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The Energete Peoples (each alludes to a real-world culture)

Energetes are humans who evolved the ability to accumulate and manipulate vast reserves of inner bio-energy, which they can channel into devices, weapons, starships -- or unleash directly.

Energetic ability does not pass reliably through simple intermarriage. It depends on specific multi-locus dominant gene combinations (with possible homozygous recessives) and requires special conception conditions, discovered by Prof. Shtilner.

Energetes are humans who evolved the ability to accumulate and manipulate vast reserves of inner bio-energy, which they can channel into devices, weapons, starships -- or unleash directly.

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1. The Brahmins

Definition

Ascetic Energetes who cultivate power through deliberate endurance of physical and mental hardship -- cold, heat, stifling air, pain, hunger, etc. They can transfer their stored inner energy into devices. Cultural allusion: Vedic India / Hinduism.

Home & Worlds

Constellation Elephant; star Ātman (Trunk). Origin: Chaitra (6th planet). Later: Vaiśākha, Śrāvaṇa, Kārttika, Maghā, Phālgunā (Trunk & Head). Densely populated; hot, humid -- often squalid environments deliberately embraced for higher energetic yield.

State & Institutions

The Brahmin Union ("the Agglomeration", preferred self-designation). Caste-rigid society. Head of state: Maharaja; residence: Mayasabha Palace; cabinet: Supreme Parishad.

Energete Modality

Ascetic transduction: deliberate endurance -- heat, cold, pain, hunger -- to accumulate inner energy transferable to devices.

Huskspace Iconography

Mythic forms of Vedic gods and Hanumanic heroes (Rudra, Maruti), sometimes powerful animal spirits (lion, bull). Leader-Antises may appear multi-armed.

Culture & Allusions

Vedic India / Hinduism; fatalistic ethos; ritualized suffering.

Naming Guidance

Sanskrit/Hindi theophoric names; Hindi given names and theonyms when appropriate; authentic morphology.

Examples of name flavor: Arjun, Devendra, Madhavi, Sita, Vāchaspati, Shankara -- invent original combinations as needed. Titles like Acharya (teacher), Maharaja (king), the -ji honorific suffix, etc.

Notable Characters

• Acharya Mohan Prasad -- delegate to the Galactic League Council; of Chaitra.
• Ayus Chitraratha -- ex-yogi turned layman.
• Keshab Chaitanya -- Leader-Antis; Huskspace avatar: eight-armed giant.
• Karna Amogha -- Brahmin marine veteran; of Chaitra.
• Mirra Shuhaini -- Brahmani of Phālgunā; sells bodily energy under hellish labor conditions.

Ascetic Energetes who cultivate power through deliberate endurance of physical and mental hardship -- cold, heat, stifling air, pain, hunger, etc. They can transfer their stored inner energy into devices. Cultural allusion: Vedic India / Hinduism.

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2. The Vehdens

Definition

Energetes who accumulate inner fire via strict taboos and prohibitions. They can channel this energy into engines or weapons, or unleash it directly. Their sovereign bears the title Kay (monarch). They are proud and warlike. Cultural allusion: Persian / Iranian culture; Zoroastrianism.

Home & Worlds

Origin: Fravardin (7th planet), Yazdana-Dasta system, constellations of Chariot and Stallion. Colonies: Khordad, Tyr (Tishtria), Mihr.

State & Institutions

Monarchy headed by the Kay (regnal title). Powerful Racial Security Service (RSS).

Strong separatist movements exist on so-called "reformist" planets, demanding looser taboos (considered insignificant for "inner fire") and republican government.

Energete Modality

Inner fire accumulated via strict taboos/prohibitions; channeled into engines/weapons or wielded directly.

Vehden society is split between Fundamentalists (strict taboos) and Reformists (looser taboos). Reformists argue that many restrictions are ancient in origin and were never precisely tested for energetic yield.

Huskspace Iconography

Fire-cult imagery; giant falcon and hearth-tending motifs.

Culture & Allusions

Persian/Iranian; Zoroastrian themes; martial pride.

Naming Guidance

Draw on Avestan / Persian aesthetics. Use regal, fire-tinged titles and names. Keep Kay as the ruler's title.

Avestan/Persian flavor: Rostam, Ardashir, Vahram, Anahita; Kay N.

Notable Characters

• Zāl Ardashir -- RSS captain, field operative.
• Rostem I (Rostem Gudarshan) -- Kay; Fundamentalist.
• Farud Sagzi ("the Puppy") -- RSS Isbahbaz (colonel).
• Pir and Vis Samangan -- Vehden noble couple (Pir is the satrap of one province); parents of Neiram Samangan, later Vehden Leader-Antis.
• Khurshid Veretragna -- Vehden Antis; dies at the age of 183.

