Factions and Societies

Describe the geography of where your society calls home.

What importance (spiritual or cultural) do people ascribe to the geography?

Describe the climate your society deals with. How severe are their seasons?

What kinds of natural disasters has this society gotten used to?

How do people feel about local landscapes being altered or used for a purpose other than what is traditional?

What are the most commonly-grown foods?

What are the most commonly-eaten meats?

What foods are considered exotic or expensive?

What forms of alcohol are common? Rare?

Is there usually enough food and water for the population?

What is this place's most abundant resource?

What is its most valuable resource?

What resource is it most lacking?

How do people travel from one place to another?

Are the borders secure? In what way?

How many people live here?

Where in this place do they congregate?

What part of this place do they avoid? Why?

What are the most common domesticated animals here? And what are they domesticated for?

What are the most common wild animals? How are wild animals treated?

Which animals are likely to be pets? Which ones won't be?

What are the most common domesticated plants here? And what are they used for?

What are the most common wild plants here? What are they used for?

Cities are built around the artifacts around the world, so that all Sarseians who wish to live around the universities they have built may do so with little travel required. Homes are very naturalistic and resource-light, using brick, adobe, concrete and wood that will withstand the frequent seismic events. Rather than clearing an entire forest, they still use manual methods of felling trees, and then replant the life they removed.

Sarseians prefer to live in closely knit groups within the city itself, and may opt to live in communal housing, though most choose individual housing within their groups.

Hierarchy (Northern vs Southern)

Northern and southern governments are vastly different, though both follow a similar order in that each group supports a hierarchical structure where a group of individuals is governed by an elected individual from that group. If the city is large enough, a group of those individuals will form a committee, and an individual will be elected from that group to represent them on the city's council. This hierarchy extends all the way to the world level, where individuals from each capital city gather to discuss world needs. These groups may also oversee peacekeeping officials or individuals who check the needs and wants of the general populace.

The groups in the south are not usually military-influenced, whereas the northern groups are usually run and funded by the military. Crime is taken up into district, city, region, or world courts should the issue become so dire it needs to do so. As there is no organized religion, rarely do disputes arise about beliefs.

Each city with an artifact is considered the capital of the region and is the gathering place for people wishing to understand their abilities, wishing to broaden their understanding of unrelated abilities, or merely those looking for individuals with certain abilities.

Artifacts-OldVer

There are a total of thirteen artifacts dotted around the world, two of which are linked allowing communication between the two. These artifacts have acted as gathering places and, because of this, the Sarseians have built cities and universities around each one.

Agriculture

Nestled in a crescent of cliffs and mountains, an aqueduct network has been erected here to keep the entire basin fertile, moist, and ready to be tilled. Anything and everything can grow here in the fringe of the tropical zone.

Architecture

Atop a hill along the corridor bridge, a huge sprawling library built of white marble houses thousands of blueprints and designs for construction of anything from buildings to mechanical components.

Body Energy Artifact

A mecca of sorts, aligned to the poles, a set of rejuvenating pools, to control their energies, refill and refresh, cleanse their chi pools. Artificially made, descending pools (in chi order) lit from beneath, some have pedestals to sit and meditate on. Markings and diagrams for study, some are heated, some chilled. Waterfalls, bubbling pools, 'shower' style artificial rain on some. Sections that allow learning astral projection and telepathy. Platforms that augment natural abilities and slowly deteriorate their help to cause others to learn the ability themselves.

Communication

Radial parabolic dishes placed at the crest on either side of an almost impassable cliffside allow communication across the chasm over long distance.

Culture/Art

A complex of chambers amidst the plains, laid out like classrooms stimulate and synergize the mind and the hand to allow increased focus and improved creativity, sometimes to the point of being able to create precisely what is envisioned in the mind.

Fertility

Along the coastal cliffs, is an alcove overlooking the ocean and in the center of the alcove, a crystalline structure that improves male and female fertility, as well as boosting feelings of affection, love, and arousal.

