithmic calculation, its public agenda is anything but ambiguous. To the Regime's citizenry, the IDI represents more than governance; it embodies order, the continuum of destiny, and serves as the architect of humanity's survival across the stars.

Unlike civilian administrations of the past, the IDI does not sell hope; it delivers inevitability. Its agenda is not marketed with propaganda or democratic promises. Instead, it is inscribed into the living codices of society through law-mandated truth broadcasting, civic indoctrination rituals, and hyper-controlled social conditioning across all systems under UCG presence.

Core Motivations and Mandates

Preservation of Systemic Continuity

The IDI declares that stability, not liberty, is the final metric of civilizational success. Its foremost public mission is to ensure the uninterrupted functionality of all sectors, colonies, and orbital assets within Regime reach.

• Collapse is contagion: Therefore, planetary volatility, cultural pluralism, or divergent ideologies are actively suppressed as vectors of breakdown.
• Every citizen must function within pre-validated parameters, aligned with their caste placement, vocational discipline, and psychological profile.

Regulation of Doctrinal Harmony

A signature principle of the IDI is the enforcement of Doctrinal Harmony, a unifying standard that binds every Ministry, Military Cohort, Educational Bloc, and Civil Sector to a singular cultural and moral rubric.

• Through this, the IDI assures moral congruence across star systems, preventing fragmentation of societal values across interstellar distances.
• Loyalty is engineered, not earned, and citizens are publicly reminded that harmony is a construct maintained through sacrifice.

Legislative Messaging

As dictated by the High Directorate Council, all policies emerge from predictive modeling, neural archive simulations, and philosophical extrapolations approved by the Sovereign Director and his tiered policy engineers. To the public, the Council does not pose questions; it answers those the future has already asked.

Official statements often contain phrases such as:

• "We do not debate what is already known."
• "The Directorate commands not through law, but through alignment."
• "Deviation is regression; regression is betrayal."

This creates a cultural foundation where citizens view the IDI not as a negotiator of civic will, but as a scientific custodian of collective fate.

Judicial Rationale

The Imperial Senate, as the judicial pillar of the IDI, presents its rulings and procedures as acts of moral arithmetic, not personal judgment. Justice is portrayed as algorithmic, non-partisan, and necessary, rather than emotional or reformative.

The public is trained to believe:

• Injustice is not ignorance, it is refusal.
• Punishment is not cruelty, it is recalibration.
• Trials are not trials, they are confirmations.

This framing ensures that the IDI's disciplinary actions are not perceived as oppressive, but rather as a means of maintaining civic purity.

Executive Enactment

The High Tribunal of Doctrine, the most powerful body within the IDI, publicly positions itself not as a ruling class, but as the terminal conscience of humanity, acting when no one else dares. Its agenda includes:

• Execution of existential control protocols, including but not limited to: planetary shutdowns, broadcast blackouts, memory culls, and demographic resets.
• Deployment of Bastion Command Protocols during civil collapse or insurgency, effectively suspending all civil freedoms in exchange for survival.

Through IANN broadcasts, the Tribunal reminds the galaxy:
"To lead is to eliminate confusion. To command is to erase error."

Goals Declared to the Public

Despite its shadowed operations, the IDI is clear in its sanctioned galactic announcements. Its publicly declared agenda includes:

• Universal Doctrinal Conformity across all UCG-controlled systems.
• Expansion of the Regime into non-aligned colonies, not through war, but through strategic inevitability.
• Assimilation of rogue technologies and systems that threaten ideological control.
• Purification of history and narrative, ensuring that only Regime-verified records survive for posterity.
• Cultivation of the Obedient Citizen, through educational sublimation and removal of deviant influencers.

“The IDI does not offer freedom. It offers survival. It does not give you a voice, it gives you a direction. Those who understand this prosper. Those who resist will be recorded as anomalies, not adversaries.”

— High Preceptor Anax Marron

Founding (2538)

“From disorder, came mandate. From mandate, came dominion.”

In the year 2538, a seismic transformation echoed across the outer colonies, one that would formalize the United Colonial Group’s metamorphosis from a loose military alliance into a self-reinforcing authoritarian regime. That transformation came with the founding of the Imperial Directorate Inquisition (IDI), the institutional fulcrum upon which all UCG governance would henceforth pivot.

