AlienBastard

Lonely Planet / Pompeii (Sci-Fi / Political and Military)

I have a couple questions, I have some interest for maybe triton.

However, I'm curious as to why this RP is set so far in the future. Is the year a result of a different calender or is it really this far future?

I ask because I'm curious how culturally different My faction should be given such long time span.

Interstellar ~ Ascension

darkwolf687 said
Now that's not very nice is it? All I want to deal is eat everyone and add them to the hive, is that so bad? I don't think so... >:D

Good thing that you'll have to chew through the salty void first.

Interstellar ~ Ascension ~ Compendium

The Eveersko Realm

Location- Northern Galaxy, 8,000 ly from galactic center

Government type- Syndicalist Republic

Power- Multi-stellar, emerging minor regional

Governmental institutions tend to exist only on the interstellar level in mainly having a pan-realm defense force and government ran organizations for emergency events. Regionally community organizations and guilds tend to make the bulk of managing planets, sometimes with financial incentives but usually tend to be more in the name of charity and goodwill with most financial gains going to enhancing the organization with relatively little going to those who run it, as if they were to do that they would look like “greedy bastards”.

Chiefs in the realm come in three levels. The first levels are planetary chiefs who manage individual worlds. The second levels are regional chiefs who manage dozens of worlds known as high chiefs. High chiefs can attend to the Realm Council, which holds meetings whenever the Grand Chief wills it to be so.

There are policies however, like Universal Law that is enforced around the realm by the realm government forces.

Universal law is very simple, it basically just says to be respectful, be monogamous, not to aggressively kill, not to steal or hoard wealth, and to not deceive.

In practice all these five simple laws have been broken time and time again, some Eveerko are notorious for managing to break all five of these laws!

The government overall outside of their realm police force is rather loose, and generally has competing influence by the six organizations who are all named after the god they seek to emulate.

There are five levels of government in the realm. While in theory a leader from the lowliest clan be chosen to be grand chief, very often one in order to be grand chief needs to become a leader in every level of society to even be considered for the position.

Type of Power: N/A- They're well rounded

The five levels

Clan: Generally a group of Eveersko united in various manners, sometimes by initiation, other times by marriage into the clan or in some cases simply choosing to join. Clans tend to be ran by a leader who is chosen by the clan as a whole and that leader tends to be for life. Said leaders often get called to meet in local community councils.

Community: A group of Eveersko that live in a city on a planet, communities tend to have multiple clans and minorities and generally are basically like cities/states/countries on a colony. The community tends to be be ran by a group of clan leaders who work for the community as a whole, and of course to up the reputation of their individual clan units. These clan units also pick a community leader when the old one dies.

World: The planet as a whole which generally has multiple communities. The leaders of communities tend to periodically go to the world council to discuss political matters of their world and beyond. At this level a chief is usually elected by the community leaders for life.

Organization: Organizations are nebulous and tend to change what worlds they dominate on from time to time, but generally organizations get ran by the chiefs of the worlds the organization currently has the most dominant influence on. These chiefs, as you may imagine lect the high chiefs who are the leaders of the entire organization.

Realm: On the realm level, picking the Grand Chief tends to be a more complex process than High Chiefs picking which one they want to be the Grand Chief. Instead there is effectively a election process for the next Grand Chief- where the high chiefs compete for the popular support of the whole realm as opposed to just their organizations. In practice, the most powerful organizations tend to be more likely to get their high chiefs in due to having more influence than the rest.

Leader- Current grand chief is Ivarski, high chief of the Military Guild- chief of Kinafas, leader of Yofor community and manager of the Kavidus clan.

Most just say “Grand Chief Ivarski” instead. At his 300th transit or 53rd year depending on your species. Is currently under threat of being replaced
Dominant Race/Culture:

By far the Eveersko and Realm-Universal culture are mot dominant even if regional cultures within the realm still exist.

The Eveersko themselves

The above image is a example of a Eveersko in a stoor zoo, however the physiology of the eveersko tend to be like this.
Economy- The realm is considered a syndicalist economy based around reputation and popular support. The more reputation one has among their communities and peers, the more wealth and power they tend to get.

Psychology-

The Eveersko from a psychological standpoint tend to have a tendency towards association with others, much like humans. They see themselves as individuals. However, their minds are different in that they have more ritualistic tendencies, They also tend to have what some can call a "doublethink" complex in that they simultaneous manage to be highly superstitious while also accepting scientific fact even when it all contradicts.

Generally the Eveersko are strict in monogamy, mating for life and it is rather rare for a Eveersko to cheat, it is to the point where a Eveersko that cheats generally is seen as having a mental illness due to how bizarre it is. This strict monogamy has often led to the stronger mate competition as while there have been cults dedicated towards "balance" of the sexes, these cults usually fuck up due to relying on designer babies and their occasional infanticide incident.

Culture-

As a society the Eveersko tend to be relatively based on popular sovereignty and even in a galaxy dominated by stifling bureaucratic dictatorships their long tradition has yet to fade and unless forced upon by a alien oppressor. Despite this, thanks to the long life spans of a Eveersko the grand chief can stay in power for centuries before a new one is elected especially in more recent times. The usual reason a grand chief being replaced often being due to popular support for a new grand chief.

However less greed the Eveersko have, pride and popular support go relatively unchecked and arrogant, boastful Eveersko are a common issue, even worse are those who start regional wars for the mere cause of showing their capabilities as commanders. Eveersko of the higher echelons of society also are notorious for their exaggerating of truth and generally trying to gain power over their peers by being the better “big man”.

Innovation wise the Eveersko due to a upbringing on a cold, hostile world have had to come up with creative methods to make better toys and tools due their local clans and dynastic royalties whose family lines keep switching which gender define them depending on the dynasty. While it took millennia before the Eveersko advanced to being a global civilization do not be fooled- the Eveersko have a creative spirit among them that has allowed them to think very resourcefully and with the power of a warp drive on their hands and a burning desire to constantly impress their peers with better and better devices in order to gain reputation, regardless of their practical use.

While there is a cultural and official hatred for those seen as too greedy with wealth that does not warrant their actual status in terms of reputation and goodwill, the wealth of those at the top of an organization tends to be a good amount more than that of the common worker. Usually what wealth gap there is tends to be justified as “earned wealth”- and there are multiple organizations like the Chern Cult who spend their time going about inspecting organizations around the realm to make sure the wealth of those in various ranks of the organizations sync with the reputation and popularity of those in power.

Feuding among the clans, thanks to the competitive reputation based culture of the Eveersko is also pretty damn common.

The Eveersko for centuries in the old order and before the rise of organizations were more inward looking and spiritual, but after a major internal war of sorts and popular support for the old order having fallen due to the old order being to obsessed in their inset values of humility, the new order came about. The new order culturally has proven much more outward looking than most, as their organizations regularly commission exploration missions to both the inner and outer galaxy, some of these "exploration" missions in practice usually ending up with said explorers raiding and stealing alien artifacts and technologies of interest to the realm. As well, many younger Eveersko looking for quick influence on their peers tend to go about being mercenaries for alien societies in their constant warring.

Through the exploration, it seemed that the more exploration was done, the more alien civilizations there turned out to be. Legends became realities in the course of a couple centuries, and with aliens from these lands coming to the realm for better or worse the new order has seen a age of profound change. Yet there is the looming sense of danger, knowing vaguely of large, sprawling alien empires far more massive than anything they could've imagined who might one day show up on the border of the realm...

Religion/Beliefs- The Eveersko are what humans would call a “pagan” society, for the regional faith still tend to be very astrology based ones with multiple regional subcultures that follow regional faiths developed over the centuries. While there is “common faith”- which really just defines the only six gods that exist, the earlier faiths still are practiced however outdated they are. Astrology had developed under the Eveersko when they went beyond their home system to make use of 3D space, and make far more complex constellations than their ancestors who only saw the celestial sphere.

While the first constellations were to, like many species, ensure a good harvest [although predicting the personality of those born as a application never really took off], newer constellations have not really any application other being landmarks for any navigators. Various legends that interpret their contact with powerful alien civilizations that sprawl across the stars also have achieved recent popularity in the interstellar market as a whole. Alongside the stories tend to be very frequent use of arranged wars and

According to common faith, the six gods to the Eveersko didn’t make them, but rather guided the natural world in such way that the Eveersko would one day appear. The six major gods are generally seen as fallible in their nature, from the god of the stars Chern to the god of war their competition for the domination of the heavens are seen to have produced the universe all life live in.

As a result, by the time the realm formed the Eveersko with their unified civilization under the realm and the global cultural revolution believed in order to be like the gods they must to some level mimic them. As a modern civilization, this naturally led to the existence of the organizations whose members see it as their goal to emulate the nature of their gods, with the implications that entails concerning gods like the god of death.

One notable aspect of science in the Eveersko thermodynamics-wise is that they have no official word of “cold”, rather scientists just see less heat. While they are aware the human language was a term for less heat, the scientific communities have generally thought the idea of needing a word for the absence of heat as completely absurd.

Average Lifespan- With medical advancements, about 645 years have been the average life span as judged by the analyzing of 800 years of Eveersko history. However, some of the Eveer have lasted much longer than this and generally are considered biologically immortal by now.

Physical Characteristics- The Eveersko species are yeti-like in their appearance, and are actually usually stronger than they look due to them usually augmenting themselves with biotech and stimulants as well as mechanical boosters to enhance their mobility and strength- as if they weren’t strong and fast enough.

