Great Empire of Canza
The Everlasting Future of Canza
Demonym: Canzanese

Species: Adarro

One of the highly critical features that assured their dominance over all the lifeforms in their home world is their tough, armor-like exoskeleton with a durability comparable to bronze. Brought on by the harsh, unforgiving environments of Maratigal, the competition for sentience that followed, and the introduction of copper and calcium in their diet along with non iron-dependent circulatory processes that allowed the mineral to be concentrated on the skin, the Adarro's shell ensured the advantage of survival while their brains gradually developed into sentience and continued forth. Known weak spots include the areas between the shoulder guards and the gauntlets, the area between the shoulder guard and the torso, the groin, and the neck. The Adarro has no use for clothing, since their unmentionables are hidden underneath a layer of retractable armor.

The Adarro typically stand at 6'11" tall, towering above most humans. On average, their lifespan averages 98 years, with 124 years being the typical long-liver. They are omnivorous, but leans more on meat diets. Puberty ends at the age of 24 years. This is considering no future medical intervention is used; the actual Adarro life expectancy lasts 240 years with such technology. Because of such a long lifespan, many coups have been attempted during the course of the Great Empire of Canza's history, although in the later ages of the Canza security measures and discipline have successfully kept the throne undisturbed.

Another sentient species exist within their homeworld, naming themselves as Jitan, but most of them have been significantly incapacitated by the somewhat superior Adarro and has since been regarded as mere primitive barbarians. However, some find their place within the Canzanese society and perform their roles in society, albeit not without being subjected to racism. Their physiology and morphology is that of a beastly, hairy humanoid, with claws and teeth tough enough to break through Adarro armor.

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Government
Under the light of the Emperor, the Senate, and the People

The Canzanese follows an autocratic reign under the full authority of the Emperor. While the selection of a ruler typically follows the patriarchal lineage system, most of the Emperor's children are adopted, and only a few Emperors were actually related by blood to their predecessors.

Other political entities exist to provide support on the Emperor's work and minimize effort and strain. Voted governors are assigned to each continent and perform management duties. The Emperor-chosen Zetariah Senate, composed of representatives from each country-sized provinces, formulate and suggest laws for the Emperor to approve, which he can be repeal at a later time if desired. Both parties also advise the Emperor on some matters, and their members can be removed from their seat due to incompetency, treason, reformation, among many others.

Emperors and heirs are well-trained and disciplined enough to steer away from tyranny. In fact, only a few despots have reigned over the course of the Canza's history, and their failures, their humiliation, and their demise at the hands of coups served as lessons to future rulers.

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Military
The Armed Forces of the Empire is basically summed up by the phrase "quality over quantity". While their military assets are meticulously designed, highly-graded and refined, consequentially their production and numbers suffer as a result. The Canza excels both in offensive and defensive capabilities, but is vulnerable in dealing with large amounts of enemies that are too excessive for the point-defense systems to handle and destructive AoEs that will either destroy a closely huddled fleet or force them to disperse. Because of this, the Canza is putting its focus into colonizing worlds abundant with resources, and is employing mass amounts of skilled Plebitor in their factories.

They have a large focus on projectile weapons, with explosives of any sort (nuclear, particle, conventional) embedded on the rounds to further ramp up firepower and occasionally piercing components to deliver internal strikes. Railguns, missiles, shells, and any other sorts are within this standard. They are commonly installed on heavy ground forces and combat spacecraft. Due to this, the Canza tends to possess advantages against armored units and most opponents overall, but tends to suffer when ammo supply becomes limited. Other weapons aren't neglected, however; at least quite many point-defense systems use laser weaponry and some forces use experimental energy weapons (which are either unpredictable or unstable) at their preference.

In regards to armor, the Canza uses alternating layers of austenite steel, durable stainless materials, cushioning, and insulation, stacked over each other with short supporting rods and arranged similarly to the Walls of Babylon, with varying thicknesses per "wall" depending on terrain (Space generally requires more thickness than ground and infantry, which is about 4 inches individually to block meteors as well as attackers themselves. Ground units often do not require layer-group stacking.) and purpose (Some tend to be a whole meter thick. Generally, domestic spacecraft do not require stacking.). Research is currently underway to manufacture graphene as an armor product, which is still in its VERY early stages.