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3. The Vooduns

Definition

An Energete civilization renowned for fluid grace and rhythmic mastery. Their spiritualists commune with Loa spirits -- summoning, bargaining, and directing them. The oldest disciplines focus on "work with the living": healing, animal training, prolonging life. Over time, they learned to enlist man-made and pure-energy Loa as well, which propelled their technological ascent.

Home & Worlds

Origin: Ungana (2nd planet), Orisha system, constellation Agassa ("Panther"). Spread to multiple systems, e.g., resort world Kitta (α-Spider, blue giant); Owanga (σ-Snake), etc.

State & Institutions

Diverse but mostly democratic forms of government. High priest/priestess titles; strong Hungan/Mambo clerisy (spiritualists).

Cultural festivals: Jah Festival, Mara-Katu Party.

Energete Modality

Spirit mediation with Loa. Earliest arts: "work with the living" (healing, animal training, life extension). Advanced praxis uses man-made and pure-energy Loa.

Huskspace Iconography

Animal-Loa avatars (e.g., Anansi spider, white shark), drum-rhythm visuals, trance processionals.

Culture & Allusions

Cultural allusion: West/Central African cultures, the Vodou tradition, and Rastafari.

Anecdotal: certain Hungans can raise the dead as zombies under specific conditions.

Naming Guidance

Take inspiration from Yorùbá, Fon, Kongo, Haitian Creole onomastics and Vodou loa names -- respectfully adapted to the setting.

Yorùbá/Fon/Kongo/Haitian-Creole cadence: Ayodele, Kofi, Makeda, Marasa; Ogoun-line titles; Ezili-line epithets.

Endonyms allowed: Voodun / Vooduni.

Notable Characters

• Tichaona Marole -- senior spaceport controller, Kitta.
• Kwado Ebale -- chief supervisor, Kitta Flight Safety Center.
• Dumisa M'beki -- young Antis from Kitta; Huskspace image: levitating white shark (Loa-linked).
• N'doli Shanvuri -- Vooduni, daughter of Papa Lucéro (Leader-Antis); interracial geneticist; Doctor of Biochemistry; Mayombero (PhD-level in Loa possession). Strongly opposed to Pompilian enslavement practices; takes part in research on an anti-enslavement vaccine.

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4. The Gematras

Definition

Energetes who practice the mathematics of the universe. Given sufficient raw data, Gematras can compute the probabilities of most events to within tenths of a percent. They inscribe gematrices -- multidimensional matrices encoded on paper, tablets, or seals -- which function as program + processor + power source. A gematrix can drive anything from a groundcar for three days to an interstellar jump. Over time, the Gematras flattened their emotional extremes, having learned to foresee the consequences of impulsive acts. Among their own people they still feel deeply, but to foreign races they may seem cold and emotionless.

Home & Worlds

Their native star went supernova long ago; the people survived as a diaspora in transports. They later purchased uninhabited worlds in the Serpentine Rod constellation and renamed them Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, Elul, Tishri, Marheshvan, Adar, etc.

State & Institutions

Highly legalistic technocracy.

Intelligence office: Kaf-Malakh. Civil and military ranks use a Hebrew schema (e.g., Alam ≈ colonel).

Energete Modality

Mathematics of the universe; construct gematrices -- inscribed multidimensional matrices that act as combined program + processor + power source (from vehicles to interstellar flight). Emotional peaks are dampened by predictive discipline.

Golems: gematric androids with composite bodies, powered by incredibly complex gematrices; configurable tools/limbs (T-1000-style morphing).

• Family golems: domestic protection, powered by private gematrices.
• State golems: military platforms.

Huskspace Iconography

Angelic light-figures of numbers; luminous networks.

Culture & Allusions

Jewish tradition; Torah scholarship; Kabbalah.

Reputation: the best lawyers in the Galaxy, capable of solving a case as an a priori probability equation.

Naming Guidance

Use Hebrew / Aramaic inspired names and scholarly titles. Technical terms may echo gematria.

Hebrew/Aramaic forms; scholarly titles (Maskil, Sofer/Soferet).

Examples of name flavor: Elazar, Rivka, Ben-Azriel, Bat-Leah; titles like Mar, Sofer/Soferet.

Notable Characters

• Idan Yaffe -- alam, Office of Scientific Intelligence Kaf-Malakh.
• Kfir Brill -- Galactic League Council representative; member, Oykumena Sanctions Committee.
• Luca Charmal -- banker; Chair, Hungakampa Star consortium; genius investor; father of Isaac & Emilia Charmal (exceptional scientists). Former proponent of "Purity" society opposing mixed marriages; later changed his views after realizing he loved his mixed-blood grandkids David and Jessica (children of Emilia).
• Rachel & Samson Cohens -- twin Antises (Rachel is Leader-Antis); Huskspace image: shining angels of numbers.

