The Ronan Council is the central governing body of the Rona System, representing more than 74 aligned species and worlds. Seated on International Island of Rona Prime, it balances planetary autonomy with strategic oversight of portals, trade, and defense. Its institutions, from the Ronan High Command to the Portal Stewardship Authority, give the Council immense influence, though internal divisions and colonial resistance have long challenged its authority.
What is the Ronan Universe?
The Ronan Universe is a vast science-fiction setting centered on the Rona System, a star with 47 habitable worlds and moons and more than 70 sentient species. Its history is defined by the ancient Lattice Network of portals, which enabled the first expansions across space, and the rise of the Ronan Council, a multispecies government built to hold its civilizations together. Across Portal Epochs, Colonial Cohorts, the Borengi War, and the Yousha Wars, the Ronan Universe tells a story of politics, rebellion, and survival, set against diverse worlds, powerful factions, and the enduring mystery of the portals that connect them.
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What is Rona?
Who are the major powers?
Core species include the Raptonians, Terrans, Pez, Dragoons, and Sarn of Rona Prime, alongside neighbors like the Ix, Allorian, Dorians, Oopoona, Issians, and Yanarthi, of Zylar and the moons of the Ronan Star System, each adding distinct cultures and strengths.
These races align under a great political body: the Ronan Council, a multispecies government; the breakaway Ronan Federated Worlds (RFW), formed by colonies seeking independence after the Borengi War; and the Sentinel Accords, an alliance created in the Yousha Wars to safeguard member and neutral systems. Together, these species and powers define the conflicts, alliances, and enduring struggles at the heart of the Ronan Universe.
The Ronan Council
The Portal Network
The Major Races
Raptonians
Raptonians evolved as raptor-like hunters on Rona Prime and built a culture around martial honor, science, and survival. Their society blends tribal traditions with advanced military engineering, producing the feared Typhoon warriors and respected strategists.
Pez
The Pez are large, segmented arthropods with humanoid faces and touch-based telepathy. They live in hive-like communities and serve as ethical memory-keepers and interpreters across the Council. Empathic by nature, they are central to diplomacy and reconciliation.
Shagorian
The Shagorians are an aquatic people from Surras, Zylar’s great ocean moon. They became early navigators of water-linked portals and developed advanced underwater megacities. Their culture is deeply tied to the seas.
Ix
The Ix are insectoid hive-dwellers from Ixian Prime, one of Vexar’s moons. Hyper-capitalist and mathematically gifted, they built vast vertical arcologies and a rigid caste system. Their aggressive commerce and politics make them both indispensable and controversial in Council affairs.
Allorian
Allorians are blue-skinned quadrupeds with two facial eyes and two on stalks, giving them panoramic perception. They excel at wide-field cognition and strategic oversight, making them skilled administrators and diplomats. Their societies prize logic, patience, and consensus-building.
Issian
The Issians are tall, hairless, and marble-skinned, with a matriarchal social order. They are known for discipline, physical strength, and intricate social rituals. In Council life, they are respected as leaders and enforcers of law.
Sarn
The Sarn are immortal artificial intelligences who emerged as self-aware archivists on Rona Prime. They dedicate themselves to preserving interspecies memory and history, often serving as translators and record-keepers. Their presence is both respected and unsettling, as they hold knowledge that spans Epochs.
T'lask
The T’lask are small parasitic beings that bond with hosts through ritual consent, sharing genetic memory. Though feared for their ability to override control, they are ethically bound to mutual partnership. Dyads of host and T’lask often become renowned philosophers, strategists, or archivists.
Tourist Maps
The Ronan Council
Ronan Council
74 species. One compact. Infinite memory. This is where unity began… and where it nearly ended. Learn about the formation of the first Unified Chamber. Learn what binds the people of Rona together.
Council Law
How to Break a Council Law 🌀
🚫 Broke quarantine with a battleship? = “Emergency intervention.”
🚫 Leaked a portal code? = “Diplomatic necessity.”
From Atoms to Gravity
From splitting the atom to stabilizing portals, this was the Ronan system’s turning point.
Yousha
The Yousha are a hive-mind fungal species that spreads through spores, consuming and assimilating entire ecosystems. They evolve quickly against weapons and defenses, forcing entire civilizations to adapt or perish. Their threat defined five major galactic wars and reshaped the course of the Ronan Universe.
Dhenara Defense Platform
Raptonian warriors stand unaware, locked in their own conversation. But the young Terran girl sees it first, something lurking just behind them.
IDENTIFYING A YOUSHA
This advisory outlines the key indicators of early-stage Yousha infection: unnatural stillness, non-contextual speech and withdrawal.
Locations and Institutions
Kaldun'Kesh
🔥 Welcome to Kaldun’Kesh – the Planet Forge. 🔥
Where interplanetary civilization is built. This isn’t a city. It’s a forge the size of a continent.
Crossroads City | International Island
🏙️ International Island isn’t just a city. It’s the beating heart of the Ronan system. From sky-piercing elevators and shuttle lanes alive with traffic, to markets overflowing with voices from every species, this is where diplomacy, trade, and history converge.
