• High Tech

• Religious Tradition

• Organized Crime

• Tribal Organization

• Educational Proceedures

• High Tech

• Religious Tradition

• Organized Crime

• Tribal Organization

• Educational Proceedures

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• High Tech

I tend to think that the technology of the minmatar reflect two aspects, functionality and asthetics. It seems on their ships that they blend what only is needed with strange jutting 'sails' and other projections. The rupture is not a good example, simply because it was a design stolen from the Amarrians.

• Religious Tradition

All we know for sure from the Ray of Matar story is that they consider certain places to be holy, and to observe this holiness, they do not build permenent structures there. Next we know that ceremonies are performed in front of a large audience. Next we know that even in these rituals, they use very advanced chemical agents. It would seem that the basis of the Minmatar rituals would therefore be linked to substances entered into the body for prescribed effects. I would venture to say that drugs, probably injected, would produce visions, trances, or other mind expanding experiences, as well as substances that would increase performance in either a physical or mental ways.

• Organized Crime

Again, I would like to think of the crime syndicates as being organized in a clan like system, only divided into cells which would prevent the entire organization from being compromized by either a mole or siezure by police forces. A strict honor system would be in place, and those who performed well would advance quickly.

• Tribal Organization

I think we have most of this down, familys form clans, these clans are percieved by the members as just an extended family. Clans then form Tribes. Perhaps there is a step between clans and tribes.

• Educational Proceedures

I think the schools would have a hands on approach to most everything. A journeyman or master would teach apprentaces. This way the system would not break down when materials, such as books or computer files were lost. Probably done this way after the Day of Darkness, to ensure further generations had the needed knowledge to keep functioning. The universities would be a new addition to the republic, probably in the last few hundred years. These institutions would try to produce specialized individuals, so that training could still be done by a master professor who would work with small groups.

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• High Tech

I tend to think that the technology of the minmatar reflect two aspects, functionality and asthetics. It seems on their ships that they blend what only is needed with strange jutting 'sails' and other projections. The rupture is not a good example, simply because it was a design stolen from the Amarrians.

• Religious Tradition

All we know for sure from the Ray of Matar story is that they consider certain places to be holy, and to observe this holiness, they do not build permenent structures there. Next we know that ceremonies are performed in front of a large audience. Next we know that even in these rituals, they use very advanced chemical agents. It would seem that the basis of the Minmatar rituals would therefore be linked to substances entered into the body for prescribed effects. I would venture to say that drugs, probably injected, would produce visions, trances, or other mind expanding experiences, as well as substances that would increase performance in either a physical or mental ways.

• Organized Crime

Again, I would like to think of the crime syndicates as being organized in a clan like system, only divided into cells which would prevent the entire organization from being compromized by either a mole or siezure by police forces. A strict honor system would be in place, and those who performed well would advance quickly.

• Tribal Organization

I think we have most of this down, familys form clans, these clans are percieved by the members as just an extended family. Clans then form Tribes. Perhaps there is a step between clans and tribes.

• Educational Proceedures

I think the schools would have a hands on approach to most everything. A journeyman or master would teach apprentaces. This way the system would not break down when materials, such as books or computer files were lost. Probably done this way after the Day of Darkness, to ensure further generations had the needed knowledge to keep functioning. The universities would be a new addition to the republic, probably in the last few hundred years. These institutions would try to produce specialized individuals, so that training could still be done by a master professor who would work with small groups.

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Originally by: Taurevanime

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Okay I had a crazy idea going for the strong affinity the Minmatar seem to have with sails and I figured that there were no strong beasts of burden like horses or oxen on the Matari homeworld, apart from maybe the Brutor but I'll get to that later.

So lets take the Sebiestor as an example they live on vast open steppes and of course they can walk across it, but with the invention of the wheel they have carts. But nobody wants to pull a heavy cart all day so they started putting sails on them to at least reduce the workload a little when they could. And in the artic lands they simply fitted skis to them.

Now the Verhioker took it a step beyond being the nomadic people that they are. They created large land sailing ships to traverse the dangerous deserts where they lived, transporting themselves and all their belongings at once from oasis to oasis.

The Brutor living on small tropical islands used sailing ships of course to move about.


I did some thinking and well cities and villages couldn't really be developed to larger levels because of the lack of beasts of burden. So the Sebiestor started building their towns on hillslopes and creating two markets as it were on them. On the crest was the market were goods would be bought and on the bottom the market where they'd be sold. This made ease of transporting goods throughout the cities easier at least. it also resulted in the first planned cities on Minmatar.

Because of their city planning and overall cunning the Sebiestor tribe grew larger and larger untill it eventually got in contact with the sea. After a course of decades maybe centuries a Sebiestor or Brutor ship got in contact with each other and after some initial misunderstanding (The sebiestor thinking the Brutor to be giants) the Brutor traded their oxen to the Sebiestor for other valluables of a kind, marking the start of true progress on the Matari mainland now that they would no longer be constraint by where their sailing carts could go, nor did they have to found cities on hills anymore.

However the oxen were strong and made the smaller land sailing vessels obsolete, the larger ones were still able to transport more goods quicker over larger distances. And so the sail holds a special place in all Matari hearts and traditions?

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