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The Sapphire Clan is a collection of Sirens on the planet of Aquamarine. They were the first of their species to achieve tier 3 technology, to journey into space, and to seek and gain an alliance with the New Galactic Republic.

About the Map
The blue area of the map showing the territory of the sapphire clans represents 4.92 million square miles. The lighter the blue the more shallow the water, the darker the deeper. Green dots represent islands.
"Settlers on the islands are advised to not build buildings on the beaches."

History

A siren named Sapphire started the first sapphire clan about 28,800 years ago. Old oral tales go back to a time they call pretechnology, about 14,000 years ago, where tales of inventing and playing games with their front limbs originated. These games would eventually produce generations of siren's with more graceful hand movements.


The sapphire clans where not always what we called, "the good guys." King sapphire the 5th was the one who brought end to the family honor, because his heart was tainted by greed that had no boundary, and as evil quite often prevails because of his sins the further generations where thieves, murderers, conquers, enslavers, they where the scourge of the sea, but even through the dark ages the sapphire clans had their good people among them, who saw the abominations they had brought apon neighboring inhabitance and resented it. Then during the rain of king sapphire the 34rth, the ruler in that generation was a new tyrant, and he oppressed the other clans. He robbed his own people, and attacked his own weak clans for sport. who he deemed as peasants; however, a civil war broke out, and the rebels of the rule of the nation was led by his own daughter, princess sapphire the 35th. The war was long and harsh, but in the end princess sapphire the 35th killed her own father, and she ended the war and set her people free. she was known as the wisest of all the leaders. The one who brought back the family honor. Since then the sapphire nation had made peace with the kingdoms who they have oppressed and robbed and murdered by prospering them, protecting their trade routs from pirates, making rich the poor, feeding the hungry, curing the sick, until all who they have wronged on the entire planet have forgiven them. No longer pirates the sapphire clans lived honest lives as merchants and pirate hunters, they still capitalist became a form of capitalism that benefits the land and the people, prosper the fields and the harvest will grow, abandoning their greed and doing things right they found they became richer then when they harmed the fields to plunder the harvest. They became the most peaceful of all the nations in the world, by knowing how the unpeacful think. Eventually technology improved to the point that colonization spread through out the star system. The orbit zone became a place of mutual cooperation and non aggression, but away from the planets orbital shores or under the ozone was the resume your fudes zone. But then came the rule of prince sapphire the 72cond, he is today, with the help of aliens, bringing his kingdom and close trusted allies to the age of extra stellar colonization. And he plans to do it with the family honor secure.

Dietary habits
Some animals are shunned upon to be eaten, this is because these animals importance is more then just being meat. The first on the list that they will tell alien guests to the planet, "these shrimp you can eat, but do not eat these shrimp". Then some one asked "Why not eat those shrimp" At first the siren instructor ignored this question and opened their mouth, a shrimp walked into their mouth fearlessly and went to their teeth, then began cleaning food out from between the teeth, healed a mouth wound, and crawled out. The instructor then said "Reason? because we told you not to, just do what we say." Some one then asked "Those shrimp clean your teeth?" The instructor said "That isn't even the start of what they do, if you already knew that then why ask?" From thi
Culture
The culture of the sapphire clans is about living in a symbiotic way with nature. They believe that so long as they do, they will be healthy.
s it is believed the reason some animals are taboo to eat is because they are their pets.

