Name:The Lance Union
Capital System:The Alas Prime System.
Dominant Species: Lancians
Client Species: Irikav, Kzukix
Direction From Galactic Core: Anywhere North, doesnt matter to me. However I would like them a distance aways from anybody else, to the point where they should be isolated and not have meant anyone yet.
Head Of State:The Grand Council
Head Of Government:The Grand Council
Government Type/Operation/Description:
The status of a person within the Lance Union has to do with two things, intelligence, and service to the Lance Union as a whole. The Grand Council serves as both the head of state and head of goverment, making most major decesions for the Union. The Goverment and the union also operates on the basis of the "Greater Good".
This means that people are expected to act for the Union as a whole. Propganda and indoctrination methods are also used to make sure everyone stays to the idea of the greater good, and often is hard for someone from the Lance Union to adapt to other cultures due to this indoctrination.
The Lance Union's government also might be described as totalitarian, as the greater good doctrine is often used a excuse to spy on people. Micro-chipping is mandatory for everyone, and is used to track and keep watch on every citizen. There is also no normal trial system, as the police act as judge, jury, and executioner. Also on a last note religion and worship is stricly outlawed, and anyone found practicing it is sent for "re-education".
Economic System/Prosperity:
The Lance Union does not possess a normal economic system. Resources and industry is all controlled by the Goverment. In place of normal currency, citizens are issued points for there work, which can be exchanged for food and other items. The Goverment tends to keep currency from there closet neighbors on hand however, when doing trading.
Empire Size: (Population estimate)
200-500 billion
Empire Power:
Major Regional Power – Dominant Influence in a region
Type Of Power:
Science is a number one priotory.
Military is also a major focus.
Industry is also a major focus, but below science and military.
Average Lifespan:500 years
Physical Characteristics:
Lancians are tall, and there body colors can vary widely. They can be blue, red, green, or purple. Due to this there are some other species that actually refer to them as the rainbow race. There hair tends to be short, or non-existant, but when a Lancian does have hair it is either black, grey, or white. Lancians are very frail, with the strongest not even reaching average human strength.
To make up for this they are extremely intelligent, which allows them to advance at a faster rate then other species. Lancians also are less capable of reproduction, so there population growth tends to be a lot slower.
Abilities:
As mentioned above Lancians are extremely intelligent, and usually think of situations logically. They are like other species still subject to there emotions, but less so. Lancians are also a species of psionics, a ability based on there intelligence and willpower. However unlike other psionics, the Lancians psionics is based of energy. Energy in the body is needed to cast psionics, and energy can be moved around or asborbed into the body. The Lancians can store more energy in there bodies and there bodies use it more efficiently. This also means psionics can be used to do more then just shoot bolts of blue energy or mind control, examples include creating fire or with enough energy wounds can be healed.
Religion:
The Lancians have no religion. Do to there logic and extreme intelligence they see it as illogical, and often refer to nations and species that still possess it or actively endorse it as primitive. There was thought to be a belief system at one point, but it was likely squashed early on in the Lancians history.
Culture:
The center of Lance culture and a dominate influence in it is the idea of the Greater Good. The idea of the Greater Good is that the indivual should work for the the good of the group as a whole, rather then work for themselves. This idea is enforced throughout childhood and well into adulthood, resulting in a heavily indoctrinated society. The Lancians also heavily believe in the ideals of unity and peace, however indivual freedom is often looked down upon, as it is thought to be counteractive to the greater good.
Despite them believing in peace, they aren't afraid to go to war, and have the habit of using weapons other species would never think to use during war, such as biological and chemical weapons, or weapons capable of devestating vast swaths of planets. Another important aspect of Lancian culture is using logic to reason through everything, and taking a the long term solution rather then short term ones.
History:
The Lancians grew up the world on of Alas Prime. They advanced quite faster then most other species did, quickly involving from a tribal society to more organized nations. While they did lack strength there psionics gave them a advantage, allowing them to fight from afar, or bring food to them. While the idea of the greater good did prevail through almost all Lancians during there modren and industrial eras, although the nations were often at constant war, fighting over who should lead all the Lancians towards the greater good.
It was however the Lance Union, a union of several smaller unions that united into one that rose in power above all other nations. They marched over them, and it wasn't long before it was obvious they would be the ones to unite the planet into one. They were reponsible for the current system of goverment where intelligence and service were what allowed one to advance. The Lancians, after having been united under one banner begin a quick ascended into the space age, and it wasn't long before they were exploring other systems and colonzing them. They sought to spread the Greater good and unite many other species under one ideology, that of the greater good.
It wasn't long before they discovered the Kzukix, a minor species still trapped on there world and in a constant state of war between eachother. They were a large and strong species, but they were brutish and lacked intelligence. The Lancians deciceded the Kzukix would be a perfect target to begin there goal of united the galaxy under the Greater good, and invaded the planet enmass. It was also of note that not very many Lancians landed on the planet, instead prefering to use robotic forces. The Lancians crushed the Kzukix easily, there superior technology and robots easily laying waste to the Kzukix.
