Solarais
08-10-2004, 06:24
The Clans described in the following document will sufficiently explain the Solaraisi race. You may attempt to trade with some, however, following the descriptions is not a bad idea.
Solaraisi Clans -
There are 22 indiviual entities in Solarais, each compromising one of the 22 original Solaraisi. All other Solaraisi are just memory respositorys, and a place into the original's will transfers into if it it destroyed. Each group of Solaraisi (or millions of the one entitity) is commonly referred to as a 'clan'. The following information is all that is available on Solarais. However, it should increase understanding of this race much more substantially. Each clan is at odds with some, and allied with others. However, each clan seeks to absorb all other life forms. or at least their heat.
Clan References - There are 22 clans in Solarais. 7 of them are 'High Clans', and contain the knowledge of interstellar travel, intersystem travel, the building of weaponry, and the mining of precious metals. The Lesser Clans each contain one of these secrets each, but none are strong enough to wage warfare on their own. As such, the Lesser Clans are much more amiable, and can be persuaded to trade. The High Clans only ever do things for their own purposes, as they have had billions of years of being high-handed. The Lesser Clans, however, are sometimes genuinely friendly.
Clans -
High Clans -
Jiha
Palim
Hegeroth
Oja
Forh
Yukiri
Ai
Lesser Clans -
Acheron
Æthriom
Bethrau
Moshkara
Forlor
Joirath
Dairen
Mordai
Rathera
Kul
Celare
Syrere
Vern
Wrrnt
Leshk
Solaraisi Clan Evaluations -
High Clans
Jiha: The Jiha are the most powerful clan, as they are the only clan capable of cloning humans. This gives them access to fighters, something no other clan has in such abundance. They also have a decent amount of capital ships. This is the clan that The Federal Union faced in its incursion into Solarais space. Jiha had support from Palim and Moshkara, but was not prepared to face such a fleet as TFU possessed.
Palim: The Palim are the clan that developed gravity wells, and have kept the building of them secret from all other clans. They have the largest capital ship numbers, and allied with Jiha to obtain fighters. They are the smallest clan, but are the most knowledgeable.
Hegeroth - The Hegeroth are the largest clan in population, and control a weapons manufacturing world. They are also the most arrogant clan, and never ally with anyone, except on their own terms.
Oja - The Oja are a typical High Clan. They have nothing special, but are pitted somewhere in the middle of things. The Oja, however, have a rogue lightgene (for lack of a better word, we shall call the inner makeup of Solaraisi "lightgenes") within their body. This makes every single Oja particle somewhat capable of independet thought. The Oja tend to have exceedingly powerful lightgenes created within their bodies, such as extra thought power, or the like, but other clans assilmate the Oja before the Oja have a chance too.
Forh - Nothing is known about the Forh. Only their name,
Yukiri - This clan is the oldest clan, the original clan from which all other clans mutated from. The most ancient Yukiri particle is almost 200 billion years old, and has a respository of knowledge unequalled by the other clans.
Ai - The "Dark" clan, the Ai particles need only 1/45 of the heat a normal particle from any other clan would need, and so Ai tend to inhabit darker, colder worlds. If it was not this lightgene, the Ai would not exist. However, the Ai still cannot coexist well, so they cannot multiply at a rapid rate. The Ai are the only High Clan not to know how to build weaponry, so they are often preyed upon by the oter clans when starfaring. As such, they are forced not to inhabit the better worlds.
Lesser Clans -
Acheron - The Acheron are the clan most oriented towards trade, and have even traded with other races successfully a few times. They are also oriented towards emotions, which they find most curious. They constantly elate humans, using the pleasure centres in the brain, and attempt to somehow assilmate the pleasure. This inevitably ends in the death of the human, however happy the human dies.
Æthriom - This clan were thought to cease to exist long ago, but a small world of them were found by the Ai. They have knowledge of three technologies, which were the pride of Solarais long ago. However, they refuse to associate themselves with any other Solarais, and defend their world most voraciously.
Bethrau - The Bethrau are a clan at war with the Moshkara, and have been for some five million years. They constantly launch attacks at Moshkara Shipyards, and indebt themselves to other clans constantly to do so.
Moshkara - The Moshkara are at war with the Bethrau, but never attack the Bethrau. Instead, they continually badmouth them at Great Council meetings, and the other clans slowly turn against the Bethrau.
