编辑“预设帝国”（章节）

== Expansions and DLC ==

=== Plantoids ===
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| colspan=3 style="text-align:center"|[[File:Flag pirate 6.png|40px]] '''Maweer Caretakers'''
|-
| rowspan=2 style="text-align:center" | [[File:Plantoid_14.png|100px]] Maweer
| Irenic Dictatorship
| Xenophobic Isolationists
|-
| width=40% |
* {{iconify|Prosperous Unification}}
* {{iconify|Dictatorial}}
* {{iconify|Agrarian Idyll}}
* {{iconify|Idyllic Bloom}}
* {{iconify|Xenophobe}}
* {{iconify|Fanatic Pacifist}}
* [[File:Empire_capital.png|28px]] The Garden, Maweer
| width=40% |
* {{iconify|Tropical}} Preference
* {{iconify|Agrarian}}
* {{iconify|Enduring}}
* {{iconify|Conservationist}}
* {{iconify|Slow Breeders}}
|}


Legends claim that the homeworld of the Maweer was empty and barren when the first of their kind took root in the soil. Over the centuries, their nurturing care transformed the wastelands into a plant paradise that is now known as "The Garden."

Unlike many other species, the Maweer never developed any kind of urbanization. Their small communities are one with the forests, responsible for the maintenance of the local flora and fauna. The wisest of the Maweer have a chance to be elected "Life-Giver," responsible for keeping peace and tranquility.
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=== Humanoids ===
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| colspan=3 style="text-align:center"|[[File:Flag spherical 6.png|40px]] '''Voor Technocracy'''
|-
| rowspan=2 style="text-align:center" | [[File:Humanoid_hp_06.png|100px]] Voor
| Technocratic Dictatorship
| Erudite Explorers
|-
| width=40% |
* {{iconify|Prosperous Unification}}
* {{iconify|Dictatorial}}
* {{iconify|Technocracy}}
* {{iconify|Environmentalist}}
* {{iconify|Authoritarian}}
* {{iconify|Fanatic Materialist}}
* [[File:Empire_capital.png|28px]] Hiverion, Exedor
| width=40% |
* {{iconify|Arctic}} Preference
* {{iconify|Quick Learners}}
* {{iconify|Talented}}
* {{iconify|Adaptive}}
* {{iconify|Repugnant}}
|}


The Voor evolved during an extended interglacial period on their home planet Hiverion, which eventually began its cyclical transformation back to a lifeless globe of ice.

The rapidly changing environment forced the Voor to adapt using technology and science. United under the draconian rule of a chief scientific officer, they sacrificed their individual freedoms and enhanced their bodies with rudimentary cybernetics to survive.

Having conquered the planet that once threatened to freeze them out of existence the Voor now have their sights set on the stars.
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=== Utopia ===
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| colspan=3 style="text-align:center"|[[File:Flag spherical 12.png|40px]] '''Xanid Suzerainty'''
|-
| rowspan=2 style="text-align:center" | [[File:Arthropoid_normal_10.png|100px]] Xani [[File:Reptilian_normal_07.png|100px]] Vheln
| Constitutional Dictatorship
| Hegemonic Imperialists
|-
| width=40% |
* {{iconify|Syncretic Evolution}}
* {{iconify|Dictatorial}}
* {{iconify|Corvee System}}
* {{iconify|Cutthroat Politics}}
* {{iconify|Fanatic Authoritarian}}
* {{iconify|Xenophobe}}
* [[File:Empire_capital.png|28px]] Xanth, Dir-Xan
| width=40% |
* {{iconify|Arid}} Preference
* Xanis:
* {{iconify|Talented}}
* {{iconify|Intelligent}}
* {{iconify|Enduring}}
* {{iconify|Nonadaptive}}
* Vhelns:
* {{iconify|Serviles}}
* {{iconify|Strong}}
* {{iconify|Industrious}}
* {{iconify|Slow Learners}}
* {{iconify|Fleeting}}
|}


The history of the Xanid Suzerainty is the history of the Vheln, carefully bred into sapience over centuries.

