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 The second greatest threat to any galactic civilization were those which tribes would bring upon themselves.  Poor decisions or plain bad luck might leave an entire people facing a cataclysmic environmental disaster.  In this case, the onset of the disaster might occur too quickly for outside help to arrive.  A timely response might involve some emergency geoengineering, terraforming, or in the worst of cases, total evacuation.
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 The third most common threat to any galactic civilization was the dominant galactic civilization; the [[Garis]].  This lately come species of humanoids, for reasons unknown, had chosen to adopt canine traits.  With elongated snouts, heightened senses of smell, and the ability to achieve great speed on all fours, they were no more imposing individually than a family pet.
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 The more lupine members of their race, known as the Ustemdik, were often the instigators and any war.  Their politics, routinely hawkish, had them constantly in a state of preparation for an upcoming conflict.  Their every government institution was run with a military hierarchy and measured with military efficiency.
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 Unsurprisingly, the Ustemdik formed every branch of the [[Garis]] military.  They supplied everyone from the starship captains, fighter pilots, and gunnery chiefs to the cooks and deck sweepers.  Other [[Garis]] with a propensity for the adventure and glory of being on the front lines were routinely turned away.  The Ustemdik that no one else would understand their love of battle, not even their own kind, but slightly removed.
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 The third branch of the Garis government was perhaps the most frightening, particularly to the [[Misik]].  These were the Akimsilik.  This variety of [[Garis]] sported vulpine features and by human aesthetic standards, appeared to be somewhat adorable.  Their narrow snouts, bushy tails, and playful mannerisms did nothing to indicate the propensity for totalitarianism within.
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 The Akimsilik were the administrative class of the [[Garis]].  They held the balance of power, the third vote on whether the [[Garis]] would enter into a new conflict or stay home to prepare.  Once a territory was occupied and safe for a [[Garis]] to walk the streets, the Akimsilik would descend.

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 The second greatest threat to any galactic civilization were those which tribes would bring upon themselves.  Poor decisions or plain bad luck might leave an entire people facing a cataclysmic environmental disaster.  In this case, the onset of the disaster might occur too quickly for outside help to arrive.  A timely response might involve some emergency geoengineering, terraforming, or in the worst of cases, total evacuation.
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 The third most common threat to any galactic civilization was the dominant galactic civilization; the [[Garis]].  This lately come species of humanoids, for reasons unknown, had chosen to adopt canine traits.  With elongated snouts, heightened senses of smell, and the ability to achieve great speed on all fours, they were no more imposing individually than a family pet.

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	The Jumak was the largest colony-class orbital in the [[Misik]] naval fleet. It had a multi-purpose class design and could serve as either a lifeboat, to rescue an evacuating colony from a distressed planet, or as a colonization ship, designed to terraform a new home for its inhabitants. Its size alone made it formidable. Ellipsoidal in shape, it measured just over 10 kilometers in length and 5 kilometers in diameter at its center.		The Jumak was the largest colony-class orbital in the [[Misik]] naval fleet. It had a multi-purpose class design and could serve as either a lifeboat, to rescue an evacuating colony from a distressed planet, or as a colonization ship, designed to terraform a new home for its inhabitants. Its size alone made it formidable. Ellipsoidal in shape, it measured just over 10 kilometers in length and 5 kilometers in diameter at its center.
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	The Jumak’s center housed two internal rotating rings, some 15 kilometers around and each a kilometer wide. These rings would rotate counter to one another, providing artificial gravity for anyone standing on the interior surface of either ring. The counter-rotation was a safeguard against requiring the ship to compensate for the incipient rotation that would be caused by a single ring.		The Jumak’s center housed two internal rotating rings, some 15 kilometers around and each a kilometer wide. These rings would rotate counter to one another, providing artificial gravity for anyone standing on the interior surface of either ring. The counter-rotation was a safeguard against requiring the ship to compensate for the incipient rotation that would be caused by a single ring.

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 by Robyn Blaber (November 2021)
-Captain [[Zinara Altynai]] brushed herself in the mirror in her quarters on Misik Prime.  Her ringworld, the third homeworld of the [[Misik]] to bear the name, circled a white-dwarf star inherited from the Andromeda galaxy.  The world slowly rotated treating the inhabitants below to the long since obsolete measure of one Earth gravity.
+Captain [[Zinara Altynai]] brushed herself in the mirror in her quarters on Misik Prime.  Her ringworld, the third homeworld of the [[Misik]] to bear the name Misk Prime, circled a white-dwarf star inherited from the Andromeda galaxy.  The world slowly rotated treating the inhabitants below to the long since obsolete measure of one Earth gravity.
 Zinara’s tribe was the [[Misik]], a race of highly evolved humans who bore several very decidedly feline features.  These included a coat of fur that covered most of her body, a tail, and retractable claws on her hind legs.  The similarities did not end there.  Her ears were forward swept and her eyes were incredibly sensitive in dark light.  Zinara was, by any measure, a predator.

