OT: Fiction for my Mod:

[President_Elect_Shang]

2401.0: Cord: 9, -1 in the Jura System. The home system to the Theselean Contemplative.
The Theselean Contemplative and the Opchi Empire make first contact. Hostilities break out after only a few hours of attempted contact when the Theselean captain misinterprets the Opchi ships attempt to regain the warp point as an attempt to crowd his ship. The Theselean ship stands on the warp point forcing the unarmed Opchi ship to take up position further out. Believing any attempt to gain entry to cross the warp point would only result in a futile game of chicken the Opchi captain decides to hold position and await a relief force. Since neither empire has ever had contact that relief force maybe some time coming.

The New Players
The Opchi Empire: The Opchi Empire is a military anarchy under the control of a single warlord. That warlord guides the council into making decisions he feels are best for the empire. Several other families via for control of the empire and only the promise of granting these families their own star systems keep them “playing nice”.

The Theselean Contemplative: The Theselean Contemplative is, as the name implies a contemplative form of government. War was a little talked about facet of life in the history classes of the Contemplative. Sure it happened but not that often, not that bloodily, and definitely only as a last resort. Ask a Theselean how they managed to escape the god of wars grime gaze and they will quickly answer that was the lack of a central government that kept absolute power away from histories rulers. And without absolute power there is little room for corruption.