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The Malus
The Malus are a product of the harsh environment of their home planet. Scarce water, extremely high
temperatures, and a volatile climate have combined to create a stout and rigidly disciplined culture
based on strength and triumph over adversity. Even under the fickle Clan system, order was strictly
maintained.
Under the rule of the theocratic Night Sky regime, the Malus have come to see their place as the
rightful inheritors of the cosmos. Each Malus citizen has been re-defined as a warrior. The Code
of the Warrior includes a lust for glory in battle that is tempered by a sense of sacrifice and
fierce loyalty to one's leaders.
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The Alyssians
Independence, self-sufficiency, fatalism: these are the characteristics honored by the Alyssians,
though for the last several hundred years they have sacrificed much of their individualism for the
greater cause of societal harmony. The Alyssians are democratic and egalitarian. However, in this
new age of scientific progress, those who excel in the military sciences are esteemed above all.
Since the destruction of their manned mission to Malus, the Alyssians have committed vast planetary
resources to their great crusade against the culturally primitive and violent Malus. The Alyssian
soldier is a supremely competent professional. Benefiting from intense training and esprit de corps,
the Alyssian officer is a scholar of warfare. His only weakness is perhaps a lack of familiarity with
the shock of combat. This is the first time that the Alyssians have fought an unknown enemy, an enemy
that is clearly militaristic and accustomed to conflict.
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