Vetarbroitar (19-canon)

The **Vetarbroitar**, also known as **West Galactics** or **Volandrings**, are a subspecies or race of humans in the Rinnarverse. They live mainly at the far side of the Milky Way, to the opposite of Earth's position.

A single Vetarbroitar may be known as a **Vetarbroitur**, **Vetarling**, or **Volandring**.

## History

As humanity's technology continued to advance, the more powerful realms achieved rapidly-built machinery to quickly equip and build their armies. With FTL travel, Mankind was able to colonise other planets to gain more land, and the asteroids provided plenty of raw materials to build more machines and equipment. Early attempts to colonise interstellar space include the First Western Wave (US, AF, Nordic State, and Europe), the First Eastern Wave (Arabia, China, and Russia), and the Martian Fan (when the peoples of Mars colonised the Galactic south and core).

One of the biggest clone colonisation projects was conducted by a rich aristocrat of the fascist Nordic State, known as Volandr Erikson. After decades spent on battles against the Unionites and their allies, the Yfir-Jarl (emperor or dictator) Osbrand granted him and his wife a charter to colonise any planet of his choice in the furthest extent of the Nordic space domain. With 800 men and women, he settled on a planet at the western side of the Milky Way, where he and his followers built their own homesteads and temples while they exported minerals to the Yfir-Jarl's generals mined from the nearby asteroids.

When it got raided by pirates, Unionites, and Americans, Volandr gathered his forces to build an army. Together with a team of nine scientists, he built an army of clones to defend his planet-colony as he waited for the Nordic State to send reinforcements. Meanwhile, he and his scientists were able to produce and train dozens of well-developed clones and self-replicating machinery within hours. For ten years, he kept that project as a secret, with anyone suspected of revealing it to outsiders sentenced to the firing squads.

In the first five years, the team trained the clones at winter, and at summer he released the clones in spacecraft and pods. These clones, known as Fimmlings or Ungmenn, developed a network of satellite states to protect his star system and guide future clone ships to suitable planets to start their own colonies: to ensure that they continue to spread faster, they raised their children in large clans or communes. But as the other armies spread their wars towards the western Milky Way, Volandr hastened his programme to implant basic skills into the clones' minds, before releasing them to various parts of the Galaxy.

The later clones, known as Hraðlings, were awakened upon landing, "born" to build their colonies and armies using their instant technology, but their innate education made them more warlike and unstable, and most of the Hraðlings died before they were able to build their colonies.

At the tenth year of Volandr's colony, several informants told the new Yfir-Jarl about his unauthorised cloning project. The clones refused to obey the Nordic authorities' orders, and Volandr announced his motive for his cloning project. He felt that the Nordic State was unworthy of the Gods' favour, so he produced an entire race of clones to stop the Nordic State and other civilisations from claiming the northern Milky Way and achieving too much power: he believed that if any of these civiliations were to become too powerful, they might drown the Milky Way in a perpetual state of war, or oppress the whole Galaxy in an iron fist.

Enraged by his defiance and trickery, Yfir-Jarl Egilnar sent a fleet of 10,000 ships to invade Volandr's colony. The Nordics and the rebels fought a seven-month war: when defeat was imminent for Volandr, he ordered the evacuation of his colony and every last one of his facilities blown up with explosions. On the very moment Volandr was killed in a space battle, his remaining soldiers in his planet detonated bombs all over the planet, and the hundred surviving Nordic battleships landed in a smoking ruin.

Nevertheless, their instant spacecraft allowed them to quickly navigate and spread throughout the Galactic north, multiplying until they formed their own blocs. During World War III, the Vetarbroitar supported four nations: Akhand Bharat, Mexico, Australia, and Gotaland. The Vetarbroitar believed that three of these nations protected the other nations from being oppressed by the Four Powers. To help these nations, they sent their troops and supplies to help these countries defend themselves, but a number of Vetarbroitar supplied India's leaders in their quest to expand their nation. They wanted to use an Indian empire to defeat the Four Powers, and then use it and various neopagan rebellions to establish a pagan world state known as the Heimvéning, where polytheism is enforced as the state religion. Their campaign was thwarted by their deaths during the worldwide bombardment.

Faced with invasive fleets around them and fuelled by disgust over Earth's history, some Vetarbroitar and their allies became into the Farsiders, a bloodthirsty horde hell-bent on revenge. Salvaging the few instant-forges that remained, they created a mighty fleet of their own borne with superweapons.

Some Vetarbroitar were horrified by the atrocities of the Farsiders, that they created other alliances to stop the Farsiders from destroying Earth. These Vetarbroitar tried to pacify their enraged brethren after the defeat of the Farsiders and the reestablishment of America, though with much difficulty.