Class system
the siren people have a variety of classes, which are as follows:
inheritor
The one who is ruler of all the clans is the Inheritor. New Inheritors are simply the firstborn of the previous Inheritor. It is considered disrespectful to address the current Inheritor by their first name unless you are their brother.
soldier
Their military is comprised of those who are strong, brave, and prove themselves able to survive. Volunteers are not considered true warriors until they become veterans. Once they are considered warriors their clan will trust them for military action, and the veterans are expected to honor this trust. This means training is to be done continuously to ensure their combat skills don't dull. High ranking sirens are often granted to return home and lead their clan. Some clan leaders who achieve power this way may be granted to crown their firstborn. Military training consists of playing with friends, sports, exercise, and education.
hunter
The life of a hunter is taken just as seriously as the life of a warrior, you are providing, and facing danger, though other people are more dangerous then wild life, wild life can be very dangerous indeed. You may often end up farther from home then you thought you'd be, may end up in serious survival situations, as well that the warrior scout keeps track of enemy clans, the hunter scout keeps track on the migration and population of prey, very important.
worker
The class of worker is also important, and the 3rd of the classes. Although jobs in the tribe are mostly inter occupational, (to simply do the job at hand) the classes of jobs happened by some simply being better at one task then the other. Workers carry more tools then they do weapons, so often they are accompanied by either a hunter or a warrior for protection. Their jobs are primarily on the in the town/village/city of the tribe jobs while the hunters and warriors jobs are out side them. Examples of their occupation include building/repairing ""houses"", building/repairing ships, making more tools, baby sitting, gardening, tending to live stalk, mining, simple art work, engineering, cleaning, they consider it respectful to call these people "Janitor". Although all classes are skilled as medics their is in fact a medic class to. The janitor has often been known as working as the servant of all the other classes, especially the medic.
medic
Medics are the most sacred of the classes, as he/she is the most needed in the dangerous world of teeth and tridents. The medic is skilled in first aid, knows everything about every plant and animal, (as much as mortally possible) and makes medican packs as well as carrying and using them. All sirens inter do all jobs but the job of medic, is the one job reserved for the one with the most brains and gracefulness. If you are wondering which class is scientist, all of them are, they believe the will of the gods is to learn as much about the universe as they can, but to not focus on being smart, to focus instead on being wise. And yes, the medic is the wisest of them all. If their health is on the line, even a king or queen is to obey doctors orders, but aside from that they are still under them in the chain of command.
Animals that could be pets.
Their are some animals on their planet that they do not believe in eating, because they have better use for them. One of such animal is a type of shrimp they let groom them of dead skin, clean out wounded flesh, clean their mouths, and their gills, and even clean their homes and ships. This isn't even the start of what these shrimp do. The reason they don't eat these shrimp is because no animal ever dose, and the shrimp fearlessly go into the mouths of other creatures to help them. The shrimp are edible, but they do not by nature need to fear something actually eating them, and if something ever did eat them, one day they will have something painful stuck between their teeth causing pain and the shrimp will not trust that they can help with out being betrayed.

Their is a type of snail that is another animal they don't eat, and these are in fact confirmed pets. The pet snails they have eat algy plankton plants and rotting flesh. The reason they keep these pets as snails is to harvest their ink. The snails ink is squirted out to defend them selves againced predators by sticking to their mouths for hours while giving off a foul taste. These snails ink is harvested into jars by gently ticking their gills until they sneeze, and is used in paints dyes and for writing.

written language
The Sirens of the Sapphire clan do in fact have a written language, it is said to be easy to learn, but as of yet it hasn't been studied. (coming soon, not yet invented.)
Religion
Though the people of Aquamarine are people of science they are not atheists. They believe there are some things science simply can't explain, that some things can only be the work of the super natural. All sirens are descended from the same first clan of their species, and their language and religion has made very little change, and the change comes only from times fools try to justified their sins. The origin of the believe in their gods came from ancestral stories, stories parents told children when the child asked a question that the parent could not explain. Such stories where never meant to be taken seriously. Sirens question their religion, and pounder it for truth and origin all the time, but rather then seeing this as blasphemy, according to their religion this they are actually suppose to do. Yet never have they found a better answer, even in their modern lives having science better then many more advanced civilizations could ever dream.


The King Of The Gods

The king of the gods came from a story of a great king passed down many generations. As the story got more and more exaggerated he became the ultimate legendary hero. His wisdom is said beyond any mortal comprehension, and his power greater then 100000 suns. His job is to keep the other gods in line, make sure they do not corrupt their purpose. The king of the gods has never broken a promise.


The Queen Of The Gods

Her job is to simply provide the king with companionship and friendship and help him to never give up hope in those he has tried with and failed him.


God Of Weather
controls the tides the tides and the waves. He like all the other gods is to only focus on the balance of the universe.


Life
His job is to ensure the reproduction, health, and survival of organisms as a species. His technology is also the most advanced of all the gods. To serve him is to make a conservation effort to wild life, and insure the well being of other people as well, etc.


Death
She is the mate to life. Death despises no one, and dose not care to have a personal relationship with mortals. Her job is to keep the world of the living in check by transporting the soul those who's body has been destroyed, as well as those who its simply their time. If your friend dies do not beg her to give them back, It is not up to her who lives and who dies its up to her that death happens. Their have been times she had actually been persuaded into letting some one live again, in result the mortals regretted this and she was punished for the abomination of defying nature.