The Eveersko are a race, that while adaptable to more temperate climates find desert-like environments hellish let alone actual lava worlds and prefer colder climates. Despite their dislike of heat, they still managed to make use of fire and make civilization even if they had a tendency to make more elaborate mechanisms than most when around fire usually using a lava forge.

The Eveersko tend to average at 8’ tall and weigh around 300-500 pounds on average and usually have a thick hide of white fur, although often this fur is shaved in post-realm history and when not, usually groomed heavily for those with the reputation to afford such grooming. The hide must remain free of those parasites, after all. This has of course; led to cultural divides between naked Eveersko and those with their fur coats.

Reproduction wise the Eveersko tend to give live birth, and while the females has no breast equivalent [while mammal-like, their biological clade never developed this feature] babies usually can still expect the mother to give nutrition vomit to their children even nowadays. The females tend to look very similar to the males, although tend to have longer coats of hair and tend to be fatter than the males. Eveersko tend towards strict monogamy, as the gestation periods tend to be longer than usual unless risky stimulants that add the risk of a stillborn child are used. It generally takes decades for a Eveersko to mature.

Fur color is usually white, but skin color can vary between black and various shades of blue or even purple. Eye colors tend to be just a few colors as well, ranging from dark blue to black.

Eveersko tend to be omnivores, but often tend to eat a lot and store the fat. This is due to hibernation existing in their civilization, however due to the many worlds forcing differing hibernation patterns depending on the world’s conditions and stimulants hibernation no longer is that big of a disadvantage even if a good portion of the populations till hibernate regularly.

Eveersko are a strictly monogamous species, usually mating for life unless their spouse dies and even than it may be decades before they bother looking for another mate. Gender roles do exist on some level, but tend to vary from place to place although generally it seems males have more political force while females tend to have greater influence in the scientific community.

However, males tend to have a stronger political force than females even if on a couple occasions a female grand minister did exist. There are no real liberal movements trying to change it that catch on, mainly due to popular sentiments being fine with the current arrangements. This has however, led to the organizations having serious gaps in their gender demographics as some organizations tend to have many more males than females and vice versa.

The strength of a Eveersko outstrips that of a human’s easily, however they are not as strong as races like the Graal without their stimulants.

History- The Eveersko come from a very cold world, but the god of life was on their side as the alien crops of their world prospered in snow just fine, allowing for agricultural civilization to develop despite impediments in prehistoric civilization caused by the tedious uses of fire.

In time their civilizations spread across the world and went through stone, jade, obsidian and iron ages going straight for iron due to the high amount of iron deposits on their world and copper being seen as a rare-world material to the Eveersko which made copper very desired in their classical cultures.

But for thousands of years the Eveersko was ran by royal blood, a trend of which on a local level still technically exists in the realm. Royal blood is seen as the reason for a ruler, and popular support usually came as a result of the king/queen proving themselves to their people. Those who didn’t often had their heads cut off and a new dynasty put in place. Dynasties in Eveersko civilization, at least the relevant ones, tended to be both matrilineal and patrilineal as it is the choice of the dynasty as to where the royal blood transfers. This also explains why in a realm ancient history textbook one will end up seeing long lines of queens followed by long lines of kings.

Eventually however, the other cultures that followed similar paths albeit of a more war based nature would clash with the noble cultures and later more primitive cultures would end up as vassals to the two great cultural regions.

By that time it was already the Iron Age, naturally.

And by than, modern history started when the Global War broke out, and nearly caused their cold world to burn to shreds by the use of radiation weapons in the atmosphere. The sheer destruction caused lead to the nations, battered form their wars and violence choosing instead a new path- the path of the realm that would be forged by the year 2700 AD as humans were in a dark age.

Mind by than the first interplanetary colonies existed on the two moons of their world and even further out.

The creation of the realm led to a technological renaissance in astrophysics caused by the flow of brains that led to the jump drive being invented and the rise of the organizations would at the same time begin.

The lesser folk and Diasporias:

The realm has a couple other aliens that have fell into the realm’s grasp historically, although both were much more primitive to the civilizations like the Stoor devils or the ancient Humans, both of which by now have their diasporias in the realm although there are strict quotas on how many individuals can enter and the realm government tends to monitor the populations of diaspora communities.

Before being allowed to settle in less colonized worlds in biomes that the Eveersko have less interest in. For instance worlds that are much more tropical or arid than the tundras and winter worlds preferred by the Eveersko.

Octomanis

Octomanis are a primitive race of aliens discovered about seven hundred years ago who are the first aliens contacted by the Eveersko. They were a iorn age civilization who built impressive monuments, but had relatively limited amounts of ranged wepaons. Their distinct design, that of a eight limbed radially shaped creature made it hard to imagine these creatures would be so advanced as to mount a resistance to colonization attempts by the Eveersko. Although mind, the eveersko nowadays are much more advanced than eveersko centuries earlier.

However, due to the much more arid climates octimanos prefer they became a useful race for the colonists and in time the octimanos would become a major minority of the Eveersko Realm, and even have members as part of the organizations. The resilience and handiness of the Octomani race is often seen as the big reason why they didn’t share the same fate as the slop and why diaspora communities of octomani can be found in some parts of the realm.

Despite their current standing, the Octomanis are still seen as lesser to the Eveersko due to their planet bound society that has been a world of the realm for centuries and this discrimination has made it hard for a octomani to get a higher standing in the realm due to their being far more Eveersko than Octomani.

The slop

A easily conquered species discovered four hundred years ago that have pretty much been left as a vassal by the Slavisko who let them propagate on their world and periodically cull them to keep their populations from exploding and for lab experiments due to their anomalously similar biology to the Eveersko. It is to the point where some eveersko xenobiologists have proposed the possibility they are a less capable relative, although no genetic tests have been able to find a proper link.

The slop are a race of creatures that reproduce like rabbits and generally have been used as cheap labor by various organizations despite the risk to reputation using slop can cause in some parts of the realms. Appearance wise they are disgusting runts that are covered in shit and mud. The Slop are omnivores, but tend to eat each other more than anything else and generally eat any shit thrown to them regardless of if it is toxic or not.

Despite the lack of intelligence, they did have a hunter-gatherer level of society and have proven able to handle menial labor to some degree.

If it wasn’t for the culling of their kind wasn’t periodically done, it is commonly believed the slop would have overrun the whole realm with their disgusting ways.

Sub-Factions:

The most powerful forces in the Eveersko Realm outside of the unifying government are very much the six great organizations that perpetually compete for popular rule over the thousand worlds in which the realm consists of. The organizations rise and fall over time, and generally have a oligopoly of sorts. In a way, they are like a combination of corporation and political party always competing for their high chiefs to get seats at the council by gaining public support through their patronage of artists, inventors and so forth.

Historically grass roots organizations, they have over the centuries developed into acting as a parallel authority to the realm government giving citizens of a realm a choice in how they want to live, to some level of course.

The organizations tend to name themselves after gods and tend to act as them to some level as well, often being patrons of subjects those within the various echelons of the organizations deem relevant to their god’s interests. This has resulted in a oligopoly between six organizations from the power military guild to the sad excuse of a organization that is the network. Organizations also tend to go by multiple names as well.

The six organizations and guilds

Bozydarios Military Guild – Named after god of solids whom looks like a big, buff badass earth golem, Bozydarios is a long running organization that has multiple times won the seat of grand chief and of the four organizations has the most respect of the worlds in recent times. The prominent military organization, sometimes seen as the de facto realm military for how they own so much of the military, and have practiced the art of war for centuries with their great tacticians and strategists.

In the realm of technology they are also impressive, but only from a engineering stand point, having made the military technology that their rivals envy and try to make crude, inferior forged versions of. Most notable examples being their spacecraft that have astoundingly effective ablative armor and their exceptionally energy efficient coilguns. Alongside military technology, they have made the VI slaves and various

Slavisko Foundation – Named after the god of life who looks like a gaia planet with a similing face, The Slavisko organization is the source of how the Eveersko can terraform worlds and make wonder drugs that enhance the abilities of Eveersko civilians- with their inventors generally being chemists and biologists very reputable individuals come from the Slavisko organization thanks to the stimulants that have solved multiple mental diseases and enhance the speed and reflexes of their kind exponentially.

The Slavisko organization also have made heavy use of the slop to boost their research, and alongside their efforts in biotech have also been patrons of terraforming and colonization missions. The Foundation has been competing with the military guild for the next grand chief, and has put full effort into trying to make the current leader look too corrupt to rule anymore so as to get the leader of their own foundation on the seat through popular support.

Cathedral of the Stars/Cult of Chern/The Star Cathedral- The cult of Chern name themselves after the god of stars who literally looks like a star with a determined looking face on it. They are the most religious of the six organizations, and far less secular than the other organizations. The Cherno are an organized religion somewhat comparable to the Catholic Church, and have their own internal process of picking leaders that nowadays is applied to the overall realm government in a more secular fashion.

Still, the Cherno continue to exert major cultural influence with their festivals, arranged ritual wars and are notable for their strong heritability, patronage, elaborate ice sculptures and funding of vast temples of worship to the gods. In more recent times the Cherno faith has become more or less a cultural power and are also known for experimenting in the fields of xenoarcheology and opening up to other species of life.

Historically they once made the best spacecraft, but their designs have fell to the wayside in havoc of the ships made by the Military Guild. While technically a full blown and organized religion, members still often refer to themselves as just a lowly cult as a act of humbleness.

