Ashiria Project Updates

Are you Ashirian? -The path is built

Our historian has revealed that soon not only Founder Arynthe's biography will slowly be completed, but also a different book, that will offer a more objective look on Ashirian history. 

There is going to be a lot of science in this project. Don't worry, you don't have to solve math equations before you can join, but you do need to know the basic information about the Ashirian people (planet facts, politics, history, biology). Even if your role isn't a scientific one but for example more about art, it'd come in handy to know the basic things. 

For those people, the basic facts are here. 

PLANET FACTS

Planet Ashiria is officially the second homeworld of the Ashirian people, but it's not called Ashiria 2 because the first Ashiria doesn't exist anymore. If people want to be very clear about which of the two, they speak of Old Ashiria and New Ashiria. 

The sun is called Fakum.

A year on Ashiria takes 512 days, and a day has 16 hours. Ashirians count longer periods in (translated) weeks (of 8 days) and (translated) superweeks (64 days). 

Planet Ashiria has 8 moons, al uninhabitable. Rumor has it that the planet once had 9 moons, but one was destroyed to get the "sacred" number of 8 moons, but that has never been proven. 

Except Ashirians the planet is home to only plants and bugs. There's no life in the ocean. 

POLITICS

The leader of the planet is called the Mara. The people elect the Team of Nine, and from among them the Team chooses the Mara. The other eight are known as the Council of Eight. 

The first Mara was Founder Arynthe (also simply known as Arynthe, after her downfall). She created the Law Foundations which can be summarized as follows:

- It's forbidden to hurt or kill except if it's for the best interest of the victim.
- Everyone has a right to live, to be happy, to have an opinion and express it, to love, to hate, to learn and to achieve.
- Everyone has a duty to protect their own rights and those of others.
- All laws that are later created must be in complete agreement with these foundations.

The Team of Nine is also divided in three Clusters, that are more directly keeping daily life on Ashiria bearable. The Clusters are Food & Health Cluster, Knowledge & Progress Cluster and Care & Identity Cluster. 

HISTORY

Until 17 br. (Before Rebirth) the Ashirians lived on a planet far away. We know it today as Old Ashiria. However, in 17 br. the planet was destroyed by aliens (of an unknown species). Then followed 17 years in which the environment grew grimmer and grimmer for the Ashrians, since the aliens that destroyed Old Ashiria had spread rumors that caused all other aliens to hate Ashirians. This time is known as the Darkening.

In the year 1 br., Founder Arynthe made contact with a species that hadn't been influenced by the rumors. They were known as the Torrayans. After a long period of negotiations, the Torrayans agreed to offer Arynthe "and whoever was left of her species" a planet to start a new civilization on. It still took some time before Ashirians ever set foot on this planet we know as New Ashiria (or simply Ashiria). The moment this happened was known as the Rebirth. 

The new society was quickly established, but after a few decades the younger generation began protesting against the boredom. Feeling misunderstood by the older generation that had lived during the Darkening, they started a revolution. The Mara Arynthe was overthrown and exiled, according to all records without any violence. 

Then followed a period in which many young people fought to become Mara. The ones who succeeded lived two superweeks on average before they were murdered by the new Mara. These went scout free, because their philosophy was "we make the laws, we can do this". 

In the year 185 ar. this period came to an end, as Founder Arynthe returned to the planet with an army of Torrayans to reshape the order. In her biography she wrote she would keep it peaceful, but the facts say that about 230 Ashirians were killed that day. The moment she had overthrown the Mara, she passed on the power to one diplomat that had been hiding under the table during the battle. His name was Ejmar. He managed to stabilize the political situation, and in the time he started, we still live today (in 623 ar.)

BIOLOGY

Ashirians are humanoid aliens. When adult they are blue. Their hair colour is coppery, and in case of poor health it can get a green shade. Their eye colour varies from emerald to neon green. In case of stress and/or fear, this colour darkens. Biologists still haven't figured out how or why.

The Ashirian body mainly consists of organic metal. To prevent short circuit in the nerves, some cells also produce a substance known as diterite which works as isolation material. 

An Ashirian child is white because their skin consists of diterite, but when they are about eight years old, they start growing a layer (comparable to an exoskeleton) of the organic metal anteron on their skin. Ashirians are considered adult once this layer is complete. 

Because of their physiology, Ashirians are very difficult to kill. They can eat nearly anything as long as it contains metal, they can stop breathing and live for about three superweeks and their anteron is very difficult to break. This does make what's inside of their anteron "armor" very sensitive to whatever does change things, because it happens so rarely the defense is barely developed.