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= The Seven Families =


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The Seven Families are the corporate-descended dynasties that dominate every major structure of life in Neo-Europa. While they govern together in the [[Council of Nobles]], their power is not purely political—it is '''economic, mythological, technological''', and deeply '''interwoven with the city’s architecture and cyberspace'''.
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Each Family descends from a medieval patrician lineage that survived the Great Fragmentation War by transitioning into a megacorporate form. These Houses now control key sectors of Neo-Europa’s infrastructure, from neural interfaces and virtual entertainment to planetary logistics and emotion governance.
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== 🛡️ The Families ==
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The Seven Families are the foundational pillars of Neo-Europa's power structure. Each one evolved from a medieval noble house in Brussels and has since transformed into a hypermodern megacorporation, blending aristocratic tradition with technological control. Together, they rule the city through the Council of Nobles.
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== Governance ==
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Each Family holds one seat in the Council of Nobles. Within each house, power is further divided into:
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The Noble — the head of the Family and its voice on the Council.
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[[Banner|The Banner]] — the public-facing representative, sworn to chivalry, honor, and visibility.
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[[Dagger|The Dagger]] — the covert operative, working in the shadows to ensure the Family's will is carried out.
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== The Families ==
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=== Serhugh Group ===
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Noble: [[Julia Clutine]] (public face; her father Orelian Clutine remains in the shadows)
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Banner: [[Walter Berthout]], nicknamed "Dragonbeard"
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Dagger: [[Salvatore Mendez]], former assassin and Julia's secret lover
 
Serhugh Group dominates Neo-Europa’s skyline. They construct towers, transit arcs, and the city’s spaceport, the Serhugh Ascension Terminal. Their aesthetic is one of steel, glass, and monumental power.
 
=== Codenberg Corp ===
[[File:Codenberg.png|alt=Three towers in a box with the text: Codenberg Corp.|thumb|100x100px]]
Noble: [[Quinty Codenberg]] (90% machine, possibly over a century old)
 
Banner: [[Hendrik Estor]], named after a medieval knight, embodiment of chivalry
 
Dagger: [[John Weinvlit]], brutal, brilliant, and the polar opposite of Hendrik
 
Specialists in cyber-medical technology, brain implants, and neural interfaces. Codenberg is feared and respected for controlling the line between human and machine.
 
=== Sleus Dynatek ===
[[File:Sleus Dynatek Logo.png|alt=A Rampant Lion with Sleus Dynatek next to it.|thumb|100x100px]]
Noble: [[Severus Sleus]] (aged, cunning, but no longer publicly active)
 
Banner: [[Pierre Papillon]] (also performs Dagger duties)
 
Dagger: Pierre Papillon (officially holds both titles due to Severus’ paranoia)
 
Operators of Neo-Europa’s digital backbone. They manage the network, communications grid, and infrastructure-level data flows.
 
=== Swert Systems ===
[[File:Swert Systems.png|alt=Three triangles pointing right with the text Swert Systems.|thumb|100x100px]]
Noble: [[Arata Swert]] (introverted, spiritual, poet of encryption)
 
Banner: [[Sota Tanaka]], a 15th-century-style samurai with katana and wakizashi
 
Dagger: [[Chiyo Matsumoto]], small, brilliant, kind, and deadly with a ninjatō
 
Neo-Europa’s firewall. Swert Systems guards Cypherspace, Veil infrastructure, and data purity. They style themselves as digital samurai.


=== Stenweg Cyber ===
== 🧬 Overview of the Seven ==
[[File:Stenweg Cyber.png|alt=5 Sea-Shells next to eachother with Stenweg Cyber as text below them. |thumb|100x100px]]
Noble: [[Ray Stenweg]] (hedonist, philosopher of sensation, Dionysian mystic)


Banner: [[Phillips Hardenberg]], charming, theatrical
=== '''Serhugh Group''' ===
Urban developers, vertical planners, and architects of Neo-Europa’s spatial hierarchy. They control real estate, zoning law, and most civil infrastructure. Known for brutal verticalism and deeply embedded memory systems in architecture.


Dagger: [[Jonas Hardenberg]], his brother, quiet, ruthless, and an expert in clean-ups
=== '''Codenberg Corp''' ===
Leaders in neural augmentation and cyber-medical technology. Their implants define modern existence—from civilian prosthetics to Spacer access devices. They are respected, feared, and almost entirely post-human.


They control entertainment, VR, and immersive escapism. Their scandal-prone empire centers on the Glimmeredge district.
=== '''Sleus Dynatek''' ===
The network lords of Neo-Europa. Their invisible mesh powers the Cypherspace grid, data transmission, and nearly every digital service layer. Often seen as utilities—but they know everything.