Vizias Collective– Named after the god of gas who literally just looks like a cloud of gas, the Vizias Cooperative are while not as prominent as the three greater organizations [Cherno, Slavisko and Bozydarios] are a very sporadic organization that are known to make advanced airships and some of the most advanced jets of the realm- capable of flying into orbit nd back without problem. The vizias collective are also known for their gas mines and jovian colony attempts of which have ended in total disaster which is why the Collective isn’t a top organization and never will be. Generally the collective works on atmospheric technologies, their most notable being able to control the weather of a planet; however this technology remains experimental.

Godogos/The Fraternity- Named after the god of death, which looks suspiciously like a fire golem more than a gloomy reaper thing with wings.

While officially recognized as a organization, the Fraternity is often seen as a criminal organization that is notorious for their worship of fire which has led to them being massive arsonists that ritualistically light up entire worlds [thankfully usually ones barely inhabited] and do underground trade in stimulants that inhibit not only pain, but fear as well which was banned due to the suicidal tendencies caused by such mind altering drug. One or the other tend to be the normal policy concerning those stims. Their reasoning and logic are theological, and generally the worlds they are on tend to be complete nuthouses where a lot of the eveersko left out by other organizations tend to go. Often criminals become part of the organization, as well space pirates who cause regional despair with their shock tactics. They are known for inventing plasma throwers and the use of covert operations as well specialized forces.

Despite their notoriety, they still exist because their reputation for better or worse is still high and generally they are willing to work within realm universal law 80% of the time and while they do things banned in most organizations, technically are not banned by the realm as a whole. They see death as a necessity, and believe that without the burning fire of death, the cool embrace of life would not exist, and therefore their faction must exist despite their weak reputation caused by being jerks to everyone.

Casi Network- The network is named after Casi, the god of water who of course is a sentient glob of water. The Casi network operates in their use of implementing digital technology and virtual reality simulators. They also are known for pretty much not many else- technologies like VR generally have not caught on well due to the preference of arranged wars and larping in general. The applications of water and ice being all too universal a thing as is within the realm, the Casi Network has been unable to find any place and only exists because there is a god of water in their hexathiestic faith.

The Casi network is also the least popular organization and is pretty much the butt of most jokes made in the realm for their pansy ass nature. They’re in a similar place as the slop in effect at this current time.

History: The realm comes from about 800 years ago, and is the result of the Eveersko race figuring out how to use mass driver technology to propel their kind to other worlds and later, to the stars. History before this point is vaguely talked of in the race app, but what is really important is by this time multiple nations united into a universal “Realm” system that was meant to keep world peace after a major war nearly caused a clathrate gun to go off and cataclysmically burn their civilization to death.

In that time the most dominant organization was the star cathedral, and they used in a somewhat centralized fashion on the whole not bothering to get rid of the other organizations since all of them have their personal militaries. However, as the exploration of space continued and alien races like the Octimanos were conquered into the realm the reverence once held towards the stars faded as the folk culture of the colonies had to make new folk cultures for each colonized worlds with new sets of constellations and local spirits.

Various colonial revolts and uprisings had forced the realm to adapt new technologies and eventually political systems around 600 years ago, allowing for the rise of the organizations that at first came as a religious organization. Later however, other kinds of organization formed and fell who adopted the names of the six gods of common faith.

Around 400 years ago the Cherno’s influence and power waned against the more secular organizations of the Military Guild, Collective and the Foundation who at first cooperated quite a bit to achieve their overthrow of the old order. Such overthrow did cause a short 50 year civil war of course.

350 years ago would come the new order defined by two organizations having usurped the old order who now engage in competing to get their president-for-life into the executive seat of the realm, a state of which has pretty much gone on today. In those past 350 years, the Eveersko have been exploring far out into space following Asmero's legendary interstellar journey to the outer galaxy filled with claims of alien civilizations of great wealth and power. The dubious nature of the accounts didn't deter would-be explorers who would go into the depths of space and make contact with alien civilizations of incredible power and prestige. Or so they initially believed..

Technology:

Variable Mass Drivers

The iconic weapon of the Realm fleets and used by organizations big and small, the variable mass driver is the common weapon of spacecraft developed by the Eveersko species. The weapon is like a rail gun, but is able to change the payload of projectiles on the fly and switch to rapid-fire projectile modes or single shot heavy hitter attacks.

There are a multitude of ammunition times developed over the centuries, such as plasma rounds, smart rounds, irradiating rounds, electromagnetic rounds, interception rounds and so on.

Ground soldier versions of this weapon also are the norm, which in turn allows the Eveersko troopers to carry far more ammo than their peers.

Plasma Tech

One of the most recent innovations from the realm, mainly due to adopting such technologies from the alien empires that now are in proximity to the realm. Nowadays their uses in containment of the slop and other sorts of beast, as a means of defense on ground and even as a projected beam weapon all have been figured out.

The energy barriers are named after the star god Cherno, and show the odd distinction the eveersko make between energy and heat. The barriers prove very effective at blocking out kinetics of any sort with a mazingly low rate of failure, but after a point get overloaded. Energy weapons seem to overload the energy barriers much faster than kinetics ironically, a thing that has made Eveersko ships make use of energy weapons which are basically plasma weapons.

On the smaller scale of things, Electrolasers have been in circulation.

Hyper-Ablative Armoring

Highly heat and radiation resistant hull that is used often by the Eveersko mainly due to the high radiation in some regions of the realm from local pulsar stars and as a means to infiltrate the atmospheres of worlds with thick atmospheres. Also the existence of this tech is a side effect of scientists wanting a way to make a armor that could resist extreme temperature weapons like heat way more effectively. It is to the point where particle weapons need multiple shots in quick succession to penetrate the hull of a Eveersko ship- although kinetic weapons have continued being a good means of breaking the hull like any other ship’s.

Such armoring also used on the infantry scale for some of the power suit designs.

Slave VIs

A example of such machine from ancient human culture. Same film also has a race that resembles some of the sub-cultures in the forest parts of the realm.

The Realm tends to use slave VI that are mainly used to do menial computer work like counting and processing information and targeting the enemy. Such Vis are kept “dumb” since AIs are considered generally pointless when one has the wisdom achieved through stimulants. Generally VBIs do the worst work, and it is often punishment for a Eveersko to work among the machines. They have useful everyday applications in cleaning toilets and the messes made in biolabs by the slop as well.

While the Eveersko are inclined to do the reputable work such as the many different forms of art the realm has and operating machines, VI drones have been used to do work normally seen as humiliating and in a good part of the realm are seen as preferable to using the slop for menial, humiliating labor since the slop keep having sex and raising families while on the job.

Drones are often used as well for scanning worlds and the such, however ground exploration is left to those with the profession of exploration and with the enhancements given to the Eveersko over the centuries they continue to neglect the full application of machine labor due to the use of exosuits as a amplifier when it comes to ship and building construction.

Common Use exosuits

This is what a exosuit can do for a naturally weak human. Imagine what happens when a yeti gets a exosuit.

The thing dearest to a soldier regardless of organization or guild they hold allegiance to is that their exosuits alongside the stimulants have been instrumental in making their soldiers fast, deadly and damn near unstoppable in ground combat. The exosuits come in many, many different forms and uses.

For one, there are the basic exosuits that are just a apparatus wrapped around the yeti that greatly enhance the strength that the Eveersko can carry, as well these exosuits allow for the Eveersko to move incredibly fast for a infantry. Most amusing about the basic exosuit is that often the Eveersko wears it while pretty much naked when on a habitable world. However, the basic exosuits not always are fit mainly due to the necessity of orbital combat and boarding disabled ship despite their reliability and easiness to repair.

For after centuries of perfecting the art, the engineers within the realm have managed to make a device that consistently works with movements of even a yeti completely cooked up on hyper-reactive stimulants, mainly due to the suits emulating muscle structures over the ages and with the use of biotechnologies acting as basically a amplifier of physical power.

Exosuits are the norm in the militaries of all the organizations.

In more recent times, personal energy shields for exosuits are very common, especially as to counter weapons that can instantly shoot their targets long enough to get into cover.

However, there are also power suits like the following:



Powersuits like these are considered a secondary form of exo armor, and generally are equipped with energy shields and designed to allow the wearer to survive in the vacuum of space, as well scale sky scrapers and climb on the hulls of spaceships. However, these powersuits have yet to become the norm and invention wise have only been around for a few decades. Often those with the reputation to afford such suits use them.

Such powersuits can allow the wearer to survive a fall from ten miles up, although higher distances are said to have been achieved. However, said users also were heavily augmented beforehand as well.

Stimulants

Insanely common in the realm are stimulants, some legal and for anyone, others for military only and a few that are just down right illegal in any circumstance.

Stimulants are the secret behind the super human capabilities witnessed by ground forces- as the military ones allow for exponentially faster reaction times, a the fear of death being suppressed, jumping of adrenaline and far greater stamina.

In other fields stimulants act pretty much as drugs do today, although with some more fancy effects like being able to cause rapid regeneration of skin, strengthen the toughness of a hide, change hair color and eye color as well even allow one to have glow in the dark skin.

Jump Drive

The jump drive is a form of FTL that allows for multiple ships in the same area to jump in unison to another star system with the guidance of the larger ships in the fleet. While it takes more energy than the typical warp drive, the jump drive has proven useful in a densely populated civilization like that of the realm.

Over the centuries the energy efficiency of the jump drive has been improved, as has the size of the field.

Dial-it-up missile system

Like the other weapons within the realm, the dial-it-up missile system tends to follow a variable flavor. On the fly a operator can dial-up the payload, life span and fire rate to whatever the pilot wants. Most dial-it-up death missiles follow concepts similar in nature to a IBCM- they tend to be single missiles that eject many smaller missiles at the target when in close enough range. The idea being generally to bombard the enemy ship with a storm of missiles and make interception harder by having to deal with far more missiles than initially anticipated.

