Unified States of Osuwa
Unified States of Osuwa Ganip-Gnasi Odatse gn Osuwa (Golagat) | |
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Motto: "Injury breeds innovation" | |
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Anthem: Our Stars Shall Always Shine | |
 Diagram of Osuwa's territorial claims on Uingffh | |
 The Ingffhaestian System, the home system of Osuwa | |
| Capital and largest city | Yang-Moof City, Uingffh, Ingffhaestian System |
| Official languages | No official language (de jure), Golagat (de facto) |
| Religion | Secular (de jure), Keliosity (de facto) |
| Demonym(s) | Osuwan |
| Government | Federal presidential constitutional republic |
• Pavonem | Odyssia rei Iphelia |
• Vice Pavonem | Maus Vanden |
• Prime Public Legislator | Iridus Vanden |
• Prime Justice | Divya Karma |
| Legislature | Osgress |
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| Public house | |
| Establishment | July 4, 1576 |
| Population | |
• 2033 estimate | 278.95 billion |
| GDP (nominal) | 2033 estimate |
• Total | 41.8425 quadrillion pakas ($41.8425 quadrillion USD) |
• Per capita | ~150,000 pakas |
| Currency | Pakas |
| Today part of | Federative Planets of Polyingffhaestia |
The Unified States of Osuwa, often referred to as the USO or Osuwa, was an interstellar nation that was primarily located on the northwestern region of the Ulstonia supercontinent on Uingffh and held colonies in various other star systems. Officially, Osuwa contained a total of 25 Uingffhian states and 8 planetary systems - Irun, Rojo, Bucaloy, Urden, Valia, Larsha, Tilaga, and Cergol - outside of the Ingffhaestian System, its home system; in addition, Osuwa controlled 12 other planetary systems as non-sovereign territories that were not counted into the nation's official planetary system count due to their lower levels of development. Its capital was the Uingffhian megacity of Yang-Moof, and its dominant species were the tabulons, lordions, and mortei native to Uingffh.
Osuwa began as a colony of the Kingdom of Kerolon during the latter's period of imperialism and expansionism across the Ulstonian Supercontinent as Uingffh. In this colony, Kerolonian colonists notably began making families with the Osuwan natives, leading to the birth of many mixed-race tabulons. During the 16th Century, Kerolon began criminalizing these interracial relationships - a move that drew harsh opposition from the Osuwans. This led to Osuwa's declaration of independence from Kerolon on July 4, 1576. From there, Osuwa pursued its own campaign of expansionism and conquered nearby lands, growing from 15 colonies to 25 states, albeit at a very slow pace; afterwards, it and the other two Uingffhian nations - Kerolon and Morbidia - stabilized in politics and territory as they focused on internal development such as technological advancement; for a significant portion of this time period, however, Osuwa engaged in a cold war with Morbidia. Beginning in the 18th Century, Osuwa joined the other two Uingffhian nations in conquering star systems outside of its own after acquiring wormhole technology; the USO admitted 8 planetary systems as states and 12 other systems as territories through a combination of simple exploration, diplomacy with Kerolon and Morbidia, and (on rare occasions) armed conflicts.
Osuwa was a presidential constitutional republic with a president and government elected indirectly by the people through an electoral college-esque system; an Osuwan president was called a Pavonem. Its economy was highly capitalist in nature. The Unified States were lauded for their high technological advancement, freedom of speech, and successful economy, but were criticized for their worker exploitation, alleged systemic discrimination against certain minorities and non-tabulons, and lack or underdevelopment of certain public services. Kerolonian and Morbidian critics often noted Osuwa's lack of well-developed public healthcare, education, welfare, and transportation systems - services both Kerolon and Morbidia offered; nonetheless, others praised these aspects of Osuwa for creating a lower tax burden for citizens and ensuring economic prosperity. Later in its history, Osuwa's largest corporations began accumulating exceptionally high amounts of political influence through lobbying, bribery, and other methods thanks to highly relaxed restrictions on their activities, turning Osuwa's governmental system into what many alleged constituted a corporatocracy and plutocracy where wealthy businessmen exercised near-absolute power over the working poor.
