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<div>The '''Starmourn Newsletter''' is a weekly publication from Iron Realms Entertainment that releases various information leading up to the release of their new MUD, Starmourn. Each week new information is released such as class or race details in the form of various in-world media such a logs, books, and [[Holocording|holocordings]]. Below is a comprehensive list of all newsletters to date.<br />
==Newsletters==<br />
*Teaser Video - [[Last Broadcast|The Last Broadcast of the Human Race]]<br />
*Issue #1, May 7, 2016 - [[Terran History Project|Humans: A holocording from the Terran History Project]]<br />
*Issue #2, May 14, 2016 - [[Tellisk Adventure Company|Amaians: A file from the Tellisk Adventure Company]]<br />
*Issue #3, May 19, 2016 - [[Catalog of the Races of the Starmourn Sector#Excerpt Regarding the Shen|Shen: An excerpt from "A Catalog of Races of the Starmourn Sector"]]<br />
*Issue #4, May 26, 2016 - [[On the Function and Form of Kith|Kith: An excerpt from "On the Form and Function of Kith"]]<br />
*Issue #5, June 4, 2016 - [[Ships in Starmourn|Ships in Starmourn, or "Why Must You Tease Us So."]]<br />
*Issue #6, June 14, 2016 - [[Catalog of the Races of the Starmourn Sector#Excerpt Regarding the Nath-el|Nath-el: An excerpt from "A Catalog of Races of the Starmourn Sector"]] & [[Technology|The Technology of Starmourn]]<br />
*Issue #7, June 14, 2016 - [[Catalog of the Races of the Starmourn Sector#Excerpt Regarding the Elgan|Elgan: An excerpt from "A Catalog of Races of the Starmourn Sector"]] & [[Character Stats|Your Character]]<br />
*Issue #8, July 7, 2016 - [[Catalog of the Races of the Starmourn Sector#Excerpt Regarding the Ry'nari|Ry'nari: An excerpt from "A Catalog of Races of the Starmourn Sector"]]<br />
*Issue #9, July 14, 2016 - [[Elessi Update|Elessi: The Elessi Race and the origin of the Ishvana]]<br />
*Issue #10, July 20, 2016 - [[Catalog of the Races of the Starmourn Sector#Excerpt Regarding the Nusriza|Nusriza: An excerpt from "A Catalog of Races of the Starmourn Sector"]]<br />
*Issue #11, July 27, 2016 - [[Selassian Update|Doors, Lifts, and Selassians, Oh My!]]<br />
*Issue #12, August 11, 2016 - [[Catalog of the Races of the Starmourn Sector#Excerpt Regarding the Tukkav|The Mighty Tukkav: An excerpt from "A Catalog of the Races of the Starmourn Sector"]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=Tukkav&diff=1021Tukkav2016-09-14T15:58:11Z<p>Nicholas: </p>
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<div>{{Race_infobox<br />
|image=[[File:femaletukkav.jpg|300px]]<br />
|racename=Tukkav<br />
|leader=None<br />
|system=[[Uycheon]]<br />
|homeworld=[[Uycheon III]]<br />
|capital=None<br />
|allies=Unknown<br />
|enemies=[[Loroi]]}}<br />
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==Morphology and Physiology==<br />
[[File:maletukkav.jpg|thumb|left|A male Tukkav wielding a [[Missile|missile launcher]].]]<br />
The Tukkav are a physically imposing humanoid race with distinctive primate-like characteristics. They are almost completely covered in thick hair with the exception of their face, hands, and feet. Due to this, they prefer cooler climates. Tukkav mate for life, tending not to find another partner after their mate's death. Females reproduce via live birth after a 11 month gestation period, usually producing one offspring at a time. They are omnivores, suiting their race nomadic traditions.<br />
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==History==<br />
The Tukkav achieved space flight approximately 16,000 years ago. A civil war was fought amongst the Tukkav over access to their homeworld, [[Uycheon III]]. The [[Home War]], as it became known, exiled Tukkav not living on the homeworld permanently in order to deal with the planet's overpopulation. The Tukkav have been at war with the the [[Loroi]] on and off for the last 1,700 years.<br />
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==Culture==<br />
[[File:Uycheon.jpg|thumb|right|The frigid planet of [[Uycheon III]].]]<br />
The Tukkav culture evolved from various independent, nomadic groups, and still retains many of these aspects today. The most significant being that there is no centralized Tukkav government. Tribes still remain notoriously independent, maintaining their own individual subcultures including unique economies, spacefaring, and military infrastructures. They only come together during special gatherings held every decade called the [[Ouran]] or in times of war to appoint a common [[Warleader]]. <br />
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The Ouran is a time-honored tradition amongst the Tukkav, where each tribe sends representatives to discuss matters of culture, negotiate and settle debts and disputes, and celebrate in general. In particularly, they enjoy partaking a particularly bitter alcoholic beverage called [[Lapteth Beer|lapteth beer]] derived from a [[Lapteth|native grain]] of the same name. Likewise, while imbibing their favorite beverages, they play in [[Toof|toof]] circles, a horn-like instrument.<br />
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The Tukkav are known for their mining operations on planets that are typically too cold for most races to safely operate. Although the Tukkav once had many colonies and off-world operations, overpopulation saw all individuals living off-world forsaken in the Home War. Those off-worlders became known as the [[Exiles]] and less kindly as the "Rejected" or "Crinkers". <br />
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They are avid hunters, having caused many of the native wildlife on Uycheon III to go extinct despite their animistic religious traditions causing them to revere and thoroughly use that which they slay. Due to the slim pickings on their homeworld, hunting trips on exotic worlds are a favorite vacation for Tukkav.<br />
==Notable Individuals==<br />
[[Mezer Juul]] - Commander of the [[Free Fleet]]<br />
[[Category:Tukkav]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=Warleader&diff=1020Warleader2016-09-14T00:09:07Z<p>Nicholas: Tukkav Update</p>
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<div>A '''Warleader''' is a specially appointed individual nominated to lead the collective [[Tukkav]] tribes during times of war. It is a temporary position, considering the decentralized government of the Tukkav race, preferring tribes govern their own affairs.<br />
[[Category:Tukkav]]<br />
[[Category:Governments]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=Lapteth&diff=1019Lapteth2016-09-14T00:07:20Z<p>Nicholas: Tukkav Update</p>
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<div>'''Lapteth''' is a grain native to [[Uycheon III]] and a staple of the [[Tukkav]]. In particular, they use it to make a bitter [[Lapteth Beer|beer]].<br />
[[Category:Tukkav]]<br />
[[Category:Food and Beverage]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=Lapteth_Beer&diff=1018Lapteth Beer2016-09-14T00:05:55Z<p>Nicholas: Tukkav Update</p>
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<div>'''Lapteth Beer''' is an alcoholic beverage made from a the [[Lapteth|lapteth]] grain which native to [[Uycheon III]]. The [[Tukkav]] enjoy its bitter taste and often use it to celebrate during [[Ouran]] gatherings.<br />
[[Category:Food and Beverage]]<br />
[[Category:Tukkav]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=Exiles&diff=1017Exiles2016-09-14T00:04:13Z<p>Nicholas: Tukkav Update</p>
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<div>'''The Exiles''' is the name the [[Tukkav]] banned from their homeworld of [[Uycheon III]] after the [[Home War]] use to refer to themselves. They can be found scattered throug out the [[Starmourn Sector]] housing a bitter hatred for their own race. The natives often refer to them in less than flattering terms, "Rejected" or "Crinkers".<br />
[[Category:Tukkav]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=Exiles&diff=1016Exiles2016-09-14T00:03:26Z<p>Nicholas: Tukkav Update</p>
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<div>'''The Exiles''' is the name the [[Tukkav]] banned from their homeworld of [[Uycheon III]] after the [[Home War]] use to refer to themselves. They can be found scattered throug out the [[Starmourn Sector]] housing a bitter hatred for their own race.<br />
[[Category:Tukkav]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=Uycheon&diff=1015Uycheon2016-09-14T00:01:29Z<p>Nicholas: Tukkav Update</p>
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<div>The '''Uycheon System''' is a star system within the [[Starmourn Sector]] in which the planet [[Uycheon III]] and the [[Tukkav]] race abides.<br />
[[Category:Space]]<br />
[[Category:Systems]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=Home_War&diff=1014Home War2016-09-14T00:00:30Z<p>Nicholas: Tukkav Update</p>
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<div>'''The Home War''' was a civil conflict between the [[Tukkav]] race over access to their homeworld, [[Uycheon III]] that occured approximately 2,500 years ago. Uycheon III had become severely overpopulated and the natives decided to restrict access to all off-worlders residing in space colonies or other planets. The spurned Tukkav attempted to fight in order to regain access to their home, but were defeated and forever exiled. The outcasts now refer to themselves as the [[Exiles]], while the natives often use the more derogatory names of the "Rejected" or "Crinkers".<br />
[[Category:Tukkav]]<br />
[[Category:Events]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=Toof&diff=1013Toof2016-09-13T23:54:32Z<p>Nicholas: Tukkav Update</p>
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<div>A '''Toof''' is a traditional [[Tukkav]] instrument usually played socially and especially during [[Ouran]] gatherings. It is horn-like wind instrument with a deep bass to mid tone that originated before the Tukkav mastered spaceflight.<br />
[[Category:Tukkav]]<br />
[[Category:Art and Culture]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=Uycheon_III&diff=1012Uycheon III2016-09-13T23:51:56Z<p>Nicholas: Tukkav Update</p>
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<div>{{Planet_infobox<br />
|planetname=Uycheon<br />
|image=[[File:Uycheon.jpg|300px]]<br />
|system=[[Uycheon]]<br />
|capital=None<br />
|races=[[Tukkav]]}}<br />
'''Uycheon III''' is the homeworld of the Tukkav. It is located within the [[Uycheon|Uycheon System]]. It is cool planet, ranging from temperate climates at its equator to unbearably cold towards to poles. Its native race wiped out much of the native wildlife, leaving little diversity besides the overpopulated Tukkav which waged a war to keep its off-world population from returning home during the [[Home War]].<br />
[[Category:Planets]]<br />
[[Category:Tukkav]]<br />
[[Category:Space]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=Tukkav&diff=1011Tukkav2016-09-13T23:47:58Z<p>Nicholas: </p>
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<div>{{Race_infobox<br />
|racename=Tukkav<br />
|leader=None<br />
|system=[[Uycheon]]<br />
|homeworld=[[Uycheon III]]<br />
|capital=None<br />
|allies=Unknown<br />
|enemies=[[Loroi]]}}<br />
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==Morphology and Physiology==<br />
The Tukkav are a physically imposing humanoid race with distinctive primate-like characteristics. They are almost completely covered in thick hair with the exception of their face, hands, and feet. Due to this, they prefer cooler climates. Tukkav mate for life, tending not to find another partner after their mate's death. Females reproduce via live birth after a 11 month gestation period, usually producing one offspring at a time. They are omnivores, suiting their race nomadic traditions.<br />
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==History==<br />
The Tukkav achieved space flight approximately 16,000 years ago. A civil war was fought amongst the Tukkav over access to their homeworld, [[Uycheon III]]. The [[Home War]], as it became known, exiled Tukkav not living on the homeworld permanently in order to deal with the planet's overpopulation. The Tukkav have been at war with the the [[Loroi]] on and off for the last 1,700 years.<br />
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==Culture==<br />
The Tukkav culture evolved from various independent, nomadic groups, and still retains many of these aspects today. The most significant being that there is no centralized Tukkav government. Tribes still remain notoriously independent, maintaining their own individual subcultures including unique economies, spacefaring, and military infrastructures. They only come together during special gatherings held every decade called the [[Ouran]] or in times of war to appoint a common [[Warleader]]. <br />
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The Ouran is a time-honored tradition amongst the Tukkav, where each tribe sends representatives to discuss matters of culture, negotiate and settle debts and disputes, and celebrate in general. In particularly, they enjoy partaking a particularly bitter alcoholic beverage called [[Lapteth Beer|lapteth beer]] derived from a [[Lapteth|native grain]] of the same name. Likewise, while imbibing their favorite beverages, they play in [[Toof|toof]] circles, a horn-like instrument.<br />
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The Tukkav are known for their mining operations on planets that are typically too cold for most races to safely operate. Although the Tukkav once had many colonies and off-world operations, overpopulation saw all individuals living off-world forsaken in the Home War. Those off-worlders became known as the [[Exiles]] and less kindly as the "Rejected" or "Crinkers". <br />
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They are avid hunters, having caused many of the native wildlife on Uycheon III to go extinct despite their animistic religious traditions causing them to revere and thoroughly use that which they slay. Due to the slim pickings on their homeworld, hunting trips on exotic worlds are a favorite vacation for Tukkav.<br />
==Notable Individuals==<br />
[[Mezer Juul]] - Commander of the [[Free Fleet]]<br />
[[Category:Tukkav]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=Catalog_of_the_Races_of_the_Starmourn_Sector&diff=1010Catalog of the Races of the Starmourn Sector2016-09-13T23:47:28Z<p>Nicholas: </p>
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<div>'''A Catalog of the Races of the Starmourn Sector''' is a book by various authors containing, as the name implies, information on the various races that inhabit the [[Starmourn Sector]]. <br />
==Excerpt Regarding the Shen==<br />
“A Catalog of the Races of Starmourn Sector”<br />
By: Various authors<br />
Date: Last updated 0919/03/17 A.E.<br />
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The [[Shen]] are one of Starmourn's older [[Younger Races]] in terms of the age of their civilization, though they're far from the eldest. Famous for their former connection with the believed-extinct [[Elder Races|Elder Race]] of the [[Utan Mir]], today they are famous for their real estate and transportation interstellar corporations. <br />
*Homeworld System : [[Barrak]]<br />
*Homeworld : [[Kovalar]]<br />
*Capital City : [[Janilyn]]<br />
*Reproduction : Live birth with a gestation period of 13 months.<br />
*Avg. Lifespan : 120 years<br />
*Diet : They're vegetarians and can't tolerate meat barring one specific exception around birth - see below.<br />
*Temperament : Calm and collected when sober. After a few cups of [[Rootwine|rootwine]] or a spoon of [[Fermented Vuu Honey|fermented vuu honey]] though, this veneer is frequently shattered. You'll see them weaving on their feet, collapsing in each other's arms in hysterical laughter, and even brawling.<br />
*Likes/Dislikes : They find meat-eating to others to be quite distasteful, and unless they're intoxicated, they tend to exhibit little tolerance for the lazy, for practical jokes, or even most humor.<br />
*Romantic relationships : They're strongly monogamous and though divorce is culturally permitted, it's considered fairly shameful and is rarely done. Homosexuality is common and unremarkable, as with all civilized races.<br />
*Family structure : Their social structure is such that the partner from the family with higher social standing is generally recognized as the head of the family, though they have a birth ritual (see below) that is a holdover from older times when their culture was more paternalistic.<br />
