Emisans

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Emisans
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Federation Status	Friendly
Planet of Origin	Emisa III, Alpha Isles Region, Alpha Quadrant
Encountered	ARR: "Tangent"
T/E Rating	T0/E0
Current Tech Level	F+
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Home System

• Quadrant: Alpha Quadrant
• Location: Alpha Isles
• Proper Name: Originally Emisa, now Vega Scorpiaë
• Star: Vega Scorpiaë
• Moons: Three. Two un-named, third is called Aladam and was home to the Emisan Moon People

Home World

• Proper Name: Origin: Emisa III Now: Hixoraa
• Classification: M class (Hixoraa)
• Surface Water: Plentiful oceans, lakes, and rivers
• Atmosphere: Nitrogen, oxygen, trace elements
• Population: Many thousands of Emisans

History

≈1200 Years Prior: Emisa III is a thriving world. Approximately 5 billion inhabitants. Planetary Development Scale D. (Earth, first world nations, around 1850) Heavy focus on arts, culture, music, theater. The planet is ruled by 4 large nation-states, each generally covering one of the 4 main continents. (Kyrenning, Maridus, Saretis, and Glinyu)

≈1000 Years Prior: 6 billion inhabitants on the 4 continents. Planetary Development Scale E-. (Earth, 1950’s-60’s technology). Cultural achievements are relegated to secondary status. Now there is a focus on large industrialization and technology. The 4 nation states start to quarrel over resources, which are not normally distributed between the continents.

≈950 Years Prior: Open planetary war between the 4 nation states. Planetary Development Scale E. Atomics discovered. Resources allocation is the stated issue for the wars. Many records are lost. Solondë, a main cultural center and one of the largest cities on the planet, is destroyed in a nuclear attack. Planetary population 4.5 billion. Saretis, one of the nation states, begins lunar exploration of the sole habitable moon. (There are 2 other moons for 3 total, but only 1 is livable.) Planetary Development Scale F.

≈930 Years Prior: One nation state, Kyrenning, is prevailing in the wars. Tactical nuclear attacks are endemic. Two of the smaller nation states, Saretis and Glinyu, join forces to delay Kyrenning’s victory and join together to build a lunar colony. Kyrenning’s early space flight city is destroyed in a nuclear barrage and many surviving Kyrenning space scientists are killed in assassinations. Maridus, the smallest nation state, surrenders to Kyrenning and is incorporated into the victor’s holdings.

≈910 Years Prior: Saretis and Glinyu’s colonies on the moon are self-sustaining. Development Scale F+ on the lunar colonies.

≈900 Years Prior: Glinyu surrenders unconditionally to Kyrenning. Population subjugated and enslaved.

≈840 Years Prior: In the face of an imminent Kyrenning victory, Saretis engages in a full unrestricted nuclear war. Sending off as many scientists, engineers, and other citizens to the lunar colony, they send this last message to Kyrenning and the lunar colony: “The people of Saretis will never know what it is to live under Kyrenning oppression. We choose death.” Kyrenning returns the nuclear volleys. Massive death and ecological collapse. Population centers destroyed. The Kyrenning were not prepared for this outcome. Governmental and societal collapse. The remaining small population moves underground to escape the contamination. Technology reverts to a more primitive level. People are living in small bands or tribes.

≈830 Years Prior: The lunar colony, after several attempts at contact, declares Emisa III a dead world. A unique culture starts to develop on the moon. They are focused on technology and engineering to the exclusion of most everything else.

≈700 Years Prior: The Lunar colony, now renamed Aladam, develops a fusion reactor technology that is highly efficient and powerful. It requires a mineral called Rhinidine. Supplies of it are rare in Aladam.

≈650 Years Prior: Aladam scientists discover huge Rhinidine deposits on Emisa III. In Aladami culture, the homeworld is considered a dead end. (Nothing good ever happened there except for the leaving of it.) Sending people there would be a crime. Automated mining platforms are developed as a useful alternative. Aladami leadership does not think there is anyone living on Emisa III.

≈500 Years Prior: Emisan population struggles to recover, being limited to the caves and underground structures. Technology has reverted to roughly the steam age, in Human terms. (Aladami development is much higher) The first mining platforms reach Emisan underground population centers. Thousands killed. Aladam is not aware.

