Bur'I

Bur'I is both the name of a people group and a country.

History

Bur'I has one of the longest recorded histories in the known worlds, with a direct royal line claiming to go back more than 1,000 generations.

Modern Bur'I

Today, Bur'I is a constitutional monarchy consisting of eighteen major star systems and thirty-three minor, including 79 worlds total. A minor, backwater country by inter-stellar standards.

Though officially part of the Alliance, Bur'I is in a region of space too remote to participate fully. Many of the countries in the surrounding region are not members of the Alliance, having formed more recently and chosen not to join. because of it's remote location, Bur'I does not recieve millitary support from the Alliance and must maintain it's own boarders.

This is why Bur'I is perhaps best known for it's space navy, who's ten capital-class ships are probably the only active vessels in the verse able to go blow-for-blow with a GS battleship. No other political entity in the region has managed to build such large or heavily armed warships.

Bur'I's military owes it's success to twelve FTL drives purchases as surplus from the Gudersnipe Foundation during the Third Age. Two of them have since been lost; but the other ten, carefully maintained, continue to serve Bur'I more than 3,000 years later.

Old Bur'I

During the Mage Wars, Bur'I existed as a dramatically smaller nation on one of the [flat dimensions]]. They had inhabitted that region since the Age of Darkness, and sometime during that timeframe changed from the old Lion clan to Bur'Ians.

Ancient Bur'I

According to Bur'Ian tradition, they're roots can be traced clear back to the Empire of Roads.