Screech Oligarchy
The Screech have evolved on Rakhi, a low-gravity world of desert dunes interspersed with tall mountain ranges and lush forests, the latter forming the cradle of their civilisation. Vast distances made warfare rare. Each forest developed as an insulated community engaging with others via trade and occasional raiding.
All changed when technological progress brought the ability to tap into vast underground water reservoirs. New settlements, nourished by aquifers, disrupted the balance of power. Several worldwide wars drove the Screech nation-states to air and space at cost of much destruction and resource exhaustion. Modern Screech know well the scars left by war, and accept them as inevitable cost of progress.
Once Screech began colonising other worlds, their old habits resurfaced. Each settlement on each colony is a fiercely independent and self-sustaining unit, banding with others for mutual protection only, and ruthlessly seeking its own benefit at other times – an approach that makes other species distrust and avoid them.
The Screech society is intensely materialistic. Any spiritual matters are out of favour with the hungry young generation aiming for the stars. Their only mantra is that he who dies with the most toys, wins.
The Screech have evolved on Rakhi, a low-gravity world of desert dunes interspersed with tall mountain ranges and lush forests, the latter forming the cradle of their civilisation. Vast distances made warfare rare. Each forest developed as an insulated community engaging with others via trade and occasional raiding.
All changed when technological progress brought the ability to tap into vast underground water reservoirs. New settlements, nourished by aquifers, disrupted the balance of power. Several worldwide wars drove the Screech nation-states to air and space at cost of much destruction and resource exhaustion. Modern Screech know well the scars left by war, and accept them as inevitable cost of progress.
Once Screech began colonising other worlds, their old habits resurfaced. Each settlement on each colony is a fiercely independent and self-sustaining unit, banding with others for mutual protection only, and ruthlessly seeking its own benefit at other times – an approach that makes other species distrust and avoid them.
The Screech society is intensely materialistic. Any spiritual matters are out of favour with the hungry young generation aiming for the stars. Their only mantra is that he who dies with the most toys, wins.
Code:
"Screech Oligarchy"
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name_list="MOL1"
ship_prefix=""
species_name="Screech"
species_plural="Screech"
species_class="ART"
species_adjective="Screech"
species_bio="The Screech have evolved on Rakhi, a low-gravity world of desert dunes interspersed with tall mountain ranges and lush forests, the latter forming the cradle of their civilisation. Vast distances made warfare rare. Each forest developed as an insulated community engaging with others via trade and occasional raiding. All changed when technological progress brought the ability to tap into vast underground water reservoirs. New settlements, nourished by aquifers, disrupted the balance of power. Several worldwide wars drove the Screech nation-states to air and space at cost of much destruction and resource exhaustion. Modern Screech know well the scars left by war, and accept them as inevitable cost of progress. Once Screech began colonising other worlds, their old habits resurfaced. Each settlement on each colony is a fiercely independent and self-sustaining unit, banding with others for mutual protection only, and ruthlessly seeking its own benefit at other times – an approach that makes other species distrust and avoid them. The Screech society is intensely materialistic. Any spiritual matters are out of favour with the hungry young generation aiming for the stars. Their only mantra is that he who dies with the most toys, wins."
portrait="art1"
name="Screech Oligarchy"
adjective="Screech"
government="plutocratic_oligarchy"
ftl=wormhole
weapon="tech_lasers_1"
planet_name="Rakhi"
planet_class="pc_desert"
system_name="Rakhi-Ana"
initializer=""
graphical_culture="arthropoid_01"
city_graphical_culture="avian_01"
empire_flag={
icon={
category="pointy"
file="flag_pointy_20.dds"
}
background={
category="backgrounds"
file="sinus.dds"
}
colors={
"turquoise"
"black"
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"null"
}
}
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name="Glorim"
portrait="art1"
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hair=0
clothes=0
}
spawn_enabled=always
ethic="ethic_militarist"
ethic="ethic_fanatic_materialist"
trait="trait_weak"
trait="trait_repugnant"
trait="trait_thrifty"
trait="trait_industrious"
}
