Ingza

"Greetings, my extra-galactic human brothers and sisters, I am Representative Syygan Xligio, ambassador to her most gracious majesty Queen Kírdá XXIX, omnipotent ruler of the Ingza people. I have come to negotiate opening relations between our two great peoples, the Ingza consider you our brothers and we would be honoured if you would open relations with her majesty"

- Representative Syygan Xligio negotiating the opening of relations between the GFSS and Ingza

The Ingza were a Human people who were officially led by a Queen or a King, but in practice were led by the V'ei'ka. from the Ingza System which was located in the Foundary Region of the N'Akkiarl Galaxy.

Like their cousins in other galaxies the Ingza were a baseline human race. They used to rule the former Ingzan Commonwealth, an alliance of all the planets of the Ingza System which was led by Ingza, until it was taken over by the N'Akkiarlians during the N'Akkiarlian-Ingzan War of 32,854 BBY-32,851 BBY. After the Ingza were defeated the N'Akkiarlians took control of them, however the N'Akkiarlians allowed the monarchies of the Ingza to remain as puppet rulers. Despite being rulers of there people the Ingzan monarchs had to do whatever their N'Akkiarlian masters ordered them to.

"The Ingza are wise, they wisely worship us, their masters, they know that revolution and rebellion will result in certain death and very heavy punishments. They wisely kneel down and kiss our rears!"

- The N'Akkiarlian King on the obedience of the Ingza

Despite suffering heavy losses during the war the Ingza didnt hate the N'Akkiarlians like the Jussk'Ravgarok did. As the decades and centuries of N'Akkiarlian rule went by Ingza grew to think of themselves as well cared for children of the N'Akkiarlian Star Empire, they thought that the N'Akkiarlians were like their parents, they knew what was best for them. The Ingza were almost as loyal to their N'Akkiarlian overlords as the extremely-loyal U'k'r'zedolgeiekoo. After several millenia of occupation the Ingza bowed down and worshipped their N'Akkiarlian masters and revered the N'Akkiarlian King as a god. However there faith and obedience to the V'ei'ka was still just as strong as it had been before the occupation.

"Our N'Akkiarlian masters treat us well, just because they own us doesnt mean they treat us badly, we're well cared for children!"

- An Ingzan speaking about his N'Akkiarlian rulers

The signature dress of the Ingza was the Ts'shúkí and Kúshózí, the Ts'shúkí was a cloth gown which was worn over a dress, shirt and trousers (Kúshózí) or another gown.

Biology and appearance
The Ingza were a baseline human race and were biologically and anatomically the same as their fellow baseline human cousins in other galaxies, leading some to speculate that they had been brought to the Ingza System by an ancient alien species from another galaxy.

Like other humans they had hair of many colours but blond, brown and black were the most common colours, this turned white or grey during aging. Like most human races females almost always had longer hair than males. They lived on average several decades longer than there cousins in other galaxies, the average life expectancy was 130 but one, Okki Uukagora, managed to reach 160 years old. some said this was because Ingzan medicine was so good.

History
The earliest documents about Ingzan life are from around 40,000 BBY. At this time the Ingza were little more than tribal savages who had only just formed religion and basic language and writing. After several millenia the Ingzan language and writing evolved into more advanced forms and the tribes began to settle, forming countries. Then around the year 33,288 BBY the Ingza managed to develop space travel, disease and other social health problems had largely been dealt with by this point and Ingza Prime was united the country of Ingza, a planet-covering supercountry. After developing space travel the Ingza colonised the other worlds of the Ingza System: Hzajka, Avolorta, Vleems and Zjikia. During colonisation they found that these planets were populated by humans which were identical to them. A few centuries later in 33,043 BBY they discovered the Bregaro species, with home they shared the Ingza system. The Bregaro had already achieved space flight and had colonised the Bregaro Triple Planetary Chain forming the Empire of the Bregaro which as headed by the Imperial Government-Commander. The Bregaro were the first non-human alien species encountered by the Ingza, they became good friends almost as soon as they had discovered each other, forming the First Bregaran-Ingzan alliance.

The Ingza decided that millenia before achieving full sapience an extremely powerful extra-galactic race had brought them to the Ingza System and had spread them through-out the system, each group forgetting or not knowing about there brothers on the other planets and created independant societies unaware that there people had relatives on other planets. The evidence available meant that this theory was the most likely explanation. Theories said this ancient race brought their ancestors from a planet called "Earth". Many saw their language, which had many words similar to that of Earth English, as a way to look at their Earth ancestry and heritage.