*How do they treat the helpless? : They venerate the elderly, but, in a practice that is losing favor, infants born with serious discernible defects are sometimes left to die of exposure.<br />
*Notable rituals : On birth, it is traditional for the eldest living member (male or female) of the father's direct ancestry to perform the [[Ritual of Coadunation]], in which this eldest of the paternal line consumes part of the placenta of the newborn - the only 'meat' the Shen ever consume. This ceremony is meant to symbolically join the two families as the eldest of one takes the body of the youngest of the other into him or her.<br />
*Social mobility : The Shen culture can be somewhat rigid and while they don't have formal castes, the importance of one's family has a large influence on the range of stations likely available to you in life.<br />
*Entertainment The Shen are great lovers of art, including elaborate soundscapes called '[[Aetherscape|Aetherscapes]]' that they listen to in specially-designed anechoic (meaning totally echo-less) chambers. To non-Shen ears, they're tuneless, chaotic noise, as is the case for even the Shen if any echoes are permitted to pollute the incredibly subtle patterns in the sound. To a Shen in an [[Anechoic Chamber|anechoic chamber]], these Aetherscapes paint aural pictures that convey enormous subtlety of emotion and gradation of concepts. Some of their most famous historical figures were Aetherscape composers, like [[Roan Sheel]] (deceased) and [[Yen Agafan]] (alive and old today), whose most famous - or infamous if you're not Shen - piece is "[[The Palette of the Stars]]."<br />
*Government : Their government is composed of two parts, apart from the [[Judiciary|judiciary]]: An elected body called the [[Assembly]], and the [[Council of Great Family Elders]]. Each of the recognized Great Families has a representative on the Council - typically, but not always the eldest member of that Family. They elect one member of the council to be the Head of State, called the [[Prime Elder]]. The Prime Elder leads the Shen and proposes new legislation, but the Assembly must ratify that legislation for it to become law.<br />
*Prime Elder : The current Prime Elder is [[Jatt Yaghah]] (male).<br />
*How old is their culture? : They achieved spaceflight approximately 110,000 years ago.<br />
*What are their primary industries? : Although like any modern economy, theirs is complex and multi-faceted, the Shen are particularly known for their interest in real estate and transportation. They particularly favor real estate in high-end resort areas, and on a few [[Leisure Planet|leisure planets]] they've snapped up virtually every single kilometer of shoreline. Their interstellar transportation industry is renowned for a logistical efficiency matched by few others.<br />
*Historical enemies : They've had many conflicts with the shapeshifting [[Fatar]] race, whom they detest. In the [[Changeling War]], long ago, it was first discovered that the Fatar had infiltrated the Shen's government, its military, and its society. The resulting series of paranoid purges almost certainly killed far more Shen than Fatar, and the Shen have since tried more than once, unsuccessfully, to wipe out their enemy. They're also implacable foes of the [[Ishvana]] ever since that terrible being's destruction of the Utan Mir, who they venerated and who taught them so much.<br />
*Religion : If the Shen were ever a religious people, they abandoned their religion long ago.<br />
*Language : The Shen use two racial languages - [[Low Shen]] and [[High Shen]]. The former is what they use most of the time in day-to-day use. The latter is a dialect reserved for important events like the Ritual of Coadunation or the funeral of a Prime Elder.<br />
==Excerpt Regarding the Nath-el==<br />
The [[Nath-el]] are a highly communalistic race whose members don't tend to place much importance on the needs of the individual. One of a handful of insectoid races known to us, they are ruled by a [[Nath-el Queen|Queen]] who exercises absolute authority over their territory.<br />
*Homeworld System : [[Faleon]]<br />
*Homeworld : [[Jerzah]]<br />
*Capital city : [[Narisiriz]]<br />
*Reproduction : The female produces an eggsac inside her body and is fertilized by a male. She then incubates those relatively small eggs for 2 months in her body before laying them. For 2 more weeks, the eggs must be kept warm and then the hatchlings break their way out. They then spend 18 months nursing and quickly growing.<br />
*Lifespan : 85 years.<br />
*Diet : Omnivores with a taste for anything sweet. Big fans of [[Fermented Vuu Honey|fermented vuu honey]].<br />
*Temperament : By other race's standards, they can be a little intense and frenetic.<br />
*Strong likes/dislikes : They don't tend to like being alone, and prefer to live with many other Nath-el around them when possible. Their youth has an unfortunate tendency towards drug addiction, leading to very strict anti-drug laws on Jerzah.<br />
*Romantic relationships : They're serial monogamists, essentially, and rarely bond for life.<br />
*Family structure : They don't have or recognize permanent families, as such. When a pair has offspring, they will usually stay together long enough for the offspring to become reasonably self-sufficient, at which point the community-at-large becomes responsible for the well-being of the youngsters. Parent/child relationships are much, much less important after that to the Nath-el than to other races.<br />
*How do they treat the helpless? : Not well, but it's not out of malice. They're simply very communalistic, and if an individual can't contribute, what good is he?<br />
*Notable rituals : The Nath-el do not place great importance on ritual. They're a highly practical race focused on doing something because it works and produces a desirable result for their culture, not on doing something for the sake of tradition.<br />
*Entertainment : For all their perceived energy and sometimes frantic nature, they prefer minimalist entertainment. They have a form of staged live entertainment that consists of rhythmic thrumming combined with something like very slow dancing that involves transitioning deliberately between static, held poses that, when combined with the thrumming, tells a symbolic story. They call these, translated into [[Galactic Standard]], "[[Pattern Play|Pattern Plays]]."<br />
*Government : While they are not telepaths, they share such a strong common understanding that there is no need to debate who should lead their people. It is simply known, and it is always a female, ruling as Queen. She wields absolute power over her territory.<br />
*When did they achieve spaceflight? : 32,000 years ago.<br />
*Allies/enemies : They hate the [[Sa'hak-ren]], who destroyed a budding Nath-el Empire about 1400 years ago. They're also not fond, at all, of the [[Nabia]], who have long preyed on the tendency younger Nath-el have towards severe drug addiction. They believe the [[Oteel]] - who are largely enslaved by the shapeshifting [[Fatar]] - are their evolutionary cousins.<br />
*Economy : The Nath-el manufature some of the very best [[Artificial Intelligence|AI]] tech, particularly suited to massively parallel tasks like [[Missile|self-correcting missile]] flight path solutions or coordinating the operation of a [[Nanotechnology|nanoswarm]].<br />
*Religion : The Nath-el believe there's a 'spirit', for lack of a better translation, that embodies everything that "is known" about their race. They call it the [[Nath-et]], meaning, roughly, 'All Of Us.' The Nath-et isn't a personified, personality-filled being, however. They view it as part of their spiritual existence. The Nath-et represents everything about the way things 'should' work in Nath-el society. It's viewed as the inevitable culmination of their race's evolution.<br />
*What's their architecture like? : They're known for building [[Hive|Hives]], which are the favored dwelling places of those who can afford to live in them. Hives are essentially huge communal pods that sit above the rest of the city they're in. <br />
==Excerpt Regarding the Elgan==<br />
The [[Elgan]] are a race that had to fight to gain the acceptance of the other members of Starmourn Sector due to a combination of their relatively small size and their tendency to deal with most situations by finding something amusing to laugh at.<br />
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Make no mistake, however - they're as sophisticated and advanced a culture and society as most of the races in Starmourn.<br />
*Homeworld : [[Krell]]<br />
*System : [[Tethan]]<br />
*Capital City : [[Biloxan]]<br />
*Reproduction :Live birth with a gestation period of about 8 months.<br />
*Lifespan : 80 years.<br />
*Preferred foods : They're omnivores but tend to really enjoy fruit of all kinds.<br />
*Temperament : Fairly cheerful generally, though they hold grudges like champions.<br />
*Life priorities : Wealth accumulation, that they may leave the largest fortune possible to the [[Elgan Collective]] (see below) when they die. They aren't fundamentalist about this, and do seek to leave something to their children, but theirs is a highly communal society.<br />
*Strong likes/dislikes : They're big fans of elaborate practical jokes and love to dance, incorporating it into many of their rituals. Yes, they look slightly ridiculous doing it to most other races, but you're likely to get a [[Blaster|blaster]] in the crotch if you mention that to an Elgan. They're also well-known for hating bullies and for possessing a strong work ethic.<br />
*Romantic relationships : They're generally monogamous, but typically if one partner dies, the other marries one of the dead partner's sisters or brothers.<br />
*Family structure : Big, extended families that live together in large, roughly circular buildings called [[Toh]], which often have spires on top. Many families will live in a single Toh.<br />
*How do they treat the weak? : Very well generally. They always take care of their elders, and have great sympathy for the sick, the disfigured, and the differently abled.<br />
*Notable rituals : Their marriage ritual translates to '[[Binding Dance|The Binding Dance]].' It's a complex dance in which the guests whirl themselves through complicated patterns while holding silken ribbons. As they dance about the two participants, they end up tying a particular knot - called the [[Argisan]] - around them, symbolizing that their two lives are now bound together.<br />
*What's their relationship with technology? : They are, generally speaking, big fans of tech, from the gadget level to the workings of starships. The [[Vyar]] - a dead Elder race - are a popular subject in their recorded entertainment, possibly a result.<br />
*What do they like for entertainment? : Because their home planet - Krell - is notoriously rainy, and because their Toh are fairly crowded, their chief hobbies and past times have evolved from activities you can perform indoors. Gambling and dancing are probably the two most widely enjoyed among Elgan.<br />
*Government structure : They're a representative democracy called the Elgan Collective, with a trio of leaders elected by the Collective called the [[Trinity]]. In practice they're highly socialist and it's said that "nobody goes to bed hungry on Krell."<br />
*Current Trinity members : [[Poji Gawin]] (m), [[Trinoa Banmyn]] (f), [[Nici Triceli]] (f)<br />
*How old is their civilization? : They achieved spaceflight about 22,000 years ago.<br />
*Historical allies/enemies? : They've had a lot of conflict with the Nabia, whose drug-peddling they detest. About 125 years ago, some of the Elgan formed the [[Elgan Underground]] as a rival 'criminal' organization, with a mission to disrupt the Nabia's drug trade without open warfare.<br />
*What are their major sources of wealth? : The Elgan are renowned as traders in rare goods and in the manufacture of handheld weaponry.<br />
*What are their religious beliefs? : They believe that their ancestors - all of them - are gods, meaning that the more time passes, the more gods that exist. Of course, with so many gods, a god in their society is not considered particularly remarkable, which isn't to say it isn't to be venerated. They believe that as part of the same culture as their ancestor-gods, they enjoy participation in the divine while still alive. This religious belief is the core of their communalistic nature.<br />
==Excerpt Regarding the Ry'nari==<br />
The Ry'nari are a contentious, tribal race whose culture is underpinned by a complex series of alliances of alliances between extended families.<br />
*Home System - [[Valdorn]]<br />
*Homeworld - [[Hororeon]]<br />
*Capital city - [[Ostari]]<br />
*Reproduction - Live birth, 11 month gestation period. Never more than one child at a time. Their children tend to have a high mortality rate in the first two years of life.<br />
*Lifespan - 100 years.<br />
*Preferred foods - They're biologically omnivores but, as you can discern from their their teeth - clearly evolved for shredding and ripping - meat is their preferred food.<br />
*Life priorities - Fostering a large family is a big one, perhaps driven by the fact that the females can only bear one child at a time, and that that child is more likely to die than survive its first two years.<br />
*Strong likes/dislikes - They have a strange relationship with music in that they don't appear to have the same kind of tonal recognition virtually all other sentient species do. Most music, to a Ry'nari, sounds like unstructured noise. Instead, they enjoy a type of atonal chanting called '[[kave]]' whose individual words or phrases have no overt meaning, but which are meant to build a series of suggestions in the mind of the listener.<br />
*Romantic relationships - In ideal circumstances, they bond for life, but the exigencies of existence in Starmourn sometimes dictate that the convention be broken with divorce and/or remarriage.<br />
*Societal structure - They live in a three-tiered structure. Family -> [[Tribe]] -> [[Horde]]. Family is what it sounds like. Tribes are collections of inter-related families, and a Horde is a collection of tribes allied together.<br />
*Treatment of 'others' - Mostly fine, though adults who haven't yet had children are regarded with a mixture of pity and disgust, and by middle-age, those without children are social pariahs.<br />
*Notable rituals - On the death of a horde leader, all the tribes gather for a multi-day bacchanalia called the [[Narangerel]] followed by selection of a new horde leader in a process called the [[Gomoran]]. Each of the tribes that wishes to contend for leadership puts forward a leader, and that leader assembles a group of six Ry'nari from his or her tribe. These groups of six then face off in combat, armed with ancient weapons, to determine who will lead the Horde. The prospective leaders themselves don't do battle - why kill off some of the strongest leaders in the Horde?<br />
*Social mobility - Economically, an enormous amount, but in terms of advancement in any kind of politics, you have to be part of a good family in a great tribe to have a chance to become a horde leader. However, the reality is that even socially 'low' individuals can wield great power by buying influence.<br />
*Entertainment - Nothing is more popular than a Narangerel and the following Gomoran, but the Ry'nari also, somewhat surprisingly to outsiders, revere abstract sculpture and are considered masters of it.<br />
*Government structure - [[Council of the Hordes]] - the Horde leaders make up the government. However, there have been times in the past when a single Horde leader has seized sole power. In particular, [[Harec Gankeot]] famously unified the hordes as [[Mogul]] and won the first war against the [[W'hoorn]]. They are currently ruled by a Mogul - [[Shima Sual]] (female).<br />
*Allies or enemies - The W'hoorn are a historical enemy of theirs, and few of the civilized races of Starmourn have seen as much conflict as the two have over the aeons.<br />
*Major sources of wealth - Production of the ubiquitous [[Quantum Power Cell|quantum power cell]] as well as huge architecture and engineering firms specializing in orbital structures.<br />
*Religion - They don't have a religion per-se, but they retain certain animist superstitions such that they're prone to feeling like objects have spirits and personalities, even when they "know" better. This leads them to occasionally treat items they are angry at like enemies to be broken...leading to said things being broken.<br />
==Excerpt Regarding the Nusriza==<br />