Forlor - The Forlor are unknown, as the Acheron have not been able to find out anything about them. They never come to Great Council meetings, nor do they attempt to communicate with any other clan.
Joirath - Untranslated as yet.
Dairen - The Dairen are the most powerful of all the Lesser Clans, and only lost their prestige when they failed to defend themselves against an attack from the Yukiri. They lost 9/10 of their population at that point, and their ability to build ships. They also lost their greatest mining world, and now sit among the stars, plotting and waiting, to take revenge against the Yukiri.
Mordai - The Mordai are, without a doubt, the most powerful type of Solaraisi. They can absorb heat to a measure that no other clan can match. Before the advent of space travel, the Mordai ruled all of Solarais. They are now humbled, and sit in their few worlds, attempting desperately to find out how to get inter-system travel.
Rathera - Ratherans are the clan most like humans, as they are the only clan that can manifest themselves in humanoid form. They can also control their form, and can look like anything they please. However, this does not extend to sound, smell and touch. They also have assilimated a few human emotions, the primary of these being sadness.
Kul - The Kul are a yet another clan on which no information has been discovered. All attempts to discover their identity have been repelled.
Celare - Celare are, without a doubt, the weakest clan. There are a bare 450 of them living, and they are always under threat from other clans. They own one small starship, and use this to attempt to reproduce on other planets. However, they do know many things about other clans. The High Clans keep them to attempt to blackmail other clans.
Syrere - The Syrere have killed any researcher attempting to study them, making it hard to obtain any information about them.
Vern - The Vernians act as peacekeepers between all other clans, and attempt to make sure no extreme warfare breaks out. They are the only clan who do not attempt to assilmate others, and attempt to make the other clans realise that their only chance of survival is together.
Wrrnt - Files on the Wrrnt have not yet been compiled. The files that were remaining were destroyed by the Kul.
Leshk - The Leshk are the clan who owns hundreds of mining 'worlds' (read: Planets, moons, large asteroids..), and sell their materials to other clans in return for favors. This means they can always deal from a position of strength in trade, and can almost always count on other clans coming to their aid, if only for more metals.
Compilation of information created by - Vorron Mehk, independant human trader/researcher. This information will be made available to those who require it, such as human governments. The first complitation of this material is being sent to any governments who sign the Solarais Accords.
Solaraisi Clans -
There are 22 indiviual entities in Solarais, each compromising one of the 22 original Solaraisi. All other Solaraisi are just memory respositorys, and a place into the original's will transfers into if it it destroyed. Each group of Solaraisi (or millions of the one entitity) is commonly referred to as a 'clan'. The following information is all that is available on Solarais. However, it should increase understanding of this race much more substantially. Each clan is at odds with some, and allied with others. However, each clan seeks to absorb all other life forms. or at least their heat.
Clan References - There are 22 clans in Solarais. 7 of them are 'High Clans', and contain the knowledge of interstellar travel, intersystem travel, the building of weaponry, and the mining of precious metals. The Lesser Clans each contain one of these secrets each, but none are strong enough to wage warfare on their own. As such, the Lesser Clans are much more amiable, and can be persuaded to trade. The High Clans only ever do things for their own purposes, as they have had billions of years of being high-handed. The Lesser Clans, however, are sometimes genuinely friendly.
Clans -
High Clans -
Jiha
Palim
Hegeroth
Oja
Forh
Yukiri
Ai
Lesser Clans -
Acheron
Æthriom
Bethrau
Moshkara
Forlor
Joirath
Dairen
Mordai
Rathera
Kul
Celare
Syrere
Vern
Wrrnt
Leshk
Solaraisi Clan Evaluations -
High Clans
Jiha: The Jiha are the most powerful clan, as they are the only clan capable of cloning humans. This gives them access to fighters, something no other clan has in such abundance. They also have a decent amount of capital ships. This is the clan that The Federal Union faced in its incursion into Solarais space. Jiha had support from Palim and Moshkara, but was not prepared to face such a fleet as TFU possessed.
Palim: The Palim are the clan that developed gravity wells, and have kept the building of them secret from all other clans. They have the largest capital ship numbers, and allied with Jiha to obtain fighters. They are the smallest clan, but are the most knowledgeable.
Hegeroth - The Hegeroth are the largest clan in population, and control a weapons manufacturing world. They are also the most arrogant clan, and never ally with anyone, except on their own terms.