In spite of the defeat of the Farsiders, many Vetarbroitar were very angry with failing to exterminate Earth, that they waged punitive wars to exterminate each other. This did not displace the Vetarbroitar, who still had the numbers to restrict or attack any Earthling seeking to enter the far side of the Milky Way. While less and less Vetarbroitar nations waged wars against Earth, some Vetarbroitar continued to mistreat and hate people from Earth, blocking any from visiting their planets under pain of death.

### Vetarbroitar view of Earth history

Volandr and his court left samples to his clones' spacecraft to teach them to hate Earth. These samples consisted of videos and records of atrocities throughout human history, controversial comments by politicians and threats by Internet users from centuries ago, and accounts of negligence and mass death, to indoctrinate them into viewing *all* Earthlings as evil, cruel, and sadistic. As much of the records were produced by extremist or mischievous Americans, whose nation was the most powerful at some parts of Earth's history, it contributed to the Vetarbroitar hatred of America and their belief that "America is the most evil of all nations".

* There are four successive evil empires: Babylon, Rome, America, and the Earth Union.
* All Christian and Muslim civilisations, European colonial empires (such as the British and the French), Nazi Germany, and the Nordic State are regarded as extensions of Rome; and the Soviet Union and all communist and fascist regimes are regarded as extensions of America.
* The 21st century was the worst era in human history, for it has countless examples of heartlessness.
* Then, America split into two chaotic hordes, while three other empires rose to challenge the Americas for global domination: China, Russia, and Arabia. Together, these powers and the Two Americas are considered as the "Four Powers", each having their own way to enforce upon the world. Against these four insidious empires stood three nations: India, Australia, and Mexico, who helped the world resist the Four Powers.
* The Four Powers left the world in ruins, and the Earth Union arose from the smoldering ruins of America.
* Among these that resisted the Four Powers was the Nordic State. Even though the Nordics tried to avenge their ancestors by punishing their enemies, their devotion to Roman customs and "Nordic supremacy" turned them away from the gods and the ancestors.
* Therefore, Volandr (a certain Nordic) was chosen by Odin to create a new race to restore the favour of the gods. This new race is to protect the unclaimed Galaxy from the Four Powers, the Nordic State, and the Earth Union, to stand out in a Galaxy of growing darkness and corruption. If possible, the Vetarbroitar are created to be the instrument of the Ancestors' spirits, to one day purge the Galaxy of all enemies and reorganise it into a just society that honours the True Gods.

## Physiology and psychology

Most, if not all Vetarbroitar, are of Caucasian descent, primarily Norwegian: therefore, they have peach skin and colourful eyes and hair. Other, lesser bloodlines mixed into the Vetarbroitar's initial genetic template include Swedish, Danish, English, White American, British/French Canadian, German, Russian, Dutch, and Finnish. The Vetarbroitar are stronger and faster than normal humans, even more so than their Unmarked counterparts. They are also able to learn faster than normal humans, but their rapid learning also makes them more mentally-unstable.

Some Vetarbroitar have been genetically and physically altered to the extent that they cannot get traumatised by anything, even though they can still feel severe pain. They did this to themselves as they associated trauma with the Earth Union, to eliminate it from their people. This condition makes them more cruel, reckless, and self-destructive: some Vetarbroitar even go as far as torture and mutilate themselves for even feeling a bit of trauma or fear.

Other Vetarbroitar have been genetically altered to the point that they became less wasteful and selfish, and more tribalistic and protective of their communities. That did not stop them for becoming hateful towards suspected enemies, to the point of seeking to utterly destroy all of their enemies with violence.

## Politics and member states

Although many Vetarbroitar nations tend to be individualistic, some of the more powerful and richer Vetarbroitar states formed their own

### Northern League

This alliance was formed when some Vetarbroitar nations protested against the Farsiders' cruelty. For stopping the Farsiders from destroying Earth, they are reviled by the other Vetarbroitar, but are supported by the Cosmopolitan Empire. They also housed many Earthlings who fled from Vetarbroitar persecution.

### The Holy Order of Lord Odin / The Holy Order of Odin

This was the oldest Vetarbroitar civilisation, being among the first Vetarbroitar to spread and thrive in the then-empty northern Milky Way.

## Military

Many Vetarbroitar societies were focused on producing soldiers and war. Among their reasons include "historical justice" (to punish and kill enemies because of their ancestors' sins); training for a future war against the Earth Union, its allies, and the Nordic State; to eliminate rivals or supposed threats; to raid richer factions (like corporations), or simply as their shortcut to enter Valhalla. Terrorism and piracy are the norm in some parts of the Galaxy, although some pirates were "tamed" as mercenaries or incorporated into larger groups and armies.