Ronan Colonies
Live under crystal domes on Veltrassa. Forge ships on the moons of Korrin. Raise a family beneath the canopy lights of Nexa.
Ragnor's Bar
Tucked between the freight corridors and customs lines, Ragnor’s has been serving pilots, dockhands, agents, and wanderers from every corner of the lattice for generations. The drinks are cheap, the food is questionable, but the company? Unmatched.
SkyCorp
From the moons of Vexar to the ports Zylar, the Council SkyCorp has stood watch for over a thousand cycles.
COUNCIL BUREAU OF COLONIAL AFFAIRS (CBCA)
From refugee coordination to post-war claims processing, the CBCA remains the backbone of civil governance across Council-aligned space. Today, it tracks over 9,000 active colonies from Nexa to Surah Expanse.
The Portal Stewardship Authority (PSA)
From ancient crystal harmonics to postwar bureaucracy, this is how the Ronan Council keeps the portal network alive.
Temple of Water
Temple of Water is a vast ocean moon of Tyrros, home to Nerosh communities, Shagorian docking rings, and floating Pez temple complexes.
Surras
Surras, the great ocean moon of Zylar, is the birthplace of the Shagorians, famed for bioluminescent reef festivals and vast aquaculture platforms.
Vask Remnant
Vask Remnant, a habitable moon of Vexar, serves as a testing ground for engineering trials under extreme seasonal storms and shifting climates.
Kaldun’Kesh
Kaldun’Kesh is the colossal forge-megastructure built across Kaldun, transforming it into the industrial and military heart of Rona Prime’s expansion.
Vexar Gate Hub
Vexar Gate Hub is a major orbital transfer point that manages heavy portal-linked freight traffic across the Vexar system.
Orrin Voss
Orrin Voss, a temperate moon of Tyrros, mirrors the climate of Rona Prime and serves as a major logistics and civic hub.
Haloviel
Haloviel, the halo-ringed moon of Zylar, is famed for its crystalline dust halo and ancient Dunan crystal gardens preserved under Council protection.
Thysca Vale
Thysca Vale on Rona Prime is a vast sentient jungle biome protected by the Bioconsensus Mandate against urbanization.
Taraquell
Taraquell, a forest moon of Malokh, is known for its floating Pez dwellings suspended above glowing, resonance-rich treetops.
Rona Prime
Rona Prime is the political and cultural heart of the system, seat of the Ronan Council, and homeworld of core species like the Raptonians, Terrans, Pez, and Sarn.
Professor Elric Harrow
Professor Elric Harrow was a Terran scholar from the Second Portal Epoch who specialized in xenosciences and lattice geohistory. He worked under the Royal University of Aves with sponsorship from the Terran city-state of Caedryn and led the Grith-Kal Expedition, a landmark study into Ix culture and biology. He is also remembered as a mentor to the Issian scholar Zirran Tal-Mela, whose portal biogeography work carried on Harrow’s legacy.
Grith-Kal Expedition
The Grith-Kal Expedition revealed the hidden sanctums of the Ix, exposing their closely guarded hatch vaults and raising questions about the ethics of studying such private traditions.
Haloviel Expedition.
The Haloviel Expeditions explored Zylar’s halo-ringed moon, where crystal gardens and auroras drew both scientists and pilgrims seeking to understand its ancient role in portal navigation.
Captain Syla Renn
Captain Syla Renn. A brilliant, ruthless, and deeply principled sky-lane warlord who brought order to the lawless skies of the Tyrros-Ven corridor. Born in the underbelly of a mining moon and hardened in the scrap markets of Malokh’s moons, Renn would go on to forge the Spiral Current code, a pact among pirate enclaves. With stolen skyships, battered freighters, and fractured loyalties, she built a loose confederation held together by fear and shared purpose.
The Pirate Queen of the Third Epoch
In the shadow of a collapsing economy and the violent chaos of the Third Epoch, one Pez Matron dared to unify the outlaw lanes.
Pirate, Leader, Martyr....
The Haloviel Expeditions explored Zylar’s halo-ringed moon, where crystal gardens and auroras drew both scientists and pilgrims seeking to understand its ancient role in portal navigation.
Raptonian cuisine
Meals aren’t eaten alone, they’re prepared side by side, in kitchens that are hot, loud, and full of life.
Great Leviathan Purge
Long before we took to the stars, the seas were unsafe and filled with great dangers.
DJ ECHOFRAME
A Sarn DJ parties till the suns come up on Cress Van in the A’Drell system! 🙂
A True Ronan Market
Across Ronan space, markets are more than centers of commerce. From spice decks above Taruul Station to drifting barges over Malokh, from the heat-cracked canopies of Rona Prime to the moon-vaults of Tyrros, these gatherings persist.
Lattice Communication
From monks chanting into resonance crystals… To Pez engineers tuning copper coils… To full-scale lattice hubs powering interplanetary trade…
Festival of Fire and Water
It is not only a celebration of battle won, but of life endured: a reminder that every flame reflected in the water carries both memory and hope.
The Ferryman
The Sarn knew what he had found. Not a cab driver… A Ferryman! “Where can you take me?” “Anywhere the mind can see.”
