Caxta Empire

Created by: Garry Stahl
Appearance: To Be Announced
Number of Members: Billions and Billions
Nature of Members: Caxta -- 1.5 meter yellow furred felinoids. They have the usual gender bits in the usual places. Females are equal in size to males and have pectoral mammaries. They do use clothing for status and protection in that order. A certain amount of bare fur is a point of status. A Caxta male will freeze to death if being more covered will affect his status. Females are less status driven and far more pragmatic.
Caxta are known for duplicity and the love of a good fight they stand to win. The General will preen and speak of honor in battle while his allies stab you in the back. This is called "Wednesday" in the Caxta Empire. If the odds are clearly in their favor they will come boiling in each trying to outdo the others in the amount of violence displayed.
Organization: Empire based around clans that control planets. The Caxta have oppressed, down trod, and renamed every planet they have taken. It makes them unpopular. The kitty barrel nature of their politics is their main saving grace. They will not even support a rival against a non Caxta foe if they see advantage in letting them fall.
The males are highly status driven. They are the main driver of policy. However without the females' more pragmatic viewpoint they would get nowhere. Males lead from the back (of course(, women see that the policies made are carried out without the male duplicity and bluster. 
No clan has ever been able to hold more than one planet. Once the Clan Master is not present the Lieutenants take over for good. A literal master of all you survey. If you can't see it, it 'taint yours.
The Clans meet at Purfeito, the planet of their origin and the only one they don't fight over. There is a Master of Masters, a nearly fictional official that can get little done unless someone is massing at the border.
Game Role: Something to trouble the Calad Empire.
World Role: A second rate Stellar power.
Relative Influence: Major in the Calad Zone.
Public or Secret?: Public of course.
Publicly Stated Goal: Rule the galaxy as sole proprietors 
Relative Wealth: Second rate power, many planets and a good sized fleet.
Group advantages: Good tactics and a long term strategic outlook, when it holds.
Numbers: They breed like mad. Their are billions of them.
Special Abilities: Psi resistant. 
Group disadvantages: Selfish: Once things get stated all planing breaks down in the rush for glory. Two they will fight each other as readily if not more so than anyone else. It tends to set back long term goals.
Duplicitous: No one that has dealt with them before trusts a single yellow bellied one of them. They get one shot at diplomacy and then it is over. Agreements taken at the point of a sword are as good as the location of that sword. If not still at their throat, worthless. 
Those who favor them: None but themselves.
Those opposed to them: Everyone else.
Area of Operation: Calad Zone -24 to -28.5/-23.8 to -26.9
Headquarters Location: Purfeito -26.5/-25.5
Public Face: Sneaky violence prone cat people.
Notable Members: None yet.
History of the Organization: When the Calad were first moving out from their home star the Morgo were doing likewise. Unfortunately for them one of their first encounters was the Caxta. These cat like creatures were fawning and subservient, long enough to steal the Morgo technology and stab them in the back. 
On the back of Morgo technical skills they set about conquering their neighbors and each other. It soon became clear that an extension of the rules they worked under back home needed to be made. A rules free galaxy benefited no one, as much fun as that was. So Purfeito was declared clanless. Backstab and oppress as you will, but don't bring it to the home world. It more of less works as anyone that breaks the rules is cat-piled by everyone else.
Contact with the Calad went poorly. The Calad themselves mystify and scare the Caxta. They do not understand the advanced Psionic Abilities possessed by them. It is just as well that the Calad themselves, cannot stand to be around them. The Caxta would love to steal the Ane teleport.
The Caxta continue to oppress and exploit every world they conquer. The Calad are too strong and only getting stronger. This really bothers them.
Category:Calad Space
Category:Political Units
Category:Epiphany Trek