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[center][b][u]COURT OF THE CONCÁI[/center][/b][/u]

[hider=Political Status]
The Crown World Pidui is the only planet of the Concái ([i]tr: gardeners[/i]), settled roughly a century ago, This deeply religious people has achieved a notable porsperity and influence due to their enterpreneurship and comercial skills, although their limited size. The Concái are both reputated for their excellent genetic technology products and conflict avoidance as despised for their role in narcotics and black market activities and hermetic but spiritual society. 
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[hider=Current Political Leader]
His Majesty King Pykhal XXI, watcher of the Dreams, watcher of the Stars, the Snake Dancer, and Holy Guardian of Lagoc'háutl by the grace of the Gods. 
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[hider=Form of Government]
His Majesty King Pykhal XX, watcher of the Dreams, watcher of the Stars, the Snake Dancer, and Holy Comander of Lagoc'háutl. King Pykhal’s authority is endorseed not only by his lineage, but also from his sacred condition. He honds and represent both chief of government, religion and tradition. He is assisted byt the Speakers Council, formed by the most skilled and noble subjects; and by the Listeners Council, formed by the most eminent priests and scientists. Each greatship and city is under the govern of a Lord, elected by the King, which can be disposed at any moment. Only the king retains hereditary rights. 

The King allows the Council to consult “Oracles”, massive predictive computers that aid the rulers of the Court in their decisions.

The Concái society is divided in open castes. Over everybody else, there is the King and his family. Just under them, the High Court, which covers approximatedly the 10% of the population, formed by High Priests, Army Comanders, Ship Captains, politicians and brilliant artists, artisans and scientists. The Low Court is formed by villagers and workers. The artisans caste, the monks caste and the scientists caste were abolished during the Dawn Era. There is mobility in the different social classes. Exceptional individuals are rewarded and join the High Court. Also, corrupted officers and inneficient nobles are often degradated. Severe ofences from unloyal subjetcs are sometimes forced to exile.
In the last years, several clans have appered as a consequence of the rapid growth of the Concái society.
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[b]Total Population:[/b] 800,650,000. Roughly half Concái citiziens live in Pidui and its orbit, while the other live in their itinerant ships. 

[b]Employed Population[/b] Aproximatedly a 85%. 
[b]Military Population:[/b] 6%

[hider=Brief Biography of the Political Leader]
His Majesty King Pykhal XXI, watcher of the Dreams, watcher of the Stars, the Snake Dancer, and Holy Guardian of Lagoc'háutl descends from the lineage of Tuúlkuán, the first Concái king. The grandfather of the King is considered the father of the nation as thanks to His Divine Enlightment under his rule the planet Pidui was found and settled and the secrets of hyperspace were rediscovered .His closests alliegates often remark the relaxed, humorous, yet cunning and far reaching personality of His Majesty.

King Pykhal XXI is also known with the surname of the Dialogant, as he performed a series of reforms that gave more independance to the nobles and the citiziens, and directed the comercial expansión that placed the Concái at some relevancy in galactic politics. Most notably, it was during his first years of rulership that the Concái contacted other civilizations and ended millenia of isolation. 
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[hider=Notable Figures and their Background Information]
[b]Bacab Tacuitli, Listener of Trade:[/b] She coordinates the logistics of the sparse and remote Concái roaming wandering fletes and is the right hand of King Pykhal in exterior affairs. Coming form a high social position, her election came after her succes in command of the Far-Ship Gouai
[b]Hujun Umaya, Listener of the Gardens.[/b] He is the chief inspector of Science and Agriculture., and supervises the ecological mangement, terraformation and botanical production. The Umaya have been through history reputated scientifics and mystics, and are very close to 
[b]Suntuz Malmalac, Listener of Arms:[/b] Lord Suntuz was a noble cartographer of King Pykhal’s father, but he showed his competence during the Consolidation conflic. He is known for his creative strategies and subterfuges., and for his surprising “tricks”,
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[b]Main Species Information:[/b] [i]Anáhuari[/i] humans. After millenia of space travel, Concái humans have adapted to lower gravity environements.

[hider=Economic Overview]
The Concái economy is determinated by three main pilars: First,a low resource usage thanks to a highly efficient recicling policy, intelligent resource extraction and usage, and to their solar satélites and matter collectors (pasive matter filters). 
Second, an advanced applied biotechnology ([i]Gardening[/i]), that permits a effficient agricultural production. Trapped in the depths of Lagoc'háutl, Concái learned to produce food in extremely efficient manners. Therefore, they are master ambientalists, synthetic biologists and reciclers. They created the “Seed library”, a collection of creations that suits most of the needs of these people.
Third, an exportation-oriented trade policy, endorsed by the neutrality they often adquire in galactic conflicts. However, the true strenght of Concái trade is their free position in narcotic-dealing (an activity culturally accepted by Concái) and their relation with smuggling networks. 
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[hider=Militaristic Overview]
[b][u]Fleet[/b][/u]
	82 Garden (farm) Ships
	12 Carriers with lightfighters, bombers and “Tickles” (boardment ships)
	1 Frigate: “Xibalhuá”. Heavily damaged.
	61 logistic ships
	39 Minelayers / Beacon deployers

The Concái tend to avoid conflicts as their austere tradition has considered war cost not justificable. That is why the arsenal of the Concái is oriented towards hit and run, stealth and confusing the enemy.
The offensive weapons of the Concái are very rudimentary, and are often missiles, and they lack shield technology. The used propulsion systems are “sails” and Q-thrusters. While sails are normally used in civilian and bigger ships, Q-thrusters are prefered for smaller, faster ships.