Application-wise missiles generally are seen as constantly accelerating projectiles, and generally used as longer ranged weapons than the mass drivers.

Augmentations

While stimulants have greatly enhanced the mind, and exosuits enhance the external body, both of these have proven only temporary. As a result, augmentations have managed to show up heavily in Eveersko society, generally as a means to make their hides more resilient, replace broken legs, and get eyes that can see in a multitude of mediums. Such augmentations have resulted in cyborgs in the realm, and as a means to allow a soldier who was injured on the field to keep fighting should he/she lose a limb or two.

Every Terrain Vehicle

Once upon a time some tank builders on a realm world some centuries ago found themselves frustrated by all the differing forms of planet the realm came across. Some worlds were full of oil lakes with lands of coal that had countless diamond deposits, others had high pressure atmospheres while a few others were just plain rugged as all hell. So they tried and failed numerous times to create a vehicle that can traverse any terrain, anywhere. While the first builders failed, later generations have taken on the challenge of creating a every terrain vehicle, and have gone about numerous ways to do so.

So far now completely successful every terrain vehicle has been made, but the military and civilian vehicles of the realm tend to be very adapted to many, many environments familiar and alien.

Drop Down System

Troop transports loaded with pods are deployed when planet needs to be occupied or a ground force immediately. Loaded with the soldiers of the realm, they drop their soldiers from miles above where they coast down to the ground first in a heat resistant pod and later lose the pod as they slow down to the surface of a world.

In the case of space operations, generally troop transports take their soldiers to wherever a hole in the ship was made and infiltrate the ship from there. Similar case is with space stations, but generally the transport gets in through the dock if it is open.

Interstellar ~ Ascension

May be a little late.

The Eveersko Realm

Location- Galaxy, 10,000 ly from galactic center

Government type- Syndicalist Republic

Power- Multi-stellar, emerging minor regional

Governmental institutions tend to exist only on the interstellar level in mainly having a pan-realm defense force and government ran organizations for emergency events. Regionally community organizations and guilds tend to make the bulk of managing planets, sometimes with financial incentives but usually tend to be more in the name of charity and goodwill with most financial gains going to enhancing the organization with relatively little going to those who run it, as if they were to do that they would look like “greedy bastards”.

Chiefs in the realm come in three levels. The first levels are planetary chiefs who manage individual worlds. The second levels are regional chiefs who manage dozens of worlds known as high chiefs. High chiefs can attend to the Realm Council, which holds meetings whenever the Grand Chief wills it to be so.

There are policies however, like Universal Law that is enforced around the realm by the realm government forces.

Universal law is very simple, it basically just says to be respectful, be monogamous, not to aggressively kill, not to steal or hoard wealth, and to not deceive.

In practice all these five simple laws have been broken time and time again, some Eveerko are notorious for managing to break all five of these laws!

The government overall outside of their realm police force is rather loose, and generally has competing influence by the six organizations who are all named after the god they seek to emulate.

There are five levels of government in the realm. While in theory a leader from the lowliest clan be chosen to be grand chief, very often one in order to be grand chief needs to become a leader in every level of society to even be considered for the position.

The five levels

Clan: Generally a group of Eveersko united in various manners, sometimes by initiation, other times by marriage into the clan or in some cases simply choosing to join. Clans tend to be ran by a leader who is chosen by the clan as a whole and that leader tends to be for life. Said leaders often get called to meet in local community councils.

Community: A group of Eveersko that live in a city on a planet, communities tend to have multiple clans and minorities and generally are basically like cities/states/countries on a colony. The community tends to be be ran by a group of clan leaders who work for the community as a whole, and of course to up the reputation of their individual clan units. These clan units also pick a community leader when the old one dies.

World: The planet as a whole which generally has multiple communities. The leaders of communities tend to periodically go to the world council to discuss political matters of their world and beyond. At this level a chief is usually elected by the community leaders for life.

Organization: Organizations are nebulous and tend to change what worlds they dominate on from time to time, but generally organizations get ran by the chiefs of the worlds the organization currently has the most dominant influence on. These chiefs, as you may imagine lect the high chiefs who are the leaders of the entire organization.

Realm: On the realm level, picking the Grand Chief tends to be a more complex process than High Chiefs picking which one they want to be the Grand Chief. Instead there is effectively a election process for the next Grand Chief- where the high chiefs compete for the popular support of the whole realm as opposed to just their organizations. In practice, the most powerful organizations tend to be more likely to get their high chiefs in due to having more influence than the rest.

Leader- Current grand chief is Ivarski, high chief of the Military Guild- chief of Kinafas, leader of Yofor community and manager of the Kavidus clan.

Most just say “Grand Chief Ivarski” instead. At his 300th transit or 53rd year depending on your species. Is currently under threat of being replaced
Dominant Race/Culture:

By far the Eveersko and Realm-Universal culture are mot dominant even if regional cultures within the realm still exist.

The Eveersko themselves

The above image is a example of a Eveersko in a stoor zoo, however the physiology of the eveersko tend to be like this.
Economy- The realm is considered a syndicalist economy based around reputation and popular support. The more reputation one has among their communities and peers, the more wealth and power they tend to get.

Culture-

As a society the Eveersko tend to be relatively based on popular sovereignty and even in a galaxy dominated by stifling bureaucratic dictatorships their long tradition has yet to fade and unless forced upon by a alien oppressor. Despite this, thanks to the long life spans of a Eveersko the grand chief can stay in power for centuries before a new one is elected especially in more recent times. The usual reason a grand chief being replaced often being due to popular support for a new grand chief.

However less greed the Eveersko have, pride and popular support go relatively unchecked and arrogant, boastful Eveersko are a common issue, even worse are those who start regional wars for the mere cause of showing their capabilities as commanders. Eveersko of the higher echelons of society also are notorious for their exaggerating of truth and generally trying to gain power over their peers by being the better “big man”.

Innovation wise the Eveersko due to a upbringing on a cold, hostile world have had to come up with creative methods to make better toys and tools due their local clans and dynastic royalties whose family lines keep switching which gender define them depending on the dynasty. While it took millennia before the Eveersko advanced to being a global civilization do not be fooled- the Eveersko have a creative spirit among them that has allowed them to think very resourcefully and with the power of a warp drive on their hands and a burning desire to constantly impress their peers with better and better devices in order to gain reputation, regardless of their practical use.

While there is a cultural and official hatred for those seen as too greedy with wealth that does not warrant their actual status in terms of reputation and goodwill, the wealth of those at the top of an organization tends to be a good amount more than that of the common worker. Usually what wealth gap there is tends to be justified as “earned wealth”- and there are multiple organizations like the Chern Cult who spend their time going about inspecting organizations around the realm to make sure the wealth of those in various ranks of the organizations sync with the reputation and popularity of those in power.

Feuding among the clans, thanks to the competitive reputation based culture of the Eveersko is also pretty damn common.

The Eveersko for centuries in the old order and before the rise of organizations were more inward looking and spiritual, but after a major internal war of sorts and popular support for the old order having fallen due to the old order being to obsessed in their inset values of humility, the new order came about. The new order culturally has proven much more outward looking than most, as their organizations regularly commission exploration missions to both the inner and outer galaxy, some of these "exploration" missions in practice usually ending up with said explorers raiding and stealing alien artifacts and technologies of interest to the realm. As well, many younger Eveersko looking for quick influence on their peers tend to go about being mercenaries for alien societies in their constant warring.

Through the exploration, it seemed that the more exploration was done, the more alien civilizations there turned out to be. Legends became realities in the course of a couple centuries, and with aliens from these lands coming to the realm for better or worse the new order has seen a age of profound change. Yet there is the looming sense of danger, knowing vaguely of large, sprawling alien empires far more massive than anything they could've imagined who might one day show up on the border of the realm...

Religion/Beliefs- The Eveersko are what humans would call a “pagan” society, for the regional faith still tend to be very astrology based ones with multiple regional subcultures that follow regional faiths developed over the centuries. While there is “common faith”- which really just defines the only six gods that exist, the earlier faiths still are practiced however outdated they are. Astrology had developed under the Eveersko when they went beyond their home system to make use of 3D space, and make far more complex constellations than their ancestors who only saw the celestial sphere.

While the first constellations were to, like many species, ensure a good harvest [although predicting the personality of those born as a application never really took off], newer constellations have not really any application other being landmarks for any navigators. Various legends that interpret their contact with powerful alien civilizations that sprawl across the stars also have achieved recent popularity in the interstellar market as a whole. Alongside the stories tend to be very frequent use of arranged wars and

According to common faith, the six gods to the Eveersko didn’t make them, but rather guided the natural world in such way that the Eveersko would one day appear. The six major gods are generally seen as fallible in their nature, from the god of the stars Chern to the god of war their competition for the domination of the heavens are seen to have produced the universe all life live in.

As a result, by the time the realm formed the Eveersko with their unified civilization under the realm and the global cultural revolution believed in order to be like the gods they must to some level mimic them. As a modern civilization, this naturally led to the existence of the organizations whose members see it as their goal to emulate the nature of their gods, with the implications that entails concerning gods like the god of death.

One notable aspect of science in the Eveersko thermodynamics-wise is that they have no official word of “cold”, rather scientists just see less heat. While they are aware the human language was a term for less heat, the scientific communities have generally thought the idea of needing a word for the absence of heat as completely absurd.

