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The Vesperians are a humanoid species native to the planet of Hesperus, located within the Vesperia system. Technologically advanced and physically endowed, the Vesperians have endured 10,000 years of warfare and chaos, and have successfully maintain a fledging space-faring empire for the last three hundred standard years. The species resides on nearly all of the star system's planets, and have recently been making in-roads to settling neighboring star systems. Valuing order, security and stability, the Vesperians are a militaristic and expansionist people naturely incline toward tyranny and police state governance, and compared to humans, do not have a yerning for political freedom or individual expression. Their society revolves around the collective will of the state, where each citizen is a simple cog within a great machine which is geared toward the expansion and prosperity of the Vesperian nation.

The government of the race, known as the United Vesperian Directorate, or the UVD, is a police state controlling a total of fifteen planets and moons, and maintains a number of large spacestations and mining fleets throughout the solar system. The Vesperians have recently begun establishing colonies outside of their solar system, and four other star systems, though these are just the first of many planned by the central government.