But no Quarg are present here, only the three species of the Coalition. The interior architecture is unmistakable. `Your first view of the landing area confirms beyond a doubt that this is a Quarg ringworld, not just an imitation of one. They are the only ones in Coalition space who are allowed to have weapons on their starships, and they act as a sort of police force, maintaining peace between the Coalition species.` The Heliarch centers of government are the three Quarg ringworlds that they captured in that war. Thousands of years ago, the Heliarchs led their three species to band together and drive the Quarg out of Coalition space. Log "Factions" "Heliarchs" `The Heliarchs are the rulers of Coalition space: apparently not elected, but instead selected by merit from among the citizens of the Coalition in such a way as to ensure that all three species are equally represented. Perhaps you need to register with the "Heliarchs" first.` `Ğventually the crowd disperses and allows you to visit the spaceport, although no one offers you any jobs or the opportunity to buy anything but basic commodities. ` The spider says, "The wise Heliarchs, all your questions they will answer."` ` "Can you tell me more about yourselves, first?"` "Where you must go, here it is," it says.` The centaur points to the southernmost of the three. Lines mark out three different territories, and where they meet are three star systems colored yellow. You recognize it as a star map of this region. ` The centaur pulls out a map printed on a thin sheet of plastic. Once to the Heliarchs you have become known, in many ways to our society, contribute you may."` ` Speaking through its own translation box, the beetle says, "To the seat of the Heliarch government must you go. The Heliarchs in their great wisdom, all things that come to pass in our region of space, they are aware of."` "Our nearest and most recent neighbor you are. ` The spider speaks, and the box around its neck translates. After a brief delay, the box around its neck says, "In the name of the Heliarchs, who drove out the oppressors, who maintain peace, we the human visitor greet."` They walk up to you, and the centaur speaks.
`Ěnd eventually, someone does arrive: a beetle, a spider, and a centaur all wearing yellow armbands and some sort of electric box hanging on a chain around each of their necks. And the centaur stands quietly at a distance and keeps glancing back toward the spaceport as if waiting for someone.` The beetles, meanwhile, are talking to each other in a different language, all clicks and chittering. ` One of the spiders walks up to you, stretching its legs to raise its face and many eyes to the level of your own face, and says something to you in a gloopy sort of burbling language that you don't understand. Not just something vaguely resembling centaurs they look like they could have stepped right off the page of a story book from ancient Earth.` The second species, even more disturbing than the beetles, are giant spiders. First are giant beetles, about a meter tall, who scurry quickly toward your ship and swarm around it, gawking at you, as soon as you land. `This planet seems to be inhabited by at least three different sentient species. They are ruled by individuals known as the Heliarchs.` On many Coalition worlds, all three species live together in harmony, which is made easier by the fact that each species prefers a very different climate and thus gravitates to different parts of a planet. Log "Factions" "Coalition" `The Coalition is an alliance of three different alien species living in peace with each other: the Saryds, the Kimek, and the Arachi.
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