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- | {{ :culture:nayabaru.png?nolink |}} | + | The **Nayabaru** culture is a [[place:nekenalos|Nekenalosan]] wide-spread secular, anarcho-totalitarian |
- | The **Nayabaru** are a species descended from Earth' | + | ===== Membership ===== |
- | They are the dominant sapient species on [[place: | + | The Nayabaru |
- | Their governmental structure is tribal-monarchic, | + | * most (but not all) of the [[species: |
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+ | * certain Nayabaru-raised kavkema | ||
- | They are a very peaceful, scientifically-oriented | + | The Nayabaru |
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- | {{tag>[work-in-progress]}} | + | Membership to the Nayabaru culture is revoked by ostracism - which is how come some Nayabaru are not part of it. |
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+ | ===== Values ===== | ||
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+ | The Nayabaru culture thrives of the following values: | ||
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+ | * honesty is a necessary component for social functioning | ||
+ | * death may never be wilfully inflicted upon a sapient creature | ||
+ | * every Nayabaru has a natural place in the social hierarchy | ||
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+ | There are several dire consequences to this set of rules. | ||
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+ | For one, social mobility is practically non-existent - the closest phenomenon to social mobility (downward mobility in the form of ostracism notwithstanding) is a conclusion of apprenticeship for tasks within Nayabaru culture that require much prior education. | ||
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+ | Apprenticeship is an interesting case: Since failure is not an option, but the only way to remove someone from a position is to ostracise them, Nayabaru that turn out to be unfit for a certain task are usually nonetheless granted the positions they were apprenticing for, barring unacceptable behaviour. The same footnote applies to jobs that they were 'born into' | ||
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+ | For two, the Nayabaru suffered a massive identity crisis during the peak time of their war with the [[culture: | ||
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+ | For three, Nayabaru born with an ability to lie (a neurological mutation) can exploit the system if they are intelligent enough to cover up evidence of their lies. Nayabaru are not commonly in the business of mistrusting each other and are happy to take the first plausible explanation of errant behaviour at face value. This flaw also extends toward Nayabaru that are simply unaware of their own insincerity (such as Toben in the prequel book). | ||
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+ | Nayabaru are very accepting of their place in society and commonly eschew the idea of moving in either direction along the social axis, as rising would give them greater // | ||
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+ | Since Nayabaru are expected to know their place by instinct once they are able to speak, there are not //many// options available to a Nayabaru, and the titles they could claim are often broad. Only very few Nayabaru will bother specialise within a title. | ||
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+ | All in all, the Nayabaru culture is not friendly toward progress, because: | ||
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+ | * ...the culture neither rewards exceptional skill nor punishes bad performance. | ||
+ | * ...social harmony is preferred over scepticism. | ||
+ | * ...specialisation is rare. | ||
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+ | That said, given their love of //honesty// as a virtue, they are a staunchly secular culture with a decent understanding of their own psychological functioning, | ||
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+ | ===== Society ===== | ||
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+ | Sociopolitical interactions occur on two levels: Title and individual. Leverage occurs by titles. Nayabaru do not question titles, themselves practically unable to lie about their own. Titles are more transient than individual identity, of course, though they are //much// more static than in human cultures. | ||
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+ | ==== Title-free individuals ==== | ||
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+ | Note that deliberately title-free Nayabaru exist, though they have traditionally been considered dangerous individuals, | ||
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+ | ==== Banners ==== | ||
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+ | Banners are an emphasis-device for social situations. Since tattoos are permanent, while conveying rank, they do not convey one's dedication to a rank. As such, in situations where one wishes to denote one's dedication to a rank (frequently done when leaving one area where all people know each other and heading to another for temporary matters), one will wear banners denoting one's rank. | ||
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+ | * coiled around upper arms, joined by a band across the back at height of the shoulders | ||
+ | * like a scarf, looped around the back of the neck, with the ends draped across one's chest | ||
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+ | There are, however, also rank-neutral banner designs. These evolved to signal respect even when one's rank was not important to the situation, e.g. because the people involved would not be working together directly, but were more interested in exchanging ideas. | ||
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+ | Title-less Nayabaru are known to use rank-neutral banners somewhat excessively to ' | ||
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+ | ===== Technology ===== | ||
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+ | * Biological Weapons | ||
+ | * Toxins | ||
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+ | * Communication | ||
+ | * Radio | ||
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+ | * Transportation | ||
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