Energetes who practice the mathematics of the universe. Given sufficient raw data, Gematras can compute the probabilities of most events to within tenths of a percent. They inscribe gematrices -- multidimensional matrices encoded on paper, tablets, or seals -…

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5. The Pompilians

Definition

An aggressive, militarist Energete state. The supreme authority is the Senate and the Triumvirate of Dictators; their arms bear a gilded eagle. Through a slavery-based evolution, Pompilians developed Tavro -- an enslaving psycho-physiological brand. A branded person's psyche can be suppressed and remotely controlled by the master from any distance, who may siphon the slave's vital energy (freedom-energy) into devices -- from power plants to Pompilian galleys and starships.

Despite its obvious danger to other civilizations, the Pompilian Empire is too strong to annihilate without catastrophic losses. The rest of the Oykumena must coexist with it, buying peace by turning a blind eye to raids on barbaric planets beyond Oykumena borders -- though, at times, Pompilians do not hesitate to capture and enslave Oykumena citizens as well.

Home & Worlds

Origin: Pompilia (3rd), Numa star, constellation Wolfess. Colonies: Junius (Numa-4), Febroir (Numa-5), Quintilis, Mai (near Tacius), Octuberan (near Tullus), both in Seven Hills constellation. Roman theming is pervasive.

State & Institutions

Triumvirate and Imperial Senate; gilded eagle (Aquila Aurea). The army plays a central role in Pompilian society.

Examples: Liburnari (fast war units trained to capture large numbers of prisoners), Imperial Security (intelligence + secret police), privateers/kapers performing raids beyond Oykumena borders.

Slave incubators on core worlds (low energy yield compared to captured free folk).

Energete Modality

Tavro branding enables remote domination and siphoning of freedom-energy into devices (from power plants to imperial starship-galleys).

Huskspace Iconography

For slaves: ancient galley slave benches, overseers -- mirroring energy extraction cycles. For Pompilians: Roman legionaries with gilded eagle standards (five legionaries represent their human subpersonalities). In mental duels: gladiators in an arena.

Culture & Allusions

Strong allusion to Ancient Rome, with a broader nod to imperial militarism; expert judicial casuistry (second only to Gematras).

Naming Guidance

Latin tria nomina (praenomen + nomen + cognomen); titles Legate, Senator.

Examples of name flavor: Marcus Aelius Severus, Livia Cornelia Varra. Institutions: Senatus Pompilianus; symbol: Aquila Aurea.

Women may have duo nomina (e.g., Livia Cornelia, Julia Ruf).

Notable Characters

• Appius Laer Tarquicius -- Senator; client/representative of Luca Charmal within the Empire.
• Titus Gnaeus Catullus -- slave trader on Kemchuga; greedy, unscrupulous.
• Retirs Nero Varen -- Pompilian Legate; captain of the liburne Savage.
• Tiberius Fabius Lepidus -- physician; heads the contact group with the Astlan civilization.

An aggressive, militarist Energete state. The supreme authority is the Senate and the Triumvirate of Dictators; their arms bear a gilded eagle. Through a slavery-based evolution, Pompilians developed Tavro -- an enslaving psycho-physiological brand. A branded…

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6. The Astlans

Home & Worlds

World Astlantis ("Island of Herons"), star AP-738412. Constellation unspecified.

State & Institutions

Plural polities: Astlantis (loose union of states; united under a Supreme Council & General Leader in the face of threatened invasion by Oykumena peacekeeping forces), Nahuatl Republic (presidential), Kingdom of the United Zipactonal, Tlazopilli Commonwealth (Supreme Chancellor), Milintic Union ("the Son of the Sun").

Sites: Temple of Itzli (records), University of Nanahuatzin (diaries), Meshtli, Shipetzlal.

Energete Modality

Solar sacrifice cult: voluntary human sacrifice to the Sun; energy release via extraction of the heart.

Astlan civilization is divided into caste Astlans (a relatively developed early-tech society with solar energy manipulation capability) and savage non-caste Astlans (tribal, ritual-sacrifice focused).

Caste Astlans can stare at the sun unblinking; elongated skulls (lifelong mentation bonded to the system's Sun). They reach a posthumous Solar eternal afterlife after death -- except in cases of suicide. Caste Astlans establish bonds with Naguals (big predator cats: jaguar, leopard, cougar, ocelot).

Savage non-caste Astlans voluntarily surrender themselves to ritual sacrifice to reach Solar posthumous afterlife. To be granted a "voluntary" sacrifice, a non-caste Astlan must undergo the ritual of "taking in captivity": they must resist capture until the moment it becomes inevitable. After that comes a "Solar transition" that opens the gates to Solar afterlife, causes a sharp spike of endorphins, and results in euphoria until the moment of sacrifice.

Huskspace Iconography

Stepped pyramids, knife-sun glyphs, feline regalia, blazing discs.

