The government is an Oligarchy (tyrannical, in general) , with the wisest of individuals-usually prophets or generally amazingly talented political leaders- as the heads of state. The total number can range from 3-5, with 3 usually being the most common. Though one might not be a prophet, the heads of state are always referred to as prophets. Each prophet has their own cabinet of advisers, which can be as large as they wish.

If this is too OP I will try to tone it down a bit. I tried to make it look like it was something to fear of since they did kill other species before this.

Technological value rarely comes from the government anymore, as they usually are far busier uncovering the information found on ZP planets (See history). Instead, most, if not all, military advancements are made from large corporations: Childhood's Beginning, Guardian, Fat Boy, Apocalypto, and others.

The Navy (500 ships)

(30 total)The Castully carrier: G-7 Markham- The Markham has four levels to the ship, each level folding out into it's own flight deck that exits out the front of the ship. The opening leading out of the flight decks is generally the weaker part of the ship, so two artillery shots are placed on both sides of the opening. The rest of the ship is manned with overheated plasma chain-guns and a row of plasma artillery lining on the top of the ship. The top row is used to shoot down incoming raiding parties. The Markham can enter atmosphere, and the walls of the flight decks will detract, allowing the jets to engage of all sides of the flight deck. This leaves the Markham in danger of fire from anti-aircraft weapons, but many believe that the cons are outweighed by the pros.

(250 total) The Castully G-5 Kalima- It's main purpose is stealth and recon, however it also serves the purpose of raiding fleets with it's extremely fast speed. It's rather small, almost half the size of the Gortru, but it's shotgun-like artillery can pack a punch at close range. The fastest of the rest, the smallest, and the cheapest to maintain and build.

(80 total)The Castully Cruiser G-2 Gortru- The Gortru is only newly commissioned, as the Castu never actually had to use a cruiser to fight an newly interstellar enemy with a fairly large ship capacity until recently. It's armed with numerous plasma artillery that spans on the corners and top of the ship. There is also a MAC gun, which is only useful in situations of heavy assault as it is fairly expensive to use and can't be fired without momentarily wiping power from other parts of the ship. The MAC gun, however, has been famously mythed of destroying an entire fleet. This is just a myth, in reality, the gun destroyed the bridge and other parts of the enemy capital ship, which forced massive chaos and retreat from the unskilled and untrained enemy. The Gortro cannot enter atmosphere, and is only capable of destroying land through the MAC gun. It's expensive, but many see the price worth it.

(140)The Castully destroyer: G-1 Eliptic: The second fasted ship available, the Eliptic is used more in land assault then much else. It is paired with two plasma artillery and other anti-spacecraft weapons, but is most famous for it's glassing cannon located on the bottom of the ship. It's would also be fairly cheap if the glassing cannon was not there.

The Air/spaceforce

The Castully G-8 Rapier- It's another small ship, usually serving the purpose of scouting missions. It's fairly weak, and usually is considered more as a cargo ship then anything else.

The Castully Fighter: G-19 Crow- This famous fighter acts as an escort for bombers, but is also designed to intercept enemy aircraft.

The Castully Bomber: G-15 Jayd- The bomber of the rest of the fleets, it is given an assortment of bombs to choose from. Some Jayds may use concussion bombs, a form of an EMP that might be casted onto airfields. Others might simply just use regular bombs.

The Army

The Land army comprises of several land vehicles. Carrier crafts can carry up to a squad of soldiers (20) and jeeps and transports are also arranged for land invasions. Besides carrying soldiers, carrier crafts can relocate tanks as well.

The Chosen:
There is one special class of soldiers, the most fit for combat, known as the Chosen. They're highly trained, equipped for scouting, raiding, spying, or simply moral boosting. This class is not earned, it is forced down a childs throat when they are born. Genetics chooses these select few, and they're given drugs and enhancers to become even stronger and tougher. They are usually three or so feet taller than an average Castu, as well, so it's easy to tell from an enemy's perspective who to shoot at first.

Castully vehicle- The Landshark: The Landshark is fast and durable, but is incapable of firing heavy weaponry. It's main purpose is to transport troops on the ground and provide support to the army.

Castully Tank/AA gun/Turret- Macro: The Macro moves with its treads almost like knuckles to a finger. In certain situations, the Macro can fold it's knuckle-like treads and form into a turret. This is mainly for Anti-aircraft purposes, but it may also be useful in sieges and city engagements. The tank is extremely slow due to the large amount of ammunition and armor plating, but is also a behemoth to take down. Instead of actually destroying it, one species that the Castu fought focused more on the head instead of the body of the Macro, rendering the tank dysfunctional.