Using Psionics, propganda, and a method they refered to as "reducation", the Lancians began rapidly spreading the Greater good to the Kzukix and squashed there religious beliefs. They use the Kzukix as a main stay of there forces, they did this by turning them into what they called synths, horrible creations of both genetic and cybernetic engineering.
It was a few years after the met the Kzukix that they met the Irakiv. Due to the fact that the Irakiv weren't as warring as the Kzukix, diplomacy was used a method to try to augment them into the Union, however while the idea of the greater good did appeal to a few Irakiv, mainly athiests and agnostics, religion was a important part of the Irakiv culture, so they refused.
Following there refusal the Lancians commited to a invasion of the Irakiv homeworld, backed by a few loyal Irakiv. The Lancians had to use weapons and methods they did not use on the Kzukix, do to the fact that the Irakiv had more advanced weapons and defenses then that of the Kzukix. The invasion of the Irakiv homeworld was the first recorded instance of the Lancians using biological and chemical warfare in combat, with the exception of instances on there homeworld before they ascended into sapce.
It was also one of the instances were the Lancians mass murdered civilians. On a demostration to the Irakiv goverment they used a anti-matter bomb on a major city, destroying it completey and many smaller cities nearby. The Irakiv finally submitted after this, not wanting further bloodshed. The victory was paraded by forces through every major city on Irakiva, the Irakiv homeworld. The same methods were used to indoctrinate the Kzukix were used on the Irakiv, and instances were chemical and biological weapons were used on the Irakix during the invasion are heavily censored or removed from history lessons completey. The use of the anti-matter bomb was also completey forgotten, and the site where it was dropped it strictly off limits.
The Lancians began spreading out, seeking to become a dominate influence in there region. They believe themselves to be the only space-faring nation in the galaxy, as due to there location within the A-1 Galaxy(the name given to the Milky way by the Lancians) they are isolated from most others.
Average Lifespan:90 years
Physical Characteristics:
Irakiv are your average humanoids. There strength is around human average, with a a 2in taller average height. Irakiv are mostly grey-skinned, with a few rare white-skinned ones. There hair is always darker colors, and there eyes can be any color in the spectrum. They tend to have slighty skinnier builds as well as more rounded and pudgy faces.
Abilities:
What makes the Irakiv unique is there abilitiy to lie and decieve, and there out of the box thinking. The Irakiv are good at crafting fake personalities and weaving intricate webs of lies to hide what they are doing. For this reason they often act as spies and agents of the union gathering information on targets or weakening a target using bombs, or other methods such as biological
and chemical weapons.
They are also very persuaive, and are used in cases where Lancians do not want to use psionics to rip apart a potentially valuable target's mind.
Religion:
The Irakiv, being under the union, don't have a religion, however prior to there asborbtion into the union they had many gods similiar to that of the romans and greeks early in human history. These gods would represent various aspects, such as water, or war.
The Irakiv would make sacrifices or prayers in the name of these gods when doing activities related to them, in hopes to boost there sucess in those activities.
Culture:The Irakiv culture has been heavily modfied since there inclusion into the Lance Union has to get on the track of the Greater Good, but parts of it were still kept when they became apart of the Union. Irakiv culture focuses on honor and trust, mainly due to there amazing ability to lie.
The Irakiv culture also focused on the ideas of creativity and art, often making the Irakiv some of the greatest painters, writers, actors, and muscians. This particular part of there culture was not squashed when they joined the Lance Union, but the state does heavily monitor anyone who takes part in those activities, to make sure there work isn't counter-productive to state propganda, or rebellious to Lancian ideals and the greater good.
History:
The Irakiv developed on there homeworld of Irakiva. There pace of development is comparble to that of say humanity, however during certain parts of there history, most notably during the industrial eras and medevival era there tendecy to use deception and lies and there amazing ability at those slowed progress.
The Irakiv's amazing abilities at the arts developed during the later years of there industrial era. The later era was seeing more a focus on peace and trust, and several writers, artists, actors, and muscianians focused there works on inspiring others and encourging the arts as a method of expression. Most Irakiv could be considered profficient at least one type of art, wether it be music, writing, drawing and painting, or acting. Due to this there was often a much higher minimum standard for the quality of various pieces of art.
It was when the Irakiv entered the modren age that cooperation and trust became important. Before the Lancians had found the Irakiv had estiblished there version of the UN, as well as several international organzations that cooperated on various fields.
After the Irakiv were conquered the ones loyal to the Lancians right after there conquering were used as agents to spread ideals. The Irakiv also could be considered the right hand men of the Lancians, due to there tendecy to act as agents and spies of the Lancians.
Average Lifespan:50 years
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History
Finished off the Lancian's history, which also acts as the history of the Union, and did the Irakiv, Kzukix are left as well as a technological overview, then a run through spellcheck.