EMPIRE OF GASHIKAN
Coreward of the Third Imperium is the Third Empire of Gashikan, the Vargr Extents, and the vast Julian Protectorate. Relations between humans and Vargr in the region are its greatest shame and grandest triumph. The race wars following the Sack of Gashikan have long ended, yet remnants of those hideous days and the old hatreds continue despite modern enlightenment. The Empire of Gashnikan is not a serious, overt threat to the dynamic Julian Protectorate. Although envious of the Julians, the Third Empire has regressed technologically, economically, and militarily. Nonetheless, like a specter from the region's past, they retain a subtle influence throughout the Protectorate. On the planet Gashikan, Vargr are killed on sight if any ever dare to travel there while less reactionary worlds of the Third Empire still enslave Vargr. When it was eventually learned that Vargr were Terrestrial canines, genetically manipulated by the Ancients, Gashikan humans thereafter regarded them as dangerous animals. In their eyes, Vargr were abominations rather than true sophonts, thus undeserving of basic rights. During the Long Night, the Second Empire of Gashikan believed in its solemn duty to convince the rest of human space (by every means possible) of the Vargr threat. Today, the Third Empire of Gashnikan still retains this philosophy.
History of the Gashikan Sector (alphabetical)
Gashikan Timeline (by dates)
Gashikan Glossary (by dates)
Gashikan Leaders (HERE)