Comparian

The **Comparians** were the native species of Zanra, the third planet of the Alae Republic.

## History

The Comparians' ancestors originally evolved on a desert island that would later become known as Tes̈a (meaning Capitol), where they lived for hundreds of years. However, conditions soon became unlivable as the population grew and the people wanted to leave. The ruling class refused to accept any requests of leaving, so a guerilla civil war broke out and the people were divided into three groups by the end - those who left to go east, those who left to go west and those who remained.

Those who went east landed on the continent they named Comparia, whilst those who went west landed on the continent they named Zezo. The three societies grew in size and separately from each other, with each group developing differently evolutionary wise as well. Eventually, Zezo and Comparia, after many years, formed a treaty together and combined into one society.

However, after two hundred and fifty years of this government, all the Comparians whose ancestry came from Zezo mysteriously all died out, causing chaos across the planet. The cause was a virus linked back to the society left on Tes̈a - wanting to wipe out those they saw as genetically superior, so they could invade the rest of the planet. A war broke out between the Comparians and those from Tes̈a, which was tougher than anticipated as the Comparian population had not grown very much and Tes̈a's technology was vastly superior.

It was at this point that the Comparians first met the Arkhers, who had already developed space travel. They had noticed what had been going on at Zanra - and offered their help, meaning that in the second year of the war, the Arkhers officially joined and helped secure a Comparian victory. Zanra and Arkha later formed the Zanra-Arkha Alliance after much debate amongst the population, decided by a referendum, with 67% of Comparians and 71% of Arkhers agreeing to reunite.

The Comparians' first encounter with Catalasts was around c.6037 when Comparian scouts arrived on Catalist, unaware of any life. Although there was some tension between the two species, a deal was brokered and Catalist became the third planet to join the Zanra-Arkha Alliance, forcing the government to reorganise itself as the Alae Republic.

By 10,500, the Comparians had flown beyond Zanra and were present on every planet in the Republic, such as Catalist and Arkha (TV: *Out of Sight, Out of Mind*) - the same as the other native predominant species of the Republic; more specifically - the Catalasts and the Arkhers.

## Trivia

* Comparian words, on first glance, may seem to be a bit randomly spelt, but there is a consistent logic to its vowels. A makes a "ah" sound, E makes an "eh" sound, I makes an "I" sound, O makes an "oh" sound, U makes an "oo" sound and Y makes an "ee" sound. This means that they are spelt using Comparian orthology - and *not* English orthology - resulting in names such as Vallaly being spelt using the Y, and not as Vallalee.
	+ Furthermore, every Comparian word ends with a vowel, but this is not also true of Arkher or Catalast words. Any supposedly Comparian word *not* ending in a vowel can be assumed to just be a English translation instead. This extends to the name Comparian itself.