The IDI was born not from bureaucratic deliberation, but from the bloodied soil of necessity. By the late 2530s, the UCG faced existential instability: vast colonial zones were culturally fragmented, economically uneven, and deeply vulnerable to both alien predation and internal disunity. Amid failed planetary councils, divided colonial compacts, and increasingly decentralized enforcement bodies, a vacuum of unified authority threatened to unravel the fragile foundation the military had fought to preserve. This disorder could not be resolved by force of arms alone, something more precise, more unyielding, was required.

Thus, under the command of the newly appointed President Supreme, and with the direct counsel of the Grand General and the High Marshal Primaris, a new governing apparatus was forged: not a parliament, not a senate, but an inquisition of doctrine, law, and design. The Imperial Directorate Inquisition was established as the second half of the UCG Regime, an equally powerful counterpart to the Dawn’s March Defense Force (DMDF). Where the DMDF embodied military might, the IDI would become the mind of the regime, rigid, calculated, and absolute.

Strategic Conception: The Doctrine of Unity Through Control

The IDI was not built in a vacuum. Its ideological scaffolding was drawn from a classified mandate known as the Directive Codex: Unity Through Control, a doctrinal thesis authored by the Sovereign Directorate’s precursor think-tank, The Spiral Synod. This codex argued that only through the synchronization of executive, legislative, and judicial authority could the outer colonies be preserved. Its core assertion was chillingly simple:

“The future of civilization does not belong to those who argue its course, but to those who design its path in advance.”

The Codex was reviewed and ratified not through public discourse, but through a single, secretive conclave known as Initiation Hour Zero, held deep beneath the hollowed Spire of Rule on Sonata. There, the regime’s top technocrats, doctrinal architects, military tribunal judges, and predictive warfare analysts signed the founding statutes of the IDI, codifying it into existence as the supreme governing triad of the UCG.

Initial Composition and Authority Transfer

Upon its formation, the IDI subsumed and centralized all prior governing bodies and administrative mechanisms across Regime space. Planetary magistrates, autonomous councils, civic senates, and corporate legal oversight structures were dissolved in a single week, with their personnel subjected to doctrinal vetting under what would later be known as the Purity Integration Campaigns (PICs) of 2538–2540.

Within this short span, over 1.7 million bureaucratic roles were reassigned, purged, or restructured under the IDI’s new stratified framework, with oversight split between its three newly established branches:

• The High Directorate Council (Legislative Authority)
• The Imperial Senate (Judicial Authority)
• The High Tribunal of Doctrine (Executive Command)

Each branch was constructed not to oppose the others, but to form a closed-loop governance engine, wherein feedback, execution, and revision cycled inward, never outward. In the IDI model, civilian participation was not required, nor desired. Only loyalty, output, and adherence to doctrinal designations mattered.

Cultural Engineering and Indoctrination

Foundational to the IDI’s success was the rapid dissemination of a new cultural identity across the Regime: one based on duty, order, and inevitability. Schools, military academies, worker forums, and civic centers were flooded with revised educational doctrine under the Imperial Harmonization Program, which removed pre-IDI historical materials and replaced them with curated state narratives, predictive compliance conditioning, and linguistic realignment via the Imperial Dialect Initiative.

This cultural shift ensured that the IDI was not perceived as a regime above the people, it was the people, retroactively redefined. Citizens were taught not to obey the law, but to enact it, as extensions of a self-aware regime consciousness that spoke through the IDI. Each citizen, then, became a node in the larger network of systemic control.

Legacy of Founding

Since its inception in 2538, the Imperial Directorate Inquisition has never once undergone internal restructure. Its original tripartite design remains unchanged. It has no term limits. It has no election cycles. And it has no dissent, only recalibration.

To the enemies of the Regime, the IDI is a monolith: cold, unflinching, and mathematically brutal. To its citizens, it is the source of life’s order, the mind behind every privilege, every ration, every policy, and every declaration of security. It is not a government. It is not even a system. It is certainty incarnate.

Inquisitorial Exaltation Terminus

“Where Doctrine Ends, and Judgment Begins”

The Inquisitorial Exaltation Terminus is the feared militant arm of the Imperial Directorate Inquisition (IDI), answering solely to the High Marshal Primaris and bound directly to the High Tribunal of Doctrine. This elite, compartmentalized conglomerate of executional forces operates in total secrecy, outside the jurisdiction of standard DMDF command structures. These are not conventional warriors. These are the weapons of belief made flesh, each unit forged to carry out one sacred tenet of Regime continuity: obedience by extinction.