Fortune
Also known as lady luck is the one who spends the most time dabbling in the world of mortals. What ever turn of events happens, what ever number the dice land on, what ever dreams do or do not come true, what you do or don't find opportunity for, all of this good or bad, she is to blame for it all.


God Of Dreams
He is the messenger of all thought capable creatures both mortal and immortal, but his powers are very limited. It may be interesting to note that the god of dreams and fortune absolutely despise each other. Since the gods do not have physical existence he can only speak to mortals when they are in a less then conciose state, so long as a evil spirit dose not get their first. Because no mortal can handle to see the gods true form in person he comes in the form of that which we can actually understand, reason, and comprehend. But his power to give the message is limited to the mind of the mortal who's dream he is in, weather or not his message can even be interpreted in the first place. Think of it like sending a email in a computer. Sirens do not dream the same way humans dream, and even their own science has yet to understand their own dreams. The story of this god is the ancient attempt to explain this, and isn't to far from the truth. Sirens dreams can predict the future, can help them find their way home, can help them on their journey, can help them understand things they don't get on their own, and can predict the weather, keep them from getting lost, can tell them the day time and year, and migrating animals who repeated the same travel year after year, it can tell them when they will arrive. Their is report a siren once volunteered with human scientists to sleep so that the humans can view their dreams on a computer to try to better understand this. They had heard a sound in the dream scanner and amplified the sound, someone or something appeared to be trying to contact the scientist them selves through the dream, as the scientist tried to figure out who or what was trying to contact them they came closer and closer to the signal source deep in the subconscious until they where 100% in contact with what ever was calling out to them. But the scientists where so terrified they fled the lab and canceled the project.
Theater traditions
Sirens have tried and tried and tried but they just don't like tv, yet they do enjoy video games and watching live plays. When playing video games they always play online and the games are team vs team. But online team vs team video games have different rules then humans are use to, for example, if even 1 player makes a team kill, or, t.k., be it accident or on purpose, both teams will join forces and focus solely on killing the team killer. This punishment continues to last only 1 match round, and then in the next round they play like nothing ever happened. No entertainment ever has been known to give excuse for laziness when the time for it is not present. Their traditional entertainment includes:


Comedy
Comedy is the most popular form of entertainment. Comedy never has anything tragic happen, and even has been known to grant characters immortality like that seen only in old cartoons. The most popular form of comedy is done by having a or the characters not know the script, put the script in the most inconvenient spot imaginable, and they will forget or in some cases pretend to forget their line, and even if they are in a life or death situation, (not that people or animals ever die in a comedy) everything they are doing will be paused, and they will go all the way to the script, read it, and the part that dictates their action will also be said for example "scream effeminately", followed by doing their action, and only in pin point perfect time even failing and making a second attempt. But the run and read part is strictly to only happen one part of the play at a time. Note that siren humor is based around the fact that 0 to 16 year olds will be watching.


Magic tricks
Magic tricks are in every form of live entertainment, even the ones where actors pretend not to have talent. Although their are no actual magic shows, and they don't even call them magic tricks, but magic tricks are the most heavily used thing in every play the second being acrobatics. Magic tricks are used to make a death seen look real, make it look like some one actually survived a explosion that can sink a ship, make it look like some one actually escaped the bad guys prison, the list never ever ends.


Horror/tragedy
This is the least popular of all entertainment even to thrill seekers as it is dark and depressing. These plays are not to ever have a actor do anything funny, because their is nothing funny about it. The most grim of these kind of plays has shown gallons of blood at a time. Because for the effect of blood they use snail ink cowards actually enjoy these plays more then anyone, as the snail ink repels dangerous animals.