The [[Nusriza]] are a fierce, sexually-aggressive race with perhaps the most difficult language among the core Starmourn species.<br />
*Home System : [[Frixion]]<br />
*Homeworld :: [[Frixion VI]]<br />
*Capital City : [[Mir]]<br />
*Reproduction : They reproduce via eggs, with the female laying 1-2 eggs that will hatch 120 days later. They hatch as flying four-legged lizards and grow until they get to be about 4-5 feet long and 15 Galactic Years old or so. About that time, they become very sexually aggressive, and mate furiously with each other for a couple of years in a period known as the [[Quickening]]. The females can't get pregnant during this time, however. The mating is actually a complicated, evolved drive to force their bodies, both male and female, into a highly nutritionally-deprived state. In this state, their bodies intensely crave the meat of the [[Algerion|algerion]] - huge, non-sentient creatures that create gas balloons out of giant air sacs in their bodies. The algerion secrete an exotic blend of chemicals that are lighter than the air of their world, and allow them to fly - something the Nusriza have taken advantage of as a novelty method of transport.<br />
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:Certain enzymes in the meat of the algerion slowly change their body - they begin to grow larger, and more musclar. As that happens, :their hip muscle structure changes to permit upright walking, and their forelimbs gradually gain more mobility. During this process, :their wings become first very tender, and then finally shrivel up and are discarded by their bodies. There are, however, a very small :percentage of Nusriza who are genetically unreceptive to the change the alergion meat causes, and as a result, stay in the Quickening, :alternating between seeking sex anywhere they can get it, and collapsing from exhaustion. Most of these Nusriza, unless they're being :taken care of and their sexual needs provided for, starve to death or are killed after seeking seek with the unwilling.<br />
*Lifespan : About 160 years.<br />
*Preferred foods : Aside from algerion meat, which is largely eaten during the Quickening, they're carnivores with a strong love of grubs, worms, and small insects. They eat these in a thousand different variations, full of spices. They might be fried, baked, roasted, eaten raw, poached, boiled, or any number of methods. They also enjoy smoking a substance made from the dried skins of tiny grubs called 'leesa' that gets them very mildly high, but is mainly about social lubrication - it's nothing like the drugs the [[Nabia]] peddle.<br />
*Romantic relationships : They are generally long-term monogamous.<br />
*Family structure : They live in [[Throng|Throngs]], where after the egg hatches it is raised communally by others in the Throng, which consists of multiple families, unrelated by blood.<br />
*How do they treat 'others' within their society? : Largely with disdain, though they do venerate their elders.<br />
*Notable rituals : On the age of maturity of a Nusriza - 17 - their relatives hold a celebration that involves a 2 day event called, translated of course, called [[Seventeen Mirrors]]. In the first day, 17 people spend time with the young Nusriza in a ritualistic circle, speaking the truth about the shortcomings of the young one with the aid of an intoxicant they brew from the shells of their eggs called '[[Poivirn|poivirn]]'. On the second day, the virtues of the person coming-of-age are extolled and gifts are presented by each of the 17 to the subject of the ritual. At the end, that Nusriza is formally welcomed as a full member of the Throng.<br />
*How do they view [[Kith|kith]] users? : They have a fairly equal mix of [[Void Kith|void]] and [[Star Kith|star kith]] users, but they're a new race to kith. The Echanine religion prohibited its use until the Schism.<br />
*Entertainment : Their language - Nusrizan - is renowned for its musicality and the difficulty with which non-natives speak it. It's both a tonal and gesture language, with 14 different distinct tones lending shading to the meaning of words, and a wide variety of subtle hand gestures that shade the meaning of those toned words further. The result is that those who can't move both their hands sound 'flat' to Nusrizan ears - their meaning can certainly be understood, but to them it is like listening to someone speak without inflection, tone, or variation in pacing. They are similarly skilled singers, and vocal competitions are very popular with the Nusrizans.<br />
*Government : Monarchy. Ruler is titled the "[[Tajhan]]". It's a hereditary post, though there have been times in its history where the ruling family was wiped out by accident or assassination, typically leading to war among the Throngs until a new power structure emerges that is capable of choosing a leader strong enough to hold onto the position.<br />
*Current Tajhan : [[Abelin Artunduaga]] (m).<br />
* When did they achieve spaceflight? : About 24,000 years ago.<br />
*Sources of wealth : They're experts in sensor technology.<br />
*Religion : They have a monotheistic religion called [[Echanism]] that worships a single god they call Echanine, but it is by no means believed in by all Nusriza. It is a warrior, protector God, and much of their race lost faith in it during the [[Bushraki Wars]], when it became clear that Echanine either wouldn't protect them, couldn't protect them, or didn't exist, and they joined into the [[Song Dominion]] with several other races. Echanism prohibited fraternization with other races until then, as well as the use of kith, both of which were restrictions large swathes of Nusrizan society were sick of and, under threat during the wars, rejected completely. This led to the [[Echanine Schism]], which took place from 31 A.E. to 35 A.E. This internal religious war split their society, and over time those who reject Echanine have come to dominate Nusrizan culture and leadership.<br />
*Architecture : Their buildings have large open portals to the outside for young Nusriza to fly in and out of, and they also build large living environments above the clouds, supported on huge, rigid supports.<br />
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==Excerpt Regarding the Tukkav==<br />
The mighty [[Tukkav]] are a large, exceptionally hairy race that hail from a fairly cold home planet and prefer cool temperatures. Their home planet - [[Uycheon III]] - has a climate ranging from the merely temperate at the equator to uninhabitably cold, even for the Tukkav, towards the poles.<br />
*Home System : [[Uycheon]]<br />
*Homeworld : Uycheon III<br />
*Capital City : None<br />
*Reproduction : They undergo live birth after an approximately 11 month gestation.<br />
*Lifespan : About 110 years.<br />
*Preferred foods : They're omnivores with a wide variety in their diet, and they really enjoy drinking [[|Lapteth Beer|lapteth beer]], which is a beer made from a grain - [[Lapteth|lapteth]] - native to their world. It's quite bitter, and considered an acquired taste by non-Tukkav.<br />
*Family life : They largely mate for life, and often decline to seek a new mate if their first dies.<br />
*Social structure : Historically, the Tukkav were a nomadic race, traveling in tribes of interrelated families across the plains and snowy forests of their homeworld, and they retain some of that tribal structure today.<br />
*When was spaceflight achieved? : Approximately 16,000 years ago.<br />
*Historical enemies : They and the [[Loroi]] have a strong dislike for each other, nearly universally, and have been at war with each other on and off for the past 1700 years.<br />
*Notable rituals : Their oldest ritual - a gathering of the tribes - is called the [[Ouran]]. Every ten years, going back to time immemorial, each tribe has done their best to send some number of representatives from that tribe, of which there are thousands, to the Ouran. Tribes that roamed or later permanently dwelt close to where that decade's Ouran would be - the location chosen varied each time - sent many, and tribes from far away may send only a handful, or even just one. At the Ouran, matters of cultural importance are discussed, and major feuds between tribes are adjudicated. And, of course, there are celebrations, with a great deal of drinking and playing of the [[Toof|toof]], their most historically significant musical instrument. The toof originates from the pre-spaceflight age of their species, and is a horn instrument, powered by breath, that has a tonal range varying from deep bass to mid-tone.<br />
*Entertainment : Toof circles, where everybody brings a toof and plays together while consuming enormous quantities of lapteth beer are popular. Hunting is another popular activity, and the Tukkav have had to resort to releasing animals bred in captivity into the wild to later hunt, as they've done such an unfortunately effective job of depopulating the wildlife of their home planet. Because this isn't really considered particularly sporting, hunting safaris to alien planets teeming with wildlife - especially dangerous wildlife - are an especially popular vacation to take.<br />
*Government : Their race doesn't have an overall government, except in the form of the once-every-decade Ouran, or in case of war, in which case the tribes select a single [[Warleader]]. Each tribe maintains its own military, and their shipyards are run by private conglomerations.<br />
*Key historical events : About 2500 years ago, there was a great war between alliances of tribes, who marshaled their starship fleets to go to war over a dispute about access to the homeworld. The Tukkav race had grown far too populated to fit on Uchyeon III comfortably, and an alliance of tribes on the planet declared the world closed to those tribes living on colonized planets or on space stations. The [[Home War]], as it was known, was eventually won by those tribes living on Uchyeon, and in the aftermath, many of the resources of the defeated were seized. Today, a small remnant of these defeated Tukkav live on as bitter outsiders with an intense hatred of most of their own race. They call themselves the [[Exiles]], and are scattered about Starmourn, often found working as manual laborers, slaves, or, occasionally functioning as pirate gangs on the starways. The other Tukkav call them names much less polite, including the Rejected or, more colloquially, 'crinkers.'<br />
*Sources of wealth : The Tukkav build excellent starship superstructures and also own many mining corporations that strip the resources from planets too cold to be comfortable for most other races.<br />
*Religion : Many of them have a kind of residual animism that leads them to revere that which they hunt, both for sport and meat.<br />
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[[Category:Shen]]<br />
[[Category:Nath-el]]<br />
[[Category:Elgan]]<br />
[[Category:Ry'nari]]<br />
[[Category:Nusriza]]<br />
[[Category:Tukkav]]<br />
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<div>The '''Ouran''' is the decennial meeting of the various [[Tukkav]] tribes. A time-honored tradition amongst the the nomadic people of [[Uycheon III]], each tribe sends representatives to discuss matters of culture, politics, war, as well as to celebrate their civilization with [[Toof|toof circles]] and [[Lapteth Beer|lapteth beer]]. <br />
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[[Category:Tukkav]]<br />
[[Category:Art and Culture]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=Ouran&diff=1008Ouran2016-09-13T23:44:22Z<p>Nicholas: Tukkav Update</p>
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<div>The '''Ouran''' is the decennial meeting of the various [[Tukkav]] tribes. A time-honored tradition amongst the the nomadic people of [[Uycheon III]], each tribe sends representatives to discuss matters of culture, politics, war, as well as to celebrate their civilization with [[Toof|toof circles]] and [[Laptheth Beer|lapteth beer]]. <br />
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[[Category:Tukkav]]<br />
[[Category:Art and Culture]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=Mezer_Juul&diff=1007Mezer Juul2016-09-13T23:37:25Z<p>Nicholas: </p>
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<div>'''Commander Mezer Juul''' is the supreme leader of the [[Free Fleet]]. He offered the [[Humans|Human]] inmates of [[Callisto]] the opportunity to enlist in the Free Fleet after seeing their battle prowess against the [[Vendal]] and eventually appointed [[Maddox Khan]] as Captain of the [[Omega Company]], an elite division of Human soldiers. [[Kemran James|Sergeant Kemran James's]] accounts imply that Juul is a rather militaristic and ruthless individual, selling other species as livestock or worse, exterminating whole civilizations.<br />
[[Category:Free Fleet]]<br />
[[Category:People]]<br />
[[Category:Tukkav]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=Tukkav&diff=1006Tukkav2016-09-13T23:36:32Z<p>Nicholas: Tukkav Update</p>
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<div>{{Race_infobox<br />
|racename=Tukkav<br />
|leader=None<br />
|system=[[Uycheon]]<br />
|homeworld=[[Uycheon III]]<br />
|capital=None<br />
|allies=Unknown<br />
|enemies=[[Loroi]]}}<br />
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==Morphology and Physiology==<br />
The Tukkav are a physically imposing humanoid race with distinctive primate-like characteristics. They are almost completely covered in thick hair with the exception of their face, hands, and feet. Due to this, they prefer cooler climates. Tukkav mate for life, tending not to find another partner after their mate's death. Females reproduce via live birth after a 11 month gestation period, usually producing one offspring at a time. They are omnivores, suiting their race nomadic traditions.<br />
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==History==<br />
The Tukkav achieved space flight approximately 16,000 years ago. A civil war was fought amongst the Tukkav over access to their homeworld, [[Uycheon III]]. The [[Home War]], as it became known, exiled Tukkav not living on the homeworld permanently in order to deal with the planet's overpopulation. The Tukkav have been at war with the the [[Loroi]] on and off for the last 1,700 years.<br />
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==Culture==<br />
The Tukkav culture evolved from various independent, nomadic groups, and still retains many of these aspects today. The most significant being that there is no centralized Tukkav government. Tribes still remain notoriously independent, maintaining their own individual subcultures including unique economies, spacefaring, and military infrastructures. They only come together during special gatherings held every decade called the [[Ouran]] or in times of war to appoint a common [[Warleader]]. <br />
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The Ouran is a time-honored tradition amongst the Tukkav, where each tribe sends representatives to discuss matters of culture, negotiate and settle debts and disputes, and celebrate in general. In particularly, they enjoy partaking a particularly bitter alcoholic beverage called [[Lapteth Beer|lapteth beer]] derived from a [[Lapteth|native grain]] of the same name. Likewise, while imbibing their favorite beverages, they play in [[Toof|toof]] circles, a horn-like instrument.<br />
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The Tukkav are known for their mining operations on planets that are typically too cold for most races to safely operate. Although the Tukkav once had many colonies and off-world operations, overpopulation saw all individuals living off-world forsaken in the Home War. Those off-worlders became known as the [[Exiled]] and less kindly as the "Rejected" or "Crinkers". <br />
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They are avid hunters, having caused many of the native wildlife on Uycheon III to go extinct despite their animistic religious traditions causing them to revere and thoroughly use that which they slay. Due to the slim pickings on their homeworld, hunting trips on exotic worlds are a favorite vacation for Tukkav.<br />
==Notable Individuals==<br />
[[Mezer Juul]] - Commander of the [[Free Fleet]]<br />
[[Category:Tukkav]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=Tukkav&diff=1005Tukkav2016-09-13T23:35:03Z<p>Nicholas: Tukkav Update</p>
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|racename=Tukkav<br />
|leader=Unknown<br />
|system=Unknown<br />
|homeworld=Unknown<br />
|capital=Unknown<br />
|allies=Unknown<br />
|enemies=Unknown}}<br />
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==Morphology and Physiology==<br />
