![]() ![]() ![]() Drakia also becomes home for Confederate families seeking to maintain their slave owning lifestyle after the South’s defeat in the American Civil War as well as a steady stream of reactionaries, political dissidents, and other victims of the Enlightenment including figures such as Thomas Carlyle, Charles de Gobineau and Freidrich Nietzsche. Overtime, this fledgling colony is reinforced by Icelandic refugees escaping a devastating series of volcanic eruptions, French slave owners from the Caribbean, Huguenots as well as Royalists escaping the tyranny of the ongoing French Revolution. Thereupon, they arrived in the British Crown Colony of Drakia (named for Sir Francis Drake) which had been captured from the Dutch some years earlier where they settle down and found a new home. In 1782, British Loyalists fled the American revolution with their slaves and families and set sail for the warm and sunny shores of South Africa. These remnants, who fought to maintain their slave owning lifestyle or their position of nobility, have now been spirited away to a far off place where they manage to set up a colony in some remote part of the world, at the time untouched by civilization, surrounded on all sides by savage tribes. This makes them a significant interplanetary power, but not a major interstellar power.Imagine the defeated remnants of every war and revolution in Western history from the eighteenth century onward. By the "peak" of their civilization in their 25th century, they have directed-energy weapons and a space fleet, but they have not expanded their territory much beyond the Sol system. The Draka pose a threat to any civilization that they encounter, as they have a strong compulsion to gain dominance in any situation. In fact, the leading cause of death among Draka is fights with other Draka. Although they have an elected government, their genetic engineering makes Draka inherently prone to dominance behaviors, which can result in internal conflict. The Domination has a parliament with an "Archon" serving as head of state and government. The Domination of the Draka is an oligarchy in which only Homo Sapiens Drakensis have voting rights. They have no superhuman attributes, but they are inherently docile and obedient to the Draka, largely because they are especially susceptible to Draka pheromones. The working class of the Domination are also genetically modified humans known as Homo Sapiens Servus or just Servus. Draka may receive medical procedures to further increase their physical attributes such modifications are especially common for members of the Draka military. Prolonged exposure to Draka pheromones will essentially brainwash any ordinary human into a loyal follower. Draka can consciously adjust the intensity of these pheromones, ranging from a subtle positive disposition to inducing overwhelming lust. Draka also generate pheromones that cause humans to react to them favorably. They have superhuman strength, endurance, toughness, intelligence, and longevity. The ruling class of the 25th-century Domination of the Draka are genetically modified humans called Homo Sapiens Drakensis, commonly called Draka. The Draka eventually succeed in conquering Earth, although their rivals maintain a presence in Alpha Centauri. As they go, the free white population of the Draka creates an ideology that divides the world into two groups: themselves, who are fit to rule the world, and everyone else, who are to be enslaved. They turn to conquering Africa, enslaving it's population as they go through the 19th century, getting around abolitionism by re-designating their slaves as 'serfs'. The point of divergence in the series is that the Netherlands declares war on the British Empire during the American Revolutionary war, eventually leading the British to take over the Dutch Cape Colonies (renaming it Drakia after Sir Francis Drake, which eventually gets corrupted to Draka) and has it's population bolstered by Loyalists, German Mercenaries, French Nobles, and Confederates. ![]()
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