The Empyrean League

"Vaduz doesn't so much have official political parties as it does 'Special-Interest Groups', collaborations of elector-citizens with mutual interests in social and economic policy. Of these groups, of whom I overheard discussing policy, is the Empyrean League, whose unifying culture is one that holds Vaduzian people as a fundamentally different species of humanity from their gravity-dwelling counterparts (their wording for such people was far less charitable), and how it related to an increased need for independance and sovereignity. Despite their lack of real political authority, they remain a very notorious group, both within Vaduz and in discussions of Vaduz within the omninet, due to the contentiousness of their views and their tendacy to 'demonstrate' such views within the few stations their members administrate."

— Rosalina Toro - Reflections of Parime, Revised Edition.

"You would have us sprout hair from our ears and swing to-and-fro like undisciplined wildlife? We walk upright for a reason - because we wanted to look up, even back during the painful evolutionary birth of our species. You say we had the treetops, close to the skies as we could get, and that this means we wanted the stars, and you are correct. You are mistaken, however, in asserting that our fall to the grit and grime of our filth-ridden cradle was a curse. It was a lesson. For all our glory, for all of our finesse and worthiness, it must be known, that there is a pit into which we could fall at any given moment, should we ever forget where we came from. And we fell into that pit early, so that we may never forget it.
We grew from that pit, so that we may always resent it. And we build our place in the stars, and look down upon it, and know what awaits us should we ever waver in our pursuits. Never, ever forget where we came from. Because that cursed moon never will."

— Minsk-01 Administrator Kot - Revisions of Humanity Alone, 4981u

Structure

The League, as it exists in various forms all over the world, has a membership estimated by internal census of Central of aproximately 21,000. The league is organised into independent cells (referred internally as 'Administrative Lodges'), each of which governs its own jurisdiction of members and sub-administrations. Membership necessitates either a hereditary link to an existing member (typically a parent or grandparent) or a formal request approved by multiple character-witnesses, with a small administrative fee in either case.

Culture

The Empyrean League's core beliefs are structured into three tenets: Independance, Self-Sovereignity and Advancement of the Self:
The tenet of Independance, as described by the official manifesto of the league, is the belief that generations in zero-gravity has made Vaduzian culture and way of life sufficiently distinct from planet-dwelling humans that the two are irreconcilably incapable of governing or truly understanding the needs of oneanother, and that spaceborn people must seek political and military independance from said planet-dwellers as soon as possible. The league officially condemns accusations that this tenet promotes racial supremacy, insisting that it merely presents 'cultural realities', but remains the most scrutinised tenet by non-Vaduzians.
The tenet of Self-Sovereignity holds that each individual Vaduzian should be answerable only to laws that respect the liberty and equality of themselves and their kindred, and that existing legal and socioeconomic systems should be restructured to respect such. The exact interpretation of this tenet is debated frequently within the league, with answers ranging from Laissez-faire capitalism to Participatory economics to anarcho-syndicalism.
Finally, the tenet of Advancement of the Self relates to the ubiquitousness of transhumanism and cybernetic alteration within Vaduz: within the League, cybernetic enhancement is not only encouraged but treated as a moral imperative, claiming that the changes brought on through such procedures is intergral to the strength and cultural richness of Vaduzian society, and that the Union's stance on the controversial topic of DeCorporalisation should be reversed to allow for further research and implementation of the seperation of body and mind.

"Potential, unburdened."

Founding Date

4942

Demonym

Empyrean

Parent Organization

Vaduz Orbital Collective

Location

Vaduz Central, 'Klarheit'