[hider=Asati Alliance: WIP] [hider=Nation Name:] Asati Alliance [/hider] [hider=Seal/Symbol/Crest/Motto:] A trianary star cluster, with a red, yellow, and blue star. "Respect for all sapient life." [/hider] [hider=Officials:] Sisali - A 900 year old Asati that has been living with an extended family of Ooshla in one of the outer star systems for almost 200 years. This family likes to explore new systems, so he gets to see many new systems. They carry many non-sentient space-based beings with them as they travel, partly to seed new systems, and partly for their kids to play with. Oto-masa - An Aldvari general whose fleet patrols the outer systems in case of alien invasion. [/hider] [hider=Core Worlds:] Asati-varon - A tritanary star system, where the Asati evolved, which doesn't contain any inhabitable planets. It does, however, contain a very large population of Ooshla. Meltios - The home system of the Ooshla and other space-based lifeforms. It contains an inhabitable planet, also named Meltios, where the Ooshla's ancestors evolved. The planet contains a base for Aldvari cyberneticists. Varoon- The Aldvari homeworld. [/hider] [hider=Brief History:] They only just met "The Imperial Confederation of An'ketan", and as such know little about your nations. [/hider] [hider=Primary Species:] Asati- A race of plasma based life forms, they evolved in the blue star of their home system, but soon were spread to the yellow and red stars via solar flares. They learned to manipulate the plasma in and around them, communicating with each other via light pulses or radio waves, and discovered that they could travel outside of stars by drawing in interplanetary gasses and becoming a fusion reactor, using the waste gas as a thruster. Eventually some of them learned to generate warp fields around themselves and traveled to stars in other systems. In one of these systems they found many races of creatures that contained a natural plasma nexus within themselves. They were able to control or train the lower forms and partner with the only intelligent form, making their bodily functions more efficient and teaching the intelligent ones to generate warp fields. They then began a mass colonization effort with their new friends and pets. In one of the systems they arrived at, they met the Aldvari, who gave them their name, meaning "stars". These organic lifeforms formed an agreement with the Asati agreeing to pay them for knowledge of plasma and physics research, as well as help in their ship's systems, and in return giving them cybernetic upgrades for their pets and starship friends, should they want it. That agreement has persisted for over one thousand years, with the Aldvari tech growing stronger over time. Two hundred years ago the Asati even discovered hyperactive technology, and all races in their systems, not just the Asati and Aldvari, incorporated them into their larger ships. Aldvari- A race of rabbit like carbon based life forms, they manufacture technology for the Asati and their ships in exchange for scientific research, something which the Asati can do more easily as they can speak with the computers through radio waves and light pulses instead of keyboards and speech. They build purely technological ships, as the living ships can only be used if you build on the outside or live in the nursing pouch of one of the carriers. Ooshla- Sentient space-based lifeforms that serve as ships for Asati. They have plasma Nexi in their bodies which act as fusion reactors and power storage, and provide power for different high-energy systems. The Asati sometimes inhabit the plasma Nexi to move around or help them. The adult females can have between 1 (youngest)-9 (for those over 1000 years old) Uteri with different nursing pouches attached to each of them. Each uterus can be independently pregnant. They spend the first 5-6 years after birth in these pouches, and when they are 70-120 meters long they are weened by their mothers and begin living in space on their own. 25-30 years later they begin puberty, before which they are difficult to distinguish between the sexes. During the 4-6 years of puberty, the males grow quickly, with their exoskeltons growing harder and thicker, and their plasma cannon growing far stronger. The females instead grow nursing pouches and uteri and gain a stronger plasma screen to protect them against radiation. Their plasma cannon also becomes a focused plasma beam for cutting up asteroids for their young. They continue to grow in size and power throughout their lives, and the females gain more uteri and nursing pouches as well. [/hider] [hider=Policy:] They obviously can not support the FTL regulations, as they don't have the gate technology and don't believe in restricting technology if they did. They haven't developed planet-destroying weapons, though if they were at war with someone who did have it they would likely acquire them, either by building them or by stealing them. They have no problems with genetic engineering, though only the Aldvari and other organic races uses them. They are opposed to the idea of using technology to force people into your army, as it violates the free will of those people. They obviously don't approve of the genocide of innocent people, but did not experience it themselves, so are distant from those horific events. [/hider] [hider=Economy:] They have little need for material wealth, and spend most or all of their money one upgrades for their pets (non-sentient space-based lifeforms) and friends (Ooshla). The Aldvari on the other hand, manufacture starships and other forms of advanced technology for themselves and for export. Their worlds are protected against space-based enemies by living ships which live in the Kuiper and/or asteroid belts of most of their systems, so they have very little pirate activity, leading to more interstellar trade than in most sectors of the galaxy. [/hider] [hider=Military:] The Asati and Ooshla (sentient space-based lifeforms) don't have an organized military, but they do have a police force which keeps the systems where they live safe for all intelligent races within them. The Aldvari, however, do have a military for dealing with threats outside their borders. It accepts members of all races, though the vast majority are carbon-based. The Aldvari also have an intelligence services, and have information passed to them by the traders that go to other systems, should the traders hear of anything dangerous. [/hider] [hider=Maps:] Place me wherever. 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