Klondia

The Klondia party was formed in reaction to the growing number of species and factions joining the Expansion. The Klondia party is composed of factions that abstain from the request to join the expansion for any reason. Many species might be stereotyped into a xenophobic caste but often the factions have legitimate concerns about how successful their race and faction would fair in a unionized setting. This concern is perfectly captured in their choice of name. The Klondians were a small but industrious species and never actually bothered to develop interplanetary travel. This is because the Klondians worshiped their planet and felt it was their duty to protect it and nurture it. The Rosh ,A species in a neighboring solar system had sent out a probes into the Klondians system and the probes discovered a unique mineral signature. Soon they came to trade for the mineral and greet the seemingly pre-space flight people. The Klondians were friendly and explained they would not leave their planet to travel because they believed that all Klondian life began and ended in harmony with their planet. Needless to say they refused mining rights to the Rosh for the mineral. The encroaching race just took a sample anyway secretly and discovered fantastic qualities with many implications for subspace communication. Since the planet was very well defended the Rosh asked for assistance and what followed was no less the the systematic extinction of their species and later their very planet. If you are reading this brief history via wave, you are using a device that incorporates a tiny piece of Klondonium. This material allows uninterrupted waves to be sent to specific parties also possessing a piece. No better form of long distance communication has ever been found. After the mining was forced and the people relocated the Klondians began to get sick and die. Doctors could find no known illness to explain it but some theorized their brains might have somehow needed the waves generated by the mineral. Once they were extinct pretty much everyone got rights to mine, or mined quickly in secret. eventually the planet was detonated to retrieve the dregs from undetectable deposits. The consumption of the planet was terrifyingly fast. No project has ever quite matched it in scale. To the members of the Klondian party, it is a reminder of what will happen. When everyone is collected under the Expanse, the things that make them unique will start to fade. The greater good mentality of the Expanse will cause many of them to lose control of resources and technologies.