Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20170813020512

Exhilarating, fast paced, violent, and bloody those are The Races within the Empire. Spectacles going faster then sound with generally violent and rather enjoyable crashes that really rile up and attract a crowd. In ancient days the chariots where pulled by small beasts, but that was not enough for the Rin so larger war beasts where added and eventually (in some circuits) removed and replaced with machine chariots that take the form of a hover bike or a small platform.

Over time races have been split into two equally popular races: Beast Races and Chariot Races. Both are violent spectacles, but in very different ways and also vary on team sizes, speed, and what is used within the race.

- Beast Races use small hover platforms that generally hold three riders and one driver who drives a massive war beast of some sorts. Generally it's not as much about the race as a massive beast fight that generally has a beast die some where down the road and the riders getting flung into the sky or crashing into the arena wall (The crowds are protected by ray shields after all)

- Chariot Races take the form of a actual race with the racers using hover bikes know as chariots going at extremely high speeds and generally racing over tracks that span the planet or moon hosting these races. Each chariot is given armored plating on the sides to ram other races normally leading to fun crashes and explosions.

All most every world hosts plenty of Hippodromes for beast races while a smaller number of worlds have Chariot Racing tracks. Generally viewers of Chariot races use viewing networks for this purpose. Races are both highly popular, highly exported to other worlds (Even the Milky Way has some Rin style Hippodromes), and bring in massive amounts of money from bets and mass fortunes to the winners of said races.

Bets are very common and bring in large incomes for the tracks. Other things like vendors and net work views do as well. Races can also be used to gain votes in the political arena with many politicians owning a team of their own or even hosting races themselves (A costly venture, but one bound to get you votes)

Chariot racing is so large and popular that both the racers are treated and act as both rock stars and nobility as well as the Races needing to have armies of slaves and scribes to both keep records, maintain the track, tame the beasts, and many other tasks.

Chariot racing also has political factions within it's own racing the biggest of which are four major factions named after the colors they use on their Chariots and the clothing the riders wear, they are:

Viridi of Olympia (Greens)

Ruber of Juno (Reds)

Hyacinthums of Aquila (Blues)

Flavos of Apollo (Yellows)

Now these factions are huge. Like mass celebrations or riots break out after the out come of races between these four. Generally these riots are caused by either rowdy fans or fan upset over either claimed or actual 'cheating', which is a rather loose term within any Rin arena or the Empire in generally.

The Races in both forms have also been exported to outside the Empire across the known universe although the 'big' racers of Rin society tend to stray away from most of these 'foreign tracks' save those that pay a fortune or are of great renown. Video casting of the races is also a popular option although banned in some back ward thinking factions.

Racers themselves generally have short carriers normally ending in a violent death. Some, though, do make it to a age where they can retire. Racers that do retire tend to have made enough money to buy a small villa on a paradise world and live out the rest of their days one of the most successful was able to buy his own small moon (We shall talk about this individual later) 