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arieg203 [Fortiserpens Kinensis - The Vitari]
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+###The Vitari ( **//Fortiserpens Kinensis//** , Hardy Serpent of the Kin ), are a reptilian race from the Yuravin Expanse of the mutual periphery between the three great powers. Their home world, Verisk, is located in the center of the Expanse at the center of a corridor of systems thought to have been created by the passage of a black hole. This path of systems represents the only means of passage across the expanse for several hundred light-years. By the time this pathway was discovered by the Imperium and the Alliance the Vitari had already expanded to both ends of the corridor.
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 ===== History =====
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+==== Modern Times ====
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+For the Vitari like many other small ‘stepping stone’ powers in the shared periphery they were simply in the wrong place. A string of habitable systems stretching across the disputed sector and providing a convenient reach into the adjacent Alliance frontier. While nominally a client of the mass of semi-cooperative species and nations they were a tertiary concern at best. Other regions where the borders were within a single days travel simply had priority as far as attention and interventions went.
+The Glenstat System had been the first to fall, too close to the Imperial border to not slowly fall under the sway of Imperial trade and economics. The simple need for skilled labor resulting in the gradual push of immigration by temporary workers turning into permanent residence and for closed special settlement zones where Shil’vati life was standard. By the time it’s colonial authority realized that its day to day operations were in the hands of the Imperial nobility it was far too late. The Imperial legion was landed for special security reasons and the Imperial flag was flown over the capital settlement for the first time. Some escaped this first quiet annexation but the flow was soon stymied by the Imperial Navy, trapping those Vitari that remained without the means to bribe for passage out of the system.
+The pleas for intervention fell on distracted and differently motivated ears, the Vitari simply wasn’t a priority versus the wider periphery. At most they achieved a token complaint from the embassy on Shil, one which like so many others was given the smallest nod from the Imperial authority.
+With the simple naked fact being that the Glenstat System was only the beginning, the Vitari turned to someone new to the galactic table of powers, one who’d thrown back the Imperium to a degree. Humanity, a species that called a fabled region of space far below the galactic elliptical home and who’d been blundered into by the Imperium.
+Until 2845 A.D. on the human calendar the only thing known of them by the Vitari had been rumor, the propaganda of parading of ‘willing’ examples of the species around by the Imperium , and scant intelligence from the Alliance. That had all ended with the discovery of one group of mankind’s first foray into the galactic community.
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 Should the direct bloodline fail to produce a capable successor, the heads of the Varkel clans may select their own candidates from their own clans. Likewise these nominees must also face the Jurvesh and the other selection criteria and the most capable will find themselves in a small pool of possible candidates before the Varkel clan heads, including the current Karnesh or their second, vote on the next Karnesh. In this way the Commerce Federation preserves both continuity of leadership and adaptability, ensuring that no unworthy heir ascends based on their bloodline alone.
+In practice, the Karnesh functions much like an Emperor in the Vitari realms. They hold absolute authority over the military, control strategic appointments, and oversee foreign diplomacy, yet are theoretically bound by the laws of the ancient Vitari Charter which limits their power over the clans and their activities as long as they're within the guidelines set by the charter. The executor of will, the unifier of the Commerce Federation, and the embodiment of disciplined governance through merit. A well-loved Karnesh is seen as both philosopher-king and general, the moral axis around which the Commerce Federation turns. A corrupt or inept Karnesh, however, risks not only rebellion from the Varkel but also loss of legitimacy in the eyes of the people, an unforgivable sin in a society that venerates merited authority above all.
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 ==== Reproduction ====
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-  *Standard human anatomy in this regard, gestation slightly longer at ten months.
+  *Hormonal based caused by the females going into a state of estrus and putting off pheromones that trigger the attentions of the males. In modern times this is regulated by pharmaceuticals both by preventing females from going into season and reducing the instinctual trigger the resulting pheromones have on the males.\\ \\
+  *Estrus, if not moderated, occurs an average of once to twice a year. \\ \\
+  *Females gestate one offspring for ten months and give birth to live young. (They are not egg layers)\\ \\
+  *In pre-industrial times females would feed the resulting young for the first three years of their lives via regurgitation (Vitari are reptilian and lack mammary glands), a benefit of this was the seeding of the young's GI tract with bacteria from their mother's and developing their gut flora. Typically during the third year the mother would begin 'weening' the young off onto solid foods. In modern times a 'pre-mix' solution is offered as a standard in most of their analog for grocery stores.\\ \\
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+  *70/30 Omnivore but with a heavy leaning toward meat.
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+  *'Infant' - 0-3 years, children are fed via a solution that has replaced regurgitation.
+  *'Young' - 3-10 years
+  *'Adolescence - 10 to 18 years
+  *
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 ==== Language ====
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+  *Various old languages from their home world that are kept alive by the clans that originally spoke them.
+  *A universal trade language.
+  *A 'legal' contractual language that is very very specific for business and civil matters.
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+  *Loincloth over genitals?
+  *Maybe some robe/toga style clothing over chest?
+  *Form fitting modern clothing over lower and upper body.
+  *Clothing is more of a civilizational construct due to tough scaly hides.
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 ==== Naming Trends ====
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+Clan - Father - Name - Status
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 ==== Religion ====
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+The Great Serpent
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