Starting a thread over here to avoid clutter. Feel free to contradict me on things (or just inform me that Sasha's understanding is incomplete).
Houses
The Naxar have Houses. I'm thinking they are like privately held corporations with hereditary membership. So for example Sasha has 5/8 of a share in Fountain House, which specializes in shipping and logistics, averaging her father's half-share and her mother's 3/4-share. (Sasha's mother votes Sasha's share, as a proxy.) In Sasha's day you could also buy into a House, if you had the equivalent of a couple of million dollars lying around and weren't Kirrish.
A certain portion of Sasha's childhood social difficulties were caused by the fact that a partial share in Fountain House was worth a lot more money than a full share in Mulberry House, which controlled the local mines.
Language
The Naxorian language has at least four grammatical genders (masculine, feminine, animate neuter, inanimate neuter) and no definite or indefinite articles. The 'x' is really more like a chi (High Language speakers never get this right).
Atrocities
I've been assuming the way the mines worked was fundamentally horrifying, but it took a while for me to figure out why that should be so, assuming a largely mechanized system. One possibility is that Kirrish people were trapped within the mining machines. When the heptarchate liberated the Kirrish, it presumably retained knowledge of the relevant technology for its own ends (like moth harnesses??)
The heptarchate's conquest may also have involved Naxorian mecha turning on their officers.
Naxorian worldbuilding
Houses
The Naxar have Houses. I'm thinking they are like privately held corporations with hereditary membership. So for example Sasha has 5/8 of a share in Fountain House, which specializes in shipping and logistics, averaging her father's half-share and her mother's 3/4-share. (Sasha's mother votes Sasha's share, as a proxy.) In Sasha's day you could also buy into a House, if you had the equivalent of a couple of million dollars lying around and weren't Kirrish.
A certain portion of Sasha's childhood social difficulties were caused by the fact that a partial share in Fountain House was worth a lot more money than a full share in Mulberry House, which controlled the local mines.
Language
The Naxorian language has at least four grammatical genders (masculine, feminine, animate neuter, inanimate neuter) and no definite or indefinite articles. The 'x' is really more like a chi (High Language speakers never get this right).
Atrocities
I've been assuming the way the mines worked was fundamentally horrifying, but it took a while for me to figure out why that should be so, assuming a largely mechanized system. One possibility is that Kirrish people were trapped within the mining machines. When the heptarchate liberated the Kirrish, it presumably retained knowledge of the relevant technology for its own ends (like moth harnesses??)
The heptarchate's conquest may also have involved Naxorian mecha turning on their officers.