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The Unified Empire of the Mirai
Rank Hierarchy
The Mirai
The Moriath
The Budoka
Force Weaving
Imperial Armor

Rank Hierarchy

Mirai and Moriath: The Mirai and the Moriath share a rank heirarchy, though typically lone Moriath are attached to other units or a group of Moriath combine to form an elite unit.

Budoka: The Budoka are divided into sixteen clans of equal standing whose members are ranked by combat prowess.

The Moriath
The Moriath are the traditional Force Users of the Empire, possessing high midichlorian counts as a result ancient Miraluka blood, selective breeding, and technological enhancements to ensure midichlorians transfer to offspring.

Force Weaving is the traditional manner in which the Moriath use the Force and has several advantages over the ways of the Jedi and Sith (and also some disadvantages).

Weaving is done by channeling threads, also called weaves or flows, of one of five basic forms of Force energy. Each band corresponds most closely to a specific form of matter-energy, solid, liquid, gas, plasma, or pure energy labeled Earth, Water, Air, Fire, or Spirit, respectively.

Weavers draw on one or several of these bands (more potent Force Weavers can control greater numbers of flows at once) and shape and combine them to use the Force. At its simplest level, this is identical to the ways in which traditional Force-Users wield the Force. The true strength of Weaving, however, is in combining multiple threads to create more complex, even spell-like, effects.

Weaving requires that the Force-User have Force Sight. But weavers can also 'invert' their weaves so that only the weaver who cast the weave can see it. Weavers can even cast and invert a weave that hides their ability to touch the Force.

Weavers can also 'tie-off' their weaves, fixing them semi-permanently until the knots come loose on their own (again, more powerful Weavers can make more complex weaves last longer) or are untied by a Weaver. Though, powerful Force-users may also be able to break through some weaves.

Tying off weaves makes it possible for Weavers to create wards and traps. Weaves which react to certain events in preset ways. Wards differ from traps in that weaves are less powerful and can be made not to dissipate after the first time they are triggered, but wards are also non-destructive. Traps may be destructive, but also can never be triggered more than once. Although it is possible to set traps in such a way that only one will trigger at a time.

Related to traps and wards are Incantations. Incantations, however, are physical formations which have predetermined Force effects. Typically, these formations are at the microscopic or quantum scale, but they can also take other forms, especially the more complex Incantations. Another strength of Incantations is the ability to create Force Artifacts, particularly one's which allow a Force-User to wield more of the Force.

Force Weaves
Offensive:
Bind - Flows of Air are used wrap around and constrict a target to prevent it from moving.

Fireball - A single flow of fire is formed into a sphere and cast. A simple variation is to channel a constant flow as a tongue or torch of fire.

Fire Arrow - Fire and a small amount of Air are woven to create a beam of plasma. Typically, this is laser straight, but it can also be curved.

Lightning Bolt - Mostly self-explanatory, but can come from one of two sources, the Weaver himself or drawing on the natural energy of the surrounding atmosphere. The latter is exponentially more powerful, but not always a viable option.

Fire Blossom -

Deathgate -

Defensive:
Shield -

Miscellaneous:
Mask of Mirrors -

Heal -

Gateway -

Shadow Blossom -