Heaven's Reach

From the introduction: This is the Central Empire, where mankind is ruled over by interstellar trading clans, transgalactic cartels and stranger syndicates-all of whom are overseen by the Thousandth Dynasty, the ruling bureaucracy overseen by Heaven’s Son, His Divine Lunar Presence. Chosen of the Moon, betrayer of his Solar bride and eternal overseer of an empire whose thousand star systems are but a shadow of what they once stood for. Ten Million Dragons serve his every whim. The Grand Celestial Mountain, a subspatial virtual universe whose roots pierce the real world to create an Essence-fuelled infosphere, stands as shelter to his loyal Sidereal Exalted that tend it’s archives and impossible computing processes. And it is his will that mankind and only mankind stand in prominence within the empire’s history of human ascendance, despite the near-constant interactions between the countless alien races among the stars. User summary: A large number of minor revisions of this scenario exist.