Jack of Harts Background

by on November 25, 2023 at 12:01 am
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The Aesiran follow a kind of honor code that Earth’s diplomats have so far been unable to entirely understand. It is not purely military oriented, nor is it built around public service or any other common practices on Earth. Family is a large part of it, but there are numerous other factors. The acquisition of personal, family, and some form of communal honor the diplomats have not yet quantified appears to be the point of their lives. When something of worth needs to be done, someone is chosen to have the honor to lead, and then others have the honor to join them. A successful conclusion brings honor to everyone involved. Failure does not. The Aesiran are not fans of failure, and have little use for those who fail often.

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Jack of Harts Background

by on November 24, 2023 at 12:01 am
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The Aesiran are still largely unknown to us. Even the decades after Wars End have not changed that. They have not turned away Earth diplomats sent to their borders, but have not invited them any closer to their homeworlds. They are kept quite comfortable on the border worlds with the other races that fill them, and the locals are happy to talk with them about whatever they want to talk about. But the Aesiran do not appear to have a diplomatic service of their own. If they want to talk to us, they generally skip the diplomats entirely and send a representative directly to Earth to deal with our heads of states. They have even offered to take the diplomats home on these trips, much to the chagrin of the various diplomatic services of Earth.

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Jack of Harts Background

by on November 22, 2023 at 12:01 am
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The Aesiran have a reputation of providing shelter for Races of Humanity displaced by war. Usually this involves granting shelter to anyone who reaches their borders. Rumors of their reaction to the fall of Arnami Prime are instructive though. The Arnami received both direct aid and shelter after the Shang succeeded in initiating a new ice age on their homeworld. Aesiran forces guarded their evacuation fleets, their new settlements, provided them shelter inside Aesiran borders, and otherwise did all it took to give the Arnam a fighting chance to survive. Their patrols even began to maintain order in the Arnami Sector, and it is one of the few sectors of space where they maintain bases outside their normal borders to this day.

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Jack of Harts Background

by on November 21, 2023 at 12:01 am
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The Aesiran fought generally on our side during The War. They sent no major fleet assets to Earthspace though, and spent most of The War fighting the Shang and Roderan far closer to their home. Earth has heard little of these distant battles, but some rumors have reached us. The place the Aesiran call the Vigrid Nebula hosted the largest battle we know of. It is a rough patch of space on their far borders, filled with newborn stars, planets, asteroids, and many other stellar phenomena. Some rumors say the Roderan and the Aesiran fought with such titanic weapons that entire stars exploded, but most historians doubt these more spectacular claims. What little we do know is that both powers largely drew back within their borders after that conflict ended.

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