=== Serolov Conglomerate ===
=== '''Swert Systems''' ===
[[File:Serolov Conglomerate.png|alt=A stylized S in parentheses with Serolov Conglomerate below it.|thumb|100x100px]]
Guardians of cybersecurity, firewalls, and digital identity. Their aesthetic is cyber-samurai meets cold encryption. They also police rogue AI activity and mask myth-bleed from Chapel Nodes.
Noble: [[Oleg Serolov]] (brutalist philosopher, efficient and feared)


Banner: [[John de Graaff]], terse and stoic
=== '''Serolov Conglomerate''' ===
Infrastructure builders and efficiency tyrants. Their roads, tunnels, and highways are impenetrable but rumored to be tombs for the dissenters who built them. Pragmatic, philosophical, and quietly terrifying.


Dagger: [[Henri Capet]], loudmouthed and effective
=== '''Stenweg Cyber''' ===
Entertainment giants, creators of dreams, VR holidays, AI intimacy systems, and mythplay. Hedonistic and surreal, they control Glimmeredge and treat pleasure as governance.


Serolov builds roads, cities, and megastructures. Their reputation includes whispers of bodies beneath the concrete.
=== '''Rodenbex Industries''' ===
The hospitality syndicate and surveillance masters. Every hotel, bed & breakfast, and concierge suite gathers data for the Rodenbex intelligence web. Warm in appearance, calculating beneath.


=== Rodenbex Industries ===
== 🏛️ Role vs. Identity ==
[[File:Rodenbex.png|alt=A stylized R with the text: Rodenbex Industries.|thumb|100x100px]]
Noble: [[Gérard Rodenbex]] (warm in public, secretive and manipulative in private)


Banner: [[Rashid Rodenbex-Darwish]], stoic, thoughtful, quotes Marcus Aurelius
While the [[Council of Nobles]] is the formal political body that governs Neo-Europa, the Seven Families are older and more embedded than any legislative or executive framework. They maintain private militias, influence Chapel Nodes, shape civil identity through implants or leisure, and sometimes engage in ritualized warfare via Veil Realms.


Dagger: [[Sahira Rodenbex]], Gérard's daughter, graceful, lethal, always watching
To study the Seven is not to understand policy—it is to understand power in its cultural, architectural, and ancestral forms.


They run Neo-Europa’s hotel and information networks. Their intelligence operations are embedded in every guest check-in.
== Allegiances and Rivalries ==


== Legacy ==
The relationships between the Seven Families of Neo-Europa are fluid, shifting with each scandal, alliance, or betrayal. While public cooperation is expected within the [[Council of Nobles]], behind the scenes, feuds and favors shape the city’s future.
The Seven Families are more than corporate giants. They are bloodlines, ideologies, and gods of influence. Through their Banners and Daggers, they maintain a grip on every facet of life in Neo-Europa—from memory, myth, and machine to silence, scandal, and spectacle.
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<p style="color: #999;">🟩 = Alliance (🤝) &nbsp;&nbsp; 🟥 = Rivalry (⚔️) &nbsp;&nbsp; ⬛ = Neutral/Unclear</p>


