Name
Clone Communities
Type
Civilization
Description
Clones are genetically replicated humans created through legal and illegal genomic programs spanning centuries of interstellar expansion. Although early clone populations were treated as disposable labor and military assets, widespread reform eventually recognized them as fully autonomous citizens possessing the same rights as any naturally born individual. Today, Clone Communities represent one of the fastest-growing cultures throughout human space.
Most clones are born into cooperative settlements where identity is shaped through experience rather than genetics. Shared ancestry creates strong familial bonds, but individuality remains sacred. Personal names, professions, and life choices are encouraged to ensure no two clones define themselves solely by their origin.
Clone architecture reflects practicality and communal living. Residential districts emphasize shared resources, education, healthcare, and open public spaces where generations support one another regardless of biological lineage. Many communities preserve genomic archives documenting every known ancestral template, treating them as historical records rather than blueprints for future replication.
Clone society values perseverance, equality, craftsmanship, and personal achievement. Having spent generations overcoming prejudice, clones strongly oppose any system that defines a person's worth by origin, genetics, or manufactured purpose. Many become physicians, engineers, educators, artisans, and explorers dedicated to proving individuality cannot be copied.
Relations with humanity remain largely positive despite historical tensions. Clones often collaborate closely with Ascendants, Androids, and Bio-Constructs while advocating for the rights of all artificially created life. Across the galaxy they are regarded as living evidence that identity is earned through one's choices rather than one's creation.
Name
Drifters
Type
Civilization
Description
The Drifters are a nomadic civilization without a permanent homeworld, existing entirely aboard colossal fleets that have crossed known space for generations. Some trace their ancestry to refugees of the Collapse Wars, while others descend from explorers who simply chose never to settle. Regardless of origin, every Drifter believes the journey itself defines civilization more than any planet ever could.
Entire cities exist within interconnected Ark Ships, carrier vessels, salvage platforms, and wandering stations linked together into enormous migratory flotillas. These fleets travel ancient Hyperlane routes beyond the reach of most governments, trading supplies, recovering abandoned technology, transporting passengers, and charting unexplored regions.
Drifter culture prizes independence, adaptability, storytelling, navigation, and hospitality. Every citizen learns spacecraft maintenance, emergency medicine, survival, and celestial navigation from childhood. Knowledge is preserved through oral tradition, holographic archives, and living historians who accompany every fleet.
Their ships reflect centuries of continuous modification. Sleek colony vessels stand beside salvaged military cruisers, Precursor relics, converted freighters, and handcrafted habitats connected into sprawling mobile civilizations. No two fleets are identical, and every hull bears the history of countless voyages.
Although many governments view the Drifters as unpredictable, they are among the galaxy's most reliable explorers and traders. They maintain relationships with nearly every civilization and are often the first to discover new Hyperlane routes, abandoned worlds, or emerging threats. Among the stars, the Drifters are known for one enduring belief: every destination is temporary, but the voyage lasts forever.