Confederation of Psi Kaus
The star nation of the HF representing the Zatenheim species.
The nation was only formed immediately after the planets decision to unify into the HF. This took them a long time to decide, initially being heavily xenophobic. The difficult decision would later pay off, as they could obtain access to advanced hyperionite technology, protection from external powers and a very large mining base.
The suon species preservation oath made it impossible for the HF to wage an offensive war against them, and the immense power difference made it impossible to wage a war against the HF.
Perhaps their most advanced technology was geothermal energy generation. Due to the extremely hot nature of their planet and high geothermal activity, this was a very effective method of energy generation on their homeworld, but ineffective in space and colder planets and many other settings.
Due to the ineffectiveness of geothermal power outside of few areas, they advanced their technology in a slightly different direction, though still specialising in geothermal power. They have become excellent at high temperature engineering and were one of the pioneer species behind the development of the 'second sound ' method of heat transfer allowing starships to enter stars, and later, the legendary Psi Kaus star. They are also key behind geology technologies in general, including machines such as mining stations, geology science teams allowing them to predict certain natural disasters and eventually core extraction technologies.
They now have a relatively minor population compared to several other star nations, though they have been able to terraform several other worlds in their system and due to the unique form of these worlds, have managed to get a significant tourism industry on the world.
The star nation has a republic type of government. The nation collects votes from the population electronically, and all species living under the PKC can vote. The leader will serve a term of up to 12 Psi Kaus IV years. This is mostly due to the largely increased lifespans of their people.
Government
The Psi Kaus Confederation has adopted a unique form of democracy there their people would vote using their own Cybernetic Enhancements. This allowed them to become brutally efficient as elections can be completely finished and tallied within a day. Rather than having leaders that can serve multi-year terms, the PKC leaders only serve for several months. Voting is as easy as getting one's hologram to display the options and selecting one. Unsurprisingly, the Yunkad Coalition has rewarded and thanked them for being efficient, almost to a degree of their own society. As such, these 2 nations in particular are very close in relations. This also means the entire PKC has a single, very close culture due to the sheer ease of communication which causes a huge amount of cross cultural influence. No cultures survived this clearly, but a new, all powerful one was born from the ashes of the previous.
This technology is not only used for voting; it can also be used for communications and entertainment, or any time where displaying a large amount of information would be necessary. It is also sometimes used for examinations. Designers of these machines are constantly improving and upgrading them. The security measures need to be extremely effective, else one can leak personal information on a huge scale and even interfere with elections.
However, there are a number of 'Tech Deniers', even in Psi Kaus society, who are very opposed to wearing and using the holograms, or in some cases, cybernetic implants in general. Many of these have allied with other criminal organisations and can cause damage to HF society. Most tech deniers are nowhere near that extreme.
A number of other HF star nations have begun to use similar democratic systems due to the efficiency potential. Although not every nation of the HF is democratic in nature at all, many are, so the system may spread to much of the federation. If relations get closer, it could mean that the entire HF could unify into a single nation, and such a nation would be likely to use this system.
History
Initially, the zatenheim developed very crude geothermal generators that function on the surface. This technology was invented as the zatenheim developed electricity for the first time. Upon becoming a spacefaring civilization, electricity was partly replaced with using heat to transport energy, as it was available in virtually all places around the globe. Electricity would still serve some roles that high temperature conductors could not, and so it still saw many uses. The zatenheim developed very effective conductors allowing most cities to build their own large 'heat generators', taking heat from the sun and planet essentially for free and transporting it around the city using these very high temperature conductors. This method of energy distribution is mostly safer than electricity as heat is clearly visible in a conductor, unlike in electricity. Heat is also much more available than electricity and is virtually free, but virtually impossible to transport very large distances. By heating up various chemicals to very high temperatures, a lot of mechanical force can be placed behind an object which allows for extremely powerful pistons and motors. This matter can be recycled in almost all situations and cooled back into a liquid state. By suspending 'heat circuits' in the air, isolating contact with other objects, a computer can be built, as heat will diffuse and move towards colder sections of an entity, a 'heat current' can be created if one end is actively cooled and the other is actively heated. In this way, it can be distributed through logic circuits and create a functioning computer. This method of computation is very inefficient, but as the zatenheim have access to a lot of heat, this does not matter much. It is also a slow type of computer compared to electronics, but the primary method to improve the computing speed was to use a material which conducts heat faster. The zatenheim eventually invented 'second sound' conductors, which might be used in their equivalent of quantum computers. As Psi Kais IV is very rich in many types of materials, this complex alloy could be manufactured cheaply and effectively, making use of the extreme heat to refine it.
Due to the immense availability of raw materials and resources, there would be no wars fought over these resources, or comparatively few. However, ideological wars would still be fought. The zatenheim would use large vehicles with a lot of armour despite the production costs, also due to the resources available. They have cannons which would make use of the massive heat of the environment to propel a shell at very high velocity. By allowing an extremely high pressure pocket of air to build up, the zatenheim can make use of powerful pneumatic cannons. To their society, air pressure is probably even more dangerous than in a human society because of the ideal gas law, where pressure is proportional to temperature.
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