As with most nations, the Canza has four military divisions: Gertu, Irtu, Satu and Matu, which are space, air, naval and ground, respectively. The Irtu, however, is being considered to be subordinated to the Gertu under planetary defense purposes, due to some redundancies between the two.

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Technology
The Canzanese scholars and intellects, despite the clearly rampant use of (2015) supercomputer-speed microcomputers, domestic fusion reactors, faster-than-light drives, and most other possessions that some races would see as advanced, consider themselves a primitive race. This is simply motivation to drive themselves further into research, and by most standards Empire technology stands within the average.

The Canza mainly use nanomachines in mining. They are poured on rocky, optionally mineral-rich ground, and within seconds, nanomachines separate a composing substance from the other substances, isolate into groups assigned for each mineral and carry back to the miner the materials that compose the rock, prioritizing the more valuable minerals such as quartz, uranium, carbon, metals, and the like. This may probably make them a formidable economic power, capable of making big profits from resource trade and exports. Strong bonds are unable to be separated, however, rendering them less viable for weaponization than what the Empire already uses. Manufacturing nanomachines are still in the works, which is already in the prototyping stages.

Extensive genetic modification, climate-control technologies, structured farming, advanced preservation techniques and many other innovations have allowed for optimum production of foodstuffs, allowing effective distribution of food towards the entire Canzanese populace and making malnutrition outbreaks rare. In fact, so much has been produced that over hundreds of millions of bushels are in storage, and probably ready for future trade with whoever they may encounter.

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Culture
Remarkably multicultural and diverse, the Canzanese Empire has an astonishing capacity to create a sense of shared identity among all peoples for a very long period of time. Cultural leisure centers and communal spaces helped foster a sense of unity and citizenship to all, expanding the Empire's influence to almost every individual.

Generally speaking, the Canzanese value system is rooted on communion, obligation, patronage, discipline and family. Parents are expected to act as role models, and raise their children appropriately. Likewise, children are expected to follow Ties between individuals are encouraged, fostering development of numerous associations and fraternities such as cultural and veteran's guilds, religious sodalities, drinking and cuisine clubs, entertainment groups, and other similar societies.

The Great Empire of Canza is probably one of the few space-age races where religion is still highly prevalent. While none is officially followed by the government, the dominant religion is Qasterity and its subfaiths (subfaiths: as Catholicism and Protestantism is akin to general Christianity), which composes 2/5 of the total populace, succeeded by Escerianism and its subfaiths which is 1/5, minor ethnic religions compose another 1/5, and atheism, once again, 1/5. Quasterity is a polytheistic religion with over six gods in worship, while Escerianism is monotheistic and has only one recognized deity who has no relation with the gods of Quasterity whatsoever. Both, while still having some conflicts with each other, are much more peaceful and tolerant in comparison to certain ethnic faiths that tend to wage terror in the name of their beliefs.

Castes divide the people based on their roles, and has been in use since the first emergence of the Empire.

Corator: Refers to the highest, most prestigious caste, consisting of all of the Emperor's family.
Valator: Consists of all the government heads, including the governors and the Zetariah. The Valator are well-respected, much like the Corator.
Tyritor: All military figures ranking higher than the Sergeant equivalent and has command duties belong here, and is respected most especially by the Fernitor.
Akadator: Considered as the brains of the Canzanese Empire, and does all the scientific work. They also work in schools as teachers, parting their knowledge with the young.
Yerator: Wealthy and respectable individuals that mostly qualify in the Plebitor caste, but has amassed wealth to gain notability.
Fernitor: The rest of the military of the Canzanese Empire, subordinates to the Tyritor.
Plebitor: The regular, common people of the Canza Empire, which include industrial workers, farmers, traders, mere household dwellers and other jobs.
Disdetor: Criminals, barbarian species, and captured enemies, which are either sold to slavery or put behind bars.

It is not uncommon to find former Disdetors becoming Valators, and some Emperors even once were slaves that have redeemed themselves. Some Akadators may also be part of the Tyritor, and the same with most other castes, although a Yerator, a Plebitor, or a Disdetor may technically never be part of two castes as they are technically reclassified (A Plebitor being "part" of the Akadator simply means they are an Akadator, not both Akadator and Plebitor.). It can be said that climbing up or falling down the castes is without most restriction, and is quite loose.

Slaves still retain some rights, as they are subject to abuse protection and are sometimes paid, albeit only a measly sum. While they don't have privileges to own most properties, they have rights to possess and use money for their general needs aside from those provided by their owners. Slaves are freed after some amount of time in their sentence, if not sentenced for life.