Hedonism

In the center of a large desert is an oasis with a large garden with statues, three geothermally heated pool, and several statues. In the center is a large pair of naked Sarseian, one male and one female, the female pouring a jug containing weak wine over the male's body, which then flows into a fountain for visitors to drink.

Medicine

Tube or chamber (or set of tubes/chambers) designed to promote healing and slow metabolism of diseased patients to allow more time for research and discovery of cures. Stasis pod can only be used infrequently (needs to recharge), thus forcing them to come up with medicine of their own to fill the gap.

Military

A chamber that outfits one person a day with a super suit that enhances their strength, vision, elemental abilities and speed, but it degrades after one week, thus only allowing 12 Sarseians to be outfitted with the suit at one time.

Naturism

Surrounded by a swampy valley, a humongous tree-colony that sprawls for miles, casting shade and bearing fruit, making the land surrounding the tree fertile and lush. In the center is a massive tree made up of thousands of individual trees.

Research

A large, sterile complex that is highly technologically advanced allows research to be done concerning almost anything they can conceive. The technology instills wonder and comprehension from those who seek to find knowledge.

Spiritual Artifact

Atop the highest peak of Sarsei, near the equator, is a large observation dome with a huge telescope looking out into space. The utter silence and closeness to space allows the Sarseians to feel the unfiltered energies around them.

Agriculture and Trade

List of Cities - Each resource per city

Agriculture: Food

Architecture: Lumber

Culture/Art: Marble/Stone and Processed Stone

Medicine: Herbs & Medicine

Military: Metal & Weapons

Cities are built around the artifacts around the world, so that all Sarseians who wish to live around the universities they have built may do so with little travel required. Homes are very naturalistic and resource-light, using brick, adobe, concrete and wood that will withstand the frequent seismic events. Rather than clearing an entire forest they still use manual methods of felling trees, and then replant the life they removed.

Sarseians prefer to live in closely knit groups within the city itself, and may opt to live in communal housing, though most choose individual housing within their groups.

Ideas for artifacts:

There are a total of thirteen artifacts dotted around the world, two of which are linked allowing communication between the two. These artifacts have acted as gathering places and, because of this, the Sarseians have built cities and universities around each one.

Agriculture

Nestled in a crescent of cliffs and mountains, an aqueduct network has been erected here to keep the entire basin fertile, moist, and ready to be tilled. Anything and everything can grow here in the fringe of the tropical zone.

Architecture

Atop a hill along the corridor bridge, a huge sprawling library built of white marble houses thousands of blueprints and designs for construction of anything from buildings to mechanical components.

Body Energy Artifact

A mecca of sorts, aligned to the poles, a set of rejuvenating pools, to control their energies, refill and refresh, cleanse their chi pools. Artificially made, descending pools (in chi order) lit from beneath, some have pedestals to sit and meditate on. Markings and diagrams for study, some are heated, some chilled. Waterfalls, bubbling pools, 'shower' style artificial rain on some. Sections that allow learning astral projection and telepathy. Platforms that augment natural abilities and slowly deteriorate their help to cause others to learn the ability themselves.

Communication

Radial parabolic dishes placed at the crest on either side of an almost impassable cliffside allow communication across the chasm over long distance.

Culture/Art

A complex of chambers amidst the plains, laid out like classrooms stimulate and synergize the mind and the hand to allow increased focus and improved creativity, sometimes to the point of being able to create precisely what is envisioned in the mind.

Fertility

Along the coastal cliffs, is an alcove overlooking the ocean and in the center of the alcove, a crystalline structure that improves male and female fertility, as well as boosting feelings of affection, love, and arousal.

Hedonism

In the center of a large desert is an oasis with a large garden with statues, three geothermally heated pool, and several statues. In the center is a large pair of naked Sarseian, one male and one female, the female pouring a jug containing weak wine over the male's body, which then flows into a fountain for visitors to drink.

Medicine

Tube or chamber (or set of tubes/chambers) designed to promote healing and slow metabolism of diseased patients to allow more time for research and discovery of cures. Stasis pod can only be used infrequently (needs to recharge), thus forcing them to come up with medicine of their own to fill the gap.

