Founding Family (Abh)

The Founding Family refer to the descendants of the original 29 proto-Abh crew, each holding a specific postion within their starship. The departments of the original ships crew essentially became the different families of the Abh Empire.

Background
When the original Abh announced their secession from the mother city they wished to be an independent race.

Royalty
The Abriel family are Royalty. The Abriel, actually, consist of eight branches, each heading a Kingdom. Similar to nobles (landed Voda) who didn't rule their nations, the title was mostly a meaningless honorific.

Nobility
The Abriel clan has no astrological significance, however the other 28 are all named after constellations named by the Japanese ancestors of the Abh. The constellation are grouped into the 4 directions, each one ruled by a Shinjuu. The 28 families also form the higher echelon of Abh nobility. Additionally, almost every clan has a distinctive physical trait that only members of that clan have. These traits are maintained through careful genetic manipulation.

Other Families
There are other Abh families that existed at the founding of the Empire or came to be at a later time.