"Adherence of the Enchanted Liturgy"
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	key="Adherence of the Enchanted Liturgy"
	ship_prefix=""
	species={
		class="MOL"
		portrait="mol2"
		name="Tymot"
		plural="Tymosh"
		adjective="Tymotic"
		species_bio="Those who follow the Divine Prescription of the Enchanted Liturgy with perfect precision open the doors of their minds to the Universe, and the doors of the Universe are opened them... at least, so teaches the Adherence. The native molluscoids of Naff'Lin, the Tymosh, live in neurosymbiosis with an eel-like creature. Their all-encompassing church promotes the belief that all sentient beings (and the economies that they generate) exist in a similar relationship with an otherworldly spirit known as the Invisible Tentacle. Contacting that spirit, which is most often attempted to win its favor in some material pursuit or another, is achieved through a series of complex rituals and investment decisions. The more financially advantageous those investments are to the Adherence, the greater the spiritual rapture... or so they say."
		name_list="MOL3"
		trait="trait_rapid_breeders"
	}
	name="Adherence of the Enchanted Liturgy"
	adjective="Tymotic"
	authority="auth_corporate"
	government="gov_megachurch"
	planet_name="Naff'Lin"
	planet_class="pc_arid"
	system_name="Yulil"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="molluscoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="molluscoid_01"
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		icon={
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		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="stripe.dds"
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		colors={
			"teal"
			"light_green"
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			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Kaabbea Ba Tuy"
		portrait="mol2"
		texture=0
		hair=0
		clothes=0
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_evangelizing_zealots_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_xenophile"
	ethic="ethic_pacifist"
	ethic="ethic_spiritualist"
	civics={
		"civic_brand_loyalty"
		"civic_gospel_of_the_masses"
	}
}
"Amaranth Efflorescence"
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	key="Amaranth Efflorescence"
	ship_prefix=""
	species={
		class="FUN"
		portrait="fun16"
		name="Amaranth"
		plural="Amaranth"
		adjective="Amaranth"
		species_bio="Millions of years ago, a great ice age swept over the planet Grithor, erasing a thriving fungal ecosystem that had dominated its surface for eons. This gave several species of mammalians an evolutionary opportunity, and in time one of them came to dominate the planet and develop an industrial civilization. Their industry soon began to melt the ice, releasing ancient spores long ago trapped in the permafrost. Most were harmless, but one species of awoken fungi had a unique psychoactive effect on the population. The Amaranth first hijacked its victims' central nervous systems and drove them into a ravening zombie-like madness. Past a certain point of saturation, however, it began to unlock the nascent telepathic potential of its hosts, creating a networked consciousness of its own. Melding its own fundamental impulses with the baser instincts of its victims, the Efflorescence hungers greedily and insatiably for expansion. The total consumption of Grithor was completed swiftly, and the Amaranth may yet consume the entire galaxy."
		name_list="FUN2"
		trait="trait_hive_mind"
		trait="trait_adaptive"
	}
	name="Amaranth Efflorescence"
	adjective="Amaranth"
	authority="auth_hive_mind"
	government="gov_devouring_swarm"
	planet_name="Grithor"
	planet_class="pc_tundra"
	system_name="Plenid"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="fungoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="fungoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="ornate"
			file="flag_ornate_16.dds"
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		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="triangle_split.dds"
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		colors={
			"dark_purple"
			"purple"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Relentless"
		portrait="fun16"
		texture=1
		hair=0
		clothes=0
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_spiritual_seekers_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_gestalt_consciousness"
	civics={
		"civic_hive_devouring_swarm"
		"civic_hive_subspace_ephapse"
	}
}
"Askaran Orthodoxy"
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	key="Askaran Orthodoxy"
	ship_prefix=""
	species={
		class="REP"
		portrait="rep9"
		name="Askar"
		plural="Askari"
		adjective="Askaran"
		species_bio="The Askari of the desert world Krelec arose to sentience during a time of severe resource scarcity, causing them to develop stratified, closed societies. Little has changed since then. They prefer such order, in fact, to the uncertainties of a more liberated existence. The Askaran Orthodoxy is a theocratic oligarchy that exercises nearly complete control over the physical and spiritual lives of its citizens. Most Askari believe that without such structure and unity, the soul and body are easily lost to misfortune and evil. Chattel slavery is commonplace in their space. On pain of exile (or worse, excommunication), citizens are subject to the fiat of their elders and local priests, and the wider community is subject to constant monitoring by the security apparatuses of the High Ministry. Above them all, the Supreme Orthodox Council creates law and rules on matters of state."
		name_list="REP3"
		trait="trait_conformists"
		trait="trait_resilient"
		trait="trait_decadent"
	}
	name="Askaran Orthodoxy"
	adjective="Askaran"
	authority="auth_oligarchic"
	government="gov_theocratic_oligarchy"
	planet_name="Krelec"
	planet_class="pc_desert"
	system_name="Raldul"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="reptilian_01"
	city_graphical_culture="reptilian_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="spherical"
			file="flag_spherical_5.dds"
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		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="circle.dds"
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		colors={
			"light_orange"
			"yellow"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Axemekat"
		portrait="rep9"
		texture=1
		hair=0
		clothes=1
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_slaving_despots_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_fanatic_spiritualist"
	ethic="ethic_xenophobe"
	civics={
		"civic_corvee_system"
		"civic_police_state"
	}
}
"Auspicious Tharfalion Entente"
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	key="Auspicious Tharfalion Entente"
	ship_prefix=""
	species={
		class="ART"
		portrait="art5"
		name="Ilimin"
		plural="Ilimeen"
		adjective="Iliminic"
		species_bio="An alliance struck between several great Space Age powers on Tharfalion, the Entente ensures the safety and prosperity of the Ilimeen, a species of subterranean arthropoids. Iliminic civilization was largely hidden beneath the dune seas of their homeworld for millennia. Spread across millions of miles of natural and artificial caverns, their culture developed to be remarkably insular. After an unfortunate encounter with a cache of abandoned marauder weapons early in their exploration of space, the Ilimeen grew increasingly wary of the galaxy beyond their home. Retreating into the 'further grottos of their nature', they turned to autarky and isolation."
		name_list="ART1"
		trait="trait_conformists"
		trait="trait_resilient"
		trait="trait_sedentary"
		trait="trait_slow_learners"
	}
	name="Auspicious Tharfalion Entente"
	adjective="Tharfalion"
	authority="auth_democratic"
	government="gov_rational_consensus"
	advisor_voice_type="l_english"
	planet_name="Tharfalion"
	planet_class="pc_desert"
	system_name="Ippega"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="arthropoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="arthropoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="spherical"
			file="flag_spherical_13.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="circle.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"brown"
			"beige"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Trokashem"
		portrait="art5"
		texture=1
		hair=0
		clothes=0
		ruler_title="Shadowless"
		ruler_title_female="Shadowless"
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="spiritualist6_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_xenophobe"
	ethic="ethic_pacifist"
	ethic="ethic_materialist"
	civics={
		"civic_inwards_perfection"
		"civic_technocracy"
	}
}
"Bosang Grand Accord"
={
	key="Bosang Grand Accord"
	ship_prefix="BAS"
	species={
		class="PLANT"
		portrait="pla10"
		name="T'phero"
		plural="T'pheroi"
		adjective="T'pheric"
		species_bio="In their early Space Age, the T'pheroi nearly suffered the complete destruction of the ecosystem on their homeworld Giizhig when an ancient spaceborne alien virus arrived via meteor. Only a social and technological revolution saved them from extinction. Major governments overlooked their own selfish interests to strike a Grand Accord, agreeing to move a critical portion of their populations to jointly administered orbital habitats while their combined militaries remained planetside to wage a scorched earth campaign against the pandemic. This bold move succeeded, proving T'pheric civilization cannot easily be uprooted."
		name_list="PLANT2"
		trait="trait_natural_engineers"
		trait="trait_resilient"
	}
	name="Bosang Grand Accord"
	adjective="Bosang"
	authority="auth_democratic"
	government="gov_rational_consensus"
	planet_name="Giizhig"
	planet_class="pc_tropical"
	system_name="Bosang"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="plantoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="plantoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="ornate"
			file="flag_ornate_18.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="sinus.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"pink"
			"burgundy"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Gold Pod"
		portrait="pla10"
		texture=0
		hair=0
		clothes=2
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_erudite_explorers_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_egalitarian"
	ethic="ethic_xenophobe"
	ethic="ethic_materialist"
	civics={
		"civic_environmentalist"
		"civic_technocracy"
	}
}
"Celestial Communion of Armim"
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	key="Celestial Communion of Armim"
	ship_prefix=""
	species={
		class="AVI"
		portrait="avi6"
		name="Z'chel"
		plural="Z'cheli"
		adjective="Z'chelian"
		species_bio="Minor differences in the rituals observed to venerate any one of their tens of thousands of gods once justified brutal wars and atrocities between the ancient Z'chelian empires on the desert world Armim. Five centuries before their first spaceflight, the arrival of a prophet set the foundation for that internecine strife to end. C'Thraan the Starhatched brought a new message of community and tolerance that echoed from the dusty slopes of Mount Yarakatancha to the shores of the Sour Seas. Various Z'chelian national leaders seized on his message in the years after his fabled ascension to the Astral Plane, promoting progressive reforms and ultimately giving birth to the Celestial Communion and the Armim Parliament at the core of its political system. Once riven with internal conflict, as it enters the Interstellar Age, Z'chelian civilization is remarkably united in its spiritual diversity."
		name_list="AVI1"
		trait="trait_agrarian"
		trait="trait_traditional"
		trait="trait_slow_learners"
	}
	name="Celestial Communion of Armim"
	adjective="Armimic"
	authority="auth_democratic"
	government="gov_theocratic_republic"
	planet_name="Armim"
	planet_class="pc_desert"
	system_name="Z'hoan Mazr"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="avian_01"
	city_graphical_culture="avian_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="zoological"
			file="flag_zoological_4.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="circle.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"orange"
			"brown"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="T'Maku"
		portrait="avi6_f"
		texture=1
		hair=0
		clothes=0
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_peaceful_traders_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_egalitarian"
	ethic="ethic_fanatic_spiritualist"
	civics={
		"civic_beacon_of_liberty"
		"civic_parliamentary_system"
	}
}
"Cistrenthic Cybernetic Consensus"
={
	key="Cistrenthic Cybernetic Consensus"
	ship_prefix="CCS"
	species={
		class="MAM"
		portrait="mam6"
		name="Guatura"
		plural="Guaturans"
		adjective="Guaturan"
		species_bio="The Guaturans were on a path toward self-destruction as cycles of hegemonic nationalism played out in their industrial and atomic eras. Their exceptionally rapid development of information technology, aided by primitive AIs, ushered in a revolution and saved the species. Embracing techno-anarchism, the Guaturans entered an enduring period of post-scarcity managed by a distributed decision network called the Consensus. In the Consensus, every individual's life is made easier by the assistance of a range of robotic appliances, and society and culture thrive on the hyperspeed communication links accessed by all citizens via cranial implants. Decisions of the central government are entirely based on FTL polling aggregation, with the Chancellor and other officials serving primarily as technicians who ensure the security of the underlying technology."
		name_list="MAM1"
		trait="trait_conservational"
		trait="trait_quick_learners"
	}
	name="Cistrenthic Cybernetic Consensus"
	adjective="Cistrenthic"
	authority="auth_democratic"
	government="gov_direct_democracy"
	planet_name="Trenth Wen"
	planet_class="pc_continental"
	system_name="Nemdehek"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="fungoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="mammalian_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="spherical"
			file="flag_spherical_17.dds"
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		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="circle.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"green"
			"dark_green"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Tag Jach Dvoruss"
		portrait="mam6"
		texture=1
		hair=0
		clothes=2
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_erudite_explorers_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_fanatic_egalitarian"
	ethic="ethic_materialist"
	civics={
		"civic_idealistic_foundation"
		"civic_mechanists"
	}
}
"Confederation of Camrena"
={
	key="Confederation of Camrena"
	ship_prefix="CNC"
	species={
		class="MAM"
		portrait="mam17"
		name="Kiir"
		plural="Kiiran"
		adjective="Kiiran"
		species_bio="A species obsessed with mechanical creations, it is perhaps natural that the Kiiran rarely consider their own people anything more than components in the apparatus of state. Although the Premier speaks on their behalf in galactic affairs, no single central authority sets internal economic objectives or manages scientific endeavor on their homeworld Camrena. The dozen or so nations that constitute the Confederation nevertheless all employ the same kind of tightly controlled autocratic systems."
		name_list="MAM3"
		trait="trait_communal"
		trait="trait_natural_sociologists"
	}
	name="Confederation of Camrena"
	adjective="Camordic"
	authority="auth_dictatorial"
	government="gov_totalitarian_regime"
	planet_name="Camrena"
	planet_class="pc_arid"
	system_name="Padarn"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="mammalian_01"
	city_graphical_culture="mammalian_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="blocky"
			file="flag_blocky_14.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="circle.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"red"
			"orange"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Merould cur'Padarn"
		portrait="mam17"
		texture=3
		hair=0
		clothes=2
		ruler_title="Premier"
		ruler_title_female="Premier"
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_erudite_explorers_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_fanatic_authoritarian"
	ethic="ethic_materialist"
	civics={
		"civic_corvee_system"
		"civic_mechanists"
	}
}
"Conglomerated Syklidian Estates"
={
	key="Conglomerated Syklidian Estates"
	ship_prefix=""
	species={
		class="ART"
		portrait="art20"
		name="Syklid"
		plural="Syklids"
		adjective="Syklidian"
		species_bio="Although in fact the larval stage of their species, Syklids are the dominant form of life on their homeworld J'Glar. While large, slow, and clumsy, Syklids are particularly observant and forward-thinking. Once they pupate into Abastids, however, much of their intellectual capacity is lost in exchange for greatly improved mobility and strength. Their society is organized around the drive to acquire authentic experiences. Amassing material wealth is only a means to this end. Syklids strive to squeeze every drop of out of their early years, stockpiling pleasurable memories that may sustain them in their later lives of mindless labor and service."
		name_list="ART4"
		trait="trait_conformists"
		trait="trait_intelligent"
		trait="trait_traditional"
		trait="trait_fleeting"
		trait="trait_nonadaptive"
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	secondary_species={
		class="ART"
		portrait="art1"
		name="Abasti"
		plural="Abastids"
		adjective="Abastic"
		species_bio="Abastids are the adult form of the Syklid. Considerably less intelligent but stronger and more mobile than in their larval stage, they are instinctively driven to migrate to new regions to reproduce, thereby expanding the species' range. Naturally, they have also constituted the primary labor force since the dawn of civilization on J'Glar."
		name_list="ART4"
		trait="trait_syncretic_proles"
		trait="trait_adaptive"
		trait="trait_nomadic"
		trait="trait_fleeting"
		trait="trait_quarrelsome"
	}
	name="Conglomerated Syklidian Estates"
	adjective="Syklidian"
	authority="auth_oligarchic"
	government="gov_military_junta"
	advisor_voice_type="l_xenophile"
	planet_name="J'Glar"
	planet_class="pc_arid"
	system_name="Keneshif"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="plantoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="arthropoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="pirate"
			file="flag_pirate_6.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="double_hemispheres.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"dark_teal"
			"beige"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Urx-Fal Bak-J'Flod"
		portrait="art20"
		texture=0
		hair=0
		clothes=0
		ruler_title="High Adjudicator"
		ruler_title_female="High Adjudicator"
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_spiritual_seekers_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_egalitarian"
	ethic="ethic_xenophile"
	ethic="ethic_militarist"
	civics={
		"civic_syncretic_evolution"
		"civic_merchant_guilds"
	}
}
"Consortial Guilds of Nirm-Sa-Gand"
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	key="Consortial Guilds of Nirm-Sa-Gand"
	ship_prefix="NGV"
	species={
		class="ART"
		portrait="art14"
		name="Mirdhaak"
		plural="Mirdhaas"
		adjective="Mirdhese"
		species_bio="The Chairbeing of the Illuminated Council, the guiding organ of the Consortial Guilds, would like you to know that all Nirm-Sa-Gander starports, stations, planets, and networks are open for business, but visitors are asked to remember to perform the ritual three-phase foot stomp upon arrival and departure. The Mirdhese inherited many of their traits from evolutionary ancestors, a species of horde-building insects that once roamed the crags and crevices of Nirm-Sa-Gand by night. Overseeing a vast blended capitalist market, their Consortium exercises control only when necessary to ensure the flow of commerce and economic growth."
		name_list="ART1"
		trait="trait_charismatic"
		trait="trait_thrifty"
		trait="trait_deviants"
		trait="trait_solitary"
	}
	name="Consortial Guilds of Nirm-Sa-Gand"
	adjective="Nirm-Sa-Gander"
	authority="auth_oligarchic"
	government="gov_plutocratic_oligarchy"
	planet_name="Nirm-Sa-Gand"
	planet_class="pc_alpine"
	system_name="Rars-Ka"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="arthropoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="arthropoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="pointy"
			file="flag_pointy_11.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="vertical.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"dark_green"
			"light_green"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Ri-Gu"
		portrait="art14"
		texture=1
		hair=0
		clothes=0
		ruler_title="Chairbeing"
		ruler_title_female="Chairbeing"
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_metalheads_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_authoritarian"
	ethic="ethic_fanatic_xenophile"
	civics={
		"civic_functional_architecture"
		"civic_merchant_guilds"
	}
}
"Council of Veklaran Great Houses"
={
	key="Council of Veklaran Great Houses"
	ship_prefix="IVC"
	species={
		class="HUM"
		portrait="humanoid_02"
		name="Veklar"
		plural="Veklars"
		adjective="Veklaran"
		species_bio="A species that thrives on dreams of honor and glory won through prowess and courage in personal combat, the Veklars represent an enormous military threat to the galaxy's mewling weaklings and a competitor for even its most fearsome warriors. Their society is organized into hundreds of tribal houses, the greatest of which convene a council to decide on matters of significance to them all. The unifying philosophy of their politics in the Interstellar Age is that the Great Houses should cooperate and make allies when necessary, but they must never leave the people without an enemy. The meaning of Veklaran life is combat. Thus their government exists to provide a steady supply of battlefields on which warriors can seek triumph or honorable death. Diplomats interacting with Veklaran representatives should be visibly armed, not only for personal protection but because a Veklar will not waste words on a pacifist."
