Board Thread:Fiction Universe Discussion/@comment-5080468-20170728160023/@comment-4991685-20170728183524

Another example would be when colonists come and partially a settle a world inhabited by prespacefaring natives, such as with the Drodo colony of. Here the Drodo colonists live in cities and in nearby villages while the rest of the world is occupied by primitive but large Silvan kingdoms.

As for planetary unification-- yes, it is common and its also a trope that often bothers me, as it tends to lead to the lame "one species, one culture" thing. It doesn't make sense in the majority of cases for there to be only one culture amid an entire species, or even for one to be clearly dominant (in terms of population if not influence). Its a trope I tried to avoid with the, which is extremely multiethnic (as a nation ruling over an entire species would be) and has all the associated problems of such.