Fiction:Eranian Collective

Basic Description
The Eranian collective is a budding tier 4 civilisation which is making huge bounds in the realms of science and technology, far surpassing many other civilisations of their own size and age. They were forced from their homeworld by the Poras, and returned to it scant decades later with new technologies and took it back, exterminating the poras. During their time exiled from their homeworld community and personal ability were the most important factors for survival, and their current government reflects that. THey are a pseudo-communistic meritarchy, meaning all men are equal save for their ability, and those who can contribute most therefore get the most in return. They are a Chaotic neutral race, unwilling to follow laws for their own sake, but willing to use the laws other races impose upon themselves against them. While the Eranians are physically weak, their emphasis on technology more than makes up for it, minimising the effect of their frail phyique and allowing them to think their way out of a situation, as they are far more able to do.

Government
Leadership Within Eranian society, your place in life is determined by your capabilities, those with comparative strength work in mines or what little construction is not handled by machines, those who excel at mathematics become mathematicians (Whether they wish to be so or otherwise), and those who show good leadership and acumen become politicians. The current leadership of the Collective consists of "The Best Capable", or at this time High Professor Jervas, and a council of those whom have been declared second place to him in matters of leadership and governing. This council has control of every aspect of the Collective, from the millitary to simple food production, however there is one council member specialising in each aspect deemed important to the survival of the species as a whole. There are also a single governor upon each planet within the empire. This governer is tasked with the day-to-day running of matters on that planet. Economy The economy of the Eranians is simple, each day any given citizen is assigned a set amount of coupons depending upon your place in society, which can be used to purchase a set amount of either "Food", "Resources" or "Leasurely items" from a central stockpile computer. These can be saved or spent immediately, as they have no expiration date. However, they recognise the majority of other empires do not accept this as a valid form of currency, and do maintain a meager treasury of sporebucks for the purposes of trade with other species. Religon The collective has a very pessimistic view of religion of any kind. They are a highly empirical species, and believe that anything that cannot be proven is nought but sophistry and illusion. There are no theists within the collective, and should any arise they will likely be either banished or assigned the most menial of positions within society. They view all religious organisations as foolish and almost pathetic, and are not afraid to voice their views (Which does impede relations with other species a fair bit)

Technology
The Eranian Collective places an incredibly high value on technological development of any kind, and indeed focus the vast majority of their resources towards research. Each child within the Collective aspires to achieve the capabilities test scores that would allow them to become scientists, and each scientist does his job well and with great enjoyment of it (And incredibly high amounts of "Resources" coupons). As a result, the level of technology that the Collective can boast far outstrips that of the average for any empire of their size, age or stature. Forms The Erianians have developed a wide variety of technology over the past few decades, having developed nanotechnology with incredible speed, and approaching hyperspatial research with imagination and ingenuity which does the species proud. However, the most common form of technology they employ is antimatter, using it to fuel their expansion with the huge amounts of energy they require to continue their research. Antimatter generators power their cities, antimatter drives propel their ships, and antimatter bombs often atomise their enimies. On their homeworld of Teros there are huge fields covering a tenth of the planetary surface, in which there are hundreds upon hundreds of particle colliders, each one generating antimatter safely and constantly, to power the slowly expanding collective. However, their research into other areas has not been completely stagnant. Hyperspatial energy has fascinated Eranian scientists for years now, and each day more breaktrhoughs are made into the harnessing of Hypermatter for technological purposes. However, dispite their best efforts, the scientists are still far from understanding how to safely use Hyperspatial energy, and have in fact accidentally destroyed (Or disintergrated, or teleported...) entire planets in their research into it.