Due to cultural amalgamation between Kerolonians and native Osuwans as well as the Osuwa region’s vast fertile fields, the Unified States of Osuwa also boasted a very rich and diverse cuisine. Throughout Osuwa’s entire history, from its time as a Kerolonian colony to its interstellar superpower era, people have renowned the nation/region for its novel, high-quality food items such as its taco-like “Ocos,” cylindrical “Urlitos,” and its “Pukapoli cookie” desserts, with many from various other nations and star systems traveling to Osuwa looking to try its food. During its time as a planetary superpower, Osuwa was also a major exporter of generic food items and ingredients, with other nations (e.g. Kerolon), territories, and colonies relying on Osuwa for food. However, Osuwa’s importance in the food exportation industry lessened as the three Uingffhian nations began colonizing other star systems and simply producing their food in their own stellar colonies.
History
Origins (1561-1584)
During the second half of the 13th Century, the Kingdom of Kerolon conquered the Osuwa region of the Ulstonian supercontinent. This colony gradually grew into Kerolon's most prosperous and developed colonies. The Osuwa colony was also notable for its autonomy - both Osuwan colonists and Osuwan natives were granted a wide range of civil and political freedoms, with Kerolon only barely enforcing its “Korndelia” doctrine of racial hierarchy in the region.
Because of Kerolon’s more lenient social attitudes in the Osuwan colonies, many colonists began marrying Osuwan natives and raising mixed-race tabulon children bearing both Kerolonian and Osuwan genes. Unlike interracial relationships in most other Kerolonian colonies, where Kerolonian colonists exercised significant over non-Kerolonian slaves due to tighter enforcement of the Korndelia System, Osuwan interracial relationships had much healthier dynamics and otherwise resembled typical Kerolonian relationships.
However, in the 16th Century, Kerolon began to clamp down on Osuwan interracial relationships amidst increasing unrest amongst the natives of the recently-colonized Uveerius, Uopia, Uriel, and Liyres island continents - an act that disillusioned the Osuwan settlers, who had grown accustomed to their loving Osuwan spouses. This issue only grew worse in succeeding decades, when Kerolon began resorting to lethal force to break up interracial couples and prosecute both the colonists and the natives involve. This inspired anti-monarchist and anti-imperialist sentiment amongst the Osuwans, who viewed Kerolon’s system of absolute monarchy and its Korndelia system of racial hierarchy as the root of the issue.
Osuwan Revolution and the Formation of Osuwa
The Osuwan Revolution is considered to have started in 1561, when Osuwan colonists and natives began fighting back against Kerolonian law enforcement officials in large numbers across the Osuwa region. The Osuwans demanded that Kerolon either relax its persecution of interracial Osuwan families, form a parliament that would represent Osuwa in governmental affairs, or completely dismantle the Korndelia caste system. At this point, the reigning Kerolonian monarch at the time, the staunch imperialist King Rictell Sorges Kerolon, declared Osuwa in a state of rebellion and ordered the deployment of troops into the region; however, not only did the Osuwans successfully fight back using their local militias, but also many Kerolonian soldiers sympathized with the Osuwan cause and defected onto the rebels' side.
Initially, the Osuwans performed more symbolic acts of rebellion, such as discarding Kerolonian agricultural products and exclusively purchasing Osuwan-made goods. However, when King Rictell only responded by tightening Kerolon’s control over Osuwa via the reorganization of Osuwa into a dominion, the Osuwan colonists revolted once again, experiencing quick success due to the overconfidence of Rictell's royalists. But this time, instead of simply demanding reform from the Kerolonian government, the Osuwans chose to have their 15 colonies secede into a new nation - the democratic Unified States of Osuwa - on July 4, 1576.
