- **The New Murk History** To now make a new history We have to break into the situation of the new [[Tikali|Tikali]] In the past the Tikali were a second fiddle to humans, but now they will be more akin to a foil for the Prospect Spacers and Plexus as the Murk. The Tikali belief in the Golden Rule and their determined optimism is in contrast to the aggressive competitiveness of the humans, the paranoia of the phidians, the nihilism of the prospect spacers or the sadness of the sprawl. The Harlapans enable them as a scion of sorts, the Harlapans have their noble directive to recreate a lost past and ancient ties to the Sprawl before the rupture. Meanwhile the Tikali had managed to bring the Harlapans and Natvyr from their homeworlds, of which has created a fairly diverse and more "egalitarian" situation than the Plexus where humans are supreme or the Prospect Spacers where multispecies civs are incredibly hierarchical. The Harlapans are more advanced due to their ancient technology and being effectively advanced [[Machines|Machines]] whose neoprimitivism was only recently shaken out of but they lack industrial capabilities. The Natvyr are populous, industrious and such but also have many internal divisions and are a chaotic mess with tech innovation dependent on Tikali research. The Natvyr are notable for being the most "corporatistic" society in the Murk, with their hives often behaving with structures that resemble corporate hierarchies more than nation states. The Tikali themselves are the most innovative group, while their populations aren't great their diplomatic dynamics of balancer ethics and their need to keep the balance has led to them going to drastic actions to keep a balance- of which ironically leads there to be conflict with the Harlapa who want a positive feedback loop. While the TIkali are purportedly egalitarian, there is a notable hierarchical dynamic with their pods and molecules, of which do not really have much in the way of a voting system and direct democracy is notably absent beyond a pressure from pods to keep everything even and balanced in their conception of fairness that they believe is needed to keep the pods wealthy and in good standing. - The history outline (pretty dull for now): - The Great Launch, the start of the pods whose "tendrils" spread out and created the great murk, the general name for the cluster of space they exist in - They spread out, contact the Harlapans at their homeworld of [[Lacra|Lacra]] and the Natvyr at their homeworld of Ludor. The TIkali developed a belief in being an species out to enlighten the galaxy after the darkness of the Rupture. - The Sprawl became generally vilified by the Murk due to what the Harlapans told Tikali Lacrologists about the Sprawl. - Yet their society is also dependent on Sprawl infrastructure to contact other civilizations, thankfully the Sprawl is such a scattered mess the [[sprawl denizens|Sprawl Denizens]] don't unify to cut them off from access as they couldn't tell the automata to lock Tikali explorers from the remaining special regions even if they tried. - The Minavan Pod becomes a center of innovation in the Murk, with their Blank Prospectors, [[Livid Industrialists|Livid Industrialists]] and so on becoming an iconic aspect of Murkspace synthetics. - A diplomatic envoy from the Murk gets launched to Prospect Space and the Plexus (current day event!) - What one sees in the Murk is multiple parallels societies who basically are in arrangements and pacts as they all basically have neutrality as a better course of action to take over active dominion, conflict or violence like with the Prospect Spacers or the uneasy "alliance" the Ikirmites have with humans. Or worse, the genocide the Phidians engage in. Overall, the Murk managed to have a triadic between ancient machines, corporatist hivers and balance fixated aquatic sapients that so far has been relatively stable with mild flare ups and diplomatic incidents happening periodically. Incidents such as the drowning ops interference in natvyr affairs or the harlapans copying data from Tikali explorers to find more fragments. The Harlapans are the most dangerous vector, as they have been imparting information to the Tikali and Navtyr as "mentors" but really they just are using the Tikali as a means to the end of their own power and it is unclear if the Murk will stay a "tikali dominant" civ cluster in the long term. Especially if the Harlapans get their way and end up making the Tikali and Natvyr additional thrall species. Such fears are found among the [[Tulso Pod|Tulso Pod]] and Vapourites, but mostly in maintaining the balance more than dominion. As in the Minavans try to keep technologically advanced enough to keep the Harlapans from thinking they can become masters. Along with the explorer reports of the Sprawl. The Natvyr have been fairly belligerent themselves but their mass warfare strategies require a snowballing which the Tikali have proven effective in undermining much to the chagrin of factions such as Asa's Hive or the [[Metallic Hives|Metallic_Hives]]. The Minavans currently are trying to impose a cooperative value system and have gone to meet other civilizations to spread their idea of a galactic council that will mostly be mocked and disregarded by the Prospect Spacers and Plexus due to having a united organization being amazingly difficult to coordinate with just sprawl wormholes and very alien cultures to contend with. This is all a first pass draft trying to create the dynamics for a revised civ cluster integrating concepts together that used to be less organized but now find a purpose in the greater setting as a fairly optimistic civilization that technologically is on par with the Plexus overall as Prospect Spacers have a lot of edges over the other civs in the setting and work way better as a prominent antagonist civ- of which they couldn't be nearly as much when the Architect was in that role despite really only interacting with the galaxy via the [[Custodians|Custodians]]. The [[Custodians|Custodians]] were too conceptually similar to the Sprawl in many ways and could just as easily be a Sprawl related entity as a fallen galactic civilization would have loads of bandwidth for both the decrepit remnants and the rogue enforcement initiative. What comes of the Glinnvyr and Aveterriat? That will take another brainstorming session.