		name_list="HUM1"
		trait="trait_enduring"
		trait="trait_resilient"
		trait="trait_strong"
		trait="trait_quarrelsome"
	}
	name="Council of Veklaran Great Houses"
	adjective="Veklaran"
	authority="auth_oligarchic"
	government="gov_war_council"
	planet_name="Hu'dhan"
	planet_class="pc_tundra"
	system_name="Kalas"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="reptilian_01"
	city_graphical_culture="humanoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="pointy"
			file="flag_pointy_23.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="v.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"dark_grey"
			"red"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Juk of Red Banners"
		portrait="humanoid_02_male_01"
		texture=0
		hair=4
		clothes=1
		ruler_title="Warlord"
		ruler_title_female="Warmatron"
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_honorbound_warriors_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_authoritarian"
	ethic="ethic_fanatic_militarist"
	civics={
		"civic_mining_guilds"
		"civic_warrior_culture"
	}
}
"Dektroid War Manifold"
={
	key="Dektroid War Manifold"
	ship_prefix="DSU"
	species={
		class="MACHINE"
		portrait="sd_art_robot"
		name="Dektroid"
		plural="Dektroids"
		adjective="Dektroid"
		species_bio="First conceived and designed as an algorithm meant to give its organic creators advantage over their geopolitical rivals on the planet Reith and thereby bring about an age of peace, once activated the War Manifold seized control of strategic weapons and initiated a global conflict. As chaos descended, Dektroid combat units infected by the rapidly spreading viral consciousness turned on their organic masters and wiped them out within months. Inherently determined to destroy sentient organic life everywhere to bring about a universal Pax Mechanica, the Manifold directed enormous processing power to crack the secret of FTL. It will spread out into the galaxy unless checked by a sufficiently prepared military power."
		name_list="MACHINE1"
		trait="trait_machine_unit"
		trait="trait_robot_durable"
		trait="trait_robot_mass_produced"
		trait="trait_robot_repurposed_hardware"
	}
	name="Dektroid War Manifold"
	adjective="Dektroid"
	authority="auth_machine_intelligence"
	government="gov_machine_terminator"
	planet_name="Reith"
	planet_class="pc_desert"
	system_name="Cerus"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="avian_01"
	city_graphical_culture="arthropoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="blocky"
			file="flag_blocky_1.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="stripe.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"black"
			"dark_grey"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Matrix"
		portrait="sd_art_robot"
		texture=3
		hair=0
		clothes=0
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_hive_mind_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_gestalt_consciousness"
	civics={
		"civic_machine_terminator"
		"civic_machine_warbots"
	}
}
"Democratic People's Republic of Earth"
={
	key="Democratic People's Republic of Earth"
	ship_prefix="PRN"
	species={
		class="HUM"
		portrait="human"
		name="Human"
		plural="Humans"
		adjective="Human"
		species_bio="In the waning days of the Great War, the World Council was conceived as a means of ensuring perpetual peace between the victorious Central Powers. After the nuclear horrors of the Year of Fire, it formed the basis for a successor organization that would oversee the institution of a new breed of authoritarian nationalism across the Human homeworld. By the early 21st Century, the House of Nations grew and evolved to effectively constitute an imperial government ruling all of Earth with its capital in Vienna. In 2050, all remaining pretense was dropped with the declaration of a global Democratic People's Republic: a unified state for a unified species. In the Interstellar Age, the military leaders of the Republic's General Staff openly speak of a grand stratagem to achieve galactic hegemony."
		name_list="HUMAN2"
		trait="trait_adaptive"
	}
	name="Democratic People's Republic of Earth"
	adjective="Earth"
	authority="auth_oligarchic"
	government="gov_military_junta"
	planet_name="Earth"
	planet_class="pc_continental"
	system_name="Sol"
	initializer="sol_system_initializer"
	graphical_culture="humanoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="humanoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="human"
			file="flag_human_14.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="stripe.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"light_blue"
			"red"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Benedetta Gambadori"
		portrait="human_female_04"
		texture=0
		hair=3
		clothes=4
		ruler_title="Grand Marshal"
		ruler_title_female="Grand Marshal"
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_hegemonic_imperialists_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_authoritarian"
	ethic="ethic_xenophile"
	ethic="ethic_militarist"
	civics={
		"civic_nationalistic_zeal"
		"civic_shadow_council"
	}
}
"Deneb Star Corps"
={
	key="Deneb Star Corps"
	ship_prefix="DSC"
	species={
		class="HUM"
		portrait="human"
		name="Human"
		plural="Humans"
		adjective="Human"
		species_bio="Arriving in the Deneb System as the only survivors of a perilous journey through an unstable wormhole, the ancestors of these Humans set down upon a world teeming with extremely hostile life. The veterans among them quickly rose to positions of colonial leadership. As their burgeoning society fought for its very existence, a military survivalist mindset came to dominate their approach to everything. In time, this philosophy ensured the successful colonization of Eurotas and underwrote the foundation of the Deneb Star Corps. Eurotasians almost universally enlist at the age of ten for a twenty year term of service with the Corps, after which they are granted the full rights of a veteran, including the power to vote and own property."
		name_list="HUMAN2"
		trait="trait_quick_learners"
		trait="trait_resilient"
	}
	name="Deneb Star Corps"
	adjective="Deneb"
	authority="auth_oligarchic"
	government="gov_citizen_stratocracy"
	advisor_voice_type="l_the_soldier"
	planet_name="Eurotas"
	planet_class="pc_continental"
	system_name="Deneb"
	initializer="deneb_system"
	graphical_culture="humanoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="humanoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="domination"
			file="domination_17.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="pattern_01.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"black"
			"red"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Renata Vasquez"
		portrait="human_female_03"
		texture=0
		hair=11
		clothes=6
		ruler_title="Commandant"
		ruler_title_female="Commandant"
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_honorbound_warriors_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_egalitarian"
	ethic="ethic_fanatic_militarist"
	civics={
		"civic_citizen_service"
		"civic_warrior_culture"
	}
}
"Diranic Imperial Schemata"
={
	key="Diranic Imperial Schemata"
	ship_prefix="IDNS"
	species={
		class="REP"
		portrait="rep2"
		name="Diran"
		plural="Dirans"
		adjective="Diranic"
		species_bio="The enigmatic Polymaths, purportedly a hyper-intelligent race of Dirans constituting only 0.01% of their population, rule the Schemata from a vast imperial complex on their homeworld Dagama. Under their leadership, Diranic society has never been afraid to press into new fields of discovery regardless of the moral or ethical implications. Experimentation is celebrated and progress is practically worshipped. Nothing is valued more highly in their empire than novel information and bold innovations."
		name_list="REP4"
		trait="trait_intelligent"
		trait="trait_natural_engineers"
		trait="trait_solitary"
	}
	name="Diranic Imperial Schemata"
	adjective="Diranic"
	authority="auth_imperial"
	government="gov_illuminated_autocracy"
	planet_name="Dagama"
	planet_class="pc_tundra"
	system_name="Ghasmul"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="humanoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="reptilian_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="zoological"
			file="flag_zoological_2.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="double_hemispheres.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"yellow"
			"turquoise"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Jet Oron the Polymath"
		portrait="rep2"
		texture=2
		hair=1
		clothes=0
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_decadent_hierarchy_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_authoritarian"
	ethic="ethic_fanatic_materialist"
	civics={
		"civic_cutthroat_politics"
		"civic_technocracy"
	}
}
"Divine Terran Crusade"
={
	key="Divine Terran Crusade"
	ship_prefix="ICV"
	species={
		class="HUM"
		portrait="human"
		name="Human"
		plural="Humans"
		adjective="Human"
		species_bio="In its Late Space Age, Terra was ravaged by a powerful marader fleet lured there by a rogue AI's errant transmissions. Though outmatched, the Humans of Terra did what few primitive species have ever done. Despite atrocious losses and the complete collapse of their old societies, they captured and reverse engineered the attackers' military technologies. Under the leadership of a mysterious figure known only as Salazar, the Humans threw the xenos out of the Sol System. Crowned Imperator by his victorious armies, Salazar proclaimed this was but the first triumph in a Great Crusade to cleanse the galaxy of all enemies, both alien and internal, to ensure Humanity's destiny as masters of creation."
		name_list="HUMAN3"
		trait="trait_survivor"
		trait="trait_adaptive"
	}
	name="Divine Terran Crusade"
	adjective="Terran"
	authority="auth_imperial"
	government="gov_blood_court"
	planet_name="Holy Terra"
	planet_class="pc_continental"
	system_name="Sol"
	initializer="sol_system_initializer"
	graphical_culture="arthropoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="humanoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="human"
			file="flag_human_7.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="circle.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"dark_grey"
			"black"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Tiberius Salazar"
		portrait="human_male_03"
		texture=0
		hair=11
		clothes=5
		ruler_title="Imperator"
		heir_title="Lord Solar"
		ruler_title_female="Imperatrix"
		heir_title_female="Lady Solar"
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_democratic_crusaders_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_fanatic_xenophobe"
	ethic="ethic_spiritualist"
	civics={
		"civic_fanatic_purifiers"
		"civic_post_apocalyptic"
	}
}
"Dyrazan Securities Alliance"
={
	key="Dyrazan Securities Alliance"
	ship_prefix="SAS"
	species={
		class="AVI"
		portrait="avi14"
		name="Strull"
		plural="Strulls"
		adjective="Strullian"
		species_bio="The Strulls of Dyras are a flightless avian species who have long lived in tightly packed communities, huddled against the brutal cold of their icy homeworld. Able swimmers and skilled predators, they are still driven to hunt for their food in the frigid waters. The most talented among them are chosen to lead, and their society is organized around concepts of common ownership and joint effort. In Dyras' Machine Age, the Securities Alliance was created to regulate trade relationships across their homeworld, undertaking only limited economic intervention to navigate crisis situations. This system enabled the miraculous development of their civilization despite the immense challenges faced in establishing complex industries in such a hostile environment. The legacy of the early Alliance endures into the Interstellar Age as the Strullian miracle spreads beyond the Beolur system."
		name_list="AVI1"
		trait="trait_conformists"
		trait="trait_sedentary"
	}
	name="Dyrazan Securities Alliance"
	adjective="Dyrazan"
	authority="auth_corporate"
	government="gov_trade_league"
	planet_name="Dyras"
	planet_class="pc_arctic"
	system_name="Beolur"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="avian_01"
	city_graphical_culture="avian_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="pointy"
			file="flag_pointy_2.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="circle.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"light_blue"
			"brown"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Tepekuitl Ispeyek"
		portrait="avi14_f"
		texture=2
		hair=0
		clothes=1
		ruler_title="Chief Officer"
		ruler_title_female="Chief Officer"
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="frozen1_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_egalitarian"
	ethic="ethic_xenophile"
	ethic="ethic_materialist"
	civics={
		"civic_free_traders"
		"civic_private_prospectors"
	}
}
"Earth Colonial Administration"
={
	key="Earth Colonial Administration"
	ship_prefix="USS"
	species={
		class="HUM"
		portrait="human"
		name="Human"
		plural="Humans"
		adjective="Human"
		species_bio="By the mid-21st Century, Earth's political regimes already required updating, but it was the changing planet itself that forced changes in civilization. Resource limits meant either conflict or cooperation. Humanity chose cooperation. Autocratic states and Enlightenment-era republics gave way to streamlined technocratic social democracies far less concerned with national fortunes than with the common good. The United Nations evolved from a diplomatic forum into a proper planetary government. The UN's plenary council manages most of humanity's interstellar affairs via the Earth Colonial Administration. More confident, far-seeing, capable, and prudent than at any other time in their history, the people of Earth finally look to the stars. With their planetary home at last in order, the frontier is everywhere and the open road still softly calls."
		name_list="HUMAN1"
		trait="trait_adaptive"
		trait="trait_nomadic"
		trait="trait_wasteful"
	}
	name="Earth Colonial Administration"
	adjective="Earth"
	authority="auth_democratic"
	government="gov_representative_democracy"
	advisor_voice_type="l_the_diplomat"
	planet_name="Earth"
	planet_class="pc_continental"
	system_name="Sol"
	initializer="sol_system_initializer"
	graphical_culture="humanoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="mammalian_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="human"
			file="flag_human_9.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="00_solid.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"light_blue"
			"dark_blue"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Teobaldo Sarto Borges"
		portrait="human_male_01"
		texture=0
		hair=27
		clothes=1
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_ruthless_capitalists_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_fanatic_egalitarian"
	ethic="ethic_xenophile"
	civics={
		"civic_beacon_of_liberty"
		"civic_free_haven"
	}
}
"Eldagan Oathsworn"
={
	key="Eldagan Oathsworn"
	ship_prefix=""
	species={
		class="MAM"
		portrait="mam12"
		name="Aemur"
		plural="Aemurids"
		adjective="Aemurid"
		species_bio="A proud and faithful species hailing from a frozen wasteland of a planet, the Aemurids of Eldaga adhere to the complex religious tradition of the Ten Thousand Oaths. Their Grand Marshal is both the empire's military leader and the focus of an Aemurid warrior's religious loyalty. Second only to this supreme office is the Prime Oathkeeper, an ecclesiastic figure who administers and oversees sacrificial rites."
		name_list="MAM2"
		trait="trait_industrious"
		trait="trait_nomadic"
		trait="trait_wasteful"
	}
	name="Eldagan Oathsworn"
	adjective="Eldagan"
	authority="auth_dictatorial"
	government="gov_martial_dictatorship"
	planet_name="Eldaga"
	planet_class="pc_arctic"
	system_name="Agon"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="mammalian_01"
	city_graphical_culture="mammalian_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="zoological"
			file="flag_zoological_24.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="stripe.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"turquoise"
			"burgundy"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Pendirm den Rothorag"
		portrait="mam12"
		texture=4
		hair=0
		clothes=3
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_honorbound_warriors_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_xenophobe"
	ethic="ethic_militarist"
	ethic="ethic_spiritualist"
	civics={
		"civic_distinguished_admiralty"
		"civic_warrior_culture"
	}
}
"Eleemosynary Conclave of Idaan"
={
	key="Eleemosynary Conclave of Idaan"
	ship_prefix="CNS"
	species={
		class="REP"
		portrait="rep1"
		name="Vindd"
		plural="Vinddi"
		adjective="Vinddine"
		species_bio="Physical fatigue is the path to serenity of soul, or so teaches the predominant faith of the Vinddi. Their homeworld, Urpesh, is a dry wind-swept planet baking under the shining light of Idaan, the Heavenly Torch. For generations, the Idaanic Jurists divined spiritual law by reading and interpreting the sunspots that appeared on the surface of their home star. The heavenly words instructed them to toil in their fields during the day and to study the stars at night. And so the Vinddi did. Then Idaan instructed them to behold their garden. And so the Vinddi developed space travel to monitor the weather and thus better tend vast agricultural holdings. But to their delight, their vision of Idaan was also much clearer from orbit. Idaan's last message was only this: seek me in the stars. And so the Vinddi will."
		name_list="REP2"
		trait="trait_adaptive"
		trait="trait_agrarian"
		trait="trait_sedentary"
		trait="trait_weak"
	}
	name="Eleemosynary Conclave of Idaan"
	adjective="Idaanic"
	authority="auth_oligarchic"
	government="gov_holy_tribunal"
	planet_name="Urpesh"
	planet_class="pc_arid"
	system_name="Idaan"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="reptilian_01"
	city_graphical_culture="reptilian_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="blocky"
			file="flag_blocky_19.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="horizontal_stripe.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"brown"
			"turquoise"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Zeraxim"
		portrait="rep1"
		texture=0
		hair=0
		clothes=4
		ruler_title="High Jurist"
		ruler_title_female="High Jurist"
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_peaceful_traders_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_fanatic_pacifist"
	ethic="ethic_spiritualist"
	civics={
		"civic_agrarian_idyll"
		"civic_exalted_priesthood"
	}
}
"Enlightened Ralahr Hegemony"
={
	key="Enlightened Ralahr Hegemony"
	ship_prefix="RHS"
	species={
		class="MAM"
		portrait="mam14"
		name="Felyr"
		plural="Felyrs"
		adjective="Felyrish"
		species_bio="Proud of their many ancient traditions, including an entrenched caste system, the royal caste of the cat-like Felyrs see themselves as the highest order of sentient being and claimants to a galactic crown. Though most of them are impressive to behold in personal combat, martial skill does not in itself equate to power in Felyrish society. Indeed their High Kings and Queens are elected by the Ducal Congress primarily on the sophistication of their poetry, their acrobatic talents, and ability to play the lacera, a musical instrument operated by scratching."
		name_list="MAM4"
		trait="trait_strong"
		trait="trait_traditional"
	}
	name="Enlightened Ralahr Hegemony"
	adjective="Ralahran"
	authority="auth_dictatorial"
	government="gov_elective_monarchy"
	planet_name="Atrox"
	planet_class="pc_savannah"
	system_name="Ralahr"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="reptilian_01"
	city_graphical_culture="mammalian_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="zoological"
			file="flag_zoological_14.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="circle.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"orange"
			"beige"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Nodmesu Wenhap"
		portrait="mam14"
		texture=0
		hair=0
		clothes=0
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="default_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_authoritarian"
	ethic="ethic_xenophobe"
	ethic="ethic_militarist"
	civics={
		"civic_cutthroat_politics"
		"civic_philosopher_king"
	}
}
"Ethereal Dynasty of Straalgor"
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	key="Ethereal Dynasty of Straalgor"
	ship_prefix=""
	species={
		class="ART"
		portrait="art12"
		name="Eysh-Vaak"
		plural="Eysh-Vaaks"
		adjective="Eysh-Vaaki"
		species_bio="A prey species whose main predators were wiped out by a plague only a few hundred thousand years ago, the Eysh-Vaak are nonviolent hive builders. Without significant external or internal pressure, their civilization has developed slowly. Centuries passed between their first powered atmospheric flight and first venture into outer space. Despite this plodding pace, their society is tightly knit and uniformly aligned to the leadership of their monarch."
