Inhabiting a Galaxy

So who lives here?

Here follow some brief (or not-so-brief) details and art on some of the planets and peoples you may encounter through the series; most are present throughout the Coalition, but others are localised on just their own planets - the inhabitants of Eeli's world, for instance, have not yet achieved space-travel, and the Kiravai have no real desire to mingle with anyone outside their own little patch of space. The pages on the Vuls and the Kiravai (and any other * asterisked ones, if I write more for them) are considerably longer than the rest, since they are two "primary" species in the series. (As a sidenote, the Kiravai will not be met properly until around #4, "Empire of Fire", for the benefit of those not wanting too many spoilers.)

Greens (systems or peoples) are friendly or Coalition-aligned, Blues are neutral, unaligned or insufficiently developed, reds are hostile; Synth are a special case. "Animals" may refer to pets, domesticated livestock or indigenous wildlife; with the Kiravai, who have many colony worlds, said wildlife may be indigenous to any of their colonies, not necessarily their native homeworld. There used to be a page on here for related terminology, but that has been superseded by the lexicon.

Those people/species with alongside are large, and will open without the side menus, those with are annotated images rather than pages.

Please also note, a great many pages on this index are currently inactive (and indicated by this symbol: ‡); I am working on getting them up and running, but for now using the Site Map will give you a better idea of which pages have content, and which do not.

Vulpecula is a binary planetary system; the Primary world is the home to the Vuls, the Beta (the "moon", although it is almost as large as the Prime) being home to the Ervu and Purpureodon. This is one of the two Coalition Founding Core-Worlds. Note: I did have a race of beings dubbed “Aureans”, who were based very very loosely on a friends’ “Egyptian”-jackal-derived race. Since I have waaay too many canoids, these have been amalgamated into the Vuls, as a “subspecies” of a sort. There is also a second race of Vuls “transplanted” to a new world to act as slave labourers, but physically they are almost identical (if smaller in stature and less vibrant of colour) so haven’t been given their own section.
	Vul	Purpureodon	Aureans
	Seng family‡	Doska‡	Ervu‡	Jerga family‡
	Venca fowl‡	Janya‡

Ondra is a sister world to Vulpecula, and is the other Coalition Founding Core-World. The two planetary systems shared trade for a good few hundred years before coming together and founding the Coalition, and since then both planets have been home to large numbers of both species; around 30% of Ondra's population is Vul, and vice versa.
	Ondrai
	Mophia‡	Podicea	Chemuei	Other Fauna‡

This is a fairly primitive system which the Coalition would ordinarily not have interfered with, had Avocet not crash-landed and inadvertently exposed the population to her technology. Most inhabitants remained on their homeworld, but a few joined the other Coalition colonists.
	Eqqari‡	K'Krri
	Eovyu‡

Eeli's world is another primitive system, without spaceflight. Unlike Nivariia, no inhabitants of this world have joined the Coalition. (These are mostly working titles until I come up with a slightly more coherent ecosystem.)
	Insecta‡	Warmblood‡
	Slirrag‡	White leech‡	Guva‡

Like the Vulpeculan system, the Cethys system is a binary one, although in this case the worlds are better matched for size. The main world, Sotha, is slightly larger than Earth and primarily oceanic, with only a scattering of small islands (the largest of which is no larger than Earth’s Iceland) across the surface. It is populated by three sapient life-forms, one (the "Sethies") being native, and two others, the le'Trai and DuSkai, being refugees who colonised the world later. The secondary world, Ixis, is airless and mostly uninhabited, save for a few specialist science colonies bored into the bedrock, and the stellar shipyards. Ixis forms the primary base for the le’Trai and DuSkai fleets; the bulk of the component building goes on in giant reinforced bubbles on the planet’s surface, but 80% of the shipbuilding itself is carried out in orbital emplacements. The system is located fairly centrally in Coalition Space, neighbouring quite closely with Yura-sae (the Yurra homeworld) and Ondras.
	DuSkai	le'Trai‡	Sethies‡
	Slan	DuPhee	Other Fauna‡

Unseria is a highly forested world currently located in the upper plane of the galaxy and away from the bulk of the stellar masses. It is currently in the grip of an ice-age, covered in tundra and taiga with only a small amount of temperate woodland between the tropics, and a tiny band of more tropical forest at the equator. It is home to the Unser, another species who are rumoured not to be indigenous but rather to have settled there, although they themselves claim to know little of their past.
	Unser‡
	Miscellaneous flora‡

The Vei Imperium is closer to the galactic core, and borders onto Coalition space. The Kiravai are the most technologically advanced race in the known galaxy, and one of the most intelligent, but also highly paranoid and fairly warlike. By contrast, the Leriivai are far more moderate and willing to talk to the Coalition, but the vast bulk of the population are enslaved by their Kiravai masters - only a few thousand Leriivai are free individuals, and all are considered rebels and "pirates", thus none live in Kiravai territory.
	Kiravai	Leriivai‡	"Heiramu"	"Kirasiinu"
	Umakervai	Uma'sau‡	Imi family	Gii-le / Aai-le
	Iirit	Eccusa

There are other (so-called) intelligent races found throughout the Coalition; some are colonists, many are travellers willing to settle on any world, some I simply haven't got as far as assigning any factors outside of rough physical appearance and behaviour. Some of these may disappear altogether, some may be highly revised - a lot are quite unoriginal, being based strongly off Earthly species (because a story needed a different species and I didn't want to spend too long a time coming up with something new).
Yil‡	Krell‡	Kabrii	Zaar	Nyen
Usurian‡	Xniki‡	Synth	Yurra‡
Imagery‡ – the nameless, faceless, featureless creatures that turn up from time to time, described in the fiction but unassigned otherwise. Who needs names, after all?!