Editing Xeelee Sequence (section)

===Interim Coalition of Governance===
[[File:ICoG_Flag.JPG|300px|right|thumb|The Flag of the ICoG.]]
{{topquote|I'll tell you why. Because, after twenty thousand years of the Third Expansion, the majority of mankind are soldiers—and most are still children when they die. Most people don't grow old. They don't even grow old enough to understand what is happening to them. To our soldiers war is a game, whose lethality they never grasp. This is what we are: this is what we have made ourselves. And the numbers are terrible: in a century, more people die in this war than all the human beings who ever lived on Earth before mankind first reached the stars.''|Welcome to the most unfair, repressive, bloodiest and cruelest regimes written into fiction, from Exultant}}
{{Topquote|Breed, fight hard, die young, and stay human: you could sum up the Coalition’s philosophy in those few words. In its social engineering the Coalition set up a positive feedback process; it unleashed a swarm of fast-breeding humans across the Galaxy, until every star system had been filled."<br>

''"Not a noble way to do it, but it worked. And we did stay human, for twenty thousand years. Evolution postponed!''|Michael Poole observation the Xeeleeverse [[Human]] [[Skaven|Space Rats]] social behaviors in their galactic wide habitats from Resplendent.}}
{{Topquote|More indoctrination. The children must be trained to handle weapons, to deploy destructive forces – and to kill?"<br>
''"There are native animals – flying, bird-like creatures – which they hunt. These days the animals are raised for that purpose, of course; it has ironically saved them from extinction. Yes, they must learn to kill."<br>
''"And people?"<br>
''"The Xeelee are not like us – but they are sentient. Therefore it helps to be exposed to the moral conflict of killing a sentient creature, before it is necessary to do it to save one’s life. So, yes, people too, when appropriate."<br>
''"Commissary, must we commit such barbarism to wage our war?"<br>
''"But there is no barbarism here. Novice, what did you expect? This regime, this crude empire of mud and clubs and blood, is actually a sophisticated processing system. It turns human beings, children, into machines.''|An ICoG Commissary [[Bullshit|justifying]] their brutal treatment that makes the [[Schola Progenium]] look like the [[My Little Pony|Magical School of Friendship]] by comparison, from Resplendent.}}
What can be briefly described as the [[That Guy|Khmer Rouge on Bath Salts with its Head of State as Pol Pot on Acid and jacked up to interstellar levels.]]

The ICoG was one of the major human governing polities that emerged after the Qax occupation, which forcefully [[Grimdark|deleted most of human history and forced humanity into a multi-billion-year PTSD]]. The ICoG is identifiable by two things: the first is that they are complete dicks that makes [[Eldrad]] look like a gentleman, and the second is that they are even more xenocidal than the IoM who has the common sense to leave truly harmless xenos the fuck alone. The ICoG is one of the most oppressive and [[grimdark]] factions in all of science fiction, which is an impressive feat all by itself. The ICoG makes you hate humanity. Seriously, these guys are just ''evil''.

Why?

The ICoG spent the lives of countless children, all in a gamble to get rid of the Xeelee from their galaxy and become the dominant lifeforms in the entire universe by USING WW1 TACTICS IN SPACE. Against aliens with corporeal form etched inside the universe's mathematical equations, using mega-sized mobile asteroid bases fortified by slave child soldiers with shovels to absorb enemy fire, either someone forgot to build a couple of dozers or the ICOG Commissary don't give a shit. They exterminated countless aliens who were in their way, and reduced those who surrendered to a fate worse than death (read, re-cloned and made mentally stunted slaves and never-ending body horror that could make Cronenberg jealous). They commit countless atrocities, not because they are [[Imperial Guard|backed into a corner]], but just so they can sate their wounded and shattered egos, which never truly recovered from their occupation by the Qax (yes, this is quite sad, but yeah...). But still they are absolute hypocrites and liars that makes the [[High Lords of Terra]] look like competent motherfuckers. At least the Imperium's bureaucracy is limited by physical, computational (remember the Men of Iron) and warp-speed and operated as best as it can, because the machinations behind it has some semblance of goodwill.