A typical Vetarbroitar soldier uses a rifle, a laser axe, some grenades, a pistol, and a laser knife. Vetarbroitar soldiers are mostly male: females are allowed to be soldiers and officers in some armies.

The Vetarbroitar military mostly consists of cloned male adults who were altered to be obedient, fierce killing machines. Volunteers were also allowed, but they fight in separate regiments, and are allowed to be promoted to higher ranks where they lead armies into battle. Some private armies are part of larger steads or corporations.

Some Vetarbroitar wage their wars on April, while others start their wars on June, usually after holding the Sigrblot ceremony.

Wars launched for the sake of revenge, or simply any military expeditions, are known as *lindisfarnar* or *disfarnar*, as their equivalent of the Christians' "crusades" and the antitheists/Unionites' "pogroms and purges". The *Disfarnar* wars were named after the Viking raid of Lindisfarne, as a symbol of revenge against all their enemies.

Serious offenses can be punished by a duel to the death, the *holmgang*.

### Forge-ships

Every Vetarbroitar colony begins with a single forge-ship (smiðaskip, smjaskip), which contains the machines, resources, and male and female adults needed to start a colony when it lands. When it does, the forge-ship unfolds into a protective dome against the elements of its host planet (e.g. deadly radiation, acid rains, etc.) and awakens the members inside to begin building the colony. Most of their crews never made it to their destinations due to their forge-ships crashing or being destroyed by extreme conditions.

Each forge-ship has some devices that can quickly create machines from just a few lumps of metal and/or glass, powered by stored solar-powered and plasma batteries.

## Economy

Most Vetarbroitar communities were focused on the sources of their production, such as farms, mines, logging mills, and factories. Some have the richest members to own those centres of production; while others have them collectively owned to coordinate their resources for their projects (such as war, research, terraforming, or megastructures): depending on the whims of their rulers or people, they practiced forms of socialism or smaller forms of corporatism.

### Prionish model

One particular economic model existed among the Vetarbroitar, the "prjónarík" or "príon", which was practiced at Volandr's colony. In a "Prionisk/Prionish" model:

* The basic unit is the "stead" (stað), which could be a source such as a mine, a farm, a patch of forest, or a fishing pool. If a stead runs out of a resource, it must buy a new resource (like crops, animals) or start another business (like a school, an artist's guild, performers, etc.).
	+ So this forced some steads to (d)evolve into larger corporations in order to survive. Some became ruthless empires that eventually became a threat to surrounding communities.
* People are allowed to find a different profession. Workers may move to another stead, but some stead-owners require other stead-owners who move to their premises to work with them in exchange for a share of their income.
* The stead is inhabited by its owners, its family, and its workers. Steads that exceed a certain size will have to be divided, and a new owner may be chosen by election, choice, or *holmgang* duels.
* Some steads do not use much workers, instead having cheaper and replaceable robots doing much of the hard labour.
	+ Likewise, some communities and countries use robots to do menial work so their people can focus on developing their skills or preparing for war.
* Other steads may be collectively owned by several people as a steadtown or commune. Some were founded and owned by refugees and poorer people. These communes and "lonesteads" enjoyed government protection from being abused by other stead-owners, as long as they paid their dues or were considered a "service" to the steadhood.
* A group of steads is known as a steadhood (staðheið, staðeið), which functions as a village or a town. Public facilities are owned by the realm, not by any one stead, unless if it is built inside the stead as personal property.
	+ Steads are allowed to build their own shops, resources, and inns to sell their resources to other steads and individuals. Individuals are allowed to build their own entertainment places (like galleries and toy rooms), inns, and schools to entertain other people.
* Every steadhood is managed by a governor or sheriff, and a group of steadhoods are part of a realm under their own governor, and so on.
* The highest unit is the country, managed by a king or president.
	+ Certain things are nationalised, and others owned by the public, to avoid any stead from becoming too powerful. Nationalised sources include medical centres, forge-ships, police and army stations, public transport (except for private cabs), and power supplies. Public facilities include public schools, libraries, larger theatres and galleries, temples, at least one market square at every town, and some parks.
	+ These are marked with special signs, poles, or flags that show that they are owned by everyone in the country or steadhood, not by one person. Whoever who attempts to claim public land (unless by permission from the public) is considered to be a criminal who desecrates it.
	+ As they are considered vital to the survival of every colony, every instant-forge and forge-ship is property of the government, so no individual or family may abuse it. They can be dismantled for extra resources or to build more forge-ships.