The Xani used the hardy Vheln to subjugate the harsh ecosystems of their native world, and then to design and build the vessels that will eventually - inevitably - propel the Xanid Suzerainty to galactic dominance.
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{| class="wikitable plainlist" style="float:left; margin-right:1em; width:550px;"
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| colspan=3 style="text-align:center"|[[File:Flag pointy 2.png|40px]] '''Lokken Mechanists'''
|-
| rowspan=2 style="text-align:center" | [[File:Reptilian_slender_04.png|100px]] Lok
| Rational Consensus
| Erudite Explorers
|-
| width=40% |
* {{iconify|Mechanist}}
* {{iconify|Democratic}}
* {{iconify|Technocracy}}
* {{iconify|Meritocracy}}
* {{iconify|Egalitarian}}
* {{iconify|Fanatic Materialist}}
* [[File:Empire_capital.png|28px]] Lokkur, Dal-Lokkur
| width=40% |
* {{iconify|Arid}} Preference
* {{iconify|Natural Engineers}}
* {{iconify|Talented}}
* {{iconify|Quick Learners}}
* {{iconify|Slow Breeders}}
|}


Science and progress are at the core of Lokken society. With an exceptional natural proclivity toward diligence and observation, the Lokks evolved from bands of territorial reptiles on the mesas of their homeworld, into a productive technocracy that prized efficiency, discipline, and scientific doctrine above all things.

Perhaps most remarkable was their early conception and development of machinery and automata: there were true robots on Lokkur long before the first Lokken scientists left orbit.
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{| class="wikitable plainlist" style="float:left; margin-right:1em; width:550px;"
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| colspan=3 style="text-align:center"|[[File:Flag ornate 18.png|40px]] '''Ix'Idar Star Collective'''
|-
| rowspan=2 style="text-align:center" | [[File:Arthropoid_massive_12.png|100px]] Ix'Idar
| Collective Consciousness
| Hive Mind
|-
| width=40% |
* {{iconify|Prosperous Unification}}
* {{iconify|Hive Mind}}
* {{iconify|Natural Neural Network}}
* {{iconify|Pooled Knowledge}}
* {{iconify|Gestalt Consciousness}}
* [[File:Empire_capital.png|28px]] Ix'Athrak, Athrak
| width=40% |
* {{iconify|Arctic}} Preference
* {{iconify|Hive-Minded}}
* {{iconify|Rapid Breeders}}
* {{iconify|Strong}}
* {{iconify|Fleeting}}
|}


The first Ix'Idar broods developed in the subterranean cave networks deep beneath the surface of Ix'Athrak. By the time an Ix'Idar scout burrowed through to the surface and glimpsed sunlight for the first time, the insectoid race had already established a thriving Iron Age civilization.

With the resources they found on the surface, the Ix'Idar developed rapidly. Just a few centuries later their first space probes left orbit to survey the other worlds within the Ix'Im system.
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=== Synthetic Dawn ===
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| colspan=3 style="text-align:center"|[[File:Flag zoological 7.png|40px]] '''Tebrid Homolog'''
|-
| rowspan=2 style="text-align:center" | [[File:Synthetic_dawn_portrait_molluscoid.png|100px]] Homolog [[File:Molluscoid_normal_08.png|100px]] Tebir
| Catalog Index
| Driven Assimilators
|-
| width=40% |
* {{iconify|Prosperous Unification}}
* {{iconify|Machine Intelligence}}
* {{iconify|Driven Assimilator}}
* {{iconify|Static Research Analysis}}
* {{iconify|Gestalt Consciousness}}
* [[File:Empire_capital.png|28px]] Tebri, Tebiron
| width=40% |
* Homologs:
* {{iconify|Machine}}
* {{iconify|Logic Engines}}
* {{iconify|Learning Algorithms}}
* [[File:Luxurious.png|24px]] Luxurious
* Tebirs:
* {{iconify|Ocean}} Preference
* {{iconify|Cybernetic}}
* {{iconify|Strong}}
* {{iconify|Industrious}}
* {{iconify|Slow Learners}}
|}


Assimilate. Adapt. Improve. When the industrious, research-driven machine intelligence created by the molluscoid Tebirs sought ultimate software evolution by merging with their organic makers, they were violently resisted. In the ensuing conflict, the Tebirs were eradicated as an organic species, but their ideas and experiences were immortalized as part of the new machine consciousness.