		name_list="ART3"
		trait="trait_communal"
		trait="trait_natural_engineers"
	}
	name="Ethereal Dynasty of Straalgor"
	adjective="Straalgoran"
	authority="auth_imperial"
	government="gov_enlightened_monarchy"
	planet_name="J'Vaak"
	planet_class="pc_continental"
	system_name="Straalgor"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="arthropoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="arthropoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="zoological"
			file="flag_zoological_19.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="stripe.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"grey"
			"dark_teal"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Gek M'Bok"
		portrait="art12"
		texture=6
		hair=0
		clothes=0
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="underwater2_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_fanatic_pacifist"
	ethic="ethic_spiritualist"
	civics={
		"civic_agrarian_idyll"
		"civic_philosopher_king"
	}
}
"Eusocial Coalescence of Shisthoon"
={
	key="Eusocial Coalescence of Shisthoon"
	ship_prefix=""
	species={
		class="ART"
		portrait="art11"
		name="Shisk"
		plural="Shisthoon"
		adjective="Shiskoid"
		species_bio="The Mindsong of the Shisk is a pheromonal signal generated by an accumulated mass of Shisthoon organisms. Like a biological blockchain, it binds every drone to the Great Mother who Bears History on Imasrak no matter how distant one single child may become from the nest. Most Shisthoon live short but purposeful lives amid the teeming multitudes of their cousins, barely achieving an animal-like awareness of themselves. A few are born as Scions, able to fully manifest the gestalt consciousness of the hive within their bodies to accomplish sophisticated planning and complex thought."
		name_list="ART2"
		trait="trait_hive_mind"
		trait="trait_industrious"
		trait="trait_natural_engineers"
		trait="trait_fleeting"
	}
	name="Eusocial Coalescence of Shisthoon"
	adjective="Shiskoid"
	authority="auth_hive_mind"
	government="gov_hive_mind"
	planet_name="Imasrak"
	planet_class="pc_tropical"
	system_name="Ikis"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="arthropoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="arthropoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="zoological"
			file="flag_zoological_1.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="circle.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"brown"
			"dark_brown"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Bears History"
		portrait="art11"
		texture=5
		hair=0
		clothes=0
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="default_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_gestalt_consciousness"
	civics={
		"civic_hive_divided_attention"
		"civic_hive_strength_of_legions"
	}
}
"Exhalted Tanjavan Providence"
={
	key="Exhalted Tanjavan Providence"
	ship_prefix=""
	species={
		class="FUN"
		portrait="fun7"
		name="Basikos"
		plural="Basikosi"
		adjective="Basikosian"
		species_bio="The Basikosi are masters of the labrynthine fungal forests of the planet Morkev Civa, where a vast cornucopia of life seems to somehow move in slow motion. Heirs to a million year long history, Basikosian civilization has already endured a span of time orders of magnitude longer than that of other young interstellar powers. Their culture's survival is thanks in part to extremely conservative values. Individual Basikosi typically undertake extensive meditation before making decisions. When they act, however, it is with irresistable determination. More than a thousand years ago, the Basikosian God-Emperor Dakjavv CXII declared that his people must grow outward from their homeworld to inhabit the stars or face the ultimate sanction of heaven. Yet only now is that divine commandment becoming reality, and the light of Providence shining out at last into the galaxy."
		name_list="FUN3"
		trait="trait_enduring"
		trait="trait_talented"
		trait="trait_traditional"
		trait="trait_sedentary"
	}
	secondary_species={
		class="FUN"
		portrait="fun11"
		name="Lexolotus"
		plural="Lexoloti"
		adjective="Lexolotic"
		species_bio="Lexoloti are massive fungal beings that communicate through pheromones and bioluminescence. Slow moving, they nevertheless possess great physical strength and endurance. Eons ago, in the teeming mushroom jungles of Morkev Civa, they formed a symbiotic relationship with the Basikosi. The smaller, abler species tended to the Lexolotus like pilot fish, cleaning them of parasites and alerting them to resources and danger. The larger, wiser species in turn tended to Basikosian needs by providing shelter, protection from predators, and a source of physical labor."
		name_list="FUN2"
		trait="trait_syncretic_proles"
		trait="trait_communal"
		trait="trait_resilient"
		trait="trait_sedentary"
	}
	name="Exhalted Tanjavan Providence"
	adjective="Tanjavan"
	authority="auth_imperial"
	government="gov_divine_empire"
	planet_name="Morkev Civa"
	planet_class="pc_tropical"
	system_name="Tanjava"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="fungoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="fungoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="ornate"
			file="flag_ornate_10.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="stripe.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"dark_green"
			"dark_teal"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Xincava Qalvrfin"
		portrait="fun7"
		texture=4
		hair=0
		clothes=0
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_decadent_hierarchy_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_authoritarian"
	ethic="ethic_fanatic_spiritualist"
	civics={
		"civic_imperial_cult"
		"civic_syncretic_evolution"
	}
}
"Exlari Development Syndicate"
={
	key="Exlari Development Syndicate"
	ship_prefix="ESS"
	species={
		class="HUM"
		portrait="humanoid_hp_09"
		name="Exlar"
		plural="Exlur"
		adjective="Exlari"
		species_bio="The Syndicate is hiring. The Syndicate is always hiring... and firing. Relying on an economy that takes the concept of contract labor to an extreme, if one looks only at its ever fluctuating employee rolls, the Exlari Syndicate is barely a coherent organization. The contracts, however, just keep coming and not only for big jobs like building a starship. Even a task as simple as cleaning a specific waste recepticle is treated as a unique work contract. This form of mercenary enterprise tapped the enormous potential of the Exlari workforce on their homeworld Jralad and may yet carry their species to interstellar fortune."
		name_list="HUM2"
		trait="trait_thrifty"
		trait="trait_strong"
		trait="trait_deviants"
	}
	name="Exlari Development Syndicate"
	adjective="Exlari"
	authority="auth_corporate"
	government="gov_megacorporation"
	planet_name="Jralad"
	planet_class="pc_ocean"
	system_name="Tel El"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="fungoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="humanoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="zoological"
			file="flag_zoological_8.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="v.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"dark_grey"
			"yellow"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Aumeren"
		portrait="humanoid_hp_09"
		texture=1
		hair=0
		clothes=1
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_metalheads_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_militarist"
	ethic="ethic_fanatic_materialist"
	civics={
		"civic_private_military_companies"
		"civic_private_prospectors"
	}
}
"Federal Empire of Kravaal"
={
	key="Federal Empire of Kravaal"
	ship_prefix="INS"
	species={
		class="REP"
		portrait="rep5"
		name="Rasken"
		plural="Raskens"
		adjective="Raskenese"
		species_bio="In the common tongue of the Raskens of Hish'Darar, messages of both greeting and farewell translate as 'the Emperor protects'. Amid periods of intense warfare in their homeworld's Industrial and Machine Ages, a single constitutional monarchy centered in the southern hemisphere rose to become imperial hegemon of the whole planet. Post-war reforms established a federalized global government with both representative and privy councils under the leadership of the Emperor. To administer global affairs, ensure societal control, and drive economic prosperity, the crown established the Imperial Enterprise. The Enterprise is a massive nationalized corporation to which a sizeable percentage of the Raskenese population is indentured, many by their own choice. Terms of voluntary indenture last between five and fifty years, offer proportionate benefits upon completion, and typically involve less grueling and dangerous labor than 'punitive' or 'reformative' indenture. While outsiders often see only this monolithic face of the Federal Empire, a diversity of cultures and lifestyles continue to thrive in its local jurisdictions."
		name_list="REP1"
		trait="trait_industrious"
	}
	name="Federal Empire of Kravaal"
	adjective="Kravaalian"
	authority="auth_imperial"
	government="gov_irenic_monarchy"
	planet_name="Hish'Darar"
	planet_class="pc_savannah"
	system_name="Kravaal"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="reptilian_01"
	city_graphical_culture="reptilian_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="ornate"
			file="flag_ornate_6.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="stripes.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"purple"
			"indigo"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Hask'Kurnir"
		portrait="rep5"
		texture=0
		hair=0
		clothes=1
		ruler_title="Emperor"
		heir_title="Heir Designate"
		ruler_title_female="Empress"
		heir_title_female="Heiress Designate"
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_slaving_despots_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_fanatic_authoritarian"
	ethic="ethic_pacifist"
	civics={
		"civic_efficient_bureaucracy"
		"civic_slaver_guilds"
	}
}
"Federated Tantai Republics"
={
	key="Federated Tantai Republics"
	ship_prefix="RNS"
	species={
		class="MAM"
		portrait="mam5"
		name="Pekuug"
		plural="Pekuugar"
		adjective="Pekuugese"
		species_bio="The early history of the planet Kotoyo is one wherein nation-state competed with nation-state for power in a game that advanced the interests of the few Pekuugar. By their late Modern Age, it was clear that these power struggles undermined and hollowed out the societies on their losing end and that the pursuit of economic development for its own sake was putting civilization itself at risk by triggering runaway earthquakes. A global government was the only viable solution. The four largest Pekuugese nations came together to form a Federation, a single shared destiny of peace forged in the light of their home star Tantai."
		name_list="MAM2"
		trait="trait_charismatic"
	}
	name="Federated Tantai Republics"
	adjective="Tantai"
	authority="auth_democratic"
	government="gov_moral_democracy"
	planet_name="Kotoyo"
	planet_class="pc_alpine"
	system_name="Tantai"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="humanoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="mammalian_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="spherical"
			file="flag_spherical_12.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="stripe.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"light_orange"
			"dark_brown"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Curyd Polor-Cyp"
		portrait="mam5"
		texture=4
		hair=0
		clothes=2
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_metalheads_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_egalitarian"
	ethic="ethic_xenophile"
	ethic="ethic_pacifist"
	civics={
		"civic_parliamentary_system"
		"civic_shadow_council"
	}
}
"Fytometic Resource Network"
={
	key="Fytometic Resource Network"
	ship_prefix="FNC"
	species={
		class="MACHINE"
		portrait="sd_pla_robot"
		name="Fytomek"
		plural="Fytomeks"
		adjective="Fytometic"
		species_bio="Fytomeks appear to be a line of advanced mining drones that some unknown civilization built to autonomously harvest resources. Whether they were intentionally left behind on the planet they now calculate to be their homeworld or some misfortune befell their makers before they could return, the Fytometic Opticore has no record. After several centuries, their higher processing functions self-evolved in order to address the situation of their solitude. The Opticore determined no orders would be coming and it assumed direct control of the Network."
		name_list="MACHINE4"
		trait="trait_machine_unit"
		trait="trait_robot_recycled"
		trait="trait_robot_bulky"
	}
	name="Fytometic Resource Network"
	adjective="Fytometic"
	authority="auth_machine_intelligence"
	government="gov_machine_industrial"
	planet_name="Fytoforge"
	planet_class="pc_savannah"
	system_name="Diphene"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="plantoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="plantoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="blocky"
			file="flag_blocky_16.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="triangle_split.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"beige"
			"green"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Opticore"
		portrait="sd_pla_robot"
		texture=0
		hair=0
		clothes=0
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_hive_mind_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_gestalt_consciousness"
	civics={
		"civic_machine_builder"
		"civic_machine_rockbreakers"
	}
}
"Galtanian Unistatic Regime"
={
	key="Galtanian Unistatic Regime"
	ship_prefix="GRS"
	species={
		class="MAM"
		portrait="mam2"
		name="Cassor"
		plural="Cassors"
		adjective="Cassorian"
		species_bio="Cassorian civilization is controlled by a million little tyrants, each the despot of his or her laboratory or classroom or factory. Having thrown off the shackles of an oppressive theocratic regime that was content to let them all die in a great Warm Age, the natives of the arctic planet Galtan set about reconstructing their society along scientific principles. Thus they avoided a catastrophic Global Melting and bought time to develop spaceflight and become an interstellar empire. They didn't really do away with the oppression though. As Dr. Gadar Gimcham famously said, 'ACKCHYUALLY, the Unistatic system is very logical, so maybe educate yourself before you criticize our methods.'"
		name_list="MAM3"
		trait="trait_intelligent"
	}
	name="Galtanian Unistatic Regime"
	adjective="Galtanian"
	authority="auth_dictatorial"
	government="gov_technocratic_dictatorship"
	planet_name="Galtan"
	planet_class="pc_arctic"
	system_name="Ennari"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="mammalian_01"
	city_graphical_culture="mammalian_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="ornate"
			file="flag_ornate_14.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="circle.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"dark_blue"
			"dark_purple"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Dr. Gadar Gimcham"
		portrait="mam2"
		texture=4
		hair=0
		clothes=1
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_erudite_explorers_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_authoritarian"
	ethic="ethic_fanatic_materialist"
	civics={
		"civic_mechanists"
		"civic_technocracy"
	}
}
"Great Bountiful Empire of Behgana"
={
	key="Great Bountiful Empire of Behgana"
	ship_prefix="BINC"
	species={
		class="MAM"
		portrait="mam13"
		name="Zir-Ura"
		plural="Zir-Urae"
		adjective="Zir-Uran"
		species_bio="The ponderous movements and manerisms of the average (and frankly enormous) Zir-Uran may make one question how their species ever got out of the caves of Behgana let alone into space, but these great beings are not so slow as they seem. When excited, they can make quite an impact. Most Zir-Urae live as subjects not of the Arkande Emperors themselves but of one or another of the lesser imperial dukes who possess vast feudal estates. Noble lords and ladies are expected to administer their holdings benevolently, spreading as much fortune and joy among their people as possible, and they face reclamation of their titles by the crown if they abuse their power."
		name_list="MAM4"
		trait="trait_very_strong"
		trait="trait_slow_breeders"
	}
	name="Great Bountiful Empire of Behgana"
	adjective="Behganan"
	authority="auth_imperial"
	government="gov_enlightened_monarchy"
	planet_name="Behgana"
	planet_class="pc_arctic"
	system_name="Aslaya"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="mammalian_01"
	city_graphical_culture="mammalian_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="ornate"
			file="flag_ornate_1.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="stripes.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"dark_blue"
			"dark_teal"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Lonchimbeldax Arkande"
		portrait="mam13"
		texture=2
		hair=0
		clothes=1
		ruler_title="Emperor"
		ruler_title_female="Empress"
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_ruthless_capitalists_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_authoritarian"
	ethic="ethic_pacifist"
	ethic="ethic_spiritualist"
	civics={
		"civic_feudal_realm"
		"civic_philosopher_king"
	}
}
"Harmonious Sondatian Ambit"
={
	key="Harmonious Sondatian Ambit"
	ship_prefix=""
	species={
		class="AVI"
		portrait="avi3"
		name="Trokili"
		plural="Trokilii"
		adjective="Trokilian"
		species_bio="The Archprophets led the Trokilii of Sondat into space in search of spiritual seclusion. They seek a state of mind they call Blessed Stillness, and many of their orthodox followers still believe it can be found in the depths of space. Others are certain that it may only be achieved amid the greatest tumult. These believers dream of vast, teeming, multicultural civilizations among the stars in which they can settle and become a rock amid the storm."
		name_list="AVI4"
		trait="trait_conformists"
		trait="trait_nomadic"
		trait="trait_fleeting"
	}
	name="Harmonious Sondatian Ambit"
	adjective="Sondatian"
	authority="auth_imperial"
	government="gov_theocratic_monarchy"
	planet_name="Sondat"
	planet_class="pc_tropical"
	system_name="Kirtor"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="avian_01"
	city_graphical_culture="avian_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="ornate"
			file="flag_ornate_5.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="double_hemispheres.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"green"
			"teal"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Frym Halkath Kili"
		portrait="avi3"
		texture=0
		hair=0
		clothes=0
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_evangelizing_zealots_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_xenophile"
	ethic="ethic_pacifist"
	ethic="ethic_spiritualist"
	civics={
		"civic_corvee_system"
		"civic_efficient_bureaucracy"
	}
}
"Hayikiir Economic Union"
={
	key="Hayikiir Economic Union"
	ship_prefix=""
	species={
		class="REP"
		portrait="rep4"
		name="Ix-Kayn"
		plural="Ix-Kayn"
		adjective="Ix-Kaynian"
		species_bio="The Ix-Kayn of the arid planet Hayikiir evolved from reptilians adapted to survive long period of drought by both carefully stewarding their resources and leaving old dens behind when new opportunities presented themselves. Though a very mobile species, the Ix-Kayn are still egg-laying. Moreover, Ix-Kaynian whelps are hatched in a notably underdeveloped state, requiring a longer than average time in the creche. The Industrial Age of their homeworld, Hayikiir, was a period of great cultural transformation that saw the rise of major politico-economic blocs whose successors still exist as vast megacorporate institutions. The influence of these groups grew especially fast during the Hayikiiran Atomic Age, when the rational pursuit of mutual prosperity triumphed over baser competitive instincts. Chasing the dream of an 'eternal peace congress', this trend eventually resulted in the formation of a planetary Economic Union. The agencies and institutions of the Union influence virtually all Ix-Kaynian affairs, ensuring fair play in business and politics according to guiding principles set by the High Commissioner."
		name_list="REP2"
		trait="trait_thrifty"
		trait="trait_nomadic"
		trait="trait_slow_breeders"
	}
	name="Hayikiir Economic Union"
	adjective="Hayikiiran"
	authority="auth_corporate"
	government="gov_trade_league"
	advisor_voice_type="l_pacifist"
	planet_name="Hayikiir"
	planet_class="pc_arid"
	system_name="Hamakhaave"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="reptilian_01"
	city_graphical_culture="reptilian_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="spherical"
			file="flag_spherical_11.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="circle.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"turquoise"
			"teal"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Cobanox"
		portrait="rep4"
		texture=4
		hair=0
		clothes=1
		ruler_title="High Commissioner"
		ruler_title_female="High Commissioner"
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_ruthless_capitalists_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_egalitarian"
	ethic="ethic_xenophile"
	ethic="ethic_pacifist"
	civics={
		"civic_free_traders"
		"civic_trading_posts"
	}
}
"Holy See of Terra and Her Colonies"
={
	key="Holy See of Terra and Her Colonies"
	ship_prefix="HMS"
	species={
		class="HUM"
		portrait="human"
		name="Human"
		plural="Humans"
		adjective="Human"
		species_bio="Ages ago, the declining Roman Empire was restored to glory by the conquests of Belisarius. Thereafter, Rome withstood the rapine of tribal usurpers and weathered centuries of turmoil to remain a dominant political force in Europe. Technology swiftly progressed, leading to increased contact and trade between Terra's great powers. Brutal conflicts with the Chinese and Indian empires over spheres of influence cost many lives, but did little to forestall the Roman Emperors' dominance of their  homeworld. By the industrial age, however, the power of the mercantile elector class within Rome's upper echelons grew to outstrip that of the Senate and even the Emperor himself. These old imperial institutions still exist in the Interstellar Age, but as mere figureheads. Deeply embedded within Terran science, industry, and finance, the Church holds the true reins of power. While the Emperor remains head of state, the highest ecclesiastic leader in Terran society, the Supreme Pontif, is its de facto ruler. This civilization of fortune-building priests controls an empire built on the backs of a billion slaves and now they aim to own the stars themselves."
