Komter Communities

The Komters are a series of Kommeter civilizations that dot The Quasar Edge Galaxy Cluster. Often secluded to a handful of long period comets per settled system, Komters civilization remains the oldest and most widespread of any in the known universe. Komter communities are often home to collections historical knowledge found almost nowhere else in the galaxies.

The Komters record history in two ways: One is on advanced yet ancient hard drives, recording sciences needed to move the species from one home to another, sciences and languages needed to trade with civilizations both inside the system and across the galaxy, recording manufacturing programs and techniques needed to repair, replace, and reproduce engineering and cybernetic technologies; The other system is orally where members of a community retell and relay vast reservoirs of history, astronomy, and ritual from one generation to the next.

Rather ironically, given their ancient and remembering nature, the original home/s of the Kometer civilizations have been lost to time and rumours.

The Ama`noits
Some Komters found such a way of life dull and void of excitement and set out to build their own legacy, one such legacy are the colonies of Ama`noits, a series of Kommeter colonies stretching three star systems in the Colt Cluster of the Imperial Galaxy, outnumbering all other Kommeter civilizations put together. The civilization as a whole scratches together a K1.7 Civilization. These colonies have developed artificial habitats, as well as landed on and terraformed non eccentric bodies. The Komters on such bodies are often considered a sub-species Komter-Akanoi as opposed to Komter-Pikinoi.

The AA (Ama'noit Alliance) has over a thousand distinct nation states, the six most prevalent named the Tshy Six comprise more than 30% of the Ama`noit GDP.

Military
The AA is one of only three or four Kometer communities capable of projecting interplanetary military power and the only who can project interstellar power. it's military is still comparably small when looking at the civilizations as a EK1.7 and no one is quite sure of the reason for this, but it still has a fleet tonnage of well over a hundred trillion megatons of military shipping.

History
During the War for Rheniska, a rogue Alkataha seeder ship demolished a Kometer long period community, several nearby communities, already undergoing tensions from a newer Kometer generation, becoming restless and found themselves in a civil war of sorts. The conflict comprised of individual debates and many dozens of minor incidence between members of the two groups, these only served to enrage both sides and split even family bonds at places. The struggle finally ended with a pair of collective debates at Konun, and the Tul conflict which saw over twenty dead.

After the incident at Tul, a few of the community leaders set sail for the nearby star system of Sotlas, along with hundreds of younger Komter adults and nymphs. This massive Kometer undertaking arrived several hundred years later, and settled not only the long period comets but also built mines on short period comets and outer asteroids, even landing on small planetoids. The mines shipped back goods to the main colonies, ever increasing in logistics and value as the processes became more efficient. The new colonies increased the size and wealth of their comets building large structures held together by tensile strength, as Kometer research in metallurgy reached new limits. Eventually purely artificial comets called "comettes" were designed and outfitted for residential life. These colonies together formed the State of Ama`noit, building a capital on the dwarf planet Kopetar.

The state would eventually splinter into the Alliance of Ama`noits. Over the years the state capital on Kopetar became increasingly obsolete before the split, and a new location for the alliance capital is now situated at the space habitat conglomeration (Onglo) of Triper.

Wha and Pask
The Wha and Pask communities, are large Kometer settlements aligned with the Phos Actin Istoria, they reside primarily two long periods comets in the Neus Gnosti System. Wha is the larger of the two comets at 31 km in diameter massing 5.1e+16 kg, It is resident to 410,000 Komters and orbits N-Gnosti every 211 earth years. Wha is 24 km in diameter with a mass of 1.7e+16 kg with a community of 350,000 Komters orbiting in 364 year cycles. A number of satellite communities numbering 100,000 exist on several other bodies.

"Habits are lost to days, Traditions to a new generation, History to the death of an individual, on a cycle to last an eternity. But truth is only lost with deceit or ignorance and will again be discovered by those willing to look" -Rapi, Kometer consultant of Phos Actin Istoria.

Shapa
Shapa is the single most populated non Ama`noit comet with over a million Komters, The comet itself is 30 kilometers in diameter, with the whole community being spread along an area roughly 2,800 square kilometers, just shy of 1,100 square miles. (1,094.0 mi2)