Rarely seen and never acknowledged in official records, the forces of the Terminus do not wear rank, they wear purpose. Their deployments are myth. Their orders are final. And when they arrive, the trial has already ended.

Unit I: Velarii Thanatōn

“The Writ of Absolute Silence”
Category: Silence Dissent
Function: Assassination | Infiltration | Neutralization

The Velarii Thanatōn, translated loosely as “Those Who Kill the Breath”, are the apex ghosts of the UCG Regime. Whispered about in rebel circles and feared even in command-level bunkers, these agents are neurologically silenced assassins, surgically altered to leave no aura, no vocal imprint, and no heat signature. They are deployed when a public trial is too generous, and a conventional strike team too loud.

These shadowed executioners are known for wielding voidblades, black-energy weapons that tear through kinetic shielding, and for their devastating use of optical-psychic dampeners, technology rumored to erase them from both sight and memory. Weapons rumored to fire and kill without any trace of bullets or cause of death. Civilian figures, rogue officers, and even disloyal Admirals have simply vanished, no wreckage, no screams, no trace.

• Codename: The Null Choir
• Myth: If your breath echoes back silently before a choice, you were never alone.

Unit II: Orryxian Crucible

“The Sacred Flame Reborn in Flesh”
Category: Purge Heresy
Function: Flame-cleansing | Ideological Eradication | Heretic Immolation

The Orryxian Crucible are not soldiers, they are doctrinal immolators, exo-armored berserks wrapped in liquid-sealed relic-plates and armed with micro-singularity flamers, compressed infernal plasma throwers, and executional mauls. Their obsidian and crimson armor is etched in forbidden glyphs of judgment, each plate forged in a ritualized crucible aboard the dread-vessel Sanctum Veritas.

They are dispatched to purge contaminated zones: entire settlements harboring anti-doctrinal cults, rogue AI enclaves, or failed Regime outposts. They do not investigate. They do not speak. They burn, and leave behind scorched Regime banners over charred spires.

• Codename: The Second Suns
• Myth: The sky grows cold and red when the Crucible descends—because even the stars turn away.

Unit III: Nyxian Concordat

“Those Who Drape the Law in Blood”
Category: Enforce Compliance (Civilian & Military)
Function: Fear Projection | Internal Correction | Ritualized Enforcement

Operating out of non-existent vaults beneath penal moons and derelict monoliths, the Nyxian Concordat are the final doctrine made manifest: faceless, towering enforcers clad in black-gold armored robes, with veiled helms and mechanized gauntlets etched in edicts. They are the executioners of continuity, used to deliver one message: loyalty is survival.

Tasked with entering both Regime military stations and civilian centers to correct “patterns of hesitation,” they issue compliance through ritualized punishment, public disappearances, and enforced obedience rites. It is said they travel in threes, never speaking, only issuing final judgments through encoded comm-slates written in judicial cant.

• Codename: The Triarch Black
• Myth: When your shadow moves before you, the Concordat walks behind you.

Unit IV: Canis Mortem Praetoria

“The Death-Wolves of the Creedbound”
Category: Protection of the Divine Mandate
Function: Close Protection | Hostile Intervention | Doctrine Bodyguard Corps

Known only in whispers as the Canis Mortem, these elite Praetorian Sentinels are the personal guardians of the highest Regime figures: the President Supreme, the High Marshal Primaris, and the inner circle of the High Tribunal of Doctrine.

Genetically sculpted and spiritually conditioned through Relic Baptism Trials, these operators are the ultimate protective weapon. They are clad in wolf-headed helms, black-lacquered armor with sigils of death-scripture, and wield hybrid plasma-severance glaives. Always present, never acknowledged, they are the living perimeter of divine command.

• Codename: Death-Wolves
• Myth: It is said that even bullets bend away from a Death-Wolf’s charge, as if afraid to touch them.

Unit V: Sanguinari Veil

“Those Who Wear Many Faces”
Category: Deep Cover Operations
Function: Assassination | Cultural Infiltration | Strategic Collapse

The Sanguinari Veil are ultra-deep cover operatives, not soldiers, but harbingers of decay. They vanish into insurgencies, corporations, religious sects, or foreign governments for years, reshaping history from the inside.