Average Lifespan- With medical advancements, about 645 years have been the average life span as judged by the analyzing of 800 years of Eveersko history. However, some of the Eveer have lasted much longer than this and generally are considered biologically immortal by now.

Physical Characteristics- The Eveersko species are yeti-like in their appearance, and are actually usually stronger than they look due to them usually augmenting themselves with biotech and stimulants as well as mechanical boosters to enhance their mobility and strength- as if they weren’t strong and fast enough.

The Eveersko are a race, that while adaptable to more temperate climates find desert-like environments hellish let alone actual lava worlds and prefer colder climates. Despite their dislike of heat, they still managed to make use of fire and make civilization even if they had a tendency to make more elaborate mechanisms than most when around fire usually using a lava forge.

The Eveersko tend to average at 8’ tall and weigh around 300-500 pounds on average and usually have a thick hide of white fur, although often this fur is shaved in post-realm history and when not, usually groomed heavily for those with the reputation to afford such grooming. The hide must remain free of those parasites, after all. This has of course; led to cultural divides between naked Eveersko and those with their fur coats.

Reproduction wise the Eveersko tend to give live birth, and while the females has no breast equivalent [while mammal-like, their biological clade never developed this feature] babies usually can still expect the mother to give nutrition vomit to their children even nowadays. The females tend to look very similar to the males, although tend to have longer coats of hair and tend to be fatter than the males. Eveersko tend towards strict monogamy, as the gestation periods tend to be longer than usual unless risky stimulants that add the risk of a stillborn child are used. It generally takes decades for a Eveersko to mature.

Fur color is usually white, but skin color can vary between black and various shades of blue or even purple. Eye colors tend to be just a few colors as well, ranging from dark blue to black.

Eveersko tend to be omnivores, but often tend to eat a lot and store the fat. This is due to hibernation existing in their civilization, however due to the many worlds forcing differing hibernation patterns depending on the world’s conditions and stimulants hibernation no longer is that big of a disadvantage even if a good portion of the populations till hibernate regularly.

Eveersko are a strictly monogamous species, usually mating for life unless their spouse dies and even than it may be decades before they bother looking for another mate. Gender roles do exist on some level, but tend to vary from place to place although generally it seems males have more political force while females tend to have greater influence in the scientific community.

However, males tend to have a stronger political force than females even if on a couple occasions a female grand minister did exist. There are no real liberal movements trying to change it that catch on, mainly due to popular sentiments being fine with the current arrangements. This has however, led to the organizations having serious gaps in their gender demographics as some organizations tend to have many more males than females and vice versa.

The strength of a Eveersko outstrips that of a human’s easily, however they are not as strong as races like the Graal without their stimulants.

History- The Eveersko come from a very cold world, but the god of life was on their side as the alien crops of their world prospered in snow just fine, allowing for agricultural civilization to develop despite impediments in prehistoric civilization caused by the tedious uses of fire.

In time their civilizations spread across the world and went through stone, jade, obsidian and iron ages going straight for iron due to the high amount of iron deposits on their world and copper being seen as a rare-world material to the Eveersko which made copper very desired in their classical cultures.

But for thousands of years the Eveersko was ran by royal blood, a trend of which on a local level still technically exists in the realm. Royal blood is seen as the reason for a ruler, and popular support usually came as a result of the king/queen proving themselves to their people. Those who didn’t often had their heads cut off and a new dynasty put in place. Dynasties in Eveersko civilization, at least the relevant ones, tended to be both matrilineal and patrilineal as it is the choice of the dynasty as to where the royal blood transfers. This also explains why in a realm ancient history textbook one will end up seeing long lines of queens followed by long lines of kings.

Eventually however, the other cultures that followed similar paths albeit of a more war based nature would clash with the noble cultures and later more primitive cultures would end up as vassals to the two great cultural regions.

By that time it was already the Iron Age, naturally.

And by than, modern history started when the Global War broke out, and nearly caused their cold world to burn to shreds by the use of radiation weapons in the atmosphere. The sheer destruction caused lead to the nations, battered form their wars and violence choosing instead a new path- the path of the realm that would be forged by the year 2700 AD as humans wallowed in the death of there once great cosmic empire.

Mind by than the first interplanetary colonies existed on the two moons of their world and even further out.

The creation of the realm led to a technological renaissance in astrophysics caused by the flow of brains that led to the jump drive being invented and the rise of the organizations would at the same time begin.

The lesser folk and Diasporias:

The realm has a couple other aliens that have fell into the realm’s grasp historically, although both were much more primitive to the civilizations like the Stoor devils or the ancient Humans, both of which by now have their diasporias in the realm although there are strict quotas on how many individuals can enter, and quite a bit of discrimination against weirder aliens.

A few minorities have been allowed in the realm from outside, but have to go through very strict processes and learn realmspeak before being allowed to settle in any world of the realm.

Octomanis

Octomanis are a primitive race of aliens discovered about seven hundred years ago who are the first aliens contacted by the Eveersko. They were a iorn age civilization who built impressive monuments, but had relatively limited amounts of ranged wepaons. Their distinct design, that of a eight limbed radially shaped creature made it hard to imagine these creatures would be so advanced as to mount a resistance to colonization attempts by the Eveersko. Although mind, the eveersko nowadays are much more advanced than eveersko centuries earlier.

However, due to the much more arid climates octimanos prefer they became a useful race for the colonists and in time the octimanos would become a major minority of the Eveersko Realm, and even have members as part of the organizations. The resilience and handiness of the Octomani race is often seen as the big reason why they didn’t share the same fate as the slop and why diaspora communities of octomani can be found in some parts of the realm.

Despite their current standing, the Octomanis are still seen as lesser to the Eveersko due to their planet bound society that has been a world of the realm for centuries and this discrimination has made it hard for a octomani to get a higher standing in the realm due to their being far more Eveersko than Octomani.

The slop

A easily conquered species discovered four hundred years ago that have pretty much been left as a vassal by the Slavisko who let them propagate on their world and periodically cull them for food, slaves and test dummies due to their anomalously similar design and biology to the Eveersko. It is to the point where some eveersko xenobiologists have proposed the possibility they are a less capable relative, although no genetic tests have been able to find a proper link.

The slop are a race of creatures that reproduce like rabbits and generally have been used as cheap labor by various organizations despite the risk to reputation using slop can cause in some parts of the realms. Appearance wise they are disgusting runts that are covered in shit and mud. The Slop are omnivores, but tend to eat each other more than anything else and generally eat any shit thrown to them regardless of if it is toxic or not.

Despite the lack of intelligence, they did have a hunter-gatherer level of society and have proven able to handle menial labor to some degree.

If it wasn’t for the culling of their kind wasn’t periodically done, it is commonly believed the slop would have overrun the whole realm with their disgusting ways.

Sub-Factions:

The most powerful forces in the Eveersko Realm outside of the unifying government are very much the six great organizations that perpetually compete for popular rule over the thousand worlds in which the realm consists of. The organizations rise and fall over time, and generally have a oligopoly of sorts. In a way, they are like a combination of corporation and political party always competing for their high chiefs to get seats at the council by gaining public support through their patronage of artists, inventors and so forth.

Historically grass roots organizations, they have over the centuries developed into acting as a parallel authority to the realm government giving citizens of a realm a choice in how they want to live, to some level of course.

The organizations tend to name themselves after gods and tend to act as them to some level as well, often being patrons of subjects those within the various echelons of the organizations deem relevant to their god’s interests. This has resulted in a oligopoly between six organizations from the power military guild to the sad excuse of a organization that is the network. Organizations also tend to go by multiple names as well.

The six organizations and guilds

Bozydarios Military Guild – Named after god of solids whom looks like a big, buff badass earth golem, Bozydarios is a long running organization that has multiple times won the seat of grand chief and of the four organizations has the most respect of the worlds in recent times. The prominent military organization, sometimes seen as the de facto realm military for how they own so much of the military, and have practiced the art of war for centuries with their great tacticians and strategists.

In the realm of technology they are also impressive, but only from a engineering stand point, having made the military technology that their rivals envy and try to make crude, inferior forged versions of. Most notable examples being their spacecraft that have astoundingly effective ablative armor and their exceptionally energy efficient coilguns. Alongside military technology, they have made the VI slaves and various

Slavisko Foundation – Named after the god of life who looks like a gaia planet with a similing face, The Slavisko organization is the source of how the Eveersko can terraform worlds and make wonder drugs that enhance the abilities of Eveersko civilians- with their inventors generally being chemists and biologists very reputable individuals come from the Slavisko organization thanks to the stimulants that have solved multiple mental diseases and enhance the speed and reflexes of their kind exponentially.

The Slavisko organization also have made heavy use of the slop to boost their research, and alongside their efforts in biotech have also been patrons of terraforming and colonization missions. The Foundation has been competing with the military guild for the next grand chief, and has put full effort into trying to make the current leader look too corrupt to rule anymore so as to get the leader of their own foundation on the seat through popular support.

Cathedral of the Stars/Cult of Chern/The Star Cathedral- The cult of Chern name themselves after the god of stars who literally looks like a star with a determined looking face on it. They are the most religious of the six organizations, and far less secular than the other organizations. The Cherno are an organized religion somewhat comparable to the Catholic Church, and have their own internal process of picking leaders that nowadays is applied to the overall realm government in a more secular fashion.

Still, the Cherno continue to exert major cultural influence with their festivals, arranged ritual wars and are notable for their strong heritability, patronage, elaborate ice sculptures and funding of vast temples of worship to the gods. In more recent times the Cherno faith has become more or less a cultural power and are also known for experimenting in the fields of xenoarcheology and opening up to other species of life.