Enraged, King Rictell immediately declared war on the fledgling Unified States, marking the beginning of the Osuwan Revolutionary War. Fighting would last for 8 years and see numerous casualties and untold devastation on both sides. Eventually, on June 2, 1584, Kerolon and Osuwa ended the war by sending diplomats to sign the Treaty of Kirbani, which officially recognized the Unified States of Osuwa as an independent nation as well as Osuwa’s right to uphold racial equality between Kerolonians and Osuwans. Kerolon chose to sign it in order to focus on another rebellion - Regalius' Rebellion and the formation of Morbidia - occurring in the west. By the treaty's signing, 16,800 Osuwan soldiers and 18,500 Kerolonian soldiers had perished in battle.
Development and Formation of the Osuwan Government (1584-1594)
Over the next six years following Osuwa's formation, the nascent Unified States began developing as a nation, its sovereignty now recognized internationally. Because Osuwa already boasted a rather successful economy during its tenure as a colony of Kerolon, its development focused on the creation of its political systems.
First, Osuwa established a set of laws - the Equality Codes - that firmly established the legality of interracial relationships between Osuwans and Kerolonians. The Codes also guaranteed equal rights for Osuwan natives, granting them an equal status in society to Kerolonian settlers. However, the Equality Codes did not include clear provisions for the rights of other non-Kerolonian races as well as of non-tabulon species like lordions and mortei. These ambiguous policies would later drive Osuwa’s Age of Imperium and its many controversies.
Kerolon's unrepresentative absolute monarchy also formed a major part of the Osuwan colonists' criticism of the Kingdom, so the Osuwans set about establishing a more democratic government - the first to form in the period after Kerolon's conquest of Uingffh. The Osuwans drew upon concepts for a three-branched federal government proposed by Kerolonian philosophers before the First Age of Imperium and developed a similarly divided federal government consisting of a federal court known as the Highmost Court, a federal legislature known as the Osgress, and an executive figurehead - the Pavonem. Haris Yang-Moof rose up as the first Osuwan pavonem and took up residence in Yang-Moof City, the Osuwan capital and a city which was named after fir.
The provisions and guidelines of the Osuwan federal government were published in the Osuwan Devolutionary Articles in 1586. As their name suggests, the government outlined by the Devolutionary Articles substantially delegated political power to Osuwa's 15 state governments in order to avoid the corruption and misuse of power that plagued imperial Kerolon's highly centralized government. However, rebellions in the states of Prim and Clock in 1590 revealed that the Devolutionary Articles had rendered the federal government far too weak to effectively manage the nation, forcing Osuwa's founders to create a new constitution - the Osuwan Constitutional Articles - in 1594 that expanded the powers of the national government.
Cultural development
Around the same time, Osuwan citizens began developing a more distinct cultural identity, the revolution having freed them from Kerolonian cultural norms (of which many were enforced by Kerolonian imperial law). Osuwans came to value individualism and personal freedom in contrast to the more royalty-centric imperial culture of Kerolon.
Most notably, the Kerolonian culture of Kerolonian colonists began blending with the culture of native Osuwans much more readily, leading to diversity and hybridity in cultural aspects like clothing, architecture, music, literature, etc. Most renowned was the development of Osuwa’s distinct cuisine, which combined the rich ingredients of Kerolonian dishes with the plant-based mediums of native Osuwan food. This hybrid cuisine quickly became known for its exquisite and unique taste and crunchy texture, and Osuwan food items quickly saw exportation to other regions in Kerolon. This contributed to Osuwa’s quick economic growth, which allowed the country to sustain itself financially in spite of the political instability that plagued its first few formative years.
Osuwan Age of Imperium (1594-1648)
The success of the Constitutional Articles, pride in Osuwa's diverse hybrid culture, amd significant economic and technological progress under Osuwa's free market economy inspired a surge of nationalism among the Osuwan populace. Eventually, Osuwa entered its own imperialist era - the Osuwan Age of Imperium - during the middle of the 1590s. However, this imperialist era would see multiple hurdles due to its alleged contradictions to the ideals Osuwa was founded on.