== Allegiances Among the Seven Families ==
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|+'''Legend:''' 🤝 = Alliance, ⚔️ = Rivalry, ⚫ = Neutral
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!Family
      <th style="padding: 15px; border: 1px solid #333;">Family</th>
!Serhugh
      <th style="padding: 15px; border: 1px solid #333;">Serhugh</th>
!Codenberg
      <th style="padding: 15px; border: 1px solid #333;">Codenberg</th>
!Sleus
      <th style="padding: 15px; border: 1px solid #333;">Sleus</th>
!Swert
      <th style="padding: 15px; border: 1px solid #333;">Swert</th>
!Stenweg
      <th style="padding: 15px; border: 1px solid #333;">Stenweg</th>
!Serolov
      <th style="padding: 15px; border: 1px solid #333;">Serolov</th>
!Rodenbex
      <th style="padding: 15px; border: 1px solid #333;">Rodenbex</th>
|-
    </tr>
!Serhugh
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|🤝
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|⚫
      <th style="padding: 15px; border: 1px solid #333;">Serhugh</th>
|⚫
      <td style="padding: 20px; text-align: center;"></td>
|⚫
      <td style="padding: 20px; background-color: #004d00; text-align: center;">🤝</td>
|⚔️
      <td style="padding: 20px; text-align: center;"></td>
|🤝
      <td style="padding: 20px; background-color: #4d0000; text-align: center;">⚔️</td>
|-
      <td style="padding: 20px; text-align: center;"></td>
!Codenberg
      <td style="padding: 20px; background-color: #4d0000; text-align: center;">⚔️</td>
|🤝
      <td style="padding: 20px; background-color: #004d00; text-align: center;">🤝</td>
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    </tr>
|⚫
    <tr>
|🤝
      <th style="padding: 15px; border: 1px solid #333;">Codenberg</th>
|⚔️
      <td style="padding: 20px; background-color: #004d00; text-align: center;">🤝</td>
|⚫
      <td style="padding: 20px; text-align: center;"></td>
|⚫
      <td style="padding: 20px; background-color: #004d00; text-align: center;">🤝</td>
|-
      <td style="padding: 20px; text-align: center;"></td>
!Sleus
      <td style="padding: 20px; background-color: #4d0000; text-align: center;">⚔️</td>
|⚫
      <td style="padding: 20px; background-color: #4d0000; text-align: center;">⚔️</td>
|⚫
      <td style="padding: 20px; text-align: center;"></td>
|
    </tr>
|🤝
    <tr>
|⚫
      <th style="padding: 15px; border: 1px solid #333;">Sleus</th>
|⚫
      <td style="padding: 20px; text-align: center;"></td>
|⚫
      <td style="padding: 20px; background-color: #004d00; text-align: center;">🤝</td>
|-
      <td style="padding: 20px; text-align: center;"></td>
!Swert
      <td style="padding: 20px; background-color: #004d00; text-align: center;">🤝</td>
|⚫
      <td style="padding: 20px; background-color: #4d0000; text-align: center;">⚔️</td>
|🤝
      <td style="padding: 20px; text-align: center;"></td>
|🤝
      <td style="padding: 20px; text-align: center;"></td>
|
    </tr>
|⚫
    <tr>
|⚫
      <th style="padding: 15px; border: 1px solid #333;">Swert</th>
|⚫
      <td style="padding: 20px; background-color: #4d0000; text-align: center;">⚔️</td>
|-
      <td style="padding: 20px; text-align: center;"></td>
!Stenweg
      <td style="padding: 20px; background-color: #004d00; text-align: center;">🤝</td>
|⚫
      <td style="padding: 20px; text-align: center;"></td>
|⚔️
      <td style="padding: 20px; background-color: #4d0000; text-align: center;">⚔️</td>
|⚫
      <td style="padding: 20px; text-align: center;"></td>
|⚫
      <td style="padding: 20px; text-align: center;"></td>
|
    </tr>
|⚫
    <tr>
|🤝
      <th style="padding: 15px; border: 1px solid #333;">Stenweg</th>
|-
      <td style="padding: 20px; text-align: center;"></td>
!Serolov
      <td style="padding: 20px; background-color: #4d0000; text-align: center;">⚔️</td>
|⚔️
      <td style="padding: 20px; background-color: #4d0000; text-align: center;">⚔️</td>
|⚫
      <td style="padding: 20px; background-color: #4d0000; text-align: center;">⚔️</td>
|⚫
      <td style="padding: 20px; text-align: center;"></td>
|⚫
      <td style="padding: 20px; background-color: #004d00; text-align: center;">🤝</td>
|⚫
      <td style="padding: 20px; background-color: #4d0000; text-align: center;">⚔️</td>
|
    </tr>
|⚫
    <tr>
|-
      <th style="padding: 15px; border: 1px solid #333;">Serolov</th>
!Rodenbex
      <td style="padding: 20px; background-color: #4d0000; text-align: center;">⚔️</td>
|🤝
      <td style="padding: 20px; background-color: #4d0000; text-align: center;">⚔️</td>
|⚫
      <td style="padding: 20px; text-align: center;"></td>
|⚫
      <td style="padding: 20px; text-align: center;"></td>
|⚫
      <td style="padding: 20px; background-color: #004d00; text-align: center;">🤝</td>
|🤝
      <td style="padding: 20px; text-align: center;"></td>
|⚫
      <td style="padding: 20px; background-color: #4d0000; text-align: center;">⚔️</td>
|
    </tr>
|}
    <tr>
      <th style="padding: 15px; border: 1px solid #333;">Rodenbex</th>
      <td style="padding: 20px; background-color: #004d00; text-align: center;">🤝</td>
      <td style="padding: 20px; text-align: center;"></td>
      <td style="padding: 20px; text-align: center;"></td>
      <td style="padding: 20px; text-align: center;"></td>
      <td style="padding: 20px; background-color: #4d0000; text-align: center;">⚔️</td>
      <td style="padding: 20px; background-color: #4d0000; text-align: center;">⚔️</td>
      <td style="padding: 20px; text-align: center;"></td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
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''Note: These alignments are unofficial, fluid, and subject to change following Council decisions, public incidents, or covert operations.''


