Database and Lore

The T’rintar Clan (Former Yutilian Clan) Page 1

*Spoilers if you haven’t read past Gabatrix: The First Peace arc* “The true art of the Yutilian is deception. You think they are adorable and innocent, but that is only one of their qualities. The most foolish of individuals are the ones that turn their backs against them. By then, it’s already too late,” Shira, 2346 AD. The history of the Yutilian species is one that mirrors the history of the Itrean people as a whole. One of the shortest statured surviving clan species, the origins on former Earth indicate that the Yutilians as the descendants of the Velociraptors. This isn’t to be confused with the Velociraptors that are portrayed in media and films. The original Velociraptors were short, about half the height of an average human, while having feathery bodies, tails, and pointed beaks. In reality, the ancient dinosaurs were little more than scavengers rather than true hunters. The typical Yutilian of the last fifty thousand years were typically described as having stubby long snouts, with an average height of about 4 feet. They stand upright on digitigrade legs. Feathers of various colors can be seen on the arms, back, head, and tail. Generally, most have claws of some sort that exist on their toes and fingers. They tend to have four fingers for each hand, lack hair, and have scales that surround their bodies. Males originally were very much like females with almost no muscle mass above the torso, lacked breasts, but had a slight increase of muscle mass for their legs. When they talk, the feathers naturally rise and fall depending on the emotion that is being portrayed. Among the Yutilians, the displaying of their feathers can further help elaborate their speech. To the average Yutilian, it has been observed that feathers can be looked at as a status symbol. The bigger or more feathers you have, the more power and reverence you have. Some have even been known to have constructive surgeries or gene therapies to help adjust their feather patterns or even alter the colors that they produce. The earliest recorded histories of the Yutilians had them almost similar to that of the Aksren. In fact, by many accounts, the species were either in good terms or blood enemies over and over again. In the era of “dead space,” the Yutilians and Aksren usually competed or challenged the other over territories and resources. Space battles and ground battles were well noted, but this didn’t cover their entire historical spectrum. Much like the many species, internal species warfare and conflict were just as prevalent. There were also times of long-term peace and attempts at exploration. In most aspects, the Yutilians were just as violent as many other clans in conflict but more willing to attempt negotiation. This careful stride of balance made them perfect negotiators and those that were generally more patient than many others. At times, it was known that the Yutilians would serve as intermediaries between other clan species conflicts. It proved to be a viable trait that persisted from time to time.    The general perception of Yutilians is that they are all considered friendly, but this is a common misconception of the human public. Many of them are naturally inquisitive, but this doesn’t mean that all of them act in this behavior. What is described as “coquettish behavior,” the Yutilians tend to act innocent in order to fool another that they are relaxed and calm. When one opens up to one, it is possible that they may reveal more information than another Itrean clan species will do. This isn’t to say that the Yutilians all act in this particular way. In the mainstream Itrean media, they have a myriad of different behaviors depending on the environment or religious upbringing they go through. In combat, the Yutilians are generally the fastest runners, the most athletic, and capable of jumping even higher than the Aksren clan counterparts. The Yutilians have managed to hold their own in wars and conflict with technological innovation, including camouflage equipment, cloaking technology, and advanced missile-based systems. The race is no laughing matter in battle, and there is a reason why they have managed to last for millions of years to this day. The greatest successes for the Yutilians were their warships. Being on par to even surpass their species counterparts, the guided-missile battleships they used were capable of laying waste to enemy combatants before they even closed into unavoidable railgun range. The control of space was just as important as controlling the ground. If the Yutilians struggled to win on the ground, they certainly made up for it with their warships in space combat. Unfortunately, even this wasn’t a saving factor as far back as the Empire of Jalgren dismantled the Yutilians. The Aksren Empire ruled the Yutilians with an iron fist. Instead, the Yutilians contributed in other ways by providing technology to help in the stabilization of the empire. For thousands of years, the Yutilians had worked their way into imperial politics and were considered the friendliest of the five species of Itreans. Little to the knowledge of the imperialists that