Xantar Node

Created by: Garry Stahl
Appearance: Sigma Seven game
Number of Members: Billion and billions.
Nature of Members: Races with warp drive that want to be:
*!zz!rr -- Home Planet Zxyzrx -- A three gender two species race. The main throw and catch genders are lizard like with the third "gender" being a giant slug farmed for the purpose. They are not physically modest having a slick scaled skin in bright colors. Yes they are toxic to eat, but not to touch. Status is conveyed via jeweled collars everyone wears.<P>     Government is a total democracy they some how make work. Computers are big help there. Your eye is your vote. And they are always voting. There is a body of people who are doing community things. When something is voted it needs to get done. You get hired to the body. It is a rewarding career, but HARD.
*Ane -- Planet Mazuri. A untra-rare Blue world that no one was using. With local sanction the Ane are moving in and making it their own. This will take work it has life.</P><P>     Typical Ad hocracy. 
*Gord -- Home Planet Gordee Basic Humanoids that are dead ringer for Homo Erectus in a dark green. They are an average of 1.5 meters tall and very hirsute. They have an unusual larynx and have the most flexible voices known. They can speak the Tuwutu language without mechanical aid. In general the race are social chameleons much like the Fasanni.</P><P>     The Government is a hired managerial position. As much as they can they throw at computers. They are too busy to deal with mundane matters of running a planet or five.
*Eeyo -- Home Planet Eeyoe. Vaguely equine headed, orange Humanoids with floppy ears and strong claws. They are typical placental mammals in the round. They average 1.7 meters tall. They dress for protection and status. Modesty is secondary, but present. They are well known for engineering and social science.</P><P>     Goverment is a Geniocracy. To enter government you must pass competitive examination showing you have the smarts to do the task. Career government people are frequently rotated from office to office, not always upward in responsibility to keep any empire building from happening. The planetary executive could find himself a city councilor the next term by lottery.
*Engar -- Home Planet Xantaar -- Basic two sex Rubberhead humanoids They are about 1.9 meters tall on the thin side. They have prehensile tails that are slowly loosing that function. They left the trees two million years ago. They dress for protection, modesty, and status. Keeping your reproduction bits covered is considered polite. Modesty for others.</P><P>     The Engar are ruled by a Corporatocracy Monarchy. The Top 300 corporations have a seat on the council of rulers, but the King/Queen can fire any CEO. Every adult is shareholder in one or more corporations.
*Sulkk -- Home Planet Sulkyta. Bird hipped reptilians with a long tail and a mouth full of nasty teeth. Color runs from a yellow green to a deep green. They are egg layers and noted for the ability to breed like crazy and even control gender by egg brooding temperature. They are noted for a narrow people button, no sense of modesty, privacy, and a tendency to violence. They are also noted for intelligence and keeping their peace when it benefits them. They are actually less violent towards other species, you are not people enough.</P><P>     Government is a Timocracy, rule by landowners. This was the main reason for their push into space, not enough land to franchise those that wanted it. They are aggressive colonizers and pitiless defenders of what is theirs. They manage to keep it within the bounds of the Articles of Federation, barely. They like the peace dividend. Well they are good at cost/benefit analysis. 
*Tuwutu -- Home Planet Wutuwu. Bird like Humanoids. Their faces are short sharp beaks and they speak in a lilting whistle. Their bodies are covered in a fine hairlike feathering in a silvery color. They are placental non-mammals. Everyone wears a belt with pockets, and a hat. Your hat is your status. To be seen without a hat is shameful and knocking someone hat off is a sure fight.</P><P>     Government is a Matriarchal Autocracy. The ruler is always a female. Yea they are good with it. Let the rulers deal with the hard stuff, we are too busy making money. Oh that is the one thing that will get a ruler overthrown, getting in the way of making money, or hats.
Organization: Meta-government
Game Role: Something to remove character hair.
World Role: A Federation node
Relative Influence: Minor
Public or Secret?: Very public
Publicly Stated Goal: BE the United Federation of Planets
Relative Wealth: 8 -- Multi planet union, at least low tier second level.
Group advantages: They like being the Federation.
Special Abilities: None really
Group disadvantages: Lower than average tech level. 23rd century built on late 21st century.
Special disadvantages: Really far away, like really far.
Those who favor them: The Core Federation
Those opposed to them: They have yet to encounter a serious foe.
Area of Operation: Lily Pad string coreward of the Calad Empire and Hopp-Oh.
Headquarters Location: Centered on -23.8/-38.7 "Xantaar", an area about 250 light years across.
Public Face: WE are the Federation Too!
Notable Members:
History of the Organization: Founded when the Constitution class starship USS Otto Bismark NCC-1731 vanished investigating the Hailee Nebula near the Sword Worlds. Like many ships before her she did not return.
Unlike many before her she found safe harbor with the Xanaar a nascent warp culture that got all over the Bismark crew and the idea of the Federation like white on rice. They were on the cusp of an interstellar war and the idea rightly scared them juiciless. Fortunately their foes felt the same way and grasped the foundation of the Federation as a means of managing conflict in an nondestructive way.
Currently the Xandar Node has six full members, several provisional members and many colonies. They have contacted the Core Federation in the body of the USS Sigma Seven NCC-79620. They are hooking up and talking to the Calad Empire in a serious way.
Category:UFP Space
Category:Political Units
Category:Epiphany Trek