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===Sports===
*'''Anti-gravity racing''' – With the advent of anti-gravity technology within the last century, there have been several successful attempts to miniaturize and commercialize the technology for civilian use within a terrestrial environment. Though still extraordinarily expensive for the average citizen, many wealthy financiers pooled their resources together to sponsor the development of anti-gravity racing teams that would compete for a number of prizes, chief among these being a substantial monetary prize of several million credits.
*'''Monobike racing''' – Similar to anti-gravity racing, monobike racing was the direct predecessor to the anti-gravity racing circuits that ultimately surpassed them in terms of popularity. Now more of a regional sport than a national one, monobike racing is considered the "safer" alternative to the anti-grav tracks that dominate the media. Still considered high stakes and incredibly dangerous, monobike racers still achieve a high level of fame on their homeworlds where local tracks are tailored to take advantage of unique geographical features on the planet where the races are hosted.
===Music===
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Of course, this means that only the upper classes of the population seeking to flaunt their social status are drawn to the procurement of such materials for their own wear. The wealthy and affluent tend to lean toward clothing styles which set them apart from their middle-class counterparts, with clothing possessing all-natural fibers and vibrant colors universally popular among the League's elite circles. Leather is also an expensive product, as the majority of League worlds tend to be heavily-urbanized, meaning that land that would be used for pasturing livestock is instead converted into housing, industrial centers, commercial spaces, or greenhouse complexes, limiting the number of livestock available on a given planet. As with cash crops used for the production of luxury goods and clothing, livestock not being used for food production will often been sourced from less developed worlds in the League, meaning that the cost of shipping items procured from livestock such as leather, are extraordinarily expensive to purchase within the League.
====Income distribution====
The income levels within the League vary wildly depending upon where and which planet a citizen resides upon, and their income dictated by the industry they work in and where within their region of space that industry supports or is supported. For example, a government worker on the planet of Family Pride will be very well by League standards, as they are employed by the League itself and reside upon the safest and most developed planet in League space. However, a miner from Brass will generally exist on the lower-end of the economic ladder as they hail from a frontier world best known for supplying cheap mineral goods to worlds which cannot or will not mine for those minerals themselves. And in yet another instance, a station worker above Brass loading and unloading said mineral products aboard a cargo vessel will be very well compensated by their employer as they will generally work for one of the larger transport corporations in the League tasked with ensuring those goods are moved to their respective destinations in a timely manner. On the flip-end, a factory worker on Family Pride will find themselves scrapping by as their market is generally oversaturated by unskilled laborers who failed to make it into one of the better-paying and highly-competitive government jobs of the League's capital planet.
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Such prohibitions have long been a sore-point within interplanetary relations, as most citizens of the League are fully-aware of the hypocrisies spouted by the self-sufficient and diversified economies of the core worlds. Resource-poor worlds such as Ix have languished under these prohibitions, and must really heavily upon federal aid and intersystem travel taxation to support their residents. Worlds at the edge of League space are barred from importing certain goods that could allow them to develop industries that would compete with the core worlds, and have protested these restrictions for decades. Many are the worlds that have taken up arms against federal authorities for the endemic poverty they encourage because of trade restrictions, though none have succeeded in their quest for economic prosperity. Only those worlds which have proven capable of buying the right politicians in the right positions of power have been able to escape this cycle of institutionally-enforced poverty, and even then with great difficulty as their efforts were undermined by the wealthier worlds at the League's center.
Because of these inequalities across League space, a movement known as equalism has existed for as long as the trade policies enforced by the League have been around. The equalist movement is not directly equivalent to the socialist movements of Earth, though many sympathies in that direction have been expressed by its many leaders and members, such as the Elysians who have long dealt with endemic poverty and corruption on their home planet. The movement itself promotes the equalization of economic trade and opportunities between worlds and systems by removing the restrictive trade acts enforced by the League. Naturally, Ix, Brass, Elysia, Skuria, and others are havens for equalism, and have long presented long-term political challenges to the state. Several of the political parties within the League have taken on the cause of equalism both as a means of reducing poverty and gaining political influence at the federal level, leading to an overabundance of competing interests as worlds and populations which may agree on trade policy ultimately compete on a myriad of issues unrelated to the cause of equalism.
