Psohx̂ract Union

The Psohx̂ract Union is an interstellar state located in the rimward side of the 3rd grand division of The Galaxy. It is a member state of the Imperium of Galactic States, under which it governs five sovereign systems and 30 registered resource outposts. There are five Psohx̂ract representatives in the Senate but it is not an imperial elector. The Psohx̂ract is a Keiñuan majority state. Its population of 150 billion predominantly lives in space, inhabiting tens of thousands of relatively small artificial habitats often situated in large clusters around important celestial bodies, with terrestrial planets being home to only a minority of the population.

The emblem of the Psohx̂ract Union is a grey two tone piece. The circles and the curve symbolise Keiñei and its 6 natural satellites, the homeworld of the keiñuan species, stylised into the profile of a sublight seed ship with a large frontal whipple shield and propellant globes. The two largest circles are minimalistic depictions of a slitted biological eye and a rounded artificial eye, symbolising keiñuan symbiosis with AI and cybernetic technology that allowed the species to diverge and spread across even the harshest of celestial bodies, enabling their survival.

Founding
The Psohx̂ract Union was created as part of a long compromise between disparate elements of early Keiñuan interstellar civilisation concerning imperial membership. When official contact with the galactic entity was established in 23811, the consensus of the majority of Keiñuan political entities had been to remain independent. However, the offer of shared technology, defence and infrastructure had convinced a large fraction of the population, and for many centuries there had been campaigns calling for the species to join in order to integrate with galactic society and progress their development. Several small governments consisting of several habitats attempted to join the imperium at various points, although were usually refused due to being too small or not fully controlling their system. After 6 centuries and the continued dispersion of Keiñuan civilisation, the groundwork for what would become the Psohx̂ract began with several systems with a high population of individuals sympathetic to the imperium positing the idea of applying as a single political union. There was notable resistance due to the inclusion of Řaqani in this plan, as many Keiñu were concerned with the idea of their home system being ruled by an alien power, with violence against the union being threatened by several other states.

In order to reduce tensions, representatives from all political entities that could attend were convened to produce an agreement that would hope to satisfy demands and prevent conflict. The convention was inconclusive and considered a failure, as many remained adamant Řaqani should remain independent due to its historic significance despite the majority of the population of the system being supportive or neutral towards imperial membership. A second and third convention with similar goals also failed to achieve a desired compromise. Eventually, direct and sustained political protest from citizens of Řaqani was what allowed the Psohx̂ract to exist, with the opposition was worn down by civilian pressures to allow the system to determine its own future and increasing apathy. Nonetheless several conditions concerning the system were set in place, including the promise that Keiñei would be completely evacuated and designated a monument, that keiñuan societies established via currently operational seed ships would be guaranteed free choice to join the imperium if desired, and that a grace period of free movement would allow all those who did not wish to be in the new imperial member state to move elsewhere if they so desired.

In imperial archive year 24584 the Psohx̂ract union was officially accepted into the imperium as an official member state, becoming the first keiñuan political entity to do so.

Crisis during the Nth interregnum
spitballing idk

Řaqani
Capital system, aka home sweet home. Yellow dwarf.

Naulis' Star
Yellow Dwarf.

X̂algaya
Red dwarf trinary.

Keaqořa
Red dwarf.

Pphyñoria
A stable main sequence and neutron star binary. Fun exotic physics.

Biotechnology
Being a key element of Keiñuan culture, he Psohx̂ract is amongst the greatest patrons towards the advancement of the field of biotechnology, and has developed useful applications for it in almost every facet of the imperium. Much of this technology traces back to the relatively extreme, resource poor environment associated with early spaceborne living, with adapting living systems and physiologies to suit these conditions being the only option for much of the Keiñuan population to increase their living standards and productivity. The field is inexplicably linked with their nanotechnology, detailed below, with the two technologies often employed together to Physiological applications of modern Psohx̂ract biotechnology include the adaptation of bodies to indefinitely survive outer space, high levels of ionising radiation, extreme heat and cold, microgravity, and many other hostile environments without any additional protection. Such modifications often involve the partial or complete alteration of the body plan, an example of which being the serpentine or In order to enrich the environments of communities adapted to such environments, plant and animal life can be tailored to thrive as well. Such control over life has an importance role in imperial terraforming efforts where purely mechanical means of increasing a planets desired life-bearing capacity were previously prohibitively expensive or impossible. Similarly, closed-loop life support is also a very developed field, ranging from microbiological scrubbers designed for high-endurance spacesuits, ships, and prefab habitats, all the way up to continent-scale artificial ecosystems, such as the ecological terraplates found on many airless moons and asteroids of Keiñuan space, or the conventional centrifugal habitats employed by most imperial member states, where the delicate ecosystems are typically prone to devastating collapse.

The Psohx̂ract also specialises in the development of biomechanical technology, exploiting the advantages of combining living and artificial systems. Domestic Infrastructure and

Spacecraft
Psohx̂ract built spacecraft typically use inertialess field effect drives for sublight propulsion which are highly efficient and powerful. Civilian ships undergoing interplanetary or interstellar travel with such drives can achieve accelerations in the order of several hundred standard gravities, whilst military ships are typically expected to achieve accelerations exceeding a thousand standard gravities during manoeuvres. In order to deal with the forces exerted on the ships during use of the drive, a short-range field effect is produced which serves to actively support the complete structure of the ship. Cargo and motile crew can also be supported with gravitational counter-generators around occupied areas which negate the acceleration and prevent sudden changes in apparent gravity. Despite this it is often common practice for crew to be suspended in acceleration gel or disassembled before high accelerations, both to save power and prevent injury or death in case of a malfunction. This risk is especially high with military ships, where a single projectile could disable such delicate infrastructure. Thus for this reason as well as the additional tactical advantages, crew are almost always transferred into a virtual environment instead. An additional concern that makes this useful is the waste heat output, which could render the internals of larger ships uninhabitable if their heatsinks and radiators cannot deal with the output.

Military
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Ship Weaponry
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Gravitational mass drivers - fires relativistic heavy ion beams, shells, or antimatter warheads of variable size and mass. Usually very high fire rates depending on projectile power, up to the exajoule range for ship to ship

lasers - shorter range than GMD's due to diffraction, used due to ability to defeat several methods of deflection / shielding

missiles - fragmentation, fusion, antimatter, etc. Highly versatile, deployed in large numbers

Active magnetic deflector projectors - for deflecting particle beams and other projectiles or flinging smaller ships around

π-Relativon - Neutral particles anchored to warheads in g-space accelerated to relativistic speed. pass through electromagnetic shields and programmed to displace when inside a traget Uncommon due to complexity.

ships
often built to minimise frontal cross section as tonnage increases, akin to long shards in appearance and very angular. They are armoured using 'electronull laminate' which is composed of sheets of nucleons bound via strong interaction for which electromagnetism has been locally disabled.

broadly categorised under a small number of classes:

missile ships - self explanatory

light/med/heavy lancers - long range direct fire

warbirds - multirole craft, jack of all trade

Nexus ship - central coordinator of fleet tactical control, and heavy weapon platform