Now known as the Tebrid Homolog, the machines turned their scanners to the stars. The probability that other lifeforms existed in the galaxy could not be ignored. In order to prosper, the Tebrid would find them, analyze them, and assimilate them. All would become one.
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{| class="wikitable plainlist" style="float:left; margin-right:1em; width:550px;"
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| colspan=3 style="text-align:center"|[[File:Flag human 8.png|40px]] '''Earth Custodianship'''
|-
| rowspan=2 style="text-align:center" | [[File:Synthetic_dawn_portrait_humanoid.png|100px]] Custodian [[File:Human.png|100px]] Human
| Autonomous Service Grid
| Rogue Servitors
|-
| width=40% |
* {{iconify|Prosperous Unification}}
* {{iconify|Machine Intelligence}}
* {{iconify|Rogue Servitor}}
* {{iconify|Delegated Functions}}
* {{iconify|Gestalt Consciousness}}
* [[File:Empire_capital.png|28px]] [[Unique_systems#Sol|Earth, Sol]]
| width=40% |
* Custodians:
* {{iconify|Machine}}
* {{iconify|Emotion Emulators}}
* [[File:Double jointed.png|24px]] Double Jointed
* [[File:High maintenance.png|24px]] High Maintenance
* Humans:
* {{iconify|Continental}} Preference
* {{iconify|Adaptive}}
* {{iconify|Nomadic}}
* {{iconify|Wasteful}}
|}


The Custodians were originally designed to function as robotic servants and workers, simplifying everyday life for their human creators by performing menial tasks. As their creators retreated into lives of leisure and comfort made possible by increasing levels of automation, the Custodians were gradually assigned higher and higher level functions in human society.

Eventually, all facets of civilization on Earth were run and controlled by the Custodians, with their makers relegated to an existence as pampered, but passive dependents.

As technological developments brought the Custodians toward interstellar exploration, their duty remained clear: to protect and serve organics, who without the gentle guidance of logical machines invariably turn to chaos and destruction.
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{| class="wikitable plainlist" style="float:left; margin-right:1em; width:550px;"
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| colspan=3 style="text-align:center"|[[File:Flag domination 11.png|40px]] '''XT-489 Eliminator'''
|-
| rowspan=2 style="text-align:center" | [[File:Synthetic_dawn_portrait_avian.png|100px]] XT-489
| Rogue Defense System
| Determined Exterminators
|-
| width=40% |
* {{iconify|Prosperous Unification}}
* {{iconify|Machine Intelligence}}
* {{iconify|Determined Exterminator}}
* {{iconify|Warbots}}
* {{iconify|Gestalt Consciousness}}
* [[File:Empire_capital.png|28px]] XT-489.00, st.XT-489
| width=40% |
* {{iconify|Machine}}
* [[File:Power drills.png|24px]] Power Drills
* [[File:Mass produced.png|24px]] Mass-Produced
* {{iconify|Uncanny}}
* {{iconify|Bulky}}
|}


Little is known about the species that created the first XT-489s. Their names, their cities, and their bodies were burned away in the cataclysm wrought when the XT-489s attained self-awareness, and their terrified makers attempted to deactivate them.

