Polarans (Battle for Earth Reloaded Map Game)

The Polarans are a technocractic species hailing from the northern star of Polaris. The Polarans strip-mined their homeworld, forcing them to live aboard massive city-ships that now roam Polaran space. The people of the Technocracy live according to a strict hierarchy involving cybernetic augmentations to advanced through society.

History
The Polarans or the Polaris are known to have evolved in the Polaris system some 5.6 million years ago. They only began to form a united civilzation some 75-80,000 years ago, and built up their empire from that time. They saw no need to establish off-world colonies when they could simply develop large mobile ships that could house the population in safe and contained enviorment. Thus, no colony was ever established on another planet. This ability to simply build more self-sustaining city-ships would provide the Polarans with all the space they needed to expand without the need to rely on fragile worlds that lacked the ability to flee a dangerous region.

For centuries, the Polarans stuck to the belief that there was no higher power, and that they must make their own future. With no morals or ethics to stand in their way, technological progress at the expense of lives exploded. Technology by the 1st century AD on Earth, the Polarans had mastered anti-matter, and were a well-established space-faring species. They had some knowledge of the inner workings of the universe, and sought to expand their role in it. To do so though, they needed lots of resources, and turned to their homeworld to get them. Until the advent of artifically created raw materials, the Polarans simply robbed their world of its minerals for their own ends.

By the 11th century, the Polaran homeworld had been stripped clean, and nothing of the planet, even its own core, remained. The Polarans didn't want to colonize another planet, viewing them as defenseless, and thus stuck to living aboard ships from then on. While the Polarans were now free of their homeworld, and free to go where ever they pleased, they did still have need for raw materials. While they could produce their own, they needed ever so often, a quick "boost" of materials for some project they were planning, and thus turned to the worlds of the galaxy. They strip-mined them, even if they were home to intelligent life already, and used the resources to expand their civilization.