Diasporan

The Second Committee: Union's Expansionist Ideology

Diasporan humans and their worlds are those that straddle the space between the Cosmopolitans, liminal in time and geography, and the Metropolitans, rooted in the Galactic Core. For Diasporan worlds, Union’s utopia is an ongoing project – a future to be won through political and cultural struggle. How best too organize and assist the Diaspora toward Union’s utopian vision is the question among the bureaucrats, administrators, and generals of the Third Committee –no one party or faction yet has the answer, and the solutions proposed seem to be as varied as the problems encountered. Just as geologically varied as the capital worlds of the Galactic Core, the many thousands of Diasporan worlds represent a second frontier: one not raw and unexploited, but steeped in their own histories, their own institutions, and their own ignorance or knowledge of Union.
Union was not always as egalitarian as it is now; for thousands of years prior to the establishment of the Third Committee, it was an empire in all but name. This was the age of the Second Committee – SecComm. Under SecComm, Union advanced humanity’s diaspora as a glacier scours the earth, flattening cultures left by Old Humanity, societies built by FirstComm, and all whose interpretation of Union’s founding tenets diverged from SecComm’s dogmatic proscriptions.
This expansionist ideology (Anthrochauvinism) spread human life across whole regions of the Orion Arm, but without compassion and at the smoking mouth of a Union soldier's rifle. Humanity swept across the stars like a wave – only bloody revolution in the Galactic Core was able to topple SecComm, replacing it with a new government, ThirdComm. Only then, like a wave, did Union’s presence recede.

The Diaspora: New Humanity and Union's Utopian Project

In this power vacuum, the immensity of human diaspora flourished: tens of thousands of colonial settlements grew to Global civilizations. The once-lost stellar civilizations of Old Humanity, birthed by the Ten, stepped into Interstellar prominence. Free from SecComm's colonial administration, these cultures and states developed divergent from Union’s dogma. This is the Diaspora: New Humanity – both the known and the unknown to Union – with a knowledge of Union that ranges from living at utopia's periphery to living in ignorance of its existence.
Diasporan worlds, while viewed by ThirdComm as member states of Union, often have little-to-no direct interaction with the hegemony. Those societies that remember the hegemon make myths of its distant power, some aching for its return and others cursing its name.