Galactics (Rinnarverse)

## History

Most Galactics -- except the Unmarkeds -- were created from clones sent by various civilisations to colonise the Galaxy. Clone farms scattered on various planets used various chemicals and minerals to create soldiers, workers, citizens, artists, priests, and their equipment and machinery.

## Subspecies or "races"

The Galactics consist of five main subspecies of humans: Unmarkeds, West Galactics/Vetarbroitar, East Galactics, Cospolins, and Outliers.

## Shielded/Unmarked humans

The Unmarkeds are the descendants of earlier interstellar colonists or peoples of the Shielded Nations on Earth. They are named for the absence of tracking chips in their bodies, or (by extension) their minimal modifications. While many of these colonists remained loyal to their ancestral countries long after their demise, some of them seceded to create new nations of their own.

Shieldeds tend to be more reactionary than earlier Unmarked peoples.

* like 21st-century humans, but healthier and stronger. More masculine or feminine.
	+ The Unmarkeds are the most like their 21st-century ancestors, in spite of their strength.
* The American diasporas would be counted as Unmarkeds.

#### Amelios

* Zaraguna
* Bigton

### Russians

* Novy Bodrich - a Neo-Slavic republic at Alpha Centauri B

### Europeans

* Kingdom of Polaris
* Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Reichs
* Vega

## West Galactic humans/Vetarbroitar/Vebroitians/Volandri

* taller, stronger, faster, healthier
* mostly of Caucasian origin
* faster learning, but more likely to be mentally-unstable

### Known nations

* Northern Collective
* Ulfgard League
* Rinnarit Republic
* Farsiders

## Cospolin humans

* more prone to genetic mutation, brighter hair colours and darker skin, rapid healing and metabolism

### Known nations

* Cosmopolitan Empire
* Saidoneria - an empire at the southwestern Milky Way. It is founded and ruled by a dynasty of Brazilian artists.
* Galaxials
* Snowfolk

### Known nations

* Harsparex Alliance
	+ This federation of nations practices a peaceful form of Islam. They are surrounded by many enemies, from warlords to tyrannical empires such as the Third Ghazanvid Empire.
	+ Due to their Islamic faith, they are targeted by the Farsiders as enemies, even though they did not want to subjugate other peoples. Their refusal to practice cruelty made them a target of another tyranny, the Third Ghaznavid Empire.
	+ The Harsparexians aided the Preservers when they defended Earth from the Farsider invasion.
* Kingdom of Hiwayyin
	+ A nation of miners and traders.
* Third Ghaznavid Empire
	+ An empire founded by warlords who wanted to end the Galaxy's wars by subjugating them into a bloodthirsty autocracy.
	+ They regarded clones as never deserving any rights, only to be tortured as machines.

## Outliers

* cybernetic, may control machines just by waving hands or thinking, may also generate or absorb electricity
* racially diverse, although their skin may vary from brown to darker brown due to diversity quotas or being from a new, mixed race.

### Marixai

* Twelve Soviets, which competed against the Red Realm, Trikol Empire, and the Federation of Unidad. At times, these communist empires waged wars against each other, leading to splinter realms such as Polza Rem-rim.
* Polza Rem-rim - good infrastructure, but uses slave labour for prisoners of war
* Red Realm
* Trikol Empire
* Federation of Unidad
* Soñado - a prosperous Hispanic republic in the galactic southeast. A good ally of the Neo-Marixil republic of Polza Rem-rim.

## Physical differences

* If any human were to have children with another human from a different subspecies, their children will belong to whoever their genes is strongest towards.
	+ E.g. A Cospolin marries a Unionite and have children. Their eldest son, Uluthando, will be a Cospolin with green hair and quick healing; his sister Ulwazi is also a Cospolin with black hair and better eyesight; and the younger daughter Amahle will be a Unionite who can control lightning.