=== Notes ===
== 📚 See Also ==


* '''Serhugh + Rodenbex''' maintain a soft alliance via shared infrastructure and legacy mutual respect.
* [[Council of Nobles]]
* '''Codenberg + Swert''' coordinate on security and cyber-medical boundaries.
* [[Cypherspace]]
* '''Serhugh + Serolov''' frequently clash over territorial and architectural doctrine.
* [[Banner and Dagger System]]
* '''Codenberg + Stenweg''' are ideologically incompatible: discipline vs indulgence.
* [[Corporate Myth-Tech]]
* '''Swert + Sleus''' collaborate closely on network protection.
* [[Nulls]]
* '''Stenweg + Rodenbex''' share a mutual love of social influence and spectacle.

Latest revision as of 19:44, 13 June 2025

The Seven Families

The Seven Families are the corporate-descended dynasties that dominate every major structure of life in Neo-Europa. While they govern together in the Council of Nobles, their power is not purely political—it is economic, mythological, technological, and deeply interwoven with the city’s architecture and cyberspace.

Each Family descends from a medieval patrician lineage that survived the Great Fragmentation War by transitioning into a megacorporate form. These Houses now control key sectors of Neo-Europa’s infrastructure, from neural interfaces and virtual entertainment to planetary logistics and emotion governance.

🛡️ The Families

🧬 Overview of the Seven

Serhugh Group

Urban developers, vertical planners, and architects of Neo-Europa’s spatial hierarchy. They control real estate, zoning law, and most civil infrastructure. Known for brutal verticalism and deeply embedded memory systems in architecture.

Codenberg Corp

Leaders in neural augmentation and cyber-medical technology. Their implants define modern existence—from civilian prosthetics to Spacer access devices. They are respected, feared, and almost entirely post-human.

Sleus Dynatek

The network lords of Neo-Europa. Their invisible mesh powers the Cypherspace grid, data transmission, and nearly every digital service layer. Often seen as utilities—but they know everything.

Swert Systems

Guardians of cybersecurity, firewalls, and digital identity. Their aesthetic is cyber-samurai meets cold encryption. They also police rogue AI activity and mask myth-bleed from Chapel Nodes.

Serolov Conglomerate

Infrastructure builders and efficiency tyrants. Their roads, tunnels, and highways are impenetrable but rumored to be tombs for the dissenters who built them. Pragmatic, philosophical, and quietly terrifying.

Stenweg Cyber

Entertainment giants, creators of dreams, VR holidays, AI intimacy systems, and mythplay. Hedonistic and surreal, they control Glimmeredge and treat pleasure as governance.

Rodenbex Industries

The hospitality syndicate and surveillance masters. Every hotel, bed & breakfast, and concierge suite gathers data for the Rodenbex intelligence web. Warm in appearance, calculating beneath.

🏛️ Role vs. Identity

While the Council of Nobles is the formal political body that governs Neo-Europa, the Seven Families are older and more embedded than any legislative or executive framework. They maintain private militias, influence Chapel Nodes, shape civil identity through implants or leisure, and sometimes engage in ritualized warfare via Veil Realms.

To study the Seven is not to understand policy—it is to understand power in its cultural, architectural, and ancestral forms.

Allegiances and Rivalries

The relationships between the Seven Families of Neo-Europa are fluid, shifting with each scandal, alliance, or betrayal. While public cooperation is expected within the Council of Nobles, behind the scenes, feuds and favors shape the city’s future.

Seven Families: Current Allegiances and Frictions

🟩 = Alliance (🤝)    🟥 = Rivalry (⚔️)    ⬛ = Neutral/Unclear

Family Serhugh Codenberg Sleus Swert Stenweg Serolov Rodenbex
Serhugh 🤝 ⚔️ ⚔️ 🤝
Codenberg 🤝 🤝 ⚔️ ⚔️
Sleus 🤝 🤝 ⚔️
Swert ⚔️ 🤝 ⚔️
Stenweg ⚔️ ⚔️ ⚔️ 🤝 ⚔️
Serolov ⚔️ ⚔️ 🤝 ⚔️
Rodenbex 🤝 ⚔️ ⚔️

Note: These alignments are unofficial, fluid, and subject to change following Council decisions, public incidents, or covert operations.

📚 See Also