Suyanafet

The Suyanafet (Singular: Suyanafi) are a grouping nomadic people divided in tribes who use Suyan caravan trains as their main means of transport and living space although they have a city of their own where every tribe meets every year. Each tribe lives in a different train with their own rules and hierarchy

Suyanafet are mainly a merchant culture traveling from city to city within the Free Reach and the cities close by, also, as the Suyans are the fastest means of transport in the Reach, they frequently work as protractors, messengers and even diplomats in special occasions.

Name and Etymology
The name Suyanafet means "Train People" (Suyan=Train, Fet=People). A singular person of the Suyanafet is a Suyanafi (Fi= I/Me). Suyanafi is a derivation from Suyanafet, as the Suyanafet conceive first the plural concept of community before the singular of an individual.

Suyan meaning train comes from the Intercontinental Railway project from the age of miracles. Suyan was the name of the first prototypes of the project and the only finished trains by the time of The war of miracles.

Social Structure and Government
Social structures are divided into two main bodies. First it's the government structure in the main city of Gursavanti where all trains return. Second it's the individual structure in each suyan, as each has autonomy on how they manage themselves.

Gursavanti
The capital city of the Suyanafet is governed by a executive, judicial and legislative power. The Executive power is composed by the Council of Elders and the Council of Captains.

The council of elders are mostly former captains who have proven themselves to the city, either by marcial prowess, leadership, administrating skills, etc.

The council of captains is composed of each captain elected in a suyan.

Suyans
a common hierarchy in a suyan is like this:
 * captain
 * 1st counselor
 * 2nd counselor
 * machinist
 * defense coordinator
 * Head caretaker(food and basic needs manager)

History

 * born from refugee automatons who boarded the original suyans to run away from the war of miracles, who later took in other refugees as they also ran from the war.
 * became messengers between settlements
 * settled their main city where they established a hub for the suyans
 * started exploring the wilds
 * fought a war with a rival culture
 * signed treaties with other cities to be intermediaries
 * war settled and peace was brokered
 * became the main link between the reach and other settlements

code of honor

 * your Suyan is your pride
 * a tribe is not only a suyan, but also the people who run it
 * take care of your tribe, for the ride with you into the unknown
 * unarmed is not necessarily innocent, if the enemy surrenders but will attack again when able to, execute them
 * the best way to solve conflict is to avoid it, we are merchants and negotiators
 * anyone who pledges it's soul to a suyan engine can be one of us
 * when lost, seek the ruta, sooner or later a brother will find you
 * Make a good impression everywhere your tribe goes, because when you live, another tribe will soon arrive

Gastronomy

 * they have 2 main kinds of food, either stews for eating in company inside the suyan or snack like rations like falafel, vegetable nuggets, eggs and any kind of food that can be eaten with one hand and in one bite or two

Transport
Besides the suyans themselves, they have other means of transport. For individual transport they have

Architecture
Mediterranean, Spanish, Greek and ottoman inspirations with a bit of industrial revolution

Festivities

 * Gursavanti yearly meeting festival

Trade logistics
Suyanafet Rail Trade Logistics

While the suyans connect the bigger cities of the Free Reach, many settlements reside near the tracks, and as there’s not a proper Gursa to stop or the suyan decides not to stop to make better time to bigger cities, for example if they have a delivery deadline, most times a Suyanahati or just hati will be sent forward. Hatis are explorers and negotiators, they will go faster than the suyan to settlements further along the rails and inspect the trade goods, negotiate, arrange the trade and prepare the items for pick up. It’s an unwritten rule that Hatis will help the settlements they visit, as they usually arrive a week before it’s suyan does and have some time to spare. They will too try to learn the local customs and respect them, in so earning the respect of the people too. Experienced Hatis tend to be skilled diplomats. They will, depending on the geography and the distance between the settlements as well as the cargo, travel to many settlements one after the other and meet the Suyan to load the cargo all at once, usually without the suyan having to stop and only needing to slow down a little bit.

A Suyanahati has 2 means of transport, one on rails and one off rails. The first one tends to be a platform meant to go extremely fast in a single direction while carrying the hatis and the offrail transport. As it will run for a couple of days non stop, it's designed to be comfortable and cover the Hati and it’s offrail from the elements. The offrail vehicle is custom for every hati, and most take pride on their mount, some have hoverbikes selfmade, others have creatures as is Faradurn’s case, he mounts a Galante, a race of bird derived from the rooste, it’s a big rooster.

Hatis tend to keep their grimoires hidden, as settlements they meet tend to be humble and without complex spells, so they are taught not to brag  and get the wrong side of the locals. Once they agreement is settled and depending on how much time they have left until the suyan arrives, they will either go to the rails or ruta, as they call it and wait with the cargo for their brethren or go to the next settlement offrail and get more cargo there.

Suyans are predictably punctual, and hatis have no means to communicate with them once offboard, so they rely on calculating distance and speed and being on time for the pick up. Missing a pick up or being late and making the suyan stop is a disappointment and a cause for mockery.

Hatis may sometimes leave colored flags at meeting points to message the suyan, for example if they decided to explorer further and will catch up later.

Language
As Suyanafet are originally a multi-ethnic refugee group of people, it's language derives from a combination of modern dialects.

Suyanafet Glossary

 * Suyan: Train
 * Fet: People referred as in "us"
 * Afet: people referred as in "them"
 * Fi: "me" singular person unisex
 * Vos: "you" singular person unisex
 * Hom: Human
 * Fe: Female
 * Ma: Male
 * Hati/Jati: Explorer
 * Gursa: Outpost/station
 * Ruta: Rail/road
 * Vanti: Heart
 * et: is/are

Phrases and examples

 * Fi Mahom: I'm a human male
 * Fi gursajati: I'm an outpost explorer
 * Suyans et Vanti Fet: Suyans are the heart of our people

Education
As a traveling, diplomatic and merchant culture, Suyanafet are educated as children in diplomacy and trading, including appraisal and negotiation. They are also trained mechanics, sharpshooters, explorers and survivalists.

because of living aboard trains they learn to balance and move on highspeed vehicles

Notable Suyanafet

 * Faradurn Pret Serriman

For further expansion

 * how do funerals work, what's done with the bodies?
 * what happens with poop on the suyans
 * how do they avoid the rails being blocked or barricaded?
 * can they discover new railways?
 * what kind of food do they have? traditional dishes?
 * are they discriminated by other cultures? do they discriminate?
 * how do they communicate from train to train?