* Certain mutant races, such as Galaxials and Snowfolk, are no longer considered as true humans, as their genetics have become more different from usual human genes.
* Due to genetic research and improvements, humans from this timeline have:
	+ healthier and stronger bodies (people from the 21st century seem weaker and more wicked)
	+ better intelligence
	+ the ability to control their own bodies' fertility without needing medicine or condoms
		- This led to some nations, such as the United States, being more permissive of sex, resulting in more public sex and orgies.
	+ faster pregnancies (especially among clones), usually from a few months to four days.
* Although many Shielded/Unmarked humans were the least mutated of the human races of the Rinnarverse, the influence of the A-Hadd and other chemicals (especially on peoples from Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Africa, Asia, and America) have made them more obedient, docile, and organised. The chemicals also reduced their aggression, so even thought they could still bitterly hate their enemies, they would be less likely to start violent rampages as their ancestors did.

## Cultural differences

### Unmarkeds

* Unmarkeds tend to be conservative, heteronormative, religious. Many of them preserved the traditional cultures of Earth, from Indian to Arab, Russian, and Chinese.
* Shielded Unmarkeds tend to be more traditionalist and strict. At times, they can even descend into fanaticism.
	+ American Unmarkeds (the "American Diaspora", who were regarded as outcasts by the Galactics) instead fall under two broader categories:
		- Amecons - modest, bad-tempered, fiercely independent, neat or slobbish, religious (Christian), violent. They, in turn, can be divided into two categories, the neat and devout Haleetians, and the vulgar and promiscuous Alxevins, represented by an eagle's head and crossed rifles.
			* Amecons have Christmas, the Super Bowl (February), Thanksgiving (June 17), July 4, saints' days, MLK Day (January), Memorial Day (May), Kentucky Derby (May), Juneteenth, Baseball Day (July), Prayer Day (May), Valentine's Day, Hanukkah, Mother's and Father's Days, Democracy Day (November), Black Friday, and Easter as their main festivals.
			* The Haleetians make themselves seem refined and strict to please their God.
			* The Alxevins are more wild and focused on entertainment.
		- Amelios - playful, vulgar, secular, outgoing, rebellious, hedonistic, protective of non-heterosexuals.
			* Amelios instead have Pride Month (June 1), May 1, Black History Month (February 1), Women's Day, Human Rights Day (Dec 10), Burning Man (September), Darwin Day (February 12), MLK Day (January), Juneteenth, Hanukkah, Earth Day, Democracy Day, and the anniversaries of pop culture icons as their main festivals.
		- Many Amecons and Amelios tend to get into fights whenever they meet: those who choose to make peace with the other side are expelled by their communities as part of the "other side".
		- Some "reformed" Amecons and Amelios exist, who practice their cultures in a more peaceful manner. Reformed Amecons tend to promote individualism, diligence, modesty, and the traditional nuclear family; while Reformed Amelios tend to promote diversity, inclusion, accountability, and entertainment.
		- Like other civilisations, they also produced clones to build armies to protect themselves from enemies, or wipe out other civilisations to claim more planets.
		- Unlike most Galactics, some Americans are still anti-vaxxers. However, some managed to avoid becoming sick as they have modified their own bodies to become more resistant to disease, whereas other anti-vaxxer Americans were killed off by obsolete diseases.