"We are children of Earth, we were brought to the Ingza system from Earth by an ancient race! I wish we could meet our brothers on Earth!"

- an Ingzan who believed Ingzans were taken from Earth to the Ingzan system by an unknown alien race

After discovering other members of their people on other planets the Ingza formed and alliance with each of them and created the Ingzan Commonwealth. The Commonwealth ruled the Ingza System for several centuries before the N'Akkiarlians arrived in 32,854 BBY.

The Ingzans knew that the N'Akkiarlians were sweeping through the galaxy and were battle-hardened after spending the past 96 years fighting wars and putting down rebellions until most of the galaxy was under there total control, they had heard that the N'Akkiarlians had slaughtered some nations which had stood against them and began to worry about what would happen if they were invaded. When they invaded the empire of their Bregaran neighbours they sent support to their Bregaran, eventually however the Bregaro were subjugated and enslaved.

Despite worrying about a N'Akkiarlian massacre of their people the Ingzans decided that death was much better than living as slaves and increased the strength of the Royal Navy of Ingza and the Royal Ingzan Army.

Politics
Ingzan politics began simply as tribal chieftains and there leftenants. Around 40,200 BBY there was the Tribal War in which the different tribes fought to be dominant, the powerful Zerego clan winning the war and beginning civilisation with themselves as the monarchy. Several centuries later one of their servant families, the Áátorí family, led a rebellion against their Zeregan masters and removed them from the throne.

Over the millenia the Ingza grew wiser and began to invent a lot more. By 33,288 BBY they had invented space travel, had eradicated most diseases and were colonising other worlds by this time. They met other identical people on the planets they had colonised and formed an alliance the Ingzan Commonwealth. The Commonwealth was officially headed by the Ingzan sovereign but in fact the actual ruler was the V'ei'ka, the head of the Ingzan religion. This was because the sovereign bowed down to the V'ei'ka so the V'ei'ka was the mistress of the sovereign so the sovereign's power was hers, she could do whatever she wanted and the sovereign had to consult her on all of there decisions.

Every Ingzan in the Commonwealth worshipped the V'ei'ka, as she was a living goddess and the physical incarnation of the mother of everything, V'ei'ka herself. The people genuinly believed they had to be owned by the V'ei'ka, they felt proud to be her obedient slaves.

"The Great One is the mortal form of the mother of everything! We are her little children, our mother knows whats best for us, we don't question her! We obedient serve our dear mother!"

- An Ingzan speaking about his mistress, the V'ei'ka

When the Ingza first made sentient robots there was political debate over how robots were treated, it was decided that unlike non-sentient robots AI robots, as sentient beings, should be treated like people rather than possessions and slaves. Robots were equal to their creators, however a few Ingzans remained wary of their mechanical "children". This wariness was felt by some sentient robots as Anti-Droid sentiment. Respect shown to robots was was damaged for a little while after rogue Exterminator-class X-33's rebellion.

"I don't understand, why do some creators remain wary about us? We are loyal children to our creators, we would not harm our creators in any way!"

- An Exterminator-class war robot speaking to an Ingzan about wariness some organics show towards robots

The national bird of the Ingza was the Ingzan Blood Eagle Íngzan Blúd Éagle, so named because it was maroon coloured. Another national bird was the Ingzan King Eagle Íngzan Kinigo Éagle, also known as the Ingzan Royal Eagle which comes from it's name King Eagle, thw King Eagle was the largest Ingzan Eagle and was so named as it was therefore considered the King of the Ingzan Eagles.

The name Éagle popped up all over in the form of ships, fighters, trains, bombers, cars etc etc as Eagles were prominent in Ingzan culture.

Alliances and foreign relations
N'Akkiarlian Star Empire
 * First heard of the N'Akkiarlians when they began their conquest of the galaxy in 32,950 BBY, first contact was during the N'Akkiarlian-Ingzan War. Was a colony of the N'Akkiarlian Star Empire from 32,851 BBY to 2,472 BBY. Isolation from the N'Akkiarlians for another 100 years after achieving independence from their former masters, relations re-established in 2,370 BBY and became allies. The Treaty of Ingza City made a N'Akkiarlian-Ingzan Alliance official and they were officially allies, however Ingzans weren't required to assist the N'Akkiarlians in defending and maintaining order in their empire. N'Akkiarlians gave Ingzans intergalactic travelling technology as a token of friendship.