Culture & Allusions

Mesoamerican (Aztec/Maya). Architecture favors pyramidal/trapezoidal forms; circles are sacred solar symbols reserved for ritual.

Naming Guidance

Nahua/Maya-flavored phonotactics (Olin, Izel, Tlazopilli, Zipactonal). Use tl, tz, hu, qu clusters naturally.

Notable Characters

• Tizitl Zeltsin -- colonel, Nahuatl Republic security; Nagual: leopard; realizing Astlantis's Oykumena prospects, commits suicide.
• Olin Quetzal -- security operative; assistant to Tizitl; Nagual: leopard.
• Manoya Ilhikamina -- AA missile defense lieutenant; Nagual: ocelot.
• Izel Kitlali -- scientist (tlahuihpochetli); Center for Energy & Space Research; Nagual: female jaguar Tepin; leads Project Handshake (first-contact framework).

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Techno-human & Barbaric Worlds of the Oykumena

Conventions: Status (Techno-human vs Barbaric), governance, culture/allusions. Techno-humans cannot go "Huskside" the way Energetes do, but their mentals may still interface with Huskspace / SWE and often hold distinct doctrines about it. Tier note: "Second-world" = second-tier within Techno-human development (below core hubs like Largitas).

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1. Largitas (Techno-human leader)

Definition

Largitas; the pinnacle of science/technology. Government: scientocracy. The Scientific Largitas System extends into nobiliary ranks (academician → duke/king; professor → count; graduate student → knight).

Institutions & Security

Dense, intrusive services (Scientific Intelligence, Mental Security, etc.). Nominally democratic, but enforced by harsh compliance regimes (e.g., compulsory residential schooling for child-mentals; refusal → loss of citizenship with state-funded exile).

Ideology

Officially secular/atheist ("Great Cosmos!" as a colloquial oath). De facto anti-Energete chauvinism: Energetes are quietly excluded from university admissions and official posts despite no written ban.

Radicals: the Brotherhood of Humans (claims Energetes ≠ human). SWE is dismissed as a drug hallucination -- later disproven by mythoparallel evidence.

Huskspace Stance

Denialism pivoting to containment once mythoparallel overlap is observed (e.g., Shadruvan, a world with direct Huskspace intersection).

Under social pressure, Largitan mentals (among the strongest in the Oykumena due to state support) often treat any discussion of Huskspace-capable mental operations as taboo.

Naming Guidance

North-European / Scandinavian-Germanic flavor (Rottenburg, Zimmerberg, Roxfeld, Gotfalz, Orzwald, Luss, Holz, Troth, Seibach, Salzkopf, Landenau, Zuidholm; van-/von- forms).

Notable Characters

• Rear Admiral Van der Weyden -- Largitas Space Force; League peacekeeper liaison; plays key roles in Astlan operations.
• Lt. Gen. Jürgen van Zwolf -- head of Scientific Intelligence.
• Adjutant-General Jan "Tyrant" Breslau -- Security Service; leads the Anomaly Emergency Department (X-Files analogue).
• Anna-Maria Reinecke (van Frassen) -- countess of cenolobogy (science of societal happiness); later duchess; vice-rector; ultimately Queen of Ethnosociology & Nootechnics; seat on the Royal Council.
• Nicholas Zommerfeld -- diplomat; later ambassador to Shadruvan (the only world with persistent mythological reality overlap).

Largitas; the pinnacle of science/technology. Government: scientocracy. The Scientific Largitas System extends into nobiliary ranks (academician → duke/king; professor → count; graduate student → knight).

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2. Borgo

Definition

Italianate Techno-human second-tier culture; renowned for textile/silk exports and expressive arts (puppetry, opera). Strong Neuroproxy tradition. Noted for frequent place renaming (a persistent source of guidebook confusion).

Home & Worlds

Zee-Khwe system, constellation Owl; moons Rosetta, Sunandari.

State & Institutions

Democratic republic. Notable agency: Department of Morality.

Culture & Allusions

20th-century Italy analogue -- expressive speech, emphatic gesturing; civic life is theatrical and rule-bound in equal measure.

Tourist Leaflet (canon quote). Local passions: constant road repairs (hence roads are often poor or missing), and renaming cities, temples, and landmarks -- guidebooks lag behind.

Language: ling-borgo. Currency: Lira, Florin.

Economy: silk exporter (textiles/fashion).

Naming Guidance

Italianate phonotactics; melodic, vowel-rich: Maria, Lucia, Giovanni, Felicia, Mario, Antonio, Giuseppe.

Polite addresses: Signore/Signora, Dottore/Dottoressa (academic title).

Cities: Borgo (capital), Rocca Mianma (frequently renamed).

