Gol Anocracy

## General Overview

The Gol Anocracy is a small collection of clans that evolved on the world of Gol. This loosely governed empire was founded over one thousand years ago, 1420's by the Warlord "Gol the Unblemished".

Independent historical accounts from both Formican and Suronian sources doubt the authenticity of Gol the Unblemished, with tales and accounts of this warlord being considered semi-mythical.

Both Formican and Suronia have historical and modern experience with raids from the Gol Anocracy, which have been documented for almost five hundred years.

The Gol Anocracy is both part dictatorship, with military and general state decisions being made by the "Kannis", equivalent to an "Emperor" however smaller, domestic issues are also handled democratically be the leaders of each individual clans.

The Gol are characterised by their fast raids on other civilisations, possessing a powerful and unknown transporter beam technology that is rumored to be able to beam through most forms of shielding.

With this technology, Gol ships are designed as smaller, faster "raiders", similar to the ship design philosophy of both the Klingon "Bird of Prey" and the Kazon "Predator Class Raider".

It is well documented how agile these ships perform during raids and the effectiveness of these attacks are somewhat admired on Formican.

Despite these raids, almost nothing is known as Gol society as the Gol practice almost a total isolationist policy. No trade or commerce practices have ever been successful or set up within Gol space.

Physiologically, Formican scientists have speculated that the Gol may share a common genetic heritage with the Roth, both possessing a somewhat feline appearance. It has even been theorised that the Gol and the Roth may have actually evolved on the same planet before separating due to some kind of "cataclysm" in their history.

## Established History

Almost nothing is known about Gol history. The only records and historical sources available to the Commonwealth are both Formican and Suronian.

Both species have depicted that the Gol were a savage, ritualistic species until "Gol the Unblemished" conquered their home planet of Gol.

Historical accounts show that due to the resource-poor environment of their home planet, the population of Gol was kept contained, that was until the Gol discovered the one resource which their world had in abundance, dilithium.

It took many centuries but eventually the Gol learned how to use this dilithium to create warp capable starships and colonised several planets within their space, all of which were mostly devoid of resources as well.

The first documented inclusion of the Gol was almost eight hundred years, when Yaris, a world on the corner what is now Gol Space, was attacked and conquered by the Gol.

Alteans that attempted to assist, found the Gol to have completely razed all the cities on the planet of Yaris, the first true M Class planet encountered by the Gol, and the Gol had savagely murdered the entire population of the planet.

Since that incident, the Gol population has exploded, with the Gol conducting the occasional raids much further then their borders in order to keep a watchful eye on the technology of other species.

History has shown that the Gol Empire only usually plans sustained military action when its population grows to a size that the natural resources of their planets are unable to sustain.

In 2418, the Gol Anocracy annexed the planet of *Mi'kas*, causing the exile of many native Mi'kai, while many others were sold into slavery or straight up murdered and their property stolen. The refugee Mi'kai began a long trek across the Black Eye Galaxy in order to find a new home planet.

In September 2420, the Gol Anocracy enacted an unprovoked raid on the United Commonwealth of Planets with the purpose of gathering information after learning about the organisation from the Formican prisoners they had enslaved. Launching a massive assault against Chion Prime, the Gol forces managed to penetrate the planetary ship in many *Arban Class* raiders, landing troops on the surface.

Commonwealth forces attempted to repel the invaders and a large firefight took place at Harmony's Crossing. After a long struggle, the Gol were forced into a retreat when the new Commonwealth High Guard Fleet, which had just been completed at New Arkhosia Shipyards arrived in orbit to protect the S.S. Trident which had suffered heavy damage attempting to protect the planet. As a result, the Gol retreated back into subspace.