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==Society / Culture / Customs== | ==Society / Culture / Customs== | ||
Dorfmen culture is centred upon a persons ability to make money and fight. Art and literature are considered to be luxuries that the people cannot afford to waste time in. A love of weaponry and vehicles is the most popular pastime on the planet.<br> | Dorfmen culture is centred upon a persons ability to make money and fight. Art and literature are considered to be luxuries that the people cannot afford to waste time in. A love of weaponry and vehicles is the most popular pastime on the planet. All this does not absolutely exclude more ethereal considerations, but that they are often shunted to the margins of society. | ||
It is customary for Dorfmen to compete in extreme sports, where deaths are not uncommon, even at a young age. It is considered important in building up their resilience in later life. | |||
Music tends to be loud and brash, and most popular is a form called Solid State Surge, which has been likened by historians to 21st century Earth extreme death metal music.<br> | |||
The culture of the Omunics is largely unknown, and is thought to centre around the worship of their own kind and the pursuance of an ever greater degree of genetic manipulation.<br> | |||
The Vectis’ highest moral code is a desire for their entire race to eventually be reunited into one glorious sentient entity, and travel the galaxy learning about the mysteries of the universe. | |||
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==Technology== | ==Technology== | ||
The Dorfmen Byzallians have warp travel technology, although their ships are not as elegant as those of the great galactic powers. They are merchants in weaponry, and also look to expand on their level of development by begging, borrowing or stealing from other races.<br> | |||
The Omunics have a very advanced level of scientific and technological development, but it is almost entirely devoted to genetics, both scientific and hostile.<br> | |||
The Vectis have developed their own unique brand of technology, largely chemical and optical. Light is passed through a number of fluid filled chambers, some constructed and some within their own bodies – and these have been used for a wide number of purposes such as communication, energy transfer and medical purposes. | |||
==Economy== | ==Economy== | ||
The Omunic and Vectis communities are mostly self-contained economically. The Dorfmen would class themselves as traders and pilots predominantly, but that is really a euphemism for piracy, smuggling, slave-trading, and general black marketeering. The Dorfmen are considered rogues and bandits by most of their neighbours, especially the adjacent [[Bardeezan|Bardeezans]], who are most often enslaved to become the Diorfmen’s ‘Hotch’ (slaves). | |||
==Military== | |||
All three of the main Byzallian races are considered to me militarily mature. The Dorfmen maintain a large standing army and a growing space fleet, although this is divided amongst their rival nations. It has been called into service to a greater degree recently to fend off the invasion by the [[Pythron|Pythro-Bardeezan]] Alliance, as well as against continuing raids by the Omunics. As more and more Dorfmen are killed or captured, they are increasingly having to rely upon their Hotch slaves or on those considered too young, too old or too ill for normal military service to plug the gaps in their ranks<br> | |||
The Omunics are a powerful foe and mount lightning raids into Dorfmen towns and cities at night, but usually retreat (along with captives) before Dorfmen reinforcements can arrive.<br> | |||
The Vectis have no standing army, but have devised highly developed and automated defence grids and weaponry to keep them safe from surprise attacks. | |||
==Federation Intelligence Files== | ==Federation Intelligence Files== | ||
=='''References:'''== | =='''References:'''== | ||