After more than a year of being content with the Star Empires existing but not so much else, I finally got intrested in this.
I'm going to edit this post, with the new apps for my nations and other stuff, so make sure to check on it from time to time.
Name of nation: Ayaerid
Species:Yirav:
These species are specially adapted to thrive on water, although they can survive on the land (if it's not, say, 2 km above the ground).
They have two eyes on their heads, but they don't see very well outside of the water but they do have a good sense of smell in the land due to their large noses. They have small horns across their chests and backs, which allows them to listen to stuff.
Their skin is elastic and strong. When they are born, their colours are dark gold, dark orange or dark brown. However, as they grow up, they grow lighter and after they have meno/andropause they also start desaturating. Those who mananged to live the longest either had little traces of their former colour or they simply were very light grey.
The males are usually bulkier than their female counter part and their colors are more varied.The females, however, are usually bigger and they have darker colours.
The average lifespan of a male is about 45 years and females 47. Their sexual hormones start acting after they are 10 years old and by the time they are 16 they are fully able to breed without any major risks due to the mothers short age. By the time they are 30, they start having their meno/andropause.
Description of government: Theocratic.
The major religion of this nation is Yerahaedism and is the official religion of the empire (explained on the other section). Basically the nation is ruled by the Yerahid of the Talkani branch of Yerahaedism. The Yerahid, according to the Talkanis, is literally handpicked by the gods and given demigod abilities. Therefore, any opposition to him is considered blasphemous and can result in prison until the "blasphemer" retracts his former statements. "Blasphemers" are often put into an orwellian regime, in where they can't martyrise themselves and they have to stay there until they are finally convinced. After that, they are put back into society. The second violation means death penality.
There is a parlament which supposedly rules along with the Yerahid, but the Yerahid may always expel someone without proper reasons, as supposedly his word is above every single mortal. The Yerahid also has 20 votes on the parlament, thus it's a very corrupt place.
Description of military: Due to the ever-rising threat of secularism and other forms of liberalism, they need to have a strong military. Their fleet rallies about 300 ships (I don't know how many do the other people have but if it's definetily too OP, tone it down to 100 or 50) but after a secularist rebellion, they are planning to expand the fleet. Their fleet is mostly trained for revolt suppresion, anti-guerrilla tactics and it's mostly focused on defense. Automated turrets on the orbit are quite common but there is also a large population of turrets in the asteroids and moons.
History: The Yirav developed in the galaxy in peace for tens of thousands of years until the interdimensional crisis kicked in. Their small nations were destroyed, their species went extinct on almost all the planets they colonized and the few which survived were kicked back into the neolithic. Due to the fact that most of the survivors were in planets where there was little process in terraformation, it took them a lot longer to develop, some even dying out. Eventually though, they mananged to adapt and around the same time their technological developement pace was changing too. By the time they got back in space, though, they already broke into different species, each taking caracteristics of their new homes (some have longer lifespans, increased land tolerance, etc.). The planet of the Ayaerids, known as Choyowei, was the average planet for any of the broken species. It wasn't the most hospitable planet they could have, but it was survivable.
Fast foward to the foundation of the Ayaerid nation. The Ayaerid Empire was created by the union of extremist Yerahaedists (circa what we could call the 17-18th centuries) as a response to the ever-popularizing secularization in their lands. The nations of the of Choyowei were very unfortunate, since the new empire was very large and covered areas with strategic resources such as oil, uranium and food. One by one, the nations of Choyowei fell one by one to the sword of the Yerahaedists until the planet was conquered (by the period we could compare to the times of the scrambling of Africa).
This conquest caused the planet to develop a lot slower than it would normaly do so and 4 centuries had to pass until the Choyoweian Yiravs emerged into space a la Neil Armstrong and 5 more for actual space colonization (save for a few exiles which mananged, at an enormus risk, to get out earlier. If I'm allowed to make multiple nations on the terms of the Other section, I will expand their history and make a republic for them). However, they developed surprisingly fast, and another century took place before they colonized the whole solar system.
(if I'm allowed to have multiple nations) Around the same time, though, they discovered other Yiravids, and they weren't happy at all. The first spaceships outside the solar system were military spaceships created in order to smite the infidels. They expanded very aggresively due to their absolute intolerance to infidels until they were met by a large coallition to halt their aggresive expansionism. They were utterly crushed, reduced to a few core systems and were forced by the Treaty of Sniuatera to recognize other nation's religious rights. However, a few centuries later, they infiltrated the governments that succeded them and had much of it's territory returned.
