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BACKGROUND Omega is designed to be somewhat different from the original Alpha Octant setting. The history is designed to be much more fluid with different races rising to promenence at different times before collapsing before another rising empire. This means that borders change over the planned 150 year history instead of merely growing more static as time goes on. OMEGA OCTANT GOVERNMENTS AND FACTIONS ; The Maesron Alliance : A federation-like mix of several races, dominated by three mammalian species that found that working together was more efficient than fighting. The Maesron would eventually become the most powerful faction in the sector until internal strife caused by the aggressive domination of one of the founding races nearly destroyed it. ; The Koligahr Solidarity : A race of jellyfish-like beings that given the technological boost allowing them to become a space faring race. The Koligahr travel in ships full of water and constructed of connected spheres. They fought several wars with the Maesron. ; The Trobrin Empire : A silicoid race that considered themselves better than the carbon races they bordered with. Their ships and weapons were noted for their high radiation output, even at the firing point, to which the Thobrin were immune. ; The Vari Combine : A Spider -like race that found Mammals , most notably the three founding races of the Maesron Alliance, to be quite tasty. The Vari were more of a racial association and had no true central government. This meant that often a hive would go to war while others did not get involved until they were attacked themselves. ; The Probr Revolution : A race of Genetically Engineered Salamanders , the Probr revolted against and destroyed their creators. The Probr were relatively poor, and their ships showed signs of being cheap, yet quite effective. ; The Chlorophon Association : Huge, sentient trees, the individuals of this race were so large that their ships were literally built around a single individual. The larger ships were simply older Phon who had outgrown smaller ships. They were supported by a race of small, Lemur -like creatures who lived in a Symbiotic Relationship with the Phon. The Phon had been in space for longer than just about any other race in the sector, but were non-aggressive and considered themselves to be more elder statesmen and historians. ; The Drex Unity : A race that had developed robotics to the point that their day to day needs were fully taken care of by their creations. The robotic servants of the Drex created and "manned" the fleets, slowly expanding and tenaciously defending their territory. The robots of the Drex are apparently well treated (or at least programmed) by their creators and have shown no sign of rebelling against their biological masters. ; The Alunda Host : A race from a minerally poor planet, the Alundra were able to capture and use massive interstellar creatures they discovered near their planets to create starship sized living ships. ; The Sigvirion Expansion : A literal Virus race able to infect and take over host creatures. Despite several nearly successful attempts to overwhelm the sector, they were defeated each time by the coordinated retaliations of the other races. Their massive territories were eventually retaken by the other Omegan races, and faced with extinction, the Sigvirion made held emergency discussions with the Alunda, and their offer to lend their intelligence to the Alundan bioships was taken. ; The Hivers : Bee -like insectiods about the size of a Terran Dog , the Hivers have the advantage that all members of an individual hive are of one mind. On the other hand, their ships are all small in comparison to other races. For example, their Heavy Cruiser is no bigger than any other race's destroyers. ; The Loriyill Collective : Small Faerie -like creatures, their ships seemed to defy standard technologies. The Loriyill were isolationists while seeming to be looking for something. This something was revealed to the be the Souldra. ; The Souldra : Ancient enemies of the Loriyill, the Souldra are a race of energy beings controlling quasi-living crystalline ships, feeding on the life energies of others. After centuries of hiding in the Void, the Souldra made a bold invasion attempt over the entire Omega Sector and were responsible for wiping out the populations of many worlds. Eventually, thanks to concerted efforts by the other Omegan races and the Loriyill, the Souldra were finally defeated. ; The Iridani Questers : Otter -like, the Iridani were from a small star cluster just outside the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy. They came to the galaxy in single ships (or rarely small groups) doing "Knightly" quests. Their cluster was conquered by the Andromedan Invaders , but there were so many Iridani in the Milky Way that they were able to