User blog:Holokami/Ae'ani

The Ae’ani are the most powerful race in the universe; politically, technologically, militarily, monitarily, and psionically. Each Ae’ani is psychic, and as a race, they’re naturally more gifted with psionics than Humans might ever be. By combining psionics and technology, and using levels of both which might look like magic, they conquered and now rule over hundreds of galaxies, with no sign of slowing down their expansion.

History
As a species, in its early years, the Ae'ani were much like Humans. They fought wars amongst themselves, had messy politics, and so on. However, unlike Humans, Ae'ani all live for a much, much longer time period, and some never age. Imagine if the greatest thinkers of Human history were all still alive in their prime today? Through the simple fact they live for so long, they grew as a people much more rapidly, making discoveries and advancements at a pace we could only dream of. To show equivalence, in the same length of time it took Humans to reach the bronze age, the Ae'ani were space-faring.

Before they were space-faring, the greatest issue the Ae'ani faced was space, food, and water. The gift of long life is a curse in regards to population numbers. It was the greatest test they ever went through. Resisting the urge to war over it, and work peacefully on getting onto other worlds was tough, and they knew it. Minor incursions did occur in this period, and they were so worried about it, nobody had children in the 50 years it took to develop a viable space-expansion plan, and all the technology to do it.

After they got into space, it was like great weight was lifted from them, and a breath of fresh air rushed through them. From this moment, nothing was going to stop them. They took control over their entire solar system in less than a decade, developing FTL technology in this time. Like us, there was no other species in their solar system. This is when they met their greatest threat- a species with no speakable name. A species we might know quite well on Earth- small grey humanoids.

This species currently held the galaxy for themselves, and were there to subjugate the Ae'ani. Well, the Ae'ani weren't particularly fond of this idea. In the years to come, the Ae'ani fought off this race handily, and broke down all craft they stole from them for materials for their own fleets. It wasn't long before the Ae'ani were rolling over their little grey friends with an unstoppable war machine.

A good few hundred years passed before the Ae'ani claimed the galaxy for themselves, and unlike their little grey predecessors, didn't subjugate everybody. It was a case of "Life with us is just better, so sign up to our empire today! (See in store for more details, free cookies for every new entrant. Terms and conditions apply.)" The reason the Ae'ani don't ring tight nooses around the necks of other species, and force them to fall in line to their society is simple. To the Ae'ani, every other species is "simple", they can easily predict what other races will do with little effort, like ants in an antfarm.

Of course, the Ae'ani were never idiots, and after their galactic senate was formed, they began to explore the galaxy, and classify every species, for educational purposes mainly, but also to see if any had the potential to rise to high stages of evolution. It in this time the Ae'ani found out about the psychena, after coming across a lonely being on a lonely planet. This being was very out-of-place on that planet, and felt like nothing they had ever seen before. The conversations between the Ae'ani and the psychena were long, indepth, and eye-opening.

The Ae'ani knew they were all psionic in nature, but had never even imagined a world like Psychena. Curious, they begged the psychena to teach them how to travel there. A small team went to Psychena, and what they experience fundementally changed the views of the Ae'ani as a whole. A world without restriction, co-existence without order, freedom without conflict... It was "close to perfection". They saw their own position in the grand order of things, and wished to better themselves. They wished to learn everything there was about the universe with their own eyes.

This mission coincided with the need to spread, to make more room for themselves as a race. And this was the birth of their intergalactic empire. However, despite how peaceful this may seem, there's something the Ae'ani are feared for. "Unclean" races. Races that are beyond help, even beyond the help of nature and evolution are not welcome by the Ae'ani, and if there's no higher race to defend them (or claim ownership), they're exterminated without remorse.