Notable Characters

• Felicia Borgotta -- Luciano's aunt; master puppeteer (rod/glove/string); inherited craft; kind, musical; later marries Karl Emerich (Maestro Karl), Luciano's Neuroproxy mentor.
  Quote: "Seventeen threads… camphor for Brahmins; soft padauk for Vooduns… cedar scent; harp for the working."
• Mario Sonelli -- Neuroproxy; took part in Collective Antises (group wave) experiments; later works for Luca Charmal.
• Antonio Tonchini -- Borgo Space Forces lieutenant; League peacekeeping op Pacification (Astlan contact).
• Giuseppe Gillespie -- Borgo Space Forces master-sergeant; served under Tonchini in the same operation.

Italianate Techno-human second-tier culture; renowned for textile/silk exports and expressive arts (puppetry, opera). Strong Neuroproxy tradition. Noted for frequent place renaming (a persistent source of guidebook confusion).

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3. Sechen

Definition

Barbaric world under guided modernization by the Galactic League. Discovered ~150 years ago; in the Galactic League ~100 years. A curated uplift: uniform tech level; deliberate anachronism (hussars + automatics + lasers + starships). The League carefully nudges Sechen toward a space-age, democratic high-tech society while preserving absolutist residues (serfdom, monarchy, noble estates).

Home & Worlds

Near Beta Bishop, constellation Bishop.

State & Institutions

Not mentioned directly; assumed autocratic monarchy with noble estates. Provincial General-Governorates. Strong noble class (counts, dukes); serfdom.

Culture & Allusions

Composite of the Russian Empire (early 19th century), overlaid with imported 20th–22nd century tech; uniform technological level planet-wide.

Civil-military mix: hussars and sabers alongside automatic weapons, railways/aircraft, imported lasers/plasma weapons, and starships crewed by locals trained by Techno-human advisors.

Naming Guidance

Russian/Ukrainian/Polish names and toponyms; Slavic phonotactics with a slight drift toward archaic forms.

Triple names: given name + patronymic + family name (e.g., Arkady Victorovich Maltzov).

Widely used informal and affectionate diminutives (e.g., Stepan → Stepashka, Anna → Anyuta; Natalia → Natasha, Natalka; Oksana → Oksanka; Ganna → Hannusya).

States: White Patronage, Kyshyn, Panovia.

Cities: Khorkov, Yurovets, Karlsberg, Severnaya Yarmala, Treptov, Svyato-Voznesensk.

Sites: Zhur-Zhur Cascades, Kucharskaya Pushcha, Myshlya River, Erzov Tract.

Notable Characters

• Count Arkady Maltsov -- noble patron of arts/science; official owner of the Vertep (contact-impersonation theater); ex-bombardier-major (cruiser Vityaz); owns yacht Gorlitsa (a decommissioned armed Hunter boat). Nearly bankrupted himself supporting Adolf Shtilner and the eugenics center The Future.
• Adolf Shtilner -- Professor of Theoretical Cosmobestiology & Technical Sciences; specialist in continuum fluctuations (wave lifeforms). Married Emilia Charmal (Gematra; died in childbirth); father of David & Jessica Charmal-Shtilner. Founded The Future (eugenic research into Energete births from mixed unions); later shuttered by Luca Charmal with lawyer Leviafan. Reputation restored after discovery of Collective Antises; now directs The Future Antis Training Center; titled "Marquis of Science" by Largitas's Royal Council.
• Anika the Elder -- head of the Jonars sect (mentally permeable community; no resistance to Neuroproxies; isolated for safety).
• Stepan Oselkov -- talented young Neuroproxy; once chained by Jonars as "possessed," bought by Count Maltsov, trained by Luciano Borgotta; later acting director of the Vertep during Luciano's trial/enslavement; becomes a Collantary and dies on Kitta in a voluntary Collant experiment.

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4. Shakko

Definition

Highly developed Techno-human seven-world system with a strong psi-mental tradition; home to elite psi-surgeon temples (e.g., Temple No. 3). Traditions are carefully preserved within modernity: rituals, etiquette, and codified restrictions.

Strong Huskspace / SWE management as a planetary mental ecosphere. A secret order, the Clan of Scorpions, protects Shakko mentals (and Temple No. 3 alumni off-world).

Home & Worlds

O-Jima system (K3 orange dwarf), second planet of seven inhabited; ringed by asteroid belts -- skies are spectacular.

State & Institutions

Democratic government. Administration: Prefectorates (e.g., Prefectorate Oritaka).

Culture & Allusions

Japan analogue: intricate etiquette, aesthetics, and codified restrictions govern public and technical life.

Strong sense of aesthetics: gardens (karasansui), physiognomy (yayoi), tea ceremony, ikebana, calligraphy.