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 The second greatest threat to any galactic civilization were those which tribes would bring upon themselves.  Poor decisions or plain bad luck might leave an entire people facing a cataclysmic environmental disaster.  In this case, the onset of the disaster might occur too quickly for outside help to arrive.  A timely response might involve some emergency geoengineering, terraforming, or in the worst of cases, total evacuation.
 The third most common threat to any galactic civilization was the dominant galactic civilization; the [[Garis]].  This lately come species of humanoids, for reasons unknown, had chosen to adopt canine traits.  With elongated snouts, heightened senses of smell, and the ability to achieve great speed on all fours, they were no more imposing individually than a family pet.
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 The more lupine members of their race, known as the Ustemdik, were often the instigators and any war.  Their politics, routinely hawkish, had them constantly in a state of preparation for an upcoming conflict.  Their every government institution was run with a military hierarchy and measured with military efficiency.
 Unsurprisingly, the Ustemdik formed every branch of the [[Garis]] military.  They supplied everyone from the starship captains, fighter pilots, and gunnery chiefs to the cooks and deck sweepers.  Other [[Garis]] with a propensity for the adventure and glory of being on the front lines were routinely turned away.  The Ustemdik that no one else would understand their love of battle, not even their own kind, but slightly removed.

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		+	by Robyn Blaber (November 2021)
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	Captain [[Zinara Altynai]] brushed herself in the mirror in her quarters on Misik Prime. Her ringworld, the third homeworld of the Misik to bear the name, circled a white-dwarf star inherited from the Andromeda galaxy. The world slowly rotated treating the inhabitants below to the long since obsolete measure of one Earth gravity.		Captain [[Zinara Altynai]] brushed herself in the mirror in her quarters on Misik Prime. Her ringworld, the third homeworld of the Misik to bear the name, circled a white-dwarf star inherited from the Andromeda galaxy. The world slowly rotated treating the inhabitants below to the long since obsolete measure of one Earth gravity.

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 A once lush planet, now a ball of ice was irresistible to the Garis and the Misik intervened to prevent their occupation.  Major Masina had operated nearly a million combat automatons during that operation, wiping the planet clean of any Garis who had slipped past the Garis navy.  Her enhanced instincts were nearly prescient as she seemed to have advanced knowledge of every move the Garis made, check.
-Though not necessarily counting as personnel, Zinara shopped her tablet for an AI.  In the Misik navy, and even civilian craft for that matter, an AI was an absolute necessity.  The AI was an intellectual construct that was tasked to perform every shipboard operation imaginable, from running the ship’s functions, executing the light-fold and time-fold maneuvers, to maintaining every essential to mundane system from life support to the beverage machines.
+Though not necessarily counting as personnel, Zinara shopped her tablet for an AI.  In the Misik navy and even civilian craft for that matter, an AI was an absolute necessity.  The AI was an intellectual construct that was tasked to perform every shipboard operation imaginable, from running the ship’s functions, executing the light-fold and time-fold maneuvers, to maintaining every essential to mundane system from life support to the beverage machines.
 Zinara put in a special request.  Tomaris, her very first ship computer, was once responsible for little more than the maintenance of Zinara’s life support and her small Misik fighter craft.  Tomaris’ intellect had grown to nearly inestimable proportions since that then.  Identifying as female, for reasons only the AI herself could know, advanced from her humble beginning in tandem with her first pilot, Zinara.  As the latter’s career advanced had earned her a promotion in the unofficial hierarchy of the Misik AIs.
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 She shared this data with her fellow AI’s after surviving battle after battle and the insights became highly prized.  As news of her successful research spread, more and more ship commanders desired Tomaris as part of their battle kit.  Zinara, soon to sport numerous military decorations was similarly coveted.  The two crossed paths regularly.  Tomaris, both found themselves assigned to the bridges of larger and larger ships.  In the higher echelons of command, it came to be considered unlucky to send one of the two veterans on a mission without the other.
-Zinara’s request granted and Tomaris immediately downloaded to her special tablet, the one containing the fabled ylem source.  Zinara spent one final night on Misik Prime while Tomaris checked and rechecked her crew selections and inventory.  When she woke, she took some time to bid farewell to friends and family, before boarding her shuttle for the Jumak.
+Zinara’s request was granted and Tomaris immediately downloaded herself onto Zinara’s special tablet, the one containing the fabled ylem source.  Zinara spent one final night on Misik Prime while Tomaris checked and rechecked her crew selections and inventory.  When she woke, she took some time to bid farewell to friends and family, before boarding her shuttle for the Jumak.
 Misik Prime, faded out of view behind her as the outline of the Jumak continued to grow.  The ship was immense.  The shuttle jinked around the bow to find the lone available bay and delivered Zinara to her new charge.  A small team made up of her executive officers greeted her at the bay.
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 The bridge crew looked about at each other as their anticipation rose.  Then, without a sound or a flash of light, Zinara, the Jumak, and all the crew and equipment; everything that they ever were or would ever be, simply ceased to exist.