Freeborn women, although lacking the rights to hold political office, vote or serve in the military, are still considered citizens and may own property, engage in contracts, enter business, and serve as Akadator and perform research work. A woman's obligation to subjecting to her husbands's or her father's authority has been largely abandoned since the Empire's industrial era, and are free to do whatever they will as long as they don't get involved in politics. Feminist movements are almost absent from the Empire; women are pleased with the way things are running currently.

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History
Founded in the Renaissance of the Maratigal races, the Empire began as a merger of neighboring Adarro states that jointly suffered a civil war beforehand, resulting from the long-term effects of a Dark Age brought on by the collapse of a massive preceding mixed-race republic in the hands of Jitan conquerors centuries earlier. The event intensified prejudices between the two species that never vanished even until now.

It took decades for the new empire to cope with its earlier sufferings, and a century to establish its place as a world power. The Great Empire mainly acquired lands through absorbing influenced states or purchasing them, although sometimes war became a choice. And in an occasion when it did a few hundred years later, where modernization was widespread and information technology was rampant, the consequence was a massive, 30-year worldwide Great War where the Empire itself emerged as the sole survivor (Although other allied states were present at victory, they were soon absorbed.). The event marked the beginning of the Canza's rule over the entire world of Maratigal, and set the stage for a Golden Age that began as soon as the Empire coped with its losses from the war.

A few decades later, the Empire began emerging as an interstellar power, starting with the colonization of Certhaul. Today, they hold over 4 worlds, with Maratigal and Orius fully developed, Certhaul partially developed and Aius in its early colonization stages. 3 more worlds are in sight for the Great Empire of Canza, and currently covets them for future development.

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Others
Owned Worlds
Maratigal - Homeworld, Star: Dessier
Primary Resources: Multiple, Partly Drained

Orius - Cold Desert, Star: Dessier
Primary Resources: Industrial Metals, Luxury Stones and Metals
Secondary Resources: Glass

Certhaul - 80% Water, Multi Biome, Temperate, Star: Ediranth
Primary Resources: Crop Food, Habitation, Luxuries
Secondary Resources: Fresh Water

Aius - 70% Land, Desert-Dominated, Temperate-Warm, Star: Callas
Primary Resources: Animal Food, Habitation, Fuels
Secondary Resources: Industrial Metals

Name of nation: The United Indigenous Peoples of Asrabhalanda and Its Protectorates, or simply Asrabhal

Demonym: Asrabi

Species: Azra
Language: Azri
Azra are reptilian in appearance. On average about seven feet tall with a weight of about 200 pounds relative to Earth's gravity. They're slender in appearance but are decently muscular, having a slightly hunched-over appearance due to the construction of their spine although they are capable of standing upright. They have four extremities like typical humanoids, but four-digit hands with claws and two-digit feet with the addition of a rear dewclaw. They lack tails but have three characteristic sets of spines that run down their back on the shoulder blades, which can be folded down but can stand up as a display of aggression or, in a more primal sense, attracting mates. When aggravated, they can also rapidly vibrate these spines, creating a loud rattling effect. Their skin is not like typical scales but exhibits properties more similar to denticles that lock in place and are smooth in one direction and abrasive on the other. Asrabis' heads taper but are blunt in the front, and have a mix of sharp incisors and flat molars. Skin color varies but usually ranges into different shades of blue or green. They have four eyes, two on their forehead and two on each side to minimize blindspots, and are capable of viewing into the ultraviolet spectrum.

Morphologically, there are not many differences between males and females excluding the obvious difference in sex organs and the tone of speech. Females however, have significantly shorter back spines, and these are much sharper due to them being mainly for defense (While males' are for display). Females are viviparous, meaning that even though they carry eggs they do give birth to live young. The infantile Asrabi have the rest of the embryo they get nutrition from inside of their body, and exhaust it until they are able to feed normally.

They originally came as aggressive predators but evolved to become intelligent and cultured. Although adorned with a belligerent attitude they are still a relatively peaceful people. They have upper echelons of communication and while there are multiple dialects, they are the same no matter what group one comes across.

Relative to Earth, Asrabi life expectancy is about 140 years.