Regulatory norms dictated by tradition:

• No landing of spacecraft > 717 tons on the surface (exceptions in designated zones only).
• Atmospheric jet usage permitted only in dire emergencies.
• Managed as a planetary mental ecosphere; shamans "repair" psychic weather after heavy traffic.
  (Quote: "Only Hokon-Shu allowed cargo landings -- commerce finds the loophole. From there, goods fanned out by sea and air while shamans restored the mental ecosphere.")

Aesthetics & engineering: purpose-made "windows" in the asteroid rings align to reveal orbiting stations on passage -- planet-scale ordered beauty.

Psi tradition: renowned temple schools for psi-surgeons (best in the Oykumena). Temple No. 3 admits vetted off-world mentals (admission by alumni recommendation only).

The Clan of Scorpions: secret order protecting Shakko mentals (and Temple No. 3 alumni off-world). Any harm triggers Scorpion operations -- ruthless, exemplary deterrence. Badge: golden scorpion in a black circle. Loss of protection occurs the moment a mental joins organized crime; in Huskspace, the betrayer loses the sixth sub-persona.

Combat/clinic technique: in Huskspace, masters divide the mind into six sub-personae, each equal to a full psi-surgeon -- dominating both mental surgery and duels; Pompilian Tavro is ineffective against them.

Wildlife: indigenous chthons (dragons, chimeras, manticoras, harpies).

Naming Guidance

Japanese-inspired phonotactics; authentic morphology.

Examples of name flavor: Yushiko, Yatsuo, Kagawa, Terauchi.

Lexicon (examples): yayoi (physiognomic type), karasansui (dry garden), borekudan (crime syndicate).

Geography: Humaido mainland; Jui-Shu Archipelago; Hokon-Shu & Kaido islands; Ocean of Turquoise Waves; Tendokai Coast; Ikuta-no-Mori Sacred Grove.

Notable Characters

• Terauchi "Old Man" Ōe -- chief mentor, Temple No. 3; Huskspace image: six monks serving in a temple.
• Yushiko "Dragonfly" Tanizaki -- gifted Shakko mental; Temple No. 3; roommate/friend of Regina van Frassen (Largitan mental); Huskspace image: six sculptors at work.
• Yatsuo "Blade" Kawabata -- mental & psi-surgeon; sadistic operator; gambler; sells skills to crime/foreign services (e.g., Farud Sagzi, Vehden RSS). Huskspace image: five painters (sixth lost for betraying the Clan). Neutralized after attempting mental violence against Luciano Borgotta; killed by Luciano in the real during Kawabata's Huskspace duel with Gaius Octavian Tumidus.
• Kagawa Jirō -- Scorpion of the Clan; official at Shakko Consulate (Largitas); sent to avenge presumed murder of Regina; stands down when she's found alive inside the Sarcophagus.

Highly developed Techno-human seven-world system with a strong psi-mental tradition; home to elite psi-surgeon temples (e.g., Temple No. 3). Traditions are carefully preserved within modernity: rituals, etiquette, and codified restrictions.

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5. Terrafima

Definition

Barbaric planet, at a level similar to Sechen; early 19th-century Western Europe analogue. Marked class inequality; strong religious influence (Church of the Shining Lord).

A diplomatic crossroads world of interest to many major powers.

Home & Worlds

Second planet of the Marzino system; diplomatic crossroads with many off-world missions.

State & Institutions

Early 19th-century Western Europe analogue; class inequality (commons vs nobility). Escalona: idalgos and grands; Church of the Shining Lord (Catholic analogue).

States: Escalona (Spain-like), Bergland (Germany-like), Sartachen (Portugal-like), Versailles (France-like).

Hosts missions and legations from most advanced civilizations.

Society of Escalona (where most action happens): marked class inequality; idalgos (lesser nobles) and grands (high nobility).

Culture & Allusions

Early 19th-century Western Europe analogue (counterpart to Sechen's Eastern slant).

Religion: Church of the Shining Lord (Catholic analogue).

Naming Guidance

As most action happens in Escalona, use Spanish/Latin-based phonotactics; authentic morphology.

Name flavor: Fernand, Encarna, Luis, Diego, María, José, Aldonza, Peral, de Castelbro.

Titles and honorifics: Don/Doña, Señor/Señora, Marqués/Marquesa, Conde/Condesa, Idalgo, Grande de Escalona.

Episodic action happens in Versailles, where a French analogue set of names/titles may be used: Monsieur/Madame, Comte/Comtesse, Duc/Duchesse; army and nobility ranks resemble Napoleonic times: Capitaine, Lieutenant, Maréchal.