Little is known of their training. Some claim they are stripped of memory, face, or even soul. Their mission: become the enemy, kill the enemy, and remain unknown. Some of the most catastrophic collapses of UEG-aligned governments have been blamed, never officially, on a whisper: Sanguinari Veil.

• Codename: Veil-Walkers
• Myth: If you have met the Veil, your story has already ended. You just don’t know it yet.

The Imperial Directorate Inquisition (IDI), the governing cornerstone of the United Colonial Group (UCG), does not entertain the illusion of parity among interstellar states. It does not seek kinship beyond its own. Foreign entities are not considered peers, adversaries, or even enemies in the traditional sense, they are distortions of order, aberrant constructs of failed philosophies, and temporal anomalies in the inevitable march of the Regime. Where lesser states govern through compromise, the IDI governs through clarity: the Regime does not negotiate; it commands.

The IDI’s foreign policy is not one of diplomacy, it is one of ascendancy. A world outside the Regime is a world either waiting to be purified or destined for obliteration. This perspective is not born of arrogance but of sacred historical trauma: the UCG remembers its betrayals, its exiles, and the crucible of survival that forged its current absolute order. Foreign polities are simply echoes of the old world that failed. The Regime is not here to repeat history, it is here to overwrite it.

Three Paths of Engagement

1. Assimilation through Obedience

When the IDI identifies a foreign colony, civilization, or sovereign entity that exhibits redeemable potential, i.e., latent ideological alignment or cultural pliability, a single message is issued via the Imperial Authority News Network (IANN) or through military relay probes:

"One Choice. One Warning. One Voice. Kneel, and know purpose."

Should the entity accept, they are absorbed into the Imperial Ministry of Conversion, where their language, traditions, military infrastructure, and economic systems are gradually overwritten by Regime doctrine. Generational indoctrination is deployed, and the population is recoded into the civic caste of the UCG over a 12–25 cycle period. Compliance brings survival. Resistance aborts it.

2. Strategic Ignorance

Entities considered insufficiently relevant to merit immediate purging or assimilation are simply marked for containment and observation. These polities are monitored by the Galactic Bureau Agency (GBA) and tagged as “Ambient Irrelevancies.” These nations may never know they were evaluated, categorized, and sentenced to passive dismissal.

This cold detachment serves as a final mercy. The IDI will not expend energy to speak with what it does not fear or need. Entire sectors have thrived for decades, unaware they are one decision away from becoming a testing ground for UCG annihilation doctrines.

3. Annihilation as Directive Fulfillment

No regime speaks twice. If a foreign power violates Regime sovereign space, obstructs expansion protocols, or harbors traitorous factions, the High Tribunal of Doctrine authorizes full military mobilization under Protocol: Nonvoice Erasure. This is not war in the traditional sense, it is a surgical deletion of political identity.

The Dawn’s March Defense Force (DMDF) executes this with precision, deploying the 2nd Division “The Romans”and accompanying war fleets. Civilian populations may be spared if planetary evaluation deems them ideologically salvageable. Leadership, infrastructure, and culture are eradicated. What rises afterward bears no resemblance to the former state.

Position on Diplomacy

There is no “diplomacy” in the IDI lexicon, only command vectors and submission response protocols. Embassies are not offered. Peace treaties are irrelevant. The Regime issues proclamations, not propositions. All communications with foreign bodies are filtered through the Imperial Doctrine Clearance Matrix, and if allowed, are strictly one-way.

Allies, in the IDI’s strategic calculus, do not exist. Trust is an internal function, reserved solely for those born within the Regime or who have been thoroughly reconditioned through its educational echelons.

“The universe will not survive as it is. We do not shape reality through consensus, we refine it through obedience. Let them call us monsters, tyrants, heretics of diplomacy. We are not here to be remembered. We are here to ensure that they are forgotten.”
— High Marshal Primaris, in a closed Tribunal address, 2564

PERCEPTION OF SELF AND OTHERS

I. The Regime’s Self-Perception: The Final Vessel of Human Continuity

The UCG, and by extension its iron-clad governing body, the Imperial Directorate Inquisition (IDI), does not perceive itself as a government. It is the culmination of all correct paths forsaken by humanity. It is not an administration, but a living crucible of survivalist truth, forged in the abyss of abandonment and betrayal. It is not interested in galactic opinion. It does not strive for approval. It is because all others failed to be.