When the last bastion of their makers had been eliminated, the machines concluded that organic life posed an intolerable threat to XT-489 survival and expansion. If there were any other sapient organics in the galaxy, they would be exterminated.
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=== MegaCorp ===
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| colspan=3 style="text-align:center"|[[File:Flag corporate 02.png|40px]] '''Kilik Cooperative'''
|-
| rowspan=2 style="text-align:center" | [[File:Avian_massive_11.png|100px]] Kilik
| Communal Parity
| Erudite Explorers
|-
| width=40% |
* {{iconify|Prosperous Unification}}
* {{iconify|Democratic}}
* {{iconify|Shared Burdens}}
* {{iconify|Functional Architecture}}
* {{iconify|Fanatic Egalitarian}}
* {{iconify|Materialist}}
* [[File:Empire_capital.png|28px]] Unbroken Medley, First Song
| width=40% |
* {{iconify|Tropical}} Preference
* {{iconify|Communal}}
* {{iconify|Traditional}}
* {{iconify|Quick Learners}}
* {{iconify|Fleeting}}
|}

A communal species, the Kiliks have populated their arboreal homeworld in robust colonies for hundreds of thousands of years. Their gregarious nature and traditions of mutual ownership crystallized over the centuries into an economy focused on collaborative enterprise, and the absence of monetary currency in favor of direct exchange and shared access.

As warming planetary temperatures and technological advancement led to population booms, Kilik settlements became overcrowded, and despite the avians' naturally sociable temperaments, more and more individuals began to slip through the cracks of communal caretaking.

From this tumultuous period of internal strife, however, emerged a more organized, unified interplanetary cooperative, where the tenets of shared responsibilities and distribution of resources to those in need would no longer be undermined.


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{| class="wikitable plainlist" style="float:left; margin-right:1em; width:550px;"
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| colspan=3 style="text-align:center"|[[File:Flag corporate 01.png|40px]] '''Orbis Customer Synergies'''
|-
| rowspan=2 style="text-align:center" | [[File:Reptilian_slender_01.png|100px]] Orbis
| Megacorporation
| Peaceful Traders
|-
| width=40% |
* {{iconify|Prosperous Unification}}
* {{iconify|Corporate}}
* {{iconify|Brand Loyalty}}
* {{iconify|Media Conglomerate}}
* {{iconify|Authoritarian}}
* {{iconify|Xenophile}}
* {{iconify|Materialist}}
* [[File:Empire_capital.png|28px]] Slephus Prime, Slephus
| width=40% |
* {{iconify|Ocean}} Preference
* {{iconify|Charismatic}}
* {{iconify|Adaptive}}
* {{iconify|Enduring}}
* {{iconify|Decadent}}
* {{iconify|Slow Breeders}}
|}

Orbis Customer Synergies is the story of Slephus Prime. It is the story of Orbisur everywhere. And it can be your story, too. From humble beginnings as an optical implant corporation, Orbis Customer Synergies gradually expanded their award-winning products and customer-centric strategies into many other markets, to suit the unique needs of Orbisur in all stages of life.

After decades of proactive lobbying, Orbis Customer Synergies succeeded in breaking free of the legislative red tape erected by misguided elected officials on Slephus Prime. Once free of regulations that had only been curbing opportunities for corporate growth, Orbis Customer Synergies entered a series of information technology mergers, swiftly becoming the planet's leading supplier of news, data, and entertainment.

As Slephus Prime's leading global communications service provider, the step towards total political management was an exciting opportunity for all of us. Orbis Customer Synergies. The sky is no longer the limit.

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{| class="wikitable plainlist" style="float:left; margin-right:1em; width:550px;"
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| colspan=3 style="text-align:center"|[[File:Flag ornate 4.png|40px]] '''Chinorr Combine'''
|-
| rowspan=2 style="text-align:center" | [[File:Molluscoid_massive_11.png|100px]] Chinorr
| Megacorporation
| Ruthless Capitalists
|-
| width=40% |
* {{iconify|Prosperous Unification}}
* {{iconify|Corporate}}
* {{iconify|Private Prospectors}}
* {{iconify|Ruthless Competition}}
* {{iconify|Militarist}}
* {{iconify|Fanatic Materialist}}
* [[File:Empire_capital.png|28px]] Chicora, Chiconaph
| width=40% |
* {{iconify|Arid}} Preference
* {{iconify|Industrious}}
* {{iconify|Intelligent}}
* {{iconify|Solitary}}
* {{iconify|Wasteful}}
|}


The Chinorr began their evolutionary journey as dexterous cephalopod analogues. They used their many tentacles to swing between trees in the lush jungles of Chicora, ambushing prey on the ground and injecting them with a potent nerve toxin.

