Fiction:The Myriad Cultures of the Kraw Galaxy

Under the authority of both the Imperial Bureaucratic and science councils an expedition was sent to the Kraw Galaxy to both examine native cultures and perpare for colonisation. The pressures of the Andromeda war are considered the key link but the main reasion is that the Draconis wanted to test creating an intergalactic wormhole.

Establishment
Imperial date: ID.342.8.21

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"First day, they tell me this project has been in development for... a decade perhaps. Anyway several months ago cartographers noticed communication signals coming from a region that had months before been dark space. Nothing, and now we're getting FTL transmissions of all kinds."

"Anyway the project has changed, they want us to examine this phenomenon and that's when the calibrators found something. Millions of new singularities, out of nowhere. Dark space is empty and black sure but there shouldn't be that many out there, so we locked onto one signature. Cartographers tell me that if their readings are correct we should emerge in some kind of mid-rim. I don't think galaxies spring out of nowhere and I have never heard of a black hole galaxy before. Once the expedition emerges on the other side we can look into it."

Imperial date: ID.342.8.22

We entered the gate last night and the cartographers are not going to believe this: We're in a new galaxy, a mature one. Transmission was sent through so phase Axah of colonisation can begin and the transmissions are very clear and very interesting. There is life and some of the crew are intrigued by several programmes being shown. While we await the initial stages of colonisation i have agreed with Captain Volkamen to meet with local species. Ever since the incident in what is now the Mathist-1 sector Arans has become something of a visionary, she wants to see new life and I don't blame her.

Meeting the Kraw Empire
Imperial date: ID.342.8.28

"I was absent from the journey to what has been identified as the Kraw Empire. One of the cadets decided it would be a very fun idea to to spike my breakfast with laxatives. I spent the whole day as close to a lavatory as possible because of that prankster! The joke's on him though since we had to work double-shifts when Captain Volkamen got back."

"The planet we had arrived on was called Honehronie by the locals. I never liked the colad and apparently temperatures on the planet could reach minus-nine (Thank the Lifefather for endothermia). The Kraw were an intriguing culture and apparently bore similarities to several capitalist protectorates back in Andromeda. They were very vocal about the Delpha Coalition of Planets and there was mention of the Friendly Republic of the Asgord - to which the captain tells me we are heading to next. Like on Alcanti the imperial capital was some distance north without a thermal basin that allowed Minos'Drakon to become so prosperous so far north. As a result we had to warm the expedition up when they got back"

"The captain described the Kraw as 'tiny upright reptiles with curved horns', the formermost word I would not normally consider using. Her analasys was correct when we discovered that the average craw is roughly 40% smaller than a Draconis. The captain agrees that we are to use holofields for the next planet to avoid size intimidation. When she met the emperor, a fellow known as Varkeos. When Arnas entered she found him using some sort of console to pay video games. He was unimpressed by the symphonies Arnas had shown, claiming his people use them to put infants to sleep, although a demonstration of Kraw music didn't go down well either (Medbay records state Corporal Toscatonus was admitted for treatment after a psychological attack brought on by trance music and strobe lighting. He suffered a fit thinking he was back in the the trenches of the Mecha-Wasp war)."

Evaluation
"The Kraw are reminders of many liberal protectorates with emhpasis on entertainment industries and new ideas, however they seem to neglect what many would consider high or classical culture to the point they would consider any of it boring. Trade is still a posibility"
 * Estimated difficulty of cultural enightenment: Moderate
 * Useful aspects to the Imperium: Entertainment, creative arts, economics.
 * Chances of accepting Pax Draconica: Low

Meeting the Friendly Republic of the Asgord
Imperial Date: ID.342.9.3

"I have to say this has been the most traumatic day in my life. The term 'friendly' is an understatement in the highest degree. While they were enthusiastic when we came on approach the dignitary - A woman named Telia - Actualyl opened the shuttle door from the inside (before we had activated our holofields) commenting, and i quote "You're so cute and big". Cute? Cute? They practically forced themselves in and had the nerve to pet us. Arnas had the idea of showing our dignitary a Krann (Why Arnas insisted on bringing the thing i don't know but it was worth it). I could hear Arnas groaning when Telia claimed everyone was a s 'friendly' as she was and she was not understating. As we walked out we were swarmed by these Asgord, all of them wanting to pet us.

"We also learned that they are atheist, claiming that Dakon was not ral (Their views would not matter anway). Not even a roar from the captain or a shot from a fusion pistol scared them off, I was glad we had diplomatic immunity. Were it not for my ability to keep observant they could have stroked us to death! It turns out that this is a standard greeting; they pet you you pet them back, which felt odd doing it to a sapient however something tells me the Asgord brain is not entirely conventional. All of us were relieved when we finally got them all to leave, oblivious to the fact that we did not like it."

"Telia agreed to take us to make contact with Vonzata'Akanau, their leader. What we learned was intriguing. Not only do the Brood of War operate in this galaxy, someting few would be pleased about, but the parents of the new generation are clones of a previous generation that had been recreated by scientists from the Unified Nations of Ottzello. This younger generation are the ones we had met in the city streets. What relieved me is that their leader, who is of the previous generation and only several months from the tank, did not find the Xhodocto cute while the younger generation did. We never did learn why the Asgord Geonocide took place but i have my theories."

Evaluation
"Posessing a rather strange phsychology they are friendly to the point where it can be considered creepy. While it is seemingly impossible to anger them they are very stubbourn in their ways (at leasat that is what preliminary findings suggest). I warn this to any visitors: Pet them back as promptly as possible, i don't care how much you dislike the idea!"
 * Estimated difficulty of cultural enightenment: High
 * Useful aspects to the Imperium: Comforting people
 * Chances of accepting Pax Draconica: High