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Some believe that the Caraadians were the first intelligent species to evolve within the [[Par'tha Expanse]]. Certainly all of the data would seem to support this. There are ruins and archeological evidence to support the existence of communities, cities and limited infrastructure on their homeworld over 22,000 years ago.  

According to their records they were a strong, independent species who were relatively peaceful with few internal conflicts. They developed at a reasonable pace and first achieved space fight over 13,000 years ago. For the next 1,500 years they worked on exploring their system, establishing colonies, learning how to terraform planets, moons and establishing numerous works projects throughout the system.  

This program temporarily delayed their development of warp drive technology as they concentrated on other developments but they quickly made up for it by entering into an expansionist period once they did develop warp drives. One that saw them creating a number of colonies and start work on numerous terraforming projects. By the time they were done they had established over 100 colonies over the next 1,500 years.  

They continued to expand, building colonies, terraforming worlds, moons and establishing numerous other facilities across the entire Par’tha Expanse and beyond. They went virtually unchallenged for almost 6,000 years, the supreme power in this region of space. Most species that they encountered were to inferior technologically or not evolved enough to be considered a problem and as such they were usually simply ignored.  

This period of peaceful expansionism made them complacent and unprepared for what came next. They encountered a new species, one that was not so inferior technologically, a species with very aggressive qualities, violent in the extreme and determined to be the dominant power.  

 

 

 

What followed was a short period of peace, one that lasted less than a hundred years. Various factions with in the Caraadian Empire were at odds with one another. This slowly started to escalate into border conflicts, trade embargoes, raids etc. Eventually a state of war seemed to exist from one end of their empire to another. It would take almost 3,000 years before a lasting peace could be reached. In that time much changed. A new power emerged, the [[Valcarian]], one that was stronger, more vital and still in a period of positive expansion. Also the [[Romulan]] Star Empire made significant strides in expanding into the expanse.

 

The Caraadians were able to defeat and drive back the Romulans. Unfortunately this left them weakened and exposed. A state that the Valcarian government took advantage of by taking control of a number of smaller colonies, all of those worlds that had been abandoned for one reason or another and in the process became the new power in the Par’tha Expanse.   

The Great Council, along with its many sub-councils, is the primary legislative body in the [[Par'tha Expanse]]. It is made up of the various Caraadian noble families (houses) which are aliened into different factions. The houses influence affairs by forming coalitions within the Great Council, hopefully gaining enough votes to get their way. For two decades, [[House Larokon|Larokon]] has held together a strong coalition which allows it to impose its will on the rest of the sector. There are signs that this coalition is weakening, however.

The Great Council is lead by a prime minister who not only passes the laws of the sector, but also sits in judgement over certain court cases, and confers offices and grants pardons. However, with over 2000 members, it is far too large to effectively attend to all of its duties. In reality, it mostly exists to elect officials and review the acts of the many smaller councils and committees under it.

In handling crucial issues of foreign policy, finance, and internal security, the prime minister may bypass the Senate by taking proposals to the '''Council of Ten''', an inner circle of senior Great Council members (which actually has 35 members). The Great Council has become very exclusive over time, and does not admit new families when old ones die out, as it did in the Dynastic Era.  

Over the 20,000 plus years that the Caraadians have existed as an intelligent species they have established numerous colonies. Many of which are now thousands of years old. As a result what started out as a single set of religious beliefs has with time and due to other factors been transformed into a vast and diverse collection of beliefs, many of them with almost no similarity with their original beliefs?

While many of the newer colonies all have some abridged collections of old myths, tales and legends passed down to them from their ancestors who first came to their colony many of the older colonies have vast collections that are completely and entirely their own, created by their ancestors who settled their colony.  

They have a fairly strong and diverse economy with trade between all of their colonies and those belonging to the Freeworlds and the Valcarians. Some worlds, factions or houses are better off than others and all of them seem to be in it for themselves.  

The Caraadians have a very large military with over 50 different standard ship classes and about that many again which are specialized for one purpose or another. All most all of these belong to individual houses, factions or planets. However each and every one of these houses, factions and planets also are expected to provide 3 ships of any class to the Grand Councils Imperial Fleet. Due to this fact the Grand Council has almost 150 large warships, nearly 400 medium vessels and close to 1,000 small ships with which to enforce their will and conduct patrols with.

Since then their have been numerous encounters between the various Caraadian factions, houses and the Federation. For the most part these have all been fairly peaceful.