Oja - The Oja are a typical High Clan. They have nothing special, but are pitted somewhere in the middle of things. The Oja, however, have a rogue lightgene (for lack of a better word, we shall call the inner makeup of Solaraisi "lightgenes") within their body. This makes every single Oja particle somewhat capable of independet thought. The Oja tend to have exceedingly powerful lightgenes created within their bodies, such as extra thought power, or the like, but other clans assilmate the Oja before the Oja have a chance too.
Forh - Nothing is known about the Forh. Only their name,
Yukiri - This clan is the oldest clan, the original clan from which all other clans mutated from. The most ancient Yukiri particle is almost 200 billion years old, and has a respository of knowledge unequalled by the other clans.
Ai - The "Dark" clan, the Ai particles need only 1/45 of the heat a normal particle from any other clan would need, and so Ai tend to inhabit darker, colder worlds. If it was not this lightgene, the Ai would not exist. However, the Ai still cannot coexist well, so they cannot multiply at a rapid rate. The Ai are the only High Clan not to know how to build weaponry, so they are often preyed upon by the oter clans when starfaring. As such, they are forced not to inhabit the better worlds.
Lesser Clans -
Acheron - The Acheron are the clan most oriented towards trade, and have even traded with other races successfully a few times. They are also oriented towards emotions, which they find most curious. They constantly elate humans, using the pleasure centres in the brain, and attempt to somehow assilmate the pleasure. This inevitably ends in the death of the human, however happy the human dies.
Æthriom - This clan were thought to cease to exist long ago, but a small world of them were found by the Ai. They have knowledge of three technologies, which were the pride of Solarais long ago. However, they refuse to associate themselves with any other Solarais, and defend their world most voraciously.
Bethrau - The Bethrau are a clan at war with the Moshkara, and have been for some five million years. They constantly launch attacks at Moshkara Shipyards, and indebt themselves to other clans constantly to do so.
Moshkara - The Moshkara are at war with the Bethrau, but never attack the Bethrau. Instead, they continually badmouth them at Great Council meetings, and the other clans slowly turn against the Bethrau.
Forlor - The Forlor are unknown, as the Acheron have not been able to find out anything about them. They never come to Great Council meetings, nor do they attempt to communicate with any other clan.
Joirath - Untranslated as yet.
Dairen - The Dairen are the most powerful of all the Lesser Clans, and only lost their prestige when they failed to defend themselves against an attack from the Yukiri. They lost 9/10 of their population at that point, and their ability to build ships. They also lost their greatest mining world, and now sit among the stars, plotting and waiting, to take revenge against the Yukiri.
Mordai - The Mordai are, without a doubt, the most powerful type of Solaraisi. They can absorb heat to a measure that no other clan can match. Before the advent of space travel, the Mordai ruled all of Solarais. They are now humbled, and sit in their few worlds, attempting desperately to find out how to get inter-system travel.
Rathera - Ratherans are the clan most like humans, as they are the only clan that can manifest themselves in humanoid form. They can also control their form, and can look like anything they please. However, this does not extend to sound, smell and touch. They also have assilimated a few human emotions, the primary of these being sadness.
Kul - The Kul are a yet another clan on which no information has been discovered. All attempts to discover their identity have been repelled.
Celare - Celare are, without a doubt, the weakest clan. There are a bare 450 of them living, and they are always under threat from other clans. They own one small starship, and use this to attempt to reproduce on other planets. However, they do know many things about other clans. The High Clans keep them to attempt to blackmail other clans.
Syrere - The Syrere have killed any researcher attempting to study them, making it hard to obtain any information about them.
Vern - The Vernians act as peacekeepers between all other clans, and attempt to make sure no extreme warfare breaks out. They are the only clan who do not attempt to assilmate others, and attempt to make the other clans realise that their only chance of survival is together.
Wrrnt - Files on the Wrrnt have not yet been compiled. The files that were remaining were destroyed by the Kul.
Leshk - The Leshk are the clan who owns hundreds of mining 'worlds' (read: Planets, moons, large asteroids..), and sell their materials to other clans in return for favors. This means they can always deal from a position of strength in trade, and can almost always count on other clans coming to their aid, if only for more metals.
Compilation of information created by - Vorron Mehk, independant human trader/researcher. This information will be made available to those who require it, such as human governments. The first complitation of this material is being sent to any governments who sign the Solarais Accords.