12hr Game Story

[Cyrien]

OOC - This is from a game with 12hr turns that just started. Others from the game might post and might not. Up to them. I myself am going to try and mold this game into a story. Updates on my part will probably only occur with major events. A little background for understanding the race I am playing.

Bio Desc -

The Alteri are a bug like race that evolved on a cold barren planet with no real atmosphere. The Alteri are a rather weak and physically under developed race with overdeveloped brains that may be usefull in psychic manipulation. Some argue that there mental abilities may extend to manipulating time itself. While weak in ground combat they make up for this with a formidable ability to keep track of multiple tasks all at once without any loss of efficiency in any single task, greatly increasing their combat ability in the complicated and high tech arena of space combat. The Alteri are the only species, sentient or otherwise to have evolved on their homeplanet.

Society -

The Alteri are broken up into several clear and distinct castes. Each caste is responsible for a specific sector of Alteri society and has complete control over the specifics of that area. The Speakers are the highest caste and are the voice of the Alteri. They decide what is researched, what ships go where, how the Alteri will deal with alien races, and what actions the military will take, how each caste deals with these directives is upto them. While there are many in the Speaker caste there is only one who holds the title of Grand Speaker at any given time. The Grand Speaker is the equivalent of an Emperor with supreme authority in theory. In practice, all decisions are made by councils of Speakers knowledgeable in the areas necessary for that particular decision with advice being given by top members of other castes that may be affected and the Grand Speaker then putting these decisions into affect. The Society runs well and dissent is not tolerated on any level.

The Alteri are not overtly hostile but do have at the core of their philosphy the idea of survival of the fittest once they realize they are not alone in the universe. They will take advantage of the weak and ally with the strong. This is their basic policy.