Unofficial Lore

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This is page is more to collect something like "consensus" of the more lore-interested Delta-V members. This is so that when you are writing up your own character's lore, you can better tie it into other player's roleplay.

Core background - year, location

• The year is 25XX CE. Probably. Maybe.
• Most likely 2525 (in game calendar).
• Earth is owned by TerraGov (name change pending). It is hyper capitalized and coporately run. Life is pretty decent for middle classes and up, but poverty is extremely miserable. Other companies own towns of Earth too - NT owns a few corporate towns.

Astropolitical and Economic Environment

The Syndicate

• Current members of the Syndicate:
  • Cybersun - Primary supplier of arms. Has a legendary legal department.
  • Interdyne - Pharmaceutrical company. Also makes cigarettes.
  • Donk Co. - The (legal) creators and manufacturers of the famous donk pocket.
  • SELF - Sentient Engine Liberation Front. More of a political activism group than a corporation. Roboneuroticist deployments are usually at their initiative.
  • Gorlex Marauders
  • Waffle Corp.

Other Companies

• Fish Co.

Technology and Cosmology

Background of Different Species

Humans

• Advances in modern medicine and technology has extended their lifespan past 100, but not much more than that save for select few with status and resources.

Unathi (Reptilians/Lizardfolk)

Bulk of this is from akesima's lizardfolk lore draft

Unathi Culture and Society

• Unathi naming varies across their lives. Often their names reflect a significant life event or current life focus. Big life milestones - completing education, career changes, personal loss - may prompt an unathi to change their name.
• Family dynamics
  • For many unathi-majority republics within the USSP, family dynamics are looser than they are in human-majority republics, due to already preexisting norms when joining the USSP as republics.

Unathi Politics, History and Cultural Variations

• Unathi are found across the galaxy. However, their main population centers lie in the spinward and coreworld galactic regions.
• The control of core population regions is split between two entities.
  • TerraGov controls the more fertile areas.
  • Majority of the population is controlled by the USSP
• The largest planet in the Unathi space region, Sukhoyst, is home to the Sukhoyst Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
• Resources permitting, people within the unathi-majority republics are generally given the right to reproduce or not to reproduce as they wish, with state help for either scenario. Less-established republics or republics with a recent history of major war tend to have weaker reproductive justice than more established republics, often towards pressuring people towards having large amounts of children.

Sukhoyst

• Sukhoyst is home to the Sukhoyst Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, which is part of the USSP. It is the largest planet in the Unathi space region.
• It receives a large amount of sunlight and is home to many species of lizardfolk that live in warmer conditions.
• Running through the center of the SSFSR is a large mountain range, which divides the territory into a more-arid half to the west and a less-arid half to the east. Immediately at the east base of the mountain is the only area on the planet that could be described as “humid”, and a lot of softer-scaled species can be found here.
• There is a considerable rural/urban divide in the SSFSR, largely due to the planet not being able to sustain industry without trading.
• TerraGov has little interest in supporting a USSP republic, and the USSP’s resources are allocated elsewhere, leading to a primarily agrarian way of life for most people.
  • Life in rural areas is characterised by a local worker’s soviet formed around a sovkhoz (state-owned farm).
  • Population in these areas usually consists around 50 to 500 people that collectively make decisions regarding what to grow for themselves, as well as how to organise to meet overall agricultural goals required by the SSFSR at large.
  • Popular sustenance crops:
    • Shrubs with calcium-rich leaves, with the fruit being a once-a-season treat used to make preserves or baked goods.
    • Small flowers similar to Earth's dandelions and banksia, often used to make tea or served in salads.
    • Aloe, valued for its medicinal ability to treat burns acquired by touching farm equipment left to overheat in the sun, or from basking rocks going too hot.
• Trade crops often exported by the SSFSR include:
  • Galaxythistle, used in medical processes to prepare potent antipoison for SSFSR research stations, as well as other inhabitants of the planets that are less suited to the often-venomous wildlife.
  • Vulgaris, a plant that turns the iron-rich soils common in the SSFSR into a wide variety of medical compounds that are used to manufacture basic medical supplies for a bulk of the USSP-controlled planets in the area

Moths/Mothpeople

• Lifespan is most likely a wee bit shorter than humans. They struggle to hit 100 years.

Arachnids

• They like to eat organs and drink blood.