As a means towards the ends of Osuwa's manifest destiny, the Osuwan government began to delegate more of the federal budget towards the federal military; this event is often cited as the origin of Osuwa's current long-running emphasis on military spending. Though funding for services like healthcare and education suffered as a result, the Osuwan government continued to receive support for its military ventures from its budding corporations and businessmen, who viewed an Osuwan age of imperium as a highly profitable venture that would expand their markets and grant them access to more resources.
However, unlike Kerolon’s imperialism, which saw support from much of the Kerolonian citizenry, Osuwa’s Age of Imperium quickly attracted widespread criticism from the Osuwan populace. Most critics pointed to the apparent contradiction between the idea of imperialism and the founding ideas of Osuwa; they cited how while Osuwa was founded upon the equal union of Osuwan natives and Kerolonian colonists, imperialism relied on the idea of racial hierarchy of inequality. Though the proponents of Osuwan imperialism argued that the principles of equality only applied to Osuwan natives or that the economic benefits outweighed the social concerns, most citizens believed that equal treatment should be extended to all Uingffhian ethnic groups and that economic growth did not justify potentially discriminatory policies.
The Osuwan Age of Imperium saw the annexation of the Bagyo Isles, the Great Bar, and Jebellion Island into the Unified States by 1648. However, due to the high amount of criticism and opposition to Osuwan imperialism, it would take much longer to partition the newly acquired territories into 10 states (Princessia, Prim Gulf Island, Luzoningffh, Visayingffh, Mindaningffh, Mamlon, Bebellia, Besaidia, Bobarius, and Jebellion Island) due to calls to instead grant the conquered lands independence once more. The colonized subjects themselves, meanwhile, viewed Osuwa's imperialism more positively than Kerolon's due to Osuwa's more successful economy and democratic system of government. Nonetheless, Osuwan imperial colonies still suffered from much of the same problems Kerolonian colonies did, such as racial/species discrimination, worker exploitation, poverty amongst non-Osuwans, environmental harm, etc., albeit to a lesser extent compared to Kerolon's imperialism.
Formation of the Modera Group
During the Great Bar conquests, Osuwa's corporations noticed a modest decrease in their popularity and influence. Information about the Great Bar's social democratic-esque system fueled calls for economic reform within the Unified States on top of the already high animosity towards Osuwan imperialism. Due to the very high influence of these protests, the corporations still viewed them as a threat to their success and influence.
In order to confront this perceived threat, 12 of Osuwa's largest corporations chose to band together into the Modera Corporate Group on January 30, 1608. Working together, the Modera Group's member corporations were able to more efficiently utilize their already-high bargaining power to influence Osuwan politics and legislation to their own benefit. Naturally and unfortunately, this came at the expense of the working class's quality of life; throughout the Great Bar conquest years and the years following, Osuwa saw the degradation of pro-labor legislation and witnessed the lengthening of working hours, the suppression of worker protests like strikes, and the harsh crackdown on labor unions. Meanwhile, the Osuwan government grew more forgiving to rich businessmen and regularly donated hefty sums of pakas to ever-growing businesses in order to generate more jobs, products, and overall economic growth.
Morbidia-Osuwa Cold War, Equality Lockdown, and Lordion Lockdown
It was during the Osuwan Age of Imperium that the Morbidia-Osuwa Cold War began, shortly after the Modera Group's formation. Though both Morbidia and Osuwa formed out of opposition towards Kerolonian imperialism, their contrasting societal values and economic systems predestined the two nations towards conflict. This, combined with the fall of the Kerolonian Empire effectively "resetting" Uingffhian international politics, drove Osuwa and Morbidia to compete for influence on the world stage for the next several years.
