Aelven war society

Aelven war society is the collective term used by outsiders for the cursed Aelven states and institutions that conducted the Forever War. It should not be mistaken for one culturally uniform empire: internal governments and politics survived, but the curse gave every major institution the same ultimate objective.

Curse and ideology

Cursed Aelven required little propaganda in the ordinary sense. The conviction that all other consciousness had to be removed was inherited and experienced as self-evident. The phrase NO MAN SHALL REMAIN appeared on bodies, trees, gates and roadside warnings during the Exodus.

Doctrine

Aelven forces used mass assault, no-step-back discipline and, in the aviation era, deliberate suicide attacks. Their long lives and limited innovation supported painstaking refinement of known weapons but made major doctrinal departures difficult.

Economy

Conquered Drywid populations and territories supplied food, timber, metals and living infrastructure. Aelven industry copied captured human vehicles and weapons, generally producing designs that were functional but poorly adapted to new conditions.

Knowledge limits

Ūrkléan could observe cursed elves externally but could not inhabit or steer them. Human intelligence relied heavily on Larolarian speakers of @Imperial. Omega extermination destroyed most of the society before outsiders could study its internal history.