* The military is its own stead (if not the largest stead), although more wealthier steads may have their own militia. Eventually, the national military replaced private armies.
* Scientific research and education should be nationalised -- not under the orders of a single ruler or a class, but on behalf of the members and for their well-being. However, private individuals can start their own tuition centres or smaller schools.
* All clones are considered government property, and are mostly used as soldiers to fight in wars. Private usage of cloning -- other than to save a dying person or to produce organic parts -- is forbidden as a "waste".
* Anyone who does not belong to any stead is either foreign, or property of the government. Those that are owned by the government live in the military as personnel.
* Criminals should end up as thralls (slaves) in the military, alongside robots.

Each instant-forge came with its own resources and terraforming machinery. Any planet with multiple forge-ships was more likely to be terraformed, and then focused on whatever commodities it was able to produce aside from grains, meat, recycled wastes, and synthetic metals. Some planets became into vast tracts of farmland; others were clothed with lush forests; some were tattooed with mining colonies; and some glistened with fuel refineries' tubes.

Some foreigners considered the prionisk model to be a new form of "feudalism", as it is more focused on the source of the resource instead of the owners (capitalist) or the workers (socialist).

### Other economic systems

In non-prionisk models, their hatred of poverty, lack of stock exchanges, and harsh laws against "wastage" (whether against people who waste welfare or higher officials executed for corruption) has led many economies to become more socialist. Although other nations called Vetarbroitar "space communist Vikings", the Vetarbroitar also allowed private businesses even as they pooled their resources to benefit their societies. Some Vetarbroitar organised corporations to create their own colonies or build their own armies, even though they also practiced socialist methods to coordinate their resources and avoid hoarding.

Due to a lack of corruption enforced by harsh laws, some Vetarbroitar states managed to achieve a fourth of the Cosmopolitan Empire's wealth, as they did not have as much economic strength as the other Galactic states. Most other Vetarbroitar states may not be as rich as other nations in the Galaxy, but due to the people being encouraged to support each other, they have managed to achieve a high degree of equality.

## Culture

Many West Galactics practice a Norse culture, such as the one based on their creator Volandr. Their culture tends to be conservative, religious, warlike, and hostile towards anything related to Earth; molded from years of training for war against the Earth Union, the Nordic State, and other enemies. As a result, collective guilt is a common form of punishment in Vetarbroitar society, especially towards descendants of those who were considered enemies of their ancestors. They also tend to practice a more collective culture, supporting each other's members and the needy to avoid the errors of the Earthlings.

They use their own calendar, language (which became its own family of related languages), and currency, which were based on Norse culture (or Volandr's interpretations). Their currencies are variously known as auro, fê, geld, kronar, re, rean, orir, ril, or credits, depending on which part of the northern Galaxy they live on.

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.

### Reproduction and gender

Like most humans, the Vetarbroitar, mostly reproduce via sex between men and women; however, most of their soldiers were instantly produced via cloning. The Vetarbroitar's attitudes towards sex vary between their different societies: but most of them tend to favour heterosexuals.

Most Vetarbroitar societies tend to be patriarchal in the sense that they favoured men more than women, even though women also had rights as individual citizens who may go anywhere and work in any profession. While the highest women could go in any Vetarbroitar society is being a queen, a president, a top-ranking officer/scientist/technician or a commander; a few Vetarbroitar societies consisted entirely of females, either via their own rules, founded by exiles, or by their mutation making them reproduce without men. These rare matriarchies are isolated from the other Vetarbroitar states, as they associated any matriarchy with the Earth Union's contempt of traditional masculine cultures.

Some extreme-minded Vetarbroitar associate all females with feminism and the Earth Union. Their hatred of them can be so strong, that a few Vetarbroitar societies either banned females from entering their realms, or mutated themselves into an asexual, warlike race of "Splitters". Other Vetarbroitar banish women suspected of hatred against men to isolated planets, to live alone with other misandrists without access to any space travel; and still other Vetarbroitar also banish men who hate women to isolated planets. This practice led to the rise of either the matriarchal planets, or the Splitters who hate women and wage war against the rest of the Galaxy: both of them were isolated by heavy patrols to ensure they will not raise an army to exterminate people. To Vetarbroitar, hatred directed against the other sex or gender is considered a sin associated with American culture, and if left unchecked it might result in armies bent on exterminating men or women.

Marriage or sex with any clone is discouraged, as the resulting children will be more docile and dull-minded.

