Vincia

Vincia from space

## Location Information

Vincia is the homeworld of the Vincian people, genetically perfected humanoids who have gone beyond normal limitations of genetic randomness. The planet has a diameter of around 142.984 km / 88.846 mi at the equator, and a diameter of about 133.708 km / 83.082 mi at the poles.

Vincia is currently divided into 145 City States, which are country sized locales named after their most prominent city.

It is also the location of Laplace's Demon, a unrealistically massive edifice that is built around Vincia.

Locations visited by the Ironclads:

* Caserta

## The People

The Vincian people are genetically modified females who are free to pursue their passions and excel at whatever they seek to master.

Their economic structure empowers careers for those who seek it, but they also have universal income, empowering their citizens to follow their passions to truly unlock their potential.

## History and Background

The people of Vincia are actually the origin of the terran race. Over time, the Vincians grew a vast technological empire, and were considered one of the most dominant species in the universe.

One key defining moment in their history was when they ‘solved’ genetics. Originally, this effort was to prevent genetic flaws, defects, and mutations that would harm the quality of life of children and their parents. However, once the ability to modify a child was successful, lines began to blur of what was harmful to the quality of life. If the child’s life could be even better if they were taller, or had a certain color of hair, why not change that too? Why not make that child the most successful, best version of itself its genetics could allow?  Soon they were able to create and genetically modify ‘full potential beings’ - referred to as potentials.

This breakthrough came with heavy cost. Parents with the means to influence the doctors of Vincia began to select traits at the cost of others, and modification for quality of life devolved into selective breeding of their own children. The repercussions were without number, destroying the balance of competition across the world within a single generation. A younger generation with unparalleled athletic, mental, and charismatic abilities made the hard work of many who came before them obsolete.

Despite the best efforts of the rulers of the planet what came next was unavoidable - civil war. Those who lacked the gifts of the potentials sought to restore order by destroying the technology and killing off those who had reaped its unfair benefits. Those in opposition wanted to keep their arguably ill gotten power and grow it further.

As unavoidable the onset of war had been, the result of the war was equally predictable. With the advanced technology the Vincians had at their disposal, their weapons were those of global destruction. The unbridled power of those weapons clashing resulted in the near extinction of all life on Vincia. In the end, it came as little surprise that the potentials possessed an edge over natural born Vincians, and they were able to subjugate the rebels.

The Savoy family, wealthy before potentials and nigh unopposable after abusing the technology, rose to power, and claimed rulership over Vincia. The matriarch of the family, Odoacer, decreed 2 Vincia defining excommunications: First, she banished the non-potentials from their homeworld, doing away with the genetically inferior. Secondly, she banished all men from the world, so that no non-potential could be born without leveraging the now royal family controlled breeding labs.

The decisions were highly contested, but with her opponents at their weakest, no one could stop Odoacer. The non-potentials were exiled. One of these banished groups landed on Earth, bringing alien tech to the ancient and developing world (and creating wonders far too advanced for their age).

For centuries, the Savoy family maintained an iron grip over the world of Vincia. While the gifts of the potentials led to rapid restoration of the world, it has yet to restore itself to its former glory. Or it hadn’t, until the fate of the race forever changed: Lauralei the Truthspeaker was born.

Lauralei grew to be a power to rival and then overshadow the Savoy family, who eventually ceded power to her. Many disgruntled members of that once powerful family strove to assassinate her and regain control of the world, but to little avail, despite injuring her on several occasion. Now a galactic power house, Vincia is once again a glorious world with unlocked potential beyond what it has ever known.

## Other Details

Current location of the Ironclads.

If training in the martial arts, there are 2 combat styles native to Vincia:

* Terrestrial Lama, a blade based combat style which leverages dagger sized weapons, rapid footwork, and fast blows, which look to disable your opponent by assaulting their joints / ligaments.
* Zero Grav Sottomettere, a fighting style leveraging strong blows to launch away opponents in low or zero G, while positioning for a submission hold