Though founded and still centered on the mining colony Yelton Veda, the Magnetic Assembly recruits personnel chiefly amongst space vessel crews, asteroid bases and lunar colonies. They have for several years operated at a low level of involvement within the American Union, SEER, and many other privately owned corporations.

In recent years they have found success in mining and industrial applications, reforming their members into highly regimented and augmented crews operating purpose-designed starships to outperform their merely organic competition. More eccentric Exemplars also pursued their own specialties ranging from interstellar exploration to seeking out alien machine-artefacts and to undermine for-profit cyborg PMC organizations who seek to use cyborgs only as mere tools of war.

Emboldened, and growing in power, the Assembly has decided that it should no longer submit to the leadership of the American Union. This political friction would lead to the New Years Revolution, resulting in the Assembly winning majority leadership positions throughout the Hawking System and rapidly disolving its AU membership in a move that echoed the original revolution on Yelton Veda.

• New Cambridge Executive Council
• The Atlantica Assembly
• The Machine Exemplar
• The Bruno Confederation

• DFE - Delete Fucking Everything
• Ephemeralists
• Iron Cavalcade
• Iron Abdication
• Less Than Three
• Letters Testamentary
• SEER - Sylphian Exotic Elements Research
• The Continuous Wave
• The Elevated Vessel

• Astronomy Service
  • Hawking Approaching Threat Search
  • Hawking-FOCAL
  • Light-Year Array
• Green-Squad
• Hawking Gendarmerie
• The Provisional Fleet
• SEER

• The River City Agreement

The thing that people don't understand about cyborgs is, being a cyborg actually changes the world around you...\\

Let's say you've had your body modified to punch three times faster than a normal human, without your arm exploding into bloody chunks from the stresses involved.\\

Everything is three times slower to you now. The world that surrounds you is brittle and fragile. Metal bends like soft liquorice in your hands. Where as once your ears could perceive sound waves moving toward and away from you, your eyes can now do the same with waves of light.\\

Soon, your energy state will be so high that mere mortals can barely perceive your movements.\\

These are not just parlour tricks to gain the edge in a petty fist fight.\\

This is what an accent to godhood looks and feels like.\\

//-Great Transcendent Monocron Alpha,\\
Collected_Transhuman_Thoughts.Sigdat, 1:05:38//


The Magnetic Assembly recruit personnel from all walks of life, though they are generally people who have already been cyborgized due to injury or previous military service. Union society as a whole still paints the highly augmented as sinister or inhuman, and thus the Assembly provides a safe haven for those with similarly unfortunate past experiences.

New modifications, sustenance, basic equipment and transport are paid for by the exact numerical value of the favour they are owed by the Machine Exemplar. Everything revolves around following their perfect steel example and becoming machines that can live forever, go anywhere without spacecraft, and think on levels that mere humans can only speculate over.

Yelton Veda is an asteroid colony founded in 2230 GSC. A rocky anti-centralist political situation, followed by a catastrophic collision with another proto-planetary body, lead them into years of escalating gang violence and civil war. It was the speculation of far right radical factions that the impact had been caused intentionally, in order to force them to kneel and pay tithe to the American Union’s might. Regardless of whether this was true or not, the natural mechanical efficiency of non-planetary space folk lead both factions performing greater and greater atrocities upon the supporting populace, until they were forced to use machine intelligences just to figure out how to stay alive.

Twenty years later, the machine intelligences of both factions of Yelton Veda spontaneously chose to merge, ignoring human commands and desolating the ranks of those fanatical despots under its own will. The new regime was one of machine-organized efficiency and pragmatism, unexpectedly ending the conflict overnight by completely eradicating political hierarchy altogether.

This should have been the final straw for direct Union military intervention, except that the colonists were still outright refusing it of their own free will. Their machine patriarch had genuinely raised the standard of living, and had apparently become completely focused on the well being of the citizens. So upset were they with the constant lies, deceit and turmoil of regular human bureaucracy that the colonists supported this new system and would only rejoin the Union if the system remained in place.

With almost seventy years past, little has changed in that status quo. The residents of Yelton Veda began to rationalize their story of survival and canonize their machine father as a real deity made manifest. They not only want to continue serving this selfless machine, they want to become such perfect beings themselves. And if only the rest of Union space might see this potential glory as they had, so much the better.