(if I'm not allowed to have multiple nations) After a few centuries, they decided to expand and crushed the still-primitive governments that ruled the planets they conquered. They crushed their native religions mercilessly and assimilited their population rapidly. This caused a major eruption in rebellious secularists, which for a time occupied most of the empire. They were forced to allow certain religious tolerance at local level, but the government structure changed little (save for the creation of the parlament, which continues to this very day unchanged)
(in both cases) However, no matter how oppresive or legitimate the government is, eventually liberalism will strike from the shadows. An ever-growing secularization movement is growing among the population and it has been caught despite the people struggling to keep it on secrecy. The amount of arrests show that this rebellion will be quite bigger than the other exponential rebellions the empire suffered. Will the Yerahid keep control of his empire and this one rebellion remain as one of the many rebellions? Will he be forced to quit some of his powers? Or will he be overthrown?
Religion: Yerahaedism is a polytheist religion with a large pantheon of deities.
The first deity is Yerah, or the greatest. He is the god of the Yirav and he controls the skies, the space and the stars.
The second deity is the primordial goddess, known as Omnja. She is the godess of the planets and of the soil.
There are, of course, many other deities such as Odohr, the god of intelligence, Talkan, the god that protects the yerahaedists and many other deities and mythological creatures, but the first two I mentioned are the most important deities
There are three major branches of Yerahaedism. The first one is the talkani branch, which accepts Talkan as a major deity instead of being just a minor god and that he appoints a certain Yiradi to be his vice-governor.; then there’s the Omnjist branch, which states that Omnja is above all the other deities since she is the primordial goddess; and then there’s the Kartelan branch, which states that only the Kartas (the holy book of Yerahaedism) is the book that must be respected.
Other (Culture and the like): Now that my app is nearing completion, may I create another nation and a couple medium/minor nations (all of these with the same species of course)? I'm not going to use it as a bridge to ultimate galaxy blobbing or to make a gigantic alliance (unless everyone wants to exterminate them off the galaxy or something like that). I say this because it feels quite unrealistic that, unless this just happens to follow the same technological timeline of futuretimeline.net, the whole species are part of one nation. In addition, just for general benefit, may I ask that someone draws a map?
Here's the minor nation I was talking about earlier:
Name of the nation: Republic of Ardal
Government: Representative Democracy.
A president rules the republic and is elected every 6 years but can have infinite terms once in office. The president holds the executive power and there are two parliaments for the two other powers (Judiciary and Legislative). However, due to tradition, the population can vote if the laws are very important.
The most popular party is currently the People's Council and second to them is the Party of Democracy.
Military: Their military is fairly small; only 20 ships are on the whole fleet. The fleet is balanced between offensive and defensive.
History: The Republic of Ardal was founded as the result of the extremist policies of the Ayaerid Empire. Many ayaerids were tired of the lack of freedom and, along with Omnjist Yerahaedists, secularists and liberals; they built a spaceship and escaped the planet just before the police could arrest them after discovering their plans.
Due to the primitiveness of this interstellar spaceship and little research put into it, after going to the interstellar void the solar veils ran out of energy and they were now stuck. For 4 centuries, they were stuck in this void but they lived as if nothing was ever happening. Before hitting land in another planet, few even knew they were on a spaceship at all. However, the gravitational pull of other stars slowly drifted them and finally one star managed to influence gravitationally the spaceship above all the other stars. The spaceship drifted to say star for 2 centuries until it hit one of its planets, where there was a still-primitive Yirav population.
They began building their cities with the help of the locals and lived in peace (save for some local raids and protests here and there) for 2 centuries. Then the cursed Ayaerid Empire attacked and conquered them. A period of darkness came as these secularist liberals, once so happy with their new government, were now having to hide, like in the old times. Only after the treaty of Sniuatera they restored their former republic and they prospered alongside the other nations. After a series of struggles against Ayaerid insurgents and against the other nations, they managed to stabilize their new nation.
Unfortunately, they are dangerously close from the Ayaerids and the relations of both nations weren’t exactly that good. At first, they only shared a small frontier after the war. However, due to the subsequent support for rebellions, the Ayaerids occupy 2/5ths of the frontier.
