[img=http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/324/d/3/irken_rebellion_emblem_by_irken_trad-d338t19.png] General Info and Location Name: Kritarchy (Outsiders) / The Pantheon (Insiders) / The Most Perfect Realm of Cray (Knowledgeable) Capital System: Kritarch (Outsiders) / Paradise (Insiders) / Zola (Knowledgeable) Dominant Species: Kritan (Outsiders) / Gods (Insiders) / Crayvens (Knowledgeable Direction From Galactic Core: No idea. Politics, Power & Economy Head Of State: The Kritarch (Currently Vacant) Head Of Government: N/A Government Type/Operation/Description: The kritarchy is just that, a realm where the rulers are the judges. Their role is to determine what is just according to the Laws. Only the Kritarch can change the laws, but there as not been a Kritarch for thousands of years. There are 15 judges in total but the only real law with anything relating to property being thrown out of the window due to post scarcity is that of murder: A Crayven may not kill another Crayven. In truth, all of the 'most perfect realm' is a pure anarchy where anyone does what his whim demands. Economic System/Prosperity: For some thousand years now nanomachines have become so perfected that the very atoms of matter can be altered and modulated as to create any material one wish. Crayvens are only limited to their imagination and no law regulates what is legal to be created or not, as such anyone can build a space dreadnaught out of sand with the best technologies of the galaxy. The triviality of such an act as, fortunately, made it extremely uncommon. Empire Size: 1.72 billion. Empire Power: Considers itself a 'Galactic power', but really is a multi-stellar power that keeps itself to its home world and a core worlds. There are occasional Kritan colonies but they are often inhabited by less than 10 people fancying themselves explorers, and are often abandoned a few weeks or months later. Type Of Power: Cultural: Widely seen by other races as something above all else as the Kritans enjoy limitless freedom and the lowest of individual has a life quality not even the highest of any other race comes close to achieve. As the Crayvens also have no obligations to do, they are free to enjoy their hobbies, something that makes them a race of artists and architects. Technological: Technology has been studied, perfected and refined and as they now come equal or above most technological powers, their greatest success was to make the use of such technologies ubiquitous and trivial. Where a certain tech may be a closely guarded state secret in another civilization, for the Crayvens it is readily available for anyone. Still, this aspect of their culture is somewhat stagnating at the moment as very little people bother with theoretical science. History, Biology & Society Race Name: Crayvens Race Info: Average Lifespan: Limitless, Oldest is 10,000 years old as of now. Physical Characteristics Dominant Society: Moral Values: Complete hedonism and individualism, the lives of the Crayvens are determined by their 'Niche', the thing they like to do. Art, exploring, hunting, killing... They go well with people who share the same interest but rarely even consider others as existing. Other Crayvens are seen as entities of the world since The Laws prevent killing one another, but other races are considered barely as more than animals. Some are different of course, but even someone with a great relation with a human would probably think of him more like his favored pet rather than anything close to an equal. Religion: N/A History: The oldest civilization on record, great before pretty much all other powers were even star faring, history is losing itself more out of disinterest by its own people than mass destruction or anything of the likes. The general outline is that thousands of years before, the Crayvens were actually a race used to civil war on its own planet and abroad, that colonized to fuel its own destruction but that after one great war or another, politics were essentially abolished and replaced by The Laws. The Laws were meant to be the most basic as possible and to be interpreted by Judges, who would defer to High Judges if interpretation was needed, who would in turn go to the Kritarch if the laws needed to be changed. Laws without religious or racial bias, political dogma and whatnot: Only to insure the life of the people went roughly equally (A thing made easy, with technology). The Kritarch was then killed in The Last Great War by an enemy long forgotten and since then, none as stood up, simply because none was needed. After this war, the Kritarchy began to stagnate. Its technology was unmatched, its ability to change the nature of matter itself and the complete stigmatization of this ability made all equal: No one could have more than the next person. Accumulating wealth was useless, since anything could be fabricated by anyone without effort. They began to seek thrill, excitement, meaning. Technology had rendered them immortal through technology or genetic modifications, but each individual, being digital or so radically different from one another they could barely being called the same species anymore made it impossible for them to reproduce. The lack of a central government to provide safety insured that slowly their numbers began to dwindle. Dumb accidents, someone thinking himself invincible in a frigate attacking a fleet of dreadnaught for example. The main cause of death always being suicide of course. Even now, only half of this population could be considered 'Alive', others going for digital simulations where reality doesn't apply, essentially making them 'Gods' in front of the small AIs in their realms. Technological Overview: They say that they have explored the very limits of technology that is physically possible in this universe. While they are much more advanced in almost all fields than any other, they have stagnated for milleniums now and while their theoretical understanding is unmatched, most people lack the imagination to do anything with this tech: Build a big laser, build a big ship... Unless the builder specifies to build a huge graviton laser and then again.