This includes civilisations that the Ae'ani know are doomed to kill themselves off. Even if it's a war 100,000 years in the future that leads to the death of their species, even after being included in the Ae'ani empire, the Ae'ani treat this as "unmitigated failure" and wipe them out, unless that race is meant to provide something important to the rest of the universe. Races that get too warmongery aren't wanted either. They're first given a verbal warning to "grow up", if that doesn't stop them, they're given a nasty slap on the wrist (in the form of a planet-destroying battleship parked at their front door), and if that doesn't deter them, they're annihilated, in a very harsh three-strikes system. Races can redeem themselves by learning and growing. In fact, the Ae'ani actual treat races that better themselves more highly than races that are just good to begin with.

First Contact with Earth
The Psychic Wars on Earth, and the birth of the Absolute Psionic, Lumi Faraday, and Absolute Inversic, Nita Flores got the Earth a lot of attention from the Ae'ani. Our galaxy though, is quite far away from their empire.

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Racial Traits
The Ae’ani are very Human-like beings in their appearance, the only strikingly different features are the unusually coloured eyes and hair, and pointed, elf-like ears. On average, the Ae’ani are around 6” taller than Humans.

Every individual of the Ae’ani is psychic, and they all possesses a high level of brain function/capability. Their physical condition is also great, each Ae’ani possessing at a minimum a Peak Human Condition, and all possessing a Regenerative Healing Factor to Supernatural Regeneration.

Politics
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Ruling Structure
At the top of the Ae'ani is the Emperor, or Izi'Ahra surrounded by his council of representatives, the Izi'Kej, from each galaxy. Each of those representatives is the highest Ae'ani figure in each of the Ae'ani ruled

Culture
The Ae'ani culture is a very complex one, while it might appear like a utopian race full of freedom, when you look deeper, there is a strict, underlying level of social conduct, hierarchy of respect, and a very low opinion of every species that isn't Ae'ani, Psychena, Astralan, or at a stage of evolution and civilization they deem "acceptable".

They classify every species they come across in terms of: There are more things they use to aid their classifications, but those are the primary ones. As for the classifications themselves:
 * Intelligence - The level of intelligence, and capability of the brain, on average, of that species. For instance, insects and wild beast score very lowly on this.
 * Internal Peace - How well does the species currently get along with itself? Does it still fights wars with itself? Can it accept the views others of its species may believe? Is crime, especially petty crime, still prevalent?
 * Psionic Ability - How powerful and capable, on average, is the species psionically? (Spiritual ascendance/perfect is simply a psionic ability, so that is put here.)
 * Technology - How technologically advanced is the species?
 * Knowledge of the Universe - How much does the species know about the universe outside the atmosphere of its own planet? How much does the species know of, and understand about, physics, biology, psionics, and mathematics?
 * The Ae'ani put the Psychena at the highest on this list, a classification of Aru'ja; this meaning something along the lines of "Ones close to perfection". The Ae'ani believe perfection is the ultimate goal of all species, through the body, mind, spirit, and technology, or what the Ae'ani call "the four aspects".
 * However, the incident involving Scrios is always a cause for contention.
 * The Ae'ani put themselves at a classification of Aru'vala; this meaning something along the lines of "Mastery of the four aspects".
 * However, we Humans have a classification of "Turu'tara"; this meaning something along the lines of "Children listening to tales of adults, but squabbling over petty things." Not a very high classification, but one which acknowledges we might get somewhere, assuming we don't kill ourselves off first.

Horns
To the Ae'ani, horns are the symbols of wild beast- mindless creatures who can't form civilizations. This belief stems from the fact that every life form on their home world that has horns are ferocious, violent beasts that bash around everything else. This means the Ae'ani treat any being with horns as a wild beast. Such beings are called "Bupuku".

This belief causes a great deal of contention between them and another space-faring race, who do have horns.

Importance of Sounds
To the Ae'ani, certain sounds invoke a sense of higher priority and authority. What we call "vowels" top the list. Words that begin with sounds like "Ah", "Ay", "Ih", "Eye", and "Ee" are of great import.

Words starting with harsh sounding consonants like "Buh", "Bah", "Puh", "Pah", "Kah", e.t.c. are for lowly import and less worth.

Technology
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Home System
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Intergalactic Empire
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