Description of government: Constitutional Dictatorship

Asrabhal is led under a single arbiter, currently Emperor Baswok Ly'tee, and features different levels of government. The Emperor can handle minor governmental concerns and in emergency can override the Constitution of Asrabhal and take complete control. There is also direct democracy on civilian issues and other issues are handled by a decent, but small, Parliament. Political freedoms are mostly granted, but there have been cases where citizens have exerted a bit too "much" free speech, and disappear without a trace. Most other freedoms, including religious, are given, but as stated above any direct slander of a higher official, especially Emperor Ly'tee, is punished with the level of severity depending on the seriousness of the offense. The Emperor also depends on an efficient and elite military cabinet for ordaining offensive or defensive operations, based solely upon his best officers.

Description of military:

The Armed Forces of the People's Defense of Asrabhalanda, also known as the Asrabhal Armed Forces, is chiefly under the Asrabhal Interplanetary Defense Initiative (AIDI) and commanded by Emperor Ly'tee's military cabinet. There are two main branches, each containing their sub-branches.

Army of the People of Asrabhal/Asrabi Army:

The APA has two main sub-branches for intraatmospheric operations:

GROUND FORCE:
The ground forces are an integral part of the operations and are the most ferocious fighters in the military, included in these are a few units:

Infantry: Basic grunts equipped with rifles, missile launchers, grenades, and other light-to-medium weaponry. Efficient for handling mostly every kind of opposition on the ground.

Artillery: Long-range cannons capable of firing concentrated plasma bursts with very high impact as well as other projectiles. Effective for area of effect and handling large, powerful adversaries

Armor: With the main implement being the Zaak II Heavily-Armored Universal Fighting Vehicle, an amphibious vehicle utilizing augers for movement, it has a troop bay for holding up to 12 combat-ready soldiers, a few tons of cargo, and is also fully crewed with mounted guns and a main plasma cannon.

Low-Air Strike: With Yamak I VTOL aircraft armed to the teeth, these vehicles specialize in low-altitude aerial strikes in situations where aircraft are not appropriate.

AIR FORCE:
Referred to officially as the Army of Asrabhal Aerial Mobility Division, the air force still carries important roles in strike, air superiority, reconnaissance and interception, materiel airlift, and strategic bombing. As a result, each of these roles has a specific platform for it.

Strike: ZA-12 Drikon, STOL strike aircraft with a myriad of bombs, missiles and a rotary energy weapon in the nose. For the allotment of aircraft but also able to pack more of a punch than the Yamak I for close-in fast strikes.

Air Superiority: ZZ-30 Wyndal, either launched from the ground, the hangar of a starship, or as a parasite from a mothership ,the ZZ-30 boasts incredulous speed and maneuverability, with a powerful autocannon and missiles to boot.

Reconnaissance/Interception: The ZN/B-3 Orobo Interceptor is built for high speed, and sacrifices short-range armament for a larger missile payload. The ZB-3 model is used for high-speed reconnaissance in situations where satellite or ship-based surveillance is not possible, due to how common this is regardless not many ZB-3s are kept on deck.

Materiel Airlift: The Zaak Mk IV Very-Heavy Transport Craft, is a massive transport aircraft capable of holding entire companies of soldiers and many tons of materiel to carry into battle. Some also are modified to serve as mobile command-and-control centers.

Strategic Bombing: ZV-2, the main-line heavy bomber is a very large, very intimidating aircraft with land and sea-based capabilities. It is capable of holding massive bombloads or up to five cruise missiles, depending on payload size.

Navy of the People of Asrabhlanda/Asrabi Navy:

With a few subdivisions, the NPA has multiple classes of ships for space exploration and defense. All ships have a small nuclear arsenal:

Zordabek-Class Supercarrier: 1600 meters in length, the largest class in the fleet and also the most infrequent with only 4 available. Used for carrying massive amounts of soldiers and vehicles for deployment, as well as a bristling defense network and a variety of artillery for any kind of strike on the ground.

Rastan-Class Battlecruiser: 1100 meters in length. Used as flagships when a Zoardabek is not contained in the fleet. Much wider variety of armaments and a large complement of marines. Utilizing an antiparticle cannon they can be very threatening to large ships.

Urkabi-Class Destroyer: 600 meters in length. Main attacking ship and also one of the heaviest and deadliest. Missiles, torpedoes, mines, artillery, and a large point defense network make them effective for crowd control and targeted attacks, as well as escorts.