### West and East Galactics

* Galactic humans tend to be conservative, religious, anti-American, anti-Earthling, and individualistic.
	+ They tend to dislike:
		- atheists, Americans and the United States, Christians and anyone of the Abrahamic religions, anyone from the 21st century, Western culture, human rights and "freedom of speech" (they viewed them as American false beliefs), cartoons, and the concept of copyright; blaming all of them for the Earth Union's existence and their ancestors' historical actions.
			* Much of this hatred was influenced by selected copies of surviving media from the 21st century and other periods. The creators of the West Galactics, Volandr and his rebels, chose these copies as depictions of Earth and its people to make their creations hate them more, by presenting Earth as an evil planet. Many of these copies were from America, which was considered as the more prominent nation in the hated 21st century, and therefore an example of "everything wrong with Earthlings".
			* Some Galactics even hate and ban all females and feminists for being associated with the Earth Union; a few have mutated themselves into an asexual, warlike race of "Splitters".
			* Galactics also dislike anti-vaxxers, associating them with the worst of American culture. If anyone is suspected of refusing to take vaccines, they will order the person to stay away from them, and live in an isolated community of anti-vaxxers out of fear that they could also get infected.
	+ They also dislike Chinese, Russians, and Arabs over their countries' actions in World War III and prior; but they welcome Indians, Australians, and Mexicans as their countries were not as power-hungry as these groups.
		- Many of them also hate the Nordic State (who produced a portion of their ancestors) for being authoritarian and urban, and the Nazis for being "weakened by Roman filth".
	+ Many Vetarbroitar also dislike anyone from the planet Earth, harrassing Earthlings to punish them for their ancestors' sins. They view them as insane fanatics who will fight each other and try to sugjugate all people.
	+ Attitudes towards sex vary between their different societies. Many Galactic societies restrict sex only to marriage, as they were altered to focus less on sexuality. Some Galactics, especially the West Galactics, are more permissive of casual sex, polyamory, and pornography to encourage their warriors to make more offspring and to give in to their basest desires.
		- Among the reasons why many Galactics' refuse any attempts on casual sex include:
			* disgust over the Unionites' and Unmarkeds' loose sexuality,
			* fear that open sexuality will destroy their civilisations and reduce them to creatures who think only of orgies,
			* trying to focus on other things (e.g. science and research, rediscovery of ancient history, art, megastructures, war, and honouring the Gods),
			* and various sex scandals that were used as warnings never to accept any sexual offers.
	+ Many West Galactics practice a Norse culture, and some even hate Abrahamic religions for what its believers did to their ancestors. They also tend to practice collective guilt against any enemy they find.
	+ West Galactics tend to be more warlike and aggressive, after years of hatred against the Earth Union, and fears that the Earth Union might either drown them in its social system or exterminate them.
		- So they rely on cloning to build great armies to fight the Unionites.
		- Many of them, especially the more powerful states, waged war for the sake of "historical justice", by returning cruelty for past cruelty. Some only waged wars to please their Gods and earn their place in Valhalla. Such warmongers were known as "Nords", "dyrs", "hammerheads", "hammo", "hornies", "blood-drinkers", or "blodoogs" ("bloody").
		- Some Christian and atheist clone states also waged wars, either to forcibly convert defeated populations or to exterminate them for revenge. Christian warmongers there were derisively known as "crusaders", "stavs", "tvers" ("crosses"), "eksos", "fundies", or "Americans"; while atheist warmongers were known as "antitheists", "acks", "god(s)less", "dreks", "vots", (which mean "empty", "nothing" in Neo-Norse), or "communists/commies".
	+ West Galactics tend to be more polytheist, while monotheism is more common among East Galactics. Asatru (or a more extreme form of it, known by outsiders and dissidents as "Volandism") is more common among the galactic north, due to self-replicating ships creating more clones to populate various worlds; Christianity is common among the galactic west to northeast; and the galactic east has Christian and Muslim majorities. Atheism -- despised by the more-powerful states of the northern Milky Way -- exists in star systems scattered among the pagan and Christian realms.
		- Other kinds of pagans existed throughout the northern Milky Way, worshipping other pantheons or pop culture icons and historical personalities. Most of them tend to be Galactics who were attracted to those other gods and worshipped them instead of the Norse Gods.
		- Like their Volandist counterparts, the Christians and atheists of this part of the Galaxy are a diverse lot. Some only want to grow and survive; others also sought war in the name of "historical justice", usually by exterminating or forcibly converting defeated populations; and still others wanted to make peace between the various factions of the Milky Way, or build their own leagues and alliances.
		- As a result of this religious diversity accentuated by eagerness for war and revenge, clashes tend to ensue between Asatruar, Christians, antitheists, other pagans, and anyone who sought peace between the different religions.
		- The Asatru faith practiced by the West Galactics is slightly different from normal Asatru beliefs, due to their creator Volandr's beliefs, which were in turn based on Nordic State propaganda. Differences include:
			* Loki ends up being their equivalent of Satan for being the enemy of the Norse gods; and so is Surtr.
			* Four evil empires existed in history: Babylon, Rome, America, and the Earth Union.
			* The medieval Catholic and Orthodox churches (especially for persecuting pagans), the Byzantine Empire, the British Empire, all Muslim and Christian empires, and Nazi Germany are all counted as continuations of "Rome"; while the Soviet Union is considered as a second "America". Therefore, Charlemagne is demonised in that religion as a medieval equivalent of Hitler.
			* Other people referring the West Galactics' Norse religion as "Volandism" to differentiate it from proper Asatru.
	+ East Galactic humans tend to be more supportive of non-heterosexuals.
	+ Many East Galactics tend to be either Christians or Muslims.
	+ East Galactics tend to live either in progressive-minded states and alliances, or in autocratic dictatorships run by warlords.
	+ Many Galactics were designed not to feel any trauma at all, making them more likely to be merciless or recklessly self-destructive. Trauma (especially being hurt from words) is viewed by the Galactics as a sign of weakness and is associated with the Earth Union: some Galactics even torture and mutilate themselves upon showing the slightest sign of hurt from trauma.
	+ Outraged by the atrocities of Western countries, many Vetarbroitar refuse to consider themselves as White people in spite of their obvious genetic descent, but instead as a separate race.