I'm going to edit this post, with the new apps for my nations and other stuff, so make sure to check on it from time to time.
Name of nation: Ayaerid
Species:Yirav:
These species are specially adapted to thrive on water, although they can survive on the land (if it's not, say, 2 km above the ground).
They have two eyes on their heads, but they don't see very well outside of the water but they do have a good sense of smell in the land due to their large noses. They have small horns across their chests and backs, which allows them to listen to stuff.
Their skin is elastic and strong. When they are born, their colours are dark gold, dark orange or dark brown. However, as they grow up, they grow lighter and after they have meno/andropause they also start desaturating. Those who mananged to live the longest either had little traces of their former colour or they simply were very light grey.
The males are usually bulkier than their female counter part and their colors are more varied.The females, however, are usually bigger and they have darker colours.
The average lifespan of a male is about 45 years and females 47. Their sexual hormones start acting after they are 10 years old and by the time they are 16 they are fully able to breed without any major risks due to the mothers short age. By the time they are 30, they start having their meno/andropause.
Description of government: Theocratic.
The major religion of this nation is Yerahaedism and is the official religion of the empire (explained on the other section). Basically the nation is ruled by the Yerahid of the Talkani branch of Yerahaedism. The Yerahid, according to the Talkanis, is literally handpicked by the gods and given demigod abilities. Therefore, any opposition to him is considered blasphemous and can result in prison until the "blasphemer" retracts his former statements. "Blasphemers" are often put into an orwellian regime, in where they can't martyrise themselves and they have to stay there until they are finally convinced. After that, they are put back into society. The second violation means death penality.
There is a parlament which supposedly rules along with the Yerahid, but the Yerahid may always expel someone without proper reasons, as supposedly his word is above every single mortal. The Yerahid also has 20 votes on the parlament, thus it's a very corrupt place.
Description of military: Due to the ever-rising threat of secularism and other forms of liberalism, they need to have a strong military. Their fleet rallies about 300 ships (I don't know how many do the other people have but if it's definetily too OP, tone it down to 100 or 50) but after a secularist rebellion, they are planning to expand the fleet. Their fleet is mostly trained for revolt suppresion, anti-guerrilla tactics and it's mostly focused on defense. Automated turrets on the orbit are quite common but there is also a large population of turrets in the asteroids and moons.
History: The Yirav developed in the galaxy in peace for tens of thousands of years until the interdimensional crisis kicked in. Their small nations were destroyed, their species went extinct on almost all the planets they colonized and the few which survived were kicked back into the neolithic. Due to the fact that most of the survivors were in planets where there was little process in terraformation, it took them a lot longer to develop, some even dying out. Eventually though, they mananged to adapt and around the same time their technological developement pace was changing too. By the time they got back in space, though, they already broke into different species, each taking caracteristics of their new homes (some have longer lifespans, increased land tolerance, etc.). The planet of the Ayaerids, known as Choyowei, was the average planet for any of the broken species. It wasn't the most hospitable planet they could have, but it was survivable.
Fast foward to the foundation of the Ayaerid nation. The Ayaerid Empire was created by the union of extremist Yerahaedists (circa what we could call the 17-18th centuries) as a response to the ever-popularizing secularization in their lands. The nations of the of Choyowei were very unfortunate, since the new empire was very large and covered areas with strategic resources such as oil, uranium and food. One by one, the nations of Choyowei fell one by one to the sword of the Yerahaedists until the planet was conquered (by the period we could compare to the times of the scrambling of Africa).
This conquest caused the planet to develop a lot slower than it would normaly do so and 4 centuries had to pass until the Choyoweian Yiravs emerged into space a la Neil Armstrong and 5 more for actual space colonization (save for a few exiles which mananged, at an enormus risk, to get out earlier. If I'm allowed to make multiple nations on the terms of the Other section, I will expand their history and make a republic for them). However, they developed surprisingly fast, and another century took place before they colonized the whole solar system.
(if I'm allowed to have multiple nations) Around the same time, though, they discovered other Yiravids, and they weren't happy at all. The first spaceships outside the solar system were military spaceships created in order to smite the infidels. They expanded very aggresively due to their absolute intolerance to infidels until they were met by a large coallition to halt their aggresive expansionism. They were utterly crushed, reduced to a few core systems and were forced by the Treaty of Sniuatera to recognize other nation's religious rights. However, a few centuries later, they infiltrated the governments that succeded them and had much of it's territory returned.
