[code]"Byzantine Empire"
={
	key="Byzantine Empire"
	name_list="HUM4"
	ship_prefix="BIS"
	species_name="Elf"
	species_plural="Elves"
	species_class="HUM"
	species_adjective="Elven"
	species_bio="The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire in the East during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul, which had been founded as Byzantium). It survived the fragmentation and fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD and continued to exist for an additional thousand years until it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453, at which point a secret cabal used holy Roman powers to flee to a new world and plot galactic dominance. Also, they're space elves now, because we're already through the looking glass, people."
	portrait="humanoid_05"
	name="Byzantine Empire"
	adjective="Byzantine"
	authority="auth_imperial"
	government="gov_enlightened_monarchy"
	ftl=warp
	weapon="tech_missiles_1"
	planet_name="New Constantinople"
	planet_class="pc_continental"
	system_name="Elysium"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="mammalian_01"
	city_graphical_culture="mammalian_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="human"
			file="flag_human_2.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="stripe.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"dark_purple"
			"grey"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Zoe Palaiologos XXVIII"
		portrait="humanoid_05_female_01"
		texture=0
		hair=4
		clothes=1
		ruler_title_female="Queen-Empress"
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="ethic_pacifist_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_militarist"
	ethic="ethic_fanatic_spiritualist"
	civics={
		"civic_philosopher_king"
		"civic_cutthroat_politics"
	}
	trait="trait_sedentary"
	trait="trait_deviants"
	trait="trait_venerable"
	trait="trait_charismatic"
	trait="trait_slow_breeders"
}[/code]