Historically they once made the best spacecraft, but their designs have fell to the wayside in havoc of the ships made by the Military Guild. While technically a full blown and organized religion, members still often refer to themselves as just a lowly cult as a act of humbleness.

Vizias Collective– Named after the god of gas who literally just looks like a cloud of gas, the Vizias Cooperative are while not as prominent as the three greater organizations [Cherno, Slavisko and Bozydarios] are a very sporadic organization that are known to make advanced airships and some of the most advanced jets of the realm- capable of flying into orbit nd back without problem. The vizias collective are also known for their gas mines and jovian colony attempts of which have ended in total disaster which is why the Collective isn’t a top organization and never will be. Are known to have made scram jet weapons as well.

Godogos/The Fraternity- Named after the god of death, which looks suspiciously like a fire golem more than a gloomy reaper thing with wings.

While officially recognized as a organization, the Fraternity is often seen as a criminal organization that is notorious for their worship of fire which has led to them being massive arsonists that ritualistically light up entire worlds. As a result, many of their members tend to prefer keeping their identity anonymous outside of the regions dominated by the Fraternity. Their reasoning and logic are theological, and generally they rule through the fear and power that the burning flame of death brings. They are known for inventing plasma throwers and the use of covert operations as well specialized forces.

Despite their notoriety, they still exist because their reputation for better or worse is still high and generally they are willing to work within realm universal law 80% of the time. They see death as a necessity, and believe that without the burning fire of death, the cool embrace of life would not exist, and therefore their faction is needed for the realm to function.

Casi Network- The network is named after Casi, the god of water who of course is a sentient glob of water. The Casi network operates in their use of implementing digital technology and virtual reality simulators. They also are known for pretty much not many else- technologies like VR generally have not caught on well due to the preference of arranged wars and larping in general. The applications of water and ice being all too universal a thing as is within the realm.

The Casi network is also the least popular organization and is pretty much the butt of most jokes made in the realm for their pansy ass nature. They’re in a similar place as the slop in effect at this current time.

History: The realm comes from about 800 years ago, and is the result of the Eveersko race figuring out how to use mass driver technology to propel their kind to other worlds and later, to the stars. History before this point is vaguely talked of in the race app, but what is really important is by this time multiple nations united into a universal “Realm” system that was meant to keep world peace after a major war nearly caused a clathrate gun to go off and cataclysmically burn their civilization to death.

In that time the most dominant organization was the star cathedral, and they used in a somewhat centralized fashion on the whole not bothering to get rid of the other organizations since all of them have their personal militaries. However, as the exploration of space continued and alien races like the Octimanos were conquered into the realm the reverence once held towards the stars faded as the folk culture of the colonies had to make new folk cultures for each colonized worlds with new sets of constellations and local spirits.

Various colonial revolts and uprisings had forced the realm to adapt new technologies and eventually political systems around 600 years ago, allowing for the rise of the organizations that at first came as a religious organization. Later however, other kinds of organization formed and fell who adopted the names of the six gods of common faith.

Around 400 years ago the Cherno’s influence and power waned against the more secular organizations of the Military Guild, Collective and the Foundation who at first cooperated quite a bit to achieve their overthrow of the old order. Such overthrow did cause a short 50 year civil war of course.

350 years ago would come the new order defined by two organizations having usurped the old order who now engage in competing to get their president-for-life into the executive seat of the realm, a state of which has pretty much gone on today.

In reality of course, for the past century the Military Guild in collaboration with their “rivals” have spent efforts hoarding up weapons of mass destruction to use against any potential invading force. However, the question of reputation in using such cheap way to fight the invaders has come up quite a bit…

They didn't bother attending the summit mainly due to not considering them part of the general area despite their proximity to stuff like the sphere and commonwealth.

Type of Power: The type of power the Eveersko realm is somewhat nebulous, however they tend to get labled economic or religious in terms of their power despite their slightly above average innovation rates. However if you ask a high chief in the realm what they believe, they often see the realm as “bad at nothing, good at nothing”.

Technology:

Variable Mass Drivers

The iconic weapon of the Realm fleets and used by organizations big and small, the variable mass driver is the common weapon of spacecraft developed by the Eveersko species. The weapon is like a rail gun, but is able to change the payload of projectiles on the fly and switch to rapid-fire projectile modes or single shot heavy hitter attacks.

There are a multitude of ammunition times developed over the centuries, such as plasma rounds, smart rounds, irradiating rounds, electromagnetic rounds, interception rounds and so on.

Ground soldier versions of this weapon also are the norm, which in turn allows the Eveersko troopers to carry far more ammo than their peers.

Plasma Barriers/Cherno Barriers

One of the most recent innovations from the realm, mainly due to adopting such technologies from the alien empires that now are in proximity to the realm. Nowadays their uses in containment of the slop and other sorts of beast, as a means of defense on ground and even as a projected beam weapon all have been figured out.

The energy barriers are named after the star god Cherno, and show the odd distinction the eveersko make between energy and heat. The barriers prove very effective at blocking out kinetics of any sort with a mazingly low rate of failure, but after a point get overloaded. Energy weapons seem to overload the energy barriers much faster than kinetics ironically, a thing that has made Eveersko ships make use of energy weapons which are basically plasma weapons.

Hyper-Ablative Armoring

Highly heat and radiation resistant hull that is used often by the Eveersko mainly due to the high radiation in some regions of the realm from local pulsar stars and as a means to infiltrate the atmospheres of worlds with thick atmospheres. Also the existence of this tech is a side effect of scientists wanting a way to make a armor that could resist extreme temperature weapons like heat way more effectively. It is to the point where particle weapons need multiple shots in quick succession to penetrate the hull of a Eveersko ship- although kinetic weapons have continued being a good means of breaking the hull like any other ship’s.

Slave VIs

A example of such machine from ancient human culture. Same film also has a race that resembles some of the sub-cultures in the forest parts of the realm.

The Realm tends to use slave VI that are mainly used to do menial computer work like counting and processing information and targeting the enemy. Such Vis are kept “dumb” since AIs are considered generally pointless when one has the wisdom achieved through stimulants. Generally VBIs do the worst work, and it is often punishment for a Eveersko to work among the machines. They have useful everyday applications in cleaning toilets and the messes made in biolabs by the slop as well.

While the Eveersko are inclined to do the reputable work such as the many different forms of art the realm has and operating machines, VI drones have been used to do work normally seen as humiliating and in a good part of the realm are seen as preferable to using the slop for menial, humiliating labor since the slop keep having sex and raising families while on the job.

Drones are often used as well for scanning worlds and the such, however ground exploration is left to those with the profession of exploration and with the enhancements given to the Eveersko over the centuries they continue to neglect the full application of machine labor due to the use of exosuits as a amplifier when it comes to ship and building construction.

Modular exosuits

A example of a full-body exosuit used in the Foundation.

The thing dearest to a soldier regardless of organization or guild they hold allegiance to is that their exosuits alongside the stimulants have been instrumental in making their soldiers fast, deadly and damn near unstoppable in ground combat. The exosuits come in many, many different forms and uses.

For one, there are the basic exosuits that are just a apparatus wrapped around the yeti that greatly enhance the strength that the Eveersko can carry, as well these exosuits allow for the Eveersko to move incredibly fast for a infantry. Most amusing about the basic exosuit is that often the Eveersko wears it while pretty much naked when on a habitable world. However, the basic exosuits not always are fit mainly due to the necessity of orbital combat and boarding disabled ship despite their reliability and easiness to repair.

For after centuries of perfecting the art, the engineers within the realm have managed to make a device that consistently works with movements of even a yeti completely cooked up on hyper-reactive stimulants, mainly due to the suits emulating muscle structures over the ages and with the use of biotechnologies acting as basically a amplifier of physical power.

However, there are also fully covered suits like the following:



Powersuits like these are considered a secondary form of exo armor, and generally are equipped with energy shields and designed to allow the wearer to survive in the vacuum of space, as well scale sky scrapers and climb on the hulls of spaceships. However, these powersuits have yet to become the norm and invention wise have only been around for a few decades. Often those with the reputation to afford such suits use them.

Stimulants

Insanely common in the realm are stimulants, some legal and for anyone, others for military only and a few that are just down right illegal in any circumstance.

Stimulants are the secret behind the super human capabilities witnessed by ground forces- as the military ones allow for exponentially faster reaction times, a the fear of death being suppressed, jumping of adrenaline and far greater stamina.

In other fields stimulants act pretty much as drugs do today, although with some more fancy effects like being able to cause rapid regeneration of skin, strengthen the toughness of a hide, change hair color and eye color as well even allow one to have glow in the dark skin.

Jump Drive

The jump drive is a form of FTL that allows for multiple ships in the same area to jump in unison to another star system with the guidance of the larger ships in the fleet. While it takes more energy than the typical warp drive, the jump drive has proven useful in a densely populated civilization like that of the realm.

Over the centuries the energy efficiency of the jump drive has been improved, as has the size of the field.

Dial-it-up missile system

Like the other weapons within the realm, the dial-it-up missile system tends to follow a variable flavor. On the fly a operator can dial-up the payload, life span and fire rate to whatever the pilot wants. Most dial-it-up death missiles follow concepts similar in nature to a IBCM- they tend to be single missiles that eject many smaller missiles at the target when in close enough range. The idea being generally to bombard the enemy ship with a storm of missiles and make interception harder by having to deal with far more missiles than initially anticipated.

Application-wise missiles generally are seen as constantly accelerating projectiles, and generally used as longer ranged weapons than the mass drivers.

