Inabis

Inabis is the catch-all endonym of a group of space-faring humans that all share common cultural heritage, language and customs. Broadly, it refers to the descendants of the 14 Ark groups that arrived in the Binary and settled all throughout the Esana Planetary system.

While Inabis is a way to refer to the broad cultural and linguistic groups of the cluster, it should be noted that up to 16 groups or "Houses" exist within the Inabis culture, each having their own cultural and linguistic differences from one another.

Inabis are known to cover most, if not all, of their bodies with habitat suits that they later grow to modify and customize to better suit their individual needs. Inabis are known to use said suits even if Atmospheric conditions means they could perfectly do without a suit. Each individual Inabis is given a blank suit at a certain age, though being given one since birth or using one that previoulsy belonged to someone else a known practice either.

Anatomy and Genetics
Inabis are genetically Human, though through the process of genetic engineering they have evolved many different adaptations to better cope with their spaceborn lifestye, these include:


 * Height: Most Inabis Houses are averagely taller tthan the standard Gaian (1.70 m) due to the gravity-less or low gravity environments that Inabis typically inhabit.
 * Weight: Inabis are tipycally leaner than most Gaians and Imperials, again, due to the standard gravity of most Inabis world being far smaller.
 * Eating habits: The Teliah house of Inabis has genetically engineered a stronger stomach, so people of Teliah are able to digenst and eat anything from rotten to traditinally toxic or indigestable foods
 * Appearnce: Inabis tend to be pale, having very photosensitive eyelids and very pale grayish skin.

Culture
Inabis culture is often family centered and less individualized than all other greater cultures within the Binary. They value the good of the community rather than the individual.

Most Inabis fall under the governance of the Confederate Republic of Inabis Planets, a decentralized state that seeks to unify the cultural heritage of all Inabis houses.Though, so far, the republic has only achieved to unify 14 of the houses, with cries of secession not being too uncommon amongst many houses.

Houses of Inabis
The Inabis population is widely accepted to be divided between 16 different nations or "Houses", each of which has their own independent cultural and linguistic differences from one another; these houses and their territoriesare:


 * Havani: The Havani are most well known for their short but prosperous claim of the once habitable planet of Oguth. Havani are tall, lanky, albeit shorter than many other Inabis Houses. Havani are also notable for their use of bright colors in decorating their Habitation suit, and often leaving patches of skin exposed (Both practices which have declined after losing Oguth and being relocated to the Sejurni moons).
 * Naka: The house of Naka is notable for owninga large amount of the Sejurni moon of Inkara (otherwise known as "Scylla" or Sejurn IV). They are a hardy people with hard thought family oriented values, who live in vast underground cave cities that shield them from Sejurn's lethal radiation. They are also notable for inhabiting and possesing large amounts of Inkara's natural water lakes and rivers. Their hab suits are often fashioned to look like large insectoid species that also inhabit the vast cave systems, and with whom the Nakani often struggled as they settled into the moon. The Naka house currently has the largest population of any House in the Binary, and often struggles with the Tifoni Houses for political power within the Inabis Council.
 * Teliah: The Tehliah house is well known for their intestinal endurance, being able to digest pretty much everything. They inhabit in the moon Inkara around the dead world of Oguth. They often adorn their hab suits with jewelry and other minerals encrusted into their helmets and suits. Their hab suits are very often engineered with low g environments in mind, which gives this House great adaptability in deep sapce missions.
 * Natinu: The Natinu are a hardy people who inhabit the planetoid of Virita in the asteroid belt of the Pheonix planetary system.They are well known for their operation of the Akaraza Shipyards, where various commercial and military celestial technology is built and mantained. Natinu has become a central part of the Confederation's economy, and it has since become the base for Inbabis onstellations across the Binary. They have a notable rivalry with the more flashy Atayites, who used to be the other competing ship making House within the Confederacy. Their hab suits are often adorned with various gray plates of metal taht often have intricate patters on them, often recounting the individual's deeds.
 * Ataya:
 * Toric:
 * Korit:
 * Ankara:
 * Parza:
 * Jik:
 * Vaktad:
 * Numai:
 * Jir'sa:
 * Ferr
 * Sura:
 * Hikmah:

History
The solar roots of the Inabis people are hard to track, with various contradicting reports and corrupted files suggesting that the Inabis own their cultural heritage to a large variety of Earth nations around the middle east, latin america, Africa and south east asia. What is known, however, is that the groups that would later form the Houses all decent from 7 flotillas of varing sizes that travelled together during the period known as The Long Sailing.

The 7 original houses formed around 150 ATF with the signing of the Ark Treaty, a document tat recognized each of the ark fleets as sovereign nations. Over the next 400 years these nations would further divide, evolve and even fight one another until, by the time the ark groups had reached The Exodus Binary System, the whole group had evolved a mostly coherent culture and language, hence known as the Inabis.

During the Long Sailing, the various arks were known to fail and malfunction repeatedly, which caused many ships to concentrate all energy and life support systems in key areas and force much of the crew and passengers of these ships to constantly wear a habitation or vacuum suit most of the time, a costume that soon evolved into wearing a suit even within the designated habitable areas and that exists even to this day.

The Inabis entered the Binary with the largest number of crafts years after much of Centralia had been colonized and the Federation had already an established presence within Gaia, which forced the Inabis nations, now known as "Houses", to settle down on the garden world of Kaliah, the tidally locked world of Tevoni and many planetoids, moons, and stations across the orange star of Esana.

The houses of Inabis soon organized a trade alliance between the innermost and outermost settlements, centered around their cultural and linguistic similarities as well as their unifying history, the trade alliance soon turned intoa military one and it was not long before the houses unified under a new nation known as the Confederation of Inabis. The Confederation was a prosperous nation during its first few decades, having the largest and most constellation forces, the most advanced sensor and communication technology and the most unified cultural identity, the Confederation quickly grew in population numbers and power with little opposition.

The growth of the Confederation was centered around Kaliah which was the largest population center as well as the most direct link between the Inabis in Tevoni and the outer settlements in the sejurni moons and the asteroid belts of Esana. Kaliah quickly became the crwon jewel of the Confederation and one of the most important economic centers to ot only the Confederacy, but the Esana system as a whole.

When the Federate states of Gaia gained interplanetary capabilities they soon began to formalize their relation with the Confederacy, which had previously been limited to radio communication and short aid and technological exchanges. Upon further development of the gaians and continuing political strife within the parliment of the confederacy, issues started to arise and mount for the fledgeling nation as the struggles associated with interplanetary admistration became more apparent. and tensions started to arise with the highly militaristic and xenophobic Federation.

This all came to a heda in the year 710 ATF when tensions between the Federation of Gaia and Confederation off Inabis culminated in the battle of Ughen station, thus sparking the Interplanetary War in the Esana planetary system. The Confederation fought in the war for over 10 years, having the largest and most advanced constellation force within the Esana system, but having no allies and fighting the more populous and economically powerful Fderation and the invading Centralian Empire with nigh unlimited resources and men.

In the year 723 ATF the battle of Kaliah started with a massive surprise attack and invasion attempt by the allied superpowers, which saw tthe deployment of over a billion military personnel during the initial allied assault and over 3 billion fighters within the whole year-long battle, which ended in 724 with the orbital bombardment and nuclear glassing of Kaliah. The war ended in 726 ATF after the siege of Tevoni and the short battle of Naka with acomplete and unconditional confederate surrender in the treaty of Aurora, which stripped Inabis of most of its military, tecnological and economic assets and saw massive territorial acquisitions by the allies.