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Peoples of the known universe

Seven peoples.
Seven ways to read the stars.

Before the first settlement is raised, every commander inherits a history: worlds that shaped a people, crises that taught them what matters, and a vision of what the cosmos might become.

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Terrelians Hydrolexians Starlites Vultronites Oxyonians Nebuloids Cryxonites

A note before the archive

No civilization is a stat block.

The Field Manual records compatible worlds, currencies, and game systems. This archive tells a different story: why these peoples build as they do, what they carry into the dark, and how seven histories can look at the same sky and see seven different futures.

The seven chronicles

Choose an origin. Inherit a point of view.

A member of the Terrelians civilization 01 Terrestrial worlds · Forest planets

The Patient Architects of Accord

Terrelians

“A frontier is only lonely until the first promise is kept.”

Terrelian history is written in layers: old roads beneath new cities, observatories built into living forests, and treaties whose clauses outlast the people who signed them. They are rarely the loudest civilization in a council chamber. They prefer to listen until everyone else has revealed what they truly need.

Their settlements reflect that patience. Markets sit beside laboratories, defensive rings protect trade corridors, and expansion is treated less as conquest than as a promise that the next world will be made stable enough to inherit.

How they see the cosmos The cosmos is a network of obligations. Prosperity begins when trust becomes infrastructure.
Known for
Trade · Research · Defense
Currency
Terra Tokens
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A member of the Hydrolexians civilization 02 Ocean planets

The Tidebound Navigators

Hydrolexians

“Nothing is still. Wisdom is knowing which current to ride.”

Hydrolexian civilization grew where no horizon stayed quiet. Their oldest cities drifted, their first borders moved with the tides, and survival demanded that every structure could bend without breaking. From that inheritance came peerless shipwrights and traders who read a market the way their ancestors read a storm.

To a Hydrolexian, a vessel is never merely transport. It is shelter, embassy, workshop, and statement of intent. Their fleets carry ore from the deep, stories from distant systems, and bargains that can redirect an economy before rivals notice the current has changed.

How they see the cosmos The cosmos is an ocean without shore. Movement is survival, and exchange is how distant worlds breathe together.
Known for
Trade · Ships · Minerals
Currency
Wave Credits
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A member of the Starlites civilization 03 Terrestrial worlds

The Bright-Forged Wayfarers

Starlites

“If a star can be reached, someone should build the ship.”

Starlites measure eras by the vessels that defined them. Their songs remember prototype engines, impossible crossings, and captains who returned with a hold full of questions. Shipyards are cultural monuments, and launching a new design is equal parts engineering trial, public festival, and declaration of collective nerve.

Curiosity makes them natural researchers; mobility makes them formidable traders. Their great strength is the refusal to separate discovery from opportunity. Every strange signal may become a theory, every theory a machine, and every machine a road to somewhere brighter.

How they see the cosmos The cosmos rewards those who arrive with open eyes, a sound hull, and something worth trading.
Known for
Ships · Market trading · Research
Currency
Star Tokens
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A member of the Vultronites civilization 04 Lava planets

The Ember-Crowned Builders

Vultronites

“Pressure is not an enemy. Pressure reveals the shape of strength.”

Vultronite cities rise where stone flows like water. Their ancestors learned to anchor entire districts above molten plains, harvest metals from violent geology, and treat catastrophic heat as a dependable source of power. Architecture became their proof that intelligence could negotiate with a hostile world and win.

That confidence follows them into deep space. Vultronite explorers do not seek comfortable destinations; they seek worlds everyone else dismissed. A barren moon, an unstable orbit, a mineral seam beneath lethal terrain—these are not warnings. They are invitations to build something undeniable.

How they see the cosmos The cosmos is raw material. Endurance gives it form; craft gives that form meaning.
Known for
Buildings · Minerals · Exploration
Currency
Lava Coin
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A member of the Oxyonians civilization 05 Forest planets

The Keepers of the Living Archive

Oxyonians

“Knowledge that cannot protect life is only an unfinished thought.”

Oxyonian knowledge began beneath immense forest canopies, where every species was both neighbour and lesson. Their earliest scholars catalogued cycles rather than objects: growth and decay, competition and balance, signal and response. Modern laboratories preserve that habit, treating technology as something that must belong inside a wider living system.

Their defenses are elegant consequences of observation. Threats are studied, anticipated, and redirected before brute force becomes necessary. When Oxyonian expeditions cross the dark, they carry seed vaults, sensor gardens, and a conviction that discovery is valuable only when something survives to remember it.

How they see the cosmos The cosmos is a living archive. Explore carefully, learn completely, and defend what cannot be replaced.
Known for
Research · Exploration · Defense
Currency
Leaf Credits
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A member of the Nebuloids civilization 06 Gas giants

The Cloudborne Seekers

Nebuloids

“The unknown is not empty. It is waiting for better instruments.”

Nebuloids evolved without solid ground beneath them. Their cities float through immense atmospheric bands, descending toward crushing pressure to gather rare matter before rising again into calmer skies. Certainty, to them, has always been temporary; maps are forecasts and home is a carefully maintained altitude.

This makes Nebuloid explorers comfortable where instruments contradict intuition. They chase anomalies, refine theories in motion, and extract value from environments others cannot meaningfully enter. Their finest researchers are praised not for being correct first, but for noticing when the universe has changed the question.

How they see the cosmos The cosmos is depth without a floor. Understanding belongs to those willing to descend into uncertainty.
Known for
Exploration · Research · Minerals
Currency
Gas Gems
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A member of the Cryxonites civilization 07 Dwarf planets · Tundra planets

The Wardens Beyond the Frost

Cryxonites

“A light preserved through winter can guide a thousand journeys.”

Cryxonites learned civilization in the long dark between distant suns. Their settlements were built inward, around heat, memory, and communal stores designed to survive winters measured in generations. To waste a resource was once to endanger descendants not yet born, and that old discipline still shapes every wall they raise.

Their defenses are famous because protection is sacred, not because fear rules them. Cryxonite explorers venture outward to ensure isolation never becomes extinction. They establish durable outposts at the edge of mapped space, quiet beacons from which the next expedition can travel farther and still find a way home.

How they see the cosmos The cosmos is a long winter crossed by shared lights. Build to endure, then carry the flame outward.
Known for
Defense · Buildings · Exploration
Currency
Frost Dollars
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History is waiting for a commander

An origin gives you a past.
Your choices decide what comes next.

Choose the civilization whose story you want to continue, then claim a world of your own.

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