On a security level, equalists have present a direct challenge to the state by attempting to push for economic equality under the law via armed insurgence. Hundreds of armed equalist organizations with and without access to interstellar transportation have taken to the mission of combatting the League for the opportunity to see life on their homeworlds improved by any means. The largest such organization, the Radical Equalist Alliance, was established with this intent in mind by presenting such a threat to the federal government it would be forced to change tact and answer their demands. Likewise, it seeks to appeal to the wider public by exposing the deep levels of corruption within the League and the billions of credits spent by the wealthiest planets in the union to maintain their economic stranglehold over the rest of the League. However, in spite of their noble intentions, many of these insurgent groups have turned to terrorism to pursue their aims, and have attacked innocents of all income levels, races, and homeworlds, and have only given the federal government the excuse it needs to crack down on them across its holdings. In the last poll conducted on the subject, approximately 23% of the population across the League said they supported the equalist cause, while another 54% said the supported the government's efforts to crack down on equalist movements.
===Technology===
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As of '''TBD''' LC, there were an estimated 0.0 billion androids within the League, constituting nearly 0.0% of the total population. The baseline cost for a default android unit of the '''TBD''' model was 5,000 credits, with more advanced models increasing in price based on the complexity of the android's programming and AGI capabilities.
All androids are divided into model groups, each of which is further subdivided into classes
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="3" |Models
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! Designation
! Meaning
! Description
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! A
| Academic
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! C
| Commercial
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! E
| Entertainment
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! F
| Fornication
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! H
| Healthcare
|-
! I
| Industrial
|-
! M
| Military
|-
! P
| Private
|-
! S
| Security
|}
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="3" |Classes
|}
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="3" |Variants
|}
▲**'''A''' – Academic; models programmed with high degree of expertise in all fields of academia designed to provide sapient individuals with everything from a kindergarten to post-secondary education
▲**'''C''' – Commercial; models designed of utilization in commercial institutions such as banks, malls, restaurants, and service roles among others as low-level clerks, janitors, and menial work laborers
▲**'''E''' – Entertainment; models designed to fulfill roles as musicians, dancers, and entertainers, providing a wide range of services to patrons at clubs and festivals
▲**'''F''' – Fornication; models designed with fully-functional sex organs and programmed with a vast repository of sexual activities to fulfill prostitution roles within the League
▲**'''H''' – Healthcare; models programmed with extensive medical knowledge to fulfill roles as healthcare personnel, alleviating any shortage of doctors within League space
▲**'''I''' – Industrial; heavy-duty models designed for industrial roles where extreme climates and hostile work spaces are expected in factories and mining
▲**'''M''' – Military; models designed for application in combat operations as both front-line and support personnel to supplement organic personnel in the League military forces
▲**'''P''' – Private; versatile models markets to the general public for use in a wide variety of roles around the house, small businesses, and private functions
▲**'''S''' – Security; militarized models programmed with advanced conflict resolution capabilities and deployed to urban centers to supplement law enforcement personnel
====Virtual reality====
Virtual reality sessions are very popular throughout the League, and tens of billions of League citizens utilize the technology recreationally as a part of the nation's arts and media culture. While personal VR headsets and accessories are readily-available throughout stores across the League, more specialized systems that can provide a completely immersive experience are generally out of reach for most people, and they must visit a VR center to utilize the technology. To that end, many worlds are home to established franchises that specialize in catering to specific VR hobbies and settings that customers may wish to experience. Like most goods and services, the cost of a VR session varies greatly based on the equipment, services, and experiences offered. Though generally, most companies will utilize VR stations produced by TBD and TBD, the two largest virtual reality equipment producers in the League. Most of the mainstream VR stations sell for anywhere between 12,000 cr and 25,000 cr, while high-end full-fidelity stations can cost as much as 300,000 cr, and are generally found in the most expensive and exclusive entertainment centers in League space.