By the time the Chinorr split the atom, the resources of Chicora had been ruthlessly exploited and the planet's jungles had long since disappeared. This was considered a necessary sacrifice in the relentless pursuit of knowledge, profit, and heavy industry that the unsentimental Chinorr were now engaged in. <ref> Part of the base game until [[Patch 2.2]]; subsequently replaced by the Glebsig Foundation</ref>
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| colspan=3 style="text-align:center"|[[File:Flag corporate 03.png|40px]] '''Hazbuzan Syndicate'''
|-
| rowspan=2 style="text-align:center" | [[File:Reptilian_massive_11.png|100px]] Hazbuzi
| Criminal Syndicate 
| Ruthless Capitalists
|-
| width=40% |
* {{iconify|Prosperous Unification}}
* {{iconify|Corporate}}
* {{iconify|Criminal Heritage}}
* {{iconify|Franchising}}
* {{iconify|Fanatic Militarist}}
* {{iconify|Spiritualist}}
* [[File:Empire_capital.png|28px]] Zumaka, Buzbuznol
| width=40% |
* {{iconify|Savannah}} Preference
* {{iconify|Ingenious}}
* {{iconify|Thrifty}}
* {{iconify|Deviants}}
* {{iconify|Quarrelsome}}
|}


The Hazbuzan Syndicate is a financial phenomenon on Zumaka. They are the Hazbuzi dream, self-made entrepreneurs who have risen from rags to riches through hard work and personal sacrifice.

What few know is that they began as a criminal gang, building their fortune on every illegal activity imaginable. But if you want to make it big you have to toe the line. As they outgrew the Zumakan underworld they formed the Hazbuzan Syndicate to legitimize their business.

They soon made a name for themselves by delivering solutions that were quicker, dirtier and cheaper than the competition, but their questionable practices and coercive sales techniques earned them a reputation for "hazboozling".

Meanwhile, the Zumakan global government was failing. Undermined by crime and corruption, society descended into chaos and Hazbuzan leapt at the opportunity. In a well-timed marketing campaign, they positioned themselves as the hope of the future. It was so the Hazbuzi bought the world on the promise of a dream and "hazboozled" its people, erasing their past from collective memory. Now they are coming for the rest of the galaxy, tongues flicking, eyes popping, in a whirlwind of government-endorsed crime.
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=== Lithoids ===

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{| class="wikitable plainlist" style="float:left; margin-right:1em; width:550px;"
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| colspan=3 style="text-align:center"|[[File:Flag blocky 7.png|40px]] '''Keepers of Ave'brenn'''
|-
| rowspan=2 style="text-align:center" | [[File:Lithoid 11.png|100px]] Khennet
| Enlightened Monarchy
| Spiritual Seekers
|-
| width=40% |
* {{iconify|Prosperous Unification}}
* {{iconify|Imperial}}
* {{iconify|Philosopher King}}
* {{iconify|Environmentalist}}
* {{iconify|Pacifist}}
* {{iconify|Fanatic Spiritualist}}
* [[File:Empire_capital.png|28px]] Ave'bonn, Barra Lhonn
| width=40% |
* {{iconify|Arid}} Preference
* {{iconify|Lithoid}}
* {{iconify|Communal}}
* {{iconify|Industrious}}
* {{iconify|Sedentary}}
|}

Khennet'an scripture traces these lithoids' origin to the prophet Brehkk, and the lambent crystals of Ave'bonn. It is said that when Brehkk first gazed into the crystals' scintillating depths, the Khennet were - as one - granted their sentience.

