Return of the fluffy space penguins.
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Race name in singular, plural and adjective:
Aptenodyts
Empire name and adjective version of the name:
The United Federation of Irithyll, Irithyll Federation
Leader’s title, gender, and name:
Matriarch, Female, Yorshka
Homeworld:
Artic
Ethos:
Spiritualist, Xenophile, Egalitarian
Gov. Type:
Representative Democracy
Civics:
Beacon of Liberty, Idealistic Foundation
Starting Techs:
Laser, Wormholes
Lore
Aptenodytes home world of Irithyll was always a hostile and unforgiving world for many who were not born to to withstand the frozen landscape and the bone chilling winds. Once it use to be a tropical paradise home to an advanced set of alien civilizations, many of them ranging from insects, reptiles and amphibians who have long since died out when the world began to cool down and many of them could not survive against the change climate.
It was with their death that bird and mammals, once mere animals used for both food and pets, now roam freely and dominated the world. As they evolved and adapted to their new world a select few began to develop sapience and began to ask themselves were do they come from and was their world always a frozen ball?
The Aptenodytes were a collection of tribal confederacies, small kingdoms, independent city states, developing empires, and many other nationstates. The many nations that the Aptenodytes have were far to different from each other for the people to ever truly become a united force on their own, yet several key events happen both within their nations and from beyond that would soon change the Aptenodytes civilization.
The first was the formation of three great faiths and schools of philosophical thoughts that would help ease in the desperate cultures in Aptenodyte civilization, trading with other empires from the more mammalian creatures of the worlds that helped spread new ideals and technology along with the Aptendoytes experiencing a cultural, spiritual and technological renaissance.
Of that many things that spawn from the enlightenment and renaissance were liberal ideas with the concept of individualism striking more to the hearts and minds of the future rulers of Irithyll. The change that happened to most of the Aptendoytes civilization were often different stories, where some going through non violent reforms and other nations falling into civil war and revolutions. Yet with the mammalian neighbors many of them did not like the talks of liberal democracy and chose to wipe the Aptendoytes out to prevent their ideals from spreading.
Aptendoytes would have indeed been destroyed if they have not discovered the technologies of the precursors and with them laser weapons and wormholes. Using these new weapons and technology the smaller Aptendoytes began to push back against the aggressive mammals and just when it seems that things couldn’t be worse for the Aptendoytes enemies a plague and famine ravaged their lands, crumbling down their already weaken armies.
The war ended with a peace treaty which made sure that no other party would attack the other while they recovered. The Aptendoytes civilization continued to grow and prosper while the civilizations of the mammals continue to spiral downward until eventually all of their civilizations ceased to be, with only nomadic tribes being the last remnants of these former civilizations.
With the mammals no longer in the way the Aptendoytes grow their civilization until they finally conquered their home world, creating the United Federation of Irithyll. With them now knowing much of their world many began to be fascinated on what secrets and mysteries can be found in space as most of their advanced technology came from beings who predated them and most likely came from the stars.
Using their resources and ingenuity they crafted both space ships and gateways to use their wormhole technology to explore the cosmos and experience all that it has to offer..
