Zlathan

The Zlathan culture originated from one of the nomadic tribes that roamed Earth before sending their best and most capable minds to the stars during the Flight of the Lost. They predicted that the Earth would undergo rapid deterioration, and while they hoped to send some to Mars, they were worried that the interstellar war that would eventually occur between Mars and Earth would spell the end to humanity within Sol. Thus, the Sleeper Fleets were launched, bound for the ideal garden world of Medina.
For several hundred years the ships trudged through space, losing many along their way to accident after accident. Until they began to develop Psionic abilities. It was slow at first, and hardly believed. But eventually the evidence began to mount in favor of the surreal. Children of the journey began to see events before they happened. The first recorded incident incident of this was when a child was able to predict the sudden nuclear meltdown aboard one of the lead Sleeper Ships. This crisis was averted thanks to the child.
Following this, the Zlathan welcomed the Psionically gifted, and The Seer Collective was founded. They eventually found their way to Medina, and within several decades they started to colonize nearby systems like Carthage and Artedis. Their expansion was peaceful, and did not see a real desire for violence. The idea of war had fallen so out of the common mind of the average Zlathan that even the word for "war" had fallen out of the regular vocabulary. Conflict happened, but it would be talked out, presided over by a Seer. Eventually the Zlathan people had spread all the way to the edges of the Panem Region.
Four primary seperate decentralized nations had formed in the ages as the Zlathan progressed. These included:

• The Musurans , a nomadic wide-catch all group made up primarily of theocracians and federalists. The largest of the four.
• The Medians, who leaned into a more socialist and technocratic approach to governance, the smallest of the four.
• The Carthagienians, who were primarily traders and navigators for the Zlathan, they would eventually form shipping corporations, working with the Empire, that would form the Grand Baronies.
• The Fasaryr, a distant growing conservative movement, that had built a caste system under the Sultans, who eventually capitulated to the Empire.

That was all until the Colonial Earth Empire arrived, and brought violence with them. They had very few interactions with beings who showed Psionic abilities, and when they found the Zlathan they called them witch, and began to purge planets of Psionic abilities, all the while growing their own psionic programs within Imperial space. The Zlathan became an oppressed people, second class citizens under the Empire. However the great destinies predicted the downfall of the Empire, and the people perservered.
Not all Zlathan are ardent believers in the Seers. Years in the Great Silence and under the yolk of imperial rule have caused many to become dissilusioned with the beliefs of their ancestors. But what remains is that they are a hardy and nomadic people, and have a higher frequency of the Psionic gift among them. Spice is a regularly consumed narcotic in Zlathan culture.

Related Organizations

• Alliance of United Stars
• Colonial Earth Empire
• Grand Baronies of Carthage
• Musura Federation
• Red Sun Commonwealth
• United Caspian Commune

Related Locations

• Medina