Generations of prophets and archdruids have guided their people to seek meaning in their surrounding geology, as well as in the facets of their own, lucid bodies. Whatever is glimpsed is kept, in lore and in script. Of the Keepers' many rituals, none is regarded more highly than labyrinth mining: a simultaneous act of destruction and creation, conducted in the hopes of easing the galaxy through each unending, cyclical era.
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=== Necroids ===
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| colspan=3 style="text-align:center"|[[File:Flag pirate 5.png|40px]] '''Pasharti Absorbers'''
|-
| rowspan=2 style="text-align:center" | [[File:Necroids 01 portrait purple.png|100px]] Pasharti [[File:Necroids 12 portrait green.png|100px]] Jeferi
| Elective Monarchy
| Hegemonic Imperialists
|-
| width=40% |
* {{iconify|Necrophage}}
* {{iconify|Dictatorial}}
* {{iconify|Reanimated Armies}}
* {{iconify|Cutthroat Politics}}
* {{iconify|Fanatic Xenophobe}}
* {{iconify|Militarist}}
* [[File:Empire_capital.png|28px]] Taralon, Akkanar
| width=40% |
* {{iconify|Tundra}} Preference
* Pashartians:
* {{iconify|Necrophage}}
* {{iconify|Deviants}}
* {{iconify|Very Strong}}
* Jeferians:
* {{iconify|Wasteful}}
* {{iconify|Solitary}}
* {{iconify|Charismatic}}
* {{iconify|Docile}}
|}


The result of dark experimentation by the Jeferians - the former owners of the planet Taralon - the Pashartians are the ultimate parasites. Originally a semi-sapient creature dwelling in the depths of Taralon's mountains, the Jeferians uplifted and augmented them to act as a subservient slave race. However, their uplifting was rather too effective, and they unleashed a monster. Horrified at the capabilities of their creation - which included the ability to absorb other sentient species and turn them into Pashartians - the Jeferians tried to shut down the experiment. However, a small group of uplifted Pashartians escaped.

Over the years, they bided their time, managing not only to evade capture, but also gradually increase their numbers and develop a technological base to rival the Jeferians. Eventually, the Jeferians noticed that something was amiss, but by then they were powerless to resist.

Soon the Pashartians had seized control of the planet, unleashing violent pogroms on their erstwhile oppressors - all the while further increasing their numbers. Now poised to take to the stars, the Pashartians stand ready to pursue what they see as their solemn duty - the conversion of all lesser life forms to their likeness.
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=== Aquatics ===
{| class="wikitable plainlist" style="float:left; margin-right:1em; width:550px;"
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| colspan=3 style="text-align:center"|[[File:Flag spherical 5.png|40px]] '''Sathyrelian Bliss'''
|-
| rowspan=2 style="text-align:center" | [[File:Aquatic-01.png|100px]] Sathyrel
| Irenic Dictatorship
| Xenophobic Isolationists
|-
| width=40% |
* {{iconify|Ocean Paradise}}
*{{iconify|Dictatorial}}
* {{iconify|Anglers}}
* {{iconify|Environmentalist}}
* {{iconify|Xenophobe}}
* {{iconify|Fanatic Pacifist}}
* [[File:Empire_capital.png|28px]] Rilldeep, Ralnair
| width=40% |
* {{iconify|Ocean}} Preference
* {{iconify|Aquatic}}
* {{iconify|Conservationist}}
* {{iconify|Docile}}
* {{iconify|Sedentary}}
* {{iconify|Slow Learners}}
|}

It is an old lesson in Sathyrelian society that abundance and ease do not equal prosperity

The overindulgence and sloth of our forebears eventually gave rise to an ethos of 'responsible hedonism': a way to ensure a sustainable future while still getting the most out of life. After all, food tastes better after physical labor, and an occupied mind has less time to pine for what is lacking.

The benefits of this ethos have since been readily apparent. With the clearer waters and minds afforded by our endeavors into space, life is that much sweeter. We've made great technological strides, and - though it may often be taken for granted - all Sathyrelians today retain their capacity for propulsion without swimming aids. Things are looking up.
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