Polygamy is legal in many Vetarbroitar nations to encourage baby booms, and some richer and more powerful families have concubines (friðla if female, friðill if male). These also led to more deadly fights over inheritance. Several deadly civil wars and interstellar conflicts were the result of polygamous unions that tore the greatest households apart.

### "Earthling" behaviours

While the Vetarbroitar were taught to hate Earth and its people, the Americans are the most despised of all Earthlings to the Vetarbroitar. They also forced themselves never to practice certain distasteful customs or behaviours considered "American" or "Earthling":

* Hatred of the homeless and poor
	+ Vetarbroitar are taught to help the homeless and the poor, as they are considered their fellow kin and brethren. Hatred of the poor is considered an "American sin", and anti-homeless architecture (and anyone who supports those measures) is banned in nearly all Vetarbroitar territories.

* Cartoons, fandoms, video-games
	+ The existence of "fandoms" is also forbidden in Vetarbroitar society, as these groups who love various artistic works are considered bitter, hateful, and unnecessarily and wastefully aggressive. "Fandom" in Vetarbroitar society usually means "someone who loves the evil works of the 21st century", so someone who loves a cartoon character is denounced as a "fan", while a person who loves the Poetic Eddas or a classical novel is accepted as a "lover of art".
	+ "Fans" are often depicted in Vetarbroitar culture as insane cultists hell-bent on dominating everyone else in the names of their cartoon gods: long ago, young people used to harass people they did not like in a practice called "dogpiling". And yet, there are countless Vetarbroitar of all ages and both genders who are fans of their civilisation's propaganda-art and various classical works.
	+ Many of these not-"fans" refuse to enslave people for their movies or books, even though some cults worshipping movies and cartoons emerged and were tolerated as "works of art". However, some of these people who are obsessed with their favourite artistic works even killed their rivals over not liking their favourite works, and such murderers and cultists are then hunted down by the rest of society as "traitors". Their violence is sometimes mentioned as the Vetarbroitar civilisation's own equivalent of "dogpiling".
	+ Many Vetarbroitar nations banned cartoons and videogames, preferring to force their own people to become more physical and old-fashioned. That kind of media became associated with the disliked American civilisation and its ills.
* Racial supremacy
	+ Although other races also practice forms of supremacy, the "White supremacy", "Black supremacy", and "Arab supremacy" movements were the most notorious of all supremacist movements in the Vetarbroitar version of Earth history. Regarding "White supremacy" and its effects in America (where the Vetarbroitar got their information about Earth from), Russia, the Nordic State, and Europe, the Vetarbroitar were so appalled by its violence that they considered themselves a completely different race from White people.
	+ They often regard "White people" as a separate race from their own "Vettorisk race". On the other hand, some of their Cospolin allies consider themselves separate from their ancestors.
	+ In spite of this, many Vetarbroitar consider themselves superior to all Earthlings, and hate certain nations and races over historical crimes. Ironically, this defeats their purpose against racial supremacy by creating a new form of racial supremacy against all Earthlings.
* Internet trolling
	+ In Vetarbroitar schools and propaganda, this is considered one of the causes behind World War III, as troublemakers lured people into violence for their twisted amusement. To prevent this, Vetarbroitar force themselves and their children to spend more time outside and use classical arts, and people who spend a lot of time on holograms, television, and computers are often denounced as "potential Earthlings".
* Edginess
	+ Mischief of any form. This is stereotyped as an "American behaviour", where young Earthlings often cause ruin for the sake of amusement, influenced by popular culture and poverty. To stop this, Vetarbroitar were harshly trained to be obedient and helpful to each other.
* "Freedom of speech"
	+ In place of this, most Vetarbroitar societies tend to keep their peoples fanatically obedient to the Aesir, where people are kept content by sports, art, and various social programmes to prevent people from becoming poor or dissatisfied. They think "freedom of speech" is an excuse for people to murder other people or disrupt society by being a rebel, and such people can tear and disrupt society apart.
	+ This has intensified to an extreme extent that some Vetarbroitar even hate the existence of freedom itself, fearing it as a gateway to chaos and disorder. To stop "freedom", they torture themselves by making themselves more obedient and aggressive, until they only think of violence against Earthlings. Some even go as far as scream and mutilate themselves over even "weak thoughts", while others make themselves behave in a robotic manner.
* Stock exchanges
	+ Their hatred of stock exchanges and their support for the poor would had made them a great ally for the communist Marixai, but since they also hate communism, only a few Vetarbroitar star systems aided the Marixai in their campaign to conquer the Galaxy. Even then, their paths in the eastern Galaxy were halted when the other civilisations defeated their armies.
* Pundits
	+ Pundits (or people giving commentaries for articles) are associated with American television shows, and are also banned. Ironically, the ban does not really exist as many Vetarbroitar often give commentaries about people who behave poorly, or about other nations in the Galaxy.