However, they are specialized in the use of electronic warfare. They often use “Masks”, devices that allow to hide hide the electronic signatures of their ships and comunnications, using masks, firewalls and other devices, so as to ahieve scanning invisibility and inexpugnability. Very similarly, they fake their vessels identity to appear like asteroids and different ships. Offensively, they use “Mouths”, which cripple enemies sensors to control the flow of invormation in battles.

The militar fleet of the Concái is scarce, with many damaged and obsolete ships. Some other ships may be coming to Pidui from remote locations of the Galaxy. The militar population consists mostly of nobles (generaly ship captains) and their cohorts, and their have to leave 1/8 of this force to the King’s Pilgrim army. The rest of the militar population is formed by autonomous individuals who pledge service to the King.Logistics of the militar ships are organizated into nearly autosuficient groups, normally with mobile platforms that can supply far away from the homeworld. Therefore the structural unit is formed by as many ships as each noble can hold an supply.
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[hider=Political Overview]
The King of the Concái is the embodyment of their society, religión tradition and understanding of the world and its history. The King was a symbol of unity that permited the errand Concái fletes to stay toghether in the old times. Now, with the colonization of Pidui, this has become a symbol of no less importance. The Access to the planet itself is disallowed for foreigners, and its coordinates are hidden even for some lower rank officers. 
This displacement of the cultural unity has produced a new conception of political structure, and thus new groups are increasingly acting more independently to the King.
The use of massive prediction computers if of incredible relevance in socioeconomical organization in the Court of the Concái 
[b]Culture: Religion and science[/b]
The Concái have a very complex understanding of the world. They mix myth and logic in their belies. For them, their Gods are aspects of reality, a simbolic explanation of what science has unveiled. Religion has a social function in tying up and integrating idividuals in their role in their society. The principal Gods or Aspects of their religion are [i]Hualtzu[/i], the cosmic snake, bringer of the death and birth of everything; [i]Láatzilil[/i], God of Stars and navigation, of travel and misteries and [i]Jukul[/i], patron of the arts.
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[hider=Home World]
[b]Pidui[/b] ([i]tr: “Morning”[/i]) is a tropical yet arid planet. The planet has been chartred by orbit mesurements, but most population live in concetrated areas. The main city is Lagoc'háutl ([i]tr: snake's belly[/i]), named as the mothership that has been the home of the Concái since inmemorial times. The ancient ship is now on orbit and is being slowly dismantled, and its treasures and population being transfered to Pidui. Lagoc'háutl and other cities are built around huge atmosferic terraformation pyramids. As Concái lower folk reach Pidui, and many other comunities have settled in an artifical ring in the high orbit. 
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[b]Number of Star Systems under your influence:[/b]1
[b]Number of Planets and natural satellites under your influence:[/b] 0
[b]Number of Colonies under your influence:[/b] 0
Concái people do not posses terriotries. They only posses mobile asteroid-mining facilities and the Pilgrim fleet, now stationed in Pidui.

[b]History of the Court of the Concái[/b]

[hider=Origins]
In the Gliphs of the Evening, carved in Lagoc'háutl front, it can be read:
[i]“In the Evening, King Tuúlkuán, he who watches the stars, he who dances with the Snake, he who was blessed, holy and feared be his name, set out from Home with his most beloved subjects of his Court. As we entered the púha, the ever-hungry snake of Hualtzu put King Túulkuán and his folk in the Deep Slumber.”[/i]
The origins of the Concái people are blurry. The only memories from the days before the Dream are few conserved inscriptions in the frontal parts of the Concái homeship and the distorted oral and written tradition, mixed with more recent myths originated during the Journey. The reasons of this [i]púha[/i] (hyperspace jump) are completely unknown to modern historicians.
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[hider=The Dream]
 The myths of the Concái people begin with the Journey. The jump placed Lagoc'háutl in the very empty vastness of space. There is an huge written traditions which cover over one thousand years of isolation and hardship. This period is called the dream, for the modern Concái culture, religion and myths originated in this epoch, when they inmersed in a colective illusion due to the divinization of the ship, the stars, and the loss of the scientific knowledge. This later fenomenon was caused by the maintenance of a formated elite who sacralized the hlding of knowledge.
There are no records of this era. This is described in the Myth of Mauaca, a lower-class hero who rose and confroted the elite. The myth tells that, the King, under the requests of freedom of Mauaca and the common folk, erased all the information stored about the ubication of their ancestral homeworld, and then inmolated himself “in the eyes of the galaxy”.
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[hider=The Night]
First records are dated from after this period, and consist of a vast yet neverending monotonous chronicle of the different travels of the Concái people in the vastness. The second [i]púha[/i] is narrated extensively in the Saga of the Dust. Since that moment, many other púha were posible, and this leaded to a period of growth once the first solar systems were reached. However, no suitable planet was found, and another 380 years should pass until Pidui was found. Concái calendary begins to count from the second púha. The calendary system, called the Long Count is extremely complex, since it combines the astral measurements of the movements around the galaxy core and the translation of the same galaxy with preditions on [i]púha[/i] jumps.
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[hider=The Dawn]
The Saga of the Rocks tells:
[i]“And the Gardeners visited many worlds and met many strangers. They saw magnificient diamond asteroids and colorful stas, and they saw also many beautiful things and horrible ones, and they struggled sometimes, but they finally arrived to Xibalhuá, where my story begins...”[/i]

Prabably, half of the things registered in the sagas are lies, but the growth and development of the Concái in these days is acknoledgeable. Many artifacts and treasures were found in this era. Who the scribe refers with strangers, we do no know, as such thign would have been kept secret by the Upper Court.
In 378 puhaljáalk (since the jump), the last and most lucky jump was made under the rule of King Pykhal XIX, watcher of the Dreams, watcher of the Stars, the Snake Dancer, may his name be holy.
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[b]Location on the map:[/b][u]ORION SECTOR[/u]