Abnatiousans

Synopsis
Abnatiousans are tall hunchbacked bipedal, bimanual humanoids. Their bodies are exceptionally adaptable to alien environments because of an extremely well evolved immune system. As a result, Abnatiousans can travel very freely among the other planets of the galaxy, because very few if any illnesses can effect them. Because of their advanced health, their lifespan is about 240 Terran years. Abnatiousans who live on other planets are almost always there as hired as health workers. Shortly after the Raegorn Wars they were invaded and split among the Polarians, Arxan Terrans, and Virtisans in the Abnatious War. Abnatious itself was strategically valuable to the Virtisan genetic research division, due to its vast array of potentially lethal bioweapons. The war was seen by many as the beginning of the long Polarian-Drakeousan rivalry.

Type
Biological / Cyborg / Robotic / Superorganism / Silicate / Energetic / Paracivilization

Appearance
Abnatiousians are a fairly standard humanoid race, except their arms are very long and broad, and their body was hunchbacked and skinny, giving the impression of a bird-of-prey's build. Their skin is grey-red. Their language is low and deep, but riddled with shrill vowels. Their faces are broad and bony, like that of an older Terran male, giving the impression of old age even to a young female Abnatiousan. They occasionally walk on all fours, but are largely bipedal, using their muscular legs to traverse land.

Society
Political System - Popular Democracy, majority led. A President would lead for 6 Abnatiousan years then the Vice President would take his/her place,

Social Conditions - Equality among creeds, genders. Spiritualist-Secular belief system majority with little need for dissent. After the Virtisan occupation, social conditions on Abnatious degraded considerably, and dissidents were met with overbearing force. Eventually the conditions on the planet returned to that of prosperity due to Virtisan investment in the planet, and increased Zyperium trade helped fuel the socio-economic revival.

Capitol
Abnatious, later Virtis.

Head of State
Name - President: N/A

Role - Domestic policy, defense fleet movements.

Advisers
Name - N/A

Ockt
Name - N/A

Role - N/A

History
Abnatiousans as a species evolved much earlier than other sentient civilizations, and their planet is one largely dominated by microbes. Abnatiousans are regularly exposed to incredible amounts of varied viruses, bacterium, and invasive unicellular Eukaryota, and hence have the best naturally occuring immune systems in the galaxy, and one of the fastest adapting. As a result, nearly all biochemical warfare waged against Abnatiousans is rendered useless. Abnatiousans lived on a arid planet that was not separated by oceans, and thus their early nation states were exposed to imperialistic tendoncies, and there were very few isolated areas. The result was that the Abnatiousan culture was largely homogeneous across their planet. Their nation-states were united into a world government by the Luzelrae Federation Coalition and was later renamed to the Abnatiousan Republic in what would be considered to be the Terran equivalent of the early-industrial era. Said world government went on to exist and peacefully rule the planet in various forms until joining the end of the Abnatiousan War and subsequent Virtisan occupation.

Abnatious was an independent nation before and throughout the 1st and 2nd Alliance timelines, until the Virtisan-Polarian invasion and annexation of the planet shortly after the Raegornian Wars. It was mostly for the biochemical and resource wealth of the system and surrounding nebulae, and the pretense for the invasion was the Interventionist calls for expanded Virtisan-Polarian influence, however in practice the invasion was to prevent Drakeous from forming an alliance on the Polarian boarder. During the occupation, the planet's dire social conditions were screened and filtered out by the Virtisan Democracy, preventing any dissent from growing within the population. The Abnatiousan army that surrendered after the fight was not disbanded, but instead given a very large salary and essentially became mercenaries of the Virtisan state. After 26 years of economic depression and governmental oppression, things began looking up due to a boom in the Zypherium trade, and Abnatious's location between other homeworlds in the region. The trade infrastructure and massive Virtisan investment into both military and civil infrastructure in the system increased the people's approval of the Virtisans, and their political autonomy approached that of Ragonia's. The Abnatiousans became an integral part of the Virtisan empire's privilaged population and middle class. The planet remained prosperous as a shipyard, trade hub, and military testing system well into the colonial period, and even up until the Great War. Abnatious was not one of the planets seized in the Great War, instead the people of Abnatious largely approved of the actions taken by then Head Governor Starwall.