Fiction:Kuto Confederacy

General Information
We try and try, yet the people of the galaxy shun our wisdom.

- Emperor Saylu

The Kuto are a race of mysterious traveling scientists, devoted to spreading knowledge across the universe. Most do not even realize the Kuto exist until they see one of the Ringworlds with their own eyes.

History
The Kuto people have been through alot in the 89XX years they have been around. It has been a long, tragic story of death and lies with just a smidge of good fortune along the way. It all started about 895X years ago, when the nations of Teeli (Kuton Homeworld) came together under one flag after making first contact with an alien race. They came in contact with a massive empire who tried to annex their small homeworld and use its inhabitants as slaves. The Kuto people were taken down in 9 days, reduced to little more than 1/3 of their original population. After 18 years of being under the iron fist of the empire, a rebellion came about and pushed the intruders out of Kuton lands. They used the scattered tech left by the empire to gain a foothold in their galaxy (Who's name noone really remembers). After some 3 hundred years of trading, fighting and winning, they came upon a planet rich with tech, left behind by a ancient empire. On that planet they found the schematics to a "Ringworld" (also called a "Dyson Ring"). Upon that large (50,000 occupants) colony ship returning to their empire, they discovered the empire was beat down and destroyed by a empire called the "Grox". They finally returned to the home system, finding the planet was gone, with a mysterious new asteroid belt where it was supposed to be. They put 2 and 2 together, realizing the planet had been destroyed by these "Grox". The hatred spread throughout the people for the Grox, but was doused by a Kuton by the name of "Yaatu Kaylon" who explained that they were lucky to have their own lives, to continue the species. The people agreed with him and soon began construction of a complex in which they would build these "Ringworlds". After 184 years, the first ringworld was complete. In another 50 years there was another, and another and another. They eventually had 56 ringworlds roaming the stars and galaxies, collecting information and spreading it to better combat the "Grox" and others like them.