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[b]GRAAL CONFEDERACY[/b][/center]

[b][u]Nation Name:[/b][/u] Graal Confederacy

[b][u]Race(s):[/b][/u] [i]Graalus konanicus[/i]; commonly referred to as the [b]Graal[/b] [GRAHL]
-- [i]Silvius geanus[/i]; commonly referred to as the [b]Tallidarans[/b] [TAHL-IH-DAR-INZ]
-- [i]Alantaya virgata[/i]; commonly referred to as the [b]Hyagarans[/b] [HY-UH-GAR-INZ]
-- [i]Kudoros tandus[/i]; commonly referred to as the [b]Skorf[/b] [SK-ORF]

[b][u]Racial Traits:[/b][/u]

[b]TOUGHENED[/b]: The Graal, primarily because of their evolutionary trail from their hot and dry homeworld of [i]Gruul H'ea[/i] have become immensely sturdy, in regards to more mildly designed species. Gravity three times heavier than a normally inhabited world, the Graal's physical growth is naturally stunted and they stand only a meter and a half tall, but because of the binary star system their epidermis is cracked and nearly an inch thick -- enough to ward off otherwise lethal ballistic and low velocity lasers. They are mammals and posses the natural organs to keep that functioning, but the heavy gravity forced additional vertebrates along the thoracic and lumbar sections of the spine, which gives them increased protection from physical harm.

Fibrous organelles called [i]Ruks[/i] line the [i]Stratum basale[/i] of the Graal's epidermis. These organelles hold additional water, which began to interact with the body with severe dehydration sets in. This allows the Graal to go weeks without water, and for those who are unaware of these biological evolutions, the Graal seem to never tire, never thirst or feel hunger -- and it is a myth of many war stories of years past.

[b]FACTIONALISM[/b]: The Graal are largely divided. Many educated and scholastic minds of other similarly sized galactic civilizations have come to believe that if the Graal did not hate each other more than they hated everyone else, the galaxy may exist under a Graal flag. The Graal, since discovering faster-than-light travel have experienced four planetary rebellions and six civil wars. This is an issue with the psychological precedence of individualism of the Graal -- where even a Graal sometimes has trouble being subservient to other Graal. These feelings exist, and at times of war are often subsided long enough to accomplish war goals, and then the Graal go back to attempting to kill one another.

[b][u]Civilization Tier:[/b][/u] [i]Galactic Power[/i]: These are the big boys. They have pretty much full mastery of their current technology. They are highly respected and powerful empires.

[b][u]Population:[/b][/u] 31,000,000,000 Graal, 17,000,000,000 Subjugants (Tallidarans, Hygarans, Skorf).

[b][u]Culture/Society:[/b][/u]

[b]NOTE[/b]: I would like to start the game in a [i]Cold War[/i] with another Level 2 Civilization. Not a conventional war, but a war of the Graal ideology (Autocracy, Ruthlessness, Oppression) versus another one.

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