Augmentations

While stimulants have greatly enhanced the mind, and exosuits enhance the external body, both of these have proven only temporary. As a result, augmentations have managed to show up heavily in Eveersko society, generally as a means to make their hides more resilient, replace broken legs, and get eyes that can see in a multitude of mediums. Such augmentations have resulted in cyborgs in the realm, and as a means to allow a soldier who was injured on the field to keep fighting should he/she lose a limb or two.

Every Terrain Vehicle

Once upon a time some tank builders on a realm world some centuries ago found themselves frustrated by all the differing forms of planet the realm came across. Some worlds were full of oil lakes with lands of coal that had countless diamond deposits, others had high pressure atmospheres while a few others were just plain rugged as all hell. So they tried and failed numerous times to create a vehicle that can traverse any terrain, anywhere. While the first builders failed, later generations have taken on the challenge of creating a every terrain vehicle, and have gone about numerous ways to do so.

So far now completely successful every terrain vehicle has been made, but the military and civilian vehicles of the realm tend to be very adapted to many, many environments familiar and alien.

Drop Down System

Troop transports loaded with pods are deployed when planet needs to be occupied or a ground force immediately. Loaded with the soldiers of the realm, they drop their soldiers from miles above where they coast down to the ground first in a heat resistant pod and later lose the pod as they slow down to the surface of a world.

In the case of space operations, generally troop transports take their soldiers to wherever a hole in the ship was made and infiltrate the ship from there. Similar case is with space stations, but generally the transport gets in through the dock if it is open.

Note: there are other forms of Eveersko tech not mentioned here; I just thought these were the most crucial.

I was going to send you this app last night, but a black out happened at 10:30 PM. Thankfully I kept the document saved. However, I noticed IC started since than and am worried that I won't be able to use this faction. I hope that due to other people like Iso and Serp not being done with their apps despite the sphere's significance that my pretty much complete app outside of maybe more specifics on tech and more pictures will be acceptable.

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Isotope said
Aww darn AB

Don't worry Iso, I did a bit of thinking this hour on the subject and most likely will become a character since monkey's suggestion gave me a pretty good idea of what I can do to make the galactic war truly galactic.

Interstellar ~ Ascension

Im sorry but I have to drop out of this RP, anyone who had any pervious connections with my faction should write them out. I just don't have the time to do this like I first thought.

Interstellar ~ Ascension

There is never too many apps when you got a deadline!

Interstellar ~ Ascension

Name:
Harmonious Network

Overview

The Harmonious network Is a group of factions collectively connected by a virtual reality that has evolved beyond the control of those who originally made it around 800 .loi87ior so years ago.

Major Species

While there is no one dominate species in the network, there are three species who are the most populous and tend to be the most commonly seen in the network.

The Harmonics

Overview:
The Harmonics are a species of noise; they make heavy use of echolocation and have over the course of thousands of years developed from a chaotic powder keg that came on the verge of self-destruction in at their dissonance, to becoming a very harmonious society and going on to be one of the two first species involved in the forming of the Harmonious Network.

Despite their somewhat bulky build, they

Culture:

The linguistic information of the Harmonics is not based in 2D text, but rather a brallie-like script. Alongside the cultures that developed such script are cultures that made strong use of rune-like etchings that the nature of Harmonic echolocation can “see”. However, oratory was the most common form of speaking in their civilization for thousands upon thousands of years much like the human Incas.

Another thing to note is that due to the lack of sight the Harmonics have, all their art is sculpture based and designed in ways to “feel” through the reverb the sculpture gives back. Another major art for them is music, which has been used as a “language” of its own to extents not even humans have used music to convey information. Their music even today still makes heavy use of cords and string based instruments like the Fulzi, although the digital revolution had augmented the nature of these instruments significantly in the same way a keyboard became a synth.

Harmonics have a deathly fear of silence, and despise isolation preferring to always be in the company of others regardless of who or what they are since constant communication and action keeps the silence from creeping on them. The worst punishment a Harmonic can be dealt in the harmonious network is the silent room where they are forcibly muted and placed inside a cold, dark metal sphere for long periods of time. In captivity they constantly are known to talk themselves at a very frequent rate, and constantly make noise in order to keep the silence away even if they have barely any energy to do so. Their innate fear of silence is well expressed in the following quotes from millennia ago in two of the ancient texts of pre-network harmonic civilization of Bjiros;

“Nothing is as crushing to the inner sense as the void that results in the absence of sound. The crushing emptiness, the isolation… All soulless things wrought upon our kind when too much stability is at hand.”
-[circa 2100 BC] The Speaking of the Noisiest One, location 7 line 15

“Silence is the result of inaction. It is the result of crushing boredom and uselessness.”
-[Circa 800 BC] The story of Viko, location 1 line 30

Harmonics as a species naturally are very tolerant of other life, mainly since other life regardless of what it is, proves to be better than silence. However, discrimination on ideological grounds and guilt by association for a atrocity are sadly very common in Harmonic nature. Politically they only have ever been unified by force by conquerors, and usually not for long as such monolithic unification is seen as order. Order being not a good thing, as order leads to silence, and silence leads to the spiritual death.

Religion: The current harmonic faiths date from around 3000 years ago, and the dominant religion of the harmonics is belief in the divinity of the patterns. Such belief entailing that there are a multitude of patterns that constitute the meaning of existence, and that there is a cosmic sonata that is never ending- and that the meaning of existence is to keep the symphony going by keeping the music of existence in a harmonious state.

To keep the cosmic symphony going, there must be harmony. Harmony to the Harmonics being the state in which chaotic/dissonant forces and stable/silent forces are balanced through there being suffering and happiness in equilibrium to each other, and in a rhythm of balance.

Average Lifespan: Even with medical technology, they only live up to 200 years on average. Mind this is with medical technology, and used to only live on average about thirty years. Their short lifespans can be attribute to their metabolic needs.

Physical Characteristics: [TBA]

Harmonics do not really sleep, and apparently lack any of the side effects not sleeping can bring instead they constantly are purging bad chemical build ups in their head. Diet wise instead of eating a few large meals, they constantly snack and as a result fast food for them has been a tradition going back thousands of years and eateries like those humans have are relatively uncommon, but wherever they show up they tend to be built with social space in mind and generally have musicians playing in them.

History: Harmonic civilizational history pre-warp and pre-network can be summed up in five phases- Silent, Classical, Global, Digital and Stellar

The Silent Era lasted around a several thousand human years and is mostly irrelevant as in these times the harmonics were but primitive stone age civilizations living in darkness and obliviousness of the stars thanks to the poor eye sight of harmonics and the thick atmosphere of their world whose view of the universe was completely dark and superstitious. Due to the lack of much surviving written record form the time and the only things of their civilizations left being surprisingly impressive stone ruins built into the walls of the clay desert canyons and dense alien jungles that characterize the hot and very humid climate of Roika these era often is considered the Silent Era.

The Classical Era is notable for the increased use of tools, and the invention of the many intricate woodwind and string instruments found in many of the classical cultures of Harmonic civilization, most notably the Fulzi. As well the first concepts of harmony, at least in the proto form, which assumed divine beings were involved, come from these times. The classical era ended when every culture begun to eagerly interact with each other and create a global network with Iron Age technology.

The global age was a complex and strange age. First it was relatively peaceful beyond the wars of succession colonial powers that eagerly went about assimilating the less technologically fortunate civilizations. However, at some point the age became incredibly violent as famine and constant plagues struck the world. Even worse, the world was inexplicably heating up. The discovery that the universe was far different that previous cultures and civilizations could ever imagine did not help the increasingly nihilistic philosophies that spread to pretty much every civilization.

As the world heated up, so did the nature of war between the petty harmonic civs. War after war started over the small tracts of land still unclaimed that could be farmed, family lines between diplomatic marriages falling apart as suddenly every nation claimed parts of other nations and the stability being scorned by those who believed the world was going too silent led to a very violent world. Seemingly overnight, the Harmonics went from a stable multi-polar world to a dissonant mess of warlords and criminals who desired nothing more but to make more and more drama in the name of keeping a purpose to existing. Yet in the chaos of the late global age, there was a harmonic civilization relatively safe from most of endemic warfare.

That civilization to gain technological superiority over all the rest thanks to their digital technology allowing them to organize their forces beyond what the steam punk tech using civilizations in most the world had and took over with their own more sophisticated, and better built airships.
and in the mess left by the rest of the world managed to sweep through and take over every nation with relatively little resistance.

In doing so, the First Domain managed to unite the world in conquest and bring about the digital age as they spread information age technology throughout the world.

The digital age started with the First Domain focusing their efforts on consolidating the world and cleaning up everything, to balance the dissonance that the previous centuries had and later focusing on trying to escape their high gravity planet as the world became more and more inhospitable. They managed to succeed when the first warp drive was made, a technology that allowed the Roika to voyage to worlds far beyond their little planet once thought to be all of creation and by the year 2300 the first Harmonic colonies on other worlds began to emerge starting the stellar age.

The stellar age usually is considered to have started with the fall of the first domain and the rise of the second domain, as well as multiple other competing harmonic factions in their corner of space. By 2400 contact with the Octomanos took place, a species who would innovate rapidly through diplomatic spies and managed to bridge the tech gap between their three competing military protectorates. However the harmonics liked the Octimani for no other reason that making space loud again with their existence.