Galactic Federation of Sentient Species
 * After receiving intergalactic travel technology from their N'Akkiarlian allies and hearing about the war between the N'Akkiarlians and the "Galactic Federation of Sentient Species" they decided to open relations with them. In 1,023 ABY Queen Kírdá XXIX sent Representative Syygan Xligio and some assistants aboard a diplomatic barge to open relations with the GFSS. The GFSS were understandably weary of the extra-galactic visitors at first but Syygan convinced them the Ingza were only seeking an alliance and friendship. The GFSS Senate requested an audience with Queen Kírdá, Kírdá spoke with the Senate and a vote of an alliance between the GFSS and the Ingza was passed. To celebrate their new alliance Queen Kírdá marched down the Avenue of the Core Founders whilst flanked by her Exterminator VIII-class war robot Elite Guards and with her Royal Battalion lined up on parade down either side of the avenue to sign the GFSS-Ingzan Alliance document at the Great Door to the Senate Building. Her celebratory parade was watched by thousands of Coruscanti who lined the Senate Plaza and had come to see the leader of their new allies. When the GFSS was dissolved 10 years later in 1,033 ABY and was replaced by the Coruscant Republic the alliance was updated to be the Coruscant Republic-Ingzan Alliance. The Ingza were very good friends with the GFSS/Coruscant Republic. As a token of friendship Queen Kírdá gave the GFSS some Exterminator-class war robots.

Empire of the Bregaro
 * The avian Bregaro species had been good friends with the Ingza since they had first discovered each other in 33,043 BBY. The Ingza wished their Bregaran allies well during their battle to remain free, and later supported the pro-independence riots and Bregaran freedom fighters helped the Ingza during the N'Akkiarlian-Ingzan War. After the Ingza had achieved independence they helped push for Bregaran independence, after the Bregaro were freed they formed the Ingzan-Bregaran Alliance and traded war materials with each other, they also gave each war materials and financial support.

Religion
"Behold, i am the V'ei'ka! I am the mortal form of our mother, V'ei'ka, creator of everything!"

- A V'ei'ka introduces herself to her people



The Ingzan religion was led by the V'ei'ka, a blinded woman who was the mortal representative of the blind goddess V'ei'ka, the creator of the universe. Ingzan religion says V'ei'ka pierced her eyes with a special mask to ensure her children (living things) could see, it was said that if she hadnt blinded herself then all life would be eternally blind, V'ei'ka sacrified her eyesight and endured the horrific agony of piercing her own eyes to ensure her creations could see.

The V'ei'ka was chosen by her steadfast devotion to her ruler and religion, only the most devoted candidate was chosen, only upper-class women aged between 20-30 could apply to be the V'ei'ka. Upon being chosen the would-be V'ei'ka would spend 5 years of her life with her family (or whomever she chose) living in absolute luxury and she would ready herself for being made the next V'ei'ka. When the 5 years came to end the V'ei'ka would be taken to the square outside the sovereign's palace where the Shrine of V'ei'ka resided, and in front of her people, sovereign and family would have the Mask of V'ei'ka applied to her face, which would pierce her eyes and she would then be the new V'ei'ka.

Once getting over the mind-numbing pain she would introduce herself to her people and sovereign as the new V'ei'ka, the living form of the goddess V'ei'ka. After introducing herself the sovereign would walk in front of the V'ei'ka and bow down on there hands and knees at her feet, showing that the sovereign worshipped her, after watching the sovereign bow down the people would bow down to there great ruler, showing they worshipped her, and the ceremony would be finished.

After the ceremony she would be taken to her palace (the Palace of V'ei'ka) where she would live in luxury for the rest of her life and would lead the entire Ingzan religion. Because she was the leader of the Ingzan religion her power and the respect she received from her people rivalled that of the soverign, even the sovereign bowed down to her, the only living person in the entire universe the sovereign worshipped (the only other person the sovereign worshipped was the goddess V'ei'ka herself). During the time of Ingzan Commonwealth the V'ei'ka was the de facto ruler of the Ingzan Commonwealth, the sovereign was only the de jure ruler, whilst the sovereign had tremendous power and respect the sovereign bowed down to the V'ei'ka so the V'ei'ka was the one who held the actual power over Ingzan society, if she wanted to a V'ei'ka could abolish the monarchy and rule by herself, she could also form a mammoth militia to take down the monarchy if they refused to obey her command to abdicate. As the physical manifestation of V'ei'ka the V'ei'ka was the "mother" of living things and the people called her "mother", whilst she called her loyal subjects her "children". The new V'ei'ka would be chosen when the old one died, the V'ei'ka blinding ritual was abolished when the N'Akkiarlians conquered the Ingzan Commonwealth, who thought it was a barbaric ritual, however the V'ei'ka lived on and was still just as respected and worshipped by her people, they just didnt go through the blinding ritual. The last ever V'ei'ka to be blinded for around 30 millenia was a 26 year old woman called Kysa Zerego, she underwent the blinding ritual 12 years before the N'Akkiarlians invaded and conquered the Ingza System. She rallied her fellow Ingzan brothers and sisters to defend there homes and freedom to the end and that V'ei'ka would be happy that they were defending there liberty and freedom, her rallying cries were an inspiration to the Ingzan people. After the N'Akkiarlians conquered the Ingzan Commonwealth and abolished the blinding ritual Kysa became the last of her kind. After the N'Akkiarlian conquest she ruled for a further 86 years as the V'ei'ka before she died in 32,765 BBY. She was buried in the Tomb of the V'ei'ka with her predecessors and was signficant as being the last ever V'ei'ka to undergo the blinding ritual in Ingzan history. After her death her position as the V'ei'ka and the way she stirred her people's spirit to never falter in there fight against N'Akkiarlian oppression and imperialism caused her to be made the official "owner" of her people.