get together and liberate their home stars. ; The Ymatrian Horde : A warrior race that, once they had achieved the status of a space faring race, promptly tried to conquer the galaxy. Unfortunately for them, they first ran into the Drex who drew in and destroyed their fleet, then bombed them back to the "stone-age" to prevent them from threatening them again. ; The Worb Technocracy : A race of sentient fungoid creatures, the Worb created much of their technology on recovered Ymatrian ships. While sometimes split within between the dominate races, they provided a unified face to the outside. ; The Singer Protectorate : Small, Hummingbird -like creatures, they were just reaching space when their system was conquered by the Kolighar. Eventually, they were liberated by the Loriyill who treated them as younger siblings, but they were unable to prevent the Souldra from destroying their homeworld and virtually destroying them. The survivors found refuge within the protective borders of Loriyill space. ; Federal Republic of Aurora : A former Federation colony transported to the Omega octet by an ion storm. They managed to set themselves up as a semi-neutral enclave with sufficient defenses to protect themselves. Eventually, the same phenomena transported a Klingon subject colony, and then some Lyran warships. ; The Branthodon Regime : A race that managed to capture and use the powerful Space Dragons of the galaxy. They fought several wars with the Alunda before being defeated by them and finally driven out of the galaxy. ; The Bolosco Merchant Guilds : The Bolosco are multi-cellular, amoeba-like creatures who originally lived on an ice-covered "cold ocean" world in the M-81 galaxy. Fleeing persecution, a nomadic group settled and established the Bolosco Trading Guild within the Omega Sector. :Pacifists by nature, they slowly began to build friendly links with all the other races within their newly adopted region of the Milky Way galaxy and began building effective trade links with them. For many years they prospered, remaining largely unaffected by the continual wars between the other Omegan races. :Their idyllic existence was thrown into turmoil by the mysterious Souldra who began a heavy invasion of the Omega Sector, attacking and defeating all races that came into their sights. Unable to resist the overwhelming strength and numbers of the invading Souldran fleet, despite assistance from the Loriyill, the Bolosco Trading Guild was all but destroyed and the Bolosco population was once more forced to flee. The survivors found sanctuary within the re-emerging Maesron Alliance. ; The Paravian Jihad : The Paravians are an avian based race that existed coreward of the Gorn home worlds, about 5 light years distance, and appeared to be a genetic mutation of the Gorn species. Despite this, both races went to war, culminating in the destruction of the Paravian homeworld, and the apparent demise of the entire race. However, a cell of survivors made it into the Omega Sector, and established a colony which slowly grew. ; The Nucian Clans : ; The Rynish Enclave : Protected by the Ryn Nebula, the tiger-like Ryn believed for many centuries that they were alone in the universe. With no dilithium at their disposal, they were unable to develop warp technology, but they developed their technology to very high levels of advancement and specialised in conservation, recycling and Quantum Transporter technology which allowed them to transport between planets with minimum expenditure. :Although their borders were crossed by many Omegan races, including the Probr, Maesron, Trobrin, Koligahr and Sigvirion, the Ryn were more than capabable of repelling those attempts to conquer their territory. Unfortunately, they were powerless to prevent the Andromedans from dominating their tiny sector of space, and on their final attack, the Andromedans were surprised to find the Ryn worlds completely abandoned - their populations, installations, artifacts, technology and resources all completely gone. To date, the true fate of the Ryn remains a mystery ; The Zosman Marauders : These pirates plague the trading races of the Omega Sector. ; The Echarri Dynasty : ; The Qixa Amalgamate : The Qixa are a small but proud race that resemble rabbits who inhabit a volitile and treacherous gas cloud known as the Qixavalor Cloud. Shrewd businessmen, with a penchant for trade, the Qixa were able to seize advantage of the void left by the irrevocable fall of the Bolosco Trading Guild after the failed Souldran invasion. With the loss of their main competition, they expanded their trade swiftly, growing rapidly more prosperous, and more and more tempting to the likes of the Zosman Raiders, who remain their biggest concern. Despite the size of their race, the Qixa have the highest standard of living within the Omega Sector. REFERENCES
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