Gorvan

Gorvan are a former member race of the Narlin Empire whose contributions primarily were limited to soldiers within the Narlin Defense Forces and manual labor. Prior to the Imperial Reformation Gorvan were used as slaves.
== History ==
Little is known about the origins of the Gorvan people or their home planet. Gorvan legend tells that it was destroyed in a super nova sometime in the past. 
For a millinia the Gorvan lived a nomadic life. Moving from planet to planet collecting needed resources to supply their city ships. But, conflict with the Hur'q and various other anchient Alpha and Beta Quadrant powers had left the once proud Gorvan, a dying race.
On the 12th day of Oman, in the 33rd Age of the 800th year (May 9, 1608) the last two surviving city ships arrived in orbit of Talaria with barely enough power to hold a stable orbit. 
There they encountered the planet bound Narlin Empire. But, the Narlins were farmers. They were craftsman. The Gorvan were not, and most of their ancient knowledge was forgotten. Databases long ago had become corrupted. Engineers and scientists died before passing on their knowledge. 
It was seen as the dawn of a new era when Emperor Cas'tus Stormtalon invited the Govan to settle on Talaria. 
== Talaria ==
Life on Talaria wasn't much better as the Narlins quickly enslaved the Gorvan refugees. Gorvan technology so far advanced from their own the Narlins chose to destroy it rather than learn from it
For nearly four hundred centuries the Gorvan toiled under the Narlin whips in perpetual bondage until the Imperial Reformation in 2002.
== Freedom ==
Freedom from bondage was harsh. The Gorvan were still second class citizens. They held no rights under the law. They couldn't hold public office, and segregation was enacted planet wide. 
They couldn't own property, however if they served five years in the Defense Force each head of household would be granted a plot of land to call their own. It 
would also allow their children to join the Military Academy in Ev'tel and become officers. It was this that created the Gorvan warrior culture within the Empire, and by the time of the Narlin Civil War Gorvans made up 79% of the Narlin military, but less than 1% held officer ranks above company commanders or commanders of small ships.
== Gorvan Prime ==
The emergence of interstellar space travel lead the Empire to a Class M planet located in a neighboring system. Named Me'bora after the Narlin Goddess of beauty and you. Me'bora was quickly settled as a 
mining planet, and the task of miningthe planet fell to the Gorvan. Eventually families came to settle, and Empress T'ellanna Stormtalon granted the planet to Administrator Kobane as the new homeworld of the Gorvan people, and was renamed Gorvan Prime.
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