When they died the V'ei'ka was buried alongside her predecessors in the special Tomb of the V'ei'ka and would go to Ingzan heaven where they would look after there people from above, they would also meet and assist new arrivals to heaven. They would also meet the goddess V'ei'ka herself in heaven. The tomb was a sacred place where the people and sovereign honoured there omnipotent mistresses of days gone by, the penalty from breaking into and ransacking the tomb was to be blinded with the Mask of V'ei'ka, not only did this cause terrific agony to the victim but it also meant that they were abused and loathed by the people for disturbing the rest of there respected leaders.

"I am the V'ei'ka, I'm a goddess, i'm the mortal form of the creator of everything! Kneel down and worship me, your goddess!"

- Kysa to a N'Akkiarlian

After the N'Akkiarlians left the blinding ceremony was revived but was not used as frequently as it had been before, instead it was used occasionally but the blinded V'ei'ka had returned after not being seen alive in around 30,000 years.

The V'ei'ka was advised by the B'Kekara, the Religous Advisor, the B'Kekara advised his mistress on religous matters. Unlike the V'ei'ka the B'Kekara could be either sex and some were siblings of the V'ei'ka, which was probably because some V'ei'ka's used their power to get their family members into positions of power.

When Ingzan society began and the position of V'ei'ka was established there was no limit on how many V'ei'kas there could be at any one time, theoretically there could be thousands of V'ei'kas however after the War of the two V'ei'ka's of 37,183 BBY it was written in Ingzan religous law that there could only be one V'ei'ka at any one time, this was to prevent another religous civil war.

The V'ei'ka was also called Gúreit Óne (Great One).

Like most Human religions, the Ingzan religion had a Heaven and a Hell. There was also the spiritual plane of the living world where ghosts resided alongside their living cousins. Whilst many Ingzans feared an appearance of a ghost many didn't, thinking of ghosts as ex-living people.

"What is to be afraid of? Ghost are simply like us except they have left their material bodies, the only difference between we and our ghostly brothers and sisters are that they are ex-living. Just because they are dead doesn't make them evil or nasty! They may not want to leave, they may want to tell us something, they may want to help us! Don't fear them!"

- An Ingzan who wasn't afraid of ghosts

This spiritual plane was sometimes called "Middle Realm" or the "Ghost/Ghostly Realm", it was were V'ei'ka kept those who had only sinned a little until their punishment sentence was up and they were allowed into heaven. This realm could be entered at any time by spirits in heaven who descended from heaven into the living world to see their living relatives and friends. Those from hell could also ascend into this realm to cause trouble to the living, trying to drag them down to hell. Here demons and demonessess preyed upon the living with sexual intent in order to feel sexual energy again, they also did this to recruit more members into the "Legions of Hell", sex with a demon was looked upon with disgust by V'ei'ka and damaged the victim's chances of being able to enter heaven, demonic rape was accepted by V'ei'ka as being beyond the victim's control, so she let the victims of demonic rape stay in Middle Realm for a short while before entering heaven. However she would send victims of repeated sexual encounters with demons which had clearly been lusted for to hell.

The Sovereign also underwent religous ceremonies, when the new sovereign had been crowned the sovereign would under the Ingzan crowning chant ceremony some Ingzan monks would surround the sovereign and sing chants, asking V'ei'ka to recognise this new sovereign as a monarch, and to give the right to rule accordingly. These chants were quite fast and were sung in Zoxkezox, the practically extinct language from before the Ingzan language to a background of drums and other percussion intruments. This chanting ceremony was ancient and had already gone extinct 200 years before the birth of Kysa Zerego. However 100 years after Kysa Zerego was born the ceremony was revived.

