Ocisen Empire
Names: Ocisen EmpireOcisensthe EmpireOcisen fleetOcisen
First appears in Book 1: The Dreaming Void, chapter 2 (1)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Dreaming Void
- Ch 4The Ocisen Empire has technology far below Higher culture, resents humans, and seeks better weapons technology, searching for post-physical civilizations to plunder.
- Ch 4The Ocisens have made seventeen attempts to reach the Dyson Pair and have forty-two ships searching beyond the Firewalled region.
- Ch 4Ocisens are less susceptible to radiation than humans, which let them industrialize space with mid-twenty-first-century human-level technology.
- Ch 4Claims to have powerful allied species who will not let the Void begin its final devourment phase; Kazimir suspects a bluff.
- Ch 8The Ocisen Empire has launched a fleet of 2,817 ships, 900 of them Starslayer class, toward Ellezelin and the Commonwealth.
- Ch 10Its fleet is expected to arrive in late August, less than three months away.
Book 2: The Temporal Void
- Ch 5The Ocisens assembled their greatest fleet, including nine hundred Starslayers, over two and a half thousand ships, apparently with outside help, and are heading toward the Commonwealth.
- Ch 8The Ocisen fleet destroyed a Commonwealth Navy River-class warship sent to disable its command ship; they appear stronger than Admiral Kazimir expected and may arrive before the Pilgrimage ships are done.
- Ch 8The Ocisen Empire's fleet of Starslayers, accompanied by hidden allied ships, races toward the Commonwealth using drives at least equal to Commonwealth ones.
- Ch 11The Ocisen Empire fleet is an invasion fleet whose Prime warship allies are fully obedient to the nest father.
Book 3: The Evolutionary Void
- Ch 1Its armada approaches the Commonwealth, secretly backed by Prime warships; a captured Prime ship exploded when taken out of hyperspace.
- Ch 1The Ocisen fleet comprised over 2,800 ships including 900 Starslayers, carrying quantumbusters able to destroy most Greater Commonwealth worlds, travelling at 4.5 light-years per hour.
Connections
- enemy ofHancher
- has memberAmbassador
- includesStarslayer class
- ally ofPrimes
- related toAcceleratorsPaula believes the Accelerators manipulate them
- related toPrimesPrime warships accompany the Ocisen fleet
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 8Committee votes to confront the Ocisen fleet
The committee votes by majority for the Navy to warn the Ocisen command ship and disable it if ignored. Justine and Creewan oppose; Justine leaves, and Kazimir will reconvene if the fleet keeps coming.
- Book 2 · Ch 5Yenisey destroyed
The Yenisey knocks the Ocisen command ship out of FTL to deliver a warning, but an unknown spherical ship appears and fires, ending the TD link and apparently destroying the Yenisey.
- Book 2 · Ch 11Paula's plan to test the Primes
Paula and Kazimir deduce the Accelerators want the deterrence fleet weapons to use against the Raiel, and plan to board a Prime ship with Capital-class ships to see if humans drive them.
- Book 2 · Ch 11ANA reveals Primes with the Ocisen fleet
ANA: Governance told Ethan that Prime warships accompany the approaching Ocisen fleet and asked him to quarantine the wreckage.
- Book 3 · Ch 1Kazimir neutralizes the Ocisen fleet
Kazimir disables the Prime ships and ruins all Ocisen weapons in eleven seconds, discovers the Primes host Chatfield-derived minds, and warns them of navy custody.