The D’Sev Holy Imperium has shown a remarkable ability to influence and connect with people they see as racially inferior. On Foregone’s wild continents, the Imperium developed 76 trading ports that attracted firryan tribes, and from there the D’Sev learned of tribal cultures, ancestor worship, nomadic mythologies, techniques, and the world as the nomads understood it. In turn, the D’Sev taught them agriculture, advanced craftsmanship, codified their languages, and warped tribal philosophies to better fit D’Sev ambitions.

The Imperium is accomplishing this with raw diplomacy and skill, not psychic manipulation.

Their campaign reached its peak last month when tribal leaders came together to form the Chaccarn Network. Chaccarn is a widely-worshiped firryan ancestor who was said to have been born in slavery on Relgan, but smuggled himself back to Foregone and then went around the planet, teaching his fellow tribes how to make tattoos.

The Chaccarn Network describes the shape of firryan cooperation with the D’Sev. Each nomadic tribe will retain their migration routes, but will stop by a local D’Sev port to work, trade, and exchange ideas. Some members will stay in the port as their tribe leaves, and will often marry into another tribe. Exchanging members was common throughout history, it’s merely being formalized under the Imperium.

The D’Sev will be arbiters for disputes, the protectors of each tribe’s rights and privileges, and will be the go-between for inter-port trade and migration. The D’Sev language, O’Nemma, will be taught as a universal language.

For most firryans, the Chaccarn Network only extends to the tribes around their home port, but the growing class of D’Sev-taught intellectuals understands it’s a sprawling alliance composed of nearly a thousand tribes, representing half a million firryans. Their goal is to form a coherent national identity that can never again suffer wanton abuse.