* Not explaining
	+ In many of the online posts used as samples of American society, people leave offensive or angry statements. When others ask them they either not respond or they answer with a furious curse or a joke. Even though this attitude is common among many people around the world (as they care more about wanting to be heard), Vetarbroitar consider this to be characteristic of American culture, so every Vetarbroitur is obligated to explain their actions and statements to avoid this outrageous attitude.
* Anonymity
	+ Many of the perpetrators in the samples were anonymous people, encouraged by their privacy to unleash their worst sentiments. Therefore, Vetarbroitar refuse to be anonymous to avoid becoming like them.
* Justifying poverty in any form
	+ The Vetarbroitar believed that poverty is caused by inequality and lack of access to career opportunities, and it causes people to commit wrong things such as rebellion, crime, violence, theft, and extremism. To prevent poverty, many Vetarbroitar societies focused on cooperation to teach their peoples to help the poor, but they also punish anyone suspected of wasting social aid; this results in a more collective society. This also causes many of them adopt socialistic policies.
	+ According to Vetarbroitar records, the two Americas had different ways to promote poverty. In the American Federation, poverty is supported as a method to protect the rich, and to force the commoners to work to avoid starvation and laziness. In the United States, poverty is reduced (or increased) by social programmes, but some people refuse to work, relying almost entirely on social aid to practice a lifestyle bent on hedonism.

* Laughing at others' suffering
	+ A lot of ancient Internet posts are about inconsiderate users who tell others, "cope", "cry some more", or "boo hoo", and other mocking phrases. This is considered representative of the "primitive" behaviour of Earthlings.
	+ To avoid this poor behaviour, Vetarbroitar are supposed to help other people to raise themselves above the Earthlings' crude standards. But if they are near their enemies, they do not forgive or forget.
* "Boomer culture"
	+ Surviving American records depicted American society as selfish and inconsiderate. For example, any support for the poor was denounced as "communism", their comics are hideous, people dislike marriage in general and abuse their spouses, and bullying was commonplace.
	+ To avoid these, almost everyone supports the poor, faces looked more realistic in artworks, divorce was legal, and bullying was frowned upon (unless said person was an Earthling, so they were guilty). Many Vetarbroitar also avoid excessive wealth and kept the environment clean out of fear of becoming "Boomers". People suspected of being "Boomers" or practicing "Boomer culture" were branded as public enemies.
	+ Some Vetarbroitar nations try to make themselves into "workers' states", republics that focus on making conditions more liveable for workers complete with social aid and a high degree of social mobility and democracy. Their leaders warned that "any attempts to hurt the workers will invite the communists", so they believed that improving their society will prevent the communists from taking over their countries and building an empire.

## Religion

### Volandism

Most Vetarbroitar practice an extreme version of the polytheistic Norse religion that sharply differs from the one used by most Unmarked Asatruar in the galactic south. It was mostly influenced by Nordic State propaganda, which incorporated inversions of Christian elements. To differentiate it from the Asatru practiced by other Norse peoples throughout the Galaxy, foreigners and dissidents refer the Vetarbroitar national religion as "Volandism". Its key elements include:

* Odin and Freyr are the highest gods, Loki as the god of evil, and he and Surtr are regarded as something like Satan
	+ Therefore in Vetarbroitar society, the veneration of Loki is regarded a criminal offence.
	+ Some people even think that the Volandists are more like monotheists, because they worship Odin very often.
	+ Many Vetarbroitar even declare Odin, "King of the Universe" or "King and Lord of the Vetarbroitar".
* The Aesir and the Vanir gods should be referred to as "the True Gods", and must be given absolute respect and honour
* A strict set of rules or constitutions that varied by tribe
* Four evil empires existed in history: Babylon, Rome, America, and the Earth Union.
* Never emulate the evils, cultures, mannerisms, or even artworks of the Four Empires and the Four Powers.
* The medieval churches (especially for persecuting pagans), the Byzantine Empire, all Christian and Muslim empires, and Nazi Germany are all counted as continuations of "Rome"; while the Soviet Union and every communist and fascist regime are considered as extensions of "America". Therefore, Charlemagne is demonised in that religion as a medieval equivalent of Hitler.
* The Nordic State is still an extension of Rome, as much of its society was influenced by Nazi Germany. Therefore it is every Vetarbroitar's duty to eliminate it and purge Scandinavia of its unholy presence.
* It is an utmost duty to avenge the sins of your ancestors, and to destroy the enemies of your ancestors to do so.
* Violence is a better form of justice than mercy. Revenge and justice are better than peace and tolerance.