The Tukkav are a physically imposing humanoid race with distinctive primate-like characteristics. They are almost completely covered in thick hair with the exception of their face, hands, and feet. Due to this, they prefer cooler climates. Tukkav mate for life, tending not to find another partner after their mate's death. Females reproduce via live birth after a 11 month gestation period, usually producing one offspring at a time. They are omnivores, suiting their race nomadic traditions.<br />
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==History==<br />
The Tukkav achieved space flight approximately 16,000 years ago. A civil war was fought amongst the Tukkav over access to their homeworld, [[Uycheon III]]. The [[Home War]], as it became known, exiled Tukkav not living on the homeworld permanently in order to deal with the planet's overpopulation. The Tukkav have been at war with the the [[Loroi]] on and off for the last 1,700 years.<br />
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==Culture==<br />
The Tukkav culture evolved from various independent, nomadic groups, and still retains many of these aspects today. The most significant being that there is no centralized Tukkav government. Tribes still remain notoriously independent, maintaining their own individual subcultures including unique economies, spacefaring, and military infrastructures. They only come together during special gatherings held every decade called the [[Ouran]] or in times of war to appoint a common [[Warleader]]. <br />
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The Ouran is a time-honored tradition amongst the Tukkav, where each tribe sends representatives to discuss matters of culture, negotiate and settle debts and disputes, and celebrate in general. In particularly, they enjoy partaking a particularly bitter alcoholic beverage called [[Lapteth Beer|lapteth beer]] derived from a [[Lapteth|native grain]] of the same name. Likewise, while imbibing their favorite beverages, they play in [[Toof|toof]] circles, a horn-like instrument.<br />
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The Tukkav are known for their mining operations on planets that are typically too cold for most races to safely operate. Although the Tukkav once had many colonies and off-world operations, overpopulation saw all individuals living off-world forsaken in the Home War. Those off-worlders became known as the [[Exiled]] and less kindly as the "Rejected" or "Crinkers". <br />
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They are avid hunters, having caused many of the native wildlife on Uycheon III to go extinct despite their animistic religious traditions causing them to revere and thoroughly use that which they slay. Due to the slim pickings on their homeworld, hunting trips on exotic worlds are a favorite vacation for Tukkav.<br />
[[Category:Tukkav]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=Tukkav&diff=1004Tukkav2016-09-13T23:17:05Z<p>Nicholas: /* History */</p>
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|leader=Unknown<br />
|system=Unknown<br />
|homeworld=Unknown<br />
|capital=Unknown<br />
|allies=Unknown<br />
|enemies=Unknown}}<br />
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==Morphology and Physiology==<br />
The Tukkav are a physically imposing humanoid race with distinctive primate-like characteristics. They are almost completely covered in thick hair with the exception of their face, hands, and feet. Due to this, they prefer cooler climates. Tukkav mate for life, tending not to find another partner after their mate's death. Females reproduce via live birth after a 11 month gestation period, usually producing one offspring at a time. They are omnivores, suiting their race nomadic traditions.<br />
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==History==<br />
The Tukkav achieved space flight approximately 16,000 years ago. A civil war was fought amongst the Tukkav over access to their homeworld, [[Uycheon III]]. The [[Home War]], as it became known, exiled Tukkav not living on the homeworld permanently in order to deal with the planet's overpopulation. The Tukkav have been at war with the the [[Loroi]] on and off for the last 1,700 years.<br />
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==Culture==<br />
Nothing is currently known about the culture of the Tukkav<br />
[[Category:Tukkav]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=Tukkav&diff=1003Tukkav2016-09-13T23:16:54Z<p>Nicholas: Tukkav Update</p>
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|racename=Tukkav<br />
|leader=Unknown<br />
|system=Unknown<br />
|homeworld=Unknown<br />
|capital=Unknown<br />
|allies=Unknown<br />
|enemies=Unknown}}<br />
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==Morphology and Physiology==<br />
The Tukkav are a physically imposing humanoid race with distinctive primate-like characteristics. They are almost completely covered in thick hair with the exception of their face, hands, and feet. Due to this, they prefer cooler climates. Tukkav mate for life, tending not to find another partner after their mate's death. Females reproduce via live birth after a 11 month gestation period, usually producing one offspring at a time. They are omnivores, suiting their race nomadic traditions.<br />
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==History==<br />
The Tukkav achieved space flight approximately 16,000 years ago. A civil war was fought amongst the Tukkav over access to their homeworld, [[Uycheon III]. The [[Home War]], as it became known, exiled Tukkav not living on the homeworld permanently in order to deal with the planet's overpopulation. The Tukkav have been at war with the the [[Loroi]] on and off for the last 1,700 years.<br />
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==Culture==<br />
Nothing is currently known about the culture of the Tukkav<br />
[[Category:Tukkav]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=Tukkav&diff=1002Tukkav2016-09-13T23:13:02Z<p>Nicholas: Tukkav Update</p>
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|racename=Tukkav<br />
|leader=Unknown<br />
|system=Unknown<br />
|homeworld=Unknown<br />
|capital=Unknown<br />
|allies=Unknown<br />
|enemies=Unknown}}<br />
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==Morphology and Physiology==<br />
The Tukkav are a physically imposing humanoid race with distinctive primate-like characteristics. They are almost completely covered in thick hair with the exception of their face, hands, and feet. Due to this, they prefer cooler climates. Tukkav mate for life, tending not to find another partner after their mate's death. Females reproduce via live birth after a 11 month gestation period, usually producing one offspring at a time. They are omnivores, suiting their race nomadic traditions.<br />
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==History==<br />
Nothing is currently known about the history of the Tukkav besides that they have some dealings with the [[Free Fleet]].<br />
==Culture==<br />
Nothing is currently known about the culture of the Tukkav<br />
[[Category:Tukkav]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=File:Uycheon.jpg&diff=1001File:Uycheon.jpg2016-09-13T23:02:57Z<p>Nicholas: </p>
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<div>The harsh polar climates of [[Uycheon III]]<br />
[[Category: Space]]<br />
[[Category: Planets]]<br />
[[Category: Tukkav]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=File:Uycheon.jpg&diff=1000File:Uycheon.jpg2016-09-13T23:02:40Z<p>Nicholas: The harsh polar climates of Uycheon III
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<div>The harsh polar climates of [[Uycheon III]]<br />
[[Category: Space]]<br />
[[Category: Planets]]<br />
[[Category: Tukkav</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=File:Maletukkav.jpg&diff=999File:Maletukkav.jpg2016-09-13T23:01:19Z<p>Nicholas: </p>
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<div>A male Tukkav wielding [[Missile|missile launcher]]<br />
[[Category:Tukkav]]<br />
[[Category:Races]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=File:Maletukkav.jpg&diff=998File:Maletukkav.jpg2016-09-13T23:00:49Z<p>Nicholas: A male Tukkav wielding missle launcher
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<div>A male Tukkav wielding [[Missle|missle launcher]]<br />
[[Category:Tukkav]]<br />
[[Category:Races]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=File:Femaletukkav.jpg&diff=997File:Femaletukkav.jpg2016-09-13T22:59:32Z<p>Nicholas: A female Tukkav star captain.
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<div>A female Tukkav star captain.<br />
[[Category:Races]]<br />
[[Category:Tukkav]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=Catalog_of_the_Races_of_the_Starmourn_Sector&diff=996Catalog of the Races of the Starmourn Sector2016-09-13T22:56:43Z<p>Nicholas: /* Excerpt Concerning the Nusriza */</p>
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<div>'''A Catalog of the Races of the Starmourn Sector''' is a book by various authors containing, as the name implies, information on the various races that inhabit the [[Starmourn Sector]]. <br />
==Excerpt Regarding the Shen==<br />
“A Catalog of the Races of Starmourn Sector”<br />
By: Various authors<br />
Date: Last updated 0919/03/17 A.E.<br />
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The [[Shen]] are one of Starmourn's older [[Younger Races]] in terms of the age of their civilization, though they're far from the eldest. Famous for their former connection with the believed-extinct [[Elder Races|Elder Race]] of the [[Utan Mir]], today they are famous for their real estate and transportation interstellar corporations. <br />
*Homeworld System : [[Barrak]]<br />
*Homeworld : [[Kovalar]]<br />
*Capital City : [[Janilyn]]<br />
*Reproduction : Live birth with a gestation period of 13 months.<br />
*Avg. Lifespan : 120 years<br />
*Diet : They're vegetarians and can't tolerate meat barring one specific exception around birth - see below.<br />
*Temperament : Calm and collected when sober. After a few cups of [[Rootwine|rootwine]] or a spoon of [[Fermented Vuu Honey|fermented vuu honey]] though, this veneer is frequently shattered. You'll see them weaving on their feet, collapsing in each other's arms in hysterical laughter, and even brawling.<br />
*Likes/Dislikes : They find meat-eating to others to be quite distasteful, and unless they're intoxicated, they tend to exhibit little tolerance for the lazy, for practical jokes, or even most humor.<br />
*Romantic relationships : They're strongly monogamous and though divorce is culturally permitted, it's considered fairly shameful and is rarely done. Homosexuality is common and unremarkable, as with all civilized races.<br />
*Family structure : Their social structure is such that the partner from the family with higher social standing is generally recognized as the head of the family, though they have a birth ritual (see below) that is a holdover from older times when their culture was more paternalistic.<br />
*How do they treat the helpless? : They venerate the elderly, but, in a practice that is losing favor, infants born with serious discernible defects are sometimes left to die of exposure.<br />
*Notable rituals : On birth, it is traditional for the eldest living member (male or female) of the father's direct ancestry to perform the [[Ritual of Coadunation]], in which this eldest of the paternal line consumes part of the placenta of the newborn - the only 'meat' the Shen ever consume. This ceremony is meant to symbolically join the two families as the eldest of one takes the body of the youngest of the other into him or her.<br />
*Social mobility : The Shen culture can be somewhat rigid and while they don't have formal castes, the importance of one's family has a large influence on the range of stations likely available to you in life.<br />
*Entertainment The Shen are great lovers of art, including elaborate soundscapes called '[[Aetherscape|Aetherscapes]]' that they listen to in specially-designed anechoic (meaning totally echo-less) chambers. To non-Shen ears, they're tuneless, chaotic noise, as is the case for even the Shen if any echoes are permitted to pollute the incredibly subtle patterns in the sound. To a Shen in an [[Anechoic Chamber|anechoic chamber]], these Aetherscapes paint aural pictures that convey enormous subtlety of emotion and gradation of concepts. Some of their most famous historical figures were Aetherscape composers, like [[Roan Sheel]] (deceased) and [[Yen Agafan]] (alive and old today), whose most famous - or infamous if you're not Shen - piece is "[[The Palette of the Stars]]."<br />
*Government : Their government is composed of two parts, apart from the [[Judiciary|judiciary]]: An elected body called the [[Assembly]], and the [[Council of Great Family Elders]]. Each of the recognized Great Families has a representative on the Council - typically, but not always the eldest member of that Family. They elect one member of the council to be the Head of State, called the [[Prime Elder]]. The Prime Elder leads the Shen and proposes new legislation, but the Assembly must ratify that legislation for it to become law.<br />
*Prime Elder : The current Prime Elder is [[Jatt Yaghah]] (male).<br />
*How old is their culture? : They achieved spaceflight approximately 110,000 years ago.<br />
*What are their primary industries? : Although like any modern economy, theirs is complex and multi-faceted, the Shen are particularly known for their interest in real estate and transportation. They particularly favor real estate in high-end resort areas, and on a few [[Leisure Planet|leisure planets]] they've snapped up virtually every single kilometer of shoreline. Their interstellar transportation industry is renowned for a logistical efficiency matched by few others.<br />
*Historical enemies : They've had many conflicts with the shapeshifting [[Fatar]] race, whom they detest. In the [[Changeling War]], long ago, it was first discovered that the Fatar had infiltrated the Shen's government, its military, and its society. The resulting series of paranoid purges almost certainly killed far more Shen than Fatar, and the Shen have since tried more than once, unsuccessfully, to wipe out their enemy. They're also implacable foes of the [[Ishvana]] ever since that terrible being's destruction of the Utan Mir, who they venerated and who taught them so much.<br />
*Religion : If the Shen were ever a religious people, they abandoned their religion long ago.<br />
*Language : The Shen use two racial languages - [[Low Shen]] and [[High Shen]]. The former is what they use most of the time in day-to-day use. The latter is a dialect reserved for important events like the Ritual of Coadunation or the funeral of a Prime Elder.<br />
==Excerpt Regarding the Nath-el==<br />
The [[Nath-el]] are a highly communalistic race whose members don't tend to place much importance on the needs of the individual. One of a handful of insectoid races known to us, they are ruled by a [[Nath-el Queen|Queen]] who exercises absolute authority over their territory.<br />
*Homeworld System : [[Faleon]]<br />
*Homeworld : [[Jerzah]]<br />
*Capital city : [[Narisiriz]]<br />
*Reproduction : The female produces an eggsac inside her body and is fertilized by a male. She then incubates those relatively small eggs for 2 months in her body before laying them. For 2 more weeks, the eggs must be kept warm and then the hatchlings break their way out. They then spend 18 months nursing and quickly growing.<br />
*Lifespan : 85 years.<br />
*Diet : Omnivores with a taste for anything sweet. Big fans of [[Fermented Vuu Honey|fermented vuu honey]].<br />
*Temperament : By other race's standards, they can be a little intense and frenetic.<br />
*Strong likes/dislikes : They don't tend to like being alone, and prefer to live with many other Nath-el around them when possible. Their youth has an unfortunate tendency towards drug addiction, leading to very strict anti-drug laws on Jerzah.<br />
*Romantic relationships : They're serial monogamists, essentially, and rarely bond for life.<br />
*Family structure : They don't have or recognize permanent families, as such. When a pair has offspring, they will usually stay together long enough for the offspring to become reasonably self-sufficient, at which point the community-at-large becomes responsible for the well-being of the youngsters. Parent/child relationships are much, much less important after that to the Nath-el than to other races.<br />