Military

A chamber that outfits one person a day with a super suit that enhances their strength, vision, elemental abilities and speed, but it degrades after one week, thus only allowing 12 Sarseians to be outfitted with the suit at one time.

Naturism

Surrounded by a swampy valley, a humongous tree-colony that sprawls for miles, casting shade and bearing fruit, making the land surrounding the tree fertile and lush. In the center is a massive tree made up of thousands of individual trees.

Research

A large, sterile complex that is highly technologically advanced allows research to be done concerning almost anything they can conceive. The technology instills wonder and comprehension from those who seek to find knowledge.

Spiritual Artifact

Atop the highest peak of Sarsei, near the equator, is a large observation dome with a huge telescope looking out into space. The utter silence and closeness to space allows the Sarseians to feel the unfiltered energies around them.

Major Cities

Haneh (Power) is one of the tech capitals of the world, and is governed by a monarchy that leaves little power to the individual, but organizations are given some influence, especially science and technology. Due to the abundance of government-owned homes and plentiful jobs, most citizens do not know poverty here. The land surrounding Haneh is semi-arid desert, so there's long stretches between Haneh and other cities surrounding it. Its artifact is a chamber that builds temporary mechanical suits meant to aid in construction and defense. These suits will disintegrate 8 hours after creation, or if the distance from the chamber exceeds 100 miles. Up to 12 can be created per day. The city has approximately 4 million citizens.

Mukatah (Architecture) is the world's largest trade hub, with dozens of trade guilds. They have a socialist/federalist structure, with a large council consisting of the trade guilds' leaders and groups of citizens that keeps everything in check. They also have the largest, most complex library on the planet, a huge sprawling and built of white marble, it houses thousands of blueprints and designs for construction of anything from buildings to mechanical components. The city has approximately 7.5 million citizens.

Shasak (Agriculture) is a republic, and one of the primary agricultural areas. Nestled in a crescent of cliffs and mountains, an aqueduct network has been erected here to keep the entire basin fertile, moist, and ready to be tilled. Anything and everything can grow here in the fringe of the tropical zone. The city has approximately 3 million citizens.

Body Energy

A mecca of sorts, situated near the south pole, a set of rejuvenating pools, to control their energies, refill and refresh, cleanse their chi pools. Artificially made, descending pools (in chi order) lit from beneath, some have pedestals to sit and meditate on. Markings and diagrams for study, some are heated, some chilled. Waterfalls, bubbling pools, 'shower' style artificial rain on some. Sections that allow learning astral projection and telepathy. Platforms that augment natural abilities and slowly deteriorate their help to cause others to learn the ability themselves.

Communication

Radial parabolic dishes placed at the crest on either side of a tall, almost impassable cliffside allow communication across the chasm over long distance.

Culture/Art

A complex of chambers amidst the plains fed by the nearby mountain ranges to the west, laid out like classrooms, that stimulate and synergize the mind and the hand to allow increased focus and improved creativity, sometimes to the point of being able to create precisely what is envisioned in the mind.

Fertility

Along the coastal cliffs, is an alcove overlooking the ocean and in the center of the alcove, a crystalline structure that improves male and female fertility, as well as boosting feelings of affection, love, and arousal.

Hedonism

In the center of a large swath of grassland is an oasis with a large garden with statues, three geothermally heated pools, and several statues. In the center is a pair of large, naked Sarseian, one male and one female, the female pouring a jug containing weak wine over the male's body, which then flows into a fountain for visitors to drink.

Medicine

A locale accessible from the entire world, it's a set of tubes or chambers designed to promote healing and slow metabolism of diseased patients to allow more time for research and discovery of cures. Stasis pods can only be used infrequently, as they need to recharge, thus forcing them to come up with medicine of their own to fill the gap.

Nature

Surrounded by a swampy valley, a humongous tree-colony that sprawls for miles, casting shade and bearing fruit, making the land surrounding the tree fertile and lush. In the center is a massive tree made up of thousands of individual trees.