* Some heroes, such as Widukind and Ivar the Boneless, are venerated and hailed in Vetarbroitar culture as saints (heilagar) or holy men. Saint Widukind (Heilag Vidukindor) is honoured for his resistance against Charlemagne's massacres, and Saint Ivar is celebrated as an inspiration for rage and cruelty against Earth and its evildoers.
* In spite of their dislike of Abrahamic religions, they admired certain people of the Abrahamic religions as examples of justice to learn from. Among those heroes include Saladin and Berke Khan, who stopped massacres.
* To celebrate the deaths of people who died from pandemics, genocides, purges and punitive campaigns, or conquests is to align yourself with evil people. Justifying their deaths as "for a greater good", "a necessary sacrifice", or "paving the way to a better world" is to curse and dishonour these victims, and wish the dominance of their murderers to destroy and subjugate all life under their rule.
	+ Some Vetarbroitar even list some or all the victims of these deaths, trillions of them in total, as honorary einherjar. They wanted these victims' ancient souls to rise from the dead, to punish their murderers and their descendants, and destroy the planet Earth to punish it for all natural disasters and pandemics.
	+ To honour them, some Vetarbroitar even created clones that looked and behaved like them, to be trained as soldiers in their war against Earth. Other Vetarbroitar hold yearly feasts in front of colourful wooden or paper shrines to the souls of the dead, calling upon them to rise from Helheim and slay the Earthlings who oppressed them.
	+ They wanted the dead -- seen as innocent victims denied from life by an evil world/natural disasters by evil nature gods/evil ecosystem -- to live their lives again, so they believed in reincarnation for these souls to be reborn among the Vetarbroitar. When they did mass cloning to populate the Milky Way, they also used magic rites to call upon the souls of the victims to enter the clones' bodies.
	+ To accept their deaths (or even say that this is a good thing) is to invite their deaths to come and kill you.
	+ However, as Nazis, fascists, and communists are considered the same as the "murderers of history", the dead among them will never be accepted as honorary einherjar, but as eternal enemies of the Vetarbroitar in Loki's hell.

### Other religions and atheists

Some Vetarbroitar practice other beliefs:

* 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.
* Christianity is common and scattered among the galactic west to northeast, usually from contact with American Unmarkeds. They carved their own isolated fiefs away from the Norse brethren, or existed independently from curious peoples who discovered it from history books. Still others became Christians to escape the strict Volandist life, or rebel like their pagan ancestors rebelled against their Christian authorities.
* Atheism exists in star systems scattered among the Norse states. Some Vetarbroitar became atheist out of curiosity; others due to discontent or doubt with their gods; and some became atheist after reading history books and being angry with what their ancestors had done.

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 Volandists, Christians, antitheists, other pagans, and anyone who sought peace between the different religions. In many Galactic Norse states and communities, Christianity (or monotheism in general) and atheism were viewed with contempt, hence the many negative terms towards their adherents. This was due to Christianity's history of persecuting pagans with mass murder and extermination; and atheism being associated with communism and the Earth Union, the Galactics' ultimate enemy. While a multitude of names existed for warmongers among them, Christian warmongers were known as "crusaders", and atheist warmongers were known as "antitheists".

Due to the volatile nature of Galactic society and dealing with different religions, many Galactics are more careful not to offend other beliefs, including atheists as well, to avoid getting killed in another brawl. Some Galactics are even more diplomatic towards people of other beliefs, preferring to survive instead of getting killed. As the Farsiders became more dominant, they targeted these Galactics for not killing people accused of being enemies of their ancestors.

## Relations with other peoples

The Vetarbroitar were notorious for their bitterness against Earth, its history, and the Earth Union. They believe that the Earthlings are out there to wage war against their freedoms, to force them and enslave them to obey their ideologies, or to exterminate them and plunge the Galaxy into unending backwardsness and war. 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". Much of their distrust of all these groups was due to indoctrination from Volandr's propaganda, which depicted the peoples of Earth and their history as "utterly evil".

Aside from their notorious hatred of America, they also hated the countries of China, Russia, and Arabia, accusing them (the "Four Powers") of attempting to take over all of Earth and imposing a global tyranny. However, they are more friendly to Indians, Australians, and Mexicans, as their countries prevented any of the Four Powers from dominating and oppressing all of Earth. Together, they are known as the Þrisvardeild/Thrisvar ("Threefold") Brotherhood, celebrated for preserving other countries' freedom and independence. Some artists depict the einherjar with brown or dark skin to honour them. They also welcome Hindus, Shintos, and other polytheists and "pagans" to live with them as neighbours. Most Vetarbroitar let people from these three nations stay on different planets and separate colonies, while some allowed them to intermarry with their people. They also consider Native Americans to be "the only good Americans" and "the rightful rulers of America", sparing them from attack.