Notable Characters

• Fernand de Castelbro (Fernand Íñigo Enrique María José, Marquis de Castelbro, Count of El Carraquez) -- educated off-world; master swordsman; lost both arms in a childhood accident; exiled to Sechen for Largitan bionics; develops DID ("Anton Pszederecki," a Sechen noble & fencer).
• Encarna "Carni" Aldonza María de Castelbro -- Fernand's younger sister; educated off-world; loves Diego "Gavilán" Peral; "Encarna" = "Incarnation" (Escalonese).
• Luis "El Monstruo de Naturaleza" Peral -- playwright from Escalona; degrees on Hizzaz (MSc) and Tishri (PhD); ennobled for literary merit.
• Diego "Gavilán" Peral -- former Escalonian master-sergeant; La Destreza maestro; devout, conservative (silver pocket-watch over implant bracelet). Loves Encarna; class barrier forces their off-world flight, launching Trilogy-4's romance arc.

Barbaric planet, at a level similar to Sechen; early 19th-century Western Europe analogue. Marked class inequality; strong religious influence (Church of the Shining Lord).

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6. Kutha & Kautli system

Definition

Barbaric worlds at a Stone Age / early Bronze Age level; twin planets with a shared origin and a hostile rivalry. Largitan and Pompilian protectorates, respectively.

Home & Worlds

Nal-Zer binary planetary system, constellation Walrus.

Anthropological Mystery: identical languages and near-identical phenotypes evolved without contact prior to the space age -- evidence for seeded-humanity hypotheses in the Oykumena. Both share a weak Energete trait focused on animal subjugation (Pompilian-like, non-human).

Relations: hostile twin worlds; rivalry entrenched. On both planets, separatist movements operate to undermine protectorate rule, supported not only by locals but also by their patrons (e.g., Kutha Liberation Front sponsored by Kautli and the Pompilian Empire).

Culture & Allusions

Kutha (Largitan protectorate)

Policy: pushed toward technology & democracy to showcase Largitan superiority.

Totem & Biome: raven; cold taiga/forest-tundra; mammoth, sarcastodon, snow boa, fur-bearers.

State: Free Republic of Kutkha.

Leadership/Media: PM Khanag Rymza; Raven of Freedom.

Cities/Divisions: Nepai (Largitan Consulate), Chirim, Reven, Tyganak Province.

Huskspace: raven-guided winter hunts; taught as a civic "vision discipline."

Kautli (Pompilian colony-protectorate)

Policy: co-opts sacrificial customs into absolutist imperial extraction; militarizes natives; tests animal-branding Energete experiments.

Totem & Biome: eagle; forests/jungle; Formizara River basin.

State: Empire of Kautli.

Leadership/Media: His Imperial Majesty Itts-Tsaotl; Truth of the Eagle.

Huskspace: martial eagle courts, blood-sun rites; framed as imperial destiny.

Notable Characters

• Itts-Tsaotl -- Kautli Emperor; ruthless absolutist; Huskspace image: eagle on a throne.
• Khanag Rymza -- Kutha PM; former hunter-warrior; Huskspace image: raven in flight.
• Counter-Admiral Uchyndyr -- commander-in-chief of the Kutha Republican Space Force; annihilated with the fleet by the technologically superior Kautli fleet, armed by the Pompilian Empire.
• Unnamed natives -- Kutha mostly female farmer tribe that attempted to capture the wounded Captain Van Frassen (Regina's father) and Nicholas Zommerfeld (Regina's boyfriend) during their escape from advancing Kautli forces, to imprison them for "male breeding."

Barbaric worlds at a Stone Age / early Bronze Age level; twin planets with a shared origin and a hostile rivalry. Largitan and Pompilian protectorates, respectively.

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7. Shadruvan

Definition

Barbaric world; a mysterious mythoparallel nexus.

Status: named for the first-contact capital; maintains formal relations with Largitas.

Mental Anomaly

Natives are mentally invisible to telepaths. Typically, Huskspace drops people into non-isomorphic mythic locales -- but on Shadruvan, mentals appear where they stand.

The Shell (capitalized)

A perfect circular wall (~100 km diameter; ~20 km high apparent) encircles Shadruvan proper. To off-worlders it is a solid ring impervious to tools and scans (which paradoxically report no wall). To natives, no wall exists -- they traverse freely into a larger world of states, seas, and continents whose maps do not match the external planet.

Upper Boundary Effect ("reverse Shell"): natives attempting to ascend beyond a certain altitude strike the Firmament of Heaven (an invisible barrier aligned with local cosmology) and die; off-worlders pass through freely.

Energete Hazard

Energetes die on entry due to catastrophic inner-energy drain. Largitas attempts to reproduce the effect as an anti-Energete weapon, but fails.

Interpretation

Initially suspected to be dimensional gating; later proven to be an intersection of physical reality and Huskspace (mythoparallel overlap).

Strategic Crisis -- Urbi et Orbi (Second trilogy) arc

• Gematric intelligence uncovers the truth (Largitas classification).
• Fearing genocidal outcomes if radicals like the Brotherhood of Humans gain power, Gematras consider a preemptive orbital strike.
• Regina van Frassen (psi-surgeon) seals the Shell into a full Sarcophagus ("meat-eater"): a closed Huskspace torus, impervious to Oykumena instruments; it grows slowly, threatening to engulf the planet.
• Side effect: narcotic weed "blender" grows along the boundary, inducing synesthesia without health damage.