Adventure
The second most popular of all, ages 0 to 16 are available, ages 16 to 28 are also available. In these some one is allowed to have all above listed types in once but at a certain balance of seriousness to keep it from being comedy or tragedy. They are a story telling play, a romance play, a war story, a sci-fi, and have the most action of all.
Meaning of life
The people of the sapphire nation do not look for the meaning of life, but they believe they know the meaning of life. All members of creation who have a beating heart. Who hold love. Who are alive. Who desire to stay alive. no matter what gender, race, species, level of intelligence, level of beauty, whether or not they are sentient beings, whether or not they even have a brain, are all of the same creation. They are all brothers, and sisters, and sons, and mothers, and daughters, and elders, all are in existence together. Their is no such thing as a evil fish, evil fish is their word for torpedo, which is only evil if used to kill another being with out a cause. This because a torpedo is meant to strike fear into the heart of evil. War is inevitable, but not unavoidable. The spices that they are how ever, their race, their people, no matter the tribe or family or nation, are all the same race, the children of Aquamarine. They call their race, "the people". They believe they know the reason they exist, it is to be at one with nature, it is to play in the sea, and it is to sing, then to have children who will do the same. Coexisting with nature, playing, singing, then it continues again. This is why Aquamarine has people. If one finds a fish to be delicious, they should help that fish to be a prosperous part of the wild life, no one has ever herd of hunting a creature to extinction. They know the war with the chat empire is with a good cause, but so far they see no need to join in, they want only to learn more of what the gods created, coexist with them, and live a symbiotic life. They are very capable of war, if they ever do see war the purpose of war is to make war end, so that their be peace again. They still have remnant of the parts of their history with violence, and the times they where barbarians lead by tyrants, but of these they often show shame, and try to use it for good instead of evil. If you are not carful you may provoke them to unburying their violent past, but for the most part they desire it stay buried. None are allowed to be a warrior unless they remember the meaning of life.
Royal symbolism

This hear is the spear Prince Sapphire the 72cond is often seen holding in scenes showing him. He often uses it to symbolize either his will, court in cession, meeting adjourned, punish the criminal, when he is present in battle, etc and etc. It has been in his family for 72 generations passed down since the first member of the sapphire family to the one in power, symbolizing they are the ruler of all the clans of the nation. Legend has it they never made this spear, but that it was forged and given to mortals by the Gods.

Its canon appearance is sometimes retconed and remodeled but in canon it always looked the same, it is plated with gold and decorated with jewls shells teeth and beads. Ranks from chieftain admiral and lord up sometimes have a similar spear granted them.

Threat of war with the chat empire
Long time ago the chat empire destroyed Lawlderan using the chat star. Soon after they nearly destroyed Yavin V by naval bombardment. Now they are doing something worse then both of that combined, using Xenomorphs as a weapon againsted rebels, and this can result in the virus like parasitic aliens escaping into a planet and consuming its wild life for use as breeding hosts until all life on the planet is destroyed and then hitching a ride on a ship to the next planet. Prince Sapphire the 72nd tried reviving a diplomatic communication line, intending to plead with them that if they are to continue to fight the rebels this madness must stop, but nether rebel nor chat replied to it to receive the message. After 3 days of still not getting a reply he has sent a Jumbo Jumbo sea swan with onboard a embassitor scout to Yoth to try to get word across again, with a message to be given them "The protection and safe keeping of life in the galaxy is the will of the gods, and we are their instrument, we will not be ignored! Should this fail their is a 3rd and final attempt to negotiate peace, an attempt that ignoring will lead to war. The Sapphire clans contributed 100 warships, the Whaler clans contributed 100 warships, and the Topaz clans contributed 80 warships, all of which if ignored again will begin the songs of war. This is only the first wave of attack from the sea world to come if such madness continues to be resulted to.
Notable Individuals
Prince Sapphire the 72nd
Commadore Hurricane
Seventeairan Bubbles
Caption Plays in Kelp
Sapphire Son Loyalty: the future inheritor
Relation status
Doldrums nation: (sirens of the sorrow alliance) tipping towards war.
Topaz nation:(other sirens) Gloriy Alliance.
Shark family clans:(other sirens)Glory Alliance.

The volcanoe people: ( sirens of the sorrow alliance) Tipping towards war.

Whaler tribe: (other sirens)Glory Alliance.

clans of Monsoon: (other sirens) Glory alliance

Kelp Forest Ranger: (other sirens) Glory alliance

Diamond clans: (Sirens of the sorrow alliance) tipping towards war

Tribes of ruby: (other sirens) neutral

New Galactic Republic: Friendly
Chat remnant: (Since last 2 RPs) beginning of a long war.
Naga: distrustful.
Raptor pirates: Letters of marque.
Mandalorians: utterly revolted.
mysterios human faction of a sea planet: Mutually ignored.
Xenomorphs: exterminating.
Notes