Even though the Nordic State produced a portion of their ancestors, it was considered a duty to all Vetarbroitar to exterminate it and its people for its association with Rome and its church. The same treatment was done to all Nazis, again for their Roman influences. In spite of their hatred of Nazis and the Nordic State, racism is a huge problem affecting many Vetarbroitar societies, fuelled by years of propaganda against Earth and its peoples; this led to many Vetarbroitar seeing themselves as "superhuman", superior against all other humans.

Many Vetarbroitar believe that certain races are born to be "impossibly intelligent" than other races, and they considered themselves to be the most gifted of all humans.

The American diaspora, two other Galactic cultures, strongly dislike and hate the Vetarbroitar because the latter strongly hate America and view it as an "evil" civilisation. Other reasons include the Vetarbroitar dislike of Christianity, their cooperation and aid for the poor and aversion to being poor (which Americans accuse of being "communist"), their rejection of casual sex, pornography, and "being edgy", and their hatred towards so many behaviours driving them towards a restricted lifestyle. However, certain aspects of their society made them resentingly appealing to the Americans: the Amecons admired the Vetarbroitar for the militant stance, their traditional Germanic culture, and their conservative attitudes; and the Amelios approved the Vetarbroitar desire to enact justice against Earth's sins and their somewhat socialist economies.

## Terminology

### Official

While Vetarbroitar are commonly known as "Norse" because of their culture, other terms for them include:

* Vetor - acceptable short term
* Vettish - from "Vetarbroitar".
* Nynorskar
* Volandrings

### Positive

* Stjarnaflings - Starchildren
* Navigators
* Starfarers
* Frelsbörn - Children of Freedom
* Closest to the Gods
* Children of the Gods
* Instrument of the Aesir
* Heirs of the Aesir
* Under the True Northstar
* The Illuminated
* Blessaðar
* Réttlætisbörn - Children of Justice
* Fegurðarberar - Bearers of Beauty
* Hreinhjörtar - Pure of Heart
* The Radiant Ones
* The Hallowed Ones
* The Hallowed
* Scourge of the Gods
* Children of the Gods
* The Hammerfolk
* The Hammer of Thor
* The Will of the Aesir
* The Will of Odin
* Superhumans/Overfolk
* Einherilings
* The Judgment of the Aesir
* The Coming Destruction

### Negative

* Heathens
* Space Commies
	+ Because of their hatred of poverty and socialist programmes used to prevent any form of poverty. In spite of their practice of socialist methods, they utterfy reject communist movements.
* Norse Commies
* Space Vikings
* Bloody Vikings
* Murderers
* Soulless Ones
* Prudes
* Foul Pagans
* Enemies of God
* Enemies of Christ
* Raiders
* Barbarians
* Star-demons
* Nazis
	+ Americans and Unionites used this term to mock the Vetarbroitar's lack of certain behaviours and their obsessive hatred of Earth and America.
* Superhumans/Overlords/Overfolk
* Merica-Haters
* Race Traitors
* Anti-Whites
	+ This was used by Nazis and fascists across the Galaxy against the Vetarbroitar, because many Vetarbroitar refuse to consider themselves as "White", associating the term (and its people) with fascist movements on Earth's history.
* North Korea
	+ Due to their lack of certain behaviours and harsh punishments against various forms of entertainment perceived to be "American" or "Earthling".
* ViKim Jong Il
* 1984 Vikings

## Trivia

* "Vetarbroitar" is derived from the Icelandic word "vetrarbraut", which means "galaxy" or "winter road".
* Volandr, the supposed creator of the Vetarbroitar, was named after Völund or Wayland the Smith, a character from Germanic and Norse mythology.
* The Vetarbroitar were inspired by the author's reactions towards various news articles, historical atrocities, and Internet trolls and extremists.

## See also

* Neo-Norse glossary
* Arnadjanai, so-called "Nordic aliens".
* Freyrgardians, their counterparts in the Rabydosverse, but they can be more diverse and peaceful.
* Multadlo, imitations whose civilisations defied their Vigefionian creators and oppressors.
* American Galactics, the American diaspora descended from colonists and clones of the two American nations before World War III.

## External links

* Norse names for the constellations
* More Norse names for the stars