(This is also going with the fall of the ZP): The Zonanese Powers did not last very long against the new threat. They exercised most of their man power fending them off on their most key planets, but many, countless others were lost to the Reapers. In the midst of the fighting, the Elles Gem gave out, utterly destroying the planet it was based on, Domu. Refugees were sent to as many planets as possible, but were ultimately left for themselves. (KEYGUY, TELL ME THIS IS OK) Many attempted to enter the AIF, but most just sparked riots once they entered the planets. Most -if not all- attempts in entering the AIF, were illegal, and the refugees, deemed as mutts to most of the galaxy, simply vanished on their own. It's unknown what happened to them, some believe they founded a new place, in a new galaxy, while others believe they found their way into other civilizations and managed to hide there until death.

Nevertheless, the ruins of Domu-along with the death of the aging Domi President- sparked a major loss of power to the Domi Haches. They lost place in government, and were classified as second class citizens. Most Haches simply called them mutts, a phrase that came from the Domu refugees and the Comu prophets and missionaries of the day. The Domi, in turn, sparked riots on other planets, and caused a massive amount of military power to be spent on keeping them at bay and not the much more dangerous threat.

The ZP did not last long after, with many planetary states simply glassed. Commune and Bunn, the last fortresses of the ZP, simply vanished from the political scene. At this point, the ZP would have been declared as eradicated. What actually happened became more complex. The Domi became more of laborers to the Comu, and were left to work in the fields and mines of Commune and other Comu-dominant planets, while the Comu themselves stayed in sprawling underground cities. As for the Bunta, they simply warred with the Domi on the Bunta-dominant planets, causing a massive downturn in technology to the point that they were fighting tribal style: Spears, swords, and crossbows. It's unknown what happened on Domi-dominant planets.

In the colonial galaxies, it's mostly unknown. Most speculate they were overcome with the Reapers aswell, but who knows. It's a big world out there, maybe something came their way.

A great sorrow lifted over the Hach gods and goddesses. With the hopes of creating a generation that would bring glory back to the Haches, they decided to create one, final Hach species. These were the Castu.

The Castu aged themselves in numerous clans, however warfare was not more of their stature as much as trade was. The hefty trade allowed themselves to generate new technology rather quickly, as they were able to see who had what, how to get it, and figured out how to improve it. During the humble beginnings of the trade age, the process the gods placed on the rest of the Castu (Prophets, the coming of Com) was completed, however this time they were not told of many moral codes or doctrines. Instead, the prophets told of other Haches, once great ones, and possibly more sprawling across the stars. They were told that it was their destiny to one day find them, and revive the Haches once more.

That is exactly what they set out to do, and began a process of finding Zonanese planets and uncovering as much information as possible. Other races, some interstellar races, would sometimes be found on the planets. In order to gain control of the information the planet held, they had to conduct trade and diplomacy for the first planet held by another species. Unfortunately, it did not happen that way. The species were not willing for the Castu to gather the information and research the planet they owned (the planet was a colony to the species) and because of this, the Castu resolved to warfare. They desecrated the cities of their foes, and the species was shrunk down to a few hundred thousands, used as slaves in labor. Other species- intelligent species- were simply killed off. Two species were eradicated completely (holding two worlds a piece) and three others were taken in as a labor force (one race with their exceptional strength, and two others used for research testing)

Today the Castu hold 17 planets, 10 of which were former ZP remnants. and 7 of the 17 belonging to another species at one point besides the ZP.

The more intelligent individuals are credited with a higher power and rank in society, while the stronger individuals are credited with military. Anyone in between generally serve in their capitalist society, some as scientists for corporations generating new technology, and others as simply the drive or spearheads of labor and travel. Regular corporations usually take advantage of the middle class citizens, keeping them in line with new gadgets and gizmos to keep them happy. Small businesses are also a big breed for numerous things, such as restaurants and art stores.

When a young ling is born, their genetics are scene by doctors, and they would be classified into a certain school system. For a more average Castu, they are more credited to living an easy life, normal intelligence, and yet still slightly brainwashed (not actually brainwashed) into buying things from corporations and businesses. For a Castu with a genetics of a higher intelligence, they are casted into the school system for gifted learners. Strongest go into military, and so on.

Due to the moral and ethics never given to them by the gods, they generally made them up on their own. This created a completely different Hach society than ever before scene. And as data is being uncovered, many of the aristocrats and leading officials are finding this dangerously grim and a threat to their society. This data has not been released yet, of course, but as data continues to unfold, a whistle blower is bound to show up.

