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The Yehat Culture
The Yehat have hundreds of rituals and celebrations for just about everything. Every ritual has some fighting in it or display of superiority of some kind. Every Yehat goes through these rituals. The rituals can include various things like, chanting, dancing, bleeding, fighting, sex, death (dishonoring ritual), etc.
There is not a lot differentiation between the males and females. Just that the females tend to take care of things and the males are more aggressive. Because the Queen is female (duh), there is a lot more respect for the "weaker" sex than in most civilizations. People in certain jobs have different types of cultures. The people in the starfighting clans are commanding, but orderly, they life on a system of the more honorable you are the higher your rank is (capability is also a factor). If you're a scientist you'll be working in a cooperative atmosphere.
`The only people who are discriminated against are the dishonored ones, the criminals. It's very rare and very difficult to get dishonored in Yehat society, so the criminals probably deserve that dishonor. There is, however, glorification for the soldiers in the starfighting clans. There are other fighting clans(troop clans, planetary defense clans, etc.), but the starfighting clans are the most recognized because they have those fast powerful terminators, and they lead all attacks. Now, the only offensive weapons used are on ships, not in hands or on platforms or unmanned probes. So they will have to be meet by them same kind of force, ships.
The Yehat religion was a cultural phenomenon once. Until the Pkunk left the Yehat and devastated their society, the Queen at the time was so hurt by this that she abolished the Yehat religion. The Yehat believed that one god created the universe somehow and made the Yehat. The god demanded belief in him and for a person to be honorable for them to get into heaven. But what was honorable or dishonorable up to the society at the time. This religion was the chosen religion of the Veep-Neep (the clan of the Queen) when they won the wars of ascension, so the entire Yehat was assimilated to that religion.
The Queen was also a cultural phenomenon. When the Veep-Neep clan first took over they had to keep power with an iron fist or there would be too many clans defecting and turning against the Queen. To maintain power the Queens decided to spread propaganda across the land, telling of how great the Queen was. She also gave tax relief to those who proclaimed her name and gave tax increase (or death) to those who denounced her name.
For anyone to take over they would have to speak to people and leaders. If they weren't allowed to denounce her name and were given rewards for pronouncing her name they would be more inclined to be on her side. Also after you pronounce someone's name for centuries you begin to believe your proclamations. Although a few groups did try to rise against the Queen, but they were found out or never became strong enough to do anything big.
So the Veep-Neep Queens kept their power and spread propaganda until it wasn't needed anymore and the Yehat society just loved her to death, but they loved honor more than her, they just thought that she was honor-incarnate. Until, of course, she committed a grossly dishonorable act of surrendering to the Ur-Quan and fight for them after their children committed genocide upon themselves to even slow down the armada.
This dishonor was the Queens' downfall (proving that honor is always the best way to do things) because half of the Yehat rebelled against the Queen for that dishonor and the Pkunk stole the throne. The Queen right now is no were near being the cultural phenomenon as it was. Thus, with the Veep-Neep Queen gone and their religion abolished long ago, the Yehat only have their honor which has been greatly tarnished on a grand scale. The Pkunk Queen is using that situation to her advantage to bring the Yehat to the Pkunk way of life and assimilating them still. It may take a few decades, maybe even centuries, but it will happen.
NOTE: These are only certain aspects of Yehat culture. But you can add much more to it. Just email me you ideas and all I ask is that you keep it consistent with the other ASCH pages.
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