Ragon Empire

The Ragon Empire is one of the two superpower nations within the known Andromeda Galaxy alongside the Kiellar Command. It is dominated by the Ragons; a reptilian, carnivorous race that is best known for farming and consuming sentients. The Empire and its people are universally feared and hated by all the other species and nations, especially those that have suffered under the Ragon claw. It is currently at war with the Command.

## Ragon Empire

### Incorporated Species

Ragon, unknown number of livestock species

## Government

The Ragon Empire is headed by it's Empress, the Matriarch of the Imperial House of Yashal. Over it's long history various houses have held the title of Empress making the current monarchy's dynasty one in a long series. Below her are various Queens governing entire sectors and below those lesser nobility. This form of feudal government comes with it's own form of house rivalries with what seems an ever lasting struggle for supremacy. This struggle starts at the lowest level of government through the Matriarchal Assembies in which the dominant female of a house or her representative advises and in some cases legislates matters of state with in municipalities. The general custom of power is that the house consisting of the most members holds sway over the others who serve as satellites of their influence. This base level of . vernmenther complicated by corporate interests with the houses controlling interstellar enterprises finding influence on various worlds and with that influence the potential to challenge the present Queenship of the sector. Due to the wars with the Kiellar Command this power structure has seen considerable transfers of power with the colonies experiencing the most societal shifts- woman who typically hold positions of office working in fields usually considered beneath them and houses that once held influence by numbers finding that influence diminished by the wars due to lose of lives in naval engagements where the Ragon physical prowess can not be utilized.

## Culture

### Philosophy

Ragon society of the present era is one built around philosophies from Ysier's Cold War era. Following a Materialist victory in that conflict the Ragon began looking at the world 'as it is' rather then 'how it should be'. Everything has the value the Ragon give it- no higher power dictates right or wrong; nor that one scale has a chosen place in some immortal plan. Nature it's self is the only gauge, and nature is brutal. Sentience evolves from a species interaction with it's environment and thus is not removed from nature. The Ragon are predators, and should thus act in that manner. Laws, customs, and polity exist only to make this existence easier but if it deviates from nature all will suffer for it is not the evolutionary place of Ragon to be more or less then what they have through struggle become. Due to this all other sentient life has places in interstellar ecology with the Ragon deeming most prey or rival predators. Though as with any population there exist those with different views. The houses responsible for the major food industries of the Empire fall in line with those that are 'in slight denial' according to Ragon social conservatives though these industries have become so pervasive as to be essential to the Empire's economy. Domestication is by them seen as a civil (or as some Ragon would say 'weak') way to fill the role of predator. To these more liberal minded Ragon while sentients are not removed from the natural order they do hold the capacity to express ideas and complex though lesser animals cannot. As such how they are approached should be adjusted for they present a greater threat. While radical factions would see this as reason to exterminate other sentient life the more liberal see it as reason to make the natural order more comfortable. Some take a 'predator obligation' philosophy that sees it as a Ragon's place to combat illness, starvation, and poverty through the control of prey species population levels by way of consuming excess numbers while responsibly keeping their own levels in check through various means of elective population controls. In such they often think of themselves as bringers of some enlightenment regarding a prey's existence. The companies themselves however mostly use this ideal as propaganda for their operations where sentients and nonsentients alike are kept in conditions that are economically viable for profit but not typically civil. Still the liberals see it as a move in the right direction and the conservative certainly can not deny the benefit of these industries.

## Technology

* Active Denial System
* Ceramic Shielding
* Cryogenics
* Biometric Identification
* Electronic Tagging (used in hunting)
* Genetic Manipulation (splicing, mutation, etc)
* Matter Converters
* Microwave Pulse Emitters
* Motorized Servo Exosuits