*How do they treat the helpless? : Not well, but it's not out of malice. They're simply very communalistic, and if an individual can't contribute, what good is he?<br />
*Notable rituals : The Nath-el do not place great importance on ritual. They're a highly practical race focused on doing something because it works and produces a desirable result for their culture, not on doing something for the sake of tradition.<br />
*Entertainment : For all their perceived energy and sometimes frantic nature, they prefer minimalist entertainment. They have a form of staged live entertainment that consists of rhythmic thrumming combined with something like very slow dancing that involves transitioning deliberately between static, held poses that, when combined with the thrumming, tells a symbolic story. They call these, translated into [[Galactic Standard]], "[[Pattern Play|Pattern Plays]]."<br />
*Government : While they are not telepaths, they share such a strong common understanding that there is no need to debate who should lead their people. It is simply known, and it is always a female, ruling as Queen. She wields absolute power over her territory.<br />
*When did they achieve spaceflight? : 32,000 years ago.<br />
*Allies/enemies : They hate the [[Sa'hak-ren]], who destroyed a budding Nath-el Empire about 1400 years ago. They're also not fond, at all, of the [[Nabia]], who have long preyed on the tendency younger Nath-el have towards severe drug addiction. They believe the [[Oteel]] - who are largely enslaved by the shapeshifting [[Fatar]] - are their evolutionary cousins.<br />
*Economy : The Nath-el manufature some of the very best [[Artificial Intelligence|AI]] tech, particularly suited to massively parallel tasks like [[Missile|self-correcting missile]] flight path solutions or coordinating the operation of a [[Nanotechnology|nanoswarm]].<br />
*Religion : The Nath-el believe there's a 'spirit', for lack of a better translation, that embodies everything that "is known" about their race. They call it the [[Nath-et]], meaning, roughly, 'All Of Us.' The Nath-et isn't a personified, personality-filled being, however. They view it as part of their spiritual existence. The Nath-et represents everything about the way things 'should' work in Nath-el society. It's viewed as the inevitable culmination of their race's evolution.<br />
*What's their architecture like? : They're known for building [[Hive|Hives]], which are the favored dwelling places of those who can afford to live in them. Hives are essentially huge communal pods that sit above the rest of the city they're in. <br />
==Excerpt Regarding the Elgan==<br />
The [[Elgan]] are a race that had to fight to gain the acceptance of the other members of Starmourn Sector due to a combination of their relatively small size and their tendency to deal with most situations by finding something amusing to laugh at.<br />
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Make no mistake, however - they're as sophisticated and advanced a culture and society as most of the races in Starmourn.<br />
*Homeworld : [[Krell]]<br />
*System : [[Tethan]]<br />
*Capital City : [[Biloxan]]<br />
*Reproduction :Live birth with a gestation period of about 8 months.<br />
*Lifespan : 80 years.<br />
*Preferred foods : They're omnivores but tend to really enjoy fruit of all kinds.<br />
*Temperament : Fairly cheerful generally, though they hold grudges like champions.<br />
*Life priorities : Wealth accumulation, that they may leave the largest fortune possible to the [[Elgan Collective]] (see below) when they die. They aren't fundamentalist about this, and do seek to leave something to their children, but theirs is a highly communal society.<br />
*Strong likes/dislikes : They're big fans of elaborate practical jokes and love to dance, incorporating it into many of their rituals. Yes, they look slightly ridiculous doing it to most other races, but you're likely to get a [[Blaster|blaster]] in the crotch if you mention that to an Elgan. They're also well-known for hating bullies and for possessing a strong work ethic.<br />
*Romantic relationships : They're generally monogamous, but typically if one partner dies, the other marries one of the dead partner's sisters or brothers.<br />
*Family structure : Big, extended families that live together in large, roughly circular buildings called [[Toh]], which often have spires on top. Many families will live in a single Toh.<br />
*How do they treat the weak? : Very well generally. They always take care of their elders, and have great sympathy for the sick, the disfigured, and the differently abled.<br />
*Notable rituals : Their marriage ritual translates to '[[Binding Dance|The Binding Dance]].' It's a complex dance in which the guests whirl themselves through complicated patterns while holding silken ribbons. As they dance about the two participants, they end up tying a particular knot - called the [[Argisan]] - around them, symbolizing that their two lives are now bound together.<br />
*What's their relationship with technology? : They are, generally speaking, big fans of tech, from the gadget level to the workings of starships. The [[Vyar]] - a dead Elder race - are a popular subject in their recorded entertainment, possibly a result.<br />
*What do they like for entertainment? : Because their home planet - Krell - is notoriously rainy, and because their Toh are fairly crowded, their chief hobbies and past times have evolved from activities you can perform indoors. Gambling and dancing are probably the two most widely enjoyed among Elgan.<br />
*Government structure : They're a representative democracy called the Elgan Collective, with a trio of leaders elected by the Collective called the [[Trinity]]. In practice they're highly socialist and it's said that "nobody goes to bed hungry on Krell."<br />
*Current Trinity members : [[Poji Gawin]] (m), [[Trinoa Banmyn]] (f), [[Nici Triceli]] (f)<br />
*How old is their civilization? : They achieved spaceflight about 22,000 years ago.<br />
*Historical allies/enemies? : They've had a lot of conflict with the Nabia, whose drug-peddling they detest. About 125 years ago, some of the Elgan formed the [[Elgan Underground]] as a rival 'criminal' organization, with a mission to disrupt the Nabia's drug trade without open warfare.<br />
*What are their major sources of wealth? : The Elgan are renowned as traders in rare goods and in the manufacture of handheld weaponry.<br />
*What are their religious beliefs? : They believe that their ancestors - all of them - are gods, meaning that the more time passes, the more gods that exist. Of course, with so many gods, a god in their society is not considered particularly remarkable, which isn't to say it isn't to be venerated. They believe that as part of the same culture as their ancestor-gods, they enjoy participation in the divine while still alive. This religious belief is the core of their communalistic nature.<br />
==Excerpt Regarding the Ry'nari==<br />
The Ry'nari are a contentious, tribal race whose culture is underpinned by a complex series of alliances of alliances between extended families.<br />
*Home System - [[Valdorn]]<br />
*Homeworld - [[Hororeon]]<br />
*Capital city - [[Ostari]]<br />
*Reproduction - Live birth, 11 month gestation period. Never more than one child at a time. Their children tend to have a high mortality rate in the first two years of life.<br />
*Lifespan - 100 years.<br />
*Preferred foods - They're biologically omnivores but, as you can discern from their their teeth - clearly evolved for shredding and ripping - meat is their preferred food.<br />
*Life priorities - Fostering a large family is a big one, perhaps driven by the fact that the females can only bear one child at a time, and that that child is more likely to die than survive its first two years.<br />
*Strong likes/dislikes - They have a strange relationship with music in that they don't appear to have the same kind of tonal recognition virtually all other sentient species do. Most music, to a Ry'nari, sounds like unstructured noise. Instead, they enjoy a type of atonal chanting called '[[kave]]' whose individual words or phrases have no overt meaning, but which are meant to build a series of suggestions in the mind of the listener.<br />
*Romantic relationships - In ideal circumstances, they bond for life, but the exigencies of existence in Starmourn sometimes dictate that the convention be broken with divorce and/or remarriage.<br />
*Societal structure - They live in a three-tiered structure. Family -> [[Tribe]] -> [[Horde]]. Family is what it sounds like. Tribes are collections of inter-related families, and a Horde is a collection of tribes allied together.<br />
*Treatment of 'others' - Mostly fine, though adults who haven't yet had children are regarded with a mixture of pity and disgust, and by middle-age, those without children are social pariahs.<br />
*Notable rituals - On the death of a horde leader, all the tribes gather for a multi-day bacchanalia called the [[Narangerel]] followed by selection of a new horde leader in a process called the [[Gomoran]]. Each of the tribes that wishes to contend for leadership puts forward a leader, and that leader assembles a group of six Ry'nari from his or her tribe. These groups of six then face off in combat, armed with ancient weapons, to determine who will lead the Horde. The prospective leaders themselves don't do battle - why kill off some of the strongest leaders in the Horde?<br />
*Social mobility - Economically, an enormous amount, but in terms of advancement in any kind of politics, you have to be part of a good family in a great tribe to have a chance to become a horde leader. However, the reality is that even socially 'low' individuals can wield great power by buying influence.<br />
*Entertainment - Nothing is more popular than a Narangerel and the following Gomoran, but the Ry'nari also, somewhat surprisingly to outsiders, revere abstract sculpture and are considered masters of it.<br />
*Government structure - [[Council of the Hordes]] - the Horde leaders make up the government. However, there have been times in the past when a single Horde leader has seized sole power. In particular, [[Harec Gankeot]] famously unified the hordes as [[Mogul]] and won the first war against the [[W'hoorn]]. They are currently ruled by a Mogul - [[Shima Sual]] (female).<br />
*Allies or enemies - The W'hoorn are a historical enemy of theirs, and few of the civilized races of Starmourn have seen as much conflict as the two have over the aeons.<br />
*Major sources of wealth - Production of the ubiquitous [[Quantum Power Cell|quantum power cell]] as well as huge architecture and engineering firms specializing in orbital structures.<br />
*Religion - They don't have a religion per-se, but they retain certain animist superstitions such that they're prone to feeling like objects have spirits and personalities, even when they "know" better. This leads them to occasionally treat items they are angry at like enemies to be broken...leading to said things being broken.<br />
==Excerpt Regarding the Nusriza==<br />
The [[Nusriza]] are a fierce, sexually-aggressive race with perhaps the most difficult language among the core Starmourn species.<br />
*Home System : [[Frixion]]<br />
*Homeworld :: [[Frixion VI]]<br />
*Capital City : [[Mir]]<br />
*Reproduction : They reproduce via eggs, with the female laying 1-2 eggs that will hatch 120 days later. They hatch as flying four-legged lizards and grow until they get to be about 4-5 feet long and 15 Galactic Years old or so. About that time, they become very sexually aggressive, and mate furiously with each other for a couple of years in a period known as the [[Quickening]]. The females can't get pregnant during this time, however. The mating is actually a complicated, evolved drive to force their bodies, both male and female, into a highly nutritionally-deprived state. In this state, their bodies intensely crave the meat of the [[Algerion|algerion]] - huge, non-sentient creatures that create gas balloons out of giant air sacs in their bodies. The algerion secrete an exotic blend of chemicals that are lighter than the air of their world, and allow them to fly - something the Nusriza have taken advantage of as a novelty method of transport.<br />
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:Certain enzymes in the meat of the algerion slowly change their body - they begin to grow larger, and more musclar. As that happens, :their hip muscle structure changes to permit upright walking, and their forelimbs gradually gain more mobility. During this process, :their wings become first very tender, and then finally shrivel up and are discarded by their bodies. There are, however, a very small :percentage of Nusriza who are genetically unreceptive to the change the alergion meat causes, and as a result, stay in the Quickening, :alternating between seeking sex anywhere they can get it, and collapsing from exhaustion. Most of these Nusriza, unless they're being :taken care of and their sexual needs provided for, starve to death or are killed after seeking seek with the unwilling.<br />
*Lifespan : About 160 years.<br />
*Preferred foods : Aside from algerion meat, which is largely eaten during the Quickening, they're carnivores with a strong love of grubs, worms, and small insects. They eat these in a thousand different variations, full of spices. They might be fried, baked, roasted, eaten raw, poached, boiled, or any number of methods. They also enjoy smoking a substance made from the dried skins of tiny grubs called 'leesa' that gets them very mildly high, but is mainly about social lubrication - it's nothing like the drugs the [[Nabia]] peddle.<br />
*Romantic relationships : They are generally long-term monogamous.<br />
*Family structure : They live in [[Throng|Throngs]], where after the egg hatches it is raised communally by others in the Throng, which consists of multiple families, unrelated by blood.<br />
*How do they treat 'others' within their society? : Largely with disdain, though they do venerate their elders.<br />
*Notable rituals : On the age of maturity of a Nusriza - 17 - their relatives hold a celebration that involves a 2 day event called, translated of course, called [[Seventeen Mirrors]]. In the first day, 17 people spend time with the young Nusriza in a ritualistic circle, speaking the truth about the shortcomings of the young one with the aid of an intoxicant they brew from the shells of their eggs called '[[Poivirn|poivirn]]'. On the second day, the virtues of the person coming-of-age are extolled and gifts are presented by each of the 17 to the subject of the ritual. At the end, that Nusriza is formally welcomed as a full member of the Throng.<br />
*How do they view [[Kith|kith]] users? : They have a fairly equal mix of [[Void Kith|void]] and [[Star Kith|star kith]] users, but they're a new race to kith. The Echanine religion prohibited its use until the Schism.<br />
*Entertainment : Their language - Nusrizan - is renowned for its musicality and the difficulty with which non-natives speak it. It's both a tonal and gesture language, with 14 different distinct tones lending shading to the meaning of words, and a wide variety of subtle hand gestures that shade the meaning of those toned words further. The result is that those who can't move both their hands sound 'flat' to Nusrizan ears - their meaning can certainly be understood, but to them it is like listening to someone speak without inflection, tone, or variation in pacing. They are similarly skilled singers, and vocal competitions are very popular with the Nusrizans.<br />
*Government : Monarchy. Ruler is titled the "[[Tajhan]]". It's a hereditary post, though there have been times in its history where the ruling family was wiped out by accident or assassination, typically leading to war among the Throngs until a new power structure emerges that is capable of choosing a leader strong enough to hold onto the position.<br />
*Current Tajhan : [[Abelin Artunduaga]] (m).<br />
* When did they achieve spaceflight? : About 24,000 years ago.<br />
*Sources of wealth : They're experts in sensor technology.<br />
