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This faction is a faction that had just discovered space travel in the last 100 years and had learned how to get into hyper-space. Also, the faction would learn how to do so and accidently discover the rest of the galaxy which they would show up at the edge of.
However, to make up for the fact that they are relatively new at space travel, perhaps their ships could be built out of better materials simply because of what the resources were on the planet.
For their weaponry, it would largely consist of actual lasers with capabilities of going into unseeable parts of the electro-magnetic spectrum.
Typical Lifetime: Shona are created at conception in the Uterus of the mother. Then, after a year, the mother vivaporously gives birth. Within the first twenty years, the Shona grows up under the care of the caretakers of the area where they live. In that time, they grow up and do much learning as the physically mature. At twenty, many take up a career as some job. Over the next twenty years, they do their jobs faithfully. Since they have a militia system for each town, all are in the army at one point or another. Also, each town is part of a national system that can draw armies from every town. This does take it's toll on many of the Shona, causing most of them to be dead by the time that they reach 40. At 40, they become sexually mature. Also, many stop working at that point. The reason is that most of the females take up the job of creating more children. Since they produce eggs as adults, their eggs won't produce malfunctioning children at older ages. The males on the other hand keep on working till death. However, by this point, most of the survivors get involved into politics given that they have had experience for plenty of years. This goes on for about 160 years of the lifetime of the Shona allowing every female to have given birth to about 120 children in a lifetime, however, with the incredible die off rates, this allows a steady and controlled growth in population. Also, once sexually mature, the Shona lose very little in population as they are not in the military or victim to the diseases that kill off many of the younger Shona. At the age of 200 years most of the Shona go through menapause and die off quickly leaving very few to continue going on. Those that do survive will often survive till some accident befalls them as they had not died in either die off and are immune to any disease. The die off rate of the old ones is about the same rate that they are created.
Another aspect of the Shona would be that they would be rather riven with rivalries between various clans as they just became united recently so many divisions would be well remembered. The Clan leaders would still be in control of a kin group of the old shona as well as all the offspring in the younger classes.
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However, to make up for the fact that they are relatively new at space travel, perhaps their ships could be built out of better materials simply because of what the resources were on the planet.
For their weaponry, it would largely consist of actual lasers with capabilities of going into unseeable parts of the electro-magnetic spectrum.
Typical Lifetime: Shona are created at conception in the Uterus of the mother. Then, after a year, the mother vivaporously gives birth. Within the first twenty years, the Shona grows up under the care of the caretakers of the area where they live. In that time, they grow up and do much learning as the physically mature. At twenty, many take up a career as some job. Over the next twenty years, they do their jobs faithfully. Since they have a militia system for each town, all are in the army at one point or another. Also, each town is part of a national system that can draw armies from every town. This does take it's toll on many of the Shona, causing most of them to be dead by the time that they reach 40. At 40, they become sexually mature. Also, many stop working at that point. The reason is that most of the females take up the job of creating more children. Since they produce eggs as adults, their eggs won't produce malfunctioning children at older ages. The males on the other hand keep on working till death. However, by this point, most of the survivors get involved into politics given that they have had experience for plenty of years. This goes on for about 160 years of the lifetime of the Shona allowing every female to have given birth to about 120 children in a lifetime, however, with the incredible die off rates, this allows a steady and controlled growth in population. Also, once sexually mature, the Shona lose very little in population as they are not in the military or victim to the diseases that kill off many of the younger Shona. At the age of 200 years most of the Shona go through menapause and die off quickly leaving very few to continue going on. Those that do survive will often survive till some accident befalls them as they had not died in either die off and are immune to any disease. The die off rate of the old ones is about the same rate that they are created.
Another aspect of the Shona would be that they would be rather riven with rivalries between various clans as they just became united recently so many divisions would be well remembered. The Clan leaders would still be in control of a kin group of the old shona as well as all the offspring in the younger classes.
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