Verruna-Class Heavy Frigate: 500 meters in length. Same purpose as the Urkabi-Class in but in greater number and with less armor and firepower, although greater speed. Good for escorting and scouting.

Amsda-Class Corvette: 260 meters in length, main escort ship. In great number they are a frightening tour-de-force.

Sarato-Class Fighter: 30 meters in length, Fighter-Interceptor equipped on most ships for exoatmospheric combat. Variety of weapons with a large crew.

Urin-Class Boarding Vessel: For a complement of up to 30 marines, these ships are meant to intercept the hulls of enemy starships and unload marines to fight.

Special Units:

Trasdak-Class Electronic Warfare Vessel: Ditching conventional weapons, this instead relies on an information network as well as devices like Electromagnetic Pulse emitters to attack ships.

Unia-Class Orbital Defense Platform: For planetary defense, these massive linear railguns are used to fire slugs at enemy ships in efforts to defend planets and other installations.

Technological Overview:

Asrabhal is moderately advanced. Their warlike nature sees them using decently advanced weaponry. All ships are equipped with shields and use nuclear and some antimatter weaponry. Ships are powered with nuclear reactors, while certain other ships and many other intraatmospheric aircraft use plasma reactors to give their engines power. Weapons include plasma and lasers, while certain units may use older, more conventional weapons. Radio and telecommunications are used liberally and faster-than-light travel is achieved via tunneling through slipstream space.

Medically and industrially they are relatively advanced. Asrabhal has a large merchant marine and sells many refined metals and products. More intensive industries like agriculture and mining are common but manufacturing is also an important contender. Translation software is crude but does work efficiently, and can be updated to include new language codecs.

Cultural Overview:

Asrabhal has a religious system known as Urbatanaka, a monotheistic religion that worships a being known as Kozarta, usually referred to as The Holiness or The Omnipotent. The nation is large and cultured, otherwise, and has a variety of holidays and celebrations. Traditional sports are popular in the empire as are racing and fighting.

Despite their belligerent disposition, the Asrabi typically see themselves as peaceful and enjoyable. Life is diverse and in many regions, and many freedoms are practiced. As mentioned before religious freedom is allowed and not condemned, but free speech is somewhat restricted. Most are relatively wealthy although homelessness and other issues still arise.

A lot of the culture revolves around the history of Asrabhal and the free will to fight, and as a result the nation has many gangs and paramilitary organizations, all of which are still heavily monitored and restricted by a capable police force.

The main unit of currency is the Asrabi Dasra.

History:

Asrabhal originally comes from the name of the planet, Asrabhalanda. The origin of it all goes back to when there were multiple tribes, and nothing to necessarily unify them by. The Tribe of Kasta was one of these tribes that no longer wanted to live in the dim, and after contact with a fellow group believed that they needed to expand, to see a new world and a new development. These people began working together, forming a massive nation.

Time had passed and they were massive and domineering, most of the planet was unified when the assassination of the leader, with many officials pointing fingers, led to a disastrous geopolitical schism. Efforts to keep the nation together ultimately failed, and about a thousand years ago the empire balkanized into many nation states. They argued, warred with each other constantly.

The nation for many centuries was comprised of several nations, and there were restrictions. However from the nation of Yuras came the imperialistic and aggressive Kasbak Ba'rei, who sought power and with a massive military and funding proceeded to mop over most of the world. This was several hundred years ago. Soon after, the nation became developed under on unified flag and rather than squabbling over petty matters sought to improve itself. Now completely unified, The United Indigenous Peoples of Asrabhalanda and Its Protectorates continued to take over the planet and expunge any kind of previous inhabitant. They were no longer just multiple allies, but one powerful, dynamic entity.

It was around this time that the space program was also developed. Fortunately, there was another habitable system detected nearby. Unfortunately, the technology to develop FTL travel was very infantile, and the system was about six lightyears away. After the breakthrough in Slipstream Space Tunneling had been made, it was soon taken over, and after some time as a protectorate became a new nation.

Asrabhal has always existed in isolation. For the longest period of time they believed that they were indeed one of the only, but reports soon revealed that such was not the case. However, the technology for much of the time did not allow them to escape their bounds for some time, and focused rather on development before any major exploration.

However, after appointment and his rise to power, Emperor Ly'tee looked to the stars and pondered the existence of other intelligences. He sent out a handful of fleets to look for new worlds and new people, and to hopefully see the expansion of the powerful land of Asrabhal.

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