[*]Set in a world where humanity expanded beyond the bounds of Earth several centuries ago and has joined the rest of the galaxy's denizens among the stars. The Sultanate is a long-standing federation led by a singular ruling family. The head of the family (Sultan/Sultana) oversees and ultimately guides the direction they will go. Beneath the Sultanate is the parliament of the representatives from their planets/colonies/settlements.
Currently the Sultanate has issued a proclamation that all governing bodies in the Silver Nebula galaxy must report and subject themselves to the Sultanate's rule. The campaign is to bring the surrounding independents into their fold. They will accept nothing less than everyone joining them. Whether it is willingly, through negotiations or by force, they are prepared to work their way through their galaxy one quadrant at a time.
In their conquest, they plan to relocate citizens off of resource rich planets and use the planets to fuel the federation. On planets they take by force, prisoners are conscripted into the army through a suspiciously vague rehabilitation program. Others who are captured resisting or opposing the Sultanate are sent to the resource planets to serve a sentence of hard labor before being released. Others vanish mysteriously in transport. The Sultanate claims those who disappear are ambushed by the Ketar Union. A notoriously vicious union of scientists? who commit atrocities in the name of advancement.
Many roam free outside the reaches of the Sultanate and wish to keep it that way, willing to trade their lives to keep their corner of the world free. Others yet want to cut the rot out at the source and crumble the order of one of the largest growing powers in existence. Ex-soldiers, survivors of extermination, pirates, experiments, and rebels roam the stars outside of the Sultan's Quarter fighting to keep their freedom. The Sultanate is ruthless in it's conquest and with stop at nothing until they have "done right by their citizens" and put down lawlessness.
Potential Character Ideas
[*]Space pirate who has mistakenly/intentionally raided one of the Sultanate's spacecraft.
[*]Member of raided Sultanate's spacecraft
[*]Rebel Prisoner being transported to rehabilitation
[*]Victim of the Ketar Union who manages to escape
[*]Child of the current Sultan/Sultana
[*]Traveler with out a memory to their name
[*]Tradesperson making a living by bringing their services to pirate/poor settlements
[*]Ketar Union scientist/doctor/guard
[*]literally anyone
