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From there, I ask how do these characters fit into their respective polities and what those polities like. How does Polity 1 govern itself differently from Polity 2 and 3? 1 is a theocratic parliamentary monarchy, 2 is an AI administrated netocracy, and 3 is a canada goose clearance loose alliance of plutocratic oligarchs.

Now how do these polities get along with each other? How do people travel within and between them? And so on, slowly building out details as you go.

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Beyond the borders of the empire, there are astrological sects that worship these forces, and stamping them out is a major motivation for the empire conquests.

Was there any initial backlash against the practice of uplifting?

Some, but early efforts were primarily taking place off Earth in various orbital habitats. The projects were isolated enough that the people who were opposed to them couldn do much short of kicking off a system wide war. I may have the uplifted gorillas or uplifted orang utans get wiped out in a scenario like that though. The chimp/bonobo hybrids have a part to play later on in history, but those two only exist at the beginning and kind of fade into obscurity at the moment because I don have anything for them to do right now.

Later on, there are some factions that take a strong anti uplifting stance, to the point where they start a massive interstellar war to put that genie back in its bottle.

Also, you mentioned that Colonized Space used to be just our own solar system how expansive is it now?

Depends on when you check in on it. The «present» day is close 2 million years in the future, so canada goose outlet the entire galaxy has been colonized by this point. A few expeditions have attempted to cross the void to the Magellanic Clouds, but so far it doesn seem like any have been successful.

Assuming that they can all interbreed, then eventually they would probably all mingle into one species unless there was some barrier in place to prevent that.

As others have said, our species has traces of ancestry canada goose outlet store uk from our closest cousins the neanderthals and the denisovans. It not an even mix these days, but way back when there would have been half neanderthal kids and half denisovan kids running around. We just had a long time to dilute those neanderthal and denisovan genes since eventually, those other species were out of the picture and we kept having kids with other humans.

This all took tens of thousands of years, of course, so depending on how long your various races have been interacting, they might not have gotten to the point where everyone has either blended canada goose outlet shop together or eliminated their competition.

In the earliest days of Colonized Space, back when it only spanned our own solar system, one of the most prominent NGOs canada goose black friday sale was the Manava Foundation. They were founded with the belief that all of humanity has a claim to space, not just the Canada Goose sale wealthiest and most powerful nations and canada goose outlet sale corporations. They https://www.kabbalah-arizal.nl main purpose was to build relatively small starter orbital habitats for a canada goose store cheap canada goose large variety of nations and cultures, giving canada goose outlet canada goose uk shop reviews them a toehold in the new space race. A lot of their clientele came from displaced indigenous peoples looking for a new place to call home.

One of their more successful endeavors eventually spun off into another powerful NGO later in history. The Akanza Mission began on a orbital habitat originally constructed by the Manava Foundation for Maya peoples. The Akanza Mission canada goose outlet black friday had more of a religious bent to it, coming to believe that it was a sacred duty to spread intelligence to as many lifeforms as possible. They formed after uplifting became more readily available and uplifted numerous canada goose coats on sale species from earth (the kaakmo, one of the three species of sapient parrots roaming the galaxy, is one of theirs). When relatively intelligent alien animals were discovered, they were among the first to start advocating for their uplifting as well.