*Religion : They have a monotheistic religion called [[Echanism]] that worships a single god they call Echanine, but it is by no means believed in by all Nusriza. It is a warrior, protector God, and much of their race lost faith in it during the [[Bushraki Wars]], when it became clear that Echanine either wouldn't protect them, couldn't protect them, or didn't exist, and they joined into the [[Song Dominion]] with several other races. Echanism prohibited fraternization with other races until then, as well as the use of kith, both of which were restrictions large swathes of Nusrizan society were sick of and, under threat during the wars, rejected completely. This led to the [[Echanine Schism]], which took place from 31 A.E. to 35 A.E. This internal religious war split their society, and over time those who reject Echanine have come to dominate Nusrizan culture and leadership.<br />
*Architecture : Their buildings have large open portals to the outside for young Nusriza to fly in and out of, and they also build large living environments above the clouds, supported on huge, rigid supports.<br />
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==Excerpt Regarding the Tukkav==<br />
The mighty [[Tukkav]] are a large, exceptionally hairy race that hail from a fairly cold home planet and prefer cool temperatures. Their home planet - [[Uchyeon III]] - has a climate ranging from the merely temperate at the equator to uninhabitably cold, even for the Tukkav, towards the poles.<br />
*Home System : [[Uycheon]]<br />
*Homeworld : Uycheon III<br />
*Capital City : None<br />
*Reproduction : They undergo live birth after an approximately 11 month gestation.<br />
*Lifespan : About 110 years.<br />
*Preferred foods : They're omnivores with a wide variety in their diet, and they really enjoy drinking [[|Lapteth Beer|lapteth beer]], which is a beer made from a grain - [[Lapteth|lapteth]] - native to their world. It's quite bitter, and considered an acquired taste by non-Tukkav.<br />
*Family life : They largely mate for life, and often decline to seek a new mate if their first dies.<br />
*Social structure : Historically, the Tukkav were a nomadic race, traveling in tribes of interrelated families across the plains and snowy forests of their homeworld, and they retain some of that tribal structure today.<br />
*When was spaceflight achieved? : Approximately 16,000 years ago.<br />
*Historical enemies : They and the [[Loroi]] have a strong dislike for each other, nearly universally, and have been at war with each other on and off for the past 1700 years.<br />
*Notable rituals : Their oldest ritual - a gathering of the tribes - is called the [[Ouran]]. Every ten years, going back to time immemorial, each tribe has done their best to send some number of representatives from that tribe, of which there are thousands, to the Ouran. Tribes that roamed or later permanently dwelt close to where that decade's Ouran would be - the location chosen varied each time - sent many, and tribes from far away may send only a handful, or even just one. At the Ouran, matters of cultural importance are discussed, and major feuds between tribes are adjudicated. And, of course, there are celebrations, with a great deal of drinking and playing of the [[Toof|toof]], their most historically significant musical instrument. The toof originates from the pre-spaceflight age of their species, and is a horn instrument, powered by breath, that has a tonal range varying from deep bass to mid-tone.<br />
*Entertainment : Toof circles, where everybody brings a toof and plays together while consuming enormous quantities of lapteth beer are popular. Hunting is another popular activity, and the Tukkav have had to resort to releasing animals bred in captivity into the wild to later hunt, as they've done such an unfortunately effective job of depopulating the wildlife of their home planet. Because this isn't really considered particularly sporting, hunting safaris to alien planets teeming with wildlife - especially dangerous wildlife - are an especially popular vacation to take.<br />
*Government : Their race doesn't have an overall government, except in the form of the once-every-decade Ouran, or in case of war, in which case the tribes select a single [[Warleader]]. Each tribe maintains its own military, and their shipyards are run by private conglomerations.<br />
*Key historical events : About 2500 years ago, there was a great war between alliances of tribes, who marshaled their starship fleets to go to war over a dispute about access to the homeworld. The Tukkav race had grown far too populated to fit on Uchyeon III comfortably, and an alliance of tribes on the planet declared the world closed to those tribes living on colonized planets or on space stations. The [[Home War]], as it was known, was eventually won by those tribes living on Uchyeon, and in the aftermath, many of the resources of the defeated were seized. Today, a small remnant of these defeated Tukkav live on as bitter outsiders with an intense hatred of most of their own race. They call themselves the [[Exiles]], and are scattered about Starmourn, often found working as manual laborers, slaves, or, occasionally functioning as pirate gangs on the starways. The other Tukkav call them names much less polite, including the Rejected or, more colloquially, 'crinkers.'<br />
*Sources of wealth : The Tukkav build excellent starship superstructures and also own many mining corporations that strip the resources from planets too cold to be comfortable for most other races.<br />
*Religion : Many of them have a kind of residual animism that leads them to revere that which they hunt, both for sport and meat.<br />
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<div>'''A Catalog of the Races of the Starmourn Sector''' is a book by various authors containing, as the name implies, information on the various races that inhabit the [[Starmourn Sector]]. <br />
==Excerpt Regarding the Shen==<br />
“A Catalog of the Races of Starmourn Sector”<br />
By: Various authors<br />
Date: Last updated 0919/03/17 A.E.<br />
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The [[Shen]] are one of Starmourn's older [[Younger Races]] in terms of the age of their civilization, though they're far from the eldest. Famous for their former connection with the believed-extinct [[Elder Races|Elder Race]] of the [[Utan Mir]], today they are famous for their real estate and transportation interstellar corporations. <br />
*Homeworld System : [[Barrak]]<br />
*Homeworld : [[Kovalar]]<br />
*Capital City : [[Janilyn]]<br />
*Reproduction : Live birth with a gestation period of 13 months.<br />
*Avg. Lifespan : 120 years<br />
*Diet : They're vegetarians and can't tolerate meat barring one specific exception around birth - see below.<br />
*Temperament : Calm and collected when sober. After a few cups of [[Rootwine|rootwine]] or a spoon of [[Fermented Vuu Honey|fermented vuu honey]] though, this veneer is frequently shattered. You'll see them weaving on their feet, collapsing in each other's arms in hysterical laughter, and even brawling.<br />
*Likes/Dislikes : They find meat-eating to others to be quite distasteful, and unless they're intoxicated, they tend to exhibit little tolerance for the lazy, for practical jokes, or even most humor.<br />
*Romantic relationships : They're strongly monogamous and though divorce is culturally permitted, it's considered fairly shameful and is rarely done. Homosexuality is common and unremarkable, as with all civilized races.<br />
*Family structure : Their social structure is such that the partner from the family with higher social standing is generally recognized as the head of the family, though they have a birth ritual (see below) that is a holdover from older times when their culture was more paternalistic.<br />
*How do they treat the helpless? : They venerate the elderly, but, in a practice that is losing favor, infants born with serious discernible defects are sometimes left to die of exposure.<br />
*Notable rituals : On birth, it is traditional for the eldest living member (male or female) of the father's direct ancestry to perform the [[Ritual of Coadunation]], in which this eldest of the paternal line consumes part of the placenta of the newborn - the only 'meat' the Shen ever consume. This ceremony is meant to symbolically join the two families as the eldest of one takes the body of the youngest of the other into him or her.<br />
*Social mobility : The Shen culture can be somewhat rigid and while they don't have formal castes, the importance of one's family has a large influence on the range of stations likely available to you in life.<br />
*Entertainment The Shen are great lovers of art, including elaborate soundscapes called '[[Aetherscape|Aetherscapes]]' that they listen to in specially-designed anechoic (meaning totally echo-less) chambers. To non-Shen ears, they're tuneless, chaotic noise, as is the case for even the Shen if any echoes are permitted to pollute the incredibly subtle patterns in the sound. To a Shen in an [[Anechoic Chamber|anechoic chamber]], these Aetherscapes paint aural pictures that convey enormous subtlety of emotion and gradation of concepts. Some of their most famous historical figures were Aetherscape composers, like [[Roan Sheel]] (deceased) and [[Yen Agafan]] (alive and old today), whose most famous - or infamous if you're not Shen - piece is "[[The Palette of the Stars]]."<br />
*Government : Their government is composed of two parts, apart from the [[Judiciary|judiciary]]: An elected body called the [[Assembly]], and the [[Council of Great Family Elders]]. Each of the recognized Great Families has a representative on the Council - typically, but not always the eldest member of that Family. They elect one member of the council to be the Head of State, called the [[Prime Elder]]. The Prime Elder leads the Shen and proposes new legislation, but the Assembly must ratify that legislation for it to become law.<br />
*Prime Elder : The current Prime Elder is [[Jatt Yaghah]] (male).<br />
*How old is their culture? : They achieved spaceflight approximately 110,000 years ago.<br />
*What are their primary industries? : Although like any modern economy, theirs is complex and multi-faceted, the Shen are particularly known for their interest in real estate and transportation. They particularly favor real estate in high-end resort areas, and on a few [[Leisure Planet|leisure planets]] they've snapped up virtually every single kilometer of shoreline. Their interstellar transportation industry is renowned for a logistical efficiency matched by few others.<br />
*Historical enemies : They've had many conflicts with the shapeshifting [[Fatar]] race, whom they detest. In the [[Changeling War]], long ago, it was first discovered that the Fatar had infiltrated the Shen's government, its military, and its society. The resulting series of paranoid purges almost certainly killed far more Shen than Fatar, and the Shen have since tried more than once, unsuccessfully, to wipe out their enemy. They're also implacable foes of the [[Ishvana]] ever since that terrible being's destruction of the Utan Mir, who they venerated and who taught them so much.<br />
*Religion : If the Shen were ever a religious people, they abandoned their religion long ago.<br />
*Language : The Shen use two racial languages - [[Low Shen]] and [[High Shen]]. The former is what they use most of the time in day-to-day use. The latter is a dialect reserved for important events like the Ritual of Coadunation or the funeral of a Prime Elder.<br />
==Excerpt Regarding the Nath-el==<br />
The [[Nath-el]] are a highly communalistic race whose members don't tend to place much importance on the needs of the individual. One of a handful of insectoid races known to us, they are ruled by a [[Nath-el Queen|Queen]] who exercises absolute authority over their territory.<br />
*Homeworld System : [[Faleon]]<br />
*Homeworld : [[Jerzah]]<br />
*Capital city : [[Narisiriz]]<br />
*Reproduction : The female produces an eggsac inside her body and is fertilized by a male. She then incubates those relatively small eggs for 2 months in her body before laying them. For 2 more weeks, the eggs must be kept warm and then the hatchlings break their way out. They then spend 18 months nursing and quickly growing.<br />
*Lifespan : 85 years.<br />
*Diet : Omnivores with a taste for anything sweet. Big fans of [[Fermented Vuu Honey|fermented vuu honey]].<br />
*Temperament : By other race's standards, they can be a little intense and frenetic.<br />
*Strong likes/dislikes : They don't tend to like being alone, and prefer to live with many other Nath-el around them when possible. Their youth has an unfortunate tendency towards drug addiction, leading to very strict anti-drug laws on Jerzah.<br />
*Romantic relationships : They're serial monogamists, essentially, and rarely bond for life.<br />
*Family structure : They don't have or recognize permanent families, as such. When a pair has offspring, they will usually stay together long enough for the offspring to become reasonably self-sufficient, at which point the community-at-large becomes responsible for the well-being of the youngsters. Parent/child relationships are much, much less important after that to the Nath-el than to other races.<br />
*How do they treat the helpless? : Not well, but it's not out of malice. They're simply very communalistic, and if an individual can't contribute, what good is he?<br />
*Notable rituals : The Nath-el do not place great importance on ritual. They're a highly practical race focused on doing something because it works and produces a desirable result for their culture, not on doing something for the sake of tradition.<br />
*Entertainment : For all their perceived energy and sometimes frantic nature, they prefer minimalist entertainment. They have a form of staged live entertainment that consists of rhythmic thrumming combined with something like very slow dancing that involves transitioning deliberately between static, held poses that, when combined with the thrumming, tells a symbolic story. They call these, translated into [[Galactic Standard]], "[[Pattern Play|Pattern Plays]]."<br />
*Government : While they are not telepaths, they share such a strong common understanding that there is no need to debate who should lead their people. It is simply known, and it is always a female, ruling as Queen. She wields absolute power over her territory.<br />
*When did they achieve spaceflight? : 32,000 years ago.<br />
*Allies/enemies : They hate the [[Sa'hak-ren]], who destroyed a budding Nath-el Empire about 1400 years ago. They're also not fond, at all, of the [[Nabia]], who have long preyed on the tendency younger Nath-el have towards severe drug addiction. They believe the [[Oteel]] - who are largely enslaved by the shapeshifting [[Fatar]] - are their evolutionary cousins.<br />
*Economy : The Nath-el manufature some of the very best [[Artificial Intelligence|AI]] tech, particularly suited to massively parallel tasks like [[Missile|self-correcting missile]] flight path solutions or coordinating the operation of a [[Nanotechnology|nanoswarm]].<br />
*Religion : The Nath-el believe there's a 'spirit', for lack of a better translation, that embodies everything that "is known" about their race. They call it the [[Nath-et]], meaning, roughly, 'All Of Us.' The Nath-et isn't a personified, personality-filled being, however. They view it as part of their spiritual existence. The Nath-et represents everything about the way things 'should' work in Nath-el society. It's viewed as the inevitable culmination of their race's evolution.<br />
*What's their architecture like? : They're known for building [[Hive|Hives]], which are the favored dwelling places of those who can afford to live in them. Hives are essentially huge communal pods that sit above the rest of the city they're in. <br />
==Excerpt Regarding the Elgan==<br />
The [[Elgan]] are a race that had to fight to gain the acceptance of the other members of Starmourn Sector due to a combination of their relatively small size and their tendency to deal with most situations by finding something amusing to laugh at.<br />
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Make no mistake, however - they're as sophisticated and advanced a culture and society as most of the races in Starmourn.<br />
*Homeworld : [[Krell]]<br />
*System : [[Tethan]]<br />
*Capital City : [[Biloxan]]<br />
*Reproduction :Live birth with a gestation period of about 8 months.<br />
*Lifespan : 80 years.<br />
*Preferred foods : They're omnivores but tend to really enjoy fruit of all kinds.<br />
*Temperament : Fairly cheerful generally, though they hold grudges like champions.<br />
*Life priorities : Wealth accumulation, that they may leave the largest fortune possible to the [[Elgan Collective]] (see below) when they die. They aren't fundamentalist about this, and do seek to leave something to their children, but theirs is a highly communal society.<br />