For some time there was a breakaway dark sect of the Ingzan religion, these dark sect (known simply as the Dark Religion to the Ingzans) followed very loosely similar beliefs as the mainstream Ingzan religion, however they worshipped V'ei'ka as a goddess of death and one of ruthlessness, sending those who displeased her into the fires of Hell. This sect also practiced Necromancy, for example the Ingzan Ghost Summoning Ritual, members of the sect were considered damned by V'ei'ka by most religious Ingzans.

"Dark religion members, don't worship the great mother as a goddess of death and ruthlessness, for she is not those things! She is a goddess of kindness! Return to the good religion, leave this one of darkness!"

- Kysa Zerego to members of the dark sect

Language
The traditional language of the Ingza was Ingzan, Ingzan could trace it roots back to Ancient Ingzan from around 40,000 BBY. Ancient Ingzan became extinct around 38,482 BBY as it was largely replaced by standard Ingzan, however speakers of Ancient Ingzans continued to exist for around another 5,000 years after it was made extinct. When the N'Akkiarlians took over the Ingza system they enforced the use of N'Akkiarlian as the primary language and schools were made to put priority on learning N'Akkiarlian rather than Ingzan, so Ingzan took damage and was nearly made extinct but the N'Akkiarlian King at the time allowed Ingzan schools to make it a compulsory subject and Ingzan was saved from extinction, after the N'Akkiarlians left Ingza the native language flourished and went through a renaissance, when the Ingza opened relations with the Galactic Federation of Sentient Species many humans saw how similar the language of their Ingzan brothers was to Galactic Standard Basic and decided to learn it, When the Ingza joined the GFSS there were already quite a few non-native speakers, Ingza joining the GFSS meant many more took up Ingzan.

Many Ingzan words and phrases sounded a bit like their Galactic Basic equivalents, but were spelt differently, however some were completely different e.g. Frigate was Ávákóné. Vowels with marks were long vowels whilst those without were short, e.g. i was pronounced ih, whilst í was pronounced ee. The dipthong ei was pronounced ay. The language was said to be quite easy for Galactic Basic speakers to learn as many of the words sounded similar to Galactic Basic words.

As many of the words sounded very similar to Earth English, many Ingzans believed that their language was some evidence that their ancestors had come from Earth, many saw their language as a way to look back at their Earth heritage.

Ingzan words and phrases:
 * Hello - Héró (Hey-row)
 * Hi - Hé (Hey)
 * How are you? - Hoyów árú yúe? (Ho-yoh ah-roo yoo-eh)
 * Good day - Gúd Dzé (Good Dzey)
 * Religious leader - V'ei'ka (Vey-ka)
 * Religious advisor - B'Kekara (Buh-kek-a-ra)
 * Battleship - Batarosép (Bah-tah-ro-seyp)
 * Queen - Kuwín (Kuh-ween)
 * King - Kínigó (Kee-nih-go)
 * Planet - Pláránettá (Plah-rah-net-tah)
 * First Great Ingzan Civil War - Firústó Gúreit Íngzan Civilú Wárá (Fih-roo-stoh Goo-rayt Een-gzah-n Sih-vil-oo Wah-rah)
 * Second Great Ingzan Civil War - Sékúnada Gúreit Íngzan Civilú Wárá (Say-koo-nah-dah Goo-rayt Een-gzah-n Sih-vil-oo Wah-rah)
 * Great One - Gúreit Óne (Goo-rayt Oh-neh)
 * Great Mother - Gúreit Múthe (Goo-rayt Moo-theh)
 * Omnipotent Mistress - Úmnípótenta Místaresá (Oom-nee-poh-tenta Mee-sta-res-ah)
 * Obedient servant - Úbídíenta Sírventa (Oob-ee-dee-enta Seer-venta)
 * Obedient servants - Úbídíentas Sírventas (Oob-ee-dee-entas - Seer-ventas)
 * Slave - Sláva (Slah-va)
 * Slaves - Slávas (Slah-vas)

Naming
When getting married an Ingzan husband took the surname of his wife, this was because in ancient times a woman chose her mate, which was why woman were superior. When a husband took the surname of his wife so did his siblings, e.g. Yko Fogrena was the brother of Kizio Fogrena, when Kizio became Kizio Zerego he became Yko Zerego.

Behind the scenes
Kysa Zerego is visually based on the Blinded Maiden of Project Zero, also her being blinded by a special mask is inpired by the Blinding Ritual of Project Zero.