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The voir a tall, muscular race of hardy beings native to the arid vasts of Krajvam and one of the largest powers in the known galaxy.
The voir have standard humanoid shape with two arms, two legs, but this superficial resemblance is all that relates them to other humanoids. Standing at an average of two meters with a very bulky, muscular body, the voir have adapted to live in some of the most inhospitable environments multicellular life can inhabit. Their homeworld of Krajvam orbits comfortably within the habitable zone of the F type star Atibur, but its small size and mass means it has lost its magnetic field for some time, resulting in its surface being irradiated by deadly solar rays and cosmic winds for millions of years. The result is a biosphere that is one step from total collapse and a shadow of its former self. Its hydrosphere is also slowly being blasted away by solar winds, resulting in an ever increasing scarcity of water. In response, the voir have evolved to not only survive in the irradiated deserts, but thrive. They are capable of living for months with little problems in radiation levels which would kill other lifeforms in hours, go without water for weeks or enter a low metabolism state which lets them live with little to no food for up to a local year (542 earth days). Even more impressive is that their bodies can survive in low pressure environment for up to an hour, allowing them to literary walk in the vacuum of space, although with significant tear on their bodies. They are pack predators that are almost strictly nocturnal; while their eyes are not particularly acute for night vision, just below their eyes they posses two curved slits that act as extremely accurate heat pit. Combined with a sensitive sense of smell and powerful limbs, this makes the voir deadly predators in the night.
As predatory pack animals, the voir evolved to hunt is small packs which they call setf hin, or ''Hunter's Gathering''. Lead by an Alpha, or Siinnet, the group was by their natural instinct extremely obedient to the leader, as their survival dependent of cooperation. As such, the voir as a whole are fairy collectivist and while perfectly capable of individuality their natural instincts made it so that all voir, with few exceptions, prefer to follow group thinking whenever possible, to the point of giving outsiders the perspective that the voir are a borderline hive minded. In the deserts of their original evolution, the arid Agrada of the Kalaha continent, numerous packs have arisen and fought each other for half a million years with little to no progress in terms of technology or society. Their resource poor world meant that civilization had little chance of rising above primitive stone age, more or less dooming any sapient species from the start. However, this changed around 12,000 BCE when the galactic superpower known as the Aonosians began to uplift the primitives from their unfortunate fate. Over the course of four thousand years the aonosians slowly but surly manage to bring the voir up from a stone age civilization to a roughly nuclear-early space age one. The voir themselves, upon being first contacted, slowly began to realize, as they were introduced to more advance ideas, concepts and technology, just how precarious their situation was.
Going through numerous reforms, the various packs slowly bur surly began to unify under an alliance of siinnet's that understood the great sacrifices and struggle needed to ensure their people's survival. A series of powerful siinnet's manage to eventually unify most of their species by the time the aonosians presented them with the concept of space travel, made somewhat easier by the voir new found open mindness to new ideas; indeed, the voir psyche as a rule tend towards the highly pragmatic and have little patience for over-complicated ideas, so much so that religion, while existing in the early, stone age civilization, was quickly dismissed to the point of becoming utterly irreverent to the wider society. As the voir concluded, how could any being, divine or not, create or allow the creation of conscious beings and place them in a scenario where they are doomed from the start, on purpose? If such beings even exist, they are simply not worthy of reverence. As such, the vast majority of voir remain either atheistic or, in rarer cases, misotheist.
Around 8000 BCE, the uplifting of the voir was complete, with them setting out into space under the leadership of one siinet, the first Emperor, Kirassaskan. Extremely grateful to their saviors who gave them the opportunity to live on, the voir even offered to become their vassals and fight for them, however the aonosians refused, as they viewed it as their sacred duty to ascend the less fortunate species. As such the voir were left to their own devices as they tried to discover their place in the galaxy. Their first venture, however, was soon interrupted not long after, when the aonosian Empire entered a short but decisive conflict with an unknown, extra galactic enemy that in sort order completely annihilated them, leaving nothing but rubble in their wake but strangely leaving everyone else alone, to the point of purposely avoiding any contact. The voir, with their undying loyalty, were quick to attempt to jump to their benefactors aid, but before they could even launch their very first warship the war was already over.