*Strong likes/dislikes : They're big fans of elaborate practical jokes and love to dance, incorporating it into many of their rituals. Yes, they look slightly ridiculous doing it to most other races, but you're likely to get a [[Blaster|blaster]] in the crotch if you mention that to an Elgan. They're also well-known for hating bullies and for possessing a strong work ethic.<br />
*Romantic relationships : They're generally monogamous, but typically if one partner dies, the other marries one of the dead partner's sisters or brothers.<br />
*Family structure : Big, extended families that live together in large, roughly circular buildings called [[Toh]], which often have spires on top. Many families will live in a single Toh.<br />
*How do they treat the weak? : Very well generally. They always take care of their elders, and have great sympathy for the sick, the disfigured, and the differently abled.<br />
*Notable rituals : Their marriage ritual translates to '[[Binding Dance|The Binding Dance]].' It's a complex dance in which the guests whirl themselves through complicated patterns while holding silken ribbons. As they dance about the two participants, they end up tying a particular knot - called the [[Argisan]] - around them, symbolizing that their two lives are now bound together.<br />
*What's their relationship with technology? : They are, generally speaking, big fans of tech, from the gadget level to the workings of starships. The [[Vyar]] - a dead Elder race - are a popular subject in their recorded entertainment, possibly a result.<br />
*What do they like for entertainment? : Because their home planet - Krell - is notoriously rainy, and because their Toh are fairly crowded, their chief hobbies and past times have evolved from activities you can perform indoors. Gambling and dancing are probably the two most widely enjoyed among Elgan.<br />
*Government structure : They're a representative democracy called the Elgan Collective, with a trio of leaders elected by the Collective called the [[Trinity]]. In practice they're highly socialist and it's said that "nobody goes to bed hungry on Krell."<br />
*Current Trinity members : [[Poji Gawin]] (m), [[Trinoa Banmyn]] (f), [[Nici Triceli]] (f)<br />
*How old is their civilization? : They achieved spaceflight about 22,000 years ago.<br />
*Historical allies/enemies? : They've had a lot of conflict with the Nabia, whose drug-peddling they detest. About 125 years ago, some of the Elgan formed the [[Elgan Underground]] as a rival 'criminal' organization, with a mission to disrupt the Nabia's drug trade without open warfare.<br />
*What are their major sources of wealth? : The Elgan are renowned as traders in rare goods and in the manufacture of handheld weaponry.<br />
*What are their religious beliefs? : They believe that their ancestors - all of them - are gods, meaning that the more time passes, the more gods that exist. Of course, with so many gods, a god in their society is not considered particularly remarkable, which isn't to say it isn't to be venerated. They believe that as part of the same culture as their ancestor-gods, they enjoy participation in the divine while still alive. This religious belief is the core of their communalistic nature.<br />
==Excerpt Regarding the Ry'nari==<br />
The Ry'nari are a contentious, tribal race whose culture is underpinned by a complex series of alliances of alliances between extended families.<br />
*Home System - [[Valdorn]]<br />
*Homeworld - [[Hororeon]]<br />
*Capital city - [[Ostari]]<br />
*Reproduction - Live birth, 11 month gestation period. Never more than one child at a time. Their children tend to have a high mortality rate in the first two years of life.<br />
*Lifespan - 100 years.<br />
*Preferred foods - They're biologically omnivores but, as you can discern from their their teeth - clearly evolved for shredding and ripping - meat is their preferred food.<br />
*Life priorities - Fostering a large family is a big one, perhaps driven by the fact that the females can only bear one child at a time, and that that child is more likely to die than survive its first two years.<br />
*Strong likes/dislikes - They have a strange relationship with music in that they don't appear to have the same kind of tonal recognition virtually all other sentient species do. Most music, to a Ry'nari, sounds like unstructured noise. Instead, they enjoy a type of atonal chanting called '[[kave]]' whose individual words or phrases have no overt meaning, but which are meant to build a series of suggestions in the mind of the listener.<br />
*Romantic relationships - In ideal circumstances, they bond for life, but the exigencies of existence in Starmourn sometimes dictate that the convention be broken with divorce and/or remarriage.<br />
*Societal structure - They live in a three-tiered structure. Family -> [[Tribe]] -> [[Horde]]. Family is what it sounds like. Tribes are collections of inter-related families, and a Horde is a collection of tribes allied together.<br />
*Treatment of 'others' - Mostly fine, though adults who haven't yet had children are regarded with a mixture of pity and disgust, and by middle-age, those without children are social pariahs.<br />
*Notable rituals - On the death of a horde leader, all the tribes gather for a multi-day bacchanalia called the [[Narangerel]] followed by selection of a new horde leader in a process called the [[Gomoran]]. Each of the tribes that wishes to contend for leadership puts forward a leader, and that leader assembles a group of six Ry'nari from his or her tribe. These groups of six then face off in combat, armed with ancient weapons, to determine who will lead the Horde. The prospective leaders themselves don't do battle - why kill off some of the strongest leaders in the Horde?<br />
*Social mobility - Economically, an enormous amount, but in terms of advancement in any kind of politics, you have to be part of a good family in a great tribe to have a chance to become a horde leader. However, the reality is that even socially 'low' individuals can wield great power by buying influence.<br />
*Entertainment - Nothing is more popular than a Narangerel and the following Gomoran, but the Ry'nari also, somewhat surprisingly to outsiders, revere abstract sculpture and are considered masters of it.<br />
*Government structure - [[Council of the Hordes]] - the Horde leaders make up the government. However, there have been times in the past when a single Horde leader has seized sole power. In particular, [[Harec Gankeot]] famously unified the hordes as [[Mogul]] and won the first war against the [[W'hoorn]]. They are currently ruled by a Mogul - [[Shima Sual]] (female).<br />
*Allies or enemies - The W'hoorn are a historical enemy of theirs, and few of the civilized races of Starmourn have seen as much conflict as the two have over the aeons.<br />
*Major sources of wealth - Production of the ubiquitous [[Quantum Power Cell|quantum power cell]] as well as huge architecture and engineering firms specializing in orbital structures.<br />
*Religion - They don't have a religion per-se, but they retain certain animist superstitions such that they're prone to feeling like objects have spirits and personalities, even when they "know" better. This leads them to occasionally treat items they are angry at like enemies to be broken...leading to said things being broken.<br />
==Excerpt Concerning the Nusriza==<br />
The [[Nusriza]] are a fierce, sexually-aggressive race with perhaps the most difficult language among the core Starmourn species.<br />
*Home System : [[Frixion]]<br />
*Homeworld :: [[Frixion VI]]<br />
*Capital City : [[Mir]]<br />
*Reproduction : They reproduce via eggs, with the female laying 1-2 eggs that will hatch 120 days later. They hatch as flying four-legged lizards and grow until they get to be about 4-5 feet long and 15 Galactic Years old or so. About that time, they become very sexually aggressive, and mate furiously with each other for a couple of years in a period known as the [[Quickening]]. The females can't get pregnant during this time, however. The mating is actually a complicated, evolved drive to force their bodies, both male and female, into a highly nutritionally-deprived state. In this state, their bodies intensely crave the meat of the [[Algerion|algerion]] - huge, non-sentient creatures that create gas balloons out of giant air sacs in their bodies. The algerion secrete an exotic blend of chemicals that are lighter than the air of their world, and allow them to fly - something the Nusriza have taken advantage of as a novelty method of transport.<br />
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:Certain enzymes in the meat of the algerion slowly change their body - they begin to grow larger, and more musclar. As that happens, :their hip muscle structure changes to permit upright walking, and their forelimbs gradually gain more mobility. During this process, :their wings become first very tender, and then finally shrivel up and are discarded by their bodies. There are, however, a very small :percentage of Nusriza who are genetically unreceptive to the change the alergion meat causes, and as a result, stay in the Quickening, :alternating between seeking sex anywhere they can get it, and collapsing from exhaustion. Most of these Nusriza, unless they're being :taken care of and their sexual needs provided for, starve to death or are killed after seeking seek with the unwilling.<br />
*Lifespan : About 160 years.<br />
*Preferred foods : Aside from algerion meat, which is largely eaten during the Quickening, they're carnivores with a strong love of grubs, worms, and small insects. They eat these in a thousand different variations, full of spices. They might be fried, baked, roasted, eaten raw, poached, boiled, or any number of methods. They also enjoy smoking a substance made from the dried skins of tiny grubs called 'leesa' that gets them very mildly high, but is mainly about social lubrication - it's nothing like the drugs the [[Nabia]] peddle.<br />
*Romantic relationships : They are generally long-term monogamous.<br />
*Family structure : They live in [[Throng|Throngs]], where after the egg hatches it is raised communally by others in the Throng, which consists of multiple families, unrelated by blood.<br />
*How do they treat 'others' within their society? : Largely with disdain, though they do venerate their elders.<br />
*Notable rituals : On the age of maturity of a Nusriza - 17 - their relatives hold a celebration that involves a 2 day event called, translated of course, called [[Seventeen Mirrors]]. In the first day, 17 people spend time with the young Nusriza in a ritualistic circle, speaking the truth about the shortcomings of the young one with the aid of an intoxicant they brew from the shells of their eggs called '[[Poivirn|poivirn]]'. On the second day, the virtues of the person coming-of-age are extolled and gifts are presented by each of the 17 to the subject of the ritual. At the end, that Nusriza is formally welcomed as a full member of the Throng.<br />
*How do they view [[Kith|kith]] users? : They have a fairly equal mix of [[Void Kith|void]] and [[Star Kith|star kith]] users, but they're a new race to kith. The Echanine religion prohibited its use until the Schism.<br />
*Entertainment : Their language - Nusrizan - is renowned for its musicality and the difficulty with which non-natives speak it. It's both a tonal and gesture language, with 14 different distinct tones lending shading to the meaning of words, and a wide variety of subtle hand gestures that shade the meaning of those toned words further. The result is that those who can't move both their hands sound 'flat' to Nusrizan ears - their meaning can certainly be understood, but to them it is like listening to someone speak without inflection, tone, or variation in pacing. They are similarly skilled singers, and vocal competitions are very popular with the Nusrizans.<br />
*Government : Monarchy. Ruler is titled the "[[Tajhan]]". It's a hereditary post, though there have been times in its history where the ruling family was wiped out by accident or assassination, typically leading to war among the Throngs until a new power structure emerges that is capable of choosing a leader strong enough to hold onto the position.<br />
*Current Tajhan : [[Abelin Artunduaga]] (m).<br />
* When did they achieve spaceflight? : About 24,000 years ago.<br />
*Sources of wealth : They're experts in sensor technology.<br />
*Religion : They have a monotheistic religion called [[Echanism]] that worships a single god they call Echanine, but it is by no means believed in by all Nusriza. It is a warrior, protector God, and much of their race lost faith in it during the [[Bushraki Wars]], when it became clear that Echanine either wouldn't protect them, couldn't protect them, or didn't exist, and they joined into the [[Song Dominion]] with several other races. Echanism prohibited fraternization with other races until then, as well as the use of kith, both of which were restrictions large swathes of Nusrizan society were sick of and, under threat during the wars, rejected completely. This led to the [[Echanine Schism]], which took place from 31 A.E. to 35 A.E. This internal religious war split their society, and over time those who reject Echanine have come to dominate Nusrizan culture and leadership.<br />
*Architecture : Their buildings have large open portals to the outside for young Nusriza to fly in and out of, and they also build large living environments above the clouds, supported on huge, rigid supports.<br />
==Excerpt Regarding the Tukkav==<br />
The mighty [[Tukkav]] are a large, exceptionally hairy race that hail from a fairly cold home planet and prefer cool temperatures. Their home planet - [[Uchyeon III]] - has a climate ranging from the merely temperate at the equator to uninhabitably cold, even for the Tukkav, towards the poles.<br />
*Home System : [[Uycheon]]<br />
*Homeworld : Uycheon III<br />
*Capital City : None<br />
*Reproduction : They undergo live birth after an approximately 11 month gestation.<br />
*Lifespan : About 110 years.<br />
*Preferred foods : They're omnivores with a wide variety in their diet, and they really enjoy drinking [[|Lapteth Beer|lapteth beer]], which is a beer made from a grain - [[Lapteth|lapteth]] - native to their world. It's quite bitter, and considered an acquired taste by non-Tukkav.<br />
*Family life : They largely mate for life, and often decline to seek a new mate if their first dies.<br />
*Social structure : Historically, the Tukkav were a nomadic race, traveling in tribes of interrelated families across the plains and snowy forests of their homeworld, and they retain some of that tribal structure today.<br />
*When was spaceflight achieved? : Approximately 16,000 years ago.<br />
*Historical enemies : They and the [[Loroi]] have a strong dislike for each other, nearly universally, and have been at war with each other on and off for the past 1700 years.<br />
*Notable rituals : Their oldest ritual - a gathering of the tribes - is called the [[Ouran]]. Every ten years, going back to time immemorial, each tribe has done their best to send some number of representatives from that tribe, of which there are thousands, to the Ouran. Tribes that roamed or later permanently dwelt close to where that decade's Ouran would be - the location chosen varied each time - sent many, and tribes from far away may send only a handful, or even just one. At the Ouran, matters of cultural importance are discussed, and major feuds between tribes are adjudicated. And, of course, there are celebrations, with a great deal of drinking and playing of the [[Toof|toof]], their most historically significant musical instrument. The toof originates from the pre-spaceflight age of their species, and is a horn instrument, powered by breath, that has a tonal range varying from deep bass to mid-tone.<br />
*Entertainment : Toof circles, where everybody brings a toof and plays together while consuming enormous quantities of lapteth beer are popular. Hunting is another popular activity, and the Tukkav have had to resort to releasing animals bred in captivity into the wild to later hunt, as they've done such an unfortunately effective job of depopulating the wildlife of their home planet. Because this isn't really considered particularly sporting, hunting safaris to alien planets teeming with wildlife - especially dangerous wildlife - are an especially popular vacation to take.<br />
*Government : Their race doesn't have an overall government, except in the form of the once-every-decade Ouran, or in case of war, in which case the tribes select a single [[Warleader]]. Each tribe maintains its own military, and their shipyards are run by private conglomerations.<br />
