Illumi Republic:
Founded on the principles of law, justice, democracy, and equality for all, the Republic has stood for its ideals in all its ways of dealing with external agents. It has withstood the test of time for at least 500 years, and has not had a single war since its formation due to the normally pacifist attitude of the Illumi. As of now, they are preparing for a cold war between them and other alien civilisations who populate their local neighbourhood, and are beginning to expand past the borders of their home system before colonising some more, after this half millennium of development within their own star system. Currently their own star system is packed to the brim, with approximately 50 billion Illumi living on Illumia (the homeworld), New Illumia (a terraformed planet), and other space habitats in orbit around planets and asteroids. Though the Tau Ceti star system includes the presence of an asteroid belt, the Illumi have carefully mapped it and every single significant hunk of rock in it, and have kept this system beautifully preserved through environmental campaigns on Illumia and cross-seeding of species to New Illumia and other space habitats.
The Illumi (singular: Illum) themselves are humanoid in nature (therefore similar with the Terrans of Sol), the only differences being their slightly taller height (averaging around 2 m), their exquisite appetite for music, arts, and fine cuisine (even more than Terrans, which are still renowned for their most amazing history of culture and philosophy), their skin colour (Illumi are roughly gray-coloured with a slight tinge of green), and finally their light but dense muscular structure, which allows Illumi to move extremely stealthily and quickly from one place to another. This accounts for their usual military and fleet tactics, which are usually of intelligence-gathering, covert sniping, and quality over quantity (in terms of military units and starships), making them one of the brightest tacticians and strategists ever since antiquity, and a ruthlessly efficient war force when times change.
The Illumi Republic has a central ruler: the Chancellor. It is him who makes and vetoes the most important decisions in the Illumi Senate, which is made up of many different representatives from all over the Tau Ceti star system. They now have come to a final decision: it is time for a war of sorts, a development of Illumi civilisation past the limits of their own star sytem, and the breaking of the final frontier which lies between them and their rule, at last, of several star systems all united under the banner of one: the Republic.