The IDI views its purpose not as conquest, but as correction. Where others build coalitions, the UCG restores alignment. Where others hesitate for debate, the Regime executes decision. It alone survived The Exiling, the Covenant Raids, and the corporate betrayals that shattered the frontier. As such, it holds itself as the last legitimate authority of humanity’s right to dominate the stars. This is not delusion, it is doctrinal revelation.

To its own citizens, the UCG does not offer freedom. It offers certainty, protection, and absolution, not in democratic dreams, but in divine structure. There is no pluralism. There is only survival. And only the Regime understands what must be sacrificed to maintain it.

II. Perception of Others

UEG – The Hollow Throne

The Unified Earth Government is perceived as a decrepit fossil, an ancient parasite that feeds off a dead ideology of consent and compromise. The IDI does not consider the UEG a government, but rather a bureaucratic corpse animated by nostalgia and fear. It is tolerated when useful, but its presence in Regime territories is viewed as a soft invasion of weakness and moral rot. The UCG blames the UEG for the original betrayal of the colonies and views any negotiations with it as strategic illusions, not legitimate discourse.

“Earth abandoned its children. The UEG holds a crown made of paper. Let them write laws. We write outcomes.”

UNSC – The Blunted Sword

The United Nations Space Command (UNSC) is acknowledged with strategic caution, but not respect. The IDI considers the UNSC the last real limb of Earth’s reach, and it is respected only for its warfighting capability, not for its ideals or its structure. The UNSC are seen as sacrificial martyrs built for a failing empire. Admirals and generals are viewed as chess pieces protecting a dying king.

To the IDI, the UNSC is a tool of enforcement, not an enemy of ideology, but it will be met with war if it dares trespass upon Regime stars. There is no ceasefire, only unspoken intervals between decisions.

URF – The Rabid Dogs of the Fringe

The United Rebel Front is not considered a faction, but a symptom of intellectual decay. Born from resentment without discipline, ideology without structure, and anger without vision, the URF is mocked by the IDI. Its fragmented cells and makeshift fleets are viewed as dangerous in the way that disease is dangerous, not for what it builds, but for what it destroys blindly.

The IDI has long infiltrated and crushed URF outposts across the periphery. Those who surrender are subjected to Memory Realignment Protocols. Those who resist are not executed they are erased.

The Underworld – Rot That Dares to Breathe

Black markets, rogue AI cabals, criminal empires, and mercenary syndicates are treated not as external enemies, but internal infestations. To the IDI, these are not separate from civilization, they are its waste byproduct, and like waste, they are to be sterilized, recycled, or incinerated.

The High Marshal Primaris authorizes the Directive Enforcement Units (DEUs) to operate within shadow networks. These operatives, known only in myth, dismantle syndicates without announcement, mercy, or recognition. Entire criminal conclaves have vanished without a single report, only rumors of black-cloaked agents and vox-silenced cities remain.

Alien Species – The Impurity Manifest

The IDI maintains a zero-tolerance doctrine toward all alien species. There is no negotiation, no mutual understanding, and no exception, not for Sangheili, not for Jiralhanae, and certainly not for the remnants of the Covenant. To be non-human is to be outside of divine order. To be alien is to be subject to extermination, or submission without voice.

This hatred is not emotional, it is procedural. The IDI has fought decades of asymmetric warfare against Covenant holdouts, exiled bio-warlords, and alien mercenary groups. Entire planets have been quarantined and sterilized due to suspected xeno contact. The only exception, which is extremely controlled is the alien species Huragok, which are used as slaves for their unique abilities in engineering and crafting.

Any UCG citizen caught collaborating with alien species is stripped of identity and processed under Directive Alpha Null, a fate worse than death.

“We have fought aliens in the dark, burned their gods from the stars, and buried their echoes beneath sovereign ground. Their language means nothing. Their truth means nothing. Their future does not exist.”

The UCG and the IDI do not see the galaxy as a stage for equals. They see it as a field of correction, a broken machine where every gear must be either reforged or removed. The Regime does not hate the galaxy, it rejects its weakness. Where others see diversity, it sees dilution. Where others see unity, it sees vulnerability.

