Zlathan

The Zlathan culture originated from one of the nomadic tribes that roamed Earth before sending their best and most capable minds to the stars during the Flight of the Lost. They predicted that the Earth would undergo rapid deterioration, and while they hoped to send some to Mars, they were worried that the interstellar war that would eventually occur between Mars and Earth would spell the end to humanity within Sol. Thus, the Sleeper Fleets were launched, bound for the ideal garden world of Medina.   For several hundred years the ships trudged through space, losing many along their way to accident after accident. Until they began to develop Psionic abilities. It was slow at first, and hardly believed. But eventually the evidence began to mount in favor of the surreal. Children of the journey began to see events before they happened. The first recorded incident incident of this was when a child was able to predict the sudden nuclear meltdown aboard one of the lead Sleeper Ships. This crisis was averted thanks to the child.   Following this, the Zlathan welcomed the Psionically gifted, and The Seer Collective was founded. They eventually found their way to Medina, and within several decades they started to colonize nearby systems like Carthage and Artedis. Their expansion was peaceful, and did not see a real desire for violence. The idea of war had fallen so out of the common mind of the average Zlathan that even the word for "war" had fallen out of the regular vocabulary. Conflict happened, but it would be talked out, presided over by a Seer. Eventually the Zlathan people had spread all the way to the edges of the Panem Region.   Four primary seperate nation states had formed in the ages as the Zlathan progressed. These included:  

• The Musurans , a wide-catch all group made up primarily of theocracians and federalists. The largest of the four, scattered along the Musuran Line. They were explorers and traders who spread out even further through the Terminus Systems and even through Pacifica.
• The Medians, who leaned into a more socialist and technocratic approach to governance following the scientific principle behind the Church of Seers, the smallest of the four.
• The Zymnic, which were far flung colonists who would eventually form the Zym Hegemony, and colonize other parts of Wild Space. Carthage and the Cartels would be the only remnants of their empire, though their people have spread the farthest throughout the stars.
• The Fasaryr, a distant growing conservative movement, that had built a caste system under the Sultans, who eventually capitulated to the Empire. They had originally split from the Musurans long before the silence.

    Most of these Zlathan worlds were indepedently governed. Gradually, overtime through the age of exploration, a majority of these worlds came under the influence of either the Zym Hegemony or the United Republic. Those under the United Republic spread throughout the Mid Rim, while the Hegemony was spread throughout the Outer Rim. The First Gate War between the republic and the hegemony saw zlathan fighting zlathan. It caused a schism and painful divide in what were once unified communities. As the war ended, and the Hegemony underwent their own series of collapses, many of the fringe planets fled to the comfort of the United Republic.   That was all until the Colonial Earth Empire arrived, and brought violence with them. The Empire's relations with the Zlathan soured when the United Republic. The empire called the Seers witch, and began to purge planets of Psionic abilities, all the while growing their own psionic programs within Imperial space. The Zlathan became an oppressed people, second class citizens under the Empire. However the great destinies predicted the downfall of the Empire, and the people perservered. The various guilds united in strength and formed the Musura Federation, and worked closely alongside the Union and the Free Systems against the Empire, and in the silence they would coalesce their power. Some of the Zlathans become permanently under the thumb of the Empire. Those that lived under the Fasaryr Dynasty would see themselves annexed soon after the foundation of the empire. The Fasaryr were careful though, and manuevered themselves into the position as a great house.   Not all Zlathan are ardent believers in the Seers. Years in the Great Silence and under the yolk of imperial rule have caused many to become dissilusioned with the beliefs of their ancestors. Believers call these zlathans the "lost" and in some cases will actively try to usher their return to the Church. Some have also form their sects, like the Medians who split during the silence. These different groups were also seperated by the silence, forming pockets of influence when the gates began to shut down.