Fiction:Goyak Empire

The Goyak Empire is an interstellar group of allied states primarily consisting of members of the Goyak species.

Government
The Goyak Empire as a whole is a democratic republic, while the smaller states that make it up rule themselves in various different ways. Each state will have a page eventually; this section mainly covers the empire itself.

The empire's leader is referred to as a King, even though leaders are elected and fewer than half have even been male. Aside from four more individuals below the King who come with the King as backup in case of assassination (three known to the public, the other kept hidden), all other government officials are elected as well, except for those specific to each state--including representatives, diplomats, and state leaders--who are selected according to the individual state's laws.

Officially, the Goyak Empire's leaders and politicians should always be Goyak, but there is no actual empire law stating that a member of another sapient race can't be elected as long as they were born in a state within the empire. Some states are more specific with their laws, however.

(Deeper explanation of how power is distributed and how corruption is handled coming soon)

History
Originally from the planet Iropla, the Goyaks were driven off their home planet by an unknown empire while they were in the midst of a technological renaissance during which they invented faster-than-light travel. While many of the details were lost to time, it is known that they as a race spent ten years fleeing and eventually found what they named the Domum System and settled on two life-supporting planets, which they named Sanctu and Miracta.

350 years ago, rising population made these two planets no longer sufficient to sustain the Goyak race, so the different governments agreed to pool their resources and spread out to other systems using their interstellar technology that had gone unused since the race had settled. They were initially separate, leading to conflicts over which governments owned what planets or star systems; they eventually decided to join together in a manner comparable to the European Union so they could have a more clear and universal set of rules to avoid conflict, leading to the official founding of the Goyak Empire 300 years ago.

173 years ago, political tension almost caused the empire to break apart; however, they were suddenly attacked by another empire, the nomadic Passans, who were interested in claiming some of their planets to use as outposts for refueling their ships. The Goyak empire retaliated, but the Passans turned out to be very powerful for the small size of their fleet; the Goyaks managed to chase off the Passans after two years of fighting, but they had suffered heavy losses. Political tension was forgotten as they focused on rebuilding and making sure they would never be vulnerable to attack like that again.

They resumed expanding 3 years after the war with the Passans ended. Today, the occupy over a thousand planets, moons, and asteroids in 83 solar systems, making use of anything they can make livable to support their growing population.

Technology
The Goyak Empire's states share their technology with each other to avoid any one state from having power over the others. This section is incomplete.
 * The Goyak Empire uses interstellar vessels propelled by the natural flow of Mystys throughout the galaxy, which they catch with sails.
 * The Goyak Empire has access to transporters similar to those in Star Trek; however, only large ships with enough space to support the required energy to use them have them.
 * Through study of Dark Gravity, the Goyaks have been able to put artificial gravity within their ships with no need for rotating sections or controlled acceleration.
 * The Goyak Empire has access to complex cybernetics that can link directly with the nervous system, allowing things such as artificial eyes for the blind and artificial ears for the deaf that work just as well as the real thing.
 * The Goyak Empire has successfully learned to use Mystys that has built up in crystals to power entire cities; however, they have yet to successfully scale it down enough to power ships without causing them to explode.