Research

A large, sterile complex that is highly technologically advanced allows research to be done concerning almost anything they can conceive. The technology instills wonder and comprehension from those who seek to find knowledge.

Spiritual

Atop the highest peak of Sarsei, near the equator, is a large observation dome with a huge telescope looking out into space. The utter silence and closeness to space allows the Sarseians to feel the unfiltered energies around them.

Major Cities

Haneh is one of the tech capitals of the world, and is governed by a monarchy that leaves little power to the individual, but organizations are given some influence, especially science and technology. Due to the abundance of government-owned homes and plentiful jobs, most citizens do not know poverty here. The land surrounding Haneh is semi-arid desert, so there's long stretches between Haneh and other cities surrounding it. Its artifact is a chamber that builds temporary mechanical suits meant to aid in construction and defense. These suits will disintegrate 8 hours after creation, or if the distance from the chamber exceeds 100 miles. Up to 12 can be created per day. The city itself has approximately 4 million citizens.

Mukatah is the world's largest trade hub, with dozens of trade guilds. They have a socialist/federalist structure, with a large council consisting of the trade guilds' leaders and groups of citizens that keeps everything in check. They also have the largest, most complex library on the planet, a huge sprawling and built of white marble, it houses thousands of blueprints and designs for construction of anything from buildings to mechanical components. The city itself has approximately 7.5 million citizens.

Shasak is a republic, and one of the primary agricultural areas. Nestled in a crescent of cliffs and mountains, an aqueduct network has been erected here to keep the entire basin fertile, moist, and ready to be tilled. Anything and everything can grow here in the fringe of the tropical zone. The city itself has approximately 3 million citizens.

Body Energy Artifact

A mecca of sorts, aligned to the poles, a set of rejuvenating pools, to control their energies, refill and refresh, cleanse their chi pools. Artificially made, descending pools (in chi order) lit from beneath, some have pedestals to sit and meditate on. Markings and diagrams for study, some are heated, some chilled. Waterfalls, bubbling pools, 'shower' style artificial rain on some. Sections that allow learning astral projection and telepathy. Platforms that augment natural abilities and slowly deteriorate their help to cause others to learn the ability themselves.

Communication

Radial parabolic dishes placed at the crest on either side of an almost impassable cliffside allow communication across the chasm over long distance.

Culture/Art

A complex of chambers amidst the plains, laid out like classrooms, that stimulate and synergize the mind and the hand to allow increased focus and improved creativity, sometimes to the point of being able to create precisely what is envisioned in the mind.

Fertility

Along the coastal cliffs, is an alcove overlooking the ocean and in the center of the alcove, a crystalline structure that improves male and female fertility, as well as boosting feelings of affection, love, and arousal.

Hedonism

In the center of a large desert is an oasis with a large garden with statues, three geothermally heated pool, and several statues. In the center is a large pair of naked Sarseian, one male and one female, the female pouring a jug containing weak wine over the male's body, which then flows into a fountain for visitors to drink.

Medicine

Tube or chamber (or set of tubes/chambers) designed to promote healing and slow metabolism of diseased patients to allow more time for research and discovery of cures. Stasis pod can only be used infrequently (needs to recharge), thus forcing them to come up with medicine of their own to fill the gap.

Naturism

Surrounded by a swampy valley, a humongous tree-colony that sprawls for miles, casting shade and bearing fruit, making the land surrounding the tree fertile and lush. In the center is a massive tree made up of thousands of individual trees.

Research

A large, sterile complex that is highly technologically advanced allows research to be done concerning almost anything they can conceive. The technology instills wonder and comprehension from those who seek to find knowledge.

Spiritual Artifact

Atop the highest peak of Sarsei, near the equator, is a large observation dome with a huge telescope looking out into space. The utter silence and closeness to space allows the Sarseians to feel the unfiltered energies around them.

Sapient feliform race inhabiting Sarsei

The fourth planet in the Kao-Raish star system. The only known inhabited planet.