≈450 Years Prior: Aladam engineers and scientists realize people are living on Emisa III, their own species. Threatened by this, Aladami leadership suppresses the information. Rhinidine mining keeps their society running. Plus the leaders of the “enlightened” Aladami leaders regard anyone living on Emisa III as likely warmongers and extremely dangerous. Plus they might have loyalties to the old nation states and they can’t let that affect the evolved Aladami culture.

≈400 Years Prior: Some Emisan tribes become convinced that life exists on the moon. A religious movement begins, praying to the moon people in the belief that they will come and save them. They call themselves Rodonthi, or “Those with Heart”. These tribes war on those who don’t believe. (“Once we all believe, the Moon People will save us. Unbelievers must convert or be slain.”)

≈400 Years Prior to about 100 years prior: War rages between the tribes on Emisa III, mostly underground. Some wars are still religious in nature, but there are also wars for resources, space, and for getting bits of old technology that are still working. Famines and deaths due to mining are common. Aladami leadership suppresses all knowledge of Emisan habitation. Mining continues.

≈50 Years Prior: Emisans have consolidated into 3 main tribes. The Rodonthi are still a force, praying to the moon people for mercy and in the hope that they will reestablish Emisan preeminence. The Arosath are isolationist, even from the other Emisans. The Kurmishoi are the largest and were consolidated by the efforts of Mellonis Kor, a tribal leader from the southern region. They hope to stop the mining and restore Emisan culture. They hold the Rodonthi as religious zealots and ignore the Arosath. The Kurmishoi live in caves and some in a few small domes on the surface. They are pragmatic and curt.

Current Situation: The Emisans have relocated from Emisa III to Hixoraa. The Kurmishoi and the Arosathi tribes have fused by arranging marriages and unifying their Clan leadership. They are living together in and near the village of Sahndaloa on Hixoraa. The Rodonthi have joined with the Aladami Clan as well. Peaceful relations exist between all the Clans on Hixoraa at the present.

Government

Each Clan is ruled by a Clan Council

Description

Mostly Human appearance with these exceptions: they are all very slight and shorter than Human average. approximately 1.5M tall. Their slightness would indicate undernourishment in a Human, but it is normal for them. Their skin color always has a heavy metallic sheen to it. Colors vary from golden to silvery to coppery. All Emisans have tails, usually just over a meter long, broad and flat.

Physiology

Emisans have two stomachs and two hearts. They have significant twitch fibers in their musculature, making them extremely quick from a stop.

Tails

Emisan tails are an essential part of their communication style and capabilities. Even though Emisans have a full spoken language, much of the content and emotional color comes from the position and movement of their tails. A tail movement or change in position while speaking can indicate the difference between a jest and an insult.

One can tell how Emisans regard each other based on how they greet each other with their tails.

There is even a method of "Tail Talk" where Emisans can communicate with each other in silence using nothing but tail gestures. While a wide variety of meanings can be indicated, Tail Talk is mostly limited to simpler and direct communication. (Examples: Go that way, start your attack, I am angry, hide over there, I detect an enemy.)

Reproduction

Emisan males and females have absolute biological control over their own reproduction. Coitus may be freely engaged in without risk of conception for Emisans. Both the male and the female involved in any sexual act can command their biologies to permit or deny conception.

Psychology

Depending on which Clan a particular Emisan hails from, it can be different.

• The Aladami are from the Moon colony and are scientific and militaristic.
• The Rodonthi are deeply religious and their religion is based upon worship of the Moon and the people who lived there. They are originally from Emisa III.
• The Arosathi were isolationists and shunned contact with others until the Great Crossing to Hixoraa. They are originally from Emisa III.
• The Kurmishoi were preservers of what they could find from ancient Emisan civilization, pre-collapse. They are originally from Emisa III.

Religion

Mostly non-religious with the exception of the Rodonthi Clan.

Culture

Emisans tend to live in tribes or bands that can range in size from several hundred to many thousands.

Music, art, and story-telling are eagerly practiced by the Emisan III Clans. The Aladami are more concerned with scientific progress.

Arranged marriages are the custom. But since Emisans have absolute biological control of their reproductive systems, marriage does not include sexual exclusivity in their culture. Emisan marriage does include the exclusive right of conception, bearing, and raising of children however.

Appearances

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