Copaxi

Copaxis are complex coral colonies developed into humanoid forms native to the planet Tabrid Minor. Copaxis once lived in majestic floating sky cities and had an innate connection to the universe's natural gravitational forces. Their abuse of their home world's environment led to devastating civil wars and has ruined the planet.

History

Copaxis evolved from the copi, a coral-like organism that once covered most of Tabrid Minor. Before The Gap, during the height of copaxi civilization, they harvested the copi to build and maintain magical flying cities where they lived lavish lives, harvesting resources from the surface. Most copaxis became mystics or solarians in this age.

In 3 AG, a great revolution was sparked among the copaxis by the revelation of The Drift. Recipients of the Signal discovered that copi could be used to build starships and revolted against the magical aristocracy, who retaliated by suppressing the technology and killing many innovators. A decade later, a new revolution turned the copaxis against their reliance on magic. Many people died before the insurrection succeeded and the copaxis left their flying cities to settle on the ground.

The copaxis took advantage of their new technology to industrialize and spread across the surface, harvesting copi wherever they can, in the process slowly losing their magical powers. They built robots to help them harvest copi and serve their new industrial society, but the robots developed rudimentary sentience just as they completed their tasks and outlived their usefulness. The government found the moral implications of these creatures abhorrent and destroyed most robots, leaving only a few in dangerous working environments.

In the past few decades, copaxis began to pursue space travel. As they discovered galactic threats as the Veskarium and The Swarm, the copaxis petitioned for protectorate status within the Pact Worlds.