Welcome to the Xyllae Chronicles

How It Came to Be

While I was working on Kaleera, I saw I had enough total room for two worlds and decided to make another. At first, I was going to do an Urban Fantasy world, which I may return to in the future, but after realizing I could only have two, and struggling to come up with good stuff for the urban fantasy, I replaced it with this one. As I have another world and are a high school student, don't expect a whole lot of progress in the beginning.

What is the Xyllae Chronicles

The Xyllae Chronicles, as I've envisioned it, is a science fiction setting focused on the exploration of deep space and the political interactions of the sapient species. Humanity has been inducted into the Elquiin Council, basically an intergalactic United Nations, and will be interacting with many different aliens as a result. These races are regulated by the laws and restrictions of the Council: or rather, the Council thinks they are. In truth, the Council as an entity has little, if any, power at all and is mostly just a mere meeting place to address grievances. The Council likes to brag about how they have kept the galaxy safe, but in truth, they have done very little, often times standing by with wars, doing nothing, and then taking credit when a nation gets involved and ends it (this is absolutely not real-world political commentary at all...no...). The species most outward with their lack of respect for the Elquiin is the Xyllae, who regularly speak out about the Council's uselessness. The only thing holding them back from conquest is their lack of powerful allies, caused by a reputation as ice-hearted conquerors, and even then they perceive no immediate threat. Needless to say, the galaxy's political environment is tenuous.
Its place on the spectrum of hard vs soft science fiction is somewhere in the center, closer to the harder end: there will be some hand waving, but I want to minimize that as much as possible. To be more specific, the space travel and the ships will probably use softer science, with weapons and other tech being a mix, while the biology of the aliens and the science of worlds that they inhabit will be much, MUCH, harder. The primary focus of this world will be on the aliens and their interactions with each other. For the most part, you won’t see humanoid aliens (although it’s not entirely impossible, it just requires similar evolutionary pressures to Earth, whic doesn’t seem all too likely).
The most important focus after that will be on humanity: they will not be unified, on Earth or colonies, and they will not be united under a single culture (as so often seems to happen in Sci-Fi with aliens as well). And religion will not be ignored: as easy as it is to imagine that as science advances people will abandon it, that’s not how religion has worked thus far (this is coming from an atheist btw). Besides, religion is an important facet of culture and serves to make a world more interesting. Language...is in an iffy spot at the moment. I may just ignore that.
Either way, I hope this gives you all a clear understanding of what I hope to achieve from this project and I hope you all enjoy.