Over the next centuries, the voir, paranoid, concentrated almost all of their efforts in increasing their small empire to protect themselves and, hopefully, one day avenge their benefactors. Going from a one planet species to a fairy large empire, the voir settled to isolate themselves as much as possible so as to not attract unwanted attention. For thousands of years, they simply waited, until around 3000 BCE when the Emperor finally opened the borders. Being a fairy old civilization by that point, the Voir Empire was one of the largest and most powerful in the galaxy and despite not having fought wars beyond a few boarder skirmishes with the neighboring Drak-An and Xo'averi they maintained one of the largest military. As they opened their boarders, however, they also discovered that the aonosians influence went far deeper that they initially thought. Dozens of other civilization were similarly uplifted, but as the voir found were uninterested in forming any alliance against external threats, preferring to fight among themselves. The voir, who at this point saw themselves as the inheritors of the aonosians, began plans to form a unified power block that could potentially stand up to the Enemy if they ever returned. Thus, the voir convinced the Drak-An and the Xo'averi, among others, to join together in an alliance in 2800 BCE, which became the first incarnation of the Groth Alliance.
A quick war erupted around 2500 BCE between the Groth and the newly formed Rendanor League, formed out of a dozen or so civilization that were stood against the more aggressive policies of the Groth. The incident that broke the tenuous peace was the planet Flax, who's primitive inhabitants the voir attempted to uplift just like the aonosians did to them. The attempt, however, went disastrous when the flaxian tribes somehow got introduced to nuclear weapons before they really understood what they could do. The resulting nuclear apocalypse devastated Flax and nearly drove the flaxians into extinction, and drew the ire or many civilization. When voir refused to allow the League to take control of Flax from them, a war erupted that, while short and indecisive, set the stage for many thousands of years to come.

Description
The voir a tall, muscular race of hardy beings native to the arid vasts of Krajvam and one of the largest powers in the known galaxy.
The voir have standard humanoid shape with two arms, two legs, but this superficial resemblance is all that relates them to other humanoids. Standing at an average of two meters with a very bulky, muscular body, the voir have adapted to live in some of the most inhospitable environments multicellular life can inhabit. Their homeworld of Krajvam orbits comfortably within the habitable zone of the F type star Atibur, but its small size and mass means it has lost its magnetic field for some time, resulting in its surface being irradiated by deadly solar rays and cosmic winds for millions of years. The result is a biosphere that is one step from total collapse and a shadow of its former self. Its hydrosphere is also slowly being blasted away by solar winds, resulting in an ever increasing scarcity of water. In response, the voir have evolved to not only survive in the irradiated deserts, but thrive. They are capable of living for months with little problems in radiation levels which would kill other lifeforms in hours, go without water for weeks or enter a low metabolism state which lets them live with little to no food for up to a local year (542 earth days). Even more impressive is that their bodies can survive in low pressure environment for up to an hour, allowing them to literary walk in the vacuum of space, although with significant tear on their bodies. They are pack predators that are almost strictly nocturnal; while their eyes are not particularly acute for night vision, just below their eyes they posses two curved slits that act as extremely accurate heat pit. Combined with a sensitive sense of smell and powerful limbs, this makes the voir deadly predators in the night.