### Cospolins

* Cospolin humans are more individualistic, and they love beauty and art. They also prefer diplomacy and tolerance over wars and purges.
	+ They are also supportive of non-heterosexuals: even more so than the Unionites.
	+ They are still wary of American culture over what the Americans did up to World War III.
	+ Some Cospolins consider themselves as Black people because they are descendants of Africans, while other regard themselves as a separate race to avoid associating themselves with Earth's tragic history.

### Outliers

* Outliers tend to be collectivist, atheistic, hedonistic, very supportive of non-heterosexuals and more obsessed with sex. They also love change.
	+ They do not like Western culture, conservatism of any form, children, families, marriages, modesty, spiritual beliefs, and old age.
	+ Outliers tend to feel uneasy if they are not surrounded by security cameras or surveillance equipment. They prefer to protect themselves or fight supposed threats instead of having other people protect them (i.e. police forces).
	+ They also feel safer with a chip in their bodies.
	+ They raise their children from communal groups, eliminating the need for families, parents, or marriages. This allows adults to have sex with anyone else they want, as long as there is consent between the partners.
	+ Sexual abstinence and castration are something many Outliers fear. Without sex, they go insane from frustration.
	+ After they reach 50 or 70, they retreat to the recycling vats where their bodies are turned to food. Some instead flee and become immortals through chemical manipulation, but doing so makes them enemies of the Earth Union. Unionite soldiers hunt these runaway immortals as though they were animals to be cut and eaten, to punish them for "discarding their humanity" by not surrendering to recycling vats.
	+ Some Outliers who live in deeper parts of the Galaxy are less sexual than most of their subspecies, preferring to focus on more refined pursuits.
* Marixai were the denizens of the galactic southeast. They live under hardy socialistic regimes that refused to submit to the Earth Union's authority, but instead converted to a religion that worships Karl Marx as their god, hence their name. A few of these Marixai nations are wealthy, but authoritarian; and the rest are poorer as they do not produce as much as their rivals. Most of them are fanatically militaristic out of their disliked of the Earth Union and its tyranny, but a few are pacifist and artistic; regardless, they are viewed by many Galactics as "cultlike" and "odd", if not "suspicious".
	+ Marixai hate luxury items, preferring to live under spartan conditions to avoid the "corruption of bourgeoisie/the Earth Union".

## Other cultural differences

* "Thoughts and prayers" is now regarded by most Galactic people as a curse: to them, it is translated as "you go and die". This was because it reminds them of uncaring governments and politicians who just let their own people die off.
	+ It is also considered a serious curse and a criminal offense in their countries to condemn a non-believer that they will "go to hell". However, they are alright with saying the same words towards their enemies, again for revenge.
* Christian Galactics celebrate Christmas either on December 25 (Catholic, Protestant), January 6 (Orthodox), or June 17 (neo-Protestant, Galactic). They also depict Jesus as an Arab, as they believe the Jewish people during His time looked more like Arabs.
* West Galactics have Grandpa Jolnir deliver presents to them on Yule, while East Galactics prefer Johnny Hedgehog ride on a phoenix with a bagpipe or fiddle.
* Many Galactics use the Neo-Norse calendar.
* Many larger companies and businesses in the Galaxy are known as "felags" or "felkas". Generally, a "felag" may refer to a corporate state, such as the Mannofrin Corporation. Dysfunctional or authoritarian felags are derisively known as "gulags".