Though Osuwa focused more on claiming new territory to expand its influence while Morbidia focused on internal cultural and technological development, the Morbidia-Osuwa Cold War still had profound impacts on Osuwan culture. One of these impacts, the Equality Lockdown, saw the extreme villainization of certain political ideologies associated with Morbidia such as economic regulation, anti-imperialism, and species equality. Many Osuwan citizens and politicians found themselves arrested and their careers ended for displaying beliefs even slightly aligned with Morbidia's.
During another event, the Lordion Lockdown, both interpersonal and institutional speciesism against the lordions substantially increased due to the species' prevalence in Morbidia, with both the public and law enforcement participating in brutal arrests, beatings, lynchings, and executions of innocent lordion individuals. This culminated in the passage of the 86th Pavonem's Order in 1625, which forcefully relocated millions of Osuwan lordions to forced labor camps scattered throughout the nation. Osuwa notably constructed these camps on land formerly owned by native Bagyans, Barians, and Jebellians, sparking even more controversy from the anti-imperialist Osuwan populace.
Lordion Breakouts
The Equality and Lordion Lockdowns sparked intense criticism from much of Osuwa's populace, who likened the nation's treatment of lordions to the treatment of the Osuwan colonists and natives under Kerolonian rule. Tensions between Osuwan citizens and their government related to this issue grew over the decades following 1625, with citizens calling for an end to the segregation of lordions and the codification of basic natural rights for not only them, but also the morteus species.
These tensions culminated in numerous large-scale protests across the nation between 1660 and 1665, collectively referred to as the Lordion Breakouts. Some of these protests escalated into literal attacks on the less heavily guarded lordion forced labor camps, but a majority of them took place in front of major governmental buildings including the Pavonem's palace in Yang-Moof. These protests were ultimately successful, with the Osuwan government agreeing to pass a series of acts in 1665 reversing the 86th Pavonem's Order, liberating all lordion laborers, and guaranteeing lordions and mortei equal treatment under law. Though the acts were lauded by the activists involved in the protest, they nonetheless brought attention to the more subtle, systemic discrimination against non-tabulons that followed their passage.
Imperial Breakouts
The success of the Lordion Breakouts inspired Osuwan citizens to begin protesting in favor of the rights of the tabulon ethnic groups Osuwa conquered during its imperial era - an event known as the Imperial Breakouts. In a similar fashion to the Lordion Breakouts, Osuwans gathered near governmental buildings to demand the decolonization of the regions Osuwa conquered and the guaranteeing of fundamental rights for non-Osuwan tabulons. Compared the Lordion breakouts, the corporation-backed Osuwan government responded much more harshly to the Imperial Breakouts, sending policemen to forcefully disband the protests. This turned many of the protests violent, with multiple protestors and policemen losing their lives to beatings.
Ultimately, the Imperial Breakouts had mixed results. They successfully pressured the Osuwan government to pass new acts strengthening protections and providing opportunities for non-Osuwan tabulons under Osuwan occupation. However, Osuwa nonetheless continued to occupy said tabulons' native lands and allowing Osuwan colonists to settle in their territories. Said territories were ultimately partitioned and admitted as states into the USO.
Modernization (1650-1776)
After 1650, Osuwa began to modernize. Osuwa's expansionism halted due to a lack of further land to conquer as well as continual pressure from its citizenry to focus on developing its existing colonies and improve the living conditions of conquered subjects.
Osuwa modernized alongside the Kingdom of Kerolon, developing and sharing similar pieces of technology including wireless technology, electricity, and more. Technological modernization became more prevalent in Osuwa than Kerolon, with the nation's companies producing a wide array of technologically advanced products and services for Osuwan citizens; one of the most prominent of these was the cecilianaphone, a handheld multipurpose oval-shaped electronic device. Cecilianaphones were originally created more exclusively for taking notes and communication, but later, more advanced models offered other capabilities such as producing art, gaming, listening to music, etc. In addition, Osuwan companies developed floating octahedral personal transport vehicles known as opus vehicles. Furthermore, during the modern era, the nation's food industry experienced a boon as ingredient imports stabilized, allowing Osuwan chefs to experiment more readily with dishes and meals. Osuwa also joined Kerolon and Morbidia in developing more eco-friendly methods of power beginning in 1700; in addition to constructing solar panels and wind farms, Osuwa experimented particularly extensively with nuclear power.