The ICOG created such a totalitarian shithole, not because of some pseudo-philosophical [[Communism|bullshit]], or a horrible universe with [[Chaos Gods|genocidal parasitic forces of existence]], [[Orks|sentient mushroom hooligan]], [[Necron|Egyptian terminator in space]] and [[Elric|Melnibonean]] [[Dark Eldar|rip-offs]], but because the ICOG are a bunch of spiteful pricks who want to make their people suffer. They want to channel their suffering and hate towards the Xeelee, who are trying to save them from the Photino Birds. And what did the ICoG do once they finally drove the Xeelee out of the Milky Way? Did they usher in a new golden age or do they amend their crimes? Nope they immediately fell into civil war before being unified by another tyrannical regime, which also quickly collapsed. Seriously, fuck the ICoG, just fuck 'em. When we mean the combined and concentrated [[Grimdark]] from all of WH40K still pales in comparison to just the ICoG itself, '''<u>WE FUCKING MEAN IT.</u>'''

Not to mention they got super tech that makes [[Dark Age of Technology]] look like neolithic cavemen banging rocks together with a production capacity that consumes stars' worth of metals PER DAY. You may ask why do they have trillions of child soldiers shat out of breeder pods and brutalized (sometimes sexually bullied in front of everyone by their Commissar) and sent to the battlefield in a skin-tight bodysuit? Why not just use quadrillions of aimbot-guided Megacomputers with said "clairvoyance-proof" tech firing at the Xeelee? Right? (The answer: is the same vein why IoM likes to use Imperial Guardsmen so much. It's quite simple really, since to the ICOG the costs of raising, training, beating, humiliating and equipping one child-soldier is far much cheaper than building 'aimbots')

Ironically if not cynically the Coalition is a comparatively realistic portrayal of the [[Imperium of Man]] except superior in all aspects, more successful and yet humorously more wasteful, petty, self-destructive, xenophobic, short-sighted, irrational, retarded, depraved and incompetent than the Imperium itself. The Coalition may not have the religious themes, Gothic architecture or skull obsession of its Imperium cousin, but its fanatical ideology of human supremacy is undeniably similar. Because of this single-minded ideocracy, the Coalition thinks it has the right to genocide anyone and anything that stands in its way because of 'Muh Doctrine' and believe that all aliens are evil and must be purged from existence even if they're friendly or not (sounds familiar anyone?). It does not change the fact that they are also despicable monsters as well. 

Despite the comparisons, the Coalition mirrors exactly to that of the [[Skaven]] than they are to the Imperium, hence their nickname of Human Space Skaven. Given the facts that their leaders repeatedly compared themselves to vermin throughout the Sequence, and their founder Hama Druz saw Humanity as an inherently rat-like species. Who is Hama Druz? [[That guy]] is the psychotic founder of the ICoG State Ideology, the 'Druz Doctrine' whose primary motto of the faith is “A brief life burns brightly” and he means it literally, which is what happens when someone takes the ideas of combining [[Humanity Fuck Yeah|HFY]] and [[1984|Ingsoc]] to its logical and evilly retarded conclusion. To Druz, Humanity only exists to reproduce quickly and to populate every single planet, moon, asteroids, black holes, superclusters, star and space station in the galaxy, not even rogue planets are spared from the Assimilation (basically [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensraum Lebensraum] in space and on krokodil). To Druz, the true ideal for Humanity is to make 'miracles' out of their short, pathetic lives, and the suffering that comes along the way in their expansion would be considered as the [[grimdark|<u>'''''BEST STATE'''''</u> a HUMAN could ever possibly be in]]. To Druz, honor and duty is Humanity's highest calling in life. That means <u>NO</u> thinking of the past nor the future, only the present is important, with all other types of culture, entertainment, distractions, even love and family were either frowned upon or deleted. To Druz, innovation, ingenuity, curiosity and new discovery are absolute [[heresy]]. To Druz, Xenocide is not only justified but is also the duty of every man, woman and child to purge the ever-living shit out of every single Xenos in the galaxy, spare no one, not even the smallest bacteria or a single microorganism is allowed to survive, and if they do survive, they will be de-evolved into a fate worse than death.  [[Derp|To Druz, heroism, individualism and egotism were discouraged and banned since such concepts are anathema to the goal of a unified Mankind]]. To Druz, to be a real “Human” in his way of thinking, there should be <u>NO</u> immortality, <u>NO</u> transhumanism, <u>NO</u> enhancement, '''<u>NOTHING</u>''', humanity should remain pure till the heat death of the universe. To Druz, Human suffering, Human pain and Human misery are seen as the main driving force behind everything that would be defined as [[Bullshit|“Being Human”]]. Did we just add that many higher-caste elites use LITERAL ALIEN ORGANS and trans-genetic add-ons to stay immortal? Yeah, muh doctrine.

A silver lining is that dissent is widespread but low-key and many characters literally flout the Druz Doctrine, including Commissars and higher-ups to better the war effort, as well as many child soldiers admit straying from it occasionally.

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Xeelee_sequence_exultant_greenship_color_sketch.jpg|Artwork of an ICoG Greenship. [[MOAR DAKKA|Possessing more firepower than the entirety of Segementum Solar, ''combined''.]]
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