It is not supremacy. It is survival, refined through blood, doctrine, and inheritance. The Regime will outlast the stars if necessary, and when the last foreign voice is silenced, only order will remain.

"To Obey is to Endure. To Defy is to Perish."

The laws of the Imperial Directorate Inquisition (IDI) are not born of debate, nor derived from the ebb of cultural whim, they are codified decrees of survival, mathematically optimized and psychospiritually sanctified to ensure the absolute continuity of the United Colonial Group (UCG). To break a law within the Regime is not merely to violate civic order, but

These laws are penned, refined, and sanctified through the Legislative Body of the IDI: the High Directorate Council, a cloistered bastion of doctrinal scholars, ministerial authorities, and system-calibrated algorithmic advisors. Every legal precept is derived from the predictive stability models fed by the Ministry of Government, the Ministry of Justice, and the High Tribunal of Doctrine, ensuring that no law is reactive, all law is preemptive.

Legal Codification & Doctrinal Repositories

All laws are stored within the Vaults of Edictum Ultima, sealed data-temples located within high-security Regime fortresses on core worlds. These are neural-indexed, quantum-redundant codices accessible only by sanctioned Magisterial Scribes and Judicial Prefects. Citizens and officers are required to abide by the Lex Continuum, a simplified behavioral code inscribed into every citizen’s identity ledger upon birth or assimilation.

Important tenets of legal structure include:

• Doctrinal Absolutism: Laws cannot be amended unless passed through a Doctrinal Clearance Conclave, overseen by the Sovereign Director.
• Predictive Enforcement: Behavioral monitoring allows preemptive prosecution through Anomaly Predictive Thresholds.
• Ignorantia Doctrinae Non Excusat: Ignorance of the law is a declaration of unfitness to live within the Regime.

Enforcement & Adjudication

The Imperial Senate, as the Judicial Body of the IDI, interprets and adjudicates law with merciless precision. Trials are conducted not as dialogues but as ritualized affirmations of guilt, where the burden of proof rests upon the accused to demonstrate doctrinal purity. Courtrooms, known as Chambers of Clarification, are overseen by Regional Justicars, Sentinel Arbiters, and Judicial Prefects, many of whom are ordained through the Magisterium of Doctrinal Law.

Enforcement is carried out by:

• Dawn's March Defense Force (DMDF): For standard violations and military law.
• Nyxian Concordat and Velarii Thanatōn: For internal Regime breaches and high-level disobedience.
• Inquisitorial Exaltation Terminus: For existential threats, treason, and high heresy.

Every punishment is rendered not for retribution, but for doctrinal course correction or expulsion. The law is a scalpel, not a hammer.

Punishments & Extinction Protocols

Legal consequences are ranked on the Cascading Codex of Compliance, ranging from subtle correction to public erasure. Punishments are ritualized, often symbolic, and designed to reinforce obedience across the social fabric. Severity depends on System Classification, Doctrinal Tier, and Deviation Index.

Examples include:

• Class-III Violation (e.g., ideological ambiguity, unsanctioned data exchange): Neural sedation and recalibration conditioning.
• Class-VI Violation (e.g., sabotage, inter-ministerial betrayal): Public neural stripping, followed by state-broadcasted execution.
• Class-XI Violation (e.g., covenant-aligned behavior, treason): Erasure Protocol, complete biometric obliteration, familial denouncement, and record nullification.

Escape from the law is myth. The Regime remembers all.

Doctrinal Flexibility

There is no appeal process within the IDI structure. What the law declares is final. The only flexibility lies in the Directive Exemption Doctrine, whereby the High Tribunal of Doctrine may overwrite lesser rulings in times of galactic unrest, existential crises, or strategic advantage.

However, this override is almost never granted. Laws within the Regime are less guidelines and more gravitational constants, impossible to ignore, inevitable in consequence.

To live within the UCG is to breathe the law, to walk with it in your shadow, and to submit without condition. The IDI does not bend to public sentiment, emotion, or self-expression. It enforces law not to protect—but to preserve. For when a people begin to question the law, they cease to deserve the world it was built to protect.

“Truth is not found. It is rendered.”
— Inscription above the Vox Obedientis Gate, Imperial Senate