Sibrian Union (Sib-ree-in)

Culture: Communist/Tribal The Sibrian Kingdom is one of the newest empires to enter the galactic playing field. They went so long without being involved in the rest of the galaxy’s politics due to being as far to the galactic north as one can be. This has helped them expand their borders without restricitions however, until recently at least. Their technology is an odd mix of sonic and laser based weapons along with an interesting and debilitating lack of any larger spacefaring warships until quite recently. The Walren Empire quickly struck up an alliance with them upon their discovery, and the Emperor quickly formed a friendship with the Sibrian king. Due to this combined with the lack of warships larger than bombers, the Saurians were able to force the Walren to surrender in the War for Atalan by besieging the Sibrian capitol. Due to this, the Walren Empire has since begun to help them design and produce larger ships for both offense and defensive purposes. Technology: As previously stated, Sibrians use mostly sonic and laser based weaponry, both on the ground and out of atmosphere. As sound cannot travel through a vacuum, sonic batteries on Sibrian ships shoot a hyper pressurized burst of gas that contains the sonic blast, carrying the projectile to its intended target. When impact occurs, the gas serves the secondary purpose of igniting into flames, doing additional damage. While sonic weapons aren’t very effective against armor, they are better than projectiles and damaging shields. In addition to the Walren helping their tech along, the Saurians have also provided the Sibrians some of their outdated shield tech (still more advanced than any race but the Atalantis) as reparations for orbitally bombarding their capitol. They now use this to their advantage, projecting a field over the Capitol planet to hopefully prevent such destruction from ever being dealt to them again.

Culture

Sibrian culture varies from planet to planet, but is generally centered around feudal systems of power decided by combat prowess, though some more civilized areas have become more modern in their ideals. Additionally, a major nearly universal facet of the culture of almost any Sibrian planet is hunting, weather that be for animals to provide sustenance or other sentient beings for sport. There have been an alarming number of reports of the consumption of the flesh of sentient beings by some of the more barbarous Sibrian collectives. Sadly, a large number of these reports occurred during the War For Atalan as Sibrians seem to find the taste of Atalanti meat particularly delectable.

History

In the centuries before the Sibrian race achieved space travel, there were many different nations/tribes on Sibal that constantly fought for domination of their world. After a bloody race to the stars, space travel was finally accessible and by an amazing stroke of luck the two closest systems to their planet had habitable worlds. These worlds, Jgenik and Mosk, were quickly colonized by two of the biggest rival nations and the remaining smaller tribes were quickly assimilated by the Nation of Sibal. The three now planetary countries continued to vi for power for many years before finally, after an arduous war, the Nation of Jgenik emerged victorious and subjugated the two others after naming their own planet the capital of the Sibrian Union. Tensions have still ebbed and flowed between the three major planets over the years, but after many treaties and agreements their Union holds relatively stable. The flag of the Union bears the symbol of each planet state, the hammer of Mosk, the sword of Jgenik, and the sickle of Sibal.