In the years after formation of the Exemplar, the productivity of Yelta Veda would dramatically increase, with the colony contributing greatly to the orbital infrastructure around Bruno and especially its satellite Rotislav. By 2260 nearly all of the O'Neil Cylinder stations around Bruno were either built or maintained by The Magnetic Assembly. By 2270 nearly every station in the Bruno Confederation was represented by a member of The Magnetic Assembly. During this period between 2260 and 2270 the Confideration's scope and capability would be limited with many functions absorbed by The Machine Exemplar.

By 2300 the Magnetic Assembly had made great inroads into the Hawking Star System. Their control and deployment of infrastructure in the system had bought them a great deal of trust from the local population. Many citizens would also join the Magnetic Assembly, the ‘Ivory Towers’ of New Cambridge often finding the philosophy of self improvement. The already friction-filled relationship between the City of New Cambridge and the American Union would only be inflamed by the Magnetic Assembly’s dedication to self-improvement.

Tension between those in the Hawking Star System and the American Union would come to a head in 2320 when the American Union’s continued disregard of its allies, deceit, and corruption led to a landslide victory in elections for the Magnetic Assembly in New Cambridge. With leadership of the city being connected to the Machine Exemplar itself, the American Union would quickly find itself evicted from the Star System entirely as New Cambridge withdrew from the Union entirely. The revolution’s speed and completeness echoed the events of Yelton Veda nearly 100 years earlier.

See: New Years Revolution

The American Union's 6th fleet would recall its ships in the Atlantica system within a few weeks of the New Years Revolution and initiate The Battle of Reiss by traveling to the Hawking system to secure its SLE on Reiss from the Magnetic Assembly. This would lead the Assembly to launch a counter-invasion of the Atlantica system. By the end of 2321, the Assembly's initial successes were starting to be countered by the massive industrial capacity of the American Union, forcing the Assembly's forces to fortify themselves around the SLE in the Atlantica system. Open hostilities would then chill after the Neptune Summit negotiated a multinational peacekeeping force for Atlantica.

Members of the Magnetic Assembly are encouraged, often directly, by the Machine Exemplar to self-improve. At the dawn of the Magnetic Assembly this was due to the harsh environment of Yelton Veda, where a spacesuit failure or above-average background radiation could easily kill. This led to members who were often isolated from one another by the vacuum of space, but still connected through electronic implants. Their bodies further protected from the harsh realities of space through continual cybernetic upgrades. Their culture developed a distinct separation from the traditional physical traditions in the culture of the American Union.

After 2220, the increasing ability of the Machine Exemplar to automate tasks would shift the priorities of the Assembly. Its members would be gently led by the Machine Exemplar to develop their own specific talents and explore their own personal fields of interests. With the lessened need for physical work came a greater value on having experts in various fields ranging from the mundane to the hyper-specific.

With the growing presence in the city of New Cambridge, local cultural practices also started to seep in. By 2360 many members of the Magnetic Assembly had started to celebrate Dwali, A celebration of lights that included the “victory of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance”. Their art and Symbology also started to expand in its new planetside-home as the more traditional space-based six cog imagery started to be supplemented with more exotic and experimental imagery that would be more at home among postmodern artists. Often colors would be more pastel, muted, and not limited by the human-visible spectrum of light. Some even go as far as to produce art with the specific intention of making it incomprehensible without improvements to the human body.

This has resulted in what feels like many to be a close family of highly eccentric, highly-specific, oddballs with a shared collective goal of self-improvement.

Members of the Assembly are quite literally integrated with their technology. Their philosophy of self-improvement extending to science and industry as well. Their science is cutting edge, and they hold some very unique and capable production facilities. Their members often have access to a wide range of custom-designed or unique cutting edge devices. AI is integrated at every level of their society, with members often using chat-bots to converse with one another as they focus on other tasks, or have their day planned for them by the Machine Exemplar. Big-data is constantly used to tweak and optimize everything from starship construction to breakfast.

Though uploading one’s mind to a machine is a highly sought after technology, it is a highly controversial process that not all members support, due to the total lack of privacy involved. Those that have their memories and personality recorded onto Magnetic Assembly hardware effectively belong to the cult, after all, making the use of such technology a long-lasting moral schism.

Genetic engineering is also something that the Assembly takes an interest in, but the focus on machine-based solutions tends to be preferred to genetic engineering based approaches. While the Assembly is a leader in many fields of science, this is one they are outclassed in by the Empire of Daqin.