(if I'm not allowed to have multiple nations) After a few centuries, they decided to expand and crushed the still-primitive governments that ruled the planets they conquered. They crushed their native religions mercilessly and assimilited their population rapidly. This caused a major eruption in rebellious secularists, which for a time occupied most of the empire. They were forced to allow certain religious tolerance at local level, but the government structure changed little (save for the creation of the parlament, which continues to this very day unchanged)
(in both cases) However, no matter how oppresive or legitimate the government is, eventually liberalism will strike from the shadows. An ever-growing secularization movement is growing among the population and it has been caught despite the people struggling to keep it on secrecy. The amount of arrests show that this rebellion will be quite bigger than the other exponential rebellions the empire suffered. Will the Yerahid keep control of his empire and this one rebellion remain as one of the many rebellions? Will he be forced to quit some of his powers? Or will he be overthrown?
Religion: Yerahaedism is a polytheist religion with a large pantheon of deities.
The first deity is Yerah, or the greatest. He is the god of the Yirav and he controls the skies, the space and the stars.
The second deity is the primordial goddess, known as Omnja. She is the godess of the planets and of the soil.
There are, of course, many other deities such as Odohr, the god of intelligence, Talkan, the god that protects the yerahaedists and many other deities and mythological creatures, but the first two I mentioned are the most important deities
There are three major branches of Yerahaedism. The first one is the talkani branch, which accepts Talkan as a major deity instead of being just a minor god and that he appoints a certain Yiradi to be his vice-governor.; then there’s the Omnjist branch, which states that Omnja is above all the other deities since she is the primordial goddess; and then there’s the Kartelan branch, which states that only the Kartas (the holy book of Yerahaedism) is the book that must be respected.
Other (Culture and the like): Now that my app is nearing completion, may I create another nation and a couple medium/minor nations (all of these with the same species of course)? I'm not going to use it as a bridge to ultimate galaxy blobbing or to make a gigantic alliance (unless everyone wants to exterminate them off the galaxy or something like that). I say this because it feels quite unrealistic that, unless this just happens to follow the same technological timeline of futuretimeline.net, the whole species are part of one nation. In addition, just for general benefit, may I ask that someone draws a map?
Here's the minor nation I was talking about earlier:
Name of the nation: Republic of Ardal
Government: Representative Democracy.
A president rules the republic and is elected every 6 years but can have infinite terms once in office. The president holds the executive power and there are two parliaments for the two other powers (Judiciary and Legislative). However, due to tradition, the population can vote if the laws are very important.
The most popular party is currently the People's Council and second to them is the Party of Democracy.
Military: Their military is fairly small; only 20 ships are on the whole fleet. The fleet is balanced between offensive and defensive.
History: The Republic of Ardal was founded as the result of the extremist policies of the Ayaerid Empire. Many ayaerids were tired of the lack of freedom and, along with Omnjist Yerahaedists, secularists and liberals; they built a spaceship and escaped the planet just before the police could arrest them after discovering their plans.
Due to the primitiveness of this interstellar spaceship and little research put into it, after going to the interstellar void the solar veils ran out of energy and they were now stuck. For 4 centuries, they were stuck in this void but they lived as if nothing was ever happening. Before hitting land in another planet, few even knew they were on a spaceship at all. However, the gravitational pull of other stars slowly drifted them and finally one star managed to influence gravitationally the spaceship above all the other stars. The spaceship drifted to say star for 2 centuries until it hit one of its planets, where there was a still-primitive Yirav population.
They began building their cities with the help of the locals and lived in peace (save for some local raids and protests here and there) for 2 centuries. Then the cursed Ayaerid Empire attacked and conquered them. A period of darkness came as these secularist liberals, once so happy with their new government, were now having to hide, like in the old times. Only after the treaty of Sniuatera they restored their former republic and they prospered alongside the other nations. After a series of struggles against Ayaerid insurgents and against the other nations, they managed to stabilize their new nation.
Unfortunately, they are dangerously close from the Ayaerids and the relations of both nations weren’t exactly that good. At first, they only shared a small frontier after the war. However, due to the subsequent support for rebellions, the Ayaerids occupy 2/5ths of the frontier.
