Player Character sources are denoted in Bold Blue.
The Anyk and Rok'bitu societies have been in contact for hundreds of years prior to achieving FTL travel (due to their close proximity and relatively similar technological progression).
After meeting in person for the first time, they agreed to a hemispherical colonization strategy for other star systems (each gets the half of the sky that is away from the other). Unfortunately they had barely started their first out-of system colonies when they were attacked by another, mysterious, outside group known as the Pokkash.
After a long war with the Pokkash, the Anyk and Rok'bitu once again find themselves confined to single systems. Though they lost their colonies, the Pokkash economy was driven to the edge of collapse through a successful blockade and orbital bombardment. This led to an uneasy peace between the two sides and shortly thereafter led to the collapse of the Pokkash government (and dissolution of their empire).
Now embroiled in interstellar politics, dealing with renewed opposition at home and suffering from overpopulation, the Anyk and Rok'bitu superpowers have decided to instead cooperate in their colonization efforts and are ready to once again set out into the stars.
Base engine speeds are listed at the end of the section for each group of societies. Ships are limited to a max scale of +4
Species and Societies
Anyk Societies
The Anyk People are all from the Styldan (Copmak) System.
- Nationalities:
- Alkinian Federation
- Capital: Yan (the species' homeworld)
- Systems: Styldan System: (Yan, its moon and the 3 other innermost planets: Vinnat, Koyak, Ptul)
- Government: Democracy
- Republic of the Free People of Stylda
- Capital: Chevin (one planet out from the homeworld)
- Systems: Styldan System (Chevin, moons of the gas giants: Dodra, Vimdra)
- Government: Totalitarian Dictatorship
- Languages: Shachanna
- Children of Tomar
- Capital: Tomruj (largest moon of the system's largest gas giant: Tomar)
- Systems: Styldan System (All the moons of Tomar)
- Government: Socialist Dictatorship
- Languages: Vennec
- Union of the Free Worlds of Copmak
- Capital: None
- Systems: Styldan System (moons and planetoids form the outer reaches of the system)
- Government: Decentralized Union of planetoids (mostly moons) from the outer reaches of the system
- Details:
- A mostly human-like species.
- They are generally shorter than humans and have short, upturned noses, thick bony knuckles and they have coarse, stiff hair that varies in colour based on the diet they had when very young.
- Many have very good night vision.
- Only 2 FTL engine types have been developed in this system.
Base Ship Speeds
| Origin | Size at Specified Scale |
|---|
| -4 | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
|---|
| Alkinian Federation | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | |
| Republic of the Free People of Stylda | | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 |
| Children of Tomar | 5 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 7 |
| Union of the Free Worlds of Copmak | 7 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | | |
Rok'bitu Societies
The Rok'bitu People are all from the Kan'ninav System
- Nationalities:
- Freehold of Tash'dok
- Capital: Tash'dok
- Systems: Kan'ninav (Tash'dok, Brim'pudda)
- Government: A socially progressive Oligarchy led by the heads of several large corporations.
- Rop'loonik
- Capital: Cha'hi'ya
- Systems: Kan'ninav (Cha'hi'ya, Do'ku, Nam'jik)
- Government: A socially conservative Democracy that seeks return to older, simpler cultural norms.
- Details:
- A humanoid marsupial species.
- They have very thin short fur (you can still see the skin) over much of their faces and the backs of their hands, arms, and legs. The fur is a bit thicker on their backs and around their ears. They are taller than humans with their thumbs being placed low on longer-palmed hands.
- They are usually very good climbers.
- Only one FTL engine type has been developed in this system. It is solely manufactured by the Freehold of Tash'dok.
Base Ship Speeds
| Origin | Size at Specified Scale |
|---|
| -4 | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
|---|
| Freehold of Tash'dok | | 5 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 5 | d |
| Rop'loonik | 5 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 5 | |
Pokkash Societies
The Pokkash are a people who until recently were united in a strong Empire that spanned star systems. Their homeworld of Ignaa (and much of the rest of its star system) is in a state of civil war while the other star systems have each mostly been united each under their own government.
- Nationalities:
- The Planets in the 'Capital' System (Former capital of the Pokkash Empire)
- Capital:
- Systems:
- Government:
- Notes: All worlds undergoing civil war as internal forces (and external forces) try to seize the planets of the system.
- Ildebruum (Former Core System)
- Capital:
- Systems:
- Government: A corrupt Military dictatorship. They oppose any form of organized religion out of fear for their power.
- Pallim Dominion (Former Core System)
- Capital:
- Systems:
- Government: A seemingly utopian Theocratic State. The pristine surface is supported by the rumoured enslavement of minority groups. The locals claim that instead it is mostly thanks to advanced automation and synthesizers that they live in such peaceful luxury
- Kingdom of Gobb (Former Core System)
- Capital:
- Systems:
- Government: A kingdom that is trying to balance the progressive metropolitan southern continent with the angry and brutal industrial northern continent of their Capital. Their other holdings are operated under a mercantile system for the benefit of the Capital.
- Notes: They make no claim for the throne of the old empire.
- New Pokkashi Empire (Former Core System)
- Capital:
- Systems:
- Government: A new upstart group that has unified their star system and seeks to rebuild the Empire of old. They are less intellectual and more collectivist than the old empire but have grand plans for dominion over all peoples of the galaxy.
- The Just Nation of Villem's Bench (Former Outer Colony)
- Capital:
- Systems:
- Government: A staunchly legalist society where rules and law come above all else. Penalties for breaking the laws include forced marriages, pregnancies, enslavement, imprisonment and death. They will also partake in the manipulation of the brain to solve cases of frequent repeat offenders.
- Notes: Contracts signed here are binding with only the pre-specified exit clauses (or government imposed penalty) as means of escape.
- Kornach's Star (Former Outer Colony)
- Capital:
- Systems:
- Government:
- Notes: A devastated system. First from excessive resource extraction and then from the repeated battles in the early days of the war (and then again in the ensuing civil war. They rarely leave their star system and have mined most of its outer reaches. They are isolationist and their exact form of government is unknown to most outsiders.
- Republic of Pollus Fields (Former Outer Colony)
- Capital:
- Systems:
- Government:
- Notes: The only system of the former Pokkash Empire to make peaceful diplomatic overtures to the Anyk and Rok'bitu following the collapse of the empire. They are a struggling democratic state that is trying to weaken the support for a authoritarian minority party that wishes to seize power. They are eager to overcome past differences and strike out for a new and better future.
- Details:
- A species of humanoid Amphibians.
- They are generally slender with thin fingers and wider mouths and forked tongues. Their males have pale skin (varying from yellow-green, through green to blue) while the females have ruddy reds and brown coloured skin. Their infrequently born third sex has deep blue skin.
- They are generally superior swimmers.
- All FTL engine types (except Crush) have seen use in the former territories of the Pokkashi Empire
Base Ship Speeds
| Origin | Size at Specified Scale |
|---|
| -4 | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
|---|
| Former Pokkashi Empire | 5 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 5 |
| Modern Ignaa | 9 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | | | |
| Former Core Systems | | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 |
| Former Outer Colonies | 6 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 6 |