The meat processing factories near the colony of New Ksaros, Panther empire. Main exports : sausages, cutting-edge optical technology, luxury products and mutant soy beans. Main imports : textile, weaponry, electronics and energy. In the distance, the sun, and the planet known as Lucifer's Blackstar.

It's about 6 pm in mid-summer by the way, it's not only that dark because of the distance with the sun; there's also all that industrial smog

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Beginning 4 centuries ago, the tremendous growth enabled by space conquest had put venture capitalism in full swing, expanding to systems still unknown, founding colonies in places where potential had excitingly, yet to be determined. Then, crisis happened; fundings were cut, money became scarce, investors became iffy about investing in random planets discovered by wacky astronomers and probed by scruffy explorers. Threads were abandoned (although the names of the planets and property rights to them must be registered in some database somewhere). Even prosperous colonies got sold out by people ruined by crisis seeking to avoid bankruptcy, and in general, forgotten and left to their own devices. They call this tendency "Stardust".

Contact was maintained with some of them semi-regularly, mostly those which were located on trade routes or ways that had the potential of becoming ones on the short term.

Then the one-world government rose, and naturally went to claim the colonies that had developed in the meantime. Because that NEVER turned out to be a bad idea did it, Star Wars. I mean it's called Star WARS, not Star Rainbows and Puppies. It's also a shitload of Boston Tea Parties waiting to happen. Well, far away in a region called the Dim Sun (due to its distance with the sun), a few nations had time to develop completely on their own before independence was cool. Namely, a small system populated by wolves, and one lone star populated by panthers.

In the former, early contacters found something terrifying: it wasn't originally a Wolf place. It had been a cow place, then it was sold cheaply by its owner trying to save his own skin back home. And then, the new owner, a wolf, made it a wolf nation. It seems like the cow population was enslaved, and a few centuries of breeding them for food were enough to extinguish the flame given to them by Satan. Cows had become cattle again. As for the panthers, they had found a local species to eat and exported it to various systems, building a solid economy; they remained the enemies of the nearby wolf system because of competition based on food.

When contact was officially made with the Galactic one-world government, it was downright hostile. To top the horror of that cow issue (which posed a number of controversies), they refused to be part of the club. Not that the one-world government would be too adamant to include that little empire despite its local economic relevancy; mostly it hated not controlling it. To this day, they're officially enemies. And although they're gearing for war, it's unlikely that they'll engage, despite the imperialist tendencies of both parties and their attacks on each others' (literal) satellite states. Wolves know they can't deploy as many troops, nor keep up a war effort anywhere near what the one-world galactic government can with ease. As for the one-world government, not only do they foresee a hundred-years guerrilla war for little gain (if a victory at all), they surprisingly enough, couldn't enrage the people enough with the revelation of what the wolves had done to cows. Only the vegan parties all across the world expressed some outrage, and not only was it inexplicably lukewarm, none of them were relevant. Maybe cows are just not cute enough. On the other hand, the ethical debates triggered by the heavy media coverage of this particular farming strategy, didn't please some meat-producing sponsors of the government.
Plus, but that's a top secret conspiracy theory, many people are interested in this "agrarian system" and make many visits to what's nicknamed "Lucifer's Blackstar": the place where the gift of the fallen angel was finally digested and done for.

As for the panthers, it apparently started back during the heydays of the space craze as the vanity project of some eccentric billionaire to convert carnivorous species to a diet of tofu and soy. It failed miserably. As soon as the crisis happened, fundings to the giant, endless greenhouses used to grow the food evaporated; the company responsible for them, ForeverGreen Inc, had entered a permanent winter. It was a catastrophe, because the food couldn't really grow on its own due to the distance with the sun. The damage was already done, and the panthers were kinda soy. They had to domesticate and feed on a local species to survive. It worked so well, that they rapidly multiplied and managed to put their economy back on track. And, ultimate success, the exotic meat they produced turned out to be delicious.

Not sure how it happened or even who started it, but the topic of meat brought about fury and destruction between the two empires of the Dim Sun. As a result, although the war is not always as heated, they're both pretty militaristic. While the panthers are generally on friendlier terms with the one world government than the Luciferians, they absolutely refuse to be a part of it. It is speculated that panthers like to give out a macho impression because of the soy stigma; it is also said that the soy sect here, has much more influence than meets the eye.