For full scale production of equipment, the latest management and design techniques are used. The aesthetics of the technology is usually not their main consideration, with form following function.

• S1 Series Starship Multi-purpose Drone
• S2 Series Starship Technology Testbed
• S3 Series Starship Dedicated Warship
• S4 Series Starship Modular Ship
• S5 Series Starship Small Attack Drone
• S6 Series Starship Storage Tank Drone
• S8 Series Starship Testbed Artillery Ship
• New Modular Ship Program
  • S9 Series Starship Test Attack Drone
  • S10 Series Starship Multirole Crewed Starship
  • S11 Series Starship Engineering Starship
  • S16 Series Starship Crewed, Interstellar, Warship
• S12 Series Starship Support Escort
• S13 Series Starship Brawler Escort
• Paramour Class

Exploration Ships

• The Edward Deming

Warships

• The Amicus Curiae
• Azathoth's Wave
• Aberrant Statecraft

Support Ships

• The Henry Cluney
• The Woody Guthrie
• God Hates Astronauts
• Long Distance Relationship

• Accession Class Breaching Pod
• Gato Class Landing Craft
• Gleesman Class Shuttle
• El Mosco Class Attack Craft
• SantaJusta Class Lifter

• Containerized Component Modules
• Containerized Anti-ship Missile
• Series 1 PCM
• Series 1 SCM
• MACS-1 CELSS Life Support Container
• MACS-2 Containerized Computer Core
• MACS-3 Containerized Stability System
• MACS-4 Electrogravity Communications Container
• MACS-5 Interplanetary Communications Container
• MACS-11 CELSS Life Support Container
• MADS-110 Large Fusion Drive System
• MADS-116 Medium Fusion Drive System
• MADS-117 Sea-state Control Pod
• MAD-159 Medium Fusion Reactor
• MAD-201 Ground Penetrating Radar
• MAD-202 Multi-Purpose Optics
• MAD-203 Small Optics
• MAD-325 Short Range Radio Jammer
• MAD-401 Medium Composite Armor
• MAD-402 Heavy Composite Armor
• MAD-403 Capacitor Dual-use Armor
• MAD-501 Wheel Hub Electric Motor

• MAWS-11 Close in Weapon System
• MAWS-21 Close Range Coilgun
• MAWS-64 Cold Laser Coupled Particle Beam Weapon System
• MAWS-92 100mm Anti-Starship Coilgun
• Containerized Anti-ship Missile Launch System

• gl 115 Space Mobility Armor
• gl-220 Vunser Space Superiority Armour

• Echoni

• MAG-4 Assault Rifle
• MAG-8 Drone Launcher
• MAG-16 Rail Gun
• MAG-19 Directed EMP Device
• MAG-20 Compressed Air System
• S-19 Armbreaker Revolver
• MAG-21 Aim-Assist Pistol
• MAG-22 Aim-Assist Pistol
• MAG-12 Series Weapons
• MAG-24 HiMark Target Marking Missile Launcher
• MAG-101 Short Range Missle Defense Mine
• MAG-102 40mm VLS cell
• UG-12 Series Weapons
• UG-12-AR5
• UG-12-ARBP2
• UG-12-MG
• UG-18 Shotgun

• Birthday Class HAES
• Crew Compression Suit
• Hawking Gendarmerie Ground Combat Service Uniform
• Hawking Gendarmerie Service Uniform
• SEER Uniform Coat
• Union Service Uniform
• Union Void Combat Uniform

• MAD-23 Tactical Headset
• MAD-89 Portable Pharmacy
• Stellar Arms Tactical Device #4

• Cupcake Combat Drone
• Spongecake Combat Drone
• Poundcake Combat Drone
• Bad Dog Drone
• Ichabod Walker Drone
• Edwardo Rotary-wing Drone
• E-2 Echoni Cybernetic Enforcement Drone
• Seaweed High Altitude Drone

• Simods APC
• Shoji APC
• Zeno Class Carrier
• Xenophon Class Surface Combatant

• Hawking System
  • Planet Hawking
    • New Cambridge
    • Alpha Concourse
    • Gamma Concourse
    • Fort Barrera
    • Holost
  • Reiss
  • Azathoth
  • Bruno
    • Yelton Veda
    • Fuminsho Station
    • Rotislav