Twenty Years Later arc

Regina (powerful psi-surgeon mental), with Arthur Zommerfeld (Antis; Huskspace avatar: Genie), Nathu (child of a Largitan and Brahmini, born both Antis and Mental; avatar: Maruti), Gunther Sanderson (Nathu's father, powerful mental-empath), Vyāsa (powerful Energete, Brahmin yogi), and a pack of cryptids (fluctuations; Huskspace octopoid predators), through unique energetic conditions, finally crack the Sarcophagus and restore planetary reality.

Home & Worlds

Location is classified.

State & Institutions

Multiple medieval-level states; however, to humans only one is accessible: Shadruvan proper (the rest is hidden behind the Shell). Medieval-level monarchy under Shah Heshirut IV (a minor at the start; regency under Keirin-Khan).

Existence of other realms is known via travelers' tales (e.g., Kingdom of the Jinn, Land of the Dead).

Culture & Allusions

Medieval Arab analogue -- city-states, advanced crafts, state religions, monotheism of the Lord of the Worlds (Islam analogue).

Naming Guidance

Names: Persian/Arabic-influenced phonotactics; e.g., Kharsad, Shailyan, Qajar-Habib, Abd-al-Waqqas.

Titles: Shah, Vakhil-e-Raya (Regent), Hail-Bashi (commander).

Regions & Peoples: Kharsad, Shailyan, Mount Ar-Kof, Osh Khanagh; quarters: Chekmite, Zend-Fili, Khajib-Khayy.

Sites: an-Jublan Road, al-Amal Alakhir Oasis ("Last Hope"), Markan-Su Ridge, Valley of Springs.

Notable Characters

• Keirin-Khan -- Regent (Vakhil-e-Raya, Guardian of the Throne); ex-bandit chieftain; paradoxical statesman.
• Heshirut IV -- teenage Shah; blinded at 9 by order of his grandfather; healed at 15 by Largitan doctors; neurotic under Keirin-Khan's shadow; later poisoned by the Regent after dynastic consolidation -- granted a final happiness feast (meat of Huskspace "monsters": Dev, Roc, three ghouls).
• Qajar-Habib (Qajar Sumagat al-Hamir al-Shudrawi) -- polymath scholar; once disgraced and castrated by the old regime; later restored; friend to Nicholas Zommerfeld & Regina; dies striking the invisible Firmament when lifted by off-world craft.
• Abd-al-Waqqas -- Hail-Bashi, commander of Keirin-Khan's personal guard.

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8. Hizzaz

Definition

Highly developed Techno-human world; major shipbuilding exporter to the Oykumena.

Home & Worlds

TBD: not explicitly mentioned in canon; presumably a single-planet system.

State & Institutions

Monarchy -- King Pur Talela XVI (Book-1 timeframe); Crown Prince Pur Talela XVIII (Book-4 timeframe).

The monarchy is protected by law; insulting the ruling monarch is severely punished by a harsh prison sentence.

Culture & Allusions

Thailand-leaning with broader Asian notes.

Monarchy and tradition coexist with a relaxed lifestyle, social liberalism, and low crime.

Popular idiom: "It's Hizzaz -- everyone dances here!"

Naming Guidance

Thai and Asian-inspired phonotactics; melodic, vowel-rich.

Thai-inspired name examples: Talela, Somchai, Chakchel, Lainari, Pyabut.
Korean-inspired name examples: Cho Gee Moon.

Polite address: Khun/Khuni.

Religion akin to Buddhism (pagodas, stupas).

Religious holidays: Lan-Pan-Cha Day -- cemetery-cleaning rite; unpaid graves are exhumed and cremated.

Refuge-friendly society (Encarna & Diego flee here from Terrafima). Notably, conservative Diego is pragmatically offered regulated escort work at the labor office -- which he refuses.

Cities: Randuman, Kumbkaharna.

Sites: Museum of Shipbuilding, Academy of His Majesty Pur Talela XVI, Bung Lainari University & Park; Sum Mat Thai Cemetery.

Notable Characters

• Ka Somchai -- immigration inspector; warns Diego & Encarna about an interplanetary warrant; hobbyist historical reconstructor (Escalon Rebellion 4-D chronomodel).
• Cho Gee Moon -- police inspector, Kumbkaharna 5th; legendary interrogation table-punch that spares antique lamps.
• Wangchai Pyabut -- Bung Lainari fencing team; student of Ezra Dahan (Diego's colleague); competes in Blades of the Oykumena XXIX (Kitta).
• Tominda Chakchel -- rhythmic gymnast; Sectoral champion.