But peaceful contact was short, as an octomani colonial ship ran by a particularly inept organization massacred a developing Harmonic colony and inadvertently ignited a major war called the Perpetual Stellar War in the year 2460 that would result in the fall of the second domain as it fell to Octimani occupation. The other factions of Harmonics would manage to fight the war to a near stand still through a coalition that managed to “liberate” the Second Domain. However, the war by that point started losing its purpose by the year 2550 as the inertia that kept the war going at first died down and cultural contact/trade continued between the various factions who now begun having mixtures of both species.

By the year 2600 the Harmony Project between the four factions left after the Perpetual Stellar War was collectively proposed by the Third Domain, of which the Octimani would surprisingly enough said yes to- and in the year 2700 all the factions would become part of the Harmonious Network.

Octomani

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Race Info
Culture
Religion/Beliefs
Average Lifespan
Physical Characteristics
History- Before contact with the harmonics, the octimani from the start lived on a world that was arid and mountainous,

Here’s a convenient picture of one of them for the time being:

Custodians

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Race Info:
The custodians are a race of virtual beings that came as a accidental result of the network.

Culture- Custodians,
Religion/Beliefs
Average Lifespan
Physical Characteristics
History- The custodians appeared in the Harmonic Network around 400 years ago after centuries of evolution within the network and the amassing of data that eventually allowed for the creation of intelligent programs that overtime became sentient enough to act among the other species of the network and even carry out the collective proposal to the network very spectacularly about 350 years ago.

Overtime the custodians took on a unique role in the Harmonic Network that has made the network what it is currently- a Decentralized Cybercracy as the custodians gave themselves roles that no other species had, for instance they managed to

Minor Species

While all species are equal, there are some species of which there is simply less of. This section will hold any minor species known to have been discovered by the network of notice. The policy with planet bound civilizations tend to vary, but depending on ideology tend to either be leaving them alone in their own world or to have them integrate into the network through collective proposal. There is no limitations put on integrated client races at any stage of their development, but generally they have major culture shocks from the vastly more advanced network in comparison to their stone age societies.

Factions

There is five major factions, unified by the Harmonious Network, but beyond that have serious cultural/political deviations and demographics separate from the whole. There has been war between the factions, although rarely have these gone total with a couple exceptions [mainly the Great Divorce]. These five factions hold around 84% of the population as citizens to them second to the Harmonious Network. Travel between the factions tends to be easy thanks to the network apparatus.

Association of Worlds for Absolute Free Trade

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Information- The AWAFT is a arachno capitalist experiment gone horribly wrong in short. In long it used to be one of the most prosperous
Government Type- Technically a region dominated by corps who act like governments too and criminal organizations who have taken root.
Demographics
Economy
History
Other

”Syndicate of Hands”

Information- A bunch of corporatists working in state corporation that is organized from ground up. They specialize in data collection and espionage, as well they are well known for their industries and research departments. Often a freelance group from the Syndicate is usually called in when an espionage mission needs to be carried out. The syndicate is also known for their entertainment industry.

Government Type- State Corporation with multiple Organizations that compete for representation in the Regional Council.

Demographics- 70% Octimani. 18% Harmonic, 8% Fozin and 4% other.
Culture-
Economy-
Other-

”Octogonal protectorate”

Information- A regulated state capitalist economy that has sophisticated mining industries led by the protectorate. They are a very specialized faction, and generally specialize in production of hardware so to speak, often making the best vehicles the HN has to offer and have made strides in synthetic technology in their collaborations with the syndicate of hands.

Also known to engage in low intensity ritual warfare with the Sector of Commerce.

Government Type
Demographics
Economy
History
Other

”The Third Domain of Roika"

Information- One of the oldest factions in the Harmonic network, being the second successor state of the domain that unified the Harmonic species. Their domain unified the
Government Type
Demographics
Economy
Other

”Sector of Commerce”

Information- The sector of commerce are a faction that is very merchant-based in nature and follows a loosely regulated trade model, and is the most prosperous of the factions from a financial standpoint currently, although the economy of the sector of commerce is notorious for its frequent and near unpredictable fluctuations. Despite this, they have been the major hot spot for people from the failed faction AWAFT as well as other less rich factions in the last 100 years contributing to the Sector of Commerce’s increasing power.

Government Type- Aristocratic Republic; the institution is pretty much a bureaucracy ran by lobbied politicians who are puppets for the mega corps that base themselves in the system of commerce.

Demographics- 41% Octimani, 24% Harmonic, 25% Fozin, 10% Other

Economy- While loosely regulated, the corporations in the area tend to make use of heavily inflated currencies and tend to also manipulate

Culture- The sector of commerce is a very high culture part of the Harmonious Network, but historically has had a economy that is either boom or bust and has led to a multitude of

Other-

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Direction From Galactic Core [near the Hau, Technocracy, Varn and FKS]

Politics, Power & Economy

Head Of State- The Council of fifty

is chosen by the custodians based on the information they’ve interpreted on what kind of people are needed in the current state of the network. The council tends to be made up of folk from around the whole network, and they act as a think tank for the whole faction. While the council think tanks try staying secret, the transparent nature of the civilization and the data obsession of two of the major factions usually means that ever so often a leak will happen. However, there is also quiet a bit of misinformation that flows around the HN council’s meetings.

Government Type/Operation/Description- Confederate Cybercracy

Economic System/Prosperity – Their economy is a multi-layered economy that has three levels:

-Planetary
-Faction
-Network

The planetary level economies tend to run off various more simplistic forms of economy, and tend to have their internal currency systems, but when dealing with the faction economy have to use the faction currency which can vary which has many times led to economic catastrophes for individual worlds, especially those who are less adapt at riding the ebb and flows of their faction's economy.

Empire Size: (Population estimate)- Last Annual demographic count of registered member races clocked in at about 1,287,556,566,045 members of the Harmonious Network, or around 1.3 trillion.

Empire Power: Major regional power.

Type Of Power:

Industrial- The industrial productivity of the Harmonious Network, between all five of the sub factions is astounding in the amount of products produced. Entire asteroid belts are regularly strip mined for resources by the many powerful corporations that employ billions of workers. The varied economies between the sub factions also have given multiple routes in which industries develop, although some economies are better managed than others.

Social- The Harmonic Network is a very diverse civilization, and has enjoyed a large diversity of minds thanks to its population and high rate of idea exchange through the net work. Atop of this, diplomatically the factions of the HN are surprisingly open minded and usually will try making what deals they can to obtain data before resorting to calling in their sophisticated espionage firms.

Economic- The average civilian of the HN generally lives a very good life thanks to the high standard of living in the majority of the factions. Atop of this, thanks to the unique cultures and amount of man power of the

Other: Interspecies relationships are probably among the most common in their corner of the galaxy.

Technological Overview

The technology used throughout the network is incredibly diverse, with a multitude of gadgets sold in planetary markets across their civilization and the heavy use of fusion batteries and a plethora of technology collected and stolen from other civilizations by various corporate groups and organizations and from there usually distributed throughout the net work due to spies spying on spies.

However, there are a few notable technological achievements that define the harmonious network, as it exists today.

History- At some point a millennia ago, there was four regional factions, three of which harmonic, one of which Octomani. As civilizations go, they had many tensions but even this early only cooperated to achieve harmony in the Harmonic’s sense- ritual warfare being a common norm for centuries in these archaic interstellar times.

The Harmonious Network Itself

Pictured above: A visual representation of the Harmonious Network.

The harmonious network is a powerful interstellar network that transports objects through a virtual medium and living entities through a sprawling worm hole network that connects the parallel reality across a vast sum of space. The nature of the harmonic network however, has made it out of control by everyone but the Custodians.

The harmonious network is around eight hundred years old, and is ran by the custodians who have considerable power over the whole network even if they do not bother with politics of the factions instead just happily dwelling in the virtual space and keeping the network secure from anyone who tries to hack or subvert the network. After eight hundred years of development, the network has by now transcended those who made it, being improved not by Harmonic, Fozin or Octomani technicians but instead the Custodians who are native to the network itself.

For the Harmonious Network is not just a internet, it’s a parallel reality in effect. It’s not a server that is run, it’s a parallel nature of its own accord that has internally consistent properties and laws, and while parts of the network can be modified to suit the regional needs of a colony world within the HN,

By this point the network uses a connection system that allows for a brain to flow into the system and transfer themselves to other parts of the network a the speed the wormhole connections can allow. Atop of this are the wormhole networks themselves.

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Avatars

Avatars are incredibly common within the Harmonious Network, to the point where a good portion of the Harmonious Network have completely done away with their physical bodies and instead inhabit the digital network with the custodians through the synaptic network that allows one to transfer their consciousness to the network without actually killing anyone. Avatars come in insanely diverse forms, ranging from tiny insect-like walkers to gigantic spaceships controlled with a consciousness on the fly.

The avatars are made use of frequently in wargame scenarios and in espionage missions using the aggregated data on how each species behaves and acts, and copying the appearance of a individual is no hard task for the megacorps that dominate in the systems of commerce and

Modular Technology

The weapons and vehicles of the HN are incredibly modular by their nature, and generally military corporations within the network will work together to make their devices compatible with each other, however feuds between major military corps Bluetech and IFK interstellar have led to weapon technologies that while modular are intentionally built to be completely incompatible in their attempts to force consumer loyalty in the mercenary market. However, in general thanks to deals and mutual action generally corporations will keep things compatible or at least steal other corp tech and make a version compatible with their own weapons.

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Interstellar ~ Ascension

Are they state capitalists by any chance?

Interstellar ~ Ascension

I think the Lance are different enough; they seem more of a interstellar Orwellian style police state as opposed to the honor based meritocracy of the Hau.