even the most prolonged of plans would eventually work. To the empire, the Yutilians were the second most trusted of the Itrean species next to the Aksren themselves. While some Yutilians wanted to live a peace even under the removal of freedom, to others, they were slowly finding ways to erode it from within. The spy network of the Yutilians had its origins in the empire as agent after agent would gather valuable data on weak points and those that were sympathetic to the demise of such a system. When the days arrived, the Yutilians had some of their secretly constructed battleships strike at these vulnerable areas. It proved to work in the Rototrein Rebellion as Yutilian, Rebel Aksren, and Shal’rein warships dealt blow after blow upon Imperial strongholds. The saying “Never turn your back against a Yutilian” was commonplace and referred to in both a positive and negative direction. After the empire, the Yutilians had resumed creating large fleets of warships to combat the other clans. For thousands of years, they had managed to hold their own while having no assistance from other clans. Occasionally, they would engage in peaceful relations, but their reputation as slew negotiators or tricksters was difficult to stagger at times. On the other hand, others still had some respect for them in how they acted. Being friendly, even if they were faking it, still proved to help some. It is argued that the Yutilians sometimes avoided the battles because they purposely focused on colonizing worlds with no real heavy value to them. Even genocidal actions still must have a purpose, and if the other clans see that a planet or moon is worthless, they won’t go after it as much. The species had learned how to skew the facts, manipulate, and use shrewdness in politics. It proved to be a saving grace at times. During the Post-Imperial era, the Yutilians, much like the other clan species, focused more on themselves. The last ten thousand years would also be known as the “Great Kingdoms Era” to the species. It was known as a time where Yutilian kingdoms were on the rise. Four of them either competed with each other or struggled to repel the other clan species. To them, the Yutilians never really referred to having their own “empires” but having their own collectives ruled by feudal lords. Generally, there was more in- fighting than outer species conflict. Eventually, the kingdoms would slowly reorganize to a parliamentary-style system reminiscent of the United Kingdom of old Earth history in the last five thousand years.  This wasn’t to say that the Yutilians avoided combat, far from it. Campaigns were just as natural as the other clans did, but they would be cautious in the recent five thousand years and have carefully well-constructed battles. The strategy of choosing planets with little value was one that they had to be careful with. Less resources could easily mean fighting fleets that had far more firepower than you did. Essentially, the Yutilians picked and chose when to fight and where to do it. Regardless, there were many struggles as the clan species would face invasions from other clan species in regard to having access to certain planets or resources. Some argue that the Yutilians are the smartest of the Itrean species, but this isn’t always the case. Many return the arguments that they are simply more cautious and win their victories by the simple act alone. The people know when a risky action can be made and when it is foolish to engage in another. Even on former Earth, a Velociraptor couldn’t kill an Allosaurus in physical combat. It would have to find another way. Because of this, the Yutilians generally tended to have the best bioengineering at the time. There were even cases of having some of their best scientists that worked on other worlds during the time of the empire. One such disease was unleashed upon the Palierans and later the Alara’jal. Both plagues came from a Yutilian. Even the dreaded Zilik’s Disease was also created by a Yutilian. Despite the angles that the Yutilian clan had managed to fall into, the species still had some issues. What is known as the “Magneirepa Paradox” or the “Erosion Paradox” was an applied concept that the Yutilian politicians recognized. By not being as aggressive as the other clan counterparts, they were missing out on key worlds that could supply their fleets. Expansion of their clan was slower than the others, and it was theoretically possible that a combined all-out assault by the Aksren and Shal’rein fleets would easily obliterate the Yutilians within thousands of years. Efforts to combat this were done as more and more negotiations would be run but had varied results. The success of the Pagu’Lo’Tren would help usher the creation of New Atrea, the capital of the Yutilian clans that would last to this day. The era of no wars was mostly in due thanks because of the clan efforts. Experiments into various political sciences were looked into as well by the various colonies that even last to this very day. After the destruction of the Alara’jal, the Yutilians would be the ones to push for peace. The Magneirepa Paradox is still looked at as an inevitability and profound fear among the