*Key historical events : About 2500 years ago, there was a great war between alliances of tribes, who marshaled their starship fleets to go to war over a dispute about access to the homeworld. The Tukkav race had grown far too populated to fit on Uchyeon III comfortably, and an alliance of tribes on the planet declared the world closed to those tribes living on colonized planets or on space stations. The [[Home War]], as it was known, was eventually won by those tribes living on Uchyeon, and in the aftermath, many of the resources of the defeated were seized. Today, a small remnant of these defeated Tukkav live on as bitter outsiders with an intense hatred of most of their own race. They call themselves the [[Exiles]], and are scattered about Starmourn, often found working as manual laborers, slaves, or, occasionally functioning as pirate gangs on the starways. The other Tukkav call them names much less polite, including the Rejected or, more colloquially, 'crinkers.'<br />
*Sources of wealth : The Tukkav build excellent starship superstructures and also own many mining corporations that strip the resources from planets too cold to be comfortable for most other races.<br />
*Religion : Many of them have a kind of residual animism that leads them to revere that which they hunt, both for sport and meat.<br />
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[[Category:Nath-el]]<br />
[[Category:Elgan]]<br />
[[Category:Ry'nari]]<br />
[[Category:Nusriza]]<br />
[[Category:Tukkav]]<br />
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<div>The Ait Benir are a race who rule the [[Serene Empire]] within the [[Starmourn Sector]]. This category encompasses all information regarding their history, culture, technology, and territories. <br />
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<div>The '''Starmourn Newsletter''' is a weekly publication from Iron Realms Entertainment that releases various information leading up to the release of their new MUD, Starmourn. Each week new information is released such as class or race details in the form of various in-world media such a logs, books, and [[Holocording|holocordings]]. Below is a comprehensive list of all newsletters to date.<br />
==Newsletters==<br />
*Teaser Video - [[Last Broadcast|The Last Broadcast of the Human Race]]<br />
*Issue #1, May 7, 2016 - [[Terran History Project|Humans: A holocording from the Terran History Project]]<br />
*Issue #2, May 14, 2016 - [[Tellisk Adventure Company|Amaians: A file from the Tellisk Adventure Company]]<br />
*Issue #3, May 19, 2016 - [[Catalog of the Races of the Starmourn Sector#Excerpt Regarding the Shen|Shen: An excerpt from "A Catalog of Races of the Starmourn Sector"]]<br />
*Issue #4, May 26, 2016 - [[On the Function and Form of Kith|Kith: An excerpt from "On the Form and Function of Kith"]]<br />
*Issue #5, June 4, 2016 - [[Ships in Starmourn|Ships in Starmourn, or "Why Must You Tease Us So."]]<br />
*Issue #6, June 14, 2016 - [[Catalog of the Races of the Starmourn Sector#Excerpt Regarding the Nath-el|Nath-el: An excerpt from "A Catalog of Races of the Starmourn Sector"]] & [[Technology|The Technology of Starmourn]]<br />
*Issue #7, June 14, 2016 - [[Catalog of the Races of the Starmourn Sector#Excerpt Regarding the Elgan|Elgan: An excerpt from "A Catalog of Races of the Starmourn Sector"]] & [[Character Stats|Your Character]]<br />
*Issue #8, July 7, 2016 - [[Catalog of the Races of the Starmourn Sector#Excerpt Regarding the Ry'nari|Ry'nari: An excerpt from "A Catalog of Races of the Starmourn Sector"]]<br />
*Issue #9, July 14, 2016 - [[Elessi Update|Elessi: The Elessi Race and the origin of the Ishvana]]<br />
*Issue #10, July 20, 2016 - [[Catalog of the Races of the Starmourn Sector#Excerpt Regarding the Nusriza|Nusriza: An excerpt from "A Catalog of Races of the Starmourn Sector"]]<br />
*Issue #11, July 27, 2016 - [[Selassian Update|Doors, Lifts, and Selassians, Oh My!]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=Category:Zinari_Imperium&diff=992Category:Zinari Imperium2016-08-20T19:30:10Z<p>Nicholas: se</p>
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<div>The '''Zinari Imperium''' is an empire within the [[Starmourn Sector]]. This category encompasses all information regarding their history, culture, technology, and territories.</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=Category:Ibyssian_Brotherhood&diff=991Category:Ibyssian Brotherhood2016-08-20T19:29:31Z<p>Nicholas: Selassian Update</p>
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<div>The Ibyssian Brotherhood is an empire within the [[Starmourn Sector]]. This category encompasses all information regarding their history, culture, technology, and territories.</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=Category:Ait_Benir&diff=990Category:Ait Benir2016-08-20T19:28:39Z<p>Nicholas: Selassian Update</p>
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<div>The Ait Benir are a race who rule the [[Serene Empire]] within the [[Starmourn Sectory]]. This category encompasses all information regarding their history, culture, technology, and territories. <br />
[[Category:Races]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=Category:Loroi&diff=989Category:Loroi2016-08-20T19:27:46Z<p>Nicholas: Selassian Update</p>
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<div>The '''Loroi''' are a fierce race used by the [[Selassian Dynasty]] as shock troops. This category encompasses all information regarding their history, culture, technology, and territories. <br />
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|orgname=Sa'hak-ren Empire<br />
|leader=Unknown<br />
|races=[[Sa'hak-ren]]<br />
|base=Unknown<br />
|allies=Unknown<br />
|enemies=[[Nath-el]]}}<br />
The '''Sa'hak-ren Empire''' controls one of the larger territories in the [[Starmourn Sector]], even extending beyond its borders.<br />
[[Category:Organizations]]<br />
[[Category:Governments]]<br />
[[Category:Sa'hak-ren]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=Category:Selassians&diff=987Category:Selassians2016-08-20T19:26:30Z<p>Nicholas: Selassian Update</p>
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<div>The '''Selassians''' are a matriarchal, serpentine race that control much of the [[Starmourn Sector]].This category encompasses all information regarding their history, culture, technology, and territories. <br />
[[Category:Races]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=Y%27saari&diff=986Y'saari2016-08-20T19:25:13Z<p>Nicholas: Selassian Update</p>
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<div>{{Race_infobox<br />
|racename=Y'saari<br />
|leader=Unknown<br />
|system=Unknown<br />
|homeworld=Unknown<br />
|capital=Unknown<br />
|allies=[[Shen]], [[Utan Mir]], [[Rek]], [[Vyar]], [[Sapphire Cults of the Jeweled Heresy]], [[Sooq]], [[League of Anar]], [[Ta-deth]], [[Quix]], [[Shrikem]], [[K'sath]], [[Lha Ti]]<br />
|enemies=[[Ishvana]], [[Cleax]]}}<br />
==Morphology and Physiology==<br />
Nothing is currently known about the characteristics of the Y'saari.<br />
==History==<br />
The Y'saari were an [[Elder Races|Elder Race]] created long ago by the [[Empyreals|Empyreal]], [[Omega]]. However, unlike some of the other races, they were not imbued with the power of [[Wild Kith]] and thus were dependent on technology for the advancement of their society. About 14 million years ago when Omega was ended and Wild Kith was dissipated, the Y'saari along with the other technology dependent Elder Races gained the advantage over the previously dominant [[Wild Kith Empires]] and rose to power as the [[Kith|kith]] dependent races quickly died out over the next two decades.<br />
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Approximately 42,000 years ago, the [[Ishvana]] contacted the various races of the [[Starmourn Sector]] and demanded they submit and be assimilated into its collective consciousness. The Y'saari refused and banded together with the other Elder Races to attempt to stem its genocidal onslaught in what would become known as the [[War of Extinction]]. The Y'saari survived the Ishvana's onslaught because of its formidable defenses. In fact, the Y'saari do not even have a [[Voidgate|voidgate]] that enters their homeworld's space.<br />
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The Y'saari fended off the invading [[Cleax]] approximately 26,000 years ago with the help of the [[Younger Races|Younger Race]] of [[Shen]], and afterwards created the [[Aegisphere|aegispheres]] with technology scavenged from the fallen [[Vyar]]. <br />
==Culture==<br />
The Y'saari are an ancient civilization with advanced technology that allowed them to rise to prominence after the World Breaking. Highly defensively minded, they protect their territory, the [[Y'saari Covenant]] with the most advanced defensive measures. With the help of the aegispheres, they also control the use of the voidgates and only allow their usage through the trade of their currency called [[Covenant Mark|Covenant Marks]] which has made them one of the wealthiest and powerful races in Starmourn.<br />
[[Category:Y'saari]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=Y%27saari_Covenant&diff=985Y'saari Covenant2016-08-20T19:22:36Z<p>Nicholas: Selassian Update</p>
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|enemies=[[Ishvana]]}}<br />
The '''Y'saari Covenant''' is the territory controlled by the [[Elder Races|Elder Race]] of the [[Y'saari]]. It is extremely well fortified allowing it to withstand even the onslaught of the [[Ishvana]]. Its currency, the [[Covenant Mark]] has become the standard across the [[Starmourn Sector]], due to the Y'saari's control of the [[Voidgate|void gates]].<br />
[[Category:Y'saari]]<br />
[[Category:Organizations]]<br />
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<div>'''The War of Eggs''' was a [[Selassians|Selassian]] conflict that occurred approximately 11,000 years ago. A faction of Selassians released a virus that caused infected females to lay eggs whose shells were substantially weakened causing them to collapse under their own weight. The remaining factions banded together, forming the [[Selassian Dynasty]] and crushed the rogue faction.<br />
[[Category:Selassians]]<br />
[[Category:Events]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=Zinari_Imperium&diff=983Zinari Imperium2016-08-20T19:18:39Z<p>Nicholas: Selassian Update</p>
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|enemies=Unknown}}<br />
The '''Zinari Imperium''' is a organization whose territory is spinward of the [[Selassian Dynasty]].<br />
[[Category:Zinari Imperium]]<br />
[[Category:Organizations]]<br />
[[Category:Governments]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=Ait_Benir&diff=982Ait Benir2016-08-20T19:16:17Z<p>Nicholas: Selassian Update</p>
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|system=Unknown<br />
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|capital=Unknown<br />
|allies=Unknown<br />
|enemies=Unknown}}<br />
==Morphology and Physiology==<br />
Nothing is currently known concerning the characteristics of the Ait Benir.<br />
==History==<br />
Nothing is currently known concerning the history of the Ait Benir.<br />
==Culture==<br />
The Ait Benir created the [[Serene Empire]] which consists of a considerable amount of populated worlds.<br />
[[Category:Ait Benir]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=Serene_Empire&diff=981Serene Empire2016-08-20T19:13:40Z<p>Nicholas: </p>
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|orgname=Ibyssian Brotherhood<br />
|leader=Unknown<br />
|races=[[Ait Benir]]<br />
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|allies=Unknown<br />
|enemies=Unknown}}<br />
The '''Serene Empire''' is the sovereign state of the [[Ait Benir]]. It possess a considerable amount of populated worlds within its territory.<br />
[[Category: Ait Benir]]<br />
[[Category:Organizations]]<br />
[[Category:Governments]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=Serene_Empire&diff=980Serene Empire2016-08-20T19:13:03Z<p>Nicholas: Selassian Update</p>
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|orgname=Ibyssian Brotherhood<br />
|leader=Unknown<br />
|races=[[Aet Benir]]<br />
|base=Unknown<br />
|allies=Unknown<br />
|enemies=Unknown}}<br />
The '''Serene Empire''' is the sovereign state of the [[Aet Benir]]. It possess a considerable amount of populated worlds within its territory.<br />
[[Category: Aet Benir]]<br />
[[Category:Organizations]]<br />
[[Category:Governments]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=Ibyssian_Brotherhood&diff=979Ibyssian Brotherhood2016-08-20T19:10:59Z<p>Nicholas: </p>
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|leader=Unknown<br />
|races=Unknown<br />
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|allies=Unknown<br />
|enemies=Unknown}}<br />
The '''Ibyssian Brotherhood''' is an organization that controls a large territory within the [[Starmourn Sector]]<br />
[[Category:Organizations]]<br />
[[Category:Ibyssian Brotherhood]]<br />
[[Category:Governments]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=Sa%27hak-ren_Hierarchy&diff=978Sa'hak-ren Hierarchy2016-08-20T19:10:35Z<p>Nicholas: Selassian Update</p>
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|orgname=Sa'hak-ren Empire<br />
|leader=Unknown<br />
|races=[[Sa'hak-ren]]<br />
|base=Unknown<br />
|allies=Unknown<br />
|enemies=[[Nath-el]]}}<br />
The '''Sa'hak-ren Empire''' controls one of the larger territories in the [[Starmourn Sector]], even extending beyond its borders.<br />
[[Category:Organizations]]<br />
[[Category:Governments]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=Sa%27hak-ren&diff=977Sa'hak-ren2016-08-20T19:09:19Z<p>Nicholas: Selassian Update</p>
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|racename=Sa'hak-ren<br />
|image=<br />
|leader=Unknown<br />
|system=Unknown<br />
|homeworld=Unknown<br />
|capital=Unknown<br />
|allies=Unknown<br />
|enemies=[[Nath-el]]}}<br />
==Morphology and Physiology==<br />
Nothing is currently known about the characteristics of the Sa'hak-ren.<br />
==History==<br />
About 1,400 years ago the Sa'hak-ren quashed the budding [[Nath-el]] empire, signficantly setting back their expansion across the [[Starmourn Sector]].<br />
==Culture==<br />
The [[Sa'hak-ren Empire]] is one of the larger territories in the [[Starmourn Sector]], its borders even extending beyond it.<br />
[[Category:Sa'hak-ren]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=Ibyssian_Brotherhood&diff=976Ibyssian Brotherhood2016-08-20T19:06:58Z<p>Nicholas: Selassian Update</p>
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|orgname=Ibyssian Brotherhood<br />
|leader=Unknown<br />
|races=Unknown<br />
|base=Unknown<br />
|allies=Unknown<br />
|enemies=Unknown}}<br />
The '''Ibyssian Brotherhood''' is an organization that controls a large territory within the [[Starmourn Sector]]<br />
[[Category:Organizations]]<br />
[[Category:Ibyssian Brotherhood]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=Selassian_Matriarch&diff=975Selassian Matriarch2016-08-20T18:57:48Z<p>Nicholas: Selassian Update</p>
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<div>The '''Selassian Matriarch''' is the heredity rule of the [[Selassian Dynasty]]. It is passed down the matriarchal line.<br />
[[Category:Selassians]]<br />
[[Category:Governments]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=Corryb_III&diff=974Corryb III2016-08-20T18:56:41Z<p>Nicholas: Selassian Update</p>
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|planetname=Corryb III<br />
|system=Unknown<br />
|capital=Unknown<br />
|races=[[Selassians]]}}<br />
'''Corryb III''' is the homeworld of the [[Selassians]]. <br />
[[Category:Selassians]]<br />
[[Category:Space]]<br />
[[Category:Planets]]</div>Nicholashttps://wiki.starmourn.com/index.php?title=Krell&diff=973Krell2016-08-20T18:56:07Z<p>Nicholas: </p>
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|planetname=Krell<br />
|image=[[File:Biloxan.jpg|300px]]<br />
|system=[[Tethan]]<br />
|capital=[[Biloxan]]<br />
|races=[[Elgan]]}}<br />
'''Krell''' is the homeworld of the [[Elgan]]. It is located within the [[Tethan|Tethan System]], and its capital city is [[Biloxan]]. It is known for notoriously rainy climate which is the reason the Elgan enjoy many indoor activities such as gambling and dancing within their [[Toh]].<br />
[[Category:Elgan]]<br />
[[Category:Space]]<br />
[[Category:Planets]]</div>Nicholas