Ghaz Combine

The **Ghaz** **Combine** is the federated state of the 24 Guilds of Alealamia following the Guild War. It was founded to create greater communication between the Guilds to prevent such a horrific war from happening again, amend workers' rights, and create a unified governing body as the Ghaz ventured out beyond Rodull.

## Home

For planetary details, see Alealamia.

The Ghaz Combine primarily lives in great cylindrical space colonies that occupy the Lagrange points between homeworld and its moon, Alqamar. These colonies are typicially tight-packed and utilitarian, even for the more wealthier districts.

The Combines maintains numerous orbital habitats throughout the Rodull system. The largest of which being Alqamar II, a massive asteroid towed from the asteroid belt which served originally as the headquarters of Denizcilik Shipyards and now serves as the capitol city.

## People

Their tough world has also hardened the Ghaz socially. The sick and weak
 are left behind, but there is also a great amount of movement within
the ranks of society, as it has created a great deal of ambition within
them. They don’t see this as cruelty, rather it is a practicality
required for the survival of their species. Due to the importance of
continuing their race, women are the dominant gender in their society,
enjoying less physical roles while the males are forced to toil. The
Ghaz lack traditional family units, children usually only knowing their
mother, and children are instead raised by the community.

Religion has mostly faded away amongst the Ghaz. They once believed they
 were sent to Alealamia as punishment by their gods. Despite religion
mostly having died out, the feeling and many sayings regarding such a
belief remain.

Following the National Dismantlement War, the Ghaz have shirked off
traditional government, and embraced the power of the Guilds. These
massive, multi-function super corporations swallowed up all lower-level
competitors, and effectively employ the entire population in their
numerous branches. The employee labors, and the employer makes sure they
 have what they need to survive. While the Guilds are still business
partners, they are also ruthless competitors. Thus there is no head of
state or capital city that represents the whole of the Ghaz people.

At the time of their attempted to colonization of Heimisgardar, the Ghaz were of a technological level similar to 2030-2040’s humanity. While
technology has certainly progressed over the past two centuries, after
the failed colonization, the global war that followed, and the rise of
the corporations, certain fields have not really advanced over the past two centuries. Due to lack of competition created by the monopolies,
many fields have focused more on sustainable profit. The Ghaz have
however, primarily moved into large orbital colonies around their world,
 escaping the pollution and crushing gravity of their world.

## Guilds

* Aleada Biogenics
* Aemal Industries (Dissolved 2678)
* Ahab Power
* Almukhabarat Multisystem
* Denizcilik Shipyards
* Hassan-Pjora Enterprise
* Military Industrial Conglomerate (MIC)
* MijaCorp
* Muedini Concern
* Rashidun
* Spacebook
* Tayfur & Gaffar
* Wakas-Yasif Corporation
* XuraCorp
* Yuteja Heavy Industries

## History

The Ghaz are  the other half of the Skapari colonization effort that
sired the Vordr people. They were a pair of vessels that had their
translation from slipspace disrupted by a solar flare from the system’s
star. The vessel that would crash into Heimisgardar was that carrying
the primary terraforming equipment and plant samples, while the one that
 arrived on Alealamia carried the main population and fauna records. The
 inhabitants of the craft were ill prepared for the radiation-blasted
wastes of the world. In a bid to salvage their expedition, they spliced
themselves with a local species of rhino-like creatures that were
drawn to the crash site. Thus the Ghaz were born.

The Ghaz today know little of their heritage before their arrival on the
 world. Over five thousand years of radiation destroyed all records
aboard their craft and ruined all its components. The survivors were
forced from their craft and back into barbarism. Over the ages they
spread and formed their own countries, largely forgetting the  details
of their origins, though there remained a constant belief that they did
not come from their world originally.

Over the millennia, the Ghaz built up their civilization and had begun
making their first spaceflights. Life was becoming comfortable enough
for them that social issues were beginning to be looked at. Then came,
the Flare, an immense solar flare from Rodull that almost sent the Ghaz
back into stone age. Their way of life threatened, the people began
demanding of a solution.

Heimisgardar had long been a fascination. Though it was a smaller
planet, their telescopes had long confirmed it to be a lush, vibrant
world, seemingly free of Rodull’s wrath. The greatest Ghaz nations  had
been competing to get to the planet first, but the uproar from the
people forced them to bad together to find a swifter solution.

And so, after launching a drone which managed to get a fairly good scan
of the planet, the Ghaz sent a number of ships with the first explorers.
 It was considered the great pinnacle of their history. The time when
the various nations put aside their differences for the good of the
species. The explorers were well equipped in case of hostile wildlife,
and with the tools to build their new independent colony. They did not
however, expect everything on the planet to fight them. Almost the
entire expeditionary force was destroyed, and those who returned had
horrific stories to share.

The great achievement of their time suddenly became the great upheaval.
The populace were not happy. All the governments in the world had banded
 together had failed them. Fear and disappointment lead to anarchy.
Noticing the escalating violence, the corporations stepped in to pick
the winning side. The National Dismantlement War waged across the world
for almost half a century. A chaotic, bloody mess, where the Ghaz slowly
 forgot about the initial cause, becoming consumed merely with the need
for change. In the end the Guilds, massive corporate conglomerates,
emerged.

As tensions cooled, and the Guilds worked to rebuild the world in their
image, Heimisgardar became a historical footnote. An oft-exaggerated
lesson in the failures of the old system. The Guild instead focused
their interplanetary outreach to mining their moon, and reaching the
asteroid belt.

The Guilds were happy to ignore Heimisgardar for over a century until
scientists began to spot the Vordr launching their own spacecraft. To
make matters more troubling, they seemed to be  experimenting with some
sort of interstellar drive, surpassing the Ghaz technologically in
seemingly just a few short decades. What semblance of harmony the Guilds
 possessed was shattered. Some wanted to simply ignore them, afraid of
re-awakening the chaos that had swept their people. Others saw a new
potential trading partner and market for goods. And others saw new
technologies to plunder.