Ianauri Codex Articles

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Ianauri 

Introduction-

A gigantic race of diaphanous beings with a cultural value on efficiency and consistency, these founding members of the federation are the stabilizing backbone of the federation’s titanic bureaucracies. These tall elfin beings place great value on the survival of the group, rational thought above all, and a desire to unify all across the stars under one reliant rule. 

Physiology-

As beings who arose upon the small moon Illa orbiting a gas giant, the Ianauri are a people of many opposites. While often famed for their size, they are also much lighter than they should be. Through a combination of selective breeding and genetic modification, the Ianauri have ensured they can survive on any world, no longer limited to the low gravity environment of their birth. Another dichotomy of this gargantuan people is the combating forces of Logic and emotion within them. They each possess the capacity to be utterly mechanical intellectuals or spritely free spirits. Most often the former happens, due to culture and medication, though some do brake with the norm. 

History-

The Ianauri began as small feudal republics, each cutting up a corner of their small world. Early in their history, many began practicing an ideology that preached planetary unification, and a single central force for control in the universe beyond that. This ideology began to foment rebellions or conversions of the various states into a single monolithic organisation, which would become the first of many blueprints for what the Federation would one day be started as. They began to explore the stars, and noticed the developing race of the Varanids in their own solar system. They were inclined to watch from a distance, ensuring that other races developed in an orderly and safe fashion.  

Culture-

The Ianauri have all but removed any trace of their previous cultures, instead focusing on the creation a single designed monoculture. This has resulted in what could be described as a social structure built by committee.  Most if not all aspects of their culture represent what is the academic or bureaucratic ideal, built from the ground up to be as efficient as possible. It is unlikely for an Ianauri to put themselves before the good of the group, and very rarely do they question authority. To many creatures bureaucracy is a nuisance or simply a fact of life, to the Ianauri it is a call to arms, a place of familiarity and a virtue to be spread. This can be seen in every facet of the great cultural revolution adopted by the Ianauri. They believe in a central force of order radiating out into the universe, choosing them to steward and guide all other races into a calm and collected single collective. Many of their great writers and philosophers extol the virtues of meditation through repetitive work or how simple thoughts or actions can lead to a more organized being. Most Ianauri attempt to find a place where they may be most helpful to society as a whole, though many are assigned to a task that authority finds them most suited for, and few would turn down such an honor.

Federation-

The idea of the foundation comes from the Ianuari themselves and was consistent with their ideological principles, the Ianuari were eager to make a treaty with the Bazarab Flotilla after they reasoned they had to give a customary displays of their strength and friendship. The Bazarabs agreed quite easily to their detailed plans, after they made first contact with the Varanids and made similarly well received proposals that were extreme but effective. They founded the Federation as an extension of their ideals, the bureaucracy and academic cultures have their origins in them. Ianauri as a founder race staff numerous positions with Federal Service being seen as the highest honor and the moral imperative of the Ianauri. Whether it’s in a frontier clinic, policing space traffic, exploring distant stars, boring office jobs, holding the Senate together, or trying to understand soap operas of dead races, the Ianauri are tirelessly serving their cause though often regarded as humorless for it.