As predatory pack animals, the voir evolved to hunt is small packs which they call setf hin, or ''Hunter's Gathering''. Lead by an Alpha, or Siinnet, the group was by their natural instinct extremely obedient to the leader, as their survival dependent of cooperation. As such, the voir as a whole are fairy collectivist and while perfectly capable of individuality their natural instincts made it so that all voir, with few exceptions, prefer to follow group thinking whenever possible, to the point of giving outsiders the perspective that the voir are a borderline hive minded. In the deserts of their original evolution, the arid Agrada of the Kalaha continent, numerous packs have arisen and fought each other for half a million years with little to no progress in terms of technology or society. Their resource poor world meant that civilization had little chance of rising above primitive stone age, more or less dooming any sapient species from the start. However, this changed around 12,000 BCE when the galactic superpower known as the Aonosians began to uplift the primitives from their unfortunate fate. Over the course of four thousand years the aonosians slowly but surly manage to bring the voir up from a stone age civilization to a roughly nuclear-early space age one. The voir themselves, upon being first contacted, slowly began to realize, as they were introduced to more advance ideas, concepts and technology, just how precarious their situation was.
Going through numerous reforms, the various packs slowly bur surly began to unify under an alliance of siinnet's that understood the great sacrifices and struggle needed to ensure their people's survival. A series of powerful siinnet's manage to eventually unify most of their species by the time the aonosians presented them with the concept of space travel, made somewhat easier by the voir new found open mindness to new ideas; indeed, the voir psyche as a rule tend towards the highly pragmatic and have little patience for over-complicated ideas, so much so that religion, while existing in the early, stone age civilization, was quickly dismissed to the point of becoming utterly irreverent to the wider society. As the voir concluded, how could any being, divine or not, create or allow the creation of conscious beings and place them in a scenario where they are doomed from the start, on purpose? If such beings even exist, they are simply not worthy of reverence. As such, the vast majority of voir remain either atheistic or, in rarer cases, misotheist.
Around 8000 BCE, the uplifting of the voir was complete, with them setting out into space under the leadership of one siinet, the first Emperor, Kirassaskan. Extremely grateful to their saviors who gave them the opportunity to live on, the voir even offered to become their vassals and fight for them, however the aonosians refused, as they viewed it as their sacred duty to ascend the less fortunate species. As such the voir were left to their own devices as they tried to discover their place in the galaxy. Their first venture, however, was soon interrupted not long after, when the aonosian Empire entered a short but decisive conflict with an unknown, extra galactic enemy that in sort order completely annihilated them, leaving nothing but rubble in their wake but strangely leaving everyone else alone, to the point of purposely avoiding any contact. The voir, with their undying loyalty, were quick to attempt to jump to their benefactors aid, but before they could even launch their very first warship the war was already over.
Over the next centuries, the voir, paranoid, concentrated almost all of their efforts in increasing their small empire to protect themselves and, hopefully, one day avenge their benefactors. Going from a one planet species to a fairy large empire, the voir settled to isolate themselves as much as possible so as to not attract unwanted attention. For thousands of years, they simply waited, until around 3000 BCE when the Emperor finally opened the borders. Being a fairy old civilization by that point, the Voir Empire was one of the largest and most powerful in the galaxy and despite not having fought wars beyond a few boarder skirmishes with the neighboring Drak-An and Xo'averi they maintained one of the largest military. As they opened their boarders, however, they also discovered that the aonosians influence went far deeper that they initially thought. Dozens of other civilization were similarly uplifted, but as the voir found were uninterested in forming any alliance against external threats, preferring to fight among themselves. The voir, who at this point saw themselves as the inheritors of the aonosians, began plans to form a unified power block that could potentially stand up to the Enemy if they ever returned. Thus, the voir convinced the Drak-An and the Xo'averi, among others, to join together in an alliance in 2800 BCE, which became the first incarnation of the Groth Alliance.
A quick war erupted around 2500 BCE between the Groth and the newly formed Rendanor League, formed out of a dozen or so civilization that were stood against the more aggressive policies of the Groth. The incident that broke the tenuous peace was the planet Flax, who's primitive inhabitants the voir attempted to uplift just like the aonosians did to them. The attempt, however, went disastrous when the flaxian tribes somehow got introduced to nuclear weapons before they really understood what they could do. The resulting nuclear apocalypse devastated Flax and nearly drove the flaxians into extinction, and drew the ire or many civilization. When voir refused to allow the League to take control of Flax from them, a war erupted that, while short and indecisive, set the stage for many thousands of years to come.