However, while technology quickly advanced in Osuwa, social and economic justice progressed rather slowly compared to the rapidly-changing social landscapes of Kerolon and Morbidia. Non-zomen, the LGBTQ+ community, lordions, mortei, and other marginalized groups gained rights a lot more gradually than in Kerolon and Morbidia due to more conservative Osuwan politicians gaining prominence as well as assistance from the nation's large companies; the small progress that was made often faced strong opposition from the aforementioned traditionalist factions, who sometimes completely undid certain social justice acts. The Unified States also continued to struggle with economic inequality, with disparities in wealth and consequently quality of life only growing during the modern era. Notably, this caused Osuwa's food culture to fracture, with the upper and lower classes adopting vastly different tastes and preferences for food; while richer Osuwans came to embrace more elaborate dishes eaten on plates that included sweeter fruits, working-class Osuwans came to favor more nutritious wrapped food items with more savory flavors due to being easier to consume while working.
Additionally, Osuwan public infrastructure lagged behind Kerolonian public infrastructure in terms of advancement due to greater privatization. Though the quality of Osuwan education and healthcare grew exceptionally during the modern era, higher-equality schools and healthcare centers proved accessible only to wealthier individuals due to the higher prices Osuwan companies charged for their use. Osuwan public transportation systems also suffered from underdevelopment due to Osuwan society instead normalizing the use of opus vehicles for transportation, with the vast majority of Osuwan transportation development being geared towards opus users. Osuwan public food banks suffered as well, becoming sparser and less accessible during the modernization period.
Ecumenopolization of Yang-Moof City
It was during the modern era that the Unified States began connecting the various sprawling metropolitan areas of the Yang-Moof peninsula into a single, massive continent-sized city known as the Yang-Moof Luxurium. Osuwan companies and government agencies began gradually constructing a series of concentric ring-shaped megastructures housing vast cities atop the region. At the Luxurium's center, a new series of white skyscrapers known as Heaven's Feel was constructed as the Pavonem's new place of residence; beneath it, military-oriented groups also constructed a large series of hidden long-range cannons that would unearth themselves in the event of a threat to the megacity (e.g. an incoming asteroid or an attack carried out by Morbidia). Osuwans would continue adding onto the Luxurium until it became a multi-layered network of skyscrapers and megastructures resembling the surface of an ecumenopolis - a hypothetical (at the time) type of planet completely covered by a global city.
Yang-Moof's construction inspired a wide range of strong reactions leaning towards the negative. Many Osuwan citizens and scientists criticized the project for its effects on the environment; aside from permanently wiping out an entire ecological region of habitats, the Yang-Moof Luxurium also allegedly affected the climate and environmental conditions of the surrounding regions according to some studies. For instance, some environmental studies showed that the high altitudes of the Luxurium's skyscrapers caused the megacity to act like a mountain range, desertifying regions to its west by blocking tropical rainfall coming from the southeast. Additionally, Yang-Moof and its countless opus vehicles generated exceptional amounts of smog and lowered the local air quality significantly, negatively affecting the health of its residence. Aside from its environmental impacts, Yang-Moof was also criticized for promoting unhealthy lifestyles and embodying the inequality and corporate overreach alleged to exist in Osuwan society - a notion supported by the high amounts of homeless individuals that came to inhabit the megacity. Despite the megacity's critical response from most citizens, however, a small yet vocal minority of business owners and engineers insisted that Yang-Moof represented a pinnacle of innovation and the culmination of Osuwa's technological development.
