The Engineering of the Peoples
In the later centuries of the Inarin Empire Faction The Inarin Empire The great predecessor civilisation of Elshore, built by the Iru across thousands of years and ended by the servant-race rebellion known as the Chaos., the Iru People Iru The progenitors, and the only naturally evolved people of Elshore. did not merely govern the world, they manufactured new peoples to run it. Two Iru corporations created four sentient servant lines across roughly a century, each engineered for a distinct role. These lines were meant to serve; instead, over generations, they became the peoples who would inherit Elshore.
Key traits
- Annilian Ltd. engineers the Annil People Annil Small, scaled, and easy to overlook, the Annil were the earliest of the engineered lines, made as household aides and keepers of the systems that kept the world running. at ~194 BTC (IR 1606) as household aides and data-keepers, the first of the four sentient servant lines; the Annil name derives from Old Arramic for 'household aide.'
- Annilian Ltd. follows with the Maan People Maan The most numerous people of Elshore and the baseline cultural reference of the age. at ~188 BTC (IR 1612), designed as generalists for every role, the Maan instead build nations; 'maan' in Old Arramic means 'comfort.'
- Erengin Ltd. engineers the Erg and the Bar People Bar Towering, massively built, and engineered for high-load work and vertical terrain, the Bar are the strength line. within the same century, completing the four servant lines; the Erg are administrators and enforcers, the Bar the strength line for high-load and vertical work.
- Under the Inarin Empire, all four servant lines are held under termination policies; the Maan are killed at age 40, half their natural span; the Annil are terminated near their natural end of 45 to 50 years.
- First contact with the Meir People Meir The only people of Elshore not born of it. is made at ~115 BTC (IR 1685): an extraterrestrial people, refugees of a lost world, requesting settlement rights; Emperor Alahnio Iklafoo grants Elshore settlement without consulting the Senate.
- The Meir arrive in generation ships at ~108 BTC (IR 1692) and found Vaparium Place Vaparium The Sovereign Arcology of Vaparium, the Meir homeland in the south and the most technologically advanced structure on Elshore. in southern Elshore, the House of Blood, bringing technology beyond the empire's own and a population the Senate never sanctioned.