Sort of a militaristic organization lead by a senior captain of the group. What this captain says goes, and disagreeing with his commands often end rather...deadly. The current head of the government for the Sylve Faction is Captain Yarkonis "Switch" Jargalo'yum, given the nickname due to his bipolar disorder and tendencies to switch decisions on the fly. Criminal activity is, as one can surmise, extremely common with Sylve as many government and peace groups, such as the Sazkarjhia Unity Foundation, have labeled them as a pirate organization. Among the list of atrocities they commit lies activities such as piracy (The attacking and robbery of ships, stations and so on), extortion, murder, possession of illicit substances, possession of military-grade weaponry, distribution of illicit substances, production of illicit substances, trafficking of several sorts, and arson to name a few. Despite this, there is a powerful respect for rank and authority as inflicted by Captain Switch and the extreme consequences of breaking his laws.

Branches aren't really specific, although there are two distinctive land/air-based units, the Krysol Unit for on-ground escapades and the air-based Torkan Unit, and the more prominent space-faring units include the Sylve Privateer Squadron, the Dilnox Stealth Squadron and the Serpentis Smuggling Squadron. The Krysol Unit has different military units in deployment:

Grunt: Basic footsoldiers, expendable and disposable.
Field Commanders: The most fearless, and most feared, units on the battlefield. With lizardlike mounts, each one has armor covering them along with an energy-absorbent cape that is able to bring charge to a high-powered lance. This lance can both be used as a melee weapon and a ranged weapon--with a sharp lower blade and an energy projector capable of firing high-temperature bolts.
Most other units and technologies are either hired as mercenaries or are stolen technology, and go as they come along.

The Torkan Unit, similarly, uses stolen units or technology. They are known to have a high number of Sazkarjhit HV-6 Sparrowhawk VTOLs in their possession, however.

The three space squadrons all contain stolen ships, everything from outfitted freighters to nuclear-armed warships. The Sylve faction was successful in using these technologies to develop the predecessor to the Mark 1 "Maelstrom" Gravity Well, as well as the Extremely-High Lumen Defensive Countermeasure System (EHLDC, known more commonly as the "Flash Pod") which was capable of severely damaging ship viewscreens. They are known for using suckerpunching and sneaking tactics to launch surprise offensives and go to extremes with the likes of suicide bombing and similar atrocities to achieve whichever mission they need to. The only one not heavily armed is the Smuggling Squadron, which deals mostly with the smuggling of illicit substances and weapons.

The earliest known history dates back to the violent 10,000 B.C.E. religious civil war on Sazkar Major known as the Ten Year's Bloodshed. Most of the atheist or pagan sympathizers left, and one man, Balkania Salotis'tum had gotten into the business of the drug trade with several other sympathizers once most of the deserters turned to piracy. He developed the logic that ecopolitical warfare could be launched by controlling the trade of a certain narcotic that was secretly traded known as Kyls Root to one of the interstellar nations between the Barsadas and Kaltin systems. By completely dominating the trade, he was able to completely take over a planet, recruiting them to build a military force. He continued to grow and grow until the Sylve Faction became a dominant space-faring tour-de-force across the galaxy. Then, suddenly everything fell apart. Sylve's grasp on the drug trade faltered and many either left or were beginning to be killed off. A deadly plague spread through Sylve, and it took long before a cure was developed. It saved the remaining members, but it would be a long time before order was restored. Then Switch came along.

The edgy Yarkonis Jargalo'yum was at first under heavy watch because it was believed he had an advanced form of psychosis. Bipolar Disorder is an extremely rare case among Sazkarjhians so many did not understand his powerful mood swings. Jumping from a manic and cheery man to a pure embodiment of rage and disdain seemed to make others thing his emotions were only two settings: Extreme happiness and stone-cold anger, likened to a switch, hence his nickname. But his intelligence and his tact was beyond many left of Sylve. He was quickly instated as a leader, and his "absorb as many as you can into Sylve and regain the dominance it once had" dogma spread quickly. The faction swelled in size, and was soon able to regain control of the drug trade. After being able to secure spacecraft with the Translight Space Corporations warp engine, spreading business expenditures across the universe became a matter of ease.

A (un)surprisingly common sport among Sylve members is using different creatures from different worlds in a variant of bug or cockfighting known as many different names. A common betting sport among the faction. Being mostly aboard stations and ships due to their nomadic tendencies, there's little else to do. The Sylve faction has no dominant religion, but most do hold some variant of faith, while some are diehard atheists, Captain Switch being among these few. Also, given their smuggling habits they often are under the influence, everything from relaxants to narcotics to hallucinogens so powerful that a trip can last anywhere from a few hours to several days. But structure is still maintained because any drugs taken while on duty sentence the user to death by firing squad or jettison into the black, heartless abyss of space. They try to intertwine with other cultures, but given the pirate nature they're often rejected by others. This is especially the case with the Sazkarjhit, who not only universally revile the Sylve but also immediately fire upon them if identified if members of the faction.