u/TempSinger

To set the stage a bit, I will be explaining the world building.

The world, called "Mithera", combines magic with semi-modern tech. Think about how electricity is used to power stuff and replace it with mana, so toasters and radios are powered by magic.

Culture and tech wise, their in the medieval ages. So noble houses and blackpowder rifles are mixed with mana powered lights and cars.

Alright, stage is (briefly) set so let's get to medieval knight houses.

There are a big 3 knight houses that have territory and bases in almost all of castles in the "Coalition of United Races" (basically the U.N. as a single Empire/country). Meanwhile minor knight houses occupy either groups of settlements or are a vassle of a major knight house.

The biggest knight house in manpower (on paper) is House Dorlok, aka "Black Dragons". House Dorlok is the standard for knights in the setting due to their specialization with medium armor and military technology. House Dorlok began as the other major knight houses began, when the "Janus Empire" conquered the major barbarian tribe and broke them into houses to join the Empire.

House Dorlok is the main manufacturer of standard military gear and guns in the Coalition. A feat the accomplished by turning a castle into a giant forge and mining outpost, this castle being named "Sikeraks" and being their noble family's home. House Dorlok, despite being kind of basic, are the main inventors in the Coalition due to them believing magic is a crutch used by people who don't want to learn new things.

House Dorlok knights are the standard for all knights, so every knight is equipped with a: Blackpowder rifle, sword, flintlock pistol, and cleaning kit. All the while wearing medium style armor with steel plating covering everything but the face. Dorlok knights are trained to set up a 2 line, maybe even 3 line if they can set up enough, of fire and volley fire at the enemy until their dead. Only using melee wepons when absolutely necessary.

This is actually how they earned their nickname, Black Dragons, due to the amount of smoke and powder they cause staining the front of their armor black. While the nobles of Dorlok urge their knights to clean and polish their armor, their finger and sometimes their hands are always blackened. Both out of style and consequence of handling powder.

House Dorlok is actually credited with the creation and manufacturing rights of the Blackpowder rifle. While other houses have technically different rifles, Dorlok rifles are the best rifles in the Coalition. While their rifles are the flagship modle of blackpowder guns, Dorlok also created cannons, motors, and rockets (big fireworks).

House Dorlok also makes different types of blackpowder with different properties, and due to the volatile nature of blackpowder. Many inventors have lost fingers and hands for their craft, but many see this as a right of passage for a proper inventor.

House Dorlok also has 2 ways of thinking that directly contradict eachother. Half on the house thinks that the design and make the their rifles and cannons cannot be improved any more and that they should focus on refining their powder and ball bearings. Meanwhile the other half belive that the make and design of the rifle is flawed and should still be improved, with radicals of this way of thinking that they should get rid of the rifle design entirely and start new.

Thankfully, this is a background issue for Dorlok and has only caused a few barfights and snide remarks. But this issue is slowly growing and sooner or later the House will have to choose a side or let their House rip itself apart.

Wow, this was a lot of words for 1/3 houses. I will probably make another post for the other houses due to the absolute length of this post.

[ ALERT, GALAXY WIDE MESSAGE FROM GRAND SPACE TRAVEL ADMIRAL "QUAL SECT" ]

Greetings fellow captains and admirals, this message will be about one of the newer species that has been inducted into the G.A.C. (Galaxy Allied Collocation) the Earthlings, or better known as Humans.

Hailing from their cradle world of Earth, the Humans have quickly become the GAC's best explorers and traders in the known and known parts of the Galaxy. Humans are a bipedial, soft bodied onmivores that have quickly became a Galaxy sized sensation, as most new species have done.

Now, onto the reason for this message, should plan to have a Quàxen, the GAC's best pilots and engineers, and a human on the same ship, DON'T.

The humans seem to have a Universal Distrust about any Quàxen, no matter the subject. Some psychologists and Xeno - studies groups have theoriesed that the humans are experiencing something they call an "Uncanny Valley".

But more intensive study have shown that the Quàxen resemble more of a human extinct species, a Pterodactyl ( though bipedial and an extra set of arms ) more closely than "Human". So more research must be done.

But that will be all, and make sure to keep the Human and Quàxen species away from eacother and, if you're ship is big enough, in separate sectors.

Keep safe and watch for pirate and void beings, this is Grand Admiral Qual Sect, signing off.

[ Speech from Emergency Council session, contains agrument for preserving the Terrian Race. ]

"People of this Galatic Court, I float hear to speak against the enslavement and production of the Terrian Race.

These Terrians, who call themselves Humans, do not qualify as animals and are infact, a sapient species. The humans that the Quàxen have shown us have been broken down and effectly lobotomised, they refuse to show us what a actual human looks and Talks like.

Humans have a rich and complex social, political, and military structure and you just have to look at them before the Quàxen arrived. They where blooming into their space age, colonizing their local Solar system and even had plans to Terriform a planet. But after the Quàxen initiated 1st contact, all that went away and their main planet's moon was harvested and their species has enslaved.

Even if you want to ignore their blantent regard for 1st contact protocols, the Quàxen have already planned and researched the most efficient ways to exploit the human body and planets. For the body, they plan to psychically torture them for their unique chemicals, such as 'adrenaline' for combat stims, 'steriton' for recreational use, 'Melatonin' for chemical warfare, and more. And this goes much further than just chemicals: a humans blood is a energy rich liquid, their stomach acid is very potent and easy to produce, and their other organs can be used as replacements for many other species.

This regard for life and the explotation of species is common among the Quàxen, and while they have been able to hide behind laws and the "Sapience Scale". So, everyone, I pled for you to free the humans and punish the Quàxen for their crimes.

[Voteing Scores]

[ 21 voted for "Animal Terrians" ]

[ 6 voted for "freeing and uplifting humans"]

[ 53 voted for "Resetting human progress"]

[Actions, Terrians where put back into their solar system and no longer enslaved by the Quàxen. The humans where mentally reset aswell so they will be able to forget what happened.]

[Voting Scores]

[ 30 voted "Punish Quàxen]

[ 48 voted "10th law violation"

[ 2 voted "Quàxen expulsion"

[Actions, the Quàxen's 1st contact rights where taken away and Quàxen had to make a replica of the Human's lost moon]

[Emergency Council session over Terrian enslavement over]