Early spacefaring
It was during the modern era that Osuwa began developing early spacefaring capabilities, officially beginning with the establishment of a dedicated space agency - the Osuwan Space Center (OSC) - in 1720. Throughout the succeeding decades, Osuwa began building space stations around Coppelius, exploring nearby celestial bodies, and sending probes to farther reaches in the Ingffhaestian System.
Unlike the early spacefaring ages of Kerolon and Morbidia, Osuwa's early space age saw significant involvement from private entities as opposed to government agencies. Initially, the OSC maintained dominance over the Osuwan space scene; as the modern era progressed, however, private companies like BlueBliss, Innovation Osuwa, and Pinestar Incorporated began also constructing spacecraft and space stations. They eventually became the leading figures in Osuwan space exploration, with the OSC become relatively underfunded and overshadowed.
It was during the early spacefaring era that Osuwa (and by extension, the Uingffhians as a whole) discovered the Ophisian civilization of Ibiridius and the Sheepilly civilization of Hevectavia. However, Osuwa and the other Uingffhian nations would not readily interact with the Ophisians and Sheepillies until the beginning of their interstellar era, when Uingffh acquired better spacefaring technology allowing them to more easily travel to and from both civilizations’ homeworlds.
Discovery of the Great Pit and the Izlondian Ruins (1776)
On November 25, 1776, scientists from the neighboring Kingdom of Kerolon discovered the existence of extremely old, yet well-preserved ruins of a civilization whose architecture did not match that of any known civilizations. Further analysis and research of the ruins revealed their true source: an ancient intelligent civilization that had died out approximately 3 billion years ago. This civilization, named Izlondia according to its dominant species, the Drori, had once controlled all of Uingffh and possibly all of Ingffhaestia and various outlying star systems before dying out in a catastrophic accident involving wormhole technology; it was this calamity, dubbed the First Apocalix, that had rendered their vast cities trapped underground.
More importantly, significant evidence pointed to the Drori species forming the ancestors of the tabulon race. In addition to bearing a remarkably similar appearance to modern tabulons (with their only major physical difference being their lack of wing-tentacles), the Izlondians also shared a significant amount of DNA - 98.5% - with the tabulons as demonstrated by another study carried out later in 2044. Evolutionary scientists postulated that the First Apocalix spared a small handful of Drori who would later come to evolve into the tabulon race.
Most significantly, however, the Izlondians provided an explanation for the shared biology between the life-forms of the Ingffhaestian System (and later, life-forms of other nearby star systems). Xenobiologists at the OSC and similar organizations have long noted unusual biological similarities between life on Uingffh and life on other planets and moons in Ingffhaestia: the presence of cells and DNA, division into plants and animals, similar body structures in animals, etc. These similarities were long dismissed as either coincidences or a natural tendency of evolution, but analysis of records left behind by the Izlondians revealed that they had, in fact, seeded life on other planets and moons, accounting for the similarities; specifically, they sent out large moon-sized space stations to place samples of non-sentient Izlondian life forms on potentially habitable worlds. Once more, these records pointed to the Izlondians sending these "Izlondian arks" to not only other celestial bodies within Ingffhaestia, but also other solar systems outside of Ingffhaestia, raising the possibility of extraingffhaestian lifeforms on worlds around other stars.
The discovery of the Izlondians was the turning point in the evolution of the Uingffhian nations, Osuwa included, into advanced spacefaring powers. Knowledge of the Izlondians and their role in the origins of life incited a strong desire in many Uingffhians to explore the stars beyond Ingffhaestia and discover the various other alien civilizations waiting to meet them. Additionally, technological artifacts left behind in the Izlondian ruins provided Osuwa and the other nations with the necessary tools to develop their own spacefaring technology.
After 1776, the Uingffhian superpowers entered their interstellar eras, Osuwa included. Though the Unified States did not carry out imperial conquests of other star systems to the extent that Kerolon did, Osuwa's interstellar era did see the nation's corporations solidifying their authority over Osuwan society and expanding the USO's economic influence across the stars.
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