to the vast machineries of AgitProp (Agitation and Propaganda Collective) and Supra (the Supreme Collective that manages all others). Every aspect of life is managed and controlled to ensure happiness and efficiency for all. It is unclear whether this is truly successful, or instead just repressive and totalitarian just as it is unclear if the UNA is really as free and prosperous as it claims. The Red Blok, however, still boasts a large and impressive armed force to support its ideals. The ARC (Army of Revolutionary Collectives) boast large numbers of committed, if not talented, soldiers. Equipped with the functional weapons of collectivist industry, the hordes of the Revolutionary Forces are a significant threat. Especially if backed up by their heavily armed combat striders and battlesuits, which boast far thicker armour than any UNA equivalent. The Red Blok is inspired by 1940s–50s Soviet Russia, and various elements of dystopian totalitarian regimes (George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four) The Karmans Karmans are an alien simian (specifically, gorilla) race, once subservient to the Therians, their "creators" but now emerging as an independent force on their own. Originally intended as a project of the Therian race to strip planets of resources rapidly through the "seeding" of rapidly industrialising societies, the Karman experiment failed after the race came to "Enlightenment". After seeing the destruction their own evolutionary path was taking them, the Karman race entered a period of soul-searching meditation that birthed a new philosophy of Karma, from which they are named. In this philosophy, all a person's actions cause a reaction in the universe, which contributes to the life vibe or energy of said person. This "karma", either good or bad, will result in subsequent reactions in the universal balance (a bad action will result in cosmic retribution for example) or at rebirth and reincarnation. The wisest of Karman sages have progressed to a new understanding of time, able to predict the future and influence it by their actions in the past and in the present. They are even aware that they may be living in several simultaneous incarnations in any one period of time as they perceive it, a difficult concept to grasp. With their enlightenment, the Karmans realised that the path that their Therian masters were taking was one of destruction. The final straw was the genocide waged by the Therians against the race called the Krygs, which the Karmans were unwilling participants