Editing Space Harpies (section)

==Culture==
Harpy culture is almost entirely focused upon on thing: Glory. All else fails in comparison. A Harpy male earns glory to attract as many females as he can. A female harpy earns glory to prove herself worthy of a better positioned male. Love can, and occasionally does amongst lower castes of Harpy, have an impact on choice. But by and large, Harpies are attracted to mates who prove themselves and do great deeds. Everything in harpy society is based around this. The number of mates a male holds or the prestige of a female's mate, tends to rate how high socially any single harpy climbs in the over all ladder of things. Males would appear to hold all the power in this system, but males tend to be far more insane about gathering glory to themselves than their more level headed female mates. Males tend to be impulsive decision makers, while females become the power behind the thrones, with the ability to divorce or join with other males. In Harpy Culture, while it must be in agreement between both male and female to join a harem, only females possess the power to leave a harem of their own volition, they cannot be kicked out.

===Military Culture===
Harpies organize by merit in the military much as they do politically. Males swear allegiance to other males they trust. The lowest ranks are almost always made up of males too disenfranchised or too unimaginative to build their reputation except in grueling battles. Slightly higher up are the females and males who have formed combat harems. A harem of females lead by their mate. The further up you go, the more and more you find a separation of males by females. Females relay orders from their mates down to lower ranking males and so on until you reach the bottom of the hierarchy. Female rank and file exist, but are exceedingly uncommon. Single females have a tendency to fill in advisory and tactical roles rather than direct combat ones. Their more level heads giving them the ability to make better judgement calls. Higher up, it tends to be brilliant, if slightly (or incredibly) insane males whose orders are interpreted and assessed by their more level headed and clear thinking consorts.

===Note on nonstandard Gender roles in Harpies===
While the above summary suggests that females always follow males, this is patently not the case. In rare cases, a harem of males might form around a particularly dominant female. Slightly more common are homosexual pairings, with a female harpy leading a group of other females, or a coterie of males under a male harpy.