people. With three species left, the Yutilian clan could be next to become extinct. By then, the strategy of the clan was defensive warfare. Engage only if an invasion or raid upon the space would occur. This decision was nothing like the Yutilian patterns in the last tens of thousands of years ago. Expansion had stagnated, and if it weren’t for the stagnant growth of the other clans of the other species, then the Yutilian clan was going to be in deep trouble. However, defensive warfare did prove to work a lot in favor of the clan. Most of the victories of the Yutilians were for the very fact that they let the enemy come to them. As the Aksren and Shal’rein clans would fight each other, they would bleed each other as the Yutilians used their lesser resources to rebuild and beef up their defensive capability. In the last two hundred years, it proved to work. During the conflict with the Emphra, the Yutilians were just as dumbfounded as the other clans. An alien invasion that was liquid in its native state and destroyed all life. Distrust towards each other was just as heavy as the other species, but the Yutilians knew they had a particular advantage with this historic event. There was a possibility to combat the Magneirepa Paradox in the long-term run. By having the clans work together, a new applied government could be installed that would sue for peace for all clans. Everyone would be working together, and there would be less need to wipe out another species in the far future. Careful and cautious, the Yutilians decided to join the Shal’rein the moment that they suggested an alliance could be made to stop the Emphra. It even surprised the Shal’rein of how quickly they did so. This didn’t mean that the alliance was a cozy one, but one of necessity. The Emphra had to be wiped out. This would encourage the Aksren to eventually join the alliance to eliminate the Emphra once and for all. 24^th Century History The Yutilians, upon the closing of the Emphra War, had looked into politics with profound interest. To them, they found the idea of a United Itrean Empire or Republic to be more beneficial to them than the other clans ever concluded. They also saw another opportunity as well, and that was cohesion. Politicians in the clan were more open to change than in the last ten thousand years. Their political views were leaning more and more toward a democratic system. Even by now, many of the parliamentary systems were reorganized, and kingdoms were all but in name only. Another prospect of what they looked at was “Refuge Advantage.” What surprised the other clans was the fact that many families displaced from the Emphra needed new homes to go to. The Yutilians offered these Aksren and Shal’rein families the opportunity to live in their space. It was a difficult but possible achievement to go with, which the other clans willingly decided to do. The population was reluctant, but many families that moved to live with the Yutilians commented that “It could have been worse, but a clan species that see us as an ally is far better than ones that see us as the enemy.” In time, the children born from these refuge families would swear absolute allegiance to the Yutilians. A melting pot had occurred in which Shal’rein and Aksren would consist of almost 18% of the population in the next thirty years. Shal’rein, raised in Yutilian worlds, became commando and elite troopers to fight alongside Yutilian soldiers. Aksren raised in the clan also offered their services in other ways. More Shal’rein and Aksren lived in the Yutilian clan than Yutilians that lived in the other clan worlds. As the United Itrean Empire or Republic was constructed, the name of T’rintar was adopted. No longer did the Yutilians actually call themselves the “Yutilian Clan,” but a part of the new unity. While this was the same with the other clans, the Yutilians still recognized that a majority of the population was Yutilian. The name stuck, and the people used the term more openly as the years progressed. It is said that the former Yutilian worlds were the most comfortable with the new united government. A form of democracy had been established that was becoming more and more recognized in time. If peace was the result of such a decision, then it didn’t matter if it existed or not as long as it functioned. The people were not fools, however. Politicians could easily see that it was falling apart from within. In the act of desperation, the Yutilians did offer a series of reforms to keep the government, but the other clans withdrew from it. War was coming. Ironically, many of these reforms would still be passed through, even if it was two-thirds empty. As a last act of stubbornness by the population, the Yutilian clan decided to rename themselves the T’rintar clan as a vestige of hope in seeing the trinity of Itrean species again.  Regardless, the T’rintar clan are not pacifists in any way and won’t bend over to other demands from the other clans. Politicians still adhere to the demands of their voters, especially more so than it was in the previous years. Great efforts were made to ready the fleets and standby to engage in another “Defensive War” against the other clans.