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====Antimatter guns====
Antimatter guns, commonly known as starburst weapons, are extremely destructive weapons which utilize antimatter-catalyzed fusion to produce large detonations from small shell projectiles. While designed for handheld usage on the battle, due to the explosive potential and radiation hazard they pose to the user, the use of antimatter weapons in close quarters combat are prohibited by the military, and civilians are banned from purchasing or using them by the government. Larger antimatter weapons designed for use in space, operate in a similar manner as the small starburst weapons, but utilize annihilation reactions directly to achieve more powerful explosions in combat. The man-portable weapons are expressly designed for use with exosuit units and combat engineers, the former for assault operations and the latter for clearing operations and urban combat scenarios. Antimatter weapons
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Kinetic weapons remain in heavy use within the League, though with numerous modifications that make use of the many technologies available within League space. Most kinetic weapons fire grain-sized slugs shaved off of a solid block of metal, and launched through a miniaturized mass driver to supersonic speeds. This process means that most weapons never need to be concerned with ammunition supplies, as a single block of metal designed for the weapons in question will have thousands of potential slugs waiting to be shaved off by the weapon and fired through the built-in mass driver. A consequence of this development is that firefights are shaped by those capable of balancing high rates of fire with management of waste heat generated by the weapons.
Heat management is the primary concern with kinetic weapons platforms, as the laws of physics still apply to the functionality of the weapon in question. This is generally handled through the use of heat sinks known as thermal clips, which can be inserted into a slot on the weapon where heat from the firing mechanism is cycled for storage. These thermal clips can then be removed and replaced by the weapon operator and attached to an insulated clip belt where the heat can be safely dissipated. Most soldiers will carry at least three to five of these clips if issued with a kinetic weapon, as the number of thermal clips dictates the potential fire rate of the weapon rather that ammunition.
Alternative methods of heat management include built-in venting mechanisms, which force the gun to vent large amounts of waste heat from built-in heat sinks to ensure functionality of the weapon isn't compromised. These venting systems are common on larger kinetic weapons such as tanks, armored vehicles, and exosuits, which cannot make use of the swappable thermal clips available to infantry. Most such systems will typically vent waste heat after each shot, though the crew manning the weapon can block this to ensure sustained fire rates until necessity forces a pause in firing to allow the weapon to vent the heat.
Coolant systems are another way in which waste heat can be managed in a kinetic weapon. Utilizing the same method of heat management from directed energy weapons, some kinetic weapons can be connected to a coolant capable which will either pump the outside of a firing chamber with coolant to minimize waste heat, or connect the weapon to a coolant pack typically carried on the back by the soldier and leech heat from the weapon during operation. Both systems remain in use, as the former will allow for coolant to be cycled in and out of the weapon with relative ease, while the latter reduces the weight of the coolant by simply drawing heat up the cable and into the coolant pack for dissipation.
====TBD====
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The war is notable in that it was the first time that the League fought a near-peer rival of equivalent technology level and military power. It is likewise notable for the mass riots and protests throughout the League by the Mikaeans who protested the League's use of their people as military personnel, with the common belief throughout the nation being that due to the fact Mikaeans reproduce rapidly and without the same social structures that would make their dying in battle a tragedy for a family or social unit, that the Mikaeans were disposable and easily-replaced. This shock to the culture and military of the League nearly robbed them of their primary pool of recruits, leading to the wide use of androids in the military for combat operations, which ultimately turned the tide of the war in favor of the much larger economy of the League. Today, most Ayulen are still outraged by their defeat, and the remnant of the Ayulen Empire still provides clandestine support to Ayulen nationalist groups within the League would regularly attack League forces on their own homeworlds, forcing the League to maintain a permanent military presence in the region.
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