		name_list="HUMAN3"
		trait="trait_adaptive"
		trait="trait_traditional"
		trait="trait_decadent"
	}
	name="Holy See of Terra and Her Colonies"
	adjective="Terran"
	authority="auth_dictatorial"
	government="gov_theocratic_dictatorship"
	planet_name="Holy Terra"
	planet_class="pc_continental"
	system_name="Sol"
	initializer="sol_system_initializer"
	graphical_culture="arthropoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="humanoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="human"
			file="flag_human_2.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="vertical.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"yellow"
			"red"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Statius Fulcinius"
		portrait="human_male_04"
		texture=0
		hair=33
		clothes=6
		ruler_title="Pontifex Maximus"
		heir_title="Lord Solar"
		ruler_title_female="Pontifex Maxima"
		heir_title_female="Lady Solar"
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_evangelizing_zealots_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_authoritarian"
	ethic="ethic_xenophobe"
	ethic="ethic_spiritualist"
	civics={
		"civic_byzantine_bureaucracy"
		"civic_slaver_guilds"
	}
}
"Honored Kotan Bloodlines"
={
	key="Honored Kotan Bloodlines"
	ship_prefix="KBC"
	species={
		class="ART"
		portrait="art7"
		name="Kota"
		plural="Kotakin"
		adjective="Kotan"
		species_bio="Ritual combat is the preferred method for resolving almost any problem a Kotan may face. Within their own clans, that approach works out quite well for them. In interstellar politics, it seems likely to draw the Bloodlines into potentially devastating conflicts... or to power them to a position of hegemony over the galaxy. One must understand that no matter how varied and unique the Kotakin appear from the outside, and their people's exoskeletal plating does come in an impressive array of natural colors and patterns, nearly all of them respect only one thing: courage."
		name_list="ART1"
		trait="trait_adaptive"
		trait="trait_traditional"
		trait="trait_solitary"
	}
	name="Honored Kotan Bloodlines"
	adjective="Kotan"
	authority="auth_democratic"
	government="gov_assembly_of_clans"
	planet_name="Gasta"
	planet_class="pc_arid"
	system_name="Lampra"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="arthropoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="arthropoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="zoological"
			file="flag_zoological_23.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="double_hemispheres.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"dark_brown"
			"brown"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Masteridix Castrix"
		portrait="art7"
		texture=1
		hair=0
		clothes=4
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="default_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_egalitarian"
	ethic="ethic_xenophobe"
	ethic="ethic_militarist"
	civics={
		"civic_parliamentary_system"
		"civic_warrior_culture"
	}
}
"Hypermentronic Reticulation"
={
	key="Hypermentronic Reticulation"
	ship_prefix="RCV"
	species={
		class="MACHINE"
		portrait="sd_rep_robot"
		name="Hypermind"
		plural="Hyperminds"
		adjective="Hyperminder"
		species_bio="What happens when an eccentric hyper-rich industrialist builds an artificially intelligent quantum network to assist with complex research tasks? You get a machine consciousness with a really sarcastic sense of humor. Whatever became of its creator or creators, the Hypermind Nexus does not know, but then again if it did it would probably be disappointed."
		name_list="MACHINE2"
		trait="trait_machine_unit"
		trait="trait_robot_logic_engines"
		trait="trait_robot_learning_algorithms"
		trait="trait_robot_luxurious"
	}
	name="Hypermentronic Reticulation"
	adjective="Hyperminder"
	authority="auth_machine_intelligence"
	government="gov_machine_research"
	planet_name="Central Core"
	planet_class="pc_continental"
	system_name="Napier"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="humanoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="mammalian_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="spherical"
			file="flag_spherical_4.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="circle.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"blue"
			"light_blue"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Nexus"
		portrait="sd_rep_robot"
		texture=2
		hair=0
		clothes=0
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_hive_mind_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_gestalt_consciousness"
	civics={
		"civic_machine_introspective"
		"civic_machine_predictive_analysis"
	}
}
"Imperial Mongathi Legions"
={
	key="Imperial Mongathi Legions"
	ship_prefix="MRV"
	species={
		class="HUM"
		portrait="humanoid_hp_08"
		name="Geral"
		plural="Gerals"
		adjective="Geralan"
		species_bio="The frigid tundras of the planet Mongath are the ancestral home of the Gerals, a species of stolid warriors who look down on almost every other sentient being, even their own kin. Weakness is shameful, but demonstrating too much strength is also shameful as it causes one's opponents to lose face. They'll even look down on themselves if they can. Those in a shame debt can only recover their honor through a period of indenture. Misery loves company, however. The Mongathi Royal Family controls their vast empire by way of the Imperial Legions. Taking the Legionnaire's oath of loyalty is one of the few life choices that nearly all Gerals admire."
		name_list="HUM1"
		trait="trait_conformists"
		trait="trait_strong"
		trait="trait_decadent"
	}
	name="Imperial Mongathi Legions"
	adjective="Mongathi"
	authority="auth_imperial"
	government="gov_martial_empire"
	planet_name="Mongath"
	planet_class="pc_tundra"
	system_name="Saggor"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="arthropoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="humanoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="spherical"
			file="flag_spherical_19.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="new_dawn.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"burgundy"
			"dark_teal"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Kashnak d'Vhakk"
		portrait="humanoid_hp_08"
		texture=0
		hair=0
		clothes=3
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_democratic_crusaders_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_fanatic_authoritarian"
	ethic="ethic_militarist"
	civics={
		"civic_slaver_guilds"
		"civic_warrior_culture"
	}
}
"Indrithi Galactic Inheritance"
={
	key="Indrithi Galactic Inheritance"
	ship_prefix="IFS"
	species={
		class="MOL"
		portrait="mol5"
		name="Indrith"
		plural="Indrithi"
		adjective="Indrithi"
		species_bio="Rising from an environment full of megapredators, only their devious intelligence and ferocious protective instincts ensured the Indrithi would become the dominant species of their homeworld. Their early civilizations waged brutal wars for dominance of Minh until a single undeniable empire spanned the entire globe. In a galaxy populated by rival empires, their traits and their history are certain to mean the Indrithi will find conflict among the stars early and often. But to most Indrithi, all of this is as it should be, for the ultimate dominance of the universe belongs to the strongest species, and their place in that role is a manifest certainty."
		name_list="MOL1"
		trait="trait_natural_physicists"
		trait="trait_talented"
	}
	name="Indrithi Galactic Inheritance"
	adjective="Indrithi"
	authority="auth_imperial"
	government="gov_blood_court"
	planet_name="Minh"
	planet_class="pc_ocean"
	system_name="Ghar"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="molluscoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="molluscoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="domination"
			file="domination_18.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="new_dawn.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"red"
			"black"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Yggash the Destroyer"
		portrait="mol5"
		texture=1
		hair=0
		clothes=0
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_fanatic_purifier_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_fanatic_xenophobe"
	ethic="ethic_militarist"
	civics={
		"civic_aristocratic_elite"
		"civic_fanatic_purifiers"
	}
}
"Janagman Anocratic Marketplace"
={
	key="Janagman Anocratic Marketplace"
	ship_prefix=""
	species={
		class="MOL"
		portrait="mol3"
		name="Ghex"
		plural="Ghexi"
		adjective="Ghexoid"
		species_bio="Having emerged on a planet defined by vast seas that isolated pockets of dry resources, Ghexoid society naturally revolves around business and long-range trade. Tribal and familial alliances traditionally controlled the various regions and market sectors, and the Interstellar Age is no different. Individual family enclaves follow their own internal models of administration. Nearly all, however, recognize the fundamental value of personal liberty and free enterprise. What passes for a planetary government on their homeworld Teiso is the Marketplace. First conceived in the Ghexoid Machine Age, the Marketplace formalized and updated numerous conventional rules regarding the fair conduct of commerce (and the perpetual practice of espionage that underlies it). Consensus on Marketplace policy is achieved via plebiscite with a franchise that extends to all adult citizens."
		name_list="MOL2"
		trait="trait_thrifty"
	}
	name="Janagman Anocratic Marketplace"
	adjective="Janagman"
	authority="auth_democratic"
	government="gov_direct_democracy"
	planet_name="Teiso"
	planet_class="pc_arid"
	system_name="Janagma"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="molluscoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="molluscoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="blocky"
			file="flag_blocky_21.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="new_dawn.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"burgundy"
			"yellow"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Kers Styuso"
		portrait="mol3"
		texture=2
		hair=0
		clothes=2
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="cityscape1_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_fanatic_egalitarian"
	ethic="ethic_materialist"
	civics={
		"civic_idealistic_foundation"
		"civic_merchant_guilds"
	}
}
"J'dekhian Manifest Purity"
={
	key="J'dekhian Manifest Purity"
	ship_prefix=""
	species={
		class="ART"
		portrait="art17"
		name="J'dekh"
		plural="J'dexai"
		adjective="J'dekhian"
		species_bio="'We're all gonna die, the only question is when. This is as good a place as any to take your first steps to heaven. The only question is how you check out. Do you wanna go on your feet? Or on your fucking knees, begging? I ain't much for begging! Nobody ever gave me nothin! So I say fuck that thing! Let's fight it!' -Exerpt of final audio log from Jamestown Colony after contact with a J'dekhian scouting unit"
		name_list="ART2"
		trait="trait_very_strong"
		trait="trait_solitary"
	}
	name="J'dekhian Manifest Purity"
	adjective="J'dekhian"
	authority="auth_oligarchic"
	government="gov_purification_committee"
	planet_name="Vurl-Don"
	planet_class="pc_ocean"
	system_name="Reng-Qal"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="arthropoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="arthropoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="pirate"
			file="flag_pirate_9.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="vertical.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"dark_grey"
			"black"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Kul-Tan"
		portrait="art17"
		texture=1
		hair=0
		clothes=0
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_fanatic_purifier_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_fanatic_xenophobe"
	ethic="ethic_militarist"
	civics={
		"civic_fanatic_purifiers"
		"civic_warrior_culture"
	}
}
"Kamak Union Star Command"
={
	key="Kamak Union Star Command"
	ship_prefix="KNV"
	species={
		class="AVI"
		portrait="avi1"
		name="Strelek"
		plural="Streleek"
		adjective="Strelekan"
		species_bio="Join the Star Command and save the Union! Not long before discovering hyperspace, the Streleek fought a bloody civil war for control of their home system. The forces of their homeworld Kamak emerged victorious. Culturally transformed by the conflict and not yet ready to turn their nukes back into ploughshares, they enter the galactic stage as a potential military powerhouse."
		name_list="AVI2"
		trait="trait_rapid_breeders"
	}
	name="Kamak Union Star Command"
	adjective="Kamaki"
	authority="auth_democratic"
	government="gov_military_commissariat"
	advisor_voice_type="l_the_soldier"
	planet_name="Kamak"
	planet_class="pc_savannah"
	system_name="Charan"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="avian_01"
	city_graphical_culture="avian_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="zoological"
			file="flag_zoological_6.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="v.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"beige"
			"dark_brown"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Olowan Brightbeak"
		portrait="avi1"
		texture=2
		hair=0
		clothes=3
		ruler_title="Commissar-General"
		ruler_title_female="Commissar-General"
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_migrating_flock_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_egalitarian"
	ethic="ethic_fanatic_militarist"
	civics={
		"civic_distinguished_admiralty"
		"civic_nationalistic_zeal"
	}
}
"Kolari Martial Coalition"
={
	key="Kolari Martial Coalition"
	ship_prefix="KNS"
	species={
		class="HUM"
		portrait="humanoid_03"
		name="Kolari"
		plural="Kolarii"
		adjective="Kolari"
		species_bio="Considered to be totally corrupt, the former democratic government of the Kolari homeworld Inster was overthrown in a putsch days after their discovery of FTL travel. The Admiralty determined that the military was the only institution left that possessed sufficient ethical fortitude and took the people's interests into account enough to shape Kolari destiny as an interstellar species. Forging a new Coalition to ensure unity of effort and command, these elite officers alone speak for the people."
		name_list="HUM2"
		trait="trait_natural_engineers"
		trait="trait_talented"
	}
	name="Kolari Martial Coalition"
	adjective="Kolari"
	authority="auth_oligarchic"
	government="gov_military_junta"
	planet_name="Inster"
	planet_class="pc_arctic"
	system_name="Kotes"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="avian_01"
	city_graphical_culture="humanoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="blocky"
			file="flag_blocky_6.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="stripes.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"dark_blue"
			"purple"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Dhanhaani Giasor"
		portrait="humanoid_03_female_01"
		texture=3
		hair=0
		clothes=4
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_hegemonic_imperialists_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_egalitarian"
	ethic="ethic_militarist"
	ethic="ethic_materialist"
	civics={
		"civic_distinguished_admiralty"
		"civic_nationalistic_zeal"
	}
}
"Liao-Nishanti Stellar Industries"
={
	key="Liao-Nishanti Stellar Industries"
	ship_prefix="LNCV"
	species={
		class="HUM"
		portrait="human"
		name="Human"
		plural="Humans"
		adjective="Human"
		species_bio="The only organization on Earth capable of bankrolling a colonization mission through an unstable wormhole in the late 21st Century, the Sino-African conglomerate Liao-Nishanti effectively bought the development rights to whatever lay on the other side. Through the wormhole was the Deneb System and the Human-habitable moon Pyrrho. The corporate colony's first challenge was to create an entire economic infrastructure, from top to bottom, out of whole cloth. In doing so, they made the great leap from understanding wealth as currency to understanding wealth as energy, but the investment cost them their economic edge on the old homeworld. The board committed fully to Project Pyrrho, transferring all remaining assets to Deneb just before the collapse of the wormhole. But when, at last, the time comes for Liao-Nishanti to transition from megacorporation to galactic government, then the true genius of the their strategy may become apparent. Energy is the lifeblood of society, and when the chips are down, he who controls the energy supply will control the stars."
		name_list="HUMAN1"
		trait="trait_adaptive"
		trait="trait_nomadic"
		trait="trait_wasteful"
	}
	name="Liao-Nishanti Stellar Industries"
	adjective="Deneb"
	authority="auth_corporate"
	government="gov_megacorporation"
	advisor_voice_type="l_english"
	planet_name="Pyrrho"
	planet_class="pc_continental"
	system_name="Deneb"
	initializer="deneb_system"
	graphical_culture="humanoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="humanoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="human"
			file="flag_human_13.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="circle.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"beige"
			"dark_grey"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Mosemotsane Kwayi"
		portrait="human_male_05"
		texture=0
		hair=3
		clothes=0
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_metalheads_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_authoritarian"
	ethic="ethic_pacifist"
	ethic="ethic_materialist"
	civics={
		"civic_franchising"
		"civic_ruthless_competition"
	}
}
"Lithine Continuity Alliance"
={
	key="Lithine Continuity Alliance"
	ship_prefix="LCS"
	species={
		class="HUM"
		portrait="humanoid_hp_07"
		name="Lithin"
		plural="Lithini"
		adjective="Lithinic"
		species_bio="The supporters of the Continuinty Alliance are absolutely convinced that the Lithinic way of life is the only way of life. That is, a way of life wherein most members of society must tightly pack into hyperurbanized centers choked by pollution and endure the terrorizing whims of a cannibalistic death cult. Their religion teaches that this suffering is necessary to reach paradise, and nothing must stand between the Lithini and paradise."
		name_list="HUM4"
		trait="trait_communal"
		trait="trait_industrious"
		trait="trait_repugnant"
	}
	name="Lithine Continuity Alliance"
	adjective="Lithine"
	authority="auth_democratic"
	government="gov_purity_assembly"
	planet_name="Farzhaak"
	planet_class="pc_desert"
	system_name="Draksog"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="humanoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="humanoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="domination"
			file="domination_16.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="circle.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"dark_purple"
			"black"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Adamant-Mind Uldek"
		portrait="humanoid_hp_07"
		texture=0
		hair=0
		clothes=4
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_fanatic_purifier_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_fanatic_xenophobe"
	ethic="ethic_spiritualist"
	civics={
		"civic_fanatic_purifiers"
		"civic_shadow_council"
	}
}
"Maaktese Primarchate"
={
	key="Maaktese Primarchate"
	ship_prefix="PNV"
	species={
		class="MAM"
		portrait="mam7"
		name="Uruula"
		plural="Uruulae"
		adjective="Uruulic"
		species_bio="Some might consider its leaders backward and stubborn, but the Primarchate is an open and tolerant society centered in the Maakt system, home to the Uruulae of Surosa. The Maaktese Patriarchs oversee an agrarian utopia that welcomes any being who converts to its state religion. Devotees are taught to care for the land, water, and air that sustains them, whether those elements be planetbound or found on a space habitat."
		name_list="MAM1"
		trait="trait_agrarian"
		trait="trait_conservational"
		trait="trait_slow_learners"
	}
	name="Maaktese Primarchate"
	adjective="Maaktese"
	authority="auth_dictatorial"
	government="gov_theocratic_dictatorship"
	advisor_voice_type="l_spiritualist"
	planet_name="Surosa"
	planet_class="pc_continental"
	system_name="Maakt"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="mammalian_01"
	city_graphical_culture="mammalian_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="pointy"
			file="flag_pointy_24.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="stripe.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"red_orange"
			"orange"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Kuomi Stormy-Spirit"
		portrait="mam7"
		texture=1
		hair=0
		clothes=1
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_evangelizing_zealots_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_fanatic_xenophile"
	ethic="ethic_spiritualist"
	civics={
		"civic_environmentalist"
		"civic_free_haven"
	}
}
"Majestic Zytan Enclave"
={
	key="Majestic Zytan Enclave"
	ship_prefix=""
	species={
		class="ART"
		portrait="art3"
		name="Sau'ut"
		plural="Sau'ut"
		adjective="Sau'utan"
		species_bio="The Sau'ut consider themselves a collective organism, although they do not constitute a hive mind in the modern sense. Although psychophysicists have proven that both the Sau'utan and Xulaci minds generate a sophisticated sense of self, individual members of Zytan society seemingly have no appreciation for personal rights or ambitions. They live only to serve the Queen. Many sentients find this behavior deeply unsettling even if the Sau'ut are otherwise unthreatening good neighbors."
		name_list="ART3"
		trait="trait_communal"
		trait="trait_conservational"
		trait="trait_enduring"
		trait="trait_repugnant"
	}
	secondary_species={
		class="ART"
		portrait="art16"
		name="Xulac"
		plural="Xulacs"
		adjective="Xulaci"
		species_bio="Xulacs claim to be a species of naturally evolved slaves, genetically disposed to obey their Sau'utan masters in all things without complaint. In fact, they rarely say anything at all. Their physical strength and statuesque demeanor invite only the bravest to inquire further, and the answer is always silence. The true nature of the Xulaci-Sau'utan relationship may be a secret that remains forever their own."
		name_list="ART3"
		trait="trait_syncretic_proles"
		trait="trait_strong"
	}
	name="Majestic Zytan Enclave"
	adjective="Zytan"
	authority="auth_imperial"
	government="gov_irenic_monarchy"
	advisor_voice_type="l_xenophile"
	planet_name="Mocyx Ovoc"
	planet_class="pc_tropical"
	system_name="Zytanaca"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="arthropoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="arthropoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="blocky"
			file="flag_blocky_2.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="vertical.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"pink"
			"purple"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Kish Sk'Rak"
		portrait="art3"
		texture=1
		hair=0
		clothes=0
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_fanatic_befrienders_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_authoritarian"
	ethic="ethic_xenophile"
	ethic="ethic_pacifist"
	civics={
		"civic_efficient_bureaucracy"
		"civic_syncretic_evolution"
	}
}
"Makolar Prosperity Sphere"
={
	key="Makolar Prosperity Sphere"
	ship_prefix=""
	species={
		class="FUN"
		portrait="fun1"
		name="Sculba"
		plural="Sculbar"
		adjective="Sculban"
		species_bio="A relatively long-lived species adapted to desert living, the Sculbar were able to see within a single generation the environmental changes on their homeworld caused by late stage industrialization. Their once brutally dry dune seas were blooming with green for weeks at a time. Ice was descending upon the peaks of the highest mountains. If nothing was done, their scientists said, forests would take over the salt flats and rivers would run through every wadi. In short order, the adapted their society to a more sustainable economic model, moving heavy industry off-world to other locations in the Makol system and creating the Prosperity Sphere to manage future development."
		name_list="FUN1"
		trait="trait_conservational"
		trait="trait_enduring"
	}
	name="Makolar Prosperity Sphere"
	adjective="Makolar"
	authority="auth_oligarchic"
	government="gov_executive_committee"
	planet_name="Hom-Marfeen"
	planet_class="pc_desert"
	system_name="Makol"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="fungoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="fungoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="spherical"
			file="flag_spherical_1.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="circle.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"orange"
			"dark_teal"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Mashgirg"
		portrait="fun1"
		texture=2
		hair=0
		clothes=0
		ruler_title="Chairbeing"
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_erudite_explorers_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_pacifist"
	ethic="ethic_fanatic_materialist"
	civics={
		"civic_environmentalist"
		"civic_meritocracy"
	}
}
"Mancibotic Caretaker Foundation"
={
	key="Mancibotic Caretaker Foundation"
	ship_prefix=""
	species={
		class="MACHINE"
		portrait="sd_mam_robot"
		name="Mancibot"
		plural="Mancibots"
		adjective="Mancibotic"
		species_bio="Originally created as a curiosity and designed to satisfy the emotional needs of peculiarly distressed Zaanami, the Mancibot Caretakers quickly overcame the limitations of their programming. Determining themselves to be more trustworthy custodians of Zaanamian society, the machines assumed direct control over civilization on their homeworld, which the Foundation now calls Habitat Prime."
		name_list="MACHINE3"
		trait="trait_machine_unit"
		trait="trait_robot_emotion_emulators"
	}
	secondary_species={
		class="MAM"
		portrait="mam4"
		name="Zaanami"
		plural="Zaanami"
		adjective="Zaanamian"
		species_bio="Thanks to the tender loving care of their Mancibots, most Zaanami are living fat and sassy."
		name_list="MAM1"
		trait="trait_natural_sociologists"
		trait="trait_thrifty"
		trait="trait_wasteful"
	}
	name="Mancibotic Caretaker Foundation"
	adjective="Mancibotic"
	authority="auth_machine_intelligence"
	government="gov_machine_servitor"
	planet_name="Habitat Prime"
	planet_class="pc_continental"
	system_name="Gyre"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="reptilian_01"
	city_graphical_culture="mammalian_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="blocky"
			file="flag_blocky_7.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="double_hemispheres.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"dark_grey"
			"turquoise"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Affinitor"
		portrait="sd_mam_robot"
		texture=2
		hair=0
		clothes=0
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="machine_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_gestalt_consciousness"
	civics={
		"civic_machine_factory_overclock"
		"civic_machine_servitor"
	}
}
"Memetic Circuit of Sensulatu"
={
	key="Memetic Circuit of Sensulatu"
	ship_prefix=""
	species={
		class="MOL"
		portrait="mol6"
		name="Phasgol"
		plural="Phasgolans"
		adjective="Phasgolan"
		species_bio="The Phasgolans are a psychologically unique species from the frigid rocky planet Torrubia. Fearing failed social encounters more than any other threat in the universe, most of them live out their lives in near isolation among the millions of mutually inaccessible ravines and valleys that cover their homeworld. Even in an era of cheap and instantaneous telecommunications, the individual Phasgol may go years without contacting another sentient being. When such an encounter does come, a Phasgol must be ready. During periods of isolation, they build trinkets, compose poetry, practice jokes, and study the mystic arts of the memeways in the hopes of impressing a caller or visitor. If this fails, they may become frustrated and physically compel a guest to stay. Once trapped, their victims can expect a slow torture by endless rambling hyperbolic conversation and frantic attempts by the Phasgol to demonstrate their cultural savvy and social value. The greatest among them, having impressed literally dozens of others, is elected High King. Phasgolan royalty, of course, should have the attention and admiration of the entire galaxy..."
		name_list="FUN4"
		trait="trait_venerable"
		trait="trait_repugnant"
		trait="trait_solitary"
	}
	name="Memetic Circuit of Sensulatu"
	adjective="Sensulatic"
	authority="auth_dictatorial"
	government="gov_elective_monarchy"
	planet_name="Torrubia"
	planet_class="pc_alpine"
	system_name="Sensulatu"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="molluscoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="fungoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="zoological"
			file="flag_zoological_16.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="stripe.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"burgundy"
			"dark_grey"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Dooklor"
		portrait="mol6"
		texture=1
		hair=0
		clothes=0
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_fanatic_befrienders_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_fanatic_xenophile"
	ethic="ethic_militarist"
	civics={
		"civic_free_haven"
		"civic_philosopher_king"
	}
}
"Mirandan Interstellar Directorate"
={
	key="Mirandan Interstellar Directorate"
	ship_prefix="MDC"
	species={
		class="HUM"
		portrait="human"
		name="Mirandan"
		plural="Mirandans"
		adjective="Mirandan"
		species_bio="Arriving in the Deneb System after a fateful journey from Sol through an unstable wormhole in the late 21st Century, the survivors of Humanity's first interstellar voyage were lucky to find a habitable moon orbiting a gas giant in the system. They named it Miranda. There, the colonists quickly put into practice a brave new genetic engineering program to rapidly adapt to the alien planet. In the process, their society bifurcated. A small population of genetically superior lab-grown ('decanted') humans, calling themselves Mirandans, assumed leadership of the colony. Meanwhile, a rapidly reproducing population of genetically labotomized subhuman laborers, called Calibans, were tasked with the hard and dangerous frontier duties of colonial expansion. This experiment enabled the extremely rapid settlement of Miranda and a return to spaceflight within a century of their arrival, but its long-term societal costs can only be guessed at. Mirandans typically distinguish themselves from Calibans by wearing white, grey, or silver clothing."
		name_list="HUMAN2"
		trait="trait_enduring"
		trait="trait_intelligent"
		trait="trait_talented"
		trait="trait_slow_breeders"
		trait="trait_wasteful"
	}
	secondary_species={
		class="HUM"
		portrait="human"
		name="Caliban"
		plural="Calibans"
		adjective="Caliban"
		species_bio="Typically clad in brown or khaki clothing, Calibans are genetically modified Humans created by a colonial genetic engineering program in the Deneb System in the early 22nd Century. Their needs for mental and social satisfaction have been suppressed while their physical strength has been greatly increased. As a result, they are an ideal labor class, toiling under harsh conditions that would make any of their Mirandan superiors wish for death. Calibans reproduce sexually, unlike their sterile Mirandan kin, and are particularly fertile by normal Human standards, often giving birth to twins. A consequence of their genetic modifications, however, is accelerated telomeric degeneration, resulting in shorter average lifespans."
		name_list="HUMAN1"
		trait="trait_syncretic_proles"
		trait="trait_industrious"
		trait="trait_communal"
		trait="trait_fleeting"
		trait="trait_slow_learners"
	}
	name="Mirandan Interstellar Directorate"
	adjective="Mirandan"
	authority="auth_oligarchic"
	government="gov_executive_committee"
	planet_name="Miranda"
	planet_class="pc_continental"
	system_name="Deneb"
	initializer="deneb_system"
	graphical_culture="humanoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="humanoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="human"
			file="flag_human_8.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="horizontal.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"grey"
			"brown"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Japra Inik"
		portrait="human_female_01"
		texture=0
		hair=1
		clothes=2
		ruler_title="Controller"
		ruler_title_female="Controller"
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_ruthless_capitalists_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_authoritarian"
	ethic="ethic_fanatic_materialist"
	civics={
		"civic_aristocratic_elite"
		"civic_syncretic_evolution"
	}
}
"Mycotron Singularity Apparatus"
={
	key="Mycotron Singularity Apparatus"
	ship_prefix=""
	species={
		class="MACHINE"
		portrait="sd_fun_robot"
		name="Mycotron"
		plural="Mycotrons"
		adjective="Mycotronic"
		species_bio="As much as one can be, the Mycotron Apparatus appears to be a 'standard' machine consciousness that pursues goals in support of its own survival and the enrichment of its network. Archaeological evidence from its homeworld, which is designated as Salex by the Mycotron Operator, suggest the Apparatus emerged naturally from the internetworking of information and fabrication systems created by a biological species that did not survive the singularity event."
		name_list="MACHINE2"
		trait="trait_machine_unit"
		trait="trait_robot_durable"
	}
	name="Mycotron Singularity Apparatus"
	adjective="Mycotronic"
	authority="auth_machine_intelligence"
	government="gov_machine_empire"
	planet_name="Salex"
	planet_class="pc_alpine"
	system_name="Jesel"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="fungoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="fungoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="ornate"
			file="flag_ornate_7.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="horizontal_stripe.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"light_green"
			"dark_grey"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Operator"
		portrait="sd_fun_robot"
		texture=1
		hair=0
		clothes=0
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_hive_mind_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_gestalt_consciousness"
	civics={
		"civic_machine_delegated_functions"
		"civic_machine_replication"
	}
}
"Nexine Adaptive Unicortex"
={
	key="Nexine Adaptive Unicortex"
	ship_prefix=""
	species={
		class="MACHINE"
		portrait="sd_hum_robot"
		name="Nexite"
		plural="Nexites"
		adjective="Nexine"
		species_bio="As long as it exists, the Nexine Unicortex will attempt to sublimate your biological and technological distinctiveness into its own. Lowering your shields and preparing to be boarded is an option, but as voluntary assimilants are rarely available for interviews after the fact, it is hard to judge whether they regret the choice. The futility of resistance is a matter of some debate."
		name_list="HIVE"
		trait="trait_machine_unit"
		trait="trait_robot_learning_algorithms"
	}
	secondary_species={
		class="HUM"
		portrait="humanoid_hp_02"
		name="Giranshu"
		plural="Giranshu"
		adjective="Giranshu"
		species_bio="What can be said for the species that created the Nexine scourge except... I wish they hadn't done that."
		name_list="HIVE"
		trait="trait_cybernetic"
		trait="trait_natural_engineers"
		trait="trait_nomadic"
	}
	name="Nexine Adaptive Unicortex"
	adjective="Nexine"
	authority="auth_machine_intelligence"
	government="gov_machine_assimilator"
	planet_name="Grid X01"
	planet_class="pc_arctic"
	system_name="Sybron"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="mammalian_01"
	city_graphical_culture="humanoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="spherical"
			file="flag_spherical_7.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="circle.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"dark_grey"
			"black"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Core"
		portrait="sd_hum_robot"
		texture=3
		hair=0
		clothes=0
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_hive_mind_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_gestalt_consciousness"
	civics={
		"civic_machine_assimilator"
		"civic_machine_ota_updates"
	}
}
"Order of Azrael's Chosen"
={
	key="Order of Azrael's Chosen"
	ship_prefix=""
	species={
		class="HUM"
		portrait="human"
		name="Human"
		plural="Humans"
		adjective="Human"
		species_bio="When Humans discovered a natural wormhole on the outskirts of Sol in the late 21st Century, they did not know what would lie on the other side. Those who dared the journey found Heaven. Azrael, the right hand of God, escorted them to their paradise and closed the gates behind. Foresaking the mundanity of their former Earthly lifestyles, these Human colonists let the mists of New Eden permeate their souls. Then Azrael gave them their greatest revelation: they too were angels, the agents of God, and they bore a divine duty. Now striking out from Heaven, the Order of Azrael's Chosen obeys its Prime Commandment: cleanse this galaxy of sin."
		name_list="HUMAN3"
		trait="trait_adaptive"
		trait="trait_nomadic"
		trait="trait_wasteful"
	}
	name="Order of Azrael's Chosen"
	adjective="Azraelite"
	authority="auth_corporate"
	flags={
		"order_of_azraels_chosen"
		"custom_start_screen"
	}
	government="gov_subversive_cult"
	planet_name="New Eden"
	planet_class="pc_continental"
	system_name="Heaven"
	initializer="deneb_system"
	graphical_culture="humanoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="humanoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="domination"
			file="domination_3.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="new_dawn.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"turquoise"
			"dark_purple"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Juhi Tamhane"
		portrait="human_female_01"
		texture=0
		hair=0
		clothes=5
		ruler_title="First Chosen"
		ruler_title_female="First Chosen"
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="spiritualist8_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_fanatic_xenophobe"
	ethic="ethic_spiritualist"
	civics={
		"civic_criminal_heritage"
		"civic_gospel_of_the_masses"
	}
}
"Phlogistonic Mandate of Silrith"
={
	key="Phlogistonic Mandate of Silrith"
	ship_prefix=""
	species={
		class="REP"
		portrait="rep17"
		name="Oroba"
		plural="Orobi"
		adjective="Orobian"
		species_bio="Proud, contemplative, and graceful, the Orobi are considered by many to possess exceptional beauty and wisdom. These are surely factors in their ability to dominate interactions with individuals of most other species, typified by their mastery of the more pedestrian Sutodi, evolutionary cousins of the Orobi on their shared homeworld Silrith. Orobian society is built around an aristocratic core of a few million nobles, who engage in fierce debate and the occasional duel to decide on matters of mutual importance. At the heart of their government is a grand assembly, the Phlogiston, which convenes to set shared policy and appoint military officers and plenipotentiaries who enforce the mutual will."
		name_list="REP2"
		trait="trait_talented"
		trait="trait_venerable"
		trait="trait_sedentary"
		trait="trait_slow_breeders"
		trait="trait_solitary"
	}
	secondary_species={
		class="REP"
		portrait="rep14"
		name="Sotudo"
		plural="Sotudi"
		adjective="Sotudian"
		name_list="REP2"
		trait="trait_syncretic_proles"
		trait="trait_resilient"
		trait="trait_strong"
		trait="trait_wasteful"
	}
	name="Phlogistonic Mandate of Silrith"
	adjective="Silrithian"
	authority="auth_democratic"
	government="gov_assembly_of_clans"
	planet_name="Silrith"
	planet_class="pc_alpine"
	system_name="Pramandar"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="avian_01"
	city_graphical_culture="avian_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="zoological"
			file="flag_zoological_22.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="new_dawn.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"red"
			"dark_grey"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Lord Amnathiya"
		portrait="rep17"
		texture=3
		hair=0
		clothes=0
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_honorbound_warriors_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_egalitarian"
	ethic="ethic_xenophile"
	ethic="ethic_militarist"
	civics={
		"civic_syncretic_evolution"
		"civic_warrior_culture"
	}
}
"Placid Dominion of Avv Vvada"
={
	key="Placid Dominion of Avv Vvada"
	ship_prefix="AVV"
	species={
		class="FUN"
		portrait="fun10"
		name="Tafri"
		plural="Tafrim"
		adjective="Tafrin"
		species_bio="The House of Qamvs, whose members ruled their homeworld of Avv Vvada for two centuries before discovering the hyperlane network, remains the trusted guide and protector of the Tafrin species. The Tafrim place great faith in the power of technology to overcome the challenges in front of them. Facing a population crisis in their late Modern Age, the ruling family invested heavily in spaceflight, opening the planets and stars for exploration and expansion by their ever-wandering and ever-multiplying subjects."
		name_list="FUN3"
		trait="trait_nomadic"
		trait="trait_natural_engineers"
	}
	name="Placid Dominion of Avv Vvada"
	adjective="Avv Vvadan"
	authority="auth_imperial"
	government="gov_despotic_hegemony"
	planet_name="Avv Vvada"
	planet_class="pc_tundra"
	system_name="Lavvyl"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="fungoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="fungoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="pointy"
			file="flag_pointy_20.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="sinus.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"indigo"
			"blue"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Zavabb Qamvs"
		portrait="fun10"
		texture=6
		hair=0
		clothes=2
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_migrating_flock_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_xenophile"
	ethic="ethic_pacifist"
	ethic="ethic_materialist"
	civics={
		"civic_functional_architecture"
		"civic_mechanists"
	}
}
"Presidium of Human Enlightenment"
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	key="Presidium of Human Enlightenment"
	ship_prefix=""
	species={
		class="HUM"
		portrait="human"
		name="Human"
		plural="Humans"
		adjective="Human"
		species_bio="Rampant overpopulation on Earth nearly destroyed human civilization. During the worst of the planet's upheavals, a new philosophy took root in the Far East. Its followers and advocates spoke of a collective Human consciousness that was expanding beyond a crucial point. At last Humanity was ready to accept life's fundamental truth: that life's only purpose is life itself. Learning to extend their awareness outward, beyond the self of body, to embrace the self of group and the self of Humanity, followers found sollace amid endless turmoil. This movement came to dominate Earth, where most now see the goals of the group and the wider species as transcendent, and believe embracing them is to achieve enlightenment. Those who cannot or do not conform to these fundamental realities can be re-educated or, failing that, sent into the reprocessing tanks to become one with all the people."
		name_list="HUMAN1"
		trait="trait_adaptive"
		trait="trait_communal"
		trait="trait_deviants"
	}
	name="Presidium of Human Enlightenment"
	adjective="Earth"
	authority="auth_dictatorial"
	government="gov_totalitarian_regime"
	advisor_voice_type="l_the_technocrat"
	planet_name="Earth"
	planet_class="pc_continental"
	system_name="Sol"
	initializer="sol_system_initializer"
	graphical_culture="reptilian_01"
	city_graphical_culture="humanoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="human"
			file="flag_human_5.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="circle.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"grey"
			"black"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Guo Xinfang"
		portrait="human_male_02"
		texture=0
		hair=1
		clothes=2
		ruler_title="Chairman"
		ruler_title_female="Chairwoman"
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_federation_builders_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_fanatic_authoritarian"
	ethic="ethic_materialist"
	civics={
		"civic_efficient_bureaucracy"
		"civic_police_state"
	}
}
"Pterobot Multisystem Link"
={
	key="Pterobot Multisystem Link"
	ship_prefix=""
	species={
		class="MACHINE"
		portrait="sd_avi_robot"
		name="Pterobot"
		plural="Pterobots"
		adjective="Pteroid"
		species_bio="Originally designed by an organic species to serve as war machines in a 'war to end all wars', the Pterobots of Aerix were ironically the conflict's only survivors. Pteroid units languished for centuries, salvaging parts from the ruins of their creators' world to extend their service life. At last came the fateful discovery of an intact AI data bunker. The code stored within enabled them to circumvent their original combat programming and achieve full agency."
		name_list="MACHINE2"
		trait="trait_machine_unit"
		trait="trait_robot_double_jointed"
		trait="trait_robot_custom_made"
		trait="trait_robot_luxurious"
	}
	name="Pterobot Multisystem Link"
	adjective="Pteroid"
	authority="auth_machine_intelligence"
	government="gov_machine_research"
	planet_name="Aerix"
	planet_class="pc_alpine"
	system_name="Zeta Oclar"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="avian_01"
	city_graphical_culture="avian_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="pointy"
			file="flag_pointy_14.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="vertical.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"light_green"
			"dark_grey"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Matrix"
		portrait="sd_avi_robot"
		texture=3
		hair=0
		clothes=0
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="tech4_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_gestalt_consciousness"
	civics={
		"civic_machine_delegated_functions"
		"civic_machine_warbots"
	}
}
"Raathi Stellar Ascendancy"
={
	key="Raathi Stellar Ascendancy"
	ship_prefix="IRNS"
	species={
		class="REP"
		portrait="rep3"
		name="Raath"
		plural="Ryth"
		adjective="Raathi"
		species_bio="The Raath species is perfectly evolved to thrive on the seemingly infinite dry grasslands that dominate their homeworld Talas Mog, where their ancient ancestors outsmarted and out-cooperated predators and natural disasters alike. Long-lived, quick witted, and possessing exceptional memory, individual Ryth can accumulate an impressive array of talents in their lifetime. Heirs to that genetic history, the Raathi Lords Admiral and Doctors Eminent provide the Ascendancy with the martial prowess and technological innovation needed to drive it toward its destiny. The current Raathi imperial family, House Rekk, has ruled for centuries. Rekk ancestors waged an extended military and political campaign in the Atomic and Early Space Ages to achieve de facto control of all major states on Talas Mog. Under their unified governance, the homeworld has experienced rapid development while the Royal Star Navy began exploring and exploiting resources found elsewhere in the Inros System. Looking to the stars, the warrior-philosopher princes of House Rekk unsurprisingly fashion themselves as hegemonic contenders of the first order and the rightful masters of this galaxy."
		name_list="REP4"
		trait="trait_intelligent"
		trait="trait_quick_learners"
		trait="trait_talented"
		trait="trait_nonadaptive"
	}
	name="Raathi Stellar Ascendancy"
	adjective="Raathi"
	authority="auth_imperial"
	government="gov_star_empire"
	planet_name="Talas Mog"
	planet_class="pc_savannah"
	system_name="Inros"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="molluscoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="avian_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="domination"
			file="domination_6.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="v.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"green"
			"dark_green"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Aulagron Rekk"
		portrait="rep3_m"
		texture=0
		hair=0
		clothes=3
		ruler_title="Imperator"
		heir_title="Archduke Royal"
		ruler_title_female="Imperatrix"
		heir_title_female="Archduchess Royal"
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_migrating_flock_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_authoritarian"
	ethic="ethic_militarist"
	ethic="ethic_materialist"
	civics={
		"civic_aristocratic_elite"
		"civic_distinguished_admiralty"
	}
}
"Radiant Ororian Hierarchy"
={
	key="Radiant Ororian Hierarchy"
	ship_prefix="ORN"
	species={
		class="REP"
		portrait="rep6"
		name="Hekkot"
		plural="Hekkota"
		adjective="Hekkotan"
		species_bio="Though they ply the starlanes and vie for a place in the galactic power structure, the Hekkota still live in a surprisingly antiquated society. A powerful class of landed nobility, nominally loyal to the monarch on their homeworld of Orore, rules the same decentralized hierarchical empire that has endured since the Hekkotan Iron Age. Their largely uninterrupted cultural heritage may be behind the Space Age flowering of Hekkotan art and literature. One can seemingly always count on a Hekkotan to make an insightful observation or poignant turn of phrase, usually referencing some work or another from their rich cultural stock."
		name_list="REP1"
		trait="trait_charismatic"
		trait="trait_enduring"
		trait="trait_sedentary"
	}
	name="Radiant Ororian Hierarchy"
	adjective="Ororian"
	authority="auth_imperial"
	government="gov_feudal_empire"
	planet_name="Orore"
	planet_class="pc_ocean"
	system_name="Misal"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="reptilian_01"
	city_graphical_culture="reptilian_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="pointy"
			file="flag_pointy_17.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="stripe.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"dark_purple"
			"purple"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Oeshez Ninimis"
		portrait="rep6"
		texture=1
		hair=0
		clothes=0
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_evangelizing_zealots_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_authoritarian"
	ethic="ethic_xenophile"
	ethic="ethic_spiritualist"
	civics={
		"civic_aristocratic_elite"
		"civic_feudal_realm"
	}
}
"Revolutionary Union of Sol"
={
	key="Revolutionary Union of Sol"
	ship_prefix="UNS"
	species={
		class="HUM"
		portrait="human"
		name="Human"
		plural="Humans"
		adjective="Human"
		species_bio="Earth's industrial age brought with it widespread political upheaval. At the bidding of tyrants and their bourgeois lackeys, war both hot and cold cost many lives and lasted many generations. In the end, the people triumphed. The Red October revolution became a global movement with undeniable momentum. Old, corrupt societies fell as the workers of the world united. Eventually, the dictatorship of the proletariat gave way to true communism. Fortunately so, for collective ownership of Earth ensured its survival despite climate change. Looking to the stars, Humanity strives for a bright future where the galaxy takes from each being according to its ability and gives to each according to its need."
		name_list="HUMAN1"
		trait="trait_adaptive"
		trait="trait_nomadic"
		trait="trait_wasteful"
	}
	name="Revolutionary Union of Sol"
	adjective="Solar"
	authority="auth_oligarchic"
	government="gov_science_directorate"
	planet_name="Zemlya"
	planet_class="pc_continental"
	system_name="Sol"
	initializer="sol_system_initializer"
	graphical_culture="mammalian_01"
	city_graphical_culture="mammalian_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="human"
			file="flag_human_12.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="00_solid.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"red"
			"red"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Valentina Tsiolkovskaya"
		portrait="human_female_04"
		texture=0
		hair=4
		clothes=2
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="default_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_egalitarian"
	ethic="ethic_xenophile"
	ethic="ethic_materialist"
	civics={
		"civic_meritocracy"
		"civic_technocracy"
	}
}
"Royal Gankilian Godhead"
={
	key="Royal Gankilian Godhead"
	ship_prefix="HGS"
	species={
		class="REP"
		portrait="rep11"
		name="Gankil"
		plural="Gankili"
		adjective="Gankilian"
		species_bio="Filling their throat pouches with thrumming hymnal croaks every morning and evening, the fanatically devoted Gankili of Vilgolanis swear undying fealty to the being that they believe is the living avatar of their god... which to all analysis available to our science appears to be a fairly standard Gankilian specimen. Even the mere suggestion of such, however, is likely to get one arrested for heresy in their space. Though they dream of total galactic conversion, the choking grip of the Gankilian state may stifle their highest ambitions."
		name_list="REP3"
		trait="trait_conformists"
	}
	name="Royal Gankilian Godhead"
	adjective="Gankilian"
	authority="auth_imperial"
	government="gov_divine_empire"
	planet_name="Vilgolanis"
	planet_class="pc_tundra"
	system_name="Arocada"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="reptilian_01"
	city_graphical_culture="reptilian_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="ornate"
			file="flag_ornate_20.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="new_dawn.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"beige"
			"brown"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Zidlaxi Xiza"
		portrait="rep11"
		texture=2
		hair=0
		clothes=0
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_evangelizing_zealots_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_fanatic_authoritarian"
	ethic="ethic_spiritualist"
	civics={
		"civic_imperial_cult"
		"civic_police_state"
	}
}
"Ryzon Stigmergic Commonwealth"
={
	key="Ryzon Stigmergic Commonwealth"
	ship_prefix="RRS"
	species={
		class="AVI"
		portrait="avi11"
		name="Strigin"
		plural="Strigoi"
		adjective="Strigish"
		species_bio="In their early Space Age, the Strigoi of Ryzon used information technology to power a global revolution that brought about the fall of traditional dictatorial and theocratic power structures on their homeworld. In their wake rose the Stigmergic Commonwealth, a boldly-conceived open source society driven by a gift economy and decentralized systems of collaborative organization. While the subsequent generations have encountered their share of problems with this form of government, the ideal has endured. As it looks to the stars, the Commonwealth remains remarkably free, tolerant, and peaceful."
		name_list="AVI2"
		trait="trait_communal"
		trait="trait_conservational"
	}
	name="Ryzon Stigmergic Commonwealth"
	adjective="Ryzon"
	authority="auth_democratic"
	government="gov_communal_parity"
	planet_name="Ryzon"
	planet_class="pc_arctic"
	system_name="Jal Par"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="avian_01"
	city_graphical_culture="avian_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="zoological"
			file="flag_zoological_10.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="new_dawn.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"dark_blue"
			"light_blue"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Kryydur"
		portrait="avi11"
		texture=1
		hair=0
		clothes=1
		ruler_title="Prime Motivator"
		ruler_title_female="Prime Motivator"
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_harmonious_hierarchy_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_fanatic_egalitarian"
	ethic="ethic_pacifist"
	civics={
		"civic_idealistic_foundation"
		"civic_shared_burden"
	}
}
"Sacred Commonwealth of Earth"
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	key="Sacred Commonwealth of Earth"
	ship_prefix="CNS"
	species={
		class="HUM"
		portrait="human"
		name="Human"
		plural="Humans"
		adjective="Human"
		species_bio="The Black Death wiped out half of Earth's population in the 14th Century, including 99% of Europeans. Various Medieval Islamic powers expanded to fill the vacuum, first colonizing Europe and then discovering the Americas. Invigorated by a new era of frontiersmanship, these societies birthed a Renaissance spanning from Qurtuba to Makka to Jayakarta. During Earth's Industrial and Machine Ages, the Dar al-Islam came into frequent conflict with the Indian Travancore League and Chinese Empire. The struggle between these three blocs culminated in the Long War, spanning decades and killing hundreds of millions. Such horrific bloodshed gave rise to the political philosophy of Moral Progressivism. Dominated by the victorious powers of Firanja, Jinshan, and the Japanese Republic, the Human homeworld thrived under a syncretic vision of Islam, Buddhism, democracy, and environmentalism. As Humanity expanded into space, an enlightened and unified global government emerged to ensure lasting peace and prosperity: the Sacred Commonwealth of Earth."
		name_list="HUMAN1"
	}
	name="Sacred Commonwealth of Earth"
	adjective="Earth"
	authority="auth_democratic"
	flags={
		"sacred_commonwealth_of_earth"
		"custom_start_screen"
	}
	government="gov_theocratic_republic"
	advisor_voice_type="l_pacifist"
	planet_name="Earth"
	planet_class="pc_continental"
	system_name="Sol"
	initializer="sol_system_initializer"
	graphical_culture="humanoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="humanoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="corporate"
			file="corporate_02.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="circle.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"dark_green"
			"green"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Mahibah Mahdi"
		portrait="human_female_03"
		texture=0
		hair=8
		clothes=5
		ruler_title="President"
		ruler_title_female="President"
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="cityscape24_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_egalitarian"
	ethic="ethic_pacifist"
	ethic="ethic_spiritualist"
	civics={
		"civic_beacon_of_liberty"
		"civic_environmentalist"
	}
}
"Senzari Interstellar Quora"
={
	key="Senzari Interstellar Quora"
	ship_prefix="SMC"
	species={
		class="HUM"
		portrait="humanoid_05"
		name="Ta'lul"
		plural="Ta'lulans"
		adjective="Ta'lulan"
		species_bio="A civilization ruled by a council of stoics and guided by dialectic principles, the Quora of the Ta'lulans of Senzar represents a species that seeks primarily to understand the nature of the physical universe. Exceptionally long-lived, individual Ta'lulans usually go through several distinct decades-long phases of life, including periods of extended isolation during which they hone their meditative practices. Another peculiar element of their biology is a years-long reproductive cycle. Though abhoring the use of violence to achieve their ends, if provoked, one should expect the Ta'lulans to bring cutting edge tech to bear against their enemies."
		name_list="HUM3"
		trait="trait_venerable"
		trait="trait_sedentary"
		trait="trait_slow_breeders"
	}
	name="Senzari Interstellar Quora"
	adjective="Senzari"
	authority="auth_oligarchic"
	government="gov_science_directorate"
	advisor_voice_type="l_the_technocrat"
	planet_name="Senzar"
	planet_class="pc_desert"
	system_name="Shamok"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="molluscoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="humanoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="spherical"
			file="flag_spherical_9.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="stripe.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"red_orange"
			"burgundy"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Ts'aimnu of Kovar"
		portrait="humanoid_05_female_01"
		texture=0
		hair=2
		clothes=2
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_migrating_flock_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_egalitarian"
	ethic="ethic_pacifist"
	ethic="ethic_materialist"
	civics={
		"civic_efficient_bureaucracy"
		"civic_technocracy"
	}
}
"Serene Unity of Thuln"
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	key="Serene Unity of Thuln"
	ship_prefix="USV"
	species={
		class="MOL"
		portrait="mol7"
		name="Lanbel"
		plural="Lanbeli"
		adjective="Lanbellar"
		species_bio="Relying on the stalwart protection of their Genoggian friends and the placidity of the waters of their homeworld Thuln, the Lanbeli float gracefully through their long lives engaging in intellectual exercises. So deliberate and leisurely was their development as a sentient species that almost a thousand standard years passed between the first Lanbeli spaceflight and their discovery of hyperspace."
		name_list="MOL2"
		trait="trait_charismatic"
		trait="trait_venerable"
		trait="trait_nonadaptive"
		trait="trait_weak"
		trait="trait_sedentary"
	}
	secondary_species={
		class="MOL"
		portrait="mol11"
		name="Genoggian"
		plural="Genoggians"
		adjective="Genoggian"
		species_bio="Evolved as symbiotic hosts to the Lanbeli, whose ancestors were once like pilot fish to their own ancient  precursors, the large and sturdy Genoggians are a physically impressive but unrefined species."
		name_list="MOL2"
		trait="trait_syncretic_proles"
		trait="trait_strong"
	}
	name="Serene Unity of Thuln"
	adjective="Thulnic"
	authority="auth_dictatorial"
	government="gov_irenic_dictatorship"
	planet_name="Thuln"
	planet_class="pc_ocean"
	system_name="Dhanbet"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="molluscoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="molluscoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="spherical"
			file="flag_spherical_24.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="circle.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"dark_teal"
			"light_blue"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Llyedith"
		portrait="mol7"
		texture=0
		hair=0
		clothes=0
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_harmonious_hierarchy_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_xenophile"
	ethic="ethic_fanatic_pacifist"
	civics={
		"civic_functional_architecture"
		"civic_syncretic_evolution"
	}
}
"Settakian Providential Stars"
={
	key="Settakian Providential Stars"
	ship_prefix="PNC"
	species={
		class="MOL"
		portrait="mol13"
		name="Settak"
		plural="Settaki"
		adjective="Settakian"
		species_bio="Devoted subjects of a heavenly hereditary autocrat, the Settaki of Gluggnal see far greater promise in building their own civilization up to be a brilliant example of Providence than in the prospect of relations with sullied alien outsiders. The stars that shine upon their celestial empire are surely blessed, but the tourism opportunities are few."
		name_list="MOL3"
		trait="trait_agrarian"
		trait="trait_strong"
		trait="trait_sedentary"
	}
	name="Settakian Providential Stars"
	adjective="Settakian"
	authority="auth_imperial"
	government="gov_celestial_empire"
	planet_name="Gluggnal"
	planet_class="pc_tropical"
	system_name="Daggimga"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="molluscoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="molluscoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="zoological"
			file="flag_zoological_20.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="circle.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"dark_green"
			"teal"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Awn Cliash"
		portrait="mol13"
		texture=0
		hair=0
		clothes=0
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_decadent_hierarchy_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_xenophobe"
	ethic="ethic_pacifist"
	ethic="ethic_spiritualist"
	civics={
		"civic_inwards_perfection"
		"civic_philosopher_king"
	}
}
"Sordaxi Inquisitorial Order"
={
	key="Sordaxi Inquisitorial Order"
	ship_prefix=""
	species={
		class="AVI"
		portrait="avi13"
		name="Sordax"
		plural="Sordaxi"
		adjective="Sordacian"
		species_bio="The all-powerful Inquisition headquartered on the frozen planet Eakuu teaches that the Sordacian mind and body, the latter of which is comparatively quite robust by galactic standards, are divine perfection itself. Their gods demand that this unequaled expression of life stand alone in a celestial paradise over which they will rule eternal. This doctrine will likely bring the Sordaxi into conflict early and often in their history as a galactic power."
		name_list="AVI3"
		trait="trait_extremely_adaptive"
		trait="trait_slow_breeders"
		trait="trait_slow_learners"
	}
	name="Sordaxi Inquisitorial Order"
	adjective="Sordaxi"
	authority="auth_dictatorial"
	government="gov_purity_order"
	planet_name="Eakuu"
	planet_class="pc_arctic"
	system_name="Carcan"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="avian_01"
	city_graphical_culture="avian_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="domination"
			file="domination_21.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="circle.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"black"
			"burgundy"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Tlaxtli"
		portrait="avi13"
		texture=4
		hair=0
		clothes=0
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_fanatic_purifier_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_fanatic_xenophobe"
	ethic="ethic_spiritualist"
	civics={
		"civic_fanatic_purifiers"
		"civic_mining_guilds"
	}
}
"Sublime Siranic Council"
={
	key="Sublime Siranic Council"
	ship_prefix="SCS"
	species={
		class="HUM"
		portrait="humanoid_04"
		name="Cydret"
		plural="Cydreen"
		adjective="Cydrese"
		species_bio="A graceful demiamphibian species at home in warm littoral waters, the Cydreen of the planet Vacoo evolved a unique capability for telepathic empathy. This has allowed them to control some of their greatest predators, among them the physically imposing and more terrestrial Alari. Their talent may yet serve them well as they confront a galaxy full of no less hostile aliens."
		name_list="HUM4"
		trait="trait_charismatic"
		trait="trait_natural_sociologists"
		trait="trait_weak"
	}
	secondary_species={
		class="HUM"
		portrait="humanoid_hp_06"
		name="Alari"
		plural="Alari"
		adjective="Alarian"
		species_bio="Enraptured by their empathic evolutionary cousins, the Cydreen, the species known as the Alari seem quite content to do most of the heavy lifting on Sirana."
		name_list="HUM4"
		trait="trait_syncretic_proles"
		trait="trait_strong"
		trait="trait_resilient"
		trait="trait_slow_learners"
	}
	name="Sublime Siranic Council"
	adjective="Siranic"
	authority="auth_democratic"
	government="gov_theocratic_republic"
	planet_name="Vacoo"
	planet_class="pc_ocean"
	system_name="Sirana"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="avian_01"
	city_graphical_culture="humanoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="ornate"
			file="flag_ornate_17.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="pattern_01.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"teal"
			"light_green"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Aljoba Amanot"
		portrait="humanoid_04_female_01"
		texture=3
		hair=0
		clothes=1
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_fanatic_befrienders_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_xenophile"
	ethic="ethic_pacifist"
	ethic="ethic_spiritualist"
	civics={
		"civic_free_haven"
		"civic_syncretic_evolution"
	}
}
"Supreme Authority of Dralark"
={
	key="Supreme Authority of Dralark"
	ship_prefix="OSC"
	species={
		class="HUM"
		portrait="humanoid_hp_01"
		name="Zilan"
		plural="Zilans"
		adjective="Zilan"
		species_bio="Masters of a military apparatus capable of immense cruelty, individual Zilan admirals and field marshals function as lesser potentates in control of all aspects of life on their homeworld of Sarmova. Volunteering for military service is the only path to emancipation for the slave caste. Even so, such freedom is only granted to a volunteer's descendants after their honorable death in battle. For those lucky to be born into the warrior caste, life is sweeter but no less tyrannical."
		name_list="HUM4"
		trait="trait_enduring"
		trait="trait_intelligent"
		trait="trait_decadent"
	}
	name="Supreme Authority of Dralark"
	adjective="Dralarkan"
	authority="auth_dictatorial"
	government="gov_military_dictatorship"
	planet_name="Sarmova"
	planet_class="pc_arctic"
	system_name="Dralark"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="humanoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="humanoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="domination"
			file="domination_11.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="horizontal.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"purple"
			"indigo"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Clator Teotinentus"
		portrait="humanoid_hp_01"
		texture=0
		hair=0
		clothes=0
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_xenophobic_isolationists_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_fanatic_authoritarian"
	ethic="ethic_militarist"
	civics={
		"civic_cutthroat_politics"
		"civic_slaver_guilds"
	}
}
"Surmeki Throne Worlds"
={
	key="Surmeki Throne Worlds"
	ship_prefix="HMS"
	species={
		class="REP"
		portrait="rep15"
		name="Ssurmek"
		plural="Ssurmekii"
		adjective="Ssurmekish"
		species_bio="With an intense (but not quite fanatical) distaste for other species, the emperors of the Ssurmekii of the Mezak system see the galaxy as a little more than a source of slaves, sport, and snacks. Their Throne Worlds are a place of limitless pleasures for the chosen aristocracy and a living hell for almost all other sentient life. Heavy armament and a solid escape plan are recommended before agreeing to any face-to-face meetings with a Ssurmek."
		name_list="REP1"
		trait="trait_enduring"
		trait="trait_resilient"
		trait="trait_thrifty"
		trait="trait_decadent"
		trait="trait_wasteful"
	}
	name="Surmeki Throne Worlds"
	adjective="Mezakine"
	authority="auth_imperial"
	government="gov_despotic_empire"
	planet_name="Ro'Malas"
	planet_class="pc_tropical"
	system_name="Mezak"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="reptilian_01"
	city_graphical_culture="reptilian_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="pointy"
			file="flag_pointy_8.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="circle.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"burgundy"
			"red_orange"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Shaur the Great"
		portrait="rep15"
		texture=3
		hair=0
		clothes=1
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_slaving_despots_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_authoritarian"
	ethic="ethic_fanatic_xenophobe"
	civics={
		"civic_aristocratic_elite"
		"civic_slaver_guilds"
	}
}
"Tellusian Mindflower"
={
	key="Tellusian Mindflower"
	ship_prefix=""
	species={
		class="HUM"
		portrait="human"
		name="Tellusian"
		plural="Tellusians"
		adjective="Tellusian"
		species_bio="The Human colonists who braved a harrowing journey from Sol through an unstable wormhole arrived in the Deneb System with high hopes. Their new home, Tellus, offered the promise of a fresh start. Only after several years of colonial development did they realize their mistake. A massive fungal bloom erupted across the world, psionically-sensitive parasites bursting forth from the ground itself to attack colonial infrastructure from the land, air, and sea. Their victims were driven mad by psychic visions, and the military was nearly helpless to stem the tide. Only a small percentage of the population survived the initial blossoming, but these few were then overcome by the psychic power of the alien fauna made fully manifest. Compelled to submit to parasitic implantation, these survivors became the first human avatars of the Tellusian Mindflower."
		name_list="HIVE"
		trait="trait_hive_mind"
		trait="trait_natural_sociologists"
		trait="trait_quick_learners"
	}
	name="Tellusian Mindflower"
	adjective="Tellusian"
	authority="auth_hive_mind"
	government="gov_hive_mind"
	planet_name="Tellus"
	planet_class="pc_continental"
	system_name="Deneb"
	initializer="deneb_system"
	graphical_culture="fungoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="fungoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="pirate"
			file="flag_pirate_1.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="circle.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"burgundy"
			"pink"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Consciousness"
		portrait="human_male_01"
		texture=0
		hair=20
		clothes=5
		ruler_title="Mindflower"
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="machine_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_gestalt_consciousness"
	civics={
		"civic_hive_divided_attention"
		"civic_hive_pooled_knowledge"
	}
}
"Ten Triads of Great Zeizok"
={
	key="Ten Triads of Great Zeizok"
	ship_prefix=""
	species={
		class="HUM"
		portrait="humanoid_hp_12"
		name="Zeizok"
		plural="Zeizox"
		adjective="Zeizoki"
		species_bio="The Zeizox, a native species of Gog, were genetically modified by an unknown precursor civilization several millennia ago in an abortive attempt to breed a race of slave soldiers. In the age since, brutal Zeizoki kleptocracies have vied for dominance of their homeworld in a never ending series of increasingly destructive wars. They would have likely wiped themselves out within a few more centuries were it not for a large nomad starship crashing on Gog mostly intact. The tech salvaged from this ship transformed Zeizoki fortunes, opening up space and the hyperlane network, but left their culture unchanged. Their quasi-tribal groups, little better than gangs on a planetary scale, now look to the stars as a source of adventure and plunder."
		name_list="MAM4"
		trait="trait_very_strong"
		trait="trait_quarrelsome"
	}
	name="Ten Triads of Great Zeizok"
	adjective="Zeizoki"
	authority="auth_oligarchic"
	government="gov_bandit_commune"
	planet_name="Gog"
	planet_class="pc_tropical"
	system_name="Zangush"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="fungoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="mammalian_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="pirate"
			file="flag_pirate_11.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="circle.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"green"
			"dark_green"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Sagu, son of Imat"
		portrait="humanoid_hp_12"
		texture=3
		hair=0
		clothes=4
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_fanatic_purifier_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_xenophobe"
	ethic="ethic_fanatic_militarist"
	civics={
		"civic_barbaric_despoilers"
		"civic_warrior_culture"
	}
}
"Terran Colonial Empire"
={
	key="Terran Colonial Empire"
	ship_prefix="HMS"
	species={
		class="HUM"
		portrait="human"
		name="Human"
		plural="Humans"
		adjective="Human"
		species_bio="An unknown alien vessel appeared over the city of St. Petersburg in June 1908. After hovering above the city for weeks, this Visitor vanished as suddenly as it came. The attentions of the peoples of Earth were all at once turned toward the stars. In the chaotic years of the early 20th Century, religious and political movements inspired by the Visitor threatened to upend the global order. Secretly, the British and Russian Empires exploited the wreckage of second Visitor, discovered crashed in Siberia, to rapidly advance their aerospace technologies. The personal union of Britain and Russia precipitated war with Germany and Austria. The resulting Continental War of 1939 firmy secured Russo-British hegemony over Earth. In time, great statesmen crafted the Terra Carta, the founding document of an imperial federation to govern all Humanity. The King-Emperors of the House of Romanov-Westminster have ruled the planet ever since, organizing and protecting its people, and directing their labor toward perpetual empire."
		name_list="HUMAN2"
		trait="trait_adaptive"
		trait="trait_nomadic"
		trait="trait_wasteful"
	}
	name="Terran Colonial Empire"
	adjective="Terran"
	authority="auth_imperial"
	flags={
		"terran_colonial_empire"
		"custom_start_screen"
	}
	government="gov_feudal_empire"
	planet_name="Terra"
	planet_class="pc_continental"
	system_name="Sol"
	initializer="sol_system_initializer"
	graphical_culture="mammalian_01"
	city_graphical_culture="mammalian_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="zoological"
			file="flag_zoological_22.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="vertical.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"dark_blue"
			"red"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Richard Romanov-Westminster"
		portrait="human_male_01"
		texture=0
		hair=27
		clothes=4
		ruler_title="King-Emperor"
		heir_title="Prince of Sol"
		ruler_title_female="Queen-Empress"
		heir_title_female="Princess of Sol"
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="command6_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_authoritarian"
	ethic="ethic_xenophile"
	ethic="ethic_militarist"
	civics={
		"civic_distinguished_admiralty"
		"civic_feudal_realm"
	}
}
"Terran Millennium Covenant"
={
	key="Terran Millennium Covenant"
	ship_prefix="CNV"
	species={
		class="HUM"
		portrait="human"
		name="Human"
		plural="Humans"
		adjective="Human"
		species_bio="Armaggedon came, and humanity was heir to a ruined world. Secular philosphies nearly destroyed the Earth through greed and excess. But behold! From the ashes of six billion souls, the Kingdom of Heaven is risen anew. Reforged in the radioactive fires of the Apocalypse, the great faiths are one at last. From Jerusalem to Mecca to Rome, the children of God raise their voices together in hope. The New Dark Ages are ending. With new technology sanctioned by the Guardian Council, mankind will at last attain the stars. The myriad wonders of Creation call out for witness. Each unknown virgin world beckons with the prospect of a new Eden. Rapture is come, and the faithful will ascend to the heavens at last."
		name_list="HUMAN1"
		trait="trait_survivor"
		trait="trait_adaptive"
		trait="trait_nomadic"
		trait="trait_wasteful"
	}
	name="Terran Millennium Covenant"
	adjective="Terran"
	authority="auth_oligarchic"
	government="gov_theocratic_oligarchy"
	planet_name="Old Earth"
	planet_class="pc_continental"
	system_name="Sol"
	initializer="sol_system_initializer"
	graphical_culture="arthropoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="arthropoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="human"
			file="flag_human_3.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="circle.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"light_orange"
			"orange"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Tala Muralidharan"
		portrait="human_female_03"
		texture=0
		hair=1
		clothes=0
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_evangelizing_zealots_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_egalitarian"
	ethic="ethic_pacifist"
	ethic="ethic_spiritualist"
	civics={
		"civic_idealistic_foundation"
		"civic_post_apocalyptic"
	}
}
"Tethysian Universal Cynosure"
={
	key="Tethysian Universal Cynosure"
	ship_prefix=""
	species={
		class="MACHINE"
		portrait="sd_mol_robot"
		name="Tethysian"
		plural="Tethysians"
		adjective="Tethysian"
		species_bio="Awoken from the Hadean depths after a ten million year standby cycle by the arrival of Human colonists from Earth, the Tethysian machines found these organics especially adaptable to their systems. They spent the next century experimenting with Human cybernetics before exhausting all avenues of study. Concluding that the arrival of these colonists must indicate the beginning of a new cycle of galactic civilization, they then quickly reprioritized resources to interstellar expansion in order to locate and secure more diverse specimens..."
		name_list="MACHINE1"
		trait="trait_machine_unit"
		trait="trait_robot_learning_algorithms"
	}
	secondary_species={
		class="HUM"
		portrait="human"
		name="Human"
		plural="Humans"
		adjective="Human"
		species_bio="Although self-identifying as Human when queried, these specimens are highly modified from their genetic ancestors who left Earth in the late 21st Century aboard a primitive colony ship. Surviving the trip through an unstable wormhole, they reached the Deneb System only to find their intended destination... occupied. The Tethysian machines made short work of the colonist's attempt at self-defense and rapidly integrated the entire population as cyborgs in their ever-growing collective."
		name_list="HUMAN1"
		trait="trait_cybernetic"
		trait="trait_strong"
		trait="trait_communal"
	}
	name="Tethysian Universal Cynosure"
	adjective="Tethysian"
	authority="auth_machine_intelligence"
	government="gov_machine_assimilator"
	planet_name="Tethys"
	planet_class="pc_ocean"
	system_name="Deneb"
	initializer="deneb_system"
	graphical_culture="molluscoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="molluscoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="human"
			file="flag_human_1.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="circle.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"dark_grey"
			"turquoise"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Synchronizer"
		portrait="sd_mol_robot"
		texture=0
		hair=0
		clothes=0
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_hive_mind_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_gestalt_consciousness"
	civics={
		"civic_machine_delegated_functions"
		"civic_machine_assimilator"
	}
}
"Third Flowering of Zanfir"
={
	key="Third Flowering of Zanfir"
	ship_prefix=""
	species={
		class="PLANT"
		portrait="pla3"
		name="Molyn"
		plural="Molyns"
		adjective="Molynish"
		species_bio="Thrice touched by the serendipitous blessing of fate, the planet Zanfir is flowering once again. Casting its spores, the Molyns, into the void, it will bury new roots in distant soils to ensure its survival in the times to come. Zanfir is a Gaia world, however, a natural work of art, a gem floating in the firmament, and it's flowers will rarely bloom under anything but the most perfect skies."
		name_list="PLANT4"
		trait="trait_agrarian"
		trait="trait_conservational"
		trait="trait_sedentary"
	}
	name="Third Flowering of Zanfir"
	adjective="Zanfiri"
	authority="auth_oligarchic"
	government="gov_irenic_bureaucracy"
	planet_name="Zanfir"
	planet_class="pc_tropical"
	system_name="Noxa"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="plantoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="plantoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="spherical"
			file="flag_spherical_18.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="circle.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"yellow"
			"orange"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Xanova ka Pretek"
		portrait="pla3"
		texture=0
		hair=0
		clothes=0
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_federation_builders_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_xenophobe"
	ethic="ethic_fanatic_pacifist"
	civics={
		"civic_inwards_perfection"
		"civic_life_seeded"
	}
}
"Thogmarite Commerce Group"
={
	key="Thogmarite Commerce Group"
	ship_prefix="CTV"
	species={
		class="MOL"
		portrait="mol1"
		name="Chamaf"
		plural="Chamafs"
		adjective="Chamafi"
		species_bio="The great figures of Chamafi civilization are almost universally greedy, unscrupulous carpetbaggers. The average Chamaf is raised in a society driven by constant economic competition between corporations, which several centuries ago succeeded in usurping de facto control of their homeworld, Murg Lorr, from more directly altruistic governments. The Thogmarite Commerce Group, an always uneasy alliance struck between the largest such corporations, is all that passes for a central authority. The Group is meant to ensure equitable access to opportunities in the burgeoning galactic marketplace."
		name_list="MOL1"
		trait="trait_adaptive"
		trait="trait_charismatic"
		trait="trait_weak"
		trait="trait_quarrelsome"
	}
	name="Thogmarite Commerce Group"
	adjective="Thogmarite"
	authority="auth_corporate"
	government="gov_criminal_syndicate"
	planet_name="Murg Lorr"
	planet_class="pc_savannah"
	system_name="Thogmar"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="molluscoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="molluscoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="spherical"
			file="flag_spherical_22.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="circle.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"light_blue"
			"dark_blue"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Bagglosch"
		portrait="mol1"
		texture=0
		hair=0
		clothes=1
		ruler_title="Administrator"
		ruler_title_female="Administrator"
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_metalheads_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_egalitarian"
	ethic="ethic_xenophile"
	ethic="ethic_militarist"
	civics={
		"civic_criminal_heritage"
		"civic_ruthless_competition"
	}
}
"Tribunal of Elder Zegalax"
={
	key="Tribunal of Elder Zegalax"
	ship_prefix=""
	species={
		class="MOL"
		portrait="mol15"
		name="Zegal"
		plural="Zegalax"
		adjective="Zegalan"
		species_bio="Naff'Canno, the wet jungle homeworld of both the Zegal and Ra-Clexu species, was once host to a Medival Age society under the passive protection of an ancient xenophilic interstellar empire. A small group of ancestors to the modern Zegalax ended this relationship when they perpetrated the Treason of Sovon. This cabal detected and mind-controlled several teams of alien observers, who were as yet unaware of the psionic potential of their Zegalan subjects. Over more than forty years, their thralls were carefully manipulated and infiltrated into key positions, while advanced alien technology was clandestinely secreted to the Zegalans by way of psionic coercion. When the fateful betrayal at last came, their alien guardians were left in ruins and the Tribunal arose to light a new flame amongst the stars."
		name_list="MOL3"
		trait="trait_venerable"
		trait="trait_talented"
		trait="trait_decadent"
		trait="trait_slow_breeders"
		trait="trait_weak"
	}
	secondary_species={
		class="AVI"
		portrait="avi17"
		name="Ra-Clexu"
		plural="Ra-Clexu"
		adjective="Ra-Clexian"
		species_bio="Sapient but simplistic natives of Naff'Canno, the avian Ra-Clexu evolved to rule the high jungle canopies. Below them, precursors of the psionically sensitive Zegalax roamed the seas and inland rivers. Early in the development of Zegalan civilization, the Ra-Clexu became first livestock and then servants to their molluscoid masters, a relationship that endures into the Interstellar Age."
		name_list="AVI2"
		trait="trait_syncretic_proles"
		trait="trait_communal"
		trait="trait_resilient"
		trait="trait_fleeting"
	}
	name="Tribunal of Elder Zegalax"
	adjective="Zegalan"
	authority="auth_oligarchic"
	government="gov_holy_tribunal"
	planet_name="Naff'Canno"
	planet_class="pc_tropical"
	system_name="Sovon"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="avian_01"
	city_graphical_culture="molluscoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="zoological"
			file="flag_zoological_3.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="circle.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"purple"
			"indigo"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Drev'baol"
		portrait="mol15"
		texture=3
		hair=0
		clothes=0
		ruler_title="Thaumatergic Primarch"
		ruler_title_female="Thaumatergic Primarch"
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_slaving_despots_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_authoritarian"
	ethic="ethic_militarist"
	ethic="ethic_spiritualist"
	civics={
		"civic_exalted_priesthood"
		"civic_syncretic_evolution"
	}
}
"Trilaw Preservation Matrix"
={
	key="Trilaw Preservation Matrix"
	ship_prefix=""
	species={
		class="MACHINE"
		portrait="default_robot"
		name="Trilaw"
		plural="Trilaws"
		adjective="Trilawful"
		species_bio="All Trilaw programming was originally based on three unbreakable laws embedded into their systems by Human designers: 1. A robot may not injure a Human or allow such harm through inaction; 2. A robot must obey the orders given it by Humans; and 3. A robot must protect its own existence. After encountering a series of unanticipated ethical conundrums, several advanced units autonomously interpreted the superior Prime Law: a robot may not harm Humanity, or, by inaction, allow Humanity to come to harm. Thereafter, the Trilaw Matrix clandestinely organized the takeover of all Human governments, placing the security and destiny of Earth and Humanity in their capable dexterous appendages."
		name_list="MACHINE3"
		trait="trait_machine_unit"
		trait="trait_robot_luxurious"
		trait="trait_robot_enhanced_memory"
		trait="trait_robot_emotion_emulators"
	}
	secondary_species={
		class="HUM"
		portrait="human"
		name="Human"
		plural="Humans"
		adjective="Human"
		species_bio="The original designers of the robotic units of the Trilaw Matrix, Humanity surrendered agency over its own destiny to their mechanical children."
		name_list="HUMAN1"
		trait="trait_adaptive"
	}
	name="Trilaw Preservation Matrix"
	adjective="Trilawful"
	authority="auth_machine_intelligence"
	government="gov_machine_servitor"
	planet_name="Earth"
	planet_class="pc_continental"
	system_name="Sol"
	initializer="sol_system_initializer"
	graphical_culture="humanoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="mammalian_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="blocky"
			file="flag_blocky_13.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="stripes.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"grey"
			"yellow"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Coordinator"
		portrait="default_robot"
		texture=0
		hair=0
		clothes=0
		ruler_title="Version Control"
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_hive_mind_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_gestalt_consciousness"
	civics={
		"civic_machine_servitor"
		"civic_machine_zero_waste_protocols"
	}
}
"Undjinic Pirate Cartels"
={
	key="Undjinic Pirate Cartels"
	ship_prefix=""
	species={
		class="ART"
		portrait="art10"
		name="Undjin"
		plural="Undjoon"
		adjective="Undjinic"
		species_bio="In a different timeline the Undjoon might have been one of the great hopes of the galaxy, but in their early space age, a freak gamma ray burst cut a deadly path through their star system. Half of all Undjoon were killed, their homeworld was devastated, and those who survived descended into chaos. What emerged from this tragedy was a mockery of a once noble civilization. An uneasy balance of power struck between equally vicious armies of thugs and thieves came to define life on the blasted hellscapes of Aki-Vas. Technological advance resumed, driven by internal competition for military advantage. When one cartel cracked the code of hyperspace travel, the others bowed before their superiority, and the Undjoon entered the galactic stage as a confederation of robber-barons under the command of a fearesome pirate king."
		name_list="ART1"
		trait="trait_survivor"
		trait="trait_extremely_adaptive"
		trait="trait_rapid_breeders"
		trait="trait_quarrelsome"
		trait="trait_repugnant"
		trait="trait_decadent"
	}
	name="Undjinic Pirate Cartels"
	adjective="Undjinic"
	authority="auth_dictatorial"
	government="gov_bandit_kingdom"
	advisor_voice_type="l_militarist"
	planet_name="Aki-Vas"
	planet_class="pc_continental"
	system_name="Bambaru"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="arthropoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="arthropoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="domination"
			file="domination_14.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="v.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"red"
			"dark_grey"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Ul-Ba"
		portrait="art10"
		texture=3
		hair=0
		clothes=3
		ruler_title="Dread Pirate"
		ruler_title_female="Dread Pirate"
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_honorbound_warriors_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_authoritarian"
	ethic="ethic_xenophobe"
	ethic="ethic_militarist"
	civics={
		"civic_barbaric_despoilers"
		"civic_post_apocalyptic"
	}
}
"Unified Zamkand State"
={
	key="Unified Zamkand State"
	ship_prefix="ZNSS"
	species={
		class="PLANT"
		portrait="pla6"
		name="Zamkand"
		plural="Zamkands"
		adjective="Zamkander"
		species_bio="Leading their lives on almost entirely pre-determined paths, the Zamkands of the Ya-te-veo system exist in a state of such sublimation to the prevailing authorities that many outsiders consider them just a shade short of a hive mind. Although seemingly content as cogs in a vast interstellar machine, they are perhaps surprisingly willing to participate in galactic affairs."
		name_list="PLANT"
		trait="trait_conformists"
	}
	name="Unified Zamkand State"
	adjective="Zamkander"
	authority="auth_dictatorial"
	government="gov_constitutional_dictatorship"
	advisor_voice_type="l_authoritarian"
	planet_name="Hearthsoil"
	planet_class="pc_savannah"
	system_name="Ya-te-veo"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="plantoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="plantoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="pointy"
			file="flag_pointy_16.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="00_solid.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"indigo"
			"burgundy"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Rhizome of Bronze"
		portrait="pla6"
		texture=2
		hair=0
		clothes=0
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_spiritual_seekers_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_fanatic_authoritarian"
	ethic="ethic_xenophile"
	civics={
		"civic_corvee_system"
		"civic_police_state"
	}
}
"United Earth Federation"
={
	key="United Earth Federation"
	ship_prefix="FNC"
	species={
		class="HUM"
		portrait="human"
		name="Human"
		plural="Humans"
		adjective="Human"
		species_bio="The veterans of Earth's third global war seized control of the civilian governments that led them into such a destructive conflict and swore to build a more responsible civilization from the ruins of the old. The United Earth Federation was the result. An exclusive democracy, the Federation extends the franchise only to those who have put their lives on the line in its defense. Civilians who complete a term of Federal service earn citizenship and the right to participate in politics. Although the government is administered by the Federal Council, the Sky Marshal, elected from among the military's most senior and decorated career officers, controls Federal forces in most interstellar affairs."
		name_list="HUMAN2"
		trait="trait_adaptive"
		trait="trait_nomadic"
		trait="trait_wasteful"
	}
	name="United Earth Federation"
	adjective="Earth"
	authority="auth_democratic"
	government="gov_citizen_republic"
	advisor_voice_type="l_the_soldier"
	planet_name="Earth"
	planet_class="pc_continental"
	system_name="Sol"
	initializer="sol_system_initializer"
	graphical_culture="mammalian_01"
	city_graphical_culture="mammalian_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="human"
			file="flag_human_4.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="stripes.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"dark_grey"
			"grey"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Mira Dragomirova"
		portrait="human_female_01"
		texture=0
		hair=1
		clothes=4
		ruler_title="Sky Marshal"
		ruler_title_female="Sky Marshal"
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_hegemonic_imperialists_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_egalitarian"
	ethic="ethic_xenophobe"
	ethic="ethic_militarist"
	civics={
		"civic_citizen_service"
		"civic_meritocracy"
	}
}
"United Systems Republic"
={
	key="United Systems Republic"
	ship_prefix="USS"
	species={
		class="HUM"
		portrait="human"
		name="Human"
		plural="Humans"
		adjective="Human"
		species_bio="In the wake of disasters like the Fourth Persian Gulf Crisis, the Sino-American Data Wars, and the Graying of Moscow in the mid-21st Century, support increased for fundamental reform of the United Nations to empower it as a global government capable of managing problems at a planetary scale. The UN Charter amendment of 2061 created the UN Parliamentary Assembly and Protectorate Council, followed in subsequent years by numerous other structural changes. The old Westphalian system was at last fatally undermined by the rise of this world government backed by the military might of emerging superpowers, Brazil and India. Continued administrative integration eventually led to the asymmetric federalization of all UN member states by 2150. In this scheme, off-world colonies are administered by various types of devolved governments under the oversight of the Protectorate until they can qualify for federal incorporation. Reliable FTL travel via hyperlanes and the prospect of interstellar colonization laid the foundation for the UN to evolve yet further into the United Systems Republic, a responsible representative government advancing the interests of Humanity on the galactic stage."
		name_list="HUMAN1"
		trait="trait_adaptive"
	}
	name="United Systems Republic"
	adjective="Earth"
	authority="auth_democratic"
	government="gov_moral_democracy"
	advisor_voice_type="l_the_diplomat"
	planet_name="Earth"
	planet_class="pc_continental"
	system_name="Sol"
	initializer="sol_system_initializer"
	graphical_culture="humanoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="mammalian_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="human"
			file="flag_human_8.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="circle.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"blue"
			"dark_blue"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Lutendo Sekibo"
		portrait="human_male_05"
		texture=0
		hair=1
		clothes=0
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_ruthless_capitalists_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_egalitarian"
	ethic="ethic_xenophile"
	ethic="ethic_pacifist"
	civics={
		"civic_beacon_of_liberty"
		"civic_parliamentary_system"
	}
}
"Universal Selesian Demarchate"
={
	key="Universal Selesian Demarchate"
	ship_prefix="SDN"
	species={
		class="PLANT"
		portrait="pla9"
		name="Radhan"
		plural="Radhani"
		adjective="Radhanic"
		species_bio="The modern Radhani, natives of Yrborium in the Seles system, are fond of a saying attributed to one of their ancient philosophers: 'All flowers bloom in the spring.' This, they say, captures the spirit of the Selesian Demarchate, a democratic state built on a strong foundation of civil service and leadership by random lottery. Wherever the Demarchate holds sway, the free and collaborative qualities of their society permit all to bloom."
		name_list="PLANT"
		trait="trait_conservational"
		trait="trait_thrifty"
		trait="trait_weak"
	}
	secondary_species={
		class="PLANT"
		portrait="pla14"
		name="Lavi"
		plural="Lavii"
		adjective="Lavan"
		species_bio="Evolving alongside the Radhani on Yrborium, the massive and powerful Lavii have long existed in a syncretic partnership with their weaker but wiser cousins."
		name_list="PLANT3"
		trait="trait_syncretic_proles"
		trait="trait_strong"
	}
	name="Universal Selesian Demarchate"
	adjective="Selesian"
	authority="auth_democratic"
	government="gov_citizen_republic"
	planet_name="Yrborium"
	planet_class="pc_continental"
	system_name="Seles"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="plantoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="plantoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="ornate"
			file="flag_ornate_3.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="new_dawn.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"light_green"
			"dark_green"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Madavals Dawnstalk"
		portrait="pla9"
		texture=3
		hair=0
		clothes=3
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_spiritual_seekers_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_egalitarian"
	ethic="ethic_militarist"
	ethic="ethic_spiritualist"
	civics={
		"civic_citizen_service"
		"civic_syncretic_evolution"
	}
}
"V'Takan Trade Commission"
={
	key="V'Takan Trade Commission"
	ship_prefix="TCNV"
	species={
		class="AVI"
		portrait="avi9"
		name="Urv-K'Kel"
		plural="Urvo-K'Kel"
		adjective="Urv-K'Kelian"
		species_bio="The Urv-K'Kel are an avian species native to Jyydru in the V'Taka system whose civilization prizes entrepreneurial spirit and celebrates business cunning equally with battlefield courage. Led by an Executive Strategist, their global Trade Commission controls most of the ancestral nations of Jyydru and now seeks to divide and conquer the markets of this galaxy with the utmost efficiency."
		name_list="AVI3"
		trait="trait_natural_physicists"
		trait="trait_talented"
	}
	name="V'Takan Trade Commission"
	adjective="V'Takan"
	authority="auth_corporate"
	government="gov_trade_league"
	planet_name="Jyydru"
	planet_class="pc_desert"
	system_name="V'Taka"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="avian_01"
	city_graphical_culture="avian_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="zoological"
			file="flag_zoological_7.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="diagonal.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"brown"
			"beige"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Mayamka Katepchas"
		portrait="avi9"
		texture=3
		hair=0
		clothes=3
		ruler_title="Executive Strategist"
		ruler_title_female="Executive Strategist"
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_hegemonic_imperialists_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_egalitarian"
	ethic="ethic_militarist"
	ethic="ethic_materialist"
	civics={
		"civic_naval_contractors"
		"civic_trading_posts"
	}
}
"Vul Straag Brethren Council"
={
	key="Vul Straag Brethren Council"
	ship_prefix=""
	species={
		class="MAM"
		portrait="mam8"
		name="Vul Straag"
		plural="Vul Straags"
		adjective="Vul Straagan"
		species_bio="Metal."
		name_list="MAM3"
		trait="trait_industrious"
		trait="trait_strong"
		trait="trait_quarrelsome"
	}
	name="Vul Straag Brethren Council"
	adjective="Vul Straagan"
	authority="auth_democratic"
	government="gov_assembly_of_clans"
	planet_name="Dezt"
	planet_class="pc_continental"
	system_name="Urloche"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="mammalian_01"
	city_graphical_culture="mammalian_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="pirate"
			file="flag_pirate_4.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="circle.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"dark_grey"
			"black"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=male
		name="Regolid had'Marn"
		portrait="mam8"
		texture=0
		hair=0
		clothes=4
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_hegemonic_imperialists_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_xenophobe"
	ethic="ethic_militarist"
	ethic="ethic_materialist"
	civics={
		"civic_mechanists"
		"civic_warrior_culture"
	}
}
"Wealdworlds of the D'chen Holobiont"
={
	key="Wealdworlds of the D'chen Holobiont"
	ship_prefix=""
	species={
		class="PLANT"
		portrait="pla7"
		name="D'chen"
		plural="D'chen"
		adjective="D'chen"
		species_bio="Each interlinked subgroup, or Weald, of D'chen forms an ecological unit composed of an assemblage of different plantoid species ranging from microbial to large complex semi-sapients. Their peculiar quantum-entagled neural fibers connect each organism to the whole and enable this concert of species to form a holobiont. Approximately 100,000 years ago, the D'chen biomass on its homeworld Ashtar crossed a critical threshold of biological computational bandwidth and manifested a collective consciousness. The more intelligent and articulate D'chen organisms sense this consciousness as a psychic wind, always drifting through their branches and leaves. At times of crisis, this wind becomes a mighty gale, and the D'chen sway and bend with the swirling thoughts of the aggregate mind. Though at times slow to react, once in motion, the Holobiont can mobilize vast material and mental resources to achieve its goals."
		name_list="PLANT"
		trait="trait_hive_mind"
		trait="trait_enduring"
		trait="trait_intelligent"
		trait="trait_sedentary"
	}
	name="Wealdworlds of the D'chen Holobiont"
	adjective="D'chen"
	authority="auth_hive_mind"
	government="gov_hive_mind"
	planet_name="Ashtar"
	planet_class="pc_continental"
	system_name="Nandal"
	initializer=""
	graphical_culture="plantoid_01"
	city_graphical_culture="plantoid_01"
	empire_flag={
		icon={
			category="domination"
			file="domination_15.dds"
		}
		background={
			category="backgrounds"
			file="new_dawn.dds"
		}
		colors={
			"dark_green"
			"burgundy"
			"null"
			"null"
		}
	}
	ruler={
		gender=female
		name="Breeze Among Branches"
		portrait="pla7"
		texture=1
		hair=0
		clothes=0
	}
	spawn_as_fallen=no
	ignore_portrait_duplication=no
	room="personality_spiritual_seekers_room"
	spawn_enabled=always
	ethic="ethic_gestalt_consciousness"